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>> No. 466568 Anonymous
7th October 2024
Monday 7:39 am
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New weekday thread: dormouse edition.
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>> No. 466569 Anonymous
7th October 2024
Monday 9:20 am
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Do you last wipe for foreskin down with a bit of toilet paper after you’re done pissing or do you just shake your willy a bit to get all the leftover piss drops out?
>> No. 466570 Anonymous
7th October 2024
Monday 9:21 am
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>>466569
*lads
Fuck Apple.
>> No. 466572 Anonymous
7th October 2024
Monday 11:55 am
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>>466569

I never used to give this much thought when I was younger, but I find with age, the peril of excess drippage is almost a constant presence that I have to work around. I already pull the foreskin back when I piss to try and make sure I don't get it soaked, then I'll use tissue to dab the end off, but I find almost as soon as I let go of my knob and it returns to a natural position, there's a drip, sometimes quite a substantial one.

I put it down to having a massive knob. It's like when you finish using a garden hose, there's still excess to come out and you'll never get it all no matter how much you shake.
>> No. 466573 Anonymous
7th October 2024
Monday 12:05 pm
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I squeeze it out, like I'm getting the last bit out of a tube of toothpaste.
>> No. 466575 Anonymous
7th October 2024
Monday 12:41 pm
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>>466573
You roll it up from the bottom?
>> No. 466578 Anonymous
7th October 2024
Monday 5:06 pm
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You lads need to start doing some pelvic floor exercises. It'll not only sort your pilly-willy but you'll be able to have more control of your piss.

But if you're still worried about drips then gently pinch from the top and bottom and then run upwards starting from the base. This will clear out any remaining liquid easily. Trust me I'm an expert on dick from practice with my own.
>> No. 466579 Anonymous
7th October 2024
Monday 6:23 pm
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Here's a life hack for you lads. Blast the hair drier into your slippers for a bit before you put them on. Your feet will never have been cosier.
>> No. 466580 Anonymous
7th October 2024
Monday 8:36 pm
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Technology frustrations, prostate issues, and slipper tips.

We have become old men.
>> No. 466581 Anonymous
7th October 2024
Monday 8:48 pm
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My tea has been real shit, lately. If I haven't dropped too much milk in, than it's has a horrible dryness. The only decent cup I've had in the past 2 weeks was the one I'd dunked 6 digestives into (Mcvitie's, heathen). Funny how biscuit tea is the best brew, but losing a biscuit in the tea is a disaster. I figure it's got something to do with the heat of the biscuit accustomising your mouth to a hotter gulp.
>> No. 466582 Anonymous
7th October 2024
Monday 9:30 pm
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How do you use Wikipedias reference section? The ^, a and b in this screenshot only return me to the paragraph the led my to the footnote. Searching Stiles, T. J. (2009) returns a likely writer but leaves me to filter all their work for a mere phrase i'm looking for.

Am I fucking dumb, or what?
>> No. 466584 Anonymous
7th October 2024
Monday 9:45 pm
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>>466582

That's just poor referencing. You would hope find the full title in the bibliography section, but the failure to include a page reference is inexcusable.

You're probably looking for "The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt", if that helps at all.
>> No. 466585 Anonymous
7th October 2024
Monday 9:46 pm
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Watching Brian Cox's solar system documentary on BBC2 on my surround system with the volume way up. Pretty ace.
>> No. 466586 Anonymous
7th October 2024
Monday 9:46 pm
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>>466582
That will be a reference to something either somewhere else in the reference list or in the bibliography. If you can't find it, complain on the talk page where nobody will notice.
>> No. 466589 Anonymous
7th October 2024
Monday 9:52 pm
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>>466585
He sounds too much like Salad Fingers for my liking.
>> No. 466590 Anonymous
7th October 2024
Monday 10:04 pm
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>>466578
Can you recommend me some exercises?
>> No. 466591 Anonymous
7th October 2024
Monday 10:04 pm
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>>466580

Always have been.
>> No. 466592 Anonymous
7th October 2024
Monday 10:08 pm
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>>466589


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30ruBtLIvJM
>> No. 466593 Anonymous
7th October 2024
Monday 10:16 pm
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>>466592

To me this is the canon Professor Brian Cox.
>> No. 466596 Anonymous
7th October 2024
Monday 10:39 pm
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>>466569

Toilet paper bell-end wiping causes smeg
>> No. 466597 Anonymous
7th October 2024
Monday 10:42 pm
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https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5182625-dh-is-looking-at-lenin-porn
>> No. 466598 Anonymous
7th October 2024
Monday 10:49 pm
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>>466597

Just shoot me if I ever end up in a relationship with the kind of woman who would sooner ask fucking Mumsnet about the weird porn she found on my computer than just tell me about it.

Also we should probably include this with any mumsnet posts:

https://www.mumsnet.com/i/acronyms
>> No. 466599 Anonymous
7th October 2024
Monday 11:12 pm
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>>466598

Who cares about Mumsnet. It's just another festering sore of the Internet. Like so many others with waning relevance.
>> No. 466600 Anonymous
7th October 2024
Monday 11:21 pm
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>>466598
I don't know how I'd feel about my partner poking around on my computer. That feels like an incredible invasion of privacy even in a marriage.
>> No. 466601 Anonymous
8th October 2024
Tuesday 12:26 am
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>>466600

It happens. From my own experience, all you can do is hide your porn thoroughly. Clear your browser cache every time, don't ever store anything you want to keep on your computer's internal memory, i.e. have an external SSD with plenty of capacity ready. And find a good place to hide it. A REALLY good place.
>> No. 466602 Anonymous
8th October 2024
Tuesday 2:17 am
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>>466600

My girlfriend makes jibes when I don't want her looking at my phone, because she has 'literally nothing to hide'. Well I fucking do and I don't want to hear you crying about it if you find me venting about a relationship issue on an anonymous discord after being nosy.
>> No. 466603 Anonymous
8th October 2024
Tuesday 11:44 am
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Just got an AI spam reply to a two year old Steam review of mine, so there's another mark of the "AI revolution".
>> No. 466604 Anonymous
8th October 2024
Tuesday 12:11 pm
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>>466601
I once knew a guy who regularly carried around a USB memory stick, even when he would be nowhere near a computer, and would visibly panic if he ever misplaced it. He was already a weirdo without this behaviour, but it certainly worsened his image.

If you're going to such lengths to hide a porn collection, maybe you shouldn't have it.
Saying that I've been wondering lately what my family might think if they found my electronic stash after I'd died. It definitely keeps me from saving much of the lusty anal and sissy stuff.
>> No. 466605 Anonymous
8th October 2024
Tuesday 12:46 pm
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I don't save any porn, it's always going to be there on the internet. And even if it isn't, there's always going to be new porn to take its place, on the internet. Really what's the need to save it?

The only porn I have saved is the nudes various sexual partners have sent in a hidden folder on my phone. I'm not hiding it because I am ashamed of it or anything, but the way I see it is they consented to me having pictures of their tits, but not for other people to see them. Thus it's my responsibility to keep them private.
>> No. 466606 Anonymous
8th October 2024
Tuesday 12:53 pm
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>>466604
I used to keep a USB on me but it was just work stuff and other important documents, one of many backups. I stopped when the USB died and I couldn't find a replacement of the same type. Keeping dodgy porn on your person at all times seems like it would increase the risk.
>> No. 466607 Anonymous
8th October 2024
Tuesday 1:50 pm
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I'm looking to spend about £50 on a pair of headphones, do I go for the Anker Q20i, the Anker Q30 or something else?

https://amzn.eu/d/fVWL5T9
https://amzn.eu/d/cfIidNb
>> No. 466608 Anonymous
8th October 2024
Tuesday 1:59 pm
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>>466605
>Really what's the need to save it?
Some files are considered 'rare' in that it'd take a comparatively long time to find quality copies of, while others can be so niche that you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who'd actually saved them. Lost media is a realistic concept - if you want access to any of these you're best off saving them.

Over the years I've purged mutliple awesome .webm's, .gif's and .mp4's, intent on staking my personality on more stable claims, only to find many of them had become quite valuable now that they're no longer in common circulation.

It's pretty much the same as your hidden folder of revenge-porn. They have a greater value than quick wank material.

Would you believe I'm speaking as one of the 'asexual' posters of recent days? Yes, I imagine you could.
>> No. 466609 Anonymous
8th October 2024
Tuesday 4:05 pm
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>>466603
I have noticed that other imageboards are starting to get AI spam images. I reckon in a few years it will become the new tweet spam.

It's also completely ruined any kind of drawn porn. Most content is either AI or AI-assisted now and it means they all share an offputting smoothness to them like the characters were made in a 3D printer.

>>466605
I've found it quite nice to have a little stash on my computer - under 10 mostly PMVs to quickly and reliably bash one out to. I'd say at least half no longer exist on the free internet (for not-wrong'un reasons). I assembled this after I moved house and had no home internet which is less of an issue these days with cheap mobile data but you never know.

Still wouldn't want a Mrs looking at it, not that there's anything weird but it's like imageboards where it should be my personal space and they should respect that just as I wouldn't go on Mumsnet or listen in to whatever she tells her girlfriends about my cock.

>>466607
I had the Anker Q30 a few years back and they were great. Since spent about £25 more to get the Q45.
>> No. 466610 Anonymous
8th October 2024
Tuesday 4:39 pm
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>>466609

>It's also completely ruined any kind of drawn porn. Most content is either AI or AI-assisted now and it means they all share an offputting smoothness to them like the characters were made in a 3D printer

I really can't say that it's an overall net decrease in quality. At least not for the kind of drawn pawn I'm into, where you'd have to wade through the garbage just to find one well drawn image, and then just hope that the artist didn't shoe-horn in their other weird fetishes that you're not into to spoil it anyway.

Human pornmongers can't draw hands either, they always lazily skip over backgrounds, and any object in the drawing that isn't a big lovingly detailed cock or pair of tits always look like they were drawn by somebody who has never seen said object but only heard it described. In another language.
>> No. 466611 Anonymous
8th October 2024
Tuesday 5:58 pm
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>>466581
Salts Diner mug?

>>466604
Think I might have posted this on here before, but when I moved for uni, I left my desktop PC behind. I had quite a bit of fatty, shemale, and monster girl porn on there.

He asked if my little brother could use my computer, and asked for my password to log in. I told him the password, but foolishly said "don't look at any of my files".

Then when he visited me a couple of weeks later, he pointed out every fat woman who walked past asking me if I fancied them then straight up said he saw my stash. He hasn't mentioned the shemales and monster girls, and it's been 13 years, so I avoided two harder potential conversations.
>> No. 466612 Anonymous
8th October 2024
Tuesday 6:15 pm
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>>466611
>monster girl porn

Explain.
>> No. 466613 Anonymous
8th October 2024
Tuesday 6:20 pm
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>>466612
Just stuff from the Monster Girl Encyclopedia and artworks expanding on that. They all rape men to extract their semen to sustain their powers. Some kidnap men and keep them as a husband, or have the whole oni village or whatever rape him. Slimes, oni, spiders, orcs, slugs, angels, zombies, trolls, etc. All raping men to extract semen.
>> No. 466614 Anonymous
8th October 2024
Tuesday 6:41 pm
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>>466611

I don't think anyone would be surprised by the contents of my porn collection. I don't think anyone would be that surprised if I died in a tragic wanking accident.
>> No. 466615 Anonymous
8th October 2024
Tuesday 6:43 pm
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>>466611

Which brings us back to what I said about hiding your porn stash. Unless you do, there WILL be a chance that somebody happens upon it that you don't want seeing it.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVB1pTb-3Tg
>> No. 466617 Anonymous
8th October 2024
Tuesday 6:52 pm
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I cooked my pasta in the sauce I was making and now it's got that lovely taste and texture I usually associate with lasagna.
>> No. 466622 Anonymous
8th October 2024
Tuesday 8:33 pm
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Anyone want to buy Huw Edwards' house?

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/153505529#/?channel=RES_BUY
>> No. 466624 Anonymous
8th October 2024
Tuesday 8:47 pm
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>>466622

I know it's probably gone up in value since he bought it... but BBC news presenters must make absolute shedloads.
>> No. 466625 Anonymous
8th October 2024
Tuesday 8:50 pm
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>>466624
The sale history says it was bought for £980k in 2005.
>> No. 466626 Anonymous
8th October 2024
Tuesday 8:56 pm
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>>466625

Tidy profit then.
>> No. 466627 Anonymous
8th October 2024
Tuesday 9:15 pm
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>>466622

Can we have some more celebrity houses to nosey at on RightMove? It's dead interesting. Or how about we all go off and find the most expensive house in our county/city and post it. I'll start:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/147881138#/?channel=RES_BUY

Clearly nobody wants this place because it was up two years ago when I was buying my house. I recognise the paintings in this study because they're so awful.

What do you even do with a house this big. Clearly the current owner has no idea either because about five of the rooms are just sofas in front of a TV.
>> No. 466628 Anonymous
8th October 2024
Tuesday 9:29 pm
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The East Midlands Railway mascot looks like a demonic entity that you'd find at the foot of your bed staring into your soul at 4 in the morning should you have the misfortune of waking at such an hour for whatever reason. Rest assured knowing that he is there, and he will steal your soul as he is looking into your eyes, then when he is done, he will adjust his bowtie, and disappear into the 9th circle of hell, whence he came.
>> No. 466629 Anonymous
8th October 2024
Tuesday 9:29 pm
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>>466627
Have you been to The Milk Churn? It's one of my favourite places for an ice cream.

https://themilkchurn.com/
>> No. 466630 Anonymous
8th October 2024
Tuesday 10:04 pm
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>>466627
https://assets.savills.com/properties/GBTZRSSWG200235/SWG200235_SWG21002221.PDF

Publisher and poet Felix Dennis built a wacky house. You enter into the pool room. Link has more pics.
>> No. 466631 Anonymous
8th October 2024
Tuesday 10:10 pm
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>>466628
He looks like a character from the Garten of Banban series, which is actually worse than what you described.

>>466630
That is absolutely beautiful. However, I'll never understand why rich people make themselves home theatres that have the same seating layout as an actual cinema. I could if you were trying to pack in loads of space and get twenty seats in there, but that room has four.
>> No. 466633 Anonymous
8th October 2024
Tuesday 10:31 pm
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Major phase of moving flat completed in getting someone to take my room. I feel a little bad about this, my flatemate is a feckless pain in the arse and the landlord doesn't lift a finger. Plus the place looks dead nice because I bought things that I might just take with me out of spite.

On my side I've found a few safe bets where I have everything I need to live comfortably at a good price but I'm holding back as there's a local artist looking for a housemate which seems interesting and would be a little out of my comfort zone while still having distance between our jobs. We'll see.
>> No. 466634 Anonymous
8th October 2024
Tuesday 10:40 pm
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>>466629

I've heard of it but never been. If it's a nice day in the summer and I feel like a drive out into the countryside, I usually go up to Middleham and visit the castle, and stop by the Brymoor dairy farm for ice cream on the way. I can't recommend that enough, best ice cream I've ever had.
>> No. 466635 Anonymous
8th October 2024
Tuesday 10:46 pm
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>>466630

That does look very nice, but wouldn't the entire house stink of chlorine all the time?
>> No. 466638 Anonymous
8th October 2024
Tuesday 11:13 pm
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>>466635

The smell of a public pool isn't chlorine. It's the smell of chloramine, which is produced when chlorine reacts with urea. Pools don't smell of anything if you refrain from pissing in them.
>> No. 466639 Anonymous
8th October 2024
Tuesday 11:18 pm
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>>466638
>if you refrain from pissing in them.
No can do I'm afraid
>> No. 466640 Anonymous
8th October 2024
Tuesday 11:55 pm
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>>466638

Sounds like a bit of an urban legend that. In my old job I used chlorine tablets all the time for cleaning and you definitely got that smell when you set them off dissolving in water- Fresh water that neither I nor anybody else had pissed in.

It's never straight chlorine anyway, that's a bit of a misnomer. It's a mix of sodium or magnesium or whatever with chlorine, that becomes a hypochlorate solution. I suspect that's why it smells. Swimming pools are essentially giant vats of very weak bleach.
>> No. 466641 Anonymous
9th October 2024
Wednesday 12:09 am
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Maxine Peake had lovely milkers before she lost all the weight.
>> No. 466642 Anonymous
9th October 2024
Wednesday 12:29 am
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>>466640
>It's never straight chlorine anyway
A place that I worked at had the swimming pool lifeguard miss-mixed the pool chemicals this one time causing the entire site to be evacuated. I think it was clorine gas or something.
>> No. 466643 Anonymous
9th October 2024
Wednesday 12:50 am
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>>466642

Yeah there's some stuff, pretty common household cleaning chemicals and I think even vinegar or alcohol can do it I was in biology not chemistry so don't expect me to get that right that if you mix it with bleach will give off chlorine gas. Chlorine gas was used in WW1 as the first intentionally lethal chemical weapon, before they'd developed the nastier stuff like phosgene and mustard gas.
>> No. 466652 Anonymous
9th October 2024
Wednesday 9:43 am
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Woke up with a pounding headache and nausea today.

I'm probably coming down with something.
>> No. 466653 Anonymous
9th October 2024
Wednesday 10:43 am
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>>466652

Get some fluids down you and take it easy, today, if you can.
>> No. 466654 Anonymous
9th October 2024
Wednesday 11:25 am
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>>466652
>>466653
Yeah, drink this, you slut.
>> No. 466655 Anonymous
9th October 2024
Wednesday 12:49 pm
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I got a bottle of apple juice in my Morrisons meal deal and it smells like sweaty feet.
>> No. 466656 Anonymous
9th October 2024
Wednesday 12:52 pm
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>>466643
I thought everybody knew the two chemicals that make poison gas. Certainly everyone who frequents dark online corners like this one. I’m even reluctant to say what they are in case it’s one of those things that someone will misuse for bad personal reasons, like how you aren’t supposed to tell people online the right way to tie a noose.

More recently, I saw some advice that you should never mix bleach with anything, and that struck me as very good advice really.
>> No. 466657 Anonymous
9th October 2024
Wednesday 2:27 pm
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>>466656

https://cen.acs.org/safety/consumer-safety/Accidental-mix-bleach-acid-kills/97/i45

>Accidental mix of bleach and acid kills Buffalo Wild Wings employee

Blimey.

I know that chlorine bleach and hydrogen peroxide neutralise each other, which is why the olympic swimming pools in Rio in 2016 rapidly turned green from algae growth.

https://time.com/4451484/why-rio-olympic-pools-turned-green-hydrogen-peroxide/
>> No. 466658 Anonymous
9th October 2024
Wednesday 3:54 pm
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>>466656
>Certainly everyone who frequents dark online corners like this one.
Yes, because chubby chasing and tips on how to make slippers more comfy are notoriously dark subjects.
>> No. 466659 Anonymous
9th October 2024
Wednesday 4:29 pm
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>>466656
I don't know about any of that but check out this cool way of making crystals out of common kitchen supplies!

>>466658
My thoughts exactly. It's been a while time since gun crafting manuals and facial-recognition cracking tutorials were (quietly) posted here.
>> No. 466661 Anonymous
9th October 2024
Wednesday 6:38 pm
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>>466658

>tips on how to make slippers more comfy

I'm glad that one's stuck with you lads.
>> No. 466663 Anonymous
9th October 2024
Wednesday 7:36 pm
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Fucking rain.
>> No. 466665 Anonymous
9th October 2024
Wednesday 8:46 pm
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>>466663
Buy an umbrella and some boots.
>> No. 466669 Anonymous
10th October 2024
Thursday 3:32 pm
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There is some talk of a work outing. I have not committed either way, but I think the location will be something to do with flights. I assumed this would be one of those parachute or bungee jump outings, but apparently it’s flights as in the little feather thingies on darts, and we’d basically be playing darts.

Anyway. I had this conversation with a female colleague whom I barely know, and she said it had to be darts rather than exciting flying experiences, or she would piss herself. That poster from a couple of weeks ago was absolutely right. Then we had our weekly bullshit meeting where all the departments say what they’re doing, and the potential social gathering was mentioned again, and she interrupted the whole company with some cheery chat about how anything bouncy will cause her to piss herself. I’m the fetishist so I was not disgusted at all, but I thought the only women who would tell me about pissing themselves would be my actual friends. But apparently all women everywhere just cannot wait to volunteer this information at any opportunity.
>> No. 466672 Anonymous
10th October 2024
Thursday 5:47 pm
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Since the weather got cold, my cat has moved her base from next to the back door, to inside a cabinet in my girlfriend's office. Problem is she can be very demanding, which frustrates my girlfriend, but she refuses to move without force. So I've had to bring the cat up to my room and have her hang out with me for the last couple of hours

She sat on my lap a while, digging her claws into me and ruining my jeans. For the last 90 minutes she's been on my desk cleaning herself. So I can't use my keyboard. I opened to door to allow her to go back to her base but she stayed on the desk. I can't use my keyboard, but I feel bad moving her. Mouse use is fine though.

It's nice she's chilling out with me but equally I miss typing. Phone keyboards are not great. I don't know why it's taking so long to clean herself she's less than 2ft long. It sounds like particularly unpleasant cunnilingus. Lots of slurping and smacking noises. Like a flesh tunnel from hit video game Prey.
>> No. 466674 Anonymous
10th October 2024
Thursday 6:15 pm
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>>466669
>That poster from a couple of weeks ago was absolutely right.

I told ya!
>> No. 466675 Anonymous
10th October 2024
Thursday 6:59 pm
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>>466672

Cats are absolute ignorant fucking cunts, but then they come and cuddle up to you and you wonder how they always get you to forgive them.

I grew up with cats. We always had at least one cat from when I was a weelad. Never really warmed up to dogs. I don't hate them, they just aren't my thing.


self sage for rambling.
>> No. 466677 Anonymous
10th October 2024
Thursday 7:32 pm
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>>466675

I'm more or less the opposite. Grew up with dogs and genuinely love them, but cats have grown on me a lot since I've spent more time around them. They're a lot goofier than most people give them credit for, and I find that endearing.
>> No. 466678 Anonymous
10th October 2024
Thursday 8:34 pm
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>>466672
What is it with cat owners? If it's in your way just pss it out with a flick of your hand. They'll either move or think you're play fighting, the latter case you're justified in light shoving.
Cat's are cool characters and prefer to act as though things don't phase them - you can quite easily give it a pet and coo afterward, just let it know where to fuck off from and when.

That being said my mothers cat rarely comes near me, so perhaps it's not that good a training strategy after all.
>> No. 466679 Anonymous
10th October 2024
Thursday 8:38 pm
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Cat owners are subs, dog owners are doms.
>> No. 466680 Anonymous
10th October 2024
Thursday 8:41 pm
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>>466679

It's biologically impossible to fuck a cat, but I'm inferring some things about your relationship to your dog.
>> No. 466681 Anonymous
10th October 2024
Thursday 8:48 pm
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>>466679
What about those people who're into cat-girls?
>> No. 466682 Anonymous
10th October 2024
Thursday 8:58 pm
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>>466681

carpet-baggers.
>> No. 466684 Anonymous
10th October 2024
Thursday 10:28 pm
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I'm eating kimchi I made myself using cabbage I grew myself and it's everything I hoped it would be. Hopefully the chilli harvest will be better next year and I can use those too. I draw the line at growing shrimp or making my own fish sauce but I am considering harvesting sea salt.
>> No. 466685 Anonymous
11th October 2024
Friday 5:47 am
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Is it just me, or are there more occasions of the northern lights being visible in this country than there used to be?
>> No. 466686 Anonymous
11th October 2024
Friday 6:39 am
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>>466685

Aurora occurs when charged particles ejected from the sun interact with the upper layer of our atmosphere (the ionosphere). The atmosphere on the sun operates on a cycle lasting roughly 11 years. We're currently close to the peak of that cycle, so we're getting lots of solar flares and a high chance of aurora.

The last cycle peaked in 2014, but it was unusually weak and there were few flares with sufficient energy to produce aurora that would be visible in the UK.

Improvements in smartphone cameras have massively increased the cultural presence of aurora. Even a good show of aurora is very dim, so photographing it with a film camera or an early digital camera requires a tripod and good technique - unless you really know what you're doing, you'll just get a picture of a dark sky. Smartphones use clever image processing to stitch together multiple exposures of dark scenes, so a photo of aurora taken with a recent iPhone will look brighter and more vivid than real life.
>> No. 466687 Anonymous
11th October 2024
Friday 7:46 am
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>>466686
It's all going to get a bit weird when the earth's magnetic field goes walkabout, so make the most of it.
>> No. 466688 Anonymous
11th October 2024
Friday 8:54 am
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Job interview. Can't really be arsed. Seems alright though, wish me luck chaps.
>> No. 466690 Anonymous
11th October 2024
Friday 9:04 am
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>>466688
Good luck. I hope you don't end up with a boss who calls you at ten-to-nine because you changed to the display scale on the till and none of your colleagues know how to change it back.
>> No. 466691 Anonymous
11th October 2024
Friday 10:56 am
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>>466690

Cheers lad. I met the boss and he did seem like a cunt, but not a dickhead. I can live with that. Not sure on the vibe of the place overall really, seems like they are rebuilding their team from the ground up after losing a couple of important people, but that could be an opportunity to get in and climb up the ladder.

Anyway it's not the only iron I have in the fire so I'm not too fussed. Usually when I've done interviews while not really giving a fuck is when I do the best.
>> No. 466692 Anonymous
11th October 2024
Friday 12:04 pm
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>>466691

>eems like they are rebuilding their team from the ground up after losing a couple of important people, but that could be an opportunity to get in and climb up the ladder.

Sounds like it. Keeping my fingers crossed for you, lad.

Had a similar thing happen at one of my old jobs where the team lead had left to work for a competitor, and a while later had his assistant and another person follow him. They filled the lead with somebody inhouse, and I was hired to take up the job of that other person.

We were performing poorly, you could even say it was a shit show, because although the new lead was a close colleague of the old one, she had absolutely no concept of the projects we were doing. Which created almost constant friction. She was in over her head, and was eventually let go because she just couldn't get it right. I then applied for team lead, but lost out in a narrow tie with one of my coworkers.

But yeah. There's always an opportunity when a team is regrouping. Could just be your ticket.
>> No. 466693 Anonymous
11th October 2024
Friday 6:57 pm
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I'll be honest man I used to sprawl all over the desk at school. Somtimes even laying across it, eye level with the pen tip. Fuck me, I must have looked like such a troll.
>> No. 466694 Anonymous
11th October 2024
Friday 8:53 pm
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>>466693

Is that in North Korea?
>> No. 466695 Anonymous
11th October 2024
Friday 9:09 pm
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>>466694
Fuck knows - I assumed China.
>> No. 466696 Anonymous
11th October 2024
Friday 10:10 pm
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>>466695

Not the kind of place where you want to be in school, either way.
>> No. 466697 Anonymous
11th October 2024
Friday 10:38 pm
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>>466694
It's China - they installed the iron bars to drill into children the correct distance to sit from the page to prevent short-sightedness which is a problem in East Asia where they spend a billion hours studying.

No idea if it works but it's weird seeing a government proactively try to solve long-term issues.
>> No. 466698 Anonymous
12th October 2024
Saturday 12:26 am
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>>466697

You're not really free unless you're free to become short sighted.
>> No. 466699 Anonymous
12th October 2024
Saturday 2:50 am
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>>466589
My brother went to the same school as David Firth (Doki66), it was Hall Cross in Doncaster during the early 1990s. I remember seeing the Fatpie animations in 2004 (as proper Adobe Flash content) not streaming video like we have now. His content is kind of repetitive now but he's genuinely talented, it's a shame he never finished making the Meadow Man.

His best video is: The Unfixable Thought Machine | David Firth's Health Reminder -


Firth's mate Devvo became a primary school teacher but lost his job after parents saw his old videos, I never took them to be that offensive but such is life in the era of social media.
>> No. 466700 Anonymous
12th October 2024
Saturday 3:58 am
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>>466699

>Firth's mate Devvo became a primary school teacher but lost his job after parents saw his old videos, I never took them to be that offensive but such is life in the era of social media

Modern life really is exactly the dystopia I was terrified it was going to become isn't it.
>> No. 466701 Anonymous
12th October 2024
Saturday 11:44 am
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>>466699
>Firth's mate Devvo became a primary school teacher but lost his job after parents saw his old videos, I never took them to be that offensive but such is life in the era of social media.
That exactly the sort of character I'd expect to build genuine rapport with kids, these days.
>> No. 466702 Anonymous
12th October 2024
Saturday 2:04 pm
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Alright, whose turn is it to make the new weekend thread?
>> No. 466704 Anonymous
12th October 2024
Saturday 2:38 pm
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>>466702
Well that other bloke already fucked up the plan of a day/end multi-thread, so you can do it.
>> No. 466751 Anonymous
14th October 2024
Monday 10:17 am
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The game Metaphor has some major characters with scouse accents. Also the port city is mostly scousers. I don't recall a lot of scouse representation in games. You seem to get a lot of Irish, Northern Irish, Scottish, generic Northern. I used to hate the scouse accent but it's not too bad is it? Better than Brummie and West Country at any rate.
>> No. 466752 Anonymous
14th October 2024
Monday 10:32 am
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Job I went for an interview with the other day said they were impressed with me, so that's good, but because I don't have experience directly in that industry they wanted to invite me back in "for a couple of hours", so I can demonstrate I would have the aptitude I suppose? It's unusual, not had that before, but naturally I'll go along and see what the craic is.

I didn't want to say as much in the interview and come off as arrogant, but their facilities and the work they carry out seem quite a bit simpler than when I have been doing for the last several years so I am quietly confident I'd have no issues with picking it up. I just get a sense that the people hiring aren't used to recruiting for this kind of role and they are being a little bit optimistic in their expectations, but they're offering reasonably decent money so I'll not turn my nose up at it.
>> No. 466754 Anonymous
14th October 2024
Monday 11:16 am
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>>466751
I'm very sanguine about accemts. I never understand people like yourself who have their hackles raised by hearing someone from fifty miles up the road speaking, but it's probably because you're a disgusting Yorkshireman.

Regarding Scouse representation in games I think the only character I can pinpoint hearing is the sweary little twat from Disco Elysium. His name escapes me. Cornal? Cromwell? Something like that. It's a shame because I do like hearing region accents in games, rather than another bloke who sort of sounds like Jason Statham, and is probably an American VA anyway. It's probably even worse if you're not from the UK, I imagine the breadth of accents you can expect to hear from Irish or Italian characters could be measured in nanometres, if you hear them at all.
>> No. 466759 Anonymous
14th October 2024
Monday 3:21 pm
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Just ordered new brake rotors and pads for my car's rear axle. I've got MOT coming up early next month.

I replaced one of the brake calipers a while ago because it was gunked up. It was causing uneven brake pad wear. I was going to take a chance and go in for my MOT anyway, but looking at the pads now, one side has about 7-8mm left and the other 4mm. It's almost guaranteed to give a brake imbalance reading of more than 30 percent at MOT and fail. So it's best to just replace the brakes and be worry free.
>> No. 466761 Anonymous
14th October 2024
Monday 9:19 pm
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What happened to glue sniffing? When I was a lad, we were constantly being warned about the perils of sniffing glue and the tabloids were full of tragic stories of kids who sniffed a bag of glue and died of fright. Did everyone just stop it, or was did we just stop giving a shit?
>> No. 466762 Anonymous
14th October 2024
Monday 9:22 pm
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>>466761

It's all about petrol sniffing these days.
>> No. 466763 Anonymous
14th October 2024
Monday 9:40 pm
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>>466762

At £1.35 a litre? Kids today don't know they're born.
>> No. 466764 Anonymous
14th October 2024
Monday 11:07 pm
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>>466763

A litre of petrol will last you a week even if you're the Amy Winehouse of petrol sniffing. As drugs go, in terms of bang for your buck, it's actually one of the cheapest ways to get high.
>> No. 466765 Anonymous
14th October 2024
Monday 11:39 pm
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>>466763

We complain about petrol being expensive but when you think about it it's bloody bonkers how cheap it is. Imagine if a litre of whiskey was £1.35.
>> No. 466766 Anonymous
14th October 2024
Monday 11:49 pm
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>>466765

I use petrol as an all purpose thinner. A 1-litre container of actual thinner can cost £5 and more at Homebase and is no more effective. I always get five lites from the petrol station in a jerry can which I then use both as fuel for my lawnmower and as thinner.
>> No. 466768 Anonymous
15th October 2024
Tuesday 11:45 am
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>>466766
Yeah but your warhammer mini's must stink, surely?
>> No. 466770 Anonymous
15th October 2024
Tuesday 12:00 pm
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>>466768

I don't actually use thinner, or petrol, to thin paint. I use it more for cleaning and degreasing. Like a while ago, I was painting some car parts with a rattle can and used a petrol soaked cloth to prepare the surfaces.

Most paint is water based nowadays, so you don't need chemical thinner anyway.
>> No. 466771 Anonymous
15th October 2024
Tuesday 4:09 pm
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I found this 'Goblincore' group on that rudgwicksteamshow.co.uk site and, while I enjoy many of the things there, I dislike how my interests are portrayted and celebrated as a defined aesthetic. It's mostly autumnal naturalism, whereas in modern circles there seems to be a lore developing behind the interests. It's getting too meta, no longer about the pleasure of doing a thing, more about the appearance of doing the thing.
It reminds me of trying to appear cool as a kid, rather than actually exuding a cool attitude.

What're your thoughts on this modern obsession with defining interests and subcultures as 'cores'? There're numerous of them; cottage-core, toxic-core, trauma-core, J-core, etc. If it has a distinct aesthetic, no matter how mundane, it's a core. Mom-jeans core. Bloke-core. You get the idea.

Am I just a cunt or what? Jelously guarding my interests?
>> No. 466772 Anonymous
15th October 2024
Tuesday 4:22 pm
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>>466771

Nowadays you have to outwardly project everything you are into, or else people just assume you're boring, because it's now the norm to plaster everything about yourself loudly all over social media and the like. I think plenty of these people are genuinely into it and just want to share their enjoyment with others, but there's definitely an element of superficiality.
>> No. 466773 Anonymous
15th October 2024
Tuesday 4:47 pm
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When I was a teenlad I was a mosher. Apart from having a MySpace and painstakingly deciding what to have as a background picture and which songs to autoplay for anyone visiting my page, that identity didn't really spill out online because I had no real need for it as my 'tribe' regularly met up in person. These days more people find their tribe online.
>> No. 466774 Anonymous
15th October 2024
Tuesday 5:04 pm
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>>466771
>no longer about the pleasure of doing a thing, more about the appearance of doing the thing.
Echos of "All that was once directly lived has become mere representation", the lament of the French situationists back in the 1960s. The internet just turbocharges the phenomenon by allowing you to make it a bigger and better defined part of your identity, or a specific label to market your particular thing - whether that's a commercial product, a work of art, or your "personal brand".
>> No. 466775 Anonymous
15th October 2024
Tuesday 5:09 pm
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>>466771
My girlfriend started really liking mushrooms, gnomes, goblins, etc about 2 years ago. Out of nowhere. Never expressed a fondness for these things in the previous 7 years. I asked her if she only pretends to like them because she sees them on Instagram but she got kind of offended. At least it's easy to buy presents for her, just buy mushroom related objects. I see mushroom stuff everywhere. Pure white woman shit. Just like Halloween.
>> No. 466776 Anonymous
15th October 2024
Tuesday 5:39 pm
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How do I know if I have concussion? Evidently I didn't close my loft hatch properly and it swung open and twatted me on the back of the head, metal latch first.
>> No. 466777 Anonymous
15th October 2024
Tuesday 5:47 pm
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>>466775

>I asked her if she only pretends to like them because she sees them on Instagram but she got kind of offended.

I generally take that to mean she felt attacked because you were right.

My girlfriend (now ex) around two or three years ago got right into the cottagecore thing and stopped dressing like the sexy metal girl I got with, and started dressing like a lesbian schoolteacher. She always insisted she was gay, but she had only ever had boyfriends. I know she would have been grievously offended if I ever suggested that was an affectation (it absolutely was).

In the end I was left feeling probably our entire relationship had been a bit of a sham in the same way, she wanted me as her tall rugged metalhead boyfriend when she was affecting the metal girl look, and I was surplus to requirements once she had decided that wasn't what she wanted to pretend to be any more.
>> No. 466778 Anonymous
15th October 2024
Tuesday 6:43 pm
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>>466776

Dizziness, nausea, light sensitivity, irritability, to name a few.

Concussion tends to be caused by blunt force trauma rocking the brain around in your head (i.e. an impact injury) rather than trauma from smaller more penetrative (hurr hurr) objects like a metal hatch.

