It's a good day's hike if you set off from Langsett Reservoir and go over the top of the moor to Howden Dam. Long walk, not for a complete beginner, some of the tracks get hard to follow, but a very nice one.

Anyway I'm gonna shoot baddies in VR.

Everything feels pointless. The future of this country looks hopeless.

I've used my free time the last few days to get started on some long overdue renovations around the house. Yesterday, I spent ten hours refurbishing the fireplace. The pointing between the bricks inside it was crumbling, so I had to redo all of it. I suspect that when the fireplace was built, they didn't use fire resistant mortar for the pointing, so that's what I used yesterday.

The livingroom and dining room will get new wallpaper in the coming weeks. I've already picked the design. B&Q has it for 18 quid per roll, but I've found a place online that has the exact same ones for 12. I will be needing 14 rolls (with an included safety margin of one or two rolls), so that'll be over £80 saved.

>>468331

>I will be needing

Will need.

>>468324
I find Langsett reservoir a bit on the dull side, at least in isolation.

I'm slowly getting through this Universal Credit form, but many of my answers sound like issues any regular person would have. "When an Item is unavailable at the supermarket I find it stressful" - yeah, no shit, who doesn't? I have to remember that my response under continuous preasure has proven to be much more distressing.

It's a strange experience having to convince someone else that you're a failure in society. I can see it's true for much of my existence, but while alone you can conviniently convince yourself 'no, there're numerous types of people I just fit into a different part of the world' or some shit. Only now I'm forced to question my sincerity and it's driving me nuts.

On the one hand I don't understand why anyone shuld deserve anything, including a handout. Just let them die as would happen in nature. On the other hand I don't want to fucking die just yet, especially from cold, hunger and mental anguish.

>>468323
That's a nice image, worthy of the desktop background folder. Thanks.

>>468333

Sure, but if you take the path I posted it's only a start and end point, you get some spectacular views along the way and you can have your pack up and a brew from your thermos at OP's pic.

Nothing going on at work so I just went home at lunchtime and stopped at Lidl on the way. The world's a different place when you go out during a weekday afternoon; people wander the streets dazed and gorping at the world around them like it's all new, others seemingly wait for Godot on park benches while a surprising amount of people appear to have come from the gym.

They should make a nature documentary that follows daytime people around. I bet it'll be more interesting than the musing of some sad office twat.

>>468325
The world feels hopeless. At least here you can get a cheap pack of Rocky bars pretty much whenever you want.

>>468334

It's a fucker, innit? Filling out a UC50 is like the opposite of psychotherapy. You spend your life trying to convince yourself that you're coping, then someone at the DWP says "prove to us that you can't cope or you'll starve to death".

I think the best advice I had was from someone at the CAB, who told me to fill out the form based on my worst days, not my average. It's not a complete picture of who you are, just a snapshot of your lowest ebb.

>>468340
It's such a relief to recieve even basic recognition. Much thanks.

>>468334
>>468342

Even on a more general level I would just say don't even remotely feel bad about the sense of exaggerating things or whatever, this system is expressly designed to filter you out and it's nothing but a thinly veiled legal framework to absolve themselves of responsibility for people it fucking well knows it is responsible for. It shouldn't be this way but it is, so if you have to put on a bit of a show of being even more mongy than you are, go for it.

>>468344
>if you have to put on a bit of a show of being even more mongy than you are, go for it.
I don't know that the system is responsible for me or people in worse conditions, and therein lies my confusion and guilt.
I expect my claim will be accepted, possibly without appeal and hopefully in the LCWRA category, but if it would overwise filter me than surely I'm one of the hundreds of thousands of people (millions?) that scrape along struggling in work?
There's no reason why anybody should be responsible for me but myself, all the while I'm turning my back on this half baked philosphy to live in a heated home. That's not even to mention the people in the streets, for fuck sake.
I've a guilty mind for having it yet I don't want to give it up. Personally, filling this UC form is a practice in selling my soul, even if it is a genuine claim. I'm scared to do otherwise, but isn't that what the spirit is supposed to do? To face it's fear?

