Had a bit of a lie in today. Feeling a bit under. Might be getting a cold.

>>465471

Exact same thing has happened to me. I overexerted myself with exercise on Sunday and then slept terribly, which is almost guaranteed to make me sick.

I've spent today lounging in the sun like a lizard and staying hydrated as well as I can.

So my girlfriend has discovered that she prefers me to go down on her when she's holding in a fart. Usually when I go down on her she wants me to stop as soon as she orgasms because her clit is too sensitive, but when she's holding in a fart she's able to concentrate on not releasing it instead. This means she's able to maintain enjoying the orgasm for longer, up until the point she relaxes too much and farts into my face.

>>465473

>up until the point she relaxes too much and farts into my face.

Some people pay a lot of money for that.

>>465474
I don't know if performing oral sex reduces your sense of smell, you know like how eating too much pineapple can make your face a little numb, but I haven't noticed even the slightest whiff of fart when she's done it. The first time it happened she did two fairly lengthy rumbling farts, so I'd have been surprised if they didn't release an aroma. Maybe it's because my head is over her fanny and out of the danger zone?

>>465475

I wondered whether I was oversharing by telling you all about my cold. I am no longer concerned about that.

>>465475

Not all farts smell equally bad. It depends a lot on what you've been eating and if you've got (temporary) digestion problems.

>>465476
Perhaps you just need a good night's sleep? I generally feel run down if I don't sleep well.

>>465477
Maybe girl farts smell better than boy farts.

>>465476

Well, do your farts smell bad today?

>>465473
Suggest a small buttplug, instead.

>>465480
Could a fart launch out a buttplug?

>>465481
Where's sciencelad?

>>465481

Only if you've got a really slack ringpiece.

Seconded on the buttplug. Spend the extra on silicone. Get a Womanizer while you're at it. You can both thank me later.

>>465483
>Get a Womanizer while you're at it.

?

>>465473
Fucking Hell. Can we get a mulligan on this thread?

>>465485
You're just jealous you've never made a woman orgasm so hard she farted in your face.

>>465487
I guess I am, yeah. But I'm not even happy about feeling that, so it's a complex issue for me.

>>465484

It's an electric clit sucker. Russell Brand is a clit sucker who just looks like he's been electrocuted.

>>465489

I've got something a lot like that for sucking blackheads out of my nose.

>>465489
Why not... suck on the clit yourself?

>>465491

Because if your girlfriend discovers that having something up her bum while she's getting her clit sucked feels really nice, and you've just bought her an incredibly good electric clit sucker, then she might be open to suggestions as to what else could go up her bum.

>>465492
She likes it up the bum already anyway.

What's wrong with globalism, exactly, distinct from the apparent method of achieving it via extreme consumerism? Isn't that how the USS Enterprise was built? What is it, merely that 'the wrong people' will be in control of earths resources?

Mark Dolan has sixty-five episodes, with more to come, of a podcast that's just him sitting a video call distance away from a webcam doing the most mundane stream of consciousness monologuing imaginable. It's genuinely fascinating to me. Basically no one watches it, it's got a few hundred views on the most popular episode. It must be some kind of exercise, like Richard Herring's daily blog, because there's no way on Earth he could think this is going to take-off in a big way, not when it's been going since February 2023. He cut a clip from an episode for the first eight, but I don't think he's bothered since. I mean it when I say fewer than a thousand, far fewer even, people might know this exists. Sometimes it feels like something someone tells you before they kill themselves the next day and you realise all the signs you missed, other times it's like he's trying get you to kill yourself out of sheer boredom, most of the time he's just talking. In episode 43 he's talking about training employees like dogs at a hypothetical company he might run one day. He's sat in front of a bare green screen, foregoing the fake kitchen backdrop of earlier episodes. He's staring off into the middle distance talking about the injustices facing a fictional employee called Veena at another not-real company, because all her hard work is going unrecognised. He's just said "Taxis: I love a taxi, who doesn't".

I can't remember what image I've attached to this post so I apologise in advance for whatever it is.

>>465494

The term is an anti-Semitic euphemism. The "globalist elites" who are supposedly conspiring to dominate the world via a secret global government are invariably Jewish, most notably George Soros.

