Yes, yes, very funny.

What was wrong with the old thread anyway? It had only been up for a week. There isn't meant to be a weekend thread for each individual weekend.

Hold on; that was the new weekday thread. Oops. I can't believe I've ruined the new weekend thread already.

>>464418
You maniac.

I tried to lock the other three threads as this one actually has engagement and it crashed the entire website for a little while, sorry about that.

Hm. I think I might have just made a connection. Do you reckon these kid's TV puppets are actually the true origin of the "soyjack" face trend?

(I don't mean the MSpaint memes, I mean the real life phenomenon where it's apparently the only face a certain kind of chap can make in photos, which I gather the memes were based on.)

>>464422
Sounds like a bit of a reach.

>>464422
I do the soy face in pictures, and it's because I want to look like I'm having fun and because smiling can be done wrong and can look stilted and forced and awkward and weird. It's really just an insecure smile. I have seen people rant about when you tell a woman to do something funny, and she just sort of pulls an adorable face; the male equivalent of that is the soy face.

That belgian bun looked dead nice though. Fuck, why doesn't Greggs stay open later.

>>464424
>I do the soy face to avoid looking weird

I overheard two blokes in a clothes shop yesterday. One was telling his pal he "walked fast everywhere", to which the other replied that he "can't stand soywalking". Not only is talking like this embarrassing on the face of it, especially for grown men who looked thirty-ish, the cunt had scraggly unkempt hair, shite clothes and a patchy beard. I don't judge people based on how they look unless they're actually filthy and/or adorned in extreme symbols, but by his own bizarre aesthetic standards, surely this guy was a fuck-up?

>>464427
My 63 year old father won't walk fast because he says "it looks gay".

>>464428
How times change, eh? One day you're sauntering around town with a masculine energy not even Duke Nukem could hope to rival, the next a lad who wouldn't know conditioner if it hit him in the head is calling you a "soywalker".

I had to delete my LinkedIn (I barely used it, had no info on it, just had it to read posts from business people) because a friend from school I haven't spoken to in 12 years viewed my profile. I don't know why he found me - we have no social media links (I purged my Facebook a decade ago), we live in different countries. He must have actively decided out of nowhere to look me up randomly. My name is fairly distinct/uncommon so there's no combing through hundreds of "John Smiths" to find the right one. I can be found instantly.

>>464430
Someone did the unthinkable and found you by your name?

>>464431
It means they were thinking about me independently without my input allowing them to think about me. And they did not just think about me they sought me out. That implies intent.

It probably happens on Facebook all the time it just doesn't tell me. It's a curse having LinkedIn email me that they viewed my profile. Forbidden knowledge.

>>464432
You sound like you need professional help.

>>464432

Don't tell us you've never gone on Facebook when you can't sleep and just randomly started looking up your old schoolmates, colleagues and exes.

There are dozens of people you used to know, and no longer have contact with, and any one of them at any point could totally innocently think "Oh, wonder what Anon is up to these days". Admittedly LinkedIn isn't the first place I'd look but it says as much about them as anyone else, I think. They probably saw your Facebook, wanted to know more, were just being nosey.

This exact thing has happened to you and all of us many times over by now. We're on t'internet. I was throwing sticks off a mountain for a robot dog in virtual reality this morning. It's the future o'clock. Get used to it.

The chocolate in Aldi's version of Magnum is nicer than the chocolate in Lidl's version of a Magnum, but Lidl's version has a far more satisfying snap when you bite into it.

>>464435

I like Lidl's off brand ice cream better.

>>464432
I think LinkedIn is indexed by Google but Facebook isn't, so your LinkedIn profile will show up in a Google search but your Facebook profile won't. Someone still looked you up, of course, but isn't that better than being totally forgotten by everyone?

This thread has got weird toxic insecure 4chan energy so far. Reminds me of when my fat unkempt 30 something virgin friend started talking unirronicly about weak chins.

Soy walking and freaking out 'you were noticed by someone' are topics a healthy mind should not actually be entertaining. The very consideration of the ideas at all seems like a ruminating sickness.