I get that this isn't the place to chat cuch shit but fuck I ain't got anywhere else.

Today I saw a tin of corned beef abandoned on a bench. At first I thought it had been left there by some fishermen who were about 25 metres away for storing maggots or something, but it was one of those you rip open with a key so wouldn't be good for storage.

>>468349
The whole system is mental as far as I understand it. My friend who occasionally disappears with anxiety disorder, but is completely fine at all times that anyone actually sees her, says she apparently qualifies for PIP if she wants it. And she openly admits that this is a load of shit, because while it would be very helpful when she's hiding under a duvet for three days, most of the time she's completely all right, but PIP doesn't accept this. If she gets a few hundred quid in the month she needs it, she'll get it every month for three years - 36 months, maybe four of which she will actually need it. It's bollocks. But in the months when she might need it, she's not going to be in a position to ask for it.

You might feel like you're scamming the system, but that's the only way to ask for anything. As has already been said, answer every question as you would on your worst day. And don't feel bad, because you're just claiming the money now that you either should have got before and didn't, or that you will need in future and won't be given unless you ask for it now.

>>468349

NHS waiting lists are off the charts, mental health services have been cut to the bone, most of the schemes to support people back into work have been cut or privatised and Britain has some of the worst working conditions in Europe. The government systematically ignored mental health during the pandemic, to the extent that mental health is being completely excluded from the public inquiry on COVID-19.

The huge increase in people on benefits due to mental and physical illness is an entirely predictable outcome of government policy. They brought this on themselves and they're blaming the victims. If they want to get people off benefits, they ought to offer them decent jobs with humane conditions, not bully and shame people under threat of destitution.

If you can eventually get yourself in a place where you're ready to work, then that's great, but it should be for yourself, not out of any sense of guilt or obligation. I work, I pay taxes, but no cunt helped me to get there and I don't feel a second of shame about the time I spent on benefits. The fact that I'm in work isn't a matter of moral fibre or good character, it's pure dumb luck. If one or two things had gone slightly differently for me, I could have just as easily ended up homeless or dead. I'd much rather my taxes went into your pocket than paid the wages of some useless jobsworth at the DWP.

Grit your teeth, fill out the forms, go to your assessment and say the right things, but don't let it define you, don't let it break your spirit. You have innate value and dignity as a human being. No bureaucratic process or tabloid loudmouth can take that away. Try to live the best life you can, on your own terms.

Seeing as it's the end of the year tomorrow, if I'm limiting myself to one track per artist, these are probably* my top songs of the year:

1. Mr Gnome - Not This Time, Devil.
2. Orla Gartland - Little Chaos.
3. CARR - Chop Chop.
4. Magdalena Bay - Image.
5. Amyl and the Sniffers - Big Dreams.
6. Tame Impala/Justice - Neverender.
7. BIG SPECIAL - Black Dog/White Horse.
8. Allie X - Off With Her Tits.
9. Sharon Van Etten - Afterlife.
10. Clairo - Sexy to Someone.
11. St. Vincent - Big Time Nothing.
12. Alma Perry Pereg - Loneliness.
13. Lucia & The Best Boys - So Sweet I Could Die.
14. La Femme - Clover Paradise.
15. Liz Lawrence - Yeti.

* There's probably others I've posted to /beat/ over the year and forgotten about because I never added them to my Spotify playlist.

Albums of the year:

1. Allie X - Girl With No Face.
2. purple Disco Machine - Paradise.
3. Cassandra Jenkins - My Light, My Destroyer.
4. L'Impératrice - Pulsar.
5. St Vincent - All Born Screaming.

>>468355

I must be middle-aged now because I think I recognise one of those names and I'm not bothered that I didn't know more of them.

