>>462952
Fingerprint sensors are junk; they never work for me either. But you can probably fix the charging problem yourself; I bet you anything you’ve just got fluff in the port. Get a paperclip, or other stiff wire, and just dig about in there. I guess in theory you might stab something and destroy the charging port forever, but it’s harder to do than you probably think so I say go for it.

Roysters T-Bone Steak bubbled chips were my favourite crisps as a child. I kind of want to try them again but I'm worried it'll all be nostalgia and it'll ruin my memory of them. Maybe I'll just stick with Walkers Max paprika crisps.

I had unprotected sex 4 times with my girlfriend on monday, she said it would be fine because she just came off her period. That... was a mistake, wasn't it? I asked about her taking the pill and she said she's happy to, but there's no real point. Now I'm shitting myself and wondering why I didn't push her to...

>>462957
Whether you like it or not, sooner or later she will end up pregnant one way or another.

Can't stop thinking about how housing is now a huge indicator of people's wealth and how bad it's gotten.

I literally think about it several times a day. Looked at a place in London I once lived, 1400 a room, madness

>>462959
I got my house almost 8½ years ago, borrowed £150k to buy it for £180k. I've got about £130k left now, which includes taking money out when remortgaging to fund an extension, and it's probably worth not far off £300k these days. It's going to go up a fair bit when my fixed rate is up, but the mortgage repayments are about a grand cheaper than for similar rental properties plus I'm paying off over £400 of the balance each month.

It's ridiculous how much wealth I've built up over that timeframe compared to friends who still rent. This is in a fairly unremarkable part of Yorkshire, too.

>>462960
I've got my first letter about my mortgage term being up. I started paying my two-year fixed-rate mortgage in December 2022, but the mortgage was approved a few months earlier than that. According to the letter, my fixed rate expires on the 31st of July. That's not two years. This is a fucking disgrace. And yet they say Israel-Palestine is an affront to human decency. Whither justice?

>>462958
Technically there's only really one way to end up pregnant. That I know of anyway.

>>462959
It's fucked. Someone on NYE was telling me that she was moving from Manchester to London shortly thereafter, which made me think she must be so rich I should propose to her right there on the off chance she'd say yes. Unfortunately everyone was pacing themselves so she was far from drunk enough.

>>462960
>>462961
Either of you lads on the market?

>>462956
They were still sick when I used to get them for lunch in 2019.

>>462957
What, did you spaff in her? I've had a lot of unprotected sex in my time and never got anyone pregnant. Pulling out still carries risk due to precum but thankfully it's actually quite difficult for people to get pregnant.

>>462959

The last flat I lived in was £650, single bedroom, about 700 sq ft. It was a bit dilapidated even when I moved in. Then when I moved out, the landlord did a luxury refurb, and then rented it out again for £850.

I told you arseholes there were live rounds in the gun that killed Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust. I distinctly remember you two saying "durr, no there weren't that would be dumb", YEAH IT WAS DUMB! It still bloody happened.

If a lass I was seeing that I worked with cheated on me then tried to tell management I was stalking her when I caught her out, would it be fair game for me to leak the group chat we're in where she's said questionable (racist) things about another manager to get her sacked?

>>462967

For the avoidance of doubt I wasn't stalking her, I came in early for a job and saw her.

>>462967

I wouldn't recommend it. If you get into a tit-for-tat battle, there's a fair chance that you'll both look like nutters. If you've got dirt on her, then it's probably best kept in reserve for if you really need it. If you do use it, I'd suggest adopting a tone of "I don't want to do this because I really feel sorry for her, but she's trying to slander me and I need to protect my reputation". Revenge might make you feel better in the short-term, but it probably won't help you.

>>462967
Aren't there other lasses at work you want to fuck for whom you should avoid looking like a crybaby tattle tale?

>>462970
Racist spotted.

>>462971
At my workplace it's mostly the squids in my face who feel empowered to be openly racist. You see, eskimos have taken Jews off their Christmas card list.

>>462967
I'd just find employment elsewhere, you've already shit where you live. If it makes you feel better then know that management don't really give a shit and are mostly annoyed they've been dragged into it.