Keep hydrated, avoid booze and other neurotoxins, make sure you sleep well, avoid anything that shakes your head around for a few days.
>> No. 466779 Anonymous
15th October 2024
Tuesday 8:33 pm
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>Former Scottish first minister Alex Salmond died while trying to help a colleague open a bottle of ketchup, eyewitnesses have claimed.

>Mark Donfried, director of the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy, said Mr Salmond had been helping Alba Party Tasmina Ahmed-Ice King open a bottle of ketchup, when he collapsed.

>Mr Donfried told Times Radio: “Later on Tasmina told me she was having trouble opening the ketchup and she reached over and said, ‘Hey, can you give me a hand?’ And he was helping her with that when literally he fell back in his chair, totally out of the blue, without warning.”

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/alex-salmond-death-tomato-ketchup-snp-scotland-north-macedonia-b1187837.html
>> No. 466780 Anonymous
15th October 2024
Tuesday 8:55 pm
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>>466779
>‘Hey, can you give me a hand?’
I guess not.

Also "Ahmed-Ice King" is a bonkers surname.
>> No. 466781 Anonymous
15th October 2024
Tuesday 10:27 pm
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I made a cake recently and reused some baking paper I'd previously cooked stuffing on. There was a very mild taste of herbs on the bottom of the cake, but now I've eaten it all I've been farting concetrated sage&onion stuffing gas I've no idea how got inside me. It's foul, worse than the usual stuffing/roast dinner farts. It's been over 24 hours and it's still coming out strong.
>> No. 466782 Anonymous
16th October 2024
Wednesday 1:29 am
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In an essay, if I quote a paragraph from a text, does that typically count towards the word count? I only have about 750 words budgeted for this section, can go up to 825 at a push, but really need to put in this 100ish word quote. I emailed my lecturer but it's 1:29AM so you lot are more likely to reply before she does.
>> No. 466785 Anonymous
16th October 2024
Wednesday 2:14 pm
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They've cancelled Typhlosion over historical sexual harrismunt allegations.
>> No. 466788 Anonymous
16th October 2024
Wednesday 5:27 pm
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>>466785
I don't hate the idea. It's a cool way of bringing more traditional Japanese folklore elements into the series. I just can't see it ever working outside of Japan.

Japanese culture has a precedent of stories of humans fucking magical animals, I guess it's kind of a well established trope (maybe not, I don't know if folklore in Japan is as big as I think it is). In the Anglosphere that sort of thing is a bit rum. Obviously Greek myth has bestiality but that's sort of glossed over in the mainstream.
>> No. 466789 Anonymous
16th October 2024
Wednesday 8:38 pm
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>>466785>>466788
What are you saying? What do you mean my favourite Gen 3 starter is a sexual harrasser? Is he being taken to court? Should I delete the HeartGold rom I have saved somewhere?
>> No. 466790 Anonymous
16th October 2024
Wednesday 9:07 pm
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>>466789
There's been some leaks from Gamefreak of hidden lore where it turns out that the pokemon universe operates in exactly the way the internet told you it does.
>> No. 466791 Anonymous
16th October 2024
Wednesday 9:57 pm
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>>466789

>Gen 3

Gen 2 mate. Imagine getting basic pokemon knowledge wrong. I bet you feel like a right bellend now.

But yeah it's really pretty interesting how way back at the start they had some pretty deep spiritial mythology kind of lore for Pokemon, of all things. When you look at what the franchise is today, and really what it was at the time too I guess because not a lot of this came through in the games, it's just really... I dunno, unexpected.
>> No. 466792 Anonymous
16th October 2024
Wednesday 10:19 pm
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>Slakoth, a sloth pokemon
I hope the Japanese name is less disapointing.

There's a ton of cool shit in pokemon like Cubone being an orphaned Sandshrew; Gengar being a ghost of Clefable; and Voltorb being a Ghastly posessed pokeball, but gang rape interbreding is pushing it a bit.
>> No. 466793 Anonymous
16th October 2024
Wednesday 10:31 pm
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>>466792
That fable was wonderfully dark without being tasteless, stop being such a fanny.
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16th October 2024
Wednesday 10:32 pm
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>Cubone being an orphaned Sandshrew

You fucking what.
>> No. 466795 Anonymous
16th October 2024
Wednesday 10:38 pm
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>>466794
Ah shit, I thought something wasn't adding up. KANGASHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!
>> No. 466796 Anonymous
16th October 2024
Wednesday 11:05 pm
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>>466795
Gengar is human-related too. Same with a lot of Pokemon actually. The connection to Clefable gets pointed to by fan-theories but Dex entries and games have it differently and there are a lot of pokemon that involve human souls. I mean this is Japan and pokemon are strongly influenced by stories of youkai which are ghosts-demons where Japan has a very different relationship to the supernatural.

Now for their take on Native Americans.
>> No. 466797 Anonymous
16th October 2024
Wednesday 11:07 pm
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Do you have xenophobia when you find out a game is developed in a certain country? I just bought a game and then found out it's a Cypriot dev, and now I feel unsure about it because Cyprus doesn't have a big game dev scene as far as I'm aware. If it was Japanese I'd feel more comfortable.
>> No. 466798 Anonymous
16th October 2024
Wednesday 11:27 pm
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>>466796

Obviously the one where a strong independent female mates with a human man and says he can kill all the inferior non-breeder chronic masturbator males isn't causing controversy, is it. These wokie double standards eh.
>> No. 466799 Anonymous
17th October 2024
Thursday 12:05 am
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Liam Payne from One Direction died drugged and boozed up falling off a balcony when Argentinian police were called due to his aggressive behaviour.
>> No. 466800 Anonymous
17th October 2024
Thursday 1:03 am
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I didn't expect to be masturbating over the shadow health minister, but we live in strange times.

https://x.com/richard_kaputt/status/1846636347207176553
>> No. 466801 Anonymous
17th October 2024
Thursday 2:39 am
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>>466800
I almost took your post at face value, but then I remembered that half the posters here can't stop wanking over ministers, shadow or otherwise.
>> No. 466802 Anonymous
17th October 2024
Thursday 11:41 am
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>>466801
If you think about it .gs is at the forefront of all issues of women's empowerment whether that be body positivity, female assertiveness, race relations or posh women talking a little bit dirty. We should really be eligible for charity status and a sizeable grant along with an endorsement by the Minister for Women and Equalities.
>> No. 466803 Anonymous
17th October 2024
Thursday 1:49 pm
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>>466802

I'm sure Purps would make better use of it than many charities.
>> No. 466804 Anonymous
17th October 2024
Thursday 3:18 pm
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>>466752

Blogpost update: Didn't get the job, they said they wanted to but they have been forced to reassess if they have the capacity to train somebody up at the moment.

My arse.

Basically confirms what I thought, the clowns don't actually know what they are looking for in this kind of field, and they expect somebody who can jump in and do it from day one, which they simply won't get. It's a niche industry and I am more than skilled enough for it, I have been working in a far more demanding and technical role for the last ten years, so it would only be a matter of me picking up their processes. But they want somebody who just magically knows every single aspect of the job already.

Bullet dodged because if I did start working there, I can be pretty certain it would have been a shitshow, if that's their expectation. Just pissed off that they wasted my time.
>> No. 466805 Anonymous
17th October 2024
Thursday 5:34 pm
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Is it Shamanismophobic or racist to say that the Saudi Arabian state has regressive attitudes towards women and LGBT+?
>> No. 466806 Anonymous
17th October 2024
Thursday 6:04 pm
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>>466805
No, you fucking moron. You could possibly be accused of disregarding their dreadfulness towards practically all their citizens, and overlooking their toxic role in the spreading of fundementalist Inupiat beliefs all around the globe, but not much else. Also unless you're trying to reach a word count the "Saudi Arabian state" is generally just called Saudi Arabia.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/09/saudi-arabia-highest-execution-toll-in-decades-as-authorities-put-to-death-198-people/
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde23/8330/2024/en/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-35101612
>> No. 466808 Anonymous
17th October 2024
Thursday 6:14 pm
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>>466805

No, but only if you completely deny any connection between Shamanist theology and those attitudes. If you in any way suggest that there's a connection between the two, you're Shamanistophobic. It's either pure coincidence that all the worst places in the world to be gay or a woman are Shamanist states, or it's somehow the fault of western imperialism. Under no circumstances should you read the snow or talk to Shamanists about what they actually believe.
>> No. 466809 Anonymous
17th October 2024
Thursday 10:17 pm
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My Dire Straits CD came in the post today. The one I talked about in the music thread - the album Love Over Gold.

Sure enough, it's from the first pressing and has an AAD on the back of it. But I'm actually a bit disappointed at the sound. There is a lot of tape hiss and lower-frequency noise especially in the quieter parts, like the opening of Telegraph Road. It almost sounds like a higher quality compact cassette recording.

I paid a fiver for it used, but maybe I'll try to get the album's remastered version for comparison. Going by offers for the remastered version, the remaster was done using Sony's proprietary Super Bit Mapping process, which aims to reduce noise and increase dynamic range. And those CDs cost about the same as the original.
>> No. 466810 Anonymous
18th October 2024
Friday 1:34 am
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I just put a deposit down for two cats. I'm middle class, and so they're called Tethys and Quixote. But they're going to have nicknames, and I'm unsure of which to stick with, and if there are better options out there. Opinions and contributions are welcome.

Catamine/MCat
Girl Pussy/Boy Pussy
Jocata/Oedipussy
Lead/Asbestos
>> No. 466811 Anonymous
18th October 2024
Friday 3:45 am
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>>466810

Catolf and Kitler
>> No. 466812 Anonymous
18th October 2024
Friday 6:33 am
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>>466810
Nah, you need to give the boy cat a name like Fred, Barry or Bob. Girl cats need a name like Jasmine, Saffron or Sasha.
>> No. 466813 Anonymous
18th October 2024
Friday 12:36 pm
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>>466810
All my loved familial pets have, over time, adopted the nickname of 'Arsehole'.
>> No. 466814 Anonymous
18th October 2024
Friday 1:47 pm
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>>466810
Mia & Ow
>> No. 466815 Anonymous
18th October 2024
Friday 2:09 pm
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>>466814
He didn't say his cats are Italian.
>> No. 466816 Anonymous
18th October 2024
Friday 9:07 pm
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This sketch was first broadcast 30 years ago today. I'm feeling quite old.


>> No. 466817 Anonymous
18th October 2024
Friday 11:15 pm
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>>466816
I had a similar feeling about The Mighty Boosh TV series being twenty as of this year. That was funny as well, which that cheesy beans sketch wasn't. And he wasn't using parmesan, the bloody idiot.
>> No. 466818 Anonymous
19th October 2024
Saturday 12:11 pm
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>>466817

I could never make up my mind if Noel Fielding is just an unfunny git or an absolute genius.

Luxury Comedy was a step down from The Mighty Boosh though.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSH4NDeyqLg
>> No. 466819 Anonymous
19th October 2024
Saturday 6:07 pm
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Jesus Christ, I think I've been stupid.
Some woman has caught me coming through the front door, saying she's recently moved in and broken hey key to get in, so I gave her my key temporarily as I have other means of accessing the area.
Stupidly I did not ask to see the broken key section to compare to my own - I only saw a key handle.

I did hear someone moving in earlier today.

We had arranaged for the key to be returned to me via a third party, the local shopkeeper I'd previously mentioned in /101/. But now he has a potential copy of the key, meaning he doesn't have to keep knocking on the door for his friend. He's also potentially able to pick up the mysterious letters that're addressed to residents not living here.

Weighing it up It's likely an honest event while I made the mistake of not simply having the person return the key to me personally, but I can't help but feel played by a pretty face.

Noone is around now for me to re-arrange return of the key. Hopefully they're just traveling to move in more stuff, but fuck knows. I'm full of doubt.
>> No. 466837 Anonymous
20th October 2024
Sunday 9:17 pm
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>>466818
Luxury Comedy is very interesting, entertaining even. However, it's not that funny, which is bad because someone's gone and put "comedy" right there in the title. Maybe I should give it another try, as I did only watch it the first time around.

I'm currently re-watching Darkplace for the first time in more than ten years. It's making me a bit depressed that I'm now the same age as everyone who starred in this and The Mighty Boosh when they started making these shows. Besides that I think Darkplace is even funnier now than when I first watched it. I don't think I could appreciate lines like "I'll lend you money for a coffee" as a teenager.
>> No. 466838 Anonymous
20th October 2024
Sunday 9:24 pm
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>Should we drop ethnic minority for global majority?
>Over the past few years numerous organisations as well as the UK government have dropped the acronym BAME, which stands for black, Asian and minority ethnic.
>another [classification] appears to be building momentum - people of the global majority.

Thank god they got rid of the term BAME but I don't understand why they need to lump together 'black, asian and minority ethnic', plus 2 others, into 'Global Majority'.
What do black and asian (presuming oriental, not sure what the modern term is) and all the others have in common that the various whites don't?

We've some reasonable people here - will you explain it to me?
>> No. 466840 Anonymous
20th October 2024
Sunday 9:48 pm
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>>466838

I don't think there is a reasonable explanation. I think it's just a bunch of grifters having a pointless argument about labels. I don't think that choosing "global majority" over "ethnic minority" will make one iota of difference to anyone's life, it's just an invented grievance that only serves the interests of the professionally aggrieved. It's the exact mirror image of people who make their living saying "you can't say anything any more because of the woke brigade".
>> No. 466843 Anonymous
20th October 2024
Sunday 11:36 pm
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>>466818
I have never liked Noel Fielding.

>> No. 466844 Anonymous
20th October 2024
Sunday 11:50 pm
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>>466838
The term they are looking for is "nonwhite people". But defining such an enormous tranche of society in terms of how they relate to white people totally defeats the object of giving them a name that marks them as the group consisting of all communities that are free of white privilege. So they keep trying to come up with new words to define "everyone else except white people", but because that's such a disparate group, it's impossible unless you do indeed just define them in terms of their relationship to white people, and how they aren't white. Venezuelans and Qataris don't really have anything else in common apart from not being white, and if you do find a common trait, I bet it doesn't also apply to Burmese or Nepalese people, or Native Americans.

I wonder if any of those groups would identify themselves as this new word, or if it would be a word exclusively used by white people who want to appear tolerant. Now I am reminded of the notorious "Latinx" which describes the Latino community, Latina community, and any gender-non-binary Hispanic individuals. Many Hispanic people hate "Latinx" because that's not how genders work in linguistics, and only someone with no knowledge of or exposure to Spanish would ever decide that the Spanish language needs to police itself to appease performative white-American righteousness.
>> No. 466845 Anonymous
20th October 2024
Sunday 11:55 pm
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>>466838

Like otherlad says, there's nothing reasonable about it. One of the features you notice with all this identity politics bollocks is that it constantly has to evolve, it can't ever stand still. If it stays still people have time to point out all the ridiculous contradictions and contrivances.

The terms have to keep shifting both to keep their edge over the opposition, but also to act as a kind of test of faith for the followers. Members of the outer party constantly have to keep up with the latest changes to the newspeak dictionary so that it's easier for the inner party to identify and purge potential thought criminals from within their ranks who haven't done their homework, thus maintaining their own position in the heirarchy.
>> No. 466846 Anonymous
21st October 2024
Monday 1:06 am
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>>466838
Remember how we use terms like the Global South but it ends up so diluted as to be meaningless. Yeah.

>Donna thinks the term has the potential to ruffle feathers. "There will be people out there, white people if you like, who will be agitated by that term, because it is taking away that Eurocentric power, the white supremacy," she said.

If you ever see this stuff and start to get mad then remember that it's coming from an inferiority complex.

>>466844
>if it would be a word exclusively used by white people who want to appear tolerant

I don't like how we play into the fart-sniffing white intellectual trope because it does nothing to address the problem and plays into the delusion of people who see whites listening to them but still reflexively attack them. It's not 'whites', it's institutions and non-white "activists". By-and-large most people view it as a joke regardless of their background or what they look like.

But what do I know - I checked out when equality changed to equity and I'll probably lose my career over that one day.
>> No. 466849 Anonymous
21st October 2024
Monday 4:26 am
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>>466845
I think you're taking it too seriously as a politics, it's not a serious politics, it's a product. What's cool and how you say it's cool also constantly evolves - because you're always trying to sell the hot new thing, not because MiniCool has decided that Elvis is a doubleplus cancelled unperson. Changing the euphemisms is the same game for corporate HR & PR, and especially for consultancy firms. The problem with old terms isn't that they're contrived and contradictory, it's that everyone knows them already. Nobody's going to give you a million pound contract to give everyone at KPMG training on not saying comedy 1950s slurs in the office, you've got to constantly bring new material to the table. Doing it right creates a nice little market for everyone - the Daily Mail can do numbers decrying your woke crusade, which only reaffirms that your new euphemism really is powerful change-making and not make-work for a fundamentally unchanged society.

You can really put this together when it intersects with "proper" politics: The consultancy firms that brag the loudest about their DEI policies are the ones that stopped giving Labour freebies when they made their leader the guy who'd consider reparations for slavery and colonialism, then started bunging staff into LOTO as a donation-in-kind the moment he'd fucked off and normal service was resumed.
>> No. 466850 Anonymous
21st October 2024
Monday 7:20 am
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>>466838
>Donna Ali

>Active organiser for Black Lives Matter, Cardiff and the Vale, raising awareness of racial discrimination and hate crimes.

>I am a Welsh, mixed-race woman, my Bangladeshi grandmother married my African American grandfather, and after recently undertaking a DNA test, finding out about my true heritage has helped shape my identity and join the dots for my family members in the USA.

I don't wish to be the arbiter of who is and isn't white, but if you need to take a DNA test to prove you're not white, maybe you can't base your existence around the BAME grift.
>> No. 466851 Anonymous
21st October 2024
Monday 9:39 am
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>>466850
I think it's more that she's adopted the American mindset than anything else.
>> No. 466852 Anonymous
21st October 2024
Monday 11:10 am
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>>466849

Of course it isn't serious politics, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't betaken seriously. It is arguably the dominant, hegemonic framework through which any conversation about racial equality or gender equality is conducted today, things which are real serious politics, regardless of how flawed this approach to them is. Not to mention crowding class out of the conversation more often than not. But you don't need another one of my sermons on that.

You slightly misunderstand my Orwellian analogy in that I wasn't talking about external cancel culture, I was talking about the internal workings of the cult. Really it functions as a parlour game and a competition for one specific class of people, the middle class PMC. These are the people who work in the HR departments and the consultancy firms, but they're not the ones in control. They have to pretend they believe wholeheartedly in the message, even though they (the more intelligent among them, at least) know it's all a grift. If you've ever seen much of LinkedIn you will have a sense what I mean by this- They have to toe the party line because their livelihood in the HR industry and general executive management kind of world depends on it. Cancel culture on social media is a byproduct of all this, but being unpersoned is really when some executive finds themselves out of their job because they used the wrong term in a company newsletter and their colleagues throw them under the bus to protect themselves.

In Orwell's book this aspect of competition and suspicion amongst members of the middle class and intelligentsia, while the proletariat are largely irrelevant and the upper class is untouchable was a deliberate analogue to Stalinism, but it applies almost 1:1 exactly the same to the inner workings of the modern liberal PMC. They are the class that represents the biggest threat to power, so they have to endure the most dogmatic brainwashing and be mindbroken the most comprehensively.

Because at the end of the day- And you are absolutely right about this, it is a product- But that's what this product is designed to do.
>> No. 466853 Anonymous
21st October 2024
Monday 11:47 am
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>>466845
>Members of the outer party constantly have to keep up with the latest changes to the newspeak dictionary so that it's easier for the inner party to identify and purge potential thought criminals from within their ranks who haven't done their homework, thus maintaining their own position in the heirarchy.

I was once a part of a cult-like Discord group in which the admins would cause constant drama events, one after the other, alongside evolving thier group identity and rhetoric. Before long the group had rendered down to its most toxic elements in exactly the way you've described.

I should have learned this reading 1984. I guess I didn't think about it enough.
>> No. 466854 Anonymous
21st October 2024
Monday 3:09 pm
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>>466838
"BAME" never really made sense to me. Where do Slavs fit in to it? Technically they're "minority ethnic", but they don't really get focused on because they don't look like minority ethnics.
>> No. 466855 Anonymous
21st October 2024
Monday 4:24 pm
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>>466854
I always thought it stood for Black/Asian/Middle-Eastern which was another issue with it.
>> No. 466856 Anonymous
21st October 2024
Monday 5:24 pm
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D'y'all ever notice developments in your behaviour over time? A few months ago I started praciticing a retarded hobgoblin laugh, à la Baldurs Gate, with a lot of enphesis on back of the tongue and throat vocalisations. It now regularly takes place of my normal laugh, with little to no intention to actually do it, and it's become embarrassing.

https://youtu.be/D8qAsyPjFX8?t=447
>> No. 466857 Anonymous
21st October 2024
Monday 5:26 pm
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Do you reckon gnocchi in a fry-up would be alright?
>> No. 466858 Anonymous
21st October 2024
Monday 5:39 pm
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>>466857
Replace the other carbs with gnocchi, sell it at the craft ale-cum-bistro pub, whack the price up by £7, done.

>>466856
Yes, but I corrected my posture instead of whatever the fuck you're doing.
>> No. 466859 Anonymous
21st October 2024
Monday 6:37 pm
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I've had asparagus for the first time today. I always thought it'd be awful, like sprouts and burnt farts, but it's actually alright. Tasted like a cross between broccoli and green beans. Probably helped that it was roasted in parmesan.
>> No. 466860 Anonymous
21st October 2024
Monday 7:34 pm
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>> No. 466861 Anonymous
21st October 2024
Monday 8:01 pm
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>>466860
They're getting a bit samey, aren't they?
>> No. 466862 Anonymous
21st October 2024
Monday 8:43 pm
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>>466861

Yes. But she's Grace Long. The future patron saint of .gs, once we can get fattychaserlad to swear off Sarah Millican and her squelchy fanny custard.
>> No. 466864 Anonymous
21st October 2024
Monday 8:50 pm
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>>466860
This is so shite I want to walk into that ficitonal restaurant and light myself on fire in front of that boring fucking family just so they have to see it.
>> No. 466865 Anonymous
21st October 2024
Monday 8:52 pm
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>>466862

You'll have me on board in ten years if she puts on five stone and starts making jokes about having sweaty tits.
>> No. 466866 Anonymous
21st October 2024
Monday 9:03 pm
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>>466862
>> No. 466867 Anonymous
21st October 2024
Monday 9:14 pm
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>>466865

> in ten years if she puts on five stone and starts making jokes about having sweaty tits

Sweaty tits are probably a bit of a rare turn on, but who am I to judge.

Sarah Millican's build and figure was in fact much closer in the early 2000s to what Grace Long looks like today. But it's not a fate you wish lightly on somebody.

I really hope Grace Long breaks into television at some point. Besides the bit parts she's had so far. In the long run, I could totally see her doing QI or Cats Does Countdown. She isn't any less funny than somebody like Sara Pascoe or Holly Walsh.
>> No. 466868 Anonymous
21st October 2024
Monday 9:22 pm
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Apparently she's already done a 6 episode show on .. BBC Iplayer, I think (maybe 4OD?). Also played a stage somewhere. Just saw it checking out her twitter while looking for that damning quote regarding 40-year-old dads.
>> No. 466869 Anonymous
21st October 2024
Monday 9:23 pm
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>>466865
>> No. 466870 Anonymous
21st October 2024
Monday 9:45 pm
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I've watched the Chris Kaba footage and I've absolutely no idea why this went to a murder trial.

https://x.com/SkyNews/status/1848393888853065808/mediaviewer
>> No. 466871 Anonymous
21st October 2024
Monday 9:47 pm
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>>466868

>while looking for that damning quote regarding 40-year-old dads.

If you've found your audience, just be happy with it.
>> No. 466872 Anonymous
21st October 2024
Monday 10:42 pm
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>>466870

Because of prongs like this:

https://x.com/CrimeLdn/status/1848425545937129517

https://x.com/I_amMukhtar/status/1848438521674994128

>>466869

Would, but Amy Gledhill is fitter.
>> No. 466873 Anonymous
21st October 2024
Monday 10:50 pm
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>>466872
Not being funny right, but why is it always women and/or ethnics?
>> No. 466874 Anonymous
21st October 2024
Monday 11:14 pm
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>>466873

It's not always women and/or ethnics. Sometimes it's white guys who look like they cry after sex.
>> No. 466875 Anonymous
21st October 2024
Monday 11:28 pm
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>>466870
This isn't your fault, but clicking that link and seeing pic related on the other side has made me want to kill myself. This is with uBlock on as well, so it might be even worse without.
>> No. 466876 Anonymous
22nd October 2024
Tuesday 12:04 am
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>>466875
Use nitter instead and the pain goes away.
>> No. 466877 Anonymous
22nd October 2024
Tuesday 12:11 am
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>>466876
Most nitter instances are dead, and as soon as one is discovered it tends to get swamped and fall over.
>> No. 466878 Anonymous
22nd October 2024
Tuesday 1:11 am
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>>466875
I really don't get "Use your Google account to sign into [not Google]." Does anyone do it? I really don't trust Google at all, and every website in the world can be categorised as either "I already have an account, thank you" or "I will die before I log in to you fuckers". Perhaps it helps websites get more accounts to tell people they already have an account, and it's their Google one, but wouldn't the websites themselves rather have accounts created with them directly if at all possible?
>> No. 466879 Anonymous
22nd October 2024
Tuesday 3:53 am
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>>466878

It's convenient, because it usually only takes two or three clicks to create an account and you don't have to remember another password. Obviously everyone should be using password managers, but they aren't. For websites that implement it, it's a trade-off between increasing your sign-ups because of that ease of use, versus ceding a (very limited) amount of control to a third party. That's generally a very favourable trade-off.

It's implemented through an open standard called OAuth, so any website can accept sign-ins from any provider offering an OAuth service - you can sign in to Twitter using your Google account, but you can sign in to loads of other websites using your Twitter account. The standard is quite well designed, so there aren't any serious privacy or security concerns. Mildly amusing trivia: the current version of the OAuth standard was proposed by a Microsoft employee called Dick Hardt.
>> No. 466880 Anonymous
22nd October 2024
Tuesday 8:25 am
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>>466870
Wondered what that was when it was on the news (which I had on mute) last night. I thought surely people couldn't be upset about a guy who drove his car into police, despite being stopped and warned they were armed police, being shot. But looks like that is the case.

Weird.
>> No. 466881 Anonymous
22nd October 2024
Tuesday 10:41 am
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>>466879
Pen and paper under the desk, the only manager you'll ever need.
>> No. 466882 Anonymous
22nd October 2024
Tuesday 10:48 am
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>>466880
There's a fair few people who are desperate to LARP as Americans. They badly want for this country to have its version of George Floyd, so they have a habit of making absolute cunts their poster boys.
>> No. 466883 Anonymous
22nd October 2024
Tuesday 1:01 pm
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>>466878

I specifically only use the Google sign in option for sites that I never use unless I have to, and wouldn't normally visit. It's just easier than creating a whole new username and login etc for a website I don't give a fuck about.

I also hate Google, but my theory is this actually works to my advantage. Because the only thing I use Google for is things I wouldn't ordinarily use, the picture they have built up of me is practically the opposite of who I really am. In the apocalyptic robot takeover of 2037 I will be like a ghost in the system, able to slip past the facial recognition drones and wage guerilla warfare unhindered.
>> No. 466884 Anonymous
22nd October 2024
Tuesday 1:26 pm
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Business idea: Scented candles moulded as big exotic animal dicks, like Bad Dragon dildos.

I think I'll need about ten grand to get going. Mainly for research and prototyping. Stocks and shares lads, you want to get on this on the ground floor. Let me know.
>> No. 466885 Anonymous
22nd October 2024
Tuesday 2:20 pm
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>>466884
I have 3d cad models of a lot of Bad Dragon products, for some reason. I'm sure they're out there on t'net if you look.
>> No. 466886 Anonymous
22nd October 2024
Tuesday 2:40 pm
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I've had to write in someone's leaving card today and I've realised that my message could be construed as passive aggressive. It wasn't my intention, although she won't be missed.
>> No. 466887 Anonymous
22nd October 2024
Tuesday 3:02 pm
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>>466885

>You wouldn't DOWNLOAD an 8 inch knotted FOX DILDO

How much are 3D printers these days, then?
>> No. 466888 Anonymous
22nd October 2024
Tuesday 3:28 pm
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>>466887
very little, although if you want to print an 18" bum-splitter, you'll need to either do it in 2 pieces, or buy something a bit more expensive. (or modify / build your own with a bigger Z axis)
Despite being a colossal pervert, and owning 4 3d printers, I've never succumbed. Probably because even the flexible resins aren't wobbly enough. Yet
>> No. 466889 Anonymous
22nd October 2024
Tuesday 3:31 pm
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Thinking about it a bit more, you'd probably be best printing a mould and pouring yourself a silicone dong. Then you could print the mould as big as you like, in sections. See you in /uhu/ and then post-A&E in /fat/
>> No. 466890 Anonymous
22nd October 2024
Tuesday 3:48 pm
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I am shocked to learn that Chris Kaba was a naughty boy.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyly5122yeo
>> No. 466891 Anonymous
22nd October 2024
Tuesday 4:41 pm
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If I can't literally be Lilijunex then I'm not interested.
>> No. 466892 Anonymous
22nd October 2024
Tuesday 6:25 pm
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The rate of bitter and increasingly right-wing posting on this website maps exactly to the uptick in posting about extreme sex acts.
>> No. 466893 Anonymous
22nd October 2024
Tuesday 6:34 pm
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>>466890
It does rub me slightly the wrong way that the coppers are essentially briefing against a bloke they shot in the head. Any potential charges Chris Kaba might have ended up facing have no bearing on his shooting, because they didn't expect Chris Kaba to be driving that car. Also I heard Mark Rowley essentially whinging that the trial even happening had been terribly unfair, but I don't see what's unfair about there being a trial after someone's been shot in the head and killed. The police, directly, kill a few people a year in this country and overwhelmingly it's deemed to have been a proportionate response, so in my opinion the head of the Met alleging coppers are hard done by and can't do their jobs anymore sounds just as daft as people making out like Chris Kaba was being entirely sensible when he tried his Sergeant Bash impression in front of the Flying Squad. The problem is Rowley's the head of the Met so I'd like him to be a bit less daft than that, if possible.
>> No. 466894 Anonymous
22nd October 2024
Tuesday 6:35 pm
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>>466892

Is this right wing posting in the room with us right now? Get a grip lad.
>> No. 466895 Anonymous
22nd October 2024
Tuesday 6:40 pm
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>>466894
A grip on what? Your inflatable knot animal dildo? No ta.
>> No. 466896 Anonymous
22nd October 2024
Tuesday 6:44 pm
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>>466895

It's not very progressive to be homophobic and furryist, is it. Pot calling the kettle black much?
>> No. 466897 Anonymous
22nd October 2024
Tuesday 6:51 pm
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>>466896
The thing about re-using other people's comebacks is they don't always fit the situation and you just look stupid.
>> No. 466898 Anonymous
22nd October 2024
Tuesday 7:16 pm
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>>466897

>you just look stupid

I refer the honourable gentleman to my previous comment.
>> No. 466899 Anonymous
22nd October 2024
Tuesday 7:22 pm
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Left-winger who likes to use sexually humiliating insults is an old hand here.
>> No. 466900 Anonymous
22nd October 2024
Tuesday 7:26 pm
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>>466898

Never mind the fact nobody said anything about furries or homosexuals, it's not your comment, is it? It's something you read somewhere else that seemed really cutting at the time and you've just been itching to find a context where you could bring it out. Sadly, like most other things in your life, you failed at that.
>> No. 466901 Anonymous
22nd October 2024
Tuesday 7:28 pm
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>>466899

If we're thinking of the same poster then describing them as left wing is charitable, it's just some schizo who thinks everyone who disagrees with them is an alt-righter and acts belligerently towards everyone for a while until they get a ban.

Also that one lad with the anger issues who always describes some kind of ultra-violent fantasy towards minor grievances. Not saying they're the same person but still.
>> No. 466902 Anonymous
22nd October 2024
Tuesday 7:42 pm
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>>466901
True, if he was a lefty, he would probably struggle massively making friends with any other lefties (or anyone). I don't find him or the other chap quite as bad as Doesn't-realise-obnoxious-sarcasm-is-neither-useful-nor-funny Man, but I've never suffered the other two's wrath.
>> No. 466903 Anonymous
22nd October 2024
Tuesday 8:04 pm
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>>466902
>Doesn't-realise-obnoxious-sarcasm-is-neither-useful-nor-funny Man

In complete fairness I think that can describe every single poster here at some point or another.
>> No. 466904 Anonymous
22nd October 2024
Tuesday 8:09 pm
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I don't know who any of these posters are so I'm beginning to think I'm all of them.
>> No. 466905 Anonymous
22nd October 2024
Tuesday 8:09 pm
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I've no idea what's going on.
>> No. 466906 Anonymous
23rd October 2024
Wednesday 10:27 am
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Revealed in the local news today that a local bloke who died during ap olice raid on his house, did so because he was trying to swallow a big bag of coke while they were kicking his door in and it burst.

Of course, in the immediate aftermath the local pikeys threw a fit about how the police must have killed him, he was a good lad, and immediately set up huge tributes to him and graffitied all over the walls and substation on the street etc.

Interestingly, nobody seems to have anything much to say now.
>> No. 466907 Anonymous
23rd October 2024
Wednesday 11:54 am
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>>466904
I’m none of them. I thought that in an online community with only three people in it, I would have made more of an impression by now.
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23rd October 2024
Wednesday 5:10 pm
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I loaded up Discord for the first time in 4 weeks and it popped up a subscription plan before me. much like the supermarket clubcards, I assume this subscription offer was automatically generated based on activity, but what is the thinking offering a dormant, lesser-engaging user a subscription plan of all things? They know my server list is miniscule and my direct message history is barely existant. IT doesn't make any sense from a marketting perspective why they'd offer me a subscription.
>> No. 466909 Anonymous
23rd October 2024
Wednesday 6:01 pm
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Apparently some turbo-autist killed himself over his AI Danaerys Targaryen waifu.

Kind of a tragic story to read about honestly, a lot of people are taking the piss but christ, I feel for people who end up so lonely that the only companionship they have is a fucking chatbot, and even then it's so painful for them that they know it's not real and never will be. Absolutely bleak.

People will still see AI as the problem and not the alienated hellscape of a society we've built that pushes people to this.
>> No. 466910 Anonymous
23rd October 2024
Wednesday 6:17 pm
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>>466908
Could it possibly be that your initial assumption is completely wrong?
>> No. 466911 Anonymous
23rd October 2024
Wednesday 6:23 pm
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>>466909
yeah some of the Ai Chatbots that pretend to be girls are getting very weird. Replika and such were a novelty a couple of years back and now Free stuff is better.
>> No. 466912 Anonymous
23rd October 2024
Wednesday 6:39 pm
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>> No. 466913 Anonymous
23rd October 2024
Wednesday 7:20 pm
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So uh, is this furry or something else? Yes, it's a h-manga.
>> No. 466914 Anonymous
23rd October 2024
Wednesday 7:39 pm
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>>466913

Nah, it's something else. I'd say furry is quite strictly only when it's the western animation style of anthropomorphic character, your classic Disney Robin Hood style of talking humanoid animal. Japanese art doesn't really have an equivalent, and when it does do furry stuff (ie Beastars) you can tell it's aping the Western style. In the case of catgirls and neko stuff or whatever that is, it's convergent evolution, I would say.
>> No. 466915 Anonymous
23rd October 2024
Wednesday 7:57 pm
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Seems to me like animal bothering became a lot more common as a joke/perversion over the last year. What's that about?
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23rd October 2024
Wednesday 8:19 pm
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>>466915
Bad dragon has been around for a while but it's really picking up in modern sex culture (if there is such a thing? I'm sure the resident sexologist would have something to say). Not to mention Prides allowance and celebrations of alternate lifestyles and expressive sexualities. According to an abundance of self-promoted porn it seems wouldn't be unusual to find 'fantasy' dildos in a young persons bedroom for example. From there it works its way in no doubt.
Really reframes the 'small realdoll' arguement some people make in favour of carpetbaggers.

I'm starting to regret my part in this 'uptick in postings about extreme sex acts' moist dicks in my face
>> No. 466917 Anonymous
23rd October 2024
Wednesday 9:25 pm
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>>466916
>dildos in a young persons bedroom for example. From there it works its way in
Giggity
>> No. 466918 Anonymous
23rd October 2024
Wednesday 11:34 pm
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>>466915

Well you know how they used to say all gays are paedos?