Were people alway this insecure? I look at my parents and they might be brash over confident idiots but they don't strike me as ever having second guessed their public perception. The thought wouldn't even occur to them. Sure my sister might never talk to them again for the rest of their lives. but at least they aren't self crippling in basic actions, and the fact that they don't blame themselves for their estranged daughter probably does wonders to cope with the situation.

>>464434
>Don't tell us you've never gone on Facebook when you can't sleep and just randomly started looking up your old schoolmates, colleagues and exes.
I've been thinking alot lately about this one dude from highschool whom I only ever knew as Lee Turtle (for his short, round body shape). He was a such a sweet guy, I think I probably fancied him without realising it.

>>464438
>Sure my sister might never talk to them again
>they don't blame themselves for their estranged daughter
..there something you want to talk about, mate?

>>464439

>something you wanted to talk about

Not really I just wanted to make the point that one end of the spectrum you've got this thread filled with crippling over analysing insecurity that is deeply unhealthy and on the other end you've got the over confidence of narcissists that is deeply unhealthy for the opposite reasons.


If I didn't mention the counter point of my parents being bastards I feel like I might be giving an unfair account of the virtues of not self questioning at all, when I know there are drawbacks. Even though I think a lot of people should as a rule be more self assured.

LinkedIn just glows really hard. All social media does to some extent but that fact LinkedIn shows up on Google searches is worrying. Not to mention the corpo fucks spouting business philosophy being annoying. Like if someone had my name and Googled it and I had a LinkedIn and I had filled it out they'd have my job and educational history, my musings, my business contacts. It's dangerous information to have so readily available. I don't fill in LinkedIn and I reduced FB to 35 friends but even then I only use it to follow news I don't post on there. X is fun for laughing at schizo conspiracy theorists and also for wanking to evangelist christian korean youtubers.

>>464440

>one end of the spectrum you've got this thread filled with crippling over analysing insecurity that is deeply unhealthy and on the other end you've got the over confidence of narcissists that is deeply unhealthy for the opposite reasons

They aren't mutually exclusive.

Back in the 60s, there was a popular notion among social psychologists that violent criminals just had low self esteem and would stop acting like bastards if they just liked themselves more. That turned out to be disastrously wrong, because criminals actually have higher self esteem than the rest of us - you have to think quite highly of yourself to believe that you've got a right to rob a bank or kick someone's head in for looking at you funny. Violent criminals have high but fragile self-esteem; they think of themselves very highly, but they don't have much to back it up, are hyper-sensitive to perceived attacks and will do pointlessly self-destructive things to reinforce their perceived status.

Insecurity isn't the opposite of narcissism, it's a facet of it. Whether you believe that everyone loves you or everyone hates you, you're wildly over-estimating how much people think about you at all. The grandiose and the paranoid both fundamentally believe that they are of special importance. The inc*l feels shame, envy and resentment because he believes that by rights he ought to be a chad. The cure for insecurity and for grandiosity is fundamentally the same - to spend less time thinking about yourself.

Are we just going to let Michael Mosley's death slide?

>>464442

There are different ways of looking at self esteem. You could argue that you can teach a would-be criminal a kind of self esteem that will have them thinking of themselves as better than that, and striving for a life without crime.

Violent crime is a lot about the (wrong) kind of upbringing you've received. It's not all about a fragile sense of self worth. If you grew up with physical violence and were taught that violence solves problems, then that will be your go-to.

>>464443
I don't have much to say about it, except that it does terrify me a fair bit. I am unhealthy enough that I could potentially get into difficulty while walking, and I would be adventurous enough to try and walk around on a tourist island if I went to Greece. It could easily have been me. Knowing me, I would only barely survive, and smug twats would lord it over me forever about how what a fool I was for attempting to go on a walk on a nice day without taking whatever weird precautionary luggage that hindsight will reveal that I needed, like a sleeping bag or a flare gun. Stuff you would never go walking with on a small island on holiday, and I would point this out to them, but they'd just point out that I nearly died and all laugh at me. Fuckers.

