Playing a randomiser run of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and eating biscuits.

Never forget what they took from us, lads.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGCbvz6r6GY

My house needs a good clean this weekend. Been neglecting things a bit, loads of work stuff, and that.

>>466706
Biscuits, that's what I need. Culinary heroin, here I come.

Laid out the border planks marking where the garden path will be. I'm trying to decide if it's worth it to hire a sodcutter to make digging it out easier.
The plan is to take off the top 10cm, stake the borders in place, lay a membrane, 5cm sub-base 1 gone over with a compactor, 5cm whatever gravel or chippings are cheapest. There'll have to be a few steps in the slope at the end too. If anyone has any ideas how to reduce the amount of effort needed they'd be welcome.

RIP ARE SALMOND

>>466711

What the fuck was he doing in North Macedonia?

>>466712

Giving a speech.

I know longer risk legal repercussions for calling his a rapist.

>>466714
What, Cartoon Head?

You know what time it is? Yeah, you know what time it is...

>>466716

Time to keep on rollin' babbaaayyyy!!!

Move in-a move out, hands up-a hands down

Back up, back up, tell me what you gonna do now

>>466715
You know what I meant.

Also, is there anywhere to actually watch Ideal online or am I going to have to torrent it, like in the good old days?

>>466718
iPlayer actually has the whole thing.

>>466706
>>466709
Are you two working for Big Biscuit? I just got 3 packs from Morrisons and I never normally get them in.

Went for lemon puff, oats (for coffee) and ginger. I'll probably start on the ginger as the least likely to end up with me snaffling the whole pack.

>>466719
You lying bastard. I shalln't forget this. And as I'm a man who says "shalln't", you must understand that I'm very intimidating.

>>466720
Unfortunately I won't be getting paid for "culinary heroin" pushing. Plus my main I have given up food of the evening will be a bag of tortilla chips.

>>466718

Dailymotion can usually be relied upon to absolutely not give a fuck about copyright.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5x53wi

Two Pints got away with quite a bit of homophobic humour back in the day. Or maybe people were just less fussed.

Not saying minority jokes are ok, but I miss the edginess of comedy from the 2000s to early 2010s. In some ways, you can't help feeling like humour wise, the modern world is entirely antiseptic.

>>466720

Nah, I'm just gradually weaning myself off hard drugs and I'm consoling myself by scoffing entire packs of chocolate chip cookies instead. It does the trick, more or less, but I gather I will probably put on a few pounds. Which I could do with, in fairness.

I'm trying to get myself excited about food again, I've spent the last couple of years eating as cheaply as possible, and treating the entire process of cooking and feeding myself as a laborious chore. I reckon my mental health will benefit a lot from getting back into making more luxurious hearty food, steak dinners, big lasagnes, filthy enchiladas stuffed with a ton of cheese, that sort of thing.

>>466724
My concern is that a lot of people seem not to have ever understood what made offensive things offensive, so they have introduced weird rules that don't even relate to offensiveness. Any comedian who was told their old jokes were offensive and understood why, could have stopped telling those jokes and written new jokes that weren't offensive. But everyone panicked so much that now, most comedy has just been abandoned in case anyone takes a risk that offends someone. Many of those creative risks would never actually offend anybody, or nearly anybody, but because a lot of people don't get why the old jokes were offensive, they've just got rid of any similar jokes, offensive or not.

>>466724
>Not saying minority jokes are ok
Why not?

>>466728
I believe the proper term is "Xitter".

>>466726

>Many of those creative risks would never actually offend anybody

That's a good way to put it. Creative risks. Which entail the possibility that something will backfire, because otherwise there would be no risk.

Everything is streamlined, muted, and designed for inoffensive, vanilla mass compatibility. Which is another way of saying, all the edges get whittled down so three people won't start a twitter X shitstorm.

>>466726

More like there's just a lot of people who won't even look into the meaning and intention of a joke in order to examine if and if so why it was offensive, but they will just hear the fact that it mentions [group] and instantly take to twitter to decry how offensive and distasteful it is anyway. Just a rote reaction they have learned as an expected behaviour as much as anything, not because they actually felt anything.