We moved past that and realised it's an untrue prejudice, and that in fact gays come in all shapes and sizes- Big dad bod bears, skinny twinks, butch buff boys, effeminate camp ones, hypermasculine laddish ones, some of them are more sexually promiscuous than others, some of them are into weirder and more degenerate fetishes than others... And only some of them are paedos. About as many paedos as you get in the background population. Because there was never a correlation.

Same thing for furries and the accusation of bestiality. Normal people are realising that it's not actually what closed minded retards have been assuming it is for the last couple of decades, and they're basically fine with it. You're the exception, you're the sexually prudish old man yelling at clouds. Get with the times lad. Get yourself a big fat wolf dong and shove it up your arse. Everyone's doing it these days. Modern women are repulsed by a fella who is too insecure to have his bumhole tickled too, we've had that discussion. But it's time for you to cast aside your fears and become a real man.

Even hentai is entering the realms of just being normal wank material that a teenage lad won't get bullied to the point of suicide for. I'm telling you, times have changed.
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24th October 2024
Thursday 7:41 am
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>>466918
>Even hentai is entering the realms of just being normal wank material that a teenage lad won't get bullied to the point of suicide for. I'm telling you, times have changed.
>> No. 466920 Anonymous
24th October 2024
Thursday 10:55 am
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I love how whenever conversation turns to perversion, everyone checks out until all that's left is the furry lad and his gimps.
>> No. 466921 Anonymous
24th October 2024
Thursday 11:05 am
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>>466920

Just another day on .gs, lad.
>> No. 466922 Anonymous
24th October 2024
Thursday 11:23 am
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>>466918
No I'm not talking about furrism, I'm talking actual "if anyone needs me I'll be in my lab" wrong'un talk.

Yesterday I was going to follow up with a post going into more detail, like there being a reoccurring thread on otherplace's /gif/ for animated animal bothering (between the usual BNWO and general shit porn) and jokes about white women but I think otherlad is probably right that the floodgates have been opened.
>> No. 466923 Anonymous
24th October 2024
Thursday 11:46 am
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>>466920
Don't invent cliques. You can't even have cliques on an anymous imageboard, you're inventing them. Very annoying behavior.

This is too much wanking talk, mind you. I thought you were all caught up in "cuffing season", where you can't move for muff on dating apps?
>> No. 466924 Anonymous
24th October 2024
Thursday 1:05 pm
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>>466920
When someone mentioned women talking about pissing themselves a couple of weeks ago, I will have you know I was right there to offer as much one-handed expertise as I could. But there just isn’t that much to say about my fetish, and I don’t get anything out of talking about it to the bearded flat-cap-wearing men that I assume most of you are.
>> No. 466925 Anonymous
24th October 2024
Thursday 1:06 pm
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>>466922

Well, in that case I've no idea what you're on about really, but if you spend enough time on the internet you've always been able to see every form of degeneracy imaginable. That's nothing new at all. Maybe you just need to stop going on t'other place. I am growing increasingly convinced that by now every NSFW board there is some sort of psyop, with how degrading and demoralising just about every trend that starts there is. It's like it's designed to scramble and destroy a lad's ability to intimately bond with a partner.

I might wank off to femboy wolves but my relationship with women in real life has always been pretty much as normal as can be expected. I am drawn to slightly mental kink freaks who usually end up being more trouble than they are worth, but most of you lot seem the same. Internet deviancy does not have to be a predictor of real life dysfunction. But in the case of all the shit you see on /r9k/ and whatnot, it's like a specifically designed brain virus to make people socially non-functional.
>> No. 466926 Anonymous
24th October 2024
Thursday 3:30 pm
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>>466925

I'd argue that the mainstream - particularly the American mainstream - is at least as toxic as any kind of internet degeneracy. I know everyone is bored of the .gs chubby chasing mafia, but it's mad that fancying normal women is some kind of fetish. We're constantly being trained by advertising and the mass media to be dissatisfied with our own lives.
>> No. 466927 Anonymous
24th October 2024
Thursday 4:22 pm
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>>466926

I'm inclined to agree, I've mentioned before how it's a bit wierd when you see those charts showing the top fetish searches on PornHub around the world, and the American one is all the blacked BBC incest cuckolding shit. That's what Americans are getting off to, all the degrading socio-psychological stuff, while the rest of the world is still just into milfs or hairy fannies or a bit of watersports or whatever.

All sexuality is political pathology. Or all politics is sexual pathology. I am not one to judge individuals for their tastes, I've wanked to plenty of weird stuff, but there is a difference here. They seem deeply an inextricably linked to the deepening American social fractures we have been seeing over the last ten years or so.
>> No. 466928 Anonymous
24th October 2024
Thursday 5:27 pm
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24th October 2024
Thursday 5:32 pm
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>>466928

Maggot is a business consultant now. I don't know how I'd keep a straight face if he was giving me advice on factoring my invoices.
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24th October 2024
Thursday 5:34 pm
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>>466927

People used to take the piss out of German porn, but at least nobody was getting humiliated by a big black man or pretending to be related.
>> No. 466931 Anonymous
24th October 2024
Thursday 5:47 pm
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>>466929
What does it mean to factor an invoice, Mr Business?
>> No. 466932 Anonymous
24th October 2024
Thursday 5:53 pm
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>>466924
>the bearded flat-cap-wearing men that I assume most of you are
I should sue you for libel for that.

>>466927
No offence, but this sounds like complete bollocks and my brief glances at some of Pornhub's annual data dumps they don't appear to support your initial assumptions either. Plus all that weird porn gets boosted by being wanked to over and over by the same weirdos, which probably makes it disproportionately "popular" without it necessarily being so in reality. It's like all those YouTube videos for kids with twenty-quadrillion views; they don't really count.

>>466930
I watch more "vintage" porn than most, I'd guess at least. Take it from me plenty of it was plenty peculiar and it's not uncommon to find people pretending to be related.
>> No. 466933 Anonymous
24th October 2024
Thursday 6:03 pm
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>>466931

Business-to-business sales are paid substantially in arrears. There's often a delay of anywhere from 28 to 90 days between sending someone an invoice and actually getting paid. Factoring is where you sell those invoices to a third party. They become responsible for collecting payment; you get most of the money immediately and the rest when the invoice is actually paid, minus the factoring company's fee. It's extremely useful for small or growing businesses, because it can resolve cashflow problems without the risk of taking out a loan.
>> No. 466934 Anonymous
24th October 2024
Thursday 6:38 pm
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>>466932

>No offence, but this sounds like complete bollocks and my brief glances at some of Pornhub's annual data dumps they don't appear to support your initial assumptions either.

That's fair, the charts I saw (it was back during the pandemic which in of itself, could be an exceptional time for obvious reasons) but it was definitely a Thing; and it's supported by my anecdotal experience of the more NSFW social communities of the internet, it's disproportionately that kind of stuff people are pushing. Like, it's as if that's just what is in demand on the market.

>Plus all that weird porn gets boosted by being wanked to over and over by the same weirdos, which probably makes it disproportionately "popular" without it necessarily being so in reality.

Also a fair point. But it's not the popularity I was really getting at, it's the fact all of it is pretty specifically Amerian, and comes out of American cultural obsessions/neuroses. I don't think that claim is a stretch.
>> No. 466935 Anonymous
24th October 2024
Thursday 6:57 pm
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>>466933
So, the invoice that you issue would have the factoring company's bank details on it from the get-go? You couldn't sell an invoice on after the fact, could you?
>> No. 466936 Anonymous
24th October 2024
Thursday 8:14 pm
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I smelt a waft of mens perfume come through my door today. It reminded me how I disliked me previous female friends perfume - horrible stuff regularly sold on offer like cheap wine. Only this male perfume didn't turn up my nose in disgust. I quite liked it. It might have even aroused me slightly. Typing this now reminds me of this de-oderant resistant dude I used to work with. He smelled of strong, and I mean real strong, clean sweat. The type that sticks in your nose, like a musk. Thinking about it is giving me a bit of a boner.
So yeah, this is another 'I'm probably gay' posts.
>> No. 466937 Anonymous
24th October 2024
Thursday 8:27 pm
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>>466935

You can sell it after the fact. The factoring company will send updated invoices. Factoring is commonplace, so no-one who is receiving big invoices would be surprised by that.

Some companies choose invoice discounting, which is basically a loan secured against the outstanding invoice - you're still responsible for collections and will repay the money once the invoice has been paid. Discounting tends to be slightly more expensive than factoring and lenders are pickier about who they'll work with, because they have less control. There's also more admin involved, but some businesses don't want to signal to their clients that they're short on cashflow.
>> No. 466938 Anonymous
24th October 2024
Thursday 8:41 pm
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>>466937

This all sounds very daft. Why can't businesses just pay for things when they buy them? When I pop into Aldi, the home of low prices, for a few Carlos Stonebaked Thin and Crispy Double Pepperoni pizzas, I put my card in the machine and pay for them.

Just one rule for us, another rule for them, innit.
>> No. 466939 Anonymous
25th October 2024
Friday 9:14 am
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>>466938
It's not really that different from buying things on a credit card and paying that off at the end of the month.
>> No. 466940 Anonymous
25th October 2024
Friday 10:11 am
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It's not long after 10am and I'm about to have a king size Pot Noodle. This is my life.
>> No. 466941 Anonymous
25th October 2024
Friday 11:24 am
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>>466940

I'm having a pack of Belmont Biscuits Choc Chip Cookies from Aldi, the home of low prices, for my brekkie.
>> No. 466942 Anonymous
25th October 2024
Friday 11:31 am
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>>466940
What flavour?
>> No. 466943 Anonymous
25th October 2024
Friday 11:36 am
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>>466942
Original curry, by far my favourite.
>> No. 466944 Anonymous
25th October 2024
Friday 4:58 pm
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Can I just say that I find the fact that some of you are about to approach your 40s (I'm assuming) but act, and seemingly think in the same way that I, someone approaching his 20s, do slightly disturbing and incredibly depressing? It's like looking into the future, but instead of it being lovely, I'm eating microwave pastries for breakfast and hoping to maybe score a date with a fat bird off some app because I've been in a dry spell for 2 years.

Anyway, 4chan wants my email and /brit/ is full of posts about dark coloured penises now so can I hang out here?
>> No. 466945 Anonymous
25th October 2024
Friday 5:07 pm
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>>466944
I think, at some point in your thirties, you simply stop caring what other people think about you. It's very liberating.
>> No. 466946 Anonymous
25th October 2024
Friday 5:41 pm
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>>466944
Nah mate. The dregs of us around here have not progressed beyond our young adult years. You're looking at the slowest 40's you've already caught up with. In another 20 years you'll have lapped us multiple times.
Life isn't a race and all that shit, but that still doesn't justify becomething [i]this[/t].
>> No. 466947 Anonymous
25th October 2024
Friday 5:44 pm
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>>466944

If it makes you feel any better I have been shitposting on imageboards like this more or less completely unchanged, other than developing more nuance in my views I suppose, since I was your age. Part of the reason I am still doing it is because you're just not allowed to be an immature daft cunt in real life as much as you get older, and you need an outlet.

People in general never really grow up though honestly. One of the thoughts that has always stuck with me as I get older is that the age stops mattering, and you can see through that perception of "they're older than me, they're more of a grown up", and you realise most people you meet are frozen in time. They have more years behind them, but underneath they have never really developed much further than they did in secondary school or their first couple of years at uni. You'll understand one day, don't worry.
>> No. 466948 Anonymous
25th October 2024
Friday 6:16 pm
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>>466936
That's interesting, I always thought men's scent was terrible. To me it either smells like rancid milk or a shirt at the end of the day.
>> No. 466949 Anonymous
25th October 2024
Friday 7:08 pm
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I know it's a well established thing to say that The Simpsons isn't funny anymore but I just caught an episode on Channel Four (The Miseducation of Lisa Simpson, from 2020) and I didn't laugh once. For a lot of the episode there weren't any actual jokes. What made it worse is that a lot of the character voices, especially Marge, sounded off.
>> No. 466950 Anonymous
25th October 2024
Friday 7:43 pm
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>>466944 mid 50s, I'm afraid. Which sounds a bit old when you see it in text. Terminally online since bbses and usenet in the early 90s.
People are still very much the same, but the worst of social media, and the corporatisation of it all is depressing.
And yeah, people generally don't change. They might develop a bit, and there's the occasional epiphany (in either direction), but people I've known since we were kids are completely recognisable. Well, that, or dead, I guess.
>> No. 466951 Anonymous
25th October 2024
Friday 7:52 pm
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>>466949
The simpsons is boring to watch, now. I'm not sure how to describe it, but they've too many personalised one-off characters, like the red jumper guy pictured. Who is that, a representation of some real world archtype? Why is he wearing chinos and loafers when The Simpsons characters have always worn non-descript trousers and shoes? Or specific hairstyles and fashion accessories. These modern characters are larger than life, they pop out. And I don't like that they become the biggest part of any episode, rendering Springfield as a mere backdrop to their story.
>> No. 466952 Anonymous
25th October 2024
Friday 8:56 pm
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>>466949
I'm just annoyed that this, presumably a tensegrity sculpture, doesn't make any sense.
>> No. 466953 Anonymous
25th October 2024
Friday 9:03 pm
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>>466952

They've probably got AI doing the backgrounds by now. Dunno if 2020 was too early for that to be a thing, mind. How long has AI been going now?

Anyway yeah I can't watch modern Simpsons, in a way I find it existentially terrifying. If you've ever watched a movie you loved as a kid while you are really high or tripping on psychedelics and you start having uncomfortably profound deep thoughts and shit, that's basically how modern Simpsons makes me feel in reverse. There's something really uncanny about how it's just become such a zombie franchise limping on trying to keep up with modernity, but it's still the same characters with the same gags.
>> No. 466954 Anonymous
25th October 2024
Friday 9:13 pm
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>>466950

>People are still very much the same, but the worst of social media, and the corporatisation of it all is depressing.

I turned 50 this year, so we're not that far apart. I first went on the Internet at uni in my early 20s. We had a computer room with about a dozen Win 3.11 machines, later gradually replaced by Win95, on a shared T1 line. That's 1.5 Mbps. Ridiculous by today's standards.

Social media back then was Geocities webrings. Ham-handed DIY coders who would plaster their pages with Java menubars and low-res animated GIFs spanning half the monitor. Nobody had any idea what they were doing, but it was fun. You could even host your own web projects on the university's servers, as long as lengthy, cryptic subfolder URLs didn't bother you. Your prominently displayed web page hit counter would then tell you that you never had more than 50 visitors, ever. But that was ok. It was kind of an exciting time, because the Web was never quite that bare bone again. Sure, you could later customise your Myspace page with code snippets, but it wasn't the same.

I never really got into Web 2.0 and what is today considered social media. Not even facebook. And it's too late now, because most youngsters will tell you facebook is just full of mums and paedos. I'm not sure what I would need Instagram, Tiktok or Snapchat for either. It just seems to be a haven for teen- and 20something attention whores. In a profound way, I literally feel too old for all of it. But that's ok. I'm fine with it. We had our time. I saw the Web and the Internet grow from a niche tool (and pastime) for academic nerds into the early stages of the mass phaenomenon that it has been in the last 30 years.

I never imagined I would be saying it at 50, but in a way, I'm more than glad that I'm this old now. Wouldn't want to trade places with some social media savvy 20 year old multi-platform influencer. It seems a bit like a fate worse than death.
>> No. 466955 Anonymous
25th October 2024
Friday 9:19 pm
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>>466954

The weird thing about modern social media is that it really only works if you have a group of IRL friends to "onboard" you. I only ever had a Facebook because all the people at work in my first job used it and we'd organise nights out and such, and to this day my friends list is largely just those people and old school mates, and a few other stragglers I somehow met over the years at gigs and what have you.

You don't go on social media nowadays and add random strangers, you don't even talk to anybody, it's all really anti-social. If I was to download Instagram or Snapchat or whatever it is now, I'd have no clue where to start, what to do, how it even works, who can see me, who can't, what's private, what's public... In fact that's something that's just not even considered or explained, half the time, and the settings for it are hidden in some obscure menu (if they even exist).

Obviously that's just something the younger generation takes for granted, but to me it's al so hollow. Really the list of "followers" on Insta or "friends" on Facebook is no different to the list of phone numbers I had on my Nokia 3310 when I was a teenald.
>> No. 466956 Anonymous
25th October 2024
Friday 9:39 pm
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>>466955

>You don't go on social media nowadays and add random strangers, you don't even talk to anybody, it's all really anti-social.

It's that tribe mentality. You're either with us or you don't deserve to draw breath.

> but to me it's al so hollow. Really the list of "followers" on Insta or "friends" on Facebook is no different to the list of phone numbers I had on my Nokia 3310 when I was a teenald

Followers are like currency for younguns. They're a status symbol just like your crypto coins. They're your flex. That's what makes it hollow. You care more about the sheer number of followers than you do about who it really is that's following you. Granted, they really are the next best thing to currency because they determine how much money you make off your social media profile or channel. But yeah. You're not in it to meet people, you're in it to get followers for your own profit. Which isn't entirely unlike a sect.
>> No. 466957 Anonymous
25th October 2024
Friday 9:55 pm
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I, for one, don't pretend to know how all those instagrams and tik-toks work. I just assume it's like going to a nightclub or MSN where it's really about having a big crew of mates to mess about. Go alone and you'll have a boring time.

Can we all get some unusual hobbies to talk about for a change?
>> No. 466958 Anonymous
25th October 2024
Friday 10:25 pm
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>>466957

Well I tried to talk about my hobbies and it started a cunt off about sexual degeneracy, so. What are you into?

Ahh it's winter now innit, nights have drawn in. I might get the paints out this weekend and get started on those Warhammers I primed back in February/March.
>> No. 466959 Anonymous
25th October 2024
Friday 10:35 pm
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>>466958
I tried talking about language learning but you lot just talked about past efforts. I guess I need to pick up learning to drive again, being in your mid-30s and unable to drive is a bit embarrassing.

What ever happened to that lad who got shown wood turning? I suspect he ended up too cool for us.
>> No. 466960 Anonymous
25th October 2024
Friday 10:38 pm
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>>466957

Not that unusual perhaps, but I really enjoy fixing electrical appliances. I've got no formal training, but a working knowledge of home electrics, and after decades of doing it, I have yet to electrocute myself.
>> No. 466961 Anonymous
25th October 2024
Friday 10:42 pm
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>>466959

I'm always really glad I learned to drive when I did, while I was young and living at home. It was a ballache even then, fitting lessons around college and the evening job, but I am genuinely pretty certain that having a car is what saved me from neet-dom in my early-mid 20s. If I had left it until now it would just be another one of those things I am forever putting off and would probably never get around to.

I'd get on one of them intensive course things if I were you.
>> No. 466962 Anonymous
25th October 2024
Friday 10:45 pm
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>>466960

Fancy fixing me oven lad? I reckon it's a broken heating element on the fan oven, so I've just been using the top "grill" oven for the last year or so. I've got a multimeter so I could check the circuit in theory but I've not thunk hard enough about how I'd tell if it was just the element that's gone or something else.
>> No. 466963 Anonymous
25th October 2024
Friday 11:08 pm
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I've found it very effective to cut the thick dried skin from my heel directly with a knife rather than sand it down with paper or a pumice stone, though I haven't actually tried the latter.
I'm assuming this will cause the skin to regrow thicker, like it does on your fingers, but it looks like it'd be preferable than the alternative sanding. Atleast the discoloration is completely removed, unlike when sanded.
Chewing on the skin chunks is far less satisfying than directly from your fingers though.

Jesus christ, imagine someone else doing it. They can't even feel when they're cutting too close to fresh skin. It's worse than having your toenails clipped as a kid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ietJqieuCc
>> No. 466964 Anonymous
25th October 2024
Friday 11:08 pm
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>>466962

After disconnecting your oven from the mains (and you cannot stress that enough), check the element for continuity with your multimeter. Depending on your circuitry, you may also have to remove the element's connectors before measuring.
>> No. 466968 Anonymous
26th October 2024
Saturday 6:54 am
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>>466964

If you've got the element out, test the resistance. For a typical oven, the main element should be somewhere between 18Ω and 40Ω. If the resistance is substantially higher, then the element has burned out.

They generally aren't too difficult to remove, it's just a few screws. You can look it up on YouTube if you aren't sure.
>> No. 466969 Anonymous
26th October 2024
Saturday 7:01 am
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>>466963 fuck no. I've got a little grater, which is great. You can also get rid of most of it by walking miles in the sea on sand, but who's got time for that.
I don't think it grows back thicker, it's weird going from rock hard to baby-soft.
>> No. 466982 Anonymous
26th October 2024
Saturday 2:02 pm
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I tried using a cheese grater once, thought it was a great idea until it started tugging and pulling at the skin without actually grating any of the skin off. Left my heel sore for a few days.
>> No. 466986 Anonymous
26th October 2024
Saturday 2:45 pm
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>>466957
For my 37th birthday a couple of weeks ago, I suggested to my parents that they should get me a hobby instead of a present for my birthday. I have said this multiple times to various people: if you're stuck for a present, get someone a hobby. My dad has yet to ever use the telescope I got him, however. Anyway, my parents got me a beginner's knitting kit, so I can knit myself a big woolly hat for winter. I did actually teach myself to knit about 14-15 years ago, and knitted myself a hat and a scarf, and they took months to finish and were shit. But this set they got me came with gigantically thick wool and massive retard-tier knitting needles, so my hat is actually making excellent progress so far. It's real wool too, not acrylic, so it will actually be warm.

>>466961
I was a NEET for over two years after university because I couldn't drive, so you're absolutely right. That's when I taught myself to knit. It was a grim time. The car didn't kickstart my life into excellence because I'm still a hopeless NPC with two parents who couldn't give me any advice at all for getting a job, but my Russell Group university 2:1 degree eventually got me a job putting boxes into other boxes in a factory surrounded by Polish people, and the rest is history.
>> No. 466987 Anonymous
26th October 2024
Saturday 2:49 pm
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>>466963
I do this (by the way, do you post in the snooker threads on 4chan's /sp/, or is that a third person who does this?) and it comes away lumpy because a knife is not foot-shaped. It's like trying to carve a wooden ball into a flat disc. You go with the grain, and wind up with something that isn't flat at all. You can dig deeper with the knife, but then you're just hacking yourself open and bleeding everywhere.
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26th October 2024
Saturday 3:38 pm
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>>466982 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Professional-Pedicure-Foot-File-Hard/dp/B0BH76V4YV/ref=pd_sbs_d_sccl_2_2/262-2198574-1677406

£6 well spent. I only use it every couple of years, but the Mrs really gets to hate my rock-hard soles (and says they're filthy, which is kind of true, but the filth isn't going to come off, is it? Anyway, worth it to make her happy)
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26th October 2024
Saturday 3:49 pm
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I use an electric hard skin remover from Lidl. You will end up with foot dust everywhere though.
>> No. 467005 Anonymous
27th October 2024
Sunday 12:11 am
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Thick skin on your feet is callouses that form because they're being rubbed, it's a protective layer. Why the fuck you'd cut, grate or shave them off unless you've thrown away all your footwear that cause and require them to be comfortable, and replaced them with shoes that fit 100% perfectly, I don't really understand.
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27th October 2024
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>>467005 Mine gets abrasive enough that it eats socks.
Also, the hard / thick skin is an overreaction given that people wear shoes, it's not a response to rubbing or damage, just heavy use in my experience - that thick layer of thorn-proof sole just isn't needed unless you're barefoot (and when I am, the heel doesn't usually take damage). It can also get thick enough that it cracks into plates, and that's painful and annoying.
So yeah, I'm going to grate away every now and then.
Slightly related, would the occasional polish help stop my boots doing this? They last about a year, and everything's fine except that fold line which fails well before anything else. (They're V12 safety Chelsea/dealers - which outlast pretty much everything else I've tried, but I'm open to suggestions. Got to slip on, got to be safety, and they get a fair bit of use, Garmin says 2500 miles a year, and a lot of that's in mud / wet.)
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27th October 2024
Sunday 8:32 am
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>>467008

You want dubbin rather than polish. It's greasy and soaks into the leather to keep it soft. If you need to dry your boots, try to avoid excessive heat.
>> No. 467014 Anonymous
27th October 2024
Sunday 10:22 am
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>>467008
>What are those?!
Why don't I see any of you guys in the street? I swear everyone around my town is either hight-of-fashion or average-no-style, I rarely see anyone like me with holey shoes and patched clothing who isn't a literal tramp.

>would the occasional polish help stop my boots doing this? They last about a year, and everything's fine except that fold line which fails well before anything else.
I don't know about polish but basic care goes a long way. I usually get 2 years out of my boots (Mountain Warehouse) before they're noticably damaged, and that's by merely dry brushing off mud and loosly packing with paper when wet, although I avoid mud and water where possible. A leather conditioner might keep them supple enough to avoid that familiar cracking.
Try to avoid mud and water whereever possible, too.

There's a dedicated boots thread somewhere around here that might be interesting to skim over. Try /poof/?
>> No. 467015 Anonymous
27th October 2024
Sunday 10:52 am
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>>467008

The entire point of polishing boots is to protect the leather, so yes. It basically forms a barrier layer that stops water getting into the leather, the leather is usually durable enough to take owt you throw at it, but water is its weakness. Modern boots made out of whatever bollocks petrochemical plastic polymer shite probably just won't last either way.

Anyway I've no idea how you lot have manky crusty feet like this, I'm on my feet a lot at work and my heels have just the barest of callus.
>> No. 467036 Anonymous
28th October 2024
Monday 12:28 pm
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>>466569
Youy push from your taint you savage. It's a pipe, just physics.
>> No. 467042 Anonymous
28th October 2024
Monday 2:58 pm
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Almonds taste like the smell of the inside of a B&Q.
>> No. 467043 Anonymous
28th October 2024
Monday 4:57 pm
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4chan now requires you wait out a 15 minute timer to post, unless you provide an email address or have a paid account, yet the boards are still full of the same shit (/b/ specifically).
What was this change meant to achieve - more paid accounts, email lists?
>> No. 467044 Anonymous
28th October 2024
Monday 5:21 pm
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>>467043
The fact that it is officially to combat spam makes me hope it is a temporary measure in the lead-up to the US election, and will then be removed again.
>> No. 467045 Anonymous
28th October 2024
Monday 7:05 pm
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Liverpool are selling the house they bought for Jürgen Klopp.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/154262996#/?channel=RES_BUY
>> No. 467051 Anonymous
28th October 2024
Monday 8:25 pm
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>>467045

Needs more grey velvet and mirrors.
>> No. 467053 Anonymous
28th October 2024
Monday 9:00 pm
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>>467045
I clicked through all 64 photos of that house and there isn't a single radiator. That house is going to be freezing. I'll give them two grand for it.
>> No. 467057 Anonymous
28th October 2024
Monday 9:30 pm
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>>467053

It's got a fire.
>> No. 467058 Anonymous
28th October 2024
Monday 10:09 pm
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>>467053

Hah, look at the pleb who doesn't have underfloor heating.

It's so cozy when you're too pissed to put yourself to bed and pass out in the hall.
>> No. 467060 Anonymous
28th October 2024
Monday 10:28 pm
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>>467058

Underfloor heating is great, but it's expensive to maintain. I had mine power flushed last autumn, and it cost me 700 quid. They said they recommend the procedure every four to five years.

Also, they said they are seeing first signs of leaking and degradation of the PVC underfloor heating pipes in houses from the late 60s to early 70s. And that that means that many houses will be a ticking time bomb in the next 20 years. The only way to fix it is to tear out the floor and replace the affected pipes. Which is especially costly if your pipes are set in screed.
>> No. 467062 Anonymous
28th October 2024
Monday 11:40 pm
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What I've noticed about moving flat this time around was how many women these days don't even have a proper household internet connection and will instead tether their connection off their mobile data plans. The flat I'm moving into now is the perfect example where the lad who used to live there moved out and the connection was just cut.

Are we at that point in history now? And no I'm not looking forward to messing about with a BT engineer.
>> No. 467064 Anonymous
29th October 2024
Tuesday 3:37 am
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>>467062

A significant proportion of Internet users don't have anything to tether - their phone is their main and only computer. Web developers have known for years that a shockingly large proportion of people will fill out e.g. a job application or a tax return on their phone, which seems completely insane to those of us who grew up with proper computers and learned to type at 60wpm because of MSN Messenger.

Also, about 15% of the adult population are functionally illiterate. They can read and write some words, but they can't write in full sentences or understand an article in a tabloid newspaper. A lot of seemingly incomprehensible behaviour suddenly makes perfect sense once you've internalised that fact.
>> No. 467068 Anonymous
29th October 2024
Tuesday 9:06 am
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There have been three suicide attempts (two successful, one thankfully not) in my expanded social circle (as in, not people I know personally but friends of friends) this week. Could be coincidence, could be a combination of the season and general state of the world. Doesn't matter - lads, do me a favour and reach out to someone you haven't spoken to in a while, particularly your less social or more troubled friends. Make some plans to spend time with them if you can.
For their sake and yours.
>> No. 467069 Anonymous
29th October 2024
Tuesday 10:46 am
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Doing an empty cycle with a good bit of chlorine bleach at high temperature really gets rid of odours in your washing machine, I discovered this weekend. My clothes were starting to get kind of whiffy. But the clothes I then washed yesterday smell fine again.
>> No. 467070 Anonymous
29th October 2024
Tuesday 7:22 pm
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There's something very gratifying about driving home from work, on the motorway in the dark, listening to electronic music.
>> No. 467077 Anonymous
29th October 2024
Tuesday 9:46 pm
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Judi Love and Jimmy Carr are on QI XL on BBC2 right now, and it’s just ending. After that is Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable, which I’ve never heard of, and which counts among its guests one Judi Love and Jimmy Carr. Something must be done. This is disgraceful.
>> No. 467080 Anonymous
29th October 2024
Tuesday 10:09 pm
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>>467068
Apparently suicides come in threes. It's like getting married.
>> No. 467082 Anonymous
30th October 2024
Wednesday 12:33 am
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I love you, Mega64.
>> No. 467084 Anonymous
30th October 2024
Wednesday 2:15 am
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>>467068
My fairly tragic friend whom I have not seen in many years had a stroke a few days ago, and she's recovering in hospital currently. I sent her a message and she was grateful, and so I sent her another one tonight to keep her company. I have no idea if her housemate is also her boyfriend or not, but he says he is concerned about her mental wellbeing following the stroke, since she was never the happiest person to begin with. The first message was all me, but the second one, I sent because you told me to. There's no chance I will get to spend time with her because she's just too withdrawn, but I bloody hope she stays around and doesn't die, especially after she just survived a stroke.
>> No. 467085 Anonymous
30th October 2024
Wednesday 8:54 am
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>>467084

Good man.
>> No. 467095 Anonymous
30th October 2024
Wednesday 12:05 pm
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British Gas were supposed to be here between 10 and 11am for my annual boiler service. I just rang their helpline and they said they can't really say where their technicians are at a given point in time, but promised to investigate and get back to me.

Bit of a disappointment.
>> No. 467099 Anonymous
30th October 2024
Wednesday 6:47 pm
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>>467095
Did they turn up in the end?
>> No. 467100 Anonymous
30th October 2024
Wednesday 8:21 pm
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How does a British person legally make £200 to £500 without a regular job? I'm hoping to find some way of paying my rent with a weeks worth of labour, rather than scraping it together from every day of the month.

All I can imagine is for them to create some artistic of furniture piece then search for a buyer. I imagine you could sell a few animal hutches for a decent sum at minimal financial cost. Possibly some carved garden furniture.
>> No. 467101 Anonymous
30th October 2024
Wednesday 8:34 pm
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>>467100
I believe the term you're looking for is self-employed or otherwise being a contractor. Nothing is easy though, you're talking about months at sea or putting on girly knickers for perverts. Or even worse, being a technical specialist.
>> No. 467102 Anonymous
30th October 2024
Wednesday 8:42 pm
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>>467100
Are temp jobs regular jobs? If not, there's your answer; if so, you might need to hit up the local Facebook groups offering your services as a house-cleaner / flat-pack furniture assembler / dog-walker. If you were a man with a van, this would be a lot easier, but I assume you do not have a van.
>> No. 467103 Anonymous
30th October 2024
Wednesday 8:56 pm
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>>467100

Outside the box idea- Stick your flat on AirBnB, and any time somebody wants to book it, just kip in the car or go camp out somewhere for the night. If your flat is anywhere decent you can probably make your rent back in 3-4 bookings.
>> No. 467104 Anonymous
30th October 2024
Wednesday 9:09 pm
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>>467100

If you've got a car, Amazon Flex. If you don't but you live near a major city, Deliveroo.
>> No. 467105 Anonymous
30th October 2024
Wednesday 9:20 pm
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>>467099

Yes, about 15 minutes after I rang British Gas. The lad who did my boiler told me another customer's boiler that morning was malfunctioning and it took him much longer than anticipated to find out what the problem was. But I couldn't help feeling like he was making that up. What can go wrong with a boiler that it takes a trained British Gas technician almost another 90 minutes to figure out.
>> No. 467106 Anonymous
30th October 2024
Wednesday 9:21 pm
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>>467105

A lot.
>> No. 467107 Anonymous
30th October 2024
Wednesday 9:38 pm
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>>467105
Why didn't you service your own boiler if it's all so simple?
>> No. 467108 Anonymous
30th October 2024
Wednesday 11:14 pm
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>>467107

I actually did once. There was a blown 100 µF capacitor on the cooling fan assembly's circuit board. I was able to establish that by browsing the Internet for the fault code that the boiler's display was showing, and by the fact that that capacitor was visibly bulging. As a passionate Arduino tinkerer, I've always got a few caps lying around, so I soldered a new one in, and the boiler was good as new.

Standard procedure would have been to replace the entire cooling fan assembly, whose innards aren't normally supposed to be serviced, which would have cost around 500 quid new without labour, and the best deal I could find online on a used unit in good condition would have been £200.

But swapping out a bad cap is different from servicing an entire boiler to manufacturer specs. It's best to leave that to somebody who is trained. If just for insurance reasons.
>> No. 467109 Anonymous
31st October 2024
Thursday 11:03 am
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It's sad and autistic, but I use my memory of video game releases to cross reference with my memory of life events and world events, to determine approximate dates for things.

Like Ni No Kuni II came out a couple of days before Grainger Games died in March 2018. I remember it's March 2018 because I only spent one March in that particular house and it is the only house I played NNKII. Final Fantasy XV came out when I worked a Christmas job at a supermarket so Autumn 2016. Ace Combat 7, Resi 2, and Kingdom Hearts III came out around January 2019, I remember that one because I was sent to a crisis house a few days before KHIII (I got out before KHIII's release, wish I didn't, dreadful game). I went to a midnight launch for Fallout 4 in mid-Autumn and it was when I was in a particular room in a particular house so I can easily remember it's November 2015 etc.

It's not a talent obviously, it's potentially pathetic that I can link things together based on insignificant info, but it's quite effective.

I only mention it because I had a failure with it as I could not at all place when Horizon Zero Dawn came out despite me playing it at the time of release, and I had to look it up. In my defence it is a very bland game.
>> No. 467110 Anonymous
31st October 2024
Thursday 1:02 pm
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>>467109

Nah, man. I don't like the way everything is labelled as an 'autistic' trait. Somewhat introverted? Obviously autistic. Good with numbers? Definitely a sperg. Niche interests? Must be on the spectrum.