But indeed, RIP the healthy telly man. He was found by a fence on the other side of the beach, too; he very nearly made it back and he would have survived if there had been a gate there.

>>464442

I didn't make the most nuanced position as I was largely offering up an explanation for why I was bringing up what might seem like a haunting issue to me in context. So I largely agree with you, and co-narcissism is a thing people general don't immediately understand and doesn't fit into the pattern described, but I was merely waxing lyrical about how seeming emotional insensitivity actual was to some extent empowering even if I stubbled on my phrasing.

As a counter point though I must question your conclusion

>The cure for insecurity and for grandiosity is fundamentally the same - to spend less time thinking about yourself.

I would say in modern society this is simply not observably true, the rules for making a faux paus have become increasingly obnoxious in the last few years and it makes people hyper aware of others in a way that is crippling.
"did you just assume my gender" and "triggered" might be absurdist extremes for jokes but they speak to a very real anxiety, most people have become increasingly anxious they might perform a hate crime or do psychological damage for speaking without a filter.

I misgender and 'dead name' people all the time, give a cheap apology and move forward because secretly I do not give a shit, but I could imagine it being haunting for people given how much the ideas are hyped as unforgivable sins.

The same is true and probably worse for triggers, if you read the horror stories online and accept them at face value you could never leave the house as there has probably been for every perceivable variant of normal human behaviour an instance online where it was treated as hostile and demonised by the general community it is in. The recent example of meeting a man vs a bear instantly jumps out. The conclusion being if you are a man you should never engage a woman ever. If you treat these people online as having valid thoughts and feelings you couldn’t live in society.

The logical virtuous position of not trying to harm anyone leads people to be crippled not by a care for the self but a concern for others where they are afraid they might impose themselves on someone else. I would say as a society we have turned empathy into a weapon for self-flagellation.

>>464447

>"did you just assume my gender" and "triggered" might be absurdist extremes for jokes but they speak to a very real anxiety, most people have become increasingly anxious they might perform a hate crime or do psychological damage for speaking without a filter.

This is totally foreign to my experience. I imagine that people of that ilk do actually exist in the real world, but I can't imagine how I'd ever end up interacting with one. If anyone is sincerely worried about being cancelled by the woke brigade, I would counsel them to spend less time on Twitter, stop hanging out with knobheads and get a proper job.

>>464443

I'm just glad it was a mystery disappearance type of death because if it was just a plain heart attack or kidney implosion or whatever, that would have been awfully embarrassing for him.

Still pretty weird though, like had he been drinking all day or was he on some kind of psychedelic bender they're keeping hush? Or do we just have to accept you can get caught out in the sun, get dehydrated and a bit lost, and that's you fucked? It's far too easy but you just never really consider it a possibility..

Should I be calling the police?
I've just been propositioned by a 13 year old who looked high as shit and slurring thier words, from among a group of kids larking about, one of whom was sobbing to themselves.
A few days ago a bunch of lads were hopping fences and acting in a mildly hostile manner.
The other week a woman was walking the street screaming herself horse about pedos and bestiality while turning up garden pots and telling everyone to fuck off.

These events are unusual for my locale, and each time I've wondered if I should notify the police. In most cases for the wellbeing of the individuals, but I'm not sure I imagine somewhat for my own entertainment.
I don't want this sort of thing to become too regular, so call, but then again would I be being a busy body?

Particularly the kids proposition and the screaming woman - someone might get assualted or taken advantage of.

>>464450
Yes. Why are you even asking this, call the police NOW.

>>464451
And say what exactly?

>>464448

I have interacted with at least 10 people of shall we say "novel gender" in the last year right down to my neighbours a couple who are both theys and an old housemate who is indeterminate gender by their own admission that i keep in touch with, that has the biggest cock I've ever seen but also grew themselves a pair of tits.

In terms of real cancelling I have had the experience being on the committee of a convention where people started a campaign to get one of the guests of honour cancelled, through means of innuendo that something inappropriate behaviour had happened. It absolutely was a shower of bollocks but you have to treat these things in a serious poe faced manner on the risk that there is any substance at all. I incedently never went back to said convention and the abuse of systems designed for safe guards was a key component of that.