On the other side of it you have stuff that actually is distasteful, for instance I watched a video by a certain youtuber who is normally on board with all the progressive stuff, not complete mindworms, but you know. They are a woman respecter and a trans rights sayer and an enemy of the chud. And yet, they saw nothing wrong with bookending a video about an examination of warcrimes portrayed in media, with a shameless plug to their other paid site, more or less pitching this "if you loved this content about war crimes, come vicariously enjoy even more war crimes on Spunktube, for only $5.99 a month!" or whatever it is.

I found that genuinely distasteful, just harvesting that topic to sell ther Content^TM, but I don't think the average person really genuinely has the principles to process that. They just know there's a list of things that if you say them you are bad person and you probably support Trump Man, whereas if you say other things you are good and you support Harris Lady.

Anyway.

>>466729
With the "X" pronounced as in Chinese.

>>466726
I wrote a joke this week and told my girlfriend.

"I was talking to the guy in charge of bombing Germany in WW2. He picked up a new phone, and said "What's that lens on the back?" And I said "it's a camera, Harris". A Japanese tourist walking past stopped and looked, then said "I cannot see the 2024 Democratic US presidential candidate, what are you talking about!?""

She said it was racist because it implies Japanese have issues with L's and R's which is a racist implication.

Just climbed into a big cool bed and realised why I love this time of year. You can't knock a good jumper either.

Biscuit update: I ate all the lemon puffs. In fairness it's probably still better for me than if I'd bought a big bag of sweets and it's not like I'll be wearing a bikini anytime soon.

>>466725
Don't forget pies. If you're lazy then Lidl have brought back their steak and blue stilton pies, that and plenty of mash with gravy and runner beans is a fucking treat let me tell you.

>>466724
Didn't you watch it a few months back?

>>466733

Did you tell your girlfriend that Japanese people are the white people of Asia and they did an imperialism so you can't be racist to them?

I was expecting this to be the biennial discussion of whether "sweating like a black man on a rape charge" is racist or not, before I opened the thread.

>>466718>>466722
Otherlad is half right. It's coming back to iPlayer soon, but I don't know exactly when.

https://facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10159689045321991&id=647886990

>>466724
I caught a bit of Two Pints last night while I was looking for something to watch. It was a lot worse than I remembered.

>did an imperialism

>>466705
>Ideal
This one always passed me as a overly dull and dirty sitcom that I never bothered getting in to, and as such I keep skipping the weekend thread thinking it's one of those clubs that isn't for me, like watches and investments.

For a while I'd been thinking about trying to write a sitcom around a tallented trainee chef who sold drugs from his flat, much the same as Ideal appears to be. The programme would have had decent cooking sections where the protagonist would be video reccording their own recipes, when inevitably they'd be interrupted by customers and antics. I wasn't sure if the chef should be cooking pot noodle with added peas, something fancy or somewhere inbetween, like student (or viewer demographic) appropriate.

I'd never have actually made it, just liked the idea and thought it could have worked at some point.

Talking of which, do people do Drama skits on Youtube? I've seen no end of comedy, but straying from that seems a death sentence for any channel.

>>466738

It's to mimic the wield infantile way shipping forecasting Twitter types often speak. Heckin wholsomerino pupper doggio. You know.

>>466739
You're missing out. It's very surreal to the level I've not really seen any other show get to and Jenny ends up as an example of an idiot character who ends up being written well and the audience has a moment of reflection.

>>466731
>I don't think the average person really genuinely has the principles to process that
Think rather highly of yourself, don't you?

I know they're excited, but the way SpaceX have all the staff counting down and cheering like dickheads for every launch is so naff and embarrassing.

>>466743

It's a remarkable achievement that SpaceX have made space travel boring. They send up several rockets per month, catch those rockets on the return journey with a drone ship and it's too uneventful for anyone to care. Boeing get the headlines by being quite shit at putting things in space.

