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>> No. 463031 Anonymous
4th March 2024
Monday 7:25 am
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New weekday thread: bog snorkelling edition.

How's it going, lads?
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>> No. 463032 Anonymous
4th March 2024
Monday 8:44 am
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Had my porridge, set up the new broadband and my mouth tastes of blood; oh, yeah, baby, it's Spring time.
>> No. 463033 Anonymous
4th March 2024
Monday 9:59 am
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I guess it's another 'Milkshake Duck' scenario, but do you wonder what will come out if you end up fleetingly famous? It may be because I know of the person who played Willy Wonka at that event in Glasgow, but I'm seeing a lot of comments online about things like how he was dating a 16 year old when he was 30 and other seedy shit.
>> No. 463034 Anonymous
4th March 2024
Monday 12:45 pm
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Tried giving a podcast a go, not sure they're for me.
>> No. 463035 Anonymous
4th March 2024
Monday 1:06 pm
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>>463034
As someone who listens to a fair number of podcasts, this is a very alien idea to me. What don't you like about them?
>> No. 463036 Anonymous
4th March 2024
Monday 1:19 pm
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>>463035
I just can't think of when would be a good time for listening to them.

If I'm cooking I'd rather have the radio or music on. If I'm working I'd rather have music on. If I wanted something informative I'd rather watch YouTube or even a documentary. I've no interest in a parasocial friendship.

It seems like there's better mediums out there.
>> No. 463037 Anonymous
4th March 2024
Monday 6:52 pm
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>>463033
I was watching an old Charlie Brooker wipe, and it had that black dude who lived next door to a woman who escaped captivity, and said something like "when a white woman ran into a black man's arms, I knew something was up". There were loads of memes and he was on TV shows, then they found that he was not being honest about finding the kidnap victim, and also had criminal offences in his past. And he got shamed and forgotten about.

A few years back I realised I had a lot of not great stuff that could be liniked to me in Facebook chats, and took the step of removing myself from any situation I could become notable. I was on the fisherperson Society committee but was so scared by the prospect of someone in the shitpost group chat making public my use of the n-word and also whale poacheric/transphobic/homophobic language or my, at the time, fascination with minstrelsy.

I think being in a left wing circle is arguably tougher, because you've got right wingers trying to catch you out, but also the ideological purity of the left who will exile you for having liked an innocuous Milo Yiannopolous tweet.
>> No. 463038 Anonymous
4th March 2024
Monday 7:17 pm
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Haven't been on social media since 2012, haven't had friends since 2018, I've only gone outside in the dark since 2021: no one can touch me, no one wants to touch me, I'm literally untouchable, unfuckable too.

>>463036
That's fair. I only really listen to one podcast which is blokes around some mics talking shit, which I think is the stereotypical idea of a podcast. Even that's actually quite well planned out shit talking. I don't know if I'd consider my feelings towards the various podcast teams at The Guardian, Richard Herring or the BBC World Service's Global News Podast "parasocial" either. However, I do think it's lessened the amount of music I listen to, which is a bit lame.
>> No. 463039 Anonymous
4th March 2024
Monday 7:18 pm
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>>463037
When I went on The Chase about eight years ago one of the things they did was go over my social media to make sure there wasn't anything potentially controversial. It turned out one of the only things I shared publicly on Facebook was a post about Jimmy Savile when all the shit was coming out about him, which I had to delete.

I'm so glad my BRILLIANT teenlad phase pre-dated Facebook.
>> No. 463040 Anonymous
4th March 2024
Monday 7:25 pm
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Girlfriend said she seriously wouldn't mind if I became a full-time househusband sort of thing, as she earns so much. I don't know how I've landed on a Japanese sugarmomma type thing (same age mind), but I have, and I can only assume I'm going to be struck down by some plague in a few years to balance the luck. (Although I won't be entertaining that idea, for many reasons, but still. Heh.)
>> No. 463041 Anonymous
4th March 2024
Monday 7:32 pm
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Seen a couple of moths in my flat this week. Wiped them out immediately but I'm a bit paranoid now that by the end of the month it'll turn out I have an infestation.