I regularly get reactions like yours maybe I have fallen into a weird pocket dimension. Because I would say I encounter more they thems then I do then lads who like to watch football. Which I assume can not be the norm. It isn't like I seek these things out I just somehow end up in these spaces.

>>464451

Snitches get stitches

>>464449

It's highly likely that he did have some kind of medical episode, possibly caused or exacerbated by the heat. His body was found about fifty metres away from a busy beach. It seems like he collapsed in exactly the wrong place - just a few metres in any direction and he would have been clearly visible to a load of people on sunloungers.

>>464450

You can call the police if you want, but I wouldn't expect them to do anything.

>>464452
>Oh yes, hello, I have crippling autism. There are some teenage kids who appear to be high, one of them appeared about age 13 and propositioned me and another was clearly distressed. Please go and sort them out. I also heard some woman screaming about pedos the other week so might be something afoot innit.

Then you go on the cop website and report the rest as antisocial behaviour before they start robbing garden furniture and bikes.

>>464450
I'd be more worried about the fact that you're in your thirties and still watch TV shows made for 6 year olds.

I wasted my entire weekend on the internet and didn't even get to the gym. There's need for me to break out of the rut I'm in but I don't know how, I'm like a deer caught in the headlights I guess. My best strategy is to make sure I start filling out my calendar to plan my day hour by hour like I'm a child again.

>>464441
>that fact LinkedIn shows up on Google searches is worrying

I don't know anymore. Don't get me wrong, I only have one for industry conferences/conventions but it's incredibly useful for verifying that a match from a dating app isn't a nutter before I go further.

Although obviously for me I don't touch it and only have a facebook I never update because I don't have any friends but the basic functionality is still there.

>>464458
>I wasted my entire weekend on the internet and didn't even get to the gym.
Put a film on your phone and watch it when you're on the treadmill. That's what I've been doing, I've gotten through a good chunk of Breaking Bad.

>>464450
There was a woman screaming and waking up our whole street a few nights ago. I opened the window to see what the commotion was, and she was slurring her words too and someone sounded like he was trying to help her, and she started accusing him of trying to rob her. He sounded confused by this, so in the end I decided she was having some kind of mental health crisis and the other guy was helping, so I went back to bed. This is, however, not that unusual for the area where I live. I have also had children make weird comments to me, but they always sound like they're trying to entertain their friends rather than anything horrific.

I think a child slurring their words and appearing to be on drugs while also propositioning people is enough to warrant a phone call to 101 at the very least.

Just had pasta shaped like condoms. Wouldn't recommend it.

I thought of a story where a man falls in love with a pregnant women but doesn't want to raise another man's kids so he disguises himself and falcon punches the woman in the stomach to abort the kid and the shock of the dead baby causes the woman's relationship to break down then the protagonist swoops in and charms her but then feels guilt for aborting the baby and ruining her life and he must fight with his feelings of does he confess he aborted her baby and ruined the life of the woman he loves or keep it hidden and have the guilt eating away at him for the rest of his life while he stays with the woman he loves?

>>464460
I remember a few years ago I was walking home from the shops and a man eating a pack of custard creams (who was also wearing a fur coat in the summer) came up to me and said "Sorry, do you know where [street name] is?", I said "sorry no" and carried on walking and then saw the street sign, and told the guy that he was on the right street. He started shouting at a house about some woman, still munching on his custard creams. That's the most bizarre thing I've seen.

>>464459
I put an audiobook or podcast on and stare at the wall for an hour. That part isn't such a problem for me so long as what I'm listening to is good. The problem comes with it suddenly being midnight and I've wasted the day away.

Father's day on Sunday. What do you reckon, would it be an imposition to buy my dad a vape kit?

He's smoked all his life and obviously needs to stop but at the same time it seems like one of those things where he would've moved to vapes already it if he wanted to. Or maybe he's never bothered because he's never understood what to ask for.