Just got a few squirts of concentrated thick bleach in my eyes while trying to clean a cruddy surface in the garden. It really stung. Google said to rinse it with plenty of tap water and watch for redness, pain, swelling or loss of vision. I guess I was lucky because so far, 45 minutes later, all I've got is a bit of redness in the corner of my left eye.

Oh lads you've got to save me from the consequences of my own actions. Since winter kicked in a switch has been flipped in my brain and I've been eating rich, spicy foods and generally proper giving my delicate guts a good kicking. Absolutely pissing out my arse, getting heartburn and woke up dizzy today.

Tomorrow evening I'm taking someone out for a pizza date as well. It's one of those nice tiny establishments doing proper Italian pizza with only one basic shitter and if it goes too well I might even end up pebble-dashing my dates bathroom. Any tips on how I can survive this one? I'd rather not get kicked out from my favourite pizza place and end up starving to death.

>>466744
I don't think SpaceX have made space travel boring. What I think is Elon Musk makes anything within his proximity massively lame, and I don't think I'm out on a limb when I say Musk might be the most uncool person alive right now. He's also a colossal bullshit merchant, so when he's involved most people get a bit suspiscious no matter what the reality is. As far as I know his involvement at SpaceX is basically just being kept happy enough to keep the money coming so the scientists are able to real work, but you have to drill down at least a little bit to know this and many people are immediately put off by seeing the badly dressed silhouette of Elon Musk dumping around.

>>466755
Nah, not otherlad but it's obvious SpaceX has now done so many mental things that it's ended up feeling humdrum. NASA had this same problem with the space shuttle launches which is why they sent Homer Simpson into space.

If Alan Sugar was catching rockets in the air in the mid-00s between selling premium bonds then we'd have been dead impressed. Same with how quickly we've become accustomed to AI and whatever other wonders of the world that are not even on our radar at the moment. Technology is just like that, it starts with an initial wonder and then we quickly integrate it into our lives as the mundane.

>As far as I know his involvement at SpaceX is basically just being kept happy enough to keep the money coming so the scientists are able to real work, but you have to drill down at least a little bit to know this and many people are immediately put off by seeing the badly dressed silhouette of Elon Musk dumping around.

Feels like a cope to me. He can be mental AND have nearly lost everything on huge bets for the future, actually driven for something that wasn't even being thought about until we have Falcons proving it could be done, made EVs a thing etc. That's more or less the norm for this kind of person who ends up a CEO and pumps out start-ups - I'm not even trying to be a fanboy but there's a lot of criticism of him that feels more grasping than it should be, he's a billionaire that has both gone up his own arse and done too many drugs which should be the focus.

>>466756

I think far worse than just becoming mundane, many people are becoming very pessimistic about technology, in an almost reactionary way. AI is a very good example of that, and of course it's easy to understand why, there are a great many things to be concerned about with it. But it is still sad, to me, to see people not just being unexcited by new developments and technology that can do amazing things, but actively hostile towards it.

I think it really comes down to the people and companies who are pushing it, and the direction it's all moving in. I used to be a massive techy geek as a teenager, I was always reading magazines like T3 and what have you, I loved seeing things progress from cassette walkmans (walkmen?) to CD players to minidiscs to MP3. Digital cameras going from bricks to sexy compacts to ubiquitous on everyone's phone. But I think there was a distinct change once smartphones came about, and everything has been sort of souring ever since.

I remember in one of my early jobs as a tech support money for PCWorld/Curry's, I immediately came to loathe tablets and chromebooks and all that guff. They were supposed to be more user friendly and idiot proof but the reality is they ended up being much more awkward to do anything with because they restricted the user so much. I'd end up having a lot of conversations with customers where I basically had to tell them "sorry nah, you should have bought an actual computer, this piece of shit won't do what you're after because they haven't made a specific app to do it". And technology has only continued down that road ever since- It's a bit better nowadays because everything DOES have the specific app to do what people want with it, but it's still worse than what we had before for anybody who's remotely knowledgeable. This is why I have a computer hooked up to every TV in my home, fuck a Roku or a firestick or anything like that, an actual PC does everything they do, and more, and infinitely better.