>>468356

I know Amyl and the Sniffers because that lass looks like she stinks but would be good at shagging, and I know St. Vincent because she invented that guitar that doesn't poke you in the tit.

>>468356

I have always been the type of contrarian twat who goes backwards in music, I don't see the point at all in keeping up with that's "in" now, because it'll still be there later. I'll get to it in my own time. The last time I was up to date on cool bleeding edge new releases (in my genres of preference, at least) was probably in about 2009. But I haven't given a shit in years.

I think it only actually matters if you are into pop bollocks because that music is by its very nature completely fucking disposable, ephemeral consumer trash, just like the seasonal fashion cranked out of Chinese sweatshops. In that case I can see why keeping up matters, because really that's the whole game of it. Being behind the times has no value, that just means you're listening to rubbish on your own, instead of in company.

The confirmed guest list for the new years party I'm going to has shrunk from eight to four people. At this point, I feel bad for my friend who is having the party. It's like we're now just doing him a favour by showing up anyway.

A much more well off previous incarnation of myself bought Rayban glasses. This morning, a not-totally-skint-but-on-a-budget me broke an arm off of those glasses, meaning the arm's now secured via an unusual contraption consisting of a paperclip splint, sticky tape and a rubberband that I don't think is actually doing anything. I could get a replacement set of frames for £86, but I need a new prescription anyway. I don't think the quality of the glasses is much different from a pair without the designer label, and costing a third of the price. However, there are aspects of the design I like. The slight texturing on the frames, the lenses being bigger than any other pair of glasses I've owned, but not comically so.

One of you may well think you have a method of reattachment, but they're metal frames and the point of breakage is maybe slightly less than a millimetre thick. As such I don't think there's much hope of repair. At least this has happened at the tail-end of the festive period, so I'm not going to be waiting forever and ever to get a replacement.

>>468359
I'll come. I'll bring champagne. But it's too late for me to do my gimmick purchase of that vodka that comes in a skull. Also no matter how normal I act my knackered glasses will make me "the weird guy" as well. I can bring a dish if that's the vibe.

This started off as a joke, but I'm now deadly serious, if you like I'll give you my Discord or whatever and if possible I will go to your friend's house. I will sleep on his sofa. You will have to explain yourself.

>>468360

>I'll come.

Thanks, really, but inviting complete strangers to soften the blow of half of his guests cancelling would, in its own way, probably make it worse now.

>>468361
I don't doubt it for a second. But can you really turn down the two-paragraphs-about-his-broken-glasses guy and his leftover Christmas hamper champagne?

Oh, I see, you can very easily do that. Very well.

>>468363

It's essentially two couples that are being cunts and have cancelled. Two people have colds, I guess that's fine, but then the other couple decided that now is the perfect time for them to go on a romantic getaway and celebrate new years in an airbnb cottage on the Aberdeen coast. Something about that particular cottage now suddenly being available. You wouldn't think it, but that's apparently a thing people do, and well maintained cottages there are in high denand over the new year. I hope their heat in that cottage suddenly stops working and nobody can be arsed to come out and fix it.

But yeah. When you've got eight guests but two couples fall by the wayside, then that halves your guest list. Which kind of stinks for my friend.

>>468364
In fairness you shouldn't go into New Years with high-expectations and I think we all know that organising things with adults is like herding cats at the best of times. You're a good mate for sticking with it though.

I'll probably play that SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom and tell anyone that asks that I gamed with friends. Not sure what takeaway I'll get but I won't lie to you that Pizza Hut could well be on the cards. It reminds me that I think the best birthday I had was probably when I was 15 and my parents went out for the night but got me GTA: San Andreas, some pizza money and mini-doughnuts. I guess I was always a loser.

>>468364
>the other couple decided that now is the perfect time for them to go on a romantic getaway and celebrate new years in an airbnb cottage on the Aberdeen coast.

If I was a betting man, I'd say whichever partner in the couple isn't the friend of hostlad didn't want to go and booked this to get out of it.