>>463039
Did you tell 'em about us? I bet The Beast would enjoy coming here.
>> No. 463042 Anonymous
4th March 2024
Monday 8:44 pm
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>>463038
If you have to go to all that effort to be unfuckable, you must be quite the catch. My female friend appreciates my close friendship so much that she will only fuck drug addicts, cripples, beggars and pensioners ahead of me. Get on my chronic masturbator level, you amateur.
>> No. 463043 Anonymous
4th March 2024
Monday 9:00 pm
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>>463041
You don't really get to interact much with the Chasers. You don't get to meet them before or after, so the only time you really see them is when they're up at the top of the stage.
>> No. 463044 Anonymous
4th March 2024
Monday 9:15 pm
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>>463038

>I've only gone outside in the dark since 2021

That's actually kind of impressive, how do you manage it? Do you work from home? If you're dolescum don't they force you out to sign on?
>> No. 463045 Anonymous
4th March 2024
Monday 10:08 pm
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>>463044
I'm going to level with you, man. I had to work my spiel into the rule of threes format because just listing the first two things wouldn't be enough of a build up, so I made up the not going outside in daylight one so it would flow better. Trust noone, believe nothing, think of a third thing on your own because I'm spent for the night.

>>463042
>and pensioners
Well there you go, you've just got to play the long game.
>> No. 463046 Anonymous
4th March 2024
Monday 11:02 pm
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>>463045

I don't believe you, you're just embarrassed now and trying to backpedal on it. Tell us your secrets, vampirelad.
>> No. 463047 Anonymous
5th March 2024
Tuesday 12:53 am
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I left the soldering iron plugged in in the basement for two days.

The iron is rated as 35 watts, so I guess it didn't use that much electricity. But still. Bit of a fire hazard, although there was nothing near it that could have caught fire. I don't have a regulator, so it was pretty much on the whole time.
>> No. 463048 Anonymous
5th March 2024
Tuesday 7:00 am
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>>463047
Meh. The tip is likely irrecoverably oxidised, but it was probably only drawing 10W if it's temperature controlled at all. 50 hours at 10W is 0.5kWh
New tip will cost more (especially if it's a spiffy RF Metcal unit).
Hard to see how it would burn the house down if it was in a stand rather than lying on the floor / bench / stained chair.
>> No. 463049 Anonymous
5th March 2024
Tuesday 10:11 am
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>>463047

This is why I love my JBC clone - it switches off when you put the iron back in the stand, but there's so much power that it heats up almost instantly when you pick it up. The tips last for ages, you can change them while they're still hot and they're completely unfazed by multi-layer boards with loads of thermal mass.

I did nearly burn the house down with a soldering iron when I was a kid. My mum unplugged something in my room to plug in the hoover, but when she was finished she just randomly picked a plug to put back in, which happened to be one of those old Antex irons. I came home from school to find that my bedroom was full of smoke and there was a big charred bit on my desk, but fortunately no real damage was done.
>> No. 463050 Anonymous
5th March 2024
Tuesday 10:21 am
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>>463049

Mine is a Weller, which are also good quality. I got an old Weller soldering iron from my dad, and it lasted 40 years. So when it finally broke, it seemed an obvious choice to get another Weller.
>> No. 463052 Anonymous
5th March 2024
Tuesday 10:24 am
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You lot are always talking about your soldering irons, but you never talk about actually soldering anything.
>> No. 463053 Anonymous
5th March 2024
Tuesday 12:16 pm
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>>463052

Fine. I was soldering a speaker wire that had become detached from the speaker.
>> No. 463054 Anonymous
5th March 2024
Tuesday 12:38 pm
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>>463052

I've used mine three times. Changed the pickups in two of my guitars, and replaced the screen in my old Game Boy.

I also have a multimeter that has come in handy a surprising amount of times.
>> No. 463055 Anonymous
5th March 2024
Tuesday 2:54 pm
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>>463054

I've found that expensive multimeters aren't worth the money, unless you are perhaps an electrician who needs it to do very precise things. If you just want to see if something's got juice or not and measure resistors now and then, just get one for a tenner.