We have VR tech that would have made my childhood self piss myself with excitement, but it's marketed by a soulless lizardman like Zuckerberg who just wants to use it to sell cheap shitty mobile gacha games to kids. We have made in credible advancements in possibilities, but what we actually do with it has all gone horribly wrong somewhere.

>>466747
>heartburn
I've been getting this a lot lately thanks to all the biscuits. You might try lining your stomach with Gavoscon or something similar, otherwise I've found mild foods to relieve heartburn effectively.

I saw an interview with Noam Chomsky recently and he looks almost exactly like King Theoden while under Saruman's thrall.

Can't have long left in him.

Having kids is weird. I now say "womp womp" far more than I ever thought I would.

>>466730

It's not like the jokes in most sitcoms were BRILLIANT or boundary pushing, they were just vanilla status quo slop too, it's just that the status quo back then was a little more casually discriminatory.

Personally I don't really give a fuck about "offensive" comedy, because making a joke about how your girlfriend is secretly a man and lied about it just isn't that funny to me. The people who say "you couldn't say that nowadays" are largely talking about very basic bland jokes that just happen to use race or gender as a starting point.

I don't think anyone would say you couldn't make brass eye today, despite it being BRILLIANT and offensive. I don't think people stop long enough to notice the difference.

>>466822

Brass Eye would have more ammunition than ever today, but I remember watching a great interview with Morris where he says that he considers all the crazy stuff we hear and see thanks to the internet today to be low hanging fruit. Back in the 90s/00s Brass Eye was on the fringe, it was ahead of its time, casting a perspective on things that you wouldn't get in the mainstream; but over the years time has caught up with it, to the point that today that kind of absurdist skeptical cycnicism has become the norm in many respects.

Anyone in need of an urn?

https://www.sportsdirect.com/studio-cremation-urn-720747

>>466822
>Personally I don't really give a fuck about "offensive" comedy, because making a joke about how your girlfriend is secretly a man and lied about it just isn't that funny to me.

Yeah, you just can't even suggest it though otherwise your entire career will be destroyed and you'll have bricks put through your windows. Thanks for telling us what is and isn't funny though, must be a full-time job.

>>466824
Why does Sports Direct illustrate its browser tabs with a Russian flag?

>>466826

As a mark of respect for their spiritual home.

>>466826
Russia does not own the bastardised tri colore.

Can somebody get me some dirty pictures of Ash Sarkar, thanks.

>>466829

No.

>>466829

Find someone decent to wank over.

>>466829

Marxists aren't sexy.

Can you lads go five minutes without being so thirsty?

>>466833
I can, but only because I'm fairly confident I've already fumbled the woman I was supposed to marry so seeing photos of Ash Sarkar eating an ice cream in the sun feels like being kicked in the knee.

>>466830
>>466831
>>466832

You're quite right, I don't know what I was thinking, but it definitely had nothing to do with her riding my face.

Made a minestrone tonight with some leftover fresh vegetables and broken up spaghetti noodles. Only thing I had left in the fridge.

Went a bit crazy with the homegrown chili pepper I've put in it, but I've got a good spicy food tolerance.

You know how after the Soviet Union collapsed, Russia was so desperate for cash that they let tourists go on the Mir space station and sold off fighter jets to mad American billionaires, yeah? Do you reckon if the Chinese economy collapses they might let me fuck a panda?

>>466841
Fucking Keith Lard over here thinking he can get his end away by using legal chicanery.
https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/china/pandas-dogs-painted-chinese-zoo-b2542801.html

>>466825

>Thanks for telling us what is and isn't funny though, must be a full-time job.

I believe I said "it just isn't that funny to me"

Do you need me to explain what that bit at the end means for you?

