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>> No. 454643 Anonymous
10th October 2022
Monday 12:38 pm
454643 The Current Weekday Thread
Antique Radiator Edition.

I find myself using the M62 more than the M1 these days. Never thought I'd be an M62 person, but here we are.

What motorway do you use most often?
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>> No. 454644 Anonymous
10th October 2022
Monday 12:49 pm
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M25.
>> No. 454645 Anonymous
10th October 2022
Monday 1:24 pm
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I was starting to think you'd never get round to making the new thread.
>> No. 454646 Anonymous
10th October 2022
Monday 1:29 pm
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The M62 is God's own motorway. What other arterial road has a national sport? If only Liverpool City Council could sort out the shitshow at the end of J4.
>> No. 454647 Anonymous
10th October 2022
Monday 1:34 pm
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>>454646
The M62 is too much of a ballache, particularly around IKEA, Huddersfield and near Manchester. If I had a commute that regularly involved going past J24 I'd probably off myself.
>> No. 454648 Anonymous
10th October 2022
Monday 2:27 pm
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>>454646

I don't think it rains anywhere on Earth like it rains going over that bit sometimes.

>>454647

I've no idea why it's always so busy on the bit between Bradford and Birstall, because who the fuck in their right mind ever needs or wants to go to Bradford? Especially now they have their own "congestion charge" so you have to pay for the privilege, as if people needed any further excuse to avoid the place.
>> No. 454649 Anonymous
10th October 2022
Monday 2:27 pm
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>>454643
I never like driving on the M1 - you can tell its "old". I also really hate that bit of the M40 going west before Blenheim Palace way where everyone seems to drive like a nutter. I use the M3 most often, but damn its variable-speed-limit and no-hardshoulder eyes.

The only good thing about motorways nowadays is that the Tesla does all the driving for me.
>> No. 454650 Anonymous
10th October 2022
Monday 2:42 pm
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>>454649

>The only good thing about motorways nowadays is that the Tesla does all the driving for me.

That's why I will never take Teslas seriously. Or EVs in general that take you as the driver out of the loop. Maybe it's just too sci fi for me as an oldlad, but I still need to feel like I'm in control of the car.
>> No. 454652 Anonymous
10th October 2022
Monday 4:06 pm
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I usually end up on the A1(M) which I hate but it's so familiar it makes the journey quicker. However I'm posting this from the bogs in Rivington services as my day has been Stansted - Manchester - Newcastle, and I've decided to treat myself to the northern part of the M6 route.
>> No. 454653 Anonymous
10th October 2022
Monday 5:27 pm
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>>454650
>Maybe it's just too sci fi for me as an oldlad, but I still need to feel like I'm in control of the car.

The first couple of times on full Autopilot are fucking scary, I won't lie. I also notice a lot of things that happen on UK roads that make me think "it will never cope with that, thank fuck I am driving" - but it works a lot lot better than I was expecting and on a long motorway stint it makes everything a lot lot easier - I drove to Bordeaux recently and most of the journey was on auto. It works fantastically when stuck in traffic too, overall its a net plus plus over driving yourself - I actually enjoy driving again.
>> No. 454654 Anonymous
10th October 2022
Monday 5:46 pm
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Stephen Mangan is doing Pointless in the Richard Osman role and it's weird.
>> No. 454655 Anonymous
10th October 2022
Monday 7:08 pm
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>>454653

How automated is it, exactly? Having cruise control on my current car still feels like something of a luxury to me, but I barely use it. It's only really useful when you're driving at night or really early in the morning and the road is reasonably clear. On the occasions I have used it though, it is very relaxing just to fly along without having to worry about watching the speedo or keeping your foot in the right position.
>> No. 454656 Anonymous
10th October 2022
Monday 8:16 pm
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>>454655
Driving the Tesla generally is very relaxing. The regenerative braking is absolutely fucking amazing - it means I hardly ever use the brake pedal unless an emergency - one foot driving. Difficult to describe how much easier it is to drive, but way easier - lift off the accelerator and it starts braking.

In autopilot mode, it is handling steering and speed (you can set the distance you want to the car in front of you), but it's traffic aware so if someone cuts in front of you, or the traffic slows right down, the car handles it all perfectly well. To overtake, you simply indicate and as long as the car thinks its clear, it executes the whole move for you. Although this is very clever, to be honest I usually overtake in manual as you get incredible fucking torque on the thing, and can accelerate from 40 -> 70 in a heartbeat, which makes overtaking fun/very safe.

It has its quirks for sure, it is really a computer with wheels attached, than a car, but I am in total love with it and will never go back to an ICE car. It's very expensive, it will probably end up being the priciest car I ever own, but it is excellent at what it does. It's exactly like the first time seeing an iPhone and thinking "yep, old is dead and soon everything will be like this one".
>> No. 454657 Anonymous
11th October 2022
Tuesday 2:04 am
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I can't sleep. Had too much coffee again tonight.

Fuck.
>> No. 454658 Anonymous
11th October 2022
Tuesday 2:37 am
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>>454657
Hi.
>> No. 454659 Anonymous
11th October 2022
Tuesday 3:05 am
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>>454657
I had the same thing last night, and tonight.
>> No. 454660 Anonymous
11th October 2022
Tuesday 8:35 am
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Sorry about the economy shitting the bed lads. It's happened because I've bought a house finally...
>> No. 454661 Anonymous
11th October 2022
Tuesday 9:01 am
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>>454660
Not to worry. The lad who's very angry that he can't afford a house will be along in a minute to whinge.
>> No. 454662 Anonymous
11th October 2022
Tuesday 9:57 am
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I didn't think this was worthy of a new thread on /beat/ but how often do you listen to new music?

My girlfriend's started working from home one day a week and when she has Spotify or whatever on she listens almost exclusively to her favourite bands from her mid/late teens; Franz Ferdinand, Modest Mouse, Eels, Supergrass, that sort of thing. She has no interest in trying to discover new artists.

I'm more of a mixed bag. I do listen to new music now and then, but I tend to find that it's liking the occasional song by an artist rather than having the deep connection I felt with bands when I was a teenlad. A lot of the music I listen to is from my teenage years, although I guess it's kind of interesting which ones have stood the test of time as my favourites were Placebo and RATM but I have no idea when the last time I properly listened to them was.
>> No. 454663 Anonymous
11th October 2022
Tuesday 11:03 am
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>>454657

You think that's bad, what about if you've been on coke all night and then your girlfriend decides she wants to go to bed (while presenting you with another line). Then she complains that she can't sleep and you have to have sex for another hour to tire her out. 3am. Working at 8.

I'm not in my 20s any more and I need to stop all this, but she's a bad influence.
>> No. 454664 Anonymous
11th October 2022
Tuesday 12:00 pm
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>>454663

Your life is truly shit as it goes, lad.
>> No. 454665 Anonymous
11th October 2022
Tuesday 1:19 pm
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>>454662
I'd hear music on TV or in films or get it recommended to me by friends, and I'd add my favourite songs to a playlist on Spotify, and then all I'd listen to on my commute would be that playlist. So 80% of my music consumption in the last couple of years was the same 800 or so songs. I moved to Apple Music, where I don't have that self curated playlist, but now I'm actually listening to full albums instead of Now That's What I Call My Shit Taste, which is quite nice.
>> No. 454666 Anonymous
11th October 2022
Tuesday 4:40 pm
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One of the cats passed away today at 13.
Had a good life, lots of antics to remember him by but I will miss the little git.
>> No. 454667 Anonymous
11th October 2022
Tuesday 5:41 pm
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>>454666

Our last cat made it to approximately 17. We never knew for sure, because somebody picked her up as a stray and brought her to the shelter. And the shelter then told us they were guessing she was about six months old.

It's fascinating how cat personalities change as they age, just as they do with humans. The older our cat got, the more demanding she would get when she wanted food or wanted to go outside. She developed a few peculiar traits, and at some point the vet told us it might be onset feline dementia. Which is actually a thing, although it blew our minds at the time.

Anyway, she died of feline leukemia virus before the dementia really got her. Not a nice way to go, it causes a cat to waste away till it's just skin and bones. Just before she died, I could lift her up just with the palm of my hand and she barely weighed three or four pounds.
>> No. 454668 Anonymous
11th October 2022
Tuesday 5:51 pm
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>>454667

EDIT: We decided against having her put to sleep, because the vet told us our cat only had weeks to live either way, and apparently feline leukemia is relatively painless. A cat will just gradually get weaker till one day it passes away. So we tried to enjoy the remaining time together and then one morning she was just dead in her basket.
>> No. 454669 Anonymous
11th October 2022
Tuesday 9:06 pm
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>>454662

Reflexively, I want to say "nah, I don't listen to anything new and haven't listened to anything new since about 2013", but when I stop to think about it that's just not true. In spirit it's true, I do very much have that attitude where if it's something I don't already like I'm predisposed to assume it's shit new zoomer music for children, but in reality it's not. I do still listen to and explore new music, the important difference is that I rarely bond with it in anything like the same way. It's certainly true that I don't keep up with new releases by my "favourite" bands or anything like that these days though.

Thing is, while I do pretty frequently find new stuff I like, I can't remember hearing a new album or finding a new band that I've got really attached to since I was a late teens/early 20s lad. I was just getting into metal and electronic music, rather than the common garden vaguely alternative rock you got on MTV2 in the mid-late 00s. I was still open to making new friends and learning what music they liked, taking recommendations off them, and influencing each other that way. Going to gigs and club nights and going home with a sense of awe (and discovering the recreational drugs that go with these types of music).

What's changed is that I've grown out of all that stuff, I will still hear something I've not heard before when I put my phone on shuffle and be pleasantly surprised (video related, total banger I stumbled on the other week) but I'll never immediately jump on the internet and start looking for a t-shirt to buy or gig tickets. Most times I'll forget about it after a couple of listens, because frankly, there's so much music out there, it's sort of stopped making sense to me to re-listen to the same thing over and over. I'll probably find something similar in another couple of weeks and briefly enjoy that too. Frankly though it's all much of a muchness after some point.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-dnjbNdkIk

There are albums I've listened to hundreds of times, and will likely listen to hundreds more times, you understand- Black Sabbath's eponymous debut, Dark Side of the Moon, Sodom's Agent Orange, Mayhem's De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas, Daft Punk's Discovery, The Prodigy's Fat of the Land... But they're the ones I formed a bond with. There's a reason to listen to those over and over, because they were the important ones, they were the influential ones, and everything else I listen to is just an endless search for variations on that theme. But they'll never top the originals.
>> No. 454670 Anonymous
12th October 2022
Wednesday 12:36 am
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I'm beginning to think that ancestry web sites are a piss take. I'm now supposedly able to trace my ancestry back to 9th century Wessex nobility, as per the latest matches with other users.

Where do people get that kind of information from which enables them to draw a reliable connection to a person who lived 1200 years ago.
>> No. 454671 Anonymous
12th October 2022
Wednesday 1:26 am
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>>454670
My dad did a bunch of work on ancestry.something and lent me the account - I found the same thing as you, many of the connections were specious at best. It was obvious to me that they're "interesting" social media platforms like any other.
>> No. 454672 Anonymous
12th October 2022
Wednesday 1:56 am
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>>454671

What I did find out with enough credibility for me to believe it is that one of my 19th century ancestors was an illegitimate daughter of some small-time member of the gentry in the East Midlands. And it kind of snowballed from there. I know that nobility keep extensive family records, but it still seems a stretch that a lot of them would be able to provide proof going back twelve centuries.
>> No. 454673 Anonymous
12th October 2022
Wednesday 11:55 am
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ITZ(?) Anybody else had a message like this come through in their area?
>> No. 454674 Anonymous
12th October 2022
Wednesday 12:44 pm
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>>454673
Probably for works rather than ITZ.
>> No. 454675 Anonymous
12th October 2022
Wednesday 1:07 pm
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>>454673
I've had ones like that for unplanned power outages in my area. URL seems legit.
>> No. 454676 Anonymous
12th October 2022
Wednesday 6:31 pm
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It's probably a daft question, but if I've done an Ocado order for about £55 why have they taken just over £60 from my account?
>> No. 454677 Anonymous
13th October 2022
Thursday 1:18 am
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>>454676
Because of "payment regulations" (that they can't seem to explain when challenged) some supermarkets say they "have to" add 5-10% to the preauth amount. Supposedly it's PSD2 but I can't find any reference to it containing anything like that anywhere.
>> No. 454678 Anonymous
13th October 2022
Thursday 5:03 pm
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Is there a link between legumes and libido? I have started to notice a bit of a correlation that I am at my randiest when I've had a lot of Mexican full of kidney beans, or a full English with a mountain of baked beans on.

It's noticeable because as I approach my mid 30s, my lad tends to need a good reason to get going usually. It's very much an exception rather than the norm when I get one of those sudden stonking stiffies seemingly out of nowhere; or at least, with very little provocation.
>> No. 454679 Anonymous
13th October 2022
Thursday 5:41 pm
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>>454678

The gas is probably putting pressure on your prostate. The quickest route to a rock hard erection is up your arse. Not what most lads want to hear, I know.
>> No. 454680 Anonymous
13th October 2022
Thursday 5:45 pm
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>>454679

Nah, if it was just that I'd know, I'm more than familiar with the wonders of the gentleman's walnut.
>> No. 454681 Anonymous
13th October 2022
Thursday 6:44 pm
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>>454680

Penny Trayshun, is that you?
>> No. 454682 Anonymous
13th October 2022
Thursday 7:15 pm
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>>454681
This is a neutral review but it's borderline negative.

I first discovered Penny a good 10-15 years ago back when I was intrigued by trans but both too scared and too poor to go and see one. I was spellbound by her (then) detailed explanation as to how she is a specialist in breaking guys in and how most others don't know what they're doing and so the guy doesn't have a mind-blowing experience. Plus, she looked very hot in her pics. Slim and with a kind of beehivey hair do.

Fast forward to 2016 and, after many positive reviews, I finally decide to take the plunge. When she answered the door I knew I was in trouble. The girl standing in front of me didn't so much look like Penny but looked like she ate Penny. She was big. And I'm not talking about inside her knickers. When I rechecked her profile after our session I could see how some of her pics were the same from when I first saw her and some were taken from flattering angles to hide the chub.

It's not that I don't appreciate curvy women, I do, it's just that on a woman the fat is distributed over her hips and arse so she still maintains a womanly figure but on a man (and Penny is a TV not a TS - hence she is a man) the fat just goes on the gut. Like a trucker. So here was this 5' 10-ish person with a wider chest than me (and I'm 42") a belly Big Daddy would be proud of and, in comparison, skinny legs.

The other glaring problem was that she is a lot older than she made out and several of her pics were still from a decade earlier. She's also not as feminine as her pics made out. Very thick and cakey foundation, too. She was pleasant enough if going through the motions and not really interested. We went into a tastefully-decorated bedroom, I gave her £100 that I was immediately regretting, and we got down to it.

Now, Penny advertised at the time that she has real boobs but what she failed to mention is that this is because she probably likes to consume her bodyweight in pizza and the occasional small child. She had moobs, not boobs, and whilst she was quick to pull them out of her basque/corset I was horrified to be gazing at man nipples. And then I was distraught when she pushed my head down, wanting me to suck her man nipples.

We kiss and fondle and I wonder what I'll say in my acceptance speech for winning Best Performance by a Male Actor but beyond light groping she wasn't doing anything or showing interest. Considering she prized herself on being a champion top, I found her indifference confusing. I expected her to be taking the lead, showing me how horny she was, teasing me with hints of upcoming anal ecstasy. I played with her averagely-endowed cock and after several more minutes of stasis, asked her to fuck me. Ding, ding! Here comes the main attraction!

She duly did but no special technique to break guys in, no magic touch, no spellbinding, life-changing experience like she described in her profile. She does me doggy and then on my back, both of which were 'okay' but not 'good'. Either out of boredom or because she lost her erection, she gets off and sits on the bed and instructs me to wank off, saying it turns her on. I did, she fake-cooed throughout, I squeezed one out, and that was that. £100 (a month's disposable income!) for a date with a gorgeous feminine top yet having experienced the biggest Trade Descriptions Act breach of the modern era.

This review is almost a negative because of the misrepresentation of her photos, description and of calling herself a TS.
However she gets a neutral because she was pleasant and did as requested.

In conclusion:
Either she was really good back in the day or her rep was built on a naive customer-base at a time when the Manchester trans-escort scene was just a handful of WG.
>> No. 454683 Anonymous
13th October 2022
Thursday 10:04 pm
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>>454682

Never meet your heroes.
>> No. 454684 Anonymous
14th October 2022
Friday 9:33 am
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Standing desk arrived. Wonder if it's tall enough hang myself from.
>> No. 454685 Anonymous
14th October 2022
Friday 11:24 am
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>>454684

Maybe if you stay in your chair, and press the button to drop it at the same time as the one to lift the desk, you could achieve approximately the same thing. Be a lot slower and more painful though, I don't think you'd actually want to.
>> No. 454687 Anonymous
14th October 2022
Friday 1:44 pm
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>>454685
I'm sure there was an episode of CSI where someone in a wheelchair offed another wheelchair user like that.
>> No. 454690 Anonymous
14th October 2022
Friday 3:36 pm
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Would you pay to watch a YouTuber live? I've had a look at tickets to see Jimmy Ng (Uncle Roger) for his show in Manchester but it'd work out at just over £50 for a pair.

The cost is putting me off, but I'm also a bit wary that the audience may be full of meme spouters.
>> No. 454692 Anonymous
14th October 2022
Friday 5:28 pm
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>>454690
That's a bit much for who he is.
>> No. 454693 Anonymous
14th October 2022
Friday 5:58 pm
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>>454690

I can't really imagine what a live show of his would look like. How do you translate that to the stage?
>> No. 454694 Anonymous
14th October 2022
Friday 6:03 pm
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RIP ARE ROBBIE
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-63261204
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14th October 2022
Friday 6:11 pm
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>>454693
He was a stand-up before doing the Uncle Roger character, so I believe it's split between taking the piss out of the audience/white people/vegetarians as Uncle Roger and then performing his own routine.

[Yt)cx_y3uHnnaY[/yt]


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD_6rZNZo9U
>> No. 454696 Anonymous
14th October 2022
Friday 6:30 pm
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>>454690

No idea who this cunt is, but I think we're well past the point where someone being "from the internet" automatically makes them weird and embarrassing, or somehow different to other low-tier celebrities. YouTube and TikTok are really just the equivalent of TV for anyone under 30ish.

I think it's more like you want to be worried that the audience will be full of people 10-15 years younger than you, than them being meme spouters. It's not like you're going to a Tay Zonday feat Chris Hansen gig.
>> No. 454697 Anonymous
14th October 2022
Friday 6:53 pm
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>>454696
>No idea who this cunt is, but I think we're well past the point where someone being "from the internet" automatically makes them weird and embarrassing, or somehow different to other low-tier celebrities. YouTube and TikTok are really just the equivalent of TV for anyone under 30ish.

It's not a question of it being weird, it's more a question of it being potentially shit. People on the internet, particularly those with full control over the content they release, generally don't translate well into other mediums.

>I think it's more like you want to be worried that the audience will be full of people 10-15 years younger than you, than them being meme spouters.

It might be more an issue with Americans than anything else, but there's certainly been several instances of podcasts deciding to do an episode in front of a live audience which have turned out to be absolutely terrible because of the interactions from the crowd. The excessive cheering, people spouting lines and in-jokes from previous shows; it's more about proving to everyone you understand the references and 'get' the show above anything else.
>> No. 454698 Anonymous
14th October 2022
Friday 7:03 pm
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>>454697

>People on the internet, particularly those with full control over the content they release, generally don't translate well into other mediums.

I don't know what you mean.
>> No. 454703 Anonymous
14th October 2022
Friday 10:41 pm
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I've had sourdough crumpets and I don't think they're any better than regular crumpets.
>> No. 454704 Anonymous
14th October 2022
Friday 10:50 pm
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>>454703

Bet that left you feeling bitter.
>> No. 454761 Anonymous
17th October 2022
Monday 9:17 pm
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Sarah Z wears a Liz Collar too.

Politicians and pop culture essayist YouTubers do strike me as having similar predilections.
>> No. 454762 Anonymous
17th October 2022
Monday 9:57 pm
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>>454761
It's not fair. I could easily beat up her boyfriend, what more do women want?
>> No. 454763 Anonymous
17th October 2022
Monday 10:02 pm
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It's a ring on a necklace. You lot have gone mental. Absolutely mental.

Was Frodo heavily in the kink scene?
>> No. 454764 Anonymous
17th October 2022
Monday 10:36 pm
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>>454763

You joking mate?

Him and Sam were a full on lifestyle kink couple. Frodo was ostensibly Sam's social better and employer in public life, so there was a lot of role reversal going on in the bedroom.

Destroying the ring was what caused Sam to lose interest and go after that homely bird from the local boozer.
>> No. 454765 Anonymous
17th October 2022
Monday 11:47 pm
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>>454763

>It's a ring on a necklace.

It's pretty specific to be honest. The way it's attached to the chain by two different links like that is very uncommon in other "ring on a necklace" type jewellery, and the people who wear them tend to always wear them, which is again uncommon for women's jewellery.

I'm not saying it's 100%, we'll never know, and admittedly some other kink-adjacent jewellery has gone mainstream, like chokers, and wearing keys on necklaces. But this specific example does not seem nearly as common. Fight it all you want, are Liz is are property.
>> No. 454766 Anonymous
17th October 2022
Monday 11:50 pm
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>>454765

I meant to add that the way they're constructed is deliberately supposed to mimic the look of an actual chain collar.
>> No. 454767 Anonymous
17th October 2022
Monday 11:58 pm
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Calling this "The Current Weekday Thread" is really going to fuck things up when someone makes a new one.
>> No. 454768 Anonymous
17th October 2022
Monday 11:59 pm
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I’m staying up to find out why that Star Wars film was so loathed. Love a shit a film.
>> No. 454769 Anonymous
18th October 2022
Tuesday 12:04 am
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Didn’t take me long to find out, lol.
>> No. 454770 Anonymous
18th October 2022
Tuesday 12:11 am
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>>454768
Which one? All the new ones lack charm but were otherwise fine, at least in my opinion. My favourite bit of the new ones was when they flew a spaceship into another spaceship, and my least favourite bit was whichever one had that white planet at the end after the film should already have ended.
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18th October 2022
Tuesday 12:17 am
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My grandma's lost some teeth in a way that means she cannot keep her dentures in and thus I need go go shopping for as many soft foods as I can find to tide her over until the dentist's appointment. She likes sweet stuff and definitely still eats likes it's 1950, so I'm not entirely sure what I'll end up with other than chocolate mousse and suckable eggs.
>> No. 454772 Anonymous
18th October 2022
Tuesday 12:23 am
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Episode IX. I’ve not seen VIII since it came out, but I’m dead certain the breakneck backfill that’s happening in this film is because nothing J J Abrams wanted to make a film about wasn’t mentioned once before now. It’s so shit.

God, I want to blow up CP3O so badly.
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18th October 2022
Tuesday 12:43 am
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I'm pretty sure it's intentional by this point. They intentionally make shit they know nobody will like, because a) they know people will buy it anyway and b) it gets them off.

