>>464158
>>464159

Did Gary Glitter really ruin that for everybody?

What if you simply genuinely like the tropical climate and the low cost of living.

>>464160
I think it was already known as a place for sex tourism before then. You don't really hear much about mail order brides these days, same with deep vein thrombosis.

>>464156
How many dull dry days do you get where you live? Round here, if it’s the summer and it isn’t raining, that’s pretty much a nice day by definition.

You're working minimum wage in a greasy spoon when a disabled customer shambles to the counter. The customer orders a breakfast with an unusual familiarity, then asks after paying "Will you cut it up for me?". Do you do it?

Hard mode : They ask you to feed them, too.
Nightmare mode : It's Rosie Jones.

I witnessed this scene recently. The waitress said no while clearly uncomfortable being asked, then caved in when the customer explained, shocked, that they can't do it themselves.
I did wonder 'why come to a cafe, then?' and still feel this to some degree, but I recognise how easily you could dismiss access ramps and various societal accessability features in a similar manner.
What would be the difference between cutting a meal and feeding it them? Accessibility and personal care?

Keeping in mind I avoid places I can't, for one reason or another, attend with ease (usually cinemas, pubs and clubs). The option to use autism access features is a relief but I've yet to do so.

>>464222
Cutting the food up should be no issue at all. It's bordering on a courtesy and I would call it the bare minimum of accessibility, and while I know working in hospitality can be difficult, cutting up some sausages isn't exactly unpaid overtime. You understandably wondered "why come to a cafe, then?", but the answer's obviously "to get a fried breakfast". However, asking someone to feed you is a whole new level. That makes them personally responsible for your wellbeing, prevents them from doing any other tasks at their job and is level of employee-customer intimacy I'd wager most professional bean reheaters didn't sign up for. It all seems fairly cut and dry to me, but so many things seem to before someone else chimes in.

The situation does remind me of something that happened to me in maybe 2015 or '16. I was waiting for prescription in an Asda pharmacy in front of a large chap in a wheelchair, when one of his shoes came off. He asked me something along the lines of "would you help me put my shoe back on?" and instinctively I motioned to do so. For all of a hundredth-of-a-second, mind you. Because simultaneously I realised I didn't want to touch a strangers shoe, let alone his foot, and in that same moment I saw the foot and it, frankly, looked like lump of gammon with some sharp bits on the end. I honestly just froze, I had no idea what to do or say. Fortunately a chemist said they could help, my prescription was paid for and I hustled out of the situation like I'd left a nail bomb in the place.

Dual feelings of "yes I want to help" and "your request is plainly unreasonable" were really overwhelming, so much I don't think I even blogged about it on here at the time. What I have wondered is what if I'd been in the same predicament in the middle of an otherwise empty park, or on the street at 6am? In truth I have no idea.

>>464222

This kind of incident is mostly the result of austerity. Fifteen years ago, this person would have found it fairly easy to book a care worker when they needed one. They could ring up the council and get someone to feed them their fry-up or take them shopping or go out to the pictures. Today, you get exactly enough social care to keep you alive and not a minute more. I admire anyone with the bravery to rely on the kindness of strangers - it can't be easy to ask a waitress to feed you.

Witnessed a large man punch a woman in the face and call her a whore for taking a bite of his wrap.

Spent several days removing bushes, weeds and moss from a 600 square foot section of my back garden. It was pretty much like that the last ten years. Now it's finally ready to sow new grass.

>>464227
What happened next?

>>464229
She fell over, got back up, called him a fat bastard, he called her a slut in response and by that point I had left so I don’t know what happened after.

Ate two Pot Noodles in a row. Now I'm shitting violently.

>>464228
Why not go the whole way and astroturf it?

I thought it might have been that I hadn't smoked any fags for about 4 days, but I'm still feeling an anxiety spike and I'm not sure why. The fags have reduced it, but it's still there.
What do you think, another couple of fags or .. ?

I've just popped to Tesco Express for some milk. On the way out was a woman, looked to be late forties but she wasn't taking care of herself as her skin was very leathery and her hair was greasy, with a relatively young black man. Once they walked through the entrance she turned around, grinned at him and started rubbing his knob through his trousers. People are strange.

Wensleydale cheese is nicer than Cheshire cheese, but Cheshire cheese stays fresher for longer as Wensleydale cheesy can get a bit feety.

DO I POST ABOUT BANK HOLIDAY MONDAY IN THE WEEKEND THREAD OR THE WEEKDAY THREAD?

>>464238

A bank holiday is still a day of the week. Even if you get off work and it feels like a weekend to you.

