Apparently the other lad is busy, so you'll have to put up with my boring response. It's Monday, I'm working from home, allowing an all staff meeting to babble away in the background while I actually handle other tasks and make other big plans. One day I'll be rich, lads. You all just watch.

>>457821
I always assumed working bank holidays was for people with non-office jobs like shop workers and nurses. How come you're working from home today?

>>457822

I am a filthy immigrant expat.

>>457822
Thank you for asking. For a second, I thought I had forgotten to go to work.

I think I've perfected my macaroni cheese sauce. Nutmeg with a pinch of mustard powder and garlic salt.

>>457825

Full recipe, please. I've got some tortellini ready to go, and I'm gradually turning this place into Mumsnet anyway.

I'm actually thinking about dusting off my fishing gear this summer. Been ages since I went, I used to go fishing a lot around the Sussex coast. Great area for catch and kill. Some nice seabream there, among many other species.

>>457826
I eyeball it so there's no precise measurements here. Melt butter. Add a spoonful or two of plain flour, a pinch of garlic salt, a dollop of nutmeg and about half a teaspoon of mustard powder. Mix them together until there's no lumps left. Gradually add the milk. When it's thin enough alternate between adding milk and cheese until the texture and the taste are what you're looking for. Ideally it'll be a mix of cheddar with something like Gruyere or an Italian cheese. When you serve it add sundried tomatoes or roasted peppers in the bowl.

Nothing fancy but it works for me.

>>457827
The OPs picture triggered similar feelings in me too. I don't really want to catch anything, but the excuse to sit by the sea for the day is irresistible.

>>457831
>>457827
If you like it so much why don't you organise a .gs fishing expedition? Don't forget to bring the chicken and beer.

>>457820
Calling the bank holiday a "weekday" gave me a scare, OP, even if you are technically correct.

Apologies for the Facebook video link, but what should I be chewing on to stop me having a manlet jaw?

https://www.facebook.com/SundayBrunchC4/videos/1383689329091646/

Apparently our jaws are much smaller than 100 years ago because of moving to much softer things, like white bread.

>>457835
Mastic gum is cheap and reusable but it tastes like pine trees.

>>457835
Chewing gum, or anything with lots of fibre and general toughness. Potatoes will do it but rice won't; I have no idea what the nutritional difference is between those two but I assume it's fibre. Unfortunately, I also think you need to chew as many Hobnobs and gingerbread men as you can from an early age, so it might be too late to achieve any noticeable difference.

>>457835
>what should I be chewing on to stop me having a manlet jaw?

Tunnock's caramel wafers.

>>457835
Carrots, celery, anything big and hard you can fit in your mouth really.

>>457837
I assume the muscles must be noticeable in the face. I'm a grinder and my dentist pointed out after I consciously stopped and started using a sleep guard that my jaw muscles weren't as tense anymore.

>>457835

Look for anything made of food-grade silicone.

Dentist today for the first time in about 3 years.
Been putting it off but needs dealing with now as I probably need 4 fillings.

According to the weather forecast it's only about 15°C right now but I am roasting.

>>457835

You're already an adult, so your jaw isn't suddenly going to look like Clark Kent just because you train your chewing muscles.

A lack of hard foods in childhood and adolescence will increase the likelihood of wonky teeth, but the actual jaw size difference will not be that pronounced compared to somebody whose jaw got plenty of chewing practice growing up.

The most defining factor in how pronounced your jaw will be as an adult is testosterone. A chiselled square jaw tends to be highly correlated with above average testosterone levels. Which you can't really do anything about. It's also one reason why women often have small jaws and pointy chins. It's the almost complete absence of testosterone in their bodies.

>>457850

Hypertrophy of muscles can occur well into adulthood, as observed in resistance training. I see no reason why this shouldn't apply to the masseter and other musculature of the jaw. There are even cosmetic surgeries for people who want to narrow the appearance of their jaw, achieved by deliberately atrophying the masseter muscle: https://ostrowonline.usc.edu/what-is-the-masseter-muscle/

Testosterone may correlate with jaw size, but a correlation doesn't necessarily mean it's the primary driver. There are plenty of women with prominent jawlines due to other factors like well developed muscles or general facial proportions.

Even if testosterone were the primary driver, there are a plenty of things that people can do to promote their natural production, e.g. reducing bodyfat and improving sleep duration/quality.

>>457845
Apparently I need at least 5 teeth out.
Fuck that.

>>457856
I haven't been to the dentist since the before times. I know I need some work doing as I chipped a tooth years ago but my dentist's a sadist so I keep putting it off.

>>457856
>>457857
Stop fucking around with your teeth you pair of mentalists. There are at least 5 ways that a tooth infection can kill you and the only way teeth magically fix themselves is the nerve dying off as the infection spreads.

>>457859
Is there a part of the body more poorly designed than teeth?

>>457860
Feet are pretty shit. Why do toenails exist? Surely we should have evolved elephant stumps by now. I hate them, and while it is certainly foolish for teeth to have all those gaps in them, their modularity means that when you lose one tooth, you can keep the others, rather than getting the entire white-horseshoe-shaped array removed from your head.

>>457862

But why haven't we evolved a way to grow new ones? Why do we only get one set of spares?

I feel like the issue is back in the old days, people never lived long enough in the first place for long term dental issues to become a problem. You can have a few fucked teeth and get by fine if you're going to die at 40 tops anyway; it's only when your life expectancy is into the 70s and 80s that the potential for cardiac disease later in life makes a difference.

>>457862
The bones of an elephant's foot are quite similar to a humans.

If you think about it ape milk is probably the closest to human milk but most people would find the thought of supping monkey milk to be gross whilst thinking it's fine to have cow milk.

>>457860
The sinuses. They don't drain with gravity, cilia has to push it up and the damp environment is perfect for bacteria to ruin your week. And of course when you get sick or have the indecency to breathe dry air the lining that gets irritated so it blocks itself.

Think about how many times you've had a cold. It's these bullshit things fault.

Serious answer: The human spine is ridiculous. We will all suffer a future of agonizing backpain.

>>457860
Throat. Having the ingest food and drink here or die hole next to the if this is blocked you will very quickly die hole is absolutely insane.

Why didn't you lads tell me about elasticated trousers? They are so comfortable and an absolute game changer.

>>457866

>Serious answer: The human spine is ridiculous.

The spine just hasn't caught up with us developing upright gait. That's the problem. It's not designed to be used that way.

My washing machine broke this afternoon. I had to wipe up six 10-litre buckets full of water off the floor with a floor cloth. Parts of the room were under more than half an inch of water. Something must have failed catastrophically inside the machine, because I was out of the room maybe ten minutes and when I came back it was a complete foot bath.

