I would really like to have carnal relations with the woman off the Just Eat adverts. She's not even that fit, but there's something about her that makes my cock twitch.

>>456029
It's all the McDonalds sex advertising.

>>456029

Do you think that you might be sexually attracted to women who look confused and disoriented? If so, you should probably talk to someone about that.

My current job offers 1 month full sick pay, and 2 months half pay. After those three months, would I be able to get Statutory Sick Pay, or does having had company sick pay nullify that right?

>>456029
[spoiler]Just Eat Me Out[spoiler]

>>456032

>would I be able to get Statutory Sick Pay

Yes. SSP is the legal minimum that your employer has to provide. You're entitled to £99.35 per week for up to 28 weeks. Any weeks that you're receiving more than that legal minimum would still count towards the 28 week limit, so you'd be entitled to ~15 weeks of SSP after your contractual sick pay runs out.

>>456033
You know... I like the idea, but have always been repulsed in the moment and back down.

It is FREEZING today. I think the snow is coming back.

The BBC forecast says it's currently -2° in Beeston and tomorrow will only be above zero between noon and 5pm, although it will feel colder thanks to the wind. There was a bit of snow earlier but not enough to settle.

Beginning to think maybe everything will be this shit forever until forever stops.

>>456044
I don't think we're ever going to return to the world before COVID. Petrol will never see 99p again.

>>456044

Read some history mate. You happened to grow up in an incredibly brief window when (for people in the global west) things weren't completely fucking mental. 2023 is much more "normal" than 2013, which in turn was more normal than 2003, which was more normal than 1993. Everything being basically fine is a total aberration; chaos, conflict and poverty is the norm.

My mum grew up at the height of the cold war, when everyone sort of assumed that they'd all die in a nuclear holocaust soon enough. She remembers doing her homework by candlelight during the three day week. Her childhood home had no bathroom and no central heating, like the homes of everyone she knew.

My nan was born shortly before the Second World War; she spent many nights sleeping in an Anderson shelter before being evacuated. At the age of six, she was put on a train alone and sent to live hundreds of miles from home with people that she had never met. One morning she went out to play on the seashore, only to find that it was littered with debris and corpses after a ship was torpedoed.

Take comfort in the fact that, while things are getting worse at the moment, we still lead lives that would be the envy of nearly everyone who has ever lived. This country is getting poorer, partly as a result of the pandemic but mostly because of a series of disastrous political decisions; still, we're rich enough that people will risk their lives on inflatable boats for a chance at getting what we take for granted.

We should be angry at the government, we should demand better, but we shouldn't get caught up in a cycle of misery and pessimism. Some people think that it's smug or heartless to say "actually, we don't have it that bad", but I think it's the only way to stay sane. Most people in the world have harder lives than us and most of history has been worse than today; if we lose sight of that, we get trapped in a myopic world view that inevitably breeds envy and self-pity.

>>456045>>456046
I wasn't talking about petrol prices (get a bike, fatty) or the "arc of history", you freakshows. Christ almighty.

>>456047

To be fair, "everything being shit forever until forever stops" is a bit ambiguous. If you're just talking about the human condition, then yeah, that's a more difficult one to deal with. You could try reading some of the absurdists or stoics for that.

Better yet, wot r u on about?

>>456046

Reading history gives me a great sense of peace, for exactly this reason. Even just considering family history helps. I had a relative who was obliterated trying to close the door to a bomb shelter, my granddad worked on a railway his entire adult life and saw people lose limbs with disturbing regularity, my own dad grew up amidst dolphin rape and violence and narrowly avoided prison after some ugly incidents.

To add to your last paragraph, I don't think it's smug to keep that historical and global context in mind, rather it just makes it clear that these current problems are surmountable.

Are Clarks shoes still alright? I need a new pair of shoes for the few days I'll be in the office and I saw a cheapish pair on Amazon for £28 (price matching a sale on Very) which ultimately cost me £5.20 thanks to a student discount and a voucher for doing a survey through work. These ones are made in India.

Anyway, you shouldn't pay too much attention to the news. It focuses on the bad. When Liz Truss became prime minister you could get $1.15 for £1. The media went crazy when she tanked sterling but it's now higher than before she came into power at $1.22 per £1. Did that recovery make anywhere near as much news? No, because it doesn't sell. There's so much noise out there that most people would struggle to know what's actually important or not.


I'm less miserable since I stopped reading The Guardian so often, but this would apply to most media outlets. Guardian and Daily Mail readers both long for the good old days which didn't really exist outside of nostalgia goggles.

Sorry about calling you a fatty.

>>456049

Any passable office shoes for 5.20GBP is a pretty good deal. Even if they break after a dozen wears, that's still less than a takeaway meal.

>>456051

You can't wear a takeaway meal in the office.

>>456052
You can fashion bread into stylish headgear that's also practical if you find yourself in the middle of a riot.

>>456053
Will it protect you from a police baton?

>>456051
Sam Vimes flipped his desk at reading this.

>>456055
The availability of boots cobbled by children in the People's Beneficent Republic of Agatea for sale at 1/4 the price of sausage inna bun complicates his analogy somewhat.

>>456054

If you bought one of those big crusty loaves, hollowed it out and left it to go stale, I reckon it would make a passable hard hat.

>>456056

I wear posh shoes that are hand made in Northampton, but I'm acutely aware of the fact that getting them soled and heeled costs me more than a cheap pair of high street shoes. I'm not going to wear cheap high street shoes because nice shoes are a fanny magnet, but it'd be cheaper in the long run to buy cheap shoes and bin them whenever they get tatty.

>>456057
I got fancy-pants shoes before but they ended up all scuffed because I'll get bored and walk like a spazz at some point as I'm an overgrown child. This is why I don't buy overly expensive things.

Is it just me, or does Greta Thunberg look like she gets an erotic thrill out of being arrested? I'm not kink shaming or anything, if she's into that sort of thing then fair enough.

>>456059

I always kind of thought she'd turn out lesbian.

She really reminds me of somebody from my school who went that way, so maybe I'm biased.

>>456059
Getting arrested on purpose has a sense of freedom to it, ironically.

>>456059
God she really is tiny isn't she? Isn't she supposed to be like 20 now or something?

>>456062

Global warming can't have stunted her growth, could it.

>>456062
You don't get tall people with Down's Syndrome.

>>456064

She's not a mong though.

>>456059
No offence, and in many ways I'm simply playing the odds, but I reckon you're just a horny pervert.

>>456060
Same, that and Asexual.