Found my dad's Twitter. He pays for a blue tick. Of his ~200 posts, the highest viewed one has 190 views. The normal numbers are around 30-50. He posts Joe Rogan content, JBP content, pro-Musk content, pro-Trump content. He has photos of himself on there, he has links to his business on there, and he's replying to JK Rowling with transphobic rhetoric. Seems very risky to be spewing bile in a public forum, with your personal and professional details at the top of the page.

>>465495

>Mark Dolan

Am I supposed to know who the fuck that is? Is he somebody who has any reason to believe people might want to just listen to him ramble?

>>465498

Soz lad but I hink he posts here an' all.

>>465481

Yes, I can tell you from first hand experience.

>>465482

How did you know I like using buttplugs?

>>465499
He presented Balls of Steel in the 00s, and did other Channel 4 comedy stuff. Then sort of disappeared and had a resurgence being the guy on GB News shitting on woke comedy. He's Justin Lee Collins levels of fame. At least JLC was memorable and charismatic.

>>465498
>Seems very risky to be spewing bile in a public forum, with your personal and professional details at the top of the page.

I think this gets overblown. Yeah, if you work for the council maybe don't post something that will get the banshees shrieking, but if you run your own business it doesn't matter as much.

If you get off the M1 at J39 and travel into Wakefield that way you'll go past Jon's Sheds. This is run by a very unstable and violent man who has convictions for things like assaulting police officers, hitting a girlfriend on the head with a baseball bat, threatening to get a hitman to kill his dad, intimidating council officers and I can't find a link for it now but I'm sure there was a story about him tying up another ex-girfriend, pushing her down the stairs, whipping her with cables and pouring boiling water on her. The business has been around for years despite all of this.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/jan/06/stuartmillar

>>465502
Oh no, it was cold water.

>An English court has sentenced a 44-year-old millionaire to five months in prison for spanking his fiancee with a riding crop, the Sun newspaper reported on Thursday.

>Jonathan Banks, a widower, had lashed Sarah Williams, a 26-year-old model, on her bottom, back and feet with a black whip while the couple were enjoying sex together, a court in Wakefield, Yorkshire, heard. He then threw her downstairs and tipped a pan of cold water over her. Banks repeated his performance the next day, prompting Williams to call the police to their opulent home.

>Banks, who made his fortune out of garden sheds, had been jailed twice before for attacking women. He received four months for assaulting Williams - who first worked for him as a nanny for his sons aged 13 and 14 - after she refused to have sex. Previously he was jailed for two years for wounding prostitute Safina Akthar, 25, before he met Williams 18 months ago.

>Following the court case, Williams, who still lives in her jailed lover's home, said: "I am not going to talk about my relationship with Jonathan. This is private".

>>465503

>Jonathan Banks, a widower, had lashed Sarah Williams, a 26-year-old model, on her bottom, back and feet with a black whip while the couple were enjoying sex together, a court in Wakefield, Yorkshire, heard. He then threw her downstairs and tipped a pan of cold water over her. Banks repeated his performance the next day, prompting Williams to call the police to their opulent home.

You always have to watch the point where kinky play veers into assault. Use a safety word next time.

>>Following the court case, Williams, who still lives in her jailed lover's home

You've sent the lad to prison, but why let that get in the way of living in his opulent house for free, eh.

>>465505
Shut up, bitch.

Had to drain the washing machine the other day because it stopped mid-cycle, and I left the drain plug at the bottom of it open. Then started a load this morning, forgetting all about it. The machine kept pumping water through the open drain. For about an hour. By my calculations, that means about a cubic metre of water wasted.

Good thing the machine is in the basement, which has a floor drain.

Apparently they are trying to cancel the YouTube millionaire Mr Beast for his videos being fake and staged. I'm pretty sure everyone with a functional brain already figured they were fake and staged. Next they're going to tell me his name isn't even really Mr Beast.

Cunts still say "cancel culture" doesn't exist but look at the extent vacuous twats are descending on this like vultures circling the carrion. It definitely exists, these cunts are all playing the same dog eat dog game of celebrity gossip and internet clout, it's like Highlander. They al want to be the one who "exposes" a big online name, thus becoming a big name themselves, until somebody comes along to take them down too.