>>464465

I don't think it's too much of an imposition, no. A lot of older people haven't tried vaping because it just seems weird and confusing and like something that's for young people. As a convicted vapist, I've had countless conversations with people who were completely sceptical about the whole malarkey until I got them to have a puff, at which point they were asking me where they could buy one of those things. Smoking is a really deep-seated habit and a lot of people just need a tiny push to try something different.

Advice if you aren't a vapist yourself: Disposables are a perfectly reasonable option for a first-timer. They're completely self-explanatory to use and cost less than a fiver, so you could just tack one on to another present and he'll probably give it a puff out of curiosity. It might be sensible to go for one in tobacco and one in another flavour. The psychology is a bit weird - a lot of smokers are put off by the idea of non-tobacco flavoured vapes, but almost everyone who takes up vaping immediately switches to some sort of fruity flavour when they realise that fags don't actually taste very nice.

If you want a reusable device, the Vaporesso XROS Mini is the obvious choice. It's cheap, dead easy to use and it vapes beautifully. There is a tiny bit of explaining to do, but it takes literally two minutes to show someone how to use a pod system. For someone coming from cigarettes, I'd recommend 20mg nic salt liquids, because that gives the most cigarette-like nicotine hit.

https://www.vapeclub.co.uk/vape-pods/vaporesso/vaporesso-xros-mini-pod-vape-kit

>>464465
>>464466
Wouldn't nicotine pouches be a better option if you're trying to quit?

>>464462
That's horrible.

>>464466
Thanks I'll give it a go. I opted for an Innokin Endura T18X Vape Kit as it's what I used to quit and I think the bigger throat hit will be something he'd need - I went for a mixture of sweeties, coffee and tabacco juice in 12mg 50/50.

Hopefully the package comes with a receipt so he can see how much cheaper it is too. It's blowing my mind thinking about how much of my inheritance he must be blowing away in smoke but also I can tell my mum is starting to get anxious as his brother died recently and has been making him go for medical tests.

>>464467
My dad is 65 years old and has been smoking all his life. At this point we're well into mitigation rather than ever expecting him to quit.

>>464467

Possibly, but probably not. I've used and enjoyed pouches, but they don't replicate the habit of smoking, which is integral to the addiction/enjoyment. Pouches satisfy your nicotine cravings, but they don't satisfy the hand-to-mouth habit, they don't give you an excuse to go and stare into space for five minutes.

>>464467
You can't have a can of Monster and a Peperami while using a nicotine pouch, it'd be a horrible taste nightmare. But I can have a bit of Peperami, a swig of Monster, then a toke on my OXVA blackcurrant aniseed vape and all flavours remain distinct. Nicotine pouch means 30 minutes without drinking.

>>464469

>My dad is 65 years old and has been smoking all his life. At this point we're well into mitigation rather than ever expecting him to quit.

Maybe he won't, but even for a lifelong smoker of that age, there are undeniable health benefits to quitting.

Going on a long beach walk this weekend. Hopefully see some crabs.

>>464489
Well yeah but if you want an update he's using the vape and my mum thanked me for it. I'm not vapelad but let's not let perfect become the enemy of the good.

>>464539
HEY, BEACHER, LEAVE THOSE CRABS ALONE.

>>464542

Just in case that one lad does pop up, here's what the chief executive of Public Health England had to say about it, and the report it came from.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5b6c3f57ed915d30f140f822/Ecigarettes_an_evidence_update_A_report_commissioned_by_Public_Health_England_FINAL.pdf

Just getting him to make the switch to vaping is a big win, it's a massive improvement to his health, and you should be chuffed. Good on him and on you.

Just been given £150k. Not really sure how to invest that, I've never had more then £10k in my bank in my life. Any advice?

>>464546
It's not really possible to say without knowing your overall financial position and what your goals are. Once you know what you're actually aiming for you can look at how you can allocate the money to try and achieve this.

The cherries on the tree in the back garden are coming in. They still need about a week to ten days or so. They're already pretty sweet, but it's nothing compared to the sweetness when they are a dark red, almost black.

