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.

>>465637
>You can't DDoS a single livestream on a website? Right?

Right. He completely made that up.

>>465637

1) Yes you can. There isn't a monolithic box that runs the whole of X. The systems architecture is designed to be scaleable, but it isn't infinitely scaleable - there are only so many servers you can immediately spin up, only so many concurrent connections you can manage between the server that's hosting the stream and the many servers that will redistribute that to viewers. I have no idea whether the DDoS claim is actually true, but it's certainly technically plausible.

2) It's perfectly lawful for an individual company to decide that it isn't in their interests to do business with another company. It isn't legal for multiple companies to run an organised boycott, because that's restraint of trade under the Sherman Act. If they did in fact collude, that's what the lawsuit is intended to reveal - as part of the discovery process, the named parties will have to hand over any evidence they hold, on threat of contempt and/or perjury.

How are you actually going to eat a triple decker crisp sandwich? How does that work? I struggle to eat a Big Mac without making an absolute mess.

>>465640

That's three separate crisp sandwiches m8.

>>465642

Yes, but stacked like they're meant to be eaten as one.

>>465639
You saged your post so I think you're wrong.

Just shat an absolute brick of a poo. Right before bed.




Am I oversharing?

>>465645

Yesterday I got a lucky break with one of my long term art projects. Nothing too major, it's a long way from paying itself off but I did get far more good will and attention for it than anything else of the like I've done before, a solid step in the right direction. Everyone in the industry had shat on it for not having a broad enough appeal but this audience jumped at it. I think I should feel ecstatic but I really don't know how I feel. Feels weird.

>>465637
He's quite embarrassing nowadays. Targeting Keir Starmer of all people, sharing white supremacist dogwhistles, trying to be a cool memer while simultaneously having no sense of humour.

It was funny when he was moaning about his daughter being trans, saying she was just an innocent gay boy who loved dressing daddy up in "fabulous" outifts, groomed by the left to become trans. Then the daughter came out and said she rarely saw him growing up, has no interesting in dressing people up, and Elon's story of a flamboyant gay boy tricked into becoming a woman was pure bollocks.

>>465649
Ecstatic or not, congratulations. Sounds like quite the achievement and you ought to definitely have a skip in your step given your hard work and shouldering of the doubter's, just plain wrong, opinions.

>>465650
I didn't know any of this stuff about his daughter. It makes quite grim reading, I have to say, to hear someone lie so openly about one's own child. It also seems like he has some kind of personality disorder if he's just lying, seemingly only for attention, in that way. Hopefully he keeps his focus on bullshitting about Tesla's self-driving cars and considers no grander political ambitions beyond being a "cool memer" and sucking up to Donald Trump. Short of a drone strike I don't know what you can do about the wealthiest man in human history also being a massive dickhead. Maybe it's a good thing he appears to be a bit thick? Perhaps it's taking the edge off how malignant he might otherwise be?

>>465651

Cheers. I went and cut wood until I felt normal again.

You know what, fuck it. I'm a human animal and if I wanna piss myself I will.

>>465653

Are you trying to get sectioned? If so, fair play.

>>465654

Why is there so much prejudice against self pissing.

>>465655

Calm down, ABDLlad.

Is the reason we wear shoes because our feet are so used to shoes that we've grown dependent on them over the centuries?

>>465660

There have been and are modern human groups who don't wear shoes and also evolution at the rate humans reproduce and mutate takes more than centuries so no. We wear them for the same reason we wear gloves. We could go without more of the time but why expose your body to more wear and tear than you have to?

>>465660

No, it's that without them we'd be restricted to only a specific kind of terrain. And much of the world we have built up around ourselves takes advantage of the fact we developed shoes. Shoes, roads and the wheel go hand in hand.Which in turn goes with it urbanisation, sanitation, and so on...

Plus it's just nice having warm feet.

>>465660
No, try to walk barefoot on concrete on a hot day, in rocky conditions or anywhere animals shit.

>we've grown dependent on them over the centuries

Everyone reading this and everyone you're likely to meet over your entire life has deformed feet from enclosed shoes. Go look at Greek/Roman statues and notice how weird the big toes look. So over your lifetime yeah, ever since the event I've been able to go barefoot most of the week and now I really notice how constricted my feet feel when I have to go into the office.

