>>462636

Maybe they saved that for the Director's Cut.

Just been to get my hair cut and there was a man in there dressed like a cross between Peaky Blinders and Kaleb from Clarkson's Farm. I didn't realise the Peaky Blinders look was still a thing.

A chicken grilled on a spit should always be referred to not as a "chicken" but as a "chickern". This is because it's a rhoticity chicken

I've put far too much spinach in my curry and now it's pretty much a slightly bland, green gravy. Any suggestions?

Had to realign my satellite dish today.

One of the neighbour's kids kicked a ball against it and it knocked the dish a few degrees to one side.

Fucking savages.

>>462677

Too late, but I think your best bet would have been to boil it down on high heat while stirring in order to concentrate it again. Adding some finely chopped veg (onion, bell pepper) might have also helped to give it some bulk.

All I really care about is getting my house paid off and living frugally.

It's given both a weird sense of security, and insecurity, and I care less about my career and more about just having my house. I've stopped giving a shit about my career and just care about what I need to do to make the monthly payments.

I constantly run through calculations working out how many hours at min wage a week I'd need to meet my mortgage commitments and still be able to live.

Housing is so insecure so having this feels so important to me I can't really explain.

>>462684
Is it true that as you pay off more of your mortgage, a greater percentage of the payments go to the debt and less to interest? I haven't done the maths yet but I got my letter from the bank after one year of mortgage payments and I had paid them £7000 to reduce my mortgage debt by £3600. I was livid.

>>462687
Yes? That's always been how it works. It's annoying but them are the rules of the game.

Did you take out a mortgage without understanding this?

I just had my monthly “I wish I was Henry Cavill” thought.

>>462688

Being aware of it doesn't always take the sting out of seeing it in black and white, in front of you. "Annoying" is an understatement, and while mortgages were around in the past, the difference is a matter of degree: https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/uk-house-prices-are-65-times-higher-today-than-in-1970/138813/

>>462687

>Is it true that as you pay off more of your mortgage, a greater percentage of the payments go to the debt and less to interest?

Yes. The maths is fairly straightforward. You're paying interest on the amount that you still owe. As you pay more of the capital back, you owe less interest, so if you make the same monthly payment you're paying more of the capital back.

If you take out a 25 year mortgage for £100,000, then at 4.5% your payments will be about £560 per month. In the first year, you'll pay off about £2,200 of the capital; in the last year, you'll pay off about £6,500.

This is why some people choose to overpay - paying more than your standard repayment allows you to repay your mortgage faster and save money on interest. On that hypothetical mortgage, paying an extra £100 per month will allow you to pay off your mortgage six years early and save about £18,000 in interest. With that said, it's usually a better idea to invest in your pension instead, because you can usually get a higher interest rate and there are some very generous tax incentives available.

Bit worried about my libido these days. Is this “low testosterone” stuff I see everywhere a legit concern?

>>462693
You might want to start by looking at the broader problems like stress, miserable time of year and fitness etc.

>Is this “low testosterone” stuff I see everywhere a legit concern?

No. But if you want it comes as a perk with paying for a private blood test to check your health - usually £99-£200 range.

Managed to somehow get an Italian citizenship. Thinking of buying a property in northern Italy. Any area suggestions? City or town. Bologna?

>>462697
How did you manage that?

Can't sleep. Too many things going through my head.

I can half sleep in tomorrow, but still. 10 am is in less than seven hours.

Morning lads. I'm 35 and I just wet the bed. How's your weekend kicking off?

>>462697

I met a cute girl from Genoa once. A doctor. Such a sexy accent.

I bought a shitload of chocolate biscuits and cookies and other such snacks for my week off, but I completely neglected to get any doritos or pringles. I'll probably have to leave the house at some point to get some.

I also had plans to see a friend and go on a date but I don't think I can be arsed, I want to be a hermit. I know I will feel worse for it and I'll regret pissing an opportunity away but fuck it. My motivation is just very low and I want to spend time to myself, you know. I miss the pandemic when I could do this without any feeling of guilt.

>>462751
You want the bedwetting thread >>/fat/3653.

Should I be drinking lager again tonight? Had two yesterday, don't want to make it a habit. I don't want to become one of those people who need a beer every evening to unwind.

>>462764
No, what's the point? You won't be able to sleep properly and it'll inhibit anything else you want to do.

Go to the gym, work on your career or a hobby, get some bits to cook at the shop etc.