Maybe I'll make a cherry pie next weekend.

>>464546
S&P 500 exchange traded funds. Vanguard do one.

>>464546
I wouldn't mind being given £150k myself. Did he also pay for your flight to Dubai?

>Not really sure how to invest that

Easiest way would be to open a Vanguard account, max out your ISA and open then a separate share account for the remainder. Invest nearly all of it in VUAG and/or VT. Then forget about it. Or stick it on some FTSE100 dividend stocks and make about £500 a month.

Numbers will go up and down. Don't expect 6 figures to mean much more than a rollercoaster for your emotions.

>>464546
Buy whatever you need, new car, new fridge etc.
Don't get any ideas about it lasting a long time.

>>464546
Pay off all your debts and use the rest to avoid accumulating any more. It's a nicer feeling than any earthly possession to not owe anyone else any money, and to know that you could quit your job if you wanted to.

>>464551

Don't be a daft twat. £150k will buy you a decent house in the north or start off a good pension pot. If you're sensible, it's an amount of money that can give you some real financial security.

>>464546
>>464554
Yeah couldn't you just buy a house up norf and become a rentier, earning an easy 12k a year?

>>464555

Or use it as a deposit on the mortgages for half a dozen flats and become a BtL bastard.

>>464546
Give me £10,000.

>>464546
My father and sister got into an arguement the other day because they couldn't find £50 for travel expenses to buy a 5th hand car.

>>464558
It's not like they can use more than four hand cars at once between the two of them.

Bit wet out.

Are you able to grow a beard? I've had long hair, don't cautre for it. But hair that grows out of my face? Above the face is a flavour saver, no. Cheeks for me just does not grow, so chin it is.

Simple braid, and that I got into knitting;.

>>464561
AI, surely? I've actually considered monoxidil or whatever that hair growth stuff is - wouldn't mind having a full face of hair rather than what I've got.

>>464561
Several years ago I was going to say "a couple of years ago" but then I worked out it must have been 2015, I grew one of those giant goatees that you can plait. It took about two years. Once I had my plaitable goatee, I plaited it two or three times and every time, it went crooked and the plait curved off to one side. Also, plaiting a beard is extremely difficult, and the plait was only about as wide as a pencil anyway. So I wouldn't recommend it. Nevertheless, yes I can grow a beard.

>>464561

I have had a beard since I was about 20-21ish, I think? I feel like it never filled out properly until I was about 23-24. I used to like having a beard because it made me look older, but now I'm in my mid 30s I've started appreciating how it makes me look younger without.

I very rarely have a proper wet shave, but I keep it trimmed down to stubble around my mouth and chin. I did keep massive sideburns though, because it matches the rest of my 1970s throwback kind of look.

>>464561

By the time my beard was dense enough to grow it out, it was starting to turn grey. We're talking late 20s/early 30s by that point. Now at 50, I've got decent beard growth but it's almost all grey except for the areas on my chin and upper lip. So you barely see most of it. The upside is that I can now go longer without shaving before it looks untidy.

Patchy beard growth isn't necessarily a sign of low testosterone. A lot of the time, it's a genetic insensitivity to testosterone of the hair follicles on your face. So your testosterone blood levels will actually be fine and in the normal range, and it's just that your facial hair cannot be stimulated by them. Nothing you can do about it. Additional testosterone shots might help a little bit, but the side effects aren't worth it.

Pretty rainy this week. I don't mind it too much though!

Started to notice how my hair is thinning out by looking at old pictures. When it gets bad enough i'll just shave the lot and buy a selection of novelty anime wigs.

I've had hot dogs for me dinner. What have you had?

>>464571
Had half a big bag of monster munch for breakfast. I think I'll make a cheese omelette for dinner with gorgonzola, peas, broccoli and tomato.

>>464561
No it just grows patchy, like you it grows on the neck (uneven) and chin but my cheeks never grow out and there's a gap in the middle of my moustache. I still leave a dirty beard from some electric clippers though because I'm too lazy to properly shave everyday and I think it hides my fat face.