I was serving cunt someone in the shop today and she had one earphone in and one out. I could hear a static-like sound that I thought was the hardest hardcore band over absolutely going for it, but just as I was about to ask who she was listening to she put her phone on the counter for a moment and I realised she was watching a video of someone sandblasting a wall.

>>466965

Reminds me of this funny meme format. You can change the genre to something else and then insert your own joke about something silly that it sounds like. I have seen the movie and in this part he is doing the funny head grooving movements because he's really into it, so in the context of the meme that makes it funny because it's just noise. That's the joke, you see.

>>466966
I think we should see other people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv0KhW-c3Nk

>>466970
Striking while the iron's hot, I see.

Fucking mad how stagnant British culture feels, in some respects. The kidnapping happened sixteen years ago. Were people in 2006 going on about stuff from 1990, or does the internet just make it harder to move on? It makes ceaselessly bringing up Raoul Moat for over a decade seem positively timely. It's also bizarre to me how much of a, for want of a better word, fascination there is over paedo-ing in this country. People just bring it up apropos of nothing, like it was football or the weather. I only make this latter point because the top rated comment is by "SirJimmySavileOBEKCSG", who appears to run a sort of ironic Jimmy Savile stan account. The "musical" itself does it too, albeit with slightly more justification.

I realise now it's not impossible you posted this because you were involved it somehow. However, if you make shit, someone's going to complain about the smell.

>>466971
It's by Kunt and the Gang. They ran out of good ideas about 10 years ago, with Shannon Matthews the Musical originally released in 2010. I'm not sure why they've decided to revive it as a film now, unless it is to do with them running out of new ideas.

>>466972
Blimey, it's not exactly "Men With Beards". Kunt and the Gang have always been the embodiment of "hit or miss", but if you can't think of new materiel for your daft songs when daft stuff hasn't stopped happening for the past half a decade I don't know what to tell you; quit the day job? Again? Especially when if you want to, literally, get technical about it there's no good reason for parts of even the trailer to look and sound like shit. Students on no budget know how to do colour grading and get consistent audio, if you're not able to do those things after crowdfunding a project and making videos since phones had actual buttons then you're just a sweary ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.

>it's by Kunt and the Gang

>Happened sixteen years ago

I feel like you have now got your answer given the name is a reference to a band that was relevant over 40 years ago.

>>466973

>ThatGuyWithTheGlasses

He has gotten a lot of hatred in the last few years where as the angry video game nerd has gotten a lot of reverence and I'm not entirely sure of the difference probably their emotional sincerity, Doug's delivery is stale, the current crop of internet film critics will look just as stale in 10 years I'm sure

Lindsay Elis saw the writing on the wall of the toxicity of her attack methodology when it was turned against her which is why she has largely bugged out.

I think the hatred for Doug comes from because he represents a fantasy we had as teenagers that we had to grow out of, of making films with mates sleeping on couches and roughing it and he just carried on for a decade without any advance. The red letter media boys strike me as not actually being able to make anything better, the way they talked about space cop literally after they just made it leads me to believe there is a level of ego defense that they are afraid to try sincerely.

Is it better to never try and avoid embarrassment and embrace the mediocrity of being middle aged denying you had dreams. bug out when you get a moment of self reflection Or to do what you love with seemingly in defiance of all criticism? I think I admire Doug Walker more than I should.

>>466974
Right, I didn't know it was Kunt and the Gang though, did I? Because honestly it seemed too shit to be something he'd done.

I also don't "hate" ThatGuyWithTheGlasses. He's shit, he's boring and he hasn't improved basically any of his skills ever. The workings of cameras, microphones and lighting set-ups are not arcane knowledge locked behind impossibly high barriers to entry, you can find this stuff out yourself. Indeed, you should find this stuff out yourself if you want to film stuff. Overlooking it is daft, not least because the embarrassment of being Doug Walker isn't that he's making videos, it's that he does so in such shoddy fashion. It's not embarrassing to play a guitar in your forties, but it would be embarrassing to be showing up at open mics still not knowing how to tune it. I don't think it's admirable to seemingly not give a shit about getting the basics right, that should be what you realise in any moments of self-reflection.

