Great! I built a new coldframe to put my agave in. I need to add another level to it in order to fit them all, potted up in, but I've reclaimed almost enough second-hand glass to do that with. How's yours?

Seriously I bought all this sim racing shit and I can't use it without getting really drowsy. I think it's sopite syndrome, fuck.

>>443474

Forgive me, but doesn't this apply only to actual motion? I know that you can't simulate vection in a static sim cockpit, but I suppose that is a very specific thing.

>>443475
I get the same thing on trains and buses, real ones. Less so in cars, but I don't actually drive because I'm a manchild. I remember falling asleep while riding a bike as a child too. I put the public transport down to being tired at the end of the day, but I get the feeling that my eyelids are getting heavier and heavier when I'm racing or watching footage in the first person. They can test for it virtually apprently so I think games could induce it. Regular motion sickness can affect people while they play games well.

Maybe it's all BS, but I was trying to drive at about noon today and after forty minutes I was ready for bed. I'm hoping it's an inner ear thing, because that's been an issue for some time, but I only thought about it in the sense of it being a minor irritation, not turning me into a hypnosis victim. If pharmacies are open on Sundays I'll buy some industrial strength ear wax dissolver and go from there.

I know this sounds silly, but it's like I've got an IV drip full of lager when I (pretend to) drive. Heaven for some, but I'd like a say in the matter.

I've asked my Dad want he wants for his birthday and all he wants is a bar of Dairy Milk. I can't just get him that but he's so difficult to buy for.

>>443476
I thought everyone gets this to an extent. This is most worrying as like you I'm also a manchild who was planning on learning before covid hit.

At least you've got something that'll stop you ever having insomnia again. Some people would pay good money for that kind of tool - and if it stops working due to tolerance then problem solved.

>>443477
Get him one of those gift boxes with foreign/retro sweets. Always a bit of a ripoff but he'll get some novelty out of it.

>>443477
Get him the biggest bar of Dairy Milk money can buy, then. It's apparently 850g at the time of writing but I'm sure I got bigger ones at Christmas when I was a kid.

>>443479
I reckon I could still end up accidentally eating one of them in one-sitting. You' know when you just have a nibble and then the next minute you're feeling very sorry indeed.

The chocolate that is. I'm not a pedo.

>>443477

He might have meant the original Dairy Milk, before they ruined the recipe to taste like solid brown rectangles of grease.

>>443479
You almost certainly did, 1kg bars used to exist.

>>443472
I'd completely forgotten that Monday is a day off.

>>443543
Did you at least remember the exam revisits this morning? Can't fucking believe I had to get up at 0630 to do a fucking compulsory GCSE exam.

>>443544
The what now?

In other random news, I found this - the driver has nuts of steel.

I was having a strangely enjoyable dream about cheating on my ex but then the person I cheated with turning out to be shit in bed, then sharing a nice intimate moment with her afterwards where I realised how lucky I was.

Postman woke me up with a parcel for my real girlfriend, and I have a craving for jammy dodgers now.

>>443545

Just another day on the M1.

I am trying not to be excited about the Line of Duty finale this evening, but I am failing.

All good, drinking Bishops Finger and listening to my teenlad tunes.

Obviously I've not watched this, and yeah, yeah, he's probably a millionaire and he has steak for dinner every night and he eats it off the nude body of his solid gold girlfriend who has diamonds for tits, but is my gut reaction that a lad who looks like a grown man doing this is embarrassing bullshit or not? Is this actually somehow much worse than Dick 'n' Dom in da Bungalow? Or, again, am I just being a miserable, old, twenty-something and even having an opinion on what is clearly kids entertainment marks me out as an irredeemable shit?

It's the last bit, isn't it? Yeah, it is.

>>443557

God almighty

>>443557
No that's fair enough - his money came at the cost of his dignity and self-respect much like a whore. Youtube should never have allowed people to make a living off producing content and it's our moral duty at this point to show the next generation how to use adblockers and SponserBlock.

>twenty-something

For the love of God get off this website. Don't make the mistake we did.

Is it illegal to make threats, in the abstract? Like, can I threaten a policeman that if I don't get what I want, I'm going to stand on one leg for thirty seconds? Hypothetically speaking him not using his discretion to ignore me for being a waste of time but if he was feeling vindictive, could I be lawfully arrested for it?

>>443561
Only if the policeperson found you standing on one leg threatening.

>>443562
Anyone can find anything "threatening", that can't be illegal in itself. Actively making threats though?

>>443561
No, you will even get off if there's no reason to suspect a threat of immediate harm and there's frequently cited precedent for this. So if you said "I'd kill you if it wasn't illegal" it wouldn't count. I'm sure they could still find reason to detain you for being a knobhead though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberville_v_Savage

I'd add that I fucking hated studying Criminal Law and this was many years ago so I wouldn't go out and actually do it.

>>443564
No I wasn't really planning to but that does remind me that I was wondering a while ago if it would be illegal to go around with banners that say "Introduce capital punishment for Priti Patel". It's not a threat to do anything illegal, in fact it's paraphrasing her with a personalised twist.

