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>> No. 452571 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 6:48 am
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New weekday thread: apocalyptic edition.
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>> No. 452572 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 7:58 am
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Good luck lads.
>> No. 452573 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 8:03 am
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Greetings from sunny Sheffield.
>> No. 452574 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 8:05 am
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It's a nice cool 26 degrees indoors at 8am, I got Mylar covering all the windows, freezer full of ice, fridge full of water, freshly shaved head, lets get it over with already.
>> No. 452575 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 8:14 am
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>>452574
My girlfriend shut all of the windows overnight because she was paranoid that we wouldn't be up in time to close them when it went from being cooler outside than inside to being warmer outside. The end result is that the house is very stuffy and it's still cooler outside.
>> No. 452578 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 8:59 am
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>>452575

Open windows. Closed Curtains. Is the optimal configuration for this weather.

Propping open your bedroom door with a fan and running it overnight will provide some relief.

Soaking in a cool bath (<37c) before bed will help lower your core body temperature and make sleep easier

Get plenty of fluids, but make sure you're replacing salts (lucozade sport is pretty good for this)

Wear a hat and high factor sunscreen. I wear factor 50 despite the label trying to shame me by saying the sunscreen is for 'infants and babies'

Better to stay out of the sun altogether lest you burst into flames.

I'm from the very top of Scotland and survived 4 years in Asia.
>> No. 452579 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 9:09 am
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>>452578
Thanks, lad. She's not keen on fans either because she thinks they're too loud and "all they do is blow hot air around" but she's fucked off to work so I can get some peace.

I'm in a three storey house, with windows facing to the North-West and South-East, and I have a grand total of five fans at my disposal. How should I most effectively circulate air around the building? I'm guessing I should have fans pointing outside on the top floor North-West windows and pointing inside on the South-East ones downstairs, but I'm not a scientist.
>> No. 452581 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 9:17 am
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>>452579

Put some bottles of water in the freezer and then leave them in your room round about the time you go to sleep.

And avoid Peterborough at all costs. It seems to be the epicenter of Sunmageddon
>> No. 452584 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 9:22 am
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Keep a spray bottle of water in the fridge and spritz yer nekkid body as necessary. Artificial sweat, saves on fluids and electrolytes innit.
>> No. 452587 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 10:19 am
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Not sure what all the fuss is about. I'm feeling quite cool. Got a Vimpto ice pop just in case.
>> No. 452588 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 10:29 am
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Just bought a 10 pack of Stella, home alone for a couple of days as girlfriend is housesitting for her parents, 2fans keeping me cool. Gonna wank and play mediocre games non-stop for 3 days.
>> No. 452592 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 11:26 am
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>>452571

For its time, the special effects in Terminator 2 were nothing short of groundbreaking. But when you look at the nuclear blast scene now, it hasn't aged well. A similar scene at the beginning of Terminator 3 holds up far better after nearly 20 years.
>> No. 452593 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 11:34 am
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I sort of want to play a video game, but I reckon if my GPU gets hot enough for the fans to rotate even slightly the entire room will turn into a sauna. Also, I had a look and my CPU is currently the same temperature as London will be tomorrow evening, which probably means I need to play around with my fan curves.
>> No. 452594 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 12:39 pm
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>>452593

This is why I did fuck all other than drink and sleep over the weekend. Even having the computer on would have put my room in the 40s, and turning on my amp to play guitar would have been a deathwish because I thought it was a good idea to get rid of my solid state amps in favour of valve amps that act like a space heater at the best of times.

There's nothing for it lads. Just lie there and accept your fate. Maybe if you have any retro consoles about you can just about manage, a PS1 or whatever never really gave off any heat as I remember.
>> No. 452595 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 1:08 pm
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>>452594

I'm bewildered at your problem. Either you live in a tiny bedsit or you are running a supercomputer at your house. I've got a fairly recent desktop PC, not a fully specced out gaming behemoth but well capable, and I haven't noticed it having any kind of effect on the temperature in that room.
>> No. 452596 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 1:20 pm
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This heat feels very different to the weekend, it's like I'm wet as well. Just looked at the weather and things won't drop until 8pm and even then marginally, not sure I should risk walking to the shop.
>> No. 452597 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 1:26 pm
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>>452596
The heat is supposed to build gradually until the highest point around 4pm

After that it'll drop slowly until 6am, then the same thing repeats tomorrow.

Tomorrow will be more "extreme", so a slightly hotter peak at 4pm, but it'll drop faster afterwards, being cooler by that midnight than the coolest point of the night before.
>> No. 452598 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 1:30 pm
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>>452592
I don't think I've watched any of the Terminator films, apart from the first two proper ones, all the way through. I have little desire to change that.

I've just let the cat out because she wouldn't stop whining at the door, not sure how long I should leave it before getting her back in.

I'm feeling too hot to do anything, so I'm mainly just playing Football Manager while waiting to see if any important calls or emails come in.
>> No. 452599 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 1:41 pm
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>>452598
3 is entirely decent enough.
Salavation is duff. Genesis was an attempt to reboot the series and was shit. Dark fate tells you to ignore everything after T2 and accept it as the official T3.
>> No. 452600 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 2:02 pm
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>>452596
It really does - the air is a lot "thicker".

Not going to be a great nights sleep at this rate.
>> No. 452601 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 2:06 pm
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>>452599

They should've stopped after T3. It was good enough to be the end point of the franchise, because, guess what, they didn't manage to prevent Judgement Day after all. End of the story. Case closed. Even with all its references to future events, there was no real need to do yet another sequel to follow up on those loose ends.

It was a bit of a disappointment back then that Linda Hamilton wasn't on board, because Terminator without her made about as much sense as Alien without Sigourney Weaver. Good thing though that she wasn't recast. That probably would have ended up being an even bigger disappointment.

Kristanna Loken as the T-X was a strong female part, which was an obvious and thankfully not entirely unsuccessful attempt to offset that drawback, but it just didn't feel the same. And bringing Linda Hamilton back only for Dark Fate was too little, too late.
>> No. 452602 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 2:16 pm
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>>452599
I remember almost nothing of Terminator 3 up until the last 20 minutes or so, at which point it became my absolute favourite one. A lot of it was probably rubbish, but the closing scenes were fantastic.
>> No. 452603 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 2:18 pm
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>>452602>>452601
This, the being unable to actually stop, only postpone events twist was great. I wonder if Arnie looks back and figures they should have stopped there too.

Salvation isn't too bad a film if you treat it as an entirely separate entity.
>> No. 452605 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 2:43 pm
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>>452602
I remember when the lady robot makes her tits big when a cop pulls her over.
>> No. 452606 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 3:20 pm
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Private dentistry is absolutely sick. I went to the dentist today to get my filling replaced, furious that it would cost £300. The place I went to has three different TVs, all on different channels, all with the sound off and with music playing as well. I sat in the dentist's chair, watching one TV, then he tipped me back to look in my mouth, and there was another TV on the ceiling for me to watch. It was adverts, so I didn't actually enjoy it, but it's wild all the same.

You need to get a check-up before the dentist does anything; that costs £60. He dictated every single detail about what's wrong with every single one of my teeth to his assistant, but he thankfully spared me the fearmongering sales pitch about how most of my teeth are on the verge of crumbling to dust. And replacing the filling was actually only £130, so much cheaper than I had been expecting. I thought the whole procedure would take 2-3 hours, but my appointment was 1120 and I was out of there before noon. I even asked him, while I was there, if he could also file down my massively chipped tooth so I wouldn't keep slicing my tongue open on it. He did that for an additional £35 and it took all of three minutes. What a king. No wonder rich people always have such lovely teeth.
>> No. 452607 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 3:36 pm
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>>452605

Interesting, and you don't remember that she was all nekkid just moments before?
>> No. 452608 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 3:41 pm
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Just saw a double decker bus plastered in adverts for Pratt & Whitney's F35 engine. You've gone too far this time, military industrial complex.
>> No. 452609 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 3:43 pm
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>>452606
>Private dentistry is absolutely sick

Agreed on this. The last time I used NHS (back when that existed) the dentist even left a filling flush which picked up plaque and was impossible to clean, never again I said.

I feel truly sorry for people getting older who can't afford private and effectively never get a cleaning by a hygienist.

>And replacing the filling was actually only £130

He's pulling your pants down, I hardly go to a cheap one and yet a filling still only costs me £75. Although mine is definitely keen on the upsell for better or worse.
>> No. 452610 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 3:51 pm
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>>452605
I mean, you would if you could.
>> No. 452611 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 3:52 pm
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I take back what I said, MEACO fans are absolute shite. It's the power supply that mostly lets them down - a cheap and flimsy USB connection, added to this is that my fan just died on me from what I suspect is overheating.

This is outrageous, I have no fan.

>>452608
It's Farnborough this week. Feel free to wide up ecolad with all the new announcements.
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/rolls-royce-start-ultrafan-prototype-tests-this-year-2022-07-17/
>> No. 452612 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 4:04 pm
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>>452611
You leave ecolad alone, you bloody carpet-bagger.
>> No. 452613 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 4:05 pm
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>>452611

There are layers to the irony here.
>> No. 452614 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 4:17 pm
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>>452611
My cheapo fan I got from Homebase years ago is keeping me nice and cool.
>> No. 452615 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 4:34 pm
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Does anybody else get ruined guts when it's hot like this? I've been having awful sloppy shits all day as though I've eaten a load of chillis or something.
>> No. 452616 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 5:12 pm
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Hmm.
>> No. 452617 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 5:12 pm
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>>452595

Your computer must be either broken or from the future, then. Most processors idle at about 40 degrees before you even start doing anything with them, and as soon as you start playing games, even the most efficient GPUs run in the high 60s. That heat has to go somewhere.

And you've no idea how hot a quad of EL34s get. You could toast bread over an old Marshall.

Anyway I'm not sure why you find any of this bewildering, it's well known that British homes are typically quite compact, shall we say, and designed for keeping heat in. It's going to be noticeable, especially if we're talking about a little spare bedroom like most sensible people would establish their gaming and music producing man-cave in.
>> No. 452618 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 5:17 pm
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>>452616

And there'll be people who'll still vote for Boris Johnson, what else is new?
>> No. 452619 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 5:22 pm
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>>452616
I'm really concerned how many idiots are going to do themselves serious harm by trying to "stiff upper lip" their way through this kind of heat. There's definitely going to be a lot of people who've turned an alarming shade of red come Wednesday. She's also missing 2018 from her chart of Hell.

Can't wait for this shite to be over.

>>452617
I bet it's that sod who crowed about having his PC in a seperate room to his actual office like it was the most normal thing in the world.
>> No. 452620 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 5:43 pm
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>>452619
>She's also missing 2018 from her chart
It's missing a lot of things.
>> No. 452621 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 5:49 pm
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>>452614
I tried ordering from Argos online and when I got the confirmation email they gave me a store collection date of tomorrow. So I cancelled and walked down to risk it and managed to find a standing fan that I've now got on my desk. A cheeky young woman tried cutting in front of me in the line and was shocked at then being told to go to the back like everyone else.

Treasure your fan. Someone on here will try and shill you a MEACO fan but you can tell them to jog right on.

>>452615
My skin has decided to have an acne flair up to remind me of what it was like to be a young man again.

>>452616
In fairness it will rain on Wednesday over here. And Friday as well. Hopefully that will be it for summer and we can return to our sensible jumpers.
>> No. 452622 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 5:51 pm
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>>452619 I bet it's that sod who crowed about having his PC in a seperate room to his actual office like it was the most normal thing in the world.

Nope, that's me, and I still do it. It's not 'noral, in that most people don't do it, but it's a fine engineering solution to an annoying problem. My office is tolerable, without air-con.
>> No. 452623 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 6:06 pm
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Just realised I could soak my sports top and wear that like a shitty stillsuit or something. It's baggy enough that I'm only slightly repulsed by how it clings to my vile body.
>> No. 452624 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 6:16 pm
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>>452619

In fairness I've always thought that's a pretty respectable idea if the layout of your home will accommodate it. I used to live in a studio flat and had my PC at a desk just behind the partition wall for the bedroom, so all it took was a HDMI cable and a USB extension going round the bottom of the door frame. That meant I could game in the living room on The Big Telly without any fan noise or extra heat.

You know I miss that place. There's something to be said for living in a compact space with just what you need, everything practically at arm's reach, and no excess. The only annoying bit was being able to hear the fridge buzz all the time. Having more space never really gives you more space, you just find ways of filling it up, I've noticed. Or at least, your missus does
>> No. 452625 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 6:29 pm
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>>452623
On Saturday I put my pyjamas on straight from the washing line whilst they were still ever so slightly damp. It was heavenly.

I don't think today has felt that hot. I'm sure I was more mafted last weekend.
>> No. 452626 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 6:46 pm
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>>452624
Look, I'm not judging you, I'm just upset I can't do it, which is why I'm bringing it up probably two years after the event.

Maybe your girlfriend could put your PC in a mason jar or something. I don't have that luxury either!

>>452625
It definitely feels unusal to me. There's something about how long it's going to be this hot too, all day practically. I might soak my other sports top and then put it in the fridge for a bit, but the shock might just kill me.
>> No. 452627 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 6:48 pm
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>>452617

>Most processors idle at about 40 degrees before you even start doing anything with them

>That heat has to go somewhere.


Yes, but that doesn't mean they heat your room to 40 degrees in that state. My laptop's CPU is at 67°C at the moment with a few background applications running. That temperature may be considerable, and I can certainly feel the heat from my laptop on my legs right now, but the total amount of heat energy it gives off is really not that much. The same way you can't heat your room with a cigarette lighter, despite it burning at temperatures of up to 1900°C.

A top of the range desktop gaming PC will probably give off no more than 150 watts of pure heat energy even when you put it through its paces, according to https://smallbusiness.chron.com/average-heat-output-computer-69494.html .

Most electrical home heaters in the UK are rated for 10A at 230V, which works out to almost 2300 watts of heat energy (it's a little known fact that electric space heaters are among the most energy efficient home devices, as nearly 100 percent of the power they draw gets used for its intended purpose; even the heat from any circuit boards inside it is given off into the ambient air, and the mechanical energy that spins the heater's fans turns into heat via air friction).

So when you've got your PC running, you've got about 6.5 percent of the heat output of a space heater on full blast. I'm not saying it isn't going to contribute to your room temperature at all, but it's not as much as you would think.

At 300 kelvin, which is just over 27°C, the specific heat capacity of ambient air at sea level like in your bedroom is around 1 J/g*K. Meaning, to heat one gram of air by one kelvin, you need one joule.

150 watts heat output means by definition that your PC gives off 150 joules of heat per second. At sea level, the density of air is roughly 1.222 kilograms per cubic metre. Let's say you've got a slightly above average sized bedroom of about 15 square metres or 160 square feet. Standard ceiling height in residential properties in the UK is 2.40 m according to Google. That works out to around 360 cubic metres of air in your bedroom, which weighs 440 kilograms or 440,000 grams. If we plug that into our heat capacity of ambient air of 1 J/g*K, then you need 440 kilojoules to heat your room by one kelvin or degree celsius. If you divide 440,000 by your 150 watts or joules per second, it turns out that it takes your computer, again running on full blast, 48 minutes and 52 seconds to raise your room temperature by one degree.

This is a ceteris paribus model, i.e. we assume that all other factors of your bedroom temperature remain constant. If we introduce variables like heat loss through an open window, increased by the air flow of a running fan, or if your room is a bigger size, then the effect can be considerably less.
>> No. 452628 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 7:07 pm
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They've wrapped Hammersmith Bridge in foil to make sure it cooks evenly. Very sensible. I hope they've padded it with plenty of baking potatoes.
>> No. 452629 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 7:18 pm
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>>452623
I've put my underpants, t-shirt and socks in the freezer for tomorrow. It won't work for long but the thought of putting on some frosty knickers to the theme song from Touch Frost is enough for me.
>> No. 452630 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 7:19 pm
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Do any of you recognise this bloke? He has a cameo in the new Resident Evil series (it's not very good). I want to say he's Rod Hull but I'm sure that's wrong. The IMDb listing for his character is given as an African American guy and while the CGI might be that good, the accent's clearly British.
>> No. 452632 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 7:35 pm
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My eBay air conditioner is certainly doing the job of cooling me, though it seems to have no hope of actually chilling the entire room.

I eagerly await my electric bill.
>> No. 452633 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 7:38 pm
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>>452627

Your source unfortunately gives an extremely conservative figure for the power consumption of a high-end PC. Mine draws over 500w from the wall under load. A properly top-spec gaming rig (3090, 12900k) with a decent overclock could easily draw 800w.
>> No. 452634 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 7:50 pm
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>>452629
That's actually not a bad show to watch in this heat. The colour palette's refreshingly grey and cold.
>> No. 452635 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 8:04 pm
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>>452628
Sensible, elsewhere the train tracks caught fire. Should've wrapped those as well.
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/london-3148365
>> No. 452636 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 8:05 pm
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>>452632
is it a split unit or one that dumps hot air out a window?
Either way, try to make the room air-tight, but if it's the latter, make cardboard constructions to block up any window gaps, and wrap the outlet hose in as much bubble wrap as you can. Those units are borderline shite, you have to give them all the help you can.
>> No. 452637 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 8:09 pm
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>>452627

So you've gone to all that effort to prove otherlad right, in that playing videogames for just shy of three and a bit hours would push a room at 36 degrees (the temperature it's been over most of the country today), over the 40 degree mark. You're also "assuming a larger than average bedroom", so for anybody with the average (or in other words, MOST COMMON) or smaller bedroom, it'll be even faster.

Most of us didn't need you to do the maths, because we already know the heat from a gaming PC can and does have an appreciable effect on the temperature of a room. When me and my ex had our gaming setup (we both had gaming PCs) in our spare room we didn't even need to put the heating on in winter, in fact we sometimes still had to open the window, right through December and January.
>> No. 452638 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 8:23 pm
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>>452637
>When me and my ex had our gaming setup (we both had gaming PCs) in our spare room we didn't even need to put the heating on in winter, in fact we sometimes still had to open the window, right through December and January.

You lads really do the weirdest flexes.
>> No. 452639 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 8:26 pm
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>>452636

It's the latter. I wanted a split unit, but couldn't bear the thought of having to install something in this weather.

I already knew these units are a bit shite, I watched a Technology Connections video about it - but it does exactly what I need it to, which is blow 16 degree C air directly at my naked body as I lie in bed. The hose coming out the back is definitely radiating heat out and must be cancelling out any effort to cool the whole room, but for £150 I can't say I'm too fussed. It also doubles as a dehumidifier so that will be useful in the garage in autumn.

I reckon if I really could be bothered I could plumb the vent out into the wall and out the house that way, making it massively more efficient. But at that point I might as well just get a split unit.
>> No. 452640 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 8:30 pm
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>>452630
Reminds me of James Cromwell.
>> No. 452641 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 8:47 pm
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>>452639
Fair enough - but I'd still recommend wrapping that hose. Even a couple of towels will significantly (mathslad will be along in a moment) reduce the heat being dumped back into your room.
I don't suppose you've got an unused chimney / fireplace you could dump it into? Easier than trying to seal all those annoying triangles of an open window.
>> No. 452642 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 9:13 pm
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>>452641

Just put it in a separate room, easy.
>> No. 452643 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 9:58 pm
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I think I can hear fireworks.
>> No. 452644 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 10:41 pm
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It's still fucking roasting.
>> No. 452646 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 11:34 pm
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Went out for some cheese. It's weird feeling the air still be hot, not just warm, but hot, at half-past-ten. I wish I were Glaswegian.
>> No. 452647 Anonymous
19th July 2022
Tuesday 12:11 am
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How the fuck do so many people keep their windows open at night? I do it and my room's infested with spiders, moths and flies within the hour. I might as well just sleep outside for fucks sake.
>> No. 452648 Anonymous
19th July 2022
Tuesday 12:25 am
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>>452647
Mesh fabric and velcro tape around the windows m9.
>> No. 452649 Anonymous
19th July 2022
Tuesday 1:20 am
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>>452647

I vape so aggressively that the air inside my house is incompatible with invertebrate life. I'm basically a crop duster that smells of summer fruits.
>> No. 452650 Anonymous
19th July 2022
Tuesday 1:54 am
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>>452630
Rod Hull is dead. Rene Auberjonois is also dead, and that's who I thought it was. James Cromwell, however, is still alive, but American.
>> No. 452651 Anonymous
19th July 2022
Tuesday 2:06 am
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It's been hot, sure, but people were saying we'd smash the records and go above 40 degrees on Monday. I assumed we would, since suburban Manchester got to an effortless 36, but the country as a whole barely went past 38 in the hottest place. It will be hotter tomorrow. Much hotter.

Honestly, I actually really like it; there's not much humidity so it's all pretty survivable. The only problem is that I work in a datacentre which, as it turns out, promises everyone we'll keep all their servers cool and fresh, but struggles to do that if the outside temperature goes above 32. We had some problems today/on Monday. It might be comfy out there, and refreshingly novel, but there's every possibility I won't have a job by Wednesday, and that's not so good.
>> No. 452652 Anonymous
19th July 2022
Tuesday 7:43 am
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I thought thousands were supposed to die?
>> No. 452653 Anonymous
19th July 2022
Tuesday 7:58 am
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>>452652
Remember the early covid death predictions? It's the boy who cried wolf all over again.
>> No. 452654 Anonymous
19th July 2022
Tuesday 8:07 am
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>>452652
How do you think people die in extreme heat? It's primarily elderly people being overwhelmed by the heat, but you were expecting something more like the climax of Scanners? It's not everyone else's fault you're daft, stop trying to make it our problem.

>>452653
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/how-accurate-were-early-expert-predictions-on-covid-19-and-how-did-they-compare-to-the-public
Ah, fuck, would you look at that?
>> No. 452655 Anonymous
19th July 2022
Tuesday 9:00 am
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>>452650

He's the barman at a pub that was introduced with loud rock music, I wondered if he was an old rock star of some sort.
>> No. 452656 Anonymous
19th July 2022
Tuesday 9:01 am
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>>452654
That study is saying that less than half of expert predictions were within their own confidence ranges. Whether they were more accurate than predictions from the general public is irrelevant.

What matters is the actual modelling by the likes of Imperial College London which influenced government decision making.

>It is only a fortnight since Ferguson told the BBC that it was “almost inevitable” that daily infection rates would hit a record 100,000 and could peak at more than 200,000 after restrictions were relaxed. In fact daily cases have barely topped 30,000. The professor admits his prediction was “off” and blames the football for messing up his modelling. As people congregated in pubs and homes to watch the Euro 2020 matches, “we had an artificially inflated level of contact during that period and then suddenly it dropped off”.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/professor-neil-ferguson-interview-yes-my-prediction-was-off-well-learn-to-live-with-covid-k996nh3gm

The official modelling was way off. That's all there is to it, no need to try and move the goalposts.
>> No. 452657 Anonymous
19th July 2022
Tuesday 9:54 am
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>>452656
I guess the government should have given even less of a shit then. Maybe waited until July to lockdown.

Can't really be arsed relitigating this.
>> No. 452658 Anonymous
19th July 2022
Tuesday 10:11 am
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>>452657
Lad. Don't be one of those people.

The official covid modelling was way off. That shouldn't be a controversial statement to make. It doesn't necessitate having a discussion about lockdowns or whatever other bollocks you want to bring up.

There is this thing called nuance. You do not have to view everything in black and white. It is very important to be able to understand the flaws and mistakes on the 'side' you support, rather than having blind and unwavering devotion where you automatically assume anyone who is able to point out those issues is the other and must be attacked. Nothing is infallible.
>> No. 452659 Anonymous
19th July 2022
Tuesday 12:31 pm
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>>452656
A model and a prediction are very different things. A lot of models were presented throughout COVID with very poor communication of what they were supposed to show.

As much as I like Chris Whitty, some of the PowerPoint slides from those TV briefings were atrocious.
>> No. 452660 Anonymous
19th July 2022
Tuesday 1:02 pm
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The council sent out messages to put the bin out last night because they'd be collecting it very early in the morning to avoid the worst of the heat. They've actually done it much later than usual.
>> No. 452661 Anonymous
19th July 2022
Tuesday 1:05 pm
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So like. Why is it actually this hot? What's actually causing it? I mean specifically right now, not just the long term trend of climate change.

Because I've never really actually thought about it, but howcome it's this hot right now, but other times when it's really sunny it's not this hot? Are we getting a big warm draft from the Sahara or something? Is it because it hasn't rained in a while? What's going on?
>> No. 452662 Anonymous
19th July 2022
Tuesday 1:10 pm
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>>452661
I think I heard it was hot air from the Sahara and something called the Azores, which is like a hot Gulf Stream or something.
>> No. 452663 Anonymous
19th July 2022
Tuesday 1:16 pm
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>>452661
Azores High is playing silly buggers.
>> No. 452664 Anonymous
19th July 2022
Tuesday 1:52 pm
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>>452661
They said on the weather there's something called a heat dome, I think. Normally, hot air would gradually dissipate, but it isn't this time because of the heat dome holding the hot air in place.
>> No. 452665 Anonymous
19th July 2022
Tuesday 2:00 pm
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>>452663

Causing thunder and lightning too, the cunt.
>> No. 452666 Anonymous
19th July 2022
Tuesday 3:15 pm
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The Forde Report came out and everyone's saying it confirms what they personally believed all along.
>> No. 452667 Anonymous
19th July 2022
Tuesday 3:30 pm
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I've just had to venture outside for a bit. With the hot wind and the heat bouncing back off the ground it felt like being near a furnace. I can't remember it being intolerable like this when I've been to Florida in the summer.
>> No. 452668 Anonymous
19th July 2022
Tuesday 3:40 pm
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Tomorrow will be 24c and I'm hard wired to think that is hot.
I can't wait to be freezing tomorrow, shame the house will take a few days to cool down.
>> No. 452669 Anonymous
19th July 2022
Tuesday 4:12 pm
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Social media zingers at it again.

>>452668
Open your windows overnight and in the morning so the hot air leaves.
>> No. 452670 Anonymous
19th July 2022
Tuesday 4:19 pm
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>>452669

Some Americans got slightly offended the other day when I said we're all sweating like a whore in church at the moment. I guess it's not a saying you use in light conversation over there.
>> No. 452671 Anonymous
19th July 2022
Tuesday 4:37 pm
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fuck me it's toasty lads
i'm having to keep my main machine off because it just gets too hot
>> No. 452672 Anonymous
19th July 2022
Tuesday 4:48 pm
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My top floor flat is currently unlivable, and aside from being uncomfortable this is fucking strange. I never thought I could experience that oven like temperature in this country. It feels surreal. Like watching snow in august or something.
>> No. 452673 Anonymous
19th July 2022
Tuesday 4:57 pm
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A moment of thought for those affected by Dave's syndrome in these troubling times.
>> No. 452674 Anonymous
19th July 2022
Tuesday 5:09 pm
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>>452670
The one that tends to go down well here is "sweating like a black man on a rape charge."
>> No. 452675 Anonymous
19th July 2022
Tuesday 5:20 pm
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Facebook Memories informs me that it is exactly one year to the day since I posted that I live in a ground-floor flat, and that single ladies should take note of how relatively comfortable my bed will be to sleep in despite the hot weather. It didn't work then, but it's hotter now. Perhaps I should try again.
>> No. 452676 Anonymous
19th July 2022
Tuesday 7:11 pm
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>>452675

Repost the "memory" with a cheeky "offer's still open", that way it'll seem like good humour and ironic self awareness within the current situation, if nothing else.
>> No. 452677 Anonymous
19th July 2022
Tuesday 7:42 pm
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Offered to help someone move a load of hay in the most transparently "I don't actually want to help" way possible earlier. It felt amazing. At the last possible second to offer, as they spoke on the phone with someone else I go: "You won't need anymore help with that, will you?" and I was already walking away. Like a Jedi mind trick. I can see why some people just love being bastards, what a rush.
>> No. 452678 Anonymous
19th July 2022
Tuesday 7:52 pm
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>>452677

It's amazing what people will let you get away with when you are blunt, the only issue is when you run up against another arsehole, especially one with more experience than you. Then you either have to fight or fuck.
>> No. 452679 Anonymous
19th July 2022
Tuesday 8:08 pm
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>>452678

Why not both?
>> No. 452680 Anonymous
19th July 2022
Tuesday 8:11 pm
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the wind... it comes..... sweet relief.
>> No. 452681 Anonymous
19th July 2022
Tuesday 11:43 pm
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Why does it still feel unbearably hot? Or am I drinking too much?
>> No. 452682 Anonymous
19th July 2022
Tuesday 11:54 pm
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>>452681

Because it still is.

That and your house/flat/whatever has been heating up over the course of three days, but because our homes are designed to keep heat in, it'll take a long time to dissipate.

Just keep having cool showers, and switch to something more appropriate like Corona or Desperados, instead of John Smith's.
>> No. 452683 Anonymous
20th July 2022
Wednesday 5:46 am
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Slept like shit again. I am such a sweaty bastard right now.
>> No. 452684 Anonymous
20th July 2022
Wednesday 6:52 am
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>>452571


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q-U2THOF00
>> No. 452685 Anonymous
20th July 2022
Wednesday 7:05 am
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Thank fuck that's over. A week or two of that wouldn't be funny.
>> No. 452686 Anonymous
20th July 2022
Wednesday 7:40 am
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>>452685
Thermostat says it's still 31° in the house. It can't be much over 20° outside.
>> No. 452687 Anonymous
20th July 2022
Wednesday 11:01 am
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>>452686
Climate change is a conspiracy by housebuilders to turn the people against decent home insulation. Then they can save money when building their new-build houses, and the heating companies are in on it. Don't let them get you.
>> No. 452688 Anonymous
20th July 2022
Wednesday 3:10 pm
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>>452687

Decent insulation also keeps heat out in the summer.

I think this post was made by a purveyor of air conditioning units.
>> No. 452689 Anonymous
20th July 2022
Wednesday 3:13 pm
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Wait, are we supposed to be getting mad at Big Heat or Big Chill here?
>> No. 452690 Anonymous
20th July 2022
Wednesday 3:20 pm
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>>452689

Too hot in the summer, too cold in the winter? This has Big Conservatory all over it.

