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>> No. 462226 Anonymous
1st January 2024
Monday 8:42 am
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New weekday thread: school sports hall edition.

How's it going, lads? Did you have a nice 2023?
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>> No. 462228 Anonymous
1st January 2024
Monday 9:53 am
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>school sports hall edition.

Why does every 'UK General' thread on every imageboard do this?
>> No. 462229 Anonymous
1st January 2024
Monday 10:00 am
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>>462228
Because you're still getting triggered by it >>441562.
>> No. 462230 Anonymous
1st January 2024
Monday 10:49 am
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I've never seen a sports hall like that in this country. Why are there so many basketball hoops? Where's The Apparatus and obligatory 80-year-old gymnastics horse thing?

My 2023 was great thanks. Transitional. I finally got myself to a place where I have what I thought I needed to be happy and free to do the things I want and it's working in the way I hoped.
>> No. 462231 Anonymous
1st January 2024
Monday 11:01 am
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>>462230
My secondary school had one sports hall like this, but we only ever used it for indoor cricket or when we'd play badminton and try to hit the opposition as hard as possible with the shuttlecock. The hoops were never used.

There was a smaller sports hall as well with climbing apparatus, but that was only ever used for playing benchball. We'd only be indoors if it was too wet to be outside.
>> No. 462233 Anonymous
1st January 2024
Monday 12:14 pm
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>>462226
Looks more like a 90's leisure centre.
>> No. 462235 Anonymous
1st January 2024
Monday 12:57 pm
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Only if we can get The Apparatus out.
>> No. 462236 Anonymous
1st January 2024
Monday 2:43 pm
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I haven't really watched much TV and I've probably only seen one or two new films last year so I can't comment on those, but my favourite songs released last year were:-

1. Petit à Petit by Ireke (ft. Agnès Hélène).

https://youtu.be/zHvCfhvlK7c

2. Cold Reactor by Everything Everything.

https://youtu.be/l81HZfkLwpk

3. Nothing Works by Declan McKenna.

https://youtu.be/qyVwCzpI63I

4. You Should Have Known Better by Air Drawn Dagger.

https://youtu.be/wwcU-Y8MHCQ

5. That Time of Year Always by Crawlers.

https://youtu.be/UdvplNzQDNA

6. Sinner by The Last Dinner Party.

https://youtu.be/oFsJuYb42hw

7. Kiss Ur Face Forever by Orla Gartland.

https://youtu.be/I7G_nk7zb0k

8. Black Eye by Allie X.

https://youtu.be/19aPQJ2HYc8

9. Labour by Paris Paloma.

https://youtu.be/jvU4xWsN7-A

10. Brambles by Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes.

https://youtu.be/E9RdRtLUeQw

That's off the top of my head while I'm having a poo, so there's bound to be some I've missed off. My taste in music is a lot mellower than it used to be.
>> No. 462242 Anonymous
1st January 2024
Monday 5:10 pm
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>>462236
Hey, it's you again. I probably listened to all of those songs that you posted here, and I'm very grateful for a couple of them. Please keep doing it.
>> No. 462243 Anonymous
1st January 2024
Monday 5:21 pm
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>>462230

My school sports hall looked almost identical to that, only with 20 years of scuff marks on the floor and six layers of paint peeling off the walls. There was a big walk-in cupboard that housed The Apparatus; it smelled of feet and was rumoured to be the scene of a variety of events that we would now describe as sexual assaults.
>> No. 462245 Anonymous
1st January 2024
Monday 5:28 pm
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Found an old Anna Kournikova calendar from 2002 again in a corner of my basement under some rubbish.

She was insanely fit. Nobody cares that she was a shit tennis player.
>> No. 462249 Anonymous
1st January 2024
Monday 7:39 pm
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>>462242
You're welcome. I think the only song I missed off the list would be Another Good Year for the Roses by Kurt Vile.
>> No. 462250 Anonymous
1st January 2024
Monday 7:39 pm
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Is Warhammer 40K really satirical? I think there was a thing last year where someone turned up a tournament in Nazi attire, and Games Workshop released a statement stressing that 40K is satire. But playing Rogue Trader and listening to an Adepta Sororitas audiobook, it's not really satirical is it? It very much celebrates the fascist theocracy of the Imperium of Man. I don't have an issue with it, but lots of 40K spin off media is played completely straight, so them saying the fashy stuff is satire feels a bit disingenuous.
>> No. 462251 Anonymous
1st January 2024
Monday 8:02 pm
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>>462230

My school had three distinct ones, actually maybe four if we count the main hall where assemblies etc took place (because as I understand it way back in the old days that was probably the sports hall too).

There was the 1960s gym which was exactly as you describe. Parkour wooden floor that smelt of that distinct weird musty popcorn odour, it never needed the lights on because two sides of it were made of floor to ceiling windows. That was where The Apparatus, the blue mats, and The Horse lived.

Then there was one that was much more like OP's picture, and it had the most disgusting orange flourescent lighting; but it had a more lino type floor with various markings for basketballs, tennis, and all that, and loads of curtains you could draw across to divide it into squash or cricket lanes. This was where they made us do barn dancing every christmas.

Then there was the one which was basically just a big empty white room and ostensibly a sports hall, but for some reason was only ever used as an overflow lunch hall, and one time we had That Talk About Drugs.

I really want to revisit my old school now and see how it holds up to my memory. How bad of an idea do you reckon it is to break in at night and just have a wander around?
>> No. 462252 Anonymous
1st January 2024
Monday 8:10 pm
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>>462250

It's not "satirical" in the sense that it's not directly taking the piss out of real life ideologies or figures, it's not a direct analogy for a specific target. But honestly, I don't understand why people get hung up on this.

We are used to the concept of anti-heroes; characters who ultimately aren't good people and who we shouldn't see as rolemodels, but are still acceptable and sympathetic protagonists who do the "right" thing in the end. 40k's Imperium of Man is perhaps what you might see as an anti-hero on the scale of an entire civillisation.

The setting in general is pretty much the genre defining example of what we call "grimdark", so it's not exactly going to be full of suinshine and rainbows. If there's a few wehraboo wankers out there who get a bit too enthusiastic about Death Korps of Krieg, well, so be it. I refuse to even approach the line of thinking that representation implies endorsement because going down that road will ultimately destroy the very idea of storytelling and fiction.
>> No. 462253 Anonymous
1st January 2024
Monday 9:38 pm
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>>462252
Perhaps I'm overthinking it. I think a lot of 40K media is played fairly straight, it doesn't have the sort of nudge and wink of Starship Troopers or RoboCop (except for Ciaphas Cain maybe?). I really like the world they've built, it's probably my favourite sci-fi setting, but I can totally see why Nazis would be attracted to the franchise.

Speaking of the Adepta Sororitas audiobook, it actually managed to make Orks really scary and sinister, compared to something like Dawn Of War where the Orks are wacky cockney ruffians.
>> No. 462254 Anonymous
1st January 2024
Monday 10:27 pm
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My mum is staying over for a few nights this week. I've just gone downstairs, only to find her coat on the floor and my cat shitting on it. For fuck's sake.
>> No. 462255 Anonymous
1st January 2024
Monday 11:27 pm
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>>462235

Bagsy hiding in the horse when it gets put away so I can scare the Dinner Ladies when they put the tables and chairs out.
>> No. 462256 Anonymous
2nd January 2024
Tuesday 12:13 am
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>>462253

I think a lot of it does come down to the way different writers handle the setting. A lot of the Black Library stuff is pretty terrible, in that you can tell the writers just do not get it.

But I have always put it in the same category as stuff like those Verhoeven movies like you mention. It doesn't have the outright humour any more- It used to in the old days, at least if you went looking for it, but I don't think it really needs that in order to convey the same thing.

Like... Yeah, it might play everything straight, but it'd take a complete fucking idiot (I dare venture a blue haired, bespectacled, Acrobat using idiot) to mistake anything about the setting as intended to glorify the fascism and genocide etc contained within. Like... Everything about it, the entire point, hammered in from the very fist page when you open any of the main 40K rulebooks, is that this is a terrible, awful, hellish setting.

Know what I mean? Like, the whole entire point is that the closest thing you have to a "good guy" is a literal fascist, indoctrinated zealot, pumped up on space steroids, in power armour. You know he isn't actually a good guy, he's outright awful, but that's how fucked the 41st millenium is.
>> No. 462258 Anonymous
2nd January 2024
Tuesday 1:22 am
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>>462256

We've established that it does enable actual fascists (at least, at a higher rate than other hobbies; woodworking, crochet) and your contention is that simultaneously, someone would have to be some sort of (imagined) trans-inclusive progressive outgroup Marxist untermensch (an image you conjoured using the far right's clichés and stereotypes) to see it as something that enables fascists, and that that person is stupid rather than you?
I think you may be retarded. I don't think the space marine to white nationalist pipeline is big enough to be an issue, but I do think you're retarded.
>> No. 462259 Anonymous
2nd January 2024
Tuesday 1:32 am
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>>462258

I'm literally a Marxist myself, weak effort mate. Go to bed.
>> No. 462260 Anonymous
2nd January 2024
Tuesday 1:50 am
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>>462259

With that sort of context we can see what you said was even more idiotic.
>> No. 462261 Anonymous
2nd January 2024
Tuesday 2:04 am
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It's always important to remember, when discussing stuff like this, is that the far-right is basically incapable of creating it's own cultural output. That's why they adopt, or co-opt might be more apt, anything from Warhammer 40k to MGMT (they got really into Little Dark Age a few years back). Why do they do this? Because the far-right's innately nihilistic, disdainful and anti-intellectual. It almost goes without saying that's not a recipe for creativity.

Anyway, 40k derived media is basically an out-of-control Transformers cartoon so why don't you stinking manchildren go read some real books, like what I don't do!

>>462258
Jesus Christ, stop being such an arsehole before you get me banned for another two weeks.
>> No. 462262 Anonymous
2nd January 2024
Tuesday 7:16 am
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>>462245
This made me have a flashback to one of those dress up games on Newgrounds having her as a horrible photoshop nude when you took all her clothes off and some yodelling played as the soundtrack. I'm frankly surprised we got any wanking done at all in the past.

>>462256
>Know what I mean? Like, the whole entire point is that the closest thing you have to a "good guy" is a literal fascist, indoctrinated zealot, pumped up on space steroids, in power armour. You know he isn't actually a good guy, he's outright awful, but that's how fucked the 41st millenium is.

I don't think Harlequins are on roids?

>>462261
You should stop for a second and wonder if, when the term 'far-x' comes up whether it is always just a strawman.
>> No. 462263 Anonymous
2nd January 2024
Tuesday 7:34 am
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>>462256

I'm reminded a bit of the sitcom Till Death Us Do Part. It was completely obvious to most people that Alf Garnett's bigoted views were being mocked rather than celebrated, but a lot of bigots were too thick to realise it.

I'm honestly unsure as to how a writer should react when part of the audience embraces a villain as a hero. On balance I think it's probably for the best that you couldn't make something like that today, but I'm also quite uncomfortable with the idea that what we're allowed to write should be determined by how the lowest-common-denominator idiot might misinterpret it.

I think what really swayed me on the topic was the reaction to Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. It pains me to say it, but I'm increasingly inclined to believe that mainstream audiences just aren't sophisticated enough to be trusted with nuance; subtext is irrelevant when most of the audience are barely paying enough attention to follow the text. A pervasive culture of self-serving moral relativism means that some people will identify with any protagonist, no matter how awful their actions are.
>> No. 462264 Anonymous
2nd January 2024
Tuesday 10:06 am
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BBC Archive posted this old clip from Record Breakers. Seeing all the students in stonewash jeans and baggy jumpers and DMs made me tear up a little bit.

https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1742093374323331502

Students used to be twats. They ponced around in their twatty haircuts and their twatty clothes. They talked pretentious nonsense, they did stupid things with traffic cones, they lived in squalor, they hogged the pool table while spunking all their grant money on weak lager.

Maybe I'm old and out of touch, but the students I meet these days aren't twats. They're quiet and sensible and a bit neurotic. They look impossibly young to my old eyes, but they also seem prematurely aged, like they've skipped past youth altogether. It's almost like they're very young-looking thirtysomethings.

They don't talk to me about fomenting revolution or starting a band, they ask me sensible questions about career plans and mortgages and investments. They don't pity the fact that I'm a washed-up former musician with a receding hairline and dreary centrist views, they envy the fact that I've got a modest amount of equity in a two-bed flat and something resembling a pension. In a just world I'd envy their youth, but all I can do is share in their worry for the future.

When people older than me reminisce about the good old days, I know with confidence that those old days were shit. There was nothing good about outdoor toilets and single-glazed windows and casual dolphin rape. I think that my good old days might have actually been the good old days, and it breaks my fucking heart.
>> No. 462265 Anonymous
2nd January 2024
Tuesday 11:44 am
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>>462262

>harlequins

They're a dying race who believes themselves superior to all forms of life, regarding all other species as little more than livestock, a hubris which will be their downfall. Humanity's xenophobia is a traumatised response to their early encounters with races like the Tyranids, which turned them inward and led to the adoption of hostility as a first response; but the Eldar are much more directly comparable to the traditional Nazi racial superiority type of fascism. And they're not even the "dark" ones.

Nearly every civilisation in 40K can be interpreted as a villainous tyranny, but crucially they can nearly all also have their motivations and the circumstances that led them down that path understood, from a certain angle. They are nearly all responses to desperate, bleak, hopeless circumstances. I think that's the most important aspect of the setting, if we are discussing it on a level this pretentious- It doesn't just deliver a blunt, shallow message about fascism being bad. It doesn't just paint this simple picture of evil people who are irredeemable from the start. Even in its complete over-the-top bombast hence the Verhoeven parallel, it pulls the same trick, it shows us evil as something with complex and multifaceted roots. It warns us that when we are faced with a fight for survival, we quickly abandon morality. We are all capable of evil.

I think this is why I take more issue with the liberal lefty crowd than the 4chan edgelords. The 4chan lot are just plain thick, they're the Alf Garnet bigots '63 mentions, but at the end of the day they are pretty harmless, they are just LARPing their dictator fetish with toy soldiers. You just shake your head and ignore them, and that's the end of it. But when the liberal side misinterpret the setting, they tend to call for it to be dumbed down, they want important elements of the fiction simplified to a trite black and white, and there is more chance of them getting their way. In general, that's the same reason I find all of their cultural critiques (and most of the media they produce with their own messaging baked in) to be asinine.

sage for thinking this hard about toy soldiers, I didn't actually mean to ramble on like this, soz lads
>> No. 462266 Anonymous
2nd January 2024
Tuesday 12:20 pm
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>>462265

Those harmless 4chan edgelords have talked eachother into committing multiple mass murders with explicit political aims and are quite capable of impacting politics through other means. I assume you're familiar with the paradox of tolerance yet you still stand there arguing that fascists need to be humanised and empathised with. Then in the same breath you describe those on the left as caricatures that the right use. You're taking a position Stratfor and other security consultants would label a "realist", someone who thinks they're more pragmatic than the idealists or radicals and that they can change things from the inside - in reality this just leads to them being co-opted by the very thing they claim to want to change. Either cynically used or simply converted by the company they keep. It's telling that you seem to view "liberal lefty types" as a monolith but their opposition as nuanced. That says to me that you're already viewing things through the lens of right wing propaganda. Take that joint of gammon out your eye.
>> No. 462267 Anonymous
2nd January 2024
Tuesday 12:39 pm
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Well in, lads. About 36 hours in to the new year before our first cunt-off.
>> No. 462268 Anonymous
2nd January 2024
Tuesday 12:54 pm
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>>462262
>You should stop for a second and wonder if, when the term 'far-x' comes up whether it is always just a strawman.
No, no it isn't, you dumb-dumb, stupid, very dumb bastard. And it's not just the more junior members of staff for bigger politicians; there's an entire plot called "Project 2025" funded by the Heritage Project that seeks to give a prospective Donald Trump presidency unlimited power, forever. Which is very serious indeed, given the global, imperial reach of the USA's influence. I'm sure you'll dismiss this for one reason or another, but with the AfD second in the polls in Germany, our own country's Conservative Party's ideological future very much up for grabs and those Nazi stickers I kept finding at the bus station, I don't intend to treat these circumstances with the old "hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil" attitude you have, blithely, adopted.
>> No. 462270 Anonymous
2nd January 2024
Tuesday 1:44 pm
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>>462266

>Those harmless 4chan edgelords have talked eachother into committing multiple mass murders with explicit political aims

And to what extent do you think Warhammer had a hand in that?