I fried my £30 multimeter when I tested the mains voltage on a wall outlet while it was accidentally still in resistance mode. Apparently that's always a very bad idea, and from then on resistances and voltages were all over the place, but for 30 quid, you'd think they could have built in some protection. And then I bought a new one for 10 quid, and it's doing everything it's supposed to do.
>> No. 463056 Anonymous
5th March 2024
Tuesday 3:24 pm
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>>463053
One of my speakers is broken, and I discovered yesterday that the wireless speakers I bought recently are terrible. How would I fix a speaker? The subwoofer and other speaker are fine, but I know almost nothing about electronics. Will it be obvious if I open it up? Will there be a broken wire or something? Or am I going to need to recognise the difference between a blown capacitor and a totally functional capacitor just by sight?
>> No. 463057 Anonymous
5th March 2024
Tuesday 3:34 pm
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>>463055

I think I stole mine from the Tech Help desk when I used to work at Maplin. It must be worth less than a quid. Going strong for over a decade now.
>> No. 463058 Anonymous
5th March 2024
Tuesday 4:03 pm
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>>463056

The speakers themselves, i.e. everything that's contained in the speaker frame, rarely fail. You could have a broken filament on your speaker coil, which is almost impossible to fix. But if that isn't the case, most speakers have the speaker frames inside them and a bit of separate circuitry, i.e. a PCB board. You could check all the connections on your PCB for continuity. And most speakers still use electrolytic capacitors, which are often easy to spot when they fail, as they will either have liquid oozing out of them or they'll bulge out at the top.

Soldering in new capacitors doesn't need much skill, your main thing will be making sure you solder them in the right way with correct polarity. Which will be clearly marked down the side of them.
>> No. 463059 Anonymous
5th March 2024
Tuesday 8:57 pm
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>>463052

I fix phones and laptops as a hobby/sideline. It's not terribly interesting; by far the most common soldering job is replacing damaged charging ports. Considerate laptop manufacturers will put the charging port on a separate daughterboard that you can just unplug, but sometimes they'll put the charging port on the motherboard to save costs or economise on internal space. That makes the job a bit tricky, because there's a huge amount of copper in the ground and power planes that acts as a massive heatsink. My iron puts out 145w, but it's still often safer and easier to pre-heat the motherboard first.

>>463055

Aneng multimeters are excellent value and will do the job very well for most hobbyists.

The main downside to cheap multimeters is that their input protection and isolation ratings are a total lie. They're fine to use on low-voltage stuff, but a bit dicey on anything from mains voltage up. Some of the cheaper meters will literally explode if they encounter a big voltage spike.

A meter from a proper brand (Fluke/BK/Gossen/etc) is actually tested to provide the level of protection and isolation stated, which is valuable insurance if you work on stuff that's trying to kill you. They can also be calibrated by a UKAS lab, which is irrelevant to a hobbyist or DIYer but extremely important if you're doing commercial work that requires a proper paper trail.
>> No. 463061 Anonymous
6th March 2024
Wednesday 3:15 am
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>>463059
> Fluke

Big fan of them when it comes to meters and genral electrickity, there's a reason they're often seen as the gold standard. Similar for C.K. tools if you want decent but on a slight budget or Knipex if you don't mind the cost and want the best. For some tools it's fine to use budget stuff, but the moment you touch mains voltage you really want the good stuff. Don't even think about doing industrial work with less, it's not just your livelyhood but your life that's on the line.
>> No. 463069 Anonymous
6th March 2024
Wednesday 6:29 pm
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I had someone ring up today and they gave their name. And I thought "heh wouldn't it be funny if it's [name] MP". Then when I opened their account, the email associated was the MP's parliamentary email. The person on the phone was not this MP, I could tell from the voice, must have been their peon. But I thought I was losing my mind, that I manifested it to be the account of that MP. An MP I fucking hate. Like my inner monologue created the reality that I was dealing with the address of a bad MP, all because I thought it'd be funny if it was [name] MP. A pretty prominent MP. I kind of panicked because I never thought I'd have any dealings with this MP, as they are my enemy.
>> No. 463070 Anonymous
6th March 2024
Wednesday 8:15 pm
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>>463069
What did they want?
>> No. 463071 Anonymous
6th March 2024
Wednesday 8:27 pm
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>>463070
To pay a bill. I thought it might've been someone stealing the MP's identity, but why steal an identity to pay their bill?
>> No. 463072 Anonymous
7th March 2024
Thursday 9:10 am
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Okay I've listened to the Private Eye podcast. Maybe I could listen to that every fortnight.
>> No. 463073 Anonymous
7th March 2024
Thursday 10:18 am
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>>463072

If you liked that, you may also like:

https://www.podmasters.co.uk/the-bunker

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p029399x/episodes/downloads

https://www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/42KuVj/

https://www.goalhangerpodcasts.com/the-rest-is-politics
>> No. 463074 Anonymous
7th March 2024
Thursday 11:47 am
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My water bill just came in the post and I've somehow used 10 cubic metres more than previously, so they're raising my monthly instalments from £24 to £28.