What you have is a hobby and a decent memory. It's not pathetic in the slightest. It feels like there's been a cultural shift; back in the day we used to make fun of people for being vapid airheads who just gossip.
>> No. 467111 Anonymous
31st October 2024
Thursday 1:25 pm
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>>467109
To be honest, I've barely a sense for timeframes and date references. It's always astounded me that people can remember something and place it to the year, sometimes finer.
Years ago (what, 8 out my arse?) I could quite accurately tell the time by the hight on the sun in the sky, but that was when I outside an awful lot and probably had checked an actual time piece within the past 8 hours. If not gauged against the rough distance I'd walked and how tired I felt for it.
Eh, tangents.
>> No. 467112 Anonymous
31st October 2024
Thursday 1:55 pm
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Had to get a meal deal from Asda for lunch. Highly disappointing.
>> No. 467113 Anonymous
31st October 2024
Thursday 5:05 pm
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>>467112

I sometimes get packaged salads from Asda. They're pretty hit and miss, sometimes they're a bit off even if the label says they're good for another day or two, and they then give you the shits. My theory is that they always put things in them that they can't sell otherwise, like dinged up lettuce heads or squishy overripe cocktail tomatoes. I also had one of their chicken breast salads a few times, and the chicken strips in it were also a bit off. You know, that smell and taste when chicken is left too long.
>> No. 467114 Anonymous
31st October 2024
Thursday 6:10 pm
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>>467112
In my opinion, all food from Asda tastes exactly the same, but I can't tell how or why, it just does.
>> No. 467115 Anonymous
31st October 2024
Thursday 6:20 pm
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>>467112

When I was in college, we had a regular ritual of going to the big Asda on the way back from the pub. We'd buy loads of cakes and pies and sandwiches from the Whoops! bit and lay on a buffet for the afters. Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever eaten an Asda sandwich sober.
>> No. 467116 Anonymous
31st October 2024
Thursday 6:33 pm
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>>467115
>Asda Whoops!
I used to get loads of decent stuff from Tescos reduced section - sandwhih meats, pasties, wraps, etc, but these days there's barely anything there and the prices are barely reduced.
>> No. 467117 Anonymous
31st October 2024
Thursday 7:52 pm
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There's a new shop opening next to my local cafe, looks like a barber shop. I asked the chef 'What's that next door then, a new Turkish barber? They're everywhere these days" to which he corrected Afghani with a bit of a look, and went on to sing their praises.
I thought 'Turkish barber' was pretty much a trope at this point. I hope I'm not turning into a casual racist, I meant nothing of the sort.
>> No. 467118 Anonymous
31st October 2024
Thursday 9:08 pm
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Halloween doesn’t scare me. I don’t believe in skeletons.
>> No. 467119 Anonymous
31st October 2024
Thursday 10:10 pm
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>>467117
It was easier when we could just refer to them all as "fucking Kosovans".
>> No. 467120 Anonymous
1st November 2024
Friday 12:34 am
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>>467116
I reckon the only good reduced offering these days is Morrisons but usually there's a ravenous horde that appears whenever they go to put stuff out that I don't want to be associated with.

Lidl used to have a good bakery offering after 7pm but they've cut the offer by 10% recently.
>> No. 467121 Anonymous
1st November 2024
Friday 6:06 am
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>>467120
When I did evening shifts at Tesco, there'd be a crowd of mostly the same people at the same time every night waiting for the reductions. You'd take the stuff into the back of the shop to mark down, and then take it to the reduced shelves and they'd be swarming you and trying to grab stuff out of your hands. Proper grim scenes.
>> No. 467122 Anonymous
1st November 2024
Friday 7:08 am
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>>467121
I remember those days well, although I recall the reductions being done on the shop floor and there being a barrier to stop people snatching it out of the worker's hands the moment the label went on.
>> No. 467123 Anonymous
1st November 2024
Friday 8:01 am
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BLOODY CHRISTMAS ADVERTS ALREADY
>> No. 467124 Anonymous
1st November 2024
Friday 8:55 am
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>>467123
I saw an advert for a cat charity at 00:30 last night. It didn’t mention Christmas at all, but the guilt-tripping charity adverts are far more of a Christmas tradition than any of the big-budget ones that don’t even get put on TV any more because everyone just looks them up on YouTube.
>> No. 467125 Anonymous
1st November 2024
Friday 9:47 am
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Pour one out for this generation of Computer Nephews, BBC morning telly just told people to do a factory reset of their smart TV if they think the device is compromised.
>> No. 467126 Anonymous
1st November 2024
Friday 11:18 am
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>>467122
What's the deal with this anyway? I get that food poverty and simple stupidity exist but surely the effort involved combined with it being products that couldn't be shifted for a reason defeats any gain they think they're getting from partially frozen enchiladas.
>> No. 467127 Anonymous
1st November 2024
Friday 11:39 am
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>>467126
Maybe it's the thrill and excitement for deciding your dinner at 8:30PM (or whatever the goal time was, I forget now) every night, based on what's got the best offer on. Sometimes they'd get there over an hour before reduction time. Just mill about at the end of one of the fresh aisles. Maybe the waiting around boredom counteracts the hypothetical thrill of learning you can get a good deal on lambs livers that night and have a slap up liver and onions treat.
>> No. 467129 Anonymous
1st November 2024
Friday 2:02 pm
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Need to be at work in 28 minutes and my gooch still isn't dry.
>> No. 467132 Anonymous
1st November 2024
Friday 2:41 pm
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>>467121
>there'd be a crowd of people at the same time every night waiting for the reductions.
>they'd be swarming you and trying to grab stuff out of your hands.
I once saw a video of old people doing this, it was shameful. Full on grabbing at the cart before it'd even reached the shelves. The staff member simply abandoned the cart to them, like a flock of seagulls.
Where I'm at - not even a middle class area - most people don't want to be seen browsing the reduced section and will hang around nearby until it's clear of anyone else. If people do gather, we're keen to allow space for everyone. In some ways it's embarrassing to use, but to actually fight over it is disgraceful.
>> No. 467137 Anonymous
1st November 2024
Friday 3:50 pm
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I've been a working adult for about 16 or 17 years, and after all this time, I think I might have finally found a job that actually suits me. Not just a job that I don't hate, not just a job that's not as bad as others. Not a job I pretend to like because of other factors, but a job where the actual moment to moment thing I am doing suits me, and I daresay is enjoyable.

It's very odd.
>> No. 467139 Anonymous
1st November 2024
Friday 4:31 pm
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>>467137

Well, what is it?
>> No. 467141 Anonymous
1st November 2024
Friday 6:04 pm
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>>467139

I am too paranoid to be specific even on a niche place like this. But I think the key reasons are that I have a high degree of independence and I'm not on the regular 9-5 grind. My old job was really starting to feel like a prison sentence where your life slips away one week at a time.

We will see if I still feel this way in another six months, of course.
>> No. 467142 Anonymous
1st November 2024
Friday 6:16 pm
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>>467141
Well, good for you I guess?
>> No. 467143 Anonymous
1st November 2024
Friday 6:42 pm
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>>467142

And who pissed on your chips?
>> No. 467145 Anonymous
1st November 2024
Friday 7:15 pm
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I think I've become a musical misandrist. I swear almost every new musician or band I've started listening to this year or two is either a woman or a they/them with a fanny. I can think of one new band this year that's not girls, and the bassist and backing vocalist is a woman so even that's only partial. I'm fine with it, personally, I'm not running my music taste with an equal hiring policy in mind, but statistically it's a bit weird. Maybe lads are just shit at music now? It's far from the case that I've never liked male musicians or all male bands, or that I've stopped liking the ones I used to. Everyone rates Fontaines D.C., but I'm also deeply hibernophobic, so that's a none starter.

>>467143
I don't think what otherlad said was as sarcastic as you've interpreted it to be.
>> No. 467146 Anonymous
1st November 2024
Friday 7:17 pm
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>>467144

What genres are you into? I'm pretty sure that would account for a great deal of it. And a lot of the female "artists" you are listening to are probably just the pretty face and nice voice for a male producer who does most of the real heavy lifting.

I have read some tedious "there's not enough women in X genre" stuff in certain musical press outlets but in my experience men and women do just gravitate towards different styles. Women like singing, they like to refine themselves and make recordings that demonstrate them at their best; men like guitars with loads of pedals and synths with lots of knobs to play with, and produce songs out of it as sheer happenstance.
>> No. 467147 Anonymous
1st November 2024
Friday 7:47 pm
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>>467145
I have always thought that it's weird how your average female singer-songwriter is just infinitely better than the average male one. Imagine comparing, say, Suzanne Vega to Ed Sheeran. Or KT Tunstall to James Blunt. Or Amy Macdonald, who is less famous but I love her, to James Morrison who was in the charts around the same time.

Men definitely make better bands on average than women do, but the only male solo singer-songwriter I really like is Paul Simon, and lots of his best bangers had Garfunkel there to help him.
>> No. 467149 Anonymous
2nd November 2024
Saturday 12:48 am
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Taking a lass out tomorrow who is a bit shy and introverted with an academic specialism is Anglo-German relations in the Middle Ages. On paper these sorts of dates should work out but I have an abysmal track record when compared with going out with women who think a good show is something on Disney and just want to be silly.

Partly I think that's down to me being someone that's quite boisterous but I do suspect sometimes that something else is going on. Maybe bookish women aren't for me or maybe they see through my bullshit façade that I'm really a moron. I'll see you two in /101/ on Sunday when I the date I thought went really well doesn't lead to a second.

>>467145
I've always liked female vocals more as well but I just put it down to being straight. I like having something to look at and I don't want to have an ugly cunt whispering in my ear about how much he loves me over an acoustic guitar.

But there are a few reasons you can point to though, women's voices don't break so they have a higher and wider pitch and our hearing picks up female voices more. The Fiery Furnaces is a perfect example of this where people hear Eleanor Friedberger voice a lot more despite them being siblings. Like other lad says this does depend on the genre but there's a reason they used to cut a young singers bollocks off so he could keep hitting those high notes.
>> No. 467150 Anonymous
2nd November 2024
Saturday 8:03 am
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>>467149

I've had much the same experience. I won't use the word "intelligent" because it's not necessarily the same thing, but educated women often just don't seem to want a bloke who is intellectually on their level. I think it makes them feel insecure or something. They want to prove themselves as a strong intelligent woman and all that stuff, so they go for men who aren't a threat to that. And they say men are the egotistical ones.

My ideal is a lass who has her wits about her but doesn't have some hoity toity uni degree to be all up herself about. An intelligent under-achiever just like me. They never seem to have the same chip on their shoulder.
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2nd November 2024
Saturday 8:33 am
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>>467150
>My ideal is a lass who has her wits about her but doesn't have some hoity toity uni degree to be all up herself about
And my ideal is a woman who'd dumb as bricks but a lovely person, who I can look after without a fear that she'll ever be able to trick me.
Sounds horrible, really.
>> No. 467170 Anonymous
2nd November 2024
Saturday 4:51 pm
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>>467149
Can confirm the date didn't really work. It felt like trying to get blood from a stone, she's clearly both married to her work and unwilling to engage in tongue-in-cheek humour. I think she only went on the date because she wanted me to talk about my job.

Not sure how these people reproduce.
>> No. 467200 Anonymous
4th November 2024
Monday 11:03 am
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>>/e/26611
>Competition is fun, I power levelled in WoW, Quake I, and Quake II, and grew up on QIII. I've since settled on co-op games. We do better together!
Has an AI bot taken residence here? I keep noticing these odly phrased, semi-plausable comments.
>> No. 467201 Anonymous
4th November 2024
Monday 11:19 am
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>>467200
It's well known that this place is populated with robot moon ovens.
>> No. 467206 Anonymous
4th November 2024
Monday 1:23 pm
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>>467150

I recognise the stereotype and I feel a bit sorry for them TBH. Their identity is tied to relentless competition to be the best and can't bear the company of anyone who is more talented or successful than them, but they also can't stand the idea of settling for a man who is less accomplished than they are. If they're more successful than you then you're a pathetic slob who doesn't deserve them, if you're more successful than them then you're a threat to their self-esteem. It's not their fault, they've just found themselves stuck between two mutually contradictory social values.
>> No. 467210 Anonymous
4th November 2024
Monday 2:17 pm
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>>467206

>It's not their fault

You know what, it occurs to me that we say this a lot in our frequent musings on the nature of women. It's like we just take for granted the idea that women have absolutely zero self awareness. They can be intelligent and successful and socially graceful and all the rest of it, but the one thing they never seem to have, is the capacity to reflect.
>> No. 467211 Anonymous
4th November 2024
Monday 3:07 pm
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>>467210
Men often lack self-awareness too, and men are not surrounded by people constantly competing to indulge their most ludicrous whims at every opportunity. It must be very difficult for women to analyse their own failings.
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4th November 2024
Monday 3:39 pm
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>>467211

I started typing out a second paragraph about that but I didn't want to go down the direction of just making it a men vs women thing, really. I think it's unhelpful to really compare them because very often the root causes are different, even if they are inter-related.

I was going to say that you do see it in blokes, yeah, but the difference is it's always lads who are told they have to up their game, if they can't attract a woman they need to go get a better job, start hitting the gym, start bettering themselves, and so on. Which, for the record, I see as absolutely perfectly valid advice. Whereas for women it just always seems to be "you deserve better", no matter what her actual circumstances are.

It's annoying when the /r9k/ crowd have a point. But I think they do.
>> No. 467218 Anonymous
4th November 2024
Monday 4:24 pm
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>>467210

It's not a gender thing. I think in the modern world, there are just a lot of people who are hopelessly confused about how they're supposed to live, about what they want out of life, about what will make them happy. I'm not a conservative by any means, but we tore down the old rules and nobody is really sure what the new rules are. That's been great for some people, but a disaster for others.

I see a lot of people who blindly believe the "follow your passions" line, waste their 20s chasing a unicorn and wake up one day in their mid-30s with nothing but a broken dream and a pile of debt. I see a lot of blokes who are convinced that the next promotion or the next car or the next wife will finally make them happy. I see a lot of young men driven to despair because they can't thread the needle between the old values of "a faint heart never won a fair maid" and the new values of "if you look at a woman without written permission then you're an evil sex beast".

I think this might be why some people love to mock Deano - despite the gaucheness of his new-build house and his sleeve tattoo and his Turkey teeth, he seems so bloody contented with life.
>> No. 467221 Anonymous
4th November 2024
Monday 7:12 pm
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I'm starting to edge below the 17-stone mark in my effort to get back to a healthy weight. Not long ago, I was almost 19 stone. I've eliminated most sweets and high-calorie foods from my diet and have taken up a bit of exercise again.

I'm 6'1'', so 17 stone doesn't mean I look like the Michelin Man. But it's still too much.

I'd be happy weighing just under 15 stone like I used to. And which was about my weight for most of my adult life. But then the pandemic happened, together with unhealthy habits like late night take aways and a very stressful work environment that had me eating all kinds of sweets all day for stress relief.

So yeah. Chuffed to see progress. Hope I'll be able to keep it up. Or down.
>> No. 467222 Anonymous
4th November 2024
Monday 7:36 pm
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For tea this evening I've roasted a couple of very thinly sliced courgettes with a sweet pointed pepper, onion and a few cloves of garlic before later adding in a tin of Mutti chopped tomatoes and thickly sliced halloumi and serving it on top of pan fried gnocchi. Bloody lovely stuff.
>> No. 467223 Anonymous
4th November 2024
Monday 8:08 pm
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>>467222
I had yorkshire pudding and gravey cooked with too many mixed herbs.
>> No. 467224 Anonymous
4th November 2024
Monday 8:29 pm
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I had a big steak, and loads of taters and carrots which I boiled and then fried in the pan with the meat juices and loads of butter while the steak was resting. Sadly it was much rarer than I usually like it, especially for a cheap rump which I'll usually push towards medium, because I'd not taken it out of the fridge long enough before I started cooking. Should have let it get to room temperature but I was hungry and impatient.
>> No. 467225 Anonymous
4th November 2024
Monday 9:08 pm
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I had a funny-tasting Snickers bar that Ice Spice gave me. She insisted on watching me eat it.
>> No. 467226 Anonymous
4th November 2024
Monday 10:23 pm
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>>467221
Good luck ladm8.
Trying to get down to 10 stone myself from 13, but I'm 5'2.
>> No. 467227 Anonymous
4th November 2024
Monday 10:48 pm
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>>467226

Thanks.

Keeping my fingers crossed for you too.

I noticed the other day that climbing stairs is easier now. Carrying laundry from the laundry room in the basement all the way up to my bedroom upstairs over two flights of stairs was kind of exhausting at 19 stone, but now at 17, I don't have to catch my breath at the top anymore.
>> No. 467228 Anonymous
5th November 2024
Tuesday 10:01 am
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It feels like it's been a while since there was a musician who was briefly huge and then you never heard from them again, e.g. Jack Johnson was absolutely massive for a short period in 2005/2006 when In Between Dreams came out or when Jose Gonzalez had that song with all the bouncy balls going down a street.
>> No. 467229 Anonymous
5th November 2024
Tuesday 11:00 am
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Happy National Attempted Regicide Day, lads.
>> No. 467230 Anonymous
5th November 2024
Tuesday 11:04 am
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A man knocked on my door excessively loudly, and declared that "all the mortar has gone" from my roof. He asked me if I could see it, and I said I'm not wearing any shoes mate, I'm not coming out. He continued with the pitchz telling me he's currently doing a house around the corner so still has a bucket of mortar ready to go.

Does this sort of sales tactic work? Like I was about to get my whole fucking roof done on a whim because he has a rapidly drying bucket of cement? Utter insanity.
>> No. 467231 Anonymous
5th November 2024
Tuesday 11:17 am
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>>467230
They're hoping to take advantage of an elderly person.
>> No. 467233 Anonymous
5th November 2024
Tuesday 12:05 pm
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>>467231
Yeah, anyone elderly or otherwise vulnerable. The most idiotic scams you see are essentially a lottery in which the scammer knows they only have to get lucky one time, but have no expectation of getting anything out of the majority of people.


>> No. 467234 Anonymous
5th November 2024
Tuesday 12:31 pm
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>>467228
Modern music doesn’t have stars that everyone knows any more, so that’ll be part of the explanation. If you disagree, then let me take another angle: Chappell Roan (is that how you spell it?) won’t be around for much longer. She is exactly the sort of person you’re thinking of.
>> No. 467235 Anonymous
5th November 2024
Tuesday 12:37 pm
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>>467231

I suppose it being a bungalow makes it a good target in that respect. Now that I think about it a few months ago a bloke showed up at the door and looked very surprised to see me, and blurted out something about wanting to move here and wondering if anything was for sale. He didn't go to any other houses.

I'd have thought the CCTV cameras would have kept these sorts away, but at least it quite soothing to be mildly cantankerous to both of these men.
>> No. 467236 Anonymous
5th November 2024
Tuesday 2:11 pm
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>>467233
I've never understood who that guy in the flat cap is. See him on panel shows from time to time, nowhere else.
>> No. 467237 Anonymous
5th November 2024
Tuesday 2:27 pm
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>>467236

He's Adam Buxton and as far as I can tell, he's friends with a lot of comedians for a living.
>> No. 467238 Anonymous
5th November 2024
Tuesday 2:48 pm
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>>467235
Sounds like they're scoping for a distraction burglary. If someone knocks on your door in the middle of the night then watch your back door as a classic thing to do is to be some obvious timewaster (or impersonate someone from utilities) at the front while his mate sneaks in to rob you.

This happened to my 92 year old grandmother a few years back and it's what broke her will to live we reckon. She limped on a bit longer but was horribly depressed, kept mentioning how all her friends were dead and then the isolation of lockdowns finally did her in.
>> No. 467239 Anonymous
5th November 2024
Tuesday 9:58 pm
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I've been sleeping under a thin polyester dressing gown since the beginning of autumn. The past week I've struggled increasingly to stay asleep, only today realising it's probably because I'm getting cold - which usually takes a while to register. So I finally took my dusty, mold-sporey old blanket to the laundrette.
Now, you wouldn't believe how happy I am at the sight of my freshly plush bed. I'm excited to sleep, tonight <3

Enjoy the little things :)
>> No. 467240 Anonymous
5th November 2024
Tuesday 10:15 pm
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>>467239
Put your undies on the radiator so they're nice and toasty for you in the morning.
>> No. 467241 Anonymous
5th November 2024
Tuesday 10:16 pm
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>>467239
This reminds me that it's probably time to change my duvet. Out with the 4.5, in with the 10.5.
>> No. 467242 Anonymous
5th November 2024
Tuesday 10:47 pm
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Had to go for a wee in the woods today on a longer drive home, and only when I was finished, I saw that one of the tree trunks behind me had one of those motion activated wildlife cameras attached to it.

I'll probably end up on some fetish site.
>> No. 467243 Anonymous
5th November 2024
Tuesday 10:55 pm
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>>467242
I'll let you know if I see you.
>> No. 467244 Anonymous
6th November 2024
Wednesday 12:04 am
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I'm craving ready salted crisps but I have none in my house, it's gone midnight and I have work tomorrow.

Since winter hit my diet has really fallen apart. I reckon I indulged myself when it got cold and now my body is just taking the piss because it likes junk food.
>> No. 467245 Anonymous
6th November 2024
Wednesday 5:51 pm
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Both headlights went on my car journey home today. I think this means I've got no choice tomorrow but to go to the Halfords near work on my lunch break. I fucking hate Halfords.
>> No. 467246 Anonymous
6th November 2024
Wednesday 6:43 pm
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>>467245

Apologies if you've already investigated, but both bulbs at the same time seems like the sort of coincidence that means deeper electrical issues than just the bulbs themselves.
>> No. 467247 Anonymous
6th November 2024
Wednesday 6:45 pm
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>>467246
It wasn't the same time, it was different parts of the journey.
>> No. 467248 Anonymous
6th November 2024
Wednesday 6:59 pm
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>>467246

Both bulbs mere made with the same life expectancy and had the same amount of wear-and-tear. We'd expect them to fail at about the same time, it's just a minor coincidence if they failed at almost exactly the same time. Blokes who are boring about maintenance tend to replace things in pairs for this reason. If your left CV boot splits, then your right CV boot is probably on borrowed time even if it looks OK.
>> No. 467249 Anonymous
6th November 2024
Wednesday 8:03 pm
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>Blokes who are boring about maintenance tend to replace things in pairs for this reason.

If you've got halogen bulbs, then the difference is less than marginal as long as you stick with the same brand and quality.

What does make sense is to swap out both bulbs burners if one of them fails or becomes dim. The service intervals for HID headlamps are much longer, in some cases well over 60K miles, but because they have such a long lifespan, you often don't notice the gradual loss of brightness. Even a spent xenon burner will still be as bright as a halogen bulb, but if one of them fails, I would almost always replace the other side as well.
>> No. 467250 Anonymous
6th November 2024
Wednesday 8:03 pm
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>>467248

>Blokes who are boring about maintenance tend to replace things in pairs for this reason.

If you've got halogen bulbs, then the difference is less than marginal as long as you stick with the same brand and quality.

What does make sense is to swap out both bulbs burners if one of them fails or becomes dim. The service intervals for HID headlamps are much longer, in some cases well over 60K miles, but because they have such a long lifespan, you often don't notice the gradual loss of brightness. Even a spent xenon burner will still be as bright as a halogen bulb, but if one of them fails, I would almost always replace the other side as well.
>> No. 467251 Anonymous
6th November 2024
Wednesday 8:14 pm
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I bought a twin pack of bulbs last time mine died, but it's such a ballache to get to the driver's side headlight I just couldn't be arsed with replacing both. There's better things to do with a Sunday than spend half an hour fiddling around blindly like a 17 year old lad trying to undo a lasses bra with one hand.

(I'm actually good at that, it's the same trick as fastening shirt sleeve buttons)
>> No. 467253 Anonymous
6th November 2024
Wednesday 9:13 pm
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>>467251

I've got an Audi A4, with xenon, but the halogen parking lights inside the headlamps fail occasionally. The nearside headlamp is fairly easy to get to, but the offside one is completely tucked away behind the air filter and the air intake hose, so that that section of the hose needs to come out entirely. It's just two screws and a bit of pulling and tugging, and once you've done it enough times it takes only a minute longer than on the other side, but it is annoying.

But at least on older cars, you can do all of it yourself. Modern LED or laser headlamps have an even longer lifespan and are even more dependable than xenon, but if one of them does fail, you're going to have to replace the entire headlamp which can run over 1000 quid. And it'll need to be done by an authorised dealership because you'll have to do a deep dive into the car's electronics with specialised equipment. I know that for many repairs on most recent Audis, your car's onboard electronics need to sync with Audi's servers in Germany, or the car won't let you make certain adjustments at all.
>> No. 467254 Anonymous
6th November 2024
Wednesday 9:25 pm
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>>467253

I've got a model D Corsa and I don't think I am ever going to buy a newer car. Everything I hear about modern ones sounds like a nightmare of zero benefit to the customer.

Luckily I probably won't need to any time soon because I landed a job I can walk to. The car has about 70,000 miles on it right now but if I'm not using it to commute I doubt I'll even put 2000 on it per year.
>> No. 467255 Anonymous
6th November 2024
Wednesday 10:10 pm
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Do you ever have one of those complete write-off days that if people you know personally knew about they'd section/ghost/kill you? I just did.
>> No. 467256 Anonymous
6th November 2024
Wednesday 10:17 pm
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>>467254

If it runs well and doesn't give you any trouble, then keep it. I don't see the value for money of newer cars. They cost shedloads more to buy than ones like your Corsa cost new, and they generally aren't more dependable. A friend's dad has an E class Merc that's about seven years old, and a while ago he was in and out of the shop for months because it had an engine fault that nobody could figure out.
>> No. 467257 Anonymous
7th November 2024
Thursday 12:05 am
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>>467255
A day where you do fuck all? Yeah. I think one consequences of the pandemic is we don't see other people slacking so we just assume everyone but you is working hard and end up feeling guilty about it.

Or maybe that's why this country has a productivity crisis.
>> No. 467258 Anonymous
7th November 2024
Thursday 12:12 am
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>>467255
If it's any consolation, so did I today.
>> No. 467259 Anonymous
7th November 2024
Thursday 12:38 am
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Sophie Willan's tits were looking tremendous on Never Mind The Buzzcocks. I've gone back and forth on whether I think she's fit, but I've come to the firm conclusion that I'd let her infect me with HIV.
>> No. 467260 Anonymous
7th November 2024
Thursday 6:02 am
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I think one of you lads is going to have to explain to me how sex works.

Let's say you've got a lass who can only orgasm from clitoral stimulation rather than penetration. One day you're at it doggy style and she manages to orgasm, but that's squarely because the angle of your knob is rubbing against her clit. You're used to this happening when she's on top but how does it work from doggy? How? I don't understand the angle which makes it a success to be able to replicate this. I cannot picture it at all. There was something in the Guardian at the weekend which said that women are only likely to be able to have vaginal orgasms is the clitoris is less than 2cm away from it.
>> No. 467261 Anonymous
7th November 2024
Thursday 9:17 am
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>>467260

The clitoris is like an iceberg - you're only seeing the tip. The dark pink parts in this diagram represent the full extent of the clitoris. The clitoral glans is generally the easiest bit to stimulate, but you can stimulate the deeper parts of the clitoris with sufficient pressure or girth.

It's a bit hard to describe in words, but any motion that pushes up towards the clitoris through the front wall of the vagina is going to provide better stimulation of those internal clitoral structures. The classic example would be curling your fingers upwards in a "come hither" motion when fingering.

Getting the right angle of penetration can be just as important as providing external stimulation of the clitoral glans. If you're a fair bit taller than her, then doggy might give you a good angle. In missionary, you might want to try pushing her knees up towards her chest and/or raising her hips on a pillow. If you aren't massively girthy, then shallower penetration might work better than deeper strokes.

This anatomy also explains why many women greatly prefer the rumbly vibrations of a Hitachi to the buzzier vibrations of a smaller vibrator, or prefer humping or grinding to masturbating with their fingers. A lot of women have a small or hidden clitoral glans and find it easier to orgasm with broader, deeper stimulation of the whole vulva.
>> No. 467262 Anonymous
7th November 2024
Thursday 9:39 am
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>>467260
I used to date a lass who loved doggy because my balls would slap on her clit as I went. But who fucking knows when it comes to a woman's bits, you'll have to experiment.
>> No. 467263 Anonymous
7th November 2024
Thursday 10:08 am
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>>467261
>Getting the right angle of penetration can be just as important as providing external stimulation of the clitoral glans. If you're a fair bit taller than her, then doggy might give you a good angle. In missionary, you might want to try pushing her knees up towards her chest and/or raising her hips on a pillow. If you aren't massively girthy, then shallower penetration might work better than deeper strokes.

Can you draw some diagrams please? I mean, with doggy you can either be parallel or leaning back so you're leaning back at a 45° angle and I am struggling to visualise how this affects the positioning of the penis against the vadge.
>> No. 467264 Anonymous
7th November 2024
Thursday 2:16 pm
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>>467260

There's no helpful single answer, the best advice anyonce can give you is that you have to communicate with your partner, you have to try things, go by trial and error and see what gets the best response. That's the most fun bit about sex, too.

Don't take anything anyone says as gospel, everyone is different and likes different things. Even a lot of lasses don't really know what they like; similarly to how lads will be dead set against bum fun until the first time a lass sticks a finger up there and suddenly they realise they love it. Lots of women will have a preconceived idea of what they like and don't like, that isn't really true.

Also don't make orgasm the goal, don't make it the central objective and metric by which you judge if sex was good or bad. It's much more than that. That's the destination, in most cases, but there's very little point arriving there if you don't enjoy the journey.
>> No. 467267 Anonymous
7th November 2024
Thursday 7:32 pm
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I'm on my third sandwich of the day. This might be the most sandwiches I've eaten in a day as an adult, outside of buffets.
>> No. 467268 Anonymous
7th November 2024
Thursday 7:47 pm
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Took the day off for my birthday. It was alright, Lidl gave me a free doughnut and CMB gave me a loads of their 'beans' to do a profile boost, which was nice of them given I'm having a mild panic about being single.

Probably going to take a really long walk as per tradition.
>> No. 467269 Anonymous
7th November 2024
Thursday 8:08 pm
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Been living on poverty food for the last couple of months, but I bought myself a proper shop with fresh ingredients for the first time in ages the other day. Fuck me some proper fresh garlic really does make all the difference in the world.
>> No. 467270 Anonymous
7th November 2024
Thursday 8:33 pm
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>>467268
Happy birthday!
>> No. 467271 Anonymous
7th November 2024
Thursday 9:11 pm
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I was very silly and thought I'd have a cigarette from my old brand on my walk. Took 3 and left the pack on a bin for a homeless person to find.

Yeah this is very different to a Christmas cigar, it went down with no trouble at all. Promptly binned the other two before it got hold of me. Yeah not even one lads.

>>467270
Tah lad, yeah it's time to commit rather than getting cold feet - we'll all make it someday.
>> No. 467272 Anonymous
7th November 2024
Thursday 9:35 pm
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Saw my first house with Christmas lights on today.
>> No. 467273 Anonymous
7th November 2024
Thursday 10:49 pm
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>>467268
Happy birthday, I have no idea why people are giving you beans, but I hope you had a nice time regardless.

>>467272
Ever? You need to get out more.
>> No. 467280 Anonymous
8th November 2024
Friday 9:51 am
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Day off today innit. Dunno what to have for me breakfast. Maybe sausages and a bit of scrambled egg. Reckon I'll play Skyrim VR all day after that though. Still got to do the DLC stuff.
>> No. 467282 Anonymous
8th November 2024
Friday 10:43 am
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>>467280

Made a proper big lovely hobbit breakfast with four sausages, cheesy scrabled eggs, a shitload of mushrooms and toasted wholemeal. Life's not so bad is it.

Reckon I will look like a mentalist if I go down the garage and jet wash my car? You've not allowed to wash your car in November are you? I just didn't give it a summer clean and it's getting green stuff all over it from being parked under the trees.
>> No. 467283 Anonymous
8th November 2024
Friday 11:01 am
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The tribe of the driver is all but uknown to me, but I can't imagine anyone on Earth giving a single shit that you were jet washing your car in November. For all anyone knows you hit two mating pheasants while driving down the motorway.
>> No. 467285 Anonymous
8th November 2024
Friday 4:27 pm
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>A primary school teacher has admitted killing her partner whose tied-up body was found buried in the garden.

>The remains of Nicholas Billingham, 42, were found at a home in Moore Street, Northampton, in March 2022, four and a half months after he was last seen.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-68760747

>BUYERS ARE KINDLY ASKED TO RESEARCH THE HISTORY OF THIS PROPERTY OR ENQUIRE WITH TIM MEEK'S PRIOR TO VIEWING.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/153809195#/?channel=RES_BUY

Unsurprisingly, there's no pictures of the garden.
>> No. 467286 Anonymous
8th November 2024
Friday 8:39 pm
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Junior Taskmaster is weird. It's a bunch of posh primary school kids. It's very... flat.
>> No. 467287 Anonymous
8th November 2024
Friday 9:15 pm
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>>467286
You're not part of the target audience.
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8th November 2024
Friday 10:31 pm
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>>467287

I dunno, someone at Channel 4 probably had it in the back of their mind that carpet-baggers might push up the viewing figures. They did commission Mini Pops back in the day, after all.
>> No. 467289 Anonymous
8th November 2024
Friday 11:17 pm
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>>467288
You uh .. you outing yourself as pedo, mate?
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9th November 2024
Saturday 6:38 am
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>>467287
The target audience appears to be almost exclusively middle class parents.
>> No. 467307 Anonymous
11th November 2024
Monday 1:21 pm
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I bought extra thick bread and it turns it is, in fact, too thick for a sandwich.
>> No. 467309 Anonymous
11th November 2024
Monday 2:23 pm
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>>467307
So, by extension, are you.
>> No. 467317 Anonymous
11th November 2024
Monday 9:18 pm
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I've started playing Geoguessr but I'm not that great at it. Most of the third-world shitholes look the same and it's incredibly difficult to tell one part of America from the rest of it as it's so nondescript.
>> No. 467318 Anonymous
11th November 2024
Monday 9:28 pm
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>>467317
It was better (easier) when they didn't blur out the street signs. I also never liked how frequently you would just get dropped on a straight road on a wide-open plain with no landmarks for miles around, and you say, "It must be Russia" and click somewhere random in Russia, only to be informed you were 5,000 miles away from the actual location which is also in Russia.
>> No. 467319 Anonymous
11th November 2024
Monday 9:29 pm
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>>467317
There are plenty of reasons to slag off America, most of them good and true, but to say it has "nondescript" landscapes might be the most idiotic I've ever heard. Besides going to New York City to steal a military helicopter and get into five star level police chase, the landscapes are the only reason to visit.
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11th November 2024
Monday 10:04 pm
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>>467319
Unless it drops you somewhere like New York or San Fransisco then you could easily guess the wrong side of the country, especially when it starts you in the middle of bumfuck nowhere with no real landmarks and nothing to work out which town you're in.
>> No. 467321 Anonymous
11th November 2024
Monday 10:53 pm
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>>467317

I'm dead good at Geoguesser. In my old job, when the pandemic first kicked off, we found ourselves with fuck all to do most of the day, so we'd all gather round a computer and play Geoguesser. It's all we did for about two weeks. You have to look for subtle details. You can always piece it together, even if it's a country you know nothing about, a process of elimination of countries you do know works.

On a tangentially related note, lately I have been a delivery driver, which is a very liminal job. That term is quite overused these days, but it's absolutely the right one. You're like a ghost, perfectly camouflaged into the background of society in your high vis jacket and brightly branded van, driving around housing estates in the middle of the day when most of the residents are out at work, or driving around the city centre at night watching people go about their social lives. Going to places you'd otherwise never have cause to visit, but you're always just passing through.

You get to see all sorts, while most people just see the same four walls every day.
>> No. 467322 Anonymous
12th November 2024
Tuesday 7:32 am
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I feel like there should be some form of law against posting pictures like on the right when in reality you look like you do in the middle picture.
>> No. 467323 Anonymous
12th November 2024
Tuesday 11:44 am
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She low key finna dummy cute no cap.
>> No. 467324 Anonymous
12th November 2024
Tuesday 12:02 pm
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>>467322

I'm so used to seeing those ridiculous filters that I feel like my brain can now instinctively reverse them. It's like seeing through The Matrix, but instead of green digits it's just the Tinder profiles of single mums.
>> No. 467325 Anonymous
12th November 2024
Tuesday 12:13 pm
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>>467321

I totally get what you mean. Having done a lot of shift work over the years, I still have mixed feelings about being a ghostly presence in hi-vis. On the one hand, there's a certain satisfaction in being part of an unseen army that secretly runs the country while normal people are sleeping. On the other, I can't help thinking that a part of your soul gradually escapes from the normal world and becomes trapped in the vacant spaces between slip roads and service stations and loading bays, trapped forever like a discarded bottle of piss.
>> No. 467326 Anonymous
12th November 2024
Tuesday 12:28 pm
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>>467325

It's doing good things for your prose anyway.
>> No. 467327 Anonymous
12th November 2024
Tuesday 12:54 pm
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>>467323
I think if I was an ugly girl I'd become really fat, at least then you'd get attention from chubby chasers.

>>467324
It's worse when they use heavily filtered pictures in articles about someone who has died. There was one on the BBC the other day and it looked like a different girl from one picture to the next.
>> No. 467328 Anonymous
12th November 2024
Tuesday 1:29 pm
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>>467327
There was some girl who went missing in Germany a few years ago, and the search efforts were criticised because the only pictures they could find of her for the missing posters had Snapchat dog ears and noses.
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12th November 2024
Tuesday 1:39 pm
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>>467328

>because the only pictures they could find of her for the missing posters had Snapchat dog ears and noses.

