I have life insurance through work and it's with a company that give you points for walking, exercising or meditating. I'm not really sure how profitable it is for them, presumably if they nudge people to be more active they're less likely to die, but I'm averaging enough points to get a fiver a month in Amazon vouchers.

Anyway, I've almost ran out of books to read so what should I spend them on? The past few years of the /lit/ thread would give you a general idea of what I tend to read. I might pick up Dogs of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky, but what else?

I bet the postman fails to bring my drugs, and I'll be forced to re-plan around not having any drugs.

>>458719

In my day, we had to wait in a car park for a bloke who has been "ten minutes away" for the past two hours.

>>458719
Have Telegram bots grown to credibly compete with the markets or are they still a niche medium?

What's a marbled polecat doing here? It's quite welcome, as long as it doesn't pull a grey squirrel.

>>458722
That's a pine marten.

>>458723

Can they do anything exciting?

Anyone got a link to those couple of radar weather websites that were thrown about a few years ago? The ones where you can follow wind channels, clould cover, etc, with numerous overlays of detailed information.

>>458725
They're helping with red squirrel numbers in Northern Ireland because greys are more vulnerable to them.

https://www.qub.ac.uk/News/Allnews/2020/Researchshowssignificanceofnativepredatorstonaturallyrestoreecosystem.html

>>458727

Well that's good then.

Their cousin, the beech marten, is the scourge of mainland Europe as it likes to chew on car wiring and hoses. We spent a holiday in northern France once and one morning, another hotel guest's car wouldn't start, and the damage in the engine bay was apparently characteristic of "une fouine" - a beech marten, as they told us. They're a very common species from Spain to the Black Sea, but somehow absent in the British Isles, if you believe wikipedia.

Facebook were the good guys. Clickbait websites all turned on Facebook during the Adpocalypse in 2017, where online advertising revenue collapsed and loads of websites went out of business, but surely it's good that society is free of those shitty websites. The fact that Facebook falsified market research data to boost Facebook's advertising revenue, falsely claiming that users were really eager to watch videos and everyone needed to pivot to video content, had lots of excellent consequences that make me forgive their crime of fraud.

The reason I am suddenly remembering this is because everyone I speak to who could replace my fucked boiler asks me what my favourite boiler is and if I want a specific one, so I just looked online for boiler reviews. Every website is a fake bullshit website set up to shill for some random boiler company you've never heard of. In the end I just clicked on page 4 of Google's results, assuming that the SEO vampires would have stopped trying by that point, and indeed I got some great reviews, from 2021, before a new law was passed that demands higher efficiency from all new boilers. None of these boilers would pass the new efficiency tests, but a company called Viessmann appear to be closest. Their boilers are extremely expensive, however.

>>458729
Facebook seems to think I'm really interested in shitty African webcomics.

>>458723
Oops. Must remember: marbled at the back martin at the front.

It feels like the Uighurs were in the news all the time and then nobody could be arsed reporting on them after covid.

>>458720

Naturally I was there too, and I know the arseache. I've only recently worked out how to safely order drugs off the Internet and it's truly a revelation. Waiting a few days for it to turn up is a small price to pay when you're getting so much better value and quality to begin with.

>>458721

I wouldn't know, I've never trusted any of that lot. For a while apparently it was all the rage to buy drugs off instagram snapchat, but that seems far too easily traced for my liking.

I took last week off work because I really need to get a new job with a promotion in my career. I've spent the entire time playing 6 Ages.

>>458718
Dogs of War and its sequel are indeed tits.

>>458729
You've either got to put rudgwicksteamshow.co.uk at the end of your search term or use an AI. Google search is broken.

>>458733
What are you doing it with these days?

>>458735
Are you me? I hope not because you've used up more leave than I wanted to waste but I also have done something similar. Took some days off, meant to get my job hunting gear on and not really sure what I've done. Regret.

Jennifer Lawrence looks fucking weird.

>>458726
windy.net
absolutely everything in a very swanky animated interface

netweather.tv
bit more traditional and you get all the data in .jpgs that are updated every few hours, but the benefit of some forecasting and blogs from people who understand what it all means.

>>458737
Yeah it is pretty weird seeing her with clothes on

>>458737
She's always been a bit funny looking. Her career allegedly has a lot to do with banging Weinstein.

>>458730
I get that too, come to think of it. And Indian shit too. I can't explain it.