There's just fuck all to it. You can tell these fucking rejects sat there building a case for months and they still have to slant it to present it as anything other than a non-story because they were too impatient to find the evidence they were hoping for of him diddling one of his underage viewers.

>>465502

>If you get off the M1 at J39 and travel into Wakefield that way

Anyone who has to come through that way must be an outlander who can't be trusted to begin with. Piller o't community are Jon.

>>465497
I'm still angry that years ago Private Eye suggested that someone who called George Soros a greedy parasite that works in the shadows to undermine society was antisemitic when it just serves as an accurate description of him.

>>465503
I refuse to believe that someone living outside of Wakey, with long-standing issues with women and a booming shed business doesn't post here. Next you'll tell me he likes big lasses and uses a filthy computer chair.

>>465509
It's the quickest way from Beeston to the tip. I sure as shit aren't going through Lupset if I can help it.

>>465510
I find Private Eye can be very hit and miss. It feels like because they have specialist knowledge in certain areas they behave like this gives them credibility in areas they don't know enough about, but are hoping by making it all sound a bit sinister they can pull the wool over the eyes of people who know less about the subject matter than them.

>>465497
>The term is an anti-Semitic euphemism.
Is it fuck, why does it always have to be about the jews with you people?

Globalism specifically meaning unification of Earths peoples and nations under a common cause. If people understand that as 'something the jews are pushing for, so it must be bad' then that's on them. I'm trying to understand if there's a reasonable stance against it - barring a few issues that're already present in our current system, it seems like the next logical step in human development and the start of our journey into interstellar specieshood proper.

>>465512

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_antisemitism#Anti-globalization_movement

Could you lads stop being so thick for just a day? Globalism is a word with multiple meanings in the year 2024 A.D. and any cunt whinging specifically about George Soros, instead of, y'know, all the other rich arseholes as well, is defo a Jew-hating prick. If you don't believe me, inspite of me being correct about everything all the time, ask them what he did during the war and they'll no doubt spin you a yarn about his, ficitonal, collaboration with the Nazis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjJZkfnB8N8

>>465508
The faked stuff is irrelevant. It's the other stuff that's more damning.

Ava Kris Tyson, his right hand woman, was outed for sending inappropriate messages to underage boys last year, now even more allegations of her grooming 15 year olds when she was 20 are coming out. Also she was into loli porn. But with this one you could argue she was a dumb 20 year old geeky guy shitposting on Discord, and his grooming of 15 year old boys could be just really bad banter. And the fact she's trans muddies the water because a lot of people are criticising her in bad faith just to stick it to the trans agenda.

Some of his giveaways allegedly meet the definitions of being morally wrong at best and, and an illegal lottery at worst. An example being when he did a long stream signing merch and saying "if you order in the next five minutes I'll put $1000 in your package" and then not following through, or changing the goalposts, tricking the retarded children and even more retarded adults that watch him into buying a hundred dollars of Mr Beast t-shirts. This was covered in some bumsore sort loser hater who got sacked by Mr Beast after 2 weeks, but within hours of that video (now 11M views) coming online, any streams and records of that signing event got scrubbed from MB's social media.

People have come out and said the conditions on his big Amazon show are allegedly fucked up, with people denied food, medication, and underwear for several days. But this one I don't care about so much because they had to sign a waiver, they knew the whole gimmick was Squid Games IRL, it was almost certainly going to be a shitshow.

Then some shit about his shit chocolate being immoral because it advertises to children, but so does all shit chocolate so it's kind of a pointless argument.

It could all be bumsore sore losers and haters, but if any of these other allegations are proved 100% true by someone who isn't a terminally online YouTube drama commentator retard, it doesn't look good for Jimmy Beast.

>>465512
Why not make a new thread on this instead of ruining the vibe here? We can talk all about how the universal state would be one constantly at war with itself that would inevitably fall into despotism, cronyism and so on.

>>465515
You might want to spend less time clutching your pearls and more time actually reading about just how much damage George Soros has done. There's a hierarchy in twats.

>>465518
Opposing anti-semetism and Holocaust denialism isn't "pearl clutching", thicko. Maybe think about what I said, then what you're saying, then double check everything that's been said before you spout such idiocy again, yeah?

>There's a hierarchy in twats.
Oh, I'm well aware.

