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.

>>468441

>Two-hundred years ago I'd be flipping a coin on whether or not I live to see February this weekend.

You'd also be contemplating slaughtering another goat or selling a few hens at the town market for firewood.

>>468444
A friend of mine recently bought a 1tonne bag of firewood for £75, but it's barely last a month. They're convinced much of it isn't actually hardwood, though none of it's soft like pine.
I wonder how much firewood you would get for a couple of chickens and how long it'd last? At a guess I'd say a few days worth, but then again a couple of live chickens will give you breakfast as long as they're alive. I guess you'd use the firewood sparingly, too - you're not heating a home but cooking and staving off the worst of a winter night.

>>468439
Supposedly all the the 3D models for all the Marvel Rivals women are much more...detailed, than they required to be.

>>468444
No I wouldn't. I'd be stealing sheep and making guttural noises in the woods to keep away those would transgress upon my realm.

>>468439

Without a doubt. They even carefully dialled her in for the maximum crossover between furry bait and Rudgwick nerd waifu. I haven't seen any articles in the gaming press whinging about it though, which I think teaches us that it's fine to sexualise women in videogames as long as it's not in a way that can be perceived as appealing to stereotypical straight lad kind of tastes. Without looking it up I am going to blindly assume they made her some mild flavour of queer too, "Oh it's so empowering and refreshing to see this kind of representation", they will opine on X as they wank each other off over all the Rule 34 of her.

Yeah I know I have made it all up and I'm chatting complete shit but you know I'm right

>>468441
>>468444
In 1825? Steady on, we're not Polish.

>>468449

Most of us are Northern though, which is probably just about on par. Maybe down in That London they had all the mod cons like gas lighting and coal fired stoves that heat the rest of the house by then, but up here a great deal of people were probably still living much as they had done since about the 1300s.

Do rabbits make good pets? I'm not in a position to get any yet but they seem fun even if you need to keep an eye on the cheeky buggers to stop them from electrocuting themselves.

>>468450
Nah, Thatcher hadn't been invented yet and the New Poor Law was well off. You might get a fair bit more for your meat considering the Corn Laws were driving up the price of grain.

>still living much as they had done since about the 1300s

Then you'd just be able to harvest the wood for free from tree farms on common land, exercise whatever manoral rights you had or use the generally assumed right to forage for dead branches. Or just chop some forest down anyway, fuck the sheriff - the stuff grows on trees.

Even better if you were lucky enough to live in that bit of time after that pandemic in the 1300s when workers were short but before an increasingly authoritarian and economically wrong-headed political class led to the criminalisation of being idle and the state impotently trying to set the clock back to before the pandemic because the workers had it too good.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinance_of_Labourers_1349

You lads ready for SNOWMAGEDDON?

>>468451
Become a beekeeper.

>>468451

>Then you'd just be able to harvest the wood for free from tree farms on common land

> use the generally assumed right to forage for dead branches.

Most land was owned by nobility and/or gentry, which probably meant you weren't even allowed to nick a bag of dead branches from it. There are stories of people getting a flogging or ending up at the pillory even for minor violations.

Maybe not so much anymore in most places by the 1820s, but in some more backwards areas, probably.

Wikipedia says that pillories weren't formally abolished in England and Wales until 1837.

>>468452

Last time I could feel it in the air, but this time I thick there's still far too much moisture about, and even though it was fucking freezing this morning the sun has still been blazing hot most of the day. It'll be slushy wank snow and not settle most places, I reckon.

Either way fuck it, I'm off til Tuesday and I've got a fridge full of fry up materials for the weekend. For the next three days it can snow all it wants.

>>468452
I went away for Christmas. I am travelling back from Somerset to Manchester tomorrow. I missed all the massive floods, but I have been reliably informed that where I live was not flooded. It's all turned to ice now, according to friends up there, so fingers crossed nothing bad happens to the trains.

>>468454
Nah you'd have a much worse time in the 1800s with that following the growing use of Inclosure Acts to bring everything into private ownership.

For tenants (customary serfs) and copyholds (basically leaseholds but you pay a ground rent in produce) there's even a word for the right:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estovers
(you similarly had one to let your pigs forage for food in the woods and there's other rights like fishing because back then everyone lived in artisan bread and smoked salmon)

It's a very complicated system because there wasn't uniformity and like today you can learn more about what was permissible by what wasn't in manorial rolls and the absolute death camp that was setting foot on royal forests. But for a manor to work it needed common lands for activities that would be shared by everyone on the land, pasture being the obvious one but equally woodlands in Britain have been intensively managed since about the Bronze Age because everyone needs the resource.

