I had a lot of peppers on my pizza last night and my guts are a wreck this morning.

This is possibly my least favourite thing about the human body, out of a long list of other complaints. I really like peppers, they're one of the very few fruits/vegetables I actively like, rather than just tolerating them because I know I have to. But every time I eat any appreciable quantity of them I'm doubled over with stomach cramps. It's not even the spicy kind, I'd understand if it was a big pile of habalenos or japadeneros or whatever, but it's just your normal every day bell peppers.

What's the deal, does anyone know why this happens and if I can do anything about it?

I've intentionally shoplifted for the first time in about 18 years. It was just a small ~£10 electronics item but I knew the security barriers at my local supermarket don't work so I was able to simply walk out with it in my trolley. I don't think I'll do it again, I didn't get a cheap thrill out of it or anything.

>>448955
Could be an allergy or intolerance.

>>448955
You might be allergic to capsicum - it's quite common.

>>448955
If that's the only fruit you ever eat, perhaps you are not aware that all fruit has the power to make you shit quite amazingly. Fruit-eaters might not notice, but I have occasionally eaten a big load of peppers, like you say you've done, and I certainly shat more purposefully afterwards. But it was quite a minor thing; if you're genuinely unwell then you might have something else going on.

>>448956
If only the self-service tills were open, then you're doing God's work and I applaud you. But yeah; it doesn't feel like the heroic victory for justice that it clearly is.

>>448958
I've noticed it I eat three clementines in a day they'll go right through me.

>>448958

I prefer juice to whole fruit, but I've noticed grape juice is potent stuff. They should put a warning on the bottle, because if you have more than a couple of glasses you're in trouble.

>>448958
It was my local Lidl and I did use the proper checkouts, although the self serve ones were a lot busier. It was easy enough to hide it in my trolley and then bury it under the shopping as it came through.

Thinking about it, when I go to proper supermarkets I regularly underweigh fruit and veg on the scales.

>>448961

I must have had at least fifty quid's worth of bags for life by now. I just press the "I brought my own bags" button and put them on the counter.

It's not much, but even the biggest landslide starts with only a few grains of dirt. That's Confucius or someone, innit.

I bought a massive wooden chest from 1870.

PMQs was a fun watch. The reaction to the guy switching the topic to washing machines, wonderful. Also I discovered this hottie politician I didn't know existed until today.

>>448966
Be honest, lad. Was it the chin what did it for you?

>>448967
Good strong chin, busty, robust. Ideal woman.

>>448967
She has a face like a commedia mask.

I really do have a thing for fat girls now. I dated, briefly, a chubster, and now on a night out I find myself checking out girls bellys in their tight dresses.

I feel disgusted at this sexual development, but also excited at the size, scale, breadth of opportunities.

How easy can I get one to dress up as a cowgirl?

>>448966

She looks like the sort of lass who I'd get into political arguments with at uni, and end up shagging despite us both believing quite genuinely the other was ruining the country.

Tory, I assume.

Lads, what's a good "opener" on hinge/bumble/tinder etc when they don't have much in their profile and their pics are reasonably generic?

The girl is quite cute and we've matched, she has lots of outdoorsy stuff and a cool looking dog in her pics. Her "answers" to the prompt questions (it's on hinge) are just about having friends and a dog. I feel like I used to be quite good at the dating app chat having spent so much of my life online but the past 2 years has turned my brain to jelly and I struggle for witty and amusing openings.

Also I'm aware of the ostrich technique.

I've just been into Co-op and their own brand pasta is now 95p a pack. It was only c. 55p a year or so ago.

>>448970
>How easy can I get one to dress up as a cowgirl?

Quite easily.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJAK7GLrs9A

>>448973
I think he probably means anthropomorphic bovine type cowgirl, rather than wild west style cowgirl. Probably.

>>448973
I think Chubbychaserlad meant more in the Hucow kind of way.

>>448972

Ask her if she's knotted it yet?

So what's rhe allure of a heifer dressed up as a heifer?

>>448972
>Also I'm aware of the ostrich technique.
Is that archived somewhere? I forgot that was a thing. I recall people mentioning success with it but I cannot for the life of me remember why it's called the Ostrich technique. That were like ten years ago or something now wasn't it?

>>448970

The unstoppable rise of Chub Club continues.

>>448972

Assuming you're looking for a relationship rather than a booty call, I'd suggest something like:

"If you could have dinner with any one person from history, who would it be?"
"If you could have any superpower, what would you choose?"

>>448977

Milking their big milkers. Dehumanising them. Breeding them, there's quite a few elements at play.

Speaking of ten years ago, since when did everyone start harpooning? I've noticed what seems to be a growing trend of stomach-shaggery here lately. Did everyone just lower their standards or is it a genuine preference that you'd have over, say, someone you had a reasonable chance of lifting without crippling yourself?

>>448975
She doesn't count, she's fairly proportional. Though I would have begrudgingly shagged Pierce Brosnan's wife up til a few years back. Not that I'm one of you sick fetishists.

>>448975

I knobbed a chubster this weekend, should have got her to do this. I knew it would be a difficult night when I met her though, she turned out to be a proper munter in terms of facial features (women are honestly fucking scam artists with those filters nowadays) and I'm not sure if even this kind of sordid filth could compensate for it. In the end I just got blackout drunk and gave her a half-hearted knobbing in the morning.

Overall though yeah, you should have no trouble talking one into being whatever kind of cowgirl you want. Chubby lasses are usually pretty filthy, but even despite that I've always been able to get lasses to indulge my kinks when they actually like me. That's really the key to it- If they're genuinely into you, almost anything you want to do gets them going.

>>448977

It's the intersection between a silly dress-up game and something altogether more visceral. A hucow is docile and submissive but also nurturing and nourishing, which creates a unique two-way exchange of power. It's a celebration of all that is dirty and sweaty and milky.

>>448981

a) we're all getting more mature in our tastes
b) men tend to prefer bigger women in times of political and economic uncertainty
c) I've been running a years-long psychological experiment to manipulate your sexual preferences
and
d) bellies are basically a big third tit and everyone likes tits.

You can fight it all you like, but you can't suppress your deep-seated yearning for the warm embrace of squishy flesh.

>>448972

Honestly it's as much about them as it is you, if they've actually got interesting things about themselves to work with, it's not too hard to bring one of them up and engage in a bit of bantz over. So this...

>Her "answers" to the prompt questions (it's on hinge) are just about having friends and a dog.

... Wouldn't give me much hope honestly. Usually I'm not optimistic about that sort of girl. It's always like pulling teeth, even if you get to catch their attention with the opener. They're just the sort of girls who haven't realised dating apps by their very nature require a bit of effort from both sides, not just the bloke wooing them.

I don't wish to be too pessimistic, just be prepared to work a bit to get a conversation going I suppose.

>>448984

I for one have always liked a big lass; but all your third tit talk is just offensive. There's liking fat girls, then there's wrong 'uns like you who are attracted to nothing less than the signifiers of cardiac disease and diabetic foot ulcers waiting to happen.

It's all about a nice big arse is the honest truth. They don't even need two normal tits, never mind a third, as long as they've got a big juicy arse to bury my face in.

