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>> No. 470670 Anonymous
3rd June 2025
Tuesday 8:16 am
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New weekday thread.

How's everyone doing? Any big Summer plans?
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>> No. 470672 Anonymous
3rd June 2025
Tuesday 2:24 pm
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Still looking for a place to stay in Crete.

But it looks like there's no rush. Still plenty of places available on Booking.com. I'm going from June 25th to July 5th.

The price for my flight including luggage has just gone up. I paid £306 last week, and now the identical flight is back up to £382.
>> No. 470673 Anonymous
3rd June 2025
Tuesday 2:28 pm
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My work is having a grand opening event for our new building next door, and we want all our customers to click a link for tickets, just so we know how many people to expect. I just found out that they want us to apply for tickets too, even though we work there. I find this excessively bureaucratic. However, I cannot wait to go in with my ticket, then check the tickets of all my colleagues, and send away anyone who doesn’t have a ticket. That’ll show them.
>> No. 470674 Anonymous
3rd June 2025
Tuesday 3:38 pm
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There's a new search on for Maddie.
>> No. 470675 Anonymous
3rd June 2025
Tuesday 5:32 pm
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>>470672

Well I know just when to break in and steal all your Dire Straits CDs now.
>> No. 470676 Anonymous
3rd June 2025
Tuesday 8:03 pm
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>>470675

Help yourself to my dad's old Gary Glitter LPs as well, while you're at it.
>> No. 470677 Anonymous
3rd June 2025
Tuesday 11:26 pm
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Happy pride month to all our bumder brethren, ladybrethren, and somewhereinbetweenbrethren.

However, one of you will have to explain to me what the fuck you are doing with this "LGBTQIAA2S+" acronym. I'm not being funny but people were already taking the piss by the time you had added the Q. It's really getting out of hand now.
>> No. 470678 Anonymous
3rd June 2025
Tuesday 11:48 pm
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>>470677
>However, one of you will have to explain to me what the fuck you are doing with this "LGBTQIAA2S+"
What year is this?
>> No. 470679 Anonymous
4th June 2025
Wednesday 12:07 am
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>>470677
The main one, that's as long as you can reasonably go but which is often shortened because people can't remember it, is LGBTQIA+: lesbian, gay, bisexual, evangelist christian korean youtuber, queer/questioning, intersex, asexual, and anything else not covered already.

There was a notorious tweet from Justin Trudeau where he expanded it to 2SLGBTQQIA+, which gave two Qs for both queer and questioning, and also included the indigenous Canadian notion of two-spirit (2S), which is when a Canadian Eskimo is sitting in an igloo while having both male and female spirits, so it's basically nonbinary-ism. But 2SLGBTQQIA+ was roundly mocked for being a step too far.

Of course, if the "+" in LGBTQIA+ represents anything not otherwise specified, then surely you could just call them the L+ community and let the plus handle all the others.
>> No. 470680 Anonymous
4th June 2025
Wednesday 12:10 am
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>>470677

I've heard some people call it LG HDTV just to take the piss out of the endlessly incremental concatenation of seemingly random letters of the alphabet.

I've got nothing against anybody who identifies as different from the mainstream in that way. But before long, if it continues, we'll end up with that acronym spanning all 26 letters of the alphabet. And once we've run out of those, they'll probably use German umlauts as well. Or the Danish "ø".
>> No. 470681 Anonymous
4th June 2025
Wednesday 1:08 am
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>>470677
Next you'll start asking why the pride flag has race stuff in it and we'll be back to our usual discussion.
>> No. 470682 Anonymous
4th June 2025
Wednesday 7:12 am
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>>470678
>>470681

Oh shut up you pair. You no longer have a point with these remarks when the acronym literally does get longer every time I hear it and is starting to resemble a PC monitor model number.

It's daft, and I'm not some kind of raging mail reading homophobe for saying it's daft.
>> No. 470683 Anonymous
4th June 2025
Wednesday 7:48 am
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>>470682
Ok, boomer.
>> No. 470684 Anonymous
4th June 2025
Wednesday 8:16 am
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>>470682
I can't relate, brother. I'm out in the world saying stuff like "not to be gender essentialist" to 22 year olds, I was woke scolding street preachers on Monday. I'm so far beyond your world you're seeing me twice like I was faster than light.
>> No. 470685 Anonymous
4th June 2025
Wednesday 9:21 am
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If I don't win the EuroMillions on Friday someone else has to. The syndicate at work is getting out of hand.
>> No. 470686 Anonymous
4th June 2025
Wednesday 9:38 am
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Alarmy on the weekday thread? We've got to see this for the next 3 months at least.
>> No. 470687 Anonymous
4th June 2025
Wednesday 9:42 am
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>>470681

Speaking of which, am I OK to fly last year's pride flag, or have they added another bit?
>> No. 470688 Anonymous
4th June 2025
Wednesday 9:44 am
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Just booked my hire car for my holiday in Crete. £165 for a Nissan Juke with insurance. I think that's very reasonable.

I'm a bit unsettled by the £1,500 deductible in case of theft or accidents, but I'm a careful driver and my last claim here at home was probably more than ten years ago.
>> No. 470689 Anonymous
4th June 2025
Wednesday 9:46 am
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>>470687
Just fly a Palestinian flag instead and don’t get into any discussions about how they actually feel about the gays over there. You’ll be fine.
>> No. 470690 Anonymous
4th June 2025
Wednesday 11:06 am
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>>470686
Someone should have done the deed two months ago then, stupid cat.
>> No. 470691 Anonymous
4th June 2025
Wednesday 11:32 am
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>>470688
You ought not to expect a Juke. They definitely do exist in rental fleets but those comparison sites are adverts for a category of car, not a specific model. Make sure to document the paint and alloys. You say you've not made a claim, but have you kerbed a wheel in the last ten years? Either way, don't do it that week.

I rented cars for four months in the UK this year before leasing a new car. I liked to pay around £10 per day but the price definitely significantly fluctuated based on supply and demand and the time booked in advance. You see lots of horror stories in the reviews for cheap car rentals but I never had a problem.
>> No. 470692 Anonymous
4th June 2025
Wednesday 2:54 pm
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>>470691

>You ought not to expect a Juke.

That's a given. You rent the vehicle class, not a particular make and model. Which is fine with me, I don't have any preference with small SUVs like a juke. I just want something that gets me around and up and down some of Crete's mountainous back roads. That's all I want.
>> No. 470693 Anonymous
4th June 2025
Wednesday 4:07 pm
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Hold on lads I've sussed it.

Why don't we lay a load of those power induction things, you know like what charges your phone without p[lugging it in, underneath the roads? Then we could have electric vehicles that don't even need batteries. They would just be a chassis with wheels.

Get me on the phone with Kier Starmer or somebody, I deserve to be a millionare MBE and all that for this idea.
>> No. 470694 Anonymous
4th June 2025
Wednesday 4:39 pm
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I've noticed that when the sun is out I end up walking for hours but when it's grey and miserable I might not even walk 3k in a day if I'm working from home. I know that's obvious but I'm surprised at how consciously unaware I can be of the impact of a little sunshine on my activity or how I managed to spend so many summers playing on the computer growing up.

Also debating finding a creative hobby like a painting class or maybe sculpture. Like all men I don't express myself well and I bet there's lots of chances to be silly. But I'm not sure what I'd draw/paint/make because I'm also an adult so I've had my imagination and sense of wonder beaten out of me long ago. Do you two do anything creative?

>>470693
So would we dig up all the roads first or just never really do it like we did for rail electrification?
>> No. 470695 Anonymous
4th June 2025
Wednesday 4:49 pm
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>>470694

No, it's much simpler than that, we just lay it out on top of the existing roads then tarmac over that.
>> No. 470696 Anonymous
4th June 2025
Wednesday 4:50 pm
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>>470693
Other people have already had the idea of putting solar panels under the roads, and this was nixed because they would be damaged by cars constantly driving over them. I assume your idea would have the same issues. Furthermore, you would also need to get every other country in the world to do the same thing, because car manufacturers won’t make a better type of car just for us. And, you’d also have to run these power thingies under driveways so that people can park outside their houses rather than just leaving their cars in the middle of the street (which would also block everyone else on the road, because they wouldn’t be able to drive round). You would also need to do the same for private car parks, which would eat into their profit margins and therefore bring down the wrath of shareholders and newspapers upon your political party.

Why, yes, I do indeed belong to what Liz Truss called the anti-growth coalition. I just hate good ideas and I have no imagination. I’m sorry, but that’s just the way I am.
>> No. 470697 Anonymous
4th June 2025
Wednesday 5:00 pm
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>>470694

I dabbled in drawing when I was yougner and I was pretty good at it for the standards of your average teenlad, if I had kept it up I could probably have made a decent amount of money on the side drawing questionable hentai and furry porn.

But my main creative outlet for most of my adult life has always been music. The beauty of music is that if you go for instrumental stuff, as most bedroom hobbyists probably do because it's easier, you can allow it to be a lot more abstract- You can hide behind that, you can express your feelings without the vulnerability that usually goes along with that. You can pour your feelings into it and nobody will really be able to say with certainty what exactly those feelings were. Writing lyrics is where it's hard not to cringe yourself to death trying to be earnest. While I have gotten better at that over the years, and I can write songs with much more sincerity and real feeling in them now without hiding it behind layers of innuendo or tongue-in-cheek humour, even my most personal stuff still has that layer of metaphor and indirectness.

But let's be honest, lyrics are always far better that way too- When lyrics are too blunt and direct, it comes off childish; I am always reminded of a song one of my mates wrote when we were about 16-17, about breaking up with his highschool sweetheart who was never even into him to start with so he had really made it all up in his head and it was all so direct and literal, it was painful.

The greatest songs ever written are always extremely vague when you actually look at the lyrics, and it's that vagueness that makes them so universally appealing. People can project their own meaning, and that's a good thing. Go read the lyrics to Stairway to Heaven. They make absolutely no sense, but holy fuck if the lines "and if you listen very hard, the truth will come to you at last, when all is one and one is all, to be a rock and not to roll" don't resonate within my very soul.
>> No. 470698 Anonymous
4th June 2025
Wednesday 5:07 pm
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>>470693
I can't be bothered to type out the entire extended slow build-up for the joke but the punchline is electric trains.
>> No. 470700 Anonymous
4th June 2025
Wednesday 10:18 pm
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It must have been a fever dream, but I could have sworn Dancing on My Own was a cover by Robyn and the original version was from the 80s.
>> No. 470701 Anonymous
4th June 2025
Wednesday 10:44 pm
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>>470700
There’s another version of Dancing on My Own which is a slow ballad version by a male singer whose name I have forgotten. Are you thinking of that?

I also remember another song by Robyn called Keep This Fire Burning which in my opinion was originally by Beverley Knight, but I looked that up a few years ago and I think the Robyn one was the original and I just heard it second.
>> No. 470702 Anonymous
5th June 2025
Thursday 12:56 am
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>>470697

>and it was all so direct and literal, it was painful.

Some people would probably just call it "raw". It reminds me of Ever Fallen In Love by The Buzzcocks. Which was also a quite juvenile song.

Another example of absolutely genius ambiguous lyrics from near enough around the time of Stairway was Strawberry Fields Forever. On the face of it, it's some roundabout way of John Lennon processing a particular childhood memory, but the way it can both mean anything and nothing still stands out as brilliant songcraft even after close to 60 years.
>> No. 470703 Anonymous
5th June 2025
Thursday 3:14 am
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I once accidentally gave an acquaintance his big break in our industry by buying him twitter followers as a joke. I came clean and he had them removed but by that point his account was blowing up with real followers as the algorithm favoured him, and that lead to minor fame that he could have pursued if he wanted.
It's taken me six months but I followed enough people on one of the more popular twitter clones that tens of thousands followed back. That only took a month, I waited and slowly unfollowed them all. Now I have tens of thousands of followers but am following fewer than five hundred. The algorithm doesn't work the same way but I figure if I wait a bit longer they'll forget why they followed me and crowd psychology will have at least a small effect in my favour.
It doesn't feel totally ethical, it's a very small social contract I've broken many many times. But it's cheaper than buying ads. They can always unfollow me if they choose.
>> No. 470704 Anonymous
5th June 2025
Thursday 6:46 am
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>>470701
It was definitely an 80s song with a male singer, it had that navel gazing sort of sound rather than a ballad with strong vocals, that I listened to in my car. Must have imagined the entire thing.
>> No. 470706 Anonymous
5th June 2025
Thursday 11:17 am
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>>470694
>Do you two do anything creative?
Outside of painting miniatures, would you believe I've never once noticed this come up before in the years I've been visiting this place?

As with the jist with otherlad, I used draw to but never developed it into a hobby. Last month I dug out my drawing tablet for the PC, did a few shitty sketches for a week then filed away and slowly forgot about them.

I mentioned it around the time but didn't garner any interest, probably for the trash image I'd attached. It didn't get much better but it was fun while it lasted.

The most interesting part was coming to terms with the technical side of things and that how electronic drawing allows a great range of tools and techniques that would otherwise feel like cheating. Whether that's layers, cloning and copying or isolating pixels, it's all very compartmentalised whereas physical mediums allow for fewer mistakes and much greater holistic 'artistic journey'.
On paper your work becomes a description of art, whereas on screen it's almost a direct snapshot of a static image from your imagination (image-imagination, interesting).
Maybe that's just the creative process in general that I never learned. I got an E in art studies at school, dickheads gave me a fucking medal. I'm sure I've complained about that before.

I attach these scraps for the sake only of anchoring the post. Appart from the dark squiggle there's not much here I'm that pleased with, they're basically the early stages of building up images that I never bothered to continue. This is ultimately the fruit of 2 weeks playing with a sketching tablet. E in Art, bitches.

>>470702
>Some people would probably just call it "raw".
This reminds me of hearing some kid talking about why he liked screamo music so much because of its 'raw emotion'. So fucking cringe, man. I can't seperate the music from the listener as they're invariably angsty teenagers. It's similar to how my submissive, timid younger sister discovered "oh I think I might want to learn the drums" - yeah no shit, you want to be heard.

I hate recalling my teenage years, god.
>> No. 470707 Anonymous
5th June 2025
Thursday 5:24 pm
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Just held in explosive diarrhea for over two hours in an important in-person meeting.
>> No. 470708 Anonymous
5th June 2025
Thursday 5:35 pm
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>>470694
>Do you two do anything creative?
I have a wide range of creative skills and interests that are as diverse as they are useless.
>> No. 470709 Anonymous
5th June 2025
Thursday 7:33 pm
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I believe that my chief creative talent lies in my ability to write limericks. I'm pretty good at those, and terrible at everything else.
>> No. 470710 Anonymous
5th June 2025
Thursday 8:29 pm
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>>470709
Write one about Britfags then.
>> No. 470711 Anonymous
5th June 2025
Thursday 10:28 pm
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>>470710
A graduate and two school-leavers
And zero religious believers
Went into their shed
To turn this domain red
We're communists, and there are three of us

It's not my best work, but it's probably somewhere in the middle so you can judge me on it anyway.
>> No. 470712 Anonymous
6th June 2025
Friday 12:02 am
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A fit Turkish lass I know just dyed her hair blonde and it instantly reduced her shaggability. Makes her look very incongruous, but not in a cool artsy way. If you don't have the facial features for it, just don't it.

In more important news, I bought a pair of used Blundstone Chelsea boots two months ago and the soles just disintegrated in the middle of my daily constitutional. When it comes to certain kinds of soles, "barely used" on ebay is probably a bad thing, despite the shoes or boots looking new. There's this PU hydrolysis thing where the bonds in the rubber don't adhere to each other when they're not used regularly, but I'm certain it's also very much down to how much the manufacturer shelled out for Chinese slave labour and how jewy they wanted to be in terms of planned obsolescence. I've had bball trainers from Adidas that still last after six years despite only using them occasionally in summerd, Nike bball shoes that fell apart in six months, and Asics running shoes that went kaput after a couple of years, despite me being a two year champion in the sport of unfulfilled new years resolutions.

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 470713 Anonymous
6th June 2025
Friday 12:04 am
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I drove past Flamingo Land today. Looked like it was shut. It had been fucking down with rain half the afternoon and it is a weekday, so I wouldn't be surprised if it was just dead, but really I can't imagine the place still doing a lot of business.
>> No. 470714 Anonymous
6th June 2025
Friday 8:16 am
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I've had potato waffle sandwiches for breakfast. In my opinion, it's superior to a chip butty.

>>470713
Last time I went to Flamingo Land was about 8 or 9 years ago. It was horribly tired and dated then, I can't imagine it's much better now.

I've had a look online and if I wanted to book for next week it'd be £51.50 a ticket. I could book Alton Towers for £34.
>> No. 470715 Anonymous
6th June 2025
Friday 8:45 am
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>>470712
Oy vey m8.
>> No. 470716 Anonymous
6th June 2025
Friday 8:49 am
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As unfashionably 4chanish as it is to invoke those anti-semitic tropes, I very rarely see bans handed out around here for anti-shamanism. Bit of a double standard, just saying.
>> No. 470717 Anonymous
6th June 2025
Friday 10:09 am
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>>470716

Are you joking? Why do you think we have the word filters?
>> No. 470718 Anonymous
6th June 2025
Friday 2:23 pm
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>>470717

Aren't they a bit watered down nowadays.

There was a time when even the words "word filter" were filtered to "genuinely hilarious joke".
>> No. 470719 Anonymous
6th June 2025
Friday 2:37 pm
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Is there a proper name for the taste group that includes aniseed things? I refuse to believe that liquorice and fennel and so on can all be such different plants and yet so similar.
>> No. 470720 Anonymous
6th June 2025
Friday 3:31 pm
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>>470719

Anethole.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anethole
>> No. 470721 Anonymous
6th June 2025
Friday 5:51 pm
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>>470720

What did you just call me?
>> No. 470763 Anonymous
9th June 2025
Monday 5:33 pm
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Asda have rejected my refund request after they delivered mouldy sweet potatoes yesterday. Shower of bastards.
>> No. 470764 Anonymous
9th June 2025
Monday 5:41 pm
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>>470763

Serves you right, we only use Ocado on this website.
>> No. 470768 Anonymous
10th June 2025
Tuesday 8:47 am
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It's amazing how often the answer to being stuck in a state of decision paralysis is "have a wank". I don't think it would work in a war, but in my personal life it's great.

>>470763
I'll never forget all the rotten peppers I saw in Asda once. Covered in blue mould and the packets were full of vile water. Bad supermarket, bad place; they tried to warn us by making the logo that awful colour, I suppose.
>> No. 470769 Anonymous
10th June 2025
Tuesday 1:16 pm
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If I'm going to a pub then I'll usually order a pint of something like Peroni, Birra Moretti or Madri. Maybe if the likes of Carling had a Mediterranean name I'd drink them.

In other news, I wish they'd stop trying to make crisps healthier.
>> No. 470771 Anonymous
10th June 2025
Tuesday 10:30 pm
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What did we agree on coffee again, were the filter coffee machines worth buying compared to just using having instant? I know a lot of people have big fancy machines these days that will make all sorts and lick your arse in the morning.
>> No. 470772 Anonymous
10th June 2025
Tuesday 10:58 pm
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>>470771

They are nice, but realistically speaking if you're a dedicated full time caffeine addict, you'll end up still buying instant. Otherwise it's like being a full time smoker without switching to roll-ups. Either you're loaded, or just love to piss money away.
>> No. 470773 Anonymous
11th June 2025
Wednesday 1:01 am
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>>470772
What if I just like a cup of coffee? I can't say that filter has ever struck me as better than instant but it might be a matter of taste.
>> No. 470774 Anonymous
11th June 2025
Wednesday 7:52 am
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I went over 15 years without breaking a phone, but in the past 5 years I've managed to drop and completely fuck up 2.
>> No. 470776 Anonymous
11th June 2025
Wednesday 8:45 am
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>>470774

Seconded. I've had mobile phones for 26 years and never broke a single one, but just a couple of weeks ago my current phone got the Spiderman app as the screen cracked when I dropped it.

It's only in the bottom right corner a bit, so I haven't bought a new phone yet.
>> No. 470777 Anonymous
11th June 2025
Wednesday 10:02 am
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>>470774
I was thinking just yesterday that I haven't heard about people dropping their phones in the toilet or sink for a few years now. Either people have improved their grip strength and reduced their carelessness, or the increased water risistance of modern phones has meant people no longer need to cop to their mistakes.

>>470776
Get a screen protector. My phone would have had a shattered screen years ago if not for that. I replaced my iPhone 5 screen probably about four times before it finally died properly, but I'm a little annoyed at how much time and effort I could have saved if I'd spent a fiver on a sheet of sticky plastic.
>> No. 470778 Anonymous
11th June 2025
Wednesday 11:08 am
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>>470777

I normally get a screen protector right away for every new phone, but with this one, I couldn't find the right protector when it came out because it was still a brand new model, and then when the first few nicks and scratches appeared, it was sort of like, I won't need one now.

I've cursorily been looking at new phones, but haven't decided. I've got a lot of legacy audio hardware that isn't Bluetooth capable, so it absolutely needs a 3.5mm headphone jack, which is rare now, as phone makers have figured out how to sell you more expensive phones with less features every year.
>> No. 470779 Anonymous
11th June 2025
Wednesday 11:23 am
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>>470774
Are they iPhones? I broke my old Motorola when I was in bed and dropped it behind the radiator, and I took that cue to switch to an iPhone to see how they were. Not only have I repeatedly had the conversation with people that they are notoriously slippery, but other iPhone users have expressed anxiety that my phone is “naked” because i haven’t got a phone case. And it is indeed quite slippery, so perhaps there has been a recent development in phone manufacturing that makes phones more droppable.
>> No. 470780 Anonymous
11th June 2025
Wednesday 11:24 am
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>>470779
>because i
Its autocorrect is abysmal too.
>> No. 470781 Anonymous
11th June 2025
Wednesday 11:38 am
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>>470779

Get a rubber phone case. That should take care of any slipperiness.

Most other phones are also very slippery right out of the box, so that's not just an iPhone problem.

The last good phone I remember that didn't have that problem was my Samsung Galaxy II mini, which had a detachable plastic cover on the back with sort of a non-slip finish. But most newer phones have had Gorilla glass backs for ages now.
>> No. 470783 Anonymous
11th June 2025
Wednesday 12:32 pm
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I've got piss poor download speeds lately in my back garden both on my laptop and my phone, and both on my wi-fi and the LTE mobile network. It tends to be better inside the house, but it's still not as fast as I've been used to.

Could there be any interference from some sort of radio transmitters nearby? All I can think of is that my neighbour installed a new CCTV camera above his front door a few weeks ago, but it appears to be connected via RJ45/ethernet cable and it's at the front, not in the back where I've got the bad bandwidth.
>> No. 470784 Anonymous
11th June 2025
Wednesday 2:01 pm
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Fuck, what was I gonna do today? I'm sure there was something. I got up at 7, had a shit, went back to bed until about 12, and I've been reading about Spanish pike and shot formations on Wikipedia.

The postman has brought a parcel for next door, but I think next door have moved out, I haven't seen them in months. So that's probably going to sit in my hallway for a few weeks until I decide to do something about it. I'm going to have to go somewhere and talk to someone to sort that out aren't I, fucking hell. Why do these things happen to me.
>> No. 470785 Anonymous
11th June 2025
Wednesday 4:27 pm
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>>470779
The first phone I broke was a Huawei, which fell out of my pocket while I was sat down during the first week I had it; the case I'd ordered hadn't even arrived by the time it happened. The crack only got worse over time. That phone had no grip whatsoever.

The second phone was a Motorola. That came with its own plastic case but I dropped it so many times it cracked in one corner, which led to part of the screen turning black. Since yesterday the entire screen flashes various shades of green. I never used to be careless with phones but that one fell on the floor quite a few times.
>> No. 470786 Anonymous
11th June 2025
Wednesday 7:56 pm
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That's reminded me I had one of those half-awake dream moments this morning where I was upset because I'd taken a chunk out of the top of my phone, which I have only had about 6 months. And also I was late for work.

Then I woke up and was relieved that my phone is fine and it's my day off.
>> No. 470788 Anonymous
11th June 2025
Wednesday 8:44 pm
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>>470786
I'm going to dream I'm late for school again and struggle to recollect my adult life on waking now, aren't I? Thanks for that, arsehole.
>> No. 470789 Anonymous
11th June 2025
Wednesday 9:02 pm
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>>470783

Wifi and LTE are on completely different frequency bands. If something is interfering with both, then it's almost certainly a big bit of electrical equipment that has started making a lot of sparks, most commonly a dying electrical motor or transformer. Old petrol engines with a magneto ignition system are notorious for this, but it's pretty unlikely that a neighbour is running their classic car or an old petrol mower 24/7.

If that is happening, then the simplest thing you can use to try and track down the source of interference is an AM radio. Tune it between stations, listen out for a repetitive buzzing or tapping noise and see if it's louder in any particular direction.
>> No. 470791 Anonymous
12th June 2025
Thursday 10:35 am
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Nitzer Ebb's frontman just passed away. Please make sure your local goths are able to cope at this time.
>> No. 470792 Anonymous
12th June 2025
Thursday 11:09 am
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Barely slept at all last night because my sacroiliac joint was acting up again and I had no more painkillers in the house besides some Voltarol gel which turned out to be almost no help at all, and I only had a teacup of petrol left in the tank to go to an out of hours pharmacy at 3am, and I wouldn't have been ok to drive anyway because I had just taken my mirtazapine.