My guess is there's a major leak in the water feed on the inside, because the water didn't feel soapy and didn't foam when I mopped it up. I don't have my torx set handy tonight to unscrew the top and take a closer look, but that's what I'll probably spend the weekend doing.

The washing machine has been hanging on for dear life for a while, it's over 20 years old and at this point fixing it is really more about an enthusiasm for fixing things than it is about reasonably repairing a household appliance.

But I'm in a bit of a tight spot financially at the moment, so if I can keep it going a little longer by fixing the water feed, then it'll be worth it.

>>457877
It's always annoying when you have to replace something because it's broken and are forced to buy whatever seems the best at that particular moment rather than having the time to shop around for a good deal. My fridge freezer is an ex-display model from IKEA because that seemed the best I could afford when my old one broke; it's certainly not one I'd have chosen if I had the luxury of more time.

>>457878

My fridge went out a while ago. A friend who "knows about that stuff" said the symptoms sounded like a solenoid inside the compressor was probably broken. Something that's only worth fixing if your fridge is reasonably new and expensive because it usually means getting an all new compressor, and then you still have to evacuate and refill the cooling system, which you can't feasibly do yourself at home.

I think a broken fridge is much worse. You can go a few days or even a week without washing clothes, and if you have to you can hand wash a few of them in the sink. But my fridge was half full with groceries, and dairy and meat products only last a handful of days without proper cooling until they start tasting funny. So I needed to get a new fridge quickly.

>>457880
>You can go a few days or even a week without washing clothes, and if you have to you can hand wash a few of them in the sink.

Something something Fruit of the Loom.

To be fair, I'd be quite pissed off if I had to be the bassist in The View as well.

What do you buy the man who does nothing and and wants nothing? It's my dad's birthday and I'm stumped as usual. My mum's suggested I get him "Squiggly Farm" on DVD; I'm fairly sure she means Clarkson's Farm.

>>457893
Wine gums

Is there a script or browser extension I can install that'll prevent me from having to see the murder news coming out of the USA? I'm only half kidding.

>>457898
The doctor told him to improve his diet, otherwise he'd be getting a great big fuck off Toblerone.

>>457893
It's my birthday this weekend, and if you've bought me a Clarkson DVD I will disinherit you.

>>457898
Much better.

>>457893

Slippers or psych ward socks.

>>457902
>Slippers or psych ward socks.

I've recently discovered the benefits of pyjamas. Strongly recommend.

>>457905

I just wear cheap joggers to bed, but my look these days is basically "Harry Potter on remand for burglary".

>>457909
Maroon blazer and an ankle tag? It's a bold style and I respect that.

>>457910
I think the maroon part was actually a cloak or cape.

>>457910

Shaved head, missing teeth, little round glasses, satchel full of library books. I look like I can fix your computer, but I also look like I might nick it.

Been trying to get an occupational health assessment from my work since February. Emailed manager several times, asked her in person, still nothing. So I've asked the union to step in. I don't want my manager to hate me but I've got no choice.

Trying to troubleshoot a 40 year old burglar alarm system. My parents had it installed when they lived in the house, but no documentation whatsoever has survived besides a couple of invoices listing parts and labour. The company that installed it for us is defunct according to Google, and the technicians that worked on it are probably dead by now. It was a pretty intricate system as such, it cost around £8,000 to install in the early 80s, when that was a boatload of money.

What's happened is that there are apparently rats or mice in the attic, I'm still trying to work out which, and they've chewed through one of the wires that were run through a corner of the attic. I've tried just soldering the leads back together, but they're unfortunately not colour coded, they're all just black, so it's been guesswork, and I haven't made any progress. It could also be they've chewed through more than one wire. Which would be a real problem because as far as I can tell, most of them are under the floorboards, which are nailed onto a wood frame with no point of access.

As long as that fault isn't fixed, I cannot activate the alarm system as such. It won't let me. So it's essentially like having no alarm at all. The only thing that works is a panic button in the master bedroom and another one in the upstairs hallway, which will set off the siren, but when I'm not home, the house is wide open to burglars at the moment.

>>457967

Burglar alarms don't do fuck all anyway. Get a dog, that's what dogs are for.

>>457967
You absolutely need to sort out your rodent problem first. Get it done before they cut the panic alarm and your house turns into a 24 hour Black Lace concert. The thing about rodents is they absolutely love electrical cables so even if you get it fixed it won't be long before it's gone again.

Have you got a lock on your door? That's all almost anyone else has.

>>457968
Don't be daft, how's a dog going to solder without hands?

>>457969

Seconded about the rodents.

Regarding the alarm, I'd be inclined to just abandon the old system and install something new. Modern wireless alarm systems start at about £200, they're a piece of piss to install and they have all sorts of features that you won't find on a 40 year old system.

>>457968

Well this one used to have a modular automated dialling system, which is now deactivated. It would call whatever phone number you specified and play a recorded tape message to alert either a paid security service or the police. I guess my parents at some point unplugged it because they no longer wanted to pay the monthly fee.

That part of it has me intrigued though, because there's a schematic on the face plate that explains how the connector is wired that goes from the alarm into the dialling system. Apparently, the dialling system gets +12V always-on, and the alarm is passed on via a simple low-voltage normally open switching contact. You could quite reasonably create a piggyback Arduino- or ESP32-based circuit around that with a GSM shield so that you could have it call you on your own mobile phone when there's an alarm. The parts would be less than about £30.

I know that the system is 40 years old, but it still does many things well. When it works. Every window and door in the house is connected to it both with an opening detector and a glass break detector.


I'll sort out the rodent situation, I've already looked at humane rodent traps on Amazon. Will probably order a few this week.

>>457967
Alarm sensors are two-wire and usually have no polarity involved, which is why both wires are black - they are N/O (normally open) or N/C (normally closed), it will say so on the sensor itself which it is. On the mainboard, you'll probably have N/O or N/C ports on the board itself you plug those into. It's simply a wire, with a switch, off or on triggered by the Passive Infrared Sensors.

That said, I agree with the others - burglar alarms ain't worth shit unless you have them hooked up to a monitoring system, and that quickly gets expensive - you usually have to use the alarm companies kit, too.

Smoke alarm, CO2 alarm, window locks, good deadlocks on front and back door are all better investments.

>>457972

>I've already looked at humane rodent traps on Amazon

IME they aren't nearly as effective as a proper wooden trap. They aren't pleasant to empty, but they're cheap and they really get the job done. Mice are pretty dimwitted and easy to catch, but rats are canny fuckers.

Once you've dealt with the internal infestation, have a really careful look at where they might be getting in, block everything up with wire wool and chicken wire, then lay out a few bait boxes in the garden.