>Then in the same breath you describe those on the left as caricatures that the right use. You're taking a position Stratfor and other security consultants would label a "realist", someone who thinks they're more pragmatic than the idealists or radicals and that they can change things from the inside - in reality this just leads to them being co-opted by the very thing they claim to want to change.

... Okay.

>you seem to view "liberal lefty types" as a monolith

I really don't, my entire viewpoint comes from the fact we largely are, or at least should be, on the same side. Except that they are dogmatic, counterproductive, shit stirrers who do more harm than good.

And like them, you're only here to cause bad blood. You have very little interest in good faith discussion of the subject you started the debate about in the first place. I don't really feel like going any further with you.
>> No. 462271 Anonymous
2nd January 2024
Tuesday 1:58 pm
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>>462270
>And to what extent do you think Warhammer had a hand in that?
Very little, as I said and haven't seen anyone else suggesting otherwise. I've only seen someone who's raging about women with blue hair and glasses hypothetically saying something, with no evidence it's a commonly held belief by said caricature. Just a sort of vague "I bet those stupid wokies would hate this! Grr they make me so angry!".

>you started the debate about in the first place.
I didn't, you have no reason to believe I did, that itself is a bad faith argument.

I see two possibilities here, either you're just looking for excuses to move further right and someone to blame that on so you can tell yourself it's not your fault, or you've just been so heavily inundated with right wing propaganda - and this seems obvious given you use their language and imagery so reflexively - that you've internalised the idea that it's inherently shameful and your insecurities are driving you to distance yourself from that. There's a wojack in your head and you're so terrified he might associate you with your own allies that you're desperately trying to distance yourself from them.
>> No. 462272 Anonymous
2nd January 2024
Tuesday 2:13 pm
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>>462271

If you say so lad. You got me, bang to rights. I'm a closeted feels frog meme and you have ripped away the illusions.
>> No. 462273 Anonymous
2nd January 2024
Tuesday 3:01 pm
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>>462272

Based. Gottem.
>> No. 462274 Anonymous
2nd January 2024
Tuesday 5:09 pm
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>>462268
>those Nazi stickers I kept finding at the bus station

Look, we all hate those Extinction Rebellion stickers but I think equating them with the Nazis is a bit far.
>> No. 462275 Anonymous
2nd January 2024
Tuesday 5:12 pm
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>>462274
Maybe in the poncy uni town you live in, richboy, but out here in the muck and the filth it's not really like that.

>>462267
Good! There weren't nearly enough last year. We've been getting soft, giving each other "emotional support" and meekly agreeing about UK politics, it's embarrassing. No more!
>> No. 462276 Anonymous
2nd January 2024
Tuesday 5:57 pm
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It turns out that buying something over a long weekend and trying to return it over the same weekend does some funny things. The original transaction is still pending, and there's no corresponding refund transaction, so at this point I don't know if I've still paid for the item or not.
>> No. 462277 Anonymous
2nd January 2024
Tuesday 7:54 pm
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>>462275

I'm not sure what it says about my neighbourhood that there are no political stickers on lampposts, just adverts for drug dealers.
>> No. 462278 Anonymous
2nd January 2024
Tuesday 8:26 pm
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I, for one, don't even own a lamppost.
>> No. 462279 Anonymous
2nd January 2024
Tuesday 11:59 pm
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>>462278
So where are you supposed to hang your fascist decorations?
>> No. 462280 Anonymous
3rd January 2024
Wednesday 1:02 am
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I've spent two hours listening to songs from Serious About Men on repeat and now I'm much too jazzed to sleep. Proper adult problems.

>>462279
How do you understand stickers to work?
>> No. 462281 Anonymous
3rd January 2024
Wednesday 1:47 am
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>>462280
>How do you understand stickers to work?
I imagine that one might stick them to lampposts, though for visibility you might want to stick them on the side opposite to the one you hang the fascists from.
>> No. 462282 Anonymous
3rd January 2024
Wednesday 8:54 am
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>>462265
>their early encounters with races like the Tyranids, which turned them inward and led to the adoption of hostility as a first response

The Tyranids came much later, I think what you're referring to is the general close-minded hostility to the other that if we want to be generous emerged with Psykers and Orks during the Age of Strife and came to dominate via natural selection. Yeah there's conflict that happened but it's obvious that the Great Crusade also just murdered everyone indiscriminately and that the Emperor himself deliberately set out to wipe the galaxy of non-human sentience to cement humanities (in reality, his) power.

Let's not get confused in our game of crude metal soldiers. Humanities extreme xenophobia is part of the humour.

Obviously the Emperor is some sort of chaos being who has twisted humanity and the Machine God is just a void dragon. I am not a Genestealer.

>but the Eldar are much more directly comparable to the traditional Nazi racial superiority type of fascism

No, the Eldar are just decadent and don't care. I don't think there's any malice just extreme arrogance. The harlequins in particular just implement the will of the laughing God to defeat slaanesh and reset the universe.

The laughing god is Tzeentch and Ynnead is a joke.

>>462275
>Maybe in the poncy uni town you live in, richboy, but out here in the muck and the filth it's not really like that.

Muck and the filth? We could only be so lucky 'round my end, farmer-boy. Enjoy the fertiliser.
>> No. 462283 Anonymous
3rd January 2024
Wednesday 12:46 pm
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Fucking hell lads, save some fanny for the rest of us.
>> No. 462284 Anonymous
3rd January 2024
Wednesday 1:14 pm
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>>462282

>all of that heretical nonsense

Oh, you're one of those people who gets their lore from contemporary releases and Black Library fanfiction.

Where I'm from everything is extremely ambiguous because it's presented as scarce surviving historical sources long after the fact. More or less any information about the dark age of technology is lost to time, and we don't know anything concrete about the Emperor's ultimate plans, the details of what exactly happened during the Heresy, let alone the motivations of the inscrutable powers of chaos. It was all a matter of faith.

Everything they have added on since I was old enough to have sex with girls is wrong and I don't accept it.
>> No. 462285 Anonymous
3rd January 2024
Wednesday 2:27 pm
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>Walkers Launches New Vegan Crisp Flavors

https://plantbasednews.org/lifestyle/food/walkers-vegan-grilled-cheese-toastie/

Aren't crisps vegan anyways?
>> No. 462286 Anonymous
3rd January 2024
Wednesday 3:51 pm
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>>462285

Vegans already have a shit diet, we really shouldn't be encouraging them.
>> No. 462287 Anonymous
3rd January 2024
Wednesday 4:10 pm
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>>462286
Imagine life without crisp sandwiches though. It wouldn't be worth living.
>> No. 462288 Anonymous
3rd January 2024
Wednesday 6:17 pm
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Lads, talk me out of spending over £700 on a watch.

https://www.christopherward.com/sale/c60-trident-pro-300---nearly-new/N60-38ADA31S0KK0-B0.html
>> No. 462289 Anonymous
3rd January 2024
Wednesday 6:22 pm
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>>462288
That was easy. Unless I'm too late and you've bought it already.
>> No. 462290 Anonymous
3rd January 2024
Wednesday 6:24 pm
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>>462289
It turns out that and the others I was looking at have all sold out while I was deliberating. Oh well.
>> No. 462291 Anonymous
3rd January 2024
Wednesday 6:25 pm
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>>462288

Give me the £700 and I'll spend it on cocaine instead. It will be less of a waste that way.
>> No. 462295 Anonymous
3rd January 2024
Wednesday 8:28 pm
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>>462290
Problem solved.
>> No. 462296 Anonymous
3rd January 2024
Wednesday 8:32 pm
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>>462285
Depends on how the flavourings are manufactured. It's long been known that some flavours were not suitable for vegetarians, and that it wasn't necessarily the flavours you'd think.
>> No. 462297 Anonymous
3rd January 2024
Wednesday 8:38 pm
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>>462296
As far as I'm aware, cheese and onion is the only (mainstream) flavour of Walkers crisps which contain milk. The meat flavours were already vegan.
>> No. 462298 Anonymous
3rd January 2024
Wednesday 9:34 pm
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>>462297

>The meat flavours were already vegan.


Blasphemy!

It's like vegan sausages. They boil my piss. Either you eat meat or you fucking don't. You can't pick and choose.
>> No. 462299 Anonymous
3rd January 2024
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So lads, it seems my blood pressure is high and my cholesterol is double what they would like it to be.

It seems I need to get off my arse and stop eating shite.
>> No. 462300 Anonymous
4th January 2024
Thursday 7:03 am
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>>462299
When you start moving it gets easier to avoid shite.
>> No. 462301 Anonymous
4th January 2024
Thursday 7:54 am
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You ever notice that with some people you just need to sit down with them sometimes when they're worried/worked-up and listen to them as they work it out for themselves?

I know that sounds like an incredibly trite observation with an entire profession built around it but my twist is that it's incredibly important trick for managing educated people who often end up driving themselves a bit mental. You sit with them and listen, coming with the odd chilled out observation, and that's really what they need. Maybe that's why LLMs immediately ended up being used by some as therapy tools - I mostly use them in a similar way for a range of tasks, as soundboards to think my own ideas through.

>>462299
I think what really brought mine down was getting into the habit of eating a big banana for breakfast every morning.
>> No. 462302 Anonymous
4th January 2024
Thursday 10:22 am
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>>462301

>Maybe that's why LLMs immediately ended up being used by some as therapy tools

Astonishingly, we'd already figured that out in 1964:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
>> No. 462303 Anonymous
4th January 2024
Thursday 12:35 pm
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Waitrose gives you a free coffee with any purchase. I say free because buying their overpriced goods for a while means I've paid for that 'free' coffee endless times over.

Anyway this morning I didn't feel amazing so I just popped out for a banana and redeemed my free coffee.

When I got home, Google likes to ask for scans of my receipts in exchange for credit. I got more back from Google than the banana cost me, and I know I can't spend it like money, but I can redeem it on the app store.

In a way I kind of got a free breakfast.
>> No. 462304 Anonymous
4th January 2024
Thursday 1:32 pm
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Well, it's four days into the new year, and I'm already back on the strudel.
>> No. 462305 Anonymous
4th January 2024
Thursday 1:45 pm
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>>462303
I don't understand. Why are you selling your data for pennies off apps on the google play store?
>> No. 462306 Anonymous
4th January 2024
Thursday 2:17 pm
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>>462305
I generally find most people don't really give much of a shit about such things.
>> No. 462307 Anonymous
4th January 2024
Thursday 2:50 pm
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>>462306
But I mean, he's actively doing it. He's actively collecting receipts are screenshotting them for google, letting them know how big and curvy he likes his bananas and so on for a few pennies off shit he wouldn't buy otherwise.

It's just so irrational.
>> No. 462308 Anonymous
4th January 2024
Thursday 3:06 pm
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>>462307

Well how much are you going to get for your data elsewhere?

Don't get me started though. Most people aren't aware even how much artists in the music industry get shafted, with fractions a penny per play on services like Spotify, while the labels and suits take the majority of the cut for doing effectively fuck all. The situation we all have with our personal data is the same thing, on an even more massive scale.

Some company somewhere is getting millions off selling our data, and we get a few digital good boy points (as long as we spend it towards Brand™️).
>> No. 462309 Anonymous
4th January 2024
Thursday 3:17 pm
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I've just had a wee and it's very luminous. It's like one of those Lemsip drinks with added fluorescence.
>> No. 462310 Anonymous
4th January 2024
Thursday 4:00 pm
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>>462307
Well I have Google One membership which gives me a VPN, huge amounts of backup space and it covers that membership, plus anything that can be bought via the app store.

I've paid for years of meditation apps, app upgrades, all sorts by just answering questions or giving them a picture of my receipt.

I understand the concerns but I quite frankly don't care that Google know I bought a banana in Waitrose when they know I went there anyway because I had my phone in my pocket and they prompted the survey.

What's irrational about that? It's a fairly rational exchange given I've not developed a better paid, or easier, medium to exchange my shopping habit data.

I'm usually very 'protect my personal data' but Google knowing what I bought for lunch is just something I just do not give one iota about. I've made hundreds of pounds doing this.
>> No. 462311 Anonymous
4th January 2024
Thursday 6:03 pm
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>>462309

I had a wee that smelt like popcorn earlier on.
>> No. 462312 Anonymous
4th January 2024
Thursday 6:45 pm
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I know we've had discussions about this before, but I was training someone today and watching young people trying to navigate a computer is painful. Weren't people in their 20s now taught how to use things like Excel at school?
>> No. 462313 Anonymous
4th January 2024
Thursday 6:53 pm
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>>462312

I honestly never would have thought my generation would be part of only a window of people that knew their way around a desktop computer and everything that comes along with actually working on one. It just seemed like it would be a fixture, as much as reading or maths.
>> No. 462314 Anonymous
4th January 2024
Thursday 7:38 pm
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>>462313
I had to restrain myself because it was eating me up inside. All she really had to do was a few basic calculations, but instead of selecting the cells she'd need she was keying the value of each cell in manually (e.g. instead of A1 + B1 + C1 she'd type 10,900.56 + 783.21 + 315.44) but she kept fucking this up when it came to percentages and putting things like 3% instead of 0.03%. When I explained to her how she could select the cell instead she then started manually typing the name of each cell rather than clicking on them.
>> No. 462315 Anonymous
4th January 2024
Thursday 8:07 pm
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>>462314

I haven't used Excel since I was forced to do an IT module as part of a college course about 7 years ago, and if it wasn't for that it would be going way back to year 8 or 9 since I had touched it at all. I'm a nerd who builds my own PCs and with a bit of tinkering and Googling can solve just about any issue I ever have with one, but any Excel knowledge I once had has long since dribbled out of my ears and I very much doubt I could even remember how to do the most basic of formulas or that thing where you link them to certain cells or any of it.

The LIMS system I use at work is still some archaic early 90s green text on black background hyperterminal interface bullshit where you type in codes and arrow through the fields, but we can train the most broccoli haired of zoomers to use it in no time at all. The problem isn't that they are shit with computers (although in general I agree, it's shocking how much of a flash in the pan it was for our generation to learn computers like we did), it's that you're expecting people to know how to use specific software.
>> No. 462316 Anonymous
4th January 2024
Thursday 8:12 pm
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>>462315
She's been at the company longer than I have, it isn't the first time she's ever had to use Excel. That was only one example anyway, it was more the painfully slow way she navigated around the computer and keyboard in general which was bothering me.
>> No. 462317 Anonymous
4th January 2024
Thursday 8:38 pm
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>>462316

Fair enough. She might just be a bit thick, then.
>> No. 462318 Anonymous
4th January 2024
Thursday 10:38 pm
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A friend's wife is getting ready to file for divorce. Apparently the holidays have made her realise that she's "no longer emotionally invested" in their relationship. But my friend says he's pretty sure she's fucking a particular coworker.

Too bad for him. If all this goes through then they'll probably have to sell the house they bought just a few years ago. Thankfully no kids are involved. I remember her saying that she wanted to enjoy a few more years of independence before having kids, but I know alarm bells when I hear them.
>> No. 462319 Anonymous
5th January 2024
Friday 12:02 am
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>>462314
>> No. 462320 Anonymous
5th January 2024
Friday 8:01 am
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I don't think I'll ever get used to waking up in the pitch dark.
>> No. 462321 Anonymous
5th January 2024
Friday 2:28 pm
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Watched the New Year Taskmaster special. It was pretty dull and not a patch on last year, which had the benefit of three shaggable women.
>> No. 462322 Anonymous
5th January 2024
Friday 5:58 pm
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>>462321

I watched the Big Fat Quiz of 2023 the other night and I was equally underwhelmed.
>> No. 462323 Anonymous
5th January 2024
Friday 7:29 pm
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>>462322

I thought you lot all want to give the spazzy lass one?
>> No. 462324 Anonymous
5th January 2024
Friday 8:19 pm
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>>462321 >>462322
Watching television shows as they come out is like preordering computer games.