A sprained sacroiliac joint is absolute torture and pretty much every position you assume in bed is constantly painful, and turning over in any direction even more so. I get it occasionally after strenuous physical work or exercise. My orthopedist told me a while ago that there's nothing generally wrong with it, just that it appears to be a bit "tender".
>> No. 470793 Anonymous
12th June 2025
Thursday 11:11 am
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The Home Office has gone too far this time.
>> No. 470794 Anonymous
12th June 2025
Thursday 11:26 am
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>>470791
I can't remember the last time I saw a goth.
>> No. 470795 Anonymous
12th June 2025
Thursday 12:14 pm
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>>470793
What have they done? Based purely on your tone, I worry they might have deported a fat woman.
>> No. 470796 Anonymous
12th June 2025
Thursday 12:18 pm
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>>470795
Plane crash in India.
>> No. 470797 Anonymous
12th June 2025
Thursday 12:36 pm
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>>470796

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8d1r3m8z92t

>London-bound plane carrying 242 people crashes after take-off in India

I guess that's one way you can limit immigration.
>> No. 470798 Anonymous
12th June 2025
Thursday 12:51 pm
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I think I've got a bit of heatstroke from being outside with minimal shade for about five hours yesterday without putting on any suncream, like a dafty.

I've just had a shower on the coldest setting but the water felt warm on my body. That can't be good.
>> No. 470801 Anonymous
12th June 2025
Thursday 3:04 pm
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Went to watch sports day. If they allowed gambling I'd have made an absolute killing with an accumulator on the sole black kid winning every single race.
>> No. 470802 Anonymous
12th June 2025
Thursday 3:05 pm
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>>470798

Stay out of the sun for now, put some ice or one of those cooling gel packs on your forehead, get plenty of fluids and electrolytes, and a good bit of rest.

I had pretty bad sunstroke once on our first evening on holiday, where I'd literally spent the entire day floating on the water on an air mattress. I didn't even remember most of it later on, but apparently around dinner time I got up from my bed in our hotel room and was mumbling all kinds of incoherent things. My parents then put me back in my bed and let me sleep it off. The next thing I did remember was waking up the next morning with very severe sunburn on my back.
>> No. 470803 Anonymous
12th June 2025
Thursday 4:23 pm
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Jeremy Clarkson's childhood home is up for sale.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/162858752
>> No. 470804 Anonymous
12th June 2025
Thursday 5:27 pm
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>>470803

It looks like he sold it ten years ago. So whoever buys it does not get to meet Jeremy Clarkson in any shape or form.

But maybe that's a plus.
>> No. 470805 Anonymous
12th June 2025
Thursday 5:40 pm
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>>470803

That's his childhood home? He's always been a posho, then? I was under the impression he was a class traitor but at least had humble roots.

Then again he is a journalist. Has there ever been a time journos weren't an exclusively nepotist PMC clique.
>> No. 470806 Anonymous
12th June 2025
Thursday 5:52 pm
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>>470805
>Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson was born on 11 April 1960 in Sprotbrough, then part of West Riding of Yorkshire.[5][6] He is the son of Shirley Gabrielle Clarkson (née Ward), a teacher,[7] and Edward Grenville Clarkson, a travelling salesman.[8] His parents, who ran a business selling tea cosies, put their son's name down in advance for private schools, with no idea how they were going to pay the fees. However, shortly before his admission, when he was 13, his parents made two Paddington Bear stuffed toys for Clarkson and his sister Joanna.[9] These proved so popular that they started selling them through the business.[10] Because they were manufacturing and selling the bears without regard to intellectual property rights, upon his becoming aware of the bears Michael Bond took action through his solicitors. Edward Clarkson travelled to London to meet Bond's lawyer. By coincidence, he met Bond in the lift, and the two struck up an immediate rapport. Consequently, Bond awarded the Clarksons the licensing of the bear rights throughout the world, with the family eventually selling to Britain's then leading toystore, Hamleys.[11] The income from this success enabled the Clarksons to be able to pay the fees for Jeremy to attend Hill House School, Doncaster, and later Repton School.[10]
>> No. 470807 Anonymous
12th June 2025
Thursday 5:52 pm
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>>470805

Speaking from the viewpoint of me actually being an estate agent, I don't think it's very posh. As rural buildings go, it even looks a bit plain. In good nick, yes, and I like the interiors that are also modern and up to scratch. This isn't somebody's converted barn on a budget. It's just that nowadays, in this market, virtually any well looked after larger property even somewhere in the sticks of East Bumfuck will command a high price which will at least seem like a lot on paper. And you're probably paying an extra 300 grand just because it's where a sometimes controversial TV personality shat his first nappies. So if you were to buy a similar compound property in a similar location from somebody who is a completely private individual, just north of £1M wouldn't seem that steep for what you get.
>> No. 470808 Anonymous
12th June 2025
Thursday 6:05 pm
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>>470807

A property worth a million quid is very definitely posh. Remember median household income is £36k, putting the average family's mortgage affordability as somewhere around £200k, being very generous. Maybe it wasn't worth a million quid in the 70s when they bought it, but it still won't have been three year's wages for a factory worker, will it.

This is why we end up with this weird schism where people see farmers and pensioners as poor hard done by under appreciated groups, but they are in very straightforward terms the wealthiest groups of people in the country by asset ownership.
>> No. 470809 Anonymous
12th June 2025
Thursday 6:07 pm
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>>470806

>Because they were manufacturing and selling the bears without regard to intellectual property rights, upon his becoming aware of the bears Michael Bond took action through his solicitors. Edward Clarkson travelled to London to meet Bond's lawyer. By coincidence, he met Bond in the lift, and the two struck up an immediate rapport. Consequently, Bond awarded the Clarksons the licensing of the bear rights throughout the world, with the family eventually selling to Britain's then leading toystore, Hamleys.

Well, that explains a lot. And to think, nowdays you can't even train your AI model on an extensive dataset of copyrighted IP and sell its regurgitated output at a profit without being arrested and sent to jail (metaphorically, by hysterical Twitter using types).
>> No. 470810 Anonymous
12th June 2025
Thursday 7:11 pm
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>>470808

£1M is definitely an absolute ton of money for the average young family looking for a place to raise their kids. Unless you've got rich parents ore are an upwardly mobile executive or entrepreneur, it's not realistic. But then, as the median earning young family, you probably wouldn't be looking for a five bedroom with 5000 square feet, like Clarkson's childhood home. Even three to four bedrooms above 2000 square feet would be pushing it, when the nation's average is about 1500.


>This is why we end up with this weird schism where people see farmers and pensioners as poor hard done by under appreciated groups, but they are in very straightforward terms the wealthiest groups of people in the country by asset ownership.

It often happens that people live in homes that are paid off and which are now worth a tidy sum if they were to be sold, but that's almost the only assets they've got. Yes, in theory, they are rich, but in order to free up that wealth, they would have to sell their home, which they have often lived in all of their lives. That's not something many of them are prepared to do, so they'd rather live in a deteriorating property with loads of backlogged repairs and eat spaghetti and tinned soup all week.

It's what is called house poor. More precisely it's when a much lager portion of your income is spent on your house than would be healthy in your financial situation, but that term is also used when people have little more than their house and the shirt on their back.

I actually had one elderly client just recently, a widower whose pension and savings after his wife's death just weren't enough anymore to pay for upkeep, utility and all the other things. So he very sadly decided to sell. It took some convincing, but he eventually agreed to about a £100K markdown from what could have been £400K and more if the house had been in good condition. He has now moved into assisted living, where a touch over £300K will go some way for his twilight years, but he was still quite sad to sell his house that he'd lived in and raised a family for over 50 years.

I guess my point is, don't judge people who are asset rich on paper but who really aren't rich in any way that you and I would think of as rich. Their struggle is very often real.
>> No. 470811 Anonymous
12th June 2025
Thursday 7:27 pm
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>>470805

He used to be very obviously posh, but he toned it down for the telly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-X222bpiFw
>> No. 470812 Anonymous
12th June 2025
Thursday 7:59 pm
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>>470807
Remember that you are replying to a poster who just said, presumably in complete earnest, that getting a job as a TV presenter instead of heading down t'pit at 14 makes you a "class traitor". You're pretty much speaking to Pol Pot, I suspect. Of course, if he is our usual friendly neighbourhood Maoist, then the undeniable fact that even many affluent people with comfortable lives have zero hope of ever paying that much for a house just proves his usual point that we all need to rise up and overthrow those who can afford such mediocre opulence.

How do you get to sell so many celebrity houses, anyway? Are celebrities constantly moving? Are you a specialist in celebrity residences? What's the worst celebrity house you've sold? I bet Kerry Katona's lived in some right shitholes.
>> No. 470813 Anonymous
12th June 2025
Thursday 8:10 pm
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>>470812
Getting a job as a TV presenter instead of heading down t'pit at 14 doesn't make you a "class traitor" but being Jeremy Clarkson does.
>> No. 470814 Anonymous
12th June 2025
Thursday 8:20 pm
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>>470812

>How do you get to sell so many celebrity houses, anyway? Are celebrities constantly moving? Are you a specialist in celebrity residences?

I don't know where you got that, but I sell bog standard residential family homes to ordinary people like you and me. And occasionally buy to let flats.

I could tell loads of stories and anecdotes about ordinary people, but they're probably not that interesting.

Although, I once had a potential buyer looking at a property who told me he was some sort of lower level TV executive who was about to be moved to another regional office and needed a new home for himself and his family, but that was about it. He told me he'd worked on some well known TV programmes in the past, but they weren't ones I normally watch.
>> No. 470815 Anonymous
12th June 2025
Thursday 8:25 pm
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>>470814
Has the job made you a bit racist? All estate agents I know hate dealing with Asians.
>> No. 470816 Anonymous
12th June 2025
Thursday 8:42 pm
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>>470815

I wouldn't say that. I've more come to loathe certain types of people, both sellers and buyers, and I've found that you can be dealing both with absolutely insufferable white British cunts, and on the other hand with very endearing people from different parts of Asia.

With one caveat, and that is that a lot of buyers from eastern Europe as well as the Middle East are still looking to buy loads of properties with illegal money. It could cost me my entire existence if I knowingly, and in many cases even unknowingly facilitate money laundering that way, so as an estate agent you normally want to not come within a mile of anything dodgy like that, but it can be very difficult to dissuade people like that from buying. I normally know what's up after about five minutes of talking to them on the phone and asking standard AML catalogue questions, but if you're unlucky, they'll just keep calling, and if you're really unlucky, they will figure out where exactly a property is and then they'll come and pressure the owner into selling to them. Which is where things can get really dicey.

It hasn't made me racist, again, although I now treat those two kinds of nationalities and ethnicities with absolute caution when they show up and want to buy property. I'd say well over 70 percent of them are into shady stuff that you just don't want anything to do with.
>> No. 470817 Anonymous
12th June 2025
Thursday 11:53 pm
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I've been suggesting that my mum to use an LLM to support her in everyday life. She's always been a bit loopy and it would be a useful tool to support her in the sunset years rather than using facey and the people around her. Unfortunately when I said today that she should ask Gemini about whether a product will help her health issues before buying it she responded that 'AI's are just for saddos' to talk to.

I think I get it that she has no frame of reference for this technology other than what she sees on the news but it's still very annoying and I suspect will lead to messes I'll have to clean up.

>>470816
What's up with them lot buying up all the seaside towns anyway? Do they know something we don't or is it just easy to find determined sellers on the coast?
>> No. 470818 Anonymous
13th June 2025
Friday 12:11 am
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>I've been suggesting that my mum to use an LLM to support her in everyday life. She's always been a bit loopy
This strikes me as a fucking terrible idea.
https://futurism.com/chatgpt-users-delusions
https://futurism.com/chatgpt-mental-health-crises
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/clinical-and-forensic-dimensions-of-psychiatry/202412/when-ai-connects-the-wrong-dots-chatbots
>> No. 470819 Anonymous
13th June 2025
Friday 12:35 am
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>>470812

Your first mistake is presuming I was being entirely earnest. Your second is that I don't think being a TV presenter makes you a class traitor, the point was that I thought Jeremy Clarkson started off working class and then started LARPing as a posho; but if it turns out he has really been a posho all his life then it's not a LARP is it.

You flatter me with the Pol Pot comparison though.
>> No. 470820 Anonymous
13th June 2025
Friday 1:16 am
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>>470817
She's correct and "support her in the sunset years rather than using facey and the people around her" is a dystopian statement if I ever heard one.

Sage because ut was such a miserable idea it might be bait.
>> No. 470823 Anonymous
13th June 2025
Friday 9:55 am
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>>470817

>What's up with them lot buying up all the seaside towns anyway? Do they know something we don't or is it just easy to find determined sellers on the coast?

Seaside towns and properties within them were booming especially during the pandemic when most people spent their holidays domestically. And that's where you saw an incredible surge in property values. A friend's parents live in Worthing near Brighton, and he has told me that some beachfront properties in Brighton doubled or nearly tripled in market price during that time. For now the craze seems to be over, but it's still an attractive location especially for Londoners with enough money who want that money to go further, in an area that's not that far away. And because a lot of wealthy Londoners are foreigners (cue jokes about Londonistan), that's why you've got many of them buying those properties.

I'm not sure those properties will see another increase of the kind we saw the last five years though. Not without inflation and wages keeping up anyway. And I'm no marxist, but I tend to be very critical of the property market surge. Yes, it means more commission for me, but at the end of the day, a house should be somebody's home, not an investment asset for speculators and house flippers. Which is what the price increase has largely been driven by, and not just by sheer demand for rooves over people's heads. The latter is largely about the same as it was in 2019. And no real value or fitness for use is added by a house suddenly costing £500K instead of £300K. You could argue that one day when you sell your house you get to cash in on a property boom and that it benefits you that way, but there is still a limit. And it adds no value-for-money at all for new homebuyers who buy that house from you at that price.
>> No. 470825 Anonymous
13th June 2025
Friday 10:12 am
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A Moonpig card has arrived in the post today, but half of the envelope is torn open at the bottom. I wonder if someone at Royal Mail thought there might be cash or a voucher inside.
>> No. 470826 Anonymous
13th June 2025
Friday 10:13 am
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>>470823

>And no real value or fitness for use is added by a house suddenly costing £500K instead of £300K. You could argue that one day when you sell your house you get to cash in on a property boom and that it benefits you that way, but there is still a limit.

That's why I called it a "rentier elite" in the Labour thread, because although a large amount of the speculation is driven by and supported by "ordinary people", ie the grey haired mob, the ordinary person doesn't benefit that much out of it. Sure their house is worth twice what they bought it for, but they will still have to put the money they gain straight back into buying another equally over-inflated property.

The only people who benefit from it are those who own multiple properties as part of a portfolio of rentals (who are just as often semi-retired baby boomers as they are multi-national pension funds etc) or those who make their entire living by buying and selling, adding a couple of coats of magnolia paint, and skimming off the fat. "Ordinary" people support it and will vote NIMBY over it, because they think they are truly enriched by their house value, but the people whose interests it really serves are our modern day landed gentry. They are the people who can chuck all their money at politicians and butter up local councils to make sure the situation doesn't change.
>> No. 470827 Anonymous
13th June 2025
Friday 11:26 am
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>>470826

>Sure their house is worth twice what they bought it for, but they will still have to put the money they gain straight back into buying another equally over-inflated property.

That point is also often missed. Even if you move and sell your old house, that money will barely be enough for a similar home elsewhere in a similar location. The only way to really benefit from selling your house for 500 grand that you bought for 200 is if you spend it. 500 grand buys more goods and services and improves your utility than 200 grand does. But other than that, it's just a value on paper. And you still give up the utility of living in a house you own.

Or another thing you can do is if you sell an expensive urban or suburban property and move out to the country. It's fully conceivable that your 500 grand you get from selling your semi detached house in Mitcham could get you a farmhouse twice the size on a spacious plot of land somewhere in the rural Midlands. Then again, utility is different things to different people. Moving out of South London to the countryside could mean a considerable loss of utility to some people, while others might quite enjoy it.


> or those who make their entire living by buying and selling, adding a couple of coats of magnolia paint, and skimming off the fat.

I really don't enjoy working with house flippers as an estate agent. Many of them, in the spirit of their DIY work they did on a house, will opt to sell their house directly without an agent anyway, but those who do turn to an estate agent often have very unrealistic aspirations about the kind of price their done-up property will get them. And then I have to tell them that plastering over cracks and fissures in a brick wall or putting laminate over rotted wooden floors and beams isn't a renovation, or at least not one that's up to standards, and could land both them and me as their agent in hot water if the buyer finds out.

Property shows on TV that make house flipping look all too easy haven't helped in that respect. And I think they only push up property prices again, because as I said, it enforces the idea that a house is an investment asset to turn a profit on, rather than a place to live. Which is why it's a good idea, as I've said before, that some countries have a minimum holding period for property, which is usually several years, during which the profit from selling a property is taxable. In those markets, it tends to have a slowing effect on property value increases.
>> No. 470829 Anonymous
13th June 2025
Friday 7:01 pm
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I used tricolor spaghetti with my bolognese for tea but it looked like I had a plate of rainbow laces instead. Do not recommend.
>> No. 470830 Anonymous
13th June 2025
Friday 7:22 pm
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>>470829


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydEgrdaCBfw
>> No. 470831 Anonymous
13th June 2025
Friday 8:25 pm
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I've just had an unsual encounter walking home from the shop. Going past a harbourside semi-cocktail bar that attracts upper working and middle classes, there's the usual crowd of maturing lads and women not unfamiliar to cocaine. One of the women, slightly older and rougher than the usual clientel, breaks off from her group with arm outstretched to me, links hers into mine and suggests "Do-se-do" with a rhetorical questionmark. She had slightly bug eyes that you'd assosiate with a pub. We made one turn before I disengaged and reclaimed my arm, thanking her twice and buggering off without looking back.

I know it's stupid but it's upset me a bit, enough to mention it among the support group britfa.gs. I'm mixed with feelings; embarrassment for her being rejected infront of a group of suitors, presumably not the first time this evening if she was desperate enough to performatively interact with me, a socks & sandle, home-haircut hippy. I feel mildly affronted at the daring to do that to a stranger, almost ridiculed by the fact of my resistant response.
There was also something quite rough between our inner elbows - looking, I asked myself if she'd applied something to my skin during the motion.

It's completely drained me of enthusiasm for something I was enjoying, somehow having convinced me that I'm stupid for persuing the interest.

Anyway, we're meant to have a decent storm tonight. Looking forward to enjoying that, not like the last that didn't happen.
>> No. 470832 Anonymous
13th June 2025
Friday 8:53 pm
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Fucking fruit flies.

The sun shines through the big windows on that side for most of the afternoon, so I have to leave the kitchen windows open any time the temperature climbs above 20 or else it heats up like a conservatory. But this means any scrap of food left out seems to attract flies within minutes. I forgot I'd put some brown mushy bananas in the bin earlier this week, so I came to throw the rubbish away when making my dinner and a swarm of about a dozen of the disgusting little bastards came out as soon as I lifted the lid.

It distresses me because then anything else in my kitchen feels tainted. They bother me more than normal flies for some reason, because they are smaller and harder to get rid of.
>> No. 470833 Anonymous
13th June 2025
Friday 9:42 pm
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>>470832

Just don't leave any foods out that attract them or which can be a breeding ground. Put all your fruit and veg in the fridge or a cupboard.

And you can make your own, very effective fruit fly trap by putting about an inch of vinegar in an open bottle, mixed with a tablespoon of sugar. And then just put that bottle somewhere out in the open in your kitchen. Fruit flies absolutely love that combination, and before long you will catch nearly all of them that way.
>> No. 470834 Anonymous
14th June 2025
Saturday 1:33 am
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>> No. 470835 Anonymous
14th June 2025
Saturday 1:34 am
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>>470834
Looking unusually like Toby Jones in this one.
I hate to do it to the guy (each), but traditions must on such a unique visage.
>> No. 470836 Anonymous
14th June 2025
Saturday 9:16 am
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>>470835
He's standing with his head tilted, you fucking halfwit.
>> No. 470842 Anonymous
14th June 2025
Saturday 9:48 am
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>>470836
No, I'm quite sure he has uneven eye placement. I think it's quite charming. He'd look good in tweed. His name is Gary O'Donoghue.
>> No. 470883 Anonymous
16th June 2025
Monday 8:16 am
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I am already too warm.
>> No. 470886 Anonymous
16th June 2025
Monday 8:38 am
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I thought I had a load of boring shite to do today, but I checked my emails earlier and it's tomorrow. Fucking yes, man. Now I get to do the boring shite I want to do, like washing and cooking paella. Let's rock!

>>470883
I don't know if it was because I possibly got, mild, heatstroke on Saturday, or the insect bite I got on my leg, again, on Saturday, was full of poison, but yesterday, despite it not being especially hot I was sweating like mad. Myabe it was just very humid.
>> No. 470903 Anonymous
16th June 2025
Monday 4:06 pm
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Better strap in lads.
>> No. 470904 Anonymous
16th June 2025
Monday 4:17 pm
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>>470903
I bet the sewers are proper pongy right now.
>> No. 470909 Anonymous
16th June 2025
Monday 5:20 pm
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Just saw a lad in town who was completely dusted on whatever illegal substance. He was staggering along the shop windows carrying a small box of blank CDs, weirdly, and kept shouting "Don't buy any CDs, they're not worth it!!".
>> No. 470910 Anonymous
16th June 2025
Monday 5:40 pm
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For tea I've fried mushrooms and gnocchi in butter before adding spinach, cashew nuts, double cream and an entire block of some Polish cheese (Cascaval?) I got in Asda which tastes like Babybel. There's no way this doesn't clog my arteries.
>> No. 470912 Anonymous
16th June 2025
Monday 6:08 pm
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>>470910
Functioning arteries or otherwise, I'm currently eating one meal a day to lose weight and I almost started chewing on my monitor reading that.
>> No. 470913 Anonymous
16th June 2025
Monday 6:32 pm
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>>470912
It was that dense I was barely able to eat a bowl full of it, but it was nice.
>> No. 470919 Anonymous
17th June 2025
Tuesday 9:38 am
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Remember to shut your doors and windows within the next hour or two lads. Keep the cool air in, warm air out. Draw the curtains and blinds in your sun-facing rooms.
>> No. 470920 Anonymous
17th June 2025
Tuesday 9:39 am
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>>470919
Calm down, mate. It's not tornado season.
>> No. 470924 Anonymous
17th June 2025
Tuesday 11:01 am
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Started playing Undertale.

It shames me to say that one of the first things I did after my session was look for Toriel porn on FurAffinity. I'm not even that much a furry, but I think she's neat.
>> No. 470926 Anonymous
17th June 2025
Tuesday 11:30 am
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>>470924
I find a wank first thing in the morning usually sets me up for a day of fewer distractions. There is the rare chance it rolls over into an all day affair, however.

I used to be into some furry stuff as a teen but thankfully grew out of it. Was partial to those Renamon pics drawn with coloured pencils - distinctive but I couldn't name the artist.
Looking at a few regularpics now it's so strange a person could ever see this as sexual - it's completely abstracted, right?

The thing about furrydom is it's just so weird. Whenever I've visited a gallery site I've been shocked at the level of fetish displayed barely a layer beneath the surface.
>> No. 470927 Anonymous
17th June 2025
Tuesday 12:25 pm
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>>470926

I suspect the abstraction is part of the appeal. It's a part of the way that people can feel such intense affection for fictional characters that are human-adjacent, but how a flesh-and-blood human being is "too real", or too familiar.
>> No. 470928 Anonymous
17th June 2025
Tuesday 12:29 pm
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>>470919

Are you a vampire?
>> No. 470929 Anonymous
17th June 2025
Tuesday 1:07 pm
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>>470924
I tried, really did. But I must have missed the boat. Undertale just did not grab me, Hollowknight I can do. DS1, DS3, somehow hit different. I dont mind challenge. Undertale just never grabbed me,
>> No. 470930 Anonymous
17th June 2025
Tuesday 2:03 pm
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Topped up my car with diesel and within a few minutes of driving I'm getting an "engine fault, have the vehicle repaired: particle filter additive too low" warning message. It feels very coincidental.
>> No. 470931 Anonymous
17th June 2025
Tuesday 2:32 pm
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>>470930

It is a coincidence. Refilling the DPF additive (Eolys) isn't a hugely difficult DIY job, but you will need to get under the car to access the reservoir and you'll need an OBD reader to reset the fault code. It's safe to drive your car in that condition, but you will want to get it done sooner rather than later because a clogged DPF can be an expensive job.
>> No. 470932 Anonymous
17th June 2025
Tuesday 2:41 pm
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I feel dizzy, as though I'm sick or hung over, but no nausea or other symptoms with it. It's disconcerting.
>> No. 470933 Anonymous
17th June 2025
Tuesday 3:48 pm
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>>470931
Thanks, lad. Think it'll be okay to leave until I can get it into the garage on Friday? It'll probably have to do about 100 miles in the meantime.
>> No. 470934 Anonymous
17th June 2025
Tuesday 5:01 pm
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>>470933

Yeah, that shouldn't cause any problems. There isn't a sensor in the reservoir, so the ECU is just making an educated guess at how much is left. This is usually quite conservative, so it's unlikely that the tank is actually empty.

The additive just makes the soot in your exhaust gases easier to burn, so nothing will break if you do run out. If you were to drive for thousands of miles without any additive, then there's a chance that the DPF won't be able to burn off that soot during a regeneration cycle, increasing the likelihood of clogging.

If you do a lot of motorway miles, your DPF is probably in good condition - short journeys and stop-start driving around town tend to clog up DPFs prematurely. If you do eventually have DPF issues in the future, I'd recommend finding a local DPF specialist. Main dealers tend to just replace the DPF which can cost thousands, but it's usually possible to clean the DPF for about £300.