>>456065

She had an eating disorder in her early teens, which almost certainly caused the stunting. Neither of her parents are tiny.

>>456066

This is .gs, of course I'm a pervert.

>>456067

There are three options for robot moon ovens: asexual, an extremely specific fetish or willing to shag anything. Gender doesn't really come into it - robot moon ovens are nearly always bi/pan and are vastly more likely to be trans.

Incidentally, this is why Barclays sponsor Pride and why major investment banks were well ahead of the curve on LGBTQIAAP++ inclusivity. They couldn't give a toss about the shipping forecast, but they're desperate to hire high-functioning robot moon ovens to work in their tech and quant departments. It isn't gays and lesbians they're trying to appeal to, but weebs and furfags.

>>456068
>She had an eating disorder in her early teens, which almost certainly caused the stunting. Neither of her parents are tiny.

It's probably more to do with what her mum got up to whilst pregnant.

Anyway, seeing as we're on about Greta and Clarkson like a bunch of boomers, when do we get mad about Ken Bruce being pushed out of Radio 2? Will the BBC be bold enough to replace him with a straight white man?

>>456069

With alcohol prices being what they are in Sweden, it even more denotes her upbringing as upper middle class. It's an expensive habit to have there. And it's also why Swedes on holiday are some of the worst behaved people you'll meet.

>>456069

I understand why people make that connection, but I think it's based on a fundamental misunderstanding of what Scandinavians are supposed to look like. Thunberg has a lot of Sami ancestry, an indigenous minority who are closely related to the Turks and Mongols. She's the spitting image of her paternal grandmother and looks perfectly ordinary by Sami standards.

See you lads are being normal about women again.

>>456072
Longstanding tradition.

>>456072

Have you ever been on Mumsnet? We've got nothing compared to their longstanding issues.

>>456074
I prefer Hunsnet.

Feeling cocky today so I'm not even going to lower my standing desk while the binmen are hanging around.

It's getting daft this is lads. I'm sick of it. And you can piss off an' all Thích Nhất Hạnh, we have one of the highest standards of living in the world because we fought for for it, if it was up to your sort, we still would have the outdoor bathrooms and routine polio deaths my nan and grandad had.

My ancestors did not conquer half the fucking globe so that I would have to agonise over putting the heating on. Rich people all over the world have a wonderful standard of living, the miracle of this country is that ordinary people can too. That's a good thing, and if we let it go we're fucking mugs. Why aren't people angrier.

>>456078
Simple as, mate.

>>456078
Atomisation of society, the Tory's slow propaganda of low expectations, piss weak opposition parties.

>>456078

>if we let it go we're fucking mugs

We already let it go. We voted to be poorer; not you and me, obviously, but a plurality of the electorate. While poor people bear the worst impacts, the whole country is getting poorer.

Real wages are stagnant because productivity is stagnant. The average German or Pole or Cambodian gets more done over the course of a working day than they did in 2012, but the average Briton doesn't. The reasons for that are complex - Brexit, a lack of investment, over-reliance on services, planning constraints, ageing - but they boil down to a failure to recognise that Britain is a small fish in a big pond and has been for a long time.

We have to solve the productivity problem. We can use redistribution to paper over the cracks, but the economy can only bear so much of that. We can't just pretend that we have a god-given right to Western European standards of living even though we have Eastern European levels of productivity. Nobody in Westminster is willing to seriously address the issue, because the middle-aged and elderly people who represent the majority of the British electorate don't want a more productive economy.

People with triple-locked pensions and paid-off mortgages fundamentally don't care that our economy is going to the dogs, because they feel completely insulated from it by a political system that is wholeheartedly committed to insulating them from it. They don't care if we desperately need more immigrants to fill skills shortages, because they don't like hearing foreign accents at the bus stop. They don't care if that new industrial park will create hundreds of jobs, because it's an eyesore. They don't care if we need free trade with our closest neighbours, because they don't want us going cap-in-hand to BARMY BRUSSELS BUREAUCRATS. All of the policies that might actually stop the rot are wildly unpopular with the voters who actually matter.

Maybe we should be angrier, but it's hard to admit that your parents and grandparents don't care about your future. It's hard to live with the fact that this country has been broken not by a shadowy cabal of oligarchs, but by millions upon millions of people with fat pensions and six figures of unearned housing equity. The people who picked our pockets, frittered our inheritances and mortgaged our futures aren't some faraway them, but the people around us, the people closest to us.

I ate Asda's cheapest tinned chili con carne tonight, done up a bit with some seared bell pepper and onion as well as fresh tomato, chili pepper, tomato puree, a bit of vegetable stock and some garlic. And for a bit of smoky flavour, I first lit a few wood chips inside the pot with a handheld gas torch and let them smolder for a few minutes under a lid, like I saw once on a cooking show.

I am starting to experience comical amounts of flatulence.

An evening well spent.

The weather outside is absolutely beautiful and I'm stuck indoors answering phones. What a load of shite.

>>456089

Asda and Aldi's own brand chilli is far better than the branded stuff like Stag and so on, in my opinion.

Whenever I want to be a fat indulgent bastard I make a massive stack of nachos using a full tin of it. Four cheese blend, salsa and a bit of that dirty Yank spray cheese. Can't beat it for a hangover.

Tell you what, lads, I've had just about enough of living in a near-constant state of panic.

>>456093

What are you panicked about?

>>456094
Everything and nothing at all. My career is eating me alive and, compared to my peers and immediate colleagues, I don't feel like my massive amounts of labour are bearing significant fruit. I have a deep insistence that everything be done correctly all of the time, which does not lend itself to working in a collaborative setting, as I spend my nights working until midnight fixing the (incredibly minor) errors made by others. The simultaneous feeling that I have a million things that need to be done right away must surely have a silly German word.

>>456095

Gleichzeitigegefühlvieleaufgabenerledigenhabe. That sort of word?

Anyway I think you probably need to take a week off and chill out. Turn off your work phone, don't read your e-mails, and just spend the week binge watching The Sopranos, or going fishing in a very remote location, or something like that. Get your wife or girlfriend to be in charge of making sure you don't do anything even vaguely work related.

It's worth remembering that if you really do take your work seriously, you have a personal responsibility to yourself and your colleagues to maintain a healthy work/life balance. You're no use to them if you work yourself to the bone and burn out.

>>456096
What's funny is I'm actually on a sort of holiday right now. The Gleichzeitigegefühlvieleaufgabenerledigenhabe really is getting out of hand. I bailed on my own honeymoon a few days early last year because I thought I'd had a heart attack in the French Pyrenees, it turned out to just be a days-long panic attack which was almost certainly brought on by dread of the amount of work I was going back to, mixed with the feeling that I would have missed out on too much work by taking a month of honeymoon and how that might reflect on me in the eyes of my colleagues.