>>465519
>anti-semetism and Holocaust denialism

Is that what we call criticism of a man who laughed and poked fun as he raked in profits economic crises that he arguably caused? Maybe these anti-globalists have a point after all and it really is all neoliberal shysters and their useful idiots.

>>/spo/10354
She knows all about us.

>>465521

She's making us sound like wronguns.

I've noticed ever since watching Grace I keep getting recommendations for people doing a similar schtick, but most of these aren't funny at all.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8uQ7VCWOnY


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGW7nVwfeFg

>>465517

Well this is what I mean, maybe I'm just overly cynical and that's why none of this stuff ever elicits more than a shrug and a "wow, shocker" type reaction from me, maybe that's me being calibrated wrongly. But it seems like none of that is at all, I mean even in the slightest bit, surprising.

It's not like he's a big TV producer beholden by the rather strict regulations and whatnot on competitions (I mean, he should be, but that's really immaterial to the conversation), he's just any other internet arsehole, and if you truly believed an internet arsehole was going to give you a grand for no reason you're a fucking idiot. Yes, his audience is almost entirely kids, and it's definitely scummy what he does, but he's not hiding it. It's plain to see. It's like the Fortnite lootpass battlechest bollocks games all have now, on the one hand yes it's bloodsucking corporate greed at its very worst, but on the other hand, they're barely even trying to hide it. It's very easy to avoid and I find it hard to sympathise with people who feel somehow mislead and ripped off by it.

Overall that's the bit that gets me I guess. They try to frame it like they are EXPOSING, him. But that implies it's some kind of shocking reveal, when it just isn't. How will his reputation ever survive the revelation that he is doing what everyone already knows he's been doing? But yeah I suppose that is just me, other people actually take shit like this in good faith and don't see YouTubers as just another Nigerian Prince like I do.

>>465527
What I find kind of sad is that I think a lot of his fans see him as their ticket out of whatever struggles they have, the same way people buy lottery tickets twice a week with the hope they'll win £40 million and live a life of leisure and luxury.

With the kids it's getting a free gadget if Mr Beast picks their selfie by the Feastables shelf. With their parents, and older Mr Beast fans, it's that dream that they'll be picked to win $1 million like that one dude, or they'll win a Tesla, etc.

The chances of a Mr Beast fan getting what they want is incredibly low, even lower if we factor in fakery. He's just exploiting people's hope and unhappiness to boost his own place in life. But that's showbiz.

I'm no longer sure what's "Cancel Culture: The [relatively] new, modern phenomena" and what's just "I don't like this person because they're a cunt who's done a bunch of unethical and/or illegal things and may do something in my power to bring them down a peg" which is not new, that's just human behaviour.

Hastag Al Capone CANCELLED for tax evasion hashtag hashtag have the IRS gone woke?

>>465524

I enjoy Eleanor Morton's stuff sometimes, like the Scottish tour-guide bit. But sometimes she milks it far too long, like the Scottish tour-guide bit.

Anyway she's only 10k followers behind Grace.

>>465529

The way I see it, Cancel Culture (which I will capitalise to refer to as a specific phenomenon) always has some element of narcissism to it. Its never just solely done for the good of taking a baddie down, it's done for the attempted gain of the people starting the beef. It's meaningfully distinct from a genuine, good faith whistleblower.

They may see themselves as good samaritans, but in the ways they actually end up acting, there's a lot more overlap between the stereotypical Twitter woke liberals who want a bus driver to lose their job for saying something un-PC, and the average user of KiwiFarms who just want to cause misery for some mukbanger who is already two small steps away from suicide. The same nasty impulse is there, driving it, whether they admit it or not. They derive the same satisfaction and feeling of power.

That's what I mean when I say Cancel Culture, at least.

>>465531

I'm not convinced that human behaviours can be meaningfully categorised into such tidy, easy-to-moralise-about boxes. This just comes across as a way to justify your existing biases.

Finally discovered a CD with disc rot in my collection. I always thought it was just a myth. Or maybe it's because the bulk of my CDs was made up until the early 90s. I think I read something once that it mainly affects CDs from the late 90s onwards because that's when they started skimping on raw materials and the production process.

One of my oldest CDs in my collection is Songs from the Big Chair by Tears for Fears, the original pressing from 1985, and it still looks and sounds pristine despite being stored right next to the CD with disc rot for many years.