For your additive refill, I'd expect to pay between £100 and £150.
>> No. 470936 Anonymous
17th June 2025
Tuesday 7:51 pm
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>>470932
Perhaps you have an ear infection. I had this last year, and it still happens sometimes, and I have spoken to multiple doctors but they couldn't replicate it on demand and it was very minor so they wound up just guessing that that's what it was. I do really love sticking stuff in my ears.
>> No. 470937 Anonymous
17th June 2025
Tuesday 7:58 pm
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>>470936

That seems likely.
>> No. 470939 Anonymous
18th June 2025
Wednesday 1:00 am
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Not sure what to make of this one.
>> No. 470940 Anonymous
18th June 2025
Wednesday 2:05 am
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>> No. 470941 Anonymous
18th June 2025
Wednesday 6:12 am
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Elon's daughter is charming. She seems autistic but in a good way. Like a non-chronic masturbator 4channer type.
>> No. 470942 Anonymous
18th June 2025
Wednesday 10:07 am
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>>470940


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpnS7mJMXE8

Love the passive aggressiveness in this one.
>> No. 470943 Anonymous
18th June 2025
Wednesday 10:14 am
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>>470939 >>470941
>The universe knows what you want and doesn't think you deserve it
Stop fawning over autistic children, mate. Your practicing a behaviour that will only hurt yourself.
>> No. 470944 Anonymous
18th June 2025
Wednesday 11:18 am
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>>470943
She's 21, so it's fine to fawn over her.
>> No. 470945 Anonymous
18th June 2025
Wednesday 11:26 am
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>>470944
21 is still a child you dirty paedo.
>> No. 470947 Anonymous
18th June 2025
Wednesday 11:52 am
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>>470945

I'm very sure I remember reading somewhere that Grace Long was born in 2002, which makes her at least 22 years old.


Checkmate, lad.
>> No. 470948 Anonymous
18th June 2025
Wednesday 1:00 pm
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Is there any savoury meal which isn't improved by sprinkling crispy onions on top?
>> No. 470949 Anonymous
18th June 2025
Wednesday 2:31 pm
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>>470948

I'm having Tesco's sweet and sour chicken in a bit, I'm not sure it would really go with that dish.
>> No. 470950 Anonymous
18th June 2025
Wednesday 3:31 pm
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>>470949
In the wise words of Neil Buchanan, go on give it a go.
>> No. 470951 Anonymous
18th June 2025
Wednesday 4:03 pm
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>>470950
I’m pretty sure that was Mark Speight who said that.
>> No. 470952 Anonymous
18th June 2025
Wednesday 4:26 pm
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>>470951
Tty it yourself.
>> No. 470953 Anonymous
18th June 2025
Wednesday 6:24 pm
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Fuck sake.

I cut my finger rather badly slicing some sodding chorizo. Phoned the surgery to see if anyone there could stitch it, but they didn't have anyone available. They said I should go to the pharmacy for some of those strips I can't remember the name of for more than five minutes, so I did. The pharmacist was very helpful, but said I should probably go to the walk in centre to see if I needed stitches, so I put on my strips, downloaded Uber (which took forever because this town is stuck in a time bubble circa 1904), got to the centre and after a few minutes of waiting the nice nurse said it was fine as is and they'd do more harm pulling the wound back apart.

Any tone of irritation in this post is entirely directed at myself. That's what I get for trying to break my fast I suppose.

P.S. Any typos for the forseable future are because I'm down an index finger.
>> No. 470954 Anonymous
18th June 2025
Wednesday 7:47 pm
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Made sweet potato enchiladas for tea. Not as good as with meat, but still pretty decent.
>> No. 470955 Anonymous
18th June 2025
Wednesday 9:21 pm
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Saw a fair few flying ants and freshly dug up nest entrances today. I reckon we might get a big one early this year with the heatwave x
>> No. 470956 Anonymous
19th June 2025
Thursday 9:26 pm
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>> No. 470957 Anonymous
19th June 2025
Thursday 10:30 pm
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>>470956

As if dating apps weren't tough enough for blokes, now we're competing with ChatGPT.

Bear in mind that the major LLMs are all strongly trained to not form emotional relationships with users or talk about anything mucky. If one of the big players I'm guessing one of the Chinese labs breaks from the pack and says "fuck it, we're doing a $30m fine-tuning run to make the best possible AI boyfriend" then our species is absolutely cooked.
>> No. 470958 Anonymous
20th June 2025
Friday 11:50 pm
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Kiddo had Sports day today, in this heat.
It brought out all the yummy mummies though, all sweaty and tanned and oooh nora.
>> No. 470959 Anonymous
20th June 2025
Friday 11:51 pm
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>>470957
It's incredibly easy to get Chatgpt to write full on screaming smut or give wanking instructions.
>> No. 470960 Anonymous
21st June 2025
Saturday 7:02 am
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>> No. 470961 Anonymous
21st June 2025
Saturday 7:11 am
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>>470960
How do I send this to her?
>> No. 470962 Anonymous
21st June 2025
Saturday 7:45 am
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>>470961
There's also this one but by default it made her Geordie so I had to change the prompt.
>> No. 470963 Anonymous
21st June 2025
Saturday 6:49 pm
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I'm being deafened by sodding seagulls. The belligerent beach blighting bastards barely bother breathing between bursts of brain battering bawls.

Hours of this, I can't take it any more.
>> No. 470995 Anonymous
23rd June 2025
Monday 1:41 am
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A friend has an Airbnb and some tourist just left an unenthusiastic review because "it has no air conditioning".

It's near Manchester. Get some perspective.
>> No. 470996 Anonymous
23rd June 2025
Monday 5:29 am
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>>470995
Imagine not having air conditioning in a hospitality venue in possibly the second most important city in a G7 economy where temperatures routinely surpass 30 in the summer.
>> No. 470997 Anonymous
23rd June 2025
Monday 6:37 am
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>>470995
That's heartbreaking stuff.
>> No. 470998 Anonymous
23rd June 2025
Monday 9:56 am
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>>470995
ESH.

Landlord is larping as a business owner without wanting to put the proper investment in.

Customer booked accodomation having been provided with its heating and cooling capabilities.
>> No. 470999 Anonymous
23rd June 2025
Monday 10:16 am
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>ESH
>> No. 471000 Anonymous
23rd June 2025
Monday 1:36 pm
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>>470996

>where temperatures routinely surpass 30 in the summer.

Four days out of the year maybe. The whole rest of the time, Manchester has mediocre shitehole weather.

Air conditioning costs a fortune to run, even on mild summer days where it's 23 degrees, and your guests are being cunts who set it to 18 degrees and keep it on the whole day. Not to mention routine maintenance. Your pricing will then have to reflect that, and the market being competitive, you could lose out by charging £10-£15 more than another Airbnb just down the road.
>> No. 471001 Anonymous
23rd June 2025
Monday 2:19 pm
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I don't think I have ever been to an airBNB or even a proper hotel that has air con in this country. It's just not something that you expect.

If it was middle of winter and the place lacked heating, I could understand.
>> No. 471002 Anonymous
23rd June 2025
Monday 2:34 pm
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Alright the compromise is that I can have the pizza I bought for when I can't be arsed later in the week, now, but I've got to go the dishes while it's cooking. Then the dishes will be clean so I can cook properly tomorrow. If I'm peckish later on I'll have something light like some soup.

Ended up getting an iron and ironing board from Argos in the end, £29 for both. B&M only had little tabletop ones about two feet long. Stocked up on frozen at Iceland so I have about a month's worth of supplementary lazy meals in. Then spent about another 30 quid in Aldi and I don't really know what I have to show for it. I think I need to give up the fancy cheese habit, but that red fox stuff is too nice.

I put fuel in the car an' all. Feel like I'm just bleeding money sometimes.
>> No. 471003 Anonymous
23rd June 2025
Monday 4:50 pm
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>>471002
>Then spent about another 30 quid in Aldi and I don't really know what I have to show for it.

That's pretty much every time I go shopping these days. Even when I spend £100+ there's fuck all there.
>> No. 471004 Anonymous
23rd June 2025
Monday 5:22 pm
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Back in that London for the first time in about a year. Hot, dust, smelly and full of traffic. Walked down one residential street and every other house had multiple security cameras pointed out the downstairs windows or cages over the doors. On the plus side I found a restaurant that does both sushi and cerviche.
>> No. 471005 Anonymous
23rd June 2025
Monday 5:45 pm
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I feel like poor people are far less likely to use scan and go at the supermarket, compared with normal people.
>> No. 471006 Anonymous
23rd June 2025
Monday 5:55 pm
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>>471005
They know they'll be "randomly selected" for a bag search every time.
>> No. 471007 Anonymous
23rd June 2025
Monday 6:23 pm
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YouTube just had a thing at the top of my recommendations that said "hello, *username*", but I only saw it as I hit refresh and it's gone now. Hopefully it's just more element blocker fodder, and I don't have one of those PCs films in the 90s that's going to try to kill me.

>>471006>>471005
See that? I'm not even top five most racist against proles on the site.
>> No. 471008 Anonymous
23rd June 2025
Monday 6:42 pm
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>>471005

I'm caught between two angles, about larping as a supermarket employee, or doing the supermarket's work for them, can't really be bothered elaborating. My personal feeling is if you're going to go to the trouble of scan & go, you might as well just order online. Why bother.

Anyway poor is normal nowadays, country's skint. Median income is barely ten grand over minimum wage. This is why you always sound so out of touch. Lot more of them than there are of you, ordering your Kelly's Clotted Cream and your Crosta Mollica Twin Packs in a 10-11pm timeslot because you know we're always early by that time, you tight arse.
>> No. 471010 Anonymous
23rd June 2025
Monday 7:05 pm
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I've been offered £3 million a year paid direct into my bank account to leave the country and never tell anyone why. Any idea on where I should try living first?

I'm concerned about anywhere too lawless which crosses off a lot of places that would give me favourable tax status. Geneva seems like my best bet as I can apply for a fixed-tax residency status but I'm tempted by Thailand which could be a nice base to explore Asia from.

>>471005
Do normal people use the scan and go feature now? I've always viewed it's too much hassle to change because you need to set up your account for it and let some bloke in India watch you shop.

>>471006
I reckon it's because the supermarkets like Iceland and Aldi don't trust their customers enough to have them. My local Lidl has barriers on self-checkout that only let you out if you scan your receipt.
>> No. 471011 Anonymous
23rd June 2025
Monday 7:13 pm
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>>471008
>My personal feeling is if you're going to go to the trouble of scan & go, you might as well just order online. Why bother.

Everyone knows that online order pickers will opt for the worst fresh produce that people in person are least likely to pick.
>> No. 471012 Anonymous
23rd June 2025
Monday 7:27 pm
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>>471011

It's an illusion of choice, they still stock rotate in store so you can only choose from one or two batches with the nearest dates. Otherwise they are just chucking it out and wasting money.
>> No. 471013 Anonymous
23rd June 2025
Monday 7:49 pm
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>>471010

>I'm tempted by Thailand which could be a nice base to explore Asia from.

If it was good enough for Gary Glitter, then it will probably be good enough for you. minus all the obviously highly illegal stuff that he did down there.
>> No. 471014 Anonymous
23rd June 2025
Monday 8:09 pm
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>>471010
I've heard that Kazakhstan is absolutely incredible if you're fabulously and perhaps illegally wealthy. It also sounds like the most interesting place, because nobody else ever goes there.

Failing that, probably Monaco. 38,423 oligarchs, celebrities and curiously tax-efficient Formula 1 drivers (as of the 2024 census) can't be wrong.
>> No. 471015 Anonymous
23rd June 2025
Monday 9:02 pm
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>>471010

>I've been offered £3 million a year paid direct into my bank account to leave the country and never tell anyone why.

No you haven't. Why are you just going on the internet and telling lies.

Anyway I'd pick New Zealand I reckon.
>> No. 471016 Anonymous
23rd June 2025
Monday 9:56 pm
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Debenhams really has gone to fucking shit with the move to online only, hasn't it?

I still remember Debenhams being a department store with generally reliably decent stuff so I went mad on their recent home & garden sale as I've just moved. Garden bench, BBQ, fire pit, office chair, bed. Ridiculous savings on all of it. All fine until we get to the bed.

I bought a bed by 'Berkfield Home' discounted from the prchronic masturbatory sum of £690-odd down to 170. It had a fancy design and I figured with that price tag it had to be decent. LIKE FUCK. It arrives, the box says VidaXL, which I Google and discover to be a shithouse dropshipper selling AliExpress' finest. Get the bed out. Assembly instructions are fucking baffling, this thing will take four hours to build but I'm game for the challenge. Until I realise that the parts are fucked, the holes are fucked, nothing fits and it's all made out of the kind of wood IKEA would turn their nose up at.

So now I'm sleeping on a mattress on the floor and waiting for customer service to get back to me and I am furious at the death of a British staple. Fucking Debenhams. I piss on its name.

Am I likely to get similarly fucked by Argos or Dunelms, or are they still decent?
>> No. 471018 Anonymous
23rd June 2025
Monday 9:57 pm
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>>471017

Sorry lads, that was my first post on here since 2022 and apparently I have forgotten how. And also forgotten how to delete. But piss on Debenhams twice.
>> No. 471019 Anonymous
23rd June 2025
Monday 10:03 pm
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>>471016
Debenhams isn't Debenhams anymore. Someone bought the website, name and branding after they went bust. Most likely for a prchronic masturbatory sum.
>> No. 471021 Anonymous
23rd June 2025
Monday 10:15 pm
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Dunelm are still decent; I've been doing all manner of shopping there this year after never going there in my life before. But sometimes I feel like all online shopping now is covert Chinese drop-shipping, so I've been feeling pretty smug about how little of it I do.

Oh, and you should be able to delete a post by clicking the "Anonymous" name on that post, and if it's recognised as your own post, you should just need to click "Okay" to delete it. Like I'm about to do to the post I wrote without this paragraph in it.
>> No. 471022 Anonymous
24th June 2025
Tuesday 9:12 am
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London definitely sucks. The public transport is impeccable and there's everything you could ever want to buy or eat in easy walking distance of it but it's all more or less the same and everything that isn't repulsively corporate is dirty and falling apart. If you're not waking up to the sound of your neighbours going to the toilet then you're somewhere that costs as much and has the same ethical shortfalls as a banana republic.
>> No. 471023 Anonymous
24th June 2025
Tuesday 9:28 am
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>>471022
£17 for a full English?! That's double what it would cost at home, with a large coffee. Fucking hell.
>> No. 471024 Anonymous
24th June 2025
Tuesday 9:44 am
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Dunelm good? London shit? We're losing our edge. Actually did we have any to begin with? I know I didn't, but I always assumed you were picking up my slack.
>> No. 471025 Anonymous
24th June 2025
Tuesday 10:08 am
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I chipped off a tiny part of one of my front teeth, by biting on the back of a small hand torch while doing some DIY. It's not really noticeable in the mirror, if at all, but I can feel it with my tongue and it's annoying.

I might use a nail file to smooth it, as I've just read that with small defects like this, dentists actually kind of do the same.
>> No. 471026 Anonymous
24th June 2025
Tuesday 10:51 am
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Please go to the dentist about it, you actual madman.
>> No. 471027 Anonymous
24th June 2025
Tuesday 4:39 pm
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>>471000
>you could lose out by charging £10-£15 more than another Airbnb just down the road
My heart bleeds, m7.
>> No. 471028 Anonymous
24th June 2025
Tuesday 4:53 pm
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I think I'm addicted to cold showers. They're so refreshing.
>> No. 471029 Anonymous
24th June 2025
Tuesday 7:08 pm
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Celebrity Puzzling on Channel 5 right now has one celebrity team consisting of Scarlett Moffatt and Carol Vorderman. Did one of you commission this series?
>> No. 471030 Anonymous
24th June 2025
Tuesday 7:51 pm
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>>471029
Do they have their wabs out?
>> No. 471031 Anonymous
24th June 2025
Tuesday 10:43 pm
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>>471030
They have their intellects out, which is far more important.
>> No. 471032 Anonymous
24th June 2025
Tuesday 11:02 pm
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Ovaltine is crispier in Brazil.
>> No. 471033 Anonymous
25th June 2025
Wednesday 12:41 am
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>>471032
This sounds like one of those code phrases that people might use to hire a hitman.
>> No. 471034 Anonymous
25th June 2025
Wednesday 12:47 am
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>>471032
Have you already spent this years 3 million?
>> No. 471035 Anonymous
25th June 2025
Wednesday 11:34 am
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LADS I'VE JUST ACCIDENTALLY FLUNG POO ON THE RADIATOR IN THE TOILET AT WORK. HOW DO I REMOVE ALL EVIDENCE OF THIS?
>> No. 471036 Anonymous
25th June 2025
Wednesday 11:47 am
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>> No. 471037 Anonymous
25th June 2025
Wednesday 11:59 am
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>>471036
First I wiped it off with dry toilet roll. Then I wiped it with damp toilet roll. Then I wiped it with dry toilet roll again. Then I wiped it with toilet roll with hand soap on. Then I wiped it with damp toilet roll. Then I wiped it with dry toilet roll. Then I sprayed Febreeze on it. Then I wiped it with dry toilet roll. Then I put shitloads of bleach down the toilet. Then I sprayed shitloads of Febreeze in the air.

Hopefully that has eliminated all trace of it.
>> No. 471038 Anonymous
25th June 2025
Wednesday 1:30 pm
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Get you a bidet or gardening can (the iconic green one) and wash. Then wash your hands, properly. There is no cleaner feeling, dry wiping is a mkae do. You want to wash!
>> No. 471039 Anonymous
25th June 2025
Wednesday 2:32 pm
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>>471038
They don't have those in the toilet at work.
>> No. 471040 Anonymous
25th June 2025
Wednesday 7:19 pm
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>>471037

I had explosive diarrhea once on a night out with friends. It almost literally went everywhere. At first I was just going to leave it like that, because who would have been able to prove that it all came out of my arse. But then I used more than half a bogroll wiping it off the seat and various other surfaces.

It was the right thing to do.
>> No. 471041 Anonymous
25th June 2025
Wednesday 8:04 pm
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A bit dirty, but do they have an accessible toilet room? Stick your arse on the sink and make do if so.
>> No. 471042 Anonymous
25th June 2025
Wednesday 8:27 pm
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You lads need to invest in some bran flakes.
>> No. 471043 Anonymous
25th June 2025
Wednesday 8:30 pm
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>> No. 471044 Anonymous
25th June 2025
Wednesday 8:48 pm
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>>471042
Is Shredded Wheat better?
>> No. 471045 Anonymous
26th June 2025
Thursday 5:23 am
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The lass I flirt with at work has added me on instagram, leading me to discover she has absolutely fantastic tits that are hidden very well by her work clothes.

This is definitely just a jokey work flirt type situation, which I was fine with until I saw her powerful cleavage - now I want to run away with her.
>> No. 471046 Anonymous
26th June 2025
Thursday 10:58 am
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My cousin is really proud of how good his son is at composing music. With reason, I think, the piece he played for us sounded great. The way the market was maybe five years ago, being a composer professionally was very tough but with doting and supportive parents it might be possible to break into it over time, make a living that way. After he's had a few more years to get better at it, anyway.
My cousin is very gung-ho about how great AI is, he's helping implement it at his job and no doubt encouraging his partner (who's high up in the civil service) to evangelise it there too.
It took me about 15 seconds on rudgwicksteamshow.co.uk to find people doom/cope posting about what AI is already doing to the composition/songwriting part of the music industry.
I do wonder what's going on in people's heads sometimes.
>> No. 471047 Anonymous
26th June 2025
Thursday 11:13 am
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>>471046

I think people are just sometimes very poor at making connections, very good at rationalising things that make money or serve some personal ends, or some combination of both.
>> No. 471048 Anonymous
26th June 2025
Thursday 12:20 pm
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>>471046

In fairness, I have said it before enough times I think, but the people who are only just waking up to how fucked the music industry is because of AI are about 20 years late to the "music is no longer a remotely viable career path unless you are a trust fund brat" party.

I was thinking about it while listening to 6Music yesterday actually. About you lot having another class war over them playing rap. They were playing a load of reggae from Glasdtonbury, and I thought. Ahh. It's just so succinct, right there, isn't it. The UK's music industry is completely gentrified. It's just Lily Allens and Ed Sheerans top to bottom, brought together by this nexus of poshos who participate in authentic music through a safe sanitised lens once it has been packaged up appropriately.

What AI is doing to those people is karma for what they already did to the grassroots of the music world.
>> No. 471049 Anonymous
26th June 2025
Thursday 12:20 pm
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He's not even benefiting from it in a meaningful sense, he's just a salaried upper-middle manager. Any workflow improvements won't line his pockets, and he's not one of the people low enough down the chain to be let go due to the changes he's making - yet. Someone who gets swept up with whatever the latest tech craze is, every time. He can't code, wouldn't know Captain Crunch from a cereal and thinks Ma Bell make tacos, but if enough people tell him Thing is Shiny and New he'll start rhapsodising about it.
>> No. 471050 Anonymous
26th June 2025
Thursday 1:19 pm
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Another heatwave next week.

I liked our summers better when they were still somewhere between underwhelming and disappointing.

At least you rarely felt the sweat running down your arse crack just sitting at your desk at work.
>> No. 471051 Anonymous
26th June 2025
Thursday 1:39 pm
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>>471050

By the looks of it the warmest will be over the weekend and then back down to low 20s by midweek. It'll be fine.
>> No. 471052 Anonymous
26th June 2025
Thursday 3:35 pm
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I did an image search for "chicken sashimi" and one of the top results is for this place.
>> No. 471053 Anonymous
26th June 2025
Thursday 4:32 pm
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>>471052
Do you reckon we're still near the top for beefy poz loads?
>> No. 471054 Anonymous
26th June 2025
Thursday 4:54 pm
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>>471053
Not him, but that appears to have a far broader appeal that slices of raw chicken. So, no, we don't appear to feature that highly.
>> No. 471055 Anonymous
26th June 2025
Thursday 4:55 pm
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>>471053

Not even spiritually.
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26th June 2025
Thursday 7:36 pm
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I forgot to put on deodorant today and went into the office but can't say I smell of anything. I don't know if I'm a pongy git and I just don't notice or if it doesn't really matter so long as you had a shower the night before.

>>471046
>The way the market was maybe five years ago, being a composer professionally was very tough but with doting and supportive parents it might be possible to break into it over time, make a living that way

That sounds quite optimistic no matter what decade you're living in. He'll probably just enjoy making a little music and get his leg over from it even if the AI utopia/dystopia everyone is promising comes about. Or he'll grow up to be a little shit and get caught bumming a cat or something.
>> No. 471057 Anonymous
26th June 2025
Thursday 10:15 pm
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I met up with my parents this evening. I think the conversation dried up after less than an hour.

>>471056
I switched roll-on deodorant from L'Oréal to Bulldog and I've noticed it's leading to a lot more BO.
>> No. 471058 Anonymous
26th June 2025
Thursday 11:27 pm
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>>471057
>I met up with my parents this evening. I think the conversation dried up after less than an hour.
Doesn't have to be a bad thing. Would you have liked it to be more? Maybe at the 40 minute mark pull something out of your pocket and say "hey look at this" - alls the better if it's relevant to your parents interest or elaborates on something previously mentioned.
>> No. 471060 Anonymous
27th June 2025
Friday 7:23 am
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>>471058
It was a meal followed by a play, and they always insist on booking the restaurant about 45 minutes earlier than is necessary so there is a lot of time to fill just sat there.

They're in their 70s so they're acting like proper old people now. My dad will happily sit in the middle of a restaurant picking at his teeth. My mum has always had a habit of talking about the people around us but now she doesn't seem to care about volume control. I don't know why I needed her to tell me that the small child on the nearby table had finished her pizza and was now choosing ice cream.

If I'd gone out with my daughter we could have filled the entire evening without any uncomfortable silences. It helps that she's a bit of a chatterbox but I also try and engage with her interests and what's going on in her life. Conversations with my parents are almost always surface level like the weather, traffic, holidays and sports. Then again, I grew up in a household where we usually sat in silence watching the TV and my dad would get incredibly angry if someone talked and he missed something, because not catching what Jeremy Spake said would be the end of the world.
>> No. 471061 Anonymous
27th June 2025
Friday 9:13 am
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Fuck it.
>> No. 471062 Anonymous
27th June 2025
Friday 10:10 am
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>>471061

Lovingly and consensually.
>> No. 471063 Anonymous
27th June 2025
Friday 10:32 am
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Women who give dating tips in youtube shorts get really defensive and overcompensating in the comments when you point out that they are making it all about them with little thought towards what they have to offer or what a lad in turn sees as red flags in a woman.

I'm not at all against giving lads some pointers as to what women notice and pick up on in a lad. Loads of lads can really benefit from that kind of advice from a woman's perspective. But there is a line where it becomes delusional and lasses see themselves as some kind of prize and where lads just have to do their bidding. And then when you tell them that in the comments, you get lengthy replies where the lady doth protest too much.
>> No. 471064 Anonymous
27th June 2025
Friday 10:42 am
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Shall we chip in and buy Britfa.gs island?

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/155660519#/?channel=COM_BUY
>> No. 471065 Anonymous
27th June 2025
Friday 10:45 am
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>>471064

£1.5M looks like an absolute bargain.