I had never heard of this woman in my life before a week ago. Now, the missus has almost entirely shifted from listening to Taylor Swift to her, Twitter keeps going on about her, Jon Stewart is referencing her on The Daily Show, even fucking Google is mocking me when I try to find out more. Where the fuck did she come from?

>>465663

You could say that the invention of shoes enabled us to spread our population across the globe as we have done, because it enabled us to conquer terrain that would have been inaccessible without them.

Indigenous people and uncontacted tribes today sometimes still don't wear shoes at all, which could be one reason why they are often confined to certain areas.

>>465664
Spotify keep pushing her songs on me.

I really hate Spotify shuffle. I can guarantee that Fortunate Son by Creedence Clearwater Revival will, without fail, be one of the first five songs it plays.

>>465664

This is just how the music industry works. We must have been well beyond the point of Peak Swift, the changing of the ways was due.

It's like the One Ring or being the champion of a Daedric prince, the industries whims are fickle and you will never be their chosen one for long. What will become of Swift as she fades, that will be the interesting part.

>>465664

This seems like a weird catch 22 if you hadn't have mentioned her I would have never heard of her either. So talking about how we have no idea who she is is promoting her. I can only assume people feel a need to say they are familiar with them to seem in the know. Mind you the same seems to happen with every popstar they are expected to go from unknown to the most famous person in the world within a year. Pop songs have a radio play time of about 3 months before it is considered stale. Mind you I am too old to care about the pop scene and other teenage pursuits. I didn't know who the person drake was fighting with originally, (I still can't remember their name) and it feels like history is being rewritten online to insist they have been huge for a decade.

>>465668

Additional

After looking them up on wiki it seems like they were basically no one 2 years ago. I concluded that hearing about her now is just marketing PR.

Just paid £12 for an haircut. It was a tenner at the start of the year.

>>465664
>>465669
I've heard Hot to Go and it was pretty good.

This is surely how artists "happen" in the age of everyone being online, right? In the Anglophone world at least (UK, USA, Oceania, a bit of Cameroon) if you get big, you're not just going to get big in one country. Maybe a bit of Cameroon.

>>465666
>I really hate Spotify shuffle.
Stop using it then, you dingus. Same goes for otherlad using Google. What's wrong with you freaks?

>>465667
>We must have been well beyond the point of Peak Swift
I'm pretty sure she's currently doing the biggest world tour in the history of ever anything, so I don't think that's the case.

Why are all my YouTube channels talking about the Alien franchise lately, is there some new thing happening with Alien or is this just that spontaneous algorithm hallucination thing?

Why is Youtube so much better at recommending new music than Spotify? That is when it's not putting this autistic shit in my recommendations:

And I've noticed a similar detail where LLMs can provide really good book recommendations but conversely they're awful at recommending music which makes me wonder if all 3 mystery boxes are approaching things in different ways.

>>465667
>>465671
Taylor Swift is the new Beyonce so she'll be fine and live a comfortable life off the ticket money we'll have to pay one day for our wives and daughters to see her to get us in their good books again.

>>465672
There's a new movie coming out. And if you're wondering it's the standard affair where they copy the plot of Alien and throw in cameos and nostalgia references but it just ends up being Alien 3.

So yeah, payola.

>>465673
That's not even how the thought experiment goes. She's describing someone building a replica.

>>465673
Is finding autistism traits in women attractive the same as finding blindless attractive, in that it's a projection of low self-confidence and shit? IE a blind woman can't see you so you feel less concerned about your own physical attractiveness. So an autist brain might percieve you differently than you'd expect normal people to.
I just think I'd like that semi-robotic thing going on.

I have made an absolutely excellent quiche.

>>465675
They're the most insufferable people, and the gimmick of them being awkward and socially inept is tiresome. The girl I dated from an autism group was hard work. And I know I'm hard work for my girlfriend to deal with.

If you think you want to date an autist: don't.