I did use the pressure washer a lot last summer. Then again, according to Karcher's web site, their smaller household sized models use about 250 litres an hour. I don't think I had it running for 40 hours to fully explain an extra ten cubic metres.
>> No. 463075 Anonymous
7th March 2024
Thursday 11:51 am
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>>463074
Maybe you have a leak.
>> No. 463076 Anonymous
7th March 2024
Thursday 11:57 am
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>>463075

I also suspect the washing machine. It's been acting weird for a while. Maybe it's time to get a new one, which would probably save water in and of itself because my washing machine is over 15 years old. Newer ones use far less water.
>> No. 463078 Anonymous
7th March 2024
Thursday 1:14 pm
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I forgot that Sunday is Mother's Day. Either of you two had any good feedback in the past on what to send at the last minute? My mum is a generic retired mother so her interests are the usual dogs, cats, flowers, pretends to know her cooking.

Might send her The Leftovers box set as she's also into the end of world prophesy shite but don't know if that's the right gift.

>>463074
Even before I'd class that as quite a high bill for water. I pay £19 a month for two blokes sharing a flat (no homo).
>> No. 463079 Anonymous
7th March 2024
Thursday 1:42 pm
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>>463078

How many cubic metres do you use annually? Water and wastewater prices can vary depending on where you live.
>> No. 463080 Anonymous
7th March 2024
Thursday 1:52 pm
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>>463078
Typical mother presents from me are: gin, something for gardening like new gloves or secateurs, walking socks, a book she's after (she's currently reading the DCI Ryan books by LJ Ross) or vouchers.
>> No. 463081 Anonymous
7th March 2024
Thursday 5:59 pm
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>>463078

A text.

Shite like mother's day are just bollocks made up commercialism rituals. The fact that everyone peer pressures you into it or else you're a bad son/daughter is part of that point.

Would they even still bother making Roses or Milk Tray if it wasn't for Mother's Day and Christmas? Probably not.
>> No. 463082 Anonymous
7th March 2024
Thursday 6:12 pm
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>>463081

Come on lad, you wrecked her fanny, the least you can do is give her a bunch of flowers.
>> No. 463083 Anonymous
7th March 2024
Thursday 6:15 pm
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>>463082

See? Exactly my point.

Pretty sure my mum's fanny was already was a wreck well before I came along. I definitely take after my dad.
>> No. 463084 Anonymous
7th March 2024
Thursday 6:27 pm
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My mother will be getting a low-value voucher and a bunch of flowers bought from the Co-Op by the bus station on the way to see her.
>> No. 463085 Anonymous
7th March 2024
Thursday 7:05 pm
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I normally get my mum just a card, and my stepmum a card and flowers. I love my mum much more, but she really doesn't like it when I get her gifts. Whereas my stepmum and dad are more materialistic.

Anyway this year they're both getting just a card. Can't justify £30 to send some flowers that'll die after a week.
>> No. 463086 Anonymous
7th March 2024
Thursday 7:09 pm
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On The One Show they just did an introduction for the Queen, but it wasn't the Queen. It was Camilla.
>> No. 463087 Anonymous
7th March 2024
Thursday 7:29 pm
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>>463086
They've even started putting the letters KC after the names of silks.
>> No. 463088 Anonymous
8th March 2024
Friday 12:18 am
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>>463086
Am I the only one who remembers that Charles finally married Camilla with the understanding that she would never be Queen? She would legally have a title of queen but would always be referred to as a consort. She even spent years talking about how she would never become Queen Camilla owing to sensitivities.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/mar/22/politics.monarchy

Frankly, I'm starting to wonder if monarchy might be a little old-fashioned if we're just giving titles based on family connections.
>> No. 463089 Anonymous
8th March 2024
Friday 12:44 am
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>>463088
If they called her Queen Consort Camilla, that would be shortened to just Queen Camilla within a week. People really are that lazy. And I don't mind "Queen Camilla" since she's married to the King, but just calling her The Queen is completely wrong.