I attribute it to the influence of classic rock staples like "Fat Bottom Girls" and "Whole Lotta Rosie". If it was good enough for the hedonistic stage stars of the swinging 70s, it's good enough for me.

>>448985
You're very much correct and tbh usually I'd not even bother if they can't be arsed to show a sliver of personality, but she looks like my type (not a great big fatty for the record) so I'm tempted to make the effort. Plus I've not got my end away in a while out of laziness and apathy

Will probably just use my tried and tested technique of getting a bit pissed and messaging drunken nonsense to see if they bite.

>>448981
I have always preferred squishier ladies. I like soft faces, so that means lots of fat women, and that's the main reason. However, I don't think I should overlook the slightly /emo/ fact that culturally, fat women are meant to be unattractive, and because I spend so much of my life single and lonely, I am confident that I could form a better emotional connection with a woman nobody fancies. What would I say to Beyonce? What do we have in common? Absolutely fuck all. But when I emerge from my cave, caked in my own shit and with insects crawling all over me, I'm sure the way society treats me will be similar to how they treat the sea monster in the lake. So that's something we have in common right away.

>>448970
Look what you've done to this thread.

>>448989
It was inevitable. You're all thirsty and it occasionally spills out.

>>448989
We've all played our part. The casual goading, the outright disbelief, the prying and provocation.

If this carries on, I'm going to start shagging fat birds so I can feel included, and all you cowherds will be sorry when you roll up to your local seacow, only to find my manky sperm crusting in her tummy folds.

>>448991
I went on a complete bender with the fanny during my 20s, and I have to say that I still can't see the appeal of the bigguns. It's the stuck-up alt girls for me.

That said, 2/3 of the best blowies I've ever had came from girls on the bigger side.

>>448990
Red shoes, no knickers.

I'm not sure how we're all going to cope when she inevitably becomes the first prime minister we actually fancy (albeit for about five minutes until the next general election).

>>448993
She has a photo of herself on the table. That's just bizarre.

>>448992

Actually fat is always too far for me, but I do have a weakness for a bit of chub. I just don't really like a girl who's all skin and bones to be fair, they have to be shapely.

The prime and top tier is when you get that slightly curvy figure- just a bit of muffin top, I mean- on our favourite archetype, the council estate goth girl. They're always the dirtiest slags, guaranteed. Might be a bit on the thick side in conversation, but they make up for it in sheer enthusiasm when you get them in bed.

Thinking about it that's probably just my biggest weakness, out of anything. Enthusiasm. I don't need them to be into every kink under the sun, but so many lasses have this negative attitude about sex, as though it's a chore, as if you're at Crufts and you have to do the assault course perfectly before you're allowed five minutes in the slippery hot dog tunnel.

I have no time or inclination for that, when a girl wants to get me off and isn't shy about it, that's the best; and I will return it in kind.

Kunt is going to have another bash at getting a Number one with his Boris song given the last few days.

>>448982
> In the end I just got blackout drunk and gave her a half-hearted knobbing in the morning.

Glad to know I'm not the only one to have to done this when confronted by tinder lass who turns up a good five stone heavier than her pics.

>>448995
> Enthusiasm

It's a super concept and easy to understand in these woke times. You don't just need/want consent from a partner, it has to be enthusiastic consent. Find yourself someone who is into it.

>>448998

I'd be a really shit rapist to be fair, I can't even get it up unless they're visibly and audibly enjoying it. Just looking at their boobs isn't enough to get my chap interested I'm afraid.

I might be naive but I think a lot of men are the same way, especially once you're beyond the randy teenage years. That's why I've never bought the whole "declining salmon populations" thing- I get what they're saying, but it just doesn't hold up next to my experience. The kind of men who do rapes have something exceptional about them in order to be able to do it.

>>448999
>declining salmon populations

I'm guessing this is either declining salmon populations or toxic masculinity.

declining salmon populations it is. I think "declining salmon populations" does exist to an extent, but I'm not sure that "declining salmon populations" was the most apt phrase for it.

You've only got to look at how women are treated in places like Egypt, India and Rotherham Latin America to see the pervasive effects of cultural attitudes towards women. My girlfriend used to be a teaching assistant and she said a lot of Asian lads were brought up to view women as inferior. You can certainly change attitudes so that women are respected and not seen as pieces of meat, but the whole "teach men not to rape" thing is entirely spurious. With the best will in the world, there will always be rapists because some people are fucked in the head regardless.

I do wonder if online dating is making attitudes towards women worse. You've only got to look at some of the recent posts on here to see that the way lasses are viewed is gradually being dehumanised.

>>449001
>I do wonder if online dating is making attitudes towards women worse. You've only got to look at some of the recent posts on here to see that the way lasses are viewed is gradually being dehumanised.

Because heaven forbid that someone moans about the behaviour of the opposite sex on the dating scene. That was completely unheard of before the rise of dating apps.

>>449002
The rise of dating apps has made things a lot more impersonal and transactional. That isn't to say things were perfect before, but online dating has definitely led to interactions being less... human.

>>448998
'Enthusiastic consent' is puritanical American, sex-negative bollocks, driven by the kind of people who are weird enough to get into bed with someone they don't trust not to rape them, and don't feel comfortable saying 'no' to.

People with a healthy attitude towards sex don't need to give enthusiastic consent because they don't see it as a weapon or a massive, huge, super significant thing. It's just a bit of joint, or group, exercise, that may be used for bonding too.

Granted this may be a bit of a hot take, and I need to refine my opinions here because I sound like a rapist. But I couldn't get a stiffy for someone who wasn't at least trying to turn me on, so in practice I know I'm alreet. And you lads are generally a good sounding board, so what do the more measured among you think?

Now just for my personal edification: if it's not 'toxic masculinity', is it 'declining salmon populations'? I'm guessing it is, in which case without the context clues I would never have guessed it. In which case, dolphin rape/dolphin rape takes on another meaning, does it not?

>>449004

I suspect that
>someone ... trying to turn me on
is 'Enthusiastic consent'. Either that or they're being a tease but it's fairly common sense if they suddenly go cold or say no, consent's been rescinded.
It's just Americans confusing the issue by making up terms for things people were already doing but not labelling.

Right. I'm going to assume it's declining salmon populations. That is, if you replace the vowels with Os, you'd get ropo coltoro.

>>449006
Don't be a carpet shagger mate. You're spoiling both the exclusivity of knowing it, and the enjoyment of figuring it out.

>>449007
All of the world filters are shit, mate. Quit being a faggot.

>>449008
I didn't say they were good. Keep up.

I think we might be living in the golden age of attractive women posting erotic photos of themselves on the internet.

>>449010
I've never used rudgwicksteamshow.co.uk until the middle of last year when I realised every kind of woman was posting her nude form to the site. Mostly it's advertising for their OF, but I never called into Babestation either so I'm good.

>>449010

We are, but I think it's not as fun anymore, when they're selling it or giving it away to everyone. It was much more exciting to get a furtive, private 480x360 tit pic.

>>449011
Don't get me wrong, as we further enter dystopia I fully imagine that the absolute presence of internet nudes will only continue to go up. I just think that right now, as the idea of paying a complete stranger on the internet for regular photos of their tits is just entering the mainstream, there's a great balance of the quality of the smut with the amount of freebies being posted about the place.

