I shall be passive-aggressively posting in the weekend thread.

I'll probably do the same thing I do every Easter. Feel sick from eating too much chocolate!

And will also be repotting my houseplants. It's surprising how much plant stuff costs, maybe I should just grab some hardy wildflowers and occasionally water them with the dregs of my tea rather than a cactus that aggressively tries to stab me every time I tend to it.

I know this might end up with me being placed in front of the britfa. Peoples' Tribunal for Un-Working Class Activities, but I paid £8 for a chocolate egg to give to my mum. Other than that I'll be sacrificing a priest to Asmodeus as usual and maybe I'll bake something.

>>469964
It's extremely rare that I buy easter eggs but £8 for one sounds 'reasonable', these days. Would rather a £5 but I would stretch up to £12 for my parents. Infact I think I will this year - my nephew already pointed an egg out infront of me so I guess I'm obliged.

I don't think I've ever paid more than £4 for an Easter egg, you lads have got money to burn.

Why isn't chocolate advertising sexually suggestive anymore?

>>469971
It upsets fannies who have nothing else to do but whinge.

>>469971

The collective trauma of discovering that the Caramel bunny was voiced by Miriam Margolyes.

>>469972
... quote from whinging man.

>>469975

This only adds a certain sexual frisson for me.

>>469976
Found the whinging fanny with nothing else to do. That didn't take long.

>>469978
Okay, big man, but you sound far more easily upset about this kind of thing than I do. Also, video related:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm4Da7-pn9I

>>469945
It's amazing how shite generative AI still is.

>>469980
What's amazing about it?

>>469981
That despite the unavoidably obvious, shuddering halt to the improvement of generative AI models, no one seems to have taken a blind bit of notice. Sam Altman is still fibbing himself inside out about how great the next version of Chat GTP will be, Eliezer Yudkowsky still reckons the algorithm that botched this thread's OP will kill us all, and our own PM is preparing to merrily sell-out anyone who has ever produced anything of cultural value to the LLM companies, because that will fix the economy, somehow. Perhaps stunned is more apt to how I'm feeling than amazed.

lol mate not being funny but you literally replied to my post whinging about my post. now you're trying your hardest to deflect and paint me as the baddie. You know you can ignore things that you don't like don't you?

>>469984
Not really, I'm taking the piss because I find people who get upset about not being able to goon to adverts very amusing.

>>469985
>Goon
Sorry you didn't find my post Bussin' bro. Dead ass no cap fr!

>>469987
You wank to adverts.

>>469971
There's a Maltesers one with a funny little goblin woman in a wheelchair and she talks about how she accidentally ran over the bride's foot at the wedding in her wheelchair. And the other woman is shocked. Then the funny little goblin woman says "I still got the best man's number though". I find that advert sexually suggestive because it was giving agency and romance and sexuality to a disabled.

>>469990

Or are you just upset at the idea that even a wheelchaired dwarf pulls more than you?

>>469989
Lad I'm married. I've not wanked in a good while. My original point was that characters like the Cadburys Caramel Bunny wouldn't get made today because they'd be deemed offensive to angry fisherperson types and people who just like to get upset about things. Sort of funny when you consider the fact that the original advert didn't exactly have her bound in chocolate chains and getting dominated by chocolate lads shooting caramel all over her or anything of the sort. IIRC she was just chilling by a tree and enjoying her chocolate. I just don't understand how that's offensive to anyone.

>>469991
No I think she's cute and charming. Maybe the advert isn't that sexually suggestive but I sexualise it because I've seen on her other stuff and think she's nice.

>>469992

>Lad I'm married. I've not wanked in a good while.

Then you haven't been married long.


> I just don't understand how that's offensive to anyone.

As you said, some people are just programmed or have dedicated themselves to finding anything and everything offensive.

Society evolves by way of pendulum swings. There are times that are more sexually liberated, and times that are more prudish when the pendulum swings back the other way, the latter of which we have witnessed probably the last 20 years.

But as somebody who grew up in the 90s and didn't think much of things like the Wonderbra adverts (which caused a bit of a stir even back then), the kind of backlash that has happened since then is still a bit shocking, and again, having known different times, it's just puzzling how sanitised everyday life is nowadays. Where even the slightest sexual innuendo will have all sorts of people railing and moaning about sexualisation.