I just watched the Taskmaster special from last year on your recommendation and there were indeed at least two ladies wot were nice to look at. There was also Carol Vorderman.
>> No. 462325 Anonymous
5th January 2024
Friday 8:40 pm
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>>462324
Whom did you prefer, chicken shop woman or the slightly plump one with the right prime arse?
>> No. 462326 Anonymous
5th January 2024
Friday 8:59 pm
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>>462323

I know it's a very old man thing to say, but I genuinely do wonder what a lesbian with cerebral palsy does in the sack. Mind you, Rosie Jones does strike me as a bit of a pillow princess.
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5th January 2024
Friday 9:46 pm
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You know, I can't remember there being a big backlash when Hayley joined Coronation Street but I reckon if that was happening these days instead there'd be an almighty uproar about WOKE NONSENSE on one side and people making a massive celebration about it on the other side.
>> No. 462328 Anonymous
5th January 2024
Friday 10:31 pm
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>>462327
Most people just laughed about it back then and made the same 3 jokes they make nowadays.
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5th January 2024
Friday 11:04 pm
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>>462327

Nobody really knew what a trans was in those days. Today I think there'd be a small uproar from the usual suspects, but a bigger uproar that a trans character was being played by a cis performer. I think all of the soaps have now had at least one trans character by now.

In a very quiet and unassuming way, Roy Cropper is deeply heroic.
>> No. 462330 Anonymous
5th January 2024
Friday 11:16 pm
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>>462327

The fact that it wasn't so culturally divisive and charged back then is really the only reason they could do it, I think. People were more receptive to the subject because they weren't already weary of the propaganda war they see every time they unlock their phone. And similarly I remember it having a storyline about one of the lads coming to terms with being a bumder and nobody made a great fuss, but it was really quite progressive for how early on it was when I think about it.

I think partially it's to do with Corrie being "the northern soap" and it's couched in that Northern common sense, down to earth, "ah dunt care if yer a poof as long as yer nor a knobhead abart it" sort of mindset, which I think the British public at large is generally on board with. But part of the problem is that kind of live and let live attitude just isn't enough for today's progressive crowd. If you're not out in the streets flying a trans pride flag you're a nazi who wants them all killed, and so they end up antagonising people who wouldn't otherwise have had a problem with them.

We live in a hell world dystopia now though, so any modern take on the subject would be about how if you don't support Israel you are condoning LGBT genocide. It's all so tiresome.
>> No. 462331 Anonymous
6th January 2024
Saturday 12:19 am
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>>462330

I think you're overestimating how many people are actually bothered one way or another. The vast majority of people are very much of the "live and let live" persuasion. There's a very small minority who have a strong opinion either way, but they grab all the attention because they're noisy and angry and spend all their waking hours on Twitter.

Emmerdale currently has a trans lad in the cast, but nobody gives a shit. Until last year, Hollyoaks had a trans woman, but nobody gave a shit. I mean, that's mainly because nobody actually watches Hollyoaks, but you get my point. That trans bloke who was in Holby City? Non-issue. The they/them who was in Casualty? Nobody cared. The trans lad who was in Eastenders for a year until they realised that he couldn't act for toffees? Forgettable and forgotten. I only pay any attention because I'm a pervert. That lass off of Boy Meets Girl was well fit.

I think that the vast majority of people react to trans people on TV in basically the same way as my mum, who might ask "Do you reckon she's one of them pronouns?" with exactly the same level of indifference as if she'd said "Wasn't she in that thing the other week with that bloke off of Doctor Who?". Mild curiosity, but not enough curiosity to bother Googling it. Doesn't know all the new terminology, but would give it her best effort because she wouldn't want to cause offence. Noticed that one of the lads on the checkouts in Asda has started wearing makeup, thinks he'd actually make quite a pretty girl, might make a well-intentioned but mildly politically incorrect supportive comment if his/her lane has the shortest queue next week but probably won't bother.
>> No. 462332 Anonymous
6th January 2024
Saturday 1:13 am
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>>462331

Well, yeah, that's kind of my point. Most people are more accepting of all this stuff than you'd think if you pay attention to the people who care the most about it. And the people who make the most noise about it are either the vocal critics, or the people who have made advocacy their entire purpose in life.

I get most of my news and information about the world from broadly lefty sources, but the media being what it is also means they are filtered through a hand-wringing upper middle class lens, and it's always been an annoyance of mine how they have their own prejudice about more ordinary folk. Discussions seem to take place from the default assumption, and the background context of the debate always seems to be, that the average person, particularly the lower classes, are just generally bigoted and reactionary.

In turn, I guess that colours how I feel compelled to respond to the subject myself when it comes up. I feel like that context is something that in itself colours the debate (such that there is one).
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8th January 2024
Monday 1:53 pm
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In Hell's Bells, the opening track of AC/DC's 1980 comeback album Back in Black, released amid uncertainty over the band's future following the untimely death of frontman Bon Scott, Brian Johnson sang the following line:

>See the white light flashing as I split the night
>'Cause if good's on the left, then I'm sticking to the right

Is this an allusion to fascism? Does the "white light" splitting the night refer to white power? Is it a veiled metaphor to the lightning symbol which was, as we know, popularly used by well known Hitler fanclub the SS? Is "sticking to the right" an endorsement of far right politics?

Am I still allowed to listen to AC/DC?
>> No. 462373 Anonymous
8th January 2024
Monday 2:08 pm
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>>462372
If you interpret everything through the lens where you're consciously searching for fascism in everything then you're going to find fascism.
>> No. 462374 Anonymous
8th January 2024
Monday 5:33 pm
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>>462372
I really hope this satire.
>> No. 462376 Anonymous
8th January 2024
Monday 6:07 pm
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is £75 a month on food reasonable? I've come to this figure by averaging the cost of my most recent supermarket recipts then multiplying that over the frequency of my shopping trips. I could reduce this to ~£50 per month by stretching each basket of food only a single day more, which is entirely possible seeing as I tend to binge every so often, most recently eating an entire large pizza when I could have saved it for tomorrow.

The shop mostly consists of fresh fruit, fresh and frozen veg, bread, butter and whatever I can find in the reduced sections. I haven't counted for milk and various treats as they're bought from a different shop, thus I don't have the figures.
>> No. 462377 Anonymous
8th January 2024
Monday 6:20 pm
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>>462376
It's all relative, innit.
>> No. 462378 Anonymous
8th January 2024
Monday 6:29 pm
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>>462376
I budget £220 for household (food, shitpaper, shower stuff etc.) so you're doing very well by my estimate. Although I feel that food is one of those areas where you should be comfortable to live a little with and pay extra to get proper food your body needs.
>> No. 462379 Anonymous
8th January 2024
Monday 7:38 pm
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>>462376

According to government data, the national average expenditure on household food is £28.23 per person per week, which works out to £122.33 per calendar month. That's probably a slight under-estimate, because it's based on self-reporting through a weekly diary and people tend to forget about "top-up" purchases from convenience stores - the midweek bread and milk, or the ready meal on their way home when they can't be bothered cooking. Obviously averages are just that and there's a great deal of individual variation based on household income and personal preference.

You could economise a bit more and still eat a healthy diet if you're sensible, but likewise it'd be perfectly reasonable for you to spend more.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-food-fye-2022/family-food-fye-2022
>> No. 462380 Anonymous
8th January 2024
Monday 7:38 pm
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Always a weird feeling when they numb your cheek at the dentist's and then a few hours later sensation gradually comes back.

I had a filling redone on a wisdom tooth in my lower jaw this afternoon at 2 pm, and my whole left side was numb until about ten minutes ago, and now it's more and more coming back by the minute. Bit of pain in my wisdom tooth as well, but at least it's taken care of now.
>> No. 462381 Anonymous
8th January 2024
Monday 9:46 pm
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>>462379
It tends to be a tradeoff bewtween engery required to keep food and prepapre food, v.s. up front purchase cost.
>> No. 462382 Anonymous
8th January 2024
Monday 9:51 pm
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A wedding couple have said that no gifts are necessary but if you really want they would take any money to put towards the honeymoon. So how does that work, do I stuff an envelope? Is it something for family to think about? Do I give it to them well beforehand so they can fuck off after the wedding?

Weddings seems like hard work but I bet it would be easy to organise if you just called it something vaguely Star Wars like a 'life ceremony' and made it up as you went along. If you do that then it's pretty much catering and a venue space. Plus a band playing jizz music of course.
>> No. 462383 Anonymous
8th January 2024
Monday 11:18 pm
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I am absolutely fucked.
>> No. 462384 Anonymous
9th January 2024
Tuesday 12:13 am
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>>462383
https://www.healthyplace.com/blogs/anxiety-schmanxiety/2019/11/what-is-vaguebooking-and-why-is-it-bad-for-mental-health
>> No. 462385 Anonymous
9th January 2024
Tuesday 12:57 am
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Okay. I am absolutely fucked if I don't get £200 by Friday.
>> No. 462387 Anonymous
9th January 2024
Tuesday 8:43 am
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>>462385

I know you probably just wanted to vent, but if you give some more details about your financial situation, there's a good chance that we'll be able to help you sort it out.

What's the £200 for? Are you working? On benefits? Do you have any other debts? Are you struggling to pay your bills? Do you have any health conditions or a disability? What local authority area do you live in?
>> No. 462388 Anonymous
9th January 2024
Tuesday 1:33 pm
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I have no money coming in. I had tried to sell some things online, but ten quid from one vinyl record was all I got out of that endevour. If I don't find this money I'm probably going to be back living with the more alcoholic wing of my genetically worthless family and it's all my fault. My only disability is being thick as shit, I live in a field in the North West of England.
>> No. 462389 Anonymous
9th January 2024
Tuesday 2:21 pm
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>>462388

It sounds like you're in a shit situation and I'm honestly quite worried for you.

Is there a reason why you aren't claiming benefits? You could start a Universal Credit claim and get an advance on your first payment within a few days. I don't want to assume anything, but it seems like you might be struggling with your mental health; if you are, you may be able to claim without having to actively look for work.

https://www.gov.uk/universal-credit/how-to-claim

When you say "I live in a field", does that mean you're homeless? If so, have you made a homelessness application to the local council? They probably won't be obliged to find you immediate emergency accommodation, but they do have a legal duty to help you find somewhere to live.

https://england.shelter.org.uk/housing_advice/homelessness/get_help_from_the_council/how_to_ask_the_council_for_help

If you're not sure where to start, I'd suggest getting in touch with Citizens Advice. They can't wave a magic wand, but they are experts on welfare and housing rights and they'll make sure that you get everything you're entitled to.

https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/about-us/contact-us/contact-us/contact-us/

I hope you can keep us updated on how you're getting on, but what really matters is that you ask for the help that you need. I've been there myself and I know how difficult it can be, but I promise you that your situation isn't hopeless, even if it feels that way.
>> No. 462390 Anonymous
9th January 2024
Tuesday 6:43 pm
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Currently in Sheffield. Apparently red traffic lights here mean another 3 or 4 cars and still go through.
>> No. 462391 Anonymous
9th January 2024
Tuesday 6:57 pm
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It's pretty cold out.
>> No. 462392 Anonymous
9th January 2024
Tuesday 7:40 pm
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Have you lads ever noticed that cleaners are generally very short? I don't think I'm pointing out the merits of eugenics, but it does kind of feel like genetically inferior specimens are predestined to end up in jobs which are the bottom rung of society.
>> No. 462393 Anonymous
9th January 2024
Tuesday 8:00 pm
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>>462391

Pretty cold in too. I'm usually nice and toasty only running the heating pretty low, but when it drops down to near zero like this I do start to feel the nip, and I refuse to turn it up at today's energy prices.

On the other hand my kitchen is cold enough I can probably turn the fridge off to save even more energy, because my milk would stay just as cold left out on the counter.
>> No. 462394 Anonymous
9th January 2024
Tuesday 8:44 pm
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Just been into Burger King. Witnessed an extremely rotund woman order three meals for herself, three chicken royale meals with a box of Doritos chicken fries each, before demolishing them all. What a sight to behold.

It's the first time I've had one in ages and it's ridiculous how much better they are than McDonald's, but even with the app it's reaching silly money for a meal.
>> No. 462395 Anonymous
9th January 2024
Tuesday 9:09 pm
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>>462393
I invested in some cheap blankets before Christmas and I think they've already paid for themselves. I could get used to draping a blanket over my legs and having a wee kip on the sofa.
>> No. 462397 Anonymous
9th January 2024
Tuesday 9:40 pm
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>>462392

My cleaner is taller than me and has a distractingly lovely arse, but she is one of those foreigners.
>> No. 462398 Anonymous
9th January 2024
Tuesday 9:48 pm
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>>462397
How much does she cost in the end, not for that but for cleaning duties? I've been tempted to get one but it's hard to work out how much they cost without one coming 'round to suck their teeth at how you live.
>> No. 462399 Anonymous
9th January 2024
Tuesday 11:25 pm
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>>462398

She does whatever needs doing once a fortnight for thirty quid. I've got a robot hoover, I'm fairly tidy and I don't have pets or kids, so it usually doesn't take her too long. I like not having to do grubby jobs like cleaning the oven, but also the risk of embarrassment stops me from going fully feral.

Unfortunately I do think this is one of those things they need to quote you for, because they've got no way of knowing how clean your house is without actually having a neb around.
>> No. 462400 Anonymous
10th January 2024
Wednesday 7:57 am
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>>462394
A cheeky BK at the services was the highlight of many long drives.
>> No. 462401 Anonymous
10th January 2024
Wednesday 8:25 am
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>>462397
I imagine tall cleaners don't last long because they'll be more likely to get things like back ache.
>> No. 462402 Anonymous
10th January 2024
Wednesday 11:31 am
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>>462401

This why the tall, as a species, are congenitally unclean. They can neither see nor bend to clean the muck they spread around them. Lankies will shit down their own leg and not notice until it's pointed out, then blame the government for not wiping it up for them claiming it's too far for them to reach on their own.
>> No. 462403 Anonymous
10th January 2024
Wednesday 11:54 am
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>>462402
I have noticed that my ears have started getting hairier.
>> No. 462404 Anonymous
10th January 2024
Wednesday 12:09 pm
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>>462403

Hairy ears are a trait evolved by the tall to keep tree branches from getting lodged in their ear canals.
>> No. 462405 Anonymous
10th January 2024
Wednesday 5:29 pm
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I find the idea of people having cleaners just frankly a bit pathetic. Like, when it's wealthy opulent people who have servants to do everything from cooking and cleaning to rearing the kids, it's more understandable. It still disgusts me but I mean, when you're filthy rich you might as well and at least it's creating jobs, I suppose.

But when you're just a lad who can't be arsed to clean up your own pot noodles and wash your own undies I think that's just a bit embarrassing. Being able to look after yourself like that is a pretty vital life skill, we shouldn't outsource every aspect of our lives. You're the kind of lad who gets sucked in by an overbearing motherly woman who slowly takes over control of your life and then posts on /emo/ about if you should leave her because you haven't had sex for ten years.
>> No. 462406 Anonymous
10th January 2024
Wednesday 5:57 pm
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>>462405
Have you considered not being poor?
>> No. 462407 Anonymous
10th January 2024
Wednesday 6:49 pm
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>>462405

>Being able to look after yourself like that is a pretty vital life skill, we shouldn't outsource every aspect of our lives.

I'm perfectly capable of cleaning my own oven, I've just got better things to do with my time. My cleaner is lovely, but with the best will in the world, scrubbing the limescale off my taps is genuinely the most intellectually demanding work that she's capable of. Lazy bastards like myself mean that she gets to live a pretty nice life by global standards. Yes, she has to scour my hob for a living, but she still gets to live in a warm house and go on foreign holidays and eat well enough to cultivate a first rate arse.

If you were to say that an economic system in which some people clean other people's houses is inherently unfair, I don't think I'd have a good argument. It is purely through accident of birth that I get to lark about with robots all day instead of scrubbing toilets. In the economic system that we do live in, my cleaner and I are both better off if I keep employing her - if we weren't, either she'd quit or I'd sack her.
>> No. 462408 Anonymous
10th January 2024
Wednesday 8:54 pm
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>>462407
I do wonder how much those cleaners make actually. You might think yourself the clever one but she's making £30 for hour's work at your gaff and then probably doing a load of other places for whatever many hours she feels like. I mean it seems like exhausting work to us but it probably keeps her active and she's an expert at it.

Then when she gets home she probably has a few robots of her own to play with.
>> No. 462409 Anonymous
10th January 2024
Wednesday 9:04 pm
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>>462406

It has nothing to do with being poor. Thanks to the wonders of mass immigration, anyone but the lowliest dolescum can afford a cleaner.