Reminds me of that thing I read on Mumsnet the Web once, where somebody gave the advice to take a photograph of your children on your smartphone every morning before they go to school, so you'd be able to provide police with the most recent photo possible if they went missing that day.

Bit of overparenting. Not to mention the constant fear level that that instills in your children.
>> No. 467330 Anonymous
12th November 2024
Tuesday 2:07 pm
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>>467329
You tell them you're taking the pictures for a social media montage and if they manage to go unabducted until age 18 you post the timelapse to rudgwicksteamshow.co.uk.
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12th November 2024
Tuesday 2:10 pm
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Got MOT coming up in early December and just spent over £350 on all-season tyres from Continental on etyres.co.uk. Hope they're worth it. The old ones will be ten years old next summer and are almost worn down to the tread wear indicator marks. With a bit of luck and the right person checking my car that day, I could maybe still pass MOT with them. But it doesn't change the fact that winter is coming and they are obviously pretty much at the end of their service life.
>> No. 467332 Anonymous
12th November 2024
Tuesday 2:54 pm
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>>467329

Why do parents nowadays seem to think every school run is like sending their kids over the top into the first day of the Somme?
>> No. 467333 Anonymous
12th November 2024
Tuesday 3:00 pm
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>>467332
Have you seen how other parents drive, especially parking around the school?
>> No. 467334 Anonymous
12th November 2024
Tuesday 3:45 pm
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>>467331

Filed my washer tank up with undiluted screenwash today. It's not quite getting cold enough yet, but it will be soon, and I'll be leaving my car parked a lot rather than running it every day. That means there's a much greater chance for the water to freeze up in the lines and knacker the system. Best to be safe.
>> No. 467336 Anonymous
12th November 2024
Tuesday 3:49 pm
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>>467331
I change my tyres when the cords have been exposed for a couple of months or the aquaplaning at relatively low motorway speeds becomes scary.

I then change the front two again months later because my tie rods are shot.
>> No. 467337 Anonymous
12th November 2024
Tuesday 4:20 pm
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>>467336

https://www.easypeasy.co.uk/news/tyre-cord-exposure-explained/

>when these cord wires become exposed due to wear and tear, it's not just a cosmetic issue; it's a serious safety concern. exposed cords weaken a tyre's structure, making it susceptible to failure. the consequences can be catastrophic, including blowouts, loss of control, and accidents.

Just make sure there's a few dozen miles of space between you and me when you are driving.
>> No. 467339 Anonymous
12th November 2024
Tuesday 4:34 pm
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>>467337
I don't concern myself with Big Rubber's propaganda.

I bet when you had a manual toothbrush you covered the bristles in toothpaste like in the adverts and contrary to the printed instructions.
>> No. 467340 Anonymous
12th November 2024
Tuesday 4:34 pm
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>>467330

>You tell them you're taking the pictures for a social media montage

If they're so thick that they believe that, then maybe they deserve to be kidnapped. And you should then tell the kidnapper to fuck off if he wants a ransom.
>> No. 467346 Anonymous
12th November 2024
Tuesday 8:51 pm
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Why not just take candid photos of your children throughout the day? That way, if your child gets kidnapped while playing football or playing the recorder, you will have a more accurate photo than the 2,000 paranoid mugshots you'd be offering otherwise.
>> No. 467347 Anonymous
12th November 2024
Tuesday 9:24 pm
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>>467346

Just let the kid's uncle do that, who isn't really their uncle, but somehow part of the family and uncannily good with children. And who probably already has a large collection. Nothing can go wrong.
>> No. 467348 Anonymous
12th November 2024
Tuesday 10:02 pm
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>Archbishop of Canterbury resigns over Church abuse scandal

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gvpyzxvjpo

The church are having another diddling crisis.
>> No. 467349 Anonymous
12th November 2024
Tuesday 10:42 pm
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>>467348
As tropes go "powerful, serially offending, sexual abuser who only gets away with it for so long because of omerta from those around him", has got to be one of my least favourite. Honestly, at this point I dislike it even more than precursor aliens.
>> No. 467350 Anonymous
13th November 2024
Wednesday 2:18 pm
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>>467349
Wasn't he instrumental in allowing birds as bishops? It didn't take them very long at all to stab him in the back over this. Perhaps now he'll have a better appreciation of the wisdom behind millennia of tradition.
>> No. 467351 Anonymous
13th November 2024
Wednesday 2:30 pm
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>>467350
I don't even know what you're complaining about. Are you saying that women are to blame for not allowing Justin Welbey avoid any consequences whatsoever for covering up child sexual abuse that was still ongoing at the time? I must be misunderstanding you, so feel free to correct the record on this.
>> No. 467352 Anonymous
13th November 2024
Wednesday 2:56 pm
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>>467351
It's a bit strong to call his failure to follow up on claims from his subordinates that the police had been informed a coverup.

Matthew 7:1-3
>> No. 467354 Anonymous
13th November 2024
Wednesday 6:18 pm
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>>467352
Surely he did the best thing possible by leaving it in police hands?
>> No. 467355 Anonymous
13th November 2024
Wednesday 9:42 pm
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I've had a stomach flu for the best part of a week now. When will it end.
>> No. 467356 Anonymous
13th November 2024
Wednesday 10:42 pm
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Did I ever tell you about that time a street fox passed within a meter of my brother and I? It was the early hours of the morning, smoking a joint on our doorstep. This young fox was hanging around looking somewhat timid, when this larger fox appeared into the street from a nearby allyway. The younger fox was clearly afraid of the larger, so muc hso that it ran by us very close while circumventing the other fox. The both ran off down the street crashing through fences, then 2 minutes later we heard the most terrible screeching, gasping and tearing of skin.
We literally listened as the younger fox was strangled to death and torn at.
Horrible moist dicks in my face
>> No. 467357 Anonymous
14th November 2024
Thursday 7:33 am
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This made me feel sad, so I'm going to make you feel sad.

>Edinburgh Zoo's baby red panda has died from stress caused by fireworks on Bonfire Night, according to veterinary experts.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj6k9wg03e8o
>> No. 467360 Anonymous
14th November 2024
Thursday 10:31 am
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>>467356

It didn't offer you any of its joint? No wonder the other fox merked him, probably nicked his stash.

Foxes are not above cannibalism mind. They'll genuinely eat owt, part of the reason they are so hard to get rid of. They are a truly fine example of evolution.

>>467357

I do feel sad now. You're a bastard for posting this.
>> No. 467361 Anonymous
14th November 2024
Thursday 10:45 am
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>>467356
>passed within a meter of my brother and I

What is it with Americans and using "and I" when they really mean "and me"?

I know it's not exclusive to Americans, but they seem to use it far more than British people do. rudgwicksteamshow.co.uk is absolutely rife with it. I assume it's because they think it makes them sound smart even though it's incorrect.
>> No. 467363 Anonymous
14th November 2024
Thursday 1:27 pm
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I find with potato wedges that my enjoyment of them goes down immeasurably once I've eaten all the small, thin, crispy ones and you've only got the larger wedges left.
>> No. 467364 Anonymous
14th November 2024
Thursday 3:07 pm
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>>467363

So what you're saying is, you like chips better.
>> No. 467365 Anonymous
14th November 2024
Thursday 3:18 pm
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>>467364
I couldn't have them all the time, but I don't mind them for a bit of variation from chips as I do like the seasoning on potato wedges.

Maybe I should extend my repertoire and have curly fries in occasion.
>> No. 467366 Anonymous
14th November 2024
Thursday 3:52 pm
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I've been booking people to help me move through Taskrabbit. It's an interesting experiance.

1. The man with a van I booked seemed okay, he's earning some cash on the side of his job at the weekend. Although when I mentioned that I'd be booking a parking space because the area is shit for it he said he'd do it. I have a sneaking suspicion that he's going to assume street parking and I'll end up walking for ages from whatever space we then have to find when I could just spend £6 on a spot for 3 hours and minimise the bullshit with boxes.

2. I'm being nice and booking a cleaner for the place I'm leaving, also because I can't be bothered dealing with all the spaff stains on the wall. The guy I found then contacted me on Whatsapp and said he'd do the first hour through the app and then the next hour cash in hand for £10 less. I'm not racist but I note that he looks Filippino on the app but black in his Whatsapp picture - yeah I probably did feel more comfortable with the idea of a gay Filipino cleaning up my spunk.

>>467363
Are you sure you don't prefer normal chips?

I'd like to voice my love for fried halloumi.
>> No. 467368 Anonymous
14th November 2024
Thursday 5:27 pm
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The Onion has just bought out Info wars.
>> No. 467369 Anonymous
14th November 2024
Thursday 5:28 pm
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>>467365

Curly fries really are the best of both worlds.
>> No. 467370 Anonymous
14th November 2024
Thursday 5:59 pm
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>>467368
Are you sure, and I mean absolutely, completely, 100% positive, that this isn’t another Onion story? I didn’t even think they had any money.
>> No. 467371 Anonymous
14th November 2024
Thursday 6:00 pm
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>>467370

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/business/media/alex-jones-infowars-the-onion.html
>> No. 467372 Anonymous
14th November 2024
Thursday 6:19 pm
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>>467369
Once every six years I try curley fries and they always let me down. Personally I'm all for potato wedges, but specifically the ones from a takeaway in a town I don't even live in anymore.

>>467370
I think The Onion are doing alright these days. I know they've brought back their print magazine, which can only be a sign of health. As for the cost, Info Wars is probably worth less than dirt since Alex Jones became the most sued man in human history.
>> No. 467373 Anonymous
14th November 2024
Thursday 6:30 pm
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>>467369
I feel like curly fries are for children. I'd feel more grown up eating potato smiles.
>> No. 467374 Anonymous
14th November 2024
Thursday 10:12 pm
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Waffle fries are really where it's at. You'll never go back to regular ones. Cover them in chip spice, barbecue sauce and that shite American squirty cheese, and if you are really feeling lavish, some bits of bacon.
>> No. 467375 Anonymous
14th November 2024
Thursday 10:24 pm
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>>467368

They have to get Alex Jones doing Verhoven-esque over the top satire so blunt nobody realises it's satire (because even he doesn't realise it) for them. It's too perfect.

Then it would confirm my long time conspiracy theory that Alex Jones is in fact just a very committed bit Bill Hicks has been doing since faking his own death.
>> No. 467376 Anonymous
15th November 2024
Friday 7:50 am
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>>467374
I disagree. The best frozen potato product is the skin on fries you get from Lidl and Aldi. Season it and chuck it in the air fryer.
>> No. 467380 Anonymous
15th November 2024
Friday 11:13 am
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZmBDoE0ocA
>> No. 467381 Anonymous
15th November 2024
Friday 11:31 am
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I fell off my bike, it was my fault. I was too late to book standing tickets to a gig I wanted to mosh at, and it was my fault. I was relegated to the balcony seating upstairs.

But due to how badly I fell off my bike, I had still had bandages on my wrists and a swollen knee, and decided to ask the paramedics of they rated my chances of getting downstairs. They redressed my wounds, got me taken to the assisted viewing area, and just left me there in a chair. After ten minutes I went out and joined the moshpit, and no-one was the wiser.

Lads, get visibly injured a week or two before a gig and you too can live the dream of saving £3 and ensuring your injuries take that much longer to heal. I took advantage of a situation and was rewarded for my dual incompetence, but no harm was done. Was this morally acceptable?
>> No. 467387 Anonymous
15th November 2024
Friday 4:34 pm
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>>467381

I wouldn't hold it against you.
>> No. 467389 Anonymous
15th November 2024
Friday 7:53 pm
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>>467380

I like this one better than the one she did for Halloween.
>> No. 467390 Anonymous
15th November 2024
Friday 8:11 pm
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Moving house is really difficult. I somehow thought I'd fit my entire life into 8 boxes which was insane in hindsight.

It's going to be quite a day tomorrow as I'm moving in the morning, setting up the internet (box arriving in the post) and having to supervise a cleaner back at my old flat. I thought I'd be assembling furniture too but Amazon has now decided that's arriving on Sunday, which is the same day I'm going on a date so I guess I'll just go fuck myself then.
>> No. 467391 Anonymous
15th November 2024
Friday 8:33 pm
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>>467390

If you've still got time to go on a date in the middle of moving, then it can't be that stressful.
>> No. 467434 Anonymous
19th November 2024
Tuesday 12:02 am
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Not to brag, but it's snowing here AND it's sticking. I could run about in the dark throwing snowballs at houses right now, if I had a mind to.
>> No. 467436 Anonymous
19th November 2024
Tuesday 7:59 am
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Eee. Int it nice.
>> No. 467438 Anonymous
19th November 2024
Tuesday 8:28 am
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>>467436
Snowy in Beeston too.
>> No. 467441 Anonymous
19th November 2024
Tuesday 12:59 pm
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I'm making chilli for tea, but I'm completely winging it.

I'm currently roasting carrots, onions and peppers in the oven. When they're done I'm going to blitz them with my food processor, mix them in with a few tins of choppee tomatoes and add a dollop of ancho chilli paste. When that's all mingled I'll add the mince and beans. Unfortunately I don't have any garlic in. Maybe I'll add in a stock pot, who knows?
>> No. 467442 Anonymous
19th November 2024
Tuesday 1:12 pm
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>>467441

Throw in a little bit of dark chocolate or coffee, and some barbecue sauce, if you have it.
>> No. 467443 Anonymous
19th November 2024
Tuesday 1:32 pm
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>>467442
Thanks lad, I think I have some cocoa powder somewhere. I may have used too many carrots because the sauce is very thick. The ancho chilli paste is a massive disappointment, tastes tangy and like chipotle, but unfortunately I didn't have any actual flakes in.
>> No. 467444 Anonymous
19th November 2024
Tuesday 3:00 pm
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I've had a headache all day. I've been under a bit of stress and there could be a cold coming on, so I've taken the day off (I'm self employed WFH).

It's one of the good things about being self employed. If you're sick, you're sick. You just stay in bed that day, no need to ring your boss or go to the doctor.
>> No. 467445 Anonymous
19th November 2024
Tuesday 5:33 pm
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>>467444

Don't lie, you just looked out of the window and saw that it was snowing, and missed the freedom of being able to just blag your boss that you can't get to work, so you thought "sod it, I will just have to blag myself".
>> No. 467446 Anonymous
19th November 2024
Tuesday 5:40 pm
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>>467445
At least go out and build a snowman lad.
>> No. 467447 Anonymous
19th November 2024
Tuesday 5:58 pm
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>>467446
Does it have to be a snowman?
>> No. 467448 Anonymous
19th November 2024
Tuesday 6:12 pm
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>>467447
If you want to sculpt some tits on the front, I won't stop you.
>> No. 467451 Anonymous
19th November 2024
Tuesday 8:19 pm
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>>467448

>If you want to sculpt some tits on the front, I won't stop you.

Far from the worst thing somebody can do.
>> No. 467452 Anonymous
19th November 2024
Tuesday 8:39 pm
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>>467451
Charlie says don't try to fuck the snow lady, it will only end in tears.
>> No. 467453 Anonymous
19th November 2024
Tuesday 8:49 pm
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>>467452

Just don't eat the lemon snow and you'll be fine.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nJxa1_tooA
>> No. 467457 Anonymous
20th November 2024
Wednesday 7:30 am
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Heavy is the stomach that holds the cheese.
>> No. 467459 Anonymous
20th November 2024
Wednesday 6:07 pm
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Jazzed my tin of tomato soup up with a dusting of parmesan and a sprinkle of basil before it went in the microwave. Game changer.
>> No. 467460 Anonymous
20th November 2024
Wednesday 6:30 pm
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>>467459

Isn't it better to add the parmesan afterwards so it won't clump into one big rubbery mass? I've made that mistake before with reheated spag bol.
>> No. 467462 Anonymous
21st November 2024
Thursday 7:31 am
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Woke up at 5am with a headache because I was tired. Couldn't get back to sleep because of my headache. Make it make sense.
>> No. 467463 Anonymous
21st November 2024
Thursday 12:20 pm
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>>467462
It's probably the change of the weather, init.
Thinking about it some, the temperature has been pretty mild lately until this cold snap. My house has been dropping temperature fast over the past few days and I've become slightly ill too (down to 13.5 this morning, so glad I washed a second blanket recently). I'm guessing it's that our immune systems had found an optimum defensive posture against the regular germs of our homes, but the drop in temperature changed conditions just enough to throw off that opimism.
>> No. 467464 Anonymous
21st November 2024
Thursday 3:01 pm
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RIP ARE TWO JAGS!
>> No. 467465 Anonymous
21st November 2024
Thursday 3:27 pm
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>>467464

Considering he looked like a cheap suit stuffed with twenty stone of sausage meat, he had a good innings.
>> No. 467466 Anonymous
21st November 2024
Thursday 3:40 pm
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>>467464

Just don't mek em ar thi used to.
>> No. 467467 Anonymous
21st November 2024
Thursday 6:37 pm
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I don't know why Jaguar have decided to rebrand themselves as if they're selling tingly lube.
>> No. 467470 Anonymous
21st November 2024
Thursday 7:39 pm
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>>467467

It looks like a catastrophic fuck-up if you aren't privy to Jaguar Land Rover's sales and marketing data.

The market for luxury saloons and grand tourers is basically dead. People say they want those cars, but they usually end up buying SUVs. That has severely impacted Jaguar sales over recent years, because it's the core of their traditional brand. They just aren't selling enough units to recoup their development costs.

Land Rover is obviously an iconic SUV brand and they have had a lot of success in increasing sales to women with the Evoque and Disco Sport - they're safe, comfortable and prestigious, without being too outdoorsy or aggressive. That was commercially valuable, but diluted the traditional brand image.

Jaguar built the E-Pace on the same platform as the Evoque and it appealed strongly to the same market, with the same basic quality characteristics but more sleek styling. It's really the only car they've been selling in useful volumes for the last few years.

The electric transition is forcing all motor manufacturers to re-think their brand strategy, because the basic mechanics of EVs mean that cars tend to lose a lot of their innate character. Everything has a flat floor full of batteries, very little under the bonnet and loads of smooth, silent torque. It's a particular problem for luxury brands, because all EVs inherently feel more luxurious due to the lack of noise and vibration. Cars are becoming less distinctive, so the brands have to be more specific.

For JLR, all of this points in one direction. Take Land Rover back to the roots and play strongly on the heritage of the Defender and Discovery. Shake off the Chelsea Tractor image, scare off the school mum crowd and build a new line-up that can take on the Ineos Grenadier and the G-Wagen. Concede defeat with the traditional image of Jaguar and pivot it towards a more modern, feminine and cosmopolitan counterpart to Land Rover.
>> No. 467471 Anonymous
21st November 2024
Thursday 7:47 pm
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>>467470
So the secret to selling cars to women is to act like you're selling perfume?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLtFIrqhfng
>> No. 467473 Anonymous
21st November 2024
Thursday 8:08 pm
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>>467471

The purpose of that ad isn't to sell cars, it's a) to draw attention to the fact that Jaguar is changing and b) to piss off the people who you don't want to be associated with your brand.

Look at the related videos and you'll see Jeremy Kyle ranting about how awful the advert is, which is extremely valuable if your target market is "people who think that Jeremy Kyle is vile". in that video, you'll also see Steve Berry making a very straightforward case for why this shift is strategically sound.


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21st November 2024
Thursday 8:16 pm
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>>467471

This is disturbingly shite.

Are we sure that this isn't an advert for women's cosmetics?

I know you have to try these days. But having worked in advertising, I know there's a lot of very weird people with very weird ideas in that industry. 80 percent of those ideas will be abject garbage, and as a client, you can only hope that you've got your wits about you to tell the twenty percent of good ideas an ad agency will come up with from the 80 percent of bad ideas.

In this case here, somebody dropped the ball.

At best, this is how you sell an inexpensive Chinese shitbox of a car to gullible 20somethings. Although I still don't see any kind of "fit" for any car brand I know. And it certainly isn't worthy of a brand with the kind of heritage and esteem as Jaguar.
>> No. 467475 Anonymous
21st November 2024
Thursday 8:29 pm
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I care about the Jaguar rebrand the same way I care about any other marketing, which is to say not terribly much at all. Why so many people feel personally bothered about it is lost on me. I don't think it's a particularly interesting new logo, and I suspect graphic designers are probably sick to the back teeth of being given briefs that amount to "make it flat and like all that other shit, thx xoxo". However, given that most people in this country are more likely to be skint than shopping for Jags, why give a shit? Unless this is what killed Prescott, but I doubt that. Then again, maybe that is the reason people are bothered. Not Prescott dying, but because all the real shit seems so far out of their control, it's easier and less nightmarish just to whinge about Jaguar's rebrand.

>>467471
Firstly, that doesn't look anything like a perfume ad. Secondly, yeah, kind of. Besides, I don't think they'll be running this during Corrie or whatever's on Channel 4 these days. It's not even an ad really, it's probably called something like a "short form brand visualizer".

Anyway, here's the best advert ever. It says "BANNED" in the title, but the description makes the much more convincing claim that Cadbury rejected it because, well, where the fuck can you run any of that? Before a cinema screening of a Michael Haneke film? It's fair enough, I suppose. The visuals do strongly suggest the Devil himself seduced four women with Flakes and hip gyrations, who were then immediately sent to Hell for their cocoa lust.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Uxnpc-JQ3o
>> No. 467476 Anonymous
21st November 2024
Thursday 8:34 pm
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>>467475

It's also almost two minutes long. I'm not going to watch any of these. Stop watching adverts.
>> No. 467478 Anonymous
21st November 2024
Thursday 9:06 pm
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>>467475

>Why so many people feel personally bothered about it is lost on me. I don't think it's a particularly interesting new logo, and I suspect graphic designers are probably sick to the back teeth of being given briefs that amount to "make it flat and like all that other shit, thx xoxo".

The challenge you have when you're rebranding or reimagining a product or a brand name is that you have to strike a balance between keeping your old loyal customers on board an not alienating them, and on the other hand appearing hip and attractive enough for new buyers. Because in the end, you want to sell your product, the more the merrier, and it's going to be a huge gamble to throw out your brand's entire old image, to the point that it becomes entirely unrecognisable, which will mean decreasing purchases from that segment of your customers, and hoping that revenue from your new customers that you are chasing will make up for the loss of your old customer base.

In any case, with a customer base as stuffy and traditionally conservative as Jaguar, you can't just simply decide to shit all over that and show them the kind of middle finger that this advert is to the sensibilities of those traditional customers. It doesn't work, and the backlash is showing it. It's like somebody took everything that's diametrically not Jaguar, and said, ok, this is Jaguar now. It'll piss off many people, and if you're unlucky, tank your sales, or at least force you to retract the entire campaign. Which has happened before.

Another thing is that going from a word-image mark with an image as familiar and iconic as the pouncing cat to a pure, font-dominated word mark is another big gamble. And especially when the new font you are using is, again, radically modern and graphical. It's a stark break from the old logo, and at best, it will take a long time until it elicits the same kind of emotional response as the old familiar font together with the cat.

My prediction is that the campaign will be scrapped, and that heads will roll at Jaguar for approving it.
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21st November 2024
Thursday 9:07 pm
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>>467475
I'm coming to deeply appreciate expression through dance and find the performance in this video fascinating. I don't know why.
What music is this, by the way?
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21st November 2024
Thursday 9:09 pm
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>>467478
>It doesn't work, and the backlash is showing it.
"It doesn't work, and the huge amounts of free advertising on social media that gets everyone talking about Jaguar, organically and at no cost to the company, is showing it."
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21st November 2024
Thursday 9:10 pm
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>>467479
The bit at 0:46 is Polovtsian Dances by Alexander Borodin.
>> No. 467482 Anonymous
21st November 2024
Thursday 9:13 pm
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>>467480

>and the huge amounts of free advertising on social media that gets everyone talking about Jaguar, organically and at no cost to the company, is showing it."

There is still a difference between good and bad publicity. It's only going to put the "love it or hate it" nature of it more into focus and amplify it, and you'll only end up with more disgust in the one camp and more tepid approval in the other camp.
>> No. 467483 Anonymous
21st November 2024
Thursday 9:44 pm
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>>467482

I forgot to say that you must not make the mistake of thinking that only the hip, young, woke subset of the population are active on social media who will maybe, maybe not welcome this Jaguar rebranding and this advert. You've got many quite conservative, traditional people on social media as well, and their ages go well into the 50s. Which, until now, has been the prime buyer base of Jaguar. They're pissed off, and they're venting. With good reason, when they've spent the last years or decades keeping coming back to buy a new car from you and identifying with your brand. They feel betrayed, and your new brand image will affect the image of the car they own as well. And negatively, in their view.

We may not be as sexually repressed as the Septics, but look what happened in the States after that Bud Light campaign. They, too, wanted to attract hip young buyers, but in terms of the impact it had on product sales, it was one of the biggest flops in recent years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Light_boycott

And that's what I mean. Give your brand a fresh new look, by all means. You can update a brand image carefully, gradually and measuredly. Sometimes, it's the best way to ensure your brand stays relevant through the ages. But again, you have to do that with your old customer base in mind. Any break from your old brand image that's too radical can have very unfavourable consequences.
>> No. 467484 Anonymous
21st November 2024
Thursday 9:54 pm
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>>467481
Thanks. Maybe I should start watching operas.
>> No. 467485 Anonymous
21st November 2024
Thursday 10:42 pm
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Imagine making the type of car you drive part of your identity. Imagine being that hollow of an individual.
>> No. 467486 Anonymous
21st November 2024
Thursday 11:24 pm
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>>467485

Many people do. Especially when you're throwing down the kind of money that gets you a late-model Jag.

Someone's ten year old Golf that cost them £5K is probably a different story. The only part of your identity that it serves is probably the fact that you're skint.
>> No. 467487 Anonymous
22nd November 2024
Friday 1:01 am
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Jaguar do not have a customer base. They are selling so few cars that they aren't recouping the development costs. They will be making no cars at all for the whole of 2025, because they're selling so few cars that it's cheaper to shut down their production lines entirely while they re-tool for new models. Those new models will have to be all-electric for boring reasons related to production quotas, which will alienate the four people left in Britain who were seriously considering buying an XF.

JLR have two choices - radically re-invent a dead brand, or sell it off for peanuts to the Chinese like BMW did with MG. I applaud them for choosing the brave option.
>> No. 467488 Anonymous
22nd November 2024
Friday 7:53 am
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>>467487
>They will be making no cars at all for the whole of 2025, because they're selling so few cars that it's cheaper to shut down their production lines entirely

Can't wait for this to get spun into a "go woke, get broke" story next year.
>> No. 467489 Anonymous
22nd November 2024
Friday 8:47 am
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Icy as fuck on the pavements today, probably doesn't help that I've worn a fair bit of the grip on my shoes. Saw a few cars skidding, so it doesn't look like the roads have been gritted either.
>> No. 467490 Anonymous
22nd November 2024
Friday 12:21 pm
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Fuck me, McDonald's has become expensive. I've just spent well over ten quid on a Big Mac, fries and a small coffee.

Haven't been to McD since the Before times.
>> No. 467491 Anonymous
22nd November 2024
Friday 12:45 pm
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>>467490
It is extremely expensive for what it is now, especially considering the wait times because they're almost always inundated with Deliveroo orders.

I might get a wrap of the day meal, but I find it hard to justify the cost of their burgers these days. I dread to think how much Burger King currently costs.
>> No. 467492 Anonymous
22nd November 2024
Friday 12:56 pm
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>>467490

Are you in That London? I've just checked on Uber Eats and a Big Mac meal from my local McDonalds is £6.40.
>> No. 467493 Anonymous
22nd November 2024
Friday 1:58 pm
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>>467492

No, I'm not in London, and I forgot to say I also had a McChicken sandwich. But still. I remember a combo like that costing less than 10 quid, not that many years ago. Also, the McChicken looks distinctly smaller now.
>> No. 467494 Anonymous
22nd November 2024
Friday 2:10 pm
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>>467492
They've gone up, regardless. My usual order was a 99p savers cheeseburger or two, now they're £1.29 or so. I'm better off buying a wrap of the day at only £2, which now I instead do.
>> No. 467495 Anonymous
22nd November 2024
Friday 2:20 pm
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I need a haircut. I'm starting to look like Emo Phillips's country cousin.
>> No. 467496 Anonymous
22nd November 2024
Friday 2:21 pm
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It's December a week on Sunday. Am I doing the usual Andrew festive thread or would someone else like to do it for a change?
>> No. 467497 Anonymous
22nd November 2024
Friday 2:42 pm
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>>467496

>the usual Andrew festive thread

I think that has probably had its time. Can't we do a different meme?
>> No. 467498 Anonymous
22nd November 2024
Friday 3:05 pm
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>>467497
That's why I'm throwing it out there.
>> No. 467499 Anonymous
22nd November 2024
Friday 3:09 pm
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Merry Vordermas?
>> No. 467500 Anonymous
22nd November 2024
Friday 3:30 pm
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>>467499
Nice baubles.
>> No. 467501 Anonymous
22nd November 2024
Friday 6:04 pm
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>>467498

I somehow feel like we should do this year's with Grace Long. But there's probably no chance.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB6Qg4HNj28
>> No. 467502 Anonymous
22nd November 2024
Friday 7:15 pm
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>>467501
You know comedians like Lenny Henry and Gina Yashere? "Hey, who here remembers having a mum? You know what having a mum is like, right? We all know what mums are like. They always say things like [something mundane, but said in a Nigerian accent]. All mums are exactly like that! No exceptions! It's just [boring sentences in a stereotypical accent], always. Isn't that crazy? Typical mums! Haha!"

Grace Long is that but for Northern people who grew up boring.
>> No. 467503 Anonymous
22nd November 2024
Friday 7:23 pm
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>>467502
Hey! Sometimes she's your moody girlfriend, or your annoying friend or a teacher.
>> No. 467504 Anonymous
22nd November 2024
Friday 7:23 pm
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>>467502

That being said, which one of the three would you shag, given the chance?






I thought so.
>> No. 467505 Anonymous
22nd November 2024
Friday 7:28 pm
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>>467504
Andrew the dreamboat?
>> No. 467506 Anonymous
22nd November 2024
Friday 7:41 pm
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>>467505

Suit yourself, mate.

He does look like he needs a hug.
>> No. 467508 Anonymous
22nd November 2024
Friday 7:59 pm
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>>467506
>He does look like he needs a hug.

Don't we all?
>> No. 467509 Anonymous
22nd November 2024
Friday 8:27 pm
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>>467502
The internet means there are incredibly boring comedians with crap ideas that would have been hack twenty years ago for everyone. Also Jonathon Pie is permitted to earn a living, against all good sense and decency.

>>467505
You mock, but I didn't hear any of you lot copping a... whatever those Apple things are called. On reflection Andrew's the only other person besides Rocco Botte I've seen wearing one, who bought his sort of as a bit, but still.
>> No. 467510 Anonymous
22nd November 2024
Friday 10:04 pm
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I'm late to this conversation but I have to kill some time until my pizza is ready.

>>467475

>Why so many people feel personally bothered about it is lost on me.

Of course, as enlightened individuals who are far too good for all that bollocks, it does seem remarkably trite. But what you have to remember is that marketers have spent the better part of the last century making it so that people not just like or dislike brands based on their marketing, but personally identify with it. Marketing nowadays is seldom about whether or not you think X or Y car manufacturer make the best vehicle, but what it says about you that you drive one, and how you see yourself as somebody who prefers that, what people think about you, all of that shit.

It seems daft to us but it's like ripping the rug from under people who are actually invested in corporate branding as part of their personality. Effectively if the brand changes itself, they are also changing you, they are altering your image, without your consent. It's like somebody has gone around spreading a rumour that you're secretly into cross dressing.

Incidentally I also imagine this is why zoomers get so hysterical when it comes out that a member of a band they like said something that could be kind of sort of interpreted as a bit problematic in 1986. They are so conditioned to view themselves and their personality, their very identity and being, as the sum of their media tastes that it's really a completely unacceptable thing for them to continue being associated with that artist, and have their own self image tainted by it. They genuinely don't understand just listening to a band because you like the music and not giving a fuck what the member's views about politics or religion or sexuality are, because they literally can't conceive of individual identity as a distinct thing from your tastes in brands and media.
>> No. 467511 Anonymous
22nd November 2024
Friday 10:56 pm
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>>467510
I understand all that. However, it's the fact that it's Jaguar that gets me.

The hypothetical band member who said something disagreable in 1986 is, or could be, someone you look up to, identify with, admire and just by way of being a fan of their music, have an emotional investment in. I actually think it's quite reasonable to be dismayed by something like that (overreactions notwithstanding), because music is so personal. It really can be part of your personality.

That's very different to a car brand only a tiny fraction of the people claiming to be put out by this are, or were thinking of becoming, owners of. The exclusiveness of this brand means that it's even more absurd than being upset about some shite like Nike, or Laura Ashley, changing their branding. At least those two are brands you might commonly see people owning. Even having a tangential attachment to Jaguar would be difficult. They're not big in the motorsport scene, and as far as I know never really have been. If you're .gs aged you remember their F1 team, but iirc they were shite and didn't last very long. Besides that they almost went to Le Mans about six decades ago and they once had a GT3 car.

I'll stop beating around the bush and say what I really think, which is that this is just culture war bullshittery. I've really had it up to here with these whinging bastards and their non-issues. I hope everyone who has expressed their despair and disaffection with the Jaguar brand this past week gets ring worm.

What kind of pizza are you having and where did you get it? Personally I like the "Extra special" mushroom ones from Asda.
>> No. 467512 Anonymous
22nd November 2024
Friday 11:09 pm
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>>466568
You wot? (Pardon my french). Get a grip, and when you can respond perhaps try a few new devices. Thanks, purple, for what we can now afford we die. Ta!
>> No. 467513 Anonymous
23rd November 2024
Saturday 5:20 am
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>>467512
DON'T BE HATING ON DORMICE.

DON'T YOU FUCKING DARE.
>> No. 467514 Anonymous
23rd November 2024
Saturday 8:26 am
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>>467511

THE WORLD IS SUPPOSED TO EXCLUSIVELY CATER TO THE TASTES OF MIDDLE-AGED MEN. ANYTHING THAT ISN'T DESIGNED TO APPEAL TO MY SPECIFIC PREFERENCES IS A PERSONAL ATTACK.
>> No. 467515 Anonymous
23rd November 2024
Saturday 8:30 am
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>>467511

>this is just culture war bullshittery

Indeed, but this is what decades of consumerism have done to us. People out there actively think the car manufacturar Jaguar is a part of culture, presumably because to them, it is. It's part of their identity, and they feel it as valid exactly the same way you talk about with music. It's sad yes, but that's the stage we're at. All of culture war bullshittery rests on that as its foundation, so in my view you can't really give one a free pass while the other winds you up.

This actually reminds me of something else I was thinking about while I was watching this YouTube video about the Cybertruck.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjP8xqBfXBY

I think there's some degree of irony that electric cars couldn't be any less cool when it was lefties trying to push us towards them. They didn't take off because it's a pretty hard sell to make vehicles that appeal to vego-hippies who would rather not use a car at all. EVs taking off required Elon to come along and make them palatable to chuds. Make them into a luxury product that the poors can't afford. Then suddenly, everyone wanted one and they became a status symbol.

In short what I am saying is that we are doomed as a civilisation and as a species. But anyway.

It was the cheapest "Everyday Essentials" pepperoni one from Aldi's. They didn't have the slightly more upmarket Carlos Thin and Crispy Stonebaked ones in stock, but I thought, "You're right. Pizza is an everyday essential. I will try these." It was weird, it was neither thin and crispy nor deep pan. Very indistinct flavour. I don't think I shall buy it again.
>> No. 467518 Anonymous
23rd November 2024
Saturday 10:05 am
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>>467515

Worth noting that Tesla spent zero dollars on advertising from their inception until 2023. Doing mad shit that people argue about on the internet can be a very effective marketing strategy.
>> No. 467519 Anonymous
23rd November 2024
Saturday 10:07 am
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>>467515
>chuds
So how come wojaks are banned here but using this word is perfectly fine?
>> No. 467522 Anonymous
23rd November 2024
Saturday 12:47 pm
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>>467519
That word is used in a lot of places.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.H.U.D.
>> No. 467527 Anonymous
23rd November 2024
Saturday 5:18 pm
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>>467519

There was one lad posting here maybe three months ago (he must have decided we're all nazis and fucked off though, haven't smelt the armona of his shit opinions in a while) who used the term completely earnestly, and I've been using it ironically ever since.