I should shave. I probably look dirty.

>>464571
>>>/nom/15879
Thank you for reminding me to reply to that post, by the way.

Went to an arcade and set the daily high score for Crossy Road. Feel like I've actually accomplished something today.

>>464575

It saddens me that thisis what arcades are nowadays.

What happened to fucking... Time Crisis, and House of the Dead. It's just phone games on a big screen now.

Grumble grumble.

>>464573

You're welcome.

>>464576
What's wrong with Frogger Crossy Road at an arcade? They still make numerous shooters - infact the latest House of the Dead is only 6 years old.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXqzaFvimqM
Oh wow, what a trip. This game terrified me as a kid, I had nightmares and everything.

>>464577
I remember watching a kid pump coins into this at a hotel in Benidorm, probably spent about 20 quid getting through the game because he died every 30 seconds or so.

Aldi now do choco shells. That means there's pretty much no reason for me to go to Lidl now.

Just came back from a couple of days in Ireland. Not wanting to pay train prices or, worse, ferry prices to feed myself for the day, I figured I should stock up before heading to the terminal. In the UK, my usual shout for this would be to hit up a local convenience store, since some of them now have better prices on some things than the supermarkets. In Dublin? No such luck. Thankfully there is for some reason a Lidl right in the middle of town, in exactly the sort of place you don't expect a Lidl to be, and for a little over €10 I had enough drinks, snacks and sandwiches to keep me going for the following 12 hours.

Got sacked today. No big issue, I was expecting (and hoping for) it. I find sackings very weird. I've only been sacked three times - once because the business essentially went under, and twice due to disability. Today was the meeting discussing whether adjustments/redeployment/dismissal were appropriate. I was sort of given a subtle choice of "not get dismissed today and have more formal meetings to discuss things before a decision", or "get it over and done with". I went for the latter.

It all felt quite unceremonious. I handed over my IT equipment, gave my manager my badge and lanyard, and fucked off. Not that I'd expect some grand exit like Nostalgia Critic quitting his job, but still a bit odd the whole "yeah you're done goodbye" curtness of it all.

>>464675
If your dismissal involved disability in any way, take those fuckers to the cleaners at the Employment Tribunal.

>>464678
It was more that even with special treatment it still wasn't viable for the business to keep me on. I have other irons in the fire so was wanting the sacking for that severance pay, then I could move on to greater things. If anything I'd have been more disappointed had they gone for redeployment.

This is my only day off until next Monday and I don't have any idea what I want to do. I don't really have the money to do anything, but it still feels like I'm about to waste the day.

>>464687
Go for a walk. All day. Just set off and see where you end up, then get a bus or train home. It's the ultimate bargain day out for when the weather is lovely, which it is.

>>464689
Funnily enough I did go for a walk to nowhere in particular about an hour after that post. The thing is, I do this shite all the time. It was fine, but I would rather have the money to mooch around charity shops and go to see a film. Actually I'd rather have a wife and a flat and no belly fat, but I think I'm getting distracted.

Had a giant tapas platter for lunch today and haven't eaten since. Generous portions of calamari, king prawns and chorizo sausage with dip sauces.

80-100 thousand people marching in London today. JSO have a hell of a turnover rate. Hasn't been all that long but didn't recognise a single one of them. Not surpring really.

>>464698

Good on them.

But where do they think petrol will come from if we ban oil.

>>464698
Blow up oil create wind turbines
I heard that there're some significant drawbacks to wind turbines not least their reliance on the weather.
I think people don't realise how complicated the situation is. There must be more to our reliance on oil than mere corruption. Isn't the Americandollar essentially backed on oil? I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about.

>>464700

>Isn't the Americandollar essentially backed on oil?

I mean, if we're being really candid about it, this is the entire reason we're not ending reliance of fossil fuels any time soon, no matter how much of a biblical apocalypse it causes. Then there's also the fact that a good chunk of American politicians get fully rock hard over the idea of biblical apocalypses anyway.

America bad sounds reductive but really. I mean really. Is it?