Woke up early since it's an office day. Missed my bus and it's on Sunday service.
Guess I'm working from home today. Oh woe is me.

I've ended up in Amsterdam for the New Year. Not sure why, neither of us really use drugs or sex workers these days.

>>468342
Come to think of it, if you saw a taxidermied human pulled into gross distortions of its former self, you'd be horrorfied. Yet an animal is fine.
Same with meat processing and carnivorous diets.
Strange, really.

>>468369
If they looked as good as cordovan, I think I could live with shoes made of human arse sinew. Although with everyone having sit-down jobs these days, it would be at a premium.

>>468366

It's complicated with them. The lad is my friend's friend, and she definitely wears the pants in that relationship. You could call her a bit bossy. And clingy. But apparently, her sister stayed in that particular cottage once, and it's normally booked out, and I guess somebody else cancelled their reservation on short notice, so she jumped at it.

Still a bit of a dick move. And selfish.

>>468371
Did she make him wear matching pyjamas for Christmas?

>>468367
I was already working from home so I rolled over and grabbed my laptop but fell asleep before it had got to the log-in screen. Now I just periodically check the laptop for messages.

There's actually a lot I should be doing but I can't be bothered.

>>468368
I recommend the museums and canals. And try some of the seafood and chips, they know what they're doing. The Netherlands is actually much better when you ignore the seedy American bullshit.

Well nowt helps bring in some new year cheer like getting a complete bollocking for something you had no way of knowing you weren't supposed to do, eh. Thought I'd knocked out a cracking day's work and earned a beer tonight, instead I'm just pissed off.

You just have to wonder what some people do in their work life to gain the level of immunity for outright unacceptable behaviour as this- I'd get the sack if I exploded at a colleague like this dickhead just did at me. Lucky for him I'm not the type to grass to HR or anything, but I think I will deck him down the stairs next time I'm alone with him and just take whatever consequences come of it.

>>468373
All the good museums seem to be booked up in advance which is a bit of a shit. I'll try the seafood next menu I see it on.

I'm going to bed, can't be arsed staying up for midnight.

Getting in an early entry for last post of the year, lads.

Feel a bit shit this year. The last two NYEs I had somewhere to be, now I'm back being on my tod and it feels way worse than it used to. I should be drunk enough to seriously think the girl I'm talking to actually finds me funny, instead I'm listening to Football Weekly. Any chance I can take a mulligan on my twenties?

>>468379
Good night, ladm8. I hope the storm doesn't keep you up.

Todays when I usually consume more Alcohol than usual in my yearly attempt to be honest with myself and do a bit of a summary of events. So, chapm8s, It astounds me how this place is still alive. We are long removed from the days of Moaty, yet blessed purple keeps paying the few quid a month from the shed bunker.

Bugger it through, I came here from Britchan and i'll be around til either I or here shuffles off. I mean Christ, that scare a couple of years back where it went away for a few days was bad enough.

Happy new year, for in an hour or so anyway.

I didn't know it was new years eve until after I finished work.

Last post of the year lads.

Happy new year.

Ah fuckit, got sidetracked. Hope 2025's a good'un. 2024 sucked hard.

I fell asleep after eating too much pizza and woke up to fireworks and people shouting.

Whenever I post while drunk on any imageboard, I have observed that I am a Mel Gibson drunk. Happy New Year to all you straight white male posters. The rest of you will probably be accepted tomorrow morning.

>>468386

>Whenever I post while drunk on any imageboard, I have observed that I am a Mel Gibson drunk.

so... how can we imagine that?

>>468386
If you're going to be so boldly racist, can you at least be funny?

The knives are out on Mumsnet for Sophie Ellis-Bextor's performance on the BBC last night.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5242006-oh-dear-sophie-ellis-bextor

>>468390
They don't ask for birth certificates of mother and child when registering on Mumsnet, you know. You can chat to the moms about what interests them over there.

>>468391
But what if I run into Glinner?