>>443565

I can't breathe ladm7

>>443566
Do you need a tracheotomy?

>>443565

Honestly I'm of the opinion that politicians should be an exception to the normal rules, and fair game for anyone.

In fact I think we should make a bit of a tradition of it. We could get kids in school to pick a politician and write them a death threat once a year, to get them engaged; like the book fair or sports day.

>>443568
If you've posted that opinion here before in the past couple of weeks, then I saw it and the more I think about it, the more I agree. I'm sure it's only all fun and games till some deranged maniac goes and stabs Jo Cox, but the threat of such a thing makes a good release valve which can really help our public servants to understand what their electorate want from them.

>>443565
I figure you'd be fine. So long as you're not actively harassing her and her family anyway. It's just a bit BRILLIANT like how "kill the bill" has a double meaning.

>>443568
Sounds cuntish. I'm not saying that politicians haven't been babies lately when it comes to abuse but I don't think it makes for a healthy society either.

If you don't care that a politician has to spend all day reading peoples' anger management issues then you should consider that they also have staff who need to spend all day reading it again and again. It might feel good to say but that's usually the sign that you shouldn't have said it.

I'm just going to come out and say it.

Priti Patel is a fucking coconut.

There's a difference between BAME folk adapting to a white supremacist system and proudly embracing it.

>>443569
Labour lost one last time, so it's only fair the next one is a Tory. The only problem is that there are so many deserving cunts in that party that it's hard to choose just one.

>>443571
Yeah. I'm not fundamentally aiming to get her executed, even if it can be made legal. Realistic or no. It's just to make the point back at her that what she's angled for can be pointed right back at her, in a fair system.

>>443572

You don't have to be white to be a supremacist. You just have to be one of the rich cunts sitting on enough power and privilege that its mechanisms don't affect you.

>>443572
It always tickles me when idiots expect all non-white people to think and act within certain parameters, usually without realising how racist they're being.

>>443572

I'm not sure "coconut" is the right term. It depends on whether she actually believes what she's saying, but I'm far more inclined to think that she's just another shrewd political opportunist who is good at playing the game.

It's inevitable that stuff like this happens in our system -- finding the right brown person to enact policies and say things that would be unacceptable coming from other people is a very predictable party tactic. Patel has very likely placed herself to become that person throughout her career, because ambitious people want to rise through the ranks. It's a perverse system of incentives to serve the powerful and punish dissenters.

I worry it'll still be true even if we attempt to pay attention to class again, because class can also be a part of identity politics. In the future I predict the politicians who are rewarded will be the ones who say, "I grew up on a council estate and I can assure you they're all scum and deserve to be shot", because it's okay when it comes from the right person.

>>443572
This is so obviously bait from some /pol/fag wanker. And in the weekend thread of all places. Get a clue, lads.

>>443578
>In the future I predict the politicians who are rewarded will be the ones who say, "I grew up on a council estate and I can assure you they're all scum and deserve to be shot", because it's okay when it comes from the right person.
THE FUTURE IS NOW

>>443578

Loads of British Indian people are natural Thatcherites. Their families really did start a successful business from nothing and they don't see why everyone else can't. As a demographic their household income and share of wealth is well above average. Shamanismophobia is rife in the British Indian community for somewhat understandable historical reasons, which is often veiled in a more socially-acceptable "we need the right sort of immigration and immigrants need to integrate" sort of rhetoric.

Priti Patel genuinely represents the views of a large proportion of British Indians. British laplanderstanis and Bangladeshis overwhelmingly vote Labour, but a lot of people on the left seem unable to tell them apart.

With that said, Patel is clearly a bit psychopathic - before politics, she did PR for British American Tobacco.

>>443581

>Their families really did start a successful business from nothing

Not really, many of them were upper caste poshos by Indian standards. Coming to Britain that still puts you on the lower end of the scale, but it's not like they had nothing. That and it's easy to run a profitable shop when you don't follow any of the rules and you're using your twelve kids for unpaid labour.

But that's just like you say. Natural Thatcherites.

>>443580

You're right, I was being naive. Of course this tactic is occurring now and has probably already been done in the past.

>>443586

I would be interested to know in data whether the Indians who make a good living in the UK did so by accumulation of generational wealth, or whether they came here with a good amount of money, and to what degree established networks plays into it. But then, I'm >>/£$€¥/8631 lad and I seem to have a bloody hard time finding quantitative research on this stuff.

I might have a lass coming over this evening but I really need to clean my flat beforehand. When I was a teenager the place would already be gleaming but now that I'm in my early 30s with a full-time job more than ever I'd really rather sit in my own filth playing computer games at the weekend.

Youth is wasted on the young.

It's raining. I've just got a drain rod stuck, probably irretrievably and the drain's still not flowing. My hands smell, I'm cold and wet, and not entirely happy.

>>443652
If you want some inspiration:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXX4u-pH2uk

>>443655

That man is my hero, but I would not invite him round to dinner.