>>460951
It's raining. It's still raining. It's raining so much that the toads can't even be bothered getting to the pond before doing their nasty pile-on.
Fuck the rain.

>>462765

I had two bottles of lager again instead tonight. Sorry if you feel I've let you down.

>>462770
Who does he think he is to say drinking isn't a bona fide hobby?

Other than the rise of working from home, has there been any lasting good effects from the lockdowns?

>>462773
Thousands, possibly millions, of people have given themselves mental illness by imagining an elderly German man, who kept saying that nothing would be the same after lockdowns, secretly, but also publically, controls the world.

>>462775
That's a good thing?

>>462776
Apologies, I appear to have skimmed over that word. I literally don't see "good" in this world anymore, that's what this shithole country has done to me.

>>462773
Not yet, but it really accelerated the disappearance of cash and shops. I agree that this sounds bad, but maybe it will turn out to be good when high streets are converted to social housing and all of society's ills are fixed overnight. That would have taken years longer to achieve without the lockdowns.

I also have noticed that society in general has become more terminally online. Again, this sounds bad, but my political enemies are much more interesting now. They're no longer phoning TalkSport to shout that Brexit Means Brexit, or that millionaires should be exempt from tax because they work so hard; they're now sissifyed and they scrutinise the lies our politicians tell, like the lie that education is a good thing and the lie that vaccines don't actually cause evangelist christian korean youtuberism. So they're still mongs but they're a vastly higher class of mong.

>>462773
I reckon a lot of people suddenly found themselves with time to reflect on their lives and a lot of couples got to experiance being around each other for a significant amount of time. The latter led to some breakups but I'd argue that might've been for the better.

We've also as a whole become much more comfortable and technically proficient with using videocalls. It might sound nutty now but I used to travel for hours to have a 1-1 with my academic supervisor in 2016 and in 2019 I was having regular calls with colleagues in other offices but we were wheeling big tellies around and they always felt excluded both from meetings but also the office chatter which has now moved to messenger services. We've collectively brushed off the skills we developed using MSN.

>>462763
Ta, I had already posted in it as >>3670. Then, I expressed the potential nightmare of doing it with a bird in the bed. I'm currently in a long-term relationship and so at last she had to deal with it. I'm glad I didn't piss on her, at least.

>>462779

> The latter led to some breakups but I'd argue that might've been for the better

This happened to a friend of a friend during the pandemic. He and his wife had been married more or less happily for ten years, but during the pandemic, they started driving each other nuts. They were used to spending longer periods of time together, they once went on a six-month backpacking tour in the Caribbean, but just having to stay put for months with each other during covid effectively ended their relationship and marriage.

Did the usual routine of finding a betting website that has an offer for opening a new account. MGM is doing £40 in Free Bets so I bet £10 on KC to win. Then used another one of their offers of a bonus pay-out amount for £10 on KC to win and have Travis Kelce score a touchdown.

It's actually quite tough to predict this year, this could go either way with a slight edge to the 49ers within the margin of error. But that probably means the game will be shit as both teams will be playing defensively with so much on the line and it'll come down to who fucks up first. If I were a smarter man I would've done a second on the 49ers so I'm almost guaranteed a return but it didn't feel very sporting. Either way I can use the £40 in free bets coming to win back the money I'll spend tonight staying up too late eating wings and watching surreal American tv ads.

Don't look at me like that, it's not like our election will be worth putting money on.

>>462782
It makes you wonder about how many people only find this out at retirement doesn't it. The big trip abroad is usually considered one of the prelude tests to marriage but it's nothing like reality.

>>462785
That's why there's so many divorces in January; Christmas is a time of year when you're likely to spend a prolonged period of time with your spouse, with little else to do, and a lot of couples realise they can't stand each other.

Someone I used to work with retired at the end of 2019 and his wife left him shortly afterwards, I believe for a man she'd met during her commute, so he briefly came back to work a couple of days a week just to keep busy but lockdown put paid to that. He was extremely gaunt when he came back but he landed on his feet because he's now married to the office GILF.

>>462785

>The big trip abroad is usually considered one of the prelude tests to marriage but it's nothing like reality.

Backpacking the Caribbean for half a year means there's new and exciting things to see and do almost everyday. You always have things to talk about and work out together. Regular married life at home with people living together and having day jobs isn't like that.