>>458741
I followed a shitty Indian meme page, like an Indian 9Gag equivalent, and it was always amusing the way the sentences mix English words in with whatever other language used. Trying to decipher the meaning based on what English there is and what's in the image.

Lots of anti-laplanderstani and pro-Israel content too.

>>458730
I'd call it ChatGPT if it wasn't so piss poor. The drawing is alright to good, but it's utterly lacking in humour.

Would you buy a display model mattress? Went mattress shopping today and the one we bought was ~£950 although we could have got the one on display for ~£350, but my girlfriend didn't like the idea of buying one that people had been laying on for months to test it out.

>>458847
>people had been laying on for months
Most of those people would surely have been clothed? Besides, what's another $150 to get it steam cleaned? You're still saving money, might even do it yourself with a wallpaper stripper.

>>458847

You do put sheets over your mattess, don't you.

£350 over £950 is a sizeable discount that I'd feel tempted to accept.

How does your girlfriend handle sleeping in hotel beds on holiday? Where people have done all manner of things beyond just laying in it.

>>458849
The problem here is that you're trying to apply rational thought to a woman's mind.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS37SNYjg8w

>>458850

True; well as long as she's pitched in for the 950.

If you were going to get a campervan would you go for a proper one or a van conversion?

>>458855
A proper one, but they are very expensive, particularly when you think how often you're going to use them.

>>458855

I'd crudely convert a knackered Luton van or a minibus, but I've always had a soft spot for New Age Travellers.

>>458856
They are more luxurious, but it seems like they're more for pensioners.

>>458855

My brother once bought a converted VW minibus campervan. The guy who sold it was actually a professional carpenter and had built a custom made interior for it with very good quality cabinets and fixtures. It was a real bargain as it was 15 years old at the time with about 130K miles.

A converted campervan can be a good alternative, and you can get good value for money, if the previous owner put a decent amount of effort into the conversion.

I spent all afternoon until 8pm trying to figure out why the air conditioning in my car isn't working. Got it back from the shop at noon today, had them service it this morning because I thought the refrigerant needed topping up, but they told me it was fine and they didn't have to top up anything. They still happily took my £100 for the service and for reading out fault codes, which turned up nothing besides some engine issues that are probably unrelated.

I didn't want to spend hundreds having them find the problem, so I had a crack at it, and it turns out my clutch coil on the compressor has burned out. It's supposed to measure around 3-4 Ω resistance, but mine has no continuity at all. Costs around £25 to get a new one.

I'm not saying I threw those £100 away today, but it goes to show that it literally pays to do some fault finding of your own before you have a garage look at something.

A few weeks ago I requested a free Book Of Mormon, and some missionaries were going to come round my house to give it to me and talk to me about their church. I chickened out and said I had an illness flare up, as I was scared of having to interact with them.

I have decided to practice Celtic paganism, but today I got a WhatsApp message from the Mormons asking when they can come round. Do I explain I am now a heathen, or just ghost them?

>>458909
Ask them round and explain the situation to them. I'd be interested to hear why they believe Mormonism is a superior belief to Celtic paganism. If nothing else you get a free bible out of it.

>>458909
Woad paint and a big stick, that's what you do. Get those Seppos out of our swamp. You also have to be bollock naked I think, except for the paint.

>>458910
The Book of Mormom isn't a bible, it's more like Bible fanfiction.

>>458911
I was going to make a brilliant joke about something to wipe your arse with after the apocalypse but then I got to thinking if the Christian god is real and you believe in him and all that jazz would he smite you for using the bible to wipe your arse with if you had nothing else to use, then I started thinking about the Mormon god, whoever that is. Then I started thinking the way bible pages are all paper thin (heh) must be a conspiracy by Big Apocalypse to make people stockpile toilet paper. I should go to bed.

>>458909
Ask if they'll send the fit American Mormons to recruit you.

>>458909

Invite them round and ask them what they reckon to this.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46PXaJxzuDE

>>458914
Last time I had Mormons round I brought up the South Park episode. They laughed and said it was funny. They'll be overly nice about it.

>>458909
It doesn't matter, they're not going to leave you alone now.

>I have decided to practice Celtic paganism

What's really going on, lad. You first do such an obviously self-destructive act and then you pick up the beliefs of people who spent too long in the shed huffing white spirit.