For a change, my argument here isn't based on the injustices of capitalism. Cleaning is noble work. I just look down on men who are domestically inept or lazy.
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10th January 2024
Wednesday 9:10 pm
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>>462408

I assume cleaners never get an email at 10pm with the subject line "Re: Re: Re: Re: URGENT", which must be nice.
>> No. 462411 Anonymous
10th January 2024
Wednesday 9:56 pm
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"Having a cleaner" is pathetic, paying a cleaner to help out is a bit different. The latter implies empathy, the former implies they are tools to be used. There's a point where it flips over, but if you think the "poorest" can afford one... you think someone who earns jack shit can pay someone else earning the same jack shit?

> I assume cleaners never get an email at 10pm with the subject line

No, they get a call that says "go here, clean" and failing that lose their job. Get out of your own arse.
>> No. 462412 Anonymous
10th January 2024
Wednesday 10:09 pm
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>>462411

>if you think the "poorest" can afford one

Nobody said that did they lad.
>> No. 462413 Anonymous
10th January 2024
Wednesday 11:17 pm
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>>462411

>"Having a cleaner" is pathetic, paying a cleaner to help out is a bit different. The latter implies empathy, the former implies they are tools to be used.

Mate, there's an opinion column waiting for you at The Guardian.

I've got an accountant too - should I refer to him as "a person who I pay to help out with my tax returns"? I suppose referring to my doctor implies some sort of feudal ownership and I should instead refer to him as "a person who the NHS pays to stop me from dying"? Have I just done a hate crime by referring to them both as him, when I've never actually checked what pronouns they prefer?
>> No. 462414 Anonymous
10th January 2024
Wednesday 11:21 pm
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>>462412
> thanks to the wonders of mass immigration, anyone but the lowliest dolescum can afford a cleaner.
>> No. 462415 Anonymous
10th January 2024
Wednesday 11:22 pm
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>>462413
I don't think the guardian would take me. I whinge enough on /A/, but I stand by what I said in sentiment.
>> No. 462416 Anonymous
11th January 2024
Thursday 12:49 am
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>>462411
>The latter implies empathy, the former implies they are tools to be used

You can't be too chummy with the help. You're not their pal, you're their client and there's a lot of implicit trust if you want to change that status but you'll never be one of the lads. The man at the pizza shop calls you 'bossman' because you give him money, it doesn't mean you should picture your life together. Believe me.

>No, they get a call that says "go here, clean" and failing that lose their job.

That's not how it works. Professional cleaners are in absurd demand, they have set schedules and you can't even feel their bum anymore. For the commercial sector they have specific hours for obvious reasons and regimented patterns.

No, we abuse workers in the proper way in this country. By setting them pointless tasks and paying them so little statutory sick pay that they die on the job.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jun/26/emanuel-gomes-died-just-hours-after-his-cleaning-shift-why-was-he-working
>> No. 462417 Anonymous
11th January 2024
Thursday 8:06 am
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>>462416
If you're calling them "the help" then there is the problem.

> Professional cleaners are in absurd demand

I don't doubt that, my view is skewed by living in that there place, but "professional" does a lot of heavy lifting here. The typical agencies here charge so little it's nigh impossible that the people doing the work actually get paid a living wage. The last couple of times it was akin to a brothel, the Mama taking the money and directing the distinctly younger women to do the work. I can't tell if you have rose tinted goggles or I do, but it's absolutely no paradise for cleaners here.
>> No. 462418 Anonymous
11th January 2024
Thursday 8:43 am
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My sister works as a cleaner beside being a single mother. I'm recluse dolescum. You all sound like cunts.
>> No. 462419 Anonymous
11th January 2024
Thursday 9:25 am
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>>462418
Cool, anything constructive to add?
>> No. 462420 Anonymous
11th January 2024
Thursday 10:39 am
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I just rang a builder because my roof terrace will need some work this spring. He got into semantics with me that what I have isn't a roof terrace but a roof balcony, and he tried to convince me that it'll be a far bigger job than just replacing a few tiles, and that the whole balcony floor underneath probably needs to be redone. He was a bit too giddy on the phone. He said he could come by to take a look this afternoon, but I told him I'd get back to him.

I hate when people like that make you look dumb and become pushy, and try to talk you into wildly expensive repairs. I have no doubt that some customers fall for it, but I know I won't hire him to do the job.
>> No. 462421 Anonymous
11th January 2024
Thursday 11:22 am
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How bad an idea is it to make an account on a porn site that runs algorithms to curate a suggestions list based on viewing habits?
>> No. 462422 Anonymous
11th January 2024
Thursday 11:22 am
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>>462419
No.
>> No. 462423 Anonymous
11th January 2024
Thursday 12:17 pm
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>>462421
I had a pornhub account back when they did that free month during lockdown. I can't say I got much use out of the recommended function, in fact it's a annoying because when you go on porn it's a case that:

1. You're doing it as a spur of the moment exercise with a thought popping into your head or seeing someone bend down to reach something. The algorithm can't predict that, it's effectively random.
2. What you really want to GOOD porn. The sad reality is there isn't enough of it in any given genre to pigeonhole so you'll take what you can get, if you want a picture of the future, imagine living off of random porn bush leavings – forever.

And I'll add that the Rick and Morty porn game everyone was going on about is boring. Yes it engages in a range of scenarios but that's it.
>> No. 462424 Anonymous
11th January 2024
Thursday 1:16 pm
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Who needs porn sites? I just saw tit in The Guardian.
>> No. 462426 Anonymous
11th January 2024
Thursday 5:18 pm
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I got bored of porn a long time ago, nowadays I just construct elaborate and highly implausible fantasies about lasses I know in my head and wank to that.
>> No. 462427 Anonymous
11th January 2024
Thursday 5:38 pm
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The all-metal ceiling lamp in that one room here at my house never had a protective earth lead connected to it. So I installed one today. The lamp was like that for 40 years. Absolute time bomb.
>> No. 462428 Anonymous
11th January 2024
Thursday 6:35 pm
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>>462427
Was the light insulated from the housing?
>> No. 462429 Anonymous
11th January 2024
Thursday 7:22 pm
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>>462428

Yes, but the wiring inside looked dodgy. The insulation around the wires was brittle and coming apart in places. So I put in all new wires from the screw connectors to the three light bulb sockets. And added protective earth. Probably not worth the bother for a 40 year old lamp, but it has sentimental value.
>> No. 462430 Anonymous
11th January 2024
Thursday 7:59 pm
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I really love eating breakfast foods (eggs, bacon, toast, etc) for my dinner on an evening. It's definitely the tastiest meal, I've always got the ingredients in, and it's some of the easiest stuff to cook.

Who decided bacon and eggs are a morning thing, but chicken and pasta are later on things?
>> No. 462431 Anonymous
11th January 2024
Thursday 8:18 pm
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>>462430
Never heard of all day breakfast?
>> No. 462432 Anonymous
11th January 2024
Thursday 9:32 pm
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I get up at 7AM, to get to work for 8AM. I finish work at 5PM, and I get home by 6PM. I have to cook/eat dinner, which could take up until 7PM. I then have four hours for chores/leisure time, before I have to be in bed by 11PM (I need at least 8 hours sleep to operate normally). I know this is normal wagie life, but I spent so long as a student/NEET/part time worker that it's really hard to adjust to.

My girlfriend wants us to start going on day trips on a weekend. We don't really spend time together during the week because I'm so burned out from my job I have no energy to deal with her on an evening because I've spent all day dealing with people. But if we go on a day trip every Saturday or something, that's around half my weekend taken away from me so we can wander round a nature reserve or something. I'm really struggling to find a work-life balance.
>> No. 462433 Anonymous
11th January 2024
Thursday 9:37 pm
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>>462432

Welcome to working life m8. You'll get used to it.
>> No. 462434 Anonymous
11th January 2024
Thursday 10:04 pm
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>>462432
You're not going to like hearing this but an evening class or hobby during the week definately helps break you out of the funk. Even going to the gym will at least slow down your perception of time for an hour or two.

Life is shit like that, you can't even sit on your arse properly without having to work to enjoy it. We'll all be pensioners growing tomatoes one day.
>> No. 462435 Anonymous
11th January 2024
Thursday 11:15 pm
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>>462432

I think spending one day on a weekend with your missus and then keeping the other day reserved for yourself is a pretty fair compromise to be honest lad, and it's quite healthy for your relationship to keep some structured time together instead of falling into that rut where all you do is exist in the same room staring at a screen together.

Set yourself a little deal where you agree to give her the couple time on a Saturday, as long as she agrees to give you undisturbed gaming/Warhammering/furry ERPing time on the Sunday, for example. It is hard to find a balance when you work full time, but it sounds like she's being quite reasonable, she's not asking you to completely surrender your individuality like some women seem to expect of a man.

For evenings I find it's really important to try spend a bit of time on a hobby every night, even if it's just half an hours or an hour, to stop time just slipping through your fingers. I'll usually have A Nice Sit Down And A Brew for the first hour, then make dinner, then have a shower or whatever depending, then go off to my man cave to play guitar or paint some minis for an hour. After that it's usually about 9-10, and I'll go play videogames or shitpost on here for the last couple of hours until bed.
>> No. 462436 Anonymous
12th January 2024
Friday 12:26 pm
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>>462431

What the fuck is a pork and egg nugget?
>> No. 462437 Anonymous
12th January 2024
Friday 12:29 pm
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>>462436
Imagine a scotch egg without the breadcrumbs.
>> No. 462438 Anonymous
12th January 2024
Friday 1:50 pm
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>>462437

do you still deep fry it like a nugget? That could be rather nice.
>> No. 462440 Anonymous
12th January 2024
Friday 2:11 pm
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>>462438

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aueah-mOjDI
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12th January 2024
Friday 2:28 pm
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Had a chat with someone working at the British Museum. Apparently visitors can't resist coming up to staff and asking where all the British exhibits are while cackling to themselves about it.
>> No. 462442 Anonymous
12th January 2024
Friday 2:47 pm
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>>462441
When I worked at Tesco as a student, about 15 years ago, it was the rule that if something had been smashed you had to stand over it until the cleaners arrived. Every single time you'd get the same smartarse comments about playing catch and dropping it from the public, who thought they were being original. At least I wasn't down the booze aisles because if a bottle of red wine spilled then, without fail, a group of fat women would materialise to sing UB40. It happened far more often than you'd think.

I'm glad I don't have a public facing job these days.
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12th January 2024
Friday 3:02 pm
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>> No. 462444 Anonymous
12th January 2024
Friday 3:16 pm
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>>462442

>if a bottle of red wine spilled then, without fail, a group of fat women would materialise to sing UB40

Well, I know what I'm doing this weekend.
>> No. 462445 Anonymous
12th January 2024
Friday 4:09 pm
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>>462444

You're going to Tesco's to knock over wine bottles?

Can I come?
>> No. 462446 Anonymous
12th January 2024
Friday 7:19 pm
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>>462445
>Tesco's
>'s
I think it would be better for all of us if you stayed home.
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12th January 2024
Friday 10:33 pm
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>>462443
I think he's caught on to me.

>>462446
He's right though.
>> No. 462486 Anonymous
15th January 2024
Monday 9:41 am
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Steve Pemberton, the annoying one in Ted Lasso and three people I've never heard of. Not sure about this.
>> No. 462487 Anonymous
15th January 2024
Monday 3:19 pm
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>>462486
Be fair! That John Robins bloke goes golfing with Alex Horne. How fucking famous do you want them to be?
>> No. 462488 Anonymous
15th January 2024
Monday 3:41 pm
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>>462487
>How fucking famous do you want them to be?

That's slightly less noteworthy than his main claim to fame, getting dumped by Sara Pascoe.
>> No. 462489 Anonymous
15th January 2024
Monday 7:11 pm
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It feels like ten years ago or whatever superinjunctions were in the news all the time, Giggsy, Elton John, Hugh Bonneville, etc, but you never hear about them anywhere. Do they no longer happen or can they just not be reported on because of Leveson or whatever?
>> No. 462490 Anonymous
15th January 2024
Monday 11:19 pm
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>>462389
Hey, it's a few days later than it should be, but I wanted to say thank you for this post. Some of the info in it has really bought be a lifeline and I really can't thank you enough through the medium of anonymous imageboard text posts.
>> No. 462492 Anonymous
16th January 2024
Tuesday 12:45 am
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I'm developing a Snickers addiction.
>> No. 462493 Anonymous
16th January 2024
Tuesday 1:24 am
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The past few nights I've woken up in the early hours feeling like someone is at the foot of my bed watching me. The weather has changed to a cold snap recently which might be what is doing it, I remember waking up last night cold. Similar thing happens when I'm sleeping too hot only then I get nightmares.

A couple months ago I awoke in the night to what felt like someone peering at me from my bedroom door. This made me very angry and I bolted out of bed to mash up whoever was intruder only to find my door closed when I arrived at it. Fortunately I was alone I guess to hide any embarrassment at barking at shadows.
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16th January 2024
Tuesday 9:37 pm
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>> No. 462497 Anonymous
17th January 2024
Wednesday 11:35 am
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Can we kill Ed Balls now? Surely this is the final straw.
>> No. 462498 Anonymous
17th January 2024
Wednesday 11:48 am
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>>462497
What’s he done now? Is he even still a politician?
>> No. 462499 Anonymous
17th January 2024
Wednesday 12:59 pm
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>>462498
>Ed Balls kicks Susanna Reid in the head on Good Morning Britain

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/jan/17/ed-balls-kicks-susanna-reid-in-the-head-on-good-morning-britain

It's nowhere near as dramatic as it sounds.
>> No. 462500 Anonymous
17th January 2024
Wednesday 5:21 pm
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It looks like my underfloor heating needs to be flushed. The gas boiler is working fine and the water it pumps into circulation when it fires up has a steady 35 to 40 °C, which is within spec as a low-temperature heating system. But heat distribution is very uneven, especially the areas that are the farthest away from the heating manifold get the least heat. I've looked through HVAC service bills of the last 20 years that I got from my parents and there is no record of the system being flushed in that time at all.

I've asked around, and some HVAC places have told me that I'm looking at anywhere between £500 an £1,000 for a four-bedroom house like mine. I guess what's time consuming is that every individual circuit needs to be flushed with all the other manifold valves closed. They said it can take almost a whole day depending on how bad the blockage is. But going by what you see on youtube, it kind of looks like it's actually a pretty straightforward job for somebody who's good at repairs. So I'll probably end up doing it myself.
>> No. 462501 Anonymous
17th January 2024
Wednesday 5:55 pm
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>>462497

I'd support Ed Balls as Labour leader, frankly. He's been on Strictly, he's got skills at footy, kicked Susanna Reid in the head, and he holds a cracking coffee morning (Morley and Outwood mfs know).
>> No. 462502 Anonymous
17th January 2024
Wednesday 6:11 pm
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>>462501

And he can take a joke.
>> No. 462503 Anonymous
17th January 2024
Wednesday 8:54 pm
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I've been thinking about crumpets. You get the thinking man's crumpet, like Suzannah Lipscomb. Do you also get the average man's crumpet and the thicko's crumpet as well?
>> No. 462504 Anonymous
17th January 2024
Wednesday 9:28 pm
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>>462503

>and the thicko's crumpet

I posit Amy Childs.
>> No. 462505 Anonymous
17th January 2024
Wednesday 9:58 pm
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>>462504
Doesn't she look different nowadays?
>> No. 462506 Anonymous
17th January 2024
Wednesday 10:09 pm
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>>462505

Not to her advantage.
>> No. 462507 Anonymous
17th January 2024
Wednesday 11:38 pm
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Sky News was just talking about the news of King Charles going to hospital for his enlarged prostate. The ubiquitous Kevin Maguire said, "The palace will have been hoping it didn't leak out." Ewwwww.
>> No. 462508 Anonymous
17th January 2024
Wednesday 11:42 pm
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>>462507

>"The palace will have been hoping it didn't leak out."