#occupysafestyleuk
>> No. 452691 Anonymous
20th July 2022
Wednesday 3:21 pm
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>>452689
Personally, I blame Big House, ironically because of their small houses.
>> No. 452692 Anonymous
20th July 2022
Wednesday 3:22 pm
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>>452690
They can bog off with their BOGOF.
>> No. 452693 Anonymous
20th July 2022
Wednesday 3:46 pm
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Just heard that Geoff and Vicki have split up.
>> No. 452694 Anonymous
20th July 2022
Wednesday 4:19 pm
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>>452693
That's so sad. I hope these people who I think might be your personal friends are okay given the circumstances.
>> No. 452695 Anonymous
20th July 2022
Wednesday 4:44 pm
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>>452693

Listen I'm not bothered about e-celeb drama unless someone finds out what happened with Midwinter Minis and his bird.
>> No. 452696 Anonymous
20th July 2022
Wednesday 5:01 pm
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>>452695

Do your own e-stalking m8, I'm off to the Bow Street Police Museum.
>> No. 452697 Anonymous
20th July 2022
Wednesday 5:07 pm
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>>452692
I'm not saying he was some sort of hero keeping the forces of evil at bay, but the world quickly went to shit when they got rid of the Safestyle UK man.
>> No. 452698 Anonymous
20th July 2022
Wednesday 8:05 pm
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>>452697
Didn't he get jailed for some sort of scam?
>> No. 452699 Anonymous
20th July 2022
Wednesday 8:22 pm
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>>452698
£53,000 tax evasion.

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/you-buy-one-you-one-11865901
>> No. 452700 Anonymous
20th July 2022
Wednesday 8:23 pm
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>>452698
He didn't declare his income for several years, coming to about £350k in total, so he was given the choice of paying up for going to prison for a year.
>> No. 452701 Anonymous
20th July 2022
Wednesday 8:38 pm
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Chris and Sharla are shagging. I knew it.
>> No. 452702 Anonymous
20th July 2022
Wednesday 9:03 pm
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>>452701
She can do better. I am older, fatter, balder and poorer than he is, but at least my YouTube channel never sold out nor turned into an endless string of shill videos about eating pretentious Japanese soups. Plus, I am a proper weeaboo who actually likes anime.
>> No. 452703 Anonymous
20th July 2022
Wednesday 10:43 pm
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>>452701
To be honest, I feel a bit bad for him, seems he gets a lot of shit for his weight. He's not *that* fat, and seems otherwise like a handsome bloke. I think he'd look good if he hit the gym a bit.

I'm curious where his youtube career is going to go though, surely you can't just put out this clickbait shite forever.
>> No. 452704 Anonymous
20th July 2022
Wednesday 10:48 pm
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>>452703

That's why the quality always inevitably declines, and eventually becomes reaction videos and other such shit. Eventually you run out of things to really talk about in your specific niche, but you can generate endless "content" just regurgitating other stuff in an endless feedback loop.
>> No. 452705 Anonymous
20th July 2022
Wednesday 11:11 pm
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>>452703

I wondered what his plan was with this new set, he must have spent shitloads on it, but to what end? I don't need a fake ramen shop setting to watch him tell me the top eight differences between manners in the UK and Japan for the fifth time.

A podcast like trash taste seems like the obvious route.
>> No. 452706 Anonymous
21st July 2022
Thursday 2:00 am
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>>452703
I blame Tokyo Creative. They're a whole corporation of content-generating YouTubers. He signed up with them, they pay him a wage I assume, and he needs to make the sort of videos that pay them back. There are dozens of other YouTubers also associated with Tokyo Creative (including Sharla), and they all just work on an assembly line now. Chris doesn't mind, because he likes eating Wagyu beef in expensive restaurants and he's happy to make videos about doing so, but I'd much rather see him swear and emulate Stewart Lee like he used to.
>> No. 452707 Anonymous
21st July 2022
Thursday 7:10 am
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Caring about the private lives of YouTubers? You fucking sad acts.
>> No. 452708 Anonymous
21st July 2022
Thursday 7:48 am
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>>452704
Aaron Crascal is essentially all reaction vids now. He can't pull off hijinks because everyone knows who he is and his missus didn't want to deal with it anymore.
>> No. 452709 Anonymous
21st July 2022
Thursday 9:01 am
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>>452708
You don't actually believe that's the reason he's started phoning it in, do you?
>> No. 452710 Anonymous
21st July 2022
Thursday 10:10 am
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>>452709
Probably he's made his money and can't be arsed anymore. Looking forward to when Ladbaby fucks off.
>> No. 452711 Anonymous
21st July 2022
Thursday 10:22 am
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>>452710
LadBaby will never fuck off. We've got at least another 5 years of sausage roll themed song parodies to raise money for the starving at Christmas. LadBaby is eternal.
>> No. 452712 Anonymous
21st July 2022
Thursday 10:37 am
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>>452711
He's still pumping out quality sausage roll based content.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74SPa9GlJWo
>> No. 452713 Anonymous
21st July 2022
Thursday 11:20 am
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>>452712
I'd give his wife my deep fried sausage roll iykwim.
>> No. 452714 Anonymous
21st July 2022
Thursday 11:26 am
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>>452713
She'd supply the batter.

FANNY BATTER!


>> No. 452715 Anonymous
21st July 2022
Thursday 12:26 pm
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I've had a listen to the Guardian's 'songs of the summer' and they're all shit. I don't know whether that's a reflection on me, modern music or the tastes of Guardian journalists.
>> No. 452718 Anonymous
22nd July 2022
Friday 10:46 am
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It's raining now. I hope you're bloody happy. Twats. Look what you've done.
>> No. 452719 Anonymous
22nd July 2022
Friday 11:30 am
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>>452718


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ckPatPBAk8
>> No. 452720 Anonymous
22nd July 2022
Friday 6:55 pm
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If you people don't use microwaves how on earth do you cook your vegetables?
>> No. 452721 Anonymous
22nd July 2022
Friday 7:08 pm
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>>452720
I used to boil them, but then I bought a steamer. Steamers are a bastard to wash, but the vegetables are slightly nicer.
>> No. 452722 Anonymous
22nd July 2022
Friday 9:37 pm
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>>452721
Can't you steam them in the microwave with a bit of water and a porous lid?
>> No. 452723 Anonymous
23rd July 2022
Saturday 3:05 pm
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>>452720
>> No. 452724 Anonymous
23rd July 2022
Saturday 3:19 pm
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>>452722
You can probably do all sorts of things with a microwave if you own one.
>> No. 452734 Anonymous
23rd July 2022
Saturday 11:51 pm
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>>452721

I've kept an asparagus steamer from an ex who said I could have it when we broke up. You put your asparagus in it upright and it sits in kind of a removable basket inside the pot, and you're meant to fill it with only about two to three centimetres of water.

Problem is, it's literally only good for steaming asparagus. It's difficult to use for pretty much anything else because it's quite narrow and tall. So it really only takes up space and collects dust in your kitchen, save for the few times a year that you're actually having asparagus. Also, as the asparagus becomes soft from the steam, it kind of sags in on itself and has kinks in it when you serve it. So I've pretty much gone back to cooking my asparagus lying down in a regular pot.
>> No. 452744 Anonymous
24th July 2022
Sunday 7:05 am
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>>452734
it's not the only use.
They also make really good hobbyist vapour phase reflow ovens, if they're suitable for induction hobs.
Th combination of thick base, tall, handles, glass lid and tall/thin aspect ratio is just about right.
You just need some (cripplingly expensive) Galden fluid.
>> No. 452745 Anonymous
24th July 2022
Sunday 7:16 am
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>>452734

Rhubarb?
>> No. 452747 Anonymous
24th July 2022
Sunday 8:07 am
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>>452745
surely cooking rhubarb without cutting it up just gets you long strings in your teeth?
I love the stuff, but it's not exactly tractable when it's cooked.
>> No. 452748 Anonymous
24th July 2022
Sunday 9:02 am
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>>452747

Yeah, you're right. I am just thinking of other long things to cook. Carrots? Courgette? Turnips? Vertical sausage?
>> No. 452749 Anonymous
24th July 2022
Sunday 9:26 am
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>>452748
Stock pot if you want concentrated stock from a chicken carcass? Just cram it in...

Steamers are the wrong way to cook asparagus, anyway. Dump it in a frying pan with a tiny bit of water (1mm depth, maybe?), stick lid on, steam asparagus (stays straight). After 30 secs of steaming, remove lid, whack heat up to boil off remainder of water, then add a smidgeon of butter or a lesser oil once the water is gone, shake, cook until outer surface is as you want it. Sounds like a palaver, takes about 4 minutes, produces best asparagus. Steaming is for people who hate asparagus and who want their victims to also hate the stuff.
>> No. 452767 Anonymous
25th July 2022
Monday 7:24 am
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What's the best time to knock on their door and ask the neighbour for the package they took delivery of yesterday? 9am?
>> No. 452768 Anonymous
25th July 2022
Monday 12:04 pm
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I've just peeled some jacket potato skin from the bottom of my air fryer. Nice and crunchy and salty it was. I'd say it's actually better than crisps.
>> No. 452769 Anonymous
25th July 2022
Monday 1:26 pm
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>>452767
I would knock now, and if they aren't in, they won't know you went over now when you go over again at 6pm.
>> No. 452770 Anonymous
25th July 2022
Monday 1:31 pm
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>>452769
I might just kill myself instead.
>> No. 452771 Anonymous
25th July 2022
Monday 1:43 pm
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>>452770
Don't do that. The world needs considerate knockers such as you. The meek will inherit the Earth. Besides, you have a delivery you haven't collected yet.
>> No. 452778 Anonymous
26th July 2022
Tuesday 7:53 am
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Someone on a thread I can't find was bemoaning the price of instant coffee.
These 500g tubs are what you need - decant it into your last glass jar for convenience (and not a kilner jar, kilnerjarlasslad).
It's normally £5 (or £4 on a good week) - I've never seen it at the £7.50 they're failing to charge online. Or maybe it really is the end of days, and coffeegeddon's coming. Fuck. Anyway, pack your coffee, in bulk. Or drink tea, I guess.
>> No. 452779 Anonymous
26th July 2022
Tuesday 8:02 am
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>>452778
>These 500g tubs are what you need - decant it into your last glass jar for convenience

TAKE IT OUT OF THE CONTAINER AND PUT IT IN A CONTAINER.
>> No. 452781 Anonymous
26th July 2022
Tuesday 8:39 am
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I have very badly sprained my wrist playing virtual reality table tennis. I should probably see a doctor about it, but I'd be less embarrassed if it was a wanking injury. I crippled myself playing pretend ping pong, for fuck's sake. There wasn't even a table to twat my knuckles on.

Don't get old, lads.
>> No. 452782 Anonymous
26th July 2022
Tuesday 9:14 am
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>>452779
yeah, but spooning it out of the massive tub is a pain, several times a day. I can pour it into a jar once a week, then pour it from jar into mug, for a spoonless coffee. It's an efficiency thing, not a wanky kilner jar thing.
>> No. 452783 Anonymous
26th July 2022
Tuesday 12:43 pm
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>> No. 452784 Anonymous
26th July 2022
Tuesday 12:58 pm
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>>452778

Problem is if you're going to drink own brand instant, you might as well go out into the garden, and put a teaspoon of dry soil in your cup. It'd probably taste better.

I'm no coffee snob, I'm not going to sit and pretend you have to have hand-ground beans in a moka pot that have been matured up a Peruvian teenager's fanny or whatever. But there's a minimum level for coffee to be really drinkable, and none of the supermarket's own brand passes muster. You have to be at least Douwe Egberts or above, and that's where it gets steep.

I might as well be drinking the Peruvian fanny beans, at these prices. If I am forced to go back to Alcafe, then it's definitive proof of the failure of capitalism, not even ex-soviet bloc countries have to live in such deprivation.
>> No. 452785 Anonymous
26th July 2022
Tuesday 1:00 pm
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>>452782
>spooning it out of the massive tub is a pain, several times a day.

You limp-wristed ponce.
>> No. 452786 Anonymous
26th July 2022
Tuesday 1:33 pm
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>>452785
It does sound like that, but I'm really not. I just resent either having to rinse and dry a spoon off each time, or using a dozen spoons a day, or rummaging around in a pristine tub of coffee with a wet manky spoon.
This way is spoonless. I just pour some coffee into the mug (which gets washed once a year, whether it needs it or not), then add water. Then add more water, since instant coffee does that weird re-levelling thing, whether it had nasty fake foam on top or not.
So I'm actually a finely honed slob, rather than a fop.
As for coffeesnoblad, Souwe Egberts is at least as nasty as industial own-brand instant. If I want nice coffee, I'll grind some and neck a cafetiere of it, but cba to go through that five times a day. Hoicking the warm spent grounds out of the cafetiere is a foul feeling, makes me feel like I'm rummaging around inside your mum.
>> No. 452787 Anonymous
26th July 2022
Tuesday 1:54 pm
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>>452786
>This way is spoonless. I just pour some coffee into the mug (which gets washed once a year, whether it needs it or not), then add water. Then add more water, since instant coffee does that weird re-levelling thing, whether it had nasty fake foam on top or not.

What do you use to stir your coffee? Let me guess, you swill it around in your mouth and spit it back into the cup so it's all mixed together?
>> No. 452788 Anonymous
26th July 2022
Tuesday 2:06 pm
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>>452787
the pouring water. First inch, wait a second or two for it to dissolve, then dilute with the rest. Perfect mix, no spoon. Pint mug, may or may not work with smaller mugs.
Even hot chocolate can be made this way if you pour from a sufficient height. As we all know from Charlie & the chocolate factory, a waterfall is the only way to properly mix chocolate. Same goes for hot chocolate. Spoons are for the weak.
>> No. 452789 Anonymous
26th July 2022
Tuesday 2:09 pm
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Really fancy Dominos for lunch but they don't deliver where I live, so I'd have to go collect it.

So now I'm stuck in a quandary of which of the two relatively equidistant Dominos I live between would be easiest to drive to, and how little effort I can put in to appearing presentable to go outside.
>> No. 452790 Anonymous
26th July 2022
Tuesday 2:11 pm
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>>452786

I have a feeling you won't survive the Apocalypse.

Also though, I avoid instant coffee whenever I can because even the upmarket brands are complete shite compared to an actual coffee brewed from coffee beans.
>> No. 452791 Anonymous
26th July 2022
Tuesday 2:31 pm
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>>452790 I have a feeling you won't survive the Apocalypse.

I've got a better chance than most - especially that lad who's about to starve to death because he's equidistant between two Dominos.
Granted, if my coffee supply dries up I'm fucked, but while you lot are packing your rice, I'll be looting coffee, and planting tea for when that runs out.
I'm not 100% sure I want to survive the apocalypse, though. Fun engineering challenge, but most scenarios don't look like a lot of joy to be had.
>> No. 452792 Anonymous
26th July 2022
Tuesday 2:41 pm
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>>452790 actual coffee brewed from coffee beans.

Just treat instant coffee as a different drink to real coffee. They're competing about as much as tea competes with coffee - embrace all the drinks.
>> No. 452794 Anonymous
26th July 2022
Tuesday 3:01 pm
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The reason to drink instant is for convenience, not taste; obviously if you want good coffee you get the real thing, everyone knows that.

But that's not the criteria against which instant is being judged, it's a totally redundant point to make. You're going to drink instant because nobody can be arsed brewing real coffee several times a day- But that doesn't mean you're going to settle for drinking heavily diluted mud either.

Kenco Milcano isn't too bad. I've also found drinking it with whole milk stops it tasting quite as watery and bland.
>> No. 452795 Anonymous
26th July 2022
Tuesday 5:12 pm
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Liz Truss is looking scrummier and scrummier every day.
>> No. 452796 Anonymous
26th July 2022
Tuesday 5:14 pm
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>>452795
Keep your thirst to one thread, lad.
>> No. 452797 Anonymous
26th July 2022
Tuesday 5:40 pm
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>>452795>>452796
Preferably one on another website.
>> No. 452800 Anonymous
26th July 2022
Tuesday 10:43 pm
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I watched the lady football earlier and, apart from the cunting England band, it was alright if you can accept their limitations. I think what the women's game is really missing is properly attractive players; they aren't ugly but there's no stunners out there.
>> No. 452801 Anonymous
26th July 2022
Tuesday 10:47 pm
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>>452800
Do you think they wear make-up on the pitch? Not a rhetorical question, I've never watched.
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26th July 2022
Tuesday 10:59 pm
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>>452801
I doubt it. They get quite sweaty and a few of them were very purple-looking by the end of the match.
>> No. 452803 Anonymous
26th July 2022
Tuesday 11:01 pm
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>>452802

I bet 8, 14 and backwards S scrub up nicely.
>> No. 452804 Anonymous
26th July 2022
Tuesday 11:08 pm
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>>452802

Wait, their shirts say Sweden.
Here are the brits: https://www.englandfootball.com/womens-senior-team/squad
Aside from the goalies looking like they were made in the Skyrim character creator I'm not sure what you think is wrong with them.
>> No. 452805 Anonymous
27th July 2022
Wednesday 12:44 am
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>>452800
I really enjoy women's football, but only the international tournaments for some reason. I can't muster even the slightest interest in women's league football, despite my love for women's World Cups and Euros. However, one thing that upsets me enormously is that because of this, I will pick out a selection of favourite players in one tournament, and then by the time I next watch women's football, all my favourite players have retired aged 28 and will never play again. I can't even fancy the current crop, because my heart will forever belong to Laure Boulleau of France. Much as I love Alessia Russo this tournament, it feels like waifu infidelity to sing her praises the way I did for Laure Boulleau, or indeed Louisa Necib who also played for France around the same time.

>>452803
The ones you picked out are Leah Williamson (total babe), Fran Kirby (I don't see it, but there's a poster on 4chan's /sp/ board who really loves her) and Lucy Bronze (frankly hideous former Ballon d'Or winner).

>>452801
Many of them do. Alex Greenwood has giant false eyelashes too, which makes her look like a filthy scrote.
>> No. 452806 Anonymous
27th July 2022
Wednesday 2:23 am
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>>452571
In news that might give the more knitwear oriented of you a ferociously intense hard-on, it is currently 9 degrees celsius outside. It’s nice to grace single digit temperatures once more, before next Summer renders the nation “economically unviable” in the words of PM Truss and we are sold to a US-based consortium who immediately renege on earlier pledges not render the population into chicken nuggets.
>> No. 452808 Anonymous
27th July 2022
Wednesday 4:43 am
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>>452800

Women's football is a frightening crucible of lesbian drama. I want to absolutely emphasise that it is not a male fantasy readers wives type of thing, but a "somebody just headbutted their ex's new girlfriend in the car park" thing.
>> No. 452809 Anonymous
27th July 2022
Wednesday 7:44 am
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>>452808
As far as I can tell, rugby and hockey are the sports of choice for lesbians. Those and roller derby.
>> No. 452815 Anonymous
27th July 2022
Wednesday 12:50 pm
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>>452809

Of the 23 members of the England squad, seven are known to be gay. Two of them are going out with each other - Lucy Bronze and Keira Walsh. There's another half dozen or so who it would be impolite of me to name but are very definitely gay.
>> No. 452816 Anonymous
27th July 2022
Wednesday 2:08 pm
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>>452815

There are also gay men who play football.

https://www.stonewallfc.com/
>> No. 452817 Anonymous
27th July 2022
Wednesday 2:34 pm
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>>452816

According to the ONS, 2.2% of the UK population identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual. 30% of the England women's squad are openly gay. ~0.025% of male professional footballers are openly gay, namely Jake Daniels. It should be fairly uncontroversial to suggest that women's football is very gay and men's football is, if not overtly homophobic, then certainly quite backwards when it comes to LGBT+ inclusion.
>> No. 452818 Anonymous
27th July 2022
Wednesday 4:47 pm
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Paid £4 for a 99 today. Daylight robbery. This was in Bradford as well.

On the subject of football, I think I saw more girls than boys wearing football shirts today.
>> No. 452819 Anonymous
27th July 2022
Wednesday 5:18 pm
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MORE SOSSAGE ROLLS!
>> No. 452820 Anonymous
27th July 2022
Wednesday 5:26 pm
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>>452818

>Paid £4 for a 99 today.

Burn the cunt's van down. I know diesel is expensive, I know that ice cream vans need to make hay while the sun shines, but £4 for a 99 is just taking the piss.
>> No. 452821 Anonymous
27th July 2022
Wednesday 9:03 pm
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>>452819
I look forward to when he inevitably cheats on his wife and they both end up going completely off the rails.
>> No. 452822 Anonymous
27th July 2022
Wednesday 10:16 pm
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I've watched the original Final Destination film for the first time in about fifteen years. I'd completely forgotten that Stifler is in it. The stupidest part was when Ali Larter's character was asked a question on the phone and she nodded instead of saying yes, but the person at the other end seemed to be aware of this.
>> No. 452828 Anonymous
28th July 2022
Thursday 9:32 am
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-62330478
>> No. 452836 Anonymous
28th July 2022
Thursday 12:02 pm
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>>452819
Surely the sausage roll gimmick is tired by now? Unless he's doing the Stewart Lee thing of retreading something so much, it goes from funny to boring to funny again. LadBaby could well be one of the most gifted comedians of our time, a cheeky chappy British Andy Kaufman or something.
>> No. 452837 Anonymous
28th July 2022
Thursday 12:10 pm
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>>452836
Don't make us post the video of him meeting his fans again. They're clearly as thick as pig shit.
>> No. 452838 Anonymous
28th July 2022
Thursday 12:13 pm
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>>452837

LadBaby or Stewart Lee?
>> No. 452839 Anonymous
28th July 2022
Thursday 12:49 pm
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>>452836
I refer you to the episode of Phoenix Nights with the comedy night, and Brian Potter heckling the alternative comedian: "Tell us a joke we know!"

For some people, comedy is not about transgression but rather the exact opposite. This is why Mrs Brown's Boys is successful, despite being made 40 years later than you would expect from looking at it. It's like a nostalgic return to a time that can only be described in terms I reject for being nauseatingly patronising: comforting, reassuring, easy to understand. You don't need to think. If someone told me my hobbies were like that, I would kick them in the bollocks, but not everyone is like me and some people really do just love to hear the same joke in the charts every Christmas.
>> No. 452840 Anonymous
28th July 2022
Thursday 1:29 pm
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>>452839

The rejection of sausage roll-based humour by the so-called intelligentsia is why Brexit happened.
>> No. 452841 Anonymous
28th July 2022
Thursday 2:35 pm
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How easy (and cheap) is it to learn to shoot in this country? Say, I just wanted someone to teach me how to fire a rifle at a few targets or something. Maybe not clay pigeons.

Also, are you sure LadBaby is actually trying to be funny? I haven't really watched him but I thought his thing was just going on about sausage rolls and people like it because it reminds them how much they also like a sausage roll. A bit like nostalgia, but not.
>> No. 452842 Anonymous
28th July 2022
Thursday 2:42 pm
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>>452841

Sostalgia?
>> No. 452845 Anonymous
28th July 2022
Thursday 3:35 pm
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So far I've got Keith Flint and Bruce Willis on my "Bad Hairline Inspo" board. Anyone else I'm missing?
>> No. 452846 Anonymous
28th July 2022
Thursday 3:55 pm
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Imagine being LadBaby's child. Yay, you're going to Majorca, oh wait you're going to spend a day trailing around with your manchild dad and fat mam, looking for sausage rolls for their YouTube channel watched solely by mongs.
>> No. 452847 Anonymous
28th July 2022
Thursday 4:02 pm
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>>452841

>How easy (and cheap) is it to learn to shoot in this country?

Relatively easy and cheap.

If you want to start with air rifles, you can just go out and buy one. No license is required, but you will need to present photo ID. A basic air rifle outfit starts at about £200 with all the gubbins you'll need and a tin of 500 pellets costs about £8. There are loads of air rifle clubs shooting a variety of disciplines; the most popular discipline is called Field Target, which is a bit like a cross between simulated hunting and mini golf. Most air rifle clubs are just a portakabin on a spare field and membership starts at as little as £20 per year.

Proper rifles are slightly more of a faff, but it's not prohibitive by any means. Google for your local club and get in touch. They'll sometimes have open evenings or taster sessions, but it's often just a case of "come down on Thursday night and have a go". It's effectively a legal requirement to be an active member of a club before you can get a firearms license, so practically all clubs have a selection of guns that new and prospective members can use on club premises. Clubs are legally required to provide full safety training for new members.

If you decide to join, you'll need two forms of ID and a character reference; the club will submit your details to the police for a background check to make sure you aren't a nutter or a daft militant wog. Club fees are typically £100 to £300 per year depending on the level of facilities on offer. Cheap rimfire ammunition for practice costs about 10p per cartridge. If you want to buy your own rifle, the club licensing secretary will be able to walk you through the paperwork to apply for a Firearms Certificate. A basic rifle starts at about £400.
>> No. 452848 Anonymous
28th July 2022
Thursday 4:06 pm
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>>452847
> If you want to start with air rifles, you can just go out and buy one. No license is required

This is true everywhere except Scotland where you do need a license. It’s mostly a formality but a requirement none the less.
>> No. 452849 Anonymous
28th July 2022
Thursday 4:52 pm
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What do I need to look for in a new washing machine? They all look the same to me.
>> No. 452850 Anonymous
28th July 2022
Thursday 4:58 pm
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>>452849
Now now, there's no need to be a washing machine racist about it. I would suggest being able to wash at a very low temperature such as 30 degrees, because this is being pushed more and more these days. Also see if you can find one that also has a very hot wash, in case you massively shit yourself one day.
>> No. 452851 Anonymous
28th July 2022
Thursday 5:13 pm
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>>452849
>They all look the same to me.

And they are. All of them will wash your clothes. A fact that no multitude of fancy features can belie.

You generally can't go wrong with spending £500 on whatever brand-name washing machine they have on sale that week.

I would stick to trusted names like Bosch or Samsung (personally, I would buy Bosch only), and you should shop in the £500 price range, or go for a machine whose original price was around that. There are machines for 250-280 quid which will get the job done, but if you really want a washing machine that'll last ten to fifteen years without major repairs, that's not what I would go for.

I've got a Bosch washing machine that was 400 quid when I bought it more than ten years ago, and it hasn't given me any trouble, besides needing the motor's brushes changed last year. Compared to other machines, it's still built like a tank.
>> No. 452852 Anonymous
28th July 2022
Thursday 5:20 pm
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Bought a new bottle of Lanvin today. A cologne I used to wear a lot as a younglad. It's a bit like CK One, but it's dominated by lavender and bergamotte.

Women absolutely love it. Back then, they would ask me about it all the time. Not really my main motivation to buy it again, but I guess it helps.
>> No. 452853 Anonymous
28th July 2022
Thursday 5:25 pm
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>>452852
I wouldn't trust the opinions of women, lad. I get compliments when I'm running short and have had to borrow my son's Lynx Africa all the time from womenfolk. Do not trust their judgement.
>> No. 452854 Anonymous
28th July 2022
Thursday 5:34 pm
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>>452853

>Lynx Africa

Now, there's a smell like cheetah piss.

A good scent can go a long way though.
>> No. 452855 Anonymous
28th July 2022
Thursday 6:01 pm
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>>452849
We have a basic Currys essential one and it's lasted 5 years so far regardless of the awful cat hair, muddy, concrete powder laden stink that's been given to it.
>> No. 452856 Anonymous
28th July 2022
Thursday 6:01 pm
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>>452845

Jude Law, Jason Statham, Nic Cage.
>> No. 452857 Anonymous
28th July 2022
Thursday 6:38 pm
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>>452851
Thanks, lad. I'll see what deals there are, it's just a bit annoying I can't bide my time for a bargain as much as I'd like to because my current one is on the blink.

>>452855
The current washing machine is a Zanussi one which will have been bought either late 2013 or early 2014 for roughly £200.
>> No. 452858 Anonymous
28th July 2022
Thursday 6:54 pm
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>>452857

What's wrong with your current one? The most common faults (brushes, belt, pumps) are fairly straightforward fixes if you're handy with a screwdriver.
>> No. 452859 Anonymous
28th July 2022
Thursday 7:10 pm
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>>452858
There's a leak coming from somewhere underneath, which doesn't seem to be coming from one of the connecting pipes.
>> No. 452860 Anonymous
28th July 2022
Thursday 7:32 pm
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>> No. 452861 Anonymous
28th July 2022
Thursday 8:35 pm
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>>452854

I've never really got this. I've had more than enough Lynx Africa gift sets off a distant aunt or grandma over the years to know what it smells like, and it's nowhere near as awful as people are always saying. It smells very sweet and pleasant to me. Not classy or anything, but it's hardly offensive.

I caught one of my exes out being a snob actually when I wore some and she complimented it. Albeit that was mixed in with Hugo Boss aftershave, but still. Now, there's a scent you can't go wrong with.
>> No. 452862 Anonymous
28th July 2022
Thursday 9:17 pm
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>>452861
>Now, there's a scent you can't go wrong with.

I didn't realise my dad posted here.
>> No. 452863 Anonymous
29th July 2022
Friday 12:35 am
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>>452861
The Lynx stereotype is based on the assumption that if some is good, then more must be better. And that not washing and wearing clean clothes can be counteracted by applying even more of it, like some kind of plague doctor miasma-theory logic.

Applied sparingly and using a proper anti-perspirant along with it, it's perfectly passable.

Don't be these guys, basically:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t1Ydz7oZV4.
>> No. 452864 Anonymous
29th July 2022
Friday 10:08 am
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>>452862

Your dad has probably had more fanny than you've had hot dinners, son. Bet he can pull in a paisley shirt and brown loafers, while you're poncing around deciding which pair of Nikes you want for your birthday.