Seriously. Hear me out for a bit here.

It's not about inserting loads of token minorities and women and what have you for ideological reasons. They don't give a fuck, they just like to do it because it pisses people off. It's not about subverting expectations or any of that kind of pretentious shite, they just like to do it because it pisses people off. It's not about just pure laziness and incompetence either, because clearly there's a lot of effort goes into all this tripe, they just like to do it because it pisses people off.

These films sand TV shows and games nowadays are made by spoilt people who are the sons and daughters of spoilt people, who grew up knowing that they would be allowed to make their mark on the world and popular culture. No doors have ever been closed to them. They have never wanted for anything. And they have grown up wrong as a result. They're all that sadistic 13 year old king out of Game of Thrones. And this is what they invariably choose to do when they are handed the reins of their first major franchise. They get their knob out and wipe smegma all over it. They wipe it in their period juice, and smear their shit down the sides. Then they use their soiled, feculent paws to rub themselves off right in front of everyone. Because they can.

It's a power play thing. They all go to the kind of parties where they piss and shit on each other. They're probably all paedos too. They don't give a fuck about any of the politics or art or anything like that behind it all, they just get off on knowing they've spoiled something people liked. The pure juvenile fetishistic kick a toddler gets when they throw their spaghetti hoops at the wall.

I made my mind up about this seeing the new Scooby Doo character designs. Who the fuck is this? Who the actual fuck is this?
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18th October 2022
Tuesday 12:56 am
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>>454773
Yes, it’s true, this man has no dick.
>> No. 454775 Anonymous
18th October 2022
Tuesday 4:22 am
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>>454773
>Who the fuck is this? Who the actual fuck is this?

That's Mr. Boombastic.
>> No. 454776 Anonymous
18th October 2022
Tuesday 4:41 am
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>>454773

Nah m8, that's not what's going on. They aren't deliberately making shit things because they're arrogant, they're deliberately making things you don't like specifically to piss you off. The media is being controlled by a shadowy cabal and their sole objective is to ruin your life. The entire world revolves around destroying your mental wellbeing.
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18th October 2022
Tuesday 7:02 am
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>>454773
Triggered! Don't be such a snowflake.
>> No. 454779 Anonymous
18th October 2022
Tuesday 8:37 am
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Alright then, so what's you smart-arses theory as to why the entire media has just decided to stop doing things people like in favour of things people nobody likes? Because it's pretty objectively true- Nobody likes this stuff. Nobody likes the Lord of the Rings thing. Nobody likes the new Star Warses. Nobody likes Latest Marvel Movie this year.

You don't have to be invested in this stuff at all to notice it. It makes no difference to me, I wasn't about to watch a Scooby Doo remake, I haven't watched a Marvel movie since 2005. I have never been a Star Wars nerd. It just puzzles me why they have abandoned popularity in favour of basically antagonising the audience.

As a casual observer, that's the only rationalisation I can think of. They just like pissing people off. The petit-bourgois media establishment has become depraved and this is its recourse, like the decadent last days of the Weimar Republic before fascism took over. They actively make decisions that it should be obvious to anyone are going to result in a negative reception, but that's why they do it. They love the flex of getting a roundly negative reception while still making money hand over fist. They are teabagging the audience. They are giving the middle finger to the people who do care.

You can make smarmy remarks all you like, but you know I have a point here. You're only putting on a front of cool detachment because you are scared that if you did have an opinion on these things, you would come off like this spod, and girls would have even less sex with you than they already do. But let me assure you, you lads have nothing to lose on that front, so come on. What do you reckon.
>> No. 454780 Anonymous
18th October 2022
Tuesday 8:42 am
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>>454779

Mainstream entertainment has always been, by and large, mild lukewarm vanilla brain stodge. There is no theory other than every now and then someone manages to slip something actually interesting through the net, people go nuts for it, then the corpos drain that property dry by churning out watered down mass appeal versions to make the most money possible.

There is no political thinking. Social justice only factors in to the production of media like anything else - as a metric for how many dollars can be gained or lost by marketing towards it.
>> No. 454781 Anonymous
18th October 2022
Tuesday 8:43 am
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>>454779

Your definition of "everybody" appears to be 'the people in my small internet echo chamber' - that might be your issue.
>> No. 454782 Anonymous
18th October 2022
Tuesday 8:57 am
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>>454780

>There is no political thinking. Social justice only factors in to the production of media like anything else - as a metric for how many dollars can be gained or lost by marketing towards it.

There is though. They love the political stuff because it cuts both ways- The 4chan chronic masturbating toxic muscularity brigade hate it because it puts browns and womans into their beloved comic book franchises, but the wokie vegan gay mafia types hate it too because it puts them in the position of having to defend absolute garbage. They take a noble political cause, and subvert it so that the main thing people associate it with is not the basic dignity and humanity it affords, but the fact it's responsible for ruining Star Wars.

You have misunderstood if you think I am merely some neckbeard railing against the woke conspiracy. That's not what I am saying. Think about it.

>>454781

It's really not though. The stuff I am talking about is stuff that has been universally panned, by people in basically all corners of internet echo chamberdom. I can't find anyone who actually wants to defend Rings of Power, and I can't find anyone who doesn't think it's a bizarre and kind of racist move to make the most generic stereotypical stoner from Scooby Doo into the most generic "we needed a black character" stereotype instead.
>> No. 454783 Anonymous
18th October 2022
Tuesday 8:58 am
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You're not thinking hard enough. You're trying to figure out what the motivation of individuals is, rather than looking at the structure they're working under. Here's the corner of a theory I'm fond of: Goodhart's Law. Any measure that becomes a target stops being a good measure.
Now, imagine that you're an investor who funds media production. Imagine that you made "high social media engagement" one of your targets for measuring success. When one of the most effective ways to generate engagement is to piss people off, it's not surprising that starts happening. It doesn't even have to be intentional - everyone through the entire industry can be trying to make a good product, and yet thanks the way we've set up this hypothetical, 95% of what gets funded will piss people off - since that's what's getting engagement, the target we use to decide what gets funded.
And let's say you make a profit on this more often than not - why would you change your target? You're an investor, your job is to get a return on investment, not to create good movies. You're getting good returns, why stop a good thing just because to an outside observer the results of the system are as absurd as anything you'd find in the late USSR?

Obviously there's more to it than that, but it's the kind of general pattern i find fascinating.
>> No. 454784 Anonymous
18th October 2022
Tuesday 9:10 am
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>>454779
>why the entire media has just decided to stop doing things people like in favour of things people nobody likes?

It makes them a shitload of money. A bunch of vocal fan fanboys on the internet is a fart against a thunderclap.

If opinions on the internet reflected reality then Labour would have won every general election by a landslide. Take it with a pinch of salt.
>> No. 454785 Anonymous
18th October 2022
Tuesday 9:19 am
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>>454779

There's no business imperative to make quality content if you know that people will pay for any old shit that you churn out. It doesn't matter if nobody likes Latest Marvel Movie, because it'll still earn hundreds of millions of dollars.

The people making this joyless landfill fodder aren't spoiled, they're ashamed. Actual spoiled people in the entertainment industry go off and spend Daddy's money on making arty independent films that win awards at Cannes. The people making this stuff are mostly just trying to pay the bills and hoping that one day they might be successful enough to work on something that's worth caring about.

Craig Mazin wrote the mini-series Chernobyl, which is to my mind one of the best pieces of TV in the last decade. He conceived of the project, spent three years doing research and relentlessly hustled to get it funded. He had previously written Scary Movie 3 and 4, both sequels to The Hangover and some generic fantasy bollocks with Chris Hemsworth. He's currently working on a movie based on the Borderlands video game franchise and Untitled Pirates of the Caribbean Project. Do you think that any of that brings him joy? Do you think that he wants to be writing shit for scum?
>> No. 454786 Anonymous
18th October 2022
Tuesday 9:29 am
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>>454783

I had considered "feed the almighty algorithm" s a motivating factor. Even in the pre-social media age, I've always considered that the main marketing strategy behind shit like, I dunno, that Yorkie "not for girls" ad campaign. It was designed to get fisherpeople indignant and thus amplify the brand by yapping on about it. People are very easily manipulated like that.

But the main difference is that usually, the "generate controversy for free marketing" angle doesn't come at the direct expense of the end product. Or at least, rationally it shouldn't, because it's harmful to the product's image in the long run. Traditionally we're used to seeing non-troversy whipped up over one scene in a film, or like, one instance of stunt casting that briefly gets people up in arms and is then forgotten about it. But lately, it seems like they've decided fuck that, let's go the whole hog and make the entire thing shite.

If we've really reached the point of subservience to metrics and hyperconsumerism that making shite movies on purpose is a sound commercial strategy then yeah, fair enough, but you know. Fucking shite that innit.
>> No. 454787 Anonymous
18th October 2022
Tuesday 9:35 am
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>It doesn't matter if nobody likes Latest Marvel Movie, because it'll still earn hundreds of millions of dollars.

Yes, I agree, but the part that doesn't explain is why they still make decisions that are obviously and avoidably unpopular. Why do they still do things that would have required active, concious decision making in order to be bad? There's no motivation to make things good when it still makes a profit, that's true; but that's not the same as an incentive to make things bad.

Largely you're right, and I agree, but it's not the full story, and I believe there's an element of fetishism behind it.
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18th October 2022
Tuesday 9:39 am
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>>454785
>Craig Mazin wrote the mini-series Chernobyl, which is to my mind one of the best pieces of TV in the last decade. He conceived of the project, spent three years doing research and relentlessly hustled to get it funded.

What you may not recall is that the kind of people who are getting mad about black Shaggy also got very mad about Emily Watson's character because she was a fictitious composite; a manifestation of numerous scientists investigating what happened, but most of those scientists was a boy and she was a girl! A Mary Sue! A strong independent woman who knows everything and is always in the right place at the right time! REEEEEEE!

These people will never be happy because they'll always have a chip on their shoulder.
>> No. 454789 Anonymous
18th October 2022
Tuesday 9:43 am
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>>454782

>I can't find anyone who actually wants to defend Rings of Power

This is it though. For every one person on the internet angry enough to make the effort to whinge about a show, there are ten thousand sat on their sofas watching it and enjoying it, or even just finding it OK enough to mindlessly binge.

Yes, everybody is on the internet now. But entering the discourse about a TV show on the internet is still a massively niche thing to do.
>> No. 454790 Anonymous
18th October 2022
Tuesday 10:01 am
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>>454788

There's a reason nobody remembers that, and that's because the show itself was actually good. It wasn't a harmful decision to the artistic integrity of the finished work, so nobody remembers it except for terminally online losers and that small vocal group with chips on their shoulders.

I think with the stuff we're talking about here, it's more that the end result is trash, and so whenever anybody talks about it in future, it's always in the context of "what went wrong?" and thus inevitably, questions around the writer's motivations and what specific kind of neuroses influenced their decision making when creating the work come up.
>> No. 454791 Anonymous
18th October 2022
Tuesday 10:17 am
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>>454790
>There's a reason nobody remembers that, and that's because the show itself was actually good. It wasn't a harmful decision to the artistic integrity of the finished work, so nobody remembers it except for terminally online losers and that small vocal group with chips on their shoulders.

Subjective, innit.

Is Doctor Who shit because they cast a woman or because of bad writing? Is casting a woman emblematic of the wider malaise around Doctor Who?

Plenty of people are not best pleased that the live action Little Mermaid is black and that's not even out yet to cast judgement over the quality, although it's a given it'll be shit because all of the Disney live action remakes are shit. Will that be shit because Ariel is black or is having a black Ariel emblematic of Disney's live action remakes showing they're out of ideas?

You can interpret things however you want to suit your argument.
>> No. 454792 Anonymous
18th October 2022
Tuesday 10:21 am
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>>454787

I think you're overestimating the amount of thought that goes into this sort of thing. It's just product. 99% of conversations in Hollywood aren't about films, they're about distribution and marketing. What goes on the screen is an afterthought; all the effort goes into getting bums on seats. What you might consider obviously and unavoidably unpopular may not register as such to someone living and working in Los Angeles.
>> No. 454793 Anonymous
18th October 2022
Tuesday 11:01 am
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>>454791

Bit of both. Doctor Who is shit because they gave the head writing gig to the kind of limp dicked white knight simp sissy who would think it was a good idea to cast a woman.

I'm being very intentionally hyperbolic here and intentionally using those kind of words that typically bait a response out of the resident vegan wimps, but I don't know how else to get the point across- There's no problem with doctor who being a woman, it's just that the only kind of people who care enough about it to actually make Doctor Who into a woman are mentally defective spastics like Chris Chibnall. As such, the quality of the writing reflects the priorities of that kind of person.

Russel T. Davies inserted plenty of his own personal fetishes into the show. What was with the big fat farting aliens I ask you? But he was a good enough writer that it didn't matter. He wanted to subtly push a bit of homoeroticism into the show but he wasn't a mentalist. He may have been a bumder but he was still a normal person, he wasn't riddled with the mind worms.

It's correlation, not causation, but the mind-worm husks who want to diversify everything are more often than not totally devoid of creative skill; so in the end the only actually noteworthy aspect of the stuff they create is the diversity itself. It's the only memorable part, it's the only thing that sticks out, the only thing that's even worth discussing about it, and here we are.
>> No. 454794 Anonymous
18th October 2022
Tuesday 11:53 am
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>> No. 454795 Anonymous
18th October 2022
Tuesday 12:37 pm
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Shut the fuck up. I know last night I posted in this thread I was watching a film I knew was bad just to find out why it was bad, but shut the fuck up. Why are you dedicating your clearly very limited mental capacity to watching shit? You know Stephan Moffat isn't a very good writer, you know Scooby Doo is a show for children, but apparently it's all you can muster the energy to have an opinion on. Did you go to watch Crimes of the Future in the cinema? Got your tickets for The Banshees of Inisherin booked? Maybe you were too busy steaming I Will Destroy You or Better Call Saul? No, no, no, you're tied up engaging with the dumbest popular media you can find, there's only one-hundred-and-twenty-plus years of cinema and television to discover, you need to know what Nicktoons or CITV are up to right now!
>> No. 454796 Anonymous
18th October 2022
Tuesday 1:06 pm
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I have a theory that behind the scenes, there has been some psychological research which has found a way to manipulate people into being better consumers, and none of us have heard of this research but we'll kick ourselves when we find out about it.

There's also the problem of market saturation: I firmly believe that everyone is really into women's football now because there is nowhere left for men's football to go. Everyone who's going to watch men's football already watches as much of it as they ever will. The only way to make the profitability graphs keep trending upwards is to get the football-haters to watch it too. This is why the most important thing in football, inexplicably, is to massively hype a new type of football made especially for eight-year-old girls who like to dress as Snow White every day. Women's football is fine and I really enjoy the international tournaments, but there's also blind football and Down Syndrome football and the really amazing one where everyone has one leg and leaps about on crutches, and there's no hype about those even though covering those would be woke too. So I don't think wokeness is the real reason that women's football is so forcibly inserted into everything.

And when wokeness is good, it's fantastic and you can't deny that. Filling Strictly Come Dancing with the most odious tremendo-benders imaginable is annoying, but that deaf woman was great. Interrupting a sitcom to lecture the audience on why they should be ashamed to be white is infuriating, but The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was great and The Boondocks is absolutely phenomenal. It appears colossally likely to me that the people who fund what gets made just have no ability whatsoever to know when they're funding another Boondocks or another Brooklyn Nine-Nine (which is okay, but it really disappeared into Twitter bollocks later on and I could no longer recommend it).
>> No. 454797 Anonymous
18th October 2022
Tuesday 2:25 pm
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>>454795

We've already established before that that's a rubbish argument, lad. You did post in this thread about a film you didn't like, didn't you, so why don't you give yourself a slap for being enough of a febrile cretin to watch it in the first place, if you're that far above it all?
>> No. 454801 Anonymous
18th October 2022
Tuesday 5:32 pm
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>>454796

>There's also the problem of market saturation: I firmly believe that everyone is really into women's football now because there is nowhere left for men's football to go.

Not sure I agree with this one. It's not totally implausible, but it's mainly the Beeb that have been pushing women's football and I think that's mainly because the broadcast rights are really cheap. The BBC want to cover sport, but they'll get outbid for the rights for anything that's already popular. The gender equality angle might have sold the idea to senior management, but I think the basic motivation was the BBC Sport team trying to keep themselves in work.
>> No. 454802 Anonymous
18th October 2022
Tuesday 5:38 pm
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>>454797
But I was finding out why and how Episode IX was a pile of piss, and there was of course a chance it wasn't (it was though). You're just whinging because there's a black Shaggy now. It's fucking Scooby Doo, mate, get a life.
>> No. 454804 Anonymous
18th October 2022
Tuesday 8:37 pm
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>>454801
I think there is an element of that, but I don't think it's the main factor because the rights to wheelchair basketball are probably very cheap as well, and wheelchair basketball is fantastic.
>> No. 454805 Anonymous
18th October 2022
Tuesday 9:39 pm
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>>454802

Nobody gives a fuck about Scooby Doo you lemon. But it's a very illustrative example. Who on earth is it for? It's not about the fact they made him black, it's about the fact they felt the need to change something for... What, exactly? You can't say "it's just a kids show" either because apparently the new one is expressly adult oriented.

Someone somewhere wants us to like this shit. The question is why. What kind of crack are they smoking that they think anyone will.
>> No. 454806 Anonymous
18th October 2022
Tuesday 10:42 pm
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>>454805
>Someone somewhere wants us to like this shit. The question is why. What kind of crack are they smoking that they think anyone will.

Perhaps Mystery Inc. should investigate.
>> No. 454807 Anonymous
18th October 2022
Tuesday 11:25 pm
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My bank has sent me my new debit card, to replace the one that expires at the end of the month. It has no numbers or anything on the front. It looks awful. I hate it.
>> No. 454808 Anonymous
19th October 2022
Wednesday 1:17 am
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>>454807
I hate how my new one is portrait. And its not embossed. Feels cheap and crap. Halifax btw. Which banks dont give shit cards?
>> No. 454810 Anonymous
19th October 2022
Wednesday 3:42 am
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>>454808
Oh I love the new style cards without the embossed numbers, they slide in and out of my £120 Porsche Design wallet like butter.
>> No. 454811 Anonymous
19th October 2022
Wednesday 3:49 am
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>>454810

It's not really a concern for me very often now, but when I got my first non embossed card I did think "at least I won't get any powder stuck between the numbers"
>> No. 454813 Anonymous
19th October 2022
Wednesday 7:58 am
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>>454808
Barclays let you put your own picture on your card.
>> No. 454814 Anonymous
19th October 2022
Wednesday 9:08 am
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>>454810
I personally have a JCB wallet. You will notice that the logo is embossed rather than trying to catch your eye with their well known yellow branding; although it isn't relying on the premium JCB name, this leather wallet is 'built to last' in line with their industrial heritage. For the more discerning gentlemen this comes with RFID blocking technology and matching socks. It was the pick of all the leather wares in TKMaxx.
>> No. 454815 Anonymous
19th October 2022
Wednesday 9:13 am
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>>454814

Perfect, I've been looking for RFID blocking socks.
>> No. 454817 Anonymous
19th October 2022
Wednesday 11:12 am
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>>454815

I doubt you'll be able to evade your probation conditions that way, Lad.
>> No. 454819 Anonymous
19th October 2022
Wednesday 4:13 pm
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>>454817
He will if he's wearing a pair a Porsche Design driving shoes as well.
>> No. 454822 Anonymous
19th October 2022
Wednesday 6:08 pm
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>>454814
I've got a john lewis leather wallet I had when I turned 18, and I've still got it now nearly 15 years later, it's only just starting to get a little tatty around the edges and if you sniff real good it still has a new leather smell.
>> No. 454823 Anonymous
19th October 2022
Wednesday 6:12 pm
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>>454822
Wallet sniffer.
>> No. 454824 Anonymous
20th October 2022
Thursday 10:50 am
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I can't get White Wine in the Sun out of my head, even though Christmas is ages away and I'm not feeling particularly festive or anything like that.
>> No. 454825 Anonymous
20th October 2022
Thursday 4:48 pm
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I got so pissed off earlier I accidentally turned into Toast of London and told everyone I'd been made to feel like a "top arsehole" for something that happened at work.
>> No. 454826 Anonymous
20th October 2022
Thursday 5:26 pm
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Got a right craving for stroopwafel.

In fact I just feel like buying a load of shite and sitting in bed stuffing my face when I finish work. I think the nasty weather and darker nights with a bit of SAD kicking in does this to me. What other snacks should I get? I've forgotten what shite I used to like because I forced myself to eat more sensibly at the start of the year, and nowadays I just stare at the shelves indecisively whenever I try to buy shite.

And no, I don't want any of that "Well don't do it then, stay healthy!" reassurance shit, it's not like I'm a lard arse and it's akin to going back on the heroin. I can more than afford to put on a few pounds. Just tell me what your favourite junk food is to give me ideas.
>> No. 454827 Anonymous
20th October 2022
Thursday 5:59 pm
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>>454826
Jumbo prawn cocktail Wotsits are very moreish.
>> No. 454828 Anonymous
20th October 2022
Thursday 9:13 pm
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Considering it's Bonfire Night in about a fortnight I'm surprised I haven't been hearing fireworks almost every evening.
>> No. 454829 Anonymous
20th October 2022
Thursday 9:45 pm
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>>454828

Cost of living crisis innit.
>> No. 454830 Anonymous
20th October 2022
Thursday 9:50 pm
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>>454828
I think everyone is saving them for when we all march on Parliament and demand an election.
>> No. 454831 Anonymous
21st October 2022
Friday 9:05 am
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Went to probably every supermarket in souf Leeds and nowhere had stroopwafels.
>> No. 454832 Anonymous
21st October 2022
Friday 10:01 am
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>>454831
I only ever see them in coffee shops. Never actually had one.
>> No. 454833 Anonymous
21st October 2022
Friday 10:19 am
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>>454832

Usually supermarkets have them in packs of ten or so, though admittedly it was years ago I last had any. It seems like supermarkets tend to have a much poorer range of products these days, now that we're a povvo country.

I'll probably have to go to Sainsbury's to find them. Failing that, perhaps The Big Tesco in Batley.
>> No. 454834 Anonymous
21st October 2022
Friday 5:32 pm
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Have you lads had Amazon lie about a delivery before? I was expecting two parcels today but only one arrived and it's showing online that both were. The automated chat thing says I can't raise it with them until Tuesday.
>> No. 454835 Anonymous
21st October 2022
Friday 5:35 pm
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>>454834

More than likely not a lie, but the bloke delivering scanned one parcel not noticing there were actually two parcels to deliver, and the system linked them anyway.

You'll definitely get your money back, though Amazon will never admit your parcel is actually missing.
>> No. 454836 Anonymous
21st October 2022
Friday 7:34 pm
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So I saw the Banshees of Inisherin and it was definitely better than Doctor Who.
>> No. 454837 Anonymous
21st October 2022
Friday 7:52 pm
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>>454831
Seen them in Beeston and Wortley Asda and Armley Lidl. Open yer eyes, lad.
>> No. 454838 Anonymous
21st October 2022
Friday 8:53 pm
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>>454837

Well only one of those is actually my endz innit, lad. I'm not going all the way over That Side Of Town, I've been pulled several times on that stretch of the ring road and developed a phobia of it because one day I'll get caught with drugs on me.