>>449011
rudgwicksteamshow.co.uk is mostly porn, they just keep it away from the likes of r/all and r/popular. It wasn't too long ago that one of the biggest subs was r/jailbait because the site had a notorious paedo problem.

r/lipsthatgrip, r/girlsfinishingthejob, r/frogbutt and r/baddragon are my go to sources if I fancy a crafty wank.

>>449014
I probably shouldn't ask but I don't want to actually go to the page and I can fathom a guess at the others, but what on earth is r/frogbutt?

>>449015
Loose approximations of this pose.

>>449014
You're talking bollocks. There's not a single NSFW sub in the top 100.

>>449017
According to some studies from 2010, 4% of all websites are porn. Someone from r/dataisbeautiful found that 24% of subwicks are porn. So you're right but it's still a huge amount.

>>449014
/r/baddragon seems to have an inordinate amount of trans posters recently. I don't want to see a surgically designed fanny and weird tits due to improper tagging. At least the cis lads actually mark their posts 'M' but the transgingers seem to think they're above this.

I just want to see women getting knotted.

>>449017
You don't actually join the porn subs unless you're a complete mentalist.

>>449010
Photos maybe, although the only photo source I use is Imagefap. In terms of videos, however, the amateur stuff has all gone because it was all controlled by Mindgeek and they just decided to shut down amateur content basically overnight. XTube has gone completely, when it used to be the best one. The best time for wanking was absolutely a couple of years ago. Fuck Mindgeek.

>>449021
I didn't use PornHub for a few years and it felt clearly noticeable that the range and quality of the videos on offer had dipped markedly. I don't have any particular niche tastes in porn, but it takes me a lot longer to find a video I'm happy to bash one out to unless I opt for the old reliable Ava Dalush in the gym with the lead piping.

Porn, art, photography, whatever it is I swear Twitter was invented to annoy those who enjoy it. A variation on the library of babel: any image you can imagine is probably lurking somewhere in its depths, but there's no index so good fucking luck finding anything.

>>449023
I once found an image on Google as a younglad when just searching letters of the alphabet in a moment of boredom/procrastination, which then became one of my go-to "get me going" pictures for a few years. I did commit to memory the names of the two pornstars in the photo, but I've long since forgotten them, and it obviously isn't in the first ten results for the letter D any more. The image itself wasn't depicting anything spectacular, just a topless blonde woman breathing on another topless blonde woman's neck from behind, but the fucking quality of the image is what kept me going back - while most of the internet was low-res gash at that time, this picture was so sharp and had been touched up so perfectly that I felt like I could reach in and touch the smooth tit.

If I were a better person, it would have inspired an early interest in photography and I would be an adult with a healthy hobby. Alas, I just wanked my life away.

>>449024
I just spent a couple of minutes looking for my analogue of this, a Shae Marks photo with her holding a rose in her teeth. It was sublime. Big hair, big tits, big tease. Wish she'd done some hardcore at some point tbf.

I remember when I was cybershagging in the furry chatrooms as a yout and someone sent me a full image set of Jeremy Bernal's sexyfur art. I wanked 8 times that day.

>>449025

>full image set of Jeremy Bernal's sexyfur art

Phwoar. That name is a blast from the past. I wonder what old timers like them are up to nowadays.

Kids these days don't know how easy they have it, compared to tracking down good furry smut on web 1.0, trawling every artist on VCL an Furnation manually, and finding out all the good ones had clocked they could paywall their shit.

>>449026
Yes furlad! I was hoping you'd be reading. That Sasha, what a minx.

I did look for some of his art recently but couldn't find anything, as far as I'm aware he hasn't produced any content (that I can find) for since the early noughties.

It was a rewarding struggle back then. You fought for your porn, and you damn well enjoyed it more for that.

Can you start a furry thread on either /x/ or /y/ please? I don't get the appeal, but I wouldn't mind a look to see what the fuss is about.

>>449025
>Jeremy Bernal's sexyfur art.

Oh god, the original vanilla straight furry porn, what a terrible gateway drug that was.

>>449028
Well I just started torrenting the siterip up to 2015 so you'll have your picks of the litter soon.

Wonder how quickly I'll get banned.

>>449029
Aye now you mention it, it really is basic. Still, tails.

>>449027

As far as I know there's only a couple of big names like Jay Naylor and Adam Wan still doing it from those days. Artists like those are seemingly stuck in a time warp, it's quite fascinating actually. Over the course of a decade, the quality and style hasn't changed much; and while it has probed into more adventurous fetishes, it's all still relatively conservative by furry standards, as though they wait for something to start getting relatively trendy on "real" porn sites before they'll consider drawing it.

It's definitely the furry porn for vanilla straight blokes, but I really don't know how that sort of audience stumbles onto it.

Power cut in Beeston affecting ~1,300 houses which is estimated to last until about half 5. It sounds absolutely fucking mental outside because it's set off so many burglar alarms.

>>449028
>Can you start a furry thread on either /x/ or /y/ please? I don't get the appeal, but I wouldn't mind a look to see what the fuss is about.

Are you happy now?

>>449033
Jokes on you. I only use /sfw/ anyway.

Somebody with what appears to be a Croatian landline number keeps trying to phone me whenever I'm not at home.

A reverse lookup turned up nothing, so I guess it's just somebody who is trying to reach a friend or relative here in the UK.

That, or Croatian home burglars have gotten craftier.

Today I drove 2 hours down the M1 to listen to someone tell me about when they had to care for their mum and rub rash cream into her fanny.

>>449079
How much were they charging you?

Handing myself into the dumb-dumb police as I just spent a minute or two looking at headphone extension cables thinking "why are they all 3.5 metres long"?

I'm in discussion to get a full on sleeve Tattoo.
My only tattoo otherwise is a small square on my back done with a home kit.

>>449082
What kind of style are you interested in for the sleeve? And did you already pick a tattooer to do it?

>>449081
Nope; no idea. Why are they?

>>449084

>>449084
Audio jacks are 3.5mm, but I went insane ignored the second "m".

>>449085
Yeah.

>>449086
Never used to have 3.5mms when I was a kid, they were always 6.35mm.

Incidentally it's annoying that smartphones are phasing out the 3.5mm jack. Is it possible to get a splitter for USB-C that would enable you to use earphones and charge your phone at the same time? Or is that not physically possible?

>>449088
There are tiny little sound cards that do this - they're USB, but often provide a couple of headphone/mic jacks and a volume knob.

>>449088

That also annoys the piss out of me, because I've still got plenty of analog audio equipment that I like to connect my smartphone to, e.g. my home stereo system but also my car radio (older-model Audi Navigation Plus) which has Bluetooth connectivity for the phone function but still needs a 3.5mm AUX connection if you want to play your smartphone music on it.

The reason why they are phasing out 3.5mm isn't just to save 25p on the connector socket itself, but also because of design simplicity, which in itself further reduces production cost per unit. Also, customers today expect tight waterproofing, and a 3.5mm hole in your phone is going to be a point of entry for water that is difficult to design around and which can always fail at some point. Even putting a USB connector at the bottom of the phone is taking a risk in that respect. It could be that many smartphones won't have any physical interface points at all in the future, with wireless charging becoming more standard. There probably also won't be SD card slots anymore, because it will again be cheaper to just increase internal memory, and SIM cards are also starting to get phased out in favour of built-in eSIM. So your phone is essentially going to become a hermetically fused-together black box, which also means you'll be screwed if it breaks and you cannot retrieve your photos or other personal data. This is already an issue with cheaper laptop PCs with eMMC instead of a removable SSD.