>>466974
I can't remember anything embarassing AVGN or Cinemassacre have done. When people found Mike Matei's comics that wasn't great, but it wasn't a big splash.

TGWTG have a 73 page document compiled by previous contributors about failings in the company. Allegations of sexual assault, bullying. Then you've got the Linkara's sissy eating shit fantasy, Spoony's entire existence, the flop of Demo Reel and the game shows. 3.5 hour long movies that were masturbatory in nature.

I think Doug did a good job getting where he did, but he's had a lot more controversy's than good guy James Rolfe.

>>466976
Sorry for the bad grammar with "controversy's" when it should be "controversies".

>>466974

>Lindsay Elis saw the writing on the wall of the toxicity of her attack methodology when it was turned against her which is why she has largely bugged out.

I still remember predicting this years before it happened, and saying so on this very website, to the derision of fisherlad and his allies. I am still smug about it.

I think the thing with Doug Walker is that he was good in like, the 2006-2012 era of the internet when we were all about roughly on that level of maturity ourselves. We didn't realise how undercooked his "takes" were, a lot of people took his critiques seriously, even if we knew they were also intended in a kind of juvenile way. But you couldn't take him seriously like that anymore, after the The Wall thing.

I think the one to look at is Yahtzee, from Zero Punctuation. I've been watching his videos pretty much week in, week out, every Wednesday since mid 2007. It's a ritual, and a very comforting one which brings me a great sense of stability. I can sense the ways in which he has changed. I know I have changed. But Zero Punctuation is still Zero Punctuation (even if it's now called Fully Ramblomatic). He's the kind of guy who knew that if it ain't broke, don't fix it; people first started watching him for snarky deadpan game reviews and they keep watching him for snarky deadpan game reviews. He has done other things, he's written books and podcasts and all that sort of wank, but I can tell he knows, those are all just vanity projects, and that really he'd be nowhere without the snarky deadpan videogame reviews. So that's why he has kept doing them, almost entirely unchanged.

I sense RedLetterMedia have that same understanding. It's something I understand as a musician, even when I try to push my boundaries into doing something new, there's always still the type of music I'm really good at and comfortable making, that I settle back into. It might not be the exact music I want to make at that moment, I might really want to do something else, but fighting against it is always futile. Your comfort zone is there for a reason and I think it pays to be mindful of it.

Some of you lads are chronically online.

>>466979
I would be quite happy never talking about Doug Walker ever again in my life and never having to see otherlad be a being weird chronic masturbator about Linsay Ellis either. I just wanted slag off Kunt's bad audio and shitty lighting, like a normal person.

>>466979
>>466980

The important thing is... etc

You know really this is a very toxic attitude to have. Just a sneering derision for people expressing opinions. How about you fuck off outside then? Leave us terminally online autists to it if you don't want to take part.

>>466981
You're the one who started going off on his own Channel Awesome related tangent. I may have mentioned him first, but I clearly wasn't trying to start a debate about TGWTG. Not least of all because it's incredibly well covered ground at this point.

>>466983

No I'm not.

Shut up all of you! Only people who are chronically online even know what that means. We can't keep living like this, that teenager just started posting here so we have to set some kind of example.

Or not, whatever, I don't really care. What I was actually wondering is how weird is it to go to a gig alone? Is that normal? Will they laugh at me? Call me a freak? Will they check my shoes for mirrors? They should, I look like the type.

>>466983

No I was the one who went on a channel awesome related tangent because talking about the psyche of the rise and fall of people is more interesting Then I went away from the computer for a bit, sorry to interrupt your pedestrian observation that something looks a bit shit I didn't know you've already covered the ground of the frailty of the human condition before.

Not sure it is a particularly chronic masturbator take to note when you build your persona around being an over analysing cultural moral judge falling on your sword when you accidentally 'dogwhistle' about how slinty eyed Chinamen are on twitter is probably the best option, it is mostly an observation of facts that happened.