>>443655

That's so grimly fascinating. I secretly kind of like doing work like this, albeit on a far smaller and less dangerous scale. Everything is just so clean afterwards.

I can hear the neighbours arguing.

A strategy game or a racing game? No, Sopranos clips.

I went for a walk along the canal this morning. There was a man, I guess he was in his mid-forties, who had what I can only describe as techno-panpipe music blasting out of his rucksack.

>>443661
Did you do the necessary? Did anyone see?

>>443661
Was it better or worse than techno bagpipes?

>>443662
The successful canal push requires darkness and either fast moving water or an inebriated victim. I had none of these.

>>443663
Probably better but still awful.

>>443661
Maybe so goa trance or some the like.

I need to get a tablet for work and I think I need to reign in what I'm looking to buy. At the minute I've got my eye on an iPad Pro for £600 from Costsco; as I'm self-employed I should be able to knock off at least 20% when I put it through my expenses. It's mainly going to be used for running a few apps and presentations during client meetings so all I really need is something that will have a decent screen, run smoothly and have quite a lot of longevity but now I've got it into my head if I spend a little more I'll be able to run things like Football Manager Touch to keep me entertained whilst I'm sat in my car in the middle of nowhere between meetings.

https://www.costco.co.uk/Apple/Apple-iPad-Pro-2nd-Gen-11-Inch-128GB-Wifi-MY252BA-in-Silver/p/328138

>>443704
Yes, driving and playing games is an excellent idea.

>>443706
I meant when I've parked up and have an hour or so to kill until my next appointment.

>>443707
Yeah I realised that was probably the case as soon as I'd posted.

>>443704
That's a surprisingly good price - I've seen all the Apple stuff in Costco obvs, but didn't know they actually discounted them.

>>443704

I'd say go for it. I'm definitely more of an android person but I've yet to find an android tablet as nicely built as an iPad. Personally I'd also look at a Surface of some description but I think that's just because a windows device would play better with my existing work stuff. At that Costco price you can't go wrong.

>>443709
The new iPad Pro launches later this month so you can get some older stock reduced. Currys and Amazon had the same model for about the same price but both sold out.

Who of you keeps crisps in the cupboard? I'm partial to Hot Dorritos, which I eat with chopsticks, but they're terribly greasy.
I am currently struck with nostalgia for Golden Wonder.
Holy shit I forgot about Tomato Sauce flavour.

>>443712

I'm far too much of a crisp fiend/greedy fat cunt to keep crisps in the cupboard. If I buy a multipack it's to eat all of them in a day or two while sat on my sofa watching worthless youtube videos about rebuilding engines I don't own.

>>443704
Why don't you just buy a work laptop? You can even get one with a touch-screen or one of those ones where you can close it and use at as a heavier tablet because it has a screen on the back.

>>443712
I used to have them in the beforetime because I'd usually make myself a packed lunch. People in the office probably laughed at me but I saved money and making sandwiches is cheap and easy so it reminded me a lot of your mum.

Anyway my favourite are Kettle lightly salted. I don't do 'owt weird with them other than occasionally scratch my mouth because they're like eating glass.

>>443715
I like those crisps, particularly in sandwiches.

>>443715
rabble rabble, you lot with your fancy chips what's wrong with the chippy next door, support local workers yer get yer head kicked in.

>>443722
Don't worry lad, we'll be the ones drinking wine an' eatin kettles when this revolution is done.

Today I have been to feed the ducks and there were a few little ducklings about. Then I went to the charity shop and I picked up Peter Crouch's bulk to bulk out what I'm getting my dad for his birthday. On the way home I went to Farmfoods and they had Linda McCartney mince for 99p so I bought shitloads of it.

I ruddy love ducklings.

I wish this winter would fucking end. It's hailing for the third time this week. What a piss take.

>>443724
Don't give them bread.

>>443726
>The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) said it was fine to feed small amounts of bread to ducks but people should also feed them sweetcorn, porridge oats, peas and bird seed.

>Swan Support, which rescues swans, ducks and geese, said many were starving because people had stopped feeding them bread in recent years. They blamed a campaign called Ban the Bread, which was started by a company selling bird food.

>"They wanted people to buy their food and that's where it all started," said Wendy Hermon from Swan Support. "We were picking them up dying everywhere."

>She said flocks of birds had become established in certain areas because of people feeding them and they had become reliant on this food supply. "It's absolutely fine to feed bread. Bread has been fed to swans, ducks and geese for hundreds of years," she said. However, she said people should only throw in as much as the birds ate, so there was no excess bread left behind to decay.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-50081386

>>443726
Let them eat cake!

>>443722
Pret is counter-revolutionary.

>>443727
>should also feed them sweetcorn, porridge oats, peas and bird seed.

They'll be wanting the quinoa next. Say no to duck pond gentrification.

I made a wee salad using greens from my garden today and it was quite nice.

Went for a long trek this afternoon. Was going alright until we got piss wet through on the way back to the train station, and subsequently spent about the next two hours freezing and miserable. Didn't even get to have a pint because the walk was a lot longer than expected, and that was the whole point of going on the train instead of just driving.