>>449089

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Headphone-Adapter-Hi-Res-Compatible-Samsung/dp/B07RMY3V9D/ref=sr_1_3?crid=18LS0AXDF05PI&keywords=benfei+usb-c+to+3.5mm+adapter&qid=1642510096&sprefix=benfei+usb-c+to+3.5mm+adapte%2Caps%2C424&sr=8-3

>>449090

Sorry, wrong link.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Belkin-RockStar-Charge-Adapter-Samsung/dp/B07QS5CH5V/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3CG465TA5L6OB&keywords=Belkin+Adapter+USB-C+3%2C5+mm+RockStar&qid=1642511691&sprefix=belkin+adapter+usb-c+3+5+mm+rockstar%2Caps%2C585&sr=8-3

>>449091
Those are the ones - they're actually tiny little sound cards. The chips are hidden inside the plugs.

>>449092

The consolation of only having a USB-C port is that they're built like a brick shithouse and you can connect basically anything to them if you've got the right dongle. I regularly hook up a full-size audio interface to my phone so I can use my fancy studio microphones for Zoom calls.

>>449093
>a full-size audio interface to my phone

That's a really good idea and not something that had occured to me before. I also use a studio microphone for video conf calls (just Audio Technica but it's still way better than not having it) and had wondered how I might do that on a phone/tablet.

Have you ever tried plugging a webcam into it too? USB hub?

>>449094

USB hubs definitely work, which is handy for power passthrough. Keyboards, mice and USB MIDI keyboards all work fine. Haven't tried a webcam, because the reason I use my phone in the first place is for the quality of the front-facing camera. I believe that any class-compliant camera should work, but app support may be patchy. I do know that some people use HDMI capture devices to use their phone or tablet as a video monitor.

I've come off my bike this morning right by some builders digging up the road. Proper scraped fmy knee like a schoolboy.

The builders were asking me if I was okay which probably made it more embarrassing than if they had just mocked me.

>>449096
I helped a bloke up off the floor yesterday after his motorbike toppled onto him. Turns out he couldn't get out from under it because he had one entire metal leg. He just hopped back on and zipped away.

>>449097
>he had one entire metal leg. He just hopped
Fuck you.

I've finally convinced my daughter to stay school dinners, but it means there's no lunchbox for me to snaffle the leftovers from.

I haven't had sex in about two or three weeks and I could really do with a shag. I don't feel horny, I can just feel it in my knob that I need to get my end away. Wanking isn't satisfying this need. It's driving me up the wall. Problem is that I mainly have this urge during the day and my girlfriend only likes a shag before bed as she likes to go to sleep afterwards.

Are you trapped in some sort of sexless relationship?

>>449101
No, but for one reason or another we haven't done it in a few weeks.

Watching the bowls. If Dorries puts ads on this I’ll set her on fire.

Meat Loaf is dead and for the first time in years I actually care about a Celebrities passing.

>>449108
I guess now he's a really dead ringer for love.

>>449109
I guess the morning came.

>>449108
Not a dry eye in the house here.

>>449103
Bowls is just warm curling. They should show curling on TV sometimes; it's surprisingly popular every Winter Olympics, and I know they have a league because I watched it once on some obscure Sky channel. I bet it would be hugely popular in the winter months.

I didn't eat anything for tea, now I'm hungry, but the only real thing I could make out of the fridge is carbonara, and eating egg, cheese and pasta at this hour would definitely give me violent sexual nightmares, so I think I'm just going to have to have a couple of spoons of peanut butter and go to bed.

>>449113
If you wank yourself blind after the carbonara, you might be alright.

Do you think Hitler moustaches will ever come back? I mean, like in three hundred years so a lot of time has passed since the Second World War or whatever.

>>449115

I think we're only one or two generations away from it being accepted as subversively ironic, and then from there it'll probably appear as cyclical fashion until someone rediscovers Richard Herring and then it'll stop again.

>>449115

Swastikas are still going strong in many parts of Asia, so who knows.

>>449117
Hardly the same thing, the swastika is a simple geometric shape that's been showing up in artwork from cultures around the globe for centuries or millennia, the Hitler tash is a shit facial hair trend that was popular briefly in the 20th century.

>>449118

>the Hitler tash is a shit facial hair trend that was popular briefly in the 20th century

Except that's not entirely true.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toothbrush_moustache

>The style first became popular in the United States in the late 19th century; from there it spread to Germany and elsewhere, reaching a height of popularity in the inter-war years


I give it another 20 years, when 2042's equivalent of hipsters will start wearing it ironically with no understanding of the events from 100 years ago. Maybe throw on an out of context Burberry cap to boot.

Fucking hell, I've just seen the evangelist christian korean youtuber on r/baddragon.

I've not got anything against transfolk, but why is it most of them just look like ugly men in a dress, with lank greasy hair because they don't maintain it properly? They can be freaks, just not where I'm trying to have a wank.

>>449130
A lot of them are neurodivergent, and neurodivergent people have a tendency to not look after themselves properly.

>>449130
>They can be freaks, just not where I'm trying to have a wank.

Having just scrolled r/baddragon I think a evangelist christian korean youtuber is the least of your worries. I'd post the obese bald bloke with a dildo as long as his torso but I think that dragon dicks are probably not SFW. Is this what you're into?

>>449130

They're not all that bad nowadays. In fact some of them come close enough that I'm getting a bit paranoid whenever I see a lass with a strong jaw line on a dating app. I'm talking to one right now and she's not unattractive, but she's definitely too good to be true for a real woman. She must be hiding a cock, but I just can't quite tell, and I fear it'll be terribly awkward if I get her in bed before I find out.

I mean, I'm not even trying to be transphobic, I kind of like her but I'm not sure how I'd feel if it turns out she has a willy; like with that type of tranno it's always a tiny little floppy one isn't it, not even a good proper cock that I could ask her to rail me with. I think that's what's worst about it, it's weird.

>>449132
I don't visit that often, so I'll filter it to the top posts of the week to try to avoid the grotesques but one of those at the moment is a evangelist christian korean youtuber deepthroating a dildo.

I think, what I'm trying to say, is that if ugly people decide to change gender they should think more about whether people really want to see them in the nip.

>>449130

>r/baddragon

There's your problem.

>>449134

The trans movement in general seems to egregiously believe that merely transitioning suddenly means people should be attracted to you; when the truth is that regardless of their gender, the vast majority of people are still going to be ugly cunts.

I'm pretty sure there's no small number of trans people whose dysphoria is ultimately rooted in not being attractive enough as their biological sex. They dive into the world of amateur porn seeking validation that their transition has successfully remedied that, often encouraged by their peers, and I'm quite sure a lot of them are ultimately left extremely dejected by the whole experience.

It's all quite a sad affair honestly. If I were to put my chips on the table, I'd blame the last 70 years of the marketing and fashion etc industry bombarding people with unrealistic standards of beauty.