And who even comes into work early. What the fuck.

Okay I wasn't really going to grass her up, I was just still drunk and angry. I'll live, I've won the office politics side of it already anyway.

>>462973

>And who even comes into work early. What the fuck

People who get 80 quid an hour overtime, amongst others.

Work tomorrow awaits, I don't mind my job, I don't have Sunday blues in the traditional sense (Sunday blues before work is one of the grimmest fucking things ever), but just recently I have completely just stopped feeling ok about work overall and I'm dreading the hours til I open the lid.

I feel like a boiled frog, like I need a massive break. Not sure I can face this for another 30 odd years.

I keep repeatedly working out how long I could survive and pay my mortgage and bills without a job if I had a meltdown and quit on the spot (7 months, or 14 months if I sell some investments for those wondering) which is probably a very unhealthy sign.

>>462977
Is there anything in particular going on at your workplace which you don't like that much but just put up with as part of the job? My perspective definitely isn't going to solve your problem, but perhaps it could make day to day life a bit easier while you work out what you'll do in the future.

At my work the manager was an arsehole towards me with his crazy mood swings, but not all the time and not to me alone, and I tried to just get in with it and not let it bother me. But after almost a year I felt ready to break and really wanted to quit, even without another job in sight.

But at some point around that time for a number of reasons to do with my own actions and things I had no say in, he suddenly stopped messing me around, and it really felt like a weight off my shoulders. I wasn't expecting that to be the case because like I say I told myself his attitude didn't bother me too much, but looking back it was clearly a burden for me which I'm glad to be relieved of.

So, I don't know, if you can work out particular things at work you're not happy about and do anything in your power to change them it might make day to day life less difficult, even if you don't identify them as difficulties. Having written that down it looks like a small boy trying to advise a fully grown man on life, but I thought it would be worth sharing.

Do you ever not contribute to conversation because doing so would mean you have to actually follow up on your ideas?

I don't know what's wrong with me but I feel, and sound, like shit. My inner ears feel swollen and painful and even though it doesn't hurt to speak or swallow, my voice is very raspy. I'm guessing there's some kind of microbial war going on between my white blood cells and a potentially fatal dirt germ I picked up while falling up and down a wooded hill over the weekend. I wish they'd hurry up and decide my fate already. Also I hate the countryside, I make out like I enjoy it, but in reality I'm just too poor and stupid to have moved somewhere worth living. It's 2024, I shouldn't have to look at hay, let alone handle the stuff.

>>462979
Either because you're not entirely sure what you're talking about or because you simply can't be bothered explaining what those ideas are? My answer's yes in any case.

Got a final written warning today. In my last formal disciplinary, I was told my manager would do a stress assessment plan for me. This was in November and he never did.

Today another manager running the hearing said I was at fault for not asking my manager to do the stress assessment plan. Why should I pay for my manager's inability to adhere to the company sickness policy?

I hate this corporate bullshit where they pretend they care but ultimately they just want soulless homunculi gleefully lapping up the shit that makes a "fun" workplace.

Spent the afternoon trimming trees in the back and front garden. Pretty exhausting when you're armed with just a bow saw and a lopper, but on the upside, I got about £25 worth of firewood out of it. Which will now need to dry for about two years.

There's a suspicious black box (not pictured[/i]) taped roughly 5-6 feet high to a telephone pole outside my house. It has a couple of wires reaching up and out of of it toward the suspended telephone wires overhead.
Any technician would have a ladder to place the box higher, out of reach of the public. A fly by night third party probably wouldn't (although how did they connect the reaching wires without a ladder?).

Who is responsible for telephone pole maintainance and how do I report it?

I'd just like to formally note how shit it is that Vice has died, nay, been murdered. I know one of you is already looking up a Nathan Barley screenshot, but there were and continued to be a great many talented people there, doing reporting that wasn't to be found in many other places; so what if they also had daft articles too? It seems like it's the last of the magazine websites I would visit in the 2010s to finally fade away. I'm not a frequent visitor but I understand Pitchfork's being, or to be, shuttered at some point in the near future as well. And what's left? Chaotic social media platforms or bot generated listicles that exist solely to get me to click an Amazon affliate link? Fuck bean counters, fuck ad-sense and fuck whatever comes next for the internet, because I'm certain it won't be any good.