An enlarged prostate usually has the opposite effect.
>> No. 462509 Anonymous
17th January 2024
Wednesday 11:57 pm
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Big realisation for me just now. Okay, a lot of American voices are unpleasant to listen to, and unfortunately I think women's voices from there are often quite bad. Except no! That's not it at all, because once you remove the vocal fry these beautiful dames are like ambrosia for my ears.
>> No. 462510 Anonymous
18th January 2024
Thursday 2:25 pm
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My eighbour is mowing the lawn, in fucking winter. Won't that kill the grass? They mow it extremely close, exposing the earth in some places.
>> No. 462511 Anonymous
18th January 2024
Thursday 2:31 pm
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>>462510

The grass will be fine, but it's pointless in mid-winter because it stops growing from about October in our climate due to lower temperatures.
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18th January 2024
Thursday 5:31 pm
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Came into my head today. What ever happened to that old thread for shitposting old internet things, was that a dream?
>> No. 462515 Anonymous
19th January 2024
Friday 11:46 am
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Bit frosty out.
>> No. 462516 Anonymous
19th January 2024
Friday 2:44 pm
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>>462515
I'm a little sad this weather's going away. I get to wear sunglasses and I don't think I even broke a sweat while climbing a great big hill today, so it's personally ideal even if the crop failures from a complete year of this wouldn't suit anyone longterm.
>> No. 462517 Anonymous
19th January 2024
Friday 6:16 pm
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It's been titsoff this week.
>> No. 462518 Anonymous
19th January 2024
Friday 6:47 pm
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Don't worry, everybody. I bought some longjohns from a market stall for £3 today. It will never be cold ever again. I can confidently promise that I have jinxed it for eternity. Climate change can now 100% be blamed on me.
>> No. 462532 Anonymous
21st January 2024
Sunday 11:32 pm
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>>462515

Very windy here. The wind is blowing the plastic chairs back and forth on the roof balcony upstairs. They're those stackable lightweight chairs that you see everywhere in summer. Last year, one of them got blown off the balcony and into the flower bed below by a strong gust.
>> No. 462533 Anonymous
22nd January 2024
Monday 11:57 am
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Birdhouse has blown over.
>> No. 462534 Anonymous
22nd January 2024
Monday 2:44 pm
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The jar of pasta sauce I bought at Lidl this weekend didn't click when I opened it just now. Best not to use that sauce. Who knows, maybe somebody spit in it or put some anthrax in it. Can't be too careful.
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22nd January 2024
Monday 3:04 pm
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>>462534
>jar of pasta sauce I bought
Disgusting.
>> No. 462536 Anonymous
22nd January 2024
Monday 3:16 pm
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>>462535

I've just made a garlic, onion and rosemary sauce from triple concentrated tomato puree for my linguine in lieu of the sauce from the jar. Even put in a dash of dried chili pepper.

Are you happy now, snoblad.
>> No. 462537 Anonymous
22nd January 2024
Monday 3:25 pm
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Last time I made bolognese I cooked the mince, threw in two or three tins of chopped tomatoes, garlic salt and cheese. It was delicious.
>> No. 462539 Anonymous
22nd January 2024
Monday 10:40 pm
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I've had cheese and pickle sandwiches twice in the past week. Before that, must have been years since I last had pickle.
>> No. 462540 Anonymous
22nd January 2024
Monday 10:51 pm
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Why does that MrBeast cunt have such a stupid fucking face? I have to keep seeing him in the news and on my YouTube app and I can't stand his face.
>> No. 462541 Anonymous
23rd January 2024
Tuesday 10:38 am
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>>462537

Try a little red cooking wine and if you like veg, then bell peppers, onion and carrot. Then you basically have the full traditional Bolognese sauce going.
>> No. 462543 Anonymous
23rd January 2024
Tuesday 11:31 am
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Yeah but this is minimal effort and tastes nice.
>> No. 462545 Anonymous
23rd January 2024
Tuesday 12:50 pm
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>>462543

Fair enough. To be honest, just splashing in cooking wine at the end is minimal effort and adds a lot of flavour for me.
>> No. 462549 Anonymous
23rd January 2024
Tuesday 2:29 pm
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>>462548
Have you considered shoplifting? It's a victimless crime.
>> No. 462557 Anonymous
23rd January 2024
Tuesday 3:14 pm
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>>462556
I can give you my crypto holdings if you're desperate (value maybe $40 before transfer fees) but it'll be a while before I'm home and can access that.
>> No. 462558 Anonymous
23rd January 2024
Tuesday 3:42 pm
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>>462549
I would like to thank you, and one other post, for replying to whatever was in this thread before it all got deleted. I saw it briefly, clicked “Last 50 posts” to see what the hell was going on, and it had all disappeared. For a second, I thought I was going mad and the website was haunted. I hope everything is okay with whoever and whatever it is.
>> No. 462559 Anonymous
23rd January 2024
Tuesday 4:02 pm
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>>462558
Otherlad was trying to get us to buy his trainers or vinyl off Ebay because he "needs £20 ASAP or he's homeless".
>> No. 462560 Anonymous
23rd January 2024
Tuesday 4:17 pm
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>>462559
Thank you. I can understand his predicament. You can’t post here on 4G unless you do some special deal with the phone company, so I always try to avoid straying too far from a WiFi connection. If I became homeless but kept my technology, I’d just sit and read Wikipedia on the pavement all day.
>> No. 462561 Anonymous
23rd January 2024
Tuesday 5:46 pm
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>>462540

Some people look like they should be furries (I like to imagine it would be like that early 00s Sci Fi channel show where dinosaurs lived among humans so there would be a mix of both) and I think if he was, he'd be a squirrel or a chipmunk.
>> No. 462562 Anonymous
23rd January 2024
Tuesday 7:24 pm
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>>462560
If you were a tramp how would you keep your electronics charged?
>> No. 462563 Anonymous
23rd January 2024
Tuesday 10:01 pm
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>>462562

There are loads of day centres where you can get yourself clean, you can have a good meal, you can do whatever you feel (until the police throw you out) and you can charge your phone.
>> No. 462564 Anonymous
23rd January 2024
Tuesday 11:59 pm
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>>462562
I'd sit outside a power bank.
I'd teach my phone a trade, then it could charge.
I'd enable saver mode.

I've been at this for hours and those are the best ones I can come up with. You really shouldn't go asking questions that sound like jokes but aren't. It's cruel.
>> No. 462565 Anonymous
24th January 2024
Wednesday 5:42 pm
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I only wear my white undies on days I've had a shower. I scratched my bum through my pants at work today and I've just seen I've got skiddies now. FFS will it wash off or will I have to throw them away? It's quite yellow/orange in hue.
>> No. 462566 Anonymous
24th January 2024
Wednesday 6:06 pm
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Of course it’ll wash out. If you’re planning on just running them under the tap at work, that probably won’t get them clean, but any washing machine on any cycle will have no issues whatsoever.
>> No. 462568 Anonymous
25th January 2024
Thursday 1:35 pm
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Are supermarket flowers a shit present? I want to get my girlfriend a little well done/congratulations present so I was thinking flowers and chocolates, but I probably won't get the chance to go anywhere other than a supermarket. I mean, they're all from the sale wholesale florists aren't they?
>> No. 462569 Anonymous
25th January 2024
Thursday 1:51 pm
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>>462568
I've never had any complaints over flowers as a surprise present. You can usually get them for free from the graveyard. Chocolates are more hit and miss so I'd save your money but you usually get to have some as a bonus.

Can you not just do something a bit extra on Valentines in 3 weeks?
>> No. 462570 Anonymous
25th January 2024
Thursday 2:16 pm
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>>462568

Just remember to take the stickers off.
>> No. 462572 Anonymous
25th January 2024
Thursday 2:27 pm
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>>462569
If I can find some After Eights I'll have her fanny wetter than an otter's pocket. I don't know if you only get After Eights at Christmas; I wish they did frosted Wine Gums all year round because they are the shit.

>>462570
Good idea.
>> No. 462573 Anonymous
25th January 2024
Thursday 9:38 pm
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Booked a week and a day off work to play the new Tekken and Yakuza that are out in a few hours (and Persona 3 remake next Friday). I do feel like a bit of a saddo cunt wasting all my remaining holiday so I can spend 10 days playing weebshit video games, but I get more genuine enjoyment out of a good video game than I do out of spending hundreds of pounds going away. Even bought a bottle of sake to complete the Jap angle. Tastes horrible, like vodka mixed with bin juice.
>> No. 462574 Anonymous
25th January 2024
Thursday 10:00 pm
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>> No. 462575 Anonymous
25th January 2024
Thursday 10:23 pm
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Why are there rawlplugs in the plaster under my wallpaper? I stripped the wallpaper off so I could paint the wall, and it has a bunch of old rawlplugs in there. Hopefully they were for old shelves or something, rather than being necessary for the structural integrity of the plaster (like if it expands in hot weather or something). I looked online and it said the best course of action was to hammer them into the wall, which doesn't sound as nice as digging them out and filling in the holes. But I couldn't get them out, so I did hit them with a hammer. And lo, I smashed a big hole in the plaster and was then able to just pull the rawlplugs out with pliers. This has turned out much better than I deserved.

Nevertheless, I am evidently a liability and will try not to post on /uhu/ for a couple of months.
>> No. 462577 Anonymous
25th January 2024
Thursday 10:28 pm
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>>462575

If you want to get them out of the wall, you put a screw into them just a little way then pull on that with the pliers.
>> No. 462578 Anonymous
26th January 2024
Friday 10:17 am
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I'm glad my bathroom isn't viewable from the street. The man in the house opposite is currently shadow boxing his bathroom mirror whilst topless, with the frosted glass not offering much in the way of privacy.
>> No. 462579 Anonymous
26th January 2024
Friday 5:23 pm
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Oi mate, do you wanna buy a plane? It's going cheap.

https://www.controlleremea.co.uk/listing/for-sale/224908431/2013-airbus-a380-jet-aircraft?gtmlt=1
>> No. 462580 Anonymous
26th January 2024
Friday 7:56 pm
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>>462579
It's fascinating how they are able to come up with such a precise figure as its value.
>> No. 462581 Anonymous
26th January 2024
Friday 8:05 pm
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I'm having a Chinese, a bottle of port that's leftover from Christmas, and playing Wipeout 3 Special Edition. That's a Friday night done right I reckon.

Being single isn't so bad after all is it. Just think, if I still had a woman to please... Well, I'd probably still have the Chinese and the port, but I'd probably have to watch that Saltburn bollocks everyone is obsessed with instead. Sounds like American Psycho for millennials who still consider uni in the late noughties the peak of their lives. I never want to hear Murder on the Dance Floor by Alice Deejay again in my life after the last few weeks.
>> No. 462582 Anonymous
26th January 2024
Friday 8:14 pm
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>>462581

No, not Alice Deejay. Who was that one by? I don't remember. It seems like that style of late 90s-early 00s dance is coming back though, which I am actually in favour of.
>> No. 462583 Anonymous
26th January 2024
Friday 8:37 pm
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>>462581
I don't know, lad. I find I can do one or two days of rest but it gets tedious doing whatever you want and you end up just feeling lethargic. It's like playing with the cheats on, you can build amazing stability but it's directionless.

Having someone in your life is a lot like a hobby, you've got to get out into the cold when you're knackered from work but ultimately it still feels worth it because it brings something to your life. Why don't you go read a book or something.

>>462582
Why are you talking shit about Sophie Ellis-Bextor of all people. I thought Robbie Williams would have more interesting things to do with his Friday night after 20 years.
>> No. 462584 Anonymous
26th January 2024
Friday 8:38 pm
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>>462581>>462582
Don't act like you're too refined to remember who Sophie Ellis-Bextor is. I've said it before and I'll say it again, her cover of Yes Sir, I Can Boogie is an absolute banger.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvrFtiiGSs4
>> No. 462585 Anonymous
26th January 2024
Friday 8:46 pm
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>>462580
The price has been converted from a very rough price in dollars. Its value probably isn't exactly $25,000,000.00, but that's how much they want for it.
>> No. 462586 Anonymous
26th January 2024
Friday 9:39 pm
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I've had a cheap and cheerful Remington beard trimmer for years, but it's stopped keeping a charge very well so I thought I'd treat myself to a slightly more expensive trimmer. I ended up going for a Philips 7000 series, which is apparently a 'multi-groom' trimmer because it also contains hair, nose and body hair attachments. Anyway, I've just tried it out and it feels like I've downgraded rather than upgraded so now I'm full of regret.
>> No. 462587 Anonymous
27th January 2024
Saturday 12:34 am
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>>462586
Are you trimming or clean shaving? For either I can recommend ignoring "beard trimmers" or whatever and just getting a decent pair of clippers (Wahl Super Taper or Magic Clip, get wired and they last forever but the battery versions aren't bad) and getting a dedicated nose hair trimmer if you need it. The trimmers are ~£50, they're designed for hair dressers so if you keep them clean and oiled they'll last for years before you need to worry about replacement parts in home use, and even if then those are cheap given how long they last.

They don't do a clean shave, of course, but mowing the lawn first gives you many more options for doing the final trim. For minor clean ups, I'd sort of recommend a Philips One Blade. The cartridges are sinfully expensive, but they last a lot longer than advertised if you move slow enough.
>> No. 462634 Anonymous
30th January 2024
Tuesday 4:45 pm
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Someone's brought in homemade baking today and I can't figure out what it's meant to be. It's too much like shortbread to be a scone, but it's also too much like a scone to be shortbread.
>> No. 462638 Anonymous
31st January 2024
Wednesday 1:15 pm
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I'm seeing my girlfriend in 10 days and I'm just feeling a cold coming on, for fucks sake. I should be alright, shouldn't I? She won't go anywhere fucking near me if I'm all snotty.
>> No. 462639 Anonymous
31st January 2024
Wednesday 1:15 pm
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>>462638
And to top it off, I had an absolutely shite haircut yesterday.
>> No. 462640 Anonymous
31st January 2024
Wednesday 2:37 pm
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>>462638>>462639

Ten days is just enough time to recover from the sniffles and for your hair to grow out ever-so-slightly. Take some vitamin D, C, and zinc.

Alternatively, if your girlfriend is the nurturing type: pretend your illness is much worse than it is for sympathy points.
>> No. 462641 Anonymous
31st January 2024
Wednesday 7:48 pm
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ALL MY FRIENDS ARE DICKHEADS TOO
>> No. 462642 Anonymous
1st February 2024
Thursday 5:05 pm
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I'm going to sound like a complete twat but bear with me: I have £362.74 excess in my budget this month due to a bonus. I've already put 20% of my bumper income this month into savings, 10% into dating and an extra £40 into my budget for clothes and electronics.

But I wonder what I should do with the £362.74 that remains. Yes it's one the nicest problems to have but it's also something where once it's spent it's gone. Do you have any suggestions that don't involve stick insects?
>> No. 462643 Anonymous
1st February 2024
Thursday 6:30 pm
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>>462642
Go for a Michelin star meal.
>> No. 462644 Anonymous
1st February 2024
Thursday 7:32 pm
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>>462642
Mate, you're going on about a few hundred quid as if you've won 100 grand on the lottery. You should probably keep/invest it until such time you wish you had that money to spend and hadn't gone asking around how you should squander two day's wages. And also stop pretending everybody's so poor they're struggling to pay the leccy bill.
>> No. 462645 Anonymous
1st February 2024
Thursday 9:35 pm
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>>462644
Why are you trying to flex on this?
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1st February 2024
Thursday 9:56 pm
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>>462644

It's enough to buy a 40'' TV. And you'll have a bit left over for fags and beer.

Your dolescum starter kit.
>> No. 462648 Anonymous
1st February 2024
Thursday 11:55 pm
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Speaking of money, I nearly robbed Goldsmiths by accident this evening.

I bought a watch, an expensive one, because I'm an idiot, and I got it on 0% finance because I'm thick and that makes it feel like I'm not spending money. But I'm also a coward, and couldn't handle spending that much on a watch - so I returned it today.

However, due to the poor information on the receipt, which just shows the full total value and doesn't make it clear it's on finance and I'm only out about 300 quid at the moment, the woman doing my return assumed it was a cash purchase and refunded the full amount of the watch to my card, about four and a half grand.

I couldn't really see the screen on the card reader, so I just stuck my pin in and assumed it was all fine. It was only when she gave me a receipt to sign did I notice it was the full value of the watch she'd just given me.

Now, because I'm thick, as we covered, I immediately flagged the error and after a panicked call to head office, she resolved the issue. But my question is, if I'd kept quiet, do you reckon I'd have gotten away with it? They have my address, so I assume I'd have the plod knocking on my door eventually, but maybe not, as perhaps once a refund is through there'd be no reason to think anything had gone wrong.