What is the appeal of /r/baddragon? I just can't get my head around wanking to pictures of some bloke stuffing a rainbow coloured horse cock up his arse.

>>449137
Most of the videos uploaded there are of women.

>>449137

I've always found it a bit grotesque, and I'm furrylad.

I think I just dislike how regular non-furry perverts got hold of it honestly though, and obviously they focussed straight on the most vulgar aspects like the three foot long tree trunk horse dicks, gaping themselves open so wide you could fit your head up. Makes me roll my eyes, you know.

Human sexuality has just become so over the top and tasteless these days. It's like people can't have a wank unless the content is bordering on offensively extreme.

>>449133
>I fear it'll be terribly awkward if I get her in bed before I find out

It's fairly simple lad, if you find yourself in such a situation you slide your winky into her bumhole.

I don't know if it's just that I like to dominate in the bedroom but I think I'd have more trouble if she had an anaconda like whopper, like any true son of Rome I see topping as completely straight but that's just daft when your cock is smaller. A sissy with a big dick feels wrong and you know full well with all the dieting and toned abs they will bigger and harder than you.

>>449139
If I was CEO of Bad Dragon I'd see what happens when you release ordinary big dildoes but say it's from a Cyclops or a giant. Let's see how the size-queens handle that one.

>>449140

Nonsense, a gentlemen of refined taste likes a big dicked bottom, there's something altogether more masculine and ego nourishing about it when they've got the bigger donger than you, but you're still in charge.

Or, as the case may be, you've got the bigger donger than them, but they still claim you like a stallion mounts a mare and have your superior length nutting without as much as a stroke. I've got a pretty big chap so I hope to one day be in this position.

Cock size role reversal, I suppose.

Today I've been inside an Argos for the first time in years. It felt quite eerie because of how bare it was. There was a few banks of desks with touchscreens on, but that was about it really. No catalogues, nothing on display apart from a wall with gift vouchers; even the jewellery and watches section had been replaced with banners about ordering online. It was just... empty. I can see why they're phasing out their older stores and replacing them with a counter inside Sainsbury's instead, but it really gave the impression of a dying business.

In other news, I've been to Burger King and tried their vegan royale. It was quite nice, especially with a few onion rings added to it. The drinks machine only had the zero sugar versions, so I made the mistake of trying orange flavour Coke Zero.

>>449165

I think Argos needs to just make their customer area much smaller, just bring the warehouse wall almost right up to the front doors, a bit like a Screwfix. So they can fix more shit in their warehouse, while you just order for click and collect, and are in and out in 3 minutes. You don't need a catalogue chained to a table anymore.

I'm trying to find an adequate offline, desktop-centered web page editing software that lets me design a handful of static HTML web sites where I have full control and editability over my code and which still gives me out of the box HTML5 functionality and a few drag and drop gadgets like sliding galleries,animation or grid layouts. I then want to tie those static pages together with some custom PHP background code.

Mobirise only seems to enable you to edit ready-made templates, Bootstrap Studio is too rigid and restrictive against inserting your own custom code if you want to do anything besides editing or creating Bootstrap-based templates, and nicepage appears to be riddled with programming bugs.

Adobe DreamWeaver looks interesting, but I'm hesitant to commit to a subscription, even if it can be cancelled monthly. I'd rather pay a one-off licence fee and be done with it. Pinegrow is around 100 quid a year on a recurring subscription plan, which is pushing it in terms of what I am willing to spend on this little project.

The likes of Wix or Squarespace, or even wordpress just aren't what I really have in mind. Anything that's too standard and won't let me add and manipulate my own custom code in a meaningful way without messing the whole thing up just won't do. I also don't care for the code bloat that tends to come with these solutions.

Any suggestions?

>>449170

WYSIWYG was always a bad idea, but it's definitively dead because of phones. IMO the best option is to use a static site generator or headless CMS based on the Jamstack principles. You get fast, clean code with a minimum of complexity.

https://jamstack.org/generators/

I have once again touched my knob after handling chilis.

>>449172

Someone recently went down on me with a mouthful* of hot sauce, it was better than I expected.

*Some, not a literal full mouth.

>>449171

Most WISYWIG editors have different device previews though so you can design for phones or tablets right out of your desktop application.

I think what sort of killed old-school web design is that you don't need to be able to code anymore nowadays. You can bosh together an entire site with dozens of pages without having a clue how to create an HTML header or define a charset or a CSS class. And it shows. Even web sites by web design agencies today can be a five-minute wordpress job, with quite anticlimactic results. Esoecially if you then run a site like that through something like PageSpeed Insights.

Granted, you simply cannot hand code in any reasonable amount of time all the features nowadays that a lot of web sites are just expected to have both by by their owners and their audiences. Maybe it's just the snobism of having created web sites at code level for 20 years, but it kind of boils my piss when younguns these days think they're web design gurus just because they show you how to throw some elements together via drag and drop in a youtube tutorial.

>>449173
Was this a conscious choice or a happenstance?

>>449174
Nothing I am about to say is useful to you at all, but I really hate all WordPress tutorials I have ever seen, for a roughly similar reason. I don't design websites but I do web hosting as part of my job, and it would be very useful indeed to know all the differences between the files WordPress gives you, like wp -config.php and .htaccess and index.php and so on. But any attempt to find any online resources for learning this sort of thing consists of nothing except, "Here's how to add a text box. Click on Add Text Box!" It's staggeringly unhelpful.

>>449175

Conscious choice. It was probably Frank's Red Hot, nothing ridiculous.

I used to tie my ex up and put tabasco sauce on her fanny when she'd been bad.

>>449172
I did that and it made my eyes water once, so I rubbed them. I was so incapacitated I couldn't even locate my Nobel Prize for General Cleverness.

>>449176

As much as wordpress and others democratised the Internet, they also idiotised it. It's almost a bit like when Windows 95 for the first time addressed the complete computer noob as part of its intended core audience. I guess it's still a godsend for anything from starving-artist bloggers to low-level self-employed business owners or your mum's knitting circle, because they can't afford to just spend 1500 quid (or any amount of silly money if you are feeling frivolous) to have a bespoke web site done by a professional web designer. I'm just saying that technology in the hands of idiots rarely leads to good things. And in the case of wordpress, it's not even particularly good technology, it's bloated and littered with unnecessary external links and requests and it wastes oodles of bandwidth. Which is then compounded by the idiots who completely cram up their web site with equally code-bloated plugins and other gratuitous gadgets.

>>449178

That's the stuff. I had an ex who liked it when I threatened her clit with a pair of wire cutters.

And they say .gs has a problem with women. Poppycock.

Lots of dog shit about.

>>449186
I stood in some a week or two ago and didn't notice, walked it over my carpet a bit, and now there are white marks where I have either failed to clean it up properly, or cleaned it up much, much too well.

>>449187
That's why you take your shoes off when you come in the house.

>>449188
He for one might not have a house. (Just some carpet outdoors somewhere)

>>449189
Right, that's the second time you've done this recently. You need commas either side of "for one".

We've got standards to uphold.

>>449190
I ,for one, have acknowledged your advice.

>>449189
I have a rented ground-floor flat, and I am frankly livid that my elderly landlord did not come round to scrape up the animal shit himself. What am I paying him for?

>>449191

>>449190
I for one do not even own any fucks.