Anyway the lesson here is that if you want middle class snacks, go to middle class shops. Full shelves of the cunts at Sainsbo's.
>> No. 454861 Anonymous
24th October 2022
Monday 5:28 pm
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>>454576>>454579 here again.

I applied for three jobs and for two of them, the ones that most unrealistic, I was rejected the following day. The one I felt I have the most chance with had its deadline on Tuesday. I haven't heard back yet. I know it's only been four working days since, but I'm well out of the loop and have no idea it usually takes from a job advert closing and interviews being offered.
>> No. 454862 Anonymous
24th October 2022
Monday 6:23 pm
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Facebook is weirder than this place.
>> No. 454863 Anonymous
24th October 2022
Monday 8:07 pm
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>>454862
>75 comments
I hope they all say what I think they're going to say.
>> No. 454864 Anonymous
24th October 2022
Monday 8:19 pm
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>>454862
That's hilarious.
>> No. 454865 Anonymous
24th October 2022
Monday 8:25 pm
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>>454863

The group is now closed due to an influx of wank chat.
>> No. 454866 Anonymous
24th October 2022
Monday 9:20 pm
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>>454862

Thanks for the reminder, I nearly missed my daily wank over the memory of Princess Diana.
>> No. 454879 Anonymous
27th October 2022
Thursday 9:45 am
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This might come across as unintentionally callous, but what kind of jobs are suitable for someone who doesn't seem very employable? Someone I know has been let go from a call centre after not passing probation, which is the only job they've had other than working for the track and trace phone team. They struggled with the role because they're on the spectrum and they won't survive long on the dole because last time they were on it they were regularly sanctioned for missing appointments; they've resisted getting a proper aspergers diagnosis even though that should make them eligible for more benefits. They were kicked out of uni and even when they volunteered at a charity shop for experience in the past they were let go from that. What kind of jobs are relatively simple and hard to cock up? Their autism means they can struggle with instructions and muddle them up.
>> No. 454880 Anonymous
27th October 2022
Thursday 10:13 am
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>>454879
Here is a good link I found recently on this:
https://www.iidc.indiana.edu/irca/articles/choosing-the-right-job-for-people-with-autism-or-aspergers-syndrome.html
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27th October 2022
Thursday 10:31 am
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>>454879
> they've resisted getting a proper aspergers diagnosis even though that should make them eligible for more benefits
Don't you need full blown 'tism to get extra bennies?
>> No. 454882 Anonymous
27th October 2022
Thursday 10:54 am
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>>454879
I used to put food in boxes in a factory. The food comes out on a conveyor belt, packaged, and you put the smaller boxes into crates. Other days, you put the unpackaged food into its smaller boxes. There were numerous roles like that, and I got shifted around all of them, but I'm sure they'd let you do the same one every day if you wanted and there were other people whose job was to take the pallets away so the instructions were really very basic indeed. And so many of my colleagues were Polish that they're probably crying out for staff now.
>> No. 454883 Anonymous
27th October 2022
Thursday 11:24 am
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>>454880
Thanks lad. I think when they were first taken on they were in a technical help desk role but were shunted to the call centre because they weren't performing well at it. They fancy a career in IT but they've always been rejected when they've interviewed for positions and I think it more stems from the fact they spend a lot of time online rather than actually being proficient with computers.

>>454881
I'm not sure. They definitely have dyspraxia and that has been diagnosed but they almost certainly have asperger's as well.

I know someone else who's autistic and he gets enough universal credit and PIP that this, combined with their apprenticeship wage, gives them the same monthly take home as their colleagues on almost £24k.

>>454882
The local supermarket is advertising for night staff so that might be ideal for them. I do have the impression they'll think manual labour is beneath them.
>> No. 454884 Anonymous
27th October 2022
Thursday 11:37 am
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>>454883
>I do have the impression they'll think manual labour is beneath them.

I work at a fancy-wanky medical research company and reading >>454882's description sounds sort of blissful. Boring and mechanical, but if you had a bit of mental capacity left over to let your mind wander and the freedom to just clock out without work weighing on you...

I think I need a new job.
>> No. 454885 Anonymous
27th October 2022
Thursday 11:38 am
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>>454882

There are a lot of production jobs that don't require a lot of social skills. Then again, if you've got trouble following instructions, cocking it up on a conveyor belt can have consequences. Either he'll hold up the line or he'll deliver shoddy work that will then have to be corrected. Both will cost a company time and money.
>> No. 454886 Anonymous
27th October 2022
Thursday 12:13 pm
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I wouldn't usually force you two to think about tedious viral nonsense, but the reaction of some people to the video of a "McRib" being made has me totally confused, one might even use the word b*ffled. How did they think it was made? With freshly sliced pork chops? In a replicator?
>> No. 454887 Anonymous
27th October 2022
Thursday 12:35 pm
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>>454886
Apparently someone finding out that apricots are used in McDonald's sweet and sour sauce went viral the other day.

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/mcdonalds-fans-shaken-core-after-25289988

I don't know if it's lazy journalism, it's been pointed out here before that lots of 'local' papers regularly write articles about going to McDonald's when they're short of ideas, or it's all a really clever advertising campaign on the part of Maccies.
>> No. 454888 Anonymous
27th October 2022
Thursday 1:25 pm
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>>454886

I remember feeling like I was on another planet when chicken nuggets were presented in a similar fashion. Do people just quite literally not think about the stuff they eat at all?
>> No. 454889 Anonymous
27th October 2022
Thursday 1:30 pm
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>>454884

I have been helping out at one of the airports I oversee, sorting baggage for outbound flights. It's so fucking lovely to just stand there, pick up the bag with IBZ written on it and stack it on the trolley that says IBZ on it. Utterly mindless, but just enough brainpower used to work out where to stack the next bag to keep you from falling asleep. It's absolute bliss, though admittedly I likely wouldn't enjoy it as much doing it 12 hours a day for minimum wage. Having said that, being a dishwasher is still the most zen job I've ever worked in earnest.
>> No. 454890 Anonymous
27th October 2022
Thursday 1:44 pm
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>>454884

Get a job in a medical laboratory then. 90% of the actual work is exactly like box factory lad's description, except you need a fancy wanky degree (or at least a BTEC or something, depending) to do it.

I'm forever annoyed at the youngsters and placement students who come through our place and express some level of shock and disappointment that the daily work of a scientist isn't glamorous or exciting. It's dull and routine. I want to slap them and say get used to it, because if that's how you feel about a job this pleasant, you're going to have a very rough career indeed.

There's little I despise more than someone who thinks they're above a bit of honest graft, though. We all hate getting up for work on a morning, who the fuck doesn't, but I think it's a key element of maturity to realise that, well, you have to, don't you. For some people it's more of an attitude adjustment that needs to click, rather than them being a genuinely unemployable layabout.

(I realise that sounds a bit Duncan Smith but I mean it more about spoiled cunts than "hurr doley scum")
>> No. 454891 Anonymous
27th October 2022
Thursday 2:30 pm
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>>454886
The Rustlers BBQ rib burger is pretty much the exact same shape and make up, it's fairly apparent it's shaped MRM. If it was actually from ribs surely the "bones" of the patty would be actual bones instead, which makes for a bad sandwich.
>> No. 454896 Anonymous
27th October 2022
Thursday 3:55 pm
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>>454884

Seriously, I'd suggest looking for jobs as a CNC operator. The whole machining industry is desperate for staff at the moment, so firms are offering up to £12 an hour for inexperienced staff and skilled operators are on upwards of £35k, with significant premiums available for shift working and OT. As an industry, we've got tens of millions of pounds worth of machinery sitting idle, because the Poles and Czechs who used to operate it have fucked off.

Most of the job involves just watching over the machine to make sure nothing is going wrong, loading and unloading parts and doing basic housekeeping tasks. You'll occasionally need to actually do something with the machine or measure up a part, but that requires only a basic level of manual dexterity, attention to detail and simple maths. Obviously everyone wants experienced staff, but there aren't nearly enough of them to fill all the vacancies and recruiters are having to be flexible. If you've got a modicum of common sense, there's a decent job waiting for you in manufacturing.
>> No. 454902 Anonymous
27th October 2022
Thursday 6:29 pm
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>>454883

>I do have the impression they'll think manual labour is beneath them.

If they're that far up their own ass just let them be unemployed and broke.
>> No. 454903 Anonymous
27th October 2022
Thursday 6:51 pm
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>>454902
Ass? Broke? Have some self-respect.
>> No. 454904 Anonymous
27th October 2022
Thursday 8:27 pm
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>>454902

If he dropped out of uni, then all he has as qualifications are his A levels. Which, on their own, have almost no value as a marketable skill in the real world, despite what some may think.

His best shot at an actual desk job is a call centre in that situation, but evidently that didn't turn out well.

Maybe he would benefit from treatment for his autism spectrum disorder first. The NHS offers programmes that help people like that integrate into society by addressing the deficits that they have and then working on them. Some of them can be overcome with practice, which could help him start to function more like a normal person.
>> No. 454905 Anonymous
27th October 2022
Thursday 10:56 pm
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>>454879
I'm an autistic uni drop out, though when I was looking for jobs I had around 5 years of retail experience to put on my CV. I'd say try in the Civil Service. Didn't work out for me, but it's not a massively stressful workload on the lower rungs, they take on people with patchy work histories (my gf left her previous two jobs on bad terms but still got the Civil Service job), and pay and benefits aren't too bad. Also they've got some level of obligation to take on disabled/disadvantaged candidates. My role was just reading through documents to determine whether the solicitor working a case can claim for expenses and whatnot. A bit boring, but easy enough.
>> No. 454906 Anonymous
28th October 2022
Friday 9:18 am
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Energy crisis notwithstanding, I hope it gets cold soon as I've bought a really nice jacket after shopping about for one since early September.
>> No. 454907 Anonymous
28th October 2022
Friday 9:24 am
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>>454906

It's over 30 degrees in some parts of France and Spain. I just picked from freshly ripened tomatoes off the vine outdoors. It's October 28.
>> No. 454934 Anonymous
31st October 2022
Monday 5:40 pm
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Anyone doing anything for Halloween?
>> No. 454935 Anonymous
31st October 2022
Monday 5:50 pm
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>>454934
I'm getting a pizza and rewatching The Thing. Occasionally I'll nip out for a cigarette and ogle the student girls in "fancy dress" who wander past my block of flats.
>> No. 454936 Anonymous
31st October 2022
Monday 6:03 pm
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>>454934
I'm going to experience the horrors of war in a computer game. I won't be eating anything or staring at girls because I'm only eating a meal a day at the moment and no one between the ages of 18-45 lives in this shithole town except the sad act typing this.
>> No. 454937 Anonymous
31st October 2022
Monday 6:12 pm
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>>454934

The kids I passed doing the rounds in costume were loudly talking about how they'd "Go Chucky" on a paedo and "slash him up". Be that as it may, I have my first night shift at the homeless shelter for the year tonight so I'll not have to deal with that.
>> No. 454938 Anonymous
31st October 2022
Monday 6:27 pm
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>>454934
Not answering the door.
>> No. 454939 Anonymous
1st November 2022
Tuesday 11:20 am
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It is November and I am wearing only a T-shirt on the top half of my body. Are you a bad enough dude to be as fantastic as me? Although inexplicably, someone - not me - appears to have switched on the heating at work, so I might be inadvertently cheating a bit.
>> No. 454940 Anonymous
1st November 2022
Tuesday 11:27 am
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>> No. 454941 Anonymous
1st November 2022
Tuesday 12:53 pm
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>>454939
> a bad enough dude to be as fantastic as me

Wearing four layers and a hat. Refusing to put the gas fire on today.
>> No. 454942 Anonymous
1st November 2022
Tuesday 3:53 pm
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Bumped my escitalopram from 5mg to 10mg. Felt a bit better for the first 3 days now I'm back to feeling depressed. This is so hard to deal with, I have no one to talk to.
>> No. 454943 Anonymous
1st November 2022
Tuesday 8:59 pm
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>>454942

Talk to us ladm8. What's on your mind? Chatting bollocks should be what these general threads are for if you ask me.

No need to be shy. I shitpost this place to oblivion just because I'm bored. Sorry about that by the way lads.
>> No. 454944 Anonymous
1st November 2022
Tuesday 9:28 pm
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>>454942
Don't you think it's weird how "Boney M" is, technically, a spoonerism of "Money B", and yet they are pronounced completely differently?
>> No. 454945 Anonymous
1st November 2022
Tuesday 10:06 pm
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>>454944

I would not be above pronouncing it moany bem.
>> No. 454946 Anonymous
1st November 2022
Tuesday 10:57 pm
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>>454944
Most underrated band of the late seventies?
>> No. 454947 Anonymous
1st November 2022
Tuesday 11:09 pm
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>>454946

Not really underrated.

For one thing, their male singer Bobby Farrell couldn't sing for toffee, as is evident in some TOTP clips from the time. On all the studio records, his parts are sung by Frank Farian. Something Farian would go on to repeat with the ill fated Milli Vanilli and an assortment of studio singers.

Farian's music style shaped some of the sound of the late 70s, that is true. At least in people's collective memory.
>> No. 454948 Anonymous
2nd November 2022
Wednesday 12:19 am
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>>454946
Boney M suffer from the fact that everything they were good at, someone else was better at it. Nobody ever listens to ABBA and thinks, "They're not as good as Boney M". Nobody ever describes the Bee Gees as a poor man's Boney M.

My own personal favourite, whom I have posted in the foreign music thread several times, are communist Hungarian disco legends Neoton Familia. They were massive in Hungary because the government regime effectively funnelled the entire Hungarian music industry into that one supergroup, but even when they sang songs in English, they never had a hit further west than Spain (with Sandokan) and Holland.

Here is a banger for you:


And I think some Hungarian dignitary didn't trust the Western wiles of Boney M, and that gave rise to inexplicable monstrosities like this:


Otherwise, if you'd like another criminally underrated band from around that time, I would suggest The SOS Band, although all their hits came in the early 1980s so perhaps you've thought of them already and decided they don't count.
>> No. 454949 Anonymous
2nd November 2022
Wednesday 12:47 am
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>>454948

>The SOS Band, although all their hits came in the early 1980s

I would lump them in with post-disco, which lasted from about 1979 to 1982 and brought us songs like Act Like You Know and Music and Lights -


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axKfLvm2M2k


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImRXjgr4dbs
>> No. 454950 Anonymous
2nd November 2022
Wednesday 12:15 pm
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>>454949
> Music and Lights

I loved this song - thanks for the reminder.
>> No. 454951 Anonymous
2nd November 2022
Wednesday 3:55 pm
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I committed to attempting a month without wanking while briefly forgetting that the wife is away all weekend. It's gonna be a rough one, lads.
>> No. 454953 Anonymous
2nd November 2022
Wednesday 4:36 pm
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>>454951

I also decided to do this, for no other reason than I think the 1st of December wank will be excellent because of it. I am however hoping it'll give me superpowers like those nofap lads say and I'm very much looking forward to coming back here to annoy the fuck out of you all by proselytizing about it.

I do have quite poor memory when it comes to habitualised actions though, I fully expect to entirely forget I'm not supposed to wank and cracking one out in the next few days.
>> No. 454954 Anonymous
2nd November 2022
Wednesday 4:51 pm
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>>454951
I have done No-Fap November a couple of times, and I usually try to do a random no-fap month at least once a year. I've had a few aborted attempts this year, but this November, a girl who fancies me is coming back from months away and I will obviously try to see her and welcome her back, plus later this month, my friend is having her birthday and I'm going to give her a present she'll really like, and she's very affectionate towards people who make her things, and also I think her hormones put her at her horniest around those dates. I'm one of the chronic masturbator posters who never has sex with anyone, but I want to maximise my chances. And not wanking certainly does that; I think women can tell when you haven't wanked in a while and they prefer it. If I don't get lucky, I'll still be perfectly satisfied just by having two female friends, but a chance is a chance.
>> No. 454955 Anonymous
2nd November 2022
Wednesday 5:01 pm
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>>454954

You couldn't be any more wrong if you tried lad. Women can sense desperation, and it is genuinely more off-putting to them then if you'd showed up to a date covered head to toe in dog shit.

That said I have a modest (read: extremely intense) orgasm denial fetish and I would love nothing more than a bird who encourages me to do no-nut-november for her own perverse enjoyment watching me get all frustrated. Not even necessarily as a sexual thing between us, just like a lass mate who teases me about how blue my balls must be.

Anyway.
>> No. 454956 Anonymous
2nd November 2022
Wednesday 6:14 pm
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>>454954
>>454955

The state of you two.
>> No. 454957 Anonymous
2nd November 2022
Wednesday 8:14 pm
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>>454956

>>454955
>Women can sense desperation

>>454954
> If I don't get lucky, I'll still be perfectly satisfied just by having two female friends

I think you mean "the state of just him". I am clearly cool and irresistible, especially once I'm back to my wide-eyed and jittery priapic charisma. A couple of weeks from now, I'll be a fat, bald, pathetic lurve machine.
>> No. 454958 Anonymous
2nd November 2022
Wednesday 9:31 pm
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>like those nofap lads say

I weep for your vulnerability to what you read on the internet. Do you honestly think anyone, anywhere sticks to anykind of no-fap timetable? Absolutely everyone lies.

Also, it is nonsense.
>> No. 454959 Anonymous
2nd November 2022
Wednesday 10:28 pm
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>>454956
It's always entertaining when you lads start sharing your wisdom about attracting women.
>> No. 454960 Anonymous
3rd November 2022
Thursday 3:27 am
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>>454958

Did you really read my post and take it as if I believed what they say?

Anyway, day three. My beard is thicker, my IQ has increased fifteen points, and women lick their lips when I talk to them now.
>> No. 454961 Anonymous
3rd November 2022
Thursday 8:54 am
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>>454960

Wanking is fine, you just need to swallow your own jizz to re-absorb the lost nutrients.
>> No. 454971 Anonymous
4th November 2022
Friday 6:56 am
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>>454961

I'm a good boy that cleans up his mess anyway.
>> No. 454972 Anonymous
4th November 2022
Friday 8:44 am
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>>454971

I'd call you disgusting, but you'd probably get off on that.
>> No. 454975 Anonymous
4th November 2022
Friday 1:05 pm
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It's November and the weather's nice enough for me to have my washing out.
>> No. 454980 Anonymous
4th November 2022
Friday 8:12 pm
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It's quite boring watching a firework display for 30 minutes.
>> No. 454981 Anonymous
4th November 2022
Friday 9:54 pm
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>>454980
This, the spectacle stops being a spectacle.
>> No. 454984 Anonymous
5th November 2022
Saturday 3:37 pm
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>>454980
It's rare to see a good one - also, it's raining tonight so most of them will be terrible. We're going to visit a local high-spot and watch them all at once.
>> No. 454985 Anonymous
5th November 2022
Saturday 3:53 pm
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The guy who works at Co-Op on weekend evenings has shown me how to approve alcohol purchases at the main terminal, as I am in there every week buying beer and he doesn't want to do the job. I feel like this is a damning idictment of my alcohol consumption.
>> No. 454993 Anonymous
5th November 2022
Saturday 6:18 pm
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>>454985
I became a dad relatively young, so one of the places we tended to go if we wanted a family meal out was Pizza Hut. I didn't think we went that often, perhaps once a month or so, but the staff started recognising us to the point they'd try and guess our order. We were so mortified we stopped going; we didn't want to be known as Pizza Hut regulars.
>> No. 454996 Anonymous
5th November 2022
Saturday 7:11 pm
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>>454993
I had to visit Birmingham once a month for a work training course in 2017, and I had lunch in various restaurants each day that I went, but I went to the Japanese one three times in a row and they recognised me the third time. I live in Manchester. I refuse to be a regular of a restaurant in Birmingham.

I also went out for lunch every day to the assorted local eateries pre-pandemic, so it was fine when they all knew me. Then in 2020 and 2021, everywhere was shut and many of the places never reopened. I almost never go out now, but a few months ago, a guy in my local butcher asked if I used to eat in the place opposite the butcher's near my work. I had never visited that butcher, nor had I eaten there for a couple of years, and he recognised me immediately anyway. That was terrifying.
>> No. 454999 Anonymous
5th November 2022
Saturday 8:03 pm
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I used to go to maccies at about 1am very often after work. One time, I fancied ordering nuggets instead of my usual order, and the woman on the till said "oh thats a change for you, we usually start your order when you park up!" and shouted to the back that I wasn't ordering the big mac and quarter pounder like normal.

I had no fucking idea I was being that consistent, nor that frequent. It had never occurred to me that I could become a regular, especially at a fucking mcdonalds, and as I was a cheflad at the time, I knew that being 'known' in a restaurant usually means you're weird. I was a fat, coked up mess, so that's fair, but nonetheless - I never went to that maccies ever again. It was the Burley/Cardigan fields one. Always consistently better than the Elland Road one, but I can never go back.
>> No. 455000 Anonymous
5th November 2022
Saturday 8:28 pm
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I'm the kind of person who's enough of a paranoid headcase to switch up my order if I go somewhere frequently, even if it means ordering something I'm less keen on, purely so that I don't become that guy. Not that they won't recognise me, but you won't have that awkward "Oh, you're not having the usual?" moment the one time you actually do fancy a change.

That said I did desperately hope the Maccies I frequented all the time when I did nights understood that I did nights, and they were the only place left open, not that I was a habitual 3am double cheeseburger addict.
>> No. 455003 Anonymous
6th November 2022
Sunday 1:09 am
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How much of this website is us 3 talking to ourselves?
>> No. 455004 Anonymous
6th November 2022
Sunday 6:15 am
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>> No. 455005 Anonymous
6th November 2022
Sunday 6:36 am
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>>455003

Apart from the weird SEO spam, all of it. This website is a decade-long performance of Waiting for Godot, but Estragon is obsessed with fat lasses.
>> No. 455006 Anonymous
6th November 2022
Sunday 9:44 am
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>>455003
Always has been.
>> No. 455007 Anonymous
6th November 2022
Sunday 9:49 am
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>>455003
That's probably why it's still here t h. Very little drama.
>> No. 455008 Anonymous
6th November 2022
Sunday 4:58 pm
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>>455003
Not all of it, because at least two of us have just bought a house and there's no way only one poster here hasn't. Also, the good posters would post in the weekend thread at the weekend, rather than the weekday thread. You're both frauds and you don't belong here.
>> No. 455009 Anonymous
6th November 2022
Sunday 5:30 pm
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>>455008
We can have more than one discussion at a time, you know. Provided it meets the pre-approved list of topics.
>> No. 455019 Anonymous
7th November 2022
Monday 10:33 am
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Parcel arrived today, which means I've now done all of my Christmas shopping.
>> No. 455023 Anonymous
7th November 2022
Monday 12:39 pm
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>>455019
I have started mine, and have parcels on the way. Given the date that's a huge win for me.
>> No. 455031 Anonymous
7th November 2022
Monday 2:36 pm
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How much do you reckon I could sell my old PC for?