I'd be interested if I was a wannabe Bond villain.
>> No. 471066 Anonymous
27th June 2025
Friday 10:48 am
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>>471063

At this point I really don't think it is at all chronic to say modern women are spoiled and entitled when it comes to dating. They don't realise the problem with their attitude because they do see themselves as the "prize", they don't think they have to put much effort into themselves in return, and they do see it as normal.

When you point that out to them, it's as though you'd gone back to the 1950s and told them homophobia is wrong. They'd think you are mental because to them, it's just obviously normal and how it works, and your viewpoint is alien.

And before longstandingissues lad pipes up, give it a rest, you're the one having dreams about rape nightclubs, not me.
>> No. 471067 Anonymous
27th June 2025
Friday 11:29 am
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I made a mental note earlier in the week to make this post but I forgot.

When I was driving to work on Tuesday they kept teasing on 6Music that they were going to play Kae cup of tea's new song but, fortunately, it wasn't on by the time I got out of my car. I imagine they're rapping trite lyrics over a drab beat but I haven't heard it to confirm.
>> No. 471068 Anonymous
27th June 2025
Friday 1:16 pm
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>>471064

Go on then, I'm feeling flush because of that tax refund.
>> No. 471086 Anonymous
30th June 2025
Monday 10:36 am
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Bit warm.
>> No. 471087 Anonymous
30th June 2025
Monday 3:04 pm
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If I shoved a Sodastream nozzle up my Jap's eye and gave it a squirt, do you think I'd get fizzy piss or just explode my bladder? Asking for a friend.
>> No. 471088 Anonymous
30th June 2025
Monday 3:06 pm
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>>471087
I think you'd be better wrapping your foreskin around it like a balloon knot before you get any other ideas.
>> No. 471089 Anonymous
30th June 2025
Monday 3:10 pm
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>>471067
And the crowd goes mild.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6kdgTY-qyg
>> No. 471090 Anonymous
30th June 2025
Monday 5:00 pm
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>>471089
We're kind of beating a dead horse now. I will say while I'm usually just bored by Kae's output, but the lyrical miracle stuff at about two minutes was pretty unpalatable.

Anyway, bollocks to all that. I owe one of you an apology. A number of weeks ago one of you posted a FCUKERS track on beat/ and I thought it was a bit shit. But I watched their Glastonbury set without realising they were the same band until I looked up their YouTube channel afterwards, by which point I'd done a 180 on my opinion on them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su_Z_Ai41ck
>> No. 471091 Anonymous
30th June 2025
Monday 6:12 pm
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Are we facing a national shortage of skin-on fries? I haven't seen them in Lidl or Aldi for weeks, maybe even months.
>> No. 471092 Anonymous
30th June 2025
Monday 6:46 pm
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>>471091
What's the matter, you too good for circumcised chips?
>> No. 471093 Anonymous
30th June 2025
Monday 7:27 pm
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>>471089
Newcastle Utd manager Eddie Howe's got bars.
>> No. 471094 Anonymous
30th June 2025
Monday 7:39 pm
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I'm properly infatuated with a lass at work at the minute. I've found myself catching glances of her in the office and going out my way to buy lunch in the canteen just to chat to her and no doubt awkwardly flirt in front of everyone we work with. The worst part is that while she was always cute she's a bit younger than me and when she started I took her under my wing and gave her a lot of confidence.

Can someone please turn off that hot sticky wind that makes you toss and turn in the middle of the night. I don't need things to get weird at work.

>>471086
Bit sunny too. At the weekend I bought some hats, sunscreen and a sweat rag.

I also shelled out on expensive clothes when I only meant to pick up a shirt before I realised when I got home that they don't go with anything I own so I had to shell out even more.

>>471090
That was at least a year ago. Time's bleeding away from you.

Glastonbury is shite
>> No. 471095 Anonymous
30th June 2025
Monday 7:43 pm
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>>471094
Can't be more than a year ago. Homie Don't Shake was the video from their YouTube I saw and that wasn't uploaded until July last year. Anyway, I don't think it's unusual to misremember when such a tiny event took place.

Glastonbury's got too much available to be "shite" as well, you miserable sod.
>> No. 471096 Anonymous
30th June 2025
Monday 8:10 pm
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I've been meaning to go into our usual song thread and post a song I saw in the BBC's Glastonbury coverage that I liked (by...Wunderhorse, I think?), plus also look into that drum 'n' bass woman whose name begins with K and see if she's any good. But I can't really be bothered, so just let me know if you like either of those bands, and that might motivate me, but only if you haven't already heard of them.
>> No. 471097 Anonymous
30th June 2025
Monday 10:53 pm
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House is full of flies at the moment despite being clean.
Fly Paper is up, catching loads, but, I can't stand to see the poor gits trying to escape, so half the day has been spent putting them out of their misery. Cant stand thine things landing on everything but.. neither can I have a house full of flies.
>> No. 471099 Anonymous
1st July 2025
Tuesday 11:43 am
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>>471097
I had the Mrs over so did all the washing up before she got here and the flies pretty much immediately fucked off. Do you have warm to cool airflow set up to guide them out? Windows open in the right places?
>> No. 471100 Anonymous
1st July 2025
Tuesday 12:29 pm
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>>471099
You live in a separate house to your wife?
>> No. 471101 Anonymous
1st July 2025
Tuesday 4:30 pm
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Yet again the weather forecasters have lied to me about a great big fuck off storm.
>> No. 471102 Anonymous
1st July 2025
Tuesday 6:11 pm
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>>471101

Nobody seems to have any clue what's going on and I have three different weather sources telling me three different things. I think the weather people have been outsourcing to a dodgy private druid consultancy who are siphoning off some of the tributes for themselves, and invoked the spirits' ire.

But to be fair none of them ever actually promised me a storm. I was just expecting it because of my personal observation that they always happen after a bit of warm. I'm only setting myself up for disappointment really.
>> No. 471103 Anonymous
1st July 2025
Tuesday 6:15 pm
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Salad is such bollocks. I just ate about enough of it for 4 normal portions and it's taken the edge off but I'm still hungry. Chewing away and spooning these leaves into my mouth for what felt like 30 minutes and at the end of it I'm 5 minutes away from being starving.
>> No. 471104 Anonymous
1st July 2025
Tuesday 6:24 pm
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>>471103

I've never understood the point of salad either. Fruit and veg is obviously important, but salad isn't even either of those, it's the pointless parts of the plant we're not even supposed to eat.
>> No. 471105 Anonymous
1st July 2025
Tuesday 6:57 pm
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>>471103
You're not meant to chow down on a bag of salad for a snack. It's there as an accompaniment, e.g. I find rocket goes well with pesto pasta, and they're good for bulking out a wrap or burger.
>> No. 471106 Anonymous
1st July 2025
Tuesday 7:00 pm
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Is it just my perception, or is it usually British tourists who get kicked off flights for being drunk and/or belligerent. You don't hear a lot about that kind of thing happening with French, Dutch, or maybe even Italian tourists.
>> No. 471107 Anonymous
1st July 2025
Tuesday 7:19 pm
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>>471106
Americans do it sometimes, and French actor Gerard Depardieu did it, but otherwise, you're right. But we are notorious for it. British tourists are legendarily abrasive and troublesome. To paraphrase Donald Trump, we're not sending Spain our best.
>> No. 471108 Anonymous
1st July 2025
Tuesday 7:57 pm
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>>471106
We're a fucking feral bunch.
>> No. 471109 Anonymous
1st July 2025
Tuesday 9:31 pm
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>>471108

>We're a fucking feral bunch.

A friend's mate on holiday in Magaluf decided to have a wee from the fourth story balcony of their hotel room into the pool below. He didn't quite reach the water but one of the staff saw him and then the hotel management very nearly kicked them all out.

I'm again not sure that that's something that Dutch or German tourists would do. Not even on a lads holiday where you're off your tits 24/7.
>> No. 471110 Anonymous
1st July 2025
Tuesday 9:57 pm
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My eyebrows are turning blond, it's ruining my naturally brooding, Byronic look.
>> No. 471111 Anonymous
2nd July 2025
Wednesday 12:54 am
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Are we allowed to talk shop in the weekday thread or do I need to create a new one in /job/?

Sometimes I'll chair meetings between teams and feel out of my depth but muddle through. I experienced it today where a few different teams handling aspects of accounting and contracts got together and somehow I'd ended up in charge despite this being very much not my area. I am the last person to handle detail. I had no idea on a conscious level what these people were talking about but on a subconscious level I could intuite what was going on and my observations somehow ended up the core of the outcomes and I could easily step in or step back at times to make the meeting work.

It was an odd experiance where my conscious thinking was a little panicked but my subconscious could spot the patterns and the natural issues that existed. It was odd. Like how they say that the worst thing you can do when performing music is to think about what you're hands are doing. Is this what being competent is all about?

>>471110
Is this from that sun they've put in the sky recently?

I've got a similar thing that happens to my hair in the summer and people start thinking that I've dyed it.
>> No. 471113 Anonymous
2nd July 2025
Wednesday 9:11 am
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>>471109
I do not live in a sunny enough part of this island to be affected by that, I think my eyebrows have just teamed up with my beard (which is also blond somehow, hence I suppress it) against my hair.
>> No. 471114 Anonymous
2nd July 2025
Wednesday 10:41 am
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>>471109
>British diplomats have been called to Magaluf to investigate why so many drunken Brit tourists are falling from hotel balconies.

https://www.I need to find an archive link for this.co.uk/news/2018/07/05/british-diplomats-called-magaluf-probe-number-tourists-falling/
>> No. 471115 Anonymous
2nd July 2025
Wednesday 11:18 am
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>>471114
Our taxes are funding this obvious free holiday for the British diplomats.
>> No. 471118 Anonymous
2nd July 2025
Wednesday 12:07 pm
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Saw a bloke outside Tesco's this morning leaned against his car and having a cigarette next to where I was parked in the car park. I was in Tesco maybe 25 minutes and when I came back he was still smoking and there were three or four cigarette butts at his feet.

I was a chain smoker once, so I can hardly judge somebody on their addiction, but lad. Go easy. Four to five in a row in maybe half an hour is a bit much. Even if you're on a break or something.
>> No. 471119 Anonymous
2nd July 2025
Wednesday 12:20 pm
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>>471114
>why so many drunken Brit tourists are falling from hotel balconies
A friend of mine used to drink with such abandon that she'd regularly fall alsleep in her house full of oven smoke (I 'saved' her once from a deathly burned and black pizza). She even told me how she had a piece of tinsel lodged in her eye over 3 days of christmas, didn't even notice, and it had scarred her inner eyeball.
I could absolutely imagine her accidentally flinging herself over a balcony in excitement and lust for party.
She died about 5 years ago from a drug overdose, as did her sister many years prior.
>> No. 471120 Anonymous
2nd July 2025
Wednesday 12:48 pm
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>>471119

Darwin always weeds out the giddy ones. He'll come for you in some way. Balcony fall, drug overdose, not much of a difference. Both avoidable deaths that, with most people anyway, are caused by a certain underlying disposition that just isn't conducive to longevity.

Then again, the price you pay for reaching age 80 is often a life of relative boredom.
>> No. 471121 Anonymous
2nd July 2025
Wednesday 1:05 pm
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>>471114

Regne Unit is a banging name for a country.

>>471118

I own a waterproof vape, purely so I can vape in the shower.

>>471119

A mate of mine is a retired firemanperson and he reckons that oven chips have saved thousands of lives. Apparently, pissheads used to incinerate themselves with chip pans on a near-daily basis.
>> No. 471122 Anonymous
2nd July 2025
Wednesday 3:35 pm
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>>471121

It amazes me people actually went to all the effort just for some chips. I can't be arsed to boil pasta most of the time, let alone peel and slice a load of spuds and fry them.
>> No. 471123 Anonymous
2nd July 2025
Wednesday 4:01 pm
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>>471122
My Nan used to fry chips when I'd come and visit. They were delicious.
>> No. 471124 Anonymous
2nd July 2025
Wednesday 6:04 pm
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When I am prime minister anyone who drives in the middle of two lanes because they don't understand zipper merging shall be executed.
>> No. 471126 Anonymous
2nd July 2025
Wednesday 6:08 pm
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>>471124
I've cooled off since yesterday so you can borrow my hammer if you'd like.
>> No. 471127 Anonymous
2nd July 2025
Wednesday 9:28 pm
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Is it just me or do Mr Kipling's lemon fancies not taste quite the same as the yellow ones from a pack of normal fondant fancies?
>> No. 471128 Anonymous
2nd July 2025
Wednesday 9:57 pm
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>>471127
>fondant fancies
Your shopping habits are showing, matey boy. French fancies are far superior to Fondant, which I wish you hadden mentioned because now I need to buy a box.
>> No. 471129 Anonymous
3rd July 2025
Thursday 11:57 am
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How much off a faff is it to claim gift aid as a higher rate taxpayer? I'll probably have to to through my bank transactions from last year, but I reckon there'll be about £25 to £50 I can claim back.
>> No. 471130 Anonymous
3rd July 2025
Thursday 1:28 pm
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>>471129

Charities claim gift aid, not donors - they get a top-up on the donation from the taxman, but you don't get anything back.
>> No. 471131 Anonymous
3rd July 2025
Thursday 1:34 pm
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>>471130
If you're above a basic rate taxpayer you can.

https://www.gov.uk/donating-to-charity/gift-aid

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/family/gift-aid/#relief
>> No. 471132 Anonymous
3rd July 2025
Thursday 7:11 pm
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I saw a photo of Diogo Jota's car and he's unfortunately one of the more dead people who've ever been dead.
>> No. 471133 Anonymous
3rd July 2025
Thursday 7:31 pm
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>>471132
The police had to identify the bodies from the number plate of the car. Which means this is a perfect opportunity to fake one's own death and go to fight crime in a costume in Indonesia.
>> No. 471134 Anonymous
3rd July 2025
Thursday 9:29 pm
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I was hungry so put on a tray of oven potoatos - wen't the full hog and included oil, dried herbs and salt. Turned half way through, pressed down and spread a generous knob of butter across them.
That'd probably go well with a nice baked bean, so I diced a fresh onion and added an old, turned them into a tin of beans and added a teaspoon of curry powder and half a can of water. They're simmering now in a covered pot, ready to have the water boiled out.

In the mean time I stuffed myself with biscuits and now feel sick and full.
>> No. 471135 Anonymous
4th July 2025
Friday 7:09 pm
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Would this be a stupid idea?

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202506263906834

I'm in the market for a new car and this is the only thing apart from a Seat Leon which is really jumping out at me.
>> No. 471136 Anonymous
4th July 2025
Friday 7:53 pm
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>>471135

It's not completely idiotic, but it's a big risk. The Ingenium 2.0D is one of the least reliable engines of the last decade and parts aren't cheap. If you're going to buy anything JLR, I would strongly recommend a decent third-party warranty and oil changes every 6,000 miles.

If you're after an executive saloon, I think the sensible choice would be the Mazda 6. The diesels are crap, but the petrols are excellent.
>> No. 471137 Anonymous
4th July 2025
Friday 9:04 pm
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>>471136
I'm more after a hatchback, but then I saw that was in budget and it threw a curve ball at me.

I'm looking to spend £10k to £12k on a car that's no older than 2019 and has reasonable mileage. That mainly leaves the Seat Leon and Ford Focus.
>> No. 471138 Anonymous
4th July 2025
Friday 10:06 pm
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>>471137

If you'd consider going electric, there are a raft of good options at that price - you could have a Corsa Electric, a Renault Zoe or an E-208 with about 10,000 miles on the clock, with money left over for a charger installation. All of those cars have a 50kWh battery and will do north of 200 miles on a charge.

If you're sticking with dinosaur juice, avoid the Focus models with an Ecoboost engine, because you're gambling with wet belt problems. Probably best to avoid diesels these days, because the emissions control systems are so complex that they inevitably add many points of failure. Consider a Kia Rio or a Hyundai i20. You could get a decent Polo for that money, but a Golf would be quite leggy.
>> No. 471139 Anonymous
4th July 2025
Friday 11:49 pm
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>> No. 471140 Anonymous
5th July 2025
Saturday 5:55 am
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>>471137

You can have something much more exciting for that kind of money.

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202506173607736?sort=price-asc&searchId=b68c3a03-bd72-45cd-9045-1f2311cf3726&advertising-location=at_cars&make=Rolls-Royce&postcode=wf3%202je&fromsra
>> No. 471143 Anonymous
5th July 2025
Saturday 7:38 am
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>>471140
How's life in East Ardsley?
>> No. 471144 Anonymous
5th July 2025
Saturday 7:51 am
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>>471143

Spiritually I will always live in the Rhubarb Triangle but that's not my current address, so don't get too excited.
>> No. 471145 Anonymous
5th July 2025
Saturday 11:18 am
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I drank 5-6 pints of Peroni and a number of gins yesterday evening.

I feel awful today - shock - and have downloaded the app I Am Sober to try to go on a no-drinking streak. How tragic.
>> No. 471164 Anonymous
7th July 2025
Monday 9:14 am
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I need some casual shoes that fall between my current options of "giant fuck off combat boots" and "white trainers that follow gremlin rules".
>> No. 471170 Anonymous
7th July 2025
Monday 2:57 pm
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>>471164
I feel like a good pair of casual trainers is the hardest thing to shop for because you really want something that's going to last a lot of miles but then so much of what we get on the market are uncomfortable shoes that will be going to the landfill after a week. Especially in this wet country.

I'd at least say that price isn't a good indicator because it's often that £20 pair you got on a whim that ends up feeling like a second pair of feet after 2 years.
>> No. 471172 Anonymous
7th July 2025
Monday 6:13 pm
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Did you watch the 7/7 memorial service?
It's quite powerful. The names readoff starts at 40:00, only 5 minutes, but if you've got an hour listen it all as tone shift is severe and impactful.
Fading in the organ during the hymn around 47:00 may have been a better effect.

Reverent service.


>> No. 471173 Anonymous
7th July 2025
Monday 7:23 pm
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>>471170
I'm not sure trainers are the answer for me though. I'm basically looking for intermediate tyres, for a human being. Maybe something like pic related only not half-knackered and pig ugly. Maybe just some Converse All Stars would do.

I can't imagine going cheap on shoes ever again. The last time I did that they fell apart in a matter of months. Indeed, clothes more generally are something I'm happy to spend a bit more on. Well, not happy to, but I'll still do it.
>> No. 471174 Anonymous
7th July 2025
Monday 7:35 pm
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>>471173
I love Merrell shoes. Can I tempt you to consider walking shoes?
>> No. 471177 Anonymous
7th July 2025
Monday 11:35 pm
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>>471173
I like the shoes pictured, but they do look like travelling hobo clown.
>> No. 471178 Anonymous
8th July 2025
Tuesday 12:11 am
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I wanted to buy some fancy whiskey, and whiskyauctioneer.com were having another auction. I put in bids for three different bottles, and if all the bids were successful, I would have been on the hook for £147 (plus all their additional fees; I can't remember what those are but I have a note next to my password for the website warning me that they are extortionate). So I really wanted to only win the auctions for two bottles. And that is exactly what happened! I'll be getting some Aberlour and some Hakushu, while the Yamazaki can go and fuck itself. It's the best possible outcome, and I feel delighted. Hurray! Remind me of this post when I come back tomorrow and rant about the fucking fees and commissions and delivery charges and other criminal thieving shit that they sting me for.
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8th July 2025
Tuesday 7:52 am
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>>471174
I'm just not a gorpcore kind of guy, I fear.

I could always send some trainers away and have them do pic (and link) related: https://petersonstoop.com/

>>471177
Only because they're so scuffed. I don't know dick about leather care, but some new laces would remove most of the hobo factor.
https://www.rokit.co.uk/products/vintage-dr-marten-shoes-uk11
>> No. 471180 Anonymous
8th July 2025
Tuesday 10:20 am
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>>471179
>Only because they're so scuffed.
It looked to me like a blubous nose in contrast with the finer cordage on the side. I do like them, only it'd take me a while to get used to like they did Dc Martens.

I'd like to wear something like pictured if it wasn't exclusively marketed as womens.
>> No. 471181 Anonymous
8th July 2025
Tuesday 2:37 pm
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The only way not to lose lighters is apparently just to leave them on the table on the balcony. Wonder what's up with that. This one's been here reliably for at least three weeks.
>> No. 471182 Anonymous
8th July 2025
Tuesday 6:25 pm
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I just farted while smearing Biscoff spread on a slice of bread and it caused a real visceral reaction when I caught a whiff of it. For a second I genuinely thought I was spreading diarrhea with the knife.
>> No. 471183 Anonymous
8th July 2025
Tuesday 7:40 pm
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>>471182
You need to hold a carrot at waist height, directly in front of you, while you peel it. I always get the sensation that I am peeling my cock.
>> No. 471184 Anonymous
8th July 2025
Tuesday 8:19 pm
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>> No. 471185 Anonymous
8th July 2025
Tuesday 8:40 pm
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>>471178
I knew I was going to be angry, but I am more than twice as angry as I expected. I thought that spending £86 would actually rob me of about £100. This is an insult.

They also told me my phone number wasn't valid, because I clicked that I lived in the UK and entered my phone number, starting 0787. But because the UK bit contains the international dialling code, I needed to leave the starting 0 off. They didn't tell me that; I needed to figure it out.

And when I logged back in after all these years of not buying from these tossers after last time, they told me I needed to update my payment information. Bit rich when they got hacked a few years ago; I want them to have as little important information about me as possible. And when paying, I had to put in the payment information again anyway.

And furthermore, I want to get the bottles sent to my work, so I clicked "My billing address is different from my shipping address." Then the website said, "Enter your address" but did not specify which one it wanted, or if I would need to enter another one afterwards. I guessed correctly, but it's dazzling how inept they manage to be.
>> No. 471186 Anonymous
8th July 2025
Tuesday 10:17 pm
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>>471185
Fancy whiskey is sold by auction, that's brilliant if not for the hastle of payment and delivery. Are there no better auctioneer options?
The best I've had is Monkey Shoulder but that's available in Tesco - £38 pound tho!

You've inspired me to go on a White Lightning Youtube binge and found some classics;


This nutter is hitting a funnel faucet.. eventually
https://youtu.be/E8Bnt8HpQDE

Might be worth learning this song for a busk :)

>> No. 471188 Anonymous
8th July 2025
Tuesday 10:38 pm
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>>471186

It really saddens me that nobody in the comments section seems to get the joke of the Frosty Jack clip. Not saying I am an expert or anything but I generally get Limmy's style of humour. The central driver of many of his jokes tends to be that something familiar and/or mundane (pisshead with a bottle of cider screaming at traffic) actually isn't what you expect and has a slightly more bizarre explanation (they are not drunk but simply gripped by an irresistible possession like urge to behave that way).

Maybe I'm the weirdo who interprets it wrong, but I think I am the same kind of wierdo as Limmy, and that's how I would have intended it. There's usually a bit more absurdist thought behind his stuff than just randomness.
>> No. 471189 Anonymous
9th July 2025
Wednesday 12:07 am
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>>471188

Maybe I'm projecting, but I think those Vines are a kind of surreal representation of Limmy's experience as a recovering alcoholic - the constant urges to drink, the lure of oblivion, the knowledge that a shambolic drunkard still lives inside you.
>> No. 471190 Anonymous
9th July 2025
Wednesday 11:25 am
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>> No. 471191 Anonymous
9th July 2025
Wednesday 3:23 pm
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I got around to making a Soundcloud so I can upload the odds and ends of assorted music I have had slowly piling up on my hard drive over the last few years, so I can maybe actually show them to people. Within an hour I've had a bunch of notifications from obvious bot accounts liking and resharing the tracks I have uploaded, and leaving spammy "let's connect" messages. Sigh.
>> No. 471192 Anonymous
9th July 2025
Wednesday 3:33 pm
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>>471191
Ciderbeard Joe?
>> No. 471193 Anonymous
9th July 2025
Wednesday 3:56 pm
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>>471192

No, I don't have a name nearly that catchy.
>> No. 471194 Anonymous
9th July 2025
Wednesday 4:07 pm
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>>471193
It’s never too late. How about Perry Moustache? Or Advocaat Muttonchops?
>> No. 471195 Anonymous
9th July 2025
Wednesday 4:40 pm
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>>471185
This Poire Williams prisonnière sounds good. Pear brandy - have never liked the stuff but it might be nice with lighter fruity tones.
>> No. 471196 Anonymous
9th July 2025
Wednesday 11:23 pm
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1) I have a funeral and a wedding to attend within a month of each other. I'm really going hard on this "being in my thirties" business.

2) For the funeral I have purchased what ASOS calls a "slouchy" suit and I'm worried I'm going to look a bit too Stop Making Sense for the occasion, but I'll have to wait until tomorrow to find out.

>>471195
Made from one-hundred percent pears.
>> No. 471197 Anonymous
10th July 2025
Thursday 11:10 am
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>>471196

> For the funeral I have purchased what ASOS calls a "slouchy" suit and I'm worried I'm going to look a bit too Stop Making Sense for the occasion

At my nan's funeral, the poor side of our family showed up in washed out black jeans and very low quality button shirts and blouses.

I don't think anybody is going to question the finer points of your suit.



It was the first time that we felt sorry that both my grandparents had almost entirely disinherited my mum's sister. But if you knew that part of the family, it was more than understandable.
>> No. 471198 Anonymous
10th July 2025
Thursday 11:15 am
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If you think about it, a Club is just a rectangular Viscount.
>> No. 471199 Anonymous
10th July 2025
Thursday 2:00 pm
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Lady tennis is too noisy.
>> No. 471200 Anonymous
10th July 2025
Thursday 5:10 pm
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This afternoon I saw a man wearing a cloak. That is all.
>> No. 471201 Anonymous
10th July 2025
Thursday 5:43 pm
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Ordering a silk kimono dressing gown to wear about the house in the imminent hottening. Sat here bollock naked today and while I live alone so there's no actual issue with that, I don't like peeling my arse off the leather.
>> No. 471202 Anonymous
10th July 2025
Thursday 8:16 pm
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>>471200
Normally I'd tentatively approve of such radical sartorial decisions. However, given that it couldn't be further from "cloak weather" right now, I'm deeply suspicious.