My car skid plate, or whatever you call the bottom engine protector thingy, looks a little low and is scraping on most speedbumps. Is this an easy fix or will I have to take it to a garage? I'm not a car person.

What level of celebrity would Gary Glitter have, if he didn't download child porn or rape Vietnamese children? Would he be condemned to the garbage heap of celebrities appearing on Channel 5 reality shows, or the more prestigious Come Dine With Me on Channel 4, or even the lofty heights of Strictly on the Beeb? Or completely forgotten? Really makes you think.

>>449195

It's called an undertray. It's held on with clips or screws, depending on your make and model. You should be able to get a replacement set for about a fiver on eBay. Clips are usually just a press-fit, but you'll need either a torx or socket driver if it uses screws. If the undertray is badly cracked, you're looking at about £40-£50 for a replacement. The most likely issue you'll face is getting under the car. It's doable without axle stands if you're skinny or there's a lot of ground clearance, but don't even think about getting under a car that's just held up by a jack.

>>449197
Thanks, lad. I had to have the clutch replaced at the start of December, so it wouldn't surprise me if they hadn't fully secured it afterwards and it's gradually loosened over the past couple of months. I don't think it's cracked.

>>449196
I think that for celebrities like that, it's really up to them how famous they remain. If he kept doing stuff, he'd be as famous as Cheryl Baker or Rolf Harris, but otherwise, he'd be gone like dust in the wind, like the Bay City Rollers. If he did absolutely nothing for years, I'm sure he could walk straight back into I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here, but Strictly Come Dancing probably wouldn't be a good fit for him.

My cousin would have been 30 today, had he not died of aplastic anaemia when he was 8. It's only on major occasions like this that I even think of him, but it's strange to wonder how he would have turned out.

>>449199

>If he did absolutely nothing for years, I'm sure he could walk straight back into I'm A Celebrity

Is that really likely though. Gary Glitter fucked up so badly, he could single-handedly end both the current corona and Ukraine crises, and people would still say yes, but he shagged a bunch of 12 year olds that one time in Cambodia.

In today's #metoo climate, one transgression decades ago is enough to end your career once and for all to the point where you will be lucky to land any job at all.

Look at people like Kevin Spacey. He forced himself on an underage teenlad one time at a drug fuelled party in the 80s, and as morally and legally wrong as that was, he will probably never meaningfully work in the industry again. Not condoning his behaviour, at all, but even monsters are somehow going to have to work for their living. If you look at his most recent movie work since the allegations surfaced in 2018, he barely did a handful of projects, while he had been in high demand for over 20 years up until that point.

>>449201

Lad, maybe read more than just the post you directly reply to in future, that's sort of why reply threads exist, it's to stop you looking silly.

>>449201
>He forced himself on an underage teenlad one time at a drug fuelled party in the 80s
Sure. It was just that one time. Definitely not a pattern that had gone on so long that Family Guy could safely reference it without consequence. It was just that one time, nothing more.

>>449202


It appears I wrote that post in error.

Apologies.

>>449202


Missed that one, I guess.

Apologies.

Anyone seen the revelations about Hugh Hefner? Something about drug-fuelled sex parties draining the youth and beauty from women. It's outrageous the stuff men do.

>>449208
It is getting a bit silly now. I mean... Playboy? Sex parties? Unless it was some Epstein level shite, then I do not know what these women thought they were signing up to.

I have eligibility to go for an Italian passport (and be dual British-Italian). Not sure I can be arsed with it. What would be some of the benefits? Beyond the obvious EU citizen/freedom of movement.

>>449210
Italian women will like you a little bit more.

>>449210
>>449211

In my experience of having an Italian mate all birds will like you a bit more, especially if you learn a bit of the lingo.

I’m going for a big long walk today, whether I want to or not.

>>449200
I'm fortunate that I don't know anyone around my age that died during childhood, although when I was at college some lass in my form/general studies class passed away after she got in a car with some boy racers and it wrapped around a tree.

For curiosities sake, I've just checked what the three thickos in my class when I was eight are up to now about 26 years on:

Thicko #1 looks like the maid from DuckTales. He's spent most of the past 10 years working in one of those godawful Fuzzy Eds pubs but now has an entry level council job. He also spends a lot of time liking posts from the popular kids at secondary school, despite not being part of that social circle.

Thicko #2 looks like a shaved monkey. He works at Kwik Fit and posts a lot of pictures of his fifth generation Vauxhall Astra.

Thicko #3 moved to that London and works as a chartered surveyor. Seems to be doing well for himself.

Tried doing it for the thickest lass, but all I could make out was that she's a teen mum going from one relationship to the next and she posts extremely filtered pictures of herself online.

>>449214

>Tried doing it for the thickest lass, but all I could make out was that she's a teen mum going from one relationship to the next and she posts extremely filtered pictures of herself online.

I'm reasonably confident that applies to 90% of the birds I was at school with, and I'm reasonably sure I could write a list of the ones it doesn't apply to just off the top of my head.

I actually daren't look at the thickos from my school days though, thinking about it gives me the fear a bit. There were some proper pond life there, beyond working class, beyond even the underclass, those kids who it's a miracle survived to school age because their brains clearly marinated in Super Tennant's for the first 9 months of their existence.

I fucking hated school. Never wanted to have any connection to it ever again once I'd fucked off and moved on. In fact I never wanted to even have facebook, but a particularly pushy mate (who I am no longer mates with) set one up FOR me, the prick.

>>449215
I know we bang on about how bad social mobility is these days, but it probably is worse for women.

Like you say, most lasses I went to school with are in dead end admin jobs with no real prospects. The ones who seem to be doing well are the ones who went into teaching or the NHS. Must be a shit life, shuffling paperwork all day and having little else to do other than popping out kids.

>>449216

I don't know, I think it's a bit both ways for lasses. Either they get a shit life with zero prospects or they have it easier than they deserve, where as long as they start on the right foot opportunities just seem to fall in their lap. For lads it's squarely between the two and you have to really work for something if you want it, but you're less likely to end up a total waster.

But in general this is why all the talk of male privilege and gender politics in general is a bit of a shitshow to me, the reality is it's just way more complex and nuanced than those kinds of generalisations ever boil it down to, so it's pointless to even try blanket it either way. But people can't help themselves.

Ooh, well fuck me. I just had a look at what I could get for my money property wise in Italy. That might be a benefit of the passport. Living in a Tuscan villa and not under a pervasive grey cloud. Long shot, but any Italian property owners here?

>>449217
>I don't know, I think it's a bit both ways for lasses. Either they get a shit life with zero prospects or they have it easier than they deserve, where as long as they start on the right foot opportunities just seem to fall in their lap. For lads it's squarely between the two and you have to really work for something if you want it, but you're less likely to end up a total waster.

The statistics don't really seem to bear this out. During your 20s, which I'd argue is a pretty critical decade in setting yourself up for adulthood, women on average earn more than men: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/aug/29/women-in-20s-earn-more-men-same-age-study-finds. I think some studies put the "tipping point" at which men start to earn more than women at around 35.