>>456097

But if you spend half your time picking up after them, clearly your colleagues are in no position to be critical of your work ethic. And indeed, perhaps if you stop wiping their arsed for them, they might have to learn to do it themselves.

>>456095

French government: We 'ave raised ze price of stinky cheese by 0.5%.

French people: We are on our way to parliament with grenade launchers.

British government: it's illegal to strike now. It's also illegal to protest. We have abolished 'hospital'. The police are allowed to murder you.

British people: We need to ban trans people.

>>456098
>But if you spend half your time picking up after them, clearly your colleagues are in no position to be critical of your work ethic.

There's no guarantee there's anything wrong with what they're doing. Some people are just nitpicky and have to have things done their way when it can be more hindrance than help; a fantastic way to endear yourself to colleagues and stall your career.

>>456100
I have yet to see anyone approve of the British government's decision to overrule a democratic decision by the Scottish people in the name of political point-scoring. I know we're all a bit servile compared to the French,but the Scots in particular really need to tool up and march on London. It's getting to the point where I would vote for Scottish independence just to liberate them from us. We need a William Wilberforce to fight for Scottish interests in England.

>>456100
Don't post here like it was Twitter. You're not here to "generate likes", you horrid bastard. You're not going viral on an imageboard with a quarter of a dozen users.

>>456102

Perfect demonstration of English middle class self loathing.

It's the SNP who is trying to score points here lad, by drumming up a big deal about a bill 2/3 of Scots don't even like, just so they can point at those unelected Westminster bureaucrats and go "See! They English bastarlrds dinnae leyt uss haff oor oon lawws!", and it'll work. There's no conflict between a utopian progressive Scotland and regressive, controlling England here, but in pushing for daft laws they can get the useful idiots in the papers to make it look like that.

Middle class thickos continue to cheer on this miniature fractal Brexit, because it gets them off when our country is the baddie, and they can loudly profess their self-disavowal on the internet about it. More balkanisation please, sir, they say, because they have the national identity equivalent of a CBT fetish.

>>456104

Compulsory Basic Training fetish?

>>456105

Analyse my negative cognitive schema? I bet you would, you dirty bugger.

>>456104
Sounds like neither of us like the Westminster elite. But at least I am educated enough to know that "middle-class" has a hyphen.

*sashays away in my university gown*

Now sets you lot off like having a go at the middle classes, you big bunch of touchy Graun reading poofters.

It's true though. Middle class neurosis is the obstacle that prevents us solving nearly every divisive political issue in this country. Being smug about not having a big telly, and wanting things to get worse forever to soothe your own guilty ego for being in the top 5% of global earners just for sitting on your arse in the office scrolling the internet all day, you're scum. You don't want to admit that you personally are the individual scum, but nowt gets your knob hard like envisioning the entire country and everything it stands for as collective scum.

>>456109
It doesn't "set us off", you're just talking pure shite every time you bring it up. It's an entirely imagined set of circumstances that bear no relation to reality and whenever anyone points it out you lie about everyone hating the UK and being a Richard Littlejohn inspired caricature of a Guardian reader. You also have a writing style that reads as a complete and total affectation. Ironically sounding like a middle-class person doing a bad impersonation of a working-class person from 1992, very "did you see that ludicrous display last night?". I honestly wouldn't mind if you weren't surreptitiously using it to embelish your reputation as .gs' resident mad prophet, speaking the hard truths no one else dare. But the "truths" are fiction and the reality is less mad prophet and more pompous mard arse.

Also, the service sector is over 4/5ths of the UK economy, everyone works in office, or a shop, you tit. What do you do for a living? Steeplejack? Farrier? Coal miner? Yeah, didn't think so.

>>456104
You're imagining people as both smarter and stupider than they are. Theresa May was looking at similar legislation at the same time the SNP started work on their reform. (and everyone at Holyrood had some kind of manifesto commitment to reform in 2016.) If the SNP wanted to provoke a section 35 order, they'd have done it over something constitutional, or at the very least something economic. "They won't let us pass a law that you don't like or understand which only applies to a minority nobody likes!" is hardly the kind of argument a strategic genius would want to work away at since 2016 - back when Brexit was throwing up far more opportunities and far stronger justifications for getting upset.
Plus if that were their plan there'd always be the risk that the UK government didn't issue a section 35 order in response and just let it pass, leaving the SNP having worked 6-7 years on passing a law only to get... a new law.

>>456110

Leave him be, he's got such a chip up his arse you'll only make him do it more.

>>456110

You sound pretty agitated to me mate. Did Waitrose not have your favourite chutney this morning or something?

The last few posts have me very confused. What do the English middle classes have to do with Scottish legislation?

>>456114

The attitude of the English middle classes towards the continued existence and prosperity of the United Kingdom can be roughly summed up as "Please mummy, break up the union, I've been such a naughty boy! Humiliate me, I deserve it for my ancestor's imperialism! Make me pay for apartheid! Punish me for the potato famine!" but they really don't like it when you say so.

Alright calm down, I'm only having you on. Tarts.

YOU'RE GOING ALL WEIRD AGAIN.

Who pissed in your collective arse this morning?

>>456117
Not me. I'm in the finest of moods. It's Friday, and it's payday.

>>456118
Is that a

or a

mood?

>>456118

Hang about, payday a week early?

For most of us this is the depressing part of January where you've run out of money because you got paid the last week before Christmas and had to stretch your wage out over an extra week and a bit.

>>456120
Everyone in financial services gets paid on the 23rd, which means it credits tonight because of that being a Monday.

>had to stretch your wage

I'm literally counting the minutes until midnight.

Rishi in trouble for not wearing a seatbelt. I might be wrong but, I never wear a seatbelt when I am a passenger in the rear seats. I didn't even know it is an offense. Am I missing something? When did this change happen?

I've been doing a pretty basic bodyweight workout routine since about... Maybe early December. I'm starting to develop muscles where I never knew you should have muscles.

Not because I've turned into Arnold Schwarzenegger by doing a few push ups every other night, I mean, but because it really brings home how I was basically just a skeleton with skin hung over it before. I always thought I was in "good shape" just because I didn't have a big gut or man boobs, and I always did a lot of biking so I thought I must have been fit, but jesus christ. It's like I might as well have had bits of string moving my limbs before this, and this is only the most basic, first step improvement.