The absolute state of today's "men". Tch.
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29th July 2022
Friday 1:39 pm
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It wouldn't make any sense to get a shirt for a band I don't listen to, but I really like the design of this one with the cat on.
>> No. 452866 Anonymous
29th July 2022
Friday 4:44 pm
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>>452862

What's a good modern scent? I'd like to get some aftershave/scent but don't want to ponce around a shop asking for recommendations or - God forbid - do some actual research of my own.
>> No. 452867 Anonymous
29th July 2022
Friday 5:17 pm
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>>452866
You need to go somewhere like Boots and spray them on your wrists to see how they actually smell on you. People have different reacting sweat.
>> No. 452868 Anonymous
29th July 2022
Friday 5:59 pm
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>>452866
Brut.
>> No. 452869 Anonymous
29th July 2022
Friday 6:54 pm
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>>452862
I've long suspected my dad could post here and not just because "bbw" came up on the predicted words that time I borrowed his tablet.
>> No. 452870 Anonymous
29th July 2022
Friday 6:58 pm
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>>452869
As long as you don't have the dad who doesn't mind looking at his son's cock you're golden.
>> No. 452871 Anonymous
29th July 2022
Friday 7:00 pm
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>>452870
I've never shown him my cock, but I'm seeing him next weekend so I'll flop it out and gauge his reaction then.
>> No. 452872 Anonymous
29th July 2022
Friday 7:01 pm
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>>452866

Do they still do those samples in magazines such as GQ where there's a thick page with the long edge folded over, and unpeeling it releases the smell? do they even still do GQ

Anyway I quite like FCUK Friction for something light and everyday, or Paul Smith Men if you want something stronger. It stinks of Parma Violets when you first blast it on, but lingers on sandalwood. Also, don't forget Cool Water, it's crisp and classic. Sometimes the old stuff endures.
>> No. 452873 Anonymous
29th July 2022
Friday 10:36 pm
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It might simply be that I'm getting older, but I've just watched Dune and I've no idea what half of the dialogue was because it was all frantic exhaling whispers and mumbling whilst music blasted out.
>> No. 452874 Anonymous
29th July 2022
Friday 10:42 pm
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>>452873

Either you're getting younger or the whole "[young people] are causing [bad thing]" headlines are still a load of bullshit.
>> No. 452875 Anonymous
30th July 2022
Saturday 12:00 am
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Have I some sort of hidden talent for accents, or are people on the internet just fucking awful at understanding them? I can’t recall ever hearing an English language accent I couldn’t make sense of, yet any time someone doesn’t speak RP or American, people seem to struggle. Even the really out there ones of say Irish farmers are mostly doable. I just don’t get it.
>> No. 452876 Anonymous
30th July 2022
Saturday 12:41 am
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Yeah, I often need to download some SRTs for a recent release because everything is mixed like a fucking camrip from the luxury seats in an empty Odeon. I'm tempted to just make some trollsubs where every line is just onomatopaeia. With the right source material, it could even end up being better.
>> No. 452877 Anonymous
30th July 2022
Saturday 3:04 am
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>>452872

Honestly lads, I reckon being The Kind Of Bloke who actually even knows about more than one type of aftershave is enough to give a woman suspicious feelings about you. You're supposed to have The One You Use and that's that.

There are simply different rules of fashion hygiene and such for men. You have to know how to look after yourself, but if you start crossing into /poof/ territory, it's every bit as much of a red flag to most women as if you wore the same curry stained footy shirt and trackies every day of the week.
>> No. 452878 Anonymous
30th July 2022
Saturday 5:10 am
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>> No. 452879 Anonymous
30th July 2022
Saturday 7:09 am
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>>452877

Lad you'd think I just recommeneded Joop! or something. You need something different so you don't get olfactory fatigue and go around stinking like you used half the bottle.
>> No. 452880 Anonymous
30th July 2022
Saturday 11:14 am
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>>452879

>you'd think I just recommeneded Joop! or something

See this is exactly my point m8, I've no idea whether Joop! is meant to be good or bad, other than inferring from the context, but the fact you have such a strong opinion either way is telling.
>> No. 452881 Anonymous
30th July 2022
Saturday 11:35 am
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>>452880
Joop Go costs about £15 for 100ml and it is nice enough if you want to spray a little bit on before going to work or something, but it's not the kind of thing you'd use for a night out or on a date. Stay away from Joop Homme because it's shite.

If you really don't know what you're doing stick with something that's probably seen as basic but will do the job, along the likes of Armani Code, Boss, possibly even Davidoff Cool Water although I'd put that in the same Category as Joop Go. There's also Paco Rabanne One Million but I think that's got a bit of a Lynx Africa reputation but it does actually smell alright if you don't bathe in it.

Once or twice a year Boots will have a clearout where they massively reduce fragrances and other gift sets. It's some time after Christmas, although this year it was around May. That's a good time to dabble; if you keep an eye on HUKD you can usually find out when this is happening before everything sells out.
>> No. 452882 Anonymous
30th July 2022
Saturday 11:46 am
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>>452880

You don't have a point, you're just being a cunt towards people who are trying to help.
>> No. 452883 Anonymous
30th July 2022
Saturday 12:03 pm
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>>452881

Ah right, so it's because it's cheap, in other words?

I mean fair enough, have a cheap everyday slap and then a fancy one for special occasions I suppose. But let's not pretend there's any serious difference- If they smell nice they smell nice. It's all in the nose of the besmellder.

>>452882

I do have a point. You're just bumsore because you know I'm right.

The lads who can pull the most effectively don't waste time worrying about what aftershave they are wearing. It's there to stop you smelling of BO, it's not a magic pheremone potion to make women fall for you. You're simply overthinking it. None of them are actively bad, because they wouldn't be on the market if they smelled like horse piss, would they?

Perfumes are one of the biggest examples of braindead consumerism dressed up as culture. Wake up pooflads, you are being marketed.
>> No. 452884 Anonymous
30th July 2022
Saturday 12:13 pm
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>>452883
>You're simply overthinking it.

I never even implied any of the shite you're coming out with here, it's all coming from your own insecurity.
>> No. 452885 Anonymous
30th July 2022
Saturday 12:53 pm
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>>452884

>insecurity

wat, m7 you're the one who's worried about smelling like £15 instead about smelling like £90.
>> No. 452886 Anonymous
30th July 2022
Saturday 1:02 pm
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>>452883
Price doesn't necessarily dictate how nice something smells, it's more about how long that smell actually lasts.

The nicest I've ever smelled is when I was given a bunch of Molton Brown soap and shower gel as a present. It nicely lingers on you without ever being overpowering, but you're generally talking £25 for a £300ml bottle of shower gel unless it's on offer so I'm not prepared to fork out that much for it.

>>452884
>>452885
Pack that in.
>> No. 452887 Anonymous
30th July 2022
Saturday 1:41 pm
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>>452883

>I mean fair enough, have a cheap everyday slap and then a fancy one for special occasions I suppose. But let's not pretend there's any serious difference- If they smell nice they smell nice. It's all in the nose of the besmellder.


More expensive colognes usually offer more complexity.

For example, when I was a teenlad, I often used Denim after shave. Because it was five to ten quid a bottle, which was affordable on my teenlad finances. But when I smell it now, its scent is best described as simplistic. You just wouldn't put it in the £30 to £40 category because you know what those smell like.

If you just want something to mask your stink, any bargain bin cologne from Boots will do. But if you really care about what you smell like and want your cologne to accentuate your personality, then you shouldn't go below £30 per bottle.

Probably a bit like watch enthusiasm. If all you want is a timepiece which reliably tells the time and nothing else, then a £10 drop-shipped Chinese quartz watch will be more than enough for you.

Also, women do notice when a lad takes care of himself and invests in good grooming. Yes, somewhere deep down, the scruffy lad who can't be arsed is a fantasy of many women, but many of them will be more drawn to somebody who knows the value of a nice shirt, a clean shaven face or a well groomed beard, and all the things that go along with that.

It only gets a bit much when you use skin moisturiser or makeup. Or when your shoe collection starts to rival hers.
>> No. 452888 Anonymous
30th July 2022
Saturday 3:08 pm
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>>452887

>Also, women do notice when a lad takes care of himself and invests in good grooming. Yes, somewhere deep down, the scruffy lad who can't be arsed is a fantasy of many women, but many of them will be more drawn to somebody who knows the value of a nice shirt, a clean shaven face or a well groomed beard, and all the things that go along with that.

Horses for courses, naturally, so if you want to snag a particularly classy woman I suppose you have to be a bit more debonair. But when we're talking about some hypothetical Average Woman I would say there's a fine balance to be struck.

You have to have a base-line level of that typical "rugged" kind of masculinity, in my experience. I mean it facetiously but also genuinely when I say this, but my feeling is you can probably get into a lot of bird's knickers more easily by demonstrating you can reverse bay park, than by wearing nice aftershave. You know what I mean? To be attractive to real life women, I think it goes a lot further if you subtly give the impression of being able to confidently assemble flat-pack furniture without needing help than if you dress immaculately. You need a level of subtle, concealed complexity, like being passionate about cooking or something like that, so that a woman feels like they're getting to know a "real you" most people don't see as much of; not a cultivated image of being "cultured" up-front.

There's a bare minimum of grooming and self-care that goes along with it, of course like trimming your bollocks. I will die on this hill. but as soon as you start sincerely saying sentences like "if you want your cologne to accentuate your personality", I think you are at least getting very close to fanny-drying territory, for most women.
>> No. 452889 Anonymous
30th July 2022
Saturday 3:19 pm
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>>452888

I forgot to add; the entire post that sparked this discussion was rebuked with "you can't trust the opinions of women", but that's what got me thinking. Because whether we would admit it or not, the approval of women, and subsequently the ability to get our dick wet, is the only thing motivating any of us to do anything. If it weren't for that we'd all be completely content to sit about in the same pair of pants for three weeks at a time subsisting on nothing but Pot Noodle and Twixes. You can lie to yourself that this isn't true and that you do things for their own sake, but you are lying to yourself.

We're not just talking about the aftershave here. This is about the very nature of man.
>> No. 452890 Anonymous
30th July 2022
Saturday 4:09 pm
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I'm not sure I want to be with a woman who thinks a bloke's a bit gay if he knows more than one type of cologne. What next, she'll want me to wear a graphic t-shirt and only buy my shoes from George? She probably wouldn't understand wanting to have sex with men who look like girls either.
>> No. 452891 Anonymous
30th July 2022
Saturday 5:40 pm
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>>452889
I don't know, lad. I'd say a lot of things ultimately boil down to seeking the validation of other men.

If we go back to being an enthusiast about cologne then, when you've reached that level, it's other enthusiasts you're hoping to seek the approval of. It's like the scene from American Psycho with the business cards. Yeah, a woman might say you smell nice but is she really going to pick up on all of the complex ingredients you've painstakingly sought out. When it comes to watches a woman might recognise that a Rolex is expensive, but it's your fellow man you're hoping will say "nice watch" when you wear your Jaeger-LeCoultre.

You don't really care about the opinion of women. You don't trust their judgement, deep down. Their needs are simple. The main reason you want to attract women is so you can show off to other men with your prowess. That's what it boils down to. I've seen enough terrible pissing contests on here about sex and dating to know what ultimately matters is being able to talk about women as a woman enthusiast just like the aforementioned enthusiasts do with their fields of interest.
>> No. 452892 Anonymous
30th July 2022
Saturday 5:46 pm
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>>452891

>The main reason you want to attract women is so you can show off to other men with your prowess.

I mainly want to put my penis in their vagina, but you do you.
>> No. 452893 Anonymous
30th July 2022
Saturday 6:57 pm
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It'd be really nice if we could just ignore the gatekeeping gobshite and get back to discussing how we are all going do die of heat-induced kidney failure next month.
>> No. 452894 Anonymous
30th July 2022
Saturday 7:23 pm
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>>452892

Their collective vagina?
>> No. 452895 Anonymous
30th July 2022
Saturday 7:51 pm
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Lads, is there a simple way to recover stuff deleted of phone SD card? I may have accidently binned a years worth of photos with a wrong box check.
>> No. 452896 Anonymous
30th July 2022
Saturday 8:04 pm
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>>452895
Yes.
>> No. 452897 Anonymous
30th July 2022
Saturday 8:08 pm
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>>452895

Recuva.
>> No. 452898 Anonymous
30th July 2022
Saturday 8:49 pm
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>>452893

>gatekeeping

Don't take this as a personal attack or anything, but every time I hear/see someone use this term, it reads to me as:

>the mean people on the internet told me I shouldn't like [band/game/food/hobby/sexual fetish/etc] because it's too mainstream and it hurts my feelings that the things I like aren't considered cool and unique, I will now whinge incessantly about everyone being toxic and elitist instead of considering my own lack of basic self confidence and constant need for external validation about the things that I like

That might not be what you mean, but it's become something of a dogwhistle for me. Mostly when it's cunts trying to talk about shite ear stretcher skinny jean metal in places intended for the discussion of actual metal.
>> No. 452899 Anonymous
30th July 2022
Saturday 9:05 pm
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>>452898
Gaslighting is the one that does it for me. It gets thrown around so often by people who don't really know what it means.
>> No. 452900 Anonymous
30th July 2022
Saturday 9:23 pm
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>>452898

In this case, someone asked for advice about Men's fragrances, some other Lads attempted to give him some tips, and some other cunt got the red mist for absolutely no good reason and tried to psychoanalyse the otherlads. I trust you don't have a problem with me calling him a gobshite, because he is.
>> No. 452901 Anonymous
30th July 2022
Saturday 9:57 pm
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>>452898

In the tech industry, "gatekeeping" often means "you're supposed to hire me because I'm <insert demographic here>, but you horrible bigots keep asking irrelevant questions like do you have any technical qualifications and can you do the job".
>> No. 452902 Anonymous
30th July 2022
Saturday 11:35 pm
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>>452901
It's more like "you're supposed to hire me because I have technical qualifications and can do the job, but you horrible people keep asking irrelevant questions like why don't you have a degree and how do you reverse a linked list"
>> No. 452903 Anonymous
30th July 2022
Saturday 11:46 pm
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>>452902
But what is an interrupt? Or how do you implement a shuffle sort? FizzBuzz died, but "You press enter on a Linux command line" (In bash, csh, zsh, fish, ksh, whatever?) is still alive.

The trivia style pop-quiz is a waste of time and doesn't tell you shit about how capable a candidate is. You're interrogating them, not provig how clever you are.
>> No. 452904 Anonymous
30th July 2022
Saturday 11:54 pm
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>>452891

>If we go back to being an enthusiast about cologne then, when you've reached that level, it's other enthusiasts you're hoping to seek the approval of.

> The main reason you want to attract women is so you can show off to other men with your prowess.

But that then comes full circle when you consider that a good number of women (and I know I'm willfully veering into the most worn-out clichés here) are partial to a man of status. Status isn't just conveyed by how much fanny you get, it's also the approval of other blokes. Or some other way in which you signify yourself as a leader of the pack. Which then gets you into a lot more women's knickers.

I agree that there's a difference between being a cultured bloke and a dandy poof. Women tend to look at the whole picture in a way we just can't comprehend. And if you're just obsessed with your appearance and that's all there is about you, then you won't land with many women. Maybe you'll have a shallow fling with a 20 year old who can barely string two sentences together, but it's not how you are going to become a hot ticket.
>> No. 452905 Anonymous
31st July 2022
Sunday 12:05 am
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>>452900

Actually if you trace it back, it was more like a reaction to the gatekeeping and elitism of the resident aftershave enthusiast community, and otherlad exposed them as basically just being snobs, which they didn't like.

So shove it.
>> No. 452906 Anonymous
31st July 2022
Sunday 12:12 am
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>>452905

> gatekeeping and elitism of the resident aftershave enthusiast community

Bastards, the lot of them.
>> No. 452907 Anonymous
31st July 2022
Sunday 12:15 am
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>>452903
For some reason people laugh at me when I point out the increasingly-obvious reality that Big Tech engineers aren't super-smart and super-capable but merely repeating a pattern of "success looks like me" that started with some folk that struck it lucky when they started the company.

Companies like Facebook and Twitter are scratching their heads about why they're not hitting their hiring goals and thinking the solution is to just offer even more money. A lot of decent companies will spend 2 hours interviewing a candidate and can close out a hire within 24 hours. Meanwhile, the companies with 12-stage hiring processes (which, incidentally, many of the people actually doing the hiring did not undergo and wouldn't pass if they tried) aren't thinking that maybe that might be the obstacle.

So many of these organisations, and the people working for them, are miserable failures of the Jurassic Park test.
>> No. 452910 Anonymous
31st July 2022
Sunday 10:44 am
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>>452904
>Women tend to look at the whole picture in a way we just can't comprehend.
I think most mem underestimate just how much having self-confidence completely trumps everything else.
>> No. 452911 Anonymous
31st July 2022
Sunday 12:42 pm
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>>452910
Exactly. Just be yourselves, lads.
>> No. 452912 Anonymous
31st July 2022
Sunday 1:35 pm
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>>452910

I'm not going to argue that self confidence isn't a big factor, because it is.

But that alone isn't going to get you into her knickers.
>> No. 452913 Anonymous
31st July 2022
Sunday 2:07 pm
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>>452912

Self confidence is very much the foundation upon which the rest of the house is built.

After that I think it's far more about not having negative traits than it is about having lots of positive traits. What the chronics all seem to have in common is that they have some kind of glaring neurosis or other that will instantly thwart their chances.

Thus it stands to reason, you don't need to smell like a millionaire, you just need to not smell like pizza grease and dried cum.
>> No. 452914 Anonymous
31st July 2022
Sunday 2:10 pm
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>>452911

>Just be yourselves, lads.

That can be part of the problem.
>> No. 452915 Anonymous
31st July 2022
Sunday 2:40 pm
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>>452912
>But that alone isn't
But man-perfume alone is?
>> No. 452916 Anonymous
31st July 2022
Sunday 3:09 pm
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>>452915

>But man-perfume alone is?


You haven't really been paying attention to this thread, have you.
>> No. 452917 Anonymous
31st July 2022
Sunday 6:36 pm
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Go go woman footballists.
>> No. 452918 Anonymous
31st July 2022
Sunday 7:07 pm
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>>452917
I'm all for supporting women's football, but the England band need to fuck the fuck off.
>> No. 452919 Anonymous
31st July 2022
Sunday 7:21 pm
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SHE'S TAKEN HER TOP OFF
>> No. 452920 Anonymous
31st July 2022
Sunday 7:23 pm
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Get in! It's a shame the quality on BBC iPlayer is so crap I may as well be watching it on my dad's old Sega Gamegear.

>>452918
I'm not such a contrarian madman as to claim I like the England band, but I don't really mind them. Maybe it's because I mostly only watch international football so I'm just completely used to it.
>> No. 452921 Anonymous
31st July 2022
Sunday 7:35 pm
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Now we just need 50%+ of the men's team to openly gay and we can do The Big One in December...
>> No. 452922 Anonymous
31st July 2022
Sunday 7:57 pm
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>>452919

The slow-motion replay of the celebration was slightly gratuitous, but not entirely unwelcome.
>> No. 452923 Anonymous
31st July 2022
Sunday 8:03 pm
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If this was 20 years ago she'd have her wabs out for Zoo or FHM next month.
>> No. 452924 Anonymous
31st July 2022
Sunday 8:14 pm
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>>452923
And if it was eighty years ago the match wouldn't have been able to go ahead on account of the Second World War.
>> No. 452925 Anonymous
31st July 2022
Sunday 8:15 pm
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I like how all the headlines are like "England wins Euro 2022!" but the caveat that it was the women's Euro still has to lurk somewhere afterwards.

No matter how much of a modern, 21st century fisherperson you might be, you can't hide from the truth, and the truth is, England haven't won Euro 2022. They've won the Women's Euro 2022. Which is different, because it's the women's. Not the real one.
>> No. 452926 Anonymous
31st July 2022
Sunday 8:33 pm
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Prince William handing out the medals and possibly wondering if any of these athletic young ladies are into pegging.
>> No. 452927 Anonymous
31st July 2022
Sunday 8:51 pm
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>>452926
I hope that this turn out to be true and properly becomes public.
I've always disliked the smarmy git.
>> No. 452928 Anonymous
31st July 2022
Sunday 8:58 pm
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Saved you going looking for it.
>> No. 452929 Anonymous
31st July 2022
Sunday 8:59 pm
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>>452928

Feels a bit like cheating when someone's got a bra under it.
>> No. 452930 Anonymous
31st July 2022
Sunday 9:04 pm
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>>452925
England crowned Euro 2022 champions after Kelly sinks Germany in extra-time

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/jul/31/england-germany-womens-euro-2022-final-match-report

England win Euro 2022: The nation erupts as Chloe Kelly clinches victory for the Lionesses with extra time goal while being cheered on by Prince William, 90,000 fans at Wembley and millions at home

https://www.dailyheil.co.uk/news/article-11066669/Becky-Hill-opens-Euros-final-Lionesses-prepare-make-England-proud.html

England win Euro 2022 and end wait for first major trophy

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/58890160

Euro 2022: Lionesses win final with extra-time victory over Germany

https://news.sky.com/story/euro-2022-lionesses-win-final-with-extra-time-victory-over-germany-12662936

England beat Germany to win Euro 2022 final thanks to Chloe Kelly's extra-time goal

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2022/07/31/england-vs-germany-live-score-euro-final-2022-womens-latest/

IT'S COME HOME! England 2 Germany 1 (aet): Kelly stabs home extra-time winner as Lionesses bring football home in famous Wembley victory

https://www.thescum.co.uk/sport/football/19378816/england-germany-chloe-kelly-winner-euro-final/

Lionesses make history with Euro 2022 victory beating Germany 2-1

https://www.itv.com/news/2022-07-31/england-win-the-uefa-womens-euros-after-beating-germany-2-1

Euro 2022 final LIVE: England v Germany result and reaction as the Lionesses win after Chloe Kelly goal

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/euro-final-england-germany-live-stream-womens-result-2022-b2135069.html

You're talking absolute shit.
>> No. 452932 Anonymous
31st July 2022
Sunday 9:23 pm
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>>452925
There isn't a men's Euro 2022, though, so technically you can do it. I remember getting angry when people said England won the World Cup in 2003. It wasn't the real World Cup; it was the Rugby World Cup. This is less offensive to me than that was.

>>452926
Where did this rumour come from?
>> No. 452933 Anonymous
31st July 2022
Sunday 9:23 pm
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>>452925
The only thing worse than being a twat is being a wrong twat.
>> No. 452934 Anonymous
31st July 2022
Sunday 10:22 pm
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>>452929

There wasn't much left to the imagination.

>>452932

William's valet was seen wheeling a full 200 litre drum of lubricant into the tradesman's entrance at Adelaide Cottage.
>> No. 452937 Anonymous
1st August 2022
Monday 9:04 am
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(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 452938 Anonymous
1st August 2022
Monday 10:14 am
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>>452937
That's the kind of image that can get you arrested in the UK.
>> No. 452939 Anonymous
1st August 2022
Monday 10:29 am
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>>452938
Are they doing freebie frontal lobe lobotomies on the NHS now or are you just like this?
>> No. 452940 Anonymous
1st August 2022
Monday 10:48 am
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>>452939
Postmaster General, it's been a while.
>> No. 452941 Anonymous
1st August 2022
Monday 11:03 am
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>>452940
This image always reminds me of Majal_Kita.
>> No. 452942 Anonymous
1st August 2022
Monday 11:35 am
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If I buy train tickets and cinema tickets online all it does is send me an email with a QR code, right? I'm in my 20s, just, how am I such an old man about this? I'll tell you how, living in the countryside. It's awful, don't ever think about it, even for a laugh.
>> No. 452943 Anonymous
1st August 2022
Monday 12:00 pm
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>>452942
I think so, you don't need to go to the machines and type in a code to get physical tickets anymore.
>> No. 452944 Anonymous
1st August 2022
Monday 12:58 pm
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I don't know, the girls winning still feels like a more pedestrian version of an England victory.

I'm not saying don't let them have their moment. Good on them. But yesterday didn't really do much to lower my disinterest in women's football.
>> No. 452945 Anonymous
1st August 2022
Monday 1:08 pm
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>>452944

I'm a fan solely on the basis that Tom Harwood pretended to care about it and Julia Hartley-Brewer accused him of being pro-trans on that basis or something, whatever who cares what the argument is about so long as they're both miserable because of it.
>> No. 452946 Anonymous
1st August 2022
Monday 1:17 pm
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You've got to appreciate it for what it is. The level of skill is nowhere near the same but there's generally going to be little to no diving and all of the other shit that's off-putting about the men's game.

It's gentrified football. You can watch it and not have to worry about your day being worried by a bunch of overweight heavily tattooed yobs that'll make you feel like you've stumbled into an Women's Institute meeting.
>> No. 452947 Anonymous
1st August 2022
Monday 1:52 pm
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>>452944
I also think that one issue is the 1966 World Cup win was so cinematic. Everyone remembers, "Some people are on the pitch. They think it's all over. (Goal). It is now!" in the absolute closing seconds of the match. You couldn't write a better climax than that. If the England men had won last year's Euros on a penalty shoot-out, would that go down in history in the same way? Absolutely not. What if we won 1-0 with a goal in the 60th minute? Yawn. I can't see England ever winning a tournament in as exciting a fashion as 1966 even if we win everything forever from now on.

The fact that women's football is, culturally, just not the same is also an issue, but that's fine. I'd still rather celebrate a women's Euros win than a men's cricket world cup or record-breaking high jump. There are much less exciting sporting wins that the media could hype equally.
>> No. 452948 Anonymous
1st August 2022
Monday 1:57 pm
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>>452946

In the interests of gender equality, I'd like to volunteer to be glassed by one of the Chelsea Ladies Headhunters. I just want to send out a message to every young girl who dreams of perpetrating senseless violence that they can do anything they put their mind and/or boot to.
>> No. 452949 Anonymous
1st August 2022
Monday 5:02 pm
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A nest of Simon Whistlers have got into my loft. They won't stop reading scripts and it's keeping me up at night. Should I ring Rentokil, or just get up there with a rolling pin and start bashing?
>> No. 452950 Anonymous
1st August 2022
Monday 6:30 pm
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>>452949

Don't worry, he's just reading wikipedia out loud.
>> No. 452951 Anonymous
1st August 2022
Monday 7:14 pm
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It's come home, though I'm not sure what it was doing out of the house in the first place.
>> No. 452952 Anonymous
1st August 2022
Monday 8:35 pm
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>>452950

One of the Whistlers has escaped onto the landing. I think it chewed through the plasterboard. In between telling me 7 Things I Didn't Know About Loft Infestations, it's demanding scalp polish and Czech prostitutes. I've told it that the best I can do is an old tin of Turtle Wax and sloppy seconds on a fat lass from PlentyOfFish. It doesn't look happy.
>> No. 452953 Anonymous
1st August 2022
Monday 8:50 pm
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>>452944
I'm honestly surprised - there was box to box play, a lot of attempts, cracking pace and lots of physicality, top enthusiasm and heart, and some absolutely ridiculous timewasting antics which were el fantastico. Watching the girls trying to sneak a peek/outright steal that piece of paper floating around the German team after the 2-1 scoreline was banter. I didn't really care about it before but I'll be watching international women's football from now on, and some Newcastle women's games if there's nowt else on.

>>452951
I'm on the edge of this. On the one hand, Baddiel and the lads kicked a tin down the road when they linked the men's world cup and the men's euros, but ultimately the song is inextricably tied to that tournament. On the other hand, we were hosting and we beat the Germans in extra time. It would be much easier to have a navel gazing discussion about this cultural phenomenon if people weren't so ready to get up in arms about the idea of it being about women rather than a specific tournament - plus don't we usually cancel people who do blackface, instead of sing their songs as national anthem mk2 (sorry, I couldn't resist that shitpostpoint).

If we had hosted and won the Olympics in the 60's and someone wrote a song about that, and then we eventually won it 20 years later, it wouldn't matter jack shit if 90% of the medals were won by women - it's about the tournament, not the gender of the competitors.

>>452933>>452930
I admittedly get a giggle out of the overdefensive reaction to stuff like this, it really sticks out when posts like >>452925 are met with twitter tier clapbacks from those whose hackles are permanently up regarding stuff like this.

Can we just do 'Sweet Lioness' or something, like a song for the women? Three Lions is inextricably linked with the men's tournament and it's still not entirely home until the men win it. Might as well make Jane Bond the next 007 instead of propping up Lara Croft by making her films good enough to have the same gravitas.
>> No. 452954 Anonymous
1st August 2022
Monday 8:54 pm
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>>452801
Alisha Lehmann tends to go full on for the makeup, and I don't know whether it's just selective replays that I've seen, but she seems to get bullied for it.

The lass informs me that there are a couple of brands which focus on makeup for gym/sport/sweaty times, so yeah the option is certainly available and some women do go full on friday night with it.
>> No. 452955 Anonymous
1st August 2022
Monday 9:01 pm
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>>452953

>I admittedly get a giggle out of the overdefensive reaction to stuff like this

Likewise, I'm quite the Radio 4 listening Guardian reader in real life, but on .gs I can't help but say something expressly intended to wind up the resident woman defender contingent every now and again.

One day, when they can take a joke without getting their tampons in a twist, that's how we will know the true goals of fishmongery have finally been achieved.
>> No. 452956 Anonymous
1st August 2022
Monday 9:29 pm
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>>452955

You didn't learn anything from 4chan's post-"ironic dolphin rape" pivot, then.
>> No. 452957 Anonymous
1st August 2022
Monday 10:07 pm
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>>452953
>I admittedly get a giggle out of the overdefensive reaction to stuff like this, it really sticks out when posts like >>452925 are met with twitter tier clapbacks from those whose hackles are permanently up regarding stuff like this.

How exactly is linking to the headlines of most of the major news sites in this country to prove what someone else claimed had happened definitely didn't happen a twitter tier clapback?
>> No. 452958 Anonymous
1st August 2022
Monday 10:41 pm
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Using the phrase "twitter tier clapback" makes me think we're looking at a room temperature IQ here. Cunts who moan about Twitter, but are without failthe first ones to bring it up, should be made to live on that island in Scotland the RAF practices bombing runs on.