It's got an i7 4770, GTX1060 (6gb), 16gb 1600mhz, and a 1tb hard drive.
>> No. 455032 Anonymous
7th November 2022
Monday 3:13 pm
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>>455031

Do make sure you wipe your hard drive before you sell it. Probably best to do a clean new install of whatever Windows you have on it too.
>> No. 455033 Anonymous
7th November 2022
Monday 4:20 pm
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>>455032

Naturally. It doesn't even have anything particularly sensitive on, because it's a spare of a spare made out of all the hand-me-down parts from upgrading my main PC.

Incidentally- How much of a PC can you replace and still call it the same PC? I want to say my main rig has lasted me a good 10 years, but the one I'm selling was its original incarnation way back in about 2012. Replacing bit by bit over the year, it's had several CPU and GPU upgrades, a new motherboard, new power supply, a few different drives and SSDs, various fan set-ups and coolers, and most recently a new case.

Very philosophical question that I reckon, but I think letting go of the case I'd used so long marked a break point, even if every internal component had already been replaced multiple times by then.
>> No. 455034 Anonymous
7th November 2022
Monday 6:56 pm
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>>455033

I once kept the same midi case for fourteen years. It was one of those pretty heavy solid-metal beige box cases from the late 90s to early 2000s. I had it assembled by a shop from specially selected parts in 2000, although it meant that it was equipped with a pretty standard 800 MHz AMD K7 CPU and an Asus motherboard, with 128 MB RAM, which wasn't lavish, but it got the job done running a pirated copy of Windows ME. And I think it had a 30GB Samsung hard drive. I think at some point I then upgraded it to 512 MB RAM.

This first incarnation lasted about three years, after which the motherboard sprang a few blown caps around the RAM sockets which led to the machine freezing even more frequently than it was already doing normally under ME. So it got a new motherboard and an Athlon XP with something like 1.6 GHz, with 1 GB of RAM. I also actually bought a copy of Windows XP 32-bit Home, and about six months later I treated myself to a 64 GB hard drive. All still in the same beige tower case.

This setup lasted me another ten years. At some point no longer as my main computer for the daily stuff, but it took until 2014 that it became unuseable, when the computer one day quit working with an audible "PFFT" that sounded like something major on the motherboard blowing up, but I was never able to determine what it was, so the computer spent another three or four years collecting dust in the corner of my bedroom before I finally put it in the basement, where it rests to this day.
>> No. 455035 Anonymous
7th November 2022
Monday 7:22 pm
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>>455031

About £300 would be fair. You might get a bit more if it's a particularly nice build or you find a particularly dimwitted buyer.
>> No. 455039 Anonymous
7th November 2022
Monday 8:40 pm
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>>455033
>Very philosophical question that I reckon
Yes; it's called the Ship of Theseus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
My favourite question about the Ship of Theseus is, if you replaced every part of your original PC, and put the old parts in a pile, then eventually built a new PC out of the old parts, which one would be the original?

Anyway, I've had my current PC since 2010 and I've only added more RAM once. It's rickety shite now, but all I do is shitpost on various websites so it works fine. There are probably good games that came out this decade, but I don't know what they are. One of my plans for when I get a new PC is to just virtualise an old Windows 98 PC inside it and play games that don't run any more on this one.

I struggle a lot with throwing things away, so I might not throw this PC away for a while after I replace it, but I certainly won't be selling it.
>> No. 455040 Anonymous
7th November 2022
Monday 9:01 pm
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>>455039
>My favourite question about the Ship of Theseus is, if you replaced every part of your original PC, and put the old parts in a pile, then eventually built a new PC out of the old parts, which one would be the original?

The Sugababes answered that question. The original is the original.
>> No. 455041 Anonymous
7th November 2022
Monday 9:08 pm
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I think the answer to the PC upgrade Ship of Theseus Trigger's Broom problem is arguably the windows installation.

The installation is basically the computer's consciousness. If you wipe it and start afresh, it's like if someone wiped your memories and rebooted your brain. You'd be in the same body as you always have been, arguably even your neural pathways and so on would be in the same place so you'd still have an instinctual imprint of who you used to be; but the part that made you you would be gone.

Like that Aaltererd Carbon program innit. The hardware is just a sleeve. My current PC has been in its current incarnation since 2016/7 or so, I think, although it was first built in 2013 and doesn't have any original hardware left.
>> No. 455042 Anonymous
7th November 2022
Monday 9:33 pm
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>>455041

If I dual boot Windows and Linux, is my computer schizophrenic?
>> No. 455043 Anonymous
7th November 2022
Monday 9:39 pm
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Is there an unbranded soap similar to Pears? I like it but it's expensive.
>> No. 455044 Anonymous
7th November 2022
Monday 9:57 pm
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Why is Boy George allowed on the telly? I'm pretty sure that if a straight bloke had been convicted of kidnapping a young woman he wouldn't be allowed on TV any more.
>> No. 455045 Anonymous
7th November 2022
Monday 10:04 pm
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>>455044
It is quite mad, I agree.
>> No. 455046 Anonymous
7th November 2022
Monday 10:16 pm
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>>455044

It's an altogether less serious offence because the victim wasn't a woman. Because despite all the rhetoric, women actually are weak and frail and need protecting, so it's doubly as nasty if you attack a woman. It's the same as attacking a kid.

I'm getting better at it these days, you know. Coming to terms with the doublethink of gender equality in our society. I think I finally love Big Brother.
>> No. 455048 Anonymous
7th November 2022
Monday 11:45 pm
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I ate a roast dinner two days ago, and ever since I've been doing constant farts that smell almost like a perfect 1:1 recreation of the smell of the dinner.
>> No. 455049 Anonymous
8th November 2022
Tuesday 1:28 am
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>>455046

>women actually are weak and frail and need protecting

Your mileage may vary.
>> No. 455050 Anonymous
8th November 2022
Tuesday 5:41 am
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>>455049

Jammy bastard.
>> No. 455052 Anonymous
8th November 2022
Tuesday 10:35 am
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I can't remember precisely what I said during sex last night, but I do know it involved the words "your fat arse" and an immediate change in her body language. Think I'm gonna be in the doghouse for a while from this one.
>> No. 455054 Anonymous
8th November 2022
Tuesday 11:55 am
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>>455052

Complimenting a woman on her fat arse is like shagging her arse, you've got to ease into it gently. You need to start using words like "voluptuous" and get really into Lizzo.
>> No. 455055 Anonymous
8th November 2022
Tuesday 12:35 pm
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Ten minutes isn't all that long to wait on old, is it? If that's pissed someone off that's an overreaction.

>>455052
Remember: reality =/= .gs.
>> No. 455056 Anonymous
8th November 2022
Tuesday 4:08 pm
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>>455055
I tried calling DirectLine a few weeks back - 40 minutes hold time. Vodafone - 50 minutes. SSE - never got through.

Far too many stupid fucking chatbots about.
>> No. 455057 Anonymous
8th November 2022
Tuesday 5:12 pm
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Stayed up until about 8 this morning, haven't got out of bed all day. Pure waste of a day off. Feel like shit.

Fuck sake.
>> No. 455058 Anonymous
8th November 2022
Tuesday 5:53 pm
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>>455055
Once you go beyond about two minutes, it doesn't really matter; it's already annoying. In the grand scheme of things, it's not awful, but any giant corporation that gets enough calls to make people hold when they phone up can afford to hire more staff to answer the phones. I was on the phone to e.on for 56 minutes earlier, but about 10-15 of those minutes were spent being told I've been fed a bucket of shit and that probably annoyed me more than the time I spent on hold.
>> No. 455059 Anonymous
8th November 2022
Tuesday 6:42 pm
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I think I finally got a new job. Thank fuck for that.
>> No. 455060 Anonymous
8th November 2022
Tuesday 6:45 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APgjpsX4tE4
Robert Fripp is living the dream.
>> No. 455061 Anonymous
8th November 2022
Tuesday 7:06 pm
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>>455060

I don't think I could handle her TBH.


>> No. 455062 Anonymous
8th November 2022
Tuesday 7:44 pm
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>>455059
I've not heard back yet for a job I applied for that closed three weeks ago. It's getting on my tits.
>> No. 455063 Anonymous
8th November 2022
Tuesday 8:14 pm
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>>455062

Had that happen to me where they got back to me after three months, and then told me in a completely generic sounding e-mail that the decision wasn't easy and that it was a close race between candidates, but that they regretted informing me that they had picked somebody else.

Why even bother telling me that, when you never invited me in the first place, and it took you all of three months to even acknowledge the fact that I applied for the job, besides an autorespond e-mail when I mailed them my CV.
>> No. 455064 Anonymous
8th November 2022
Tuesday 9:20 pm
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>>455063
I have looked on Glassdoor and some people have said it took over six months from applying to getting the job offer.

What is bugging me is that I applied for another role there which closed on the 28th and said they'd be reviewing the applications last week; I got rejected for that yesterday. I guess no news is good news, but the one I've been rejected for seems a level below the one I'm still waiting to hear back about.
>> No. 455065 Anonymous
8th November 2022
Tuesday 9:33 pm
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>>455064

Could be that they felt you were overqualified for the one they turned you down for.
>> No. 455066 Anonymous
9th November 2022
Wednesday 9:34 am
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Happy 9/11 to those who celebrate.
>> No. 455067 Anonymous
9th November 2022
Wednesday 11:09 am
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>>455066
>> No. 455068 Anonymous
9th November 2022
Wednesday 11:10 am
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>>455066
>> No. 455069 Anonymous
9th November 2022
Wednesday 1:55 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOlhK3PCK6M

Egg.
>> No. 455070 Anonymous
9th November 2022
Wednesday 2:22 pm
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>>455069
If you miss, you're as bad as a Tory.
>> No. 455071 Anonymous
9th November 2022
Wednesday 6:05 pm
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Will chickpeas and cashew nuts work in a mushroom stroganoff? I've somehow muddled up the recipe I was following with something else.
>> No. 455072 Anonymous
9th November 2022
Wednesday 6:30 pm
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>>455069
Imagine it had twatted him right in the face.
>> No. 455073 Anonymous
9th November 2022
Wednesday 6:58 pm
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>>455072

Imagine if Charles had pimp slapped the protester.
>> No. 455074 Anonymous
9th November 2022
Wednesday 7:21 pm
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They ought to count their blessings. I imagine if you did something like that a few hundred years ago you'd get your hands cut off, a dozen eggs shoved up your bum, your willy cut off, the eggs taken out and shoved in the hole, and then your head cut off, and displayed with an egg in its mouth.

No wonder the world's gone soft. This is what criminal justice used to be before the PC brigade came along.
>> No. 455075 Anonymous
9th November 2022
Wednesday 8:27 pm
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>>455074

We'd still be celebrating Egg Day, when we burn an effigy of an eggy man.

Remember, remember the ninth of November
Albumen, yolk and plot
We see no reason
Why eggy man's treason
Should ever be forgot

>> No. 455076 Anonymous
9th November 2022
Wednesday 9:06 pm
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If Paul Chuckle was in the front row of the crowd I bet there wouldn't have been any of this nonsense.
>> No. 455077 Anonymous
9th November 2022
Wednesday 9:27 pm
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I've never watched I'm A Celebrity... before. When does Matt Hancock start eating bumholes?
>> No. 455078 Anonymous
9th November 2022
Wednesday 11:09 pm
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>>455076
TO YOU!
>> No. 455079 Anonymous
10th November 2022
Thursday 12:26 am
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>>455073
It would have been the first beheading committed by a royal in centuries.
>> No. 455080 Anonymous
10th November 2022
Thursday 12:27 am
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>>455073
It would have been the first beheading committed by a royal in centuries.
>> No. 455081 Anonymous
10th November 2022
Thursday 9:01 am
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>>455077
Probably when he gets out and reunited with his girlfriend.
>> No. 455082 Anonymous
10th November 2022
Thursday 11:13 am
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We need to take the AUX away from Mary Anne Hobbs.
>> No. 455083 Anonymous
10th November 2022
Thursday 11:23 am
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>>455082
What has she said?
>> No. 455084 Anonymous
10th November 2022
Thursday 11:25 am
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>> No. 455085 Anonymous
10th November 2022
Thursday 11:52 am
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>>455083
The music she's playing is just all over the place. A lot of it's not that good either.
>> No. 455086 Anonymous
10th November 2022
Thursday 12:01 pm
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>>455085

Here she comes, being wheeled on a trolley
Mary Ann Hobbs being wheeled on a trolley
Every corner of her great big head
Supported by a wooden buttress
And when she smiles it looks like an exploding pig
All the children run screaming from the park
The air is filled with bawling
Please cover her up with a tarpaulin

>> No. 455087 Anonymous
10th November 2022
Thursday 12:09 pm
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>>455084
I'm fairly certain that was posted in the poppy thread on /iq/ last year.

Why did you feel the need to repost an old image with a strange Green & Pleasant watermark on it?
>> No. 455088 Anonymous
10th November 2022
Thursday 2:42 pm
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My office smells of soup and I can't work out why. I'm the only one who has been in here and I definitely haven't spilled any soup.
>> No. 455089 Anonymous
10th November 2022
Thursday 2:57 pm
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>>455088
Has anyone brought in any new flowers?
>> No. 455090 Anonymous
10th November 2022
Thursday 9:18 pm
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I managed to tune in to Radio 4 at a time of day that wasn't The Archers or Fucking Woman's Hour today, and instead it was something called Alexi Sayle's Imaginary Sandwich Bar, featuring Alexi Sayle.

It's quite good. Essentially it seems to be a return to stand-up which he hasn't done in ages, but he's not shit like most old comedians from the 80s. If anything he's only sharpened with age. There was a bit where he did a slam poem about hating Kier Starmer that felt very, well, r/greenandpleasant, but to be fair he does have the credentials of being a proper socialist, not just some smug student tosser.

I liked it, and I think I shall have to adjust my break schedule so I can put the wireless on for it next week.
>> No. 455091 Anonymous
11th November 2022
Friday 12:32 am
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Bought a new keyboard today just because I don’t like wires. What a wanker.
>> No. 455093 Anonymous
12th November 2022
Saturday 12:44 am
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Why (oh why) must I turn off Cloudflare WARP just to banter with the other two buggers here? I honestly thought ARE SUELLA had done something after a almost a week of getting 403 pages.
>> No. 455094 Anonymous
12th November 2022
Saturday 12:47 am
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>>455093

Thank god you're back. I was starting to wonder how me and the other lad would carry it on our own. I've been using 3 different VPNs to simulate other users, but I don't think my writing style is varied enough to fool anyone.
>> No. 455102 Anonymous
12th November 2022
Saturday 10:18 pm
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>>454953
I don't mean to be a smug bastard, but No-Fap November has been a piece of piss for me so far. I'm starting to worry there might be something wrong with me.
>> No. 455104 Anonymous
12th November 2022
Saturday 10:44 pm
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>>455102
I did what otherlad said he was worried he might do and just had a wank without really worrying about it. I guess I'm the real winner in the end.
>> No. 455122 Anonymous
14th November 2022
Monday 4:26 pm
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I've been into Lidl after they closed my local store for a three month expansion and refurb. They've added an extra aisle and made the aisles wider but I've no idea what extra things they're stocking, apart from an additional 'middle of Lidl' on one half. In fact, two of the main things I like to specifically get from Lidl, namely their own brand hot chocolate and choco shells cereal, weren't there at all and the larger aisles for some reason meant people were going slower and were being a pain the arse to get past.
>> No. 455123 Anonymous
14th November 2022
Monday 5:11 pm
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There's a joke in The Peep Show the set up for which is Jez's stepdad telling Mark Anthony Beevor is "good for an overview", but having now read Stalingrad, I think he's right.
>> No. 455124 Anonymous
14th November 2022
Monday 5:27 pm
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>>455123
>The Peep Show
>> No. 455125 Anonymous
14th November 2022
Monday 5:34 pm
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>>455124
Oh, you know what, I've typed it out hundreds of times and got it wrong once, so I could not care less. It's not like I've said "The Red Dwarves" or "I, Deal".
>> No. 455126 Anonymous
14th November 2022
Monday 6:32 pm
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Just fixed the hot water tank in the basement. It had a faulty temperature sensor which meant that the water was coming out of the tap lukewarm at best. A quick online search suggested replacing the boiler's temperature sensor, which it turned out is nothing more than a standard, encapsulated NTC with 10K resistance at 25°C and about seven feet of wire to connect it to the furnace's control panel. Where the broken sensor was giving out a reading of 90 to 95 °C even if I put it in a glass of cold water or rubbed it between my hands. I guess the system was thinking the boiler was constantly above its target temperature, so it saw no need to heat it.

Amazon had the correct type of sensor for about 15 quid with express delivery. Having somebody come out to fix it probably would have cost ten times that. If you want to nitpick, it could be that the generic NTC I've put in has a different temperature curve compared to the OEM sesor, even though both are rated for 10K at 25°C, but I'll keep an eye on it the next few days to see if the readings are plausible.
>> No. 455127 Anonymous
14th November 2022
Monday 8:45 pm
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I've been chatting to an amply proportioned and slightly eccentric woman off of The Tinder. As our conversation became increasingly flirtatious, she used the phrase "Do you want to put your willy in my front bum?". I am repulsed and aroused in equal measure.
>> No. 455128 Anonymous
14th November 2022
Monday 9:52 pm
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>>455127
Not sure, but I think you might have pulled.
>> No. 455129 Anonymous
14th November 2022
Monday 10:59 pm
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I've definitely pulled, but I'm a bit worried that she might pull my cock off. Is this normal now? Did I miss a meeting where everyone decided that daddy-daughter roleplay is an acceptable prelude to a first date? Obviously I won't say no, but I'd just like to have a clear sense of how badly she's going to ruin my life.
>> No. 455131 Anonymous
15th November 2022
Tuesday 7:54 am
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>>455129
Just give her a good arse pissing.
>> No. 455132 Anonymous
15th November 2022
Tuesday 8:29 am
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>>455131

That'll sort her out, yeah.
>> No. 455133 Anonymous
15th November 2022
Tuesday 1:45 pm
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Just found out about "Mexborough". Never heard of a more made up sounding place in all my life.
>> No. 455134 Anonymous
15th November 2022
Tuesday 10:06 pm
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>>455133
You should visit. It even looks made up.
>> No. 455135 Anonymous
15th November 2022
Tuesday 11:46 pm
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Motorways are a direct contradiction of God, as such I oppose anybody who opposes God's will.
>> No. 455136 Anonymous
16th November 2022
Wednesday 12:02 am
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>>455135

Lesbianism is racist.
>> No. 455137 Anonymous
16th November 2022
Wednesday 12:29 am
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I don't think that's true. Plus, God gets things wrong all the time, this lad for instance >>455136 Terrible error in judgement, hasn't come close to apologising.
>> No. 455138 Anonymous
16th November 2022
Wednesday 12:37 am
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Having a weird night. Found this image while looking at photographs of the Red Army during WW2 and just heard a horse neighing outside.
>> No. 455139 Anonymous
16th November 2022
Wednesday 12:47 am
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>>455138
>just heard a horse neighing outside.

Sorry that was me.
>> No. 455140 Anonymous
16th November 2022
Wednesday 11:58 am
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I bought one of those hand exercise things and it's pointless. Maybe it's a bad example of the idea, but it's definitely a waste of £3. Looks like I'll have tiny indoor boy hands forever.

>>455139
Well don't do it again, or it's no carrots for a week.
>> No. 455141 Anonymous
16th November 2022
Wednesday 1:10 pm
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>>455140

Aren't most hand-muscles in the forearms? I don't think you can make your hands bigger in any significant way.
>> No. 455142 Anonymous
16th November 2022
Wednesday 3:12 pm
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>>455141

You're right, but other tissues can also grow through stimulation. Grip training alone probably won't do this, but working with your hands everyday can result in an increase in mass.

The hands of a physical labourer aren't just calloused on the surface, often the metacarpal bones and tissues around them thicken up through the use of heavy tools. Martial arts lads use the same principle, knuckles and shins can be conditioned to hard striking on the heavy bag.

It's not really feasible to lengthen bone, however, unless you go to extreme lengths like taking exogenous human growth hormone (HGH), and growing your hands would only be a side effect among many others.
>> No. 455143 Anonymous
16th November 2022
Wednesday 5:54 pm
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>>455142
>taking exogenous human growth hormone (HGH), and growing your hands would only be a side effect among many others.
Does it increase penis size and length too?
>> No. 455144 Anonymous
16th November 2022
Wednesday 6:03 pm
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>>455142
Yeah, I figured as much. It's mostly just there so I've got something to fiddle with at my desk. So to speak. This bloke's a blacksmith and his hands don't look especially massive, and my assumption is tier-one blacksmiths can probably scrunch up and throw away a sword or sculpture they're unhappy with like a normal person might with a page from a notepad.

>>455143
It can't do otherwise we'd all have a draw full of it already.
>> No. 455145 Anonymous
16th November 2022
Wednesday 11:07 pm
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Is it me or is this voiced by Shirley off Strictly?


>> No. 455146 Anonymous
17th November 2022
Thursday 5:00 am
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>>455145

I thought it was Tracy-Ann Oberman.
>> No. 455147 Anonymous
17th November 2022
Thursday 11:38 am
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I wish I could be a solicitor in Skyrim.
>> No. 455152 Anonymous
17th November 2022
Thursday 2:46 pm
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Yknow, you don't hear much from Dale Winton these days do you.
>> No. 455159 Anonymous
17th November 2022
Thursday 4:53 pm
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>>455152
Didn't he bum someone to death?
>> No. 455160 Anonymous
17th November 2022
Thursday 5:09 pm
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>>455159
You're thinking of Barrymore.
>> No. 455167 Anonymous
17th November 2022
Thursday 6:08 pm
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>>455152

Er, I hate to break it to you...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-43818226
>> No. 455169 Anonymous
17th November 2022
Thursday 6:35 pm
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>>455160
Aren't they both of the same persuasion?

There's no smoke without fire. That's all I'm saying.
>> No. 455172 Anonymous
17th November 2022
Thursday 7:19 pm
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>>455144
> This bloke's a blacksmith and his hands don't look especially massive

It depends on what the starting point was, innit?
>> No. 455173 Anonymous
17th November 2022
Thursday 7:19 pm
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>>455144
> This bloke's a blacksmith and his hands don't look especially massive

It depends on what the starting point was, innit?
>> No. 455174 Anonymous
17th November 2022
Thursday 7:19 pm
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Considering that it starts on Sunday I don't think I've heard a single World Cup song this year.
>> No. 455178 Anonymous
17th November 2022
Thursday 8:33 pm
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>>455174
Football came home in the summer (the women went home with it, the filthy sluts) and every other World Cup song is shit. At least people are finally asking if having a World Cup in Qatar in November is really a good idea. That's something, although I would definitely rather have still been able to listen to Three Lions.
>> No. 455182 Anonymous
18th November 2022
Friday 12:51 am
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>>455178

>if having a World Cup in Qatar in November is really a good idea.