Do some exercise lads, it's good.

>>456122
It's absolutely illegal; it's just that a lot of people don't care. Three people in the back of a taxi aren't going to fumble around with seatbelts, but legally, they should. And one person in the back of a taxi definitely should.

>>456122

You've been required to wear seat belts where fitted in the front or back seats since The Motor Vehicles (Wearing of Seatbelts) Regulations 1993.

Peculiarly, taxi drivers don't have to wear seatbelts.

>>456125

This is mental to me, maybe me and my mates are a bunch of squares but I don't think I've ever seen anyone not buckle up in a taxi or otherwise.

I suppose if you lot are in London it sort of makes sense, as you probably never get above 10mph.

>>456122
I take it you never saw this, then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKHY69AFstE

>>456130
I remembered a really cool seatbelt advert from my childhood and tried to find it once. There's a website with nearly all of them, so I just watched as many as I could.

Never again. It gets pretty harrowing after a while.

>>456134
What you want is some singing hedgehogs.

Is Russell Brand a gammon now?

>>456175
What makes you say that?

>>456176

He's flogging gold bullion and getting favourable coverage on Fox News.

>>456176

He says the sort of things people with very small and unassuming tellies don't want the plebs hearing, so they are re-branding him as some kind of fake-lefty Jimmy Saville, or toxic Alex Jones style influencer.

I don't agree with a lot of the shite he comes out with, but I do see him as a very sympathetic character. He doesn't have a formal education, but he's clearly very sharp, and I think that repulses a lot of people on the very principle of it.

Like I say I don't agree with a lot of what he says, but I think he receives a disproportionate level of criticism that he wouldn't get if he was an Oxbridge graduate writing the same shite in the Guardian.

>>456179

Agreed. I admire Brand for his willingness to use whatever celebrity leverage he had in the interests of the majority of the public. It is a bit of a sad thought but I expect we will continue to watch him get spurned and misrepresented more frequently in mass media until the general opinion of him becomes "I liked him when he was on Big Brother, but it's a shame he's gone a bit weird since then/said those nasty things about (demographic group)/turned out to be an antivaxxer/had those allegations of sex pestery against him".

>>456180

I liked him better when he was doing general observational humour. He's coming across as a bit of a common edgelad in his newer videos. Somebody who you can't deny has some sort of fair point, but he just isn't suited to be a political commentator.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prHK_uy4crs

Once again I see that, despite the pretense, you people frequent the same social media feeds as me and are just as suceptible to its sways and manipulations.

Far to many of Brands video titles are generic clickbait which offer no indication of the actual content. "Now it comes out", "The BBC Aired THIS?!", Oh Sh*t, this just happened" etc. I'm not going to sit through 15 minutes of rambling just to find out what he's talking about. Don't fucking bait me like that, you cunt.

>>456179
>they are re-branding him
Maybe my repulsion is exactly the intention, huh?

I tend to judge this sort of thing in part by whom makes up their audience. Admittedly I only know one person who regularly watches Russell Brand's videos, but she is the mentalist of mental slags.

>>456179
>>456182
>they are re-branding him
Ehehehehehehe

>>456184

Wanky wanky!

The trick with Brand is to ignore his videos and annoying humour and to use him as a collator of interesting articles. The stuff he links to in his video descriptions is often pretty interesting.

I can't decide if this is terrible or genius.

I know that it was a wise choice when I stopped regularly reading the opinion columns in the Graun years ago, but there's one at the minute saying it's smug and middle-class to own books.

>>456188
More so than reading the paper itself? How does it compare to writing for them?

Is there anything to be optimistic about in the future of this country?

>>456189
One of the things I can recall from Rhik Samadder's memoir is how out of place he feels at the Guardian because the majority of people there are so much posher than he is; he started out temping doing admin work with no intention of being a writer, but someone there took a chance on him because they liked his personality and it really took off for him with his kitchen gadgets review series.

The column in question is by Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, who can be a very good writer at times but she's fallen into the trap of having to churn something out on a regular basis when she doesn't actually have anything to write about so about 90% of what she writes is pure filler.

>This phenomenon is best illustrated by a poster that for a while was following me around the internet in advert form, under the misapprehension that because I love cats and read books – and, indeed, have written a book about a cat – it had my taste in interior decor pinned down. The poster shows a cat and bears the slogan: “THAT’S WHAT I DO, I READ BOOKS, I DRINK TEA AND I KNOW THINGS.”

>Apologies if you own this poster, but to me it encapsulates everything that is smug and middle class about the cult of book ownership. I don’t mean reading – provided you’re lucky enough to still have a local library, that is a pastime that is accessible to almost everyone. No, I specifically mean having a lot of books and boasting about it, treating having a lot of books as a stand-in for your personality, or believing that simply owning a lot of books makes one “know things”.

Most of the comments are pointing out that the poster mentions reading rather than owning books, bragging about anything rather than making it specifically about reading is what is the real irritant and people who have pointed out that the real smug and middle-class thing to do is to boast about how you're above mere possessions. Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett is notoriously thin skinned and can't handle criticism of her writing at all, so I've checked her Twitter and she's essentially doubling down and saying that everyone pointing out she's wrong proves that they have a problem with hoarding books but are stuck in denial.

I've written far more than I intended about what is essentially clickbait.

>>456190

We'll get a Labour government in 2024 that'll at least take the edge off. Energy prices are gradually returning to a more normal level. The boomers will die eventually.

>>456191
I shall continue not reading newspapers.

>>456192
>We'll get a Labour government in 2024

The latest date for the next general election is exactly two years away today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_United_Kingdom_general_election

>>456194

If the Tories want to hold a general election at the peak of the NHS winter crisis, then they've completely given up.

I think I'm turning into a bit of a hoarder. It's stuff that I will eventually use, but I keep buying things if I see them as a bit of a bargain. For example, I've just ordered 80 washing machine pods even though I had over 90 delivered about a fortnight ago. By my reckoning I've also got at least 200 dishwasher tablets and 50 bottles of shower gel.

Okay, I think it's closer to 500 dishwasher tablets.

>>456196

>50 bottles of shower gel

I think your relatives need to stage some sort of intervention, before you get buried alive under a pile of old newspapers.

>>456198
I've looked through my Amazon order history for shower gel:-

9 December - 6 x 500ml Simple for £6.46
28 November - 6 x 250ml Imperial Leather for £4.85
27 November - 6 x 500ml Original Source for £7.58
19 September - 6 x 250ml Nivea for £4.50
30 July - 6 x 250ml Original Sourxe for £5.40
19 July - 6 x 250ml Nivea for £4.80
17 July - 6 x 250ml Nivea for £4.45
11 June - 6 x 250ml Original Source for £4.55

I haven't worked my way through the June and July stuff yet.