>>465675
You could make that argument about any sort of personal issue. Myself, I do find some personal failings to be very endearing, because I want to show someone how much I love them by loving them even when it might be difficult to do so. It makes me feel like I am earning their affection. If they were perfectly easy to love, my love for them would not be special; it would just be a perfectly rational opinion that anyone else would show in the same situation. You could argue that this means I believe my love isn't worth having, that someone who could be loved by anyone would never choose to be loved by me of all people, and I accept this could be true, but equally it might not be and I don't think it would be possible to test it either way.

>>465676

How about a recipe for us? I like quiche a lot.

>>465675
I don't think it's inherently the marker of a wrong'un to find those kinds of quirks endearing or even attractive. However, I have only really seen such desires expressed by the lowest of the low, /r9k/ types, who clearly just want a partner (probably the wrong word in this case) who's seriously dependent on them, without them having to have any actual skills or abilities that would require effort to on their part, and whom they would probably find it easier to manipulate, not that they'd ever cop to that, or maybe even be aware of it in the first place.

>>465700
It wasn't anything special, I fried some mushrooms in mushroom ketchup and then mixed it with the eggs and cheese but it was really nice.

>>465678
>I want to show someone how much I love them by loving them even when it might be difficult to do so.
I interpret that as "I've loved you like that, you have to love me like this.
That's one of the reasons I was confused about that wonderful girl with tha bad teeth from a few years ago (should you happen to remember) - I had one particular spontaneous fantasy in which we were fucking and at climax I punched her in the mouth. This took me by suprise and forced me to reconsider my reasons for apparently liking her so much.

>>465706
>the lowest of the low, /r9k/ types, who clearly just want a partner who's seriously dependent on them
I stay away from those places because I'm probably just the type that want authority over people being that I lack any sense of power in real life.
I have often wondered how I'd like a dumb(er han me) partner, presuming they'd be easier for to understand and manage.

To be honest, most of the time I doubt my intentions when it comes to relationships. Essentially my attitude is becoming "If I like someone, there must be something wrong with that". Even when it's completely vanilla and seemingly innocent.

Here you go, lads. The scene of Moaty's last stand.

>>465710

Surely it says something about whoever made that image that the Island of Non-Consent is not off the northern coast?

Anyway if you're wondering about dumb partners, I can tell you it does just get very tedious. One of my exes was really lovely but not exactly the brightest (not that she was actually thick, like, you could tell she was switched on, she just didn't know much about anything, like she had spent her life doing nothing but watching reality TV.) It was cute at first how she'd listen intently when I was talking about things, but it became so tiring to be the one who was always pulling the weight in a conversation, and not getting anything really fulfilling back.

It was rarely hard work because she sort of never expected a great deal from me; I often think back to it that I was stupid to leave just because I was bored, and it would have been a stable long lasting relationship if I hadn't. But on the other hand if we ever did conflict over anything, it was impossible to get through to her in the way I try to communicate, because it went totally over her head. I remember the arguments with her getting far more vicious and heated than any other partner because I'd get so frustrated so quickly that I couldn't get my feelings across.

Maybe that's just me though, I think one of the reason I struggle to connect with people is I just can't stand pointless conversation. I can banter and joke and all that, I don't have to be talking about deep complex subjects all the time, but I can't stand that kind of conversation where it's just relaying utterly inane work gossip or telling me the details of the personal lives of people I don't know and don't care about.

>>465713
>Surely it says something about whoever made that image that the Island of Non-Consent is not off the northern coast?

Golden showers and "Effluvia" aren't even neighbouring Bodily Fluid Fetish, S&M is separated from "Castration fetish" by both "Gender and orientation identity" (is that a fetish or just a "Related articles" on wikipedia?" and "Menstruation fetish", which again isn't touching bodily fluids. You could argue that it makes sense for gender identity stuff to be closer to castration/nullification than S&M is but for some reason both "Pumps" and "Voyeurism" are even closer.
I think what these things say about the creator of the image is that he didn't actually put any thought into it.

I'm trying to find things to do in my shithole town, but there's nothing. I can't believe I wasted my twenties and now I'm not gay or Joe Biden enough to do anything else. "Never too Old to Have Fun Group", oh yeah? Try being a 29 year old fucking loser with no mates.

>>465720
There will be a walking group in the Facebook group for your town. Go once, and ask the people you meet if they know of anything else to do that's more fun.