I suspect they just quietly changed the rules to avoid upsetting some clueless politician who got it wrong early on. Like how Charles always said he's use another name as king, and not be King Charles but King Philip or King Arthur nope or King George, but when THE Queen died, Liz Truss referred to him as King Charles in her speech so he had to go along with it.
>> No. 463090 Anonymous
8th March 2024
Friday 12:16 pm
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>>463089
>Liz Truss referred to him as King Charles in her speech so he had to go along with it.
As if it weren't already bad enough that she'd just killed the Queen.
>> No. 463091 Anonymous
8th March 2024
Friday 12:22 pm
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My conveyancers have said I can either sign up for their app at a cost of £42 or I can do everything via paper, which will take much longer. Think it's worth it?
>> No. 463092 Anonymous
8th March 2024
Friday 12:34 pm
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>>463091
I do not think it’s worth it at all. But then, they might deliberately just not do it for months if they stand to profit from you doing it a different way.
>> No. 463093 Anonymous
8th March 2024
Friday 3:36 pm
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I've had probably the worst, and most embarrassing, professional week of my life.

I have undone 2 years of good image and damaged my reputation. It's nothing that scandalous, I just got overloaded with stressand stopped functioning properly and feel very embarrassed.

Looking for some sort of story that it'll get better, or I won't care in a year, or something like that.
>> No. 463094 Anonymous
8th March 2024
Friday 4:17 pm
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>>463092
Allegedly it makes the process 30% quicker, which will solely be because information can be sent faster than through the post.
>> No. 463109 Anonymous
11th March 2024
Monday 1:02 pm
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I, for one, don't get the fuss surrounding Kate Middleton, nor am I inclined to find out.
>> No. 463110 Anonymous
11th March 2024
Monday 2:03 pm
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Somebody's coming by to look at and hopefully buy my old satellite dish in an hour, and the house looking a bit shit, I've just spent an hour and a half cleaning the downstairs. I don't want to give the impression of an unkept house, not even to a complete stranger off Gumtree. But it needed doing anyway.
>> No. 463111 Anonymous
11th March 2024
Monday 2:23 pm
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>>463109
Try as I might to not care about the Royal Family's day-to-day nonsense the idea that Kate Middleton edits her own photos is so far-fetched I now think she's dead and they're doing a Weekend at Burnie's kind of thing. Or an Emperor Numerian kind of thing if you're feeling all BBC4 about it.
>> No. 463112 Anonymous
11th March 2024
Monday 2:42 pm
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>>463111
She never explicitly admitted to editing this picture.
>> No. 463114 Anonymous
11th March 2024
Monday 2:59 pm
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>>463112
She has now: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68534359

She’s blatantly pregnant. But they can’t announce it publicly for some reason. I wonder what the betting odds are on a black baby?
>> No. 463115 Anonymous
11th March 2024
Monday 3:02 pm
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>>463112
Actually, you’re right; she apologised for the edits and said she sometimes edits photos, and Palace staff have said she did this one too, but that’s it.
>> No. 463116 Anonymous
11th March 2024
Monday 4:43 pm
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>>463114
All sorts of interesting possibilities about.
One is that Wills has cheated, again, and she's had a breakdown.
>> No. 463117 Anonymous
11th March 2024
Monday 4:59 pm
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>>463109
Would you like to read about the Oscars instead?

I wish there was a news site that never covers anything to do with the royal family, entertainment or sport. Nothing but a grown-up news site, with a hidden section for naked ladies. And it'll have comics too maybe.
>> No. 463118 Anonymous
11th March 2024
Monday 5:19 pm
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>Kate seen after saying she edited Mother's Day photo

This is the top story on BBC News.
>> No. 463119 Anonymous
11th March 2024
Monday 5:21 pm
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>>463116

She refuses to peg him. It's downright unpatriotic if you ask me.
>> No. 463120 Anonymous
11th March 2024
Monday 5:29 pm
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>>463118
That's not a real ear. I don't buy it.
>> No. 463121 Anonymous
12th March 2024
Tuesday 8:47 am
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>>463118
>Hi all, look at the back of my totally-not-dead-wife's head! Doesn't she look well?
>> No. 463122 Anonymous
12th March 2024
Tuesday 2:15 pm
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Just got back from the urologist. I've got another flare up of my prostatitis. I had bacterial prostatitis once many years ago but it resolved itself with antibiotics. But it acts up now and then. My semen culture this time came back negative once again for pathogens, so the urologist thinks it could be due to exposure to cold weather. Which makes sense because I spent all last weekend outside gardening in 10 degrees wearing just a pair of shell suit pants.