WTAF?
am I just a stinky hobbit? 200ml does me for a year. Not much hair on me, though, but that lot would do me to the grave.
I'm all in favour of hoarding, though, so have at it. As long as you're not crushed by piss-jug mountain avalanching, you're fine.

>>456200

>200ml does me for a year.
>am I just a stinky hobbit?

Yes.

I think my younger brother might be cheating on his girlfriend, who he's been with for going on 13 years and has just bought a house with. I don't suspect he's going out and physically having sex with other women, but I've caught a glimpse of his phone and he has Snapchat installed and his chat list was all 💜💜K e l s e y💜💜 and your usual e-chav slag display names. It wouldn't be new, I've definitely caught him sexting before, but it's been a few years and I had been wondering just last week if he'd grown out of it or not.

>>456190
Very much so. Look at other countries. Many of them are even worse. And while the government might be eager to ban everything, they are so inept that these things won't actually be any harder to do. Messages of tolerance are largely spread by sanctimonious wankers, but the messages that make sense really get through. Meanwhile, America has a noticeable minority that actively works to prevent women getting abortions. Not only are we better than that, but the Conservative Party will lose an election at some point because they will inevitably try and copy that and get obliterated. Better days are coming, and with climate change, they will be bright and sunny and will stretch out into November. Yippee!

>>456200
How often do you wash?

>>456203

I think we are certainly at a low point from which things can only improve.

I know that's a ridiculous statement and things could get worse in pretty much every way, it's just that if they do I think we're at the point it'll trigger a genuine upheaval, and The Powers That Be know they have to give the system some slack before they try squeeze any more blood from the stone.

>>456201
>>456204

We've been over this before lads, excessive use of soaps and shower gels is counter productive. You will smell better if you don't use any at all. Disturbs your body's natural fauna and all that.

Shower daily, but just rinse and exfoliate, don't lather yourself up in chemicals. If you have hair of any meaningful length, shampoo and condition it no more than every two-three days. Use a small amount of a nice aftershave, don't douse your pits in Right Guard.

>>456204
Shower daily, twice if I'm sweaty in the evening, wash hands a few times a day.
It just takes a tiny amount of shower gel to get the job done. Maybe 1/4cc, done twice? That's 500 showers. Why wallow in the stuff, it doesn't do anything better, just washes away (and annoys the septic tank a bit)

>>456207
I'm impressed that you can squeeze out 250 microlitres of shower gel.

>>456208
Using a squeezy bottle with one of those sphincter bottoms? Maybe a 1cm slug of gel feels like 1/4cc, give or take. Until now, I haven't really given it a lot of thought.

>>456190
One day the sea levels will rise and most of it will go the way of doggerland. Alas, hilly old Scotland will remain to blight the earth and depress her residents.

>>456202
Observe and report lad.

>>456211
You reckon? I'm inclined to mind my business.

How many of you lads are still able to work from home? From a rough estimate of looking outside I'd say that eight out of about thirty houses on my street have cars outside, which is the first time I've looked in ages but it's noticeably lower than it's usually been since lockdown.

>>456214
I'm still a work from home monkey. Well, I say work, I'm currently "working" on my Warhammer III Vampire Counts campaign and listening to Talking Heads.

>>456214
I was never able to work from home. A few of us stayed home in the absolute depths of lockdown and then came back in as soon as we could make them, but the wage-stealing frauds that everyone hates have seemingly decided they only need to come in one day a week forever now.

>>456214

City centres are noticeably quieter on Monday and almost polared on Friday. My local train service was standing room only during peak hours, but now you can always get a seat despite a reduced timetable.

The vast majority of offices have now settled into a pattern of hybrid working, in one of two basic models. Some people aren't required to turn up, but they're expected to do a couple of days a week in the office to stop them from turning feral. Some people are still theoretically doing a standard 9-to-5, but with generous amounts of flexi time. If you're having to do five days a week in the office, you should be looking for a new job - there are too many unfilled vacancies at the moment for employers to get away with that kind of thing.

For what it's worth, I've seen the data and people who choose to do five days a week are the least productive members of staff. The work-from-home lads might spend half their day watching This Morning and wanking, but the eager beavers who want to be seen to be working generate massive amounts of useless busy-work for everyone else. Pointless meetings and unnecessary e-mails are like a cancer on office productivity; at least a slacker is only wasting their own time.

>>456218
When I was sorting out after school childcare for my daughter everywhere we spoke with said Friday would be the easiest day to get her in because far more people want to WFH then.

>>456214
In my previous job, I was part of the only team that deals primarily with physical files and forms. So while most of the organization was only in 2 days a week at most, I was in everyday. My gf works for that organization now, she has to do 2 days in the office but she has to book a desk in advance as the office doesnt have enough space for a full complement of staff.

>>456220
This reminds me of my dear auld mother, who is working from home and has the habit of printing everything out, doing what she needs to in pen on paper, then scanning it and emailing it back. Absolutely infuriating to observe, but she's making it work and I'm pretty sure she's not been into the office since the summer.

>>456220
>My gf works for that organization now, she has to do 2 days in the office but she has to book a desk in advance as the office doesnt have enough space for a full complement of staff.

My employer moved buildings last year to a place that doesn't have enough desks or parking spaces for everyone to be in at once, so everyone has set days.

>>456221
I'm sure I posted about this in the workplace annoyances thread years ago, but the admin team at work have no idea how to save a pdf to the system. They'll print it out, scan it in at really low quality and upload that instead.

>>456218
I guess quite a few places that do hybrid working settled on the same cadence my job did: Tuesday to Thursday are "core" days and we're supposed to be in the office, Monday and Friday are official WfH (with optional office attendance). In practice, the office is a ghost town on Monday, has reasonable attendance during core days, and once again polared on Fridays.

The office moved location during lock down so I'm not sure how busy this new commute route was in the before times, but for now I've seen a steady uptick during rush hour over the last few months no matter what day I travel.

>>456221

I take immense pride in the fact that my mother owns two pieces of office equipment - a high-speed scanner with automatic sheet feed and a shredder. Once I taught her how to join and edit PDFs, she enthusiastically embraced the paperless workflow.

I think she has a personal vendetta against paper, because years of carrying around a massive bag bulging with documents did her back in.