>>471197
The arm holes are shit, but it fits and I only sort of look like pic related. Plus, now I've got something else to wear on inevitably unsuccessful job interviews! Yippee!
>> No. 471203 Anonymous
11th July 2025
Friday 10:42 am
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For some reason I've decided to listen to Jake Bugg's album out last year. It's... it's not very good.
>> No. 471204 Anonymous
11th July 2025
Friday 12:43 pm
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>>471200
Cloakfag lives.
>> No. 471205 Anonymous
11th July 2025
Friday 1:08 pm
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>>471202
It looked like a fairly lightweight cloak. It reminded me of the ones they wear in Lord of the Rings, but it was a paler green and looked like it was a smoother material.
>> No. 471207 Anonymous
11th July 2025
Friday 10:03 pm
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A can of coke exploded in my car today it was so hot, while I was driving. The ringpull end kind of prolapsed with a bang, and one of the folds created had a pinhole leak that sprayed coke everywhere until I stood it upright.
Fuck this summer.
>> No. 471208 Anonymous
11th July 2025
Friday 10:29 pm
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>>471207

I bought an individual stick of Magnum ice cream yesterday and it must have fallen out of the shopping bag in the boot on the way home, and then I forgot all about it. Today I opened the boot and it was all melted and squishy, but luckily the wrapping was holding up, to where it was dangerously bulging but wasn't leaking.
>> No. 471245 Anonymous
14th July 2025
Monday 2:07 pm
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At what age does a child develop the thinking ability to have a sense of geopolitics?

I saw a woman on Facebook posting photos of herself and her ~8 year old daughter at a Kneecap gig, wearing Irish tricolour balaclavas and holding a Palestinian flag.

Would a child of that age be able to truly understand the semiotics behind the Palestinian and Irish flags she was displaying? Not condemning or condoning, just curious, as I didn't start having proper political thoughts til I was 12 or 13.
>> No. 471246 Anonymous
14th July 2025
Monday 3:55 pm
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>>471245
At that age they won't have a clue. I've no idea why you'd take a child of that age to see Kneecap, so clearly the parents aren't firing on all synapses.
>> No. 471247 Anonymous
14th July 2025
Monday 5:45 pm
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Just found out that the HMS Victory isn't even a proper replica but a discount 'victory inspired' model. It's no wonder that we have so many problems with boast in the channel.

>>471245
I have my doubts that she'd be alone at the gig if she doesn't.
>> No. 471248 Anonymous
14th July 2025
Monday 6:10 pm
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>>471245

Unless she's an exceptionally gifted eight-year-old, then she wouldn't have an understanding any more sophisticated than "mummy says that Israel are the baddies and Palestine are the goodies". I don't want to turn this into a political debate, so I'll invite you to write your own joke about Owen Jones.
>> No. 471249 Anonymous
14th July 2025
Monday 7:08 pm
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Restarted my "look after yourself better you daft tosser" act.
Calorie counting, no chocolate, booze only at weekends instead of every night etc. Never know it might go better than the last 5 years of attempts.
>> No. 471250 Anonymous
14th July 2025
Monday 8:40 pm
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I've lost just shy of a stone sînce early June just by cutting down on sweets. Haribo in all its variations used to be my vice, I'd go through a small packet in one sitting every night just for the sugar high. Instead, I'll now have something like an apple or a peach, just to have the sensation of something sweet in my mouth. And I've generally cut back on unhealthy and high calorie foods and meals. I weighed seventeen and a half stone this spring, and now I'm just over sixteen and a half.

At some point in the summer of 2023 I was weighing close to 19 stone. At 6'1'', but still, I was really feeling it in my knees, among other things. Going up stairs or running after a bus or train became very exhausting. I then lost 1.5 stone down from that pretty rapidly because of a death in my family, but it was then stalling because I just couldn't give up my beloved Haribo.

My goal is 14 stone. I've still got a long way to go, but I really want to be healthier.
>> No. 471251 Anonymous
14th July 2025
Monday 9:33 pm
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I know it's a terrible thing to say about a child, but the new Harry Potter actor looks less like a kid and more like an adult with some form of disability making them short.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2013yv182o
>> No. 471252 Anonymous
14th July 2025
Monday 10:03 pm
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>>471251

He looks like a slightly off AI image of young Daniel Radcliffe.

Or a Make a Wish kid without his cap and a convincing wig.
>> No. 471253 Anonymous
14th July 2025
Monday 10:40 pm
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It's so shite that Harry Potter is being remade. Not because I'm some kind of die hard for the original films, but I can't imagine anything more emblematic of our collective cultural stagnation. I don't know if J K Rowling signed off on it for the money, or to say "fuck you" to the original cast members who all think she's a dickhead, or what, but whatever the reason I think speaks to a lack of integrity on her part. This is probably one of the nicer things anyone who's not being bankrolled by Rowling is going to say about her.

Even Star Wars post-Lucas had stuff that was technically new, even if it has all the originality of a photocopy. This is literally the same Harry Potter story for goodness sake.
>> No. 471254 Anonymous
14th July 2025
Monday 10:48 pm
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>>471253

Coming up with new material takes time and money. Even if it will inevitably be derivative and a money grab, somebody will have to sit down and think up new stories.

And there's an entire new generation of kids now to whom Harry Potter is still completely new. That's probably the biggest selling point. They won't have most of the movies as reference points because they've never seen them.
>> No. 471255 Anonymous
14th July 2025
Monday 11:36 pm
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>>471253
I was going to tell you, "It could be worse - just look at this original film I saw advertised earlier which is clearly shit", but according to Wikipedia,
>On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 78% of 102 critics' reviews are positive. The website's consensus reads: "A marvel of state-of-the-art puppetry and visual effects, The Legend of Ochi elevates its predictable story with enchanting presentation."[16]

But on the other hand,
>In the United States and Canada, The Legend of Ochi was released alongside Until Dawn, The Accountant 2, and the re-release of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
Star Wars Episode III is underrated, but honestly, at some point I think cinemas just need to give up.
>> No. 471256 Anonymous
15th July 2025
Tuesday 3:10 pm
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Nacho's and tomato based crunch

What sort of cheese goes well, other than cheap, mild cheddar? There must be a fancy combination, perhaps from France or the Mediterranean?

And what dish would you call the core of pictured? I'm talking the core meat and texture combination, not a chip with garnish. Imagine eating this diced, like a crispy stuffing.
>> No. 471257 Anonymous
15th July 2025
Tuesday 4:05 pm
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The vending machine at work hasn't been restocked, so I couldn't buy my usual stash of sugary snacks to scoff on my way home. That might seem like a good thing, but I am probably going to end up driving to Asda and bring home a whole cream cake that won't last the night.

>>471256

No need to overcomplicate it. Two to one ratio of medium cheddar, and the sharpest red Leicester you can get your paws on. I find the mix of white and coloured cheese to add to the visual appeal of the dish, also. Never put mozarella on nachos, it just ends up sticking them all together.

Yeah fuck I'm getting some chilli and making nachos too.
>> No. 471258 Anonymous
15th July 2025
Tuesday 4:56 pm
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When will the lies end?
>> No. 471259 Anonymous
15th July 2025
Tuesday 5:25 pm
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>>471258

Supposed to be about the same here, but so far, nothing.
>> No. 471260 Anonymous
15th July 2025
Tuesday 5:48 pm
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>> No. 471261 Anonymous
15th July 2025
Tuesday 5:49 pm
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>>471258
>>471259
I'm just happy work no longer feels like I'm inside a, running, First World War tank.

>>471254
Yeah, I'm aware writers have to do writing to write things.

>And there's an entire new generation of kids now to whom Harry Potter is still completely new
That's such a lame argument. By that rationale no one should ever think of anything new, ever, because what's the point? What should have happened is something as big, or bigger, than Harry Potter ought to have been penned in the past quarter-of-a-century. Instead we're on a cultural treadmill where we have to hope the next reboot series isn't complete shit, or someone forces original ideas into a stale old setting.

>>471255
Cinemas are amazing. It's way, way better than watching a film on my telly. Even shit films have a strange, abhorrant majesty in a cinema.
>> No. 471262 Anonymous
15th July 2025
Tuesday 6:14 pm
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Not saying Grace Long is getting repetitive and self derivative... but yeah... it's still one way of looking at it.
>> No. 471263 Anonymous
15th July 2025
Tuesday 6:16 pm
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>>471260
Why can't I find what racist term he said? I assume it's the n-word, that's the only real sack-worthy racist term left nowadays. If he said "chinky" or "laplander" even, that can be justified.
>> No. 471264 Anonymous
15th July 2025
Tuesday 6:35 pm
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Did some medical thing cause Lena Dunham to become morbidly sexy, or did she just get really into Greggs when she moved to Britain?
>> No. 471265 Anonymous
15th July 2025
Tuesday 6:35 pm
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>>471263

He is an Aussie, so to be fair it could have been any of them. They are the only group of people who seem to have been untouched by the politically correct revolution and still use all the casually racist terms your mum and dad might have in the 70s.

And let's be totally fair, he didn't even never say it, whatever it was. Same as Gregg, he's 100% completely innocent of all wrongdoing, he's just being taken down by the BBC head honchos because he costs too much, and they are desperate to replace him with a black gay genderqueer disabled trans BIPOC intersex neurodiverse woman of colour who they can pay half as much, without getting done for constructive dismissal.

Mark my words, it'll all come out in a few years. Just you wait and see who gets to be the next presenters. And just you watch it die on its arse like Top Gear did.
>> No. 471266 Anonymous
15th July 2025
Tuesday 7:39 pm
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>>471263
As the other person didn't find it offensive at the time, it was probably something like calling a Chinese takeaway a Chinky.

>>471264
Lena Dunham is full on repulsive. You can have your Scarlett Moffatts, your Vordermans, your LadBaby's wife and whoever else you lads talk about slipping one, but if you genuinely find Lena Dunham attractive that's the point where I seriously question your judgement.
>> No. 471267 Anonymous
15th July 2025
Tuesday 8:44 pm
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In a similar vein, is it actually offensive to hire midgets for a birthday party?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cn5kpd4y2yvo
>> No. 471268 Anonymous
15th July 2025
Tuesday 8:47 pm
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>> No. 471269 Anonymous
15th July 2025
Tuesday 8:54 pm
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Do press ups work your core muscles? I did some for the first time... well, functionally forever, yesterday and my staomch hurts. Just wondering if it's that or a serious bladder infection.
>> No. 471270 Anonymous
15th July 2025
Tuesday 9:06 pm
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>>471269

Yes, if you're holding your torso rigid as you should be, a pushup is similar to a plank position.
>> No. 471271 Anonymous
15th July 2025
Tuesday 9:16 pm
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Some of the blackberries on the miniature blackberry hedge in the back garden are now turning from green to red.

I've always loved going blackberry foraging, at the time of year when they're ripe. So it's a real treat to have that many in my own back garden this year.

And the hedge seems to want to grow profusely at this point. It's got many shoots to all sides. Fine with me, for now. But I can't have it covering the whole garden.
>> No. 471272 Anonymous
15th July 2025
Tuesday 9:36 pm
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>>471264
Lena Dunham is gross. Her horrible face ruins her amazing body. And she seems like a cunt.
>> No. 471273 Anonymous
15th July 2025
Tuesday 10:38 pm
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Just had another underwhelming mango. Why are they all pale and rubbery inside at the moment, and taste of nothing? Don't they grow year round where they are grown?
>> No. 471275 Anonymous
15th July 2025
Tuesday 11:07 pm
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>>471267
I can understand this one perfectly. If you're a dwarf who wants to be taken seriously and not be treated like a punchline for the innately hilarious medical condition of achondroplasia, then seeing something like this on social media is going to hurt a lot, and you have every right to make your case about how such things should be consigned to history. However, I don't agree that you actually have the right to tell other people with dwarfism, nor indeed normal people, how to live their lives. It's fine to be offended and it's fine to report on your offence in the news, but ultimately, does anyone really give a fuck what you think?

One dwarf said, "I'm not happy." Lamine Yamal said, "Which one are you then?"
>> No. 471277 Anonymous
16th July 2025
Wednesday 10:25 am
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>>471275
There was the big hoohah with Peter Dinklage saying casting dwarves in Snow White would be degrading and ableist, so they used CGI. Then jobbing dwarves like Hornswoggle said Peter Dinklage fucked everything up for jobbing dwarves who generally need roles that call for dwarves because nobody is going to cast a dwarf in a normal people role.
>> No. 471278 Anonymous
16th July 2025
Wednesday 10:42 am
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>>471273
I find they're less likely to be pale inside from Lidl or Aldi compared with other supermarkets.
>> No. 471279 Anonymous
16th July 2025
Wednesday 12:06 pm
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>>471278

This mango was from Sainsburys, and the country of origin was stated as Gambia. According to Google, Gambia is currently in peak mango season. So I'm not sure why it was so bland.
>> No. 471280 Anonymous
16th July 2025
Wednesday 5:41 pm
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Does anyone these days make music like Fatboy Slim used to?
>> No. 471281 Anonymous
16th July 2025
Wednesday 6:12 pm
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>>471280
I believe the genre you're after is called Big Beat, and I hated it so I'm not the best person to help you by any means. If you don't listen to any modern music at all, I think Fred Again has the same mainstream-but-varied role in the musical zeitgeist, but he doesn't really sound like Fatboy Slim.
>> No. 471286 Anonymous
16th July 2025
Wednesday 9:24 pm
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My car has a fault that means it will fail it's MOT due in October, but the cost of repairing it is worth more than the car itself so I'm likely only to get scrap value for it.

What else can I do with it? Driving it off a cliff is a bit extreme, but what else can I do with a car that's essentially worthless and won't be road legal in a couple of months? I guess I won't be allowed to blow it up.
>> No. 471287 Anonymous
16th July 2025
Wednesday 9:32 pm
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>>471286

Can you say what exactly the fault is?

I don't want to get your hopes up, but sometimes garages charge you out the arse for things that can cost a fraction if you do them yourself or with a friend who knows how to fix cars.
>> No. 471288 Anonymous
16th July 2025
Wednesday 10:28 pm
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>>471287
It's the diesel particulate filter I posted about the other week. I've already paid the deposit on another car, so I will be getting rid of this one.
>> No. 471289 Anonymous
16th July 2025
Wednesday 11:56 pm
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>>471288

Right, DPFs can be 500 quid aftermarket and a bit of a faff to swap out. I probably would have done it on my car, but congratulations on your new car.

My Audi A4 needs a new turbo soon. At my car's age, it would be an instant writeoff at garage prices, but it'll cost me about £500 to do it myself.
>> No. 471290 Anonymous
17th July 2025
Thursday 3:07 am
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>>471289
I've had quotes of about £400 for a garage to do a manual filter regeneration, but there's no guarantee that would resolve the issue and been told it'd cost double that to replace the part. Most garages don't want anything to do with it, although I did have one quote £500 cash in hand to drill it to get rid of the engine warning lights.

It's an 11 year old Citroen that I've had for about 8 years and there are a couple of issues with it to do with the electronics. Even if it was in full working order I think I'd do well to get £1,500 for it. I might see if I can stick it on Facebook marketplace for about a grand and see if someone fancies their luck with it.
>> No. 471291 Anonymous
17th July 2025
Thursday 7:53 am
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Facebook has started recommending me groups where women post photos of their boyfriend, and other women say whether they're dating him too. I suppose to check he's not cheating on them with anyone else.

Seemed very unpleasant. And the comments laughing at the men for being ugly or obviously being a cheater because he hasn't deleted all females off his Facebook friend list. These women give off a very Cluster B vibe.
>> No. 471292 Anonymous
17th July 2025
Thursday 10:33 am
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>>471290

If you're not otherwise emotionally invested in the car, it's probably best to get rid of it, you're right.

The problem with older cars is that often you have parts breaking on them that are prohibitively expensive to replace for somebody who can't do their own repairs, and who likely drives an old car like that in the first place because their budget isn't that big.

It's a shame because cars like that then often go to the breaker's prematurely, when they still would have had some life in it, with the right owner. On the other hand, it ensures a steady supply of used parts for people like me, who do all their own repairs on old cars that they own.
>> No. 471293 Anonymous
17th July 2025
Thursday 8:31 pm
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There's a VW camper for sale in my town priced just about my entire savings bank. I'm wondering if I should buy it but I don't know a thing about cars and don't even have a provisional license.
>> No. 471294 Anonymous
17th July 2025
Thursday 8:46 pm
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>>471293
You can use it to heat your house if you have a Kombi boiler.
>> No. 471295 Anonymous
17th July 2025
Thursday 9:28 pm
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>>471263
>Sacked MasterChef host John Torode used n-word, sources allege

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/media/article/what-did-john-torode-say-sacked-cx8frw0d6
>> No. 471296 Anonymous
17th July 2025
Thursday 11:15 pm
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>>471294
Do you mean to say the VW Camper would become my home? It might work for short holidays.
>> No. 471297 Anonymous
17th July 2025
Thursday 11:38 pm
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That penalty shootout in the women's Euros was comically terrible. But that made it exciting. I looked if we had a women's football thread and we don't; perhaps I should make one that will get three posts from me every two years and permanent silence from the rest of you. England certainly aren't lasting much longer in this tournament, playing like that.
>> No. 471298 Anonymous
17th July 2025
Thursday 11:41 pm
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>>471297
>England certainly aren't lasting much longer in this tournament, playing like that.

That's never stopped an English football team before.
>> No. 471299 Anonymous
18th July 2025
Friday 12:59 am
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Anyone noticed the uptick in 'It goes to show' around here, just lately? Where's that coming from, then?
>> No. 471300 Anonymous
18th July 2025
Friday 1:21 am
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>>471297
You talking this? It's far less energy than I was expecting, it almost looks casual. Not sure on the Sweedish goalie, she seems to dump her body.

Check out the English striker at 2:12 - a bit of creativity seems to trick the goalie into guessing the leading foot. That's a sort of gameplay that improves sport.
English penaulty 6 was dire. 7 was great. Maybe they saw the Sweedish goalie wanted to practice tumbling.
Sweedish 2 was good, even the English goalie - you can see her tracking the ball and reacting the entire time. 5 is interesting as it's the goalie kicking, evident in her high wide delivery as though punting it down the field.

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18th July 2025
Friday 7:23 am
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>>471297
It was completely atrocious. The Swedish keeper repeatedly started diving when the England players were one or two steps away from the ball yet they kept kicking it where she was clearly moving.

The substitutions changed the game. If Sweden didn't take off Rolfö then they wouldn't have lost the game. Similarly, Carter couldn't defend for shit for England so if she starts another game they'll go out quite soon. England only really looked threatening when they replaced the extremely one-dimensional Hemp with Kelly, who was actually capable of crossing the ball.
>> No. 471302 Anonymous
18th July 2025
Friday 9:44 am
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>> No. 471303 Anonymous
18th July 2025
Friday 5:47 pm
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Positives: my grilled chicken and mango chutney sandwich on olive bread was perfect.

Cons: I can't find these trainers in a UK size nine. Partly because they're sold out everywhere, partly because they're women's shoes.
>> No. 471304 Anonymous
18th July 2025
Friday 6:11 pm
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>>471303
Just get white ones and dye them.
>> No. 471305 Anonymous
18th July 2025
Friday 8:13 pm
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I've watched the first ~12 minutes of Spain against Switzerland. I thought women's football was meant to be improving, but it's still extremely amateurish.
>> No. 471306 Anonymous
18th July 2025
Friday 8:45 pm
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>>471304
You're a madman... but I'm going kiss you anyway. Thanks for the tip.
>> No. 471307 Anonymous
18th July 2025
Friday 8:49 pm
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>>471305
There was another penalty as well. It was not scored.
>> No. 471308 Anonymous
18th July 2025
Friday 9:11 pm
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>>471304
One of you must be the chap who wore one red and one blue converses.
>> No. 471309 Anonymous
18th July 2025
Friday 10:37 pm
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>>471308
I merely live in his great and beautiful shadow.
>> No. 471310 Anonymous
18th July 2025
Friday 11:27 pm
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>>471307
I used to think the big difference between men's and women's football was the physicality, but I've now realised it's actually the mental side of the game. They're far less composed when there's opposition players around them, leading to wayward passes, poor ball control and desperate scrambling around. Yesterday's penalty shootout was a prime example of not being able to hold your nerve; the England players shot tamely and directly at the keeper whereas the Swedes shat the bed and repeatedly missed the target. IIRC, women's tennis also has many more unforced errors as well.
>> No. 471311 Anonymous
18th July 2025
Friday 11:28 pm
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>>471310

Longstanding issues etc...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cm2mxjndp02o
>> No. 471312 Anonymous
19th July 2025
Saturday 12:48 am
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We should be doing more high concept posts.
>> No. 471313 Anonymous
19th July 2025
Saturday 4:16 am
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The one local corner shop near me that had Twiglets was out of stock, so I went on a quest to find a pack. Not one of the eight corner shops I went to had them on the shelves. I never see them in places like Tesco Express or Sainsburys Local either. I could buy a multipack from a big supermarket in the daytime, but that defeats the purpose of getting a pack as the occasional treat, plus multipack snacks always seem to have less flavour than their single pack corner shop counterparts. So far I've noticed the phenomenon with Twiglets, Discos, and McCoys. Discos are by far the worst offender, with the intensity of the salt and vinegar flavour ranging from barely being able to feel a thing, to having the top layer of your tongue burnt off in an ecstasy of snack masochism.
>> No. 471314 Anonymous
19th July 2025
Saturday 7:17 am
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>>471313
>multipack snacks always seem to have less flavour than their single pack corner shop counterparts
It must be something to do with the manufacturing process. Big single bags are probably filled first from a vat packed with flavouring, while the smaller bags are turned down the line. Lots of movement for dust to disribute in the air. I don't know, might be bullshit

>Discos - having the top layer of your tongue burnt off in an ecstasy of snack masochism.
Maybe try something from Poundland? Their offbrand frazzels are the best I can find without paying for Smiths. Would love to know a scampi fries alternative.
Tesco brand S&V have been okay though the texture isn't ebrasive enough - thier cheese and chives are a good mild crunch with a touch of sharpness.

I don't know why the fuck you're eating Twiglets though, nutter.

Have you tried marmite with peanut butter?
>> No. 471316 Anonymous
19th July 2025
Saturday 11:05 am
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>>471310
Whereas the England mens team is well known for holding there nerve at penalty shoot outs.
>> No. 471317 Anonymous
19th July 2025
Saturday 11:16 am
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>>471312
I have no idea what this means. Do you want some kind of metaphor, or allegory? What would a high-concept imageboard post even look like? I can write you a cryptic crossword clue if you like.
>> No. 471319 Anonymous
19th July 2025
Saturday 12:41 pm
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>>471317
Maybe he means something along the lines of, for example, instead of giving one's opinion on the causes, mechanisms, and effects of deindustrialisation in Britain, discussing the psychosexual motivations of the Tory-voting members of the general public in Southeast England, and how the Norman conquests, arguably the apogee of the tradition of Indo-European expansionism, was not a specific episode in British history whose social effects are now irrelevant, but rather the establishment of a relatively long chapter in Occidental history the effects of which have not fully played out yet but are currently manifesting in the absorption of the British entity into an American sphere in both a Freudian and a Jungian sense. Of course this position doesn't take in to account any of Rene Guenon's ideas, but the two strains of thought aren't necessarily mutually exclusive. Nick Land has written a 200,000 word chapter on this particular supra-concept in his essay about the hyper-abolition of culture in American spheres of influence. Or something like that, just my guess.
>> No. 471324 Anonymous
19th July 2025
Saturday 6:47 pm
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>>471317
I think we have some misunderstanding regarding what "high concept" means.

>>471319
Yeah, like this, none of this is "high concept".
>Nick Land
Get out, out. Before I sweep you up with my broom.
>> No. 471326 Anonymous
19th July 2025
Saturday 6:55 pm
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>>471324

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

>High concept is a type of artistic work that can be easily pitched with a succinctly stated premise. It can be contrasted with low concept, which is more concerned with character development and other subtleties that are not as easily summarized.


so... is .gs high concept, or low concept?
>> No. 471331 Anonymous
19th July 2025
Saturday 9:45 pm
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>>471326
Neither, .gs is a website.
>> No. 471333 Anonymous
19th July 2025
Saturday 11:06 pm
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>>471324
What's your problem with Nick Land, you don't like it took him millions of words of gibberish and tonnes of amphetamines to finally come to a conclusion which somebody who's never read a book at their own leisure could come to by taking a stroll down their high street?
>> No. 471334 Anonymous
19th July 2025
Saturday 11:47 pm
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>>471333
>come to a conclusion which somebody who's never read a book at their own leisure could come to by taking a stroll down their high street?

Is that conclusion the dolphin rape or the absolute monarchy part? They're definitely conclusions I can see a drug-mulched moron reaching. He's just another right-wing pseudo-intellectual who thinks everything would be fine if only the French Revolution hadn't occured. Cards on the table, I generally have a very low opinion of these "tehcno-philosphy" types. Right-wing or otherwise. They seem to exist in a world of almost totally pure rhetoric, and as someone with, if I may say so myself, quite developed rhetorical skills, I'm well aware that you can use them to spin any old yarn.
>> No. 471335 Anonymous
20th July 2025
Sunday 12:08 am
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>>471334
I've never heard of any of these people who get mentioned here. I've never heard of Curtis Yavin, the planet from Star Wars, either, apart from when he was discussed here. I must just be blessed somehow.