>>443730
>>443731
I'm positive this time last year I'd spent weeks just sitting in the sun in the garden, doing what wfh I could but mostly enjoying the sunshine and watching the plants getting bigger. This year, whenever it stops pissing down for more than an hour I just find slugs have eaten more and more of my seedlings.

Violently frustrated, I hope everyone dies, everyone everyone everyone. Fuck everything.

>>443733

What's up m8?

>>443733

Then I have good news for you about the nature of human existence...

How much poo can your body hold?

I was quite constipated for a few days last week, because I'd been working lates and over doing it on the cheese and carbs. Looking in the mirror one evening I looked like I had a real beer gut, dad bod going on.

After remedying the situation with an over-compensatory amount of fibre for the last few days, I've been shitting like clockwork, and the bloat has gone down. So luckily I'm not getting fat, I was just full of shit. But that must been a hell of a lot of shit.

>>443736
I worked with a lass and she only pooed about once a week. I'm sure she said some of them were nearly the size of her forearm.

>>443737
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megacolon

Poo capacity depends on the size of your colon and your diet. It's a good idea to keep a healthy flow as your body will stretch to accommodate.

>>443736
A friend once advised me to do a huge shit and look at how big it is, then to take pride in the fact that I can theoretically take that much dick without injury.

>>443737

Have you got her phone number?

>>443740
I don't think you lads would be able to handle her.

>>443741
Speak for yourself. After she's had my forearms she'll be calling me Popeye.

>>443727
I took a bag of frozen veg to the duckpond at britfa.gs recommendation. They all turned thier bills up to it. I felt like a nutter, litering the floor with diced carrots and what not.

>>443743
Lesson learned. Never take advice from this place.

What duck's really love is a crisp sandwich.

>>443743

They probably knew it wasn't organic. They've all been gentrified now, if it isn't ethically sourced from Waitrose they don't give a quack.

It turns out I'm out of suet, so I've had to make dumplings with butter and self raising flour. I have the feeling they'll be a bit shit.

Anywhere in particular you lads would recommend getting a kitchen utensil set from? Apparently it's really important there's a matching potato masher.

>>443748
procook have outlets in various places and aren't overpriced.

You can probably find a catering supply store somewhere near you where you can piece together a set that'll be matching.

I usually just mooch around TKmaxx and have a hodge podge of different things that suit me.

I thought I'd get a headstart on some work this afternoon so my Monday isn't such a joke. It hasn't gone well.

>>443748
Costco have the Joseph and Joseph ones in a set for 20 quid at the moment. They're good because they don't mark non-stick.

>>443748

Procook is also my go to, their knives are just as good as my Wusthofs and have survived similar hell in professional kitchens - I don't think I have any of their utensils other than a whisk, but if they can make good knives, they make good anything.

>>443731
I now understand your pain. The weather waited until I was the optimum distance from home to start on something out of the bible. The worst part was how rain can give you an itchy cough so I'm walking along trying to suppress a cough so the people around me don't think I have the 'rona.

Complain ticked.

>>443734>>443735
There are no good emotions it's all shit and I need to stop living.

>>443754
No you don't. Stay alive. Ask a doctor if you continue feeling this way; they'll love to help you.

>>443755
Lol.

>>443763
Thank you. I'm here all week. You should be too. Stay here all week.

I've got The Simpsons on in the background whilst I'm lazing around this morning. I'm not one of those purists but it's really, really bad. This episode is from the 22nd series.

>>443842
It makes me sad to watch it. It's like they literally forgot the point of a comedy is to write jokes, and seem to prefer picking an issue or fad of some kind and then doing a Simpsons™ take on it.

>>443843>>443842
It's quite remarkable how sophomoric it is now. The earlier series have jokes on top of jokes to the point there are famous gags that overshadow other good lines seconds either side of them. Oh well, I suppose it's one of the less harmful ways people have become incredibly wealthy.

https://youtu.be/20aLCyE30wg

The other day I found a YouTube channel that for the past twelve years had just uploaded videos of Descent II in which the uploader had replaced textures on in game bosses with photos of people he knew from school and maybe girls he'd dated. He's still at it, and while I don't want to link to the channel because it seems like he's genuinely unwell I really feel the need to tell someone else it exists. It's very easy to get trapped by one's own history.

>>443849

Here's hoping that it's some sort of bizarre in-joke between friends, or an extreme childhood fondness for the Gameboy Camera, rather than genuine mental illness.

>>443849
I find it rude you haven't linked it.

There was some autistic guy who made hundreds of hours of really dull model train videos perhaps where he narrated some dull story over the top. It was very strange. Perhaps it was linked from here.

>>443852

TheNewStoryteller?

>>443853
Ah cheers that's the one.

Concerning levels of "I don't want to be awake anymore" going on.

>>443856
So go to bed it was a reasonable time to when you posted it.

>>443856
I'm off to bed now too.

