>>465338
Are you threatening us two with a good time?

I think stabbing 11 children, killing 2, is really bad. I can't imagine looking through his eyes at a room full of little girls and thinking "yeah I'm gonna stab em". But I can imagine being a child and being stabbed by some mad cunt and thinking "shit I'm bleeding out what the fuck". I don't agree with the death penalty but killing random kids is a bit gauche.

Yeah I picked a bad day to keep up with the news. I've been ignoring current events for the good of my mental health, typical the first time I peek out from under my rock in months and there's been multiple nutters on stabbing rampages.

>>465341>>465342
I made the mistake of going on Twitter. There's pictures circulating where people have taken photos out of their windows of bloodied little girls on the ground receiving medical treatment.

The youtube app on my Panasonic smart TV is incredibly buggy since the last forced update. Have you two noticed that on your TVs as well, or is it more likely something that is specific to my brand and model?

I suddenly feel a bit listless. What are you lads currently looking forward to in your lives?

Why does warm weather always seem to upset my tummy? Not like I've been sick or anything but you know where you get hat anxious nervous lower gut feeling, and know you've got maybe 2-3 minutes to make it to the bog and evacuate an unstoppable sloppy porridge of a poo.

I tend to get it the first couple of days of a holiday, and I always just assumed it's the difference in food or something, but the last couple of years it has happened over the summer here, which leads me to believe it actually is the temperature, just it's rare it's warm enough to trigger it here.

Over the weekend two people reacted with complete surprise that I am from my hometown. One didn't really know why and the other flatly told me I "sounded posh". I suppose that's something approaching "social mobility".

I was thinking of subscribing to Ubisoft+ because I want to play Star Wars Outlaws and can more easily justify £15 for a month's access than £70 for a likely bad game I will likely never replay. Maybe it keep it through October for Assassin's Creed Alienate The Japanese edition. But looking at the service, it makes me realise how shit Ubisoft is. Their last few big games are Avatar (blue people not air bending), a franchise nobody cares about; Skull & Bones "the first AAAA" game which was a huge disaster; Prince Of Persia The Lost Crown which is actually alright; and Assassin's Creed Mirage which is bland. You get all the Ultimate Editions and early access to new games but the value seems poor. It's more than Game Pass, you're limited only to Ubi games, modern Ubi games have no replay value, modern Ubi games have no creative merit.

I can't think of another publisher so astoundingly mediocre. The other big evil publishers, ActiBlizz and EA, can shit out good games from time to time.

I subscribed to GTA+ which I think is only worth it if you play GTA Online, but it has the Definitive Trilogy on it, and it was £7 for a month instead of £28 to buy it outright. I think I can beat San Andreas in under a month? Though it has taken 20 years so far.

>>465346
Could be heat stress.

There's been a new ice cream van going around, plays Match of the Day. He'll get the shit knocked out of him by Captain Pugwash and Benny Hill if he's not careful.

>>465351
I've just heard one playing Teddy Bear's Picnic. It sounded slightly sinister.

My local ice cream van plays every third note of O Sole Mio, also known in this country as “Just One Cornetto” because of that advert that hasn’t been on TV for 30 years. I think it’s a good choice of tune, but the fact it’s only every third note makes it very hard to recognise, and the fact you can hear it from miles away at all hours of the day and night is really giving me some odd PTSD-like Pavlovian revulsion and I wish I could stop hearing it and I hate it so much.

>>465352

First bit starts out on a minor key, which over an ice cream van jingle always sounds like something out of a horror film.

You one of the Wakey-adjacent lads? I hear that one all the time near work.

>>465354
I am Wakey-adjacent, but I work off J24 on the days I'm in the office.

Painting a garage door in the sunshine this morning I noticed one particular point on my head was getting much hotter than the rest of it. Probably nothing to worry about. Maybe I'll buy a hat so it doesn't happen again.

>>465356

I had a tin of paint custom made for my garage door after bringing them a weathered flake of old paint from it. The other day while touching up a few scuffs on the front door, it turned out that by sheer coincidence, it's the exact same shade of off-white as that door. So as soon as the weather cools down, I'll probably give the door a new paint job as well, as I've still got about half the tin left from painting the garage door.

>>465356

In my early 30s, I started noticing that washing my forehead took longer than usual. You think you've stopped growing, then your forehead starts getting bigger. Weird.

>>465358
Yes, that must be what happens. My forehead’s massive; it goes so far up it’s coming down the other side behind my ears. If only someone had warned me about this alleged forehead growth.

Do retailers get money back when you return and refund a product? I imagine they get some from the manufacturer or supplier if it's a faulty product, but if I buy an item, return as I no longer need it, do they write it off or is it tax deductible or something?

Just because Amazon are apparently quite generous with refunds but I don't know if that's just because they're so huge they can tank it, or if they end up not out of pocket in the end anyway.