Michael MacIntyre's The Wheel is unbearably shit.

>>458917
As someone who does not even own a TV I haven't seen The Wheel.

>>458917
Decent Saturday evening TV died with Barrymore's career.

>>458917
I watched one a while back, one of the "experts" was Joel Dommett the charisma vacuum, and his speciality was heavy metal. The question was about nu-metal, something like "Rollin was a song by which American metal band" (it wasn't Rollin but something very similar and well known), and Joel Dommett the charisma vacuum hadn't even heard of it. And he gave the wrong answer.

Ikea in Sheffield is really weird. It somehow makes the one in Leeds feel classy.

I've eaten three magnums and it feels like I'm having a minor heart attack. Worth it though.

If Bibi dies you're all invited round for massive party.

.. well, atleast now I have something to watch when feeling especially lonely. This NPC trend is strangely alluring.

Oh, God, one of them lot that says "NPC" is here. Get the nurse.

>>458931
What? The trend is actually called 'NPC streaming'. Pictured is 'Cherry Crush', check it out on Youtube.

A pigeon shat through my open sunroof at a red light today. WTF.

>>458930

Spends all her time saying NOT SPICY when semt a chilli pepper but she's spicy in her videos iykwim

tl;dr tiktok pron sket

>>458939
How awful. How would one go about finding this terrible woman's videos? Just so I can make sure I don't accidentally come across them of course.

She looks like your typical Belle Delphine clone. No idea why you lot are being so thirsty.

>>458940

Be a sperg

I don't understand anything any more. I knew that one day this would happen, but that knowledge doesn't make it any easier.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9LaDH1ojpMA

>>458947

I feel strangely violated having watched it.

>>458947
And now youtube will forever try to recommend me related content. Nice one lad, cheers.

The BlackRock juice is everywhere

If I don't get this eBay item I've been watching all week I'll be so, so sad and I will cry. I haven't even pressed "Watch this item", because maybe someone else will see it. I've just had the tab open the whole time. I'm not even mentioning what it is in case one of the mortgage-trier lads decides he'll never afford one so "why should anyone else get what they want?" and buys it out of spite.

>>458953
Can't you use one of those sniper things?

I'm still annoyed with myself because a few months ago someone listed The Books of South trilogy (The Black Company) and I made a mental note to bid on it but forgot. It went for about £3 or £4 when every other option I've seen this year has been to buy it now for about £20.

>>458949

Clear your browser history and you'll be golden.

If you're on Chrome, also delete the User Data folder under c:\users\<user>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data.

Maybe try to change your IP address as well.

That way, Youtube will see you as a first-time visitor again.

>>458949
Open it in a private browser window next time.

Also why were you all pretending you'd never heard of Cherry Crush before. Don't lie to me, I know what you are.

I saw Neil Morrissey on Sunday Brunch and now I feel very old.

>>458949
Just delete all non-music history and keep it paused until you find music you like. It might take a few days where you're clicking the 'not interested/don't like' buttons but once you're done the recommendations page is at worst just giving you music videos you've watched before. You have your subscriptions for channels to watch on the left bar and if you want more you follow the recommendations on their videos. 99% of Youtube is complete shit made by idiots commenting on content so you're losing nothing.

>But I don't want to do that

Then use clickbait remover which changes the custom title shot for every youtube video with a random screenshot:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clickbait-remover-for-you/omoinegiohhgbikclijaniebjpkeopip/related?hl=en

>I want to remove shorts entirely including the shelf, search etc.

ezpz - stick this into uBlock:
https://letsblock.it/filters/youtube-shorts

>>458950
I want to talk about BlackRock as part of a wider conversation of the illusion of shareholder democracy and the institutions that ensure that never changes. But I'm too lazy and haven't quite arrived on what should be done to fix that_* or then how to counter the inevitable counter-revolutionary forces that use the populism bogeyman.

_{*Beyond delivering beatings to brokers until they simplify the process of exercising voting rights for shareholders.}

I won the eBay auction. I won, but at what cost? £30 for a white mock turtleneck with a RRP of almost two-hundred, that's what cost, get in.

>>458959
I struggle to believe browser history has anything to do with it at all. Unless you're talking about browser UIs that conflate cookies with browser history.

Well I'm awake now. The way I see it I don't have to brush my teeth until 7 because that's when I'd usually brush them anyway.