But even a couples holiday abroad in Marbella is a good way to gauge if your relationship has a future. I once went with a girlfriend of one and a half years. It was our first summer holiday together, the first time that it was just us two for two weeks, and not just some getaway weekend. It turned out that that didn't go well at all. Because being forced to entertain ourselves and each other without all our friends back home for two weeks meant that it became very obvious that we were just on two completely different wavelengths. She wanted to suntan on the beach all day while I wanted to get a hire car to explore the hinterland. And then at night I wanted to enjoy romantic sunsets on the beach with her, while she always wanted to go boutique shopping or to the local bars.

We broke up a few months after our summer holiday. Not because the holiday itself was unbearable. We still had our romantic moments. But it still started us on a path where we were increasingly realising that we just weren't meant for each other.

Doesn't have to be that way. I once went to Santorini with a lass I'd only known for seven or eight months. We were loving every minute of it, the whole two weeks, it never felt boring or like we had irreconcilable interests or ideas about how to spend the day. It led to us moving in together before Christmas that year, and we made a great couple for just over four years.

>>462786

>Christmas is a time of year when you're likely to spend a prolonged period of time with your spouse, with little else to do, and a lot of couples realise they can't stand each other.

I would argue that some of it is because people's expectations for Christmas are too high. In all likelihood, it's going to be as underwhelming and mediocre as any other holiday, and it's best to accept it. But Everybody wants to have a perfect Christmas where everything is spot on, from the roast to carolling in front of the Christmas tree. Probably also has to do with social media warping your perception these days. And I would also argue that women are more suceptible to feeling like their Christmas was shit because everybody else's was apparently Instagram perfect. You don't hear much about people breaking up after Easter.

Marveling at this video - now I want to build one.

>>462789 that's nicely done.
The versions with brakes on the reaction wheels, so they have enough authority to jump up onto an edge then a corner on their own are even better.

>>462789

reminds me of a cubesat. and I suspect that might be deliberate.

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

>>462790
People take the piss out of Gregg Wallace and I don't get it at all. He seems like a perfectly nice bloke; looks after his son, open minded about the Total War Saga games, knows how to cook - there's nothing Partridge about any of this shit. The Guardian article about this is so snippy and pathetic I was genuinely aghast reading it, at least at the following:
>What’s the best bit? (...) Is it when he makes it crystal clear he didn’t want his youngest child and only relented so his fourth wife, Anne-Marie Sterpini, would keep him in his favourite white-bean soup? Is it that he spends more time locked in his home office playing Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia than he does with his autistic son?

I mean, bloody Hell! A bloke in the added time of middle age was reticent about having another child, relented because he loved his wife and wanted to make her happy, and then a man who looks like a paedophile walrus goes in on him two-footed because he has a couple of hours to himself on a Saturday? What's wrong with some people?

>>462794

People are just, for the lack if a better word, really gay nowadays. As in, gossiping and bitching about people is gradually becoming a norm amongst blokes in a way it never used to be, because it was exclusively the preserve of nasty women and camp gays. I blame social media in general, like with a lot of things, along with the general creeping demonisation of old fashioned bloke culture. Are Gregg sounds like a perfectly down to earth bloke and that makes all these insecure tossers seethe.

It really is most often down to jealousy, with these things. I've been judged for what I like all throughout my life and increasingly that's the only way I can see it. People who criticise and snipe like this are always acting out of resentment that the target of their venom is living a more authentic and true to themselves life than they are.

>>462785
Holy shit what a game. I even got to watch SpongeBob and Patrick do commentary.

>>462797
https://twitter.com/CBSSports/status/1756846542529400924

>>462795
You are the guy Deborah Cameron was writing about. Men gossip and always have done.

https://dl1.cuni.cz/pluginfile.php/599428/mod_resource/content/1/CAmeron%2C%20Performing%20gender%20identity%20young%20mens%20talk.pdf

>>462799
Yeah, the notion that men don't bitch, gossip and backstab is outright bollocks.

>>462799
>>462800

Speak for yourselves I suppose, but I still think social media has made it all the more common, and I stand by the second half of the post. Being nasty about people who have done nothing to you and aren't hurting anyone comes out of nothing other than a personal failing within oneself.

I've certainly been guilty of it in the past and won't deny it, but I realised it's really a horrible behaviour and nowadays I consciously try not to. It's one of those things I don't think there's really any excuse for, and people know it, so the best they can do is pretend everyone else is just as bad, therefore it's okay.

>>462797
I didn’t enjoy it myself. The teams are quite boring and it was mostly field goals. I was furious when I stayed up till the end of the fourth quarter and it went to bloody overtime. That said, it was a close and cagey game, so I think some of the criticism I’ve seen is a bit harsh.