>>464238
Ignore weekday shills. It's a long weekend.

That South Park episode got me thinking about using wegovy to cut the remaining excess weight I have to reach an average bodyweight. I'm not obese but it would be a way to reset so you avoid the effort of cutting.

That's a bad idea isn't it.

>>464239
>>464243
See, this is why we can't have nice things. Nobody can agree what day it it's supposed to be. Some buses think it's Saturday, some think it's Sunday, the trains think it's Friday, some restaurants are doing their weekend thing, some closed-on-Mondays restaurants are closed because it's Monday.

>>464248

You'll start putting the weight back on as soon as you stop taking it. Semaglutide should really be seen as an alternative to gastric bypass surgery. It's a fantastic treatment for people who are morbidly obese and haven't managed to lose weight through lifestyle interventions, but the benefits are strongly outweighed by the costs and risks for people who are just a bit overweight.

I'm having a bash at making shakshouka for breakfast. I've never cooked it before, so hopefully it doesn't turn out shite.

>>464293
>shakshouka
Wikipedias image makes it look dry and bland.
What sort of spices would you put in it? I sometimes drop an egg in my pasta sauces which looks more or less the same thing - then it'll usually be salt and pepper.

>>464294
This morning I had to make do with cumin, paprika, chilli powder, salt and pepper. Ideally I'd have had harissa, ancho chilli flakes or smokey paprika to make a nice rich and smokey sauce.

>>464294

Wikipedia food pictures really do seem to capture the worst possible examples of foods.

It must be something to do with the rules on uploading pictures and usage rights and all that, but even then, for so many of them it's obvious a person of entirely average culinary skill and a modern phone could whip up a better image. Instead it's always an inexplicable scan of a photo taken with flash in the mid 90s at a hotel buffet or something.

Getting into preparations for my birthday party next weekend.

I'll be doing a tapas barbecue. Steaks and bangers are a given, but I haven't decided which tapas dishes to prepare. If I find them at a good price, I'll probably do gambas al ajillo as well as calamari, and then patatas bravas and albondigas.

Gambas are kind of expensive here compared to Spain, where you can get a kilo of raw king prawns for under 10 euros if you're lucky. They can be more than £20 at places like Tesco, I've found.

I learnt last night that if you ever see one of those car number plates that looks like a sum (185 X 256, for example), that is actually a diplomatic number plate. The first three numbers represent the country (184 is Iraq and 185 is Ireland, I was told by someone who works at the consulate for one of those countries), and the X represents diplomatic plates. So if you ever see such a car, no, it's not a sum, and it's not worth trying to multiply the numbers in your head to see if they make 5318008 or anything. It took me several minutes but I did successfully do the sum on this diplomat's number plate in my head. Nobody was impressed, which is ludicrous and they can all fuck themselves.

>>464300

Not to get too technical, but the result of a multiplication is called a product. Sums are the result of additions.






I'll see myself out.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Harehills feels completely lawless.

10 rounds and two branches off the tree processed into 1 barrow load of kindling and 4 of split logs. Thanks to the wonders of modern chainsaw technology at least getting the rounds out is easy enough but I'm still left wondering how much of the industrial revolution was just down to people no longer having to spend half the year waving a splitting maul around to avoid freezing to death during the other half.

>>464300
Nah, there are actual "D" plates for diplomatic cars. It's not covert.

>>464302

At least there's a very lively environmentalist movement.

I'm not saying I regret having kids, but sometimes it'd be nice to have an extended break from them. Maybe I really mean life and responsibilities in general. Just some time on my own without the kids or having to go to work, doing what I want and being completely care-free.

>>464305
He's alright at gardening. Shame about the wood burner.

>>464307
Yeah, but, he shouted llama duck bar, which as everyone knows is what unabummers say. This is unabummer gardening.

Vote GBNews in the election lads. >>464305 knows.

I'm guessing that women only really started shaving their legs, armpit and pubes as the norm over the past century or so. Did it start off as a paedo thing so their bodies would be more childlike?

>>464313
I don't know how causation could be determined but if it can be, my bet is that it's primarily due to wanting to increase the market for shaving products.

>>464313

Once they had jobs and stopped doing all the cleaning and cooking, they realised they had to be pretty to attract a man. I'm stating this in a blunt facetious way but I actually stand by it, liberating women was also more or less the direct cause behind a boatload of the other shit fisherpeople complain about.