There's probably more recent figures, but in 2017, 86% of "rough sleepers" were men as recorded by the (then called) Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: https://www.homeless.org.uk/sites/default/files/site-attachments/Homeless%20Link%20-%20analysis%20of%20rough%20sleeping%20statistics%20for%20England%202017.pdf

Not arguing women don't face any systemic disadvantage, just that (on average) we seem to prioritise the physical safety and prosperity of women when it comes to housing and money. Obviously, this depends on how you'd define a shit life, but lads also do seem more prone to being boxed into a certain variety of shit life, if you consider young deaths (including car accidents, suicides, violent deaths).

That being said, I agree with your sentiment that people assume too much and judge individuals based on very broad and sometimes nebulous notions of privilege. It's more or less an ecological fallacy -- Dutch people are tall, but that doesn't mean every Dutch person is tall, and you certainly don't grow a few inches just by moving to the Netherlands. I'd still argue that research, done in good faith, can sometimes help make circumstances fairer for everyone.

>>449218

Certainly not a property owner, but like you I've been amazed with what you can buy there. How serious are you about this? I also have Italian ancestry and have been looking into getting citizenship.

>>449218

My mum came into some farm land decades ago when my grandad passed, and my parents had no use for it because we're not farmers, so they were looking to sell it and invest the money elsewhere. Being that we used to spend many summer holidays in Italy back then, at some point we befriended some locals in a village in the Tuscan hills who mentioned that there was a villa for sale in the area. So we went and had a look at it. I remember it being in kind of a sorry state. It was a three-story, something like four-bedroom 19th century country house, with a neglected olive orchard about half the size of a football pitch, and I seem to remember that it would have been around £50K. If that house still exists and somebody took good care of it, I'm sure it's going for silly money nowadays, by comparison.

I guess my point is, don't expect to get a bargain on a house there that's in tip-top condition. Italians tend to exaggerate, as many Southern Europeans do. Slabs of stucco crumbling off an exterior wall or a death-trap worn out wooden staircase will be sold to you as "character", and not as the major renovation job that it is.

>>449219
>There's probably more recent figures, but in 2017, 86% of "rough sleepers" were men

I was talking with my friend recently as he and his fellow eskimos regularly cook meals to give out to the homeless in Leeds and Bradford. He's been doing it for years and said he's never met a homeless eskimo person on the streets, they're almost exclusively white even given the demographics of where they're helping out. He thinks Britain has lost its way and is far less humanist and community spirited than laplanderstan is.

>>449222

Our inuit cousins certainly have a much better idea of looking after their family than we do. It's not uncommon for three and even four generations to live in one household for them. And, without wanting to tread onto thin ice, I'd wager it has just a bit to do with how their family structures tend to be more rigidly patriarchal. I mean, you don't often get eskimo women divorcing their husband and taking the house and the kids, do you, they're not allowed.

I don't think it's that Britain has "lost it's way", though. We haven't changed all that much in this regard for perhaps the last century- Anglophone Western culture has always had the idea of kicking our young out to start earning their own way, in the old days it was that a bloke would go live in a boarding house 'til he found a wife, while you'd marry your daughter off to someone as soon as she was old enough. Whereas now it's just that we send them off to university and expect them to grow up while they're there. It's only really very recently due to the economic conditions of the last decade that parents have started to accept the idea of stay-at-home adult kids.

I think the welfare cuts of the Camebourne era have a lot to answer for as well. As a society we had become used to the post-war consensus of unemployment support and council houses, and in the typical fashion people began to take them for granted, without realising the system had been cut to the bone while they weren't looking. I even remember when I was a younglad my parents suggested I put myself on the register to try get a house, and I spat out my brew I laughed so forcefully. They just had no idea, they thought you could just walk up to the housing office and say you wanted a house.

So of course, people are still much less charitable, because they still have it stuck in their heads that you can get eleventy grand in benefits and a free house, so what excuse do these homeless have.

>>449223

>I think the welfare cuts of the Camebourne era have a lot to answer for as well.

Massively so. The impact of cuts has been huge, but it's really hard to pin to one thing because they've affected nearly every aspect of government. It's harder for homeless people to get housing, but the services that stop people from becoming homeless have been cut to the bone too - social services, addiction and mental health treatment, debt advice and of course the corrosive effects of Universal Credit.

>>449131
>A lot of them are neurodivergent, and neurodivergent people have a tendency to not look after themselves properly.

I've just seen the Fox News interview with the r/antiwork gender bending autistic mod. You weren't kidding.

>>449223
>It's only really very recently due to the economic conditions of the last decade that parents have started to accept the idea of stay-at-home adult kids.

Are you telling me that On the Buses was a lie?

>>449225
>I've just seen the Fox News interview with the r/antiwork gender bending autistic mod. You weren't kidding.

Oh for crying out loud. Of course they're taken as a representative for something really promising, aren't they?

>>449225

>the r/antiwork gender bending autistic mod

The one that kept deleting sensible unifying class conscious posts, no less.

It glows.

>>449226
IIRC, there was a poll on the sub where the overwhelming response was not to do any media interviews because of how they would most likely be in bad faith. Fox News contacts the mods and they decide that freak should be the representative of the sub because they're the most media savvy.

Going off on a tangent, but I reckon it's freaks like that which make people not like transfolk. I don't think most people have anything against "proper" transfolk, but they get weirded out by the oddballs who are essentially neckbeards in a dress.

>>449228

There's definitely an element of truth to that. Partially it's trying to run before they can walk- Society in general was broadly only just beginning to warm to the idea of a "traditional" transexual. Hayley Cropper on Corrie. But that had barely even begun to sink in before these lot were on it with their new pronouns and their non-binary genderqueer two-spirit weirdness where you don't even know what the fuck you're dealing with.

But it's not only that, I think it triggers an instant mistrust in most people. I think most people hear that sort of thing, and if they're a basic common sense type of person, it immediately rings that alarm bell you get when you're getting talked into a scam. I'm not saying non-binary folk are all lying- But their whole shtick just immediately puts people on suspicion that they're bullshitting, and so there's no way they (or any movement they represent) can be taken seriously.

>>449225
>On The Buses
This was actually used in my school's GCSE citizenship class to demonstrate the shift away from staying at home until you're married and able to afford a home, and towards moving out as a younglad. I didn't go to a very good school.

The mods have just thrown a paddy and privated the entire subrudgwicksteamshow.co.uk.

>>449231
And for some reason SRD is deleting all mention of this happening.

Just a heads up, lads. If you ever have daughters there will be times when, well, you don't feel like a sex pest but you will be hyper aware that you're sat watching a stage performance featuring a bunch of lasses in their mid-teens wearing lycra. Particularly when that performance involves them singing "I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts" whilst they've got their hands on their chests.

>>449231>>449232
From what I saw earlier it looks like they're going for the whole "if you've got a problem with what the mod did it's because of transphobia" excuse, which wouldn't be the first time.

It's all I've been able to do lately to not be completely manic about some health issues I've been having. I am utterly unused to being unwell for any real length of time and, obviously, I don't enjoy it. So, with quite the opposite being true in recent times, my completely lack of a need to shit has unsettled me in its own way. This must be how Napoleon felt after capturing Moscow, wondering if the Tsar would finally come to terms. I hope the winter's kinder to me than it was to the Emperor.

>>449231
>>449232
>>449233

The sub was basically seeing open revolt over the course of the afternoon, with tons of posts essentially saying "who let this clown 'tard on the news, now we all look stupid."