>>468390
It's gone. What was the gist of it?

>>468391

Bore off lad, if he wants to talk about it with us instead, so we can laugh at them from our ivory tower of good taste and enlightened discussion, I support that.

>>468393
It was at least a dozen pages of how she can't sing, dances awkwardly, has been dining out on Murder on the Dancefloor for 20+ years, the BBC should have hired someone with talent, etc., but the biggest shitstorm was after someone made a comment along the lines of "Not to be mean, but I wouldn't wear my hair up if I had ears like that."

>>468395
My mum said she dances awkwardly too. My comeback to this is that Dua Lipa also dances awkwardly, because this is true and nobody seems to have noticed. But Dua Lipa is otherwise excellent.

>>468395
>"Not to be mean, but I wouldn't wear my hair up if I had ears like that."
Is this the woman-on-woman version of "pointy elbows, would not bang"? Madness.

I ended up watching the Ellis-Bexter show and while it wasn't as cool as seeing in the new millenium at a Nine Inch Nails gig or something, it was better than watching Jools Holland do that one thing he knows how to do on a piano.

>>468397
>Is this the woman-on-woman version of "pointy elbows, would not bang"? Madness.

No. Her ears do stick out a fair bit, but it's yet another example of women being catty and tearing each other down when given the opportunity to.

The only group with more long-standing issues with women than this place is... other women.

>>468395
I mean, she has been dining out on Murder on the Dancefloor, but fair play to her.

I think Directed by Michael Haneke and BRING BACK RADIO 7 would be pretty funny things to have on a t-shirt.

>>468400
Why?

>>468401
I'll tell you after I've had my scan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDLNW1xsT6k

>>468403
Your lack of self-respect paid for that Burberry scarf.

>>468403

Those teeth.

They aren't really the worst buck teeth, but they are still one of her most prominent features.

>>468399
She stayed quiet for about 15 years, then suddenly the Netflix algorithm told everyone at once to love Murder on the Dancefloor again, so people started demanding she return to the public eye. She's doing those people a favour. And if I'm perfectly honest, I wasn't a huge fan of her the first time, so there's nothing wrong with her being exactly the same a second time.

>>468405
Did you catch her in the new Wallace & Gromit?

We really do live in a shit version of Blade Runner now, don't we.

Like, that's the main thing all speculative sci-fi films always gets wrong. They might be accurate in their predictions of the technology, but the bit they always miss is that it won't be cool and stylish, it'll just be shit. You know?

>>468406
Philistines! She's been pumping out bangers and children for years. Even during the early 00s she had several other hits.

Is this what you lot are doing now, going on Mumsnet and copying their opinions so you get accepted and then using your position to sleep with lonely single mothers. "Oh yeah don't worry lass" you say in your messages "I'll come over and sort your printer out. And wouldn't it be crazy to catch-up in real life over a bottle of wine. Do you still have those cat ears haha?" Bet you've been taking them on day trips to the seaside too once things get comfortable and fattening them up with fish and chips.

It makes me sick.

>>468408
I still don't get why these displays have managed to catch the public's imagination. Yeah it would be nice to have drones replace fireworks but it's not exactly novel technology or pushing the bounds of science. Not when you compare it to using drones to land on other planets.

There's a live press conference on Sky News right now about the Tesla Cybertruck that exploded outside Trump Tower in Las Vegas. The police chief who's doing it just mentioned that the explosion was contained because it was a Cybertruck, and in fact the windows didn't even break. It sounded so weird, and we all know Elon Musk likes to randomly give people a million dollars sometimes. Now I have completely lost faith in the veracity of this press conference. Am I going mental, or is this police chief likely to be an Elon simp, or might he even have been persuaded to add an advert into the middle of his crime report? It seems like the most likely thing is that I'm going mental, but I just saw him talk about how well-built Cybertrucks are in the middle of a press conference about an explosion.