>>464314

You ever notice how the only adverts targeted at men are cars, beer, aftershave and razors? Literally everything else is targeted at women. But it's bizarre when you think about it because most men hardly bother to shave, they only do their face every so often, whereas women do their entire body constantly.

>>464315
I shave every day. Also, you're missing out betting adverts, which are entirely targeted towards men and make up most of the adverts on a lot of channels now. We used to have beer and cigarette adverts too but Nanny State Woke Stalin Leftists decided that living longer was a valid price to pay for getting rid of what were consistently the most entertaining adverts. And DIY adverts aren't allowed to show men doing DIY any more because it's a stereotype, so while you might get Dawn Butler offering you a drill hnnnngggggg, it's still probably men actually buying them.

>>464315
>You ever notice how
I remember the Mitchell & Webb sketch about it from 15 years back but I've had adblocker since then so no.

I somehow managed to miss the entire Nurburgring 24 Hour race this year. Just completely forgot it was on and managed to spend enough time away from my PC to not notice, very daft. Seems like inclement weather had a ruinous effect on how much racing actually took place anyway.

>>464317
There are a lot of gambling ads targeted at women. However, it's near universally online bingo rather than sports betting and online casinos.

>>464317
>>464320

Gonna say, there's more advertising for online slots and bingo aimed at oldies/womenfolk than the footy betting lad lad type nowadays. It's probably more profitable too, I get the impression, else they wouldn't be so seemingly popular, but that's a total arse pull.

>>464315

>Once they had jobs and stopped doing all the cleaning and cooking, they realised they had to be pretty to attract a man

I think where high seas fishing (not a word filter) lied to women was that they were told they could simply have it all. Be a devoted mother and perhaps less so a wife, but also get out there and build a full-time career for themselves on top of all that. And then to add insult to injury, women were told that if they didn't manage all of that in no more than 24 hours that every day has, they were a failure. Either they were bad mothers for putting their job first, or they weren't living up to their potential. In both cases, as the narrative then went, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society was somehow to blame at the end of it.

No man, no male, would be able to do all that either, all put into one. Something always has to give. Either you become a career person, or you raise children. Or you raise children and accept that it'll slow down your career aspirations. Which is ultimately true for both sexes, not just women.

This is a funny-looking Toyota Yaris:

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202406020327641

>>464333

>Selling on behalf of my father who sadly passed away last month

I trust he has documentation to back that up.

I once went to look at a hot hatch about 20 years ago, and it turned out to be a clapped out boy racer. But the guy trying to sell it to me was in his mid-40s at least. The car was in his name, but upon asking if it was really his younglad son's car, he kept assuring me that it was his own car.

It was hard to imagine a grey balding 45 year old driving around with bright purple tribal stickers on the sides and a blacked out tinted rear window, and much less an aftermarket subwoofer mounted in the boot, so after a brief test drive I told him I would get back to him. I'm not sure what he was thinking. Even admitting that he was selling it for his son would have lent him a minimum of credibility.

>>464334
>Selling on behalf of my father who sadly passed away last month
I had someone tell me they were seeing a load of flats on Facebook Marketplace where people were saying "this is my aunt's place" and the like, and invariably they were scams. The idea with those is to get to the point of being able to take some money to cover some cost or another and then ghost the mark once they've paid. I suspect there are a bunch of similar things going on with used car ads, besides the usual exaggerations.

>>464303 I had to move a log that was in the way of putting up a new fence today. Bastarding heavy thing bent my forklift.
But yes, chainsaws are fantastic inventions, everyone should have a few. Chainsaw groups on social media seem to be a wanker-rich cesspit though.

>>464335

In the end, a lot of it is sob stories that are meant to catch you off guard. When somebody tells you a car belonged to their late relative or the flat you've come to look at belongs to their incapacitated grandad who's too frail to come in person, you are meant to think that surely somebody in that life situation isn't going to pull one over on you.

I'm not saying it can't happen for real that you are buying their dead nan's car or renting their crippled dad's flat. Just be on your toes and ask questions and try to think if their story is credible.

>>464337
I've got two fallen mature trees in the back field, I couldn't get a forklift out there even if I had one. It's going to be many trips back and forth with the barrow.
Are chainsaw groups on social media necessary? They're a tool for me, not a hobby in itself.

>>464339 I have forks to go on the back of the tractors, not an actual forklift (although I'd love a teleporter or the like, I rally can't justify it). Barrowing wood around makes a hard day harder.
I joined a chainsaw sharpening group, possibly a 5% information ratio. I should quit it, but it's somewhat addictive, like a zoo full of posturing, shit-flinging monkeys. But with chainsaws.