>>465711
Gazz will certainly have been to worse places in his life.

I hadn't left the house since Saturday, but needed to go out and get something earlier, and my one pair of everyday shoes appear to have gone missing. They're not in my room, and they're not lined up next to all the other shoes in the house. I ended up having to pop to the shops in my nice shoes.

This is an expense I really can't be dealing with right now. I'm already slightly behind on a few things, don't have much room to pad out my invoices right now because there's nowhere near enough work to hide it in.

My housemate is becoming stressful to live with. I guess after 3 years I'll have to move out which is a little overdue anyway but fucks sake from looking around I've accumulated a lot of stuff and I'll probably end up handling the viewings because my housemate won't be able to manage it and we recently renewed the tenancy for a year.

She threw out a load of the teaspoons because they were stained and is a lot more unstable than I was initially led to believe. Full on fake mental illness, lives on crap, first noticed her problems with men and then she started to talk about her religious experiences

>>465720
You could just move out of your shithole town.

>>465743
Is she hot? She sounds like she's probably very beautiful.

>>465743
In my experience, the people who complain the most about where they live being a shithole are the least likely to leave it.

>>465743
>You could just move out of your shithole town.
You're half right. It's not even "my town", I've ended up here through my own actions and choices.

>>465746
"Shithole" probably wasn't the right word either. "Incredibly boring" is more accurate and even then it's mostly my fault for not knowing how to drive.

>>465746

> the people who complain the most about where they live being a shithole are the least likely to leave it.

That's because people like a good moan more than they like making consequential decisions. Like moving away to somewhere else if your town is really such a shithole. It's the same with many life situations. Because for most people it's easier to put up with something and moan and vent now and then than it is to get out of their rut and actually change something.

>>465746
>>465750

Alternatively maybe they'd just rather take some pride in their home and have it improved rather than abandon it?

I dunno though, I moved from a relatively nice area to a shithole because it's cheaper, and it doesn't make any difference to me because I never leave the house.

>>465750

I don't know why but this struck a real chord with me about why I left my ex. I kept on removing the things she had a reason to complain about from the equation. General quality of life improvements that meant there was not a reason to complain about that anymore, everything from basic lifestyle routine and my house cleaning to new furniture and diy. She had every comfort and adminity I was capable of providing and in that state she was still miserable.

Happiness really is a state of mind. You can't really control if you are depressed directly. But you can certainly make a habit of being miserable. I'm starting to see moaning more and more as a defense mechanism for not engaging. Because if you try you are afraid you will fail.

>>465754

Which is exactly why mindfulness is an essential part of the equation.

You do have to make a deliberate effort to remind yourself what you do have and why that is good, regardless what your circumstances actually are. You could go from being on the dole to being a millionaire, and yes, the money would make you happy for a time, but soon enough the old boredom would set in if you didn't make a conscious effort to stay focussed on the positives. People think too much in terms of "oh well you have to pull your finger out and actually do something, bla bla crustacean basket" but that's genuinely only half of the answer.

And for what it's worth, I do think having a bit of a moan and a rant about something is all you need sometimes too. Satisfaction in life comes from a balance and harmony of all things, the yin and yang, without sounding too hippy about it.

Had some take away chop suey three hours ago that was a bit heavy on peanut oil, and I've still got that peanut oil taste on my tongue. It's not a flavour I don't like, but it's annoying that it's lingering that long.

I'm finding that I'm increasingly getting irritated by old people. They generally have poor manners and are quite selfish. I saw an elderly woman driving a Ford Kuga today who misjudged going around a corner so badly that almost half of her car was on the pavement, so it's a good job there weren't any pedestrians there. They get on my tits.

>>465741
The shoes have turned up. Housemate picked them up while doing some housework and forgot to put them back.

>>465744
No but she preys on young men if you need that fantasy. And then spazzes out at them for wanting sex and not being ready to commit.

>>465761

I'm not sure how much it was their fantasy, as much as they presume you have to be quite attractive to be able to get away with that level of batshit into your life without ending up alone and having to self-reflect and fix your broken personality.

Why a crisp sammy?
Bread is not that cheap, crips are not that cheap.