Hang on when the fuck did Graham Norton become a grandad?

Fucking hilarious nil pois. Poor bloke, he seemed like a nice chap as well in the pre-show documentary. Can't be helping his clinical anxiety.

The spastic 20 seconds in is quite fit, ngl. I think she was in Tracy Beaker.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAQg-OXej1E

I went out for a curry last night and then I had a shag when I got home. Now I have tummy ache.

I really thought those Wheatabix would change how I felt about killing myself, but it seems not.

>>443968
Try a yoghurt instead. And maybe a yakult.

>>443968
>>443969

I've been trying Activia for the last couple of weeks, and I actually have noticed a lift in my mood. It's not an overnight change to everything being rainbows and unicorns, but certainly that constant sense of looming existential dread I've been too familiar with for the last few years seems to have eased off.

Like a lot of people I'm sure, I was deeply skeptical it would do anything, because frankly I just didn't like the idea that my mental health problems ultimately came down to my guts. But there's definitely something to it.

Fill your boot(s) with mannequin lads! £50, all you can take!

https://mannakin.com/p/drive-through-heist/

>>443971

>We often get asked about hands. You are welcome to hands but there is a limit of 5 pairs per customer along with other parts. Under no circumstances whatsoever will you be able to fill your car boot with hands. Please don’t ask.

>>443971
£50and you can't even climb on the mountain, they can fuck right off.

I've noticed that Foreign Affairs is £20 this weekend but I'm wondering if there's a better publication for this, ones that aren't tied to Washington DC thinking. Are there any British equivalents beyond picking up a newspaper subscription? Ones that don't cost hundreds of pounds a year?

>>443974
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists? Politico? The World Today?

Scratch Politico, sorry, I thought it was European.

Not trying to be a cunt, say you've been chatting up a lass but find out she's out of work at the moment. Is that a red-flag or is it still fair game in covid-land? Not furloughed but jobless.

Just thinking about the drawback and if the shoe were on the other foot.

My cold has gotten slightly better. The biggest problem is now a persistent dry cough that really saps my energy.

What's really annoying is that I keep having to tell people that no, in all likelihood, it isn't covid. I've had my first jab and a lateral flow test earlier this week when my throat was beginning to feel irritated came back negative. Everybody keeps saying "Make sure you keep an eye on it". It's like, thanks, I never would have figured out the moderate importance of that without you reminding me.

Here's some wild cows from the Calderdale moors today.

I think I've gotten much too attached to the wellbeing of Ross Scott's YouTube career.

>>444002
They look quite docile to me. Stop casting aspersions!

The Hobbit trilogy is shit.

>>444000

Depends, long term or just out of luck right now?

I've had a few girlfriends who are an absolute liability in terms of employment, and couldn't keep a job for longer than a fortnight. It was alright in my early 20s when he quality of sex made up for it and the long term future didn't matter so much, but nowadays I wouldn't tolerate it for long.

In general, it invariably comes with a whole raft of other personality defects, in my experience.

One set of parents have moved from suburban Swansea to Mumbles. There's precisely one road to/from the city, so naturally the combination of a bank holiday weekend and a real possibility of sunshine meant it's been rammed all day every day.

On the upside I discovered that the local millionaire has pissed off the plebs and they've decided to let him know how they feel through the medium of car horns:

Absolute legend at 2:30.

>>444000
The stereotypical imageboard poster is a filthy NEET, so I say go for it. Even if she doesn't post here, or anywhere else, you'll almost certainly have other things in common. A century ago, almost all women were jobless. Your grandma was probably a scrounging layabout, and I assume you liked her.

>>444007

My grandma was a manager at Marks and Spencer, fuck you.

>>444008
Did you fancy her more than jobless girl?

>>444005
Not too sure, she said she didn't want to talk about it. From cyberstalking and general conversation it looks like she's an out of work early-years immigrant worker and hasn't had a decent education beyond learning English.

So yeah, I'm pretty much thinking with my dick here aren't I. Great conversation, lads. I'll try extricate myself before I knock up the fit and exotic maid who can't go halves on a mortgage.

>In general, it invariably comes with a whole raft of other personality defects, in my experience.

Pretty much yeah; I spent the vast majority of my 20s and late teens out of work, aside from uni. I assure you that while I'm now in an exciting career I'm also unhinged from the experience - though spending most of my life on the internet also made me brain good.

>>444007
Being a mum is a full-time job x

>>444010
Try to extricate myself that is. I have a history with ditzy Eastern European women and a cream pie fetish.

Went for a dip in the mixed ponds at Hampstead Heath yesterday. £4.05 for a quick jump in and then a dry off.

It wasn't even that cold, just I'd been lying around all day and wasn't warmed up. Sure I'll go for a proper swim next time. Thing is though, I felt like I'd both exerted myself and quite refreshed, just from a literal dip. Is this a sensation I can look up?

>>444014
Wim Hoff has a lot to teach you


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDJaPylV_aM

>>444002
I see your wild cows, and raise you wild cows and horses, from the wild lands of Staines Moor. Not pictured: scenic views of the M25 and power lines.