Now that I think about it, I suppose the finance would still have remained in place, so it would only really have effectively been a 0% interest advance loan really. I felt bad for the lass though, I know how it feels to drop a bollock at work. I hope nothing comes of it for her.
>> No. 462649 Anonymous
2nd February 2024
Friday 12:11 am
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>>462642
>>462644
You're both more than welcome to drop 'a few days wages' into my bank account - go on, pay my food ration for the next 4 months.
>> No. 462650 Anonymous
2nd February 2024
Friday 7:08 am
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>>462648
>I got it on 0% finance because I'm thick

Why wouldn't you take up finance when it's 0%?
>> No. 462651 Anonymous
2nd February 2024
Friday 11:26 am
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>>462650

I suppose because I worry about not being able to make payments down the line. It's probably almost impossible that I'd be in a position now that I couldn't afford £80 a month for the next 4 years or whatever it was, but I still worry. But then I suppose if I'm that short on cash I probably have better things to worry about than missed finance payments.
>> No. 462652 Anonymous
2nd February 2024
Friday 3:40 pm
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I have the strangest illness. I'm very, very minorly bunged up, almost it's almost non-noticable. I thought when you get snotty you either get it or you don't, this is the most half-arsed snotty nose I've ever had. I have pretty intense nausea, a slightly thick head and achey neck. It's not the rona, done a test. It feels like the onset of an actual illness but its been this for days.
>> No. 462653 Anonymous
2nd February 2024
Friday 3:52 pm
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>>462642
I'm very silly so I spent £99 on a dating app profile review site.

I didn't really need this, just wanted to bung someone £20 to look at my pictures without the risk of them doxxing me but it is what it is. Maybe it will cut the labour costs of sending mass messages. An investment in the future to stop playing the game. I had to fill out a form listing all my interests, passions, hobbies and the kind of person I'm looking to meet. Then a 'head writer'' emailed me today to confirm and they'll come back to me end of next week. I'll keep you posted on how it goes.

If you want to poke around on such a sad service with your Friday it's called Fix My Profile. They also offer a 'Wingman' service for £349 where they compose the 25 first messages and find 50 of the most compatible profiles for you. I'm not sure you'd ever want to reveal that to a future partner.
>> No. 462654 Anonymous
2nd February 2024
Friday 3:58 pm
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>>462653
Please tell me you're the MGTOW, playing the game dude from the /emo/ thread.
>> No. 462655 Anonymous
2nd February 2024
Friday 4:18 pm
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Got a "We came to investigate you but you weren't in" thing from the TV licensing people. It said this is because I haven't responded to their mailed warnings but I haven't received any since I moved here. I bet if I let them know I don't even own a TV they'll start sending them.
>> No. 462656 Anonymous
2nd February 2024
Friday 4:19 pm
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>>462654
No and I've only just now realised that MGTOW isn't an abbreviation from the Magic the Gathering community. I'm not sure if that makes me normal or not.
>> No. 462657 Anonymous
2nd February 2024
Friday 5:28 pm
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I've ordered Pizza Hut takeaway for tea because I had a £5 off voucher, so I'll see how they compare to the likes of Domino's. Their website is absolutely shit if you want to customise though.
>> No. 462658 Anonymous
2nd February 2024
Friday 7:10 pm
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>>462657
Pizza = worse than Domino's.
Potato wedgers = worse than Domino's.
Cookie dough = worse than Domino's.

I had the Beyond Meat pepperoni, which tasted vaguely like pepperoni that's been under a heat lamp for too long and dried out. It's like fake meat producers are too scared to give you that fatty salty goodness you get with real meat.
>> No. 462659 Anonymous
2nd February 2024
Friday 7:40 pm
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>>462657 >>462658
Actually Pizza Hut has one of the best websites going. You couldn't customise the Beyond Meat Pepperoni because God resents vegans they don't let you for whatever business reasons. Most of their menu is entirely and trivially customisable.

The food is definitely variable.
>> No. 462660 Anonymous
2nd February 2024
Friday 7:45 pm
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>>462659
I tried the create your own pizza but they charge £1.80 per topping, so if I wanted the Beyond Meat pepperoni with mushrooms it would have cost me £3.60 more than the default of having it with pepper. It could be user error but I think it's more their system being fucking clown shoes.
>> No. 462661 Anonymous
2nd February 2024
Friday 8:59 pm
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>>462660
The CYO pizza is £4 to £4.50 cheaper before you add toppings. It'd have been cheaper, not more expensive. The real problem with that is it says "any toppings" but the fake pepperoni didn't make the list.

You need to customise another menu item that has the full toppings list unlocked. Some let you replace one topping for free. Others two. You'd probably have to have something like red onions along for the ride. But it'd have probably been a quid cheaper.

The real fuck up is ordering pizza from the Big Two.
>> No. 462662 Anonymous
2nd February 2024
Friday 10:29 pm
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>>462658
I think we're all too experienced for this kind of discussion. Franchises make a huge difference in the final quality you receive for your pizza to the degree that it's not a stretch to imagine restaurants in the same franchise having a greater difference to your experiance than a rival brand.

It's why airports have some of the best food because they're all run by corporate rather than the standard model of acting as a landlord for a slice of the profit. Similar deal if you're lucky enough to find a sit down Pizza Hut where it's still geared toward a proper restaurant. When you invest in a fast-food corporation you're investing in a property business that could shut down the food side of the organisation tomorrow and still turn a profit because they have a prime spots in Leicester Square and Wirral.

If you want to top it all off it's probably why we'll never get Georgism, because there's always a clown in No.10.
>> No. 462663 Anonymous
3rd February 2024
Saturday 6:50 am
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>>462662
I'd say Domino's is very consistent.
>> No. 462666 Anonymous
3rd February 2024
Saturday 4:59 pm
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>>462662
>I think we're all too experienced for this kind of discussion.

>Georgism
haha jaw jism
>> No. 462701 Anonymous
5th February 2024
Monday 8:17 am
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I'm not entirely sure how Ocado make money. They cancelled my delivery for yesterday evening, but then gave me a £20 voucher for the inconvenience of re-booking it. They've then emailed me a 25% off code for my next order. They don't have that much of a markup and most things I buy cost the same in other supermarkets.
>> No. 462702 Anonymous
5th February 2024
Monday 10:28 am
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>>462701

>I'm not entirely sure how Ocado make money.

They lost half a billion quid in the last financial year.

https://www.ocadogroup.com/media/xpnltwjs/fy22-preliminary-results-announcement.pdf
>> No. 462703 Anonymous
5th February 2024
Monday 11:46 am
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>>462702
They've reversed my payment about 40 minutes ago, roughly when it was delivered, so I'm not sure whats going on there. They've sent me mushy fruit as well; their strong point used to be that their fresh produce was always very good.
>> No. 462704 Anonymous
5th February 2024
Monday 6:02 pm
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ARE KING CHARLEIE HAS CANCER.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68208157
>> No. 462705 Anonymous
5th February 2024
Monday 6:20 pm
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>>462704
You never heard about Liz having trouble with her prostate is all I'm saying. Maybe he weren't ready for the throne.
>> No. 462706 Anonymous
5th February 2024
Monday 7:14 pm
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>>462704
Kunt is going to bang a song out isn't he?
>> No. 462707 Anonymous
5th February 2024
Monday 7:15 pm
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>>462705
I'm fairly certain it was headline news a few years ago for almost a week about the Queen having the shits.
>> No. 462708 Anonymous
5th February 2024
Monday 8:32 pm
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>>462704
I saw in the news that after King Charles went for his prostate surgery, lots of other people started asking their doctors for prostate exams, and this was a good thing. I saw in the news article that prostate problems can affect people over 50 who wee funny and possibly jizz funny, about 1.5 of which are true of me too. I'll be livid if I've got cancer; I'm from a strokes-and-heart-attacks family. Nobody in my family gets cancer because our blood explodes and we keel over instead.

Anyway, I am getting sidetracked from my original point, which is that the King of England has definitely had a finger up his bum in the past week and that's hilarious.
>> No. 462710 Anonymous
5th February 2024
Monday 9:54 pm
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>>462708
I guess my family are quite cancery, at least on my dad's side. Three of my aunts and uncles have had it, two of them several times, but there's no real trend on my mum's side. Maybe a bit of heart trouble.
>> No. 462719 Anonymous
5th February 2024
Monday 10:48 pm
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>>462713
I don't get why most adverts I see have black or mixed race people when the largest ethnic minorities are Asians and Poles. I guess it's a London thing.

>>462716
Americans have a lot of weird hang-ups about race, we probably covered it in the cuckold thread.

>>462717
r/unitedkingdom went from about 280,000 members this time in 2020 to over 2million members now. I believe there was an organised astroturf campaign by alt-right types.

https://subrudgwicksteamshow.co.ukstats.com/r/Unitedkingdom
>> No. 462720 Anonymous
5th February 2024
Monday 10:48 pm
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>> No. 462721 Anonymous
5th February 2024
Monday 10:55 pm
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>>462719
The other thread's OP was one of the "raiders" from some random /Brit/ who came by the other day.
>> No. 462722 Anonymous
5th February 2024
Monday 10:57 pm
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>>462721
I miss the Russians. Now they knew how to raid.
>> No. 462724 Anonymous
6th February 2024
Tuesday 2:49 am
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>>462710

My family does cancer, dementia and clinical depression. And my nan died of stroke complications.

Kind of a smorgasbord. The most shit way to go, in my experience witnessing it with family, is dementia. With a severe stroke being a close second.

I'd rather get hit by a car. Lights out, from one split second to the next. Most everything else is just pointless agony.
>> No. 462725 Anonymous
6th February 2024
Tuesday 10:14 am
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>>462719

> when the largest ethnic minorities are Asians and Poles

Are Poles really a separate ethnicity though? Most of the ones I've met just looked central European to me. You'd have trouble making them out as Poles in the street.

Although eastern European women tend to doll themselves up more. If you see a lass with thick makeup and a heavy perfume, and wearing anything gold or silver coloured together with loads of jewelry, she's probably a Slav. or a Croydoner. Or both.
>> No. 462726 Anonymous
6th February 2024
Tuesday 11:01 am
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>>462725
I can recognise a Polak. They look a bit like Dobby from Harry Potter.
>> No. 462727 Anonymous
6th February 2024
Tuesday 3:19 pm
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>>462725

Similar to how we (or at least, the Yanks) have that stereotypical ugg boot latte sipping white girl called "Becky", what you are describing is a stereotype the Slavs call a Natasha.
>> No. 462728 Anonymous
6th February 2024
Tuesday 6:53 pm
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I saw a wasp today. What the fuck is a wasp doing at this time of year?
>> No. 462729 Anonymous
6th February 2024
Tuesday 10:19 pm
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>>462728

I had a hornet queen in my house the other day. Gave it a go with my Raid can.
>> No. 462730 Anonymous
7th February 2024
Wednesday 2:01 pm
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>>462719
>r/unitedkingdom went from about 280,000 members this time in 2020 to over 2million members now. I believe there was an organised astroturf campaign by alt-right types.

There's probably a whole thread to have on the evolution of internet culture that we're all expert on but I don't want to get exiled again for mistaken identity.

>>462708
By weird coincidence, I was talking to a doctor about the other week, apparently loads of old men get prostate cancer to the level that it's pretty routine. Fortunately it's not the worst cancer you can get and for old men they just leave it because the pneumonia will get you long before the cancer will.

Unfortunately he told me this from his own perspective of a man who has to do prostate checks on old men who sometimes shit themselves and he only finds out once he's lube'd up and they have their crackers down which is too late a stage to abort and do a blood test first.
>> No. 462731 Anonymous
7th February 2024
Wednesday 9:08 pm
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Hahaha can you tell who this is? Looks pretty good!
>> No. 462732 Anonymous
8th February 2024
Thursday 12:11 pm
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Danny Mei Lan Malin.

https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/best-in/rate-my-takeaways-danny-malin-on-his-favourite-chinese-dishes-including-5400-calorie-munchie-box-4508685
>> No. 462733 Anonymous
8th February 2024
Thursday 1:32 pm
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>>462732

I was going to ask if the proper term for a Chinese Yorkie is Chorkie, but apparently there's already a dog breed that's called that. A mix between a Chihuahua and a Yorkshire Terrier.

Proof that dogs will hump anything.
>> No. 462734 Anonymous
8th February 2024
Thursday 2:56 pm
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>>462732
He took his succubus whore whirlwind romance gold digging new wife's name? Sad.
>> No. 462735 Anonymous
8th February 2024
Thursday 3:06 pm
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>>462734
Do you think he really had much of a say in the matter?
>> No. 462736 Anonymous
8th February 2024
Thursday 6:17 pm
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>>462653
I know you've all been itching for an update on my dating profile review:

They've gone through and mostly highlighted that I need one more active/lifestyle shot, ideally taken outside and during an activity. Apparently there is some real data over the last year that you get 60% more attention with pictures taken outdoors. They've also asked for one more 'social shot' which is something with you again taken doing shit but this time with friends/family. And to remove any selfies.

Apparently the magic number is to have 7 pictures and at minimum they should be 2 active shots and 2 of you being social.

Apparently selfies say two things:
>No one takes photos of me, but me. I guess I’m not that interesting to be around.
>I am constantly looking at myself and I take photos of myself because I’m just very into myself.

Which is annoying as being a bloke, yeah we don't really take pictures of each other.

They also gave a free guide book which is basically:
-Oi 4-eyes, take the cola bottle off. Reduces the swipes by 12%
-Women wear red. Blokes like it more than black
-In general wear bright vibrant colours because people default to neutrals in dating profiles
-Peak time on dating apps is 6pm and 20-40% higher during bad weather
-Use the persons first name in your opening message for a 60% higher response rate

In terms of apps there's less qualitative data but the only games in town are:
1. Bumble, although it points out that something weird is going on where guys are much more confident on average on the app. Something to do with insecure guys dropping off due to the quirk of women messaging first.
2. Tinder for raw numbers game and simple efficiency.
3. OKCupid has apparently gone the Tinder route.
4. Hinge
5. Coffee Meets Bagel
6. Happn is a stalker dating app that matches you with people you've been near to physically.
7. The League is the elite dating app that you have to apply for.

They also gave some messaging examples:

1) Compliment their Originality: “I don’t see many guys on here who like ___. How’d you get into that?”
2) Compliment their Talents: “That’s interesting you’re a ___. What do you like most about ___?”
3) Compliment their Tastes: “It’s awesome you like ___. That’s one of my favorite ___. Have you also heard/read/seen/eaten ___? What did you think of it?”
4) Compliment their Brain: “___ is a really interesting thing to spend a lot of time thinking about. What about it interests you in particular?”
5) Make A Recommendation: “Your love of ___ made me think of ___. Have you ___ it?”

They went through my prompts and found most of them okay, one needed more context. They suggested a few of their own based on quiz responses but I found them annoying and superficial e.g. "Cooking has evolved from a chore to a passion over the past few years, I now get quite excited by creating something new in the kitchen!"

But I guess you can't expect much.
>> No. 462737 Anonymous
8th February 2024
Thursday 6:24 pm
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>>462736
Oh and you know that voice recording bollocks? Women like it, they feel that they can trust a guy more if they hear his voice.
>> No. 462738 Anonymous
8th February 2024
Thursday 7:13 pm
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>>462736

The thing is it seems to me like a lot of that is pretty self evident, or if not, they are at least things most of us already know on some level. You can optimise your profile to attract more attention, but that's meaningless if it's not the attention of somebody you want the attention from.

It's sort of like... It's the kind of advice that's useful for an autistic spod in his early 20s who has no clue what he's doing. But I already know what I'm doing, I've probably pulled about a dozen lasses off these apps over the years; the trouble is finding a lass I actually want to be with.

My current profile isn't geared towards getting "hits", but the ones I do get seem to be much more my type. It's much slower going, and I've been single for a while now, whereas I've always gotten in with another lass pretty quickly after most of my break ups. But I am in no rush, this time I am consciously doing things differently because I don't want another two year temp position here. I want the one that will go the distance.

And fuck off I don't care how much women "like" voice notes. We as men have to collectively draw the line somewhere or we may as well already live in a matriarchy.
>> No. 462739 Anonymous
8th February 2024
Thursday 8:09 pm
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>> No. 462740 Anonymous
8th February 2024
Thursday 8:09 pm
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>>462738
I don't know, it's useful to me knowing what's generally considered worthy mate material.
>the kind of advice that's useful for an autistic spod
Oh, right. Yeah that makes sense.
>> No. 462741 Anonymous
9th February 2024
Friday 1:53 pm
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>>462736
Don't listen to Captain Chad over here >>462738, I think you got some good tips for your money. Sure a lot of it sounds like common sense, but simple stuff like "Use the persons first name in your opening message for a 60% higher response rate" would never have occurred to me as effective.
>> No. 462742 Anonymous
9th February 2024
Friday 3:16 pm
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Am I the only one who feels a need to wank more often when he's stressed? Or have more sex if a partner is available?
>> No. 462743 Anonymous
9th February 2024
Friday 4:25 pm
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>>462742
Comon mate think about it. Wanking relieves stress.
In my case when stressed I want to wank but nearing the climax a flash of unrealted imagery tends to pop into my head, breaking the moment, or I'll get so frustrated I just slap the dick and leave it before trying again twenty minutes later.
>> No. 462744 Anonymous
9th February 2024
Friday 7:42 pm
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Had an emergency appointment with my mental health team today. They want to come to my house on Monday with the Crisis Team to give me additional support because I'm a total mess. I've had Wednesday - Friday of this week off sick, I can't afford to not go into work on Monday, but I'm scared if they don't let me leave early as my appointment is in office hours. Is it a bit arrogant to be like "yeah I had three days off now I want to leave two hours the day I come back?"