>>468457

So medieval peasants really did have a freer and arguably better quality of life than the early modern urban working class?

I've seen that point argued quite a lot, and it's easy to just kind of uncritically accept considering how much of a living hell the first textile mills and factories and suchlike were, back when they were full of child labour and horrifying accidents and employment rights weren't even a concept yet. But I always thought that would be romanticising the agrarian pre-industrial life too much, when if you really get down to it those people were slaves in all but name at the end of the day; they fed themselves and did what they could to keep warm but any excess value they produced was forcibly extracted from them by their lord and they were unable to advance in rank through the rigid social hierarchy by anything short of a miracle.

Really what I reckon is worth thinking about is how the comparison only breaks down when you enter the mid 20th century. The industrial revolution and its consequences indeed.

>>468458

Urban life was harder in many ways, but it was much less precarious on a day-to-day level. You worked long hours for a pittance, you were more likely to get cholera or lose your hand in a loom, but you were much less likely to go to bed hungry or cold. To a certain extent people were driven from the land by enclosure, but people were also drawn to the factories by the promise of a regular wage.

Living standards were meaningfully improving by the mid-19th century, it's just harder to discern those early improvements. Consumer goods that we take for granted like clothes and crockery became dramatically more affordable due mainly to increased productivity. Working hours progressively declined due to a combination of increased productivity, legislation and trade unionism. The real surge in living standards did occur in the 20th century.

Lucy Worsley is really getting on now.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ7ljgjK07s

>>468439

>>468460
Well, if BBC4 ever get the money to produce an original documentary, maybe you can find another academic be weird about.

Also, not to alarm you, she has been doing telly for about fifteen years now.

>>468463
>maybe you can find another academic be weird about.
Allow me.

>>468464
She's lovely but otherlad is still right, we've not had a new historian to leer at for a long while now. Do you reckon the raise in tuition fees coupled with the terminal decline in funding for PhDs has meant cute bookish women have given up on history?

Starting to question what I actually get out of participating in society.

>>468464
First appeared on BBC4 in 2010, last presented an Apple TV series four years ago. I was in two minds whether to count an Apple TV gig, but I know one of you lads watched Severance, so it's possible someone in this country who isn't a professional telly reviewer has a subscription. Or you torrented it, you naughty sod.

Anyway, point being, we're all getting old, and so is the very concept of fancying a woman who regularly fronts docos on Beeb Four. Maybe we could start a special Discord channel for having group wanks to old repeats of Top of the Pops?

>Starting to question what I actually get out of participating in society.
Don't top yourself yet, ladm8. I'm not really supposed to tell you this, but there's going to be some very humorous and rather insightful debate-cum-monkey-shit-flinging in the 2027 mega thread for that Autumn's bread riots.

>>468463
>maybe you can find another academic be weird about.

>>/x/41102

>>468464

She's not the same though. She's absolutely my type, but she's the cute and innocent but secretly filthy soft-goth lass you were dating in your early 20s. She's the one who hadn't even worn a tailplug until you got her one, and she was instantly hooked.

Worsley is an entirely different animal, one that's very rare and special. She's more likely to dress you up in PVC pony gear and parade you around in front of her upper class friends. She'd make you have a go on all of them and be happy to just watch while she's getting sauced on very expensive wine.

... Just summat for you all to consider anyway.

I've seen lots of very tall people today. I'm about 6'1" with my trainers on and there were loads of people completely towering over me, I think one of them will have been around 7 foot tall.

Bit snowy out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J5VBo1y-no

Would.

>>468479
I've seen one of these videos before; I assume you posted that one too. Give it to me straight: he is definitely, definitely, a sex predator, isn't he? Even by YouTuber standards, he's blatantly a monster.

>>468484
It definately gave me a wrong'un vibe as well. I was hoping it was a joke and she would lamp him for implying she's ugly and trying to exploit her for likes.

>>468484

I thought he was obviously a sex case, but it took me a second to remember that the media says we aren't supposed to fancy big lasses, then I didn't know what to think. I assume he's a bumder, or one of those lads who acts like a bumder so that women let their guard down.