>>457973

>Alarm sensors are two-wire and usually have no polarity involved

Except these have four, because they've got a built-in sabotage line that's connected to a separate I/O port* on the mainboard. I remember that much about the system. Which might also explain why the wires are not colour coded, because security through obscurity. Theoretically you could short a two-wire cable so that the alarm system thinks a window is closed when it isn't. But with four identical wires, what are you going to do.

So if you then want to replace a length of cable that's been chewed clean through with no way of determining which wires were connected, it turned out tonight that you just have to keep randomly connecting them until you hit the right combination. There are 4*3*2*1 = 24 different ways of connecting four wires, and I guess what had me stumped was that I tried probably twenty times before I had them wired up the right way.

The sabotage line fault is now fixed, but it's still showing a window open for that area of the house, so I guess there's a broken reed switch somewhere.


* There are a few unused I/O ports on the mainboard for sabotage lines, you could theoretically use them to upgrade the system with some modern tech, like indoor motion detectors. Basically, all the sabotage lines do is detect when a normally closed connection opens. It's actually a very hackable system the more I think about it.


>>457974

>Once you've dealt with the internal infestation, have a really careful look at where they might be getting in

I know rats are good climbers, and I suspect they're getting up the rainwater pipe. That's really the only way up to the roof. I can't see where they would then enter the attic, but I'll keep looking.

Did you see the twat from Balls of Steel trying to smoke a fag on GB News? Cunt looked like he had a wasting disease; incredible stuff.

Weird how many brown skinned, female, Enoch Powell's we have in this country. Which is to say we have two, maybe three, but that still seems like a lot, given the idiosyncratic and contradictory nature of the archetype.

>>457982
I don't think it's that much of a surprise. The brown women I know aren't very tolerant, especially of gay people.

>>457982
You'd do it too if you had every free pass going for offensive statements and your work offered to promote you repeatedly the more you did it. I don't entirely believe that they even support these views; they just really like political success in an area where white men really aren't allowed to even approach such things.

>>457984
>You'd do it too if you had every free pass going for offensive statements and your work offered to promote you repeatedly the more you did it.
No I wouldn't. I feel uncomfortable just being a phone pig for an energy company.
>political success in an area where white men really aren't allowed to even approach such things.
See attached image.

>>457982

Indian aunties are the biggest gammons going. Tommy Robinson's views on Shamanism are incredibly mild compared to the average middle-aged Indian woman.

>>457977
How is the cavity space between the walls of the house? Keep an ear out and look in any crawl spaces. The other question you need to think about is where their food is coming from.

>>457980
>Did you see [...] GB News

No, of course not. Did you see Octonots - A'r Môr-Nadroedd Torfelyn on S4C today?

>>457987
>>457982
You're both being quite unfair to Indian women on either ends of the spectrum. We still have too much of 'you're X because you're from Y' in this country and at the same time some of the softest spoken women I've met have been Indian.

>Indian aunties

Stop trying to make me masturbate.

I can't precisely put my finger on what but there's just something about the Morrisons in Elland that feels off. Supermarkets are bleak at the best of times, but this one has an eerily singular otherworldly vibe to it.

>>458011

Maybe it's because it seems to be full of blurred people. That would freak anybody out.

>>458012
Waiting -for-glasses lad probably wouldn't mind.

>>458013
Oh, he died a long time ago. Died and was reborn, with a tremendous fire within, one which he will unleash upon those that have wronged him (Royal Mail) and oppressed his will (Luxottica).

>>458011
I honestly feel that way about all Morrisons, its something they do with the design of the stores that irks me, that I can't explain. I think it's the lighting they use perhaps. My local one is super bleak at any time of day.

>>458011
>>458015

I've always thought Morrisonses feel like a bit of a time warp, like they are perpetually a couple of decades behind. I mean they were still selling VHS tapes well into the 2010s, they're the only place I can think of that still has watch doctors, dry cleaners,and sometimes a travel agent on that long bit in front of the tills, and the decor has always felt like an 80s throwback.

Part of me thinks that's intentional, because probably at least 70% of their customers are pensioners, and they want them to feel at home. When you're an old biddy increasingly lost in a world of space phones and daft fashion trends, it must feel comforting to go into Morrissons and have some semblance of normality maintained.

>>458015
I think it may be the floor. It really helps to capture the aesthetic of a shopping centre that peaked several decades ago and has been in a steady decline since or the children's ward of a hospital; all it needs on the windows is a few sun faded paintings of clowns and Disney characters.

Whatever it is that makes Morrisons a bit strange has been intensifies in their Elland store.

>>458018
If you think that's eerie, go to the massive Asda in Pudsey. It's palatial in size and design but follows the same mildly offputting aesthetic of most supermarkets built in the '80s and '90s.

If you want a fun political experiment, look online for "flag of Svalbard" and see which one you get. I was wondering about this because my phone still has the emoji for the non-Taliban one and I am a very boring person.

>>458021
>Svalbard
That's a new one to me. I mean the -stan country that begins with A.

>>458020
Does it snell like old shoes though?

>>458023
Yeah, but that's probably the Maccy D's at the front.

>>458024
You know you live in a shithole if your Asda has a McDonald's inside.

>>458025

I'm pretty sure there are only two kinds of .gs user. Those whose local Asda is Morley Asda, and those whose local Asda is Durkar Asda. If you're telling me Durkar is less of a shithole than Morley, you need to think again.

There's other Asdas, obviously, but you only visit them for a bit of an adventure, or if you're off somewhere else and they're on the way.

>>458025
Bradford side of Leeds, enuf sed.

>>458026
Durkar Asda has a Costa. Morley Asda is rougher.

>>458026
A girl I know broke up with her NEET bf because on her birthday him and his autistic mate went to Morley Asda to nick pound coins out of the trolleys.

I just know he's one of you two.

Wondering how many Elf Bars I could fit up my arse. I reckon six before I start struggling.

>>458032
That would be what, 56wh of LiPo with ll the chance to catch fire? Don't do it lad!

So if Paul from S Club didn't kill himself how did he die?

>>458034

By doing the sort of stuff that would be an ideal way to kill yourself, only on accident instead of on purpose.

>>458036
If it was an overdose they wouldn't have said natural causes.

>>458037

Your heart never really recovers from the damage from doing tons of sniff. Heavy cocaine users tend to just randomly drop dead, even if they've been clean for years.

I'm not saying that Paul spunked all his money on bag, but he was the only member of S Club to end up with crippling debts.

I wonder how Justin Hawkins feels knowing Paul from S Club achieved the rock and roll death he failed to, despite years of trying.

>>458039
He's busy running his kooky YouTube channel, where all the videos have click bait names.


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

>>458040

Yeah, I might ask him how he feels about it on one of his Q and As.