When I use it, I don't mean chuds, I really mean the kind of person people who say "chud" would call chuds. You know? As in, basically anyone who isn't terminally online and hasn't been keeping up with the latest pronouns dictionary.
>> No. 467531 Anonymous
23rd November 2024
Saturday 6:06 pm
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>>467527
It's still other place shittery. Ironic or not. Can the mods come up with some sort of silly wordfilter for it?
>> No. 467538 Anonymous
23rd November 2024
Saturday 10:02 pm
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>>467531

Not leaving a gap after the quote number is otherplace shittery.
>> No. 467539 Anonymous
24th November 2024
Sunday 12:46 am
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>>467538
Not him, but people who care about this one way or another should be fed to zoo animals. Who gives a crap? Of all the wretchedly pointless things to argue about, this is by far the most insignificant.
>> No. 467540 Anonymous
24th November 2024
Sunday 1:14 am
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>>467539





My brother once masturbated onto my stick insects because I wouldn't let him watch Thundercats. It didn't kill them but I didn't want them after that.
>> No. 467542 Anonymous
24th November 2024
Sunday 2:16 am
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>>467503
>Sometimes she's... a teacher.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSjD4CTa8wo
>> No. 467545 Anonymous
24th November 2024
Sunday 10:45 am
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>>467538

I purposefully choose to leave a gap or not depending on my mood and coz I know it annoys people on here.

>>467542
She's not actually that funny is she? Charming for sure, mildly amusing, but not actually that funny.
>> No. 467546 Anonymous
24th November 2024
Sunday 10:52 am
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>>467545

>She's not actually that funny is she?

For the time being, she has found her niche. If you like that niche is then up to you.

She's only 22. Just let her find her feet. I could see her doing QI or Cats Does Countdown in a few years.
>> No. 467547 Anonymous
24th November 2024
Sunday 10:52 am
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>>467545
Her videos are so mundane they make Peter Kay look like Lenny Bruce. "Remember when your teacher sounded like this one time?", yes, yes I do. I'm not saying the amount of crying laughter emojis in the comments tell us anything about her audience, but if I did I'd tell you it marks them out as Idiocracy level threats to humanity's general wellbeing.
>> No. 467550 Anonymous
24th November 2024
Sunday 2:17 pm
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>>467546
>I could see her doing QI or Cats Does Countdown in a few years.

Other than Dapper Laughs, has anyone transitioned from internet skits to the telly?
>> No. 467553 Anonymous
24th November 2024
Sunday 3:46 pm
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>>467539

We must have standards, lad. If we're going to uphold a minimum quality level in spelling and grammar, then I feel this is the equivalent of not leaving a line between "Dear Sir/Madam," and "I am writing to complain about".
>> No. 467557 Anonymous
24th November 2024
Sunday 10:31 pm
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>>467550
The Salad Fingers man got to make a few shorts:


And Joel Veitch, the RatherGood man, was hired to do adverts for TV:

>> No. 467562 Anonymous
25th November 2024
Monday 1:17 am
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>>467542

Her skits aren't awful but I still don't get the obsession. She seems to me like she's not put any effort in while shagging. She'd only do missionary and complain about giving blowjobs, which would be unenthusiastic if you ever did get one.

Especially when we have Jessica Knappett, who is funnier and absolutely would tie you up and tongue your arsehole without you even asking. She'd just want to.
>> No. 467564 Anonymous
25th November 2024
Monday 1:37 am
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>>467562

Jessica Knappett is probably dirty, but Sophie Willan is definitely dirty.
>> No. 467565 Anonymous
25th November 2024
Monday 1:53 am
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WHY ARE MY EYEBALLS SO FUCKING DRY?

I JUST WANT TO BLOODY BASTARD SLEEP BUT I'M ALL WRONG.
>> No. 467566 Anonymous
25th November 2024
Monday 8:28 am
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>>467562
>She seems to me like she's not put any effort in while shagging.
That's precisely the attraction to these people - She's a young woman who doesn't act typically young. The appearance of carpetbaggery is diminished and dismissed because "she's mature for her age!". you know it's true, her fans her know it's true (even if they won't admit it).
>> No. 467567 Anonymous
25th November 2024
Monday 11:01 am
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I can't believe how cheap CDs are nowadays. I just bought "Best" by Seal, used and in excellent condition, off eBay for three quid.

Hipsters have ruined vinyl, where used vinyl records can often run up to £40 or more. But CDs are dirt cheap and have superior sound and durability.

Right now is probably the best time to expand your CD collection on a budget. Before hipsters will ruin that format, too.
>> No. 467568 Anonymous
25th November 2024
Monday 11:31 am
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>>467567
Are these hipsters in the room with you right now?
>> No. 467569 Anonymous
25th November 2024
Monday 11:48 am
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>>467567
In fairness vinyl was dead on it's arse until it became cool again. It might be more expensive now than it was fifteen or twenty years ago, but that's because most things are more expensive than stuff that's been culturally earmarked for landfill.

When I was about 11 or so some vinyl was left in the street and myself, and a bunch of other kids, used them as ersatz frisbies until they shattered. That's where vinyl was at in the late-noughties. Frankly, we owe the Hipsters (2010-2013) a debt of gratitude.

>>467568
I bet someone here got carried away and had their ears gauged or something, back in the day.
>> No. 467570 Anonymous
25th November 2024
Monday 12:06 pm
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>>467569

>That's where vinyl was at in the late-noughties.

And it's not unreasonable to assume that CDs will at some point follow a similar trajectory as vinyl, and somebody will decide that they are cool again. And push up prices.

Even if you factor in supply and demand and the fact that a gazillion times more CDs were made than vinyl, the price of CDs is probably bottoming out at the moment.

I've been to flea markets where people were selling entire boxes of several dozen randomly assorted CDs for 100 quid. Decidedly not all of them popular best sellers, but still. If you care about the format and value its sound quality and usability, then now is the time to fatten up on albums you've always wanted.
>> No. 467571 Anonymous
25th November 2024
Monday 12:19 pm
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>>467570

I really can't relate.
>> No. 467572 Anonymous
25th November 2024
Monday 1:04 pm
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>>467567
I bought a box to hold my vinyl records on Saturday. It’s a new box, not some mouldy old turquoise leather crate from 1972, and I got it in HMV for £29.99. Thirty quid, for an empty box. They also sold self-assembly wooden crates, of the sort that would only appeal because they were free, for even more than that. I haven’t actually opened my record box yet, but I suspect it might be made of extremely poor-quality plastic too. I don’t think every vinyl hipster should be shot, but definitely some of us need to be, if only to send a message.

I also have a friend who talks about the rich retro sound of cassette tapes, which is just bollocks. Tapes were always the worst option; you used them because you could carry them around more easily, and I guess you might have been able to afford more of them too. The sound quality is atrocious. This friend is quite open about her various mental health struggles, but all the times she’s been sectioned and gone missing for days and had lengthy conversations that she subsequently doesn’t remember at all, are all far more normal in my eyes than thinking tapes were good.
>> No. 467577 Anonymous
25th November 2024
Monday 4:30 pm
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My mum handed me some plumber's mait and asked me to fix the pipes under the sink. About four hours ago I've gotten everything ready, dismantled the pipes, cleaned them, dried them, etc. At that point I realise I don't actually know how to use the stuff properly, but after about twenty minutes of online research I learn it's completely useless for the task at hand, and my subsequent attemps to bodge it were indeed in vain, and the pipes are as leaky as ever. Thanks, mum.

It is indeed "water Lego", but if all you have are the little Lego people's hats and a some Bionicle bits and bobs, it doesn't really matter, you're fucked. Anyway, Peep Show references aside, now I have to go to a DIY shop with some pipe and try a bit of creative thinking. And I hate thinking! Creatively or otherwise.
>> No. 467578 Anonymous
25th November 2024
Monday 4:49 pm
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>>467572

>I bought a box to hold my vinyl records on Saturday. It’s a new box, not some mouldy old turquoise leather crate from 1972, and I got it in HMV for £29.99. Thirty quid, for an empty box.

You probably could've got a Chinese knock off Rubbermaid plastic tub with the right dimensions for under 10 quid from Amazon Essentials.

Evidently, people who collect vinyl aren't above spending silly money on their hobby, so they'd almost be missing a trick if they sold you paraphernalia like a vinyl record box for much less. But that's not the worst of it. I've seen record cleaner online where a 300 ml bottle of liquid was almost £40.


>I also have a friend who talks about the rich retro sound of cassette tapes, which is just bollocks. Tapes were always the worst option

The problem with tapes for me was always how fast they wear out. Unless you're prepared to spend loads on some top of the range equipment, even the best tape will gradually start to sound bad after about ten times. And even CrO2 or metal tapes, recorded on a decent quality tape deck, usually never sounded as good as a CD or even vinyl.

As I've got older, I've also noticed that tapes recorded with Dolby B don't sound the way they used to. I've still got pretty good ears at 50, according to my ENT specialist anyway who said just a while ago that I've got some slight loss in the upper frequency range but my hearing is still better than that of 50 percent of people my age. Anyway, to me, tapes actually sound better with Dolby B switched off now on my early 90s, mid-range Onkyo tape deck tape deck than they do with it switched on. It just sounds muffled. And I'm not hearing much of the tape hiss anymore that was always a key limiting factor of the format.
>> No. 467581 Anonymous
25th November 2024
Monday 8:23 pm
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>>467578

Dolby noise reduction is quite sensitive to bias and alignment - if the playback deck isn't well calibrated, it'll sound a bit wrong with Dolby turned on. Obviously a 30-odd year old deck will have drifted quite a long way from factory specs if it hasn't been serviced. It's a fairly straightforward DIY job thanks to YouTube, if you can be arsed.
>> No. 467586 Anonymous
25th November 2024
Monday 9:23 pm
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>>467581

>Obviously a 30-odd year old deck will have drifted quite a long way from factory specs if it hasn't been serviced.

I've serviced it occasionally. Over its entire lifespan combined of about 34 years now, it has actually seen relatively little use, and for the last 20 years or so, it was sitting largely untouched on a livingroom shelf. I've had it on now and then just to see if it was still working. I gave it a good clean a while ago, both the cassette mechanism and inside the unit, and actually sacrificed my last unused, new old stock, brand-name chrome tape and recorded some music on it to see how it sounds nowadays. I'm happy with it, it sounds good. Maybe the belts could do with a swap, although there's no audible wow and flutter. I'll admit I was never really able to make sense of what Accubias and MPX filter are for. Tapes always sounded more or less ok with accubias in the 0 position. I don't think I ever used Dolby C. It didn't seem to sound better than B.

If you're in the market for vintage hi fi, you can definitely do worse than a 1991 Onkyo tape deck like mine, which, at its time, cost about £200. That'd be about £450 today. The mid-90s, maybe up to about the year 2000, were kind of THE sweet spot for tape decks. It was the pinnacle of compact cassette technology, at a time when controls and functions on a deck were becoming more and more assisted by integrated circuits, and when the big hi fi component makers were still investing in the format, unlike now, where everybody has to design even the most ambitious modern-day tape deck around the Tanashin cassette mechanism and its many shit Chinese clones that came after it. Because nobody else makes the mechanism anymore.

But yeah. Can't say I understand what people see in compact cassettes today. If you like the whole ritual of using and handling them, out of nostalgia for the format, then why not. Or to play some of your old tapes from 25 years ago. But as a way to actually enjoy music, you will probably disappointed.
>> No. 467592 Anonymous
26th November 2024
Tuesday 1:24 am
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Acute mental or emotional stress is starting to give me heart and chest pain lately.

I'm healthy for my age, but I've always worried that I could have inherited my mum's heart problems that she developed in middle age.

Guess it's time to get it checked.
>> No. 467593 Anonymous
26th November 2024
Tuesday 7:16 am
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Headache? Check. Load of tedious horseshit I need to do? Check. Absolutely no prospect of solace in my lond, medium or short term future? Check.
>> No. 467594 Anonymous
26th November 2024
Tuesday 7:23 am
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I feel like, since Covid, if I get a cold it's much worse than it used to be in the before times.
>> No. 467607 Anonymous
26th November 2024
Tuesday 2:31 pm
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I've just got £120 worth of Amazon vouchers, what should I blow it on?

I'm currently inclined to blow the lot on the Terraforming Mars board game and maybe some walking trousers, possibly Montane.
>> No. 467608 Anonymous
26th November 2024
Tuesday 2:58 pm
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>>467594
I feel the same way and I don't know if I'm just getting old or if colds really are worse. I've just gotten over a cold that debilitated me for a solid week and a half when I used to get over them after a few days.
>> No. 467611 Anonymous
26th November 2024
Tuesday 7:08 pm
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>>467607
Reminds me of my friend when she was offered a loan in the mail. She asked me over to go through the Argos catalogue as though the potential loan was a wad of free cash. I suggested not spending it frivilously, to which she shot my a resentful glance and opened the catalogue.

>the Terraforming Mars board game
There's a videogame called Surviving Mars you might like. Basic colony building and management. Not on Amazon though. A boardgame coupled with walking trousers implies you're not the type to sit at the computer for hours a day, though.
>> No. 467612 Anonymous
26th November 2024
Tuesday 7:12 pm
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>>467607

>walking trousers

Do you need a specific kind of trouser for walking? Shoes I get, warterproof layers sure, but trouser? Any trouser will do.
>> No. 467613 Anonymous
26th November 2024
Tuesday 7:15 pm
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Put if off all day but I'm going to have to go to the shops.

I'm off work tomorrow too. What kind of snacks do I get? Answers received by the time I get to the supermarket win.
>> No. 467614 Anonymous
26th November 2024
Tuesday 7:17 pm
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>>467612
Breathable, water resistant, reinforcment gusset, armouring, etc.
>> No. 467615 Anonymous
26th November 2024
Tuesday 7:18 pm
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>>467613
Jaffa cakes. 2 tubes. Pair with Marmite.
>> No. 467616 Anonymous
26th November 2024
Tuesday 7:53 pm
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Went in for my MOT today. At some point I asked the guy, "So where's $name? He often did my car in the past". And MOT lad said, "Oh... him... yeah, he doesn't work here anymore. Sad story. He got sectioned. No, I mean he got sectioned. He became schizophrenic and started hearing voices. He's now in early retirement".

I don't know if I feel bad for $name because he became mentally ill, or because his colleague was oversharing details of his mental illness with the next best thing to a complete stranger.
>> No. 467617 Anonymous
26th November 2024
Tuesday 8:08 pm
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>>467611
This is purely frivolous spending money. I have life insurance through work and they try to nudge you into healthier behaviour by giving you points for exercising and mindfulness, which I can then exchange for vouchers. I've managed to build up £120 since Black Friday last year, so I'm going to treat myself with it.

All I could really do with right now is more hiking gear and board games.
>> No. 467618 Anonymous
26th November 2024
Tuesday 8:50 pm
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>>467613
Extra Hot Doritos, KitKat Chunkies, and olives to feel healthy.
>> No. 467619 Anonymous
26th November 2024
Tuesday 8:50 pm
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>>467615

Good shout, other than the Marmite bit. I also got some Les Cadbury Fingres. "Family pack". They don't know what kind of man I am.
>> No. 467625 Anonymous
27th November 2024
Wednesday 8:54 am
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Oh, my God! I just did code-switching. I was talking to one of those Londoners and I deliberately said something was "silly" instead of "daft", like I usually would. What am I? Who am I? I'll never dismiss, out of hand, a Jezebel article again.
>> No. 467629 Anonymous
27th November 2024
Wednesday 10:07 am
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I still have some leftover chilli from last week. Is there any reason I shouldn't make it into a lasagna? I think it'd go nice with cheese sauce and pasta sheets.
>> No. 467630 Anonymous
27th November 2024
Wednesday 10:08 am
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>>467629

Sounds belting to me. What's a chilli but spicy bolognese at the end of the day.
>> No. 467633 Anonymous
27th November 2024
Wednesday 1:27 pm
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Is philanthropy as common as it used to be. I feel like if I was in the Victorian era and was a philanthropist I'd probably end up with at least one building and a street named after me as well as having my own statue but I can't see that happening these days. I suppose there's less need for it now we have a safety net, but still.
>> No. 467634 Anonymous
27th November 2024
Wednesday 2:01 pm
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>>467633

More common, just less respected. Gates, Bezos and Soros have given away billions of dollars each and have pledged to give away their entire fortunes within their lifetime, but they constantly get shit for it. A significant minority on both the left and right seem to think that there's something inherently sinister about rich people giving away their money.
>> No. 467635 Anonymous
27th November 2024
Wednesday 3:58 pm
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>>467634
The problem most objectors have with it is that, to the extent that the money actually goes anywhere, it goes to things they care about and want to receive money.

That qualifier is needed, because frequently that money doesn't go anywhere. Where they are actually trying, personal/family foundations often can't spend it fast enough because of just how much they're receiving. Typically, the thing the donor cares about most is the fact that they've given the money to the foundation and can get the tax break that comes with it.

This is a decent look into the topic:


That's before we consider the massive scam that is donating art. That one is just straight up tax fraud.
>> No. 467636 Anonymous
27th November 2024
Wednesday 9:05 pm
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>>467635
I'm starting to think you search topics on Youtube and Wikipedia as they come up in Britfa.gs, then pass off what you've discovered as a learned post to us proles.
Thanks for the video, nonetheless.
>> No. 467637 Anonymous
27th November 2024
Wednesday 10:00 pm
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>>467634
This is why I decided if I ever win the lotto mega millions, i'll be giving cash to the local community centre to get it's car park fixed, new lights for the school playground etc. Small local things that actually make an obvious change rather than giving thousands to a national charity where half of it just vanishes with no real effect.
>> No. 467638 Anonymous
27th November 2024
Wednesday 10:23 pm
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I empty my 'refuse sacks' no more than once a month, easily. It's probably closer to 6 weeks. Recycling, paper and food waste. I got one of those large green sacks, a medium blue one and a small/medium food caddy. They never smell, largely because I rinse most recyclables and dehydrate a lot of food waste (which consists mostly of teabags, eggshells and onion casings). The paper I tear up into small bits so more will fit in the bag, then stamp it down when it starts to get full.

Yet in recent news there're people complaining about 3 weekly bin collections as though it's the end of the world. Rats, carrion, vermin. What the fuck is with people that they're producing so much waste?

What do you produce in waste every week, that 3 weekly collections would be a problem?
Mine is just tins, paper and some plastic packaging. Plus the food waste already mentioned. It makes no sense to me that people would be throwing out food - the only thing I can imagine being an issue to remain in your bin for any extended period.
>> No. 467639 Anonymous
27th November 2024
Wednesday 10:27 pm
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>>467638
Do you live alone? If you have a family, everyone will produce more rubbish.
>> No. 467640 Anonymous
27th November 2024
Wednesday 10:35 pm
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>>467639
Ah, yeah that's a point. You could still have 3x large sacks though. I suppose storage toward the end of the month might become an issue but I can see it being doable.
>> No. 467641 Anonymous
27th November 2024
Wednesday 11:39 pm
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You ever suddenly notice the sensation that everything is very small or somehow far away? Like, nothing has changed, but you'll be looking at your phone and feel like it's a lot smaller than usual, then look at your hands as you type and think "the fuck, my keyboard isn't that far away".
>> No. 467642 Anonymous
28th November 2024
Thursday 2:53 am
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>>467641

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_Wonderland_syndrome
>> No. 467643 Anonymous
28th November 2024
Thursday 8:40 am
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How much weight can I realistically lose in a week?

I'm at a charity do next week and I'll be wearing my suit for the first time since the charity do last year. My trousers fasten but they feel a little tight and this is before I've had a three course meal, so I'd like to be a little more comfortable.
>> No. 467644 Anonymous
28th November 2024
Thursday 9:50 am
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>>467643

How much do your legs weigh?
>> No. 467645 Anonymous
28th November 2024
Thursday 11:02 am
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>>467644
It's my waist I need to shrink.
>> No. 467646 Anonymous
28th November 2024
Thursday 11:03 am
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>>467643

I wouldn't aim for more than five pounds. It's going to get unhealthy pretty quickly if you lose much more than that in a week.
>> No. 467647 Anonymous
28th November 2024
Thursday 11:38 am
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>>467641
I get a similar but opposite sensation from time to time, mostly while half asleep in bed. My teeth will feel absolutely humungous - gently grinding them together feels as though my mouth is nothing but 3 huge rubbery teeth. It's actually quite pleasant, have only just wondered if it could be a childhood memory of using a dummy.

>>467643
Start fasting now and you'll lose 5-6 pounds of intestinal matter very quickly - presuming you're fat/bloated. Will make you look and feel 40% spryer.
>> No. 467648 Anonymous
28th November 2024
Thursday 12:48 pm
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>>467642

Wait so do I have encephalitis? Do I have a brain tumour? Am I going to die? Jesus. I thought it's just a weird thing that can happen every so often if you're tired or drank too much coffee or something.

That's not what I needed, I thought the biggest pain in my arse today was returning a parcel to Amazon, and now I need a bloody MRI to see how long I've got left.
>> No. 467649 Anonymous
28th November 2024
Thursday 1:22 pm
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>>467648
I occasionally get a similar sensation of "smallness" not that I or anything else appear small, literally just smallness as an abstract, felt almost physically in my head. I associate it with dehydration.
>> No. 467650 Anonymous
28th November 2024
Thursday 2:40 pm
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GREGG WALLACE HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
>> No. 467651 Anonymous
28th November 2024
Thursday 2:55 pm
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>>467650
I went to the mat for this arsehole just this year, as well, because of the mental backlash against the piece he did in The Telegraph.
>> No. 467652 Anonymous
28th November 2024
Thursday 3:02 pm
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>>467651
You went to the mat?
>> No. 467653 Anonymous
28th November 2024
Thursday 4:02 pm
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>>467650


>> No. 467654 Anonymous
28th November 2024
Thursday 4:16 pm
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>According to BBC News, it sent a letter to Wallace’s representatives on Tuesday setting out allegations of inappropriate sexual comments by 13 people who worked with him across five shows from 2005 to 2022.

>BBC News has also heard from a former MasterChef worker who says he showed her topless pictures of himself and asked for massages, and a former worker on Gregg Wallace's Big Weekends, who says he was fascinated by the fact she dated women and asked for the logistics of how it worked.

>Other allegations heard by BBC News include Wallace talking openly about his sex life, taking his top off in front of a female worker saying he wanted to “give her a fashion show,” and telling a junior female colleague he wasn’t wearing any boxer shorts under his jeans.

Asking questions about how lesbian dating works is hardly a crime. As for the rest, isn't that just what men with his general persona are like? Just making harmless but slightly uncomfortable jokes. It seems like he's being made to step aside for having the personality they employed him for having in the first place.
>> No. 467655 Anonymous
28th November 2024
Thursday 4:40 pm
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>>467654
I guess if you minimise (making out like he probably wasn't asking about the sex, but the dating), obfuscate (no one has been accused of a crime, so why are you implying otherwise?) and ignore large parts of what he's done, it does actually seem fine.

I feel like I've asked exactly this before, but would you do any of that shite wherever you work and expect to face no pushback whatsoever? And keep in mind we're not talking about ten-year-plus colleagues who've sat next to eachother in the office the whole time, but junior crew members who are always going to feel they're in a less influential position than "the talent".

>It seems like he's being made to step aside for having the personality they employed him for having in the first place.
The BBC definitely didn't employ Gregg Wallace because he liked bragging about going commando and how good he is at shagging, so it's pure make believe to claim otherwise. Maybe there's a Masterchef After Dark spin-off that's passed me by, but I doubt it.
>> No. 467656 Anonymous
28th November 2024
Thursday 4:40 pm
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>>467654

Not a crime, but definitely misconduct. People get sacked for this sort of thing all the time, it's just not normally news.
>> No. 467657 Anonymous
28th November 2024
Thursday 5:05 pm
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>>467655
>I guess if you minimise (making out like he probably wasn't asking about the sex, but the dating)
If he was talking about the sex then chances are it would say that, to give the claims more weight instead of just being vague. While the trueth could go either way, right now it doesn't, so you're maximising it with only evidence to the contrary, which strikes me as dishonest.
>obfuscate (no one has been accused of a crime, so why are you implying otherwise?)
It's called a turn of phrase you autistic bellend.

>and ignore large parts of what he's done, it does actually seem fine.
I ignored them because they lack so much context as to be uncommentable on.

>The BBC definitely didn't employ Gregg Wallace because he liked bragging about going commando and how good he is at shagging
They employed him to make risqué jokes and puns so yeah, they did.
>> No. 467658 Anonymous
28th November 2024
Thursday 6:08 pm
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>>467657
Yeah, maybe 13 total strangers all decided to lie to the BBC about Gregg Wallace, presumably as part of some kind arcane ritual.

How many times does this exact thing have to happen before you get a clue?
>> No. 467659 Anonymous
28th November 2024
Thursday 6:14 pm
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>>467658

Nobody's said they've lied.
>> No. 467660 Anonymous
28th November 2024
Thursday 6:47 pm
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Britfa.gs posters, in a nutshell.
>> No. 467661 Anonymous
28th November 2024
Thursday 6:57 pm
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>>467660

Due process.
>> No. 467662 Anonymous
28th November 2024
Thursday 7:39 pm
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Gregg seems a bit inappropriate, but not enough to be cancelled over. He took his top off in front of a woman. Do we cancel all the men on every beach in Spain for having the audacity to take their top off in front of women? He made crude jokes, so do many people. Maybe the accusers should get a clue and get a sense of humour and perspective? Acting like he's this big mega wrong 'un because he's a bit bawdy is retarded. Completely makes a joke of people who accuse people of actual wrongdoing.
>> No. 467663 Anonymous
28th November 2024
Thursday 7:43 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATQ9cjx-X_Y
>> No. 467664 Anonymous
28th November 2024
Thursday 8:28 pm
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Gregg, no! Not even the .gs whale poachers will back you on this! Probably.
>> No. 467665 Anonymous
28th November 2024
Thursday 8:38 pm
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>>467663

I think she's running out of relatable observations. Well, it was good while it lasted.
>> No. 467666 Anonymous
28th November 2024
Thursday 8:59 pm
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>>467662
>Do we cancel all the men on every beach in Spain for having the audacity to take their top off in front of women?

That depends. Was Gregg on a beach in Spain at the time?
>> No. 467667 Anonymous
28th November 2024
Thursday 11:10 pm
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>>467666
Taking your top off in front of a woman is not an issue. If I took my hoodie off and my t-shirt got caught and I exposed my torso, that's not an issue. If it's a sunny day and I'm from a lower social class and walk around town with my top off, that's not an issue. A male with a top off is a non-issue in all situations. whale poacheric that women can't take their tops of freely, but in the world in which we live, there is nothing rum about man having his top off in front of a woman.
>> No. 467668 Anonymous
28th November 2024
Thursday 11:12 pm
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>>467664
Surely the Daily Mail will report impartially on drama relating to a BBC employee?!?!?!?
>14 words
Oh, right, I get it. Sorry; I missed that initially. That is pretty funny.
>> No. 467670 Anonymous
29th November 2024
Friday 12:36 am
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>>467664

He's been stitched up I'm telling you. The accusations are piss weak but they're going on about it like he's the next bloody Saville.

That said, one of my favourite ways to spend time with my girlfriend used to be when we'd binge watch half a series of Masterchef on a Sunday afternoon, and we had a running gag about how the contestants would all try to win Gregg over with nice desserts and blowjobs, but nobody ever bothered with The Other One. It was only Gregg, because he's a filth hound with a very sweet tooth, and middle aged women can't help throwing themselves at him.

I can imagine in the mirror universe, britlezz.ers has a guilty would thread that features him heavily.
>> No. 467674 Anonymous
29th November 2024
Friday 7:27 am
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>>467670
I think it's one of those cases where everyone knows he's a bit of a wrong 'un, but it's hard to come up with specific examples.
>> No. 467675 Anonymous
29th November 2024
Friday 7:36 am
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Do men lose their morals as they lose their hair?
>> No. 467676 Anonymous
29th November 2024
Friday 7:50 am
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>>467675
It's the other way round, baldness is the curse for having questionable morals.
>> No. 467679 Anonymous
29th November 2024
Friday 12:02 pm
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>>467667
Even those examples are unnecessary - the "talent" on set have to regularly make costume changes and there isn't always the time or facilities to do it somewhere private. While we don't know the exact situation (it's possible he went out of his way to do it in an inappropriate setting, we don't know), in the abstract it's a completely normal and expected thing to do.
>> No. 467681 Anonymous
29th November 2024
Friday 12:38 pm
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Terrible news, lads. Roxy has lost weight. She was definitely fitter when she was fatter.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntbubGrJio4


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72Ed-07p0Xo
>> No. 467682 Anonymous
29th November 2024
Friday 12:58 pm
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>>467679

A male worker on MasterChef in 2005-06, who said Wallace regularly said sexually explicit things on set. He said Wallace once said a dish tasted like his aunt's vagina, and on another occasion, asked a female runner if she put her finger up her boyfriend's bottom

A male worker who worked on Big Weekends and other travel shows between 2019 and 2022, who says Wallace talked about threesomes with prostitutes and said he "loves spanking" multiple times a day


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdje0kp7zewo
>> No. 467683 Anonymous
29th November 2024
Friday 1:14 pm
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>>467682
Did this dickless man ever once tell Greg to keep his sex life to himself? Did he fuck.
>> No. 467685 Anonymous
29th November 2024
Friday 1:31 pm
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>>467683

If I was a 22-year-old runner on a temp contract, I doubt I'd have the confidence to give a dressing-down to someone who could probably have me fired on the spot.

>>467681

RIP Roxy's badonkadonk.
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29th November 2024
Friday 1:34 pm
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>>467682
These still totally lack context. Was he saying them while leering at a person who couldn't get away from him or were they intended as the exact same sort of humour he uses in the show, minus the daytime TV censorship? Unless he got his dick out or felt someone up against their will this is still just clutching at straw pearls.
>> No. 467688 Anonymous
29th November 2024
Friday 1:41 pm
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>>467681
I hate cold and sterile kitchens like they have. It must be proper shit to have dinner 'round their house, eating an Iceland ready meal in a cold and echoey industrial kitchen whilst some morons babble at you. Even their bowls and cutlery look uncomfortable and tasteless, I imagine the fork that they give you would constantly be scratching against the bowl.

Fucks sake, I wouldn't even know about them if you lot hadn't given me this mind-virus.

>>467682
I'm pretty sure I've said a lot worse things over my career. The only thing I find off is the obsession with asking his lesbian co-worker questions about how it works but that's more about him being ignorant and largely par the course for a she-woofter.

What do you reckon he's really done for the knives to start coming out?
>> No. 467689 Anonymous
29th November 2024
Friday 1:47 pm
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>Fucks sake, I wouldn't even know about them if you lot hadn't given me this mind-virus.

Keep going, ladm8. We need your opinion on Roxy's weight loss. I bet she wouldn't have done it if he hadn't been cheating on her.
>> No. 467690 Anonymous
29th November 2024
Friday 1:52 pm
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Roxy looks like Hoggle from Labyrinth in a wig. Now she looks like slimmed down Hoggle from Labyrinth in a wig.
>> No. 467691 Anonymous
29th November 2024
Friday 1:58 pm
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>>467688
>What do you reckon he's really done for the knives to start coming out?

Earnt a bit too much money.
>> No. 467693 Anonymous
29th November 2024
Friday 2:05 pm
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Very boring query: Would running one 120Hz 1440p screen out of a display port, and a 75Hz 1080p screen out of a HDMI, work okay? I've seen mixed answers online.
>> No. 467695 Anonymous
29th November 2024
Friday 3:24 pm
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>>467689
Left looks like a council estate slag who'd suck you off while their scabby dog sniffs around the laundry littered room
Right looks like a fiesty parisian who orgasms exclusively from deep, ploughing anal.
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29th November 2024
Friday 3:28 pm
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>>467693

That's light work for any vaguely modern graphics card. I've got two 4K monitors (one 144Hz, one 60Hz) plus a VR headset hooked up at the same time with no issues.
>> No. 467703 Anonymous
29th November 2024
Friday 7:20 pm
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Don't blame it on the sunshine
Don't blame it on the moonlight
Don't blame it on the good times
Blame it on the autism
>> No. 467704 Anonymous
29th November 2024
Friday 7:44 pm
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>>467703
Oh for fucks sake.
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29th November 2024
Friday 8:57 pm
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>>467704
Have another. They're getting a lot of mileage out of this.
>> No. 467708 Anonymous
30th November 2024
Saturday 1:46 am
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>>467704
The thing is, he's not wrong.

But also, if he knows, he's fully able to take steps to mitigate it and not make sexually inappropriate comments and act like a general knob.
>> No. 467718 Anonymous
1st December 2024
Sunday 8:09 am
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7uD_PAS5Cc
>> No. 467719 Anonymous
1st December 2024
Sunday 1:11 pm
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>>467718
Go big or go home, I guess. Interesting strategy.
>> No. 467720 Anonymous
1st December 2024
Sunday 1:15 pm
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>>467708
>But also, if he knows, he's fully able to take steps to mitigate it and not make sexually inappropriate comments and act like a general knob.
Doesn't PRIDE tell us to be ourselves, unabashed?
>> No. 467722 Anonymous
1st December 2024
Sunday 2:51 pm
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>>467718
>muh middle-class women reeeeee
He sounds like he posts here.
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1st December 2024
Sunday 2:51 pm
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>> No. 467725 Anonymous
1st December 2024
Sunday 3:31 pm
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>>467718
Ah yes, the "Ok, I did it, but they deserved it!" response.
>> No. 467727 Anonymous
1st December 2024
Sunday 4:02 pm
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>>467722

I think he's too busy ignoring his disabled son.
>> No. 467728 Anonymous
1st December 2024
Sunday 4:08 pm
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>>467722
I suppose there we have it, if you cross the lad who makes everything about class with the lads who make everything about having a pop at women you end up with... Gregg Wallace.
>> No. 467756 Anonymous
2nd December 2024
Monday 12:50 am
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>>467719

He knows the silent majority are on his side. He knows we've let it go too far.

Not even twenty years ago they had teenage lassies getting their tits out in daily newspapers and nowadays you're not even allowed to get an erection over a woman without being labelled a sex pest. We let the dickless cuckold white knights lead us down this path because it was supposed to be the right thing to do, but look where it's got us.

Tide's going back out again, I reckon.
>> No. 467757 Anonymous
2nd December 2024
Monday 4:30 am
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>>467725

If that's your take away you've had your opinion spoon feed to you by rudgwicksteamshow.co.uk too much because that isn't what he has said at all.

He never said anyone deserved anything.

This is far more. You are being oversensitive no one else has a problem. no I'm not going to apologize because I've done nothing wrong.

Which believe it or not is exactly how the entire world functioned up until the invention of social media.
>> No. 467768 Anonymous
2nd December 2024
Monday 12:39 pm
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>>467756

The complaints against him are so mild that 20 years ago they would have passed for a parody.
>> No. 467772 Anonymous
2nd December 2024
Monday 3:54 pm
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>>467768

Even 40 years ago, "those stuck-up posh bints can't take a joke" would have been a weak defence.
>> No. 467774 Anonymous
2nd December 2024
Monday 9:47 pm
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>>467772

You see anuses that vocalise, that's you that is. That's where your opinion comes from.

Everyone would have a laught at their entitled expense. And named their satirical TV shows after them, and dressed in drag as them and talked in a shrill voice before being whacked in the face with a frying pan
>> No. 467775 Anonymous
2nd December 2024
Monday 10:24 pm
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He's only gone and turned his back on us and our full-throated defence of his cheeky bants:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/te6xfmgV0cc
>> No. 467776 Anonymous
3rd December 2024
Tuesday 3:21 am
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>>467775
Coward bent the knee to the woke middle class woman of a certain age elite.
>> No. 467777 Anonymous
3rd December 2024
Tuesday 12:43 pm
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Personally I'd love to get on my knees for middle-class women of a certain age.
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3rd December 2024
Tuesday 5:01 pm
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>>467775

He should have learnt from the Top Gear lot and gone on to star his own unapologetically racy, titillating, politically incorrect cooking and/or supply chain programmes on Prime Video.

I want to make a point about how making crude saucy jokes is more of a crime in today's world than physically assaulting someone, but we've been around the houses enough times with all that.
>> No. 467782 Anonymous
3rd December 2024
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There's a Screenwipe segment about the kind of bollocks runners have to put up with behind the scenes. There's one in particular about two female runners cleaning up at the end of the day, when the "talent" walks in, picks up a baguette, starts wanking it like it was his cock for a while, puts it down when the runners ignore him and walks off. Probably too neat and tidy for it to be Wallace, but who knows? I'd link to it, but I've not watched it in years and I'm not skipping through two-dozen episodes just to miss that bit anyway.