>>462983
BT now called Openreach look after the poles.

Where can I get a decent lightweight jacket or windbreaker from? I need something for the mild weather.

Just thought of something that must have been invented before if it were possible or practical or well thought out - adding a special gear to a bike connected to a flywheel to which you switch on downhills, so you're then pedalling into resistance on the downhill you can store that energy, and then switching back to regular gears would connect the flywheel gear to the main and give you a temp boost.

Or possibly a spring system to build torque?

I don't know, can any engineers tell me that this is a stupid idea or has already been invented and found useless?

How much do video production co-ordinators usually get paid? At first glance offering £13 to £15 per hour seems a bit stingy for this, for someone with 3million YouTube subscribers, but I can't say I know enough about this.

https://vouch.app/jobs/halfasleepchris-productioncoordinator

>>462989

The BECTU rate for a production coordinator working in unscripted TV would be £800 per week, which would typically work out to about £16 per hour. £13-£15 is a bit stingy, but it isn't totally out of line. Supply and demand innit - loads of kids want to work in media.

>>462988

Some electric bikes have regenerative braking, but most don't because the complication isn't worth it. The balance between front and rear braking is really important on a bicycle and any energy-harvesting system is likely to upset that balance. A flywheel would add weight but also gyroscopic forces, which could negatively affect handling. There are loads of old patents for schemes of the sort that you describe, but none of them have proved to be viable.

Just fucking bombed an interview I was a shoe in for. Literally saw the smiles and engagement sink from their face as I got tongue tied toward the end.

It shouldn't matter but my girlfriend is way, way, more successful than me, and it's embarrassing being so fucking shit. I cringe at myself 99% fo the time.

>>462992

At risk of starting a cunt off over it, I think we have reached a turning point where women legitimately do have it easier nowadays, in certain regards. When it comes to interviews and such I think there's definitely factors that mean as a bloke, you really have to jump through the hoops to impress, whereas women can get a long way with a warm smile and smart outfit.

Personally I'm fine with women being successful but what pisses me off is they refuse to date down. Men were the breadwinners for centuries, but as soon as we give them the opportunity, they suddenly don't want to pay for men to sit at home playing videogames all day and then cook their dinner for them. Bloody hypocrites.

>>462993

> but what pisses me off is they refuse to date down. Men were the breadwinners for centuries, but as soon as we give them the opportunity, they suddenly don't want to pay for men to sit at home playing videogames all day and then cook their dinner for them. Bloody hypocrites.

Having your cake and eating it, innit. But what can you do. But also, a lot of men don't want to be financially dependent on a - female - partner. Being the provider and breadwinner as a man is just so ingrained in most cultures that both men and women struggle to shed that stereotype. Well, a lot of women aren't really struggling with it. They want all the rights they can get away with it, and bless them, but having a high earner to latch onto is still too tempting for a lot of them. Why put in all the effort to get a career and a high paying job that'll afford you a good lifestyle, when you can just get the right kind of lad.

Also, don't underestimate the way women talk about their partners among themselves when you're not listening. You'd think some somewhat shallow lads see a fit lass for a girlfriend as a status symbol, but that doesn't hold a candle to the way women compare themselves against each other if they've played their cards right with their choice of partner or husband. And a woman telling her friends that she's with a stay at home dad will get its share of snide remarks from other women. Not because they've got a point that a stay at home lad isn't good husband or partner material. In their minds, anyway. But because it gives them a chance to forget about their own insecurity for a moment.

>>462988
Not an engineer or anything but I think flywheels have to be pretty heavy to store the energy - anything you'd gain by using one on a bike would surely be lost in the energy it take to pedal with the additional weight.