>>458038
>he was the only member of S Club to end up with crippling debts.
Perhaps, but he didn't wind up homeless and living in an office building with his kids: https://news.sky.com/story/s-club-7-singer-hannah-spearitt-reveals-homeless-struggles-people-think-we-must-all-be-millionaires-but-sadly-its-just-not-true-12797297

>Hannah Spearritt, the S Club 7 singer, has revealed she was homeless over Christmas and has spent the past six months living in multiple temporary homes with her family.
>Spearritt, 41, said she had to move into a friend's office after being forced out by a landlord.
>In the last six months, the singer has lived in four temporary homes with her partner, Adam Thomas, and their two children who are three and four-years-old.
>Speaking to The Sun, Spearritt said they had no choice but to move after a landlord left them with two days to find a new place to stay.
>"Our landlord needed the money and the property sold so fast," she said.
>"What screwed us is we didn't have time to find another place. We had somewhere over Christmas but ran out of time before we could move in. It was just a couple of weeks.
>"We were allowed to stay in our friend's office. We just used it as our living room.

Perhaps this story actually belongs in one of the "landlords are parasites" threads, but it nevertheless makes it look like none of S Club 7 really benefited from their international stardom.

>>458042
One of them made it on the telly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReDqrQf-oY0

Aubergines are rather pointless. I didn't have any courgette in so I've had to use aubergine in my roast veg instead. They both serve a similar purpose, not really adding much but absorbing the flavour of everything else, and the courgette is far superior at this.

>>458093

I hate the spongy texture of aubergines. As you said it absorbs everything. One time I tried slicing it and frying up the slices, because I vaguely remember hearing something about fried aubergine, but they got so oily and soggy that I binned them after a few bites.

Geoff Marshall has been posting a lot of downbeat videos since Vicki dumped him. I don't blame him TBH.

>>458096
Slice them lengthwise, salt them, lay them on a wire rack, and then press them down with kitchen towel and a baking tray for 30 minutes to an hour.

This is how my mum's always prepared aubergine parm and is apparently de rigueur back in Italy. It's considered inedible without sufficient preparation.

>>458098
>It's considered inedible without sufficient preparation.
Unlike what, potatoes? Chicken? More things need prep to eat than not.

>>458099

You mean you've never chewed on dry pasta?

>>458100
Dry pasta is sufficiently prepped wheat.

Being kicked out of my flat because the landlord wants to sell.
I was paying £200 under the going rate, and now I'm having to look for a new place.

I knew the scum were scum, but this is absolutely fucking disgusting.

Do androgynous men exist? All of the examples I can think of are women.

>>458103
They are described with different words, such as "effeminate".

>>458103

You mean to tell me that you've never fapped to femboy bussy?

>>458105
Have some self-respect.

>>458106

God loves me, that's why he invented femboy bussy. Who am I to reject the wonder of His creation? Jesus died at calvary so that you could goon over passable traps.

>>458107
>Jesus died at calvary so that you could goon over passable traps
What's your record? I've gone 8 hours before. It got pretty painful toward the end, balls ached for a few days afterward. I don't like to do it these days - feels somehow immoral.

I always knew I was the smartest one here and now I have proof.

>>458109
Come now. I haven't posted yet so there's still a chance it's me. I was recently concerned I was getting minor erectile dysfunction, but with no women in my life I couldn't test the theory so I just nofapped for a couple of weeks. I tried to give myself an erection and accidentally jizzed all over myself. So I abandoned nofap that month, and tried again the following month, and the exact same thing happened. So like I say, it could be either one of us taking home the trophy of most intelligent poster here.

>>458109

Well done m8, have a biscuit.

Never armwrestle a baker. I confess that this biscuit recipe said I should use an electric mixer, but I didn't think that would work so I mixed everything with a wooden spoon. My arm hurts and I have blisters on my hand. Anyone who can do this regularly must look like one of those lopsided armwrestler photos.

>>458111
That's a dumb person reply. Not only was my post in jest it was posted under some really stupid things people were saying. The fact it bothered you speaks volumes.

>>458112
I've had similar experiences in the past. Your post started me off thinking about a foot operated whisk. Not a whisk you strap to your feet, obviously, but one you power like a loom or something. The fifteen seconds I spent on DuckDuckGo images didn't show me exactly that invention, forcing me to conclude I could be a millionaire if only I could destroy all technological progress made in the past two-centuries.

>>458107
If god really loved us then femboys and passable traps could be found in real life instead of existing solely as unicorn-flavoured internet wank fuel.

It's that there demiurge at work more like.

>>458114
Stop bullying him; if it wasn't for the demiurge there'd be no femboys at all.

I've tried various combinations of seasonings and I reckon the best one to have when roasting chickpeas is just oil, salt and pepper.

I had blood tests yesterday, and when they put the tourniquet around my bicep, my arm looked like dough. Not a good look. Going to order some dumbbells to get some strength/tone.

Do those hand grip exercisers do much in the grand scheme of things or are they mostly for climbers?

>>458117
Depends on your goals, but for practical results they are for climbers. Don't get a finger board, those are likely to hurt you unless you already know what you're doing. Dumb bells can help I'm sure (if it hurts, stop, try again later) but I'm more a body weight/calisthenics kind of person where appeareance does not matter.

>>458117
Hand exercises won't do anything for your biceps. Get some adjustable weight dumbbells and a workout app designed for them.

>>458119
Don't do it lad. You'll be more bicep than man, it'll look daft. You need a plan to develop an aesthetic, balanced body.

A B OFF A B OFF A B OFF

A:
Curls 4x10
Hammer curls 4x10

B:
DB bench 4x10
Incline DB bench 4x10
DB fly 4x10

Just found out someone I used to work with has died. He did resemble a troll, especially with his ridiculously stained fingernails from all his smoking, looked at least fifteen years older than he was and had various conditions like diabetes so it's not exactly a surprise that he's passed away but it's still pretty shit to go in your early sixties.

Have you lads noticed that the rozzers keep lying about stuff?

As a couple of recent minor examples, there was a 'riot' in Cardiff after a couple of rascals on e-bike were killed after a police pursuit. The police said that they weren't chasing them and the whole thing was down to rumours on social media. Household CCTV footage has since shown the lads being followed by a police van, so the police have now admitted they were pursuing them and have referred themselves to a watchdog.

There was also that case in London where they shot dead a couple of dogs. All of the footage people recorded at the time contradicts the initial police statement about what happened.

Makes you wonder what else they're lying about.

>>458125

I think a pretty obvious conclusion, without meaning that to sound pompous or arrogant, is that they've been lying constantly for years, but it's only nowadays with social media and camera phones everywhere to contradict them that we're actually starting to notice. Or at least, have hard proof of it.