For the record, if I were still capable of feeling anything approaching a positive emotion, last night's Euros win would have elicited said feelings. Ninety-thousand people in Wembley completely off their heads with joy, everything it means for women's and girl's sports, really sad Germans; all brilliant.
>> No. 452959 Anonymous
1st August 2022
Monday 10:54 pm
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I also noticed how working class the England squad sounded during the post-match last night. It was lovely when contrasted with the privately educated, Oxbridge Cosa Nostra I'm forced to live under daily. So don't even think of having a go, classwarriorlad.

Apologies for the double post.
>> No. 452960 Anonymous
1st August 2022
Monday 11:06 pm
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>>452959
Footballers are notorious poshos.
>> No. 452961 Anonymous
2nd August 2022
Tuesday 1:12 am
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>>452959
>Apologies for the double post.
You're anonymous. Nobody needs to know. Part of the reason why the meme that only three people post here is so convincing, to me at least, is that sometimes I can make up a third of posts in, say, the weekend thread. Not long-term, but it happens on the occasional Saturday afternoon. And both you saps think I'm several different people. You pair of idiots.
>> No. 452966 Anonymous
2nd August 2022
Tuesday 10:56 am
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I forgot to put the black wheelie bin out last night, and today I had to chase the bin lorry 150 feet down the street with my bin in tow, because I only heard the sound of the lorry while it was going past the house and I was still in the bathroom drying my hair.

Probably gave the neighbours something new to tut at, but I don't care. Let's see them go two weeks on a full bin.
>> No. 452968 Anonymous
2nd August 2022
Tuesday 1:45 pm
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>>452958

>Cunts who moan about Twitter, but are without failthe first ones to bring it up

Change the record mate. Nobody believes you. You're just a serial tweeter who doesn't like having your kind pilloried as they well deserve.
>> No. 452969 Anonymous
2nd August 2022
Tuesday 2:55 pm
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>>452968
>Err, no I'm not! You are!
Nice one.

I haven't had Twitter since 2012. I realised all I'd done on it for two years was liveblog Young Voters Question Time to exactly no one, flirted with some girls I met on Omegle who lived at the other end of the country and followed hundreds of accounts I realised I didn't care a jot about. Then I binned it off, probably about a year after I'd done the same with Facebook. The only times I'm on Twitter these days is to check out @RingtoneBangers, which I do have pinned, I'll admit, or watch something horrible Bellingcat have linked to. Technically I think I might still have a Bebo account, but maybe Justin Timberlake kicked me off a few years back, I can't honestly say.

Now, if I ever find you in real life and you're this annoying I will vomit into your mouth and hold your jaw together until you are forced to swallow my sick, so don't say you haven't been warned.
>> No. 452970 Anonymous
2nd August 2022
Tuesday 4:14 pm
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>>452969

I used twitter a bit during the Trump years to keep commenting under his tweets what a git he was. I also dabbled in creating my own anti-Trump memes, but none of them ever gained any attention.
>> No. 452971 Anonymous
2nd August 2022
Tuesday 4:20 pm
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>>452969
>The only times I'm on Twitter these days is to check out @RingtoneBangers, which I do have pinned, I'll admit, or watch something horrible Bellingcat have linked to.

Don't forget Vorders. You could get material straight from the source rather than via /iq/.
>> No. 452972 Anonymous
2nd August 2022
Tuesday 4:53 pm
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>>452971

And all the other z-list celebrities you can stalk. Without Twitter, I never would have learned that ARE NADIA is now a doctor.
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2nd August 2022
Tuesday 5:06 pm
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>>452972

Also that she has grown a badonkadonk.
>> No. 452974 Anonymous
2nd August 2022
Tuesday 5:28 pm
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>>452972

Who?
>> No. 452975 Anonymous
2nd August 2022
Tuesday 5:47 pm
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>>452972
I'd say Auntie Carol is more of a DD-list.
>> No. 452978 Anonymous
2nd August 2022
Tuesday 7:32 pm
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Who the fuck is this Archie Battersby kid, and why does anyone give a fuck? Wasn't he a Corrie character?
>> No. 452979 Anonymous
2nd August 2022
Tuesday 7:40 pm
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>>452974

Nadia Kamil. She used to be a bad stand-up comedian, now she's a junior doctor and part-time thirst trap. It's an oldlad thing from the era of ARE MOATY and KTC Pure Butter Ghee.


>> No. 452980 Anonymous
2nd August 2022
Tuesday 7:44 pm
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>>452979

She looks familiar there. You'll have to forgive me for not recognising her from those other photos.
>> No. 452984 Anonymous
2nd August 2022
Tuesday 8:56 pm
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>>452978
He's the latest sentimental news story. He's a 12-year-old who was playing at home, then something happened but I don't know what, and he had to go to hospital in a grisly coma. Doctors have said he's completely braindead and they should switch off the life support machine. His parents, understandably, don't want to do this, and they're asking for time for him to get better, because I assume he has improved a little bit since being hooked up to the machines. But doctors are doing the usual KILL HIM LMAO and lawyers and judges are ruling YES LOL and so now we have an ongoing news story in which heartless experts are arguing with sentimental rubberneckers and grief tourists, and the news stories write themselves. It's a sad story, and I would be happy for him to be left on life support for another month, say, if nobody else needs it, but then the parents would have the problem of everyone counting down to the deliberate death of their child, and I could understand they might not enjoy that any more than they're enjoying the current tragedy, unless something magically unlikely happens.
>> No. 452985 Anonymous
2nd August 2022
Tuesday 9:41 pm
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>>452984

As you said, that about sums it up. Another tragic sob story about a doomed child that everybody can have a teary about.

He was attempting the Blackout Challenge, which is apparently another Tiktok fad, where youngsters "are encouraged to hold their breath until they pass out due to a lack of oxygen. It can also be referred to as the "choking challenge" or the "pass-out challenge".

https://www.goodto.com/family/family-news/what-is-blackout-challenge-on-tiktok-trend-662272

Apparently, there have been other fatalities in the past few weeks.

>According to PEOPLE, four children under the age of 12 have already died after attempting to copy the challenge.


Is this the way the Chinese are hitting back at us?
>> No. 452986 Anonymous
2nd August 2022
Tuesday 10:29 pm
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>>452984 if nobody else needs it,

What, needs a paediatric ICU bed and the associated dozen staff? Nah, NHS is drowning in resources. Keeping his corpse pink at vast expense because a bunch of god-botherers, facebook simpletons and media whores keep appealing to various courts who keep saying the same thing, makes perfect sense.
Sorry, kid's dead, has been since the first scan. It's a sad case, like any kid dying.
>> No. 452987 Anonymous
2nd August 2022
Tuesday 10:49 pm
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>>452986

I'm not disagreeing with you in principle, but you're being a bit too cynical.
>> No. 452988 Anonymous
2nd August 2022
Tuesday 10:53 pm
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>>452985

>He was attempting the Blackout Challenge, which is apparently another Tiktok fad, where youngsters "are encouraged to hold their breath until they pass out due to a lack of oxygen

Sounds like natural selection doing it's fucking job if you ask me. If I was allowed to run the NHS, Darwin cases like this would be turned away at the door.
>> No. 452989 Anonymous
2nd August 2022
Tuesday 11:00 pm
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>>452985
Apparently documents show that he was actually trying to hang himself from a bannister, and had left a note. The Tiktok thing is a cover story. The family and their lawyers are full on church types.
>> No. 452991 Anonymous
2nd August 2022
Tuesday 11:19 pm
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>>452989
>Apparently

You mean you've pulled it out of your arse?
>> No. 452992 Anonymous
2nd August 2022
Tuesday 11:41 pm
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>> No. 452993 Anonymous
2nd August 2022
Tuesday 11:44 pm
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>>452985
What a load of bollocks. Unless these kids were sleeper agent super soldiers with unparreled bodily control they would start breathing immediately after even beginning to lose consciousness. Do you have any idea how long Arthur Shawcross had to choke those women before they died and he could eat their genitals?

>>452991
It's more believable than the shite goodto.com are spouting.
>> No. 452994 Anonymous
3rd August 2022
Wednesday 1:26 am
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>>452984

>they're asking for time for him to get better, because I assume he has improved a little bit since being hooked up to the machines

Unfortunately that's not the case - according to court documents, he has lost more than 10kg of body weight and his organs are beginning to fail. His parents have chosen to believe that the medics responsible for his care are deliberately starving him, rather than accepting the fact that he is brain dead, any signs of life he does have are being sustained by machines and the current treatment is merely delaying the inevitable. His dead, decaying brain is poisoning the rest of his body.

https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Archie-Batteresbee-judgment-2-1.pdf

>>452989

The family weren't particularly religious, but the Christian Law Centre are the worst kind of ambulance-chasing, false-hope-peddling predators. They represented the family of Charlie Gard and they're the main reason why doctors now have the right to anonymity in cases of this sort.
>> No. 452995 Anonymous
3rd August 2022
Wednesday 8:32 am
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>>452994
Was that where all those dickheads invaded the hospital and started threatening the Doctors? I can see it happening again.
>> No. 452996 Anonymous
3rd August 2022
Wednesday 9:08 am
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>>452995
I think there's been more than one. Honesty, these kids should stop getting brain dead. It's such an inconvenience.
>> No. 452997 Anonymous
3rd August 2022
Wednesday 9:41 am
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>>452994


Tough one, that. At age 12 and with no prior health problems, the lad probably had no living will that could have specified what he would have wanted to happen to him.

I've got a signed living will that I've given to my mum, our family doctor and sent to the NHS, detailing that I do not want artificial life support if I am in a critical state where two medical experts agree independently of each other that there is no hope that I will ever recover.

Without this, doctors and courts have to consider and follow the presumed will of the patient. Generally, it is assumed in law that a patient wants to live, even if they cannot expressly say so. Which is why normally, nobody will shut off your life support. But if your condition is hopeless, you're in complete agony and you're basically only waiting for certain death, then courts can assume even against the will of parents or relatives that you no longer want to live under these circumstances.

The problem is obviously that it can take a very long time until a court reaches that decision, which then may or may not be overturned, prolonging your suffering yet again. And to prevent all this, my instructions are to just let me go.
>> No. 452998 Anonymous
3rd August 2022
Wednesday 9:55 am
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>>452997
Joke's on you. You're going to have live this life out to the end and die of old age.
>> No. 452999 Anonymous
3rd August 2022
Wednesday 10:17 am
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>>452997
Are living wills even valid these days? I thought they'd been superceded by the health and welfare lasting power of attorney.
>> No. 453000 Anonymous
3rd August 2022
Wednesday 10:41 am
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>>452999

They're techically called Advance Decisions these days, but the law hasn't changed fundamentally.

https://www.ageuk.org.uk/information-advice/money-legal/legal-issues/advance-decisions/

I updated mine a few years ago when the 2007 Mental Health Act came into force, so it's now an Advance Decision, but yeah. Living will, advance decision, for the most part the same thing.
>> No. 453001 Anonymous
3rd August 2022
Wednesday 10:42 am
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>>452997

In reality a lot of that stuff is really irrelevant. Medical workers are generally trained to assess a person's capacity for independent, informed decision making, and in the absence of that capacity they decide for you based on your best interests- i.e remaining alive. To do so is their responsibility- It's not about what you want, it's about their duty of care, to not do so is an act of negligence for a doctor or nurse.

For example, if you try kill yourself, they have to intervene to save you, no matter how clear it is you didn't want to be alive- In such a case they have to presume you are irrational and temporarily lacking capacity to make informed decisions.

With kids that means doctors have to toe a line between listening to the parents, and acting in the kid's best interest; for obvious reasons, kids are often lacking in the ability to make informed decisions, and their guardian is usually the stand in for that. But what if the parent is irrational, either through stupidity or malice, and doesn't recognise their child's best interest?

Safeguarding rules are an ethical maze for this reason; but generally in the NHS and with British medics in general, the medics have the power to intervene. It's rare they have to go so far, but there are guidelines for restraining/detaining patients who refuse treatment or whatever.

Anyway all that is a bit of a tangent. This is more a case where the doctors recognise there's nothing to be done, and the won't continue to waste time and resources when it's pointless to do so, but the family and lawyers are tying their hands. Ordinarily no sensible medical professional would keep you hooked up to the the life glug unless there was a genuine prospect of recovery.
>> No. 453002 Anonymous
3rd August 2022
Wednesday 11:00 am
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>>453001

>For example, if you try kill yourself, they have to intervene to save you, no matter how clear it is you didn't want to be alive- In such a case they have to presume you are irrational and temporarily lacking capacity to make informed decisions.

That's what involuntary admission is for. It's assumed that your sense of judgement is at least temporarily impaired, and that you don't really want to die. Believe me, we've been through that whole ordeal with a relative on suicide watch. It can be truly heartbreaking. Luckily, our relative has made somewhat of a recovery. At least she's drugged up enough now with antipsychotic meds to stop those thoughts.

>Ordinarily no sensible medical professional would keep you hooked up to the the life glug unless there was a genuine prospect of recovery.

Yes, but again, because that will end the patient's life, you can't just do that as a doctor. You do not get to make decisions that will actively cause the patient's death, even under those circumstances. That's why courts are in the loop.
>> No. 453003 Anonymous
3rd August 2022
Wednesday 11:52 am
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Whatever happened to that man who posted online a lot? He was ranting about noise from the dentist surgery or construction next door. And he would do karaoke sometimes. Then latterly he was posting numerous selfies on twitter looking sweaty and red in the face.

I think I first saw him discussed here, but haven't seen him pop up fir a while. I hope he is okay.
>> No. 453004 Anonymous
3rd August 2022
Wednesday 11:53 am
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>>453003
Tim?
>> No. 453005 Anonymous
3rd August 2022
Wednesday 12:00 pm
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>>453004

Yeah
>> No. 453006 Anonymous
3rd August 2022
Wednesday 12:03 pm
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>>453005
I assume he eventually got taken into care.
>> No. 453007 Anonymous
3rd August 2022
Wednesday 12:55 pm
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It's very embarrassing for the Chinese to be behaving as if Nancy Pelosi was a 500m tall mech that was readying to wade across the Taiwan Straight and lay waste to Easern China. Fucking get a grip and keep those silicon chips cheap, arseholes.
>> No. 453008 Anonymous
3rd August 2022
Wednesday 2:13 pm
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>>452874
The Graun are clearly trawling here when they're short of ideas for their fluff pieces.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/03/i-thought-needing-subtitles-on-tv-just-meant-i-was-getting-old-turns-out-it-is-all-the-rage-among-the-kids
>> No. 453009 Anonymous
3rd August 2022
Wednesday 2:24 pm
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>>453008

I've always preferred subtitles in games, so I can skim through what they're saying without listening to the voice actor take forever labouring over it while their uncanny valley virtual puppet mouths along. (Although weirdly, I prefer there to still be voice acting, if only because it prevents the writers getting too indulgent. The opposite end of the spectrum with old cRPGs where they dump walls of text on you is just as tedious.)

But I don't get it with TV, I really don't. The explanation she gives there doesn't hold up for TV, you only get a line or two at a time so you can't just skip ahead for more than a few seconds. For me, that kind of thing is why I'll listen to podcasts or those YouTube videos with nothing but stock images, so I'm not missing anything when my attention is elsewhere- But why the fuck would I want to watch a film or TV show without paying attention to what's actually on screen?

People are just devolving I swear.
>> No. 453010 Anonymous
3rd August 2022
Wednesday 2:49 pm
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>>453007
>as if Nancy Pelosi was a 500m tall mech
She's been Speaker of the House for many years over multiple spells. 500m tall mechs would be scared shitless at the sight of her.
>> No. 453011 Anonymous
3rd August 2022
Wednesday 2:54 pm
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>>453010
This made me smile wryly.

>> No. 453012 Anonymous
3rd August 2022
Wednesday 2:55 pm
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>>453011
The first 20 seconds anyway, then it overshoots the joke. Probably best to ignore the video entirely.
>> No. 453013 Anonymous
3rd August 2022
Wednesday 3:01 pm
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>>453012

Believe it or not, that's an excerpt of a much longer and evn more thoroughly unfunny video. It's the only part that made me exhale sharply through my nose in mild amusement, and they somehow managed to drag even that out.

I can only imagine this is well received by simpleton Yank zoomer conservative types, for whom the only joke that's even needed is LOL SLEEPY JOE IN SKYRAM, but there's a whole series of it.
>> No. 453014 Anonymous
3rd August 2022
Wednesday 3:14 pm
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>>453010
We're brown nosing Septic politicians now?
>> No. 453015 Anonymous
3rd August 2022
Wednesday 5:01 pm
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Have you lads ordered from foreign Amazon before? I've ordered a phone off German Amazon because it was €99 whereas it's £259 if I ordered it here. The only downside so far is that I've had to pay postage because I couldn't use my Prime on it.
>> No. 453017 Anonymous
3rd August 2022
Wednesday 6:41 pm
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>>453015
I have wanted to shop from foreign shopping websites to support them in the ongoing fight against Amazon, only to then discover the site I was looking at was just a reskinned Amazon anyway. Like you say, it works fine but takes longer. Plus you aren't really buying a Romanian torch at all; just a normal one.
>> No. 453018 Anonymous
3rd August 2022
Wednesday 7:55 pm
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I was absent mindedly scrolling through YouTube Shorts while eating my Chicago Town mini pizzas (out of the oven), and this munter came up.

So naturally, I thought of you lads.
>> No. 453019 Anonymous
3rd August 2022
Wednesday 7:58 pm
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>>453018
I don't know why you've chosen to be incredibly rude about this random woman, but, for the record, I think you're a cunt and I hope you choke on your shite food.
>> No. 453020 Anonymous
3rd August 2022
Wednesday 8:04 pm
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>>453019

Listen, we can let you in off of Rudgwick or Twitter or whatever other spawn of morally righteous tossers you came from, but if you want to pick apart .gs institutions like fancying ugly birds, you won't be welcome for long.
>> No. 453021 Anonymous
3rd August 2022
Wednesday 8:13 pm
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>>453020
Tell you what, I'll fashion your fucking organ meat into a thong and then we can discuss what I can and can't say on here, you pedantic fucking bellend.
>> No. 453023 Anonymous
3rd August 2022
Wednesday 9:11 pm
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Are you really friends with someone if you don't tag them in a post on Facebook with lots of pictures of you two together when it's their birthday?
>> No. 453024 Anonymous
3rd August 2022
Wednesday 9:27 pm
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>>453023
I never do that, and it's a girl I fancied at university's birthday today. She is presumably 34 now. There's a picture of me trying to chat her up in 2006. I refuse to use it.
>> No. 453025 Anonymous
3rd August 2022
Wednesday 10:45 pm
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>>453023

I stopped using facebook about eight years ago.
>> No. 453027 Anonymous
4th August 2022
Thursday 2:06 am
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I bought a watermelon from the supermarket, and I am overcome with perplexity: where do watermelons grow? Are there giant trees somewhere, their branches sagging under the weight of dozens of full-sized watermelons? Do watermelons fall off the branches and splash everywhere? Or do they grow on the ground? How many watermelons to a watermelon plant?

I know I could look this up myself, but I am too ashamed to admit to a search engine that I don't know this. I have already caught myself thinking, "They definitely grow above ground or they would be vegetables"; I can't handle any more shame on this topic.
>> No. 453028 Anonymous
4th August 2022
Thursday 2:09 am
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>>453027
I think they grow on the floor, like a pumpkin. As someone who doesn't really enjoy the taste of watermelon I've never looked into their origins.
>> No. 453029 Anonymous
4th August 2022
Thursday 7:45 am
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>>453028
Pretty sure cucurbita grow out of the ground, see.
>> No. 453030 Anonymous
4th August 2022
Thursday 7:54 am
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In other news, Nathan Fielder's new thing "The Rehearsal" is worth watching. It's not mind-blowing or gripping but it doesn't seem actively tedious or worse than Nathan For You in the same way that most other new things seem to be terrible lately.
>> No. 453031 Anonymous
4th August 2022
Thursday 8:15 am
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Just woken up to a text that AO sent at 7:15 to say my new washing machine will be delivered within the hour, looked outside and they're here already. Suppose it beats having to wait in all day for it.

>>453027
They grow down by the bay.
>> No. 453033 Anonymous
4th August 2022
Thursday 10:28 am
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>>453028

Watermelons originated in the Southeast Mediterranean and North Africa. They were cultivated as early as 5000 years ago.

Their seeds were brought over to North America by African slaves. And contrary to more recent racist stereotypes, watermelons actually became a positive symbol of freedom and slave liberation in the second half of the 19th century.
>> No. 453034 Anonymous
4th August 2022
Thursday 10:59 am
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A loaf of Warburtons has proper shrunk in size.
>> No. 453035 Anonymous
4th August 2022
Thursday 11:03 am
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I filled the car up for the first time this year. The £100 limit wasn't enough. Fuck me, how do normal people cope?
>> No. 453036 Anonymous
4th August 2022
Thursday 11:14 am
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The video of this daftie getting flattened in court is one of the funniest things I've seen all year.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/03/alex-jones-sandy-hook-shooting-defamation-trial
>> No. 453037 Anonymous
4th August 2022
Thursday 11:16 am
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>>453035

I resolutely only ever fill up £20 at a time, regardless how much fuel it puts in. Ever since I've started driving, £20 is the amount it takes to go from the red line to the half-tank mark, and if I keep on stubbornly insisting that's still the case, it will be. Fuel prices are a social construct.

Anyway you missed the worst of it, couple weeks back it was near enough two quid a litre. Right now I'm seeing £1.75 most places and that feels like a blessing. Hopefully it continues to settle. I can just about cope with the £1.30-1.50 levels it was at before that, but this is absurd.
>> No. 453038 Anonymous
4th August 2022
Thursday 11:26 am
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>>453034
They sell small loaves for people who like to pay more for less bread. The big loaves are still 800g as far as I know, although this just makes it more confusing why there are fewer slices. It's not shrinkflation; they're just forcing us to accept thicker slices.
>> No. 453039 Anonymous
4th August 2022
Thursday 11:38 am
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>>453038
It was definitely the medium loaf. It's still 800g but it looked about 15% shorter.
>> No. 453042 Anonymous
4th August 2022
Thursday 5:28 pm
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YouTube recommended me a video of LadBaby and his beautiful wife running a McDonalds' drive through (video sponsored by McDonalds). The comments are fucking grim. People unironically enjoying LadBaby's "comedy". Shit taste cunts.
>> No. 453043 Anonymous
4th August 2022
Thursday 5:36 pm
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>>453042
She doesn't have great feet, look like alien feet, 4/10.
>> No. 453044 Anonymous
4th August 2022
Thursday 5:44 pm
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>>453042
Using my limited knowledge of LadBaby, I'm going to predict the following:-

- He tries to add sausage rolls to the drive-thru menu.
- His wife, possibly his kids too, use it and he serves them.
- It's filmed by someone holding a phone vertically.
- He says his catchphrases. I bet he's got catchphrases.
- He tries to smuggle a load of frozen McNuggets home with him for the bantz.
- Members of the public see him behind the counter and start shouting his catchphrases at him.
- He hugs someone with learning difficulties.

Bonus point:

- Someone here makes a comment about his wife.
>> No. 453046 Anonymous
4th August 2022
Thursday 6:04 pm
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>>453042
>video sponsored by McDonalds

So he's branched out to be an unofficial paid spokesperson for all shit greasy food has he?
>> No. 453047 Anonymous
4th August 2022
Thursday 6:38 pm
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>>453046
YouTubers are all whores. That's how they make their money. In Sharla's video where she admits that she's involved with Chris from Abroad in Japan, she answers other questions too, and someone asked her if she was a vegetarian. She said she used to be and was a big supporter of it, but she stopped because it was "affecting her work". Japanese restaurants will hire YouTubers to promote their food, and when they found out she didn't want any of their fish or.pork, they kept deciding to hire other people who would be willing to actually eat the food, understandably. So in the end she fucked off her personal convictions and hopped on Chris's meat, I mean meat in general, so she could continue being a professional shill who doesn't have a real job. And this is Sharla, who doesn't seem to be especially soulless or evil. LadBaby would deny climate change for his good friends at Royal Dutch Shell without a second thought.
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4th August 2022
Thursday 7:31 pm
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>>453046
This isn't anything new. He did a video where he made a McDonald's drive-thru for his kids during lockdown. IIRC he's worked with Walkers and Haribo in the past. He knows exactly what his target market of simpletons like.

>>453047
Cringe.
>> No. 453052 Anonymous
4th August 2022
Thursday 10:39 pm
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My girlfriend is back tomorrow after a week away with our kids. Should I have missed them? I've really enjoyed the solitude.
>> No. 453053 Anonymous
5th August 2022
Friday 12:40 pm
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>>453052
I enjoy the odd week or two by myself when the missus takes our lad down to her parents to visit. I can sleep in, play Xbox during the day, eat shite and wank like a teenager.
>> No. 453054 Anonymous
5th August 2022
Friday 1:01 pm
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>>453047

>a professional shill who doesn't have a real job

That describes about 93 percent of all youtubers.

I have some respect for somebody who decides to do youtube fulltime after a successful career in whatever field, which denotes them as an actual expert in what they are talking about. Or people who indeed keep their day jobs and have a youtube channel on the side to fill up their free time. But some 20something who can't be arsed to do anything real for a career or living and gets paid shedloads by companies to promote their products by basically talking to their camera from their bedroom is just a sign of capitalism's true decadence.
>> No. 453055 Anonymous
5th August 2022
Friday 2:27 pm
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Sometimes I feel like a failure, but then I remember that a substantial group of people were involved in the commissioning and production of Talking Pints with Jimmy Savile and I feel much better about myself.
>> No. 453057 Anonymous
5th August 2022
Friday 3:03 pm
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>>453056
>At 5 years old Archie became a statemented child (In the US this is equivalent to a child being deemed a behavioral issue and given IEP services)

Being statemented doesn't mean you have behavioural issues, it just means they've got special educational needs. I know someone who was statemented for being dyspraxic, not for being a little shit.

>Most of the images posted by Hollie of her son would be considered pedobait style images

A small child not wearing a t-shirt is now paedobait?

I've skimmed the rest, but it mainly seems to be about shaming her for being poor and for working as a pole dancer.
>> No. 453058 Anonymous
5th August 2022
Friday 3:14 pm
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>>453057
It's Kiwi Farms, everyone there is just as bananas as the most bizarre people they document. If you spent your free time meticulously documenting everything the local mad-tramp did people would tell you to get a life, but if it's on the internet there's a big forum where you can hang out with all the other mad-tramp watchers and share notes so it's alright, I guess.

There are definitely reasons to be sceptical about many of the claims around Battersbee and it doesn't appear Dancer was an especially... balanced mother prior to whatever really happened, but a photo of a ten year old in tracksuit bottoms is hardly "paedobait", you're right. There is more substance further down, but at a certain point I realised I didn't actually give a shit and stopped reading entirely. If anyone got to the end and discovered something that could effect me or the entire world, please tell me. Anything else and I'm not bothered.
>> No. 453062 Anonymous
5th August 2022
Friday 7:51 pm
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>>453058
170 pages, it was only 164 before I went to have dinner. I didn't really know about the case until today, and I admit it has piqued my interest, but not 170+ pages level of interest.
>> No. 453063 Anonymous
6th August 2022
Saturday 7:03 pm
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Archie Battersbee's family organised a vigil outside his hospital last night, where they were trying to flog t-shirts at £15 a pop. Grifters gonna grift.
>> No. 453070 Anonymous
7th August 2022
Sunday 12:25 am
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>>453063

>Archie's Army

Agony tourism at its finest.
>> No. 453076 Anonymous
7th August 2022
Sunday 9:02 am
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I read yesterday that the mum said "It should be for God to decide when and how someone dies" and I was kind of struck by... Well, I don't really know the word for it. If it was up to God to decide when and how someone dies then he should never have been put on the machine.
>> No. 453077 Anonymous
7th August 2022
Sunday 9:53 am
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>>453076
It's all part of the grift. Watch the first five seconds of this. She's grinning before she rounds the corner to speak to the media, I don't think she knew she was being recorded at that point.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxFYh--lmzA
>> No. 453078 Anonymous
7th August 2022
Sunday 10:15 am
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>>453077
See, now you're becoming just another kind of Facebook weirdo to Archie's Army. She clearly catches someone's eye, she then smiles at that person, presumably as they smiled back at her, then she stops smiling.
>> No. 453080 Anonymous
7th August 2022
Sunday 10:19 am
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>>453077
>I don't think she knew she was being recorded at that point.
Your thinking is retarded.
>> No. 453081 Anonymous
7th August 2022
Sunday 10:26 am
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>>453080
Mate, she's got the cranial capacities of Karen Matthews.
>> No. 453082 Anonymous
7th August 2022
Sunday 10:33 am
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>>453081
There's got to be dozen or more cameras. There's no conceivable way she can't or hasn't seen them and she's walking directly up to them to deliver an arranged statement literally three seconds from when she smiled. A couple days ago even Archie would have known he was being recorded.
>> No. 453084 Anonymous
7th August 2022
Sunday 11:25 am
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>>453082
She rounded a bend, she wasn't thinking about the cameras until she was facing them head on.
>> No. 453085 Anonymous
7th August 2022
Sunday 11:26 am
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This is like in Gone Girl when Ben Affleck is encouraged to smile for the cameras even though his wife is missing, and then when he forces a smile they use that to pin it on him.

Leave the woman alone you psycho.
>> No. 453086 Anonymous
7th August 2022
Sunday 11:28 am
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>>453085
It's also the exact same bollocks as the Yanks have been using to "prove" whatever school shootings are fake, if they catch the parents smiling at any point.
>> No. 453088 Anonymous
7th August 2022
Sunday 11:34 am
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>>453084
She walked around a 60cm wide sign ya fucking yoghurt.
>> No. 453089 Anonymous
7th August 2022
Sunday 11:37 am
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>>453084
If we ever have to do .gs five-a-side bagsy not having the lad with zero spatial reasoning on my team.
>> No. 453090 Anonymous
7th August 2022
Sunday 11:38 am
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>>453088
Exactly. She was walking in one direction then turned 90°. She thought she was obscured from view by the sign.
>> No. 453091 Anonymous
7th August 2022
Sunday 11:50 am
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>>453090
We needn't discuss the merits of that because she smiled after rounding the sign and her body was facing the cameras, not before.
>> No. 453092 Anonymous
7th August 2022
Sunday 11:59 am
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Show is over, let's move on.