Prostatitis can affect anyone at any age. It's not just an old men's problem, and I first had it at age 23. It's usually caused by bacteria which can travel up your urethra either due to poor sanitation (a poorly maintained swimming pool can be enough) or unprotected sex. Especially anal sex, but being that that was never my kind of thing, you can also catch it from a lass with bad vaginal hygiene. And once you've had bacterial prostatitis one time, it often comes back. Either because a few bacteria remain dormant inside your prostate, or because your prostate develops a general sensitivity to cold exposure.

Symptoms include persistent pain in your groin between your arse and your balls and an overall feeling of lethargy similar to a cold. One thing you can do is take hot baths or anti-inflammatory pain drugs like ibuprofen.
>> No. 463123 Anonymous
12th March 2024
Tuesday 3:52 pm
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Is Birmingham nicer than you'd expect or a total shithole?
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12th March 2024
Tuesday 4:17 pm
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>>463123
It's worse than I expected. There seems to be an unnecessary aggression about the place.
>> No. 463125 Anonymous
12th March 2024
Tuesday 5:25 pm
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>>463123
I've not spent enough time there to tell, but it's got some of the most hideous buildings on Earth by my reckoning. Whoever designed that train station was a moron, whoever greenlit it's construction was a lunatic. Buildings with that same painfully late-noughties and twenty-tens look about them are all over the place, which makes it feel like Birmingham New Street actually encompasses much of the city, the same way the Combine's architecture was riddled throughout City 17.
>> No. 463126 Anonymous
12th March 2024
Tuesday 6:32 pm
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>>463125
As a station, New Street isn't inherently the worst in the world, but some decisions by the rail industry have made it more awful than it needs to be. There are entrances at the sides, but then someone insisted that they needed an entrance from the Bullring. At the same time, whatever ATOC is called these days insisted on having ticket gates in the concourse. Because of some questionable decisions, there are now two separate gated-off sections, and the A end concourse is split in two, with passengers explicitly being advised to use the B end concourse if they're changing trains.

I will say the best thing about changing at a New Street is that with approaches from both ends being in tunnels, at no point do you actually have to suffer looking at Birmingham.
>> No. 463127 Anonymous
12th March 2024
Tuesday 7:21 pm
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>>463123

It is fucking rough, yeah. I'm quite fond of it, but I do have a soft spot for shitholes.
>> No. 463128 Anonymous
12th March 2024
Tuesday 8:59 pm
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>>463123
It's certainly nicer than anyone who has read the other replies would expect. I don't mind it at all. It probably depends on where you live now. If you're used to Manchester, it's about the same. Getting a train to Birmingham and then walking out of the station to look around for an hour or so is definitely better than doing the same thing in Bristol, even if Bristol has nicer parts elsewhere.
>> No. 463129 Anonymous
12th March 2024
Tuesday 9:01 pm
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>>463123
I was quite impressed when I visited a few times in 2014. I liked The Square Shopping Centre it had a shop that sold a knife with a swastika on it, also other shops that had a very Leeds Corn Exchange (pre-gentrification) vibe. Emo/goth clothes and grinders and stuff. I also think the Waterstones is nice inside.

The only place I went out of the centre was Shard End as my then-girlfriend lived there, that was a bit of a grim shithole but not "no-go area" bad.
>> No. 463130 Anonymous
13th March 2024
Wednesday 10:41 am
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When I was at school there was a teacher whose arm had died in a car crash. It didn't wither away or anything so it looked like a normal arm apart from the fact it had yellow fingernails like a corpse and he couldn't move it. He wore a watch on that arm so when he wanted to tell the time he'd slap that arm so it'd rotate around in a full circle before he stopped it with his other arm.

I've not thought about this in 20 years. Is it possible for your arm to die like that? I feel like I've been very gullible as a teenager over this.
>> No. 463131 Anonymous
13th March 2024
Wednesday 11:02 am
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>>463130

>Is it possible for your arm to die like that?