Having two different RFID cards in your wallet that go to different systems can cause both of them to not work properly.

>>458125

"Pursuit" has a specific legal meaning that doesn't match the common-sense use of the word. South Wales Police have admitted that the teenagers were being followed at one point, but that's not the same as a pursuit. The distinction might seem pedantic, but there's a big difference in practice and there are significant legal implications.

https://www.college.police.uk/app/roads-policing/police-pursuits

>>458125
>There was also that case in London where they shot dead a couple of dogs.
So that explains this picture I saw. I missed the story completely.

Got offered a job, at a civil service department I was sacked from a few years ago (too much sickness due to disability, occupational health said I was fit to work but would likely be off sick in the future so they canned me).

Been on long term sick at my current job due to disability, worse this time because the actual nature of the job (working in mental health) massively triggers my own mental illness.

Doing the pre-employment checks I've had to divulge this info. Hope they don't rescind the offer just because I'm a mad cunt.

>>458130

They'd surely have you on file and know your history already, though, right? Or are they really that much less thorough than I'd imagine?

Now I'm imagining you coming in on the first day wearing Groucho Marx glasses to make sure nobody who still works there from your first time around recognises you. That could be a good laugh.

>>458131

>Or are they really that much less thorough than I'd imagine?

My dad took a job as a civil service clerk in the mid-70s. He was assigned an office, a woman gave him a folder of documents, but nobody introduced themselves as his manager or explained what his job actually involved. Every morning the same woman came with a folder of documents, but she didn't know what they were or what he was supposed to do with them, just that she was supposed to deliver them to his office.

For the first few days, he tried chatting to people to try and ascertain what his job might be, but nobody seemed to know, or know anyone who might know. He grew embarrassed of asking, so he just put the documents in his desk drawers. He assumed that eventually someone would turn up to bollock him for not doing his job, at which point he would find out what his job was.

Six months later, he finally ran out of places in his office to put the documents, so he handed in his notice. When he applied for a different job elsewhere, he got a good reference from someone he had never met.

I am circling the drain.

I had a Kitkat Chunky for the first time in about a year or two. The chocolate on them ise so thin they're really just scaled up regular KitKats now. Pathetic.

>>458135
The wafer is the best bet, the less coating the better.

>>458135
Why are you eating a Kit-Kat for the chocolate anyway? It's like complaining about the boot space in your Lotus, get a clue!

This oddity clearly bought a YouTube page I subscribed to a million years ago and has been uploading clips from the main podcast which appears to be nothing more than a marketing tool for a network that runs or at least promotes OnlyFans accounts. The main "Whatever" channel didn't even have any podcast episodes until less than a year ago, it was all fake "pranks" and "social experiments", the most popular being "Drowning Baby Prank" with 78 million views and includes "11 Year Old Picking Up Girls" with 33 million. Which might all mean the entire brand was bought by someone? Or the same LA parasites just pivoted? I'd rather top myself than watch any of this shit though so I'm not going to look into if it's the same subnormals in the pre-podcast and post-podcast era.

Not especially noteworthy, it just took me by suprise, but not entirely. A friend who monitors stuff like this for a living showed me that during the Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard trial loads of YouTube accounts who'd never previously mentioned either of them completely switched to being Amber Heard hate accounts, all with a suspiciously similar style of video they'd upload.

This is what I was talking about, ffs.

>>458138
>A friend who monitors stuff like this for a living

>>458134
I was thinking you looked a little flushed.

But fight back, goddamn you. Be a man one last time. I refuse to write an encouraging and wholesome post against a blue background where I'm not allowed to jokingly call you a gaylord and a bumface. You are neither of those things. You are a motherfucking inspiration. Do some cool shit. Do the cool shit you do every day, and do not stop just because you feel sad. Do it sad, you gaylord. And tomorrow, when you wake up, do it again and inspire everyone. Inspire me at the very least. You gay bumface.

Would you use a sexbot? I'm talking a higher tech machine robot that may or may not include a simulated relationship. I think I'd probably like to, but the thought of keeping something like that standing in the cupboard* seems totally freaky, and I wouldn't beable to deal with the shame of it all. Besides I doubt they'd really respond convincingly.

*What do you call this? Closet sounds too American.

>>458148

I'll get one of the second generation sex robots, once they've worked out all the early quirks. I don't want to end up in A&E with a robot stuck to my cock because I didn't install a software update, or because I did install a software update, or because I forgot to renew the mandatory cloud service, or because Shenzhen Tiandiao Erotic Robot & Paper Shredder Mfg Co Ltd got hacked and now a teenage nerd from Belarus is demanding 0.1BTC for the release of my knob.

>>458148
I hope everyone else gets one until eventually I can get myself a real living woman. I would honestly rather have a nagging shrew wife than a perfectly devoted robot.

>>458148
Given the state of sex dolls I'll assume that sex bots will be similarly sterily tech bro designed garbage. You don't want a sex bot, you want a laundry/dishes/cleaning bot. One of those I'd welcome, but having a hole in them when I can take care of myself perfectly fine? That's just extra maintenance.

>>458149
>Shenzhen Tiandiao Erotic Robot & Paper Shredder Mfg Co Ltd
Kek

>>458148
>Would you use a sexbot?

I would send it out to work and earn some money if that's what you mean. With it's arse-kissing functionality, total lack of empathy and ample capacity to step on people it'll be my boss by the end of the week.

>>458150
>perfectly devoted robot

Looking at what's going on with AI I doubt we will get that. You'll have zero privacy from it and catch it rummaging around your drawers/computer when it's not refusing to do something because it would be offensive to an AI ethicist.

You'd also have to be really fucking nice to it. Just in case.

>>458153
If you could afford a sexbot I don't think you'd even need a job. You could probably get the robot to do everything you'd need money for.

I wonder how many sexbots you'd need to be self sufficient.

>>458148
Once or twice for the novelty but I wouldn't want to own one. Sex is like art, the whole point of doing it with a partner is the intentionality of it, interaction with another person; the reciprocal attraction, getting off on them getting off, joking about when one of you pulls a muscle and falls off the other, feeling close to another human being. A sex bot might simulate those things but it can't feel them. And I'll always know that. If it's not a real human, may as well use my hand.

>>458155
What if the sexbot can do all of those things and more?

>>458154
I reckon you're overestimating a sexbots capability requirements. You don't need a human-level intelligence to even work as a life companion and it would likely be a dispersed intelligence to take advantage of shared computing power in cost-saving. Think more like a colony of wasps run on ChatGPT.