I've not seen a thalidomide in years. Did they die out?

I went to the seaside today. It made me remember that I don't really like people. There are also a lot of overweight women in this country.

>>444019
Please don't start them going.

I popped out, and my neighbour's bins were out. My brain's initial reaction was to query whether I had possibly travelled forward in time a few days, but then quickly followed up with the more likely explanation that he's gone away for a few days.

>>444021
Yeah, it's weird on days like today when the weekend thread is up on a Thursday.

I'm going to do a sensory deprivation tank later on today.

>>444026
Imagine if someone locked you in then started a fire under it.

I've been gone about a year from this place, what have I missed?

>>443472

Bezzie mate an heroed last week but I only found out over the weekend so called in sick to work. Just cba with anything anymore.

>>444019
They tend to be clustered in the north, at least.

>>444031
It was a beach in Yorkshire. I did notice that a lot of obese women, proper proper fat ones, have tattoos of pin up models on the back of their calves. If that how they see themselves?

>>444032
Yes, obese women think that the rockabilly style is sexy on them. Best not to question it.

About 20 years ago, you used to be able to get smart price/tesco value frosted flakes directly in a bag. No cardboard box, just a plastic bag. These particular flakes had a very distinctive construction -- they were more 'puffy' than frosties, and had what appeared to be considerably more sugar.

I want some, but I have no idea if that particular formulation still exists. I've tried asda's own (not smart price), and also aldi's, but both are too close to actual frosties, and not the type I remember.

Any ideas, lads? They apparently still do tesco value cereals in the Phillipines, but I wasn't able to find a picture of the bag as I remember from 1999/2000, surprisingly enough.

>>444035
Those things in your picture look identical to the French cereal Chocapic, is that what you mean?

>>444036
Not chocolate, they were knock off frosties. The picture is for illustration purposes only. Though, they do seems to look a little bit like it if it wasn't chocolate.

>>444036
Chocapic used to be a staple in our cupboards whenever I would holiday abroad as a lad (spent most of the summers of my youth hopping around all of the various Spanish islands where you only encounter other working-class British people and maybe the odd German). I used to really look forward to having them. I'd put them in my mouth one or a few at a time and suck so that the shells would get stuck on my tongue.

Thanks for that nostalgia hit.

I don't want to jinx it but I've still yet to see a mozzie this year. The annoying thing is that my bug zapper has just arrived and was looking forward to hearing the little arseholes crackle by my bed all night.

Normally they start up in late April but I guess the backwards weather has killed them off. Hopefully permanently.

>>444039
>I don't want to jinx it but I've still yet to see a mozzie this year

The mosquito horde need warm weather and stagnant water - we should not be unduly concerned with their threat this year. The ants on the other hand, have mobilised. Chaps, I fear for us - that at the start of July they will arrive, like a third reich/wave to forever emperil us, at our moment of weakness.

Made some salad tonight with maple leaves, after reading that the Norway maple here in the back garden is actually edible and that in some vegan/alt food circles, people use maple leaves for anything from salad to wraps. Right now in spring is apparently a good time to consume them, while they're still fresh and tender.

I prepared it like a normal salad with cucumber and tomato, with the maple leaves chopped up to about the size of lamb's lettuce leaves.

I have to say the taste was a bit underwhelming. It wasn't unpleasant, just quite unremarkable. Somewhat neutral, with no particular distinctive flavour. I don't think I will have it again.

>>444029
This feels like it shouldn't be allowed to just pass by unacknowledged. I doubt there is anything a handful of strangers can type to help you, but please let us know if there is.

>>444028
I started posting here a couple of months ago! So that's one change! There goes the neighbourhood. This site is shit now.

>>444029

Same thing happened to me a couple of years ago, my condolences lad. Post back here if you need someone to chat with, I'll set up a disposable contact on some app or other. If you don't want to talk about it that's fine too but do look after yourself m8.

>>444041

It may be bland, but maybe there's something to them nutritionally?

>>444029
Keep an eye out for uncleholiclad, he seems to be in a similar place. There's discord if you want to chat shit and emo if you want to bare your soul.

If you can't be bothered with owt then maybe go to the south pacific islands and do nothing there instead.

>>444042
As long as you're not the one who goes full Quiggins each time he's asked to make a solid point, you can fuck off less slowly than the others.

>>444045
They, along with many other maple leaves and seeds, are somewhat toxic to horses, where IIRC they fuck up the haemoglobin somehow.
I wouldn't make a habit o eating loads of them unless you want to make it into an obscure medical journal.
Also, Norway Maples are cunts of trees.

>>444047

> Also, Norway Maples are cunts of trees.

They do spread very profusely if you don't keep them in check. If you don't rake up the winged seeds together with the foliage every autumn, you'll have dozens and up to hundreds of little tree saplings near your tree the following spring that you have to pull out one by one.