>>465533

The most common cause of rot (disc bronzing) specifically affected discs marked "Made in U.K. by PDO" on the ring in the middle. To the best of my knowledge, the vast majority of these releases were classical music.

>>465534

You're right, this disc was actually made by PDO in the UK.

It was made in 1988.

>>465532

What about people who like to go bowling? Do you deny the existence of bowling culture? How about Taylor Swift fans? Are they easily enough categorised boxes? I'm just observing things and pondering over them, I don't know what your point is.

>>465533
>>465536

Does it still play? As long as the laser can see the 0s and 1s it doesn't matter that the silver stuff is going a bit brown. CDs being a digital medium means it will either work or not, or just possibly glitch in places, but it won't degrade in sound quality or anything.

I had a big stack of CD-RWs that I used to leave sat on a window sill and they all ended up looking like that, they worked fine though. Disc rot is very much one of those things that's based on a kernel of truth, just a lot of people (the kind of idiots who would have bought those CD edge bevelling things) make up a load of guff to go on top of the true part.

>>465538

It technically plays, although my mid-range Denon CD player struggles to play some of the tracks, and the ones it does play sound distorted and garbled. So the disc rot must already be at an advanced stage.

I've just read that CDs, if manufactured well, can technically last many human lifetimes, but some of them have turned out to be unplayable after as little as 25 years. There seems to be immense variation.

>>465537

It's not a difficult point. At some level, all human behaviour can be ascribed to self-interest. It's not "meaningfully distinct from a genuine, good faith whistleblower" because there's no such thing. Even if such an impossibility did exist, you still have no evidence what any given whistleblower's motivation for whistleblowing is, you're just looking at one group and declaring them bad while declaring another group good. Maybe you came to that conclusion based on impartial observation but I would bet money you came into it with a bias. I'm not trying to have a go at you, this is pretty standard human behaviour I'm equally guilty of in other contexts.

>>465543

>It's not "meaningfully distinct from a genuine, good faith whistleblower" because there's no such thing

What self interest was Edward Snowden serving? You think he wanted to exile himself to Russia? Are you implying he thought outing the entire NSA surveillance apparatus would earn him nothing but lucrative exclusive interviews and book deals?

I do see what you are trying to say, but I firmly disagree, there is a difference between doing something for the collective good, and doing something because you enjoy the rush of getting someone into trouble. Those are two extremes, and there's many shades in between, but there is a difference; and in general I'd say when people talk about The So Called Cancel Culture^TM, they are describing the latter much more often than the former.

>>465544

Assuming the absolute best about him and there were no motivations we're simply not privy to, he was doing it to assuage his own conscience which is just as much self-interest as getting a rush from getting someone in trouble. But I can cede the point that doing something for the collective good out of conscience is a good thing and can be distinguished from Kiwi Farms.

All the same, even if we agree on that, a large part of Cancel Culture is shit like public figures being, or claiming to be, deplatformed when there's nobody obviously benefitting from it or in a position to feel like they're the one who got them in trouble. You can't really get someone in trouble like that unless they have quietly done something outrageous, something that's [arguably] to the collective good to publicise. And the cultural hyenas of YouTube drama are something else again, they're just a drama-content churn that can never be satisfied so long as there's potential and revenue in it. Is that still Cancel Culture or just good old salacious gossip media? I think your definition overlaps but doesn't fully encompass it.

>>465545

See that's where we start talking at cross purposes somewhat, because what you talk about in the second paragraph is not what I would call Cancel Culture, with capital Cees. Besides that there's the whole philosophical debate we could have about where self-interest overlaps with altruism, our very nature as social animals means we often do things for the good of the group out of self-interest because we know the other monkeys will groom us if we groom them and so on. There's nothing wrong with our behaviours being transactional in that regard, the issue is when somebody tries to weight the transaction too much.

Lately, and this is a complete tangent, but lately I am thinking about it more and more how the same words mean radically different things to different people. On another site I have been chatting a bit with a lad who I clicked with pretty quickly, despite being a rural gun nut Yank we have plenty of common ground, and have similar views on a lot of things. But he will quickly disagree if I use certain terminology for the concepts which he otherwise expresses support for; he's perfectly willing to hear out the ideas, but he rejects the nomenclature, like a kid who will only eat their veggies just as long as you don't tell them it's veg.