>>465359
On the upside, if your forehead is spreading over the top, you probably won't have to deal with the embarrassment of a bald spot, as your hairline will get there first.

>>465361

Yeah, you don't want that kneecap-growing-on-the-back-of-your-head look.

>>465360

If you return a reasonably high-value product simply because you didn't want it, they'll inspect it and resell it as b-stock. Amazon have a whole section of their store for these products. If it's low-value or it falls below their inspection standards, they'll chuck it on a pallet and sell it wholesale to a third party company; that company typically sells to car booters, eBay sellers and so on.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Amazon-Warehouse-Deals/b?node=3581866031

Abit concerned about my computer. Since mentioning the LGBT lights the other week, they've stopped working. Now my keyboard is cutting out, even with fresh batteries. Writing this now, only the O is faulty (which incedentally has begun picking up the slack) where previously it was multiple keys.

Either these glitches are signs of a hack or my computer is breaking down under the 24 degree heat.

Having being forced into listening to a bunch of Ladytron tonight instead of enjoying Justice's Glasto' set, I can safely say they are about as popular as they ought to be, despite what many of their ultras in the YouTube comment section claim.

I'm doing the online induction for uni because I'm starting in September. I have to do a course on consent. I'm an old boomer, I've been with my girlfriend for nine years, I've never done a rape. I don't think the course is necessary for me. You can get out of it if you've been raped before which I sort of have but then it's awkward emailing them saying "I can't do the anti-rape course due to the rape I suffered".

Went to McDonald's drive through yesterday and when the man handed me my meal and said "enjoy your meal" I replied "you too!"

Still thinking about it.

>>465383

At one of my old jobs, some of us had to do an anti-discrimination course. I'm not sure what the criteria were for how you were selected, but I didn't have to do it.

I'm not disagreeing in principle that there can be some benefit to it for some people, but they were making ten of our coworkers miss almost a day and a half of work. For something where you probably just could have handed them a booklet to read on their tea break.

I guess it's one way to keep people with sociology and gender studies degrees employed.

YouTube: I will not be watching the attractive, pair of whale skin breechesi, communist, video essayist. Stop bothering me!

UPS told me they'd be delivering my parcel between 9am and 1pm today, but according to the tracking it hasn't left the depot yet.

I've ordered a pair of walking shoes. I think I'll now have more footwear than at any point in my life. I've somehow now got walking shoes, walking boots, running shoes, two pairs of trainers, a pair of boots and a pair of formal shoes.

>>465383
Actually now I think about it, I did push a consent course on the uni society I was on the committee for last time I was studying, so I'm actually a hypocrite for taking umbrage against having to learn how not to rape.

I've been out for meals twice in the past week and both times there's been having a couple having a domestic.

This evening's happened in Pizza Hut, which descended into full on shouting and storming off because the man was accusing his partner of ruining his £200 trainers. This all happened in front of their two kids.

The one at the weekend was at a pub in Masham, but wasn't as noteworthy.

>>465393
We have regular "training" here for and no matter what, it's always the same structure that makes it painfully obvious that it's a box-ticking exercise. It's something like...

You saw Jenny take a hundred pounds out of the till. Should you:

a) Say nothing, she deserves the money
b) Also take money out of the till
c) Report it to a manger

>>465422

I'm self employed and I get to decide what training I put myself through. A while ago, I went to do two days worth of AML training. All the ins and outs of how money laundering works, who commits it, what to watch out for, all the red flags, and how to report it.

I'd say it was two days well spent, because as an estate agent, it makes you more switched on and helps you gain a better understanding of what's likely going on when somebody obfuscates the origin of their funds or the identity of the actual buyer, remains vague about their motivation to buy, or shows up to buy a flat with a literal briefcase full of money. The latter didn't happen to me but to one of my business partners, and on my advice, he told that buyer to fuck off.



Self sage for rambling.

>>465442
I think you've mentioned some of this before, but I'd be interested to hear more.
I've always wndered if there's a legitimate way of buying a house without taking a mortgage. Would much rather just pay outright (if I ever could) than buy it long term from a bank.

>>465449

>I've always wndered if there's a legitimate way of buying a house without taking a mortgage.

There is. You can simply buy a property with all your own money by bank transfer. It's not impossible to launder money via bank accounts, but all UK banks have reporting duties to file SAR reports with the UK's Financial Intelligence Unit when they spot suspicious behaviour. They can still decide not to, at their peril, but you'll be in the clear as the estate agent facilitating the sale. Unless you spot other red flags, your responsibilities end where you can reasonably assume that somebody else has done their homework and is observing their reporting duties.

So if you've got hundreds of thousands in cash sitting in a UK bank account which you can reasonably prove you attained through honest means, there's nothing to stop you from using that money to buy your house outright and legitimately without taking out a loan. I probably won't dissuade you in that case.