White bread, stilll cheap. Salt filling, not sure, but I can recommend butter, soy sauce, whatever you can spread like tinned beef. Comined makes a sarny.

Does a thermometer that records and graphs temperature over time have a specific name?

>>465765
No it doesn't have a name so it doesn't exist.

>>465766
How would you suggest finding one online - I'm quite dumb.

>>465765

If it's just for your room temperature, you want a "smart thermometer" or a "smart temperature monitor" - it'll pair to your phone via wifi or bluetooth and record temperature (and usually humidity) in an app. They're cheap as chips on AliExpress.

https://www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-xiaomi-temperature-monitor.html

If it's for some application with temperatures considerably higher or lower than room temperature, or if you need very high precision, you want a "logging thermometer".

>>465763
>Why a crisp sammy?
It's the texture, pure and simple. The flavour is secondary.

Much like only discovering a great musician when they die, it is only today, now that Jermaine Jenas has been completely cancelled, that I have thought to call him Jumanji Penis.

>>465770
It's kind of amazing that he's blown it. He wasn't anything special as a footballer and he's a terribly bland pundit and presenter, but the BBC kept throwing money at him because he's inoffensive and ticks the right diversity boxes. All he had to do was not be a sex pest.

>>465771

>All he had to do was not be a sex pest.

That's kind of a big ask for somebody who's both a BBC presenter and a professional footballer, don't you think?

Just found out that somebody I went to school with is a semi-important figure within the Ministry of Defence now. Middle management, if you will. Not a name you know, but somebody who it at some level a part of government.

Makes me question what I've been doing with my life.

Do you two know somebody you went to school with who is now somewhere in the upper echelons of business or government?

>>465773
At least two people I went to school with have been interviewed on TV news. One was a turbo-climber who really does just move from excellent job to excellent job; he ran the US presidential campaign for a small-time candidate who wasn't either of the main two. The other is a girl I went to primary school with, who is now the CEO of some unknown solar-power company or something.

>>465773
It's not as impressive as you think it is. Policy officials will very quickly rise to briefs that are significantly above what is expected of someone their age and it doesn't require any subject matter expertise - especially if they're willing to complete the fast stream and can make the right noises in the convoluted civil service interview process.

>>465773
I was a couple of years below someone who went on to perform at Eurovision.

I found out someone I was in primary school had been murdered when by chance I was in the audience of one of these political talk shows and his parents were contributors to one of the segments.

My mother is better than me at this. One of her friends from school is now an MP.

>>465773
I'm related to someone who can tell me where they work, but not a peep about what they actually do.

>>465773

I've no clue what anybody I went to school with is doing, except for one lad who I used to occasionally see because he worked on the petrol booth at Asda. I can think of one or two of them who I am almost certain will be very successful people in some sort of STEM field, while most of them will be your average Deano new build Audi on finance types.

But frankly I don't want to know, because comparing yourself does you no good at all. I know I am a lifelong under-acheiver, but I've made peace with it, because at the end of the day all I want is a simple and comfortable life, and I largely have it. By my own metrics that means I am successful. That's the important part, not knowing whether I earn more than Greg Smith from my form group.

>>465773
I found my life improved somewhat when I stopped looking at what people from my past are doing. I remember when I was in my early 20s, about to restart uni, looking through my Facebook friendlist at people from school. Some were halfway through medical school, or they moved abroad, or started businesses, or got high quality grad jobs. I removed all of them bar one, and don't give them much consideration. Might look some up on a whim every few months, but their successes and failures are immaterial to me.

Also I know if I looked now, as a 31 year old about to start an undergrad degree, I would want to commit seppuku seeing them owning houses and having high paid jobs.

Do prostitutes for lesbians exist? In particular, before soliciting online became a thing.

>>465781

I guess you have to take the good with the bad. There are people who have it worse than you.

One pretty random example I just remembered was when I was in the late stages of my degree, I replied to an ad in the paper where people were wanted for "part-time marketing for a major international company". So I met with the guy at a café and it turned out he went to business school and then went on to join up full time with Herbalife and their MLM scheme. During the one hour we spent together, he was falling over himself praising his quasi employer for all the opportunities of earning silly amounts of money by being your own boss and peddling their overpriced rubbish to unwitting friends and family. And of course by taking a handsome cut out of any sale by those under you that you've recruited.