Also would.

>>468479
I'd really like to learn how to make my own trousers. I'm glad other people are doing it and that it can look passable. I had thoght to open some small trousers at the seams and add a strip of fabric down each leg to widen them, but I've not tried it yet.

I'm guessing it's the cold snap, but I've had the sudden urge to get my sandwich toaster out. I'm currently making a cheese, pesto and sun-dried tomato toastie.

I'll probably live off toasties for a week and then put it in the cupboard for the rest of the year.

Also, the reason that guy gives off a sex predator vibe is because they're pretty much indistinguishable from the opening minutes of a Public Agent video.

Now Elon is suggesting the US invade the UK to free us. The Ket has taken him.

I just had the thought that the Brown, Blue, and other Blue wizard from LoTR could be ass as earth, sea, and sky.

I always found it odd that out of 5 wizards with colours, he decided to make 2 of them the same colour. This is my only way of rationalising it.

I'm really on board with the younger generations who say that facebook is fucking lame. I have no interest in seeing your regurgitated memes or reading your latest whiny blogpost where you share too much information about the latest mundane trivialities about your life, because you don't have any real life friends to shoot the shit with. I'm not a huge fan of instagram either, but at least it's mostly people sharing cool stuff that's happening to them. Plus, the ephemeral aspect of instagram stories is cool - sometimes you want to share some shit but don't want it out there forever.

Maybe I should I get a tiktok account....no, no...that would a bridge too young.

>>468493
There comes a point where you wish David Icke was the richest man in modern history instead, and we might have already passed it.

>>468493
Recently he got his pants pulled down posting on otherplace's /pol/ in one of the most embarrassing ways possible. It seems he fucks up badly when you make him angry on one of his various sock puppet accounts.

There's an image of the thread floating around, I don't want to get banned again. I'm wondering at this point how it ends for him, does he get help or does he become one of those reclusive old money men who will hide out in a mansion and accuse his housemaids of being replicants?

>>468495
>I have no interest in seeing your regurgitated memes or reading your latest whiny blogpost where you share too much information about the latest mundane trivialities about your life, because you don't have any real life friends to shoot the shit with.

Well nobody is making you come here.

It would be stupid to carry one of these around wouldn't it? There's a bottle opener but also a concealed corkscrew for wine bottles that I realise would easily be an excuse for a bouncer to start on you.

>>468499
It’s a great idea, but when have you ever needed a corkscrew on a night out? Do you buy closed bottles of wine? With corks instead of screw caps, no less? If that’s how you drink, then you probably won’t get in trouble at the Groucho Club or the Fat Duck, but if you drink in normal places then there is no point and you really are just asking for trouble.

>>468499
Before I even got to the end of your post I was thinking exactly that: it'll cause more hastle than it's worth. If you were bringing booze to someone's house, and you could be looking at a night with one corkscrew/bottle opener between four a dozen people, it could be useful. However, any bar is going have a corkscrew, right? This is all supposing you're not tramping it up on a park bench.

Personally, I'm not even convinced pocket knives ever see the light of day, so it's a no from me, I will not be investing in your business today.

I bought three £5 scratch cards. Didn't win anything.

>>468502

I won £20 once. Then bought more scratch cards with it, and won nowt.

>>468501
I quite often use my pen knife, mainly for cutting cheese when out and about.

>>468504
Really handy for picnics, definitely, though my brother was once shocked when I cut a tomato with my 'rat knife' which I'd previously used to, well, skin a rat.
I've stopped carrying a pocket knife since I was arrested for it a number of years ago. Turns out whittling under a streetlamp gone 22:00 is a bit intimidating to some people. I believe the knife itself would have passed closer inspection in court (only 1mm over the maximum legal 3 inches and arguably no locking mechanism, Opinel) but I was tricked into expecting a lift home if I accepted a caution. Had to walk ~8 miles at 4 in the morning, arseholes.
Have probably mentioned this before.

I'm listening to a thing on Radio 4 about a rogue surgeon. It shouldn't be funny, but the rogue surgeon's name is Marc Lamah.

If I don't have rock salt for grit can I chuck down normal table salt? It's pink salt, if that makes any difference.

>>468507
You can but it won't cover much area.