When it comes to terms like Cancel Culture, like with toxic masculinity and the checking of privilege and so on, it's just going to immediately put one idea in some people's heads, and another idea in others. and all the baggage that goes with it. There sometimes just isn't really another useful term, so you have to use that term and then try and explain what exactly you are referring to with it.

jesus I should have just rolled over and gone back to sleep instead of checking .gs why do I do this

Fucking hell, lads. Stop shitting up the thread talking about globalism, cancel culture, the class system or whatever shit you're on a personal crusade about. Make a new thread for that dreary bollocks.

I wonder how Rate My Takeaway is getting on with his mental wife these days.

>>465551
Half-Chinese succubus torpedoed his reputation.

We've been talking about lotteries at work and, because I'm impressionable and have poor impulse control, I've bought 16 tickets for tonight's Set For Life draw.

>>465555
Fair.
I'd rather have a guaranteed 10k a month for 30 years than a couple of million all at once.

>>465556
It's also cheaper than the National Lottery and EuroMillions at £1.50 per ticket, plus the odds of winning any prize are 1 in 12.4 so by buying 16 tickets I'm almost guaranteed to get something.

>>465556

Does it adjust for inflation, or are you going to regret it in 20 years when it barely covers a weekly shop?

>>465558
It's not adjusted for inflation. If you had £10,000 in 1993 then you'd need £20,595 to achieve the same purchasing power in 2023, with inflation averaging 2.4%.

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/inflation-calculator

>>465559

So we can assume in 30 years you'll be getting effectively five grand a month in today's money rather than ten. Still seems alright.

>>465560
If you invested the money then you'd double it every 12 years if you got a return of 6%, which we'll assume for the purposes of this is net of charges and inflation (5% would double roughly every 14 years, 4% roughly every 17 years).

The best thing to do would probably be to carry on as normal for a couple of years and invest the first £240,000 you receive. That'd double and then double again until it was close to £1million in today's terms in about 25 to 30 years.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c33nv8x64mlo

>A renowned British crocodile expert has been jailed for 10 years and five months in Australia, after admitting to sexually abusing dozens of dogs, in a case which horrified the nation.

>Adam Britton, a leading zoologist who has worked on BBC and National Geographic productions, pleaded guilty to 56 charges relating to bestiality and animal cruelty.

>Born in West Yorkshire, Britton grew up in the UK before moving to Australia more than 20 years ago to work with crocodiles.

>For at least the past decade, Britton had exploited his own pets and manipulated other dog owners into giving him theirs.

>"My own dogs are family and I have limits," he explained in a Telegram chat entered into evidence.

>"I only badly mistreat other dogs... I have no emotional bond to them, they are toys pure and simple. And [there are] plenty more where they came from."

>He tortured at least 42 dogs, killing 39 of them, according to court documents seen by the BBC. The files only detail his crimes over the 18 months before his arrest, but still fill more than 90 pages.

He was schooled in Wakefield. I knew those rhubarb triangle lads were wrong uns.

>>465562

A true pillar of the community.

Might buy a desk chair with arms tomorrow so I'm less prone to sitting like a cat with a neurological condition.

>>465562
I remember hearing about this guy being charged. It's kind of bonkers to be able say things like "I only badly mistreat other dogs... I have no emotional bond to them", because I'd assume the abuse would be more compartmentalised than that. I guess he's basically serial killer levels of nutty so whatever, there's no way of making sense of it, not really.

>He was schooled in Wakefield. I knew those rhubarb triangle lads were wrong uns.
Range ban the bloody lot.

>>465562

'kin 'ell.

Is it weird how reading this sort of thing makes me feel better sometimes, because as much as I beat myself up over my past misdeeds, this is a what a real piece of work looks like.

Things are happening for ARE Grace.

https://www.yorkvision.co.uk/scene/from-making-little-videos-in-my-room-to-being-on-a-big-stage/20/03/2024

WON A FIVER ON SET FOR LIFE. ONLY COST ME £24.

Sending two emails before 8 o'clock. They should give me a million pounds.