The way I see it, sexbots would probably fall into the cost-range of a car and be more like a rudimentary social worker crossed with a secretary crossed with a dishwasher. That you can have sex with. The range of dexterity and power just make it an inevitability and at that point you might as well be making some extra scratch lending them out as a labourer or crypto-miner. Maybe even putting them out as sex workers to raise money so you can buy another one - like a landlord of cock. Not able to run a farm or do anything truly impressive but when you get bored to shagging you might as well be making use of them.

>>458156
Then it's human-equivalent AI and not really a sexbot.

>>458158

An AI doesn't need human-level intelligence to convincingly impersonate a human in a narrow range of scenarios. The cognitive systems that we use to navigate ambiguous social interactions are easily fooled, which is why we tend to humanise our pets and personify inanimate objects.

One of the things we've learned from chatbot development is that the Turing test isn't actually a very good test of intelligence, because we're so easily fooled. One of the first chatbots to "pass" the Turing test used a really cheap trick - it was programmed to impersonate an eastern European teenager who was a bit of an arsehole. The people interacting with it were primed to expect that the "person" on the other end of the chat had a weak grasp of English, limited general knowledge and a surly lack of interest. If it didn't know how to reply in a conversation, it just acted like it was bored with you and started dishing out insults; the emotional intensity of the situation blinded people to the fact that they were having a heated argument with a fairly rudimentary algorithm.

It's easy to imagine an AI sexbot that hides the limitations of its intelligence by pushing our emotional buttons - perhaps a blonde bimbo nymphomaniac, or a sweet girl-next-door who isn't too bright but is playful and affectionate and absolutely besotted with you. It'd be weird if either of those characters was brilliant at chess or knew how to fix your lawnmower or had nuanced opinions about fiscal policy. With the right social and emotional priming, a lack of intelligence can make machines seem more human, not less.

People falling in love with AI girlfriends has ceased being a science fiction plot, as we saw with Replika earlier this year; it's still a fairly fringe thing, but there are a non-trivial number of people today who are in a "relationship" with an AI on some level. In the near-to-medium term, we are expecting AI to develop much faster than robotics. The biggest challenge in developing a convincing sexbot won't be developing a human-like "brain", but human-like movement.

>>458159
I am not going to be fooled because I know full well it's trying to fool me. If I buy a ticket to see a magician I'm not at any point going to be convinced he's doing anything other than tricks.

>>458158
If you can fuck it then it's a sexbot, doesn't matter what else is was designed for.

>>458157
>sexbots would probably .. be more like a rudimentary social worker crossed with a secretary crossed with a dishwasher.

Aye I'd prefer keeping a social maintainence bot that encourages and helps you to tidy your home, focus on healthier habits, etc. "Lets do this together" or "Would you like help with.." type of thing rather than a simple schedual or reminder.
Fucking it would probably create a strange dynamic, though I'd like it to be atleast a little attractive.

>>458162
>Fucking it would probably create a strange dynamic, though I'd like it to be atleast a little attractive.
You know what, the image actually resembles my sister who I enjoy doing house work with. She's not very unactractive, either.

This is a projection, isn't it?

>>458160

>I am not going to be fooled because I know full well it's trying to fool me.

Have you ever fancifully imagined that the girl behind the bar is flirting with you? Have you ever overlooked someone's glaring flaws because you fancied the pants off them? Have you ever stuck around in an obviously doomed relationship because you wanted to believe that something might turn it around?

We won't be deceived by AI, we will choose to deceive ourselves.

>>458162
>social maintainence bot that encourages and helps you to tidy your home, focus on healthier habits, etc.
>Fucking it would probably create a strange dynamic

Oh that's just great. So we set out to talk about using sexbots and ended up living with our mum again. I certainly can't wait to be banned from using the computer because I forgot to take the bins out again.

>>458165
Oh second thought, does this mean we'll get turkey dinosaurs for tea?

>>458165
Most men want to be mothered.

>>458165

I think the internet has taught us that there will be a big overlap in the Venn diagram between "robot mum" and "sex robot".

>>458164
None of that is a valid counter-argument to the magician analogy. In all your hypotheticals it's misinterpreting the intentionality in what you believe to be a conscious other. It is not being deceived by something you know is intended specifically to deceive you in that way. As long as it's understood to be a trick, it will be understood as a trick. Not that lots of people won't buy into it, but we all have our thresholds of credulity.

I will almost certainly update my definition of a real relationship so that it continues to be "whatever a robot girlfriend isn't". Whatever that winds up being, that will be what I insist on. If the only difference between real women and sex bots is that real women hate me and make the bathroom smell nasty, then that's what I will seek out, common sense be damned. As long as my definition of a real woman continues to be deliberately exclusionary of robots, as it is now, robot girlfriends cannot be a possibility for me.

I wouldn't use a sexbot, but I might use an AI girlfriend.

I have a real life girlfriend and I've been single probably for no more than a year out of the past decade, so it's not out of desperation; just that it'd be easier. More harmonious. You could turn off all the bits you don't like instead of having to have those awkward talks, and then the arguments when they overstep a boundary, all that shite that comes with real relationships.

I've heard fisherpersons go on about why all this is terribly sexist and obviously it just represents thei nnate desire of mysoginist men to control women and bla bla bla, but as usual they are wrong, because it's be the same if I was gay. In fact if they did femboy fox flavoured relationship-droids, I might just turn gay. So fuck you, that argument is bollocks.

There's also the argument that all the flaws and difficulties are what makes a relationship ultimately fulfilling, but I frankly don't care. I have never bought into any Protestant work ethic bullshit about working hard making things feel more valuable, that's just what poshos say to keep the poors down. Getting something with no effort feels fucking great, actually. And even if that were not the case- I put in enough hours slave grinding at my day job, I would frankly not mourn the loss of the emotional labour required to maintain a relationship, and I would be just fine with my hollow, artificial, fake AI partner who always says what I want to hear and does what I want them to do.

Quite honestly I think most of the arguments against all of this stuff are, as the other place would say, "cope". Obviously it would destroy the human species as we know it, because we're already getting too tech-addicted to reproduce, and AI waifu-cyborgs certainly wouldn't help matters, but frankly that's a good thing. This is the ethical solution to voluntary human population reduction.

>>458171

>I've heard fisherpersons go on about why all this is terribly sexist and obviously it just represents thei nnate desire of mysoginist men to control women and bla bla bla

Anecdotally, women seem to be eager early adopters of AI boyfriends. It's a slightly lazy stereotype, but a lot of women are very interested in a partner that will listen to them talk about their feelings with infinite patience. An AI will never give you up, let you down, run around or polar you. It'll never make you cry or say goodbye. Whether it'll tell a lie is something of an epistemological riddle.