>>456221
In my job it was because the online system for processing claims was shit, we all knew it was shit, and our clients knew it was shit, so a good 90% of claims we dealt with were paper based. Sometimes that meant combing through 3 storage boxes of legal documentation to assess a single claim, absolutely soul destroying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqzrm_4_B94

A mug's eyeful. More proof that ARE Alan's knighthood was a sad joke.

>>456233

Milky Way magic stars are underrated when it comes to chocolate. It's definitely nicer than dairy milk.

>>456236
Good point, what's your go-to chocolate these days? Cadbury fruit and nut used to be my usual treat but it's gone to shit. Tony's Chocolony is fine but lacks the ingredients to make it special. Lindt, Milka, Ritter Sport, they've all gone down hill and seem to bank on sugar rather than chocolate flavour.

>>456237
My favourite was the Picnic bar, but that went to shit after Cadbury were taken over. I'd probably go for a dark chocolate Bounty these days, but it's rare to see them stocked.

I was in a shop the other day and there were a couple of lads discussing creme eggs. One of them didn't like them but his mate was adamant that they were "bussin". I didn't realise that the youth actually used it unironically.

>>456237
Chocolate is getting so expensive these days. I usually go for either the large £1 Milkybar or Terrys Chocolate Organge bar (cheaper than the original chocolate orange, unfortunately). Either that or a Fry's Turkish Delight, Fredo and a Panda Liquorice stick.

>>456234
I used to eat them in a bowl of milk like cereal when I was a kid. Highly recommend, though it would be weird to do as an adult.

>>456237
I'm partial to a Dairy Milk, but I do live abroad where I can't get it so I think nostalgia plays a big part.

Chocolate is one of those things where nostalgia is as big a factor as anything, and if you're a snob about it I think you're a bit of a bellend anyway, because it's just sugar at the end of the day. I still love a Dairy Milk, even if they have fucked up the recipe; it still reminds me just enough of walking home from school instead of getting the bus so I could buy sweets with my spare 50p.

I mean yeah we all know the American stuff is shite, but that's because it actively tastes awful, not merely doesn't taste as good as [fancy European brand]. As long as it is actual chocolate, though, and not brown wax, it's all good.

>>456251
> the American stuff is shite
Hershey's. Some smart spark at work decided that he should bring some back from a work trip and put it in a jar at work. The moment you open that jar, the smell of sick was overwhelming.

I get the chemistry, I think, but I really do not get how puke chocolate ever made inroads on any market.

>>456254
>Hersheys
>the smell of sick

Oh my goodness it is disgusting chocolate.

>>456254
Hershey's came about in the late 19th century, with the bars having to be shipped great distances all over America from Pennsylvania in a time before the likes of air conditioning. It was designed more with durability and having a long shelf life in mind than taste.

Maybe they have been replaced as America's chocolate bar but we just don't know it, similar to how many people think Australians love Foster's even though they think it's piss. Then again they have much lower standards on what can be called chocolate so they may have just got used to shit.

>>456266
It's still the Standard Issue Chocolate in the US, but they don't really have the same relationship with chocolate bars as we do in the UK. Nobody is stopping in a shop and having a Hershey's as a little treat in the same way we might decide a Yorkie or a Twirl sounds appealing, they simply don't eat a bar of pure chocolate as we do.

>>456267

Yeah, they eat five, the fat cunts.

No but seriously how do the Americans relate to chocolate, then?

>>456268
THEY SHOVE THEM UP THEIR ARSE

>>456268
It's always wrapped around something else, like peanut butter or nougat etc. Hershey's chocolate is basically considered an ingredient, not a treat in itself. I daresay the fact that Hershey's is absolute dogshite has something to do with the fact that American confectionery is as wacky as it is, where every name-brand bar has a million sugary variations (nobody asked for a cookies and cream Twix). Tony's Chocolonely is gradually filling the chocolate bar void by strategically placing itself in wankier shops and has now seeped into your Walgreens or CVS corner shop, and Milka has been around in foreign foods shops. There's probably a hot take in there about the stunted yank attention span not being able to handle the idea of enjoying a bar of just chocolate.

>>456266
>Hershey's came about in the late 19th century, with the bars having to be shipped great distances all over America from Pennsylvania in a time before the likes of air conditioning. It was designed more with durability and having a long shelf life in mind than taste.

It's not the chocolate itself, it's the milk used as the ingredient that's key here.
They had a vast supply of milk out in the midwest going cheap but you couldn't get it anyway. The Hersheys recipe intentionally used sour milk which made it possible to sell the chocolate super cheap compared to anything else available.

The taste comes from butyric acid, which is the same thing that makes butter smell rancid and the same thing that makes puke smell of puke.

I'm trying to do Important Work, but I'm too distracted by thinking about Billie Eilish's big milkers. I'd include a photo, but if you can't imagine Billie Eilish's big milkers then you don't deserve to own a brain.

I think people who call tits "milkers" should have their tongues cut out.

I'm trying to do Important Work, but I'm too distracted by thinking about Billie Eilish's big vordermans. I'd include a photo, but if you can't imagine Billie Eilish's big vordermans then you don't deserve to own a brain.

>>456282
They are fucking massive tbf.

>>456284
Is she the one who always looks like she's on something?

Does your girlfriend clean up if she leaves skidmarks? I should have taken the window being open as a warning sign, but I was not prepared for what I saw when I lifted the lid. She must shit directly onto the porcelain rather than aiming for the water.

>>456344

I'm not sure how you would even manage that, unless you straddle the bowl like a sort of fecal reverse cowgirl.

>>456347
Do women have arseholes in a different place to us? I know their genitals are lower down than ours so maybe their arses are as well. Maybe she squats more because she's sort and that angles her arse forward? Who knows? All I know for certain is that it looks like someone sprayed the entire front of the bowl with thick slurry. The only time of my life I've actually had to sharply exclaim when going to a toilet.

Is it normal sometimes to be hit with a wave of mild panic and stress about where you're at in life ?

I have an ok job, I earn 50k, but I've wasted five years or so just fucking about really. I didn't just do one job, I tried loads of different types of job that I thought I'd like and turns out the one I love, by chance, was not the one I thought I'd like and when I got what I thought I'd like I'm indifferent. I've no idea how I've managed to try so many different careers and get accepted by interview panels.

I tell myself that the time spent learning what kind of thing I am isn't a waste and it'll do me good the rest of my life not wondering what if but I'm starting to believe it's an unhealthy coping lie I tell myself instead.

>>456353
>Is it normal sometimes to be hit with a wave of mild panic and stress about where you're at in life ?

Yes.