Had half a tin of kidney beans for dinner last night and farted myself awake this morning. Just like Brian on Family Guy.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K46pzftsgxw

The woman next door with the two small children is moving out. Sad story, she and her husband, who owns the house outright, separated last year, and as part of the divorce agreement, she was granted one year to live in the house without him, rent free. She now has to move out because as a single mum she can't afford to pay what I understand would be about £1,200 of rent a month that her ex husband would be charging her as of February. What complicates things is that she used to work at the company her husband owns, so she's also had to find a new job, with mixed luck.

What are your grooming routines?

In the morning I'll use an exfoliating face wash, either Lidl or L'Oréal, and before bed I'll use a moisturising face wash, either Creightons or L'Oréal, but that's it apart from trimming my facial hair and plucking my eyebrows.

Not for nothing, but unless you're a Moroccan goumier, you probably shouldn't be hiking the Dolemites in sandles.

>>468511

I've reverted to shower gel and water because honestly I don't see the benefit. I guess all the men's products that have cropped up in the last few years satisfy an increasing desire among 30ish to 40ish men to keep looking young and fresh as they are getting on a bit. And I, too, used to moisturise with products like L'Oreal Hydra Energetic, but after a few years I decided that the difference it made was too minute to justify spending over £7 every other week on something that was doing little more than leave an icky feeling on my skin.

I'm a bigger believer in other things you can do that will have an effect. If you do a minimum of physical workout, drink your fluids and get enough sleep, and don't smoke or drink alcohol, then that in itself is already going to have a big impact on the way your facial skin looks.

What ever happened to climate change? Used to be you'd hear about it everywhere but now it looks like even my green steel investments are not looking healthy at all.

>>468510
Even worse luck at the minute, I have to sift through nearly 200 applications this week for a job that's not even that well paid. It's going to be a very cold winter between this, the bond market and planet Earth realising it is skint.

>>468511
I stay up late watching dumb youtube videos and arguing with morons. When I wake up I complete the look® by getting out of bed with just enough time to splash some water and exfoliator on my face followed by moisturiser and then making some coffee. Of course I'm sure to minimise exposure to natural light sources so I look always look ill.

I've recently started using a safety razor to shave but I do that at night after a shower and then get mad because the bathroom mirror fogs up.

>>468515

>I've recently started using a safety razor to shave but I do that at night after a shower

I shave in the morning and before I go in the shower, because I don't like the feeling of after shave balm on my freshly shaved and still irritated face.

>>468511
Warm to hot water on the face by morning, use mirror to pick spots and blackheads on face. Sometimes I use soap.

>>468516
That feels like just taking the opposite approach to avoiding shaving rash. You're not softening your hairs beforehand in hot water, you're splashing your face with hot water instead of ice cold to increase irritation and you're just washing away the balm as soon as it's applied.

>>468518

>You're not softening your hairs beforehand in hot water

I apply shave foam and leave it for a few minutes before I start shaving. That normally softens the skin and the hairs enough.

Saw a real
ly big healthy looking fox this morning. He (I assume male, because he was about the size of a border collie, don't normally see them that big) hopped up onto a wall a few feet a way and made dead on eye contact with me for a few seconds. Pretty sure he only ran off because he saw me reach for my phone to take a picture, like that was somehow rude of me and offended him. I mean I guess that makes sense, very sneaky lads aren't they, didn't want his mugshot all over social media.

>>468520
It's a great experience, huh? I find standing stock still tends to confuse them enough that you get a decent length view, though the foxes where I'm at are tamer than you might expect.

I once found this absolutely huge and beautiful white onion; none of my family quite understood my amazement thereof.

>>468520
The only time I've been up close with a fox was when I was arriving home from a night out and they were trotting out of my driveway; I drunkenly tipped my imaginary hat as it went past.

I feel a little bit magical when I've seen deer in the wild.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2025/01/08/gayfemboy-0-day-router-attacks-ongoing-what-you-need-to-know/

>>468523
I was going to post something in the big /emo/ thread regarding otherlad's diary dives and how poisonous I personally think nostalgia is. However, now I'm on my way back to 2012 and noone can stop me. Sorry, Rebecca Black, I bet your Boiler Room set is a grand old time, but I have to make sacrifices somewhere.