Nerve damage innit. Most of the nerves in your arm join together in a bundle called the brachial plexus that runs under your collar bone and up into your neck. If your head gets wrenched away from your shoulder with a lot of force, then you can tear the brachial plexus and lose movement and/or feeling in that arm. For someone in a car accident, it's most likely to happen in a side impact - the seatbelt stops your shoulder, but your head keeps moving.
>> No. 463133 Anonymous
13th March 2024
Wednesday 7:42 pm
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Won a custom limited edition Armored Core Xbox controller, only 5 were given out in Europe. It's not hugely exciting, but I never win stuff so I feel like maybe God isn't so bad for showing that I deserve a custom limited edition Armored Core controller. Not been shipped yet, I worry because back in 2007 I won a Wii game from a magazine and they never sent me it and have since shut down.
>> No. 463134 Anonymous
13th March 2024
Wednesday 8:38 pm
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>>463133
I don't think competitions are very well managed on the whole. I finally won a flask in the Viz crossword competition after ten years of trying, the very month after I emailed them to ask if they were getting my entries, and I was so happy that it really took everything I had to email again when I didn't actually get the flask. I won something else from Viz a few years ago which they also never sent me until I emailed and asked for another one. And there's no way that an offensive print media publication which is still around now can possibly be worse-run than a videogame PR company.
>> No. 463135 Anonymous
14th March 2024
Thursday 12:41 am
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Walked past a guy in town earlier that absolutely stunk of booze and cigs, like straight out of an 70's boozer. Been years since I encountered it.
>> No. 463136 Anonymous
14th March 2024
Thursday 9:38 am
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Yesterday I had leftover lasagna for dinner, followed by carbonara for tea. My arse has seriously erupted this morning.
>> No. 463137 Anonymous
14th March 2024
Thursday 6:53 pm
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I know this lad who lost a lot of weight and now he just appears really gaunt. I'd really hate it if I put all that effort into improving myself only to now look like I have terminal cancer.
>> No. 463138 Anonymous
14th March 2024
Thursday 7:04 pm
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>>463137

I look really gaunt, but that's because I live on a diet of Monster Ultra and electric fags.
>> No. 463139 Anonymous
14th March 2024
Thursday 7:44 pm
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A group of elderly deaf people just walked past, signing at each other. I obviously don't expect them to be able to speak properly, and that's fine, but the laugh that one of the blokes had made him sound like a right mong. It was like a hiss or gurgle.
>> No. 463141 Anonymous
14th March 2024
Thursday 7:49 pm
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>>463139
Can I have your address so that I might come and murder you?
>> No. 463142 Anonymous
14th March 2024
Thursday 7:50 pm
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>>463139
I've heard that deaf people sex noises are full on nightmare fuel.
>> No. 463143 Anonymous
14th March 2024
Thursday 7:58 pm
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>>463141
Hey now, I have the greatest respect for the D/deaf community, despite any weird laughs they have. And the mong community, for that matter. We all love Downy brother just as much as he loves his ale and footy.
>> No. 463144 Anonymous
14th March 2024
Thursday 8:03 pm
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>>463139
>>463142
Deaf people arguing is something that the rest of us probably shouldn't find as funny as we do. How do you raise your voice while signing? With bigger, faster, and more aggressive hand movements, obviously. Naturally, when one party has had enough, they just turn their back on the other.
>> No. 463145 Anonymous
14th March 2024
Thursday 8:24 pm
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>>463144

About ten years ago I saw a deaf couple have a blazing row in the middle of Lime Street Station. Absolutely mesmerising. I'm still not entirely sure that it wasn't an experimental theatre production.
>> No. 463147 Anonymous
15th March 2024
Friday 12:19 pm
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Thought I'd listen to Down with the Sickness for the first time in donkeys years. I'd forgotten how cringeworthy it gets.

No mommy, don't do it again
Don't do it again
I'll be a good boy
I'll be a good boy, I promise
No mommy don't hit me
Why did you have to hit me like that, mommy?
Don't do it, you're hurting me
Why did you have to be such a bitch
Why don't you
Why don't you just fuck off and die
Why can't you just fuck off and die
Why can't you just leave here and die
Never stick your hand in my face again bitch
Fuck you
I don't need this shit
You stupid sadistic abusive fucking whore
How would you like to see how it feels mommy
Here it comes, get ready to die


And that's why it'll be a long time until I listen to it again.
>> No. 463150 Anonymous
15th March 2024
Friday 3:30 pm
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>>463147