I think I've settled on my primary fetish and it's massive tits. Almost tragically vanilla, but at least I'll never have to shove anything up myself or pay a woman in high heels to step on a door mouse.

>>456364
>door mouse

Your coat, sir?

>>456364
My tastes are definitely a lot milder than they were 10/15 years ago. That said, the other day I did find myself watching a video of a woman putting some form of squash up her arsehole.

Anyway, why the fuck is something letting off fireworks this evening?

>>456364

You weren't breastfed?

>>456364

I won't say what it is, but I've lately had to come to terms with the fact that one of my most deviant fetishes just really doesn't do much for me any more. I think it's fair to say that it was a fetish rooted in some kind of psycho-sexual mental hang up, and that my gradual loss of connection with it represents a healthy progression in terms of my self-esteem and faith in the opposite gender and all that. But still.

You should try shoving things up yourself though, it doesn't even have to be a fetish thing. I just promise you, you've never cum as hard as when you have something nice and solid shoved up your bum, pressed up firm against your walnut. Most lads have no idea what they're missing.

>>456366
I didn't know that!

So do you all have multiple fetishes then? I wank to the same thing every time, pretty much. If there's no piss involved I'm just not that interested. Obviously there are different types of pissing, but even most of those don't get me going, while the good types blast my bollocks inside out every time.

>>456373

Variety is the spice of life.

My main kink is orgasm denial, but it's hard to find "normal" porn about that subject (or at least convincingly acted and so on), so I tend to read smut rather than watch porn for that one. As a result when I'm watching actual porn I'll just go for a bit of a dive and see what takes my fancy. Plus there's those nice stoned wanks where you're a bit more suggestible than usual, that's usually the only time I get into stuff like watersports.

I've always wondered about watersports though, like it's fine in a video where they can make a 15 minute supercut of all the pissing all the time, and you can fill your boots. But if you do it in real life, you/they can only piss once, then you've got to wait maybe an hour before you need one again, even if you're chugging bottles of water. Do you just have to make sure you spaff in that window of opportunity or what?

So was Leigh Francis actually ever funny or what?

>>456374
Some people like to drink piss. Some people like holding their piss and being really desperate for a piss. Some people like watching other people be desperate for a piss. Some people like hiding in a hole while strangers piss on them. Some people like to piss on other people. I am not all of those people, but I am some of those people.

>>456381
He's been funny a couple of times, but never consistently.

>>456381
He was funny when he torpedoed Craig David's career.

>>456381

Comedy is inherently subjective, but IMHO yes. He isn't the most sophisticated comedian, but his work represents a quintessentially British style of grotesque lampoon.

Also he got Holly Willoughby to do a load of vaguely mucky stuff on Celebrity Juice.

Found more proof of my late dad's infidelity tonight.

I was at my mum's house tonight where I fixed the overhead bathroom light, and a big box of condoms dropped out from behind one of the ceiling panels that I had to remove. The condoms have an expiration date of about eight years after I was born, I'm the last born and my mum had a hysterectomy a little over a year later, so there wouldn't have been much point in my parents using condoms anymore around that time. And I know the condoms belonged to my dad because he actually wrote on the inside of the box in his handwriting that he'd used five of them.

It ties in with my mum finding a cache of photos wrapped in a plastic bag behind the cover of the in-wall loo cistern in that bathroom around 20 years ago when there was a problem with the flush. They show my dad with a woman about 15 years younger in unmistakable poses. My mum vaguely remembered her as being one of my dad's junior coworkers, but never knew there was anything going on.

Haven't told my mum about the condoms. Just put them back where I found them.

>>456385
Top shagger.

>>456386

It's just interesting because from what my mum has told me, there were always indications that my dad was a slightly shifty character behind the facade of a handsome loyal family man with a great job and a nice house. He knew the effect he had on women. I guess the story was that he married too young as far as he was concerned and then secretly regretted it, but also liked the convenience of having a wife to come home to every night. So we know for sure about this one affair that he had, which my mum only really learned about after his death when she found the pictures, and of which the condoms I found tonight may sort of be the final proof because they are from about the same time period. And my mum has told me openly that she suspects there were a few more affairs that nobody ever knew about.


Me, I'm just shifty. I got loads of that from my dad. But I definitely didn't inherit his pull on women.

>>456385
>wrote on the inside of the box in his handwriting that he'd used five of them
That's such a mad, olden days, bloke thing to do. Why'd you put them back, if you don't mind me asking?

>>456385
I suspect my brother isn't entirely blood related, based on appearences and comments of my mothers put together over time. I can imagine nothing positive would come from mentioning it.

>>456389
Suggest one of those ancestry DNA kits for shits and giggles.

>>456388

My dad was a civil engineer. Numbers mattered to him, I guess whether it was the weekly shopping or indeed how many condoms were used from a box.

I put the condoms back because my mum has serious health problems right now, and the last thing she needs is another reminder of her late husband's philandering ways, even if it was eons ago. She knows the affair happened, so why twist the knife by telling her about the condoms as well.

>>456391
I wasn't suggesting you wander down stairs and remind your ill mother of what a sneaky bastard dad could be, I was moreover thinking bin them so no one ever finds them. I'm not a total cretin. Most of the time.

>>456391
>I put the condoms back because my mum has serious health problems right now
Take them away for fuck sake.

>>456387

How does your mum feel about it? I mean, I suppose if it only came to light after he's dead it doesn't really change much, but still. I'd find it quite bitter.

There again though I remember reading or somebody saying to me about how back in't day a lot of women were kind of more permissive about that sort of thing, maybe it goes into a bit of the old Maritime Issues but back when it was a lot more like, the bloke had given them a house and a family and a stable life and all that, they sort of expected he'd want to go off and get a bit of action as an escape from the family life. Long as he kept his end of the deal up at home it wasn't worth kicking up a fuss about.

>>456381
Pretty sure along with Russell Brand he'll be outed as the next big celebrity sex offender.

>>456395

Nah, I doubt it would stick with someone like him. It only works when it's someone with a good reputation to be sullied, or someone people find unsavoury enough to want to ruin in the first place.

Somebody tried it on with Marylin Manson recently apparently, and it's really hard to take seriously because the "allegations" just sound like exactly the sort of kinky shit you would always have expected Marlyin Manson to be getting up to. In fact you'd be disappointed if he wasn't, frankly.

>>456394

>There again though I remember reading or somebody saying to me about how back in't day a lot of women were kind of more permissive about that sort of thing

From my own experiences of watching my grandparents grow old, this seems very true. They would argue a lot in the couple of years before my grandad died, and gran would chuck out "well you cheated on me with the neighbour" in much the same way you'd remind someone they never returned a book you loaned them.