Also this will trigger an escalation of my attendance plan at work, so high possibility of being sacked in the coming weeks.
>> No. 462745 Anonymous
9th February 2024
Friday 8:31 pm
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>>462744

>Is it a bit arrogant to be like "yeah I had three days off now I want to leave two hours the day I come back?"

No, as long as you actually explain why you need the time off. Unless your boss is a complete fucking idiot, he should recognise that the best way of addressing your attendance issues is to make sure you get the right help and support. Losing you for a couple of hours to attend a medical appointment is a lot better than losing you for days or weeks at a time because you're too ill to work.

As someone with a long-term mental health condition, you are protected by the Disability Discrimination Act and your employer is required to make reasonable accommodations, which would include time off for medical appointments. If you're a member of a union, I would strongly recommend speaking to your rep about your rights.
>> No. 462746 Anonymous
9th February 2024
Friday 9:44 pm
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>>462745
I used up all my sick leave plus the extra I get for being disabled. Had a formal disciplinary in November, where I was put on an improvement plan and told if I have sickness more than once and/or a sickness lasts 3 days or more, in a 3 month period, it will escalate.

Before I had that disciplinary I spent two weeks trying to get a union rep to sit in the meeting with me (I'm with Unite), and they spoke to me for a couple of days then ghosted me. They said they only really deal with high level negotiations, not helping individual union members. So I just went ahead and had the disciplinary without representation as the managers were getting arsey that I was delaying things.
>> No. 462747 Anonymous
9th February 2024
Friday 10:34 pm
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I put a few bottles of lager in the freezer earlier tonight after I got home from grocery shopping, and I sort of forgot about them. Just got them out and they are coated in frost.
>> No. 462748 Anonymous
9th February 2024
Friday 10:37 pm
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>>462747
Yes but they need leaving for a fair few hours I think. Recently had some beers in the freezer for 2.5-3 hours, they had frost on the outside and there was semi-frozen slush in the neck of the bottle. Beer slush is surprisingly nice.
>> No. 462749 Anonymous
9th February 2024
Friday 10:56 pm
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>>462748

These were in for almost four hours. I've just put them in the fridge. Bit late in the evening to start drinking now, but maybe I'll have one of them.
>> No. 462750 Anonymous
9th February 2024
Friday 11:04 pm
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>>462748

I just opened one of them. It is actually half frozen, all the way to the bottom. It looks like somebody pushed a snowball through the bottleneck into the bottle.

I guess four hours is a bit much.
>> No. 462801 Anonymous
12th February 2024
Monday 9:40 am
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A plain bagel with chive flavour Philadelphia is nicer than a chive flavour bagel with plain Philadelphia.

Thus concludes my analysis for the day.
>> No. 462805 Anonymous
12th February 2024
Monday 4:36 pm
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I saw a woman today who had more than a passing resemblance to my girlfriend while being about 10 years younger. She didn't look too much like her, but they had very similar physiques and close enough facial features. Anyway, the biggest difference to me was that the other lass had much better looking skin and that youthful rosy complexion; I'm not entirely sure what I think about this.
>> No. 462806 Anonymous
12th February 2024
Monday 5:18 pm
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I'm shredding almost literal shedloads of CD- and DVD-Roms from about 20 years ago at the moment. I've got a whole cupboard full of burned music CDs and movie DVDs from dodgy sources that are obsolete now.

My paper shredder has a separate built in CD shredder, so I'm just having a go at it. It shreds the CDs longitudinally into four pieces.

Which bin do they go in? Black bin? I think some ten years ago you could take them somewhere where they would be resurfaced to be used again, but I'm not sure there's much demand anymore for burnable media.
>> No. 462807 Anonymous
12th February 2024
Monday 6:22 pm
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>>462806
Six months before you regret this decision so much you wake up in the dead of night with a cold sweat.
>> No. 462808 Anonymous
12th February 2024
Monday 6:48 pm
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>>462807

Why? There's no point holding on to ripped 720p DVDs when all of the movies are on Netflix in HD. And even my 2007 factory Audi sat nav has two SD card slots for music files.
>> No. 462809 Anonymous
12th February 2024
Monday 7:24 pm
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I thought I'd be a bit fancy and have oyster, shiitake and shimeji mushrooms in my stroganoff. Turns out they're all a bit of a downgrade on regular chestnut mushrooms.
>> No. 462810 Anonymous
12th February 2024
Monday 8:10 pm
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>>462809

I once got my mum a big bag of dried shiitake mushrooms from a Chinese supermarket on a whim. They were three quid or something for a pound, which was next to nothing. At first she didn't really know what to do with them, but then she came up with a recipe for shiitake venison goulash all of her own, which was just out of this world.
>> No. 462811 Anonymous
12th February 2024
Monday 9:21 pm
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>>462808
>when all of the movies are on Netflix in HD.
Oh, you sweet summer child.
>> No. 462813 Anonymous
12th February 2024
Monday 9:36 pm
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>>462811

Even if they pull my favourite movies, there'd still be ways to get them elsewhere. In HD.

Thing is, I can't even connect my DVD player to my current TV properly anymore. I never got into Blu-Ray, and the DVD player I've got here is from circa 2005 and only has RCA and Scart sockets. My Panasonic Smart TV has RCA jacks, but you're not doing yourself any favours by connecting a (relatively low-definition) digital source over analog to a full HD TV.
>> No. 462818 Anonymous
13th February 2024
Tuesday 10:25 am
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Lychee is fucking rank.
>> No. 462819 Anonymous
13th February 2024
Tuesday 2:12 pm
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Looking and clothes online and lamenting that all the girly stuff looks much nicer than the guys.

I wonder.
>> No. 462820 Anonymous
13th February 2024
Tuesday 3:18 pm
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>> No. 462821 Anonymous
13th February 2024
Tuesday 4:31 pm
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"At your appointment, you'll be encouraged to talk about your feelings and emotions with a trained therapist, who'll listen and support you without judging or criticising.

The therapist can help you gain a better understanding of your feelings and thought processes, and find your own solutions to problems. But they will not usually give advice or tell you what to do."

Taken from the NHS website - what's the actual point in councelling? It sounds like they simply fill the role of a close friend, giving you an ear to vent, prompting you with the right question at the right time.

Is there more to it than this? I was hoping a councellor could tell me why I'm feeling this way or that, what it means that I'm acting a specific way or making certain choices, but the more I experience of this the more I'm concluding they're just fucking people without any real knowledge or insight outside of practised social interaction.
>> No. 462823 Anonymous
13th February 2024
Tuesday 6:12 pm
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Steve Wright's dead. That's someone else younger than my dad who's snuffed it.
>> No. 462824 Anonymous
13th February 2024
Tuesday 8:01 pm
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The new BBC Three has turned into an ITV3 for 30somethings. I don't mind the repeats of Two Pints and Clarkson's Top Gear, but it's getting a bit much. What 18 year old today will relate to Two Pints. Or Clarkson.
>> No. 462825 Anonymous
13th February 2024
Tuesday 8:16 pm
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>>462824
18 year olds don't watch TV.
>> No. 462826 Anonymous
13th February 2024
Tuesday 8:51 pm
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>>462821

Counselling is basically just trained listening. If you want someone to teach you practical skills to cope with your emotions and make better choices, then you want CBT. All NHS Talking Therapies services are required to offer this, but you might be offered guided self-help or group therapy as a first treatment if your issues are relatively mild.

https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/talking-therapies-drugs-treatments/talking-therapies-and-counselling/cognitive-behavioural-therapy-cbt/overview/

If you want someone to analyse your subconscious then you want psychodynamic therapy, but that (generally) isn't available on the NHS.
>> No. 462827 Anonymous
13th February 2024
Tuesday 8:57 pm
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>>462821
My friend gave me grief recently when another friend asked about my mental state and I went on a big rant about how sad and lonely I am. Apparently, answering questions truthfully like that make her feel like "a shit friend", so I shouldn't do it. And this is one of the friends I actually like! Maybe you have better friends than I do.

>>462818
You, sir, are fucking mental.
>> No. 462828 Anonymous
13th February 2024
Tuesday 9:07 pm
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>>462826
>If you want someone to analyse your subconscious then you want psychodynamic therapy
Am I a cunt for wanting this? I want to have a better understanding of 'who I am' or my identity. I don't know how to figure this out by myself, beyond very basic ideas of political beliefs and contradicting actions.
How can you trust a person in your head like that?
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13th February 2024
Tuesday 9:45 pm
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>>462828
I've had a whole bunch of talking therapies. Basic counselling, group counselling (very horrible), CBT, gestalt therapy, CBT specifically for psychotic people, sessions with a clinical psychologist, long term therapy from my city's specialist depression team. The latter two were perhaps more in line with what you're looking for. Looking at what makes me tick and what life experiences have fucked me up, and then working to formulate ways of overcoming these experiences to become a real human being.

Took 7 years from first mental breakdown to getting regular psychologist sessions, there are a lot of gates to pass through to get that sort of help from the NHS.
>> No. 462830 Anonymous
13th February 2024
Tuesday 10:04 pm
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>>462828 How can you trust a person in your head like that?
If you can't (and I can't) then how about coming at it from the other direction and learn a load of philosophy? Find your place in the world that way?
Fucked if I know, obviously.
>> No. 462831 Anonymous
13th February 2024
Tuesday 10:48 pm
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>>462828

>Am I a cunt for wanting this?

Not at all, no. The question really is what you're hoping to get from psychotherapy.

The NHS is concerned with concrete, measurable clinical outcomes. If you've been diagnosed with a disorder like depression, then we can say with confidence that psychotherapy is likely to significantly reduce your symptoms. We've done the same kind of clinical trials that would be used to test a new drugs; while we can't give any guarantees about how well it'll work for you, we do know that it works for enough people to make it worthwhile. CBT and psychodynamic therapy are equally good when measured in these terms, but CBT is cheaper and quicker. For anxiety-related disorders, CBT is significantly more effective.

If you don't have a diagnosable mental illness or your goals aren't just about reducing symptoms, then we can't make those kinds of assurances. Psychodynamic therapy might give you a better understanding of who you are, but it's not really something we can measure and test. Choosing psychodynamic therapy on that basis isn't necessarily a bad idea, but you do need to go in with your eyes open - it isn't cheap and there's no guarantee that you'll get anything useful out of it.

Therapy is one possible route to figuring out who you are, but it doesn't have any claim to be the route; you might learn more about yourself by studying philosophy or volunteering at a food bank or spending a year abroad. Psychotherapists aren't privy to secret knowledge or special insights, they're just ordinary people with some training in a particular system of understanding. All of the books they read during that training are available from LibGen or your local library.

I'm not trying to dissuade you, but I would encourage you to be conscious of what you're trying to achieve and what it would mean for you to have "finished" psychotherapy. I've seen a lot of people get life-changing benefits from therapy, but I've also seen a lot of people waste a lot of time and money on aimless navel-gazing; the difference is usually a matter of understanding the specific problem they're trying to fix.

If you want my personal opinion, then you are what you do. I think that if you feel unsure about who you are, then it's probably because you're living in quite a passive way and aren't actually making many decisions about how to spend your time and how to live your life. Identity isn't something we discover inside ourselves, but something we build around us by our actions.
>> No. 462832 Anonymous
14th February 2024
Wednesday 7:17 am
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>>462827
>You, sir, are fucking mental.

It's like a shit grape dunked in rose water. They're shit.

>>462828
>How can you trust a person in your head like that?

Almost everyone I know who has gone on to work in mental health is an absolute mentalist themselves. I believe it's because it makes them feel less mental or so they can learn to mask better.

I will once again point out that Harmony from the Queen's Nose is a qualified psychotherapist.

https://www.oxfordhousetherapy.com/our-therapists-in-west-london/victoria-shalet
>> No. 462833 Anonymous
14th February 2024
Wednesday 11:07 am
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>>462832

>I believe it's because it makes them feel less mental or so they can learn to mask better.

Or if could be because they have first hand experience of how it impacts your life and therefore empathise with others and want to help them.

One thing you really can't be cynical about is the motivations of NHS staff. When they get such a shit salary you can only conclude some part of them genuinely gives a fuck.
>> No. 462834 Anonymous
14th February 2024
Wednesday 4:55 pm
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Finished a multi-year project for work last Friday and feeling a bit purposeless now. I was going to give myself some time off but I'm not enjoying it. Crack on with the next or try to relax and do the various chores?
>> No. 462835 Anonymous
14th February 2024
Wednesday 7:29 pm
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Orzo pasta is the worst pasta.
>> No. 462836 Anonymous
15th February 2024
Thursday 7:09 am
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Thinking about them beans. Also suicide.
>> No. 462837 Anonymous
15th February 2024
Thursday 9:11 am
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>The services will become known as the Lioness line; the Mildmay line; the Windrush line; the Weaver line; the Suffragette line; and the Liberty line.

Most of these are terrible. The Lioness line? How achingly right-on.
>> No. 462838 Anonymous
15th February 2024
Thursday 10:40 am
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Just got back 27 quid of road tax after I put in a SORN for my MGF.

It's been undriveable for months and has no hope of passing the upcoming MOT, and because I'm very busy right now, it'll take me months to fix. I might not even get to it until June or July. The worst part is that the rear offside Hydragas sphere can't hold pressure, causing the car's bum to sag on one side. You can hear both offside tyres grating on the wing liners, which also isn't safe. And because the car visibly sags to one side, which can be seen from 50 feet away, you're also painting a target on yourself for police to spot it and stop you. So I haven't been driving it at all since about November.
>> No. 462839 Anonymous
15th February 2024
Thursday 11:33 am
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You can certainly tell they were all named by committee. At a cost of several million.

>The Lioness line? How achingly right-on.

What gets me is the lines were all supposed to be named to features relevant to the history of London and specific localities. Never mind that this was a stupid idea in itself that doesn't fit the considerations for how (most of the) lines have been named or how final selection was largely based on sounding right, it's a very odd claim that the Lioness' are a London team and Windrush is a name that has only recently came into the public consciousness even in the Afro-Caribbean community that spotlights on a particular ethnic community.

I don't have a problem with breaking up the Overground line as it can be a pain in the arse going from an underground line at a stop where two overground lines meet but this was obviously run as a hash from start to finish that we're stuck with forever.
>> No. 462840 Anonymous
15th February 2024
Thursday 11:46 am
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>>462839
The estimated cost of the rebrand is £6.3million.
>> No. 462842 Anonymous
15th February 2024
Thursday 12:25 pm
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>>462840

The choice of names is obviously excruciating, but the rebrand is almost certainly money well spent.

We systematically over-value expensive new infrastructure and systematically under-value behavioural interventions. "London Overground" took a physical asset that was already there - the mainline rail network - and made it legible to commuters by putting it on the Tube map. It was guided by the basic insight that most Londoners have a very poor sense of the geography of London and tend to visualise the city beyond their immediate local area purely in terms of the Tube map.

The result was a 500% increase in passenger journeys within a decade, just by installing Oyster readers at gatelines and splashing about a bit of orange paint. Something like 300,000 people already had a really good commuter rail service available to them, they just didn't know it. That represents one of the most cost-effective investments in the history of TfL/London Transport.

£6.3m is less than the cost of one train. London Overground currently has 111 trains in the fleet. If this rebrand convinces just a few thousand people to use the Overground by making their options more understandable, then it's money well spent. Obviously a bunch of politically correct names won't do that, but different coloured lines on the tube map plausibly can; the free publicity generated by a w*ke controversy is a bonus.
>> No. 462843 Anonymous
15th February 2024
Thursday 1:19 pm
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>>462842
>the rebrand is almost certainly money well spent

How do we know the cost itself is value for money? How do we know it couldn't have come to, say, half that if they were responsible with managing money?
>> No. 462844 Anonymous
15th February 2024
Thursday 1:53 pm
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I think you're misunderstanding how people plan journeys these days compared to when the move to the map started in 2008 and what caused the change in how it was consciously perceived. Everyone who plans ahead will use an app to give them directions or if they're winging it will avoid the overground because it's frankly crap. The fundamental change of the past was breaking overgrounds association with the national lines which is different to now which is just incidentally hiding that it's a light rail service .