I was told this morning that one of these isn't an "original birth cirtificate". But every other time in my life that I've been asked for my birth cirtificate it's been absolutely fine, no one has questioned anything and that's been the case for educators, employers and government, so I'm inclined to think the person this morning who rejected it was making a mistake. I know it says "certified copy" at the top, but mine is from six weeks after my birth and I assume anything more OG than that is on file in a government owned lock-up or on an ailing hard drive after another dodgy IT contract digitised it.

>>465569
I feel sorry for this hypothetical child who got his father's name but in a different order. It's like dad is trying to pretend not to be pretentious enough to name the lad directly after himself and hoping nobody will notice.

But in all seriousness, you are right and they are wrong. As far as anyone is concerned, for the purposes of identity verification, that is indeed a "birth certificate".

Last night I was talking to someone about the Destroy All Humans remakes, and he said it was really buggy and crashed multiple times on one timed challenge. The only way he could finish it was to actively slow himself down to not overwhelm the system, while remaining fast enough to pass the challenge. I looked at reviews on the Xbox store today and there were a lot complaining about bugs and crashes and the engine being unable to handle the action necessary to play the game. They all said technical issues aside it's a good game.

One review stood out as it gave the game 5 stars, with the comment "Hasn't crashed on me once. Probably fake reviews from the professionally offended". This really stood out as pure brainrot. The "professionally offended" usually goes hand in hand with "woke", so it's like he was calling people woke for having issues with a poorly optimised game. To be honest a lot of people writing reviews on the Xbox store are retards. To take the time to write a review, using a gamepad, is a symbol of mental subnormality.

>>465570
Yeah, I thought was, but it happens so rarely I had to make sure.

>>465571
Maybe it was an easily offended grey alien? It really must be an unbearable way to live, to be so stupid. Just a whole world of things happening and you've completely insulated yourself to absorbing any of it.

Is it still friday, yet?

>>465576

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TewCPi92ro

I don't think I'd ever want to work in a coffee shop. It feels like every few months there's a story about someone with a dairy allergy who has died because their drink was made with cow's milk rather than soya/oat/whatever milk. I couldn't handle that.

I think there's poo on the Amazon boxes I've just had delivered.

Can't be arsed to put the bin out for tomorrow. It's almost completely empty and I'm in my briefs.

I'm surprised the Borderlands film has done so badly. I thought people liked Borderlands. It's got Kevin Hart, Cate Blanchett, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jack Black. It cost over a hundred million dollars to make. How could it bomb so hard?

I hate Borderlands, I think the gameplay is okay with friends, but the writing and world and story and setting are very bad. But in 2012 when BL2 came out it was huge. You'd think there'd be enough residual good will from 12 years ago to make it a viable film.

>>465629

I was about to post about this last night, but I couldn't be arsed and went to bed. Horrible, horrible casting. First thing I thought upon even seeing the trailer was how un-gracefully Kate Blanchett is aging, and how much of a dickhead she looks in that wig. That's a character I recall in the games being no more than early 20s. Kevin Hart? Come on. Grandma from Halloween? ATLAS DIES TONIGHT!

I liked the games, they were a lot of fun if you had someone to blast through in co-op with, but most of their story and humour hinged on that TVTropes type of self-aware parody. At least, it used to be, I think the writers of the most recent instalments missed the memo on that one. You can see why the movie execs thought it would make a great adaptation, though, can't you. It's got all the hallmarks of that Zack Snyder The Justice Galaxy J J Abrams Firefly witty arsehole scrappy space crew thing.

>>465629
>I'm surprised the Borderlands film has done so badly.
Genuinely feel the complete reverse of this. The moment I heard about it I was sure it would be a bomb. Borderlands' cultural footprint doesn't extend much beyond being a notably shit franchise for idiots as far as gamers are concerned, and I honestly doubt anyone who isn't a gamer has even heard of it.

>But in 2012 when BL2 came out it was huge. You'd think there'd be enough residual good will from 12 years ago to make it a viable film.
I've got no idea why you'd think this. I'm not even having a go at you, I just don't get it. Twelve years is a very, very long time. That's like three World War Ones and change. That was the same year as the London Olympics and the beginning of Obama's second term, Adele was the biggest muscian since Elvis and politicians thought nothing of taking a few hundred quid for an appearance on Russia Today. Culturally things aren't very different, but in terms of passing trends and, I don't know, just off the top of my head, best selling video games, it's another era entirely.