November itself isn't a good idea. Granted, you'd probably get heatstroke in Qatar in June or July, but it also highlights the fact that most World Cups since their inception have been played in the Northern Hemisphere, with the exception of places like Brazil, Mexico or South Africa. In any case, venues that had an agreeable climate to host the cup some time between late spring and late summer. And as the Southern Hemisphere tends to have much milder winters, even hosting a World Cup in South Africa in June and July was not a problem.

Not saying arid polar countries on the edge of the Tropics should be excluded from hosting the cup, but it just wasn't a good fit from the word go, because millions of people in the Northern Hemisphere will complain that it just doesn't feel the same watching it huddled together in a pub with freezing temperatures and long nights outside.

I guess we might want to check our Northern Hemisphere privileges, but there you go.
>> No. 455184 Anonymous
18th November 2022
Friday 4:26 am
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>Not saying arid polar countries on the edge of the Tropics should be excluded from hosting the cup
I, however, will absolutely say that, because they're dictatorships with actual fucking slavery in operation.
>> No. 455186 Anonymous
18th November 2022
Friday 5:51 am
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>>455182
It wasn't a good fit because Qatar bought the World Cup.

We all know FIFA are corrupt, but this World Cup would have been held in the USA if Qatar hadn't bought off France. Sepp Blatter has publicly admitted this. Not long after the vote Qatar ordered fighter jets from France worth billions and PSG ended up in the hands of QSI; one of the previous owners of PSG is now the chairman of a hotel group which just happens to have his close friend Sarkozy as a director and was awarded the contract to manage accommodation for the World Cup.
>> No. 455187 Anonymous
18th November 2022
Friday 9:59 am
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>>455182
>the Northern Hemisphere, with the exception of places like Brazil, Mexico
The Equator is always much further south than you think it is. It goes through Ecuador. So Mexico (and Qatar, come to think of it) are perfectly Northern. They're not as Northern as us, but they're the Derbyshire of the Earth.

It's also worth remembering that people asked about playing a World Cup in the height of summer in the middle of the polar, and Qatar promised us air-conditioned stadiums and a perfectly standard summer World Cup. They just broke that promise completely.
>> No. 455193 Anonymous
18th November 2022
Friday 5:04 pm
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I'm waiting for the ENGURLAND lads to end up causing an international incident by getting jailed in masses. Even now they've decided to ban Alcohol sales in the stadiums, days before it all kicks off.
>> No. 455198 Anonymous
18th November 2022
Friday 6:43 pm
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>>455193

It's just going to be the 14th crusade. Retake the promised land from these infidels who say you can't 'ave yer pint. Bloody eskimoc savages.
>> No. 455201 Anonymous
18th November 2022
Friday 6:58 pm
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I haven't seen a single flag yet. I guess they'll go up over the weekend.
>> No. 455203 Anonymous
18th November 2022
Friday 7:30 pm
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It's alright lads.
Badiel & Skinner have created a new, festive version of Three Lions.
>> No. 455205 Anonymous
18th November 2022
Friday 7:41 pm
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>>455201
It's just hard to get into the party mood with all the miserable coverage, thoroughly November weather and the fact that it's out of season could mean some more casual football fans only heard about it a week or two ago.
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18th November 2022
Friday 7:43 pm
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I don't think anyone gives a fuck honestly. It's the wrong time of year and we're all very depressed about other problems.

It's just a totally different vibe to having it in July or August, and doesn't fit at all.
>> No. 455225 Anonymous
19th November 2022
Saturday 12:20 pm
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>Footy hooligans banged up by Qatar police.
Good. One group of dark faced authoritarian thugs has to put up with their prisons being overcrowded by another group of dark faced authoritarian thugs, who have to learn what a real prison is.
>> No. 455243 Anonymous
21st November 2022
Monday 4:11 pm
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>>455205
>just hard to get into the party mood

Particularly today with the wind and rain howling, and dark by 4.15pm.
>> No. 455272 Anonymous
23rd November 2022
Wednesday 11:43 am
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Changed a work password to "IvanKonev42069" this morning and an hour later I was locked out of the account, presumably for having to most embarrassing password at the company.
>> No. 455273 Anonymous
23rd November 2022
Wednesday 2:00 pm
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I hate applying for jobs.

I got a call from a recruiter a fortnight ago saying she was going to put my CV forward for a job I've gone for (I applied directly on the company's website but they outsource to a recruiter) and that I'd hear back last Wednesday once the company had sifted through the CVs. I then got an email on Thursday from the recruiter saying they were still waiting to hear back and they'd update me early next (this) week.

I still haven't heard back. Does Wedneday afternoon count as early in the week? I'm guessing it's not good news because the initial timescale I was given is that they'd review the applications last week and interview this week, but I just want to know either way rather than being in limbo.
>> No. 455274 Anonymous
23rd November 2022
Wednesday 3:43 pm
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>>455273
The whole process is terrible. Thankfully I have recently landed a new (dream) job, but have felt exactly what you're going through, and its a nightmare.

I had 6 interviews with one company, said they wanted to make an offer but I had to meet a Director for an informal chat before they did so - the agent promised they would get back to me by the end of the week - that was the 26th October.

I wish you good health, strength and a bit of luck. Definitely feel your pain at being in limbo.
>> No. 455275 Anonymous
23rd November 2022
Wednesday 4:17 pm
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>>455273

I applied for a job a while ago and got an autorespond e-mail that they had received my e-mail and that the next step would be that somebody would duly consider my application and then at some point get back to me. I then called them about ten to twelve days later, and they said they couldn't find my application. The person I talked to went through what she told me were about three to four dozen printed out e-mail applications while we were on the phone, but couldn't find it. And then she checked the HR e-mail inbox and couldn't find my e-mail either, and not even in the spam folder. She then said she'd check with tech support to see if there had been any trouble with their e-mail server lately and get back to me. She then actually called me back the next day and said that apparently their e-mail server had been acting patchy the last few weeks. I then said, "so... should I just send you my CV again?". But she told me, "Unfortunately, we actually settled on a candidate for that position just this morning".

I was encouraged to keep looking out for other openings at their company, but I'm not sure I'd want to work at a place that doesn't have their shit together like that.
>> No. 455278 Anonymous
24th November 2022
Thursday 2:36 am
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I can't sleep and I'm debating going in to work now so I can do everything before 6am then leave just before everyone else comes in. They will be annoyed that I'm not in yet, start complaining about needing my stuff doing, then they will receive it all in a timed email at 0617 exactly, when I'm back home and hopefully asleep.
>> No. 455279 Anonymous
24th November 2022
Thursday 8:59 am
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My ears are ringing because I happened to be walking past a fat woman at the exact moment she was screaming "get your arse here!" at her kid. He wasn't even far away and he will have been six years old at the most. I wish fat parents didn't shout so much.
>> No. 455280 Anonymous
24th November 2022
Thursday 12:02 pm
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>>455279
>I wish fat parents didn't shout so much.

It's a universal truth.
>> No. 455281 Anonymous
24th November 2022
Thursday 3:37 pm
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Shopping for a new phone is going to make me kill myself.
>> No. 455282 Anonymous
24th November 2022
Thursday 3:48 pm
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>>455281
Could only be worse if you have to actually visit a shop to do so.
>> No. 455283 Anonymous
24th November 2022
Thursday 3:51 pm
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>>455282
I will forever curse the night I dropped my iPhone 5S in that fucking puddle.
>> No. 455284 Anonymous
24th November 2022
Thursday 3:54 pm
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>>455281

Google Pixel 6, £299 at Currys with the code PIXEL100. Total no-brainer at that price. If that's more than you want to spend, just get whatever Poco or Redmi phone is within your budget.
>> No. 455285 Anonymous
24th November 2022
Thursday 4:03 pm
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>>455281

Phones are literally all the same now lad, don't worry about it. Just get whichever one you prefer of Apple or Android and make sure it has as much storage as you need, that's about all there is to worry about.

I too have given up and just take whatever they offer me the best price on when my contract renews. I used to get excited about phones, they were like the peak of gadgety tech advancement, but everything is boring now. Like that lad said in the other thread about refinement culture.
>> No. 455286 Anonymous
24th November 2022
Thursday 4:10 pm
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>>455283
On the bright side, most new phones are pretty splash/water proof.
>> No. 455287 Anonymous
24th November 2022
Thursday 4:16 pm
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>>455284
I was about to pull the trigger on a Samsung Galaxy A32, which is £212 on Amazon. It's just I want a little phone, my beautiful iPhone is barely larger than a credit card, but alas I'm the last person alive who thinks that's cool. Well, there are brands that do that, but they all seem a bit shit, maybe.

In fact, I already have a new phone. I bought a DooGee S96, as a treat to myself. But Christ, it's so massive. The weight is absurd, it's fine for me to hold, but having it on my person is annoying, especially in a coat pocket. Not to mention trying to get it in and out of my pocket is like maneuvering a tanker through the Panama Canal, so it has to go. If you specifically need a phone you could drop kick through a waterfall, this is the one though. Bear in mind you might break your foot in the process.
>> No. 455288 Anonymous
24th November 2022
Thursday 5:26 pm
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>>455287
>I'm the last person alive who thinks that's cool

You're really not, I'm in the same camp. I settled on an iPhone 13 mini, but they've stoppped making the mini now.

This is the best I've seen but you can't get hold of it anymore.
https://johndoeworldwide.com/johns-phone
>> No. 455289 Anonymous
24th November 2022
Thursday 6:38 pm
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I got a Sennheiser gaming headset, purely for the convenience of plugging one wire in instead of arsing about setting up my mic and headphones separately through my interface.

I thought Sennheiser are a pretty reliable brand for headsets, even their cheapest model of headphones (HD201s) have always sounded pretty good to me, and I've used a lot of beat up knackered pairs of those in my time hobbying as a musician. But the sound quality on these is... How can I put it... Shit. It sounds crusty, like you're listening to a 64kbps MP3.

Not sure how they managed that.
>> No. 455291 Anonymous
24th November 2022
Thursday 7:55 pm
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>>455289
Thats very disappointing to hear - Sennheiser have been my go-to headphone brand for many years.
>> No. 455292 Anonymous
24th November 2022
Thursday 8:13 pm
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It took me a little while to realise I was looking at Parky and not that someone had reanimated Jimmy Savile's corpse.
>> No. 455293 Anonymous
24th November 2022
Thursday 8:43 pm
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>>455292

Did he ever apologise to Helen Mirren?
>> No. 455294 Anonymous
24th November 2022
Thursday 8:43 pm
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>>455289

You occasionally hear about premium brands cutting corners by having their low-end products made cheaply, possibly somewhere in China where they cost five quid a piece to produce. I guess the idea is that people who are really into a brand and are willing to spend a few hundred quid on a pair of headphones won't care what happens in the lower product tiers.
>> No. 455295 Anonymous
24th November 2022
Thursday 8:53 pm
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>>455291

I think what's happened is that they've made a product to appeal to a different market than they usually do, but instead of sticking with the tried and true methods of their existing headphone designs, they changed it to be something more popular with hoodie wearing youths who like loud bass and not much else. Because that's where all the EQ is in these, it's just overwhelming bass with treble that sounds like you've got cotton stuck in your ears, and this weird hollowness. They sound more like a set of cheapo earbuds than proper open-back headphones.

Frankly if I didn't know better I'd almost suspect they were counterfeits. Then again they might be, I've been sent counterfeit headphones off Amazon before.
>> No. 455296 Anonymous
24th November 2022
Thursday 9:17 pm
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>>455295

If you saw yoofs with wireless boom boxes in parks this summer, it's kind of striking that they all seem to produce the same kind of sound. Extremely laden with bass, but not much treble or mid-frequencies. I guess it's just what them younguns are surrounded by every day. So that's what they'll also expect from headphones for 20 quid.

Personally I think that what's even worse than that is anything made by BOSE. Whether it's their home surround sound systems or in-car factory systems. All BOSE products have the same kind of tinny sound with exaggerated treble, strong but blunt bass, and again not much going on in the middle frequencies. And then when you actually open up one of their speakers, they look appallingly cheap. Often, they consist of low-grade paper cones and the baskets are flimsy cast aluminium. And they still want several hundred quid for it.
>> No. 455297 Anonymous
24th November 2022
Thursday 11:32 pm
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If quick is the opposite of slow, what's the opposite of fast?
>> No. 455298 Anonymous
25th November 2022
Friday 12:39 am
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>>455297
Words aren't binary pairs.
>> No. 455299 Anonymous
25th November 2022
Friday 4:31 am
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>>455297
Your mum at an all-you-can-eat buffet.
>> No. 455300 Anonymous
25th November 2022
Friday 6:40 am
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>>455298
Well you can say quickly and slowly but you don't say fastly.

Saying words don't work in pairs is precisely why we so many people use less when they mean fewer.
>> No. 455301 Anonymous
25th November 2022
Friday 7:21 am
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>>455300
Fast means "1. Acting, moving, or capable of acting or moving quickly; swift." but also "10. Fixed firmly in place; secure" so it's arguably the opposite of itself.

Quick can mean with speed/rapidly but also means the centre or most sensitive spot of a thing. That not an auto-antonym but it's not the opposite of slow, either.
>> No. 455304 Anonymous
25th November 2022
Friday 12:17 pm
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>>455299

Don't you have a Mondrian to destroy, Jimmy?
>> No. 455305 Anonymous
25th November 2022
Friday 2:31 pm
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I've noticed that when my girlfriend texts me she texts like a normal person, but when she's texting friends and colleagues it's full of emoji and shit, particularly 🤣😂😊. What's all that about?
>> No. 455306 Anonymous
25th November 2022
Friday 2:33 pm
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>>455305
I dunno'. Ask her.
>> No. 455307 Anonymous
25th November 2022
Friday 3:13 pm
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>>455305

I always fall back on emoji when I'm half-heartedly replying to something I don't really care about. I can't speak for your girlfriend, but for me emoji are the written equivalent of politely nodding along to some shit anecdote or making aww noises when someone shows me yet another picture of their ugly baby. I'm giving the socially appropriate minimum level of reaction, but I can't actually be arsed to pay attention or think of anything meaningful to say.
>> No. 455308 Anonymous
25th November 2022
Friday 3:54 pm
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>>455273 here again.

I finally got an email yesterday from the recruiter saying they'd like to interview me and she'd call me today to arrange the time, which she did. However, about half an hour after that she rang back but I couldn't really talk then so she said she'd send me the details in an email and I could call her back when she's free. The email is one line. "Unfortunately the interview will have to be cancelled." She's not answering my calls even though she said if she wasn't around someone else in the office would pick up and let her know I'd tried to get hold of her; it's just ringing out so I bet she's recognised my number and told nobody else in the office to pick it up.

For fuck's sake, just let me know where I stand so it's not on my head all weekend. I don't know if that's cancelled but they want to rearrange or cancelled because they've recruited someone else already. I hate this.
>> No. 455309 Anonymous
25th November 2022
Friday 4:12 pm
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Okay she's replied to my follow up email. They didn't actually want to interview me as they didn't feel my CV was as strong as other applicants, but she made the mistake of telling me they did because the CVs are anonymised and she got muddled up with her system of identifying which one was which.
>> No. 455310 Anonymous
25th November 2022
Friday 4:20 pm
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>>455309
Oh now that sucks. I'm just popping to the Co-op, would you like a beer?
>> No. 455311 Anonymous
25th November 2022
Friday 4:39 pm
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>>455310
Go on then.
>> No. 455312 Anonymous
25th November 2022
Friday 6:29 pm
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SCHOOL'S CLOSED DUE TO EBOLA.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-63743956
>> No. 455340 Anonymous
28th November 2022
Monday 9:48 am
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Monday, and waiting for news on a job. Bored of this now.
>> No. 455347 Anonymous
28th November 2022
Monday 3:35 pm
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My mum sings Don't Stop Me Now by Queen as I'm having such a good time, I'm having a party and I'd managed to block that out of my head for years, until I met up with her at the weekend.
>> No. 455348 Anonymous
28th November 2022
Monday 8:24 pm
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Incandescent light bulbs are increasingly becoming shit. I ordered a whole box of generic ones in different sizes off eBay and Amazon last year, probably Chinese made, because I wasn't ready to spend 200 quid to fit out near enough all the sockets in the house, where bulbs had gone out. But now most of them have barely lasted six months with infrequent use. Especially the small bulbous ones on both sides of the old bathroom mirror have tended to fail spectacularly with unusually loud bangs, which is a lovely way to become fully awake in the morning, and the R39 ones for the adjustable ceiling spotlights have on occasion exploded entirely and sent glass flying across the room.

I'm now gradually replacing them with LED bulbs.
>> No. 455349 Anonymous
28th November 2022
Monday 8:27 pm
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>>455348
LED home bulbs are really good now and worth the upgrade - they have come a long way in recent years and are eons better than the compact flourescents before them; they should pay for themselves pretty quickly.
>> No. 455350 Anonymous
28th November 2022
Monday 8:47 pm
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>>455348

>Incandescent light bulbs are increasingly becoming shit.

Conventional incandescents have been banned for ages, so anything you buy is going to be new old stock or a dodgy import. I'd imagine that quality standards aren't particularly high among people willing to sell light bulbs that are literally illegal to sell.

There are lookalike incandescents that are just a repackaged halogen lamp, but they're also being phased out, as are most fluorescents.

As >>455349 says, LED lamps are so good and so cheap that anything else is a false economy. For frequently used lamps I'd recommend a quality brand, but for a hallway or whatever then the cheapo eBay lamps should be fine.
>> No. 455351 Anonymous
28th November 2022
Monday 9:29 pm
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>>455349

Ok so the small ones were made in Poland, not sure if Bellight is normally a quality brand, but these have had a habit of blowing out almost every other week.

I got about a dozen of these for less than 15 quid, so I guess you get what you pay for.

I'm sure they aren't literally for traffic lights as stated on the box. Probably a bad translation, because I can't imagine a traffic light taking 40W E14 light bulbs. And switching them many times a day inside an actual traffic light would probably make their poor service life even worse. It does say on the side that they are "notsuitable" (sic) for household use in accordance with EU regulation. Not that the eBay seller mentioned it in any way.
>> No. 455352 Anonymous
28th November 2022
Monday 9:51 pm
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>>455351
>Probably a bad translation, because I can't imagine a traffic light taking 40W E14 light bulbs.
That's just on the box to sidestep around the ban on selling them for domestic use.
>> No. 455354 Anonymous
28th November 2022
Monday 11:08 pm
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>>455351
>I can't imagine a traffic light taking 40W E14 light bulbs

A million years ago (okay, about 30) there were definitely some with what seemed like normal looking lightbulbs in them. I doubt they were some dodgy Polski make.
>> No. 455356 Anonymous
29th November 2022
Tuesday 12:00 am
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>>455351
Recommend this video.


>> No. 455359 Anonymous
29th November 2022
Tuesday 9:11 am
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>>455354

Nerdy digression:

Retailers of incandescent lamps used to sell "rough service light bulbs" supposedly for inspection lamps or whatever, but they closed that loophole in 2016. Traffic signals have overwhelmingly gone LED, but there's a carve-out in the regs to allow for incandescent bulbs because of concerns over snow and ice accumulation in cold climates. The waste heat from incandescent lamps will tend to clear the lenses, so it isn't always completely safe to just drop in some replacement LED lamps. Newer signal units are available with a built-in thermostatically controlled heater in the lens assembly or hood.


>> No. 455360 Anonymous
29th November 2022
Tuesday 12:44 pm
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Met a group of mixed gender/sexuality identifiers. Don't know if it's causal in which direction but there's almost perfect correlation with how physically unattractive any one of them is with how extreme they claim to be aromantic or asexual.
>> No. 455361 Anonymous
29th November 2022
Tuesday 12:59 pm
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>>455359
>to allow for incandescent bulbs because of concerns over snow and ice accumulation in cold climates

Car manufacturers have been wrestling with the same problem - the old halogen lights we use to use were HOT and actively melted snow, ice and the odd fly on the front-glass. The fancy modern LEDs we use don't do that (and actually end up having problems with moisture/condensation in the headlight units as a result).
>> No. 455362 Anonymous
29th November 2022
Tuesday 2:09 pm
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>>455361

I've still got HID xenon headlamps in my Audi. They emit noticeably less heat than halogen, but still enough to melt ice and snow off the lenses in winter.

There are some - usually highly illegal - LED conversion kits for xenon, but there's no real need for them. The only drawback of xenon is that their light intensity fades drastically at the end of their rated service life. A halogen light bulb will still have about 80 percent of its light intensity at the end of its lifespan, while HID burners can have as little as 50% left. Granted, xenon can last five to ten times longer than halogen before you notice those effects.

Just went through all that, I could see fuck all on the road as the days were getting shorter, and even grudgingly considered buying new headlamps, until a friend pointed out to me how badly HID burners age. Just installed new Philips ones, not cheap at 80 quid, but the difference is pretty literally night and day.
>> No. 455374 Anonymous
29th November 2022
Tuesday 11:36 pm
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Over the weekend someone called me "perverse", in a jocular way (I think) for wearing a jumper with nothing else beneath it. Is that weird? I tried gaging her boyfriend's opinion but he seemed too depressed about his job to care about anything at all, let alone my jumper.
>> No. 455375 Anonymous
29th November 2022
Tuesday 11:50 pm
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>>455374
You're just rock hard lad.
>> No. 455376 Anonymous
29th November 2022
Tuesday 11:52 pm
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>>455374

I can see where she's coming from. It's the sort of thing sinister tech start-up owners would do. Like that bit in one of the recent James Bond films, where Hans Landa sits down, and you notice right away that he's wearing shoes without any socks, and immediately know he's a wrong 'un.

Anyway you've just reminded me I don't have any jumpers. I did used to, I wonder what happened.
>> No. 455377 Anonymous
30th November 2022
Wednesday 12:46 am
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>>455374
I consider it weird, although I do know vile degenerate freaks who allegedly also wear a jumper with nothing underneath, so you're not the only ludicrous maniac around.
>> No. 455378 Anonymous
30th November 2022
Wednesday 1:14 am
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>>455374

I used to work with a bloke who regularly wore a jumper with nothing on underneath.

As the office junior, I would go out to do a sandwich run at lunchtime. He always gave me a fiver and said "get me something nice". He refused to answer any questions about what he might consider "nice" and never gave any feedback on whether my choice of sandwich was in fact nice.
>> No. 455379 Anonymous
30th November 2022
Wednesday 2:38 am
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>>455378
>gave me a fiver and said "get me something nice"

He added a Sweetheart at the end, and stuffed it between your tits, right?
>> No. 455380 Anonymous
30th November 2022
Wednesday 11:36 am
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>>455379

Slap on the bum and all, eh.
>> No. 455381 Anonymous
30th November 2022
Wednesday 12:07 pm
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>>455379

I'll put it this way - I always refused his offer of a lift home.
>> No. 455382 Anonymous
30th November 2022
Wednesday 3:37 pm
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2 week cancer referral given today lads.
Bit frightening but probably nothing to worry about. Breast cancer being so rare in ladm8s.
>> No. 455383 Anonymous
30th November 2022
Wednesday 5:24 pm
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>>455382
It feels like it'd be 'on brand' for someone here to develop moob cancer.