I'm not saying that simplifying the line isn't a good idea but this is clearly an example of bad policy at work. Victoria Line (the best) was the right approach to naming, one of the main stations is Victoria and some bloke working in TFL advertising suggested it before a board settled on on the name because it sounded right. The chief rival being the Viking Line (because, it goes Victoria to Kings Cross) which is equally straight forward but worse sounding. No faff, nothing ugly sounding like 'Mildmay line', just bureaucrats doing their thing.
>> No. 462846 Anonymous
15th February 2024
Thursday 4:17 pm
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I've had to buy a new toilet seat, with my girlfriend adamant the rate we go through them has absolutely nothing to do with her being overweight, and it stinks of Germolene.
>> No. 462847 Anonymous
15th February 2024
Thursday 5:28 pm
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>>462846

I'm sorry but I really have to know how much your girlfriend weighs. I thought I'd had some chunky lasses over the years but if this is happening this often, she must be properly fat.

Are you the lad who corrupted us all into chubby chasers living the dream? Or are you just resigned to putting up with it?
>> No. 462848 Anonymous
15th February 2024
Thursday 5:36 pm
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>>462847

>Are you the lad who corrupted us all into chubby chasers living the dream?

That's me, not him. I've already told him to spend the extra on a commercial toilet seat. A heavy-duty arse demands a heavy-duty throne.
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15th February 2024
Thursday 5:58 pm
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>>462847
I'm not very good with weight, but she's at least a size 20 (although I know sizes for women aren't consistent). What I do know is that if she bends over for doggy style her belly goes all the way down to the floor/bed.
>> No. 462850 Anonymous
15th February 2024
Thursday 6:13 pm
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>>462849

So are you trying to make chublad jealous? Are you a chub enthusiast yourself?

>>462848

Are you jealous of his missus and her bog crushing backside, chublad?

I'm just trying to work out if it's complaining or the chubby chaser equivalent of bragging how fit your missus is, that's all.
>> No. 462851 Anonymous
15th February 2024
Thursday 7:13 pm
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>>462850
It wasn't a boast. She was a size 14 when we got together, which is generally the upper limit of what I'd consider attractive, but she has really let herself go. I wouldn't be surprised if she ended up getting even bigger.
>> No. 462858 Anonymous
16th February 2024
Friday 11:48 am
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Fucking home inspection by the letting agent, last time there were surprisingly few pound coins in the electric meter. This time there's over £16, yet I kept putting my foot in it implying I'd been taking coins out. I absolutely haven't been interfereing with the meter yet this is the impression they must have got by the shit I was saying.
>> No. 462859 Anonymous
16th February 2024
Friday 1:24 pm
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How the fuck is there 92 calories in a single HobNob? I've just smashed nearly an entire packet.
>> No. 462867 Anonymous
17th February 2024
Saturday 11:03 am
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>>462858
>Fucking home inspection by the letting agent

What is this? Over a decade rental experience and never had a letting agent inspect the place I was living outside of moving in or out. I read a lot about it on the /r/australia subrudgwicksteamshow.co.uk but didn't think it was a thing in the UK.
>> No. 462869 Anonymous
17th February 2024
Saturday 11:51 am
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>>462867

Some landlords overuse their right to inspection to where it really just becomes harrassment. It's a thin line because the tenant has a right to quiet and undisturbed enjoyment of their rented residence, while the landlord is within their rights to want to ensure the property is well looked after by the tenant.

It all depends. Commercial property owners will probably do more frequent inspections than a private owner of one buy-to -let flat. Or you can have a private owner who's a cunt and just enjoys pestering you.
>> No. 462872 Anonymous
17th February 2024
Saturday 1:22 pm
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>>462869
Not him, but I would get a visit about once every 18 months or so in my old place.
>> No. 462876 Anonymous
17th February 2024
Saturday 2:58 pm
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>>462867
Aye, I live in 1 of 6 bedsits within a converted townhouse. We've had some bad tennents, but currently the worst is a few people who dump food waste down their sink or neglect their rubbish bins. Someone dropped a catheter of concetrated piss in the communal hallway some months ago - it was cleaned up within 5 days but there's a lingering smell right outside my door.

Thankfully we've 'reasonable' neighbours, but the regular inspections are generally justified (we once had a couple of druggies here - one of which would purposefully smash radiators and fire alarms to punish the other by ostracisation).

I like to think they'd skip an inspection or two for me personally, but I haven't dusted once in the two years I've been here and my hoard of useless junk is just approaching the level of 'too much'.
>> No. 462880 Anonymous
17th February 2024
Saturday 5:06 pm
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>>462876
That sounds worse than when I lived in a cash paid "hostel" some years ago. Within reason, the only thing I can recommend is get to know your neighbours and find the good eggs. Between you, you can probably keep house and make it not disgusting.

No one is going to inspect the situation you are in.
>> No. 462900 Anonymous
17th February 2024
Saturday 9:07 pm
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>>462876

That honestly sounds like a tower block. I know somebody who used to live in one, and where tenants from the seventh floor would regularly hurl their rubbish bags into the general direction of the outside bins, and not bother to go down and bin them properly.
>> No. 462934 Anonymous
19th February 2024
Monday 10:03 am
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19th February 2024
Monday 10:36 am
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>>462934

I haven't been fully arsed since the late 90s.
>> No. 462937 Anonymous
19th February 2024
Monday 2:16 pm
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I think Amazon are trying to fuck me over. My subscribe and save order was meant to come today and there's a couple of items I snagged quite cheaply, 48 pouches of Felix cat food for £10.05 and 110 Finish powerball dishwasher tablets for about £11, but every four hours or so since Friday I've been getting a notification saying "payment declined, please verify your payment information". Everything else went through and when I select the payment method it says it's fine and will still be delivered, but then I'll get that message through again.
>> No. 462938 Anonymous
19th February 2024
Monday 2:28 pm
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>>462937

The customer service for Amazon is surprisingly okay, and usually they're more than happy to give you what you want in order to maintain their near-universal grip on online shopping.
>> No. 462940 Anonymous
19th February 2024
Monday 5:38 pm
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>>462938
It isn't all that great. I had only half a shipment turn up earlier this year, and they were insistent that their only option was to cancel the order for a refund, which ran the risk of pissing me off had any of the missing items been discounted or seen an interim price increase.
>> No. 462941 Anonymous
20th February 2024
Tuesday 7:37 am
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How the fuck is step-relation porn still so popular? Surely it should have fizzled out by now.
>> No. 462942 Anonymous
20th February 2024
Tuesday 12:49 pm
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I don't think they even sent me a "go fuck yourself email" for that job. Oh well.
>> No. 462943 Anonymous
20th February 2024
Tuesday 9:48 pm
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>>462942
Don't take it personally. Job hunting is notoriously naff.

I've had horrible feedback/ghosting from all types of jobs only to score much much better jobs. Your time will come.
>> No. 462945 Anonymous
20th February 2024
Tuesday 10:12 pm
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>>462943
The problem is that was the much better job. It's more probable that I'd end up in a Brewster's Millions situation than get a better gig than that.

Why didn't I get a degree? Why didn't you two force me to get a degree? You should have made me do it, with posts.
>> No. 462947 Anonymous
20th February 2024
Tuesday 11:03 pm
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>>462945

>Why didn't I get a degree? Why didn't you two force me to get a degree?

This being .gs, you probably would have ended up getting a Mickey Mouse degree.

Which isn't the worst thing. You know.Somebody needs to flip those burgers and write names on paper cups.

But yeah, I've never liked job hunting. It's mostly queueing up for hot steamy turds, and hoping you'll get to tell them how good you are at eating them and that you'll love their kind of turds in particular.
>> No. 462948 Anonymous
21st February 2024
Wednesday 1:18 am
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Generally speaking how many songs do you have saved to your phone? Do you tend to listen to whole albums and just pick a few of them? I'm trying to work out what I need for listening to at work when I can put my headphones in without either eating up my data or taking up all my phone memory.

>>462859
My current headache is the madness of cereal. Oh it might look fine on the box's label but then you actually measure how much a 'serving' of 30g actually is and you can only get angry with yourself.

And that's why my breakfast is a cup of coffee and a banana. Everything else throws off my calories for the whole day.
>> No. 462949 Anonymous
21st February 2024
Wednesday 1:21 am
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>>462942
I get completely ignored by almost all job applications. And I have a degree. I consider a rejection email to be fairly decent news. But then, I am shit at getting jobs. I think that in total, since I left university, I have been NEET for a little under five years in total. But I've had my current job for seven years, so don't give up. Once you get one you actually enjoy, there is every possibility they need you just as much as you need them. We're hiring right now and people send their CVs to our HR lady and she just ignores them. She doesn't even read them and not reply; she quite literally goes to the gym in the middle of the day and doesn't do her job.
>> No. 462950 Anonymous
21st February 2024
Wednesday 7:46 am
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It's not long until Mother's Day. Are Darn Tough still the best walking socks to buy?
>> No. 462951 Anonymous
21st February 2024
Wednesday 9:44 am
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>>462948

>without either eating up my data or taking up all my phone memory.

That's why I've got a phone with an external SD card. They're increasingly hard to find, but it frees you from the limitations of internal memory. And I don't stream, all my music on my phone is mp3 or wav.

At the moment, my music folder on my phone has some 1500 files and around 13 GB. It's mostly singles, but also about a dozen albums.

I occasionally stream Radio 2 or Capital FM on my phone, especially when I'm working around the house with my phone in my pocket. But they're low bandwidth, so they are data friendly. Streaming them over wi-fi can be patchy, especially all the way at the end of my back garden.
>> No. 462952 Anonymous
21st February 2024
Wednesday 12:56 pm
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Are phones less durable than they were? I'm not expecting a Nokia brick but the last few I've had haven't had the lifespan of my first MotoG smartphones. I've probably had my Samsung for about 18 months and it's a right pain in the arse to charge, plus the fingerprint sensor stopped working ages ago.
>> No. 462953 Anonymous
21st February 2024
Wednesday 1:06 pm
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>>462952

Planned obsolescence is very real.
>> No. 462954 Anonymous
21st February 2024
Wednesday 2:06 pm
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>>462953

What bothers me is that they keep getting more expensive with fewer (physical) features with every new model. I still value a 3.5mm headphone jack and an external SD card. And even with modern-day data plans that let you stream web radio, I used to enjoy having built-in FM radio with my Samsung Galaxy. But my biggest grievance is non-removable batteries. That's the biggest way they force planned obsolescence, because the average layperson can't swap out their battery without potentially destroying or bricking their phone.
>> No. 462955 Anonymous
21st February 2024
Wednesday 3:14 pm
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>>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.
>> No. 462956 Anonymous
21st February 2024
Wednesday 7:02 pm
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>> No. 462957 Anonymous
21st February 2024
Wednesday 7:36 pm
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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...
>> No. 462958 Anonymous
21st February 2024
Wednesday 7:57 pm
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>>462957
Whether you like it or not, sooner or later she will end up pregnant one way or another.
>> No. 462959 Anonymous
21st February 2024
Wednesday 8:33 pm
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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
>> No. 462960 Anonymous
21st February 2024
Wednesday 8:54 pm
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>>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.
>> No. 462961 Anonymous
21st February 2024
Wednesday 9:24 pm
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>>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?
>> No. 462962 Anonymous
21st February 2024
Wednesday 9:54 pm
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>>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?
>> No. 462963 Anonymous
22nd February 2024
Thursday 12:01 am
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>>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.
>> No. 462964 Anonymous
22nd February 2024
Thursday 1:05 am
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>>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.
>> No. 462966 Anonymous
22nd February 2024
Thursday 9:50 pm
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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.
>> No. 462967 Anonymous
24th February 2024
Saturday 6:40 am
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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?
>> No. 462968 Anonymous
24th February 2024
Saturday 6:41 am
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>>462967

For the avoidance of doubt I wasn't stalking her, I came in early for a job and saw her.
>> No. 462969 Anonymous
24th February 2024
Saturday 9:52 am
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>>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.
>> No. 462970 Anonymous
24th February 2024
Saturday 11:33 am
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>>462967
Aren't there other lasses at work you want to fuck for whom you should avoid looking like a crybaby tattle tale?
>> No. 462971 Anonymous
24th February 2024
Saturday 11:52 am
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>>462970
Racist spotted.
>> No. 462972 Anonymous
24th February 2024
Saturday 12:02 pm
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>>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.
>> No. 462973 Anonymous
24th February 2024
Saturday 2:40 pm
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>>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.
>> No. 462976 Anonymous
25th February 2024
Sunday 6:46 am
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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.
>> No. 462977 Anonymous
25th February 2024
Sunday 7:55 pm
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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.
>> No. 462978 Anonymous
25th February 2024
Sunday 9:59 pm
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>>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.
>> No. 462979 Anonymous
26th February 2024
Monday 1:40 pm
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Do you ever not contribute to conversation because doing so would mean you have to actually follow up on your ideas?
>> No. 462980 Anonymous
26th February 2024
Monday 5:00 pm
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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.
>> No. 462981 Anonymous
27th February 2024
Tuesday 3:34 pm
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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.
>> No. 462982 Anonymous
27th February 2024
Tuesday 5:34 pm
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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.
>> No. 462983 Anonymous
27th February 2024
Tuesday 11:21 pm
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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?
>> No. 462985 Anonymous
27th February 2024
Tuesday 11:27 pm
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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.
>> No. 462986 Anonymous
28th February 2024
Wednesday 12:06 am
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>>462983
BT now called Openreach look after the poles.
>> No. 462987 Anonymous
28th February 2024
Wednesday 8:21 am
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Where can I get a decent lightweight jacket or windbreaker from? I need something for the mild weather.
>> No. 462988 Anonymous
28th February 2024
Wednesday 8:52 am
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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?
>> No. 462989 Anonymous
28th February 2024
Wednesday 10:53 am
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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
>> No. 462990 Anonymous
28th February 2024
Wednesday 11:40 am
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>>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.
>> No. 462992 Anonymous
28th February 2024
Wednesday 5:06 pm
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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.
>> No. 462993 Anonymous
28th February 2024
Wednesday 5:18 pm
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>>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.
>> No. 462995 Anonymous
28th February 2024
Wednesday 5:43 pm
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>>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.
>> No. 462996 Anonymous
28th February 2024
Wednesday 11:10 pm
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>>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.
>> No. 462997 Anonymous
28th February 2024
Wednesday 11:26 pm
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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.
>> No. 462998 Anonymous
28th February 2024
Wednesday 11:33 pm
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>>462988
Oh wow, it works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gahKxbwUcYw
>> No. 462999 Anonymous
29th February 2024
Thursday 12:12 am
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>>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?
>> No. 463001 Anonymous
29th February 2024
Thursday 1:38 pm
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>>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.
>> No. 463002 Anonymous
29th February 2024
Thursday 2:25 pm
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>>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.
>> No. 463003 Anonymous
29th February 2024
Thursday 4:17 pm
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>>463002
>salt in the dishes, because it made people thirsty so they would order more to drink.
Free bar snacks init.
>> No. 463004 Anonymous
29th February 2024
Thursday 5:06 pm
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>>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.
>> No. 463005 Anonymous
29th February 2024
Thursday 5:37 pm
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Worked from home for the first time in my current job. Hated it. Felt wrong bringing work into my sanctuary.
>> No. 463006 Anonymous
1st March 2024
Friday 12:11 pm
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The plumber's coming today! (Hooray!)

Between twelve and six! (Boo!)
>> No. 463007 Anonymous
1st March 2024
Friday 12:42 pm
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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.
>> No. 463008 Anonymous
1st March 2024
Friday 2:55 pm
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>> No. 463028 Anonymous
3rd March 2024
Sunday 10:45 am
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>>463006
He never actually turned up, did he?
>> No. 463029 Anonymous
3rd March 2024
Sunday 11:07 am
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>>463028
I've been promised he'll be here between 8am and 6pm Monday.
>> No. 463030 Anonymous
3rd March 2024
Sunday 2:11 pm
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>>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.

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