>>468409
>Even during the early 00s she had several other hits.
I am well aware of that. I hated those too. Yes, even Groovejet. Take Me Home was probably the worst of the ones I can name.

>>468410

If you watch the CCTV, it's quite hard to disagree.

https://x.com/ReviewsPossum/status/1874627739434803706/video/1

I'm not at work again until Tuesday, but it'd be nice if I never had to work again.

>>468411
>If you watch the CCTV, it's quite hard to disagree.
Is it? How much damage does the amount of explosive used usually cause? For all we know the guy just farted in there and that set off the battery.

>>468413

The blast is low velocity, but decently sized - you can see the CCTV camera getting shaken about by the pressure wave. When cars explode, they usually burst like a crisp packet and you end up with bits of shrapnel everywhere. In this case, the glass doors on the front of the hotel are basically untouched and that guy standing about 12 feet away is apparently still alive.

This just isn't what the aftermath of a car bomb normally looks like. Maybe the bomber just did something incredibly stupid to make their bomb uniquely ineffective, maybe it's all a conspiracy to make an impressive-looking blast that won't actually do a lot of damage, but "the truck that's supposed to be really tough turns out to be really tough" is looking pretty Occamish from where I'm sitting.

>>468414
Maybe. If that's the case it sounds great until you consider that being able to contain an explosion doesn't make it safe to be inside - people not being able to get out when it bursts into flames during otherwise unremarkable collisions is in fact a bad thing.

>>468410
It does sound very suspicious according to your account, but I can't discount the possibility it may have been the action of a second party to provoke that exact line of thought. 'The right' are already portrayed as nazis and dangers to democracy, it's a logical conclusion in that narative that they would stage and a false flag.

>>468415
And what does that have to do with the car containing the blast?

>>468417
The car being "tough" in the context of containing a blast may sound to simpletons like yourself as the car being tough and therefore safe in an accident when in fact it would mean nothing, except perhaps the opposite. This is relevant because we're discussing how the chief's statement might be construed as advertising for the car. Is that in simple enough terms for you or do you need an English teacher to explain some of the longer words?

>>468414
>>468418


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUtE3QlTpKI

I mean, if I had to purchase a car based on the likelihood of the driver having to deal with a car bomb inside it versus the likelihood of the driver being involved in a collision, I know which factor would be more important to me.

Cars are supposed to crumple, right? This thing doesn't look like it would crumple. Isn't that bad?

>>468419
Movie magic!

>>468418

The Cybertruck hasn't been through Euro NCAP or IIHS testing yet, but Tesla's other models are consistently class-leading. I would be very surprised if Tesla had just forgotten everything they know about making safe cars and decided to build a deathtrap.

https://www.euroncap.com/en/ratings-rewards/best-in-class-cars/2022/

>>468421

Crash safety isn't always the same as product and build quality, mind.

Build quality especially of early Teslas was often atrocious, and while they have made strides to fix it, it's apparently still subpar on a value for money basis, considering the kind of quality you get for the same money from other carmakers.

Aren't Teslas more likely to kill you by trapping you inside while they are on fire than actually crashing? And the batteries had a nasty habit of catching fire, as I recall, which they might have sorted now but nevertheless.

Anyway I'm no explosives expert but that looks to me like it was just a bit of a shit bomb rather than the car being especially durable. I know the cybertruck is supposed to have windows made out of ballistic glass and all that bollocks, but it would just rip the frame apart anyway. It's got bulletproof windows but it's not a tank. The way the CCTV footage looks, there's a lot of stuff still burning after the explosion, like it didn't all detonate at once and went off more like a firework.

>>468421

The danger with Teslas is that they catch fire and never go out again. That is a point of inconvenience in a street. But on a cargo vessel or a ferry when you cannot put out a fire, that is a reason to abandon ship.

There was a New Years Day Parade around London - is this true? There're multiple hour long videos on Youtube with some fucking {i]American[/i] comentator, it's a disgrace. What the fuck, I've never heard of this before.