Self-service car washes are a bit of a scam. The one near me anyway. I've observed a few times now that at the end when you put it on rinse, it runs down faster than on the soap cycles. So you have to keep putting in more coins to get all the soap off, because you can't just leave it on and drive off. They're effectively charging more money for pure water than they do for soapy water.

>>462996
>>462988
Oh wow, it works.

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

>>462990
Didn't think about the gyroscopic forces. Handling would feel quite different - the weight of the flywheel alone would at least be consistent, but the variable speeds would be vexing when gauging lean and cornering.

>>462996
Good point on additional weight, didn't think about the overall picture there. 5kg on the linked video is going to be felt a lot.

>>462998
Really interesting, thanks for the link mate. Good to see others have had the similar ideas, flywheels are bloody amazing.

If the scope is just storing energy on downhill straights in preparation for uphill straights, which I think is still quite useful, and if we ignore the handling issue, and focus on pedalling for power vs braking...should actually be possible, though currently all I can imagine is a byzantine system of possibly 2 chains, 2 derailleurs, and maybe a second clutch? 1 to dis/engage pedals to regular gears and the second to dis/engage flywheel gear?

>>462997
Soapy water goes on with less water and less pressure - much less power required. If there's truth in billing, then yes, clean water phase should cost more tokens-per-minute than soapy.
That said, your cynicism is probably correct.
Not that I've washed a car in the last 20 years, because I'm a squalid motherfucker with things I'd rather do.

>>463001

>If there's truth in billing, then yes, clean water phase should cost more tokens-per-minute than soapy.

Soap isn't free though. By volume, it's probably much more expensive than water. And I don't think I've noticed a difference in water pressure between soapy and regular water. They come out just about the same.

I think it's a hustle because they know you won't go away with all the soap still on your car, and you'll be willing to pay however much it'll cost for a complete rinse.

There's loads of little tricks like that in the service world. I used to work at a restaurant/banquet hall during uni, and the owner told me he always made sure his cooks put enough salt in the dishes, because it made people thirsty so they would order more to drink.

>>463002
>salt in the dishes, because it made people thirsty so they would order more to drink.
Free bar snacks init.

>>463003

>Free bar snacks

I try to avoid those. At least the ones that come in communal open bowls.

They can be a bigger germ farm than that monkey in Outbreak, when people dip their hands in them after not washing their hands in the loo.

Worked from home for the first time in my current job. Hated it. Felt wrong bringing work into my sanctuary.

The plumber's coming today! (Hooray!)

Between twelve and six! (Boo!)

I buy ten sausage rolls and a big multipack of crisps from Asda for my work dinners. It's not the healthiest but it covers my pack up for three or four quid a week. I usually leave the roast chicken flavour til last because they are my least favourite. But I've had two packs just now and I have had a change of heart, and now I'm looking forward to getting home tonight to scoff the rest.

Also eating the cheapo crisps all the time has really put into perspective how bloody hell, "posh" crisps like Sensations or Kettle Chips etc are a complete rip off aren't they? It's literally just slices of potato, when you buy into the luxury behind their brand you really are paying solely for marketing.

Surplus enjoyment I suppose innit. Bet my boy Slavoj eats own brand crisps.

>>463007

>>463006
He never actually turned up, did he?

>>463028
I've been promised he'll be here between 8am and 6pm Monday.

>>463029
My flat was due to have a leak in the kitchen looked at (delayed by like two weeks obviously), and on the due day a guy turned up at our door just saying he was here for the kitchen, so my wife let him in while I was shaving. Then I heard a huge smashing noise so went to see what it was, and the floor was covered in the smashed remnants of our oven door. I asked him what he was doing and he told me he was removing the oven, and naturally I told him there is no reason to smash our oven to pieces just to look at a leak, which he didn't seem to understand at all. But it was clear the gears in his head were finally turning, and he went outside to his mate to talk with him. Turns out they were both meant to be installing an oven in a flat two doors next to us, I guess he can't read numbers? I was actually too taken aback to get angry at him, some man I am.
We got compensated, but the paperwork was a shitemare. And that is why I cringe at being told the repair man can't come today, wait til next week.