I thought I'd take another stab at baking for the new year, something that I've always struggled with because I lack portion control. My first attempt at cookies ended in disaster after I used too much water but I persevered and just had some gooey cookies that were more like those cookie dough desserts you get from pizza places.

I'd show you a picture but I ate them all and now feel sick. Not sure where I'll go from here, baking for one isn't exactly healthy.

>>468526

I want to get back into the habit of baking bread. I always used to enjoy that. I made some ciabatta from scratch for the new years party I went to, and they all seemed to like it.

Somebody asked me if you can save money by baking your own bread, but I've worked it out and the answer is, probably yes, but not much. A 1 kg bag of plain flour is about £1.20, from which you can hope to bake about two full-size loaves of bread. A packet of dry yeast is 50p and should be enough for 20 loaves. The energy cost to bake one loaf is around 3 kWh * 24p = 72p. So you're looking at £1.34 all in for a loaf of bread.

But considering all the work you put into it, if you want it to be good and really taste like artisan bread from a bakery, then it's probably not worth the bother, unless it's something you actually enjoy doing.

Still living off toasties.

I'm in a Facebook group where people post pictures of things they find in charity shops. The other day someone posted one of those water dental flossers, used and in its box. Even now I have a visceral reaction thinking about it.

>>468531

>I'm in a Facebook group


Lad.

It's 2025.

>>468531
Is the group “Charity Shop Shit”? If so, I will probably see the same thing four or five times over the coming days.

>>468532
I don't have to justify myself to you.

>>468533
That's the one.

I saw a car today with the licence plate "DICK P".

>>468536

https://www.nationalnumbers.co.uk/blog/2020/10/funny-number-plates.html

https://www.driving.co.uk/news/10-rudest-registration-numbers-spotted-britains-roads/

It's interesting to note that while 'news media blindspots' are hard to imagine, particularly how a news agency could get away with dismissing stories and promoting naratives, I can clearly see how my own behaviour would invite it to happen.
What I mean is, besides the immediate noise I haven't seen much about the wildfires in America nor the more pressing scandal in UK judicial system. I've caughts a few talking heads and spotted a few avenue for further investigation to better understand the situation (regardless of tinfoil) .. but I just don't care.
Relevant to the UK scandal, I think I'm more demoralised and willing to die rather than confront the horror.

It puts into perspective how media 'psyops' can take hold without subjects even realising it. Even if there's nothing fishy in these 2 situations, it goes to show that I (and presumably those similar to me) have already checked out before any real effort is made to force that.

I just got outbid on two used CDs on eBay in short succession. Normally I'm the one who swipes auctions near enough at the last second, but this time, it happened twice that somebody put in a higher bid just five and eight seconds after my bid, with single-digit seconds to go. Meaning, I was briefly the highest bidder on both CDs, before they went to somebody else. My wi fi at home is a bit patchy at the moment, so I put in my bids a little earlier than I normally do, to have a safety margin. It's happened on other auctions that I became the highest bidder with just 2 seconds to go.

The CDs were Music for the Masses and Violator by Depeche Mode. I'm kind of in the mood to expand my collection of classic electronic music at the moment.

>>468545
https://www.ebay.com/help/buying/bidding/bid-sniping.

>>468546

I don't think you'll find many people using bid sniping software on auctions for £3 used CDs.

Can you see Alice Lowe's nipple in this photo or am I imagining it?

I'm the genealogy nut in our family and I was able to find out that somebody a bit up our family tree was descended from 18th century peerage. Meaning, one of our commoner ancestors one time shagged a Duke of East Bumfuck Something and they had an illegitimate child, who went on to become my great-great-something grandfather. It's all a bit obscure, and that noble bloodline became extinct in the late 1800s. Not a name anybody really remembers today.

Anyway, my second cousin started taking a keen interest in my research a while ago, and really liked the idea of having such illustrious ancestors. Worth mentioning that she was really a bit into that sort of thing before. Aristocracy, and all that. But what I also found out a bit later was that her nan was an orphan who was adopted by our shared great-grandparents. My late dad left me loads of old family documents that prove it. Apparently in those days it was all a bit hush-hush, and I'm not sure many in that part of the family ever knew. My second cousin's nan died in childbirth, so I guess it was all forgotten about. So we're not really related in blood at all, and those Dukes of Something are also not her ancestors. Which I then at some point told her, and now she's really upset with me, for "digging up the past and bothering her with all of that".