It's what Archie would have wanted.
>> No. 453093 Anonymous
7th August 2022
Sunday 12:01 pm
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>>453091
Let's agree to disagree, although you may wish to go to Specsavers.
>> No. 453094 Anonymous
7th August 2022
Sunday 12:11 pm
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So the rest of you are seeing the correct video he meant to post, are you?
>> No. 453096 Anonymous
8th August 2022
Monday 10:36 am
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Are there any jobs where you can be a sneaky little rat-man but it's not evil? All I really like doing is sneaking and reading about history.
>> No. 453097 Anonymous
8th August 2022
Monday 11:11 am
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>>453096

Private investigator? Red team security consultant? GCHQ are constantly trying to recruit anyone with a maths degree or fluency in Mandarin in a way that seems sort of desperate, but you might regard mass surveillance on behalf of the British Government to be a bit evil.
>> No. 453101 Anonymous
9th August 2022
Tuesday 2:23 am
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Laina Morris is still incredibly fit.


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

I so would.

Not somebody who really belongs in the Guilty Would thread, so there.
>> No. 453102 Anonymous
9th August 2022
Tuesday 8:28 am
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Just thought of a good username for Steam or something: Closet Donkey. I've already got one I really like so I'm not using it if anyone wants it.
>> No. 453103 Anonymous
9th August 2022
Tuesday 8:39 am
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>>453102

I don't like my steam name any more, and I have thought of a better one, but I've left it as what it is for so long, and it's at the point that several real life acquaintances call me it because we met through playing in a clan etc, that it would look weird if I suddenly changed it, and I'd have to ask them all to start using my new name, so I feel far too self conscious to actually change it.

Its a bit like if you had a nickname at school that people still call you now. You just have to live with it, don't you. You can't change it.
>> No. 453104 Anonymous
9th August 2022
Tuesday 11:55 am
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Kerry Katona is surprisingly good craic.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0cr6sth
>> No. 453105 Anonymous
9th August 2022
Tuesday 3:44 pm
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Oh fuck me not another load of heat
>> No. 453106 Anonymous
9th August 2022
Tuesday 6:06 pm
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>>453103
I started changing mine quite regularly at the end of last year, but I think my current one's settled after an American in a game I was playing said "*Steam Handle* is the best name I've ever seen, man, that's great". I've final joined the halls of all time great usernames, alongside Justin Fected and Banal Play. But the weird thing was that the game I met that American in was Fallout 2...

>>453105
Yeah, I'm not looking forward to it. Especially as I actually have to be doing stuff this time around.
>> No. 453107 Anonymous
9th August 2022
Tuesday 8:06 pm
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Clunge is a bit of a strange word for newspapers to asterisk out.
>> No. 453108 Anonymous
9th August 2022
Tuesday 8:12 pm
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Trying a new takeaway and I'm really curious as to what they mean by "8pc Mac n Cheese" given what I thought I knew about macaroni.
>> No. 453109 Anonymous
9th August 2022
Tuesday 8:15 pm
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>>453108
It'll be mac and cheese bites. Balls wrapped in breadcrumbs and deep fried.
>> No. 453110 Anonymous
9th August 2022
Tuesday 8:38 pm
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>>453107
I would probably do that. Although using the word at all is the strange thing. I assume you went in the same 4chan /sp/ thread that I did, rather than just visiting the Bad News Website That Must Not Be Named but is clearly worse than 4chan, and so you will know a lot of people there had never seen the word "clunge" before.

They might also have censored it to entice people into clicking and finding out what the mystery "c****e" word was. I always get really annoyed when the BBC website has a news story like "Beyonce faces criticism over use of slur" and I click the story purely to see which slur she used, and they refuse to say in the article. If I remember correctly, it was "spazzing".
>> No. 453111 Anonymous
9th August 2022
Tuesday 8:44 pm
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>>453110
I haven't visited 4chan in years. I've been browsing a few news sites to see what's happening with Giggsy; the type of person who names a file attached to an email "blackmail" is clearly big brained, but I guess we all knew that from when he tried suing the internet years ago.
>> No. 453112 Anonymous
9th August 2022
Tuesday 9:06 pm
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>>453109
I see. In my limited imagination I never conceived of such carbo-villainy as this. I ordered chicken nuggets and a veggie burger, just to fuck with them. They're gonna' freak out so hard I might never even get it.

>>453111
>names a file attached to an email "blackmail"
Christ, I know footballers have a reputation for being daft but that's beyond.
>Just email something like "this is evidence of my crimes and I hope no one else ever sees this. I will break the law again!"
>> No. 453114 Anonymous
10th August 2022
Wednesday 8:07 am
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A lass on tinder had this as her final picture on her profile. Fair play.
>> No. 453122 Anonymous
10th August 2022
Wednesday 11:32 am
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>>453114

At the risk of sounding sexist, maybe it should be required to include semi-nude pictures on your tinder profile. Nothing pornographic, just something to give a clear idea what somebody would be getting themselves into. After all, whoever you hope to attract is probably going to see you naked at some point. Especially if you're really only on tinder looking for a shag.
>> No. 453134 Anonymous
10th August 2022
Wednesday 4:18 pm
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When I'm using tomato puree in something I like to have a cheeky suck on the tube afterwards for a little treat.
>> No. 453140 Anonymous
10th August 2022
Wednesday 6:48 pm
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>>453122

That's fine as long as the lads have to, as well.

I always include a full body shot in my profile, there's no sense hiding the fact I'm made of mashed potatoes.
>> No. 453141 Anonymous
10th August 2022
Wednesday 7:23 pm
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Listen I don't give a fuck what you two are on about, why is it so hot again? I thought we were done with this.

I've made the terrible mistake of having several beers when I don't have the requisite drugs to go with it. How do you buy drugs nowadays? Do you just go on Snapchat and search "cocaine" or something? I'm out of the loop.

Ahh, fuck all this. Everything is bollocks.
>> No. 453142 Anonymous
10th August 2022
Wednesday 8:03 pm
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>>453140

>That's fine as long as the lads have to, as well

I would have no problem with that. I gained a stone and a half of stomach fat during the whole corona what-have-you that I have yet to shed again and which doesn't look flattering in pictures, but I am not ashamed of it in any way, and if that means I am unattractive to a lass, then she can just fuck off.
>> No. 453143 Anonymous
10th August 2022
Wednesday 8:54 pm
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>>453141

>How do you buy drugs nowadays? Do you just go on Snapchat and search "cocaine" or something?

You're not far off, dealers do post deals and their gear on Snapchat now.

The only way I know to get drugs on the internet without first sourcing a real life dealer is through the dark web, but it's a right chew on, and obviously you have to wait longer.
>> No. 453144 Anonymous
10th August 2022
Wednesday 9:22 pm
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>>453143

Can you really get recreational quantities of drugs on the dark web?

I thought it was more a place for your wholesale assault rifle and credit card database shopping.
>> No. 453145 Anonymous
10th August 2022
Wednesday 9:26 pm
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>>453144
You thought very wrong.
>> No. 453147 Anonymous
10th August 2022
Wednesday 10:05 pm
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>>453144

The dark markets are basically eBay for drugs. Not only can you buy two pingers or a quarter of weed, you can buy it from a seller with 99.8% positive feedback and a money-back guarantee. A lot of the sellers are UK-based and offer next day delivery.

It's a bit of a ballache to figure out how to use Tor Browser Bundle and how to buy cryptocurrency safely, but there are plenty of guides available. Once you have figured it out, you'll never have to wait in a McDonalds carpark for some gobshite who has been saying "yeah, I'm just around the corner, I'll be there in a minute" for the last two hours.
>> No. 453148 Anonymous
10th August 2022
Wednesday 10:16 pm
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I think it's fair to say that Louis Theroux has won the internet today.


>> No. 453149 Anonymous
11th August 2022
Thursday 3:36 am
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>>453148
The beat sounds very similar to one of Joakim Karud's stuff. Or I might just be hearing things.
>> No. 453151 Anonymous
11th August 2022
Thursday 1:02 pm
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I am such a sweaty bastard right now.
>> No. 453152 Anonymous
11th August 2022
Thursday 3:38 pm
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I can't remember what cold weather felt like.
I yearn for a time when I can close my windows and not die
>> No. 453153 Anonymous
11th August 2022
Thursday 3:53 pm
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I was listening to a podcast and one of the (attractive female) hosts pretended to be a toddler having a temper tantrum. I'm now trying to work out the logistics of perpetrating a savage vigilante attack against myself.
>> No. 453154 Anonymous
11th August 2022
Thursday 5:24 pm
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I'm meant to be travelling to see my parents tomorrow. I don't want to go, and only go after being guilt tripped by them. It's not like they're lonely, my brothers live with them, I just have no interest in going. Also they never come see me. What's a good excuse to basically get out of it?
>> No. 453155 Anonymous
11th August 2022
Thursday 5:27 pm
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>>453154
You have covid.
>> No. 453156 Anonymous
11th August 2022
Thursday 7:17 pm
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The Red Arrows just flew over my house. I wish they hadn't fired a Brimstone missile at my wheelie bin, but it was nice to see them anyway.
>> No. 453157 Anonymous
11th August 2022
Thursday 7:24 pm
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I am watching five or six wood pigeons having an orgy in a tree here as we speak.

Does that happen often? It's like, almost literally everyone is jumping everyone.
>> No. 453184 Anonymous
12th August 2022
Friday 3:14 pm
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It's not even like I'm caked in sweat anymore. It's all congealed and I'm now coated in a thin layer of gunk I can drag my nails through.
>> No. 453187 Anonymous
12th August 2022
Friday 7:38 pm
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Got really high and had a wank to this yoga video.


>> No. 453188 Anonymous
12th August 2022
Friday 8:21 pm
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>>453187
Inappropriate.
>> No. 453192 Anonymous
12th August 2022
Friday 10:05 pm
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>>453188
Alright mumsnet.
>> No. 453194 Anonymous
12th August 2022
Friday 10:55 pm
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>>453192

Calm down, calm down
>> No. 453199 Anonymous
13th August 2022
Saturday 11:20 am
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>>453114
Fuck that's hot.

Speaking of hot I HAVE NOT FUCKING SLEPT IN TWO DAYS
>> No. 453201 Anonymous
13th August 2022
Saturday 12:05 pm
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>>453199

My bedroom and balcony face westward, and it's on the top floor under the thinly insulated roof. It's been tropical for much of this summer.


Reminds me of our trip to Cuba in the Before times, where we had to go five days without air conditioning in our room because they were booked out and the technician was unable to source spare parts. We then got a different room for the remainder of our two weeks, where the air conditioning was working well but was so moldy that we only used it occasionally. The technician then promised us he'd come back with chlorine bleach to give the unit a good clean, but he never showed up. We were then told that he had become ill and was not expected back for a week. We later got a 300 quid refund per person from Thomas Cook, but that didn't quite make up for it.

So yeah. Socialism and air conditioning don't seem to mix.

Self sage for rambling, duly checked.
>> No. 453202 Anonymous
13th August 2022
Saturday 12:31 pm
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>>453201

I don't think socialism is the issue there.
>> No. 453203 Anonymous
13th August 2022
Saturday 12:35 pm
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I'm used to seeing the usual lot calling for revolution but this one surprised me.
>> No. 453204 Anonymous
13th August 2022
Saturday 12:48 pm
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>>453203
I don't know what "Happy Toast" is, but I wonder if I'll have to relieve myself of my Labour membership to join their revolutionary vanguard. We are looking down the barrel of a absolutely hateful time after all: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/12/drought-declared-england-hosepipe-ban-water-restrictions
>> No. 453205 Anonymous
13th August 2022
Saturday 12:56 pm
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>>453204
He's just some guy who draws little caricatures and somehow made a living out of that, post-b3ta type. Not very political beyond your run-of-the-mill "Johnson photoshopped to look more like Trump" sort of thing.
>> No. 453206 Anonymous
13th August 2022
Saturday 12:58 pm
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>>453205
Sounds kind of shite. I guess Starmer's got me onboard until we see what happens at conference.
>> No. 453207 Anonymous
13th August 2022
Saturday 1:17 pm
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I need to go shopping, but the only trousers I've got clean are jet black jeans. I'll miss you both somewhat.
>> No. 453209 Anonymous
13th August 2022
Saturday 1:31 pm
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People are complaining about the drought but I'm bracing myself for the floods that are going to hit us in a few weeks.

>>453207
The science is inconclusive on what works best colour-wise. Unless they're skin-tight leather chaps.
>> No. 453277 Anonymous
15th August 2022
Monday 8:49 am
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Time for beans on toast and a day of normal temperatures, Oh yes, I think I'm feeling it, Mr Ride, I'm feeling it right now.
>> No. 453281 Anonymous
15th August 2022
Monday 11:29 am
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What's the best way to reinstall Windows 10 after swapping out the SSD on my laptop?

I've finally got around to getting a bigger 256 gig M.2 SSD from Amazon to replace the 128 GB that it shipped with. My laptop only has USB ports but no optical drive, an I also don't have one of those USB adaptors with which I could just put the installer package on the new M.2 and take it from there. The adaptor I have only works with conventional ATA and SATA drives.

I'm going to have to stick with Windows 10, which came preinstalled on my laptop. The Microsoft PC Integrity Check tool told me that a free upgrade to Windows 11 will be available for my laptop soon, but so far, it still isn't.
>> No. 453285 Anonymous
15th August 2022
Monday 2:43 pm
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>>453281

Download the image from the Mirosoft website, and make a bootable USB. Windows uses some mad hardware recognition thing nowadays so if you were running a valid installation to begin with, you usually won't even have to reactivate it or anything, it just recognises it's the same computer and lets you carry on as normal.

Now, the real reason I came to post here is that Queen's Sheer Heart Attack is a straight banger beginning to end. Absolute masterpiece of an album.
>> No. 453286 Anonymous
15th August 2022
Monday 4:44 pm
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>>453285

Do you think "Who Wants to Live Forever" will be banned on the radio when ARE Liz takes her dirt nap?

I mean, of all the songs that would be insensitive to keep playing when she dies, this one must be pretty high up there.

I was talking about this with a mate when Philip died, but he disagreed and said "It's just a song".
>> No. 453287 Anonymous
15th August 2022
Monday 4:48 pm
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>>453286

I don't think I've ever heard it on the radio anyway.
>> No. 453288 Anonymous
15th August 2022
Monday 4:55 pm
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>>453287

I've heard it on Radio 2 occasionally.
>> No. 453289 Anonymous
15th August 2022
Monday 5:03 pm
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>>453286

Every radio station in the country has a big ring binder with their instructions for Operation London Bridge. They'll be notified by a cold-war era system that was originally designed to give warning of a nuclear attack. Every BBC radio station and most of the major independents have regular rehearsals. They've got pre-prepared playlists of appropriately sombre music and pre-recorded obituary packages. Forget about songs with insensitive lyrics - they won't play anything with lyrics for days afterwards, just to be safe.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/16/what-happens-when-queen-elizabeth-dies-london-bridge
>> No. 453290 Anonymous
15th August 2022
Monday 5:09 pm
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>>453289

Playing this would be looked down on then?

>> No. 453291 Anonymous
15th August 2022
Monday 5:24 pm
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>>453289

>they won't play anything with lyrics for days afterwards, just to be safe.


I think there'll be a 10-day mourning period altogether.

We'll only get one day off for her funeral though.
>> No. 453292 Anonymous
15th August 2022
Monday 6:01 pm
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>>453289

This all sounds a bit daft when nowadays, they could just tweet about it.
>> No. 453293 Anonymous
15th August 2022
Monday 6:18 pm
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You could dress me in a rubber gimp suit, lock me in a cube made of one way mirrors reflecting inwards and have a dominatrix fuck me with a rubber fist while a crowd outside looked on and I still wouldn't feel half as dirty as I do after eating a packet of Nice 'n' Spicy" Nic Nacs.
>> No. 453294 Anonymous
15th August 2022
Monday 6:32 pm
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>>453293
The gimp suit would keep most of the grease off your fingers at least.
>> No. 453295 Anonymous
15th August 2022
Monday 7:14 pm
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>>453293

So what about the rancid scampi flavoured ones?

The purple flavour ones are actually very nice though.
>> No. 453296 Anonymous
15th August 2022
Monday 7:15 pm
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>>453293
I had a Pot Noodle for the first time in about 20 years today. Felt a little grotty afterwards.
>> No. 453299 Anonymous
15th August 2022
Monday 7:30 pm
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>>453296

A doctor once told me that you can live on a diet consisting of just Pot Noodles because they're nutritionally complete. You should probably take it with a pinch of salt, because he told me that while racking up several massive lines of coke on the sleeve of Hot Rats.
>> No. 453301 Anonymous
15th August 2022
Monday 8:35 pm
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Is it true that vegetarians don't need to preheat their ovens because it's only really meat you need to worry about being in the danger zone?
>> No. 453302 Anonymous
15th August 2022
Monday 9:03 pm
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Still no rain, I am starting to doubt it's existence.
>> No. 453303 Anonymous
15th August 2022
Monday 9:09 pm
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>>453301

Preheating might have an impact on food safety, but it's mostly about taste. A lot of foods will turn dry or limp or otherwise unappealing if they're slowly warmed up. It's not a problem with something like a casserole or a roast that will spend a long time in the oven anyway, but a lot of things will be undercooked on the outside and overcooked on the inside if you don't preheat. Microwaves just heat stuff up, but cooking involves temperature-sensitive chemistry.
>> No. 453314 Anonymous
16th August 2022
Tuesday 2:03 am
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Alyson Hannigan is going very slightly jowly and I am 100% on board with it.
>> No. 453322 Anonymous
16th August 2022
Tuesday 8:37 am
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>>453314

I wasn't always partial to redheads, but then I dated one who was not only incredibly fit, but also an absolute deviant in bed.

Wouldn't want to marry one and have ginger kids, but redheads are now my perennial biggest shag fantasy.
>> No. 453325 Anonymous
16th August 2022
Tuesday 5:02 pm
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RIP ARE DARIUS
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-62564721
>> No. 453326 Anonymous
16th August 2022
Tuesday 8:31 pm
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I've just listened to three different podcasts in a row that were sponsored by Livi and BetterHelp. Slightly worrying TBH.
>> No. 453328 Anonymous
16th August 2022
Tuesday 9:30 pm
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I spilt coffee on my bare, sweaty chest and now I smell like roast beef. It's making a bit hungry.
>> No. 453329 Anonymous
16th August 2022
Tuesday 10:59 pm
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I happened upon vast numbers of fully ripe blackberries today while going for a wee on the roadside. I just went behind some trees and there they were. I had a reasonably sized empty plastic bowl in the boot, so I filled it with some of the best blackberries I've ever seen. I then went and got some custard from the supermarket to put on them. Absolutely delicious. I've still got some left, so maybe I'll make a blackberry pie tomorrow night. Or some blackberry muffins. Something like that.

Blackberries seem to be in mid-season right now, so keep an eye out when you're driving along somewhere rural. Well worth stopping for.
>> No. 453337 Anonymous
17th August 2022
Wednesday 2:17 pm
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I feel really jittery today for seemingly no reason. I've had about three or four coffees in twenty-four hours so I hardly think it's that, but as to what else it might be I've no idea.

>>453329
Tried this. Got them home and they all tasted of piss; won't bother next year.
>> No. 453339 Anonymous
17th August 2022
Wednesday 2:59 pm
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>>453329
My own bushes are overproducing, I'm sick of them. You can get about a quarter kilo just by shaking the plants.
>> No. 453343 Anonymous
17th August 2022
Wednesday 3:32 pm
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>>453337
You need to drown out the piss with sugar.
>> No. 453344 Anonymous
17th August 2022
Wednesday 4:01 pm
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>>453343
Or just embrace the taste of piss. Was it dog or human? Either way, don't pick from near the ground.
It's been a good year for a lot of fruit - see if you can find some roadside plums.
>> No. 453345 Anonymous
17th August 2022
Wednesday 4:02 pm
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>>453339
Have you actually planted blackberries? Are they better than roadside ones (that don't smell of piss) in terms of flavour, size or not being bastards to pick?
>> No. 453346 Anonymous
17th August 2022
Wednesday 4:23 pm
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Fuck sake, man. I got the "wrong" bin again and the neightbours just swapped it. Mental.
>> No. 453347 Anonymous
17th August 2022
Wednesday 4:32 pm
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>>453345
Yes. I don't remember the cultivar but I don't piss on them, they taste great despite being huge and have no thorns. I do water them when it's hot, last year I fertilised them too but didn't this and it hasn't made any appreciable difference. They're a bit expansive but only really need cutting back once a year, to remove the dead stems.
It usually takes about a year for any new fruit bush to get established but perennial, low maintenance food plants are a fucking great thing to have.
>> No. 453348 Anonymous
17th August 2022
Wednesday 4:57 pm
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>>453346

Our bin men swap bins on us willy-nilly. Our neighbours to the right have small children, and at times lately when I rolled the bin back, I opened it and there were poo filled nappies stuck to the bottom of it. Maybe I should write our name and house number on our bin.


>>453347

Funny thing, I've actually tried growing blackberries in the back garden here, but two years in, they are still struggling. Must be a combination too little sunlight and our heavy clay soil, which I tried to improve by replacing the soil around them with loose compost before I planted them, but they are still small and don't fruit. On the other hand, I've seen them grow in the wild under about the same light conditions and they seemed to do well.
>> No. 453349 Anonymous
17th August 2022
Wednesday 5:10 pm
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>>453348

I think I got lucky and someone who lived here previously replaced all the local soil with some really nice stuff, or heavily amended it.
>> No. 453350 Anonymous
17th August 2022
Wednesday 5:15 pm
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>>453349
I'm hoping to finally get my raised beds built this winter. It's bastard clay here, but I've got tonnes (and tonnes and tonnes) of crap to dredge out of the ponds, so I'm hoping that, plus a load of compost and rotted horse crap and hay and straw should make for a usable patch.
It'll probably be a biohazard in which no plant life will live - my garden seems to resent effort. Stuff I ignore grows like a triffid. Stuff I cherish gets eaten or dies.
>> No. 453351 Anonymous
17th August 2022
Wednesday 5:26 pm
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>>453350

That sounds like a sensible plan. I'd just say that raised beds can get expensive to fill; if you don't want to spend a fortune on the growing medium you can fill them hugelkultur style. It may need help with its nitrogen levels as the wood decomposes into soil matter (growing legumes like beans on it will do this for you naturally) but it's cheap and good for retaining moisture. Not ideal if you're growing root vegetables but fine for most other things. You can get the wood for this for free if you keep an eye out, but don't use coniferous wood as it's rot-resistant and takes much longer to decompose.
>> No. 453357 Anonymous
17th August 2022
Wednesday 7:56 pm
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>>453351

>if you don't want to spend a fortune on the growing medium you can fill them hugelkultur style

My parents had one for some time, but they eventually gave up because it was just too much effort. They require a lot of maintenance, all for the benefit of lengthening your growing season by two to three weeks.

You'll almost be better off building a small greenhouse instead. A basic prefab one made of aluminium and perspex costs around 500 quid, which is a fair bit of money, but it has a lot of benefits. And with those basic ones, you don't even need planning permission. My neighbour has one that's about 10ft by 7ft, and he is really happy with it.
>> No. 453358 Anonymous
17th August 2022
Wednesday 9:14 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzNc8Njf9Qs

Pretty graphic stuff.
>> No. 453359 Anonymous
17th August 2022
Wednesday 9:18 pm
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>>453357

Are you thinking of cold frames? That's not the same thing at all.
>> No. 453361 Anonymous
17th August 2022
Wednesday 10:00 pm
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>>453359
Polytunnel maybe?
Anyway, I already have a 32x16foot greenhouse, but it's full of fruit trees which I don't plan to get rid of. The raised beds are separate. There might be a fruit cage over them to keep the damn birds off and rabbits out.
>> No. 453362 Anonymous
17th August 2022
Wednesday 10:11 pm
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>>453361

Neither cold frames or polytunnels are ways to fill raised beds so I don't know what he's on about.
>> No. 453363 Anonymous
18th August 2022
Thursday 8:49 am
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Getting a tooth removed, lads. First dental procedure ever.
>> No. 453364 Anonymous
18th August 2022
Thursday 12:51 pm
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I'd like to be in less pain now thanks.
>> No. 453372 Anonymous
18th August 2022
Thursday 9:24 pm
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Learning that unless I live in London, my ambition, for the past four days, to work at a museum is as realistic as being overall winner at the 24 Hours of Le Mans or having a GP explain why I haven't taken a normal shit in eight months.
>> No. 453373 Anonymous
18th August 2022
Thursday 9:26 pm
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>>453372
There are museums in the country outside of That London?
>> No. 453374 Anonymous
18th August 2022
Thursday 9:29 pm
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>>453373
None that are close by and advertising jobs, no.

>>453363
>>453364
I'm very impressed that this was your first dental procedure. My teenaged diet of pop and sweets meant I wasn't a stranger to the dentists chair from a young age. Unless you're twelve years old or something, then it's not impressive at all.
>> No. 453375 Anonymous
18th August 2022
Thursday 9:41 pm
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>>453374

I'm not twelve and was feeling quite proud of myself for reaching such a ripe age with no work done, but now there's a piece of spaghetti stuck in the wound that I can't get out.
>> No. 453376 Anonymous
18th August 2022
Thursday 10:38 pm
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>>453375

Think yourself lucky lad. I haven't had a dentist in over five years because there flat out are none, and I'm spending my money on getting a mortgage so I have a roof over my head, instead of private dentistry. Priorities eh.

Over the course of the pandemic I had a couple of old fillings fall out. This led to near enough complete decay of those teeth, and a knock on effect on the teeth around them shifting and causing one to crack. Astonishingly it hasn't been painful, but I'm quite literally witnessing my teeth fall out in real time in my early 30s, and there literally aren't any dentists in the city willing to take me on. I'm pretty sure I've phoned everyone one, and I've been on a waiting list for over two years.

This country really is honest to goodness falling apart, we're all seeing it in front of us and it's not a joke, but this is the state of it. And we can really do nothing but just let it happen and try our best to get by.
>> No. 453377 Anonymous
18th August 2022
Thursday 10:44 pm
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>>453376

I was lucky enough to get it done on the NHS, only £60 for it to be removed instead of the grand or more to get it replaced.
>> No. 453379 Anonymous
18th August 2022
Thursday 11:24 pm
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>>453378
Why would you limit your search to only your city? And did you follow the instructions on this page and they failed to act?
https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/dentists/how-to-find-an-nhs-dentist/
>> No. 453380 Anonymous
18th August 2022
Thursday 11:27 pm
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>>453374
Maybe you just had shit teeth. I'm sure I drank more sugary drinks and ate more chocolate than you and it didn't start to catch up to me until my thirties. I didn't always brush my teeth regularly either.
>> No. 453389 Anonymous
19th August 2022
Friday 12:28 pm
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>>453379

It probably wouldn't make a difference because none of the ones in any of the neighbouring cities are likely to be taking patients either.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/ninety-percent-of-nhs-dental-practices-not-accepting-new-patients#:~:text=Search-,90%20percent%20of%20NHS%20dental%20practices%20in%20the%20UK%20are,in%20areas%20across%20the%20country.
>> No. 453390 Anonymous
19th August 2022
Friday 2:19 pm
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>>453389
I don't really understand why they're allowed to not accept new patients who live in the area. Obviously if they did, most still wouldn't get an appointment because all the slots would be booked, but surely they should be allowed to at least try?
I suppose if they're stuck in 2003 they might not have an online booking system and they'll not want to be flooded with pointless phone calls, and if they're stuck in 1983 maybe administering each patient's record is a burden beyond sticking another record into Microsoft Access 2003 and ignoring it, but those are about the only reasons i can imagine before coming to my old favourite of "they're messing people around for no good reason."
>> No. 453391 Anonymous
19th August 2022
Friday 3:53 pm
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>>453389
I had read that already.

It's interesting that you can read an article that says 65% of local authorities were confirmed to contain NHS dentists that accepted new patients (and the true number may or may not be higher) and yet somehow your summary is that any given local authority "probably wouldn't" provide him with a dentist.
>> No. 453392 Anonymous
19th August 2022
Friday 4:39 pm
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>>453391

It's not rocket science. If you live in an area where 98% of the dentists aren't taking new patients, it's pretty understandable that you'd not be able to find one. Yeah, sure, technically that means there are some, but you're not going to track them down unless you spend every waking moment ringing around, and making sure to double check the ones you've already tried in case they opened up registrations while another one closed, or what have you.

I really don't understand why you'd try to act as if this is in any way an acceptable state of affairs or that it's in anyway an individual's fault that they can't find the tiny handful who are taking on. You rlcan hardly say there's plenty to go around.
>> No. 453393 Anonymous
19th August 2022
Friday 4:56 pm
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>>453392
It's not an acceptable state of affairs. That was not the question.

But ringing around is much easier than you're making out. Given a postecode, the NHS website spits out 50 dentists and their phone numbers. If you don't hang around you should be able to manage two a minute.

Faced with my teeth dying off in my thirties, I'd do an extra few days of work to afford private treatment or I'd spend a day or two to find an NHS one wherever possible. I might even derail my mortgage application if all else failed. Just saying.
>> No. 453394 Anonymous
19th August 2022
Friday 4:57 pm
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>>453392
You just need to graft harder to find yourself an NHS dentist.
>> No. 453397 Anonymous
19th August 2022
Friday 5:22 pm
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>>453390

>I don't really understand why they're allowed to not accept new patients who live in the area.

They're pretty much forced to by their contract with the NHS.

I tried to summarise the problems, but I got several paragraphs in and realised I wasn't getting anywhere. Suffice it to say that dental practices are private businesses who are reimbursed by the NHS under a contract that very poorly aligned with both the needs of patients and the cost of delivering treatment. NHS practices receive a fixed fee for each course of treatment not each treatment, so a patient who needs one filling brings in exactly the same amount of money as a patient who needs four fillings, a root canal and an extraction.