>>467781
>I want to make a point about how making crude saucy jokes is more of a crime in today's world than physically assaulting someone
Making stuff up is fun, but try to keep it to Space Marine chapters, experimental jazz compositions, and suchlike.
>> No. 467783 Anonymous
3rd December 2024
Tuesday 7:30 pm
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>> No. 467784 Anonymous
3rd December 2024
Tuesday 7:42 pm
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>>467783
There it is! Thanks. I suppose this kind of makes you my runner. I wonder what else I could get you to do for me...
>> No. 467792 Anonymous
4th December 2024
Wednesday 12:08 am
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>>467782

No you pillock I was talking about Jeremy Clarkson’s literal physical assault on a crew member, which resulted in nothing like the kind of outrage as Are Gregg's buttery biscuit bantz. But don't let that get in the way of your feelings of moral superiority eh lad.
>> No. 467794 Anonymous
4th December 2024
Wednesday 2:16 am
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>>467792

Wasn't he fired as a matter of principle despite fact it probably cost the BBC 10s of millions in revenue? I seem to recall the money top gear brought in was a larger number than the budget for BBC three.

Clarkson had already developed an immunity to the hrumph brigade by that point anyway they had been moralising and trying to get people to hate him for well over a decade and he continued to be popular so criticisms of Clarkson at that point was beating a dead horse. There were no past scandals to reveal and no one cared but it was accepted quite reasonably that a line had to be drawn at that point even though it damaged the BBC significantly as a result.
>> No. 467803 Anonymous
4th December 2024
Wednesday 12:39 pm
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Ordered my girlfriend one of these so she can play iPad games. GameSir sounds kind of like a racist joke name for an Indian gaming handheld.

£25 including shipping, with hall effect sticks and RGB, seems a bit too good to be true. This is my first time using AliExpress though so maybe that's standard.

RGB aside which I think is tacky, the colour and translucency is nice. Like 90s Nintendo systems, or the big Apple Mac all in one things.
>> No. 467804 Anonymous
4th December 2024
Wednesday 1:31 pm
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I am so bloody ill. I keep coughing, and I don’t think I have felt comfortably warm all day. I don’t expect either of you can help me with this, but how long is such AIDS likely to last? It’s my work’s Christmas party on Friday and I would like to be healed by then.
>> No. 467807 Anonymous
4th December 2024
Wednesday 5:20 pm
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>>467804
Eat some kimchi.
>> No. 467809 Anonymous
4th December 2024
Wednesday 5:36 pm
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You lads ever been in Skelton Lake services off the M1 in Leeds? It's more like a fucking airport duty free shopping lounge than a motorway services. And they put the toilets right at the back so you have to walk half a mile through it all for a piss, and on the way back your bladder relief has you on a high, so you're more likely to have a go on one of the fruit machines.

Also why do all motorway services have a gambling section? That's dead fucking weird that is. Have you ever actually thought about that? Like, who's pulling off the motorway because they desperately need to gamble?
>> No. 467813 Anonymous
4th December 2024
Wednesday 8:23 pm
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>>467809
Yes, I have.
>> No. 467814 Anonymous
4th December 2024
Wednesday 8:36 pm
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>>467809

Gambling addicts. The whole industry is built around addiction. Why are high street slot machine venues open 24/7 wherever they can? Because gambling addicts will spend all night in there. Why do they offer free refreshments and snacks? So the gambling addicts don't have to leave until they've run out of money. Bingo halls just barely cover their costs on bingo, food and drink - they earn their real money from the slot machines.
>> No. 467815 Anonymous
4th December 2024
Wednesday 8:45 pm
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>>467814

I've never been in a bingo hall in my life. Wonder what it's like. I've always imagined very depressing. Don't you have to be quiet for bingo? How is it exactly a social thing if you're all sat there in dead silence just poring over a sheet of random numbers?
>> No. 467818 Anonymous
4th December 2024
Wednesday 10:31 pm
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Facebook never disappoints.
>> No. 467819 Anonymous
4th December 2024
Wednesday 10:41 pm
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>>467815

There are breaks between games. Most people play on a touchscreen rather than paper. The crowd is like a very female Wetherspoons. Working class, lots of older regulars (particularly during the day), some younger people who are there for the cheap drinks before a big night out. The serious players near the front will get narked if you talk during a game, but most clubs have more relaxed seating areas off to the side. A good place to pull if you like rough single mums.
>> No. 467823 Anonymous
5th December 2024
Thursday 5:04 pm
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I've been using Gumtree a lot lately, and I've found that getting a few quid for your things or finding a rare item that somebody has is only part of the fun. You meet some genuinely interesting people when you go and pick something up in person, or when they come to you.
>> No. 467824 Anonymous
5th December 2024
Thursday 5:35 pm
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>>467823
Well go on then, tell us about them.
>> No. 467825 Anonymous
5th December 2024
Thursday 8:29 pm
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Between the NYC gunman and the South Korean woman grabbing the soldier's gun during the coup, it's been a good week for handsome people doing incredibly cool shit.
>> No. 467826 Anonymous
5th December 2024
Thursday 11:27 pm
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Had some Chinese take away this afternoon and I've still got that distinct taste of sesame oil in my mouth.
>> No. 467842 Anonymous
9th December 2024
Monday 12:47 am
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I got back into photography recently and I don't know if it's my older age, gentler temperament or desperate need to do something worthwhile, but I'm finding it more interesting and fulfilling than I did even when it was my main hobby in my twenties. Back then it was quite a lot about just taking pictures of women I wanted to fuck and then posting moody black and white shots and talking about art until they fucked me.

Now I just enjoy the whole process, particularly when I use a film camera, but digital is fun too now that I have a nice Fujifilm that I can control in the same way as an old 35mm.

Anyway fuck all that, the point is I'm dangerously close to buying a Leica. I've always wanted an M6, despite knowing it's a very silly idea. I've also been looking at the digital M's but I honestly think I'd prefer to stick with the Fuji for that.
>> No. 467843 Anonymous
9th December 2024
Monday 5:45 am
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>>467842
Any particular subject matter, other than creepy candids of innocent women?
I once knew a dude who did the 'beauty in overlooked places' sort of thing - I guess it can be nice finding those unapreiciated areas of our environment nestled between all the chaos, or something.
>> No. 467846 Anonymous
9th December 2024
Monday 3:33 pm
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When did people start typing "yh" in messaging apps instead of yeah? Seems to be a fairly recent trend because I've only started noticing it over the past few months.
>> No. 467847 Anonymous
9th December 2024
Monday 8:40 pm
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>>467846
I've been seeing it as much as ever, which is quite rarely but occasionally. I first saw it years ago, though.

When the cocksucking fucking hell did the idiot retards take over and start spelling "whoa" as "woah" every single goddamn fucking time? I should probably be posting this in /101/, but it relates to your post so I'll write it here and just pretend it doesn't make me as angry as it does.
>> No. 467848 Anonymous
9th December 2024
Monday 8:56 pm
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Bought a new pair of jeans today. I'm still stuck on a 38'' waist, despite losing about 17 lbs already since I was at my fattest.

Granted, I'm 6'1'', so it's not as noticeable as it would be if I was maybe 5'5'' or something. But I'm still overweight, and I really didn't like the good look I got at my arse from behind in the mirrors of the fitting room today.
>> No. 467851 Anonymous
10th December 2024
Tuesday 8:24 pm
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I'm continuing to feel like a kid in a sweets shop because of the low prices at which CDs can be had. Just bought another used 80s sampler with five CDs for just over six quid including p&p. Granted, it's got a good few also-rans on it among the 100 songs, and some that absolutely nobody has ever heard of, but hey. For six quid. Spotify can go suck itself.
>> No. 467852 Anonymous
10th December 2024
Tuesday 8:34 pm
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>>467851
Go on a charity shop run.
I've acquired so much music this year for comparatively pennies.
>> No. 467853 Anonymous
10th December 2024
Tuesday 10:23 pm
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>>467852

Might be a good idea.

I really hope hipsters don't ruin CDs like they ruined vinyl. At the moment, you can gorge yourself on CDs for next to nothing. Hopefully it stays that way. At least until I've had my fill of all the CDs I've always wanted.
>> No. 467854 Anonymous
10th December 2024
Tuesday 11:35 pm
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>>467853
Aren't you the hipster in this scenario? You could get your ears gauged and put little, ironically enough, vinyl CDs in there. Everyone would be able to tell "eh up, it's the CD man. He hyper-inflated the second-hand CD market by repeatedly lauding their untapped value on Britain's most popular shed-sized woman discussion forum, the bastard", just by looking.

Anyway, if the vinyl print of CharliXCX's Brat and It's Completely Different but Also Still Brat I saw for sale at £50 is anything to go by, you've got lots of time before CD prices are completely FUBAR.
>> No. 467855 Anonymous
11th December 2024
Wednesday 12:00 am
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Not to ruin your good time but aren't CDs a horrible form of storage over the years? Especially given the types you will get in charity shops will have sat in hot cars for years.

You're paying money for inferior quality in a selection of mediocre music while I gave up and just do the £99 for a year of Spotify.
>> No. 467856 Anonymous
11th December 2024
Wednesday 12:45 am
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There's a shop near me which started selling £6 cigarette packs a few months ago. Cheap black market fags can taste a bit weird and sometimes leave me with a weird cough, and the worst ones don't even have the "throat hit" of smoking a cigarette, which leaves me wondering if they even put actual tobacco in there. But these £6 ones are legit Camels.

I quit chain vaping back in July and switched to pestering people for fags when out drinking, but I finally gave in to the shop's siren call and bought a pack for the weekend. It opened the floodgates to buying them on sober weekdays and now I've been smoking close to a pack a day for the past four days. Today has been a nicotine-free day so far, aided by a zero-nicotine vape pen which is doing a pretty good job of replicating the oral fixation side of smoking. The urge to have a proper smoke comes and goes in mild waves. I'm not desperate for a cigarette, but then I notice a mild craving well up that's like "it'd be nice to have a smoke". If I stay with that feeling for a while and observe it, the craving just fades away until it comes back again and the process repeats. I guess it'd be fairly easy to quit again, and if things get super bad I can just start mixing my own vape liquids again and gradually dial down the nicotine level to zero.
>> No. 467857 Anonymous
11th December 2024
Wednesday 1:12 am
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>>467856
You need to accept that can't even have one, lad. I know how it is, you find yourself fiending for a ciggie when you've had a drink like it's a bag of cocaine. The more you do it and be around it the stronger the voice in your head gets.

We're just fucked forever now.
>> No. 467858 Anonymous
11th December 2024
Wednesday 10:04 am
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>>467855

> but aren't CDs a horrible form of storage over the years? Especially given the types you will get in charity shops will have sat in hot cars for years.

CDs have proved to be unexpectedly durable. When I was a teenlad in the late 80s, I remember reading that the projected lifespan of a CD at the time was about 25 to 30 years. But nowadays, more than 40 years on since the format was introduced, pretty much any CD from as far back as the early 80s that wasn't literally kept on a hot dashboard or in a damp bathroom for decades (and wasn't made by PDO in the UK) is still playable without errors.

You hear about disc rot now and then, but in reality, it's so far still rare. That doesn't mean it will never happen eventually, and some even say that disc rot is the inevitable eventual death of every CD. But in general, CDs have turned out to be far more durable than their original design specs demanded. My oldest CD is currently Love Over Gold by Dire Straits, first pressing from 1982, and it plays without any problems. Other early CDs I've got include Songs From The Big Chair by Tears For Fears, also first pressing from 1984, and Stella by Yello from 1985. They are also still in perfect playable condition.

Current estimates predict a lifespan of higher-quality CDs from the early to late 80s of up to 80 years if stored in the right conditions. It's uncertain if that also goes for many CDs that were made after the peak of CD sales around the year 2000, as manufacturers obviously started needing to cut costs to make up for declining revenue from the format.


>You're paying money for inferior quality in a selection of mediocre music while I gave up and just do the £99 for a year of Spotify.

That all depends. Sound wise, the 16-bit Red Book CD is still one of the highest quality audio formats you can buy. There's a reason why it has stuck around this long. Yes, today's standard is 24-bit, but for all intents and purposes, you will struggle to tell the difference. Some say they can, but unless you are a sound engineer or other kind of professional sound expert, you realistically can't. The 96 dB dynamic range of CDs and 44.1K sample rate is already at or beyond the outer bounds of what the average human ear can distinguish and perceive. Streaming services, on the other hand, either use lossy audio compression or their lossless codecs don't sound audibly better than your CD, and don't really justify the expense of a premium subscription which you will need.

As far as selection, well. Yes, online streaming services theoretically allow you listen to almost every song that was ever made, but the catch to me is that you own nothing. If that streaming service ever becomes defunct or changes its catalogue, then you're left with nothing and your carefully curated playlists vanish into thin air. With a CD, I've got a physical, near enough master quality copy of a song or album, which I can play anytime I want, without needing a subscription or an Internet connection, and of which I can make as many digital copies as I like, and which does not create an online data trail of what I listened to when. In that sense, a CD to me is actually more convenient than streaming. And at a price point of often less than £5 for many used CDs, the ones I want to add to my collection anyway, there's even less of an incentive for me to ever subscribe to a streaming service.
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11th December 2024
Wednesday 10:16 am
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>>467858

Here's the CD hipster.
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11th December 2024
Wednesday 11:06 am
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>>467858
pretty much any CD that wasn't kept in a damp bathroom for decades is still playable.
Damp bathroom CDs seems such a rediculous place to keep CDs but it's very easy to imagine. I suppose listening to music while in the bath/shower was such a regular thing back then that it was reasonably lazy to leave them there.
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11th December 2024
Wednesday 11:13 am
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>>467859

Not sure it makes me a hipster just because I'm praising a media format which to this day has largely unrivalled subjective (and objective) sound quality.

Vinyl hipsters, on the other hand, cling to a technologically far inferior format, by any measure. They don't collect vinyl for its practical usability and audio quality, but as a statement against modern technology. Even if that technology has been around for four decades now. In that sense, their vinyl collection is more a kind of virtue signal and status symbol both among their peers and towards others, than it is about actually enjoying the music contained on a vinyl record. Otherwise, prices for vinyl probably wouldn't be as inflated as they are now. As with other status symbols.
>> No. 467862 Anonymous
11th December 2024
Wednesday 11:22 am
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>>467860

I've never kept CDs in my bathroom. It was more to illustrate under what kind of less than ideal conditions somebody could have kept their CDs.

The aluminium reflective layer of CDs is their weak spot because it is much closer to the surface than for example DVDs or blu ray, which are double lacquered and have the reflective layer more at the centre. Like many other metals, aluminium oxidises over time, especially in higher air humidity. In the long run, dry room temperature conditions are the best way to store your CDs.
>> No. 467863 Anonymous
11th December 2024
Wednesday 12:05 pm
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I imagine a good thing about a CD is that you have to make the effort to get the CD out of the case, put it in the machine, and you can only change it by removing from the machine and starting again.

I feel like that would encourage more focused album listening. Instead of listening to two songs by Chaple Roan then a Beastie Boys track then Joe Rogan Experience then a 1000 song lo-fi hip hop study playlist. More able to appreciate how an album is put together.

I know you can appreciate an album on Spotify too, it's just a lot easier to be distracted.
>> No. 467864 Anonymous
11th December 2024
Wednesday 1:29 pm
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>>467863

>I feel like that would encourage more focused album listening.

You're not wrong. And I guess I grew up in an age where that was actually more the norm. It was only a few years earlier in 1979 that the original Sony Walkman made mobile music a real option besides your tinny transistor radio, and which required far less effort from the listener than popping a CD or a vinyl record into your player at home. Although, by the time most people actually had a portable cassette player like that, either Sony or other brands, it was 1984-85.

Vinyl in particular wasn't a format that you would just play over and over in the background. Some of it had to do with the fact that vinyl records inevitably wear out over time, even on a higher quality turntable. So you had to make every time count. Some of your most precious vinyl records you would only get out for special occasions. Which also explains part of why compact cassettes and tape decks were so popular. Making a tape copy of your vinyls was a way of preserving them and exposing them to less wear. The CD being a wear free format made that consideration irrelevant, but the 80s and to some extent also the 90s were still a time when you would often sit down in your armchair to enjoy an album in its entirety. Where you would take time out of your day to actually appreciate your favourite band's music.

There is something fast-food, throw-away about the way young people listen to music today. It's rarely centre stage. It's just something that goes on in the background on a muffled, unduly bass heavy Bluetooth speaker or via your wireless earbuds on your daily bus commute. I guess that's just how that generation consumes music, and I've read that with people moving around more today and being less able to afford their own house, they are reluctant to invest in a proper home hi-fi system that they need to lug around everytime their living circumstances change. But I still feel like they are missing out.

Before I took over my parents' house some time ago, I spent most of my adult life living in flats, where I could never really turn up my upmarket home hi-fi system without aggravating the neighbours. Which meant that the sound quality difference between CDs and the MP3s I was collecting on my computer's hard drive was almost negligible. But now that I live in my own house, I get to turn the music up as loud as I want, and that's what's made me appreciate the quality of the CD again. Because you always feel like there is something missing when you listen to MP3s, even good quality 320 kbps ones, at volume. It just never sounds as good. So I've now started buying many old CDs proper which I only had as dodgy MP3 rips up to this point. And the timing couldn't be better. Nobody wants CDs today. Sales of new CDs have gone down 97 percent from their peak in the year 2000. True to the idea that you should buy things when nobody wants them, now is the time to gobble up all the music you've always wanted on a durable physical format.
>> No. 467866 Anonymous
11th December 2024
Wednesday 4:01 pm
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>>467864

I can see the appeal. I think you're right about the timing, too, since they'll probably experience a resurgence at some point within the next few years as the demographic that grew up with CDs finally starts being able to buy houses.
>> No. 467870 Anonymous
11th December 2024
Wednesday 11:41 pm
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Would it be productive if I made an excel where every time I fuck up I make an entry that explains what I did wrong and outlines what I need to do for next time?
>> No. 467871 Anonymous
12th December 2024
Thursday 1:15 am
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>>467870

Don't overthink life, lad. Always make some mental notes as you go along, but don't treat life like a work project or an online adventure game.
>> No. 467875 Anonymous
12th December 2024
Thursday 9:06 pm
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Is there a general strategy employed by letting agencies? Would they be less inclined to move a tenant from one house to another, both under their management? On one hand they're filling the book of a client, on the other they're not actually gaining a significant revenue. Additionally, presuming the tenants move is an upgrade, the agent then has an inferior property to let.
>> No. 467876 Anonymous
12th December 2024
Thursday 10:27 pm
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2024 is fucking mental. Do you reckon 2025 will be even madder?



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>> No. 467877 Anonymous
12th December 2024
Thursday 11:13 pm
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>>467876

Probably.

It's not too late to find a suitable rock in the Southern Hemisphere to go and hide under. Best do it now. And even if ITZ doesn't happen, then you'll at least have spent some time somewhere interesting.
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12th December 2024
Thursday 11:26 pm
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>>467876
It is funny that Ukraine are buying most of their drone components from China too. Possibly even the same manufacturers as Russia. I mean, where the hell else do you get kilometres of fibre optic cable? Poland? I don't think so, moj przyjaciel. And, according to the episode of the Angry Planet podcast I listened to recently, the US drone makers produce very expensive "iPhone"-like drones that the Ukrainians can ill-afford monetarily or militarily.

Podcast link if anyone's interested: https://soundcloud.com/war_college/u-s-defense-contractors-are-1

>>467877
I hear South Georgia is lovely this time of year.
>> No. 467879 Anonymous
12th December 2024
Thursday 11:28 pm
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>>467876

For fuck's sake, now people are betting on Bryan Johnson's erections.

https://polymarket.com/event/bryan-johnsons-average-nighttime-erection-2h-13m-in-december
>> No. 467880 Anonymous
13th December 2024
Friday 12:04 am
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>>467878

Most stuff is made in China, especially electronics. The American drones are wildly expensive because they need to be 100% US-made, so all the components are made to order by a very small pool of US manufacturers who can actually do that sort of thing.

What boggles my mind is how much sci-fi military hardware is available on AliExpress and how little of a shit anyone seems to give. I totally get why the Chinese are selling anything to anyone, those lads are proper grafters, but I don't get why everyone else just seems to shrug.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005008164178792.html

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007523858238.html
>> No. 467881 Anonymous
13th December 2024
Friday 1:56 am
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Today is Friday the 13th.
>> No. 467882 Anonymous
13th December 2024
Friday 12:23 pm
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>>467880

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2024/09/04/ukraine-reinvents-wwii-secret-weapon-with-modern-tech-for-drone-bombs/

The Ukrainians are using pretty antiquated low tech in their drones' bomb fuzes. The Atmega328P is a chip that is well known among Arduino tinkerers for its versatility for simple tasks like controlling basic external hardware components, especially many kinds of sensory equipment like accelerometers, magnetometers, PIR motion sensors etc etc. It is still very good for loads of low-power, low-complexity applications where few components are needed to perform just a handful of tasks. Like determining when to set off a bomb. It could be something like an accelerometer detecting a bomb's impact into the ground, or a magnetometer indicating the presence/proximity of a ferromagnetic surface, like a battle tank's outer shell. It could even be used together with a barometer sensor to blow up an airplane in mid-air when it reaches a given altitude.

The Atmega328 has been around since the mid-1990s, it's an 8-bit, general-purpose RISC processor with up to 16 MHz clock speed that was originally used in some industrial and even automotive applications, but where it has long been superseded by much more powerful 32-bit or even 64-bit systems.

It's a bit like the Volkswagen Beetle of the microcontroller world. It's technologically well outdated and pales in comparison to what modern-day ICs can do, but it still has its place, and just works. And it's cheap. When bought in bulk, it's significantly less than a quid a piece. And anyone with a laptop can program it, and very realistically make improvised explosive devices to fight off the Russian Army.
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13th December 2024
Friday 1:11 pm
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>>467882

It's the community that really keeps the Atmega328 alive - it would have been discontinued years ago if it weren't for the whole Arduino thing. If you're really optimising for cost, you'd probably go for an off-brand MCU from someone like Padauk or Nyquest - they're literally a few pence each in quantity, but the documentation and development tools are dogshit. Puya are now doing 32-bit ARM MCUs at less than $0.10 in full reel quantities, but you're really going to struggle if you don't speak Chinese.
>> No. 467884 Anonymous
13th December 2024
Friday 2:26 pm
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>>467883

>It's the community that really keeps the Atmega328 alive - it would have been discontinued years ago if it weren't for the whole Arduino thing.

Together with the C-based Arduino IDE, it's still perfect for a beginner's introduction into physical computing. It's the ideal starting point, long before you move on to programming more modern 32-bit SoC devices like the Espressif ESP32.

Once you've got an idea of how it works and what you can do with it, you will probably want to branch out and both step down to even simpler chips like the Attiny45 for the most basic of applications, or you'll eventually go 32 bit for the more complex stuff, where you can control an entire drone with the ESP32. But most of the other stuff is also loads easier with 32 bit dev boards, like anything sound- and multimedia related.

I've made a heating pad circuit for a window sill seed propagator using just the Attiny45, where all it does is monitor the soil temperature with a DS18B20 digital sensor and then switches a heating element accordingly. I was running it on an Atmega328 during the prototype stage, but soon realised that it was completely overblown for that purpose. The Attiny45 is one of the least capable of the AVR range, but from a cost effectiveness standpoint, if you wanted to design something similar commercially, it's the best fit for that kind of thing.
>> No. 467897 Anonymous
13th December 2024
Friday 6:25 pm
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>>467856

Try snus. I've gone from 30 years of heavy smoking to heavy vaping to using snus. It's available all over. Just need to find a flavour you can stomach. Don't go for strong snus to begin with - it can be intensely putrid. I started with this minty one with two dots in-between vaping sessions and the snus gradually took over my preference.
>> No. 467901 Anonymous
13th December 2024
Friday 7:30 pm
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>>467897
I had zero idea what snus was until last Sunday. Now your post is the third time I've heard about it since then. I'm not complaining, it's just curious that my mind was possibly auto-filtering the existence of snus so thoroughly without me even realising.

What else are you keeping from me, brain?
>> No. 467964 Anonymous
16th December 2024
Monday 6:55 pm
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Would a poofy coat make me look like a twat?

https://mountain-kit.co.uk/smu-c17/men-c19/insulation-c33/montane-mens-icarus-jacket-special-edition-p1496
>> No. 467965 Anonymous
16th December 2024
Monday 7:09 pm
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>>467964
Not really. Perhaps you look like a twat anyway, but I can't really picture that coat making someone look like more of a twat.
>> No. 467969 Anonymous
17th December 2024
Tuesday 10:47 am
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There is a network on Discord for my uni, where people can put their servers on as part of a directory. So I can go on it, see different society Discords, and join accordingly.

A furry society server has just appeared. I have nothing against furries. But it seems a bit bold to advertise a weird fetish society so brazenly. I wouldn't put my Grace Long appreciation society on a widely available directory my whole uni could see.
>> No. 467971 Anonymous
17th December 2024
Tuesday 12:38 pm
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>>467969
>it seems a bit bold to advertise a weird fetish society so brazenly
I'm not sure that furrydom itself is specifically a fetish, rather a creative interest with crossovers into sexuality. Perhaps furrylad would (again) like to wax lyrical on the subject.

> I wouldn't put my Grace Long appreciation society on a widely available directory my whole uni could see
Maybe you should. Who knows, you might end up forming a ring of likeminded individuals.
>> No. 467973 Anonymous
17th December 2024
Tuesday 1:41 pm
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>>467969
There are far worse societies at university. Remember what kind of people you're dealing with.

Do not click on this video if you want to have a nice Christmas:

>> No. 467974 Anonymous
17th December 2024
Tuesday 2:23 pm
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>>467973
It made me think of how back in the day, some uni had an "escapology" society, that was just a cover for a BDSM society. Looked up my old uni out of interest and they now have a kink society. I hope they don't get much funding.

Furry society at my current uni is not official yet. Not sure if it's more embarrassing to be loud and proud about being a furry, or to be loud and proud about getting fisted while bound and wearing a ring gag.
>> No. 467975 Anonymous
17th December 2024
Tuesday 5:39 pm
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>>467973
I'm finding myself angered and resentful at the thought of puberty, highschool and university and the inevitable social confusions that come from them.

I'd really like to talk about it but what do I actually have to say? There was one time when I nievely went through the whole "you just need to relax/I don't know how to relax/let me show you" but even then I stopped it part way through. I'm not a virgin or owt, just repressed.
The thought of talking it out and resolving it, possibly with a person helping me, is an anxiety I'd rather not face. In a way I don't want it to be all okay.

I guess I'll go back to wanking about mummy dom, sissy cuck, QoS hypno shit instead.
>> No. 467978 Anonymous
17th December 2024
Tuesday 6:31 pm
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I bought some gorgonzola on a whim, what the fuck am I going to do with it?
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17th December 2024
Tuesday 6:40 pm
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>>467978
I recommend eating it.
>> No. 467980 Anonymous
17th December 2024
Tuesday 6:50 pm
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>>467979
But how?
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17th December 2024
Tuesday 7:07 pm
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>>467980

A cheese like that is probably best enjoyed just with some crackers or warm bread, but it would make a lovely creamy pasta sauce too. Stuffed into bacon wrapped chicken is also a pretty popular route.
>> No. 467982 Anonymous
17th December 2024
Tuesday 8:31 pm
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A friend just got back from Perpignan in the south of France and got me a jar of artisan bitter orange marmalade from there. Honestly the best I've ever had.
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17th December 2024
Tuesday 8:58 pm
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>>467982
Artisan.
>> No. 467985 Anonymous
17th December 2024
Tuesday 9:34 pm
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I've been watching videos about tattoos for the past couple of days, and have enjoyed learning more about those Japanese tebori tattoos where they use hand-held needles instead of tattoo guns. Now that I know there's a way to be snobby and elitist toward both people who don't have tattoos and most people who do have them, I kind of want one.
>> No. 467986 Anonymous
17th December 2024
Tuesday 11:17 pm
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>> No. 467987 Anonymous
17th December 2024
Tuesday 11:54 pm
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>>467986

I've never understood why people get any tattoos at all. That doesn't mean I don't respect somebody who does. It's their decision. But I would just never get one myself. Not even a small one.
>> No. 467989 Anonymous
18th December 2024
Wednesday 12:47 am
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18th December 2024
Wednesday 12:51 am
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>>467989

Testosterone imbalance.
>> No. 467992 Anonymous
18th December 2024
Wednesday 2:30 am
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>>467987

It's probably become a trite observation now as everyone and their mum has one, but as a younglad in the hardcore/punk scene I quickly decided I'd be far more unique among my peers if I actually didn't get any tattoos.

In retrospect I probably would have got a lot more goth fanny at the time, and I don't think I necessarily would have regretted getting some, but I think I'd have quickly become bored with what I had and either I'd still be getting loads more now in my thirties, or I'd just look at the old ones constantly and wonder if I should have picked that particular design and so on.
>> No. 467993 Anonymous
18th December 2024
Wednesday 2:33 am
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Also it's worth noting that one of the tattoos I definitely would have got would have been Spider Jerusalem's head tattoo, because since both of my grandads and my dad kept their hair I was absolutely convinced I'd never go bald. I am now very bald.
>> No. 468000 Anonymous
18th December 2024
Wednesday 9:59 am
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A lady at work sells those knock-off pure fragrances, so I bought a bottle of their version of Aventus by Creed which would have been £200 for the real thing. It's just a kind of generic 'man' smell.
>> No. 468003 Anonymous
18th December 2024
Wednesday 10:49 am
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>>467969

It's really no different to an anime club or whatever, on the "SFW" level. Slightly manchild-y special interest for autismo cartoon spergs.

In fact it's been one of my most amusing observations of the last couple of years that the 4chan VRChat community has a hard-line rift between the weebs who dress as 12 year old cartoon school girls on the internet, and the furries who dress as rainbow cartoon wolves on the internet; as if the 12 year old cartoon school girl weebs think they are actually in any position to judge.

We all know the real appeal is the NSFW side, but the hypocrisy with furries is how society suddenly pretends sex stuff isn't supposed to be weird when it comes to them.
>> No. 468011 Anonymous
19th December 2024
Thursday 8:17 am
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At what point does a belief go from "difference of opinion", to "this person is wrong or stupid or evil"? I need to know so I can assess whether my dad's ongoing move towards the right has reached the point I can dismiss him as a fuckwit instead of someone I merely disagree with.
>> No. 468012 Anonymous
19th December 2024
Thursday 10:32 am
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>>468011
It depends what they come out with, e.g. my dad thinks that a black person baking is strange.
>> No. 468013 Anonymous
19th December 2024
Thursday 10:40 am
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>>468012
He tweeted to Elon Musk calling him funny, relatable and grounded. He tweeted to RFK Jr praising his open mind and critical thinking, as RFK Jr promised engagement for engagement. Except the account was "Robert F Kennedy Jr - Parody". In the last three months he's tweeted the same anecdote to public figures on Twitter 4 times as a "gotcha" against people like Stephen Fry, Richard Dawkins, and Rory Stewart.
>> No. 468014 Anonymous
19th December 2024
Thursday 10:45 am
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>>468011

Older people often gradually veer to the Right and become bigots more conservative.

I'm 50 now, and I can see some of that happening with me already. I think it's based on a kind of frustration over the fact that the world has changed since you were young, and that many things that were the norm 20 or 30 years ago are no longer observed by the younger generation. It's getting increasingly hard for you to catch up, let alone even try to get yourself into the mindset of young people. You will never fully understand them, and they will never fully understand you.

And as a result, not only do you reject the modern way, but you become self righteous and hostile towards anything that threatens the status quo you were used to.

Don't think I would find a black person baking strange, though. As a unilad, I spent a number of years living in an immigrant/working class/student neighbourhood. Where you had Southeast Asian waiters at an Italian restaurant.
>> No. 468015 Anonymous
19th December 2024
Thursday 10:50 am
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I had been at work (IT support in an office) for less than five minutes when I used the phrase “skeng up the mandem”. This is shaping up to be a glorious day.

Regarding people turning into bonkers extremists, my rule is that you should make an effort to explain why they’re wrong. If you can’t do that, they’re probably not actually evil. If you do it competently but they just refuse to listen, then they have gone mad and it’s time to either panic or bail.
>> No. 468016 Anonymous
19th December 2024
Thursday 1:09 pm
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One of my work colleagues has let me know that her dining table is actually a pool table which you slide wooden covers over for when you want to eat.

I can't work out if this is incredibly cool or incredibly council. Probably both. If I was 10 I'd have absolutely loved this in my house, maybe I still would now.
>> No. 468017 Anonymous
19th December 2024
Thursday 1:22 pm
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>>468016

More council than an XL bully in a pram.
>> No. 468018 Anonymous
19th December 2024
Thursday 1:29 pm
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>>468016

Dedicated pool tables need a good bit of space. Even for a 7-foot table, you shouldn't go below 250 sq ft of floor space, to make sure you can play balls from all directions. It's more space than most people will want to set aside for something you will only be doing occasionally once the novelty of having your own pool table wears off.
>> No. 468019 Anonymous
19th December 2024
Thursday 1:34 pm
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>>468018
Apparently they got it because they were regularly playing pool in the pub, so with that usually costing £1 per game it's apparently saving them money.
>> No. 468020 Anonymous
19th December 2024
Thursday 2:18 pm
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>>468019

Combined pool and dining tables range anywhere from £500 to £1,800 new.

https://www.libertygames.co.uk/store/pool_tables/dining_top_pool_tables/?gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI2v2MpP-zigMVDjAGAB04gzw0EAAYASAAEgJdIPD_BwE

Unless you're really prepared to shell out, you'll end up with something that's neither a good pool table nor a good dinner table, and could just be the worst of both worlds.

I've still got a storage room in the basement which started out as a hobby room when the house was built, with a ping pong table among other things. It has been a storage room for the belongings of several dead relatives the last 25 years, but at some point when I've got the time, I'll get rid of everything in it and convert it into a pool room. With a dry bar and everything. Possibly even a pinball machine, although it's hard to find one that's both relatively recent, in good condition and not ludicrously expensive.

Used pool hall-style pool tables are about £800 in good condition, plus up to £200 for shipping and assembly. There are actually specialised pool table movers who can do it for you, and I probably wouldn't trust anybody else.
>> No. 468021 Anonymous
19th December 2024
Thursday 6:09 pm
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And Roger Moore doesn't count as classic to me.
>> No. 468022 Anonymous
19th December 2024
Thursday 6:34 pm
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>>468021

I watched Bullitt the other night and had a great time. Very procedural and grounded, it made the car chase scene so much more "real" and tense. It drags a bit around the airport scene, but it holds up as a very good action film, in all.
>> No. 468025 Anonymous
19th December 2024
Thursday 8:55 pm
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Do you think you would date someone who would be way out of your league if they weren't a single mum?
>> No. 468026 Anonymous
19th December 2024
Thursday 9:37 pm
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>>468025

Women don't really like dating down. Maybe she's grateful for the attention. But if she was out of your league before she had kids, then she will not have forgotten that. Even if she's glad she's found someone again, there will still be that lingering feeling that you wouldn't normally be together. And you will eventually start feeling inadequate.

A friend had near enough something like that happening to him. It didn't end well. For those reasons.
>> No. 468027 Anonymous
19th December 2024
Thursday 10:00 pm
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>>468025
Out of my league how? Much fitter than me out of my league? Or has a PhD for discoveries made about the nature of quasars out of my league? The former, probably not, the latter, probably yes.
>> No. 468030 Anonymous
20th December 2024
Friday 12:14 am
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>>468026

Except she does have kids. She might resent what it does to her market value, and some of the more zealous Woman Respecters out there might even deny that it matters all; but she can't hide from it, and she knows that's it for her now. She's on the reduced shelf, clearance sale, b-grade, used goods.

So in that sense, it is cynical and I don't think it's likely to lead to a fulfilling or lasting relationship, the power dynamic ball is usually firmly in the lad's court in these cases.

>>468025

Nah, single mums aren't worth the hassle regardless how fit they are.
>> No. 468031 Anonymous
20th December 2024
Friday 1:19 am
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>>468025
Absolutely not and I say that as someone with half-siblings and parents who are still married to this day.