Fingers crossed, ladm8.
>> No. 455384 Anonymous
30th November 2022
Wednesday 7:36 pm
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I know it's incredibly racist to say to someone "no, but where are you really from?" but is there a tactful way of asking this or is that question always offensive?
>> No. 455385 Anonymous
30th November 2022
Wednesday 7:40 pm
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>>455384
You could ask what their family's background is. You still might piss some people off but when you say "Where are you really from" you're othering them as a foreigner.
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30th November 2022
Wednesday 9:04 pm
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>>455384
I would ask them for their heritage. If they don't want to tell me, like the woman in the news story clearly didn't, then I absolutely would never say, "But where are you really from?" because that implies they're lying or somehow acting maliciously. It should be okay to chin anyone who says that.
>> No. 455387 Anonymous
30th November 2022
Wednesday 9:17 pm
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A friend just told me that one of her friends has filed for personal bankruptcy. He has amassed just shy of £100K of personal debt from a failed vape shop business and personal living expenses. How do you fuck up so badly manage to rack up those kinds of numbers running a vape shop?

He also asked her for money, and not a small amount. She said something about 18K to 20K, to avert the bankruptcy. Which she said she didn't give him. I told her she likely never would have seen it again.

But yeah. Scary how fucked some people get themselves.
>> No. 455388 Anonymous
30th November 2022
Wednesday 9:26 pm
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>>455387
>those kinds of numbers running a vape shop

On expensive Chinese stock I imagine. It's not so long ago that I had to seek out specialist vape shops for good liquids - now they're everywhere.

I think your advice was right - once you're that deep in, it's terminal. I imagine he is in trouble with HMRC for VAT - that's what usually gets people in a shop situation.
>> No. 455389 Anonymous
1st December 2022
Thursday 1:22 am
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>>454954
Right, so: Mission accomplished on the No-Fap front. And my friend I've had sex with in the past did indeed return from a long time away, and I got laid for the first time in three years. One reason why I feel so strongly about wanking less is that when I do have sex, I never ejaculate; I just cannot jizz into a woman. I'm pretty sure this is the fault of all the wanking. However, on this occasion, it was the same as before and I still couldn't unleash the fire extinguisher of romance. If anything, it was even worse. What a fascinating discovery. But then, she does lack self-esteem and takes a fair bit of warming up, so maybe it's the fault of the fact it was 05:30 in the bloody morning and I just wanted to go to sleep.
>> No. 455390 Anonymous
1st December 2022
Thursday 1:32 am
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>>455389
5:30? That is a lot of warming up.

You should have told her to stop wanking so much.
>> No. 455391 Anonymous
1st December 2022
Thursday 1:07 pm
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My desire to make a cheese pie is increasing rapidly.
>> No. 455392 Anonymous
1st December 2022
Thursday 1:13 pm
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>>455391
I've spent the morning thinking of making a cheesecake, must be something in the air.
>> No. 455397 Anonymous
1st December 2022
Thursday 2:27 pm
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>>455391
>>455392

I've got mozzarella pizza in the oven at the moment. Does that count?
>> No. 455400 Anonymous
1st December 2022
Thursday 2:48 pm
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>>455389

Listen lad, most of us have the exact opposite problem and would kill for the superpower of not being able to ejaculate in a woman. No need for contraception, guaranteed all night shag-a-thons, the kind of sexual prowess that makes a woman melt like butter between your fingers.

Whatever your problem is, I suspect it's mental rather than anything to do with wanking; but you'll never address it when you're looking at things upside down and back to front from the start.
>> No. 455403 Anonymous
1st December 2022
Thursday 4:12 pm
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>>455400
I never had that problem and then I took SSRIs and now I *doubly* don't have that problem. I find that women don't like it actually, I've had a lot of 'is something wrong with me?' after fucking like a possessed jackhammer for 30+ mins. So TL;DR, get your hands on some anti depressants and you'll feel like a pornstar.
>> No. 455405 Anonymous
1st December 2022
Thursday 4:49 pm
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>>455403
That's my experience. On the rare occasions I've been unable to cum my girlfriend has taken it extremely personally.

Most people don't want to have penetrative sex for hours on end. You'll end up with sore bits.
>> No. 455408 Anonymous
1st December 2022
Thursday 7:49 pm
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>>455405

For me it's very rarely, if ever, been an issue to cum, but it's a lot more likely that I'll just not be able to get it up at all if there's something on my mind, and sometimes that's a right bastard. Most of the time it's not an issue but it's the sort of thing where it will happen at the worst possible time, and then you'll have one of those sleepless nights being a mixture of frustrated at yourself, annoyed because you didn't get to fuck, and hoping she didn't take it badly (even if she said it's okay), and so on.

Honestly male sexuality has a lot of complexity and pitfalls to it, there's so much bullshit about how women have it hard and men never satisfy them and bla bla bla, but at the end of the day they only need to open their legs; and in my experience most of them think that's really all they have to do. I had one girlfriend in my mid-20s who went out of her way to suck me off and dirty talk me and all that good stuff, but every lass I've had since has basically relied on me to do all the work in the bedroom.

I really miss the one that put the effort in, I didn't know how rare a find she was at the time.
>> No. 455410 Anonymous
1st December 2022
Thursday 10:13 pm
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I don't know if I'd enjoy her stand-up, but I've quite liked Fern Brady on Taskmaster.
>> No. 455411 Anonymous
1st December 2022
Thursday 11:02 pm
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>>455410
Don't know what Taskmaster is, nor do I watch female comedians, but upon googling her yeah she's eminently shaggable.
>> No. 455413 Anonymous
1st December 2022
Thursday 11:36 pm
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>>455411

>nor do I watch female comedians

Have a word with yourself lad.
>> No. 455414 Anonymous
1st December 2022
Thursday 11:52 pm
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>>455413
Most of them are shit m7. Most of everything is shit too, but female comedians shift the needle from 90% to 95%. More efficient to just write 'em all off as a rule.
>> No. 455418 Anonymous
2nd December 2022
Friday 1:39 am
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>>455410
>>455411
>>455413
>>455414
What I wanted to do for my dissertation was on "the effects of higher pitched voices and comedy," for my Masters. But I was shot down, and I instead, did some race based hit piece shite that they picked.

Distinction!

Tescos!

Sometimes I wonder if the alt-right is right about things.
>> No. 455419 Anonymous
2nd December 2022
Friday 1:46 am
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>>455411
I for one, etc.

You prick.
>> No. 455421 Anonymous
2nd December 2022
Friday 1:51 am
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>>455419
Truth through banal irony m9.

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 455422 Anonymous
2nd December 2022
Friday 1:57 am
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>>455421
Your posts stick out like a sore mile. See ya.
>> No. 455423 Anonymous
2nd December 2022
Friday 2:11 am
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>>455422
No skin off my back, overly sensitive brotherman. I'm honoured to have enabled your cute power trip.

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 455424 Anonymous
2nd December 2022
Friday 2:16 am
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>>455423
Go on then, run downstairs and reset your Mums router.
>> No. 455425 Anonymous
2nd December 2022
Friday 7:20 am
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After Taskmaster last night I caught some of Live at the Apollo, which was a repeat. It was hosted by Joe Lycett, who is sometimes funny and has been on Taskmaster. The first act was Ivo Graham, who is some painfully unfunny posh twerp that will be on the next series of Taskmaster, and the second act was Taskmaster, whose entire act was 'LOL I'M ASIAN!' and has previously been on Taskmaster.

The next series of Taskmaster will have Frankie Boyle and Jenny Éclair, so it might be quite annoying. That said, there's only been a small number of people who've been properly shite on Taskmaster so who knows. It could be a decent series of Taskmaster.
>> No. 455426 Anonymous
2nd December 2022
Friday 7:22 am
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>>455425
>the second act was Taskmaster

The second act was Phil Wang. I said Taskmaster too many times.
>> No. 455429 Anonymous
2nd December 2022
Friday 11:51 am
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>>455425
>Frankie Boyle
I was a big fan of him becoming more political and less BRILLIANT a year or two ago, but the latest series of Frankie Boyle's New World Order is atrocious. It really is like a parody. It overdoes the white guilt and male fishing to the point that it's practically unwatchable. The tone has changed from being similar to The Daily Show to being similar to that John Oliver spin-off of The Daily Show.
>> No. 455430 Anonymous
2nd December 2022
Friday 12:46 pm
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Fern Brady has full blown autism, so she's basically one of us.
>> No. 455431 Anonymous
2nd December 2022
Friday 1:17 pm
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>>455430
Yeah, she struggles to ejaculate as well.
>> No. 455432 Anonymous
2nd December 2022
Friday 1:29 pm
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>>455431

She does enjoy harrowing amateur pornography.


>> No. 455490 Anonymous
5th December 2022
Monday 4:24 pm
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If a massive bit of pork gets cooked on the outside, the oven turns off and then it sits there for a couple of hours, not cooking, can it then be finished off safely or is that a right-off?
>> No. 455493 Anonymous
5th December 2022
Monday 5:18 pm
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>>455490
I'd have thought a couple of hours will be okay. Only one way to find out :)
>> No. 455494 Anonymous
5th December 2022
Monday 5:45 pm
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>>455490

Chances are it'll come out a bit dry, that's probably the main reason not to, but other than that should be fine.

The reason you want to be careful when it's mince or sausages etc is because the processing not only inherently increases the risk of contamination, but chopping it into tiny bits increases the surface area for bacteria to multiply. With a big solid joint of meat that's not really such an issue, hence why you can dry age a cut of beef for months and not die when you eat it, but it becomes much more important to properly cook once it's cut into bits.
>> No. 455500 Anonymous
5th December 2022
Monday 9:31 pm
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Is anyone else having internet connection problems lately? The providers say it's all fine no problems but anecdotally it seems worse than usual for a fair few people.
>> No. 455501 Anonymous
5th December 2022
Monday 11:39 pm
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I came across some of my old school documents at my parents' house today. There was a letter from year 10 from the school, in which my parents were informed that there was "reasonable and growing concern" about my academic achievement and the goals I should start to set for myself as I was approaching the end of school.

In short, I remember I couldn't be arsed. I was more busy chasing girls and enjoying underage drinking. Still got my A levels in the end, and even went on to uni. So the joke was on them.
>> No. 455502 Anonymous
6th December 2022
Tuesday 12:16 am
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Remind me never to order squid from the Chinese takeaway ever again. It's not squid, it's sauce, water chestnuts and a bit of squid. Oh, and it's rubbish.
>> No. 455503 Anonymous
6th December 2022
Tuesday 12:39 am
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>>455502

>and a bit of squid

Squid is expensive. Most of it still gets imported from the Mediterranean, although warming waters and climate change have increased their occurrence in British waters.
>> No. 455504 Anonymous
6th December 2022
Tuesday 2:54 am
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Met Ginger "fuckin" Joe from the Kersal massive video. He's bald now.
>> No. 455505 Anonymous
6th December 2022
Tuesday 7:36 am
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>>455504
Isn't he in prison for armed robbery or am I thinking of Lil' Kev?
>> No. 455506 Anonymous
6th December 2022
Tuesday 7:53 am
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>>455504
Is he the one that tried to get away from being associated with it and make something of himself?
>> No. 455507 Anonymous
6th December 2022
Tuesday 9:12 am
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>>455506
I've seen people claim this is C-Man, but could easily be bollocks.

http://www.mbcsolicitors.co.uk/meet-the-team/staff/callum-mcnulty/23.aspx

I did have the Kersal Massive pop into my head the other day. I contemplated making a thread on /iq/ with it so we could reminisce about the other classics as well.
>> No. 455508 Anonymous
6th December 2022
Tuesday 6:48 pm
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I learned about polyorchidism today.

I'm bewildered.
>> No. 455509 Anonymous
6th December 2022
Tuesday 11:32 pm
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Why on Earth did I tell a beautiful woman to watch Videodrome? Why didn't I say Scanners? Scanners doesn't beat a woman with a cat-o-nine-tails. The only silver lining is I'll probably never even see her again, so who cares.
>> No. 455510 Anonymous
7th December 2022
Wednesday 10:14 am
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I realise I'm sounding like a massive Ocado shill, but they sent me codes for a free Hotel Chocolat box (worth £15) and tote bag for shopping with them five times. Neither item was in stock so when I messaged customer services they said "we don't know when they'll be back in stock, so he's a code to get £20 off your next spent to get whatever you'd like instead."

They really are top bollocks.
>> No. 455511 Anonymous
7th December 2022
Wednesday 1:34 pm
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I feel like absolute shit. My "cheat day" turned into a four day fats and carbs bender, fucking food. I don't even like eating, it's horrid, I just don't have any better hobbies.
>> No. 455512 Anonymous
7th December 2022
Wednesday 4:02 pm
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>>455511

Four days isn't that long in the grand scheme of things. Do you think you were being a bit restrictive beforehand?
>> No. 455513 Anonymous
7th December 2022
Wednesday 4:02 pm
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>>455509

On national cinema day this year (£5 tickets) the local independent cinema was showing Cronenberg's Crash and there were heaps of normie looking couples on dates in the crowd. I hope no lad took a date there without prior knowledge of what that film was all about...
>> No. 455514 Anonymous
7th December 2022
Wednesday 4:13 pm
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>>455513

Sounds like a real car-crash of a date.
>> No. 455515 Anonymous
7th December 2022
Wednesday 5:46 pm
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I need to buy an iPad Air now, but I also need to not pay for it for the next 12 months. Anyone know if this is a possibility? I don't mean paying a bit monthly on 0%, I mean paying nothing and then needing to pay in full in 12 months time.
>> No. 455517 Anonymous
7th December 2022
Wednesday 6:24 pm
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>>455515

Very offer credit with nothing to pay for 12 months. You should be extremely careful about using this offer, because if you don't pay it off in full before the end of the 12 month period you'll immediately be charged 39.9% interest. I can only recommend this option if you know you'll have the money and you're confident that you'll be organised enough to pay it off in time. If you're sure that this option is suitable for you, then you can get 20% off with the code "WELCOME".

https://www.very.co.uk/web/en/bnpl.page

Do you need an iPad Air? Could you make do with an older second-hand or refurbished iPad? Could you make do with whatever you've got now?
>> No. 455518 Anonymous
7th December 2022
Wednesday 7:48 pm
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>>455517
Unfortunately I have a very demanding, extremely good looking girlfriend, thank you for the help.
>> No. 455520 Anonymous
7th December 2022
Wednesday 8:27 pm
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>>455518
Mate, don't get yourself in debt and try to lead a lifestyle you can't afford for a bit of fanny.
>> No. 455521 Anonymous
7th December 2022
Wednesday 8:38 pm
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>>455518

Not worth it lad, genuinely.
>> No. 455522 Anonymous
7th December 2022
Wednesday 8:50 pm
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>>455518
That doesn't fill us with confidence that you will have the money in 12 months. Why can't you pay it off monthly instead? Also, good-looking women are awful; get a hairy sea monster and be ten times happier.
>> No. 455523 Anonymous
7th December 2022
Wednesday 9:01 pm
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>>455518

Mate even on six figures I've never spent that much on a gift for a girlfriend, unless I was reasonably certain something of similar value would be returned. Not because I'm cheap, but because just giving someone a grand's worth of iPad for Christmas when they can't afford to (or do not intend to) reciprocate would make any reasonable person quite uncomfortable. If someone is expecting that sort of money spent on them (and I can safely assume she will not spend anything like that on you, otherwise she'd not be begging for apple products from you) when they presumably know you can't afford it, then you really, really need to take a step back. No fanny is worth long term debt.

Unless you're involved in some sort of caper where you're pretending you're very rich when you're not, in which case just buy her a fake Rolex from the market.
>> No. 455524 Anonymous
7th December 2022
Wednesday 9:17 pm
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>>455518

She'll bleed you dry m8. If you're getting into debt for her, you'll still be in debt long after she has left you for someone else. Heartbreak is bad enough without the hangover of debt. It's not worth it, it's never worth it. If you give her something you can afford for Christmas and she dumps you, she's saving you from untold misery.
>> No. 455525 Anonymous
7th December 2022
Wednesday 9:35 pm
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>>455522
>>455520
>>455521
I've never had any kind of luck in my life before, I just want to keep this one bit of enjoyment going for just a bit longer.
>> No. 455527 Anonymous
7th December 2022
Wednesday 9:46 pm
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>>455525
What's lucky about having a high maintenance girlfriend?
>> No. 455528 Anonymous
7th December 2022
Wednesday 10:02 pm
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>>455525

Have some self respect lad. You're better than this.
>> No. 455530 Anonymous
7th December 2022
Wednesday 10:55 pm
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>>455525
I feel so sorry for you because we all know you aren't going to take those blinkers off until it's too late.
>> No. 455531 Anonymous
7th December 2022
Wednesday 10:58 pm
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>>455512
Not very restrictive, just a bit. I will be now though. I'm going to eat nothing but fruit and soup until I'm light-headed and passing smoothies.

>>455513
It probably wasn't that bad. She'd seen Crimes of the Future and agreed with me that it was "funny". Your thing definitely could have happened though, because some lad thought was just a sexy film to take a date to, or he was trying to impress her and thought it was the 2004 Crash. Still, could be worse, imagine taking a woman to see Benny's Video because she said she liked found footage films?
>> No. 455532 Anonymous
7th December 2022
Wednesday 11:01 pm
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>>455525
Think of the enjoyment when you open your present first and it's not another iPad, so you dump her right there on Christmas morning and take her iPad back to the shop for a refund.

Are you sure this is luck you're experiencing? Maybe you're wonderful and she genuinely likes you even if you don't buy her an iPad. It doesn't have to be luck for something good to happen to you.
>> No. 455533 Anonymous
8th December 2022
Thursday 9:21 am
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Maybe you lot are right.
>> No. 455534 Anonymous
8th December 2022
Thursday 9:34 am
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I'm taking part in a webinar on sales strategy improvement this morning. The person doing it is unfortunately painfully incompetent and her case examples are so dry and uninteresting that people have started commenting in the chat window. I've also more or less tuned out and I'm juggling the Microsoft Teams window with some work e-mails and a bit of personal Christmas shopping on Amazon.
>> No. 455535 Anonymous
8th December 2022
Thursday 10:24 am
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>>455533
Amazon have very generous returns on electrical goods, in my experience. If you buy her iPad from them you could wait until March to chuck her and still get your money back. But I also think you could take your hundreds of pounds and spend it dating women you don't srecretly resent and who don't treat you like a mail order catalogue.
>> No. 455536 Anonymous
8th December 2022
Thursday 11:25 am
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>>455525

Listen mate, I won't judge you quite as harshly as the other lads, but I will say this- She better be sucking your knob like a Henry fucking Hoover, because if she doesn't you are pure and simply a mug being taken for a ride.
>> No. 455539 Anonymous
8th December 2022
Thursday 6:53 pm
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I hate Birmingham. That is all.
>> No. 455540 Anonymous
8th December 2022
Thursday 6:59 pm
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>>455539

I'm fairly sure the bigger a city gets, the worse it is. There's no real way around that. I'm not saying small villages or towns are all amazing or better than big cities but they're not shit in quite as bleak and depressing of a way, at least.

All the biggest cities in this country are shit. London is awful, it's got culture at least I suppose but everything else about it... Birmingham is awful, and doesn't have any redeeming qualities, and Manchester is awful, and doesn't have any redeeming qualities.

Places like Leeds, Liverpool, Bristol or wherever, the ones that are just sort of in-between, as large cities but not massive ones, tend to be much nicer. Well, depending where in them you live, at least. I stayed in an AirBNB in the posh bit of Leeds near near the Royal Armouries for a couple of weeks when I was moving out of my last place, and I've never felt lonelier in my life. It was weird that was.
>> No. 455542 Anonymous
8th December 2022
Thursday 7:50 pm
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I think it's the roads I mainly take issue with. The traffic system is crap and the drivers are ridiculously aggressive, especially when compared with the likes of Leeds and Manchester.

It's impossible to leave Birmingham in a good mood because the place is just so despondent and bleak.
>> No. 455544 Anonymous
9th December 2022
Friday 5:19 pm
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Update m8's.
Scans reveal nothing sinister. Some swelling and discomfort still so back to the GP. Relieved tbh.
>> No. 455545 Anonymous
9th December 2022
Friday 5:30 pm
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>>455544
Glad to hear it. Perhaps you need milking.
>> No. 455546 Anonymous
9th December 2022
Friday 6:48 pm
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>>455544

As my dad would say at times like these:
👍
>> No. 455567 Anonymous
11th December 2022
Sunday 5:51 pm
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>>455540
Took this lovely picture of Cardiff today.
>> No. 455570 Anonymous
11th December 2022
Sunday 8:36 pm
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>>455542
I went to Birmingham a few weeks ago and was reminded that the one redeeming quality of New Street station is that the platforms having a shopping centre on to and the approaches being in tunnels mean that if you aren't entering or exiting the station then you don't have to look at Birmingham.
>> No. 455571 Anonymous
11th December 2022
Sunday 8:40 pm
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>>455570
Looking at Birmingham is now mandatory, to look away is to disapprove of our glorious multicultural society. You don't want to do 7 years for a hate crime now, do you, anon?
>> No. 455572 Anonymous
11th December 2022
Sunday 8:40 pm
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I quite like Sheffield train station for some reason. Maybe nostalgia.
>> No. 455579 Anonymous
11th December 2022
Sunday 9:42 pm
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>>455571
Don't you have a Daily Mail article to eat?
>> No. 455581 Anonymous
11th December 2022
Sunday 9:47 pm
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One thing I forgot to mention about my trip to Birmingham. There were loads of tramps who kept walking up and down in the middle of the roads, especially on the ring road around the ULEZ.
>> No. 455585 Anonymous
12th December 2022
Monday 4:39 am
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>>455570

Similarly, the Birmingham NEC has the great advantage of not really being in Birmingham.