>>459068
You brush your teeth after eating breakfast. That's the rule.

I've been doing some research, i.e. going on Wikipedia.

Henry VI is the son of Henry V, who was the son of Henry IV, who was the grandson of Edward III, who was the son of Edward II, who was the son of Edward I, who was the son of Henry III, who was the son of King John, who was the son of Henry II, who was the grandson of Henry I, who was the son of William the Conqueror.

I didn't realise they were all directly related. I thought there were wars and shit where the throne changed hands.

>>459071
The state of modern education. It's always been in breeding, It's never been the kings or queens who were more than functionaries.

>>459072
Yeah, but all one bloody family for a thousand years?

>>459073
There are a couple of weird ones when a monarch didn't have any children and they had to trace the family tree, but yes, they're all a bit related. This is when the "House" changes, so for example the last Tudor didn't have any Tudor kids and the next in line was actually a Stuart, and that's how the Stuarts took over. James Stuart (James I of England, James VI of Scotland) was Elizabeth Tudor's cousin, based on what I have just read.

The royal families of other countries were all related too. Here is a photo of King George V of here and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Look how obviously related they are.

I thought I'd give fasting a go to lose some weight and was recommended that I start on a 16:8 schedule. I scoffed at that as 'intermittent fasting' is therefore just eating meals like a normal person and I don't understand why it's become such a fad.

Today I'm starting a 1 meal* schedule of I'm eating between 1800-2000. Exceptions will be a snack after the gym and a banana in the morning on work days (I may cut this). It's not been hard so far but tonight could be tough.

>>459069
>You brush your teeth after eating breakfast. That's the rule.

No, you brush your teeth when you wake up to kill off all the bacteria and then wait half hour before having a coffee as you aimlessly browse BBC News from your WFH set-up for an hour breakfast.

>>459071
Now notice how all the lines popup in 800AD as warlords consolidated power in Western Europe and how the upper class is still made up of victors of 1066.

LadBaby's wife looking fine at about 2:45 in.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKjYFctoe5s

>>459084
>I thought I'd give fasting a go to lose some weight and was recommended that I start on a 16:8 schedule

If you're just starting fasting and wanting to lose weight, I recommend 5:2 over a week and 800 calorie days rather than the daily 16:8 - it sounds tougher, but it isn't. I think more people struggle to lose weight on 16:8 days as it's too easy to over-eat.

Most of the time when you think you're hungry, you're actually just thirsty.

>>459085

LadBaby is such a fucking idiot, rubbing himself up against some bony-arsed bird in a nightclub when he's got that prime specimen at home.

>>459085

Some delightful yoga pants action in the first 30 seconds of this one.

>>459088

Is there anything that doesn't get you lads going?

>>459089

>>459089

I'm not saying they have to get rid of Sunday trading laws, but they could make it so shops are open from 9 until 5/6 instead of 10 until 4.

>>459089

Bony arses.

>>459095
They should make the rule that shops have to be open for four hours, but they can choose the four hours. So one shop will be open in the morning and one will be open in the evening. That's the way forward.

>>459097
Large shops already have an eight hour window in which they can open.

>>459098
My local Lidl and Asda are only open 10am until 4pm.

>>459095
>I'm not saying they have to get rid of Sunday trading laws

I am. Corner shops are shite.

>>459099
Okay? They could open at 12 and close at six if they wanted.

>>459101
Yeah but realistically none of them do. Pointless pedantry.

You've got six-and-a-half day to go to the shops.

>>459103
Seven days in the week, though.

>>459102
Yeah that was the implication back in >>459098, genius.

>>459105
Cool.

>>459100
Used to live next to a Co-Op that was open 7AM-10PM or something on a Sunday, very handy. Could get actual proper food even in the evening.

Have since moved where the only shops open after 4PM are a Londis and two shitty corner shops. Can't really rustle up a meal from the stuff at these places, but I can get a can of Dragon Soop and a packet of Nik Naks so you win some you lose some.

I know you're not to admit this sort of thing, but today I'll be picking up my kids after they've had a week with their grandparents. I haven't missed them at all and I've enjoyed them not being here.

Moved out of a house in November due to the landlords selling it. We were paying £650 a month, 2 bed semi, it wasn't the nicest place.

It's just been listed online. They've renovated it, admittedly to a high standard. It's now £2350 a month. Fucking ridiculous.