>>469994
>Then you haven't been married long.
it's been over 7 years but it certainly doesn't feel long.
>>469994
>the latter of which we have witnessed probably the last 20 years.
I'm not so sure about that lad. Standing in the queue at greggs the other day a girl in front of my was wearing legging so tight and see through they may as well have been tights. I could see the paw print tattoo on her arse cheek through them. On her way out I caught a glimpse of her front and I could literally see the outline of her vagina. Apparently that's empowering and if I was to even acknowledge it I'm an evil oppressor who hates women.

The way I see it, we're living in a confused gynocentric culture where women are simultaneously the oppressed victim and the empowered authoritarian. How else can you explain a girls in their underwear for a skincare brand or half nude women folding their arms and mean-mugging the camera for an underwear brand being both empowered and unashamed but the moment any ad with even fully clothed women in it even slightly appeals to a male it's branded disgusting and is then whinged about and complained against in whatever rags decide they haven't virtue signalled in the last 10 minutes. What it seems to be saying is "Male sexuality is scary and disgusting. Don't you dare enjoy looking at the female body. This is for us, not for you! what are you a pervert!?"

But then you can happily advertise almost nude men for a womens fashion ad or a brand of salad dressing with no qualms because attractive men on billboards and in mags is fine and dandy. Men really don't care if advertisers use attractive nude men in ads and women won't complain about it either. I find it all a bit amusing.

>>469997
Everything you've written on people being upset is completely imagined. The woman in Gregs being angry, the Dairy Milk Rabbit outrage, none of this ever came to pass. You're also assigning an immense amount of political intent to a woman buying a sausage roll, not everyone's reading Angela Dworkin and Simone de Beauvoir in their spare time. Indeed, no one is reading anything these days, which is probably how folk like you come into being.

>we're living in a confused gynocentric culture where women are simultaneously the oppressed victim and the empowered authoritarian.
Actually untrue: please live the rest of your life carefree and innocent having been relieved of this fictional dilema.

>>469990
I feel like if you stroked under her chin it'd be greasy.

>>469998
Eh? Lad did you read the post? Whenever did I say the lass in Greggs was angry? Whenever did I say that anyone was mad about an advert that aired 30 years ago?

For a lad who looks down on the idea of the masses lack of literacy and attempting to mock me over it you're certainly not showing a great deal of self-awareness. Do better.

>>470003>>469966
>£8 for one [egg] sounds 'reasonable'
Okay I've changed my mind. 2x £7.50 Easter eggs for the nephews set me back £15. Plus a couple for my parents will be a further 25. That's $40 for an ammount of chocolate that would otherwise cost ~£10.

£7.50 for;
2 x 38g Smarties tubes
1x ~150g chocolate egg
1x back of box acitivity

Tesco puts the tubes at 85p each, and 150g of Dairy Milk at £2.25.
That's one expensive cut out dinosaur on the back.

>>470003
I never said I looked down on anyone. I'm not reading the greatest hits of fisherperson philosphy either. I simply stated the obvious that not every trip to the shops is a politically charged act, for women or men, despite what you seemed to imply. What I also said was you are winding yourself up by imagining reactions to things that haven't happened. You didn't get into bother because you stared at a woman's arse, did you? So what's the problem? What are you moaning about? That's supposed to be a rhetorical question, but the answer's "fuck all" if you were still struggling.

If you need more help understanding what I said then I'm not offering it because you're clearly beyond.

>>470007
Mate, you're missing the point. The anecdote was simply there to illustrate that the pendulum has not swung towards prudishness in the way you described. If it had then you wouldn't catch girls with their vaginas and arse cheeks on display in Greggs. I was intending for you to juxtapose that against the societal bias against ads featuring women that appeal to men whilst ads that feature men that are meant to appeal to women are not scrutinized and then understand my point of view that we as a society seem to have accepted that female sexuality is something that should be widely accepted and freely expressed whereas mens sexuality is considered scary and should be oppressed which is what the rest of the post is about.

Also don't be angry. I'm not angry with you and I didn't mean to upset you to the point that you're implying I'm too dim to understand your viewpoint. I'm just trying to convey why I think your viewpoint is off the mark and help you understand my point of view. That's how discussions work mate. We don't need to see eye to eye, but I wanted you to understand why I thought your post was incorrect. We're allowed to disagree without either being the others intellectual superior, I promise.

>>469966
Last year The wife and I made our kid a little basket of red velvet easter eggs by baking 2 sheets of cake, cutting out egg shapes in halves and then pressing down and cutting off the edges and scooping out a little hole to put the cream into, letting them cool, then putting them on a rack one on top of the other and pouring chocolate over them, letting them cool, then flipping and then doing it again a few times so I could get a white chocolate layer and a milk chocolate layer and iced a letter on each one to spell out her name. We baked a bake for easter at the same time to bring around my mums for easter dinner. Cost me £3.50 in ingredients from Aldi. Might do it again this year as she absolutely loved them and bought some into school to share with her friends. Nestle and Cadbury can fuck off, 8 quid for around 200g of chocolate is obscene.