It's easy to mock, but I'm actually very fond of Birmingham. It's a shithole, I won't argue there, but it's a bustling shithole. Cheap commercial rents, good transport links and plenty of skilled and ambitious people mean that there's a lot going on. It looks dreadfully run down, but if you get to know the place then it starts to feel very up-and-coming. It isn't full of the fancy offices that make a city feel prosperous, but it is full of workshops and warehouses doing meaningful work. It's the kind of city where you can make things happen and Britain doesn't have many of those.
>> No. 455586 Anonymous
12th December 2022
Monday 9:19 am
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>> No. 455587 Anonymous
12th December 2022
Monday 12:37 pm
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I made cheese on toast with brown bread, Edam slices, and an experimental sprinkle of soy sauce. It made a much more positive impact than I expected, just the right kind of tangy savoury taste you need to contrast the overpowering mildness of a cheese like Edam.
>> No. 455588 Anonymous
12th December 2022
Monday 12:43 pm
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>>455587
That's what Worcestershire soss is for, splitter.
>> No. 455589 Anonymous
12th December 2022
Monday 12:47 pm
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>>455588

There can only be one.
>> No. 455591 Anonymous
12th December 2022
Monday 2:01 pm
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>>455589
Appeal to region ("northern") and "secret family recipe"? Smells like corporate garbage and another punk brew in the making.
>> No. 455593 Anonymous
12th December 2022
Monday 2:56 pm
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>>455591

Shut your dirty mouth, that stuff is delicious and a worthy contender to best Worcestershire sauce.
>> No. 455594 Anonymous
12th December 2022
Monday 3:14 pm
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>>455591
If you consider Worcester to be "Northern", I strongly suspect you are from London yourself anyway. Filthy liars.
>> No. 455595 Anonymous
12th December 2022
Monday 3:16 pm
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>>455593
You shut your dirty whore mouth. I don'r doubt it's decent, just thaty they market it like cunts.
>> No. 455596 Anonymous
12th December 2022
Monday 3:17 pm
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>>455594
It says northern on the bottle, m9.
>> No. 455597 Anonymous
12th December 2022
Monday 3:33 pm
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Wusster sauce is just a poor man's balsamic vinegar anyway.
>> No. 455598 Anonymous
12th December 2022
Monday 3:39 pm
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>>455597
If I'm correctly remembering the wiki page I read once, it was supposed to be Soy Sauce originally.
>> No. 455602 Anonymous
12th December 2022
Monday 6:10 pm
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>>455596
I wouldn't accept a geography lesson from any bottle that considers Worcester to be Northern.
>> No. 455603 Anonymous
12th December 2022
Monday 7:44 pm
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>>455598

>it was supposed to be Soy Sauce originally.


There are a few different legends about its origin, but generally, what is true is that it was probably inspired by similar condiments which British explorers encountered in Southeast Asia in the early 19th century and then attempted to reverse engineer back home.
>> No. 455605 Anonymous
12th December 2022
Monday 8:42 pm
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Standing charges for leccy and gas.

That is all.
>> No. 455607 Anonymous
12th December 2022
Monday 10:49 pm
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I handed my notice in last week but I don't have another job lined up yet. I'm not overly bothered as it's a five month notice period but everyone I've talked to about it gives me a funny look, as if I'm making a huge mistake, when they ask where I'm going and I tell them I'm taking my time about it.
>> No. 455608 Anonymous
12th December 2022
Monday 11:25 pm
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>>455603

The most likely origin (and palatable one, depending on whatever angle you may want to punt from) would be Garum.
>> No. 455611 Anonymous
13th December 2022
Tuesday 3:00 pm
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>>455607
I'd give you a funny look too - are you some kind of super employable candidate?
>> No. 455612 Anonymous
13th December 2022
Tuesday 4:38 pm
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I was off long term sick in my job working on an NHS ward. During the sickness I spoke to superiors about shadowing other people doing my role on other wards, so I can build my confidence. My return to work meeting was meant to be me, my line manager, and someone from the training team for my role. However, the training team person was not present, and my manager said without them we can't sort out shadowing, and that she didn't want me on the ward at that moment due to it being in a bit of a crisis. So was told to just stay home until the training team person is back. It's been two weeks now, and when I looked on my online portal, these last two weeks have gone down as annual leave. Is that allowed? I've literally been told not to come to work, something I'm not in control of, and it's eaten up a big chunk of my annual leave even though I had no choice in the matter.
>> No. 455613 Anonymous
13th December 2022
Tuesday 5:12 pm
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Pushed a woman to the verge of tears with my ringtone today. Quite unexpected I must say.

>>455605
I assume this was meant for /101/, but regardless I found out on Monday that E.ON Next don't let customers switch from a prepayment meter under any circumstances. Really evil stuff.
>> No. 455614 Anonymous
13th December 2022
Tuesday 5:53 pm
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>>455613
I just moved into a new house that had EOn Next prepayment meters. We switched to Octopus and now we're on a standard meter, don't even need any changes to the hardware.
>> No. 455615 Anonymous
13th December 2022
Tuesday 5:58 pm
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>>455613
I bought a house with a prepayment meter, and they refused to let me change because apparently they just don't have any of the other kind. I thought that was a bit strange, but nowhere near as strange as how similar our circumstances are. How certain are you that you can't change? Because they told me I could, if I wait a couple of months.
>> No. 455616 Anonymous
13th December 2022
Tuesday 6:27 pm
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>>455611
My level of experience and qualifications in my industry means that I'd be able to walk into another job if I wanted to. I just need to strike the right balance between location, salary and flexibility.
>> No. 455617 Anonymous
13th December 2022
Tuesday 6:52 pm
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>>455612

That's definitely not allowed, but the NHS usually isn't out to punish you for this sort of stuff. It should most likely just be put as medical suspension. Call your manager and ask if it was a mistake, if it wasn't a mistake get your union rep emailed.

You are in the union right lad?
>> No. 455618 Anonymous
14th December 2022
Wednesday 5:05 pm
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Test.
>> No. 455619 Anonymous
14th December 2022
Wednesday 5:23 pm
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Wi-fi has been patchy at home. After some troubleshooting I was able to rule out all the plug-in repeaters around the house, then called BT tonight and they established via remote diagnostics that something like the internal voltage of my router in the basement is "all over the place". If I understood them correctly. It was a bit hard to grasp because the lad was getting quite technical. Anyway, they're sending out a new router tomorrow at no extra charge.

We do need wi-fi boosters/repeaters around the house, because the walls and floors are pretty substantial brick and reinforced concrete. But all that normally works fine, so there had to be something wrong with the router.
>> No. 455620 Anonymous
14th December 2022
Wednesday 5:37 pm
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Would you work for a company where the office manager is the bosses wife? It seems like a red flag to me.
>> No. 455621 Anonymous
14th December 2022
Wednesday 5:41 pm
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>>455620
Yes, but only as a means of seducing her.
>> No. 455622 Anonymous
14th December 2022
Wednesday 6:01 pm
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>>455620

I worked in a setting like that once. Small advertising agency, about four to five full-time employees as well as an assortment of students, so that on a busy day, there were about eight or nine of us working there.

Anyway, the boss's wife was the office manager as well as the head of HR and a few other job titles. As is often the case at small companies where you have people doing many jobs in one.

The problem was, she was shit at all of them. She had a Mickey Mouse degree under her belt, as many do in that industry, and she probably would have been out of her depth running a chip shop. Just complete chaos and ineptness. I guess at some level, her husband knew that she was shit, but he never really intervened. The worst days were when the boss was out on business all day and she was left in charge. My biggest gripe with her were her attempts to micromanage projects that we were working on which she didn't have the faintest clue about.

So yeah, in essence, red flag.
>> No. 455623 Anonymous
14th December 2022
Wednesday 6:37 pm
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>>455620

Not in a million fucking years.

It can be fine, but if it goes wrong then it goes very wrong.
>> No. 455624 Anonymous
14th December 2022
Wednesday 6:50 pm
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>>455622
I haven't met her yet, but from the photos and videos on the company website I'm getting a bit of a Stepford Wives vibe. She looks quite like Amanda Owen.

I've got an 'initial chat' with the owner coming up and I had to fill in a questionnaire about why I want to work there and what I can offer them beforehand, which was a bit weird. When I went on their website I noticed there was a lot of wank about how great they are as an employer and how they're like one big family. They've got a video about working for them which was has also got me a little uneasy because it's from 2019 and only the owner, his wife and an admin woman who's probably been there 20 years are still working there now; the other four people in the video have evidently all fucked off since.

Oh, well. If I get bad vibes I'm happy to be an arsehole and fire as many questions along the lines of "what would be my biggest frustrations working here?" and "what's the rate of staff turnover?" as I can think of.
>> No. 455625 Anonymous
14th December 2022
Wednesday 7:01 pm
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>>455620

Absolutely not. There are almost certainly setups like this where the spouse is fantastic at what they do and it's not an issue, but even then, it still leaves you on shaky ground if you happen to come into a disagreement with them. If I have an issue with my office manager, I'd expect higher management to at least make an attempt at neutrality. Obviously in this situation that can never happen.

Additionally, there's nothing worse than two co-workers who were together but then split up and still work in the same place. Their inevitable divorce, from spending nearly 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with each other, will be messy and likely cost you.
>> No. 455626 Anonymous
14th December 2022
Wednesday 7:04 pm
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>>455624

>how they're like one big family

This is, as the kids say, a massive red flag. It's code for "this business is our life, and we expect you to sacrifice as much time and energy as we have, for free"

I've seen it so many times.
>> No. 455627 Anonymous
14th December 2022
Wednesday 7:12 pm
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>>455626

I don't know about you lads, but my family are a bunch of mad cunts who I can barely tolerate for the duration of Christmas dinner.
>> No. 455628 Anonymous
14th December 2022
Wednesday 8:20 pm
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>>455620
The boss's wife is the HR lady at my work, and it's fine. Yes, she is shit at the job, but it's a non-job. It's very common in small companies, and if "office manager" at that company doesn't mean "boss", which it can't because she's the boss's wife and she's not her own wife, then she's just going to be ordering toner cartridges and refills for the drinks machine, and it's going to be okay.
>> No. 455629 Anonymous
14th December 2022
Wednesday 8:34 pm
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>>455625

Basically this. Their competency or lack thereof is always a dice roll when they were clearly hired out of nepotism, but it's pretty much irrelevant anyway, because this is the main issue. There's pretty much no world where it won't become a conflict of interest sooner or later. Usually sooner.

It's bad enough when you just have colleagues who are married/partnered, but when one of them is in a position of authority and especially if it's the man with the authority and the woman beneath it's pretty much guaranteed to be abused.
>> No. 455638 Anonymous
15th December 2022
Thursday 6:41 pm
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Rest in piss you mad bastard.
>> No. 455639 Anonymous
15th December 2022
Thursday 6:59 pm
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Is there really much of a difference between olive, rapeseed and sunflower oil if I'm only using it for frying?
>> No. 455640 Anonymous
15th December 2022
Thursday 8:12 pm
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>>455639

In terms of nutritional value, no, not really. Most of the good stuff in raw vegetable oil gets broken down by the heat, so it won't make much difference.

Olive oil retains its distinctive flavour though when you fry stuff in it. It'll always have that slightly bitter, "olivey" aroma. Which is great for Mediterranean cooking, but not so much for your pancakes. It also has the lowest smoke point of the three, that I'm aware, so that's something to keep in mind.

Never been much of a rapeseed fan, but if you're going for neutral taste, sunflower is probably best for your steak. Also usually many times cheaper than olive oil.
>> No. 455641 Anonymous
15th December 2022
Thursday 8:14 pm
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>>455639

Sunflower oil has the highest smoke point of the three. High heat will destroy most of the flavour of olive oil and the flavour that does remain is unlikely to be particularly pleasant.

Don't tell anyone, but the best oil for frying is usually beef dripping.
>> No. 455642 Anonymous
15th December 2022
Thursday 8:35 pm
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>>455641

>High heat will destroy most of the flavour of olive oil and the flavour that does remain is unlikely to be particularly pleasant.

I just fried chicken breasts in extra virgin olive oil today, with salt, paprika, fresh herbs, chopped garlic and chili pepper, and even on a dish like that, you can still taste a bit of the olive oil when it's on your plate. Can't say it was unpleasant, but maybe I'm just used to it.

Then again, I tend to have a very acute sense of smell and taste. I usually notice odours and scents long before everybody else. So much so that I was very fussy as a weelad about things like milk; I could smell the milk going off days before anybody else in my family. Or when an open tin of pineapple slices in the fridge was beginning to get kind of funky. My parents always thought it was just an act, but I could really smell it and always wondered why everybody else didn't.
>> No. 455652 Anonymous
16th December 2022
Friday 4:42 pm
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>>455620
I have already replied to you (>>455628) and I have a new story. My work got bought out, and allegedly we're all getting massive raises. We've been waiting months for these. We started asking more and more about when we'd get them, and were told to expect them before Christmas. We asked why it was taking so long, and it was because everything was being scrutinised and worked on really hard by our HR lady, the boss's wife, who would personally present us with our new confirmation of improved salary.

Today, the last day before I'm off for Christmas, she came in and gave us all our new salaries. My new salary, offered with a huge smile, is three grand less than what I get now, because she doesn't know how much I get paid and clearly doesn't care. Other people had the same problem.

Fucking hell. Absolute shambles. The sheer ineptitude of this bloody company. They're going to look into it and come back with an updated offer, but what a total mountain of shit. I guess it might not be her fault (my salary has multiple line items, the base salary and a bonus that is part of the salary, and our accounts lady is ill and has made a lot of mistakes recently) but our cleaner was offered a raise to a new amount that is below minimum wage. No employer would stand for this shit from a woman they weren't married to.
>> No. 455657 Anonymous
16th December 2022
Friday 6:33 pm
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If I don't have gravy granules or cornflour how do I make gravy? I was thinking of frying onions, adding flour and then Marmite.
>> No. 455658 Anonymous
16th December 2022
Friday 7:08 pm
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>>455657

From animal fats, usually.
>> No. 455672 Anonymous
16th December 2022
Friday 10:22 pm
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>>455657

Broth and veg stock reduced over a long time, maybe?
>> No. 455698 Anonymous
20th December 2022
Tuesday 4:58 pm
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Bought a bag of seeding compost today. Winter solstice is upon us, and that means it's time to start the coming season's chili peppers.
>> No. 455699 Anonymous
20th December 2022
Tuesday 8:58 pm
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Oh thanks for the reminder, I start late every year and I'm having such a good week I think I will make sure I plant some things early. Thank you ladm9.
>> No. 455700 Anonymous
20th December 2022
Tuesday 9:17 pm
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>>455657

What type of gravy? I always make onion gravy with a good few onions, couple of oxon cubes and flour to thicken it up. Sugar optional at the onion browning stage, can add Worcestershire sauce or hendos or something similar too.
>> No. 455701 Anonymous
20th December 2022
Tuesday 9:21 pm
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>>455699

Chili peppers do benefit from an early start in our climate. With my method of putting seeds in the propagator by late December, I'm able to harvest my first fully ripe cayennes by mid-June. It's probably more crucial for the Tabasco ones, they ripen much slower.
>> No. 455869 Anonymous
2nd January 2023
Monday 7:03 pm
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Lidl had yoghurts today that were two weeks off. I only noticed after I'd paid for them. The lad at the till said he had no idea how that could have happened, and that he would have somebody check all their yoghurts right away.
>> No. 455870 Anonymous
2nd January 2023
Monday 7:28 pm
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>>455869
I was in Lidl earlier today and most of the shelves were bare, although they had at least five freezers full of spring rolls.

I'm guessing someone from head office was there because he looked like a bit of a wonk and he had a mismatching outfit on, including a blazer that didn't really suit him. I'm not sure what he was tasked with doing, but at one point he picked up an entire tray of kale before fucking off with it and at another point he was taking pictures of the biscuits with his phone.
>> No. 455871 Anonymous
2nd January 2023
Monday 10:52 pm
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I noticed there was a weird shortage of cream in several supermarkets I visited this week. I only wanted a small tub of own brand double cream to make a cheese sauce, but ended up having to buy a big pot of Elmlea for two quid.

Broken Britain.
>> No. 455872 Anonymous
2nd January 2023
Monday 11:20 pm
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In Asda today all the pre-wrapped peppers were literally rotten. The bags were full of moisture and many of them had mold on the outside, I've never seen anything like it.

You jest about "Broken Britain", but I really do feel like the country's a certifiable shithole now.
>> No. 455873 Anonymous
2nd January 2023
Monday 11:35 pm
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>>455872

It's just that over the last decade or two, we've got so used to everything being hunky dory all the time, that we're not used to things actually going tits up like they are right now. It's not that we've gone soft, just that we forgot that actually, things can go wrong if you don't pro-actively take steps to make sure they DON'T go wrong.

We should be rightly annoyed about it, because it's not like you can blame it on the working people of the country. They're not the ones causing the problems. You can't look at empty shelves in Lidl and say it's the lazy pleb stacking the shelves to blame, because it's not. The people in charge of the country, whether you think that's the government or the bankers or some shady cabal of illuminati lizards, have thrown us all under the bus. We're all still here, showing up at 9am every day, doing everything we can be reasonably expected to do, and everything's collapsing because the higher ups just shrugged and said "whatever, fuck it."

I think we are going to witness a big change in attitudes in this country going forwards. People aren't going to be so easily distracted with scare stories in the gutter press about immigrants or benefit scroungers or turbo carpet-baggers when they're finding it a weekly challenge just to buy veg that isn't already mouldy in Asda.
>> No. 455874 Anonymous
2nd January 2023
Monday 11:56 pm
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I dunno if you lads are overthinking this. The shops go a bit weird around this time of year because of being closed for Christmas and then New Year.
>> No. 455875 Anonymous
3rd January 2023
Tuesday 1:47 am
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>>455874

Except it's been like this for months. On and off, basically everything has been a bit wonky since covid, frankly, but it's been really noticeable lately. It's like supermarkets can't get the staff to do everything efficiently, so there's always empty shelves waiting to be refilled, or they're missing deliveries of stuff because there aren't any drivers, etc etc.
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3rd January 2023
Tuesday 2:41 am
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I was at a chain restaurant last week. Apparently for the past few months, they've been giving guests the main menu, the drinks menu, and a slip of paper listing everything that's not available that day.

Borken Bitrain.
>> No. 455877 Anonymous
3rd January 2023
Tuesday 6:14 am
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>>455875

Nobody in politics or the media is talking about why this is happening, mostly because Brexit has become a taboo topic. Lorry drivers didn't just vanish into smoke over the last couple of years, they fucked off back to Bulgmania like we told them to.

The pandemic has complicated the situation, the situation in Ukraine has caused obvious global economic impacts, but all that has distracted from the trade effects of leaving the EU. It's obvious why we've got staff shortages in industries that have historically relied on migrant labour, it's obvious why we're having trouble keeping the shelves stocked, but we just don't want to talk about it.
>> No. 455878 Anonymous
3rd January 2023
Tuesday 11:26 am
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>>455877
Pretty much all my work colleagues joke about going to stack shelves in supermarkets because it's less hassle for basically the same money. I wouldn't, but for 40 grand a year you bet I would. So they could just pay everyone that much and then IT support would be struggling instead. Of course, this was starting to happen and then it was decided that we can't have that because it causes inflation.
>> No. 455879 Anonymous
3rd January 2023
Tuesday 11:39 am
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>>455878
Wages at Aldi start at £11 per hour, going up to £11.90 per hour depending on length of service. They're also the only supermarket offering paid breaks.

https://www.aldirecruitment.co.uk/stores/store-assistantssistants/

40 hours per week at £11 per hour would equate to a salary of £22,880, although they prefer people to work 25 hours per week part-time. That isn't too far off what my girlfriend earns and she's second in command for a local charity.
>> No. 455880 Anonymous
3rd January 2023
Tuesday 1:47 pm
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>>455877

It'd be nice if it was as simple as Brexit done it, but it's not true. In reality the issues are much deeper rooted than Brexit. If anything, EU migration was only ever a band-aid fix for problems that were bound to rear their head sooner or later either way. We should have been addressing the shortage of skills and economic imbalance thirty-odd years ago, and then we might not have ended up here.

There's also things like the fact that the labour pool is shrinking because of an ever increasing number of people on long-term sick. They can't get seen by their GP, their GP can't get them a referral, whatever, the end result is they're spending months longer off than they have to. The health system is on it's arse and it's directly impacting our productivity.

Ultimately we have simply spent too long under an incompetent, corrupt government that has done nothing but siphon funds out of the taxpayer's purse and into the pockets of their wealthy mates, instead of looking after the country. We're on a sinking ship because the people in charge of repairing the timbers gave the job to their dodgy mates who got some rotten wood on the cheap, and pocketed the rest.
>> No. 455881 Anonymous
3rd January 2023
Tuesday 2:37 pm
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>>455880

I agree that the British economy has more complex and long-standing issues, but the supply chain and labour market problems we're currently experiencing are primarily attributable to Brexit. We've made trade with out closest trading partners more difficult and more expensive, which has an obvious knock-on effect on supply and prices. Upskilling will only get you so far in an economy that inherently needs a lot of low-skilled workers and has below-replacement fertility rates. You can't meaningfully improve the productivity of a care home worker or a waiter through better skills or technology; either we find people willing to do work that is inherently low-productivity (and therefore comparatively poorly paid), or we do without those services. Unless we reconfigure our economy to require a lot less labour (which means doing without a lot of personal services that can't be readily automated), we need immigrants purely for demographic reasons.

>There's also things like the fact that the labour pool is shrinking because of an ever increasing number of people on long-term sick.

That's only sort of true. Some people are on long-term sick because of covid or a lack of NHS treatment, but a bigger factor is the huge backlog of Work Capability Assessments at the DWP. If you applied for Universal Credit at the start of the pandemic and said that you're too ill to work, you're probably still waiting for an assessment to decide whether you're actually too sick to work. I don't want to make a value judgement because the WCA process has been notoriously inconsistent and unfair, but it means that a lot of people who would normally be classified as jobseekers are being classified as long-term sick.
>> No. 455884 Anonymous
3rd January 2023
Tuesday 4:15 pm
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>>455881

Yeah, in a short-term, immediate direct cause way, I agree, it was Brexit. But my point is more that we were only ever plastering over the cracks by importing Poles; sooner or later we would have had to reckon with the problem, because there's only so many Poles you can import. The problem is circular, you can't just slap the duct tape of immigration over it forever. Ultimately staying in the EU was better for us, but in terms of our demographics and skill distribution, it wasn't a solution, it just allowed us to kick the can further down the road.

It's telling that you instantly jump to the idea of "upskilling", very new labour idealist concept of a solution that allows you to stop thinking about the uncomfortable reality when it doesn't really address anything. No, what you need to do is reconfigure the economy so that important jobs are well paid, and that people are more welcoming of the idea of working in those industries/roles, regardless of how desirable, prestigious, or "productive" you think they are in cold neoliberal economic terms.

Trucker drivers and care assistants might just turn out to be jobs worth paying well, because they are actually vital to the functioning of the economy and society itself. You can perpetuate the myth that they're low value because they're ow skill, but what we're seeing right now in real time is clear cut evidence that that's just blatantly false.

I drifted off into attacking a straw centrist in the middle there, hope you don't take it personally lad.
>> No. 455885 Anonymous
3rd January 2023
Tuesday 5:01 pm
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>>455884

>You can perpetuate the myth that they're low value because they're ow skill, but what we're seeing right now in real time is clear cut evidence that that's just blatantly false.

It isn't a myth though. There's a well-recognised phenomenon in economics called "Baumol's cost disease".

Lots of jobs have become vastly more productive over time. Manufacturing is now heavily automated - a factory that might have employed thousands of people a century ago can now operate with just a few dozen engineers to care for the machinery. A single software developer can write an app that millions of people use, because software can be replicated infinitely at almost zero cost. Agriculture used to employ millions of people to till and sow and reap by hand, but farmers now use massive and incredibly sophisticated machinery to do that work.

Many other jobs haven't increased in productivity at all. The classic example is that a violinist in an orchestra produces exactly the same amount of output today than they did a century ago, but they're now vastly better paid and have a much higher standard of living. A teacher who still teaches the same sized classes as teachers did a century ago expects to be paid competitively with an accountant who uses a computer to do work that once required dozens of clerks.