I eventually declined and said that that was not what I expected when I read the ad, and that I'd heard too many bad things about MLMs. He then tried to tell me that Herbalife isn't an MLM, so I said, "but it ticks all the boxes, doesn't it". He was adamant that it wasn't, but then said, very grudgingly with a tone of despair, "Fine, whatever, I don't need you, I've got another big commission cheque coming tomorrow". It sounded pretty unconvincing. Like it was just another lie.

He gave me his business card, and sure enough it had an MBS printed on it next to his name. Anyway, my point is, I remember walking away that day thinking what had to go wrong for somebody who went to business school that they needed to scrape by making money as a little wheel in a dodgy MLM scheme.

>>465782

Most escorts are perfectly happy to see women and couples.

https://The Metro is owned by the Daily Mail./2024/06/17/lily-allen-doubles-sex-worker-bombshell-revelation-21048797/

I was a passenger in a car today and it made me feel quite car sick. I'm that used to being the driver, it's probably been months or years since someone else has driven me.

On an unrelated note, are Herman Miller chairs worth it? I know you can spend hundreds just on a refurb.

>>465785
>On an unrelated note, are Herman Miller chairs worth it? I know you can spend hundreds just on a refurb.

Worth every penny. A second-hand Aeron is a great chair.

Started fingering my girlfriend in the gardens of Richmond Castle but this cat came out of a bush and kept meowing at us so we had to stop. He then followed us all the way round to make sure we didn't get up to any more funny business.

>>465838
Could probably smell fish.

to whoever suggested the mesh screen mosquito nets, they've been a god send all summer. Barely a single mosquito has found its way into the house - I get to bed without thought.

I did today, however, leave my kitchen door open for a mere 5 minutes during the evening. I came back to at least 15 mosquitos raging against an internal window pane. There buzzing was like a static radio, it was so loud. I spent about 40 minutes tracking down each and every one - left smeared on the walls as a threat to any that follow. I've found that wafting the air around suspected hiding spots is a reliable way to force mosquitos into flight, thus giving away their position. Prior to realising this I was spending hours hunting by sight, sans glasses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzVtUu8sRuk

>>465841
Can't you just wank to something normal like huge breasts or pegging?

>>465840
I'm not being judgemental (anymore), but why is your house full of mosquitos? Is this a regional thing or is there something wrong with my blood that means I don't get bothered by them.

I sort of understand why people in the past looked older, but it still fucks with my head. When this photo was taken, John Thaw was 34 and Dennis Waterman was 28.

It can't just be the clothes and the hairstyles, can it? Surely it must be all the fags and booze and fried food.

>>465843

>It can't just be the clothes and the hairstyles, can it? Surely it must be all the fags and booze and fried food.

That's been my diet for the best part of my 35 years, and I look half Thaws age there. Admittedly I'm often told I look closer to 25 than 35 anyway, despite me being balding and cantankerous, but even the oldest looking thirty odd year old I know could only be confused for maybe pushing 40.

Something else is going on. I don't know what, exactly, surely they had Nivea back then.

Is it considered cheating to retain an ex's nudes and have a wank to them now and then, while in a different relationship? I've always deleted such things as it just seems like the right thing to do, but thinking about it I've never cleared out the other pictures of me and my previous relationships, things like the romantic day at the beach, snuggling on the sofa and that sort of thing. I've not kept them for any deliberate reason, just laziness, and I don't look at them, but I feel like somehow that material is more intimate than a video of them shoving a big dildo up themselves.

Maybe it's just me, but I'd be entirely unbothered if my lass was flicking her bean to a previous conquests sex tape than if she was sat all misty eyed over the time her and Brian went to the zoo and he told her he loved her for the first time.

>>465843

we wear more sunscrean have less ozone holes, and generally spend less time outside anyway, is the best explaination I've got.

>>465843
I think I've solved this mystery. From John Thaw's Wikipedia, under the section "Illness and Death": "A heavy drinker until going teetotal in 1995, and a heavy smoker from the age of 12".