It seemed so much more of a blow when she'd mention his brother who was caught stealing from his workplace. I guess that really is reflective of the times they grew up in. Shagging the women across the hall when your wife is away was not even close to being as shameful as having a thief in the family. That's interesting to me, particularly since grandad revealed to me on his deathbed that he was involved in insurance scams when he was a fire inspector.

>>456383
I still find most of Bo Selecta hilarious, but Keith Lemon has never been funny.

Won £100 on this month's premium bonds, not bad considering I've got about £9,300 in there. I just need to keep this up every month and I'll be getting about 12% in interest.

>>456381
I watched a lot of early Bo Selecta, think I even got the Proper CrimBo Christmas song on vinyl. Would have been 10ish. Very lowbrow humour when I look back on it but as young un it was hilarious. Also, and I hate to be one of those types, but certain stuff would not be allowed today. Like Trisha talking about "rice and pea and ting". Later Bo stuff, and all the Keith Lemon stuff, not great. I think the worst Leigh Francis vehicle was the one focused on the Bear, with Patsy Kensit as the female lead. Fucking dreadful.

>>456397

My grandad on my mum's side was also quite the womaniser. Growing up as a weelad, I remember he lived in various different places from time to time, and always with different women. I guess I somehow thought that was normal, as a seven year old. His thing was that he would start affairs and then temporarily move in with whoever he was seeing, which were usually well off widows or divorced lonely women who often lived in quite sumptuous houses. My grandad had enough money of his own, mind, he was partly living off the proceeds from selling his dad's dairy farm when he was younger. Which may have been part of his success in the first place. But he always had it good with the women he chose for an affair.

For whatever reason, my nan forgave him in later years, and he spent the last five or six years of his life back at my nan's house. And the two actually seemed to get along well. Divorce was somehow never on the table, but I guess living in a small Northern village where everybody was gossipping about everybody, it just wasn't something you did in those days.

Got banned from Rudgewick again. Girlfriend said she's proud of me.

What do you make of this? Man-made horrors beyond comprehension or organ donations with fewer steps?

>>456424

Pretty sure that's how Death Korps of Krieg soldiers are made. Sounds good.

>>456424
>Medical Journal Floats Concept
At least the news article was honest enough to admit they're never actually going to do this. But hypothetically, I'd rather not allow any further technological innovations in letting more humans be born, just because we have enough already.

>>456424
Surely the hosts brain activity would have a profound effect on a developing fetus.
Are we actively trying to create The Borg?

>>456427

Probably depends on the extent of the brain damage.

If it works and is useful (neither of which I'm convinced of) I don't see an issue with it. Braindead bodies don't have personhood, regardless of prior consent it doesn't harm anyone and would therefore be ethical.

We have a fart detector. Our backside can detect the differnce (with arguable accuracry) between gas content and solid/liquid content. Noy smell, taste or sight. Just... fart. I'm so glad it's there.

Tech illiteracy and regular illiteracy aren't going anywhere fast.

>>456431
The workplace annoyances thread has been proof for years that many people under the age of 30 don't know their way around a computer because they didn't grow up with one.

>>456429

If you shart during sex, then the sharting itself is not your real problem.

I finally bought a new bathroom scale tonight, after my old one broke a few years ago, in any case before the whole corona what-have-you.

I now weigh a hair short of 18 stone. At 6'2'', but still. 18 stone. I've never weighed that much in my life.

Time to get the bicycle out of the basement and eat fewer take aways at night. I guess a lot of it is still the corona flab, which I never really got down from. But I've really been too sedentary even after lockdown.

Had to go to London for work and I've got a couple of hours to kill so I'm currently eating a Burger King in Kensington Gardens. It absolutely stinks of weed but I can't see where it's coming from.

Also I swear well over half of the people I saw today were Russian.

Why do women always want to eat in my bed? Are they trying to be cute? Are they being lazy because they don't have to sleep in the crumbs or change the sheets the next night? They don't have crumbs in their beds, at least not when I come over.

>>456493
Disgusting. Dump the bitch.

>>456493

Go to her house, suggest to have a cosy cuddly bed day watching serial killer documentaries (bitches love serial killer documentaries). She'll be too giddy at the idea to suspect your true motives. That's when you pull out the HobNobs and Doritos. Order Chinese, get prawn crackers, sesame toast and spring rolls. Snacks with industrial strength crumb capacity. She will realise too late that the war was over before she knew it had begun.

I generally let this kind of behaviour slide as long as they're going to give me a blowie, though, truth be told.

You can't excluseively date plus-sized women and then get moody when they need a post-coital snack.

Sorry for putting three E's in "exclusively". It was a typo, I am literate enough to post here, honest.

>>456501
I'm talking biscuits with tea or coffee here. The plus sized ones eat chicken wings in bed and stain the sheets with the sauce I'm not making that mistake again.

I'm sure there was a book written during the height of popularity of Fifty Shades which also took inspiration from Bake Off and included things like leaving crumbs in bed to feel the scratchiness of them.

Anyway, funny how the weekday thread is dead until there's the opportunity to have a pop at women. Longstanding tradition.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/02/06/maryland-power-grid-neonazi-brandon-russell/
America is pretty fucked up. The Fox News report and this WaPo article are talking about the same attacks, if that's not clear.

>>456506
Nothing like lumping Ted Kaczynski in with your shout outs to famous white supremacists. I'm convinced most of these dickheads aren't political as much as they are nihilistic, listless, and hungry for some semblance of purpose in their sad lives.

Also power outages are the least of Baltimore's worries when Omar comin'.

Finally got a completion date for my house. So I'm sorry lads, but pack your rice, we're going to have a nuclear war before the end of next week.

Just spent 40 quid on new mountainbike tyres, tubes, and a few other parts.

Are Continental bicycle tyres as good as their car tyres? They were marked down to £20 for a pair of 26'' ones, so I thought you can't go wrong with that.

>>456515
They're good enough, but I buy bike tyres that are one step up from entry-level, and Continental do a tyre that fits that price bracket. Nobody's going to be impressed by them, but they're certainly decent enough. I don't know if they are necessarily better than, say, Vittoria tyres.

I need a countersign for a job offer but I'm a social recluse.
I'm probably going to put down one of my old work coaches from the job centre but i fear it will just come back with them being unable to contact them.

It's ridiculous how much easier it is to prepare food with an actual proper sharp knife.

>>456518
Just wait until you get a really good non-stick pan.