So does the person in question admit that they have failed their community and quietly slip back into anonymity, or are they going to kick and scream and bring the community down in their bid to retain control? This is, after all, the head mod of the sub, you might not have realised.

So... Yeah. It's a tale as old as rudgewick.

The thing is it was obviously going to go this way. That person founded the sub, but is clearly a midwit with minimal knowledge of political theory of any stripe, nor much relation to the struggle of organised labour. They could never have forseen their little subrudgewick becoming the culturally significant force it has been over the last several months. But naturally, once it does become that, they're going to want to take some credit, aren't they.

Alas. One day we'll get lucky, and something like this will happen, only the leader will be a bloke called Daz, who drinks Carling and supports Man City, who they can't possibly make look like a freak no matter how hard they try.

Of course the mod is a sex pest as well. It's fucking Chris Chan all over again.

>>449236
>>449237

I don't mean to get too /boo/, but was antiwork some sort of honeypot to begin with? With how quickly and dramatically things unravelled due to one useful idiot, it's tempting to me for think someone twigged early on that gassing this sub up was another means to make class-conscious leftists look like idiots and weirdos.

>>449237

What sort of idiot decides it's a good idea to become a public figure with something like that hanging around them? Especially one defending a contentious idea.

>>449238
That one useful idiot is, I believe, the founder of the sub. I think it's more a case of them being hopelessly out of depth since things really started taking off and being so out of touch with the real world they couldn't foresee what would happen during the interview; it was pretty much a dream come true for Fox.

It wouldn't be hard to create a similar sub that isn't run by a complete mong.

>>449238

I think it's way more likely that the type of person who creates a subrudgwicksteamshow.co.uk for anything is likely going to be a fucking weirdo. I don't know how antiwork grew as a sub, but there's basically two ways - a post going viral which drives engagement, and the creator of the sub being a superuser who posts fucking constantly and saturates /r/all with posts over time. The former is luck, the latter is applied autism.

I wouldn't be particularly surprised if you were right, either, I just think I wouldn't bet against the likelihood of a subrudgwicksteamshow.co.uk mod being absolutely tapped.

I'm going to be contrarian and wager that the subrudgwicksteamshow.co.uk will get a boost out of this unless their mod team shatters, and maybe even then.
People worry a lot about the impression made, but don't factor in the advantage of having made an impression at all. If you hear "Here's something you might be interested in, their representative made themselves look cringe on TV" you're not going to go "oh, well, if it's cringe...", especially when you're the average modern Twitter user with a cringe profile picture beside your cringe bio for the account where you post nothing but cringe. Conversely, if you're instinctively opposed to "antiwork" then it wouldn't matter if they made a good impression. You'd just find something to nitpick anyway.

People still mostly approach these things as though we live in the television age, as though this is someone's big moment on TV for the world to see - even though they probably caught far more eyeballs with their posts than they did on television-proper. People remember when TV was the arbiter of truth, they haven't quite on to the fact that everyone else has also hopped online and that truth is now decided on Twitter, where next week's big event is already scheduled to begin.

>>449242

You're definitely right. And most people who would even be prepared to be nudged over to an antiwork philosophy are undoubtedly young enough to not be that shocked or scandalised by an internet weirdo being the creator, as they understand both that half their friends are internet weirdos, and also that once a sub gets big enough, the mod team is basically superfluous in terms of direction of the discourse.

>>449242 >>449243
Nah. A fifth of antiwork's 1.6m subs migrated to the replacement subrudgwicksteamshow.co.uk overnight, marking one of the largest migrations/debuts the site has ever seen. There's no chance it comes out stronger.

>>449244

What is the replacement sub?

>>449244
It's not just about the TV interview either. That could easily have been overcome, but the moderators' decision to label so many people with fairly worded criticism as trolls and permaban them will be their undoing. It's been pointed out their actions are reminiscent of the sorts of toxic workplaces that would get featured there. Also remember that antiwork's rise has been meteoric and therefore any loyalty to it that might exist has had little time to become entrenched.

They have a hope of limping on if the greaseball founder abdicates and the rest pin the blame on them, but /r/workreform has a great shot at overtaking it regardless.

>>449237
His big problem was his Mrs wasn't giving him enough so he had a wank next to her and he once tried to get her involved in wanking him off but she found this to be a nightmare? I've been here before in a relationship of mismatched sex-drives and if anything it causes a feeling of shame in both people, you feel like a wrong'un and your bird feels like she can't satisfy you. If one or the other doesn't get this sense of shame then they're probably a cunt.

Why is it that if you post anything about the otherplace you lot starts steaming at the ears but this sort of bollocks gets a pass.

None of this matters.

Right, I'm going to clean my PC and I want you sods to be talking about something halfway interesting when I get back.

>>449249
Cleaning up any evidence of your crimes on Holocaust Memorial Day seems a bit wrong to me. Are you going to use one of those pressurised gas canisters on the keyboard to clear out any undesirables?

>>449250
Other than my bad skin I’m not sure which crimes were in evidence by the copious dust buildup on my cooler. And I just used a paint brush, those cans never last very long and seem like a waste, it’s not a very big computer. Maybe if I had racks upon racks of drives and a radiator the length of my arm I’d get them still.

>>449247
>Why is it that if you post anything about the otherplace you lot starts steaming at the ears but this sort of bollocks gets a pass.

This place has always had a superiority complex when it comes to 4chan. I can't remember the last time something that had happened over there was talked about here, unless Chris Chan counts, that wasn't puerile bollocks.

The impression I get with rudgwicksteamshow.co.uk is that quite a few posters here also post there and they don't actually like it much, but there's a lack of alternatives if you want something a bit faster paced.

Guys it's okay they found a viable replacement for the movement.

His post history simply highlights his eminent eligibility.

>>449253

>anarchist

I mean this has been the root cause of their problems since the start. I don't think there's a single self described "anarchist" in the West who isn't really just a middle class layabout.

>>449252

Pretty much. 4chan is my spiritual home but it's just too far gone these days.

Rudgwick is also shit, but you can sort of at least tailor what kind of shit, and it isn't always exactly the same identical kind shit you've already been tired of for about seven or eight years.

Shall we all have fish and chips for tea, lads? I haven't had fish and chips in ages.

>>449255
Chippy tea on a Thursday? What are you like!

>>449255

I'll have chips curry rice and two scallops, if you're going. There's a tenner behind the clock on the mantelpiece.

>>449252
It's not a superiority thing, although I think it goes without saying this is a more enjoyable forum than 99% of 4chan. The problem is once you let a little bit of that place in, it tends to propagate itself at an alarming rate.

>>449255
I had one last week. Think I'll just eat some fruit later and that's me for the day.

>>449256
Do they still do that 2 for 1 at 'spoons?

>>449254
Like Alan Moore you mean? You sound like that fox news reporter.

>>449237
There's something about this writing style that's nails on a chalkboard to me. The very "I'm clever, honest" flavour to it is immediately recognisable as an internet autist, the sort of person who was in Set 2 for all their classes in secondary school when all their mates were in Set 1, and who still has a complex about it.

>>449260

I like Alan Moore, obviously, but let's not pretend he isn't a complete fruitcake.