As for Waterman, he probably wasn't living that dangerously, but no doubt some of that kind of thing was at play and the fact that we're much more ashamed of a mature hairline these days.

>>465844
I have always looked older than I am. The story I always tell is from when I had a big beard when I was 19, and went to a house party with some friends, and someone I didn’t know thought I was another person’s dad. Anyway, when I was 30, people would mistake me for 50. I am now 36 and still only get mistaken for 50, so I would suggest that that might be the upper limit.

I don’t have grey hair, but then I barely have hair at all.

>>465848
>Anyway, when I was 30, people would mistake me for 50. I am now 36 and still only get mistaken for 50, so I would suggest that that might be the upper limit.

Some people always look old, e.g. Maggie Smith was in her late 50s when Sister Act came out and she still looks pretty much the same now over 30 years later because she already looked old.

I was just watching a YouTube video about some video game. That's not really important, because what I took away from the twenty minutes, out of an hour long video, that I could stomach was that the writing was completely devoid of personality. No jokes, no asides, no personal insights. I can't imagine writing something like that and not scrapping it or at least trying to punch it up a little.

>>465845

>Is it considered cheating to retain an ex's nudes and have a wank to them now and then

I'd say no, but I think ~100% of women would say yes. Unless it's them doing it, in which case that's different for some reason.

I once had a (broadly reasonable and rational) woman get a huge nark on with me because I cheated on her in her dream.

>>465845

Personally I don't see any difference between saving a folder full of naughty nudes on your phone/computer, and storing them in your mental wank bank. I think people just have an irrational kind of jealousy over a lot of things in relationships, not that I don't think it's understandable, but still irrational. If they are upset over some pictures then they'd be traumatised if they thought about all the things I actually did in real life.

Of course, I think it should be taken as a given that if you are happily with somebody, you shouldn't be wanking over your ex, but once you delete those pictures they are gone for good. I don't see any reason it should be a problem that you still have pictures of an ex, as long as you're not actively using them as your wank fodder while you are in a relationship.

I've had women give me shit over the fact I didn't clean my social media of any trace of an ex too, which at the time simply hadn't occurred to me because I hadn't posted on said social media in years anyway. It just seems a bit sociopathic to me, yeah you don't want to think of me being with somebody else and I don't want to either, but it was a part of my life, I don't see why I should be expected to memory hole it and pretend it never happened. At some point as an adult you have to accept and make peace that everyone has a past, and that includes people they loved, shared profound emotional connections with, and who gave their arsehole a stretching that left them unable to walk.

Who the fuck needs an Oasis comeback.

Middle aged mums who weren't middle class enough for Take That?

Knebworth was 28 years ago.

>>465853
They're talking about it in the office today. Some people have said they're prepared to go if the tickets are less than £300 each.

>>465854

300 quid is still a bit much to relive your youth.

>>465853
>Who the fuck needs an Oasis comeback.
Presumably one or both of the brothers has found themselves a bit short on cash.

>>465856

Must be Liam. Apparently he's a real pauper with a net worth of $6 million compared to Noel's roughly 70 million.

https://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/music-news/how-did-oasis-liam-gallagher-run-through-41-million-in-4-years/

The article also says that Liam was worth about 50 million at his peak during the Oasis years. So that's about 1998, 1999 money. The album Be Here Now was selling relatively well at the time, and '98 was around the time they got off the eponymous tour, so that must have added to his coffers. After that, their success was beginning to wane dramatically, if you weren't around at the time.

But still. I'm very sure it can be done, but how do you blow through 44 million, not counting sumptuous interest over 28 years on that kind of wealth. I know that all the cocaine and ex wives don't pay for themselves, but money management probably isn't his strong suit.

There's only one way to defeat Oasis, we need to get the original Bloc Party line-up back together. If Gordon Moakes and Matt Tong come back I believe they can do it again.

>>465845
I'd be upset in both situations. But really they both speak to me of someone dissatisfied with their current partner and wanting to go back to the real thing.

Next question: If you asked your ex if you could keep them intimate photos of her, what do you think her answer would be?

>>465853
Whenever I think of Oasis I think of staying in a hostel because a bird made me for the 'experiance' and just as I was drifting off some twat started up with Wonderwall on his acoustic guitar.