But I remain confident that these right-wing grifters are popular mainly because they have an audience which is crying out to know a secret that nobody else in society is aware of or willing to discuss. Think how clever you'll feel, for the first time in your entire life if you're especially thick, when you're the one with the extra information for once.

There's also the fact again, technically just my own opinion that even mainstream education teaches people how to spot conspiracies and lies nowadays, but all that education really does is teach people to question everything and not trust what they're told. This is a good idea, of course, but you can question and disbelieve accepted truths as well. All you need is an angle, and you can call anything a conspiracy. Vaccine scepticism is a great example of this: I don't trust the vaxx > but this doctor says it's safe > he might not be a real doctor > but he is > but maybe he's being funded by a shadowy cabal like when the tobacco companies did exactly that > but that's obviously bollocks > but look how rich pharmaceutical companies are > I'm probably more adept at climbing a tree than somebody like you > maybe you're a paid shill too > etc etc etc.
>> No. 471336 Anonymous
20th July 2025
Sunday 12:12 am
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>>471335
>I'm probably more adept at climbing a tree than somebody like you
For anyone wondering, this wordfilter is for when you type "oh f*ck o*f". It's heartening that I haven't encountered it here before.
>> No. 471340 Anonymous
20th July 2025
Sunday 10:57 am
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>>471336

I'm probably more adept at climbing a tree than somebody like you. I've always wondered about that one, because whenever I've got hit with it, I've always forgotten whatever it was I'd written there.

What's that one about transformers and stick insects or something? I agree? Agreed?
>> No. 471342 Anonymous
20th July 2025
Sunday 11:26 am
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>>471340
I'm still quite proud of mine but I'm not sure which board it's active to or whether it still exists moist dicks in my face
>> No. 471343 Anonymous
20th July 2025
Sunday 12:37 pm
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>>471335
I think another part of their appeal, at least the wordy ones, is that they're a bit clever and that appeals to a certain type of person. At least in my case, I find that I'm more interested in someone being interesting than in them being correct. I hate their political program but feel like they occasionally have something interesting to say - I'm disappointed when the practical conclusions amount to a pie in the sky program that makes communism look easy for tomorrow, and bog standard stupid right wing governance for today, because a lot of the stuff they raise before you realize that is fairly interesting. The relative merits of voice Vs exit, for example.
>> No. 471351 Anonymous
20th July 2025
Sunday 7:20 pm
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>>47133
I was being tongue in cheek there, I've never read any of his works and never will, I'm vaguely aware that he began his career writing extremely arcane things yet eventually came to extremely bog standard conclusions as though he needn't have bothered in the first place.

I'm probably more adept at climbing a tree than somebody like you.
>> No. 471360 Anonymous
21st July 2025
Monday 10:08 am
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A friend just told me that she was burglarised Friday morning. She was in the bathroom showering not even for ten minutes, and during that time somebody got in through the open patio door. They nicked a £500 camera and some gold earrings. Luckily they didn't spot her laptop on a chair under the kitchen table. Police have told her that this kind of thing is happening all over the country at the moment and that you shouldn't leave any open doors to your house unattended for more than a brief moment. And they especially target people during vulnerable moments, e.g. somebody's morning shower or when they are just out walking their dog for a few minutes.

So yeah... just a heads up, I guess.
>> No. 471361 Anonymous
21st July 2025
Monday 10:14 am
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>>471360
Isn't not leaving your door wide open while you're in the shower basic common sense?
>> No. 471362 Anonymous
21st July 2025
Monday 10:39 am
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>>471360

This is why I feel much more secure living in a third floor flat. I can leave the windows and doors open more or less with impunity, because who's going to bother scaling the building compared to just nipping through somebody's open patio door.

Burglars are mostly opportunist. They might case a place out first and mark you down as somebody with shit worth taking, but they don't plan an elaborate heist in the middle of the night. They'll just jump on an opportunity when it's there. It takes five seconds to walk in and grab something.
>> No. 471363 Anonymous
21st July 2025
Monday 10:41 am
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>>471361

It wasn't wide open. It's a sliding door that was cracked open by just a few centimetres. I guess that's something you can easily overlook on your way to the bathroom. But whoever broke in spotted it from behind the back garden and came and nicked her stuff. Probably a crime of opportunity for the burglar.
>> No. 471364 Anonymous
21st July 2025
Monday 11:56 am
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>>471360
Wouldn't that mean somebody has been watching your friend and learned their routine enough to sneak in? Dodgey af mate.
>> No. 471365 Anonymous
21st July 2025
Monday 12:10 pm
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>>471364

This is the part that's most sickening, for me. With a smash and grab burglary, there's some plausible deniability about it being an act of desperation or necessity, even when it's usually not. Being a devious enough cunt to stalk someone and learn when they take a shower is an unforgivable level of premeditated targeting.
>> No. 471366 Anonymous
21st July 2025
Monday 12:38 pm
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>>471364

Most burglaries of that type are committed by drug addicts who just wander the streets all day looking for things to steal. They're utterly brazen, partly because they're desperate for a fix but also because they tend to be quite thick. They'll often wander into gardens to see if you've left your shed or your back door unlocked.

I've been told that this kind of crime has greatly increased post-pandemic because fewer people carry cash, which has made begging much less lucrative.
>> No. 471367 Anonymous
21st July 2025
Monday 12:58 pm
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I've decided to try out Vinted, paid roughly £11 each for 3 shirts that have, allegedly, only been worn a few times. Will have to see what they're like when they arrived.
>> No. 471368 Anonymous
21st July 2025
Monday 1:20 pm
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>>471365

I'm not sure it adds up that somebody would spend considerable time and effort stalking somebody in their house and observing their routines just to make off with a few hundred quid of easily floggable stolen goods. When you can make that kind of money as a burglar just by opportunistically looking for an open patio door.

The real, more substantial burglaries where people ransack an entire house and steal expensive art, jewelery, or even luxury cars worth tens or hundreds of thouands are probably cased and prepared a long time beforehand. I can see that. I would guess that as with any job, it's a question of what you get for the work you put into it. But I'm pretty sure nobody is going to stalk you for a week and observe your routines just so they can get their hands on your camera and laptop.
>> No. 471369 Anonymous
21st July 2025
Monday 1:23 pm
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>>471366

Partly because they are thick, maybe, but it's not like this is a high risk activity for them. They're only picking easy targets, so the worst that happens is you catch them in the act and they have to leg it. It's not like the coppers are ever going to respond fast enough to be a real consideration.

The reason they are successful is because too many people make it easy for them. A locked door can be opened pretty easily in most cases but they're not likely to try, that's not worth the hassle; whereas if you leave it unlocked or worse physically open, then there's no obstacle at all. They can be in and out in under a minute and just take whatever they see. Why wouldn't they chance it?
>> No. 471370 Anonymous
21st July 2025
Monday 1:43 pm
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>>471369

>A locked door can be opened pretty easily in most cases

This is very much an aside, but a modern uPVC or composite door with a good lock is shockingly difficult to open without the key. A kitemarked 3 star cylinder is basically immune to all common brute-force attacks and a real pain in the arse to pick, even for a professional locksmith. The multipoint locking mechanism and hinges are stronger than the door, so you can't really kick one of those doors open. Police doing drug raids are increasingly resorting to cutting a hole in the door with a reciprocating saw and crawling through, because that's often the least-worst means of gaining access.

Of course, that amounts to naught if you leave your door unlocked.
>> No. 471372 Anonymous
21st July 2025
Monday 1:54 pm
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>>471369

As a rule, I've started not leaving any valuables lying around in my house when I go out for more than just popping down to the shops. Anything that could be spotted from the outside through the livingroom or dining room window and quickly carried out while I'm gone, I now lock inside the broom closet room and then hide the key. Things like my laptop, external hard drives, my digital camera, and other stuff like that. The obvious weakness being that a locked closet room with the key missing from the lock could pique the interest of a burglar all the more, but breaking open a door lock costs precious time, which any burglar will want to keep to a minimum, and not having my stuff out in the open is going to keep away somebody who is just looking for a quick smash and grab and trying to determine if my house is worth it.

The only other things of some nominal value in my livingroom are my vintage hi-fi component system and a 40'' TV. But I don't think many burglars will want to lug around a late-90s, 30-pound home cinema receiver that's worth 70 quid on eBay at best, and a 40'' TV won't fit under most people's coat.
>> No. 471373 Anonymous
21st July 2025
Monday 2:24 pm
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>>471368

I'm not sure. When I lived in the UK, people tried (and failed) to break into a locked garage to steal a motorcycle that couldn't be worth more than £700.

In order to know that I stored a motorcycle there, they must have seen me, at least once, commuting to or from work. It was also in a row of about 5 garages, and they specifically targeted mine.

Maybe I experienced something unusual, there.
>> No. 471374 Anonymous
21st July 2025
Monday 3:13 pm
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>>471373

>In order to know that I stored a motorcycle there, they must have seen me, at least once, commuting to or from work.

And maybe they did. But all it took in that case was one time seeing you put your motorbike in your garage or getting it out, and they knew it was something they wanted. That's still different from casing a property like some burglars do.

When I still lived in my flat near city centre, one time I left my car at home to go on an overnight trip by train for a job interview right at the other end of the country. The next day when I came home, my car was gone from right in front of the building. For a long time, I had a suspicion that one of my neighbours saw me leave in a cab with a light travel bag the night before. In particular, there was one neighbour in the block on the other side of the street who would often have a fag on his balcony and who looked a bit shifty by anybody's standards. But of course somebody shifty regularly having a smoke on his balcony wasn't a reasonable suspicion.

The car insurance ended up paying me back the full market value of my car, based on a car of my make and model "in average condition", because I had theft cover, but getting there was very tedious. They found it "unusual" that the car got nicked while I was away, to the effect that they actually said to me on the phone that they had to establish if the theft of my car had been "commissioned". In other words, if I had somebody steal my car while I was conveniently out of town. They remained adamant that that was a possibility, until a lawyer I hired quickly convinced them otherwise. Bastards.
>> No. 471375 Anonymous
21st July 2025
Monday 3:14 pm
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>>471370

While that's true enough, you don't have to be the Lockpicking Lawyer to put a brick through a window either, do you. If someone wants in, they will get in, through whatever the path of least resistance is. All you are really doing with any security measure like these, is putting up a deterrent. But that small deterrent is more often than not all you need, because they are looking for an opportunity that wouldn't need such potentially messy, attention attracting behaviour.

>>471372

This is really the best thing you can do. As you say they're not going after anything that's big or heavy, and they're not especially bothered about something being higher value than something else. What they are after is a laptop or a phone left out on the coffee table, a set of car keys or a bit of jewellery on the sideboard. They want something easy to walk off with that they can quickly and reliably sell on.

When I lived in a house that fronted out straight onto a main road, I just basically kept the front curtains drawn at all times. As much because you don't want passers by gawping in at you while you're trying to have a midday beer in your underpants, but also because it's practically a shop display of everythign you own to those sorts of petty crims. All it would take is for me to forget to lock the front door once.
>> No. 471376 Anonymous
21st July 2025
Monday 5:46 pm
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I live in a pikey hellhole and I often leave my door open when I get home from work to encourage refreshing breezes. I've not had any bad experiences yet; perhaps they know I am mere feet away from the door and perfectly willing to angrily charge down any fucker who comes in. Or it could be the fact I have a front garden.
>> No. 471377 Anonymous
21st July 2025
Monday 6:21 pm
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The storm they've been teasing for weeks is finally here!
>> No. 471378 Anonymous
21st July 2025
Monday 7:03 pm
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>>471377

Didn't last long mind. At least we got it in the end.
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21st July 2025
Monday 7:19 pm
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I had someone try my door once after they managed to kick in the door to my downstairs neighbours. Unfortunately for them I work from home whenever I can.
>> No. 471380 Anonymous
21st July 2025
Monday 8:05 pm
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VICTORIA COREN MITCHELL HAS LOST WEIGHT
>> No. 471381 Anonymous
21st July 2025
Monday 8:46 pm
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>>471380
COBR meeting, NOW!
>> No. 471382 Anonymous
21st July 2025
Monday 9:57 pm
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>>471379

When I was still living in my flat, somebody once tried to jimmy my door lock at eight in the morning on a Sunday. At least that's what it sounded like. I jumped up out of my bed and looked through the door spy, and it turned out that it was the elderly lady from the flat above mine who wasn't realising that she was on the wrong floor. So I opened the door and tried to explain the situation to her, but she just said, "yes, but how did you get inside my flat?". She had onset dementia at that point, and just a few months later her children put her in a home. She was really beginning to be a danger to herself.
>> No. 471383 Anonymous
22nd July 2025
Tuesday 12:52 pm
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>>471379

Their turds got burgled iykwim
>> No. 471385 Anonymous
22nd July 2025
Tuesday 1:56 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo_YKtVZiGE

Speaking of burglaries, watched this the other week. He seemed really eager to use that shotgun. He got to gun down two criminals and get off scot free. The American dream.
>> No. 471386 Anonymous
22nd July 2025
Tuesday 2:16 pm
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>>471385

With all those guns that Americans own, you need to get your live target practice in somehow.
>> No. 471387 Anonymous
22nd July 2025
Tuesday 4:43 pm
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>>471385
He seemed really eagar to prevent a robbery and protect his neighbourhood, for sure, just happened to be armed.
The call handler would have done well to update the guy on the response. Too much dead line for the guy to ruminate on. The handler fumbled awfully when the guy said he was scared.

It's not necessarily about the property that can be percieved as worth life, but respect for that property. That's why it's claimed in the first place.

"They got a bag of loot" lol
>> No. 471388 Anonymous
22nd July 2025
Tuesday 5:35 pm
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I think I might've fucked up with my flat and it's making me anxious.

When I moved in I hung up 5 big paintings using command strips not thinking that there's a clause of my contract telling "not to fix to the walls, ceilings or woodwork any posters, pictures, photographs or ornaments using nails, glue, sticky tape, Blu-tack or similar fixings". There's also another clause to obtain prior written consent from the landlord for any redecoration of the property.

Now I have an interim inspection coming up where they want to take pictures to see the state of the property. I feel like I'm going to get a talking to although realistically I could ask what's the worst that could happen. Obviously I could try taking them down but I fully expect that the command strips will in fact damage the paint when I take them off.
>> No. 471389 Anonymous
22nd July 2025
Tuesday 5:47 pm
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>>471388
I remember your previous post about this, and I remember that nobody replied. My landlord was a mellow old man who never came round but never fixed anything either, and I lived there for 12 years then I bought this house, so by all means ignore what I say, but my assumption is that nobody's going to care. If it's some corporate vultures coming round, they:
a) won't know whether the pictures were there when you moved in or not
b) won't know how they are attached to the walls unless they care far more than anyone with such a worthless job should
c) will be well aware that you can paint over any issues yourself

Also, look, you've put the pictures up now. Taking them down will be far more noticeable. If you slightly damage the paint when you take them down, don't take them down. If the emulsion inspectors get that upset about it, maybe they will take them down for you and then you can argue it was them who ruined the paintwork.
>> No. 471390 Anonymous
22nd July 2025
Tuesday 5:58 pm
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>>471385
I think the responder handled it quite well on the whole; he didn't panic and had a light and breezy tone at all times. I even got the feeling that he didn't particularly care if the burglars got shot.
>> No. 471391 Anonymous
22nd July 2025
Tuesday 7:24 pm
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RIP ARE OZZY OSBOURNE!
>> No. 471392 Anonymous
22nd July 2025
Tuesday 8:22 pm
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Starting to have doubts that my lesbian co-worker is a lesbian. We were talking about music and I mentioned Pink Pony Club and she just said "I don't get it, not for me". That's like one of you pair not liking Robot Wars or something, it's for you.

>>471391
Genuinely sad to see him go. Nice that he went out on a high, but it's still a shame.
>> No. 471393 Anonymous
22nd July 2025
Tuesday 8:32 pm
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>>471392
>Nice that he went out on a high
It was only a matter of time, he wasn't about to come down.
>> No. 471394 Anonymous
22nd July 2025
Tuesday 8:59 pm
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>>471391

There better be a full state funeral with all the stops pulled out. Goodnight, sweet dark prince.

Anyway I think there's no more fitting of a tribute than to have a massive bender. It's what he would have wanted.
>> No. 471395 Anonymous
22nd July 2025
Tuesday 9:14 pm
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>>471392
My understanding of the gays is that many of them aren't fond of Chappell Roan because she'll engage in queerbaiting by dressing like a drag queen and leaning into gay culture but then she'll be very wishy-washy when it comes to standing up for gay rights or make statements that she doesn't want to be politically educated, as if it's just exploiting the community for profit.

Based on the lezzers I know, their kind of music is the likes of Regina Spektor, Fiona Apple, Bjork and PJ Harvey.
>> No. 471396 Anonymous
22nd July 2025
Tuesday 9:23 pm
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>>471395
>Based on the lezzers I know, their kind of music is the likes of Regina Spektor, Fiona Apple, Bjork and PJ Harvey.
I could be wrong on this but I believe there are also some lesbians aged under 45.
>> No. 471397 Anonymous
22nd July 2025
Tuesday 9:42 pm
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>>471395
Those criticisms sound like chronically online nonsense. All I know about Chappell Roan's politcs are that she refused a White House invite because of Biden's support for Israel's genocide. Besides that I don't think you should have to beg for lesbian cred when you're already a member of the tribe. How much fanny does a woman have to eat around here to get some respect?

Regardless, it seems if I want to find out for certain I'm going to have to find myself a life size cut-out of Cate Blanchett. I was hoping it wouldn't come to this...

>>471396
This is true, I've seen them. I think.
>> No. 471398 Anonymous
22nd July 2025
Tuesday 10:23 pm
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My letting agent is coming over to investigate an issue, which I'm concerned about. I use (and pay for) comparitively little electric and insist on recipts during collection, now they're arranging to inspect the meter. I thump it from time to time which stops it from audiably grinding, which perhaps jams a gear, but my debit recipts from an old home showed very similar usage.
It feels bad being suspected like this.

>>471388
While it's in the contract, most of the letting agents I've encounted seem to expect people to settle into a place. One suggested adhesive hooks, another has excused paint damage. If you're a good tennant they'll probably be cool
Make it a friendly comfortable atmosphere, fresh air and open curtains, and you'll probably be alright. Biscuits may help.

If you've recently hammered 9 nails around your wooden doorframes to hang various objects like me, then you'll probably need to bake a cake.

>>471389
>If it's some corporate vultures coming round, they:
>a) won't know whether the pictures were there when you moved in or not
I think the point is they're coming in mid tennancy to take pictures. That's very invasive and suggests some motive. Maybe it's just procedure.

>>471392
I got a secret crush for the Pink Pony Club, it's just too catchy. Haven't dared listen to any other Chappell Roan music, I'd probably chop it off.
>> No. 471399 Anonymous
22nd July 2025
Tuesday 10:32 pm
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>>471398
Give Red Wine Supernova a bash.
>> No. 471400 Anonymous
22nd July 2025
Tuesday 10:59 pm
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I've entirely ignored the women's Euro, and I'm not going to start watching now, just because our lasses may well be in the final.

Good on them. But yeah.
>> No. 471401 Anonymous
22nd July 2025
Tuesday 11:59 pm
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>>471392
>>471395

Have you ever been into the metal subculture/had a metalhead mate, and observed that thing where you'll talk about a band you think is metal and they roll their eyes and tell you it's not "real" metal? The distinction is entirely arbitrary, or so it may seem to outsiders, and it's not a genre thing. But there's a very real difference that is made for and by people like you, versus music which is simply marketed at people like you.

I would imagine that's what it's like with a lot of gay culture nowadays, at least, considering how much of a golden goose the corpos seem to think slapping an LGBTQ+ whatever flag on things is. I'm only tangentially gay by way of type-fucking feminine furry boys but I know if I was a full on poofter I'd be seething about all that lot.
>> No. 471402 Anonymous
23rd July 2025
Wednesday 9:09 am
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I have the day off. I'm currently eating a bowl of Nesquik, watching an episode of Diagnosis Murder, still in my pyjamas.
>> No. 471403 Anonymous
23rd July 2025
Wednesday 1:16 pm
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>>471398

>While it's in the contract, most of the letting agents I've encounted seem to expect people to settle into a place. One suggested adhesive hooks, another has excused paint damage.

You are going to live inside your flat for some time, it's not just a hotel room or a hospital bed. There is going to be reasonable wear and tear, and that should include the possibility to customise your flat's interior a bit. The only reason many landlords or letting agents are fussy about nails is because it's a chance to be able to keep your deposit. And a lot of claims are completely out of proportion, like wanting to keep all of the deposit because you've put a nick in a 50 year old door frame. Happened to a friend.

At the last place I rented, the policy was that I was allowed to not only put nails in walls, "within reason" as they said, but that I could even drill holes for wall plugs (I specifically asked because I had a livingroom wall unit that needed to be screwed to the wall), as long as I would remove them and plaster them up properly upon moving out. Which I did, and they were happy with the result.
>> No. 471404 Anonymous
23rd July 2025
Wednesday 2:15 pm
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Is it weird to keep a rag on your private desk, mostly for blown noses and greasy lips? Mine also sees use mopping spilled tea and occasionally during mild wanks.
A few people have seen them now and I'm starting to become self concious. Keeping one at hand at desk, no matter how clean, does prompt questions.
I think one of you once said hankey use is a write off, socially speaking.
>> No. 471405 Anonymous
23rd July 2025
Wednesday 5:34 pm
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>>471402
So glad I'm not the only adult cerial consumer. My current go-to is cornflakes with fine golden sugar. Hasn't got the same texture value as something like chocolate rocks, but it's a staple.

You've actually inspired me to try clean rabbit poop in milk, with nuts and things. Rabbits have a special disgestive process that makes it less disgusting than you might think, far less than that cat coffee thing anyway.
>> No. 471406 Anonymous
23rd July 2025
Wednesday 5:52 pm
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>>471404
How exactly do you differentiate between a mild wank and a full strength affair? Is it a bit like teacon?
>> No. 471407 Anonymous
24th July 2025
Thursday 1:07 pm
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Just fixed the washing machine again. I guess I overloaded it last night, it made a whole lot of banging noises and at the end of it you could see through the door that the drum was "sagging" and the rubber seal was stretched downward and had a tear in one spot.

I removed the top and it turned out that one of the three springs that hold the tub and drum in place had become unhinged. So I fixed that and then applied some silicone caulk to the tear in the seal. Which you can do, I did it once on my old washing machine and it lasted years.

Feels like I've done something productive today. The washing machine itself is 25 years old and really just running on hopes and prayers at this point, but at least at the moment I'd rather not spend 500 quid on a new one.
>> No. 471408 Anonymous
24th July 2025
Thursday 2:26 pm
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>>471407
I need to replace my entire kitchen and everything in it, but currently, everything still works. So what this means for me is that I will probably one day find that my washing machine smells nasty or a shelf in my fridge will break, and I’ll wind up spending £5000 on a whole new kitchen to fix it. If I spend that money on anything else before it happens, I’m going to be fucked.
>> No. 471409 Anonymous
24th July 2025
Thursday 3:01 pm
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>>471408

>find that my washing machine smells nasty

Bleach is your friend. You can get rid of smells inside the washing machine by doing an empty cycle with just water and about 50 millilitres of chlorine thick bleach. And also you could remove the detergent drawer and spray both it and the inside of the drawer compartment with regular chlorine bleach. That usually gets rid of smells. Also, make sure you regularly unscrew the washing machine's drain plug at the bottom on the front. Usually that's where some water will linger that the pump can't pump out, and it will then stink up your next wash.
>> No. 471410 Anonymous
24th July 2025
Thursday 5:56 pm
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The Hulkster died.

I think his 2015 cancelling was bullshit, because while he said bad racist things, he did it in his own home. It's not like he was saying slurs on a public stage.

Him being booed at a WWE show this year was fair enough, as he was there to shill his beer, only months after appearing at a Trump rally.
>> No. 471411 Anonymous
24th July 2025
Thursday 6:06 pm
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>>471410
I heard he'd died so I switched on the news, and they didn't have it confirmed yet so I watched until they mentioned it. The first photos and clips they showed of him all showed him in a prominent Trump/Vance shirt. I would have thought that if those were the most recent pictures they had of him, they might have gone for a classic photo instead.

This does seem like the perfect opportunity to try and identify the cartoon series with him in it that I saw once in the early 1990s. It's a cartoon where I believe he saved the world or something, and then at the end there was a live-action sequence of the real Hulk Hogan walking out to a crowd of screaming cheering fans. Being somewhere between 5 and 10 years old at the time, I made entirely logical assumption that the man I was watching had actually saved the world for real at some point, and was given his own TV series as a reward for being so heroic.

Based on his Wikipedia filmography, I think the most likely thing that I saw will have been this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulk_Hogan%27s_Rock_%27n%27_Wrestling
>> No. 471412 Anonymous
24th July 2025
Thursday 6:11 pm
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Who's next?

Arnold Schwarzenegger?
>> No. 471413 Anonymous
24th July 2025
Thursday 6:45 pm
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>>471412
Noel Edmonds
>> No. 471414 Anonymous
24th July 2025
Thursday 6:49 pm
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>>471412
They come in threes, and we've had Hulk Hogan, Ozzy Osbourne, and Malcolm-Jamal Warner who played Theo Huxtable on The Cosby Show. If you don't think he's famous enough, there was also the guy who did the voice of Professor Oak in the Pokemon TV series, alongside countless other cartoon voices that you will have heard. Or the main songwriter from Golden Earring, like I posted about in the music thread. I follow celebrity deaths quite closely.