The upside is that you have a decorative, fast-growing tree that provides dense shade on a hot day. They can grow up to 90 feet, but we've had ours here cut back a few times by a tree surgeon. Maple also makes good firewood, although it doesn't burn quite as long and with as much of a pleasant smell as beech.

We used to make bows and arrows out of Norway maple as kids, because its rods have just the right amount of bendiness for a good flexible bow, while they are at the same time straight and rigid enough to fashion arrows out of them.

I think I must concede a mea culpa regarding my flag-fanatic street neighbours. Months of Union Jacks, half-mast Union Jacks for Racist Phil and an Easter Flag (no, me neither) led me to assume they must be Borisites of the worst sort, but today they put up a massive great big LGBT Pride flag, the one that's, aesthetically at least, awful on account of the black, brown and trans pride coloured bit on the side, no less. Maybe they just lost a bet on their Flag Botherers UK Facebook page, though that seems unlikely.

>>444051
Or maybe your preconceived notions and stereotypes are blinkered and limited in terms of whom might decide to fly a flag for one reason or another.

You can be a brown gender fluid "patriot" who loves ARE BORIS and also absolutely love a big juicy cock like. And at the same time be an absolute twat.

Not trying to start a cunt off for the record.

>>444051

Some people just love flags.

>>444053

Honestly it's pretty fun having one you can run up a pole. Doesn't matter much what's on it.

>>444054

Tell that to the judge m8.

>>444055

Dear kindly Judge, your Honor
My parents treat me rough
With all their marijuana
They won't give me a puff
They didn't wanna have me
But somehow I was had
Leapin' lizards! That's why I'm so bad!

>>444052

Maybe his neighbour is Julian Clary.

>>444055

My mates neighbour did used to fly a Swastika now and again when we were younger. Odd guy, used to walk around in denim shorts and a big cowboy hat.

A walk in the sun and some silly floppy hair has left me looking not unlike Harvey Dent.

Woke up at 5, and couldn't get back to sleep. Not been out of the house in the morning for months. It is a strange feeling.

Today I've decided to have a sort through my DVD collection and have a bit of a clear out. Ummed and ahhed whether I should keep the likes of my Peep Show box set but they're available on All4 these days. I'll probably send it to a charity shop because Music Magie would give me a whopping £1.01 for it.

>>444158
>they're available on All4 these days

This does not spark joy for me. The question you need to ask yourself is whether you will watch it again someday, it's naïve to assume All4 will have it indefinitely.

Today's solution is necking bourbon straight from the bottle and a 6 pack of Wagon Wheels.

>>444160
You're necking bourbon from a 6 pack of Wagon Wheels?

>>444160
>>444161
It's called a 6:10 to Yuma and it's one of my favourite cocktails.

>>444162
I could get on board with that.

Would this make Mr Whippy style ice cream?

https://www.aldi.co.uk/ambiano-ice-cream-maker/p/711132479199000

>>444165

No.

Wait, maybe.

>>444165

Seems like it will, though I doubt it'll be exactly the same texture, it will be a little bit denser/thicker than a 'professional' soft serve. It'll be close though.

>>444165
>whip up your favourite flavours in 15-25 minutes

This makes me think that you probably can't just make it for yourself and would need to do the whole batch in one sitting. Any idea on how much ice cream this would make? I can picture this being pretty nice to have in the office.

>>444169

It says it makes about a litre of ice cream. An average scoop of ice cream is about 60-80ml.

The thing with these little machines is you need to freeze the bowl for a considerable amount of time, usually overnight or longer - so you're making one batch a day at the most.

I'm sure you could use less mixture and make less ice cream just for yourself, but there's probably a minimum amount you have to do, or you'll end up with ice crystals. That's just a guess though.

It's thirty quid, it's probably worth a go.

Is there are a job where I can get paid money to be sad about the Eastern Front? I fear the answer is likely no.

I feel that, given the record of the media on treatment of gay people, if an LGBT+ organisation is pissing off all the newspapers, it's probably doing the right thing, yeah?

>>444177
Stonewall's got a bit of a controversial reputation. I'm not aware of what's going on currently, but if they're pissing off all the papers, chances are they're just being cunts.

Rather than judge on who they're pissing off, what are they actually doing and why are the papers saying they're mad?

>>444180
The word policing is that it is telling employers in its diversity training to use "parent who gave birth" instead of "mother."

The Guardian piece is about Stonewall advising universities on policies supporting transpeople which are deliberately misinterpreting the law as they would like it to be rather than what it actually is.

Sage because this should all be in the tranny thread rather than shitting up somewhere else.

>>444180
>Rather than judge on who they're pissing off
No I think I'd rather do that. On one side you have LGBT+ people who actually support the charity, and on the other you have some newspaper columnist wastes of skin.

>>444177
It's people, well, I say people, I mean "opinion writers", who are arch-conservatives with the sole caveat that they don't literally want to feed paupers in a machine that turns them into pig feed. Even that's up for debate in Tim Stanley's case. All three of those writers are Oxbridge educated, born-to-rule freaks, as are many others of their ilk, if we could exile them all the country would be a better place.