I had the song on numerous times during covid lockdown with the windows open when I was still living in my flat near city centre. Some of my neighbours would give me a laugh and a thumbs up from their balcony, while others really didn't take the joke well at all.
>> No. 463151 Anonymous
15th March 2024
Friday 9:11 pm
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F1nn5ter is transitioning and getting her cock out on OnlyFans and I am fully on board with it.
>> No. 463153 Anonymous
15th March 2024
Friday 10:05 pm
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>>463151
I'm sure the trans community appriciates your allyship.
>> No. 463154 Anonymous
15th March 2024
Friday 10:19 pm
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>>463153

I'd express my support all over her face IYKWIM.
>> No. 463155 Anonymous
15th March 2024
Friday 10:29 pm
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>>463151

Why do they always have to spoil it by "transitioning", especially if they're not even going to commit to it and have their cock cut off. Stop trying to have your cake and eat it. I like a cheeky femboy crossdresser, that's spicy and kinky, but as soon as they start trying to genuinely be a lass, it kills the vibe. It's like they fell for their own prank.

tangent about trans bullshit incoming, read at your own peril

I'm really starting to feel that a lot of modern genderbending is more to do with people not being able to make peace with the fact that real life isn't a videogame where you can change character at a whim. The more online we get, the more people experience this dissonance and discontentment that their real life meat sack is bland, disappointing and mediocre.

I used to have terrible self-image issues and it's part of why I ended up being a furry, where I could build this alter ego that still closely represents me, but in a much more affirming way, no longer beholden to traditional expectations of human attractiveness or masculinity etc. If I had been born a few years later, however, and spent more time on social media and places like acrobat instead of the old wild west internet, I reckon I'd easily have become convinced I am trans instead. I realise some people don't think it's a fair comparison but honestly, the core issue of psychological self-image, body image, and dysphoria is the same.

The difference is I had to eventually make peace with and develop confidence in my real life body and appearance, because obviously YWNBAF; the escapism of an online alter-ego was just a helpful coping mechanism and safe retreat sometimes that helped me get there. Whereas trans people are encouraged to take the opposite route to a solution, and the community is dogmatically committed to pushing that as the best solution. This is why so many of them top themselves in the end, I'm certain- Self-acceptance is the very foundation of mental health, and we are suppressing it, if not actively demonising it.
>> No. 463156 Anonymous
16th March 2024
Saturday 12:04 am
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>>463154
I've seen a few images of Finn5ster without makeup and .. they look a lot more boyish than they're made out to be. Still cute but it's a noticable difference. It really makes me wonder what attractive is - almost every femboy, crossdresser or transexual I've seen online has a noticable quality that identifies them as what they are, which makes it quite confusing for me when I wonder what I'm attracted to - the wig (and verious other trappings) or the person. It even happens occasionally with actual females - a lot of the time it's the clothes and general presentation that's attractive rather than the individual.
>> No. 463157 Anonymous
16th March 2024
Saturday 6:00 am
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>>463155

There's good evidence that gender-affirmative healthcare reduces suicide risk in trans people.

Also girldick is deliciously squishy.
>> No. 463158 Anonymous
16th March 2024
Saturday 7:10 am
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I don't think I'm as "into" transwomen as you lot are, but I do have semi-regular fantasies about fighting and possibly dying for ContraPoints while clad in full plate armour, so your thing is definitely more normal than my thing.
>> No. 463159 Anonymous
16th March 2024
Saturday 8:25 am
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>>463155
>I had to eventually make peace
Why should you have to? In the nicest possible way, there's a hint of the "nobody helped me so why should I help the young people?" attitude you see a lot in Yankee boomers creeping in there. There's no moral reason people shouldn't be able or allowed to transition on a whim, to genderfux or to foxes or anything else. It's only a practical problem.
I say this as someone who has never had any desire to be any gender or species other than my own and no desire to fuck anyone other than cis women. If you want to be an attack helicopter, and have the resources and opportunity for it, be an attack helicopter.
>> No. 463160 Anonymous
16th March 2024
Saturday 9:15 am
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Tbh, I'd love to be able to just go entirely feminine while still being a bloke. Just to go out in tights and a skirt etc with makeup and have no ody bat an eye. I have no desire to "be" a woman, but enjoy a warm feeling when I paint my nails and wear long stripy socks etc.
>> No. 463161 Anonymous
16th March 2024
Saturday 9:49 am
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>>463156
>actual females


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZMNiiS0WiM

>>463160
I have a feeling I'll read a post by you in two or three years talking about your transition.
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