Of course, if they come in threes and I have so far listed five, then maybe Bruce Willis or Joe Biden should still be worrying.
>> No. 471415 Anonymous
24th July 2025
Thursday 6:51 pm
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>>471412
It'll be someone people actually care about, like Attenborough or Dick Van Dyke.
>> No. 471416 Anonymous
24th July 2025
Thursday 7:00 pm
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>>471415
I'm starting to think Dick van Dyke will outlast us all.
>> No. 471417 Anonymous
24th July 2025
Thursday 7:01 pm
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Apparently one of the original Elder Scrolls writers died too, that's probably more famous for you lot.
>> No. 471418 Anonymous
24th July 2025
Thursday 7:17 pm
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Dick van Dyke tops this list.
>> No. 471419 Anonymous
24th July 2025
Thursday 7:35 pm
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Chuck Mangione has just snuffed it, but I suspect that no-one else has heard of him.
>> No. 471420 Anonymous
24th July 2025
Thursday 7:41 pm
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>>471411
That's an oddly specific cartoon I remember considering I only remember one episode being broadcast. Is that cartoon how all we ended up here?
>> No. 471421 Anonymous
24th July 2025
Thursday 8:20 pm
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I don't give a flying fuck about some dead Yank.
>> No. 471422 Anonymous
24th July 2025
Thursday 8:22 pm
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>>471419
I know him from episodes of King of the Hill, but those episodes didn’t teach me a lot about him. He played some kind of jazz bugle.
>> No. 471423 Anonymous
25th July 2025
Friday 12:37 am
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>>471420
I remember having a VHS with 3-4 episodes on.
>> No. 471424 Anonymous
25th July 2025
Friday 4:08 pm
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Just paid off my credit card for this month. It was a bit unsettling seeing the amount of £1,100 everytime I opened the app, even considering that the lion share of it was of course my holiday in Crete. But still. I don't normally spend that kind of money in a billing cycle. Here at home I mainly use my credit card for petrol and the odd thing I buy online. Which adds up to no more than £250 to £300 during a given month.

It's a relief to have that behind me now, as I was dreading it. Now I can start over with a clean slate for this month.
>> No. 471459 Anonymous
28th July 2025
Monday 11:29 am
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A middle aged woman and a teenage girl, both dressed modestly, knocked on my door. They asked me about suffering, and told me many people around here suffer, moreso nowadays than during our parents' and grandparents' generations.

They were talking about the bible and asked if I read it. I said I read some. They asked me what I liked about it, so I said I like the New Testament more, as Jesus said some stuff that's not bad to live by.

She then said she was more focused on the Old Testament. God always steps in to end suffering, and before he does so he warns us. It has happened many time in the Old Testament.

I think she implied her group were the warning for God's incoming intervention to end suffering. But a warning from God implies some level of collateral damage - the flood, Sodom and Gommorah, Tower of Babel, Egyptian Plagues - there's always at least one party getting fucked over by God to save his people surely?

They gave me a leaflet and it turned out they were Jehovah's Witnesses. Terrible faith. No rizz, no flair, no draw. Also if you're going to focus on the Old Testament so much, skip the middleman and become a Jew. At least Jews have their own state. There's no country for JW.
>> No. 471460 Anonymous
28th July 2025
Monday 11:43 am
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>>471459
Describing Jo's Hoes as lacking rizz is deservimg of a righteous smiting tbf.
>> No. 471461 Anonymous
28th July 2025
Monday 11:45 am
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>>471459
How shiny were their shoes? They always have well polished shoes, in my experience.
>> No. 471462 Anonymous
28th July 2025
Monday 1:20 pm
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>>471424
>Just paid off my credit card for this month, £1,100
What was most of it paid on, out of interest? I'm wondering if it's worth getting in on the game but I seldom spend over £300, after rent and that. Would have been useful to pay an online expenditure recently - apparently banks don't like if you order's above average value.

Wanted to buy a decent e-book reader - never bought tech before, Amazon offered issurance on it. I'm not particularly concerned about damage but value would be lost if it did occur. What's the word, worthwhile? Theft is low where I'm at.
>> No. 471463 Anonymous
28th July 2025
Monday 2:33 pm
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>>471460
I hate to use the Gen Z brainrot slang, but there's no better description of JWs than them lacking in rizz. Women have to wear ankle length skirts - no trousers or knee length skirts. Regressive boring freaks. I hate them more than I hate Shamanismists. At least ISIS produced some good propaganda vids.

>>471461
I didn't notice. They both had a leather handbag, and it was the same design across both, only one was brown and one was red. The teenage girl must have been 14-15, and she was dressed like a granny, and seemed like she didn't want to be there. The teenage girl wasn't the middle aged woman's daughter - she was her daughter's friend.

There's no way that 14 year old actively wanted to be going around knocking on doors shilling a one of the worst denominations of a dying faith during her school holidays. If it were eskimos making their 14 year old girls knock on doors to shill Shamanism, people would find it gross. Because it's white man religion we accept is as a society.
>> No. 471464 Anonymous
28th July 2025
Monday 3:17 pm
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>>471462

>What was most of it paid on, out of interest

Most of it went to my Airbnb apartment on my holiday in Crete, and then general expenses like self catering, restaurants, petrol and snacks. And all the little stuff you buy on holiday. The flight tickets and hire car were already in last month's billing cycle, so that took away some of the sting. It's a trick I'll try to remember for next time.

All told, my 10-day holiday cost me around £1,700 all-in. Which may seem much, but when you travel alone, you've got nobody to split fixed costs with, like accomodation and a hire car.
>> No. 471466 Anonymous
28th July 2025
Monday 4:09 pm
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>>471463
It must suck for people who bring race and culture negitively into everything.
Did you have any experience of religious activity in your earlier years?
>> No. 471467 Anonymous
28th July 2025
Monday 4:35 pm
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The other day I was at Lancaster castle and there was a man complaining about how low the stone door frames were and wondering how short people must have been in them days.

He kept going on about being 5'10" tall and having to duck to go through them, but I'm 5'11" and when I walked past him I clocked that the top of his head was below my eyebrows. Manlets are weird.
>> No. 471469 Anonymous
28th July 2025
Monday 4:39 pm
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>>471466
Yeah I went to a Catholic primary school. My parents were secular, but pretended to be Catholic so we could get into a good school. My older brother had his Holy Communion, where he had to do confession at the age of 8 or 9. I was just baptised. I used to set up the altar in the assembly hall every week for when the priest came to do his sermon.

This sort of stuff I think is weird to make children do. Why should a 9 year old have to confess his sins to a priest, just so he can receive wafer and wine at a sermon and prove he's a true Catholic? Just like the JWs, a 14 year old girl made to knock on doors to spread the word of a garbage denomination, it's weird.
>> No. 471470 Anonymous
28th July 2025
Monday 4:56 pm
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>>471424

I really hate owing money and what have you too, but if my credit card is under £500 I have learned to live with it, because that's "I'll pay it off whenever it's convenient" kind of money. I taught myself not to worry about it because a while back when I had to fin a new job at short notice, I was living out of the credit card and overdraft for a couple of months, and ended up owing about £2,400 across both. I'd managed to pay it all off and be back in the black within about 6 months, so that tells me I am in fact capable of handling it responsibly and not worrying about it.

The kind of person who should never touch a credit card is the kind of person all my mates seemed to be in our early 20s when they'd just run up one to the max, balance transfer it to another to avoid the interest, and keep on going until they were under a mountain of debt you could have at least bought a car with it you weren't such a mug. And then they usually had to spend the latter half of their 20s and early 30s being tight arse skint bastards because by then they couldn't run away from the debt any more and had to get on top of it.

Overall though getting a credit card was a worthwhile thing because it gives you a lot of flexibility. If something comes up, or you just fancy a treat, but you're not particularly flush that month, a credit card means you don't have to worry about it as long as you are capable of being disciplined going forward and not letting it all build up.
>> No. 471471 Anonymous
28th July 2025
Monday 5:42 pm
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>>471470

My parents thought it was important to teach us financial literacy and responsibility early on. I got my own credit card at 18, which my parents paid off every month, but on the condition that I would use it very sparingly, and that they could cancel our agreement anytime if I wasn't being responsible with it, and leave me to pay it off with my own savings. My monthly allowance via my credit card was thus £100. Which was a fair bit of money in the early 90s, for an 18 year old, no less. And I never abused it, as I didn't want to part with my savings from various odd jobs. My parents wouldn't raise their voice if it was £110 one time, but that was about the limit that I could max out without seriously disappointing them and having to use my own money.

Giving an 18 year old a credit card may have seemed outrageous, but it gave me a sense early on that it didn't mean just free money, but that you had to budget your credit card the same way you had to budget all your other monthly expenses.

And I think that's one reason why still today, I'm very conservative with my credit card and never put more than £250 to £300 on it a month, except for when I'm indeed travelling. And that's why seeing £1,100 on my credit card had me gulping a bit everytime I was opening my banking app. Not because I didn't have the money. I have that kind of money comfortably. But because it was far exceeding my usual monthly spend. Even though I've travelled many times before, I guess it's just that seeing £1,100 where you normally see £250 was a bit unsettling.

Granted, I was raised in an upper-middle-middle class family where there was always enough money. Let's say we were doing well, but we weren't outright rich. But our parents did teach us money savviness. And that debt and credit had to be kept to a minimum. And that way of thinking informed many of my financial decisions in my life. And where my friends were then buying £15K cars on credit in their 20s, I was happy spending half that in cash on a slightly older car from my own savings. And felt like I got the better deal, even though their cars admittedly looked a bit more fancy.
>> No. 471475 Anonymous
28th July 2025
Monday 11:52 pm
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>> No. 471479 Anonymous
29th July 2025
Tuesday 10:25 am
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>>471475
I eat savoy cabbage quite often and haven't noticed gas. Doesn't have that weird bitty texture, either, unless you cook the stems.
>> No. 471480 Anonymous
29th July 2025
Tuesday 10:49 am
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>>471479

I usually eat sweetheart cabbage. Steamed in vegetable stock with finely diced carrots, a bit of white onion and a touch of dry white wine. Very delicious. But it often gives me gas.
>> No. 471482 Anonymous
29th July 2025
Tuesday 12:14 pm
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>>471471
My parents were working class, provided zero financial education and I spent more than a decade in the underclass. I got my first credit card by lying about having a job and since then I've kept my record spotless, expanded my limit to nearly £50k and not paid a penny in interest. It's called not being retarded.

You can barely turn on a device these days without Martin Lewis grabbing you by the hand and spoonfeeding you common sense.
>> No. 471483 Anonymous
29th July 2025
Tuesday 12:34 pm
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>>471481

>expanded my limit to nearly £50k

And when exactly are you ever going to max that limit out, and by buying what?

On the face of it, a credit card is an expensive loan, if you count APR and additional fees. But if you see it as the cost of doing business for the convenience of putting a few hundred quid a month on it that you only really have to pay for at the end of a billing cycle, then it isn't so bad.

Again, what would you reasonably use and max out your limit of £50K for, especially considering that a credit card is really more like a short term loan?

My credit card limit is £8K. My credit score is average, probably owed to the fact that I've never taken out a bank loan or mortgage in my life. Other than that, my record is as spotless as you say yours is. But I would never dream of charging £8K on my credit card unless I'd literally have no other way of covering an urgent expense of that magnitude. Even a credit line of £2K would still more than suit my needs during an average month. So I'm not sure how a £50K limit is a status symbol.
>> No. 471484 Anonymous
29th July 2025
Tuesday 12:52 pm
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>>471483

Relax, he was just taking the bait I consciously didn't, about your little humblebrag morality fable of having middle class parents who teach you how to not be daft with money.

A 50k limit isn't a status symbol but it shows you are trusted, you would have an easier time getting the loans for large unforseen expenses, like needing a "new" car or repairs to your current one, or future mortgages etc.And you can do it all while having a working class background believe it or not.

I am aware that more than likely wasn't the intention of your earlier post but come on, read it back and just realise what you sound like sometimes lad. Think on.
>> No. 471485 Anonymous
29th July 2025
Tuesday 1:08 pm
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>>471483
When will I accrue that much debt? Mortgage aside, never. I should say it's not just one card.

Why does a large unused limit seemingly offend you? Nobody said it was a status symbol. My intent was to suggest that regaling us about how mama and papa bestowed you with the knowledge not to take out payday loans was not as necessary as you seemed to think.

A credit card is not an expensive loan. It could be an expensive loan or it could be a cheap - the cheapest - one. It all depends on what your credit history is and what offers are extended to you. You can definitely approach 1-2% APR almost indefinitely. It's like you've never even heard of stoozing.
>> No. 471486 Anonymous
29th July 2025
Tuesday 1:21 pm
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>>471484

>about your little humblebrag morality fable of having middle class parents who teach you how to not be daft with money.

I don't see how it was about any of that.

Some people have it better growing up, while others get there through the work of their own hands in adult life. So what. Same route, different stops where you get on. My story was just meant as a counterpoint to the idea that young people can't handle credit or borrowed money.

My apologies if it offended somebody's working class sensibilities.
>> No. 471487 Anonymous
29th July 2025
Tuesday 2:41 pm
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I recently got my first passport and to test the travelling waters just booked 20 days in Thailand. Thought I'd save a oner by flying Air India with an eponymous layover.

People tell me I'm supposed to plan, develop an itinerary and shit. Beyond working out commission-free money at the interbank rate and locally priced phone data, I don't really see the point. Surely I can arrange for a "holiday girlfriend" to show me around anyway.
>> No. 471488 Anonymous
29th July 2025
Tuesday 2:45 pm
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>>471487

Your holiday "girl"friend will be able to show you some things I have no doubt.
>> No. 471489 Anonymous
29th July 2025
Tuesday 3:12 pm
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>>471487
I think if I went to Thailand I'd have to fuck a lady boy.

Otherwise it'd be like going to Italy and only eating McDonald's.
>> No. 471490 Anonymous
29th July 2025
Tuesday 3:17 pm
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>>471489

>Otherwise it'd be like going to Italy and only eating McDonald's

Right. You'd also want to try their sausage.
>> No. 471491 Anonymous
29th July 2025
Tuesday 5:26 pm
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>>471489
One of the classics...

https://efukt.com/21671_When_in_Thailand.html
>> No. 471492 Anonymous
29th July 2025
Tuesday 6:08 pm
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Why do so many women and girls nowadays have so many tattoos? I feel as though about one in five are absolutely covered in them, the situation is spiralling out of control I tell you.
>> No. 471493 Anonymous
29th July 2025
Tuesday 6:10 pm
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>>471492
Have you unwittingly ended up in Hebden Bridge?
>> No. 471494 Anonymous
29th July 2025
Tuesday 6:17 pm
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I don't know where Hebden Bridge is mate, I'm absolutely convinced that the crisis has spilled out far and wide across the country, perhaps deniers would like to think that it's safely contained in a few towns, but mark my words, it will reach your very doorstep sooner or later.
>> No. 471498 Anonymous
29th July 2025
Tuesday 8:59 pm
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I'm somewhat interested in checking out Brit.Net, the new isolated internet service coming 2035. Sounds nuts but we could finally make use of a constituency noticeboard, forum and real time. Police would obviously be the moderators.
>> No. 471499 Anonymous
29th July 2025
Tuesday 10:05 pm
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Is this one of those high-concept posts we were talking about getting here? I like the idea that if we can make a sufficiently local Internet, we could also have weather forecasts for the area it covers. And our /x/ threads would all have different women, based on whoever presents our local news on Rebbrit and Britter. Yes, Kelly Foran is doing BBC North-West Tonight again and that's what gave me the idea.
>> No. 471505 Anonymous
30th July 2025
Wednesday 7:37 am
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>>471492
I like it because if they have tattoos it means they're at least 18, and if they're at least 18 I can find them pretty without feeling bad.
>> No. 471506 Anonymous
30th July 2025
Wednesday 8:34 am
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Just got up and my shoulder hurts. Must have slept on it wrong.
>> No. 471507 Anonymous
30th July 2025
Wednesday 9:27 am
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Spending the morning looking up headphone repairs like I'm not just going to buy a new pair. What a worm.
>> No. 471508 Anonymous
30th July 2025
Wednesday 11:02 am
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>>471492

Because at some point tattoos obtained a similar status to jewellery and makeup, they became a vapid fashion statement anyone can use to give themselves more aesthetic appeal, without having to put in all the effort it might require to figure out how to dress better, or you know, going to the gym and eating more healthily.

Of course in a way they were always that, but the difference is that at least before, they came with the trade off that they marked you out as a bit of a weirdo, many jobs found them objectionable so you had to live with that choice, they were the domain of alternative fringe types or those just less concerned with "fitting in". There was at least something meaningful to the decision of having tattoos, then, as opposed to just any fashion accessory. The problem started when they slid into normality enough for everyone to be able to have them without having to make such considerations.

This is a cynical take but for me, it was all but confirmed when I started noticing it's always fat birds who are all out covered in them, as though they think it camouflages the lard.
>> No. 471512 Anonymous
30th July 2025
Wednesday 11:32 am
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>>471508
Getting very catty in your middle-age.
>> No. 471513 Anonymous
30th July 2025
Wednesday 12:10 pm
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>>471508

You've phrased it harshly, but I basically agree. Part of the significance of tattoos is that they required some long-term commitment. Tattoo removal used to be painful and/or expensive, but that's gone out the window with the introduction of widely available laser surgery, sometimes even covered as part of someone's healthcare. As if to prove the point that any sense of permanence has disappeared, there's even a market for ironically shit tattoo designs.

Tattoos used to be notorious because of their association with gangs, prisons, and the military. Having them on your body used to indicate belonging to a particular tribe, and not always a desirable one. It has largely lost that association, as with many things moving from a social signifier to an individualised form of expression.

You could put a more positive spin on it and say that a once-niche artform has broadened, but much like rock and roll, its diversification has led to everything from the most interesting to the blandest imaginable results.

I generally see tattoos as a massive turn-off now. You're not wrong that they've become more of a means to cover up and accessorise, but I actually think you're onto something a bit deeper; it's a kind of instant gratification.
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30th July 2025
Wednesday 12:28 pm
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>> No. 471515 Anonymous
30th July 2025
Wednesday 12:32 pm
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>>471514
What's the Britfa.gs equivalent? The underweight lad who couldn't find a fat lass of his own?
>> No. 471516 Anonymous
30th July 2025
Wednesday 12:33 pm
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>>471512
Speaking of which, I just walked up to a car window and shouted aggressively in a dude's face in Morrisons car park after he beeped at me and quipped "the road is for cars". I did intentionally walk in front of his path to make him slow but that at least was justified because he had not thirty seconds previous forced me and perhaps one other driver to park at the far end of the car park by obliviously and repeatedly stopping in and blocking the road to prioritise his text conversation.

I probably should wind my neck in because no doubt there are plenty of greying men in their late fifties that could give me a hiding if they wanted. I should have been ready with a snide retort but that level of naked hypocrisy sublimates my shit.
>> No. 471517 Anonymous
30th July 2025
Wednesday 12:38 pm
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>>471513

> Tattoo removal used to be painful and/or expensive, but that's gone out the window with the introduction of widely available laser surgery, sometimes even covered as part of someone's healthcare.

Yes, and no. Tattoo ink is easier to remove the darker it is. In short, as with many wavelengths of light, the darker something is, the more it absorbs light energy and converts it into heat. The heat is what then breaks down the pigment particles to where they eventually get absorbed by the body. You can usually remove black tattoo ink completely, but red, green and most lighter inks very often leave a permanent trace.

But even getting there can be quite painful, and most larger tattoos need a good number of sessions because it would be too stressful for your body to do them in one. And people who have undergone laser removal usually say that it was far more painful than getting their tattoo in the first place.
>> No. 471518 Anonymous
30th July 2025
Wednesday 12:45 pm
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>>471514

I've got tattoos myself, though. So no.
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30th July 2025
Wednesday 1:54 pm
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I quite like tattoos, myself. Sure they can be intimidating, even on creative types, but they lend insight into the character of their wearers more significant than clothes and accessories that can simply be taken off. We all know what we'd be talking about to that fat goth lass from >>/x/43972 (she's probably sick of it, tbh).

What I don't like about tattoos is lack of consideration in their design. If you just 'want a tattoo' and end up cycling through a samples book, just don't bother. Make it a milestone in your life to measure development.
>> No. 471526 Anonymous
30th July 2025
Wednesday 2:31 pm
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>>471525

>If you just 'want a tattoo' and end up cycling through a samples book, just don't bother. Make it a milestone in your life to measure development.

Or say fuck it, and get a tattoo off your tits in Magaluf.
>> No. 471527 Anonymous
30th July 2025
Wednesday 2:52 pm
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>>471526
I'd count that as a milestone, of a sort.
>> No. 471528 Anonymous
30th July 2025
Wednesday 3:06 pm
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I've been hearing and seeing variations of "speak to the organ grinder, not the monkey" everywhere lately. Including in my dreams. I might ask if I were a more unhinged man what the universe is trying to tell me or if I'm being subtly programmed by nefarious forces, who is this organ grinder and what will it take to make the voices stop?

Maybe I need to speak to the organ grinder, not the monkey.

>>471492
I feel like this has been a problem since at least the 00s. Each to their own I guess but it's always annoyed me that people just get common tattoos for no real reason and they end up looking like shit and binding you into the commitment of both getting the tattoo redone and inevitably getting upsold more tattoos.



Okay my real problem is that I just find them distracting on lady bodies. I don't need to see an ironic tattoo of Jeremy Paxman's face every time I see a naked woman and I'm worried about what that would do for my mental health.

>>471498
I foresee it either descending into the madness of Britchan complete with e-riots or becoming one of those godawful /brit/ threads that pop up on every board on otherchans only with the addition of pensioners with more time than sense on their hands.
>> No. 471529 Anonymous
30th July 2025
Wednesday 6:22 pm
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>>471528
I thought that phrase recently, and it stuck out to me because I hate it as a phrase. Who grinds an organ? That's completely the wrong word. But nevertheless, I was thinking last week about how nowadays, society (or possibly my job; I forget) is all monkeys and there are no more organ-grinders now.
>> No. 471530 Anonymous
30th July 2025
Wednesday 8:14 pm
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I got a new bed - 2 small flat mattresses sold as dog beds at Pets At Home. Much better than my wonkey sofabed that was distoring my spine. Only feel mild hip discomfort now, but only when I sleep on my sides.
Being on the floor I was hit by the drop in temperature quite heavily, so I'm eventually gonna have to raise it somehow. A couple of modified pallets will probably do it.
>> No. 471531 Anonymous
30th July 2025
Wednesday 8:20 pm
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>>471530
Why not just get an actual bed?
>> No. 471532 Anonymous
30th July 2025
Wednesday 8:40 pm
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>>471531
Space & privacy constraints and autism, mostly.
Every single mattress I can recall ever using longterm as a bed has quickly developed a considerable dip in the center. I really don't want to spend a whole load of cash on a new mattress that's going to be fucked within 3 years, on top of it being difficult to move and taking up 1/4 of my living space.
The dog beds cost £55 each and can be moved and stored with minimal effort. They're getting a bit squashed in the hip area but regular turning is helping to even that out.
>> No. 471533 Anonymous
30th July 2025
Wednesday 9:03 pm
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Went to a Chinese restaurant with a friend tonight and got teriyaki sauce on my shirt without noticing. It was pretty much dried out to an almost tarlike consistency by the time I got home, at which point it was impossible to get out with a sponge and a bit of water. I've just put it in the wash, with some extra liquid detergent right on the stain, and I hope that'll fix it. It's my favourite shirt at the moment, so I would really be annoyed if it was ruined.
>> No. 471534 Anonymous
30th July 2025
Wednesday 9:47 pm
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>>471533
Not even a Chinese dish, it's American-Japanese. You got fucked, I'm sorry.
>> No. 471536 Anonymous
30th July 2025
Wednesday 9:57 pm
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>>471535
I know, my local's Korean chicken is a primo choice. I was just mucking about.
>> No. 471537 Anonymous
30th July 2025
Wednesday 9:58 pm
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>>471534

>Not even a Chinese dish, it's American-Japanese.

It was part of a starter of spring rolls. Which also came with sambal oelek. Yes, sambal is Indonesian. I know.

It's not uncommon for Chinese restaurants to spread out a little, food culture wise.
>> No. 471538 Anonymous
30th July 2025
Wednesday 10:22 pm
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>>471533
If it's oily, put washing-up liquid on the stain before you put it in the washing machine. Washing-up liquid dissolves fat and oil, and you're going to be amazed if you've never tried this before. It works wonderfully.
>> No. 471540 Anonymous
30th July 2025
Wednesday 10:58 pm
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>>471538

It looks like putting liquid detergent directly on the stain had the same effect. The wash finished a while ago and it's now completely gone.