On top of that, an incredibly complex system of targets forces dental practices to have just the right number of patients receiving just the right amount of treatment. If they cock up by more than the tiniest of margins, they get hit with massive financial penalties and end up making a loss on their NHS work. A new contract is due to be introduced over the next year that does bring in some welcome changes, but it doesn't fix any of the fundamental issues and it's even more complicated than the old one.

Unless the government puts a lot of extra money into the system, contract reform is basically shuffling the deckchairs on the Titanic. Switching from NHS to private is one of the main topics of conversation amongst dentists; to a certain extent they view staying within the NHS as an act of charity, or as an act of desperation by dental practices that are too shoddy to attract sufficient private patients.

It's a dismal situation in which the patients most in need of care have become resented by dentists simply because of a broken funding formula. If your teeth are fucked, a dental practice will lose money by taking you on as an NHS patient. A lot of dentists who have stood by the NHS believe that the system is being deliberately run into the ground as part of a tacit strategy to abolish NHS dentistry by the back door. Their last hope is that the system fails suddenly and spectacularly and causes a political scandal, rather than being slowly bled to death.
>> No. 453399 Anonymous
19th August 2022
Friday 6:14 pm
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>>453393

>If you don't hang around you should be able to manage two a minute.
>two a minute

lmao

Not being funny but when the fuck was the last time you tried to ring a dentist or GP? 1998?
>> No. 453400 Anonymous
19th August 2022
Friday 6:18 pm
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>>453394
>>453399

Some posters on this website are so out of touch I am occasionally forced to wonder if Jacob Rees Mogg is a regular visitor.
>> No. 453401 Anonymous
19th August 2022
Friday 6:30 pm
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>>453399



Before selecting an option, please listen carefully to the following message. To go fuck yourself, press 1. To shove it up your arse, press 2. To piss right off, press 3. For all other enquiries, get in the fucking sea. All of our receptionists are wanking at the moment, but we will try to answer your call when the post-orgasmic remorse kicks in. You are currently number ERROR:NaN in the queue.
>> No. 453452 Anonymous
22nd August 2022
Monday 8:02 am
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Recent research is leading me to believe that it's presently only socially acceptable for women to wear ponchos. I'm not trying to larp as the Man With No Name, I just think they look practical.
>> No. 453453 Anonymous
22nd August 2022
Monday 9:52 am
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>>453452

I almost bought a traditional poncho once in Mexico. The souvenir shop said it was authentic hand made, but then I spotted a tag inside it that read "Made in China". There seemed little point confronting the shop owner, so we just left quietly.
>> No. 453454 Anonymous
22nd August 2022
Monday 10:32 am
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>>453453

China's just west of Yucatan, in Campeche.
>> No. 453455 Anonymous
22nd August 2022
Monday 10:45 am
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>>453454

Not entirely sure that that was the China in question.
>> No. 453456 Anonymous
22nd August 2022
Monday 10:48 am
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>>453455

You mean China, Nuevo Leon?
>> No. 453457 Anonymous
22nd August 2022
Monday 10:49 am
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>>453456

Right. That must have been the one.
>> No. 453459 Anonymous
22nd August 2022
Monday 11:15 am
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Windows 11 just became available for my laptop. I downloaded and installed it yesterday. I have to say it runs more smoothly than Windows 10, at least with the limited system resources of my Lenovo laptop with 4 GB RAM. Reading up on it, apparently Microsoft have implemented some clever RAM usage which dedicates more resources to actively used programmes.

The task bar with the centered icons is shite though. You can change it so that everything is aligned to the left again, but you can't ungroup taskbar items. And there's a few other niggles as well which seem like Microsoft just wanted to reinvent the wheel for the sake of reinventing the wheel. It's not quite as bad as early Windows 8 without the Start menu, but it is annoying. Luckily there's a software called StartAllBack which allows you to revert your taskbar functionality to the way it was in Windows 10.
>> No. 453466 Anonymous
22nd August 2022
Monday 6:34 pm
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I was watching Last Week Tonight (first mistake, I know) and they were doing a bit on mental health. They played an old clip from the 50s of a group of psychiatric nurses being trained in hair and makeup at a posh Bond Street salon.

John Oliver mocked and the audience groaned at how stupid and backwards it was, but it struck me as being incredibly progressive and compassionate. These days you're lucky as a psychiatric inpatient to get three meals a day and your medication, but 70 years ago they were putting in the time and effort to just help patients feel good about themselves, to give nurses the opportunity to spend time with patients on a human level.

I've no doubt that there were big parts of the mental heath system that were crude and cruel by today's standards, I know that a lot of people who were perfectly sane ended up being institutionalised just because they were inconvenient, but the sense of smug superiority that we're so much more aware really grates.

Everyone knows the right words to use, but people with mental health problems are starving to death because their benefits are being cut and there aren't enough social workers to check up on extremely vulnerable people. We're constantly being reminded that it's OK not to be OK, you just need to ask for help, but if you ask anyone with a serious mental health problem they'll just laugh at the naivete of imagining that asking for help means you'll get any. A stream of photogenic celebrities are eager to tell us that there's no stigma about the mental health problems they have now fully recovered from, but everyone turns away when they encounter someone who is in the middle of a manic or psychotic episode.

Sorry, rant over.
>> No. 453467 Anonymous
22nd August 2022
Monday 6:57 pm
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>>453466
>Everyone knows the right words to use, but people with mental health problems are starving to death because their benefits are being cut and there aren't enough social workers to check up on extremely vulnerable people. We're constantly being reminded that it's OK not to be OK, you just need to ask for help, but if you ask anyone with a serious mental health problem they'll just laugh at the naivete of imagining that asking for help means you'll get any. A stream of photogenic celebrities are eager to tell us that there's no stigma about the mental health problems they have now fully recovered from, but everyone turns away when they encounter someone who is in the middle of a manic or psychotic episode.

I would say it's common for anyone with a stigmatizing illness. ADHD, depression, autism, chronic fatigue, they're all invisible problems that garner next-to-no sympathy in society. To many people we're easy to write off, much like the disabled and immunocompromised, who cares? We are broken people and it's too much effort to fix or accomodate us.
>> No. 453479 Anonymous
23rd August 2022
Tuesday 6:23 pm
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Are proper salt and pepper grinders worth the outlay or should I just continue with the cheapo pre-filled ones you can get at the shops?
>> No. 453481 Anonymous
23rd August 2022
Tuesday 7:12 pm
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>>453479

For some reason we're supposed to think that big chunks of salt and pepper are better than a fine powder. I fundamentally do not understand this mindset. I buy salt and pepper in powdered form and put them in shakers, because I want my whole meal to be seasoned rather than random mouthfuls.

Also white pepper is better than black pepper.
>> No. 453482 Anonymous
23rd August 2022
Tuesday 7:37 pm
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>>453479
I've never encountered a 'proper' grinder that didn't break down very quickly. disposable ones seem incredibly wasteful. If you're a pretentious wanker who cares about being able to grind your seasoning to the exact right consistency depending on the culinary purpose you'll want a good mortar and pestle like what I've got, otherwise go with >>453481
>> No. 453483 Anonymous
23rd August 2022
Tuesday 7:42 pm
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>>453482
No you don't. Nobody uses a pestle and mortar when they want a bit of salt and pepper on their meal.
>> No. 453485 Anonymous
23rd August 2022
Tuesday 7:44 pm
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>>453483
You're right but only because I season my food properly while I'm actually cooking it.
>> No. 453486 Anonymous
23rd August 2022
Tuesday 7:54 pm
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>>453485
You're supposed to add salt and pepper after cooking, to taste, other than mashed potato. For example:

>When they’re ready, remove the pan from the heat and take the eggs out using a spatula. Place on a plate and dab them with some paper towels to soak up any excess oil. Serve on toast – no need to butter it – with a sprinkling of the sea salt and freshly ground black pepper.

https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/eggs-recipes/sunny-side-up-eggs/
>> No. 453487 Anonymous
23rd August 2022
Tuesday 8:05 pm
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>>453486
I don't take orders from Jamie Oliver.
>> No. 453498 Anonymous
23rd August 2022
Tuesday 10:44 pm
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>>453483

I once had to use a pestle and mortar to make my morning coffee after the bag I bought turned out to be beans rather than pre-ground. I'd like to think the effort made it taste better, but it didn't really.
>> No. 453499 Anonymous
23rd August 2022
Tuesday 11:40 pm
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Either DuckDuckGo is shit, or the world is.
>> No. 453500 Anonymous
23rd August 2022
Tuesday 11:47 pm
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>>453499
Why do you think everybody uses Google and nobody uses DuckDuckGo?
>> No. 453501 Anonymous
24th August 2022
Wednesday 12:02 am
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>>453500

Because they would willingly fax pictures of their genitals to their old primary school teachers if it meant that they didn't have to change a default setting? Also I've just checked and Google has no results for "hurt my dirtbox" either, they just pad out the search results with things that don't actually match the search string.
>> No. 453502 Anonymous
24th August 2022
Wednesday 12:26 am
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>>453501
>Because they would willingly fax pictures of their genitals to their old primary school teachers if it meant that they didn't have to change a default setting?
And on what default platform combinations is Google the default search engine?
>> No. 453503 Anonymous
24th August 2022
Wednesday 12:53 am
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>>453479
I bought some cheap reusable grinders and some peppercorns to put in them. I got two (supposedly one for salt and one for pepper, but I only use them for pepper so I used both for that) and they both fell apart very quickly. Maybe you can get really nice ones that work well for a long time if you're willing to pay £30 for a pepper grinder, but if you're paying under a fiver you are wasting your money.
>> No. 453504 Anonymous
24th August 2022
Wednesday 1:23 am
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>>453503

I'm no cheflad but I think kitchen stuff is probably one of those things worth spending a decent amount of money on. I got a really nice set of pans and some decent knives for christmas the year I moved into my first flat, and I've never needed to replace them; the ones I had before that (the cheapest you can get at Wilkos probably) all fell apart in under the six months I used them.

Probably one of the best christmas presents I've ever had in all honesty, legitimately useful and thoughtful, because I'd never have gone to the trouble to get them myself. Since I've had them though I've been mindful to make sure anything else I buy for the kitchen is decent quality.
>> No. 453507 Anonymous
24th August 2022
Wednesday 8:58 am
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>>453504

You're right in general but there's no material they make the grinding parts from that won't get fucked up by the salt in under a year.
If you really want (and can afford to pay a little extra for) the best out of your salt, use a standard one for cooking and a flaky one like Maldon for adding "to taste". No need for a salt grinder.
>> No. 453510 Anonymous
24th August 2022
Wednesday 8:18 pm
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I feel like watching something that's a bit shit but watchable, like Blast from the Past, Pleasantville or The Faculty. Maybe even Lake Placid. Any suggestions?
>> No. 453512 Anonymous
24th August 2022
Wednesday 8:36 pm
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>>453510

I can only suggest Deep Blue Sea or House on Haunted Hill.

I'd recommend The 6th Day, in my opinion an underrated late-career Arnie gem, but I think it's a bit too recent for your taste.
>> No. 453513 Anonymous
24th August 2022
Wednesday 8:56 pm
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>>453510
You can't go wrong with just watching Flash Gordon again. I also massively rate the Street Fighter film, but you might disagree if you consider the offensively abysmal Pleasantville to be watchable. How about Undercover Brother? That's decent but also distinctly flawed.
>> No. 453514 Anonymous
24th August 2022
Wednesday 9:11 pm
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>>453512
Thanks, lad. I do like Deep Blue Sea but it hasn't been that long since I last watched it.

>>453513
The Street Fighter film is alright, but it's no Mortal Kombat.
>> No. 453515 Anonymous
24th August 2022
Wednesday 9:30 pm
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>>453510

If you like Samuel L. Jackson, then how about the movie Jumper.

It's a film which sadly underplays its own pretty genius premise and is far too short to fully come into its own at just 88 minutes, but it's entertaining.
>> No. 453517 Anonymous
24th August 2022
Wednesday 10:11 pm
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>>453510
The Marine with John Cena. T-1000 is the main baddie, and I seem to remember that there are a lot of jokes about childhood sexual abuse.
>> No. 453520 Anonymous
24th August 2022
Wednesday 11:51 pm
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Or how about Napoleon Dynamite. It's a shit but watchable movie that's stil mildly funny the second or third time.
>> No. 453526 Anonymous
25th August 2022
Thursday 1:32 pm
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I wish the government would get back to work so we could have more politics threads here for me to read while at work. This silly season hasn't even been particularly silly. It's just been nervous jitters on the news every night as we wait to see if the economy will die completely or only the usual amount.
>> No. 453527 Anonymous
25th August 2022
Thursday 2:17 pm
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>>453526
They're making an announcement tomorrow about the government's plans for limiting the impact of rising energy bills. So you'll have something to get your teeth into at least.
>> No. 453528 Anonymous
25th August 2022
Thursday 2:22 pm
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>>453527
Are you sure you're not getting muddled up with the energy price cap? The cap from October is being announced tomorrow.
>> No. 453529 Anonymous
25th August 2022
Thursday 3:37 pm
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>>453528
The existence of the cap does seem to be the entirety of the government's plan for limiting the impact of rising energy bills, so they're not entirely wrong.
>> No. 453530 Anonymous
25th August 2022
Thursday 5:06 pm
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>>453529

When it was introduced, the purpose of the price cap was to protect people who were unwilling or unable to switch tariffs. Nearly all tariffs were significantly cheaper than the cap, but the cap was a kind of managed worst-case scenario to stop tenants with crap landlords and tech-illiterate dunces from being totally rinsed.

We're now in the weird situation where effectively all tariffs are set at the price cap and energy suppliers I said suppliers, not producers are still losing money, because wholesale prices are going up faster than the cap can keep up. The cap was never designed for this scenario and was never intended to be used to control prices during an extreme market shock.
>> No. 453531 Anonymous
25th August 2022
Thursday 5:24 pm
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>>453530
>The cap was never designed for this scenario and was never intended to be used to control prices during an extreme market shock.
Which is kind of what I was getting at when I charitably described it as "the entirety of the government's plan for limiting the impact of rising energy bills". Because based on what they've done so far, it does seem like their plan really does involve bankrupting half the country. The cruelty really is the point.
>> No. 453532 Anonymous
25th August 2022
Thursday 7:06 pm
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Fuck me I've totally wasted the day.

Stayed up til about 3am on Warhammer 3 (Immortal Empires is great by the way) then got up about 12, watched Limmy do some shite on Twitch for about two hours, too lazy to get out of bed even though I was bursting for a piss and dying for a coffee. Forced myself to go to the shop for some bits after that. Not entirely sure what happened to the last 3-4 hours though.

I suppose I needed a rest day, I have been keeping busy a lot lately and work long hours. But it feels shit when you look at the time, and realise it's 7pm and you've no idea where the day went.
>> No. 453533 Anonymous
25th August 2022
Thursday 7:26 pm
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>>453528

Oh yeah, I was. Silly me. In any case, the government isn't going to announce any new fiscal measures until the new leadership is confirmed so we'll have to wait a bit for any news on that front.

My prediction? They'll wait a few days for the truly calamitous price cap increase to really rattle the population. Then they'll announce a a huge reduction in it, funded by the government, which will let them cast themselves as national saviours. Meanwhile Rishi will be so apoplectic at the level of proposed spending that he'll permanently fuck off to some hedge fund in America.
>> No. 453534 Anonymous
25th August 2022
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>>453531
> it does seem like their plan really does involve bankrupting half the country. The cruelty really is the point.
If they announced help now, everyone would take it for granted and they wouldn't get a boost in the polls for it. The goal is to bring in Liz Truss, announce massive free money (but only for pensioners, homeowners, and people in marginal seats) and then immediately call a snap election and see off Keir Starmer for another five years.
>> No. 453535 Anonymous
25th August 2022
Thursday 9:05 pm
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>>453534
Perhaps I should read every post in a thread before replying in future. I even thought, "This tactic is so obvious that I bet someone else has already posted it", but I pressed on regardless. I'm just a worthless piece of shit. I deserve to freeze to death.
>> No. 453536 Anonymous
25th August 2022
Thursday 10:07 pm
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>>453531

I've discussed this before, but the government don't have a lot of good options here. I hate this government, I've been relentlessly critical of their many failings, but this is one of those situations where we're just shit out of luck.

Anything that the government spends to subsidise energy costs will be substantially inflationary. Any money that people save on their energy bills is overwhelmingly likely to be spent rather than saved, so it'll push up the prices of everything else. We'd just be swapping one kind of economic misery for another and we'd be paying interest for the privilege.

The current energy price situation is going to be really hard for a lot of people, but we have to be extremely careful about who we decide to help. There is a very real possibility that inflation could break 18% next year; a lot of people have forgotten or are too young to remember what it was like to live with double-digit inflation. Helping middle-class people to pay their energy bills will have a direct impact on the number of working-class people who are forced to use food banks.

We've been here before, it was bloody horrible and we haven't found any easy fixes. As awful as it might seem, our best option might be to trigger an immediate recession just to keep a lid on inflation. I wish I could be more optimistic, but that's how serious the situation is. We're all going to get a lot poorer and the best we can hope to achieve is to shield the most vulnerable from the worst effects.





Dame Shirley Williams had a lovely set of pins.
>> No. 453537 Anonymous
25th August 2022
Thursday 10:14 pm
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>>453536

They could reverse their position on solar power, that would help.
>> No. 453538 Anonymous
26th August 2022
Friday 12:03 am
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>our best option might be to trigger an immediate recession
Obviously there are different levels of recession, but is the only reason not to do this the bad PR? I imagine the percentages don't have to add up; we don't need the economy to collapse by 18% for 18% inflation to become 0%. I would much rather see the economy contract by 2% if that would fix everything else. Growth of 2% did fuck all for me. Of course, it's only a recession if it's two consecutive quarters, so they might be doing the deliberate recession already and it just hasn't technically started yet.
>> No. 453539 Anonymous
26th August 2022
Friday 12:10 am
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>>453536
>There is a very real possibility that inflation could break 18% next year
The way things are looking, more than half of this would be energy prices alone. There's nothing to suggest that putting in place measures to reduce the impact of energy prices would have an equal and opposite effect on the prices of everything else. If anything, given the exceptional nature of the rise in energy prices, it's entirely reasonable to expect that suppressing energy retail prices might knock several points off that figure while the knock-on effects of everything else only puts a couple of points back on.

Also, given that this is not the usual inflation, but specifically an exceptional increase in the costs of one particular necessity, the usual remedy of increasing interest rates probably wasn't the right thing to do, and with the consequences on housing costs it's actually likely to contribute to inflation rather than reducing it.

It's worth remembering that we went through a major financial crisis with substantial money creation with very little if any inflationary effect. It's also worth remembering that any arguments about "crashing the pound" are nonsense - as people are all too keen to point out, this is a global energy crisis. It's not really "crashing the pound" when everyone else's economy, and therefore their currencies, are also taking a battering - it all just evens out in the end. There is no absolute value in a floating currency market.

>Helping middle-class people to pay their energy bills will have a direct impact on the number of working-class people who are forced to use food banks.
As will not helping them. If people can't pay their bills, they also can't pay for a lot of other things. If people can't pay for a lot of other things, that directly impacts the employment of a lot of other people involved in the production, sale and provision of those other things.

Things like targeting and means testing are not free actions. They come with costs, friction and administrative burden. It's in our collective national interest to keep those as low as possible in order to get the support out to people as quickly as possible. For the most part, there is some alignment between helping those most in need and not providing too much help to those who are better off, but there comes a point where these things come into tension. In situations like this, it's important that where that tension arises, where helping those in need may have the consequence of also providing some benefit to those who are better off, we surely must resolve that tension in favour of helping those in need, because the costs of some people who maybe don't need it getting a bit of extra help are nowhere near the costs of people who need the help not getting it.
>> No. 453541 Anonymous
26th August 2022
Friday 1:25 am
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>>453539

>Also, given that this is not the usual inflation, but specifically an exceptional increase in the costs of one particular necessity

Unfortunately that isn't true. Energy price increases are a major factor, but we'd still be looking at record inflation without them. In the year before the invasion of Ukraine, inflation had risen from 0.7% to 5.5%. The very tight labour market is contributing to inflation, as is the rising cost of other commodities (which started well before the energy crisis). Brexit is a major factor in all of this by increasing transaction costs and reducing elasticity.

Another hugely under-addressed factor is the weakness of the pound. We're paying about 12% more for Chinese goods than we were a year ago solely due to the exchange rate. A weak currency is a really dangerous thing for a country with a balance of trade like ours.

Crucially, we can't undo the inflationary effects of the Ukraine conflict, but we can compound them. Inflation is self-reinforcing and it's much harder to reduce than it is to maintain at a low level. Inflation was well above target before the energy price shock and it is likely to remain high long after energy prices have returned to normal.

>As will not helping them. If people can't pay their bills, they also can't pay for a lot of other things. If people can't pay for a lot of other things, that directly impacts the employment of a lot of other people involved in the production, sale and provision of those other things.

The very poorest are mostly not in work. Unfortunately, higher unemployment is an inevitable side-effect of any policy that will reduce inflation. The very low rate of unemployment at the moment is only modestly due to high demand for labour and is mainly due to a reduction in supply - over the course of the pandemic, a lot of people left the labour market and haven't returned for reasons that aren't entirely clear.

>Things like targeting and means testing are not free actions.

We've already paid for them. Essentially everyone who might be a target of means-tested support is already a recipient of means tested support in one way or another. The administrative costs of adjusting the rates of existing means-tested benefits is practically zero. Those policies are still expensive, but they're vastly cheaper than indiscriminately chucking money at people through newly-designed schemes.
>> No. 453542 Anonymous
26th August 2022
Friday 2:04 am
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>>453536

You are wrong on a few counts here, but I can't really be arsed.

I mean for one thing it's completely circular reasoning to say we can't tackle energy costs without causing inflation, when the sky-rocketing energy costs are the main thing causing inflation.

Secondly we can't trigger a recession when we're already 3 recessions deep in recession inception and the country's been wondering when that "recovery" they kept talking about on the news is actually going to start. I don't mean "can't" as in "that would be less than ideal", I mean we can't as in, you can't get any wetter when you're already in the sea.
>> No. 453545 Anonymous
26th August 2022
Friday 1:06 pm
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Is it strange to keep wearing the same pyjamas? I've been sleeping in my favourite pyjamas every night for at least two months now; they're being washed at least once a week and then put on again that same evening.
>> No. 453546 Anonymous
26th August 2022
Friday 1:07 pm
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>>453545

I don't even own a pyjama.
>> No. 453547 Anonymous
26th August 2022
Friday 1:21 pm
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>>453545
It depends on the circumstances in which you live. If you're a fat mental NEET, you can get away with a lot. I wash my pyjamas much less often than you, but I always change into a different pair when I wash the existing pair. I have three pairs in total. Also, I only own one bedsheet and I will wash it and then put it back on my bed that evening. I get away with this due to the fabulous benefits of nobody loving or caring about me. A woman would probably insist I finally open the replacement bedsheet I bought a few years ago, though.
>> No. 453549 Anonymous
26th August 2022
Friday 1:36 pm
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>>453542

>Secondly we can't trigger a recession when we're already 3 recessions deep in recession inception and the country's been wondering when that "recovery" they kept talking about on the news is actually going to start. I don't mean "can't" as in "that would be less than ideal", I mean we can't as in, you can't get any wetter when you're already in the sea.

"Recession" doesn't mean "people feeling bad about the economy", it means "at least two successive quarters of negative economic growth". Stagnation or weak growth is profoundly different from the economy actually shrinking. Our last recession was in the first half of 2020; the one before that ended in the middle of 2009. We're currently experiencing negative growth and are almost inevitably headed for a recession, but the BofE and the treasury have a lot of levers to control the severity and duration of a recession.

Imagining that we're somehow at rock bottom is charmingly naive, but absolutely baseless. The economy shrank by about 0.6% in the last quarter, but it shrank by 2.7% in the last quarter of 1974 and 18.8% in the second quarter of 2020. Things are likely to keep getting worse for several years before we even get a sniff of recovery; there's very little we can do to bring about a recovery sooner, but there are a near-infinite number of mistakes that could delay or weaken that recovery. The most fundamental and inviolable law of politics and economics is this - no matter how bad things are, they can always get worse.
>> No. 453550 Anonymous
26th August 2022
Friday 1:40 pm
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>>453547
I'm not fat, mental or a NEET. It's just that my bottoms from Debenhams and my John Lewis lounge top are far comfier than my other pairs.
>> No. 453551 Anonymous
26th August 2022
Friday 1:52 pm
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>>453549

Maybe I am charmingly naive, but you are charmingly detached from reality.

In real terms it doesn't matter than the statistics about GDP or growth or whatever tell you it's not technically a recession, the reality is nobody's wages have gone up for the best part of a decade, while inflation has been chugging along at ~2% that whole time and now it's shot up to the moon. In real terms, for the real average people of this country, not the statistical constructs you get by mashing the entire economic activity of the country together, it's been a decade of recession, their economic freedom has been shrinking that entire time.

We're not at rock bottom by any means, but for everyday people, it's just more of the same shit, and it will continue to be more of the same shit long after you lot have started talking about the crisis like it's in the past tense again.
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26th August 2022
Friday 2:31 pm
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>nobody's wages have gone up for the best part of a decade

Mine have.
>> No. 453553 Anonymous
26th August 2022
Friday 2:49 pm
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>>453551
If you didn't get promoted in a decade you don't deserve wage growth.
>> No. 453554 Anonymous
26th August 2022
Friday 3:25 pm
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>We're not at rock bottom by any means, but for everyday people, it's just more of the same shit

No, no it is not. Economically, this moment is like March 2020 when we started to see pictures from Italian hospitals. A once-in-a-century crisis has just started, but the full breadth and depth of that crisis is only visible through the lens of data. Giving people money towards their gas bill is like when they were telling us to wash our hands and sing happy birthday; it's not wrong, but it's so hopelessly inadequate as to seem futile in hindsight. This is not business as usual, our way of life is going to be severely disrupted for many years and pretending otherwise will just dig us into a deeper hole. The post-crash malaise of the 2010s is a picnic compared to what's just around the corner. People will be looking back with nostalgia at a decade of stagnant wages.

The best-case scenario if everything goes well is that only a few thousand people will freeze to death over the next couple of winters, we have the worst drop in living standards since the Second World War and we get the first clear signs of recovery in 2025. A bad but plausible scenario is something on the scale of the Argentine depression of 1998, where real wages fell by more than a third, unemployment hit 18% and the economy entered a state of perma-crisis that it hasn't really left. There's a small but significant risk of a global depression on a par with 1929.

Stagflation has put us at real risk of a full-scale humanitarian disaster, with the complete collapse of many essential services and life-threatening levels of absolute poverty. My image of a Weimar banknote was not hyperbole, it's a warning of a very real risk. I don't know how I can get across just how much trouble we're in without sounding like a lunatic, but there is a very real likelihood that someone you know personally will eat their dog in the next couple of years. That's the reality that I am very much not detached from.

Believe what you want, but the data speaks for itself, or in this case shouts. We need to help people who are struggling to stay warm, but we also need to recognise that the economy has already gone over the precipice. Energy prices this winter aren't the crisis, they're the prelude to the crisis. The government should be doing more, but the best they could possibly achieve would only slightly soften the blow. We have to grit our teeth and face up to a lot of hardship and a lot of hard choices.
>> No. 453556 Anonymous
26th August 2022
Friday 6:27 pm
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>>453554

You know what, I think we're actually more or less on the same page. The difference between you and me is that you see it as a new thing that's just around the corner and nobody saw coming, but I see it as a chain of events leading to something blatantly obvious that's only been escalating in intensity since 2008.

When we pulled out of the last crash, we didn't really. We just lied to ourselves that we had, because things had stabilised for a bit and the stock market had started doing better. But nothing has ever meaningfully gone back to improving for most normal people- Only a select few at the very top. We called it a win when the reality on the ground has only been a temporary reprieve.

>>453553

If you're getting promoted into positions that pay less today than the same position did a decade ago, which is the reality of nearly all jobs right now (other than a very select handful of specialised ones), guess what. You didn't experience wage growth. Most people have seen real terms wage reduction; it's just very easy to pull the wool over people's eyes about it when it's over the span of 15 years.

People are only noticing it now because it's accelerated to vastly, but the same thing has been happening for the last decade, just much more slowly.
>> No. 453559 Anonymous
26th August 2022
Friday 7:23 pm
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>>453553
What about self-employed people?

>>453554
>I don't know how I can get across just how much trouble we're in without sounding like a lunatic
I'm afraid you do sound a bit mental. You clearly know a lot, but I think you would rather have the excitement of a Happening than yet more dull hopelessness. Let's see how the Depression went, as an absolute worst-case scenario:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression_in_the_United_Kingdom
>The Great Depression originated in the United States in late 1929 and quickly spread to the world. Britain did not experience the boom that had characterized the U.S., Germany, Canada and Australia in the 1920s, so its effect appeared less severe.[1]
We certainly haven't had much of a boom lately that I have seen.
>Britain's world trade fell by half (1929–33), the output of heavy industry fell by a third, employment profits plunged in nearly all sectors.
Okay. Maybe that's not ideal.
>However at the same time, it is important to consider that from 1929 to 1933 employment dipped only to 94.9% relative to 1929 employment metrics and recovery was seen as early at 1933 (numbers are across the entire country, and unemployment did double over this period relative to 1929 metrics). The positive trend continued across real national income and wages.
Cool!
>Overall, while all these metrics were concerning to parliament and businessmen along with devastating industrial regions, the common person especially in areas around London did not experience major hardship and even prospered.[2]
I guess this is the big point here. We don't really have industrial regions; everyone just does inane clerical busywork for a living now. So if people who do that all turned out fine in even the absolute most terrifying nightmare scenario, maybe telesales and Deliveroo jobs will save us all. Or maybe those will be the jobs that go instead, and perhaps a dog or two will get eaten after all.