>Who the fuck needs an Oasis comeback.

All the bands from the 90s are doing comebacks now because kids these days don't have an alternative culture of their own and Gen X are middle aged.

>>465858
I don't know about his first divorce, but I think his second one cost him about £7million once legal fees were factored in.

I think it's part a liquidity issue, his house in London is worth about £4million and I think he has a few other properties, but also part living beyond your means as he's renting a property for about £17k a month with his girlfriend.

>>465859
>There's only one way to defeat Oasis
I'm reminded of the whole "Blur vs Oasis" thing, and how it was entirely manufactured by certain sections of the press while in reality neither particularly cared about the other. The one time it came close to being a thing was when their respective labels agreed to release a single each on the same date.

>>465858

Liam has far less income, because he didn't write the songs. The copyright on a record is split into two roughly equal pots - the performing right that covers the song, and the mechanical copyright that covers the recording. Every time they play Wonderwall on the radio, Liam gets a quarter of the mechanicals, but Noel gets a quarter of the mechanicals and all of the performing rights royalties. If you record a cover of Wonderwall, Noel still gets all the performing rights royalties, but Liam gets nothing.

>>465863

Sounds like somebody wasn't paying good attention when those rights were drawn up. I mean, at some point the two must have signed some sort of contract outlining who would get what percentage of the profits.

I know nothing about music industry profit splitting practices, but you have to be able to spot a bad deal when you see it coming.

>>465864
I think considering yourself skint when you've still got six million quid, in assets or otherwise, is the best bad deal I've ever heard of.

>>465864
The default position is that the performing rights (i.e. the "author's" rights) go to whoever gets the writing credit, divided equally if there are more than one of them. If they wanted to split things, then they could have come to an agreement the way Queen did, but they didn't.

In the days of the old industry, there was a phrase "change a word, take a third". Until we started to see the emergence of the songwriter in mid-C20, typically any song's credits would have two names - a composer and a lyricist. An enterprising performer who wanted to make a bit more on the royalties could make some subtle changes to the lyrics, and claim a writing credit, putting themselves alongside the composer and lyricist, and thereby getting a third of the royalties. Infamously, Gene Roddenberry wrote a set of lyrics for the Star Trek theme for no other reason than to get a writer's credit, and assigned his share of the rights to his son, who made a very tidy sum out of them.

Another exciting incident this week; some dude running up on absolutely anyone he could, getting in their faces and appearing eagar to start a fight. He looked capable of it inall, but something in the way he was aproaching random people, including kids, was unusual.

I hung around a bit then started positioning myself between him and his likely next targets. Quite a few personal engagements between us but after a short while I realised he wasn't going to do anything physical if I didn't rise to him. I kept myself appearing calm, offered him numerous fags and tried to get his mind else where with brief conversational pieces about walking my dog, where you're from, etc.

We moved seperately from one general locale to another (I basically followed him from a distance), warning others that they might want to change their direction, and gently intervening when it looked like he was about to start on someone particularly vulnerable - positioning again to allow others a buffer.

At one point he was provoking me with "Oh you're a hard man are ya?!" to which I jovially replied "Dude look at me, I'm a fat cunt".

About 30 minutes later the police showed up and chased him through the streets.

What's really interesting is that during the engagements, moments of clarity would slip through where he deviated from his script of "yeah what" "OI cunt" and "Fuck off" to say "chase me" and enquire as to my. During our penultimate exchage he actually said "Why're you trying to be friends with me?" then appologied, before defaulting back to "yeah fuck off". I think had I stuck around with him a bit longer, rather than being repulsed by his hostility, he might have opened up a bit.
I did happen to find a shard of glass where he was earlier sat, though, so I could have got a slashing.

I quite enjoyed helping to manage the disturbances he was causing (if you'll excuse me saying so), and actually came to the service of one particular family by diverting his attention toward me.

I have previously thought to engage people who're clearly having a bad time in public.
I think I'd like to explore work with mental people.

>>465867

>I think I'd like to explore work with mental people.

Go for it mate - we're in desperate need of mental health staff. There are lots of roles that don't require a degree in nursing or psychology.

https://www.england.nhs.uk/mental-health/working-in-mental-health/