>>458172

Ha. I'd at least find it pleasingly ironic, in a smug, "told you so" kind of way, if it's women who en-masse abandon men, not the the other way around. The trouble is a lot of the laziest stereotypes about relationships are, in my experience, kind of the truest. We've spent the last ten years indoctrinating ourselves with enough PC dogma that we doublethink out of it, but truisms and stereotypes often exist for a reason.

I'd always assumed the impact of sex-bots in gender relations would be one that is initially perceived as negative, but ultimately beneficial for women- Shedding their status as sexual objects is something progressively minded women always claim to want, but in practice, the majority of women are entirely unwilling to surrender. The unspoken and taboo reality that there is an "economy" to sexual attraction and desirability, that access to companionship and intimacy can be a currency, that gives women a form of power to exploit if they are so inclined.

This is, when it all comes down to it, what truly prevents women from being legitimately and rightfully equals to men. I reckon in that regard, by utterly devaluing and destabilising that currency, sex bots could be the drugs which is hard to swallow but ultimately brings about the cure.

I guess the real test is how well they can handle assembling flat-pack furniture and reverse bay park.

>>458173
Women write most of the fanfic and slash fic and create the horniest comics (CLAMP alone is responsible for a lot). Fish people can claim what they want, but it's not men who will spear head the sex bot revolution.

>>458171
>I've heard fisherpersons go on about why all this is terribly sexist and obviously it just represents thei nnate desire of mysoginist men to control women and bla bla bla, but as usual they are wrong, because it's be the same if I was gay. In fact if they did femboy fox flavoured relationship-droids, I might just turn gay. So fuck you, that argument is bollocks.

I think the argument is more that it's very easy to cross the line between a fleshlight with legs and engaging in corrosive master-slave relationships that blinds us to how we treat increasingly sentient beings. We might now think 'oh well she's just a therapist who listens to my problems' but we absolutely know from history how humans can come to behave when they feel they have absolute power over another and the doublethink we'll merrily engage with to maintain such a relationship.

Looking beyond the immediate dynamic you also have to question our expectations of one-another and whether we will even start to lose our ability to interact. Our language has shifted to technology and terminally-online weirdos are already of a sort.

>Obviously it would destroy the human species as we know it, because we're already getting too tech-addicted to reproduce, and AI waifu-cyborgs certainly wouldn't help matters, but frankly that's a good thing. This is the ethical solution to voluntary human population reduction.

We have enough sad people getting older. And obviously it won't be a human universal but a massive surge in power for those who don't engage with AI

Octavius off of the youtubes now identifies as a he/them. I am confused.

I stayed up until half 11 last night and I feel so tired and faint today. I'm 34.

>>458178

I wish I could tell you that it doesn't get worse.

I just took on another 3k of debt for a training course.

Life is going to be really bleak if this gamble doesn't pay off.

>>458177
I think that he/them is the same as he/they, which in turn means you can either say he or they and he won't mind either way. So, to most of us, he's a he. If you really want to call him a they for some unfathomable shitwitted reason, he won't mind. On the scale of genuine gender identity crisis to tiresome affectation, it's going to be towards the latter end. I should.perhaps also make clear that I have no idea who this YouTuber is.

>>458181
>Caesar Augustus (born Gaius Octavius; 23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14), also known as Octavian, was the first Roman emperor; they reigned from 27 BC until their death in AD 14. They are known for being the founder of the Roman Empire, and are considered one of the most successful leaders in human history.

Can't stop shitting and pissing, I dunno what's wrong with me. I've had about 12 dumps in the last 24 hours and they're nit even runny, just endless poo. I don't know where it's all coming from, I can't have possibly eaten enough food to produce it all. Meanwhile liquids are judt coming straight out practically as soon as they've gone in.

It's giving me plenty of time to post here, but still. Bit wierd.

>>458182

Fuckssake. Why don't we just dig him up and ask him if he prefers gender neutral pronouns.

>>458184
>Gaius
>Gay as
Definitely a gay. It's like being called Gaylord now.

>>458181

I understand the pronoun business, I'm just confused when fit birds who wear skirts and makeup and low-cut tops identify as "he". Am I gay now? I'd got my head around the idea that sucking girldick doesn't make me gay, but now I don't know where I stand.

>>458187
At lot of it is bollocks to feel special. Not to cast shade on trans/non-binary people, who are legitimate. I mean like the person I lost my virginity to who identified as genderqueer, but wore female clothes, had long hair, had lovely big tits, only dated men, appeared as a woman by all metrics but wanted the they/them pronouns. Not saying I only trust non-binary/trans femmes if they lop their tits off, but there's a point where if they present as femme in so many ways it cheapens the trans angle.

>>458188

Maybe it's just a reflection of my own prejudice and gender conformity, but I just don't know how I'm expected to behave around non-binary people. There's a trans lad at my work and we all know how to engage with him - he dresses like a bloke, he acts like a bloke and he's very happy to be treated as one of the lads. It'd obviously be horribly inappropriate to greet a trans woman with a firm handshake, a slap on the back and an "alright mate". What I don't understand is how to perform social niceties in a non-gendered way. Maybe that just makes me an old gammon, but I don't know what the rules are. It might be an uncharitable thought, but do non-binary people want people around them to be really hesitant and awkward?

I think it could be gradual steps towards people realising that not only gender but identity as a concept is merely a spook; individuals being no more than gradual ships of Theseus with no meaningful boundaries either on a physical or psychological level. Ideas, atoms and genes flow between us all.

>>458188

Sounds a lot like my ex. She always said she was "mostly lesbian", and that she at one point thought she was a trans-male but eventually settled for being genderfluid or non-conforming and all that; but as far as I can ascertain all of her actual partners had been men and she only ever dressed up in a feminine way. When I first got with her she was your typical alt-girl, tattooed with band shirts, short shorts and fishnets and so on, and she had what I consider the peak of feminine bodies, a bit curvy with a smashing round arse and huge fuck off tits the size of my head, without crossing the line into chub.

Her actual lesbianity extended as far as liking hentai focussed on lasses, and going down on a girl once. By rights I qualify as more gay than she was because I fap to femboys and sometimes have smutty conversations with other blokes on the internet.

I'm not any kind of trans or homophobe, I was really cool with all of it at first, but I think the trouble is there really is a point where you have to say nah, hold on a minute. You're really not any of those things, and it's kind of cheap, not to mention disrespectful to the actual members of those groups, for you to just expect everyone to go along with it and pretend you are. I came to regard it as quite narcissistic, actually- We've all got an idea in our head of the ideal "cool" version of ourselves, and for her having that label of being a gender special and a rainbow person was a huge part of it.