I'm not sure if it would have been better to keep quiet to her about her nan. And I'm not sure about the benefit of being able to say that you come from some obscure Duke who in all likelihood got a servant girl pregnant. I just like finding out interesting stuff about my ancestors. One of them was a well regarded blacksmith in the Midlands in the 16th century with eight children. Another had a brother who briefly became a factory owner in 1800s America but then lost it all. That's kind of much more interesting than somebody having been an aristocrat bastard.

>>468548
I've heard that woman is a nightmare to work with.

Had a weird mini argument with my girlfriend last night.

I mentioned I was watching a documentary about harassment of women in games, and she asked my thoughts on trout farming in gaming.

A horrible hour long debate ensued, and it ended with her asking to stop talking about it, and saying I have a lot of issues with women. All because my ultimate point was that I don't care if gaming spaces I engage with have women in or not.

>>468550
That wasn't what I asked.

Anyway, the in-character commentary for Darkplace is shit. Talented chaps, Holness, Ayoade and Berry, but their improve goes absolutely nowhere. I gave up on it by the end of the second episode, because I realised I would have enjoyed a regular "here's what else we filmed on that day that got cut" kind of commentary.

>>468551
Quite apart from any philosophical or political differences you and I may hold...

>>468551

Walked right into that one lad. It's only ever a power game when women ask you about these sorts of things. You're meant to give her boilerplate male ally (simp) platitudes or else she'll close the fish shop for a few days to teach you a lesson. Your only alternative is to go all in and tell her to shut up and make you a sandwich (or words to that effect) as a show of dominance, which is of course a risky move but it's the only one they will actually come out of respecting you more rather than less (regardless how they say they feel.)

I don't like it, I wish the fisherperson path were correct, but sadly that isn't how it is.

Someone I work with refers to Morrisons as 'Moggies' and now I cannot stop doing the same unironically

>>468551
>All because my ultimate point was that I don't care if gaming spaces I engage with have women in or not.

How, specifically, did you word this message to her?

>>468552
>>468553
I also explained Gamergate, and she interpreted the allegations of Zoe Quinn sleeping with journalists to get good coverage, as the games journalists coerced Quinn into sex if she wanted any coverage.

I don't even know if the sleeping around did actually happen, but the fact my girlfriend immediately saw it as Quinn being raped rather than Quinn had the agency to choose to engage in sex for positive gains, is kind of weird.

>>468555
Now I'm not even sure you have girlfriend, and possibly you just want to relitigate Gamergate because you're bored or something.

Frankly, I think you should be put to death for even being a gamer, but not before a decade of solitary confinement in a room where the lights are never dimmed. Then your soul would be locked in an Oblivion Cube and sent careening into the super massive black hole that occupies the centre of the Milky Way, at which point your very essence would be rendered into a billion wailing shards, never to know peace. Also Imagine Dragons is playing the whole time this is happening.

>>468554
Something along the lines of "It doesn't matter to me if women are in gaming spaces I'm in", nothing spicy.

>>468556
I really do. We also discussed dolphin rape in games. She think Assassin's Creed Shadows is bad for having a black protagonist, and instead should have you choose either a Japanese man or woman, or make your own character.

And Daniel Vavra was right to not put black people in Kingdom Come Deliverance if there weren't many black people in that location in that time period.

So women in games: good. Darkies in games: bad.

>>468555
I think anyone who knows enough about Gamergate to be able to explain it is clearly a wrong 'un.

I don't think my Mrs knows what Gamergate is.

>>468552
She's had more work than Darkplace, but suspiciously sparse. Coupled with the rumour (which may or may be bullshit) might paint a picture of 'difficult to work with'. Who knows however, this might merely be a refusal to get her tits out if anything at all.

>Can you see her nipple in this photo or am I imagining it?
There's something to the texture of the cloth but I think overall you're imagining it.

>>468560
>There's something to the texture of the cloth but I think overall you're imagining it.
Damn, then I really did waste three quid on the Darkplace DVD.

I'm a big fan of Alice Lowe's, and she's not even on the commentary. Well, I say "big fan", I really like Prevenge and Sightseers, but that's close enough to count, I think.

>>468556

>being a gamer

I don't think you are in any position to judge lad. You are clearly a Trekkie or Chris Chibnall or some other esoteric form of subnormal abhuman. I reckon even furlad can throw stones at your glass house.