>>465630
>First thing I thought upon even seeing the trailer was how un-gracefully Kate Blanchett is aging
You watch your fucking mouth.

Sorry. Anyway, I think it was filmed before Tár (AKA the best film), so if you think she looks rough it's probably got more to do with the production than the actor. Also I was kidding when I told you to watch it, but don't let any lesbians hear you talking like that, mate. Blanchett's like catnip for that lot.

>>465631

>I've got no idea why you'd think this. I'm not even having a go at you, I just don't get it.

I think otherlad was being quite sarcastic there, to be honest.

>Also I was kidding when I told you to watch it, but don't let any lesbians hear you talking like that, mate.

Well if that's what those lot are attracted to no wonder lesbian bed death is a thing. She just looks weird and always has done.

But as for the age, maybe it's because they have tried so hard to make her look younger in this role, and it just creates an uncanny valley of effect. She doesn't look as old in real life, but when you have her in a bright red wig pretending to be a space vigilante, it just makes it all the more obvious she's a... Mature lady.

>>465632
>I think otherlad was being quite sarcastic there, to be honest

I kind of was and wasn't. I imagined there might be a generation of Funko Pop collecting millenials who have nostalgia for a game they enjoyed in their teens and twenties. Maybe they have kids now, and as it's 12A they can bring younger kids along and show them the Borderlands magic. Maybe the kids say "wow Tiny Tina is so cool, can we buy Tina Tina's Wonderlands on the way home, father?" and everyone leaves the theatre happy.

However, it does seem this generation of millenial Borderlands 2 mega fans with children they want to introduce to the franchise, was something I invented.

>>465629
I've never understood why people make an adaptation of a video game or book series and then almost completely disregard the source material, unless it's something where the source material is shite like Starship Troopers.

I'm not saying something has to be completely faithful, e.g. Legolas surfing on a shield, but you have to capture the spirit of what you're adapting and comprehend why that made it popular in the first place.

>>465634
>you have to capture the spirit of what you're adapting and comprehend why that made it popular in the first place.
You don't have to do anything except make it good.

>>465633



I mean, there are, and aside from the Funko Pops I'm arguably one of them. It's a game series I remember fondly from the first couple of entries at least, but I think the consensus is it dropped off quite heavily after that.

I still had a good time with the third one, if only because I played it entirely with my girlfriend at the time, but it was already becoming quite clear the developers were losing sight of their actual audience and trying to cash in on that post-Stranger Things wave of polyamorous DnD playing LGBT nu-geeks. The result was just a confused product that nobody could really wholly say they liked, even if mechanically and gameplay wise, it was pretty solid.

Public animosity towards Gearbox as a whole, thanks more or less entirely to Randy Pitchford, has probably overshadowed whatever goodwill the franchise had. Like the hack frauds themselves said, this is a film that would have made more sense if it came out ten years ago. Even if it would still have sucked, it would at least have been more understandable why it existed.

I think there is this tendency of the big studio marketing people to mistakenly assume the normie hype over endless comic book movie adaptations means there's genuine appetite for actual geek stuff. Which really, there isn't, it's just trendy for normies to pretend they are geeks these days.

Look, I know Elon Musk is a very devisive figure and so I might be starting a cunt-off here by mentioning him. I want to apologise in advance if that's the case, but I've had three specific thoughts about him bubble up over the last few days and so I'm just going to get them all out at once and whatever happens, happens.

1) I don't think that's how DDoS attacks work. You can't DDoS a single livestream on a website? Right? Because that's what Musk is claiming made his Trump "interview" late. No one's saying all of Twitter went down, so I don't think it was a DDoS attack. He's fibbing or just wrong.

2) Pretty sure you can't sue companies for not giving you money, either. He says it's unfair businesses stopped advertising on Twitter after he bought it, which might be the case, but how "unfair" it was doesn't really matter. If a business thought it would do more harm than good to put an ad on Twitter, they didn't have to. Still don't, in fact. It seems impossible he and all the lawyers in the world could prove they secretly did it out of malice.

3) I really like the new photo (pic related) The Guardian are using in every Musk story now. He looks simultaneously like a being of pure evil and a complete div.