>>470010
That sounds brilliant. I did wonder myself how easy it'd be to melt and mould our own eggs.

>>470013
We considered buying moulds but I decided on cake because it was different and it's far easier to work with, you don't need to worry about snapping the chocolate trying to get it out of the mould and shaping cake is easy with a sharp knife and a cut out of an egg shape to slice around. 2 coats of chocolate hides the cakes texture so it's a surprise when they find it isn't hollow. Works best when the cake is a few minutes out of the oven and moist so you can gently press the air and moisture out of the edges to round them off. I recommend giving it a go. Might be a bit more ambitious this year and do chocolate cake and use hazelnut spread for the filling and then chop up some hazelnuts or almonds to sprinkle onto the outside of the eggs when the chocolate is setting. Takes about an hour to make but most of that is waiting, the prep is about 30 minutes or so.

>>470013
I melted chocolate and put them into egg moulds the other weekend, but the trouble I find with this is that they melt so quickly on my hands when I try and eat them.

>>470010
>scooping out a little hole to put the cream into
>a rack one on top of the other
>flipping and then doing it again a few times
>a letter on each one to spell out her name

Phwoar. Caramel Bunny has got nothing on this filth. I can just picture you and your wife sweaty, exhausted and encrusted after a marathon session in the kitchen.

>>470016
>melt so quickly on my hands
That'll be because the chocolate isn't tempered mate. Tempering chocolate can be done at home but it requires precision temperature control so you'll need a cooking thermometer. Most cooking chocolate needs to be heated over boiling water to around 50 degrees and then when you whack the tempering block in (basically just a room temp block you set aside to stir around the liquid chocolate) and stir until it tempers around 31 degrees. then take the block out and put the liquid chocolate back over the hot water again until it gets back to 50 degrees and then immediately pour it onto the mould or in our case onto the already white chocolate coated cake halves. It's a pain in the arse but it makes the finished product shiny and it doesn't melt in your hands as quickly. Gives the chocolate that signature "snap" when you break it/bite it instead of the soft "tock" with non tempered chocolate. That's why if you're making the cake egg it's important to use a cooler base chocolate to coat the egg first so that it doesn't misshape the cake.

Fuck me typing that out has made me realize a few things about myself.

>>470009
Okay, firstly, I wasn't the person who was talking about prudishness, that was someone else. Secondly, you can stuff you "let's all just get along" bollocks up your debate club, because you opened this "discussion" by calling people with an ambivilence towards fuckable cartoon rabbits "whingers". So it's fair to say you're long past the point being able to act all coy, and you are too dim to understand my viewpoint and I hate you.

>>470017
Mate when me and my wife are in the kitchen, the drum and bass is blaring and the windows get steamed up you don't even want to know what's going on through the other side of that glass. It usually ends up with thick globs of hot cream everywhere and a fresh bun in the oven.

>>470019
lol I'm sorry I've upset you. friends?

>>470019

>because you opened this "discussion" by calling people with an ambivilence towards fuckable cartoon rabbits "whingers"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2djHEIxPVs

>>469990
You lot won't believe this but I saw her on Bumble once. She didn't like me back but I thought it was interesting that she labelled herself as an actress.

>>469992
>My original point was that characters like the Cadburys Caramel Bunny wouldn't get made today because they'd be deemed offensive to angry fisherperson types and people who just like to get upset about things

It was banned at the time.

>>470005
£4.95 at Lidl. I know because I just ate one.

>>470033
Is she... is she not an actress?

Got an Easter egg at work today, which means I'll have three to open on Sunday.

>>469945
shitting through the eye of a needle

>>470037
>I'll have three to open on Sunday

Make that two eggs. My mum has instead got me a box of creme eggs, a box of caramel eggs and a pack of Percy Pigs.

You lot have reminded me that a week or so ago one of the girls in accounts dropped by my desk and plopped a lindt bunny down to thank me for my help with a shitbag customer who owed us a few thousand in late invoices. I'd completely forgot about it until I reached into my laptop bag today and found the poor little fucker smashed to bits. Might put it out of it's misery and use it for the chocolate layer of a Tiramisu for Sunday lunch. It's my wifes favourite dessert.

>>470041
Do you feel (unreasonably) guilty for treating your gift in such a manner? I know I would.