I don't know what's going on now, so I'll ask this.

Do I say "pardon me" when I fart and "excuse me" when I burp or is it the other way round?

>>468561
Sightseers was pretty good, aye. I caught that one by chance. I think she shows up in those lesser known/appreciated scetch shows featuring Matt Berry and Ayoade crowds and to a lesser extent the Boosh guys. Possibly in Toast of London, too, though I'm probably confusing that with something else (actually I think she's only in the title sequence).

I didn't watch the Dark Place commentary, infact didn't realise there was one being that it'd be commentary on commentary, although that does sound like the kind of thing Holness would do.
I had the same problem with Mighty Boosh commentary - the first few episodes worth were horrendous with Rich Fulcher retarding the entire thing. I gave up realising there's just nothing there of the industry, thought processes and what have you. It was interesting to witness the differing attitudes of Neol and Julian toward it though.

>>468562
>Chris Chibnall
Woah, hang on, this is getting out of hand now. I'll have to take steps if you say something like that again.

>even furlad
Of course, he's the best of us.

>>468564
The commentary felt very meandering, and none of it was terribly funny. I suspect I'd be laughing more if it was just the three of them chatting about actually making Darkplace. Anyway, now I'm commentating on a fake commentary for a twenty year old TV show, that's pretending to be another show. IE, perhaps the most pointless furrow ever plowed.

I enjoyed The League of Gentlemen commentary, if you're looking for recomendations.

Did you know you need fursuit spray for your fursuit? Deodorises and disinfects the fur. On one hand cleanliness is good, but then what is being disinfected? Other people's shit and cum from a diaperfur party?

Not sure if it's usable for the interior of the suit too, for your own shit and cum.

>>468567
>what is being disinfected? Other people's shit and cum from a diaperfur party?
Is that sort of thing why you usually wash your hands?

>>468567

You know how you usually put your clothes in the washing machine because you're been wearing them and they start to smell without any piss shit or cum involved? At least I hope you do, but you're the type of person still posting about furries being weird in 2025 so I'll hedge my bets.

>>468567
Why are you shitting when you cum? Are you ill?

>>468570
Don't you ever wipe your dick on someone's fursuit after you've bummed them? It's a power play.

>>468571

>Don't you ever wipe your dick on someone's fursuit after you've bummed them?

Good times, eh?




You lot of wronguns.

>>468572
How else are you going to assert dominance?

I think we can call time on this particular bit.

I looked up someone I'd known in primary school and served in the army with. In school he was always a weird one and I heard that in middle school he got bullied horribly but he was a good lad who had turned his life around and seemed to have turned into a proper grown-up.

Anyway I googled his name and he's been in prison for a woman. I feel bad for his mum who was always strict but her son was everything to her.

>>468567
Why is furry stuff always so effeminate? It's like an entire subculture of bottoms.

>>468575
> prison for a woman
killing? raping? fondling? offending?

>>468576
Usual stupid stuff, she dumped him and he didn't take it well.

Is it weird that I like the smell of shoe polish?

>>468578

Only if it gives you an erection.

>>468577

That... is not an answer to the question.

>>468579

At what level of hardness would that erection then be cause for concern?

I just need you all to know that if I had £400 going spare I would be wearing this and looking incredible in it.

If I'm looking for a bag for daily hiking should I go with the Osprey Daylite Plus or something else?

It's currently £44 to ~£60 on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Osprey-Lifestyle-BackPack-Spikemoss-Alkaline/dp/B0CN1G9F4V/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Osprey-Daylite-Unisex-Lifestyle-Black/dp/B08LP1WWPT/

The Hikelite Tour is £63 direct:

https://www.osprey.com/gb/osprey-hikelite-tour-24-s24

>>468581

That... looks... dashing.

I just realised that I've been wasting 15 quid a month this past year as a surcharge for legacy PHP extended support on my business website that is hosted by Ionos. For some reason, it was still running PHP 7.x, because I didn't tick the box in my settings to upgrade to 8.3, although that switch is completely free and will save me those 15 quid in the future. With all the additional features, I was paying £25 a month, which seemed a bit much, but I couldn't quite put my finger on why, until now. I've been able to claim it in full as a business expense, but I was still pissing £180 a year up the wall in unnecessary costs.