I will admit I am cherry-picking quotes now, but:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression_in_the_United_Kingdom#Rearmament_and_recovery
>The United Kingdom was able to recover more quickly than other countries that were equally as developed, because their economic growth had been stagnant for some time. This meant that they did not have exponential growth, as the United States did, leaving them with less room to fall.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSS *dabs optimistically*
We're all going to be fine!
>> No. 453560 Anonymous
26th August 2022
Friday 7:27 pm
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>>453556

>When we pulled out of the last crash, we didn't really. We just lied to ourselves that we had, because things had stabilised for a bit and the stock market had started doing better. But nothing has ever meaningfully gone back to improving for most normal people- Only a select few at the very top.

Wages took a hit in 2008 and we had several years of pay erosion in the following years, but real wages did substantially increase after 2015, particularly in the private sector. By 2019, we were pretty much back where we started - not much better off than in 2007, but certainly much better off than in 2009. That's a painfully slow recovery, but it's still a recovery. We had just about undone the economic damage of 2008, then the pandemic hit us.

Regardless, there's a vast difference between seeing your wages slowly chipped away at a rate of ~1% per year and a sudden drop in your real wages of at least 10%. You can argue that we were just boiling the frog, but this is fundamentally a different thing. We seem to have forgotten just how devastating COVID was to the global economy, because governments did so much to punt the consequences down the road. You can't just shut most of the economy for the best part of two years and expect everything to be fine afterwards. Half a trillion quid of unplanned public spending is going to have consequences. Putin's invasion of Ukraine and the resultant economic conflict was a kick in the tits at the worst possible moment, but we'd still be in a right mess without it.
>> No. 453561 Anonymous
26th August 2022
Friday 7:53 pm
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>>453560

>but real wages did substantially increase after 2015, particularly in the private sector. By 2019, we were pretty much back where we started - not much better off than in 2007, but certainly much better off than in 2009.

What you're forgetting is that housing has been steadily climbing in cost faster than anything else since that time too. Rents have near enough doubled since 2015. Homeowners have been doing okay because of the sustained period of low interest, but it was only a matter of time until that caught up with them. Renters and first time buyers on the other hand have been well aware where we're heading.

I'm not saying you're entirely wrong, but what I'm trying to articulate is that the big picture macroeconomic perspective is not reflective of the experience of the ordinary person, the majority of people in this country. People at the lower end of society have gotten used to getting steadily worse off year on year, and people in the middle have simply had their heads buried in the sand.

It's not necessarily related but I think it's also worthwhile pointing out that people on the people on the lower end are also likely to be most affected when the price of luxuries like smoking and alcohol have more than doubled in the same span of time. I could get a pack of cigs and two or three pints for a tenner in 2008, now I'd be lucky just to get the cigs. Obviously the same goes for all sorts of things.

You can say they're luxuries so it shouldn't matter and the poors shouldn't be wasting money on them anyway, but that's the point- Things just becoming increasingly unattainable for average folk. If people can't afford to spend on non-essentials then how can we have economic growth? And the thing is, "average" in this country really means poor. We are a highly unequal country, the rich people bring the averages up, but by far the vast majority of people in the country exist on under £25k a year. Their take home pay is around a grand and a bit a month, and for many of them, probably has been since the day they entered the workforce.

People have already been living the sort of lifestyle where they can afford the roof over their head and the monthly bills, and fuck all else; so it was already clear to see we really don't have any leeway for further depression. And it's the same reason we have been stagnant for so long. Someone who's barely scraping by as it is is straight up fucked come this winter, but it's like the supply chain- Running everything on bare minimum is just asking for a disaster when something does happen.
>> No. 453562 Anonymous
26th August 2022
Friday 8:26 pm
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Fucking hell, lads. If you want to talk about energy prices causing inflation to spike can you please do it in the thread about energy prices going up rather than here? It was bad enough that the weekend thread was dominated all last weekend by bores going on about GDPR.
>> No. 453572 Anonymous
27th August 2022
Saturday 6:31 am
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The English Constitution Party are having a 'walk in York' today, hoping to attract hundreds of people. I'm fairly certain they're freemen of the land.

https://englishconstitutionparty.com/2022/07/19/a-walk-in-york/
>> No. 453574 Anonymous
27th August 2022
Saturday 7:59 am
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>>453572

Is that banner suggesting cutting off Cornwall and part of Devon? If they really want to gain support for English Independence, there should be a hole where SW1 is.
>> No. 453575 Anonymous
27th August 2022
Saturday 8:00 am
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>>453574

Also I'm still a bit drunk and didn't see the chain on the "shackle". It's still shit though.
>> No. 453577 Anonymous
27th August 2022
Saturday 10:40 am
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Bloody hell. What nutcases. They have some truly mystifying policies, and yet the worst part of all from reading their website was every time they included something I support in among their gibberish. It offended me a lot.
>England has a Bill of Rights. It is being ignored by the British soviet system. We do not believe in manifestos. They are a fraud and support party politics, which long term we are opposed to!
We're never getting rid of political parties when we've got people like them agreeing with me.
>> No. 453638 Anonymous
29th August 2022
Monday 10:26 am
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Slept for nine hours, now I can't stop thinking about killing myself.
>> No. 453639 Anonymous
29th August 2022
Monday 10:47 am
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Well done on the new column, mate!
>> No. 453648 Anonymous
29th August 2022
Monday 2:16 pm
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Of course he'd be happy if it was his choice. The domestic daft militant wogs, bigots and wimps which is what I am are unhappy precisely because it's not their choice.
>> No. 453651 Anonymous
29th August 2022
Monday 6:04 pm
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Today I went to Lyme Park. I saw a man filling a bag with sheep poo, mind you this was a visitor rather than someone working there. If I had to pick up some poo I'd put my hand in the bag, scoop it up and then turn the bag inside out but this man was enthusiastically picking the poo up with his hand and throwing it into the bag.
>> No. 453652 Anonymous
29th August 2022
Monday 6:30 pm
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Fuel for winter, probably thinking about how much money he'll save.
>> No. 453663 Anonymous
30th August 2022
Tuesday 5:31 pm
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Kunt just announced his magnum opus.
>> No. 453664 Anonymous
30th August 2022
Tuesday 6:37 pm
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>>453663

Why did nobody tell me that Kunt had recorded an album of French-language translations?

https://kuntandthegang.bandcamp.com/album/bite-ma-bite
>> No. 453665 Anonymous
30th August 2022
Tuesday 7:15 pm
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Thinking of that "There's probably a market for acoustic microphones" or whatever it is those audiophiles are on about, you know what there's a market for? Non-intrusive IoT devices. I'm playing with this security camera my friend bought and it requires an app to run that needs all sorts of permissions, calling home to some random place in China no doubt. This isn't secure. A closed-circuit smart home, one that doesn't rely on cloud servers. You'd have to charge more for the devices if you're not selling end user metadata but that's the USP right there. There's a huge market of paranoiacs and criminals who'd eat it up.
>> No. 453666 Anonymous
30th August 2022
Tuesday 8:19 pm
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>>453665
You'd have to manage it all yourself, remember, and different people have different levels of paranoia. Where would you store the endless hours of CCTV footage? Some people would be happy to put it on Google Drive somewhere, while others absolutely would not. Is the server running all the cameras in your house, or hosted on AWS or somewhere? What if the server crashes; can you reboot it? What I'm saying is, I think my work provides this as a service, and we're pretty small and unknown, and almost nobody does this. However, there is at least one millionaire out there who has a giant mansion and estate which is monitored by our security guys who usually monitor garages and scrapyards. If you find a company like that, they'll do it for you, but it's probably quite expensive and probably doesn't give you the full independence required by someone who doesn't trust anyone else.

If you successfully invent devices to solve this problem, though, can I buy one?
>> No. 453667 Anonymous
30th August 2022
Tuesday 8:40 pm
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>>453665

Bosch do a range of security cameras that fit this bill. There's a cloudy service that you don't have to use and isn't the default, loads of choices of storage appliances, cameras all have uSD slots for a few weeks of local storage that you can rummage through remotely and export sections of video or lock from being overwritten. Fisheye to telephoto, VGA to many megapixels, B&W to colour to IR to thermal. Onboard processing for motion detection, all sorts of AI bollocks.
The downside is they're eyewateringly expensive, but they do come up on ebay all the time. Watch out for ancient analogue ones, and model numbers that don't encode the resolution so apply to everything from shitty resolutions to 8Mpixel.

I like them, and they're not at all reliant on shonky Chinese servers. They also crap out all sorts of streams, if you want to just view stuff.
At some point I'll look at making the audio works so I can have a proper talky doorbell with a button, for when I'm working in the shed.
>> No. 453669 Anonymous
30th August 2022
Tuesday 8:43 pm
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My mouth is almost constantly full of ulcers, and it has just occurred to me that I haven't had one for months. Hurray! I have noticed this, however, because I seem to have bitten the inside of my mouth, right at the back, and therefore will probably get one very soon. Bugger.
>> No. 453670 Anonymous
30th August 2022
Tuesday 8:45 pm
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>>453667
My work uses Hikvision cameras. They're pretty decent, from what I can tell, plus they're not a massively famous company and I would certainly trust a small place like my work over a giant household name when it comes to privacy.
>> No. 453671 Anonymous
30th August 2022
Tuesday 8:56 pm
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>>453670

>Hikvision

They're the biggest CCTV manufacturer in the world and they're directly owned by the Chinese government. I'm fine with that, but a lot of people are nervous about installing the same brand of camera that's used to do all the weird facial recognition stuff in Xinjiang.
>> No. 453685 Anonymous
31st August 2022
Wednesday 1:39 am
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There used to be a website that would stream all kinds of CCTV/cameras from across the world. I was too dumb to know if it was some unsecure networks or whatever, but it was good fun. I wonder if it is still around.

In fact, it would be so good if you could have regions. Click on UK. Click on Yorkshire, etc, etc.
>> No. 453693 Anonymous
31st August 2022
Wednesday 1:07 pm
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>>453685
Oh yes I remember that. I think it scraped IP addresses for admin login pages that had unchanged default passwords. The streams seemed to all be for corner shops and textile factories in Asia, and rightly so as anything more salacious than that you would think they would be more security conscious.
>> No. 453695 Anonymous
31st August 2022
Wednesday 1:20 pm
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>>453685
http://insecam.org/en/byrating/
>> No. 453703 Anonymous
1st September 2022
Thursday 7:32 am
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Nick Kyrgios is a fucking grass.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/62746434
>> No. 453712 Anonymous
2nd September 2022
Friday 12:37 am
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Popular YouTuber Bald & Bankrupt has made his last travel video in Russia, after being arrested mid-journey, charged, tried and found guilty, then deported from Russia forever.



He doesn't say what he was found guilty of, either. Given what a sinister and untrustworthy vibe he has, he really should explain because otherwise I am totally convinced he's a serial rapist. He must know everyone thinks he's a sex tourist, so if he's been deported just for criticising the Russian government or something, surely he would have made that clear? The man just radiates paedophile energy, and these developments are not helping him.
>> No. 453713 Anonymous
2nd September 2022
Friday 12:44 am
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>>453712
On the one hand, he does have some definite sex offender energy about him. But then again, if we're being honest, the Russians are game for a bit of teenage pleasure.

He was apparently picked up in Baikonur, so it's possible he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time with the war and everything, and the Russians have just taken the opportunity to tell a Westerner to fuck off forever.
>> No. 453714 Anonymous
2nd September 2022
Friday 12:59 am
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>>453712

Alot of videos have him breaking minor rules and regulations in the train stations or whatever and filming it, so presumably the Russian bobbies could just take their pick.

My money is on the time that woman in the Metro told him to stop filming, so he just hid the camera down his coat for a bit. He's lucky he's not getting bummed by Big Ivan in Siberia.
>> No. 453716 Anonymous
2nd September 2022
Friday 6:31 am
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>>453713

My money is on "the local bobbies nicked a Westerner in the hopes of getting a tradeable commodity, the FSB realised that no western government would arrange a prisoner exchange to get this sweaty carpet-bagger back, so they just told him to fuck off forever".

Arresting westerners on trumped-up charges solely to use them as a bargaining chip is a standard tactic in the Russian playbook. I'm reliably informed that you should keep a minimum of $1000usd on your person at all times - you can bribe a local bobby on the spot, but once they've taken you to the station and called the FSB you're in deep shit.
>> No. 453717 Anonymous
2nd September 2022
Friday 9:06 am
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Very weird speculation in this thread. And all after the truth was a Google search away.

https://www.rudgwicksteamshow.co.uk.com/r/BaldAndBaldrDossier/comments/x38sxz/bald_and_bankrupt_banned_from_russia_for/
>> No. 453718 Anonymous
2nd September 2022
Friday 9:16 am
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>>453717

>Russian court order
>truth
>> No. 453719 Anonymous
2nd September 2022
Friday 9:24 am
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>>453718
I bet even Russia can afford to pay their barristers above minimum wage.
>> No. 453728 Anonymous
2nd September 2022
Friday 6:51 pm
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Today I have been to Beamish. There were very long queues everywhere; it took almost 40 minutes to actually get in and there were large queues for the pub, sweet shop, bakery, chippy and just about everything else that wasn't an old house with old furniture in it. There were quite a few people larping as if they were from the 40s and 50s; a few men pretending they were in Peaky Blinders but it was mainly the womenfolk who'd taken it upon themselves to wear period fashion. A lot of the volunteers didnt seem to know what they were doing. There was also a group of people with Down's Syndrome and their carers that stunk of curry powder for some reason and I also saw a lass dressed up as a schoolgirl with an anime wig on. I was there for the best part of six hours and didn't do anything because my legs were done in; I had a ride on one of the vintage buses but I don't think the driver knew how to control it smoothly because it was ridiculously bumpy. The chippy chips were nice, although unsurprisingly overpriced.

I think I prefer the Black Country Living Museum.
>> No. 453729 Anonymous
2nd September 2022
Friday 7:26 pm
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>>453728

>womenfolk who'd taken it upon themselves to wear period fashion
>a lass dressed up as a schoolgirl with an anime wig on

See you at Beamish, lads.
>> No. 453730 Anonymous
2nd September 2022
Friday 8:19 pm
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>>453717
>Very weird speculation
The "truth" you refer to in that link is pretty much what we were speculating, if not worse.
>> No. 453731 Anonymous
2nd September 2022
Friday 8:46 pm
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>>453730
No, I wasn't referring to the partisan commentary of that particular rudgwicksteamshow.co.uk. Just the presumably primary source.
>> No. 453732 Anonymous
2nd September 2022
Friday 9:13 pm
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>>453729
I didn't get a proper look at her, but she wasn't anything to write home about. Her friend had poorly died blue hair and a rather unfortunate face.

Most of the women in period costumes were old. There was about two or three young lasses wearing them; I can't give a precise number because one of them could plausibly have been in her twenties or her forties. You can't always tell when they're a little chunky.
>> No. 453824 Anonymous
5th September 2022
Monday 4:52 pm
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I quite fancy the lass from the Totaljobs advert.


Always had a thing for redheads.
>> No. 453825 Anonymous
5th September 2022
Monday 4:55 pm
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>>453824
I have seen things elsewhere complaining about how annoying she is, and I had never seen the advert at the time. I have now seen it, once, and she is exactly as much of a babe as she appears to be from the pictures of her. I wish I could see the advert more often.
>> No. 453826 Anonymous
5th September 2022
Monday 5:00 pm
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JK Rowling has been using the internet since at least 2009 and still does not understand how urls work or that you can't put any old ascii character in a username.
Nobody else seems to be as outraged by this as I am.
>> No. 453827 Anonymous
5th September 2022
Monday 5:05 pm
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>>453825

She is pretty fit. Who cares if she's in an annoying advert.
>> No. 453828 Anonymous
5th September 2022
Monday 5:14 pm
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>>453826

Does anyone expect better from boomers?
>> No. 453832 Anonymous
5th September 2022
Monday 5:26 pm
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>>453828
I would like to expect bestselling authors to have basic awareness of common things in the world they inhabit. That you don't have a / in the middle of a domain name or that you would have to be freakishly strong to stab someone to death with a machete are not obscure technicalities.
>> No. 453833 Anonymous
5th September 2022
Monday 6:14 pm
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>>453832
She's obviously referring to the gladius machete from Cold Steel.


>> No. 453834 Anonymous
5th September 2022
Monday 6:46 pm
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>>453832
It's almost as if she's a shit writer.
>> No. 453836 Anonymous
5th September 2022
Monday 11:59 pm
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Going to Derby tomorrow, for a laugh. Anything I should look for while I'm there? The Derby Space Needle? The Derby Museum of Science and Natural History? A shop still inexplicably stocking sixth gen console games and not in a retro way?
>> No. 453837 Anonymous
6th September 2022
Tuesday 5:04 am
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>>453836
>Going to Derby tomorrow, for a laugh.
>> No. 453838 Anonymous
6th September 2022
Tuesday 10:00 am
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>>453837
Derby banter, a pure mad travel laugh. I’ve had to postpone for a day, sadly. I’m sure the sense of anticipation will only heighten in the meantime.
>> No. 453843 Anonymous
6th September 2022
Tuesday 11:55 am
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I'd like to move house but I don't think I could afford it. I think I could get £220k to £250k for where I live now, which I'd estimate towards the lower end as I'd need to touch up the bathroom and en suite so I'd have around £80k in equity on sale. The houses I've looked at on Rightmove that are a marked upgrade on where I am now are all in the region of £450k to £550k, so I wouldn't be able to afford one of these unless I found at least £100k down the back of the sofa.

It's all so depressing. I guess this is what it feels like for Southerners trying to get on the property ladder in the first place.
>> No. 453844 Anonymous
6th September 2022
Tuesday 1:41 pm
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>>453843

The median income is approximately £25k, and banks will only lend 4-5x that (plus your deposit). Plus with rates going up, they're going to be stricter on the affordability.

So no, it's not just southerners, this is what is feels like for the average person- not even poor people, totally normal average people- in most regions of the country trying to buy basically anything. There are scarce few places left you can get a house for under £120,000 that isn't some kind of shared ownership nightmare. You either have to be buying as a couple or luck out with a decent inheritance.
>> No. 453845 Anonymous
6th September 2022
Tuesday 2:10 pm
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Just got stung in the palm of my hand by a yellowjacket ten minutes ago. Pesky fuckers.

The pain is about 6/10, so I'll be fine. Some swelling, but no signs of an allergic reaction.

Is it just me, or are there loads more wasps this season than in previous years?
>> No. 453846 Anonymous
6th September 2022
Tuesday 2:31 pm
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>>453844
Median pay for full time employees last year was £31,772. That is 25k net, but don't banks use gross income for the multiplier?

And most people can earn considerably more than that if only they wanted to without even landing a skilled job. As an example you could clear 80k driving Uber if you worked all day every day. That might be unpalatable but I think lamenting a lack of privilege and pretending it's beyond your reach is.
>> No. 453847 Anonymous
6th September 2022
Tuesday 2:42 pm
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>>453846
The ONS have infographics breaking this down by occupation and region.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/bulletins/annualsurveyofhoursandearnings/2021

The outliers at the bottom are all the rail industry. It might be hard to get in due to all the nepotism and cronyism, but it seems like a surefire way to get relatively minted.
>> No. 453848 Anonymous
6th September 2022
Tuesday 6:21 pm
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>>453846

Okay mate, if you say so.
>> No. 453850 Anonymous
6th September 2022
Tuesday 8:49 pm
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The Stable Diffusion AI doesn't quite know what Liz Truss looks like. It clearly recognises her and gets the gist, but she always comes out looking like an eldritch nightmare version of herself.
>> No. 453853 Anonymous
6th September 2022
Tuesday 9:09 pm
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>>453850
One of the women in the '74-'75 video looks like that.


>> No. 453854 Anonymous
6th September 2022
Tuesday 9:15 pm
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>>453850

The meadow is basically photorealistic, the horse is 98% there with some very slight wonkyness, but Liz looks like a demon.

This is turning into the first five pages of a shit sci-fi horror novel.
>> No. 453857 Anonymous
6th September 2022
Tuesday 9:27 pm
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>>453854
I bet if you asked a horse it would tell you the Liz Truss is 98% there but the horse looks like a demon.
>> No. 453861 Anonymous
6th September 2022
Tuesday 10:43 pm
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One of you will be into these no doubt.
>> No. 453862 Anonymous
7th September 2022
Wednesday 8:56 am
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>>453845

I don't know mate, what are you doing in America?

I've been struck by mosquitoes the last two days, it's fucking September.
>> No. 453863 Anonymous
7th September 2022
Wednesday 2:54 pm
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Do people still use rofl?
>> No. 453864 Anonymous
7th September 2022
Wednesday 3:29 pm
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>>453863
Only ironically. But everyone does everything ironically now, and rofl is even more ironic than teehee or jej, so you'd actually be ahead of the curve if you brought it back.
>> No. 453865 Anonymous
7th September 2022
Wednesday 3:46 pm
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Chuffed with myself because I managed to fix the washing machine. Not that I wouldn't have 400 to 500 quid for a new one, but it's convenient that I don't have to spend them on something like this at the moment.

The machine had a sticky door interlock switch. Which for some reason caused one of the traces on the underside of the machine's main circuit board to melt clean off. So I had to replace that with a bit of 10A wire soldered in, which seemed about accurate going by the melted trace's dimensions. I then applied some silicone grease on the switch's moving parts inside. Also soldered in some new caps because the old ones were looking a bit dodgy.

Works perfectly again.
>> No. 453866 Anonymous
7th September 2022
Wednesday 4:14 pm
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>>453865
Well done, but...
Silicone grease is a bad choice if there's any chance of it migrating along surfaces (which it loves to do) and getting to switch contacts, where it either forms an insulating layer (on low current contacts) or reacts when an arc happens making a hard insulating lump which then stops the switch closing next time.
>> No. 453867 Anonymous
7th September 2022
Wednesday 4:23 pm
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>>453866

>Silicone grease is a bad choice if there's any chance of it migrating along surfaces (which it loves to do)

No, not really. The switching bits which carry current are connected to some plastic parts that do the locking when the machine is in operation. I really only greased those plastic parts that move against each other, and silicone grease seemed like a good choice because of its water resistance.
>> No. 453878 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 1:48 am
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I'll be moving soon, so I've fucked off my TV licence. I'll get one at my new address. But I haven't moved yet, and now they're threatening to send the boys round. My TV is right by my front window, too, so they can see it from the street. I hope I get to move soon. I also hope they don't cotton on that I have the same name as someone whose TV licence expired in June, and deduct several months from my new one at my new address. TV is fucking awful now, absolutely beyond redemption, but I do like to leave it on in the background whenever I sit in my living room.
>> No. 453879 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 2:25 am
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>>453878
The TV licence isn't enforcable and they don't have the authority to inspect your house, grandad. If you don't pay all they do is send you a series of progressively more threatening letters until the cycle resets. It starts off with something like "we notice you haven't paid your TV licence, please would you kindly do so as soon as you are able, if you can't pay the full amount outright we have a monthly installment plan yaddayadda" and ends with "AGENTS HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED ABOUT YOUR ILLEGAL ACTIVITES AND YOU CAN EXPECT A VISIT ANY DAY NOW" in scary red letters.
>> No. 453881 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 9:01 am
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For breakfast I'm having waffle sandwiches. The packaging says I can cook them in the toaster so this is a new experience for me as I usually grill them. Melted butter and hot potato waffles are pure childhood nostalgia for me.
>> No. 453888 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 12:09 pm
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>>453879
That's true, but I would have assumed that if they spot me watching TV through the window, they might still be able to nab me then. Anyway, I am currently on "AGENTS HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED" in black letters, so perhaps there is one more letter to come. I should be gone by then, though.
>> No. 453891 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 12:32 pm
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Twitter's saying the Queen's dead. I hope so, I want the threads on /news/ to go "Queen Dead, USB Penis Boy".
>> No. 453892 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 12:46 pm
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>>453891>>453891
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62836057
The end is nigh lads.
>> No. 453893 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 12:50 pm
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>>453892
Saying she's under "medical supervision" makes me think she's been remanded to a pychiatric prison for some reason. Also, if she goes soon my great-grandmother will have outlived her, as they're almost the exact same age.
>> No. 453894 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 1:06 pm
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>>453892>>453891
It will be a golden time on .gs, like the 2nd coming of Moaty.
>> No. 453895 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 1:13 pm
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I don't think she's dead just yet, but I have a feeling in my bones that this is it, because it's exactly the last thing the country needs right now. How will we face the long, dark, bleakness of winter without or spiritual leader and figurehead?

It's a weird thing but I think the passing of Are Liz will genuinely be a catalyst for change, in a nation which has otherwise been stagnating for decades.
>> No. 453896 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 1:28 pm
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>>453895
It took me a minute to click you weren't on about Liz Truss, even though that would have made no sense.

God, could you imagine being sworn in as Prime Minister and having to kiss Charles' sausage fingers?
>> No. 453897 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 1:39 pm
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>>453896
Charlie and the rest apparently being taking rapidly to Balmoral. Do we think this is really the end?
>> No. 453898 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 1:46 pm
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Here she is, waving good-bye.
>> No. 453899 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 1:50 pm
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BBC One have cleared their schedule until 6pm to cover rolling news about the Queen.

Maybe meeting Truss sapped the last of her life force.
>> No. 453900 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 1:56 pm
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>>453897
It's certainly the beginning of the end. She can't die today, though, or nobody will go to work tomorrow and Liz Truss the Queen-Killer will blame any future recessions on that.
>> No. 454004 Anonymous
9th September 2022
Friday 9:47 am
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Look, look over there. Liz is dead. There is no news but Liz.
Even globally it seems like a good time to so sneaky stuff.
What shall we do?
>> No. 454005 Anonymous
9th September 2022
Friday 9:54 am
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It's proper kicking off on Beeston Facey this week. Loads of mums are FUMIN' that their daughters have been told they can't wear shoes that don't comply with the uniform policy.

A couple have even gone to the papers:

https://www. Please ban me/news/19735335/we-had-to-rip-bars-off-daughters-170-shoes/

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/yorkshire-mums-fury-after-daughter-24960927
>> No. 454034 Anonymous
9th September 2022
Friday 6:32 pm
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>>454005

Rightly so to be fair. It always increases my heartrate a bit reading stuff like that, because I remember my school pulling similarly petty shit, and that feeling of injustice and bitterness you felt as a kid, knowing you were being completely unfairly punished, and there being nothing you can do about it.

Those kids will grow up to have a complete contempt for authority, because moments like that, where authority figures act in the most unreasonable way, over something so insignificant, for no discernible purpose other than to exert power, are always going to be strongly formative experiences in a young person's development.
>> No. 454042 Anonymous
9th September 2022
Friday 8:04 pm
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>>454034

Maybe we should encourage that kind of petty rules enforcement, just to help foster the next generation of anarchists?
>> No. 454045 Anonymous
9th September 2022
Friday 8:49 pm
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I got an email from Evri (Hermes) at 5pm to let me know they'd be delivering a parcel today between 11am and 1, which I'd already received.
>> No. 454053 Anonymous
10th September 2022
Saturday 1:55 am
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I had a couple of power cuts around 4am the other night and my pc started bluescreening every few hours, and started backing things up. In the hunt for my old wallpapers I found this piece of pure pathos which I'd like to share, because I'm probably going to delete it.
>> No. 454068 Anonymous
10th September 2022
Saturday 4:51 pm
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>>454053
Do you mind if I ask where you got that image from? I understand there are rules about doxxing, but do you know the person in the picture? Also, did you ever write a blog post about that Pointless moment? A friend of mine sent me a link to a blog about it once.
>> No. 454069 Anonymous
10th September 2022
Saturday 4:54 pm
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>>454068
This one? https://mully1.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/carlisle-sentinels/

Or this one? https://toomuchapplepie.blogspot.com/2011/11/yo-bumptious-show.html
>> No. 454070 Anonymous
10th September 2022
Saturday 5:14 pm
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>>454069
The second one is the one I was sent. But it sounds like you don't know the guy in the picture, so that's interesting.
>> No. 454102 Anonymous
11th September 2022
Sunday 3:00 pm
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>>454068
I have no idea. I don't know if I even saw that episode. I could very well have gotten this from the heyday of .gs.

Is there some kind of mythology around this moment?
>> No. 454104 Anonymous
11th September 2022
Sunday 3:38 pm
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>>454102
I didn't post here back then, but I do have a personal connection of sorts to that image and it's absolutely astounding to see it here.
>> No. 454157 Anonymous
13th September 2022
Tuesday 8:40 pm
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I can't work out if Matt Lucas has been on a diet or if he has something terminal. He looks ill.
>> No. 454167 Anonymous
14th September 2022
Wednesday 6:36 am
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>>454157

He would look perfectly healthy if it weren't for the alopecia. Your brain has made the perfectly reasonable assumption that rapid weight loss and no eyebrows means cancer, but he had no eyebrows to begin with.
>> No. 454168 Anonymous
14th September 2022
Wednesday 6:41 am
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I don't think wearing bold shirts helps. It makes him look really gaunt.
>> No. 454171 Anonymous
14th September 2022
Wednesday 7:42 am
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>>454168

It's the fit more than the fabric. I dunno if he just hasn't got around to buying new shirts, if the wardrobe lady didn't know how much weight he had lost before they started filming, or if he's just still in the fat man mindset of "shirts should be a big loose tent". It'd look fine if it was even vaguely tailored, but it's just hanging off him.
>> No. 454196 Anonymous
14th September 2022
Wednesday 1:33 pm
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>>454168

You just want to give him a cap to wear.


That said, one of my former bosses also had alopecia, and he was a semiprofessional athlete outside the office, running marathons and whatnot. You don't see many overweight runners, he was pretty skinny and looked a bit like one of those hairless lab rats.

He was in top physical shape for his age (early 40s), and he could easily outrun most of the younger coworkers at our frequent after work five-a-sides. But he didn't look healthy. Much of it was probably because of his alopecia, but still.
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14th September 2022
Wednesday 2:14 pm
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>> No. 454207 Anonymous
14th September 2022
Wednesday 2:49 pm
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>>454202

Yeah, a bit like that.