>>444185
>No I think I'd rather do that.
Well then, would you do it elsewhere? It sounds like you don't understand that the LGBT world is quite broad, and that simply being an LGBT charity does not mean you are universally supported, nor that your endeavours are necessarily good. It's perfectly possible for charities like Stonewall to be counter productive.

If you're the newlad, you're showing it quite clearly. It's frankly fucking retarded to shut down a request for more information by saying they're pissing off the right people and therefore must be doing something good.

Learn to respond more like >>444182, that kind of post grows the discussion rather than closing it down. Bad people bad, well done.

>>444185

>>444177

Sounds like a bit of that surf and turf you're always hearing about these days. Bunch of cranky old dykes getting bumsore whenever something reminds them PoV (people of vagina) aren't at the top of the equality tree any more. They just don't like not being the centre of attention.

The delightful meta-irony of fisherpersons constantly embodying the most cliché whale poacher tropes will never cease to amuse me.

>>444187
>>444188
Chill out lads. Even if I wasn't being facetious, can you honestly not recognise a moral panic when you see one?

>>444187
>that kind of post grows the discussion rather than closing it down
Those articles are effectively arguing over the existence of trans people, which is something that is very much not up for discussion.

>>444191

Ah the state of Israel card.

>>444192
While we're at it, those brown-eyed people, eh?

You lads have gone all weird. Is it the heat making you cranky?

Making myself miserable by looking at the conditions for getting an Aus/NZ resident visa. Who'd've thought a skills based immigration system would be so cruel to those with a degree but no real skills?

>>444196

I don't really understand how my two friends, who are a teacher and a chef, managed to get into NZ. That seems like two job markets that are at capacity no matter where you are.

>>444198
Nobody wants to be a teacher unless you've ran out of options or are a carpet-bagger.

>>444196
It's odd when I see people who want to emigrate but only to countries that are as close as possible to being British. Is Hot-Britain and Britain-if-we-had-a-choice-on-where-it-would-be-in-relation-to-Europe really worth the hassle?

At least with Canada they seem to want immigrants and you can live in the central/west that are their own weird quasi-American thing.

>>444199

He claims he wanted to be a teacher all along, but I'm not sure. He has a physics degree, surely he could have found something better. Maybe he is just a carpet-bagger, his wife does look quite young.

>>444200

Australia isn't just hot Britain, it's hot Britain with less aggro and more space and nicer beaches. I think the people are nicer on average too, and the cars don't rust which is a big one for me. I'd move there if I had the opportunity and/or my parents were dead.

Even then, I'd contest that Britain but Sunny is a pretty fucking good reason to move across the planet. Don't you just feel so much better on our three days of sun?

>>444202
>less aggro

Shit and expensive internet. The worst part is the curtain twitching authoritarianism combined and how the economy is intertwined with resource extraction which creates the usual problems.

>Don't you just feel so much better on our three days of sun?

No.

>>444203

>The worst part is the curtain twitching authoritarianism

Good job we don't have any of that in britain

>>444194

I know someone here will have a go at me for saying it, but I strongly suspect we had a few new arrivals from the Rudgwick a few months back. Or maybe it's all the same lad, or one of the existing posters just got bored and decided to make a new OC.

Either way. There's a very tell-tale posting style that I never saw around here til recently.

>>444202
>and/or my parents were dead
Oddly grim.

>>444208

I mean yeah, but that's just the reality of having elderly parents. I wouldn't want to be too far away from them as they get less and less capable.

>>444207
It'll be revengelad. He'll have given up trying to flood us with posters from 4chan and has decided to spread the word about us on Rudgwick instead.

>>444210
I just searched for the domain on rudgwicksteamshow.co.uk, came up with a few results all older than 7 years.

I do wonder how this place is found nowadays. I was going to bring it up on /r/badunitedkingdom once, but now they're a wee bit racist so probably best not.

>>444207
Yeah, I know what you mean. That "Shouldn't we be better than this" poster who was 'reflecting' on how the users of this site are bad people and should be more like them because of us saying bad things, but then refused to go into any of it and posted sealion comics.

They echoed that rudgwicksteamshow.co.uk style, where discussions are approached as combative rather than cooperative, with the intention of tripping up rather than elucidating, and what seemed to be the underlying assumption that we're all nazis in denial.

It's just a bit boring. At least with search/storm, there was a concerted effort to troll. I also find myself taking things in bad faith here, which is usually reserved for rudgwicksteamshow.co.uk.

>>444212
This whole "Act like a total cunt then be surprised and go on about it for months" when people don't want to engage with you is a relatively new thing too.

>>444213
It most certainly is not.

>>444191
No they're not. Even otherlads summary should provide you with more depth than that.

>>444194
It comes up every time transgenderism is brought up amongst other topics. There's one poster who is very cross indeed and operates on a kind of right-on 'I've never kissed a tory' mindset.

I've been tempted to see just how angry I can make him, make every post in the cunt-off over trannies being mentally ill men have a picture of a woman with her new baby, but he's probably one of the mods.