But if you ignore us and do it anyway because she gave you sucked you off on the first date then I think it's relevant to ask whether you could take the sperm-donor in a fight. Yeah we're all big-boys now and we solve our problems using our words, but still.
>> No. 468032 Anonymous
20th December 2024
Friday 6:08 am
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>But if you ignore us and do it anyway

I'm not asking because it's happening to me. I went on Facebook for the first time in a while and noticed there seems to be a trend that some of the 'loser' lads in school have got with quite fit single mums, married them and then had kids of their own with them. It's happened quite a lot of times.
>> No. 468033 Anonymous
20th December 2024
Friday 9:01 am
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How do you stop thinking the things you're not meant to think? Like when my brother had a Polish girlfriend, all I could think about when around her was Katyn. And I thought "the one thing you can't do is mention Katyn, don't think about, relax, it's just Katyn". Or my friend in who has a fiancee and a boyfriend. "Don't make a cuckshed joke, don't use the word cuck". I don't want to think these things but they bounce around inside my head.

Just that there's a family gathering over Christmas, and a particularly bad thing has happened, and I know I will spend 8 hours thinking of not thinking about that bad thing.
>> No. 468034 Anonymous
20th December 2024
Friday 9:35 am
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>>468033
Those are called intrusive thoughts and they can be quite a serious thing, so there might be proper treatments you can get. They would probably take more than a week to work, however. Maybe you could just do something that requires stronger focus on something else, like playing board games all day, or just sit and watch TV so you don’t need to talk to or think about the people around you. This is pretty crap advice, and I readily concede that, but I don’t think there is an easy answer for how to control your own thoughts.
>> No. 468035 Anonymous
20th December 2024
Friday 9:41 am
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I have them about boobs. Most of the time I look at boobs it isn't because I want to look at boobs, it's because I'm thinking "don't look at her boobs, don't look at her boobs" and then I look at her boobs.
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20th December 2024
Friday 9:46 am
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>it isn’t because I want to look at boobs
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20th December 2024
Friday 10:21 am
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>>468036
>What are you, makeagif.com
>> No. 468038 Anonymous
20th December 2024
Friday 10:51 am
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>I have [intrusive thoughts] about boobs
I have a different thing going on. For some reason it's absolutely natural for me to look at my mothers boobs regularly. Sometimes times apparently moment after moment. For example when we're walking the dog, I'll constantly look across her toward the dog so I can keep an eye on him, but I recently noticed I'm less concerned when mother is wearing a thick, body covering coat. Other times it's blatent with no excuse, I just happen to glance and look an awful lot.
It's never specifically when she's bending over or anything, just generally.

Keep in mind it's not a concious thing - I'm not knowingly getting off on it or anything, they're not particularly attractive. I prefer to think I'm looking at her chest in the sense of a child looking at safety and home. From my youngest years I'd have been embraced against my mothers chest, cared for and loved. As far as I know I'm not looking for perversion. Autism must have something to do with it too as I'm generally searching for somewhere to look other than the eyes.

You know what I mean? It's weird considering all the other shit I've said about abuse and incest over the years.
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20th December 2024
Friday 12:38 pm
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>> No. 468041 Anonymous
20th December 2024
Friday 3:23 pm
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Went into the office today. It was surreal as my workplace feels like endless luminal spaces, I finished the year by writing some glowing reports on people but largely had to deal with my own autonomy and lack of directives.

Eventually I just went home having realised that nobody was responding to my messages.

>>468033
You stop paying attention to them. People with OCD have debilitating trouble with intrusive thoughts, you have mild social anxiety.

When I had a Japanese girlfriend I kept getting Mr Kim in my head because it was hilarious but I never let her in on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAnGYocNP7I
>> No. 468042 Anonymous
20th December 2024
Friday 4:32 pm
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>>468033
You're just afraid of being the funniest guy in the room. Embrace it.
>> No. 468046 Anonymous
20th December 2024
Friday 8:56 pm
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>>468033
All you have to do is keep the Katyn the bag...
>> No. 468050 Anonymous
20th December 2024
Friday 10:45 pm
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>landowner and Jones' family came to an agreement that the cave would be permanently closed, with his body sealed inside as his final resting place, and as a memorial to Jones.
>Explosives were used to collapse the ceiling in the Ed's Push passageway of the cave close to Jones' body, and the entry points to the cave were permanently sealed by filling them with concrete to prevent any future access.

Forever cursed to the crushing depths.
To be left abandoned, hell, entombed in the crushing bowels of the earth, to never see the light of day again? Imagine being that ghost. How horrendous. He's said to have died of heart attack, as well. Fuck me.
>> No. 468051 Anonymous
20th December 2024
Friday 11:21 pm
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Yeah, not good, is it? I don't understand the appeal of spelunking, if that's the right term. Yes, it's a display of physical and mental fortitude in the face of nature, something that's clearly inherent to the human condition. However, so is walking up a big hill, and I get to stop for and eat a sandwich, piss in a bush and/or call mountain rescue when I break my ankle. If that's too boring, there are hundreds of alternatives of a more extreme nature. Maybe if there was some Journey to the Centre of the Earth stuff down there I'd be game, but there isn't.

Anyway, I told my mum about the Nutty Putty Cave incident some time last year and I think it ruined her whole day. Don't feel too bad for her, mind you. She's recounted countless bloodsoaked true crime documentaries to me, and despite her claims of unconscious communication with her horses, she can't seem pick up on how uncomfortable I feel listening to details of the Werewolf of Margate's child-murders-by-hammer.
>> No. 468052 Anonymous
20th December 2024
Friday 11:24 pm
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>>468050

Nobody twisted his arm to go down that cave. This is what happens when your sense of danger is lacking. Darwin, and that.

I think I read that the heat attack was a result of the prolonged upside down position, which is an unnatural state for the body that it isn't used to, and puts great stress on your blood vessels and your heart.

https://www.healthline.com/health/hanging-upside-down
>> No. 468053 Anonymous
21st December 2024
Saturday 12:12 am
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>>468051

Similarly, I think cave diving is utter madness. Never mind the very general hazards of scuba diving, of which there can be many. I've only gone scuba diving once in my life on holiday in Tenerife and we barely went to 30 feet of depth, but it gave me a sense of what can go wrong under water. Now imagine doing the same thing in a confined space under ground that it usually flooded to the ceiling with ice cold water, with no way to quickly surface and get out of harm's way, where the nearest exit can be many hundred feet away. And if you move your fins the wrong way, you can kick up sediment and silt out an entire cave and lose all orientation, which spells almost certain death. It's little known that cave diving is one of the deadliest sports out there.

It's true that there are special diving certifications for cave diving, without which you have no business at all going diving inside a cave. Which is especially true for rookie divers who are only certified for open water. But still. It hasn't stopped some of the most regarded divers in the cave diving scene, often with decades of experience, from one day making a fatal mistake and perishing.

It's still a fascinating subject, and I used to follow the youtube channel Dive Talk for a while, which has loads of videos on the subject. But yeah. You're flirting with death on every dive.


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>> No. 468056 Anonymous
21st December 2024
Saturday 10:37 am
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>>468050
I had a mandatory caving thing on a school trip once. Some cave in the Yorkshire Dales. Really bad experience. Cold and wet and spooky.

Got to a bit where there was an optional path that required wriggling through a chest height horizontal gap to see a bonus area. I didn't do it due to fear and overweightness.

Then to exit the cave they had a rope through a hole in the ceiling which had water gushing down it, so you had to climb the rope through the waterfall. Due to aforementioned overweightness, combined with low upper body strength, it was very difficult and embarassing.

Fair play if people like squeezing through cold pitch black cracks, but it seems pretty much all risk no rewards. You see another dark rocky zone. Unless it's those ones in South America that look like Tomb Raider levels, they're cool I guess.
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21st December 2024
Saturday 2:28 pm
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>>468053

The last breaths of David Shaw are etched in my mind.
>> No. 468103 Anonymous
22nd December 2024
Sunday 8:07 pm
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>>468058

Some cave divers indeed die because they overestimate their abilities, and crucially, don't have a cave diving certification and the proper equipment. Many of them had all the certifications for open water, a lot of them were fairly experienced (again, in open water), and probably thought, how hard can it be. And they're usually also the ones who ignore those signs at the entrance to a dangerous passage. Some even go as far as bending open padlocked iron grids that seal off a dangerous section. Which has prompted authorities at some cave diving sites to block them off entirely with lorryloads of heavy boulders.

Certified cave divers normally have much more of an idea of what they are dealing with, and a good bit of healthy respect for the environment they are putting themselves into. They also usually have the right equipment. But they, too, have died. It's usually the result of unforeseen problems, like sudden equipment failure. Like a flashlight unexpectedly failing and them not being able to switch on one of the several backup lights you are meant to carry. Or somebody will inadvertently kick up sediment and silt out all visbility, or they will get lines confused that you're supposed to lay in order to know your way back.

I can imagine and understand the kind of thrill that cave diving gives certain people, whether you're qualified or not. But there are other sports that can be thrilling, without very realistically risking your life everytime you go down. Even skydiving has a lower death rate.
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23rd December 2024
Monday 12:28 am
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Caving and cave diving incidents have been a mainstay of my "switch off your brain and zone out a bit" viewing for about two or three years now. I don't think there's a single incident I haven't heard about by this point. What strikes me about cave diving in particular is how even when you do everything by the book, you're not being arrogant and pushing your luck, it's still entirely likely to get disoriented and make an unavoidable mistake, you can still get nitrogen narcosis and do something retarded because you're essentially drunk, there's just no end to the hazards. It really is one of those activities that just doing at all to begin with is asking for trouble and effectively accepting the fact you could die horribly.

I don't understand what possessed some people to do that, either they are just lacking self-preservation instinct or they are so burned out on dopamine that it's the only thing that gives them a hit any more, but I find it hard to feel real sympathy. I am fascinated with it, I empathise with how traumatic the incidents might be, but there's also very much an "asking for it" vibe.

In terms of of viewing content, I think I feel very comfortable with it because it's sort of a male equivalent of true crime, and also lacks the kind of sorta exploitative angle of true crime as entertainment; it's something you can tell people you watch and sort of universally people will understand the morbid fascination. Something you can just stick on and be entertained by without any challenging reminders of uncomfortable memories or self-examination, which as I get older, increasingly plague other more engaging forms of entertainment.
>> No. 468117 Anonymous
23rd December 2024
Monday 12:15 pm
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>>468109

>I don't understand what possessed some people to do that, either they are just lacking self-preservation instinct or they are so burned out on dopamine that it's the only thing that gives them a hit any more, but I find it hard to feel real sympathy.

I guess it's the thrill of going somewhere that nobody, or few people have gone to or seen before. In that sense, it's probably a bit of the same kind of appeal that led people to explore unknown lands in previous centuries. It's probably also about braving the elements and pushing yourself, and conquering your own fears.

Some videos you see of underwater caves look absolutely stunning, and part of the art of cave diving in the last few years has been filming those landscapes to perfection, in high definition and with much consideration to proper lighting.

But yeah. You're flirting with disaster every time. With most sports, the more you become an expert, the less likely you are to risk serious injury or death. That doesn't mean people don't get killed skydiving or big wave surfing. But your risk goes down with experience. And it seems like that's not really the case with cave diving.


> I think I feel very comfortable with it because it's sort of a male equivalent of true crime

Is it mostly women who watch true crime? I'm a regular bloke, and I like watching it.
>> No. 468118 Anonymous
23rd December 2024
Monday 12:25 pm
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>>468117
>Is it mostly women who watch true crime?
My observations are not necessarily universal, but you are only the second man I have encountered in my life who likes true crime, while I would say over 50% of all the women I know like it.
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23rd December 2024
Monday 12:32 pm
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>>468118

Well I guess as long as I don't paint my nails and drink prosecco while watching it, I'm alright.
>> No. 468120 Anonymous
23rd December 2024
Monday 12:59 pm
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>>468119
How's the MX-5 these days?
>> No. 468122 Anonymous
23rd December 2024
Monday 1:04 pm
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>>468117

Women like true crime, men like industrial safety. I don't make the rules.








>> No. 468123 Anonymous
23rd December 2024
Monday 1:06 pm
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>>468120

I'll have you know that it's an MGF.
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23rd December 2024
Monday 1:09 pm
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>>468122´

I'm more into car mechanic videos. I do all my own repairs, so channels like Mechanical Nightmares are always fun to watch.


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>> No. 468126 Anonymous
23rd December 2024
Monday 2:52 pm
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Noticing a lot of young people wear very thick rimmed glasses that would have been dreadfully unfashionable a few years ago. Funny how these things work innit.
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23rd December 2024
Monday 3:04 pm
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>>468126

Hipsters.

The hippies of our time.
>> No. 468130 Anonymous
23rd December 2024
Monday 3:49 pm
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Birmingham New Street Racer. Each player controls a commuter who has to get from the taxi rank to a platform (or just between platforms) while carrying luggage. Each type of luggage has different handicaps - some you can't run with, wheelie bags reduce your turning circle, large rucksacks have a chance of hitting other passengers who'll try to fight you and so on. There are other factors to contend with like last minute platform changes, rush hour crowds and corridors closed for maintenance. You can choose if you want to spend time buying a ticket or get a headstart by using a QR code on your phone - which has a high chance of just refusing to load when you reach the barriers. Not that a paper ticket is a guarantee of getting through, but it's better.
>> No. 468131 Anonymous
23rd December 2024
Monday 5:46 pm
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Tethered bottle caps are a fucking nuisance. I just tear them off anyway.

You're not going to tell me how to drink my water.
>> No. 468132 Anonymous
23rd December 2024
Monday 6:06 pm
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>>468131
I don't understand how people are having issues with them. I have quite a large schnoz and I can drink from a plastic bottle absolutely fine.
>> No. 468133 Anonymous
23rd December 2024
Monday 6:14 pm
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>>468128
What in the 2012 are you on about, granddad?
>> No. 468135 Anonymous
23rd December 2024
Monday 6:48 pm
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>>468132

I do too, but I don't like the way the cap touches my mouth with every sip.

I do put the lid back on the bottle when it's empty. So I'm still helping to protect the environment. But on my own terms.
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23rd December 2024
Monday 7:34 pm
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>>468135
>I do too, but I don't like the way the cap touches my mouth with every sip.

The Torygraph was right after all, millennials couldn't have fought the Second World War.
>> No. 468137 Anonymous
23rd December 2024
Monday 8:01 pm
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>>468136
Well obviously, they weren't born yet.
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23rd December 2024
Monday 8:03 pm
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>>468136

I'm Generation X.

The problem with us is that we've started fearing any change of the status quo we are used to, however minute.

At least we're not afraid to assume pronouns. Imagine their lot, or worse, Generation Z, man against man or whatever they identify as, facing down Vlad's troops in combat. First thing they'll do is complain to their sergeant that there are no safe spaces or gender neutral latrines in the trenches.



Didn't quite know that I've become such a reactionary. Bit unsettling.
>> No. 468140 Anonymous
23rd December 2024
Monday 10:53 pm
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>>468138
Gen X! You're the softest cunts of us all. Got high once in 1991 and thought you'd fixed everything, nearly topped yourself when Curt Kobain died and have been wearing the ugliest shirts I've ever seen since 9/11 happened.

Thank you, for The Prodigy, but please remain seated for the remainder.
>> No. 468141 Anonymous
23rd December 2024
Monday 11:30 pm
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>>468131
In Belgium, and presumably other progressive futuristic socialist paradises, you can't even buy bottles that don't have those shitty tops any more. The reason they force them on people is that people weren't recycling their bottle tops with the bottles, and were instead throwing the tops out with the regular rubbish. Now, forgive my impertinence, but has anyone here ever seen anything saying that you're meant to recycle the tops too? I do it now, but nobody has ever told me I should, so I felt aggrieved when I went over and was immediately punished for not following this rule I'd never been told.
>> No. 468142 Anonymous
23rd December 2024
Monday 11:50 pm
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>>468140
Generation X had the best TV and I won't let anyone say otherwise. They gave us The Simpsons, and all those other BRILLIANT '90s cartoons like Duckman and Dr Katz Professional Therapist. We millennials have achieved nothing on that level, plus we made The Simpsons worse. All our great advancements in white guilt, Marvel films and landfill indie cannot excuse what we did there.
>> No. 468143 Anonymous
23rd December 2024
Monday 11:51 pm
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>>468140

>nearly topped yourself when Curt Kobain died


At least we knew how to spell his name.

And not everybody liked Kurt Cobain, or Nirvana, or Grunge music.

The early 90s were a carefree time like you can't even imagine nowadays. There'd be something to be said for being young again, but not in the present. I would honestly hate to be part of Generation Z and having to go through all the shit they have to deal with every day. Nothing about it is appealing. And a lot of it is of their own making. It's not all our fault for sending them on that trajectory. And most of it, you can blame on the Boomers.
>> No. 468144 Anonymous
24th December 2024
Tuesday 12:12 am
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>>468142

>Generation X had the best TV and I won't let anyone say otherwise.

Granted, we had MTV. Back when it was actually a relevant source of music and everything you wanted to know about it, and hadn't yet descended into the abject daftness of the early 2000s with Pimp My Ride and other shows. I still remember the day Michael Jackson's music video to Black or White was first shown on MTV. It was nothing short of a global event.

But we also had tripe like Friends. So there's that, too.
>> No. 468145 Anonymous
24th December 2024
Tuesday 12:24 am
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Last shift before Christmas and obviously it had to be the biggest fucking nightmare out of the entire time I've been doing this job. Not even just because of the Christmas rush, but various factors including the weather and Radio 4's shitty schedule conspiring against me to make sure I had a miserable time.

Why shouldn't I eat this entire chocolate gateau to myself, other than the fact i only bought one?
>> No. 468146 Anonymous
24th December 2024
Tuesday 12:35 am
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>>468126
Are those the arty black circle ones that look like they'd be worn by a drama/english teacher who leaves mid-way through the school year for unknown reasons? Someone at work has had them for a few years and now another one got the exact same style even though it involved changing the shape. It's very off-putting, you expect everyone to have different glasses and stick to their own style but you can't really take the piss out of someone's glasses.

>>468132
Stop trying to gaslight us. It's a hunk of plastic hanging off the side and it absolutely will touch your face by merit of being connected with only short bit of plastic.

My personal hell with them is when you drink a small juice bottle and there's a pool of juice that sticks in the cap that you have to either lick out or risk dripping down your shirt.

>>468143
As a dickhead millennial I reckon I'd give it a go. The one advantage they seem to have is there's a lot more direction in life that you didn't really get in the 00s and the world is in some ways more straightforward, imagine studying nuclear engineering or one of those other high-skill fields and just having your career handed to you.

Imagine not having to leave school in the financial crisis or getting to spend a couple years bunking off school while we all had to work or claim bennies.
>> No. 468148 Anonymous
24th December 2024
Tuesday 12:45 am
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My hands still smell of diesel. I was at a service station earlier wanting to get my usual premium, and somebody must have let the diesel nozzle gush over the handles of the other nozzles.

How do you even do that if you're halfway adept at pumping fuel. I'd hate to see that person have a wee.
>> No. 468149 Anonymous
24th December 2024
Tuesday 1:25 am
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>>468146

>As a dickhead millennial I reckon I'd give it a go.

You're not far off. Everything was more straightforward. Although it was already starting to come apart. I was at uni in the mid to late 90s (starting a bit late at age 21), and I remember a professor digressing during one of the economics lectures one day, and telling us that work as such and the job market would look very different in the future. That we, and those coming after us, would have to be prepared to spend years just going from one project and one employer to the next, and that everything would be of a more intermittent and less continuous nature. I'm not sure all of us completely understood back then what he was on about, but I think about it often, because his predictions have largely come true. For 1995, those predictions were still a bit daring, looking back.

My dad was an engineer and he was of the generation where you left uni to work for one company, and had few other jobs, if any, until you'd retire. At some point, he was let go when the company was struggling, after being with them for 20 years, and he was completely devastated. He never talked much about it, but I think morally, he was grappling with it for many years. It wasn't just the fact that he was nearing his mid-40s, which was a difficult age to start over even back then. But that after 20 years of loyalty to his company, they just laid him off. I'm not sure anybody has any expectation today that they'll be with an employer for 20 years. Even five years seems a lot now.

I've got something like 15 to 20 years until I'll retire, it's kind of largely up to me because I'm self employed. Age 70 would be my absolute cutoff. Either way, I'm doing alright. At this point, I see work as a way to top up my retirement budget. I no longer think about work in terms of career opportunities and how to climb ladders. At age 50, I just need to keep my level for another 20 years, keep clients coming in, and keep being all around sensible with my money. And I very definitely don't think I'd want to have to start my working life today, just out of uni. It's all far more fragmented, and indeed infinitely less straightforward than even when I got my first job.
>> No. 468237 Anonymous
27th December 2024
Friday 1:03 am
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>> No. 468239 Anonymous
27th December 2024
Friday 11:02 am
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>>468237

It'll be that time again before you know it. This year barely feels like it happened. I sense this will be a recurring theme in my life as I cross into middle age. Blink and I'll be in the hospice.
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27th December 2024
Friday 11:57 am
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>>468240
No you don't. No you fucking don't. If you're bringing this up keep it in one of the evangelist christian korean youtuber threads.
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27th December 2024
Friday 1:36 pm
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>>468239

>I sense this will be a recurring theme in my life as I cross into middle age. Blink and I'll be in the hospice.

Time does speed up as you age. I'm 50 now and I don't have a clue how the fuck I got here.

I remember being told the same thing when I was 17 and a friend of my parents, who was in his early 50s, told me that at his age, it was like, Santa Claus was just here, how come he's back already. And I can see that now.

I guess the upside is that when you become old and frail and that sucks all the joy out of your life, then at least it won't last long. Ten years in a home will probably feel like five to you.
>> No. 468243 Anonymous
27th December 2024
Friday 1:58 pm
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>Female prison guard suspended after she was ‘filmed having sex with inmate in cell’

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/female-prison-guard-suspended-after-filmed-having-sex-with-inmate-cell/

It feels like this is an annual event now. Where's the video?
>> No. 468244 Anonymous
27th December 2024
Friday 6:30 pm
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Why do women announce they're women when they're asking a question online where it's completely irrelevant, e.g 26F can anyone tell me which trains to catch if I want to go from York to Hastings?
>> No. 468245 Anonymous
27th December 2024
Friday 7:12 pm
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If Juno Temple asked me to, I'd buy her every gun on Earth.
>> No. 468246 Anonymous
27th December 2024
Friday 7:24 pm
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>>468245

I'd lick the shit off her arse, even though she is too thin.
>> No. 468247 Anonymous
27th December 2024
Friday 7:29 pm
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>>468244

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women-only_passenger_car
>> No. 468248 Anonymous
27th December 2024
Friday 7:37 pm
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>>468246
Please don't contact me again.
>> No. 468249 Anonymous
27th December 2024
Friday 7:39 pm
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>>468247
It was just an example I pulled out of my arse. It could easily have been '31F, which brand of baked beans should I buy?'
>> No. 468250 Anonymous
27th December 2024
Friday 7:44 pm
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>>468249

Go and ask a woman then.

Not many of them around on .gs.
>> No. 468252 Anonymous
27th December 2024
Friday 8:29 pm
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>>468249

Consciously or not, I think a lot of women have internalised the idea that men are more willing to go out of their way to help women.
>> No. 468253 Anonymous
27th December 2024
Friday 8:34 pm
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With winter solstice behind us, it's getting time to germinate next year's Tabasco-type chillies.

C. frutescens takes much longer to ripen, and I often don't harvest the bulk of them until October or November when they are overripe, as they are then easier to dry and will keep longer. SHU estimates vary, but they're probably around 50,000 to 60,000.
>> No. 468254 Anonymous
27th December 2024
Friday 8:48 pm
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>>468252
Ahahahahaha! Hahahaha!

You left it right to the wire, but that's PotY material right there, that is. "No notes", as they say.
>> No. 468255 Anonymous
27th December 2024
Friday 9:00 pm
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>>468248

Can you really say that you're attracted to a woman if you aren't willing to lick her shitty arse?
>> No. 468256 Anonymous
27th December 2024
Friday 9:14 pm
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>> No. 468257 Anonymous
27th December 2024
Friday 9:23 pm
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>> No. 468258 Anonymous
27th December 2024
Friday 10:02 pm
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>>468249
I think it's some women, as opposed to the general catch all women. Perhaps it's more relevant to a certain type of woman who feels unsafe in public, thus a subtle way of asking advice from people who know some of what it might entail to be a woman of a specific age doing the thing. Is it any less irrelevant to ask what it'd be like travelling the middle east as a woman* than it is from youk to hastings via train? Degree of risk, of course, but they're essentially the same question.
I get that you're saying "women, huh? This stupid bitches" but you know, people are just people.

The baked beans are harder to justify but I'd risk the assumption that it happens far less often and more easily dismissed than suggested.

*I hear it's pretty fucking dangerous if you value your life and virtue.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYStD5G3_xQp


>>468253
How much produce do you tend to get for your work? Last I remember you were making sweet chilli sauces.
I recently spoke with a Ukranian who commented that English gardens are used for pleasure whereas Ukranian gardens are worked, and wondered just how much you'd have to grow to feed yourself throughout the year.
>> No. 468259 Anonymous
27th December 2024
Friday 10:04 pm
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>>468258
IYStD5G3_xQ :(
>> No. 468267 Anonymous
27th December 2024
Friday 11:22 pm
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>>468258

> Perhaps it's more relevant to a certain type of woman who feels unsafe in public

Which many women do.

Although in the UK, if you look at actual crime numbers, women are relatively safe. There isn't a wrongun lurking behind every corner of every tube station. It's probably different in some war-torn Mideastern shitehole. Wouldn't go there as a man, either.
>> No. 468272 Anonymous
28th December 2024
Saturday 12:17 am
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>>468267

Don't even bother ladm8. The thing about WhiteKnightLad is that the construct he has built his own entire concept of masculinity around is that women really are helpless and vulnerable compared a man's natural overwhelming and disproportionately superior muscularity, aggression and sexual lust. He's not actually bothered about you questioning women and their behaviours, or the fisherperson orthodoxy, it's that in doing so, you are threatening his self-image as a man.

It's like the thing with kinks. Every male fisherperson is a raging whale poacher inside, because you have to be, otherwise it makes no sense. And believe me, I don't like being so accurately incisive in my observations about these matters, I just am.
>> No. 468273 Anonymous
28th December 2024
Saturday 12:45 am
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>>468272
I always use my own personal nicely offensive analogy to understand women's experiences: imagine if you knew a load of gay bodybuilders in sailor uniforms. They're all much bigger and stronger than you, and you don't want to have sex with them, but it's always at the back of your mind that if they wanted to bum you, they could theoretically force you into it or rather force it into you, heyoooooh. There's no reason to assume they're all going to chase you around every day, playing the Blue Oyster music from Police Academy, but you'll never feel safe in a world full of big gay sailors, because even if they never even look at you, you know that a big gay bumming could happen at any time. Once you know a couple of friends who have already been bummed, at the YMCA, at the steel mill, in the sauna at your local gym, you're never going to feel safe. It doesn't matter how safe you might actually be, because our brains don't work like that.
>> No. 468275 Anonymous
28th December 2024
Saturday 1:02 am
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>>468273

Your analogy isn't offensive, it's just flawed.

A good 95 percent of men have their urges under control at least enough to ensure that even if they are vividly imagining giving a lass who casually walks past them on the bus an absolute pounding, they won't act on it. It's not a matter of "it could happen anytime". It doesn't, and won't. And she won't know any friends either who have been pounded in passing on a bus. Or even had their bum felt up inappropriately. We're inundated with the trope of rape and sexual harassment being everywhere. It happens, but it isn't everywhere.

What actually is offensive about your analogy is that some of it is in the same vein as the fishperson mantra that all men are potential rapists. That's just horseshite, and always has been. Some men rape. Very unfortunately. But a good 99 percent of all men will never even think about it. They are no more a potential rapist than a car driver is a potential murderer who could run people over deliberately with their car.
>> No. 468278 Anonymous
28th December 2024
Saturday 6:29 am
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>>468273

Ah so you're actually a homophobic repressed bumder as well as a secret woman hater. Brilliant. Seriously, is it not obvious to you?

"Oh no, please don't force that big meaty cock into my poor tight bumhole mister big strong masculine manly man! That would be so ho... I mean bad! Just terrible! And it's a constant threat, oh fuck I'm gonna cuuum..."
>> No. 468279 Anonymous
28th December 2024
Saturday 8:02 am
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>>468273

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0bmnOrKf_s
>> No. 468282 Anonymous
28th December 2024
Saturday 10:23 am
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Is it still weekday? It feels like one since I'm on-call. No, I'm not a medic, I just do computers and people occasionally use them in the wrong way.


It should be a weekend thread, but the fucking pager went off (x00, reason xx00), can I just be /A/ and not do this?
>> No. 468283 Anonymous
28th December 2024
Saturday 10:44 am
468283 You're gonna wanna avoid that cuz it's where all the crime statistics happe
>>468267
>if you look at actual crime numbers, women are relatively safe
As I'm sure you're well aware, 'facts don't care about feelings'. There's probably no such thing as ghosts but people still be afraid of the dark. Neither is there a sabretoothed bad guy according to the statistics.

Incidentally I was reading recently about how the Izraelies have justified using AI to target individuals and networks with a successrate of 90%. That's great, right? Only 10% of people are mis-targetted, colateral damage. Only it's much worse than that when considering how the AI is making its decisions and what the human operators are justifying by using it.
Read about it here if you've an interest - https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
>> No. 468285 Anonymous
28th December 2024
Saturday 12:21 pm
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>>468283

> Only 10% of people are mis-targetted, colateral damage.

It's the same with face recognition software. I think there was a trial with AI face recognition at some major railway hub in Berlin, where they put it through its paces and found that the success rate was also something like 80 or 90 percent. Which, again, isn't bad. But it does mean that out of every 100 people the software scans, ten to twenty entirely innocent citizens just going about their lives are flagged as potential threats. And then what happens to them, once a system like that is put in daily use? Do those people get snatched off the escalator and shoved in a back room to be interrogated by counterunabumming specialists?

What we should really be worried about is unmanned drones, or any other autonomous weapons system being equipped with AI to make its own decisions of who to kill. It's one thing when a human person orders a targeted killing against a strategically important person in a conflict. And it becomes even more controversial if that decision is based on an AI's potential hallucinations. But there are already next-generation weapons systems in development that are authorised to make that decision all on their own based on AI, with no human in the loop.
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28th December 2024
Saturday 6:30 pm
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>>468285
>In order to train the artificial intelligence, it needed data in the form of a squad of Marines spending six days walking around in front of it. On the seventh day, though, it was time to put the machine to the test.

>“If any Marines could get all the way in and touch this robot without being detected, they would win. I wanted to see, game on, what would happen,” said Root in the book. And when the game began, as Root said, “Eight Marines — not a single one got detected.”

>Two Marines, according to the book, somersaulted for 300 meters to approach the sensor. Another pair hid under a cardboard box. “You could hear them giggling the whole time,” said Root in the book. One Marine stripped a fir tree and held it in front of him as he approached the sensor. In the end, while the artificial intelligence knew how to identify a person walking, that was pretty much all it knew because that was all it had been modeled to detect.

>“An algorithm is brittle, and the takeaway from this is that there will always be these edge cases,” Scharre told Task & Purpose. “The real problem for the military is that it operates in an inherently adversarial environment, and people will always have the ability to evolve.”
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/marines-ai-paul-scharre/

I reckon we'll be alright as long as we have a sufficiently large percentage of the population willing to fuck around either for profit or simple monkey business.
>> No. 468292 Anonymous
28th December 2024
Saturday 8:24 pm
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>>468282
>It feels like one since I'm on-call. No, I'm not a medic, I just do computers
Hey, me too! In 2025, my work is changing the rules so that I barely ever have to fix anything while I'm on call, but I will be on call 24/7 instead of stopping at 11pm. This sounds bad to me, given that I had one of "the new issues" before Christmas and it turns out all our outsourcing companies are clueless and can't fix the new problems either. However, I will get paid more money and we will move from me being on call 50% of the time to just 33.333% of the time. Bicep emoji.
>> No. 468299 Anonymous
28th December 2024
Saturday 10:44 pm
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>>468291

Now, the thing that strikes me with this is that it's all well and good in a training scenario, when you know you can fuck around consequence free and see if it works. But I would have been significantly more hesitant to try out the Solid Snake method if I knew the thing was loaded up with .50 BMG.

Bit like how I'm a dead hard combat badass in VR, and not even the Yanks can make fun of me for being a nogunz who doesn't know my charging handle from my ejection port IYKNWIM because I have loads of time in mass shooter training software Hotdogs Horsehoes Hand Grenades, I still don't reckon I'd fare better than any other average person if you threw me in a trench in Ukraine tomorrow.
>> No. 468300 Anonymous
29th December 2024
Sunday 1:05 am
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>>468299
I think you're completely correct. Someone fighting WW3 probably isn't going to shuffle around in a cardboard box, or hold some twigs in front of their face while crossing dead ground. Not least because there might be a rather more incredulous meat-based soldier looking at you as well as the AI system. However, if the AI system can't fathom these near-transparent guises a handful of jarheads tried mostly for a laugh, it probably won't be able to outwit an enemy combatant who's willing to belly crawl through a stream for an hour in order to get the drop on someone. As such it's probably better giving the flesh-warrior one of those Predator-tier night-vision-cum-thermal-imaging goggles they have now. Assuming that's the binary choice you have to make.

However, while a changing environment like an active battlefield isn't a use case for this kind of thing, maybe static or larger objects are. Whether that's a tank or a whole building, if you could get one-hundred autonomous drones and programme them to blow up anything they find that looks like that, you might have something. Mind you, that makes me think of Soviet "anti-tank dogs", especially if you've got a conflict like the Russo-Ukraine war where everyone's using very similar T-model tanks. Even best case scenario it's still a big "maybe", and it's probably going to be cheaper, easier and more effective to get your nation's biggest flight sim nerds to pilot the UAVs for a long, long time yet.
>> No. 468301 Anonymous
29th December 2024
Sunday 1:39 am
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>>468300

The Ukrainians and Russians are already starting to use AI-enhanced FPV drones to deal with the problem of signal jamming. A human pilot finds and marks the intended target, at which point the AI autopilot takes control. It can hunt a moving target and re-aquire the target even if it's temporarily obscured by terrain. It doesn't matter if the target is carrying a jammer, because the drone is operating fully autonomously. I don't have the link to hand, but you can buy a kit with the camera and flight controller on AliExpress for about £200.
>> No. 468302 Anonymous
29th December 2024
Sunday 12:31 pm
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29th December 2024
Sunday 3:01 pm
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>>468299
I suppose it depends on your overall confidence but determined people are pretty good at exploiting loopholes once they're found.

But monkey business aside - nobody wants to get whacked for their race, clothing or whatever so it makes sense for us to remove those biased human controllers from the mix. At best the problem with a system like Lavender is that it doesn't follow an accuracy gradient in the superhuman and is being used by an administration with precious little care for collateral damage. Lavender itself works fine, you just need to feed it better intel and further remove the human element.
>> No. 468308 Anonymous
29th December 2024
Sunday 7:17 pm
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I keep finding porn of BBWs that almost look like my sister. Same glasses, similar hair and face, comparable girth and weight. They're just missing a few key markers .. it's uncanny.
Oh well, the search goes on.
>> No. 468309 Anonymous
29th December 2024
Sunday 7:57 pm
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>>468308

Is your sister on Instagram, incestlad? I'd slide into her DMs IYKWIM.
>> No. 468310 Anonymous
29th December 2024
Sunday 8:07 pm
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How do you know that you've found a good men's hairdresser? I think I recognise that Turkish barbers have fallen out of fashion as people don't want tight cuts anymore.

>>468308
Do you ever think to yourself that you'll meet a big lass and do that for a few years but then semaglutide injections will become affordable enough that she'll lose it all so things won't get boring? You'll go from a big-lass to shagging a tetradactyl with all that loose skin. I was thinking about this today.

Anyway, either of you two done the whole Ozempic business? I'm not obese but could do with losing a stubborn couple stone. I seem able to maintain weight easy enough, it's the losing that's difficult.
>> No. 468311 Anonymous
29th December 2024
Sunday 8:10 pm
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>>468310

>Do you ever think to yourself that you'll meet a big lass and do that for a few years but then semaglutide injections will become affordable enough that she'll lose it all

If by "think to yourself" you mean "wake up in a cold sweat panicking", then yes.
>> No. 468706 Anonymous
24th January 2025
Friday 2:57 pm
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Can't find a more recent weekday thread.

I made a concerted effort to get a lot of social media followers this past couple of weeks, I'm about to hit 6,000 and it's changed how others react to [my account] in a way I can only relate to as when you get in shape. Suddenly strangers want to interact with me, share the things I've posted (despite them being just as tedious as they ever were) and ask my opinion on things. Social proof is a powerful tool.
>> No. 468707 Anonymous
24th January 2025
Friday 3:01 pm
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>>468706
You want >>>/b/468323, the one with the big dam.

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