On my pure white T shirts, I usually just spray chlorine bleach on stains, which works well and then also has a whitening effect on all the clothes in that load. But obviously that's not an option when you've got a beige and blue tartan patterned button shirt.
>> No. 471541 Anonymous
30th July 2025
Wednesday 11:33 pm
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I saw three separate foxes out on my route, and when I got back the vending machine gave me two wispa golds for free. It's been a pretty good day overall.
>> No. 471542 Anonymous
30th July 2025
Wednesday 11:39 pm
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I'm fairly certain I have Covid. At least four people have had it at work this month, and I feel absolutely rotten now.
>> No. 471545 Anonymous
31st July 2025
Thursday 2:32 pm
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Credit to SoundCloud for, within a day, binning an obvious spam account I reported. I didn't actually expect fuck all to happen, but someone (or something...) sent me an email about it and everything.
>> No. 471546 Anonymous
31st July 2025
Thursday 6:17 pm
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Got my CD of Private Dancer by Tina Turner in the post today. If you are serious about collecting 80s mainstream pop, then that's one of the essential albums of the era. Among many others.
>> No. 471547 Anonymous
31st July 2025
Thursday 7:04 pm
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>>471546
I'll swap you my shiny Mewtwo for a copy of The "Manhunter" score.
>> No. 471548 Anonymous
1st August 2025
Friday 3:17 pm
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Haven't eaten since my 8am breakfast, so I'm going to Asda now to get some four cheese pizza. Somehow I'm in the mood for that today.
>> No. 471549 Anonymous
1st August 2025
Friday 4:30 pm
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The guy fitting my new kitchen has cut his finger off. I've spent the last couple of hours taking him to A&E, putting his tools away and cleaning up the scene. I feel sorry for the lad and I'm going to pay him full whack, but I am slightly annoyed that I need to find someone else to finish the job.
>> No. 471550 Anonymous
1st August 2025
Friday 5:07 pm
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>>471549
All of them?
>> No. 471551 Anonymous
1st August 2025
Friday 5:30 pm
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>>471550

Finger, singular.
>> No. 471552 Anonymous
1st August 2025
Friday 6:43 pm
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>>471551

Still must've been brutal.

Stuff like that happens more often than you think. A friend of my parents was a builder, and while on a job site, he managed to saw into his kneecap with a handheld circular saw. I think he was cutting a wooden beam and then somehow slipped. Took the best part of a year to fully heal to where he could walk again properly. I think he then left his job and became a caretaker, or something.



Self sage for what otherlad is going to tell me again is a pointless story with no conclusion.
>> No. 471553 Anonymous
1st August 2025
Friday 7:25 pm
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>>471549
That's dreadul. I just sliced into mine with a wee knife and I had it in a bandage for a week. I hope he can get back to work soon enough.

>>471552
But that is utterly horrific. I'd start sobbing anytime I saw a pizza cutter if something like that happened to me.
>> No. 471554 Anonymous
1st August 2025
Friday 8:24 pm
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I'll be honest lads, I'm getting really fucking fed up of not having fresh, cool milk and tea. The Zojirushi is great for the things it can do, but keeping a pint for 24 hours in this heat is not one of them - and it's not even that hot right now, maybe humidity does something to milk?

I did entertain the idea of buying a freezer and decant frozen milk daily into a small jug (how, fucking chip it like ice?) but for now the I'm going to try a passive cooler made from 2 clay pots and a layer of sand.
>> No. 471555 Anonymous
1st August 2025
Friday 8:48 pm
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>>471553
>Big stick
If we had that information you'd have to join the queue.
>> No. 471591 Anonymous
4th August 2025
Monday 3:10 pm
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My apples aren't ripe yet, but they are coming nicely.

They're more the acidic kind, similar to Boskoop. The exact cultivar isn't known. My parents simply brought home a small apple tree at some point thirty years ago and planted it in the back garden. I mainly use the apples for apple sauce or apple butter, and they also go well with roasts. You could probably also make apple cider from them. I've wanted to try that for some time.
>> No. 471592 Anonymous
4th August 2025
Monday 3:19 pm
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>>471554

I apologise for recommending Zojirushi-san to you. I swear ours do keep stuff cold at least most of the day. I take it you don't have a freezer at all, or I'd suggest simply freezing some milk into ice cube trays and putting them in the Zojirushi with your daily milk to extend the amount of time it would stay cold.

I have a very nice cooler I keep cans of pop in, but it's a proper one that uses refrigerant, not a cheaper peltier mini fridge. The latter aren't particularly effective, though perhaps you could take advantage of Amazon's return policies to test one out for a while to see if it's enough.
>> No. 471595 Anonymous
4th August 2025
Monday 5:10 pm
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I've got a new job lads, or at least an apprenticeship, at the ripe age of 37. It's in aviation and it's overwhelmingly good news for me.
>> No. 471596 Anonymous
4th August 2025
Monday 5:12 pm
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>>471595
The flight attendant costume will really complement your MX-5.

Only kidding, congratulations and hope it all works out for you.
>> No. 471597 Anonymous
4th August 2025
Monday 5:21 pm
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>>471595

You're never too old.

Good on you, lad. Let us know how you get on.
>> No. 471599 Anonymous
4th August 2025
Monday 6:46 pm
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>>471595
Will you tell us about the apprenticeship process at 30+?
I'm concerned I'd be in a class full of youngsters.
>> No. 471600 Anonymous
4th August 2025
Monday 7:19 pm
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>>471595
I am your age and I have been semi-sacked today. Apparently my "role is at risk of redundancy", so I get to stay home for the rest of the week during what is officially a "consultation period". I've been there for 8 1/2 years and for the past couple of years, everything that requires a skill has been phased out. So do please let me know how it goes. You can even be my boss if you want.
>> No. 471601 Anonymous
4th August 2025
Monday 11:25 pm
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>>471595
Nice one. I'm applying to uni for the first time at 32 and a lot of my friends have made big life decisions this year as well. Really feels like 2025 is the year of change.
>> No. 471603 Anonymous
5th August 2025
Tuesday 1:57 am
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>>471599

I'm afraid I don't think my particular experience will be much use, as I already work for the company. I think being an internal candidate with people to vouch for me really gave me an advantage.

I've tried for a few different apprenticeships with companies I don't work for already and never got very far. Whether that is ageism or not I couldn't say, I'm not really sure why they'd prefer younger candidates other than they get to pay them less.

Regardless I did my best to sell my age and experience as an advantage. I demonstrably know how to work effectively, I know how the world works, and a change in career while pushing 40 surely shows I am dedicated to improving myself.

And judging from the assessment day I was on, I will be the oldest there by far. It doesn't bother me personally, I already work with a lot of people fresh out of college so I'm used to it, and I'm not much of a social butterfly anyway so if they don't invite me to the pub I won't be offended. I think even if the age gap does concern you it's just something you'd have to make peace with, you're there to learn and so are they. At least your tutors will likely be closer to your age.
>> No. 471604 Anonymous
5th August 2025
Tuesday 7:40 am
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The company I work for has 5 people (out of about perhaps 35) on apprenticeships but none of them are in entry-level positions, they just worked out they could save a lot of money putting them through industry exams this way.
>> No. 471606 Anonymous
5th August 2025
Tuesday 8:57 am
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>>471603
Years ago there was a chap on an adjacent college course to mine who was clearly ten years or more older than basically everyone else. No one cared, the "we're all hear to learn" attitude had primacy as even people in their early-twenties are actual adults.

>>471604
Another small business win.
>> No. 471608 Anonymous
5th August 2025
Tuesday 10:48 am
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>>471606

When I was at uni, there was also an older chap, early 40s, who had quit his job as a city council administrator or something like it, I can't remember. He told us that working for the council just wasn't challenging work and that he just wanted to do something entirely different, anything but his old line of work. You kind of had to respect that.
>> No. 471613 Anonymous
5th August 2025
Tuesday 12:42 pm
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>>471608
I posted on /uni/ about starting a games design degree in my thirties last year. None of the 18 year olds wronged me or anything, many of them were diligent and pleasant, I could just never get over my own insecurities that I'm over a decade older than everyone else. If you're not a neurotic autistic retard, you might not even have those insecurities!

To give an update: it hasn't worked out in the end - Student Finance funded my first year, would fund my third, but revealed two months ago they won't fund my second. A welcome revelation really - second and third years were to involve lots of collaborative work, and the course itself maybe wasn't as I expected. Got decent grades though. Waiting to start a job in the public sector.

Tried to attach a photo of Alan Partridge "Bouncing Back", but the system isn't accepting it, and I don't know how to remove a file, so I'm replacing it with FaZe Clan, the CS2 team with the highest average age (27, vs the average age of a CS2 player being 22). karrigan is 35!
>> No. 471614 Anonymous
5th August 2025
Tuesday 12:54 pm
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Do I go on a wild goose chase to check whether my local Aldi has a robot lawnmower?

https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/yard-force-mb400-robotic-lawnmower-instore-4653777
>> No. 471615 Anonymous
5th August 2025
Tuesday 1:07 pm
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>>471613

My dad was 32 when he started an architecture degree. He got a degree in civil engineering in his early 20s, and had worked in that field ever since, but architecture was his real passion, something that interested him, and he'd spend loads on books about famous architects and famous buildings, and travelled to see a lot of those buildings in person. The idea of not just putting into practice an architect's design for a bridge or building, but actually being the architect and designing structures like that himself was what inspired him. His civil engineering backgroud definitely helped him along with his architecture degree, and he went on to make a very decent living with industrial architecture.

I guess the lesson is, follow your passion. But of course, my dad had help from his employer, an architecture firm where he had been working since he got his original degree in civil engineering. He was able to keep working there to fund his architecture studies.

Funding is often make or break. I knew some students at uni who eventually had to quit because there just wasn't enough money. They were usually the ones not qualifying for student finance or other programmes. Or, unlike my dad, they didn't have an employer in the background who was willing to invest in them. It is going to be hard paying your way through uni just working in Tesco's.
>> No. 471617 Anonymous
5th August 2025
Tuesday 2:27 pm
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I don't mean to be a cunt but my Eastern European and 'Indian' neighbours are blowing up a conspiquous RIB in their garden. One of the neighbours places was raided a few years ago and the other is suspected of tax fraud. There've been a lot of new voices on the street lately.

101 online doesn't have an option for people smuggling.
/curtaintwitchers/?
>> No. 471619 Anonymous
5th August 2025
Tuesday 2:44 pm
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>>471613
The chap in the middle is one of the most obviously German people I've seen in a while. Ignore the Danish flag, he's clearly German.
>> No. 471620 Anonymous
5th August 2025
Tuesday 3:11 pm
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>>471619

How do you know.

You could make the argument that plenty of Brits also look just like that. Don't tell me you've never seen anybody.
>> No. 471621 Anonymous
5th August 2025
Tuesday 3:15 pm
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>>471620

I know by the way I can tell by the way he looks. Wikipedia says he's German-Danish, so I am proven correct.
>> No. 471623 Anonymous
5th August 2025
Tuesday 3:28 pm
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>>471613

Guy on the right looks 100% gabber, but apparently he's a yank.


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5th August 2025
Tuesday 3:36 pm
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>>471621

>Wikipedia says he's German-Danish

Again, not a big difference. We may be a few dozen generations removed from our distant ancestors to the East, but you'd have no trouble finding lads here today who look almost exactly like that.
>> No. 471628 Anonymous
5th August 2025
Tuesday 4:18 pm
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>>471625

Notice how there are other groups on that map in britain, we didn't disappear just because filthy immigrant Germans infected out pure genes with their inferior AngloSaxon mud blood.
>> No. 471629 Anonymous
5th August 2025
Tuesday 4:42 pm
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I'm pretty certain my family pre-dates the Anglo-Saxons, because the surname is a very dimissive pair of Old English words joined together. It basically means "bog people".
>> No. 471630 Anonymous
5th August 2025
Tuesday 5:27 pm
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>>471628

Was there no Reform Party in the 400s that could have prevented all that filthy immigration? Look at how so many of us are blonde and blue eyed today, when we could have kept on as ruddy Celts. And they even forced their Christianity on us and made us abandon our cherished Celtic gods.
>> No. 471631 Anonymous
5th August 2025
Tuesday 6:28 pm
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>>471625

I maintain that those lads are also German.
>> No. 471632 Anonymous
5th August 2025
Tuesday 7:19 pm
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>>471630
England has always been shit at defending itself. That's how the Normans were able to conquer us so quickly, the burh was no match for their castles.
>> No. 471633 Anonymous
5th August 2025
Tuesday 10:08 pm
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>>471632

We did do a good job fending off the Germans.

In the end.
>> No. 471634 Anonymous
5th August 2025
Tuesday 10:42 pm
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>>471592
>I apologise for recommending Zojirushi-san to you.
Oh no, please don't. As I say, it's very good for what it can do. The trouble I'm currently experiencing is 20 minutes of uncooled storage while walking home from town. It gains maybe up to 3 degrees which makes a surprising difference when you live micro.
If I change my diet to include hot chololate I could probably use 2 pints a day and get it chilled from the cornershop.

I'm also considering asking the local greasy spoon for a pint with breakfast, they might cut a deal but I'm not sure how to approach asking.
•50p a pint is is profitable for them if they buy from Tesco, I'd presume they get wholesale.
•I could offer to 'pay forward' a breakfast before asking.

>>471591
Which region you in? Down Hampshire the apples started falling regularly at the start of this month. Pears, too, and pigeon eggshells. About 2 or 3 weeks ago we saw the arrival of those fat ants, non-flying. They didn't hang around long, perhaps due to the pesticide I saw sprayed in July.

Apple butter sounds delicious, I'm going to try it.
>> No. 471635 Anonymous
5th August 2025
Tuesday 11:03 pm
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>>471634

I'm also in the South.

The apple tree has been shedding an apple or two every day since about mid-July. It always does that a bit. It's generally a slightly later cultivar, they are usually fully ripe and at their sweetest around mid- to late September, with a few outliers all the way into mid-October. Again, I've no idea what the cultivar is called.


As we were on the subject of medieval migration to Britain earlier, this video is sort of interesting -


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>> No. 471637 Anonymous
6th August 2025
Wednesday 12:26 am
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I think a speed camera got me this afternoon. As per my speedo, I was going something like 37, 38 in a 30 zone when I passed it and spotted it slightly too late. A while later, I then checked my speedometer against my GPS speed app on my phone, and going by that, my car's speedometer is apparently fast by about 2 mph. So depending on the speed camera's accuracy, it probably only clocked me at five over.

I've got no points on my licence at the moment, so the consequences will not be dire either way.
>> No. 471639 Anonymous
6th August 2025
Wednesday 3:46 pm
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>>471637
Make sure you respond quickly, and (hopefully) enjoy the seminar.
>> No. 471640 Anonymous
6th August 2025
Wednesday 4:11 pm
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They're back!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soO9baCk5lY
>> No. 471641 Anonymous
6th August 2025
Wednesday 4:20 pm
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My CD of The Who's 1971 album Who's Next came in the post today.

I opted for the 1995 remaster, as the last few non-remastered CDs of albums from the 1970s and early 80s that I bought had too much tape noise. Which was often a problem on first-generation AAD CD albums that were directly based off analog recordings.

They did dial down the tape noise on the 1995 remaster, but they kept in much of the distortion, overdrive clipping and other imperfections of the source tape. I'm not sure if digital remastering in the mid-90s was still too rudimentary to sort that kind of thing out, and I don't know what later remasters sound like. There have been a few of this album. But at first listen today, I was a bit disappointed and for a moment I thought there was something wrong with my amp or my speakers. I guess you can call those imperfections character, in their own way, as recording technology in 1971 was probably far more limited than the 24-bit fully digital recording everybody takes for granted nowadays. But I would have expected more from a remaster. I've got the 1994 remaster of Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd, which came out just four years later in 1975, and it sounds far more polished.
>> No. 471642 Anonymous
6th August 2025
Wednesday 4:28 pm
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>>471640

Lara Ricote's slight deaf accent really gives me the horn.
>> No. 471643 Anonymous
6th August 2025
Wednesday 4:38 pm
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>>471639

Yeah, I guess I'll take the seminar. I could afford three points on my licence, but it's probably good to keep a clean record in case you really fuck up in the future.

I've been trying to find information on the accuracy and error tolerance of speed cameras, but apparently there are no fixed rules. It could even be that I'll get off without any consequences, because Google says a rule of thumb is often 10% plus 2 mph. If 38 mph on my speedo is really 35 mph, like I measured yesterday with my GPS app, that could put me completely in the clear.
>> No. 471644 Anonymous
6th August 2025
Wednesday 6:11 pm
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>>471643
The limit is 30. If you are over 30, you are over the limit. The discretionary guideline (and it is purely discretionary) is there to ensure that if they get a detection, they can be reasonably certain that even with the margin of error you were over the limit.

All you can do is wait two weeks and see what comes in the post. Also, if you don't want to accidentally end up disqualified, make sure the address on your V5C is correct. If the paperwork goes to the wrong place and you never see it, the usual result is six points and a conviction in absentia for failure to furnish (MS90, which insurers really don't like). It's really hard to fix that after the fact, and if you collect two of them you're in for a world of pain above and beyond the mere fact of having 12 points.
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6th August 2025
Wednesday 9:16 pm
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There was a meeting in the office today with a load of leftover sandwiches that they offloaded on me in the afternoon. The secretary called my name loudly multiple times when she turned up with the tray and left them near me. There was also some cake someone had brought in that I was encouraged to partake in.

Now it's 9pm and I've still not had dinner because I'm not really hungry but I have 500 calories in my budget left for the day and it feels strange not having dinner. My whole evening routine has been thrown off as a result so I've just sat around watching lore videos on youtube rather than make any decision.

>>471640
I've never had a problem with airport security before, the experiance ranges from a quiet tolerance to having a joke. This might be because I'm white and inoffensive but Mitchell and Webb don't seem like the kind of people you need to bully either.
>> No. 471646 Anonymous
6th August 2025
Wednesday 9:19 pm
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>>471643

It's definitely always better to take the course if it's offered to you. I could also afford the fine and the points, but it would also make my insurance about 20% more expensive for the next five years. That's not ruinous, but it's still £100 a year I'd rather keep. And as you say, who knows if you'll make another mistake and rack up more points in that time.

I've only been got once, 34 in a 30, when similarly I zoned out and missed a change in speed limit. I was going 40 when I saw the camera, and obviously didn't slow down quickly enough. Very frustrating as it was my route home from work, but it was a long shift and it was late, but I suppose the big picture is I shouldn't have been driving tired at all, and my inattention could have had far graver repercussions.
>> No. 471647 Anonymous
6th August 2025
Wednesday 9:24 pm
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>>471645

>I've never had a problem with airport security before, the experiance ranges from a quiet tolerance to having a joke.

As our resident airport lad I can attest that security in the UK are often a bit thick, obstinate, and annoying, but very rarely cunts. There's always jobsworths, but they tend to be assigned to airfield patrol and staff channels, so they can be cunts to people who can tell them to go fuck themselves without fearing being booted off their flight to Malaga or shot by transport police.

I've definitely had a couple of arguments about whether they think I'm hiding a bomb in my yoghurt they've taken off me, but in fairness they're just following the rules, which I do prefer to the time they let me through with a Leatherman I'd left in my bag accidentally.
>> No. 471648 Anonymous
6th August 2025
Wednesday 9:30 pm
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>>471647

I forgot to add my main point here which is when I saw that sketch yesterday my first thought was how American it seemed. Inconsistent direction and power trips are the hallmark of the TSA (and sometimes border force).
>> No. 471649 Anonymous
6th August 2025
Wednesday 10:16 pm
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Why would one train ticket to London cost £50, and another cost £200 when the cheaper one only takes 20 minutes longer? No wonder people don't like taking trains, this makes zero sense.
>> No. 471650 Anonymous
6th August 2025
Wednesday 10:30 pm
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>>471649
Because privatisation. Much like the post, it's a service. It's not meant to make money.Sure, make enough part sustain itself, but tax pays for a reliable *cough* we sold it all. Thank Thatcher, I will piss on her grave, amd Ayn Rand who dreamed up a bullshit.
>> No. 471651 Anonymous
7th August 2025
Thursday 2:52 am
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>>471649

Because the fares are set based on the same revenue-maximising algorithms that low-cost airlines use. The fares aren't supposed to make sense, they're supposed to fill every seat on every train at the highest possible price. Average fares were higher in real terms before privatisation; the current fare model allows leisure travellers to get disproportionately cheap tickets if they're willing to be flexible, by absolutely rinsing business travellers who book at the last minute.
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7th August 2025
Thursday 5:22 am
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I've had to bring my cats in because they were making at least one other animal scream blue murder outside. I couldn't actually see another creature but I suspect it was a squirrel. One of them now absolutely stinks, it's either the smell of wounds, hanging around in some particularly pungent plants, whatever animal he was attacking has sprayed him with piss or something, or he's been smoking weed.
>> No. 471653 Anonymous
7th August 2025
Thursday 10:27 am
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>>471651

Dynamic pricing is the absolute bane wherever it's applied. I saw it when I booked my holiday in Crete, with the way flight tickets for essentially the identical product and service were fluctuating from one day to the next. I got a fairly decent price at £300ish both ways early-season with luggage, but you can't help sparing a thought for families who aren't as flexible as I am and have to book for four people whenever Mum and Dad get time off work together. It can run you over £2000 just for the tickets.

I can't remember if flights were actually cheaper before dynamic pricing, as it's probably been that way for 20 years. But I feel like they were, when everybody was paying just about the same amount. Even accounting for inflation.

I might go and check my old records of our lads holiday in Magaluf in 2006. I always collect all receipts and documents from a holiday in a big A4 envelope, going back at least to 2006. Mainly as a souvenir.
>> No. 471654 Anonymous
7th August 2025
Thursday 11:23 am
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>>471651

Filling every seat has nothing to do with it. That's the perverse incentive of the whole thing. If 10 businessmen are willing to pay 200 but 190 people an only willing to pay £10 guess which one is favoured.

Algorithms are just a way to cast a veil over obnoxious behaviour like a rat faced bully behind their bigger friend.
>> No. 471655 Anonymous
7th August 2025
Thursday 11:24 am
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Every time I have to be in Bradford the place seems grimmer than the last time.
>> No. 471656 Anonymous
7th August 2025
Thursday 11:31 am
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>>471655
It's all part of the glorious enrichment process.
>> No. 471657 Anonymous
7th August 2025
Thursday 1:30 pm
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>>471656
Enrichment involves having to dump the slag you've removed somewhere so that's definitely true.
>> No. 471658 Anonymous
7th August 2025
Thursday 1:39 pm
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This was at the top of my pack of custard creams. Behold its majesty.
>> No. 471659 Anonymous
7th August 2025
Thursday 1:43 pm
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>>471656
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g2vjd995xo

>"The landlords of Bradford have got to get real and rethink the space, invest in it, and the council have got to work with the landlords to make it somewhere attractive for people to come and open shops," she says.

>"Fundamentally, for a modern retailer, you need easy access.

>"You need air-conditioned shops, you need buildings you can get in and out of, and you need footfall."

Lack of air con and inaccessible buildings isn't what's keeping me from returning to Bradford since I moved away. The city is fucked. But I can save it...

If they spun it like a Chinatown type thing, Bradford is West Yorkshire's laplanderstanitown, that might be good branding. People of all races visit Chinatown in London for the bao and dim sum and peking duck, maybe non-brown-eyed people would visit laplanderstanitown for curry and salwar kameez. When racists derisively say "Bradistan", that's bad for the city's image. But leaning into it and having laplanderstanitown with big gates on the high street with the domes and shit they have on their buildings over there, that'd be based. Turn it into laplanderstanitown, it's a self sustaining tourist attraction!
>> No. 471660 Anonymous
7th August 2025
Thursday 1:51 pm
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>>471659

Why aren't there more nice shops in the city with the highest number of benefits claimants? Truly, it's a mystery.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/explore-local-statistics/areas/E08000032-bradford/indicators
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7th August 2025
Thursday 3:27 pm
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>>471658
You get those all the time in a box of broken biscuits. You might find them stocked in an out-of-town garage, they seem to be a more suburban-rural product.

Could talk for a while about them if I'm honest. My father got a great box recently with granola like cherry biscuits, I assume come from Boarders.
>> No. 471662 Anonymous
7th August 2025
Thursday 3:43 pm
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>>471660
>the city with the highest number of benefits claimants

See >>471656.
>> No. 471663 Anonymous
7th August 2025
Thursday 3:49 pm
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>>471659
I wouldn't actually mind that, it's a decent idea.
>> No. 471664 Anonymous
7th August 2025
Thursday 3:59 pm
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Having fusilli bolognese with grated Edam. Didn't feel like spending almost another fiver on a pack of spaghetti and proper Parmesan or Grana Padano, as I had fusilli and Edam cheese already at home.

Every little helps.
>> No. 471665 Anonymous
7th August 2025
Thursday 4:38 pm
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You must have heard of the banned Coinbase advert, by now? I've just seen it on rudgwicksteamshow.co.uk.
I for one might see this as a potential improvement in my lifestyle, and can certainly see merit in the asthetic.

Micro-logistics is portrayed as a bad job but it employs key networking skills.

Rubbish everywhere, containing scrap value materials. Anyone could collect that. Approach the council for PPE and sanitation equipment, employ rehabilitation programs for the employees.

YThe artisans aprentice may make a machine from your materials - there's bound to be enough wood for fuel and framing.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0bmJlrhRg4
>> No. 471666 Anonymous
7th August 2025
Thursday 4:45 pm
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>>471665
Already been discussed ladm8 (>>/pol/102596).
>> No. 471667 Anonymous
7th August 2025
Thursday 5:56 pm
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Is Jodrell Bank a decent day out?
>> No. 471668 Anonymous
7th August 2025
Thursday 8:19 pm
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>>471667
I've only ever been in the evening, but it's not bad. The cafe's good (or at least it was like ten years ago, holy shit, I'm rotting, I'm dying).
>> No. 471669 Anonymous
7th August 2025
Thursday 8:27 pm
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Found a really nice blazer today that was on a 