Because of Baumol's cost disease, the cost of services relative to goods (and the share of employment in services) will increase inexorably as an economy develops. A farmer with a combine harvester can do the work of twenty men, but there's no combine harvester for social care or nursing. With an ageing population in which the ratio of pensioners to workers is rapidly increasing, we have two options to keep society running - import growing numbers of immigrants, or institute some kind of breeding programme. Ageing is a double blow, because it reduces the pool of available workers whilst also vastly increasing the demand for health and social care services.

In a closed system, you could very aggressively redistribute from sectors with high productivity to sectors with low productivity. We could set tax rates on car manufacturers or software companies close to 100% and use that money to pay people what we think they should earn, rather than the market rate for their labour.

Unfortunately we don't live in a closed system. We're a mid-sized economy in a globally competitive market, in which the most productive companies are entirely free to pack up and leave. Brexit has demonstrated that this threat of global mobility is far from a hypothetical risk. We are a small island nation with limited natural resources, we depend on imports of goods to survive and so we need a competitive export sector to pay for those imports and maintain our balance of trade.

The left-wing critique of "neoliberalism" in many ways mirrors the populist arguments for Brexit. There are hard realities imposed on us by global trade and our interdependence with other nations that severely constrain what is economically viable. Money is just imaginary and the government can print as much of it as it likes, but we still need to pay for our imports and no exporter of gas or iron ore or lithium will accept payment in toilet paper with the Queen's face printed on it.

We can redistribute, we do redistribute, we should redistribute, but we have to accept the costs of redistribution and recognise that UK PLC isn't doing particularly well for reasons that are only partly the fault of a shambolic Tory government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_disease
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3rd January 2023
Tuesday 5:10 pm
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>>455885
>Lots of jobs have become vastly more productive over time. A single software developer can write an app that millions of people use, because software can be replicated infinitely at almost zero cost.

>Many other jobs haven't increased in productivity at all. The classic example is that a violinist in an orchestra produces exactly the same amount of output today than they did a century ago, but they're now vastly better paid and have a much higher standard of living.

what is an mp3???
>> No. 455887 Anonymous
3rd January 2023
Tuesday 5:34 pm
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>>455886

Essentially nobody wants to download a performance of a well-known work by a third-rate orchestra, which is why nobody bothers to record those performances; some people will happily pay to see that performance live. Recorded music is vastly unequal - the vast majority of listeners are interested in a tiny fraction of recordings and recording artists. The number of working musicians who have a meaningful recorded output is dwarfed by the number of musicians who exclusively rely on live performance. For every Coldplay, there are a thousand bands knocking out covers at weddings, parties and corporate events.
>> No. 455888 Anonymous
3rd January 2023
Tuesday 5:42 pm
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>>455887

Nobody wants to use software by a third-rate dev either.
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3rd January 2023
Tuesday 5:54 pm
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>>455888
u leave purps out of this

Anyway, I think that on some level, the government is aware of these issues and has been trying to tackle them, because my gripe with the job market nowadays is that it's almost a window-shopping economy where we are expected to just pick and choose jobs at will and never spend any time with them. If you go into a shop that sells shoes, there was a time whenyou'd speak to a cobbler who knows all about shoes. Now, you've got the same teenagers who work anywhere else, and they can sell shoes but you'd better not need any shoe expertise or you're out of luck. The economic model we have now seems go favour this, and I guess that's great on some level because it means you can sell shoes for a bit and then go and be an accountant after a couple of years, but it means that the lower-end jobs just never invest in people because those people are never expected to stay. This must be a deliberate government policy; someone somewhere must have decided to do this.
>> No. 455890 Anonymous
3rd January 2023
Tuesday 6:12 pm
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>someone somewhere must have decided to do this

Customers, mostly. We used to have a massive domestic shoe manufacturing business in Northampton, but there are only a handful of high-end makers left because most people preferred cheaper imported shoes. The little local shoe shop that had been run by the same family for decades was pushed out of business by big chains with big economies of scale, gormless minimum-wage staff and much lower prices.

When my grandma was a girl, it was quite common to see kids running around barefoot because they couldn't afford shoes - not destitute kids, but kids with parents in full-time work. Ordinary goods like coats and blankets were major purchases that would be patched and mended until they completely disintegrated. The fact that you can now buy a pair of kids shoes for a fiver at Asda is a miracle of modern manufacturing and logistics, a ruthless pursuit of efficiency that most of us have eagerly embraced. The price we pay for that efficiency is an economy that is dominated by faceless multinationals.
>> No. 455891 Anonymous
3rd January 2023
Tuesday 8:10 pm
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>>455885

I get what you're saying. It's time to institute the one world government so that we can live in a closed system again, and redistribute equitably to the global population.
>> No. 455892 Anonymous
3rd January 2023
Tuesday 8:44 pm
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>>455891

a) good luck with that
b) be careful what you wish for, considering that Britain is still a (relatively) wealthy country with substantially above-average incomes by global standards
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3rd January 2023
Tuesday 9:06 pm
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>>455892

It's going to be the only way in the end. It's an idea nobody likes, and I can understand why, but that we're hurtling towards with a dreadful inevitability.

As technology progresses and globalism dictates more and more of our economic choices, when the only jobs left are morbidly obese faberge yacht collector and malnourished peasant who services the robots that service the robots, it's hard to imagine any alternative that would preserve a functioning society.

Like otherlad said money is pretend. The poor of this country are better off than their African or Indian counterparts not because of how much you make working in Poundland, but because our houses have running water, leccy and we have reliable bin men. It'd be grand if you could work at Poundland in Cardiff and then go home at night to your luxury penthouse in Ouarzazate, Morocco, but you can't. So it's all relative.

If we can give all the third worlders that minimum standard of living, and the price we pay is that maybe middle class households can't have two BMWs and go on holiday to the Maldives every year, I'm fine with it. Fuck you.
>> No. 455894 Anonymous
3rd January 2023
Tuesday 10:37 pm
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>>455891


> It's time to institute the one world government so that we can live in a closed system again, and redistribute equitably to the global population.

Except that's not entirely what the future will look like. At least not under capitalism. Companies and private employers, driven by the dogma of ever-increasing profit, will increasingly pay their people less in real terms while their products will get more expensive, so that nobody can really afford to own anything anymore. From a house to a car or even computer software. And in a system like that, it will no longer matter how you distribute the inability of ownership.

The danger will then be that people will increasingly struggle to garner any kind of equity or personal assets at all. Which will hit them especially hard when times are tough.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DcRF0sEpp8
>> No. 455895 Anonymous
4th January 2023
Wednesday 9:23 am
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Where would I even buy a trolley token from? I don't think I've seen them in a shop outside of Red Nose Day and Comic Relief.
>> No. 455896 Anonymous
4th January 2023
Wednesday 11:12 am
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>>455895

Most supermarkets have them by the tills.
>> No. 455897 Anonymous
4th January 2023
Wednesday 4:08 pm
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If you think about it, rollercoasters are completely mental. Theme parks are mental. You're sat in a tiny train going really fast around a little course. What's the appeal here? Do people like rollercoasters just because they're told they should like rollercoasters?
>> No. 455898 Anonymous
4th January 2023
Wednesday 4:32 pm
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>>455897

Never been a fan. I've always been afraid of heights, and that doesn't help when you find yourself hurtling up and down through the air at breakneck speed.
>> No. 455899 Anonymous
4th January 2023
Wednesday 4:57 pm
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>>455897

I mean. Have you ever been on one? It's basically just the primal thrill of going fast, round loops and over hills.

I've been really fancying a day out to a theme park lately. I used to be a right pussy when I was a weelad, and although I went on a few rollercoasters, most of the time I'd bottle it half way down the queue, or just pretend I thought it looked "boring". But now as an adult I'm always craving stuff that would have scared me as a kid, because it's the only way to kick-start my burnt out dopamine receptors.

What's the best one in England? Alton Towers? I heard loads of people die on their rides, but I think that might just add to the thrill.
>> No. 455900 Anonymous
4th January 2023
Wednesday 5:14 pm
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>>455899
The last time I went to a theme park will have been Flamingo Land almost a decade ago, but it was a bit shit as the place looked like it was last updated in the 90s and the rides didn't justify the length of time queuing.

Alton Towers was alright the last time I went, which was probably 2005 on a college trip.
>> No. 455901 Anonymous
4th January 2023
Wednesday 5:55 pm
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>>455898
I used to like rollercoasters, then I went on one and felt ill and I haven't been on one since. I think you naturally go off them as you get older.
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4th January 2023
Wednesday 7:00 pm
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What are these things called? I've had this one for probably close to 20 years and I would like to buy a new one. But I haven't been able to find one anywhere and I can't look online without knowing what they're called.
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4th January 2023
Wednesday 7:07 pm
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>>455902
>> No. 455904 Anonymous
4th January 2023
Wednesday 8:10 pm
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>>455903

And what wizardry is this? What button do I press on my hand computer to do that?
>> No. 455905 Anonymous
4th January 2023
Wednesday 8:33 pm
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Can't believe I spent £150 on a coat the same season global warming properly kicked off. I feel like a right mug.
>> No. 455906 Anonymous
4th January 2023
Wednesday 8:38 pm
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>>455904

https://lens.google/
>> No. 455907 Anonymous
4th January 2023
Wednesday 11:59 pm
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I think I've caught some sort of stomach flu. My stomach feels weird, there's a fair bit of flatulence going on and my poos are almost liquid.
>> No. 455908 Anonymous
5th January 2023
Thursday 2:00 am
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What a difference a year makes. Last January I was staying up all night paranoid I was dying from an undiagnosed illness, now I'm doing the same thing again but talking to myself and doing a bad Duke Nukem impression.
>> No. 455909 Anonymous
5th January 2023
Thursday 8:52 am
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>>455908
Groovy.
>> No. 455910 Anonymous
5th January 2023
Thursday 9:41 am
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My old man's going into the hospital to have coronary bypass surgery tomorrow.
>> No. 455911 Anonymous
5th January 2023
Thursday 11:00 am
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>>455907

I've been a but like that lately, but I put it down to excessive spicy food over the last few days. It's just that annoying thing where it comes out sloppy and no matter how much you wipe there always seems to be more.
>> No. 455912 Anonymous
5th January 2023
Thursday 12:24 pm
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>>455910

It's obviously going to be a worry, but you've got good reason to be optimistic about it. My granddad had a triple bypass thirty-odd years ago. Before the surgery, he was wracked with angina and was completely knackered after climbing a flight of stairs; now he's a sprightly 95-year-old who regularly goes on long country walks. He spent a week in intensive care and needed about eight weeks to properly recover, but bypass surgery gave him a completely new lease on life.
>> No. 455913 Anonymous
5th January 2023
Thursday 12:50 pm
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>>455911


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz_A6K9rSko
>> No. 455914 Anonymous
5th January 2023
Thursday 2:49 pm
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>>455912
Thanks, lad, I appreciate that. He's only 60, but we've got bad genes. He had a heart attack in May, but that was after playing an hour of competitive football, so he's in pretty good nick apart from some dodgy tubes in his chest.
>> No. 455915 Anonymous
5th January 2023
Thursday 3:15 pm
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I bought an Elf Bar today. I've not smoked or vaped in about three years, but I often have cravings for cigarettes so thought this would pacify them. I asked for cigarette flavour, they said the only cigarette flavour disposable is Cream Tobacco. Does not taste like cigarettes at all. Total scam. I don't want to puff on banana milkshake flavoured smoke, I want proper fags taste.
>> No. 455916 Anonymous
5th January 2023
Thursday 5:12 pm
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>>455915

This is largely because there just is no way to make artificial cigarette flavour vape that isn't completely rank. It's like fake meat- You can make something that's reasonably nice, but it won't taste of meat; or you can make something that tries to simulate it as close as possible and it'll be dogshit.

Part of the problem is that smoking dulls your sense of taste and smell. That's why smoking only really feels good when you're habituated. If you try one after a six month break, the first thing you notice is just how godawfulgodawfully fucking foul they taste. But then after a few puffs it goes away. With a vape, there's nothing in there to damage your sense of taste, so it would just permanently be rank.

They have to try compromise but the end result is just that you're better off trying the tutti fruitti. And believe me, you'll realise what a fool you were before.
>> No. 455917 Anonymous
5th January 2023
Thursday 6:15 pm
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>>455916

Products like IQOS vaporise real tobacco, so the taste is completely genuine. As you say though, when your sense of taste comes back, the taste of fags is much less appealing. The vast majority of people who switch from fags to vaping eventually switch to a non-fag flavoured liquid.

I do miss proper fags, I'll have one occasionally if someone offers, but I haven't used fag-flavour liquids in my electric fag for years. I avoid smelling like a branch of Lush by exclusively vaping citrus-flavoured liquids, which means I get to smell like a reasonably well-maintained gents toilet.
>> No. 455918 Anonymous
5th January 2023
Thursday 7:07 pm
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I psychically connected with Princess Diana and she gave me a blowie like in that scene from Ghostbusters.
>> No. 455919 Anonymous
5th January 2023
Thursday 7:11 pm
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>>455918

Either you want the dream thread, or a good psychiatrist.
>> No. 455920 Anonymous
5th January 2023
Thursday 8:59 pm
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>>455919
I was just taking the piss out of the latest Royal Family headline I scrolled past: "Prince Harry says woman with ‘powers’ relayed message from Diana".
>> No. 455929 Anonymous
6th January 2023
Friday 8:40 pm
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>>455870
>>455872
It's taken me ages to find the thread where this discussion happened, so forgive me for not replying to everyone's posts. But this is the second week in a row where Asda have had no carrots. This is an outrage. People should be rioting in the streets, throwing the broccoli that I bought instead. Imagine not having carrots two weeks in a row. They still have plenty of watermelons, bizarrely, but I guess fewer people buy watermelons.

I don't think I struggled to buy carrots at the height of the coronavirus lockdown panic-buying sprees. And carrots grow in this country, unlike watermelons which are actually a major expert of the Ukrainian city of Kherson, of all places. Everything this website discusses, has all merged together to take away my fucking carrots. Is it Brexit's fault? Or climate change? I've definitely noticed carrots getting smaller lately, and now there are none at all.
>> No. 455930 Anonymous
6th January 2023
Friday 8:59 pm
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>>455929
It'll just be Asda's supply chain being fucked, with (one of )their supplier(s) having failed for some reason. Carrots aplenty here, £4 per 10kg sack of horse carrots, and perpetual offers on people carrots in Aldi and Tesco.
That said, it was a crappy year for UK root crops, at least in the east, hence the smallness, although potatoes don't seem too small, maybe they did well elsewhere. My contractor neighbour is taking 40 tonnes a day of expired Spanish salad vegetables over to the AD plant, as hospitality trade collapsed over the break.
>> No. 455932 Anonymous
6th January 2023
Friday 9:26 pm
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>>455929

We went to the local food bank thing (felt a bit guilty because we're not exactly desperate, but it's good value and reduces waste, you pay £7 and get a shitload of random stuff) and we must have got as many carrots as all the rest added up. Shitloads, like carrots was all they had.

Sick of carrots now. You can have some if you want, but they're going a bit brown by now.
>> No. 455933 Anonymous
6th January 2023
Friday 9:46 pm
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Jimmy Carr has really got on in the last one or two years. Just watched a bit of Cats Does Countdown, and it's like he looks five years older than before.
>> No. 455934 Anonymous
6th January 2023
Friday 10:03 pm
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>>455933

You could tell he was already clinging to his youth with make-up and those godawful hair implants. I imagine he has a self-care routine more anal than Patrick Bateman.

Trouble is when you're already holding back the years like that, when the dam bursts, it all washes over you at once.
>> No. 455935 Anonymous
6th January 2023
Friday 10:17 pm
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>>455934

>with make-up

He wasn't wearing it in his free time though. Everybody on television gets makeup for the camera. Both women and men.
>> No. 455956 Anonymous
9th January 2023
Monday 1:25 am
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>>455903
I never did come back to say thank you for this. Searching for "bolt snap hook" was very productive. And yet, I asked some friends last night what they called such a device (it turns out it has many names, including carbine hook and carabiner, but many of them are actually one of those things climbers use so searches are less productive) and someone said "trigger hook". And when I search for trigger hooks online, that seems to be the best name of all for them. There are hundreds of trigger hooks available to purchase.
>> No. 455960 Anonymous
9th January 2023
Monday 10:12 pm
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>>455956
Jesus Christ. Just buy any one of them.
>> No. 455961 Anonymous
10th January 2023
Tuesday 1:41 pm
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I'm guessing it's because of the weather, but Beeston market today was literally a fruit and veg stall, a second-hand book stall and a jacket potato van.
>> No. 455962 Anonymous
10th January 2023
Tuesday 2:10 pm
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>>455961
Which Beeston? Leeds or Nottingham? Beeston Nottingham market is very often just jacket potatoes, fruit and veg, and brownies.
>> No. 455963 Anonymous
10th January 2023
Tuesday 2:11 pm
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>>455962
Castle.
>> No. 455964 Anonymous
10th January 2023
Tuesday 2:45 pm
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>>455962
You know which Beeston I mean by now, lad.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyz0_1mXans
>> No. 455965 Anonymous
11th January 2023
Wednesday 9:33 am
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I've just had to withdraw £13k from my premium bonds to pay my self-assessment tax this month. Granted I haven't paid any income tax since I went self-employed in June 2021, but it still feels pretty galling.
>> No. 455966 Anonymous
11th January 2023
Wednesday 2:20 pm
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>>455965
I felt really bad for you until I calculated how rich you must be. According to my numbers, the most anyone ever pays at the basic rate of tax is £7,540, and any amount above that will be paid for a higher rate of income. You really had my sympathy till I worked that out; I should have stayed ignorant.
>> No. 455967 Anonymous
11th January 2023
Wednesday 3:22 pm
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>>455966
My declared income for the year was somewhere around £42,500, including two months of being employed. The first self-employed tax bill comes to 150% thanks to a payment on account for 2022/23.
>> No. 455968 Anonymous
11th January 2023
Wednesday 3:56 pm
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>>455966

Not him, but now, now. Nobody likes a jelly nelly.
>> No. 455969 Anonymous
11th January 2023
Wednesday 8:08 pm
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Taking a fucking 14 hour flight on Sunday and shitting myself about:

takeoff, turbulence, random panic attacks.

I'm not a drinker either, so can't even use that. Any one have any tips for feeling better?
>> No. 455970 Anonymous
11th January 2023
Wednesday 8:23 pm
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>>455969
Are you goinf to Asutralia?

A good book, comfy shoes you can take on and off easily, a small stick style deodorant, ear plugs (the cheap foam style ones), and another good book.
>> No. 455971 Anonymous
11th January 2023
Wednesday 8:35 pm
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>>455969

You could take some diazepam. You'll feel a little drowsy, and it's not ideal if there's actually an emergency where quick thinking can save your life, but as there is a 99.99 percent probability that that will not occur, it's one of the downers that will allow you to take it easy, and it has a good single-dose effectiveness, unlike some other mood-altering prescription drugs that you need to take for some time. You could also get lorazepam, but that'd be a bit overkill and it's not a nice sensation.

I took a few diazepam tablets once during a time of severe emotional distress, and I still remember a pleasant feeling of everything around you being somehow distant and far away, like you couldn't care less.

It's fallen a bit out of fashion to prescribe those drugs for fear of flying, but you'll probably still find an NHS doctor somewhere who'll have no objections.
>> No. 455972 Anonymous
11th January 2023
Wednesday 8:42 pm
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>>455971
Diazepam is not OTC :/
>> No. 455973 Anonymous
11th January 2023
Wednesday 8:46 pm
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>>455972

That's why I said go to a doctor. You've still got a few days till your flight.

And none of the OTC stuff will help in a meaningful way anyway.
>> No. 455975 Anonymous
11th January 2023
Wednesday 9:37 pm
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>>455970
No, to Japan via ANA.

I'll give Diazepam a go, ta.
>> No. 455976 Anonymous
11th January 2023
Wednesday 10:23 pm
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>>455975
On the bright side, you're going to Japan.

My only tip is get some melatonin.
>> No. 455977 Anonymous
12th January 2023
Thursday 1:22 am
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Dennis rocks some incredible noughties looks on the early series' of It's Always Sunny. Dee and Mac wouldn't get a second look even now, but Dennis would look like a time traveler just five years after this was filmed, which would be 2012. You might think I'm exaggerating, but you can't see the elbow patches on his jumper in this shot.
>> No. 455978 Anonymous
12th January 2023
Thursday 1:54 am
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>>455977

I am far too old to care about fashion in that kind of way.

I still wear a black padded nylon coat by Esprit on warmer winter days that I bought 20 years ago and which has proved to be indestructible. I see no need to replace it just to go with current fashion. And I found a knit jumper at the bottom of a drawer a few weeks ago that I must have bought ten years ago and can't remember wearing even once, and it's one of my favourites at the moment.
>> No. 455979 Anonymous
12th January 2023
Thursday 2:34 pm
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>>455978
Cool.
>> No. 455980 Anonymous
12th January 2023
Thursday 4:55 pm
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>>455977
Why thr fuck can't people flatpack their fucking boxes, for fuck sake.
>> No. 455982 Anonymous
13th January 2023
Friday 12:10 am
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Turns out the old lady who died, whose house I bought, was a fully paid-up member of an anti-abortion charity. Motherfucker. I love abortion. Bloody Catholics. I have hopefully now unsubscribed from any further post from them.
>> No. 455983 Anonymous
13th January 2023
Friday 12:27 am
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>>455977

I think you're overestimating a bit how much fashion actually transmits through ordinary people. Particularly America. Whenever I've been to the States it's like going back to the previous decade- The cars are all boxier, the decor in the buildings is all beiger, and people all still wear boot cut jeans. I'm pretty sure last time I went in about 2016, they still hadn't caught on to chip and pin, let alone contactless. It's weird how the world's richest country is so backward in a lot of ways.

Anyway your average person just doesn't notice shit like that. The only fashion trend I've noticed this decade is that student age lasses all wear three quarter length jeans with turn ups that make them look like lezzers.
>> No. 455995 Anonymous
13th January 2023
Friday 8:37 pm
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Lads I've just had a BRILLIANT IDEA. I get a job as some form of tutor, teaching French or piano or something. The specifics aren't essential right now. It doesn't matter that I don't know these subjects myself. See, what I'd do is I would for example start taking piano lessons myself and what I'd do is I'd spend the next week teaching my pupils exactly what I was taught during my lesson. Pay for it once. Replicate it about six or seven times. The best investment out there.
>> No. 455996 Anonymous
13th January 2023
Friday 9:01 pm
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>>455995

Not really a good idea. How are you going to handle sudden in-depth questions by pupils that go beyond that week's lesson, in a way that only somebody with profound knowledge could answer.
>> No. 455997 Anonymous
13th January 2023
Friday 9:07 pm
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>>455996
They'll be small children, they probably won't know any better. I don't have to be good at piano, I just need to be a good teacher.
>> No. 455998 Anonymous
13th January 2023
Friday 10:11 pm
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>>455997

You're sounding like a pound shop Jimmy Saville right there.
>> No. 455999 Anonymous
13th January 2023
Friday 11:46 pm
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>>455995

Simpsons did it.

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