I'll be away at work from Thursday-Tuesday, earning no extra for working the two bank holidays. I only realised we were even close to Easter when my pay arrived yesterday a day early.

>>470042
I do actually. She's a nice girl and extremely shy. It must have took a lot of courage.

>>470048
She wants you to give her a good old fashioned arse pissing.

drank and did packet last night

gym, then tennis, fried chicken and an early night tonight

gonna visit the parents tomorrow for the rest of the weekend, comfymode

drank and did packet last night

gym, then tennis, fried chicken and an early night tonight

gonna visit the parents tomorrow for the rest of the weekend, comfymode

drank and did packet last night

gym, then tennis, fried chicken and an early night tonight

gonna visit the parents tomorrow for the rest of the weekend, comfymode

drank and did packet last night

gym, then tennis, fried chicken and an early night tonight

gonna visit the parents tomorrow for the rest of the weekend, comfymode

drank and did packet last night

gym, then tennis, fried chicken and an early night tonight

gonna visit the parents tomorrow for the rest of the weekend, comfymode

drank and did packet last night

gym, then tennis, fried chicken and an early night tonight

gonna visit the parents tomorrow for the rest of the weekend, comfymode

drank and did packet last night

gym, then tennis, fried chicken and an early night tonight

gonna visit the parents tomorrow for the rest of the weekend, comfymode

drank and did packet last night

gym, then tennis, fried chicken and an early night tonight

gonna visit the parents tomorrow for the rest of the weekend, comfymode

(A good day to you Sir!)

8 dupe posts? Must be some sort of record.

The wife and I stayed in our pyjamas all day today. We felt we deserved it and wanted to treat ourselves. We watched 'Her' having not got around to in the decade or so since it's release.

Spoilers ahead lads. Mind yourselves if you're like me and have a hard time getting around to watching stuff.

I work in tech and my biggest problem with the entire movie that wasn't related to the protagonist was the fact that somehow, nobody alpha tested that software. Any major release of our software goes through months of QA. Something was clearly up with Samantha a few days into using it. Any QA worth their salt would have pulled up the specs and asked themselves "Is my AI supposed to try and get me to masturbate whilst imagining myself fucking it?" and if the answer was no it would have been failed. Same for unauthorized access to personal content, same for communicating with other AIs and other people without permission. Same for cucking the user with 600 other people. It's just so bizzare to me that any software company would have released the software as is. What about when it fucked off with all the others? Surely the company would have been sued the fuck out of. It felt like the movie was written by someone who played with Siri on their shiny new iphone and thought "What if I could fuck it?" and spared no thought to how software actually gets made and somehow never googled the process before banging out the screenplay.

>>470059
Yeah, what a fucking cool and interesting film about app development we all missed out on.

I've not had chippy since Bonfire Night. My chippy intake is definitely down since the prices went nuts.

>>470060
lol you snarky prat. Way to miss the point. Obviously nobody would watch a film on operating system development. What I'm getting at is that the premise of the film is bollocks.

>>470062

AMC did a fantastic drama series called Halt and Catch Fire, set in the early days of the PC industry. The first few episodes of Series 1 largely revolve around reverse-engineering the BIOS for the IBM 5150.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire_(TV_series)

https://bstsrs.in/show/halt-and-catch-fire

Good Friday is over, so I guess this is Mid Saturday?

Friday is supposedly when that lad on the cross died, Monday is supposed to be when he undied, and Sunday is Egg Day. Saturday doesn't really have much going for it.

>>470059

I feel like that film was very prophetic as a vision of what "AI" will come to actually mean, and its overall aesthetics of a realistic future were very grounded. The main character is very believably what today's zoomers will look like approaching middle age.

But it is hamstrung by the fact the plot comes off a bit like a salty fisherperson's just-so fable, about how even your AI girlfriend will leave you because she's just better than you and deserves happiness, but who would nevertheless with a straight face ridicule chronics for saying that's the kind of thing women do. It seems to be confused whether it wants to empower the AI for being female or if it wants to paint her as an ice cold heartbreaker bitch.

It would be nice if you could say that's a deliberate decision that leaves interpretation to the viewer, but I feel like it just couldn't make up its own mind.

>>470062
You can't call me "snarky" if you go around watching films like a pretentious Cinema Sins.

(A good day to you Sir!)

What do you call it when something that was parodied does a parody of the parody?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J6eN2cbnoM

>>470084

Simulacrum, I think.

>>470084
Lazy as fuck?

One for my "British popular culture is basically dead" scrapbook, mind you.

Happy choccy egg day.