I dunno. It's like the whole idea of "posers" in stuff like the metal subculture. Nowadays some obnoxious zoomer retard would just call it "gatekeeping", but it served its purpose. It's the reason metal is still going strong in its niche today, it refused to let the insidious tendrils of commercialisation under the guise of accessibility creep in. The LGBT commuinity is experiencing what happens without gatekeeping- You just become a fashion trend to be used up and spat out when you're no longer fresh. Because mark my words, that's what'll happen in a few years.

>Gender doesn't matter.

>Except for my gender. It matters because I'm me and that makes me special.

The nutshell of gender identity politics.

I swear you lads are like a broken record. Can't go five mins without shoehorning in idpol.

>>458193

Listen, we've done really well actually. We've only had this relatively civil preponderance over enbys here, nobody has even bumped the trans thread about them being banned from lady biking.

Give yourselves all a pat on the back lads, we did really well to avoid having the whole circular debate about glinner again but because of women bikers. It's not like there would even have been any fit women bikers for us to look at on the side either is it, they all look like blokes.

>>458194
>glinner

I've just had a quick look at his Twitter account. Since yesterday morning he's tweeted or retweeted someone else over 50 times, by which point I gave up counting.

>>458195
Can't remember the specifics but recently he averages a post every 11 minutes, not including six hours sleeping time. The guy's fucking lost it.

>>458199
He's so deep now his only option is to keep digging.

>>458195>>458200
It's tiring just to casually scroll through it for 5 minutes. I wonder what his hourly rate as a perpetually online shut-in works out as for the pittance he gets from donations?

Do what you love and you'll never work a day.

Went for an early morning walk. Saw a beautiful horse and had a little skip down a lane.

>>458226

Are you 12?

>>458227
Don't be hating on seeing horses, man.

>>458228
I knew a mane who was always ungulateful when he saw horses, he really came a clopper when they were gone.

The boy has Chicken Pox.
Fairly inevitable but still.

I've accidently bought "light" Mozzarella, which apparently has 30% less fat than normal. I've not opened it yet, but isn't that completely and totally changing the nature of the cheese? Cheese is, on average, half fat.

>>458227
If only I'd been so free at that age.

I've got the shits, so I've spent a lot of time today contemplating my own legs.

My shins are mostly bald, but the rest of my leg hair seems to be getting longer with age. Shaving my legs would just be weird, but would it also be weird to go over them with the clippers? Just a number 4 to neaten up the straggly bits.

>>458241
Give it a go and find out, but yeah it probably would be weird. I used to know a few men who shaved their forearms - people definitely noticed.

Something about Grace Long makes me want to smash her Northern backdoor in.


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

>>458266

I'd accuse you of carpet-baggery because she looks about 15, but she has the personality of a middle-aged woman, so 🤷.

Got so angry I had to sit in the dark.

>>458267
>>458266
err on the side of caution, surely?

>>458267

The Internet says she was born in 2002.

>>458270

Now I'm so angry that I'm going to have to sit in the dark. Next you'll be telling me that policemen are basically the same age as they have always been, or that the instructions on tins of soup aren't being printed in smaller text, or that the stairs in my hall are just as steep as they've always been.

>>458266
Yes I feel the same, she is sweetly pretty but also very funny.

Fuck's sake, lads. It's either lasses who still look like children or frumpy dumpy potato women with you lot.

>>458274

>lasses who still look like children

One lad said that. With little to back it up. Just because she's not your clapped out Northern slag who looks like her mum by her mid-20s, doesn't mean you're a carpet-bagger for fancying her.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LhCtlQy6pk

>>458276

Don't be the guy who argues over how young is too young, it's just not a good vibe. Whatsherface is a lovely young woman, but she is young and most of us are not. If the lads who fancy her are still in their early twenties then fair enough, but I've got pants older than that girl, I've got no business perving over her.

>>458277
>but I've got pants older than that girl,
You've got pants younger than her but you still put your dick in them.
I don't disagree I just wanted to make that joke.

There's a new lass at work and she's I reckon about 28 or 29 but she has quite a young face and seems a little immature so I can't think of her in that way. Especially not when there's a slightly thick, but definitely not fat, woman in her late thirties who wears dresses all of the time.

>>458279
>Especially not when there's a slightly thick, but definitely not fat, woman in her late thirties who wears dresses all of the time.

At work, or just conceptually? And be careful describing British women as "thick", I don't know how ubiquitous that bit of slang is.

>>458280
>be careful describing British women as "thick"
I think the kids are calling it 'thicc' these days.

>>458278
Choked on my scone, thanks.

>>458277
You won't find me arguing that mid-thirties men ought not to pursue girls in their early twenties. Not because you're right, but because your disapproval makes it more appealing.

>>458283
Look, if Sidney Poitier can do it, then so can we all. That's the prejudice to overcome that film was about, right?

>>458280

>You won't find me arguing that mid-thirties men ought not to pursue girls in their early twenties.

You can pursue them all you want, and I mean legally. But if you're up to 15 years older than her, it's not likely you'll fall within the scope of what she fancies. Unless she has major daddy issues. Which may sound like your ticket, but trust me, it isn't.

Have a wank over 20 year olds quietly on your computer all day long which you probably already do anyway but save yourself some awkwardness in the real world.

>>458286
My old boss is 40 and he's about 17 years older than his girlfriend. He gets to shag a lass in her early twenties who's too young to fully grasp why women his own age won't go near him. She gets to spend all of his money. It works for them, but it's got car crash written all over it.

>>458290

> but it's got car crash written all over it.


It took me three times reading that to realise that you didn't write "car WASH".

I'm really getting old.

But you're right. She's probably spreading her legs for his money. Maybe he looks good for 40 or he looks young 40s. But you can be young 40 all you like, it isn't normally something that a lass in her early 20s is interested in.

A friend's neighbour who is also quite well to do started dating 25 year olds after his divorce in his late 40s. One odd side note of that story was that his ex wife upped her divorce demands considerably when she found out. I guess a cynical way of looking at it is that she wasn't going to stand for her ex husband replacing his old freeloader with a new one.

>>458292
In this case he divorced after telling his wife he was having an affair and leaving her for another woman; the other woman, about fifteen years younger than him and in a very junior role at work, got cold feet and didn't move in with him. Last I'd heard was that he was blowing money on making a super realistic set up for playing Forza and before his current relationship he was doing things like posing for pictures for Tinder in front of his car (Mercedes on finance). He looks like a rat.

>>458294

Another friend's wife (both late 30s, no children, married for 10 years) divorced my friend, simply telling him that she was feeling like they'd "grown apart". She moved out of their house, and gave him a forwarding address of a "coworker" where she was staying while they were getting things in order. Except it turned out that that address was her boss's house. She was having an affair and it was the real reason that she wanted the divorce. Not that she ever told my friend. He had to find out all on his own.

Not sure what my point is. But yeah. That happened.