>>466985
>We can't keep living like this, that teenager just started posting here so we have to set some kind of example.

Teenlad knew full well what he was letting himself in for, joining a niche forum for shed and Carol Vorderman enthusiasts.

>>466985
>What I was actually wondering is how weird is it to go to a gig alone?
I don't really like live music and the one time I ever went to see a band I liked play live it was indie pinkos New Model Army, in Southampton in 2008, I went on my own and it was completely fine. Nobody cared. I felt a bit awkward being there on my own, and I'm sure the experience would have been a lot better with friends who liked the same music as me, but the other people there did not care at all.

>>466985

It depends how comfortable you are striking up smalltalk with strangers in the smoking area in between the support acts, otherwise you will have a lot of standing about awkwardly by yourself with a beer in your hand. But once the acts are playing it's not like you can hear anyone speak so it makes no difference.

Most of the gigs I have been to (which has been as a performer much more often than as audience member, albeit) are smaller scale local gigs and that's really most of the reason you want to be there, the bands are half of it but the other half is just to meet the people who are part of your "scene". If that's the sort of gig you go to nobody's going to find it particularly weird if you are on your own and tag onto their group for a chat.

>>466989
Her vanity is repulsive but there is something very attractive about her. I think the contrast between her good and terrible photos adds a lot to this. Also the captain hat triggers that newly wired cosplay circuit in my brain.

This evening, my hot lefty wank will be Grace Blakely. She's about my age and I imagine she'd let a working class lad like me give her a hard filthy rutting but she would never settle for me as a long term partner. She'd use me and then throw me away. Mmmfff.

>>466985
Some of the best nights of my life are when I went out on my own regardless of my friends. I've also discovered friends had shared tastes I didn't even know about by bumping into them at a gig.

It is a terrible crippling neurotic disease that we teach eachother that we can't risk going out by ourselves. Typically the people who make fun of someone for it are showing their true colours. There are others who will see it as a really amiable quality.

>>466995
She's very generic looking. I'm not saying she isn't fit, but you'll see at least one woman who looks like her wherever you go.

>>466997

Yes, but they're not a clever as she is are they. I think I might be what pretentious cunts call a "sapiosexual".

>>466995
She's no Ash Sarkar though is she? Dusky beauty Ash. Desi princess Ash. Grace is just a standard white woman. Not like exotic queen Ash.

I've not had a trick or treater in over 20 years but I still buy sweets every year on the off chance some children turn up. It's unfortunate that there's all these sweets and nobody but me to eat them. Very unfortunate indeed.

One bag has been snaffled already. I have a second for Thursday night.

>>466995
>my hot lefty wank

Do you use your left hand? That would be more interesting.

>>466999

What do you think I am, a racist? It's obviously the way she kept even Big Daddy Zizek on topic in an interview that got me going, not the colour of her skin.

^{... You reckon she's into that, though?}

>>466998

I know nothing about her but one looks at her bio lead me to a belief that she is of the Laurie Penny's school of left wing philosophy 'that is took good for the likes of the working class filth' you may correct me if I'm wrong but I would rather the other half didn't insist to me that we are all in this together.

My local Asda had a special offer on chestnuts tonight. £2.50 for a 400g net. Just put them in the oven. One of my favourite things about year-end season.

>>467003

Nah, she's not one of them. Laurie Penny is a posh bird with luxury beliefs who pretends to be a lefty. Grace Blakely is a democratic socialist who is mostly concerned with workers being enfranchised in the workplace.

Neither of them would consider the likes of us good enough, but that's more just a woman thing than a political thing. One wonders what traits women would use to evaluate their partner's value and compare status with their peers if we did live in a socialist utopia where everyone was equal.

>>467006

Instagram followers.

Eating one croissant feels like a cop out, eating two feels like self-abuse.

And don't be so bloody pessimistic, you lot could easily marry up. Well, if you'd stop being such miserable weirdos for five minutes you could.

>>467009
Depends on the size of the croissant.