>>468425
That's not on. Khan should give his knighthood back, once he gets it anyway. He should take it off immediately like footy players do when they get a silver medal.

I'm so tired of the Americansky nonsense-world that I'm not the least bit arsed about this business down in New Orleans. Wow, an American went a tad nutty and killed a lot of folk? With a giant car and a firearm no less? It's only still news because they found a scary flag in his car, and I only know this much about it because I'm a big gumbo fan so I took this particular American atrocity more personally than I usually would.

>>468426
Imagine being a food supporter. Imagine identifying as part of the fan base for a particular foodstuff.

Yeah, babe, I'm a big fan of falafel. That's why the situation in Gaza is hitting me so hard.

>>468427

Food is like 95% of the culture we have left to distinguish between regional populations. Everything else we do is mostly the same. No matter where you live in the world, other than proper bongo bongo cannibal headhunter loincloth tribe places, we all get up, scroll our phone, go to work in our shit purgatory slave job for 8-10 hours, then come back to sit on our arse and scroll our phone some more before bed. The only major difference is what we eat. Capitalism has so thoroughly conquered the world that being a fan of food is probably one of the most sensible things you can claim to be. What else can you claim to identify with about a foreign culture that's not a completely meaningless aesthetic affectation?

Yes I am being facetious, but only mostly.

>>468427
>Yeah, babe, I'm a big fan of falafel. That's why the situation in Gaza is hitting me so hard.
That's literally the joke I just made about gumbo.

Can we get a box next to the "sage" one? One that we can tick when we're just mucking around? I'm really fed up of having to make follow-up posts explaining why I don't actually cycle down the wrong side of the road to establish dominance, or inhale iron filings to become "more like Wolverine".

>>468429
Wooosh!

>>468425
The chemistry between the two commentators is dire. They're constantly dropping balls, interrupting one another and jarring between topics. And what's with all the American state bands? Is this what it's always been like? Every otherband is American. I don't mind the various cultures represented throughout London but fuckin American?!.
Comming across racist, nationalistic or whatever but what the fuck.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3104v552jo

ITZ

>>468429
>Can we get a box next to the "sage" one? One that we can tick when we're just mucking around?
You should do what I do when I phrase a genuinely-held opinion in a deliberately foolish way for comedic value, and just stop replying. Actually, on second thoughts, sometimes I come here and there aren't any new posts, so maybe you shouldn't do that.

>>468431
It's not racist or nationalistic to not like American cultural imperialism. To quote from famous American Malcolm X: "I don't even call it violence when it's in self-defence, I call it intelligence". The Americans came for you on this, you didn't go over to NYC and start firing BBs at their floats.

>>468433
I genuinely don't understand what you're talking about.

Bloody done it again haven't I. Fell asleep on the sofa after dinner and pissed the entire evening away.

>>468435
As long as you didn't piss yourself m8.

>>468436
Weirdly, that's where I thought his post was going, so I was quite relieved to hear he'd just had an evening kip.

>>468435
I remember when I started doing this a few years back. After dinner/work kips is one of those things that comes with age and the sofa is a cruel mistress.

They must have known what they were doing when they gave Squirrel Girl thick thighs and a badonkadonk, surely?

ITZ!!

>>468440
I keep checking the local weather report, but it looks like I'm just going to get sleeted to buggery. Hopefully the hills catch some real snow and I can make a pilgrimage up to it.

It's amazing how supermarkets and Skyrim have made snow a novelty. Two-hundred years ago I'd be flipping a coin on whether or not I live to see February this weekend.

I don't think I've been to a provincial museum that didn't have shitloads of artefacts from Ancient Egypt. We really did loot the fuck out of that place.

>>468442
I think it's alright. I know Giza just got a big, brand new, museum of antiquities, but a pal who visited recently told me the Egyptians had literal piles of artifacts lying around. In museums, but piles nonetheless. We're probably going to have to give the Greeks some of their stuff back.