It's weird when somebody looks both quite athletic and very unwell at the same time.
>> No. 454208 Anonymous
14th September 2022
Wednesday 2:56 pm
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>>454207

Professional cyclists are notorious for looking very unwell. It turns out that when your body is perfectly adapted for going uphill on a bike, it looks a bit weird.
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14th September 2022
Wednesday 2:57 pm
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>> No. 454211 Anonymous
14th September 2022
Wednesday 3:20 pm
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>>454208

That just looks appalling.

I was a hobbying cyclist for many years, and for a while I was absolutely ripped. But I never looked that bad.
>> No. 454281 Anonymous
16th September 2022
Friday 9:38 pm
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It's been quite chilly the last couple of days. It looks like it's the time of year for me to start phasing out wearing shorts indoors in favour of jogger bottoms.
>> No. 454282 Anonymous
16th September 2022
Friday 10:26 pm
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>>454281

I made that conversion a few days ago and am now back in my black and white Nike track suit.
>> No. 454372 Anonymous
19th September 2022
Monday 9:34 pm
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My boiler isn't working. Any suggestions before I fork out an arm and a leg for a plumber? I've replaced the fuse, even though that light was still on, and checked that part for any loose wiring but it all seemed okay.
>> No. 454374 Anonymous
19th September 2022
Monday 9:42 pm
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>>454372
Do you have water pressure?
>> No. 454375 Anonymous
19th September 2022
Monday 9:44 pm
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>>454374
Taps are running fine, just not getting any heat.
>> No. 454376 Anonymous
19th September 2022
Monday 10:07 pm
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>>454375 Is it flashing up any error codes?
>> No. 454377 Anonymous
19th September 2022
Monday 10:18 pm
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>>454376
It doesn't have a display. It's a cheapo Potterton boiler after my girlfriend decided to sign up for some green scheme.
>> No. 454386 Anonymous
20th September 2022
Tuesday 7:49 am
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>>454377
Are there any little valves and pressure gauges visible underneath the thing? You may have to dig around to find them.
>> No. 454387 Anonymous
20th September 2022
Tuesday 8:17 am
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>>454386
There may be a pull-out information tag at the front bottom, but have you fetched the user manual for your model?
Annoyingly, potterton Assure seems to cover a few. Even in my most cynical mode I can't believe it's got no controls or display at all. I know customers are to be treated as fuckwits, and all useful information is to be hidden, but it's usually just hidden not deleted, as the installer / service monkey needs some info.
Are you sure no part of it flips out to expose a control panel / display? Or even a pressure meter and flashing light?
https://www.potterton.co.uk/-/media/websites/pottertonuk/files/assure-system/7717354-01_potterton_assure_system_user.pdf

If Potterton have really released a boiler with no debug, then phone / tweet / FB / otherwise ask and annoy them, they deserve it.
>> No. 454389 Anonymous
20th September 2022
Tuesday 8:40 am
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That horizontal line below the crack tells me that's a flap that'll open somehow.
>> No. 454390 Anonymous
20th September 2022
Tuesday 9:15 am
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>>454386
Not that I can see. It doesn't help that I've got about two inches of clearance underneath and to the left because it's in a cupboard next to a wall.

>>454387
Found the pull out tag. It's an Assure 19 Heat model. I can't find the actual hard copy because my girlfriend has stored it somewhere safe, but she can't remember where and I've tried all the places we usually keep important documents.

>>454389
The cracks runs all the way to the back. It's hard to get a good picture because of the limited space but there's two black screws next to those two white squares sticking out. I'll read the user manual if I find it online and then have a bash at unscrewing those if that's the next step.

Thanks lads.
>> No. 454391 Anonymous
20th September 2022
Tuesday 9:25 am
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Alright, the user manual says the 'chimney sweep button' displays the operation status and the error codes. That's the one next to the reset button. However, it's not flashing a certain colour or pattern; it's not turning on at all. I think I'll just have to ring Potterton and see if they've any bright ideas.
>> No. 454392 Anonymous
20th September 2022
Tuesday 9:35 am
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>>454391
Every single time my boiler's stopped making hot water it was a low pressure thing. Cold water still comes out like normal, just no hot, or hot for thirty seconds then none. To fix it, I find a little tap on a valve that's near the pressure gauge then turn it until the needle moves back into the middle. Sometimes it takes two taps turned on the same pipe. It's not a permanent solution but good enough, lasts weeks or months or half a year, depending. Cheaper than getting someone in, too.
>> No. 454393 Anonymous
20th September 2022
Tuesday 9:39 am
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>>454392
In normal conditions those two buttons at the front should be amber, but they're not lighting up at all. My suspicion is that the boiler isn't getting any power, but the switch with the fuse is definitely on.
>> No. 454396 Anonymous
20th September 2022
Tuesday 1:11 pm
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>>454393

https://www.potterton.co.uk/-/media/websites/pottertonuk/files/current-products-pdf/7668918-01_pott_assure_heat_users.pdf

>The lights will be OFF when there is no demand for heat.

Turn your thermostat up, set the timer to continuous, press the reset button and see if you get a status light. If you still get nowt, check the fuse in the spur.
>> No. 454410 Anonymous
21st September 2022
Wednesday 5:38 pm
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>>454396
When I got home on Sunday the thermostat was off because the batteries had ran out, so it wouldn't surprise me if that was something to do with it but replacing them and trying to crank the heat up did nothing.

I had a plumber round today. He was here for about forty minutes but it's still not fixed. He said it's probably not the boiler because very little goes wrong with small ones like that and it's most likely that the boilermate isn't firing up properly. He said he hates boilermates and suggested calling the manufacturer as it'd be cheaper than him and he couldn't see an obvious fault, so it might have been more than anything he just didn't fancy the job.

Sage for tedious blog post.
>> No. 454419 Anonymous
23rd September 2022
Friday 12:25 pm
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Saw a teenager who walks like he's a bigman fumbling with a keysafe that was attached to a fence down this little alley, hidden in the hedge.
Drug dead drops are like real life loot crates, if you find and open them there might be nothing, might be weapons, potions, money or some low-level criminals might appear and try to stab you.
>> No. 454426 Anonymous
23rd September 2022
Friday 4:21 pm
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>>454419
Maybe he was just geocaching.
>> No. 454429 Anonymous
23rd September 2022
Friday 6:37 pm
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>>454426

Wagwan, TNLN TFTC an ting, ya get me fam?
>> No. 454515 Anonymous
27th September 2022
Tuesday 1:35 pm
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The cat bit me earlier and broke the skin. Washed it and slapped some savlon on but it's like a bruise and tender. See how it is tomorrow I suppose.
>> No. 454516 Anonymous
27th September 2022
Tuesday 3:00 pm
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>>454515

Keep your eye on it. At work we put extra plates up to screen for nasty germs you only tend to get in bite wounds.

Amusingly, we tend to get more specimens from human bites than animal bites.
>> No. 454517 Anonymous
27th September 2022
Tuesday 4:58 pm
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>>454515
I got bitten by a stray cat and got told to go to A&E. Of course you'd be waiting about 12 hours to be seen, though.
>> No. 454518 Anonymous
27th September 2022
Tuesday 5:30 pm
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>>454516
That's only because animals are too stupid to operate the postal service.
>> No. 454519 Anonymous
27th September 2022
Tuesday 5:51 pm
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>>454518

I'd wager they're a good deal more intelligent than GP receptionists.
>> No. 454523 Anonymous
28th September 2022
Wednesday 9:48 am
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>>454516
Went up minor injuries unit this morning.. cleaned, dressed and given antibiotics as it's a bit swollen.
>> No. 454525 Anonymous
28th September 2022
Wednesday 11:02 am
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>>454523

> cleaned, dressed and given antibiotics as it's a bit swollen

Never underestimate cat bites. Our cat put me in hospital for a few days after biting my index finger. The bite wound became infected and I had to undergo minor surgery to remove infected tissue. I was a bit shocked when I went into A&E and they told me I needed to stay over night, but my finger had swollen to double its size in just a few hours, and the hand surgeon told me that without immediate surgery, I probably would have lost the entire finger before long.

You'd think that dog bites are more dangerous, but cats can penetrate tissue much deeper with their needle sharp fangs and do far more damage.

Do keep an eye on your bite. If the swelling gets worse or if you begin to feel pulsating pain, go back immediately and ask about your surgery options.
>> No. 454526 Anonymous
28th September 2022
Wednesday 12:45 pm
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Well if you think a cat bite's bad, my dad decked it over the dog last night, and after spending all night in A&E it turns out he's fractured his hip in two places, and his femur. That's not a trivial injury at 64 and will likely need some pretty intensive surgery. Fortunately the ambulance lads were cracking, and only took an hour and a half to get here, which is impressive with how busy I've seen the A&E get lately, and he seems to be doing alright after a few doses of morphine.

What pissed me off though was the orthopaedic consultant humming and harring over whether it was "worth" operating because he's a smoker. I get that it makes healing slower and what have you, but last time I checked, your lungs aren't connected to your hip. It would be more understandable if he had lung cancer or some shit, and they told him they won't treat it unless he quits, but you can't hold people's treatment to ransom for unrelated injuries. Just what the fuck are they expecting him to do if they don't operate?

I've never liked consultants. Arrogant cunts, with their parking spaces right in front of the hospital. Buying their coffees from Starbucks instead of the cafeteria. Pricks.
>> No. 454527 Anonymous
28th September 2022
Wednesday 1:08 pm
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>>454526

>What pissed me off though was the orthopaedic consultant humming and harring over whether it was "worth" operating because he's a smoker. I get that it makes healing slower and what have you, but last time I checked, your lungs aren't connected to your hip

They're not going to turn you away just because you smoke, but of course it's true that smoking delays any healing process. Which can also mean more time spent going in for check ups.

My nan fell off her bicycle once and broke her femur, and she was 75. Even at that age, she was still cycling to the supermarket in her neighbourhood every other day. She spent nearly two weeks in hospital, which was standard practice at the time for elderly patients undergoing significant surgery, but her doctors never complained that she was too old or that it wasn't worth it or anything.

She did take up cycling again after she was fully healed. Remarkable woman. Rode her bicycle well into her 80s, up to the point where she had a major stroke and died soon after from the complications.
>> No. 454528 Anonymous
28th September 2022
Wednesday 2:42 pm
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There's this new daytime quiz show with Dan Walker but it's really weird because he's about 2ft taller than all of the contestants so there's too many camera shots zoomed in on his forehead because he's having to look down to talk to them.
>> No. 454529 Anonymous
28th September 2022
Wednesday 3:51 pm
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The Windows 11 22H2 update is taking fucking forever to download. On a day when somehow my wi fi connection is piss poor despite unplugging and rebooting everything. It's slowing down everything else. I hope it's worth it.
>> No. 454530 Anonymous
28th September 2022
Wednesday 5:31 pm
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>>454529

>Windows 11

Come on now lad, you know as well as the rest of us that you don't upgrade to the next Windows until it's been out about 5 years.
>> No. 454531 Anonymous
28th September 2022
Wednesday 5:43 pm
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When's Windows 12 coming out? Every other Windows version is shit, but I do need a new computer, so I'd like them to hurry up and announce the next good version, please.
>> No. 454532 Anonymous
28th September 2022
Wednesday 5:59 pm
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>>454531

2024. You can downgrade from Windows 11 to Windows 10 if you're so inclined. Most business-oriented PCs are still being shipped with Windows 10. Some of the gaming specialists are still offering the option of Windows 10 on built-to-order machines.
>> No. 454533 Anonymous
28th September 2022
Wednesday 6:29 pm
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>>454530

I got the free Windows 11 upgrade a few months ago. I have to say while Windows 10 was a good OS, Windows 11 isn't the absolute kind of abomination that Microsoft used to put out as a successor every time after they had one good operating system.

The only thing that I really disliked about Windows 11 the way it came out of the box was that they completely redesigned task bar and start menu functionality. It's not as bad as the initial Windows 8, but It made things much more clunky and difficult to get to and was more a bad attempt at mimicking Chromebook or Mac OS functionality. But there's a software called StartAllBack which lets you revert the taskbar layout to Windows 10 while keeping the Windows 11 colour scheme. It comes with a generous 100-day trial period, but even a full licence is only $5.

Another thing where Windows 11 isn't worse than 10 is that it actually runs faster, at least as far as the user can tell, because they've tweaked its memory management so that applications you're actively using at a given moment are assigned more memory resources than the ones that are running in the background. Probably not an isue if you've got a desktop PC with oodles of RAM, but on my Lenovo laptop with just 4GB non-expandable, it really makes a difference.


>>454532

>Most business-oriented PCs are still being shipped with Windows 10

That's often because it's a long process to migrate your existing software and company frameworks to a new platform. At many larger companies, it's a decision process that can be pretty formalised, there can be audits and whatnot before a new OS version is greenlit for use, especially on desktop computers and servers, but also employee laptops. Especially if you've got any kind of bespoke or custom software that runs fine on your old OS but you're not sure yet how it'll do with the newer OS. Depending on the industry, a botched OS upgrade can really gum up the works and cause loads of damage, both financially and if you're really unlucky, in faulty products.
>> No. 454534 Anonymous
28th September 2022
Wednesday 7:08 pm
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>>454533

>That's often because it's a long process to migrate your existing software and company frameworks to a new platform.

A lot of the NHS is still on XP.
>> No. 454535 Anonymous
28th September 2022
Wednesday 7:20 pm
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>>454534

Haha yes, and they're still using Microsoft Works and sending X-Ray films by carrier pigeon. Don't be soft, Lad.
>> No. 454536 Anonymous
28th September 2022
Wednesday 8:06 pm
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>>454534

If it's on low-level equipment that can't do much harm despite being outdated, then why not.

Wouldn't trust a hospital still running Server 2003 though.
>> No. 454537 Anonymous
28th September 2022
Wednesday 8:12 pm
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Got an invite to my local Labour members meeting. I've still never been to one, but the opening of the agenda for this one made me laugh.
>The agenda for the meeting is listed below, which I hope you get an opportunity to review in advance.
>1) Apologies
Maybe I'll stop by for once.
>> No. 454538 Anonymous
28th September 2022
Wednesday 8:17 pm
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>>454533

>The only thing that I really disliked about Windows 11 the way it came out of the box was that they completely redesigned task bar and start menu functionality.

This is always the problem with Windows and it boggles my mind why they do it. They're always trying to reinvent that wheel, when that wheel is pretty much the sole reason their operating system is so dominant. Everyone likes the wheel as it is. Nobody in the history of humanity has ever said "Man, Windows is great, but you know what it needs? A better start menu."

I bet they've taken the legacy control panel out of 11 too, or is that still clinging on by the skin of it's teeth for obscure settings the numbskulls who design their UI can't think of a way to hide in the new "user friendly" settings menus?
>> No. 454539 Anonymous
28th September 2022
Wednesday 10:46 pm
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>>454538

>This is always the problem with Windows and it boggles my mind why they do it. They're always trying to reinvent that wheel

Like I said, I think it's a botched attempt at trying to come up with something like the Chrome OS or Mac OS task bar, while at the same time not really understanding why that's a "thing" on those systems.

But yeah, Microsoft seems to feel the need to pull another Microsoft Bob every few years.


>I bet they've taken the legacy control panel out of 11 too, or is that still clinging on by the skin of it's teeth for obscure settings the numbskulls who design their UI can't think of a way to hide in the new "user friendly" settings menus?

It's still there, but it's tucked away the same way as Windows 10, i.e. you have to type it into the search field in the Settings menu or via the start menu (Execute --> Control Panel), otherwise you won't get to it.
>> No. 454540 Anonymous
28th September 2022
Wednesday 10:47 pm
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>>454538
>I bet they've taken the legacy control panel out of 11 too

Allegedly the old "God Mode" folder trick still works - create a new folder, and rename it as "God Mode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}" - which should create an item with a Control Panel icon, containing a list of most of the settings that matter. My memory is fuzzy on when this was first introduced (I learned of it while using Win7, though it may have appeared earlier), but I wouldn't expect it to cater to many of the more fancy things kids are into these days. Certainly a legacy feature.
>> No. 454541 Anonymous
29th September 2022
Thursday 12:20 am
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Christie's are auctioning off James Bond memorabilia for absolute stupid money.

https://www.christies.com/en/auction/sixty-years-of-james-bond-part-i-live-auction-29780/

The DB5 that Daniel Craig drove in No Time to Die just went for £2.9M.

The recession can't be that bad.
>> No. 454547 Anonymous
29th September 2022
Thursday 11:20 am
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Have you ever been a right fucking twat?

Last week I went to pay for my Aldi shop and my card was declined, so I had to abandon my trolley unpaid. Kicked off at Starling and they said there's absolutely nothing wrong with the card, so try it elsewhere and see what happens. Tried going shopping this morning, card declined so had to abandon the trolley again. Got home, ready to kick off at Starling and I realised I'd taken my personal card, which I never use, rather than the card for the joint account where all the money is. Wish I'd realised that about twenty minutes earlier.

Fucking hell. What an absolute fucking arseclown I am. Lost two trolley tokens to being such a fucking twat. Fuck sake.
>> No. 454548 Anonymous
29th September 2022
Thursday 11:21 am
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>>454540

> "God Mode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}"

I just tried that in Windows 11, and it still works.
>> No. 454553 Anonymous
29th September 2022
Thursday 2:37 pm
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>>454547

My card got declined once because BT fucked up my direct debit and my account bounced. They had some kind of glitch in the system and the amount they charged was many times what I normally pay every month. Customer service were helpful though and got back to me after two days apologising and telling me they couldn't fully explain what happened, but that they'd make sure it wouldn't happen again. And it hasn't.
>> No. 454561 Anonymous
30th September 2022
Friday 4:47 pm
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Apparently it's a thing amongst the youth whereby if someone tries to give you a fistbump you grab their hand and say cabbage.
>> No. 454562 Anonymous
30th September 2022
Friday 5:02 pm
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>>454561

And then what? Do you have to do a forfeit or something if you get cabbaged?
>> No. 454564 Anonymous
30th September 2022
Friday 6:53 pm
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>>454562
I think he just made a joke elsewhere on this site and now he's trying to get someone to fistbump him. Don't fall for his lies.
>> No. 454568 Anonymous
1st October 2022
Saturday 8:51 am
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>>454562
>someone is to grab their fist when they offer it for a fist bump. the term was coined because the created ball is said to look like a cabbage. cabbage must be said after cabbaging someone.

https://definedictionarymeaning.com/topic/28969/cabbage/9

>Your child approaches and offers you a fist bump. Again, due to a feeling of joy at a shared moment between two generations, you gladly participate. At this point, they swiftly open their hand, grab your fist and shout “cabbage!”

https://www.diaryofthedad.co.uk/2018/04/playground-tricks/
>> No. 454576 Anonymous
3rd October 2022
Monday 5:28 pm
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Is it strange to email a company/organisation about jobs you're not qualified for? I saw a few job adverts that caught my eye and whilst I have a lot of industry experience, it's not in the side that they specialise in. There was a contact on the adverts so I've sent her an email asking what I can do from the outside to get to that level or if there are other roles she thinks I'd be better suited for where I'd be able to work my way up. Nothing ventured nothing gained, but I don't know if this is the done thing.
>> No. 454577 Anonymous
3rd October 2022
Monday 5:42 pm
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>>454576

>Is it strange to email a company/organisation about jobs you're not qualified for?

It doesn't really matter. The worst case scenario is that someone will look at your email, conclude you're a timewaster and promptly forget all about you. You've got literally nothing to lose by taking a punt.
>> No. 454578 Anonymous
3rd October 2022
Monday 10:11 pm
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>>454577

Your chances aren't great if your job application is completely left field, but it also depends on the industry. I used to work in sales for a bit, and we were generally open towards people who hadn't worked in the field before. You would normally start out in a junior position with somewhat meagre pay, but if you proved yourself, then it really didn't matter if you had a degree in archaeology and your only sales experience was selling popcorn and drinks at a cinema (we actually hired one guy like that).

But the more specific the skills and knowledge are that that company's HR has made up its mind you'll need, the less your chances of landing that job if you're not as such formally qualified. You'll probably have better luck if both the job description and the required skills read a bit more wishy washy.
>> No. 454579 Anonymous
5th October 2022
Wednesday 9:12 am
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>>454577
I've had a response, but it's a bit of a wishy-washy "it looks like you have great skills and experience for various roles with us so apply if you feel confident". I'll see what happens.

>>454578
It's the same industry, just different specialisms within it. It's effectively going from poacher to gamekeeper.
>> No. 454580 Anonymous
5th October 2022
Wednesday 3:15 pm
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>>454579

>it looks like you have great skills and experience for various roles with us

I'd say that sounds pretty positive. I would follow up on that and check their job openings regularly.
>> No. 454581 Anonymous
5th October 2022
Wednesday 5:02 pm
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>>454580
I've applied for a few where I think I can fit the bill, ranging in salary by about £20k. You can tell they're a quango because the application process mainly consisted of uploading my CV and then answering a bunch of questions about the social status of my parents, my gender identity and preferred pronouns; that sort of thing.
>> No. 454582 Anonymous
5th October 2022
Wednesday 9:32 pm
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>>454581

>a bunch of questions about the social status of my parents, my gender identity and preferred pronouns; that sort of thing.

That would sort of put me off. You'll probably have to deal with all kinds of wokeness on the job every day.
>> No. 454583 Anonymous
5th October 2022
Wednesday 9:39 pm
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>>454582

Yeah, but you can just feign a mental illness and never have to do any work. If you can't be arsed with something, just say that it's triggering and no-one will dare argue.
>> No. 454584 Anonymous
5th October 2022
Wednesday 10:04 pm
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>>454582
Well, firstly, stop saying wokeness, you cunt. Secondly, I think this is stuff is pretty boilerplate now. I've never heard a thing about it beyond the form filling stage. What I found far more creepy while looking for work recently was the enthusiasm for that 16 personalities test bullshit. Thrice I was asked to take it by two seperate organisations. I pointed out how unhelpful pigeonholing people into pseudoscientific catagories the two times it didn't matter at all, then went very quiet the one time it did. HR freaks are mad for that stuff, at least the small number I encountered were.

I doubt it's an issue if you're not applying for the kind of shit jobs I was though.
>> No. 454585 Anonymous
5th October 2022
Wednesday 10:27 pm
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Why the fuck are crocs so expensive? £45-75. They're just injection moulded foam rubber.
>> No. 454586 Anonymous
6th October 2022
Thursday 12:00 am
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>>454582

Eh, I wouldn't worry. The chairman of the NHS trust I work for has recently started signing off his weekly statements with Ian Bollockface, CEO (He/Him). The actual workplace environment in most of the departments I've witnessed couldn't be further from "woke", it's just that everyone with a vaguely public profile has to toe the line nowadays.

Then again, it's funny because that in itself just goes to show you, it's not just a "vocal minority of internet nutters", is it? It's not just a bunch of fannies on acrobat, is it? It's basically permeated all aspects of society by this point. They have an awfully long reach for people who barely exist.

Every time some knobhead woke apologist uses that argument I want to slap them, because it proves itself. There are no woke police looking for people to cancel around every corner, it's just that everyone has succumbed to this bafflingly stupid brain virus and made it real through collective paranoia.
>> No. 454587 Anonymous
6th October 2022
Thursday 12:11 am
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>>454586

>There are no woke police looking for people to cancel around every corner, it's just that everyone has succumbed to this bafflingly stupid brain virus and made it real through collective paranoia.

Or maybe people are just trying to be nice.
>> No. 454588 Anonymous
6th October 2022
Thursday 12:37 am
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>>454587

Of course they are, just as long as it's in a way that costs them absolutely nothing and doesn't require any meaningful change of behaviour.

I'm a good person, I got my Starbucks in a re-usable mug!
>> No. 454589 Anonymous
6th October 2022
Thursday 2:29 am
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>>454587

>Or maybe people are just trying to be nice.

People were nice to each other long before woke became a thing.

And even then, you knew that it was wrong to call somebody "Oi, darkie!" in the street.


>>454586

> it's just that everyone has succumbed to this bafflingly stupid brain virus and made it real through collective paranoia.

That rings pretty true. I think people are afraid to do or say something wrong long before they actually do or say it, or before somebody even becomes aware of it and calls you out for it. Everybody's afraid of being controversial in any kind of way.

I've always been more the kind of person who runs his mouth off and then does the damage control afterwards, so it really boils my piss now and then.
>> No. 454590 Anonymous
6th October 2022
Thursday 5:38 am
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>>454585
Brand prestige.
>> No. 454591 Anonymous
6th October 2022
Thursday 8:08 am
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>>454589
This. Certain people have just decided to try and vilify "wokeness" because they get called out on being bellwhiffs.
>> No. 454593 Anonymous
6th October 2022
Thursday 12:15 pm
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The defining characteristic of wokeness is that it isn't just about being nice, because as otherlad pointed out, people were already being nice. It's that wokeness invented extra steps of being nice, because your earnestly intended niceness wasn't already enough, and now you have to be pro-actively nice. It's not enough to just mind your own business, you've got to actively support [oppressed group(s)]. You have to keep up on whatever the latest version of being nice is, and if you fall behind you're basically Hitler. The niceness treadmill.

Nobody likes it, nobody admits they are part of it, at the very most you get divs like >>454591 who try to insist it's not a real thing. But I guarantee, you're one of the wankers pushing it. I bet you get a hardon every time you read an article about how they changed the race of a Shakespeare character, and now you can talk about it over dinner and gauge the reaction of your nerve-stapled friendship group. It's become an arms race amongst middle class wankers to see who's got the biggest "being nice" credit score.
>> No. 454595 Anonymous
6th October 2022
Thursday 12:30 pm
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>>454593

>The defining characteristic of wokeness is that it isn't just about being nice, because as otherlad pointed out, people were already being nice.
Otherlad pointed out that "[people] knew that it was wrong to call somebody "Oi, darkie!" in the street."
And yet it happened. And still happens. Maybe not that particular word any more but the spirit of it. It's mostly just the Overton Window of how publicly you can punch down having moved. Sometimes that goes wrong, as things generally do in life, but it happens less than people intentionally punch down. For all the times people have got it wrong, and the dozens of amplified voices in both directions screeching about how the culture war is encroaching on their rights, there are thousands of people actually being racist or *phobic. Mostly in the Conservative Party, granted.
>> No. 454596 Anonymous
6th October 2022
Thursday 12:43 pm
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>>454593

>now you have to be pro-actively nice

What an absolute nightmare.
>> No. 454597 Anonymous
6th October 2022
Thursday 1:04 pm
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>>454595

>For all the times people have got it wrong, and the dozens of amplified voices in both directions screeching about how the death penalty is encroaching on their rights, there are thousands of people actually being rapists or murderers.

Why is it wrong to call someone a darkie?
>> No. 454598 Anonymous
6th October 2022
Thursday 1:23 pm
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>>454597

The preferred term is People of Darkie, granddad.
>> No. 454599 Anonymous
6th October 2022
Thursday 1:33 pm
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>>454595

Being ever more woke still isn't going to stomp out the unregenerate. People who were staunch racists and $phobes before aren't going to see the error of their ways just because you now tell them that assuming a person's gender is rude and a microaggression.

With that kind of attitude, you're only making woke(ness) more insufferable by pushing more and more of it on the average person who's really a lot more middle of the road.

I've never been racist. And I like to think that I haven't been overly whale poacheric or transphobic. But don't fucking become a bigot about it by wearing woke on your sleeve and assuming that you have moral authority over what can be said and what can't, just because you subscribe to it.
>> No. 454600 Anonymous
6th October 2022
Thursday 2:40 pm
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>>454599

There are so many things wrong with this I really can't be arsed to address any of them. You want to feel morally superior about people who want to feel they're morally superior, have fun.
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6th October 2022
Thursday 6:14 pm
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My girlfriend helps to manage a food pantry and it turns out all of the cleaners are stealing from it. Not because they're desperate and need to steal food because they're struggling for money, they just think they're more entitled to it than the people actually using the service. Stealing from a charity has to rank up there.
>> No. 454604 Anonymous
6th October 2022
Thursday 6:36 pm
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>>454603
The extremely shady work colleague I have was recently caught helping himself to a load of scrap copper, and he said (obviously as an excuse) that he was definitely going to share the money with all of us. Anyway, yesterday we each received £100 cash in an envelope. We're not a charity and our employer treats us all like shit, so frankly I'm not too bothered.
>> No. 454606 Anonymous
6th October 2022
Thursday 8:34 pm
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There's woke people, then there's people who are contrarian about woke people, then there's people who are contrarian about people who are contrarian about woke people. The third category is by far the most insufferable.

Yes, I am in the fourth category. That's one above you, you fat gay bellends.
>> No. 454609 Anonymous
6th October 2022
Thursday 10:32 pm
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>>454606

The important thing is you've managed to find a way to feel superior to etc etc.
>> No. 454610 Anonymous
6th October 2022
Thursday 11:30 pm
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>>454609

Now, now. Don't presume you're superior to him.
>> No. 454613 Anonymous
7th October 2022
Friday 10:01 am
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Look, I'm not going to do it, but one of us needs to step up and make a new weekday thread, first thing Monday. Unless, I suppose, if Putin does use a nuclear device in Ukraine, then it's bang on point again.
>> No. 454614 Anonymous
7th October 2022
Friday 10:30 am
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>>454613
I'll do it if nobody else does. I'm thinking either hedgehogs, badgers, something else autumnal or Bamber Boozler.
>> No. 454615 Anonymous
7th October 2022
Friday 11:09 am
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>>454614
Might I suggest a photo of an antique radiator? It would look old and unused, but it would also be a radiator. Or you can use a different picture; van Gogh wasn't appreciated in his own time either.
>> No. 454617 Anonymous
7th October 2022
Friday 12:05 pm
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>>454615

What if we make all our new thread pictures by AI generation.
>> No. 454620 Anonymous
7th October 2022
Friday 2:30 pm
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>>454617

https://creator.nightcafe.studio

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