If you calculate all the cost of taking out a loan or mortgage versus buying the house with your own money, the latter is actually the better deal. But of course with today's house prices, even with the most recent dip, that's not something that will ever be realistic for about 70 to 80 percent of buyers. With flats, it's different. You have clients who can pay for a £200K flat with their own money. I see some of it with people investing in buy-to-let properties. But most three- or four-bedroom homes today come at a price that's just not within the means of most people without taking out a sometimes huge mortgage.

You could say that banks exploit your lack of means with mortgages, but in the end, once that mortgage is paid off, you are still left with a property that's all yours and will likely keep appreciating in value long after the bank is out of the picture.

>>465337
This has turned out to be about what evangelist christian korean youtubers can wear to work.

>>465453

Noddy Holder's looking well.

I've been restoring some family heirloom hi-fi components this past week, and I'm shocked that there is actually a noticeable difference in sound quality between my trusty old mid-range Kenwood CD player and a Denon CD player, both made in 1990 and fully restored, the Denon probably costing about 50 to 100 quid more at the time.

That wasn't necessarily canon at the time if you were reading hi-fi magazines. Most of them held that because it was all digital, the difference in sound quality would be negligible. At least in the £200-300 price range that these two were in. Which is about £500-£700 in today's money.

But having listened to some of my favourite CDs on the Denon for a day now, I'm shocked how much better they sound. I guess there is still a difference in how the digital audio signal is processed between different CD players and converted into an analog line-level signal. That's probably what counts. A good D/A converter. Could be that the 50-100 quid more for the Denon gave you a better one. Kenwood didn't necessarily have a cheap reputation at the time, but it was understood that it couldn't keep up with the more established brands of high-end audio like Denon, Sony or Harman/Kardon.

Why the fuck did I just agree to a job interview for working security? I have arms like cigarettes and more than one person has inexplicably asked me if I went to private school. Clearly, I should not be on the doors of a pub that needs someone on the doors.

>>465466

It can't be that hard, they let women do it these days.

>>465466

You won't be working alone. You'll probably have a few more brawny coworkers who will handle the more physical stuff. And you'll have radio, in case somebody gets aggressive against you.

>>465466
Don't worry. With your disposition they won't be giving you door work.

>>465469
There's always some snide little prick on here.

I fear I'm becoming some kind of "Karen" as I get older. I'm less and less tolerable to poor service and poor manners. I don't say anything about it, but I find myself genuinely pissed off if a shop worker is rude or unreasonable, whereas before I would shrug it off. Is this an inevitable part of your mid 30s? And are people (of all generations) getting ruder? Or am I just getting older?

>>465600
You gotta remember mate that in the age of post-industrial colonialism, where films like The Office Space Jam couldn't be made, all these younger lower class floor workers are disenfranchised with our capitalist system and the only way they can push back is by sticking it to the man who can afford a £5 blocks of cheese.

>>465600
>And are people (of all generations) getting ruder?

I think there is an overshadowing epidemic of tiredness and resignation amongst people who work in shops which encourages one to think "what a smug prick/scruffy bastard/entitled bitch" whenever they see a stranger who somewhat resembles someone they've had a bad experience with. Also my generation blames pretty much everything on the older generations, as though your auntie was personally responsible for the housing crisis.

>>465610
Have you tried enlargening the doorways?

>>465610

Was she like this before she worked from home?

I had a shut in girlfriend once, even getting her to do something as simple as take the recycling out or pick something up from the post office quite literally around the corner at the end of our street, was like pulling teeth. She wasn't fat, only a big curvy, but in the very attractive "big tiddy goth gf" stereotype kind of way, but she was still ridden with anxiety and self image issues.

The core of it probably isn't that she's fat, tha's just become an exacerbating factor. I suspect however, you'll need to find and address whatever is at the core of it if you want to even begin to work on it, and the fatness is part of what will need to be addressed to fully make her comfortable.

But personally I just figured it's not worth it, you can help people if there's a will to change but in her case there wasn't, she was happy with it and basically I either had to accept that I'd be the one doing more or less everything in the relationship, or continually cause conflict over it. I definitely miss her from time to time. But I have to remember it was absolutely driving me up the wall.

>>465610
"They'll laugh regardless, so just go" - no seriously, this is what I used to convince myself to start swimming in public, though I'm not humongous just big. I think hiding away is a type of denial - if they don't see me I'm not fat, or atleast they don't know I'm fat. My dad used to ask if certain clothes made him look fat, to which I'd reply 'Your fat makes you look fat'. It's logical and once you can get to terms with it in your own head you can start becoming more comfortable moving about and generally addressing the issue.

What're we talking, multiple wobbly shelves of fat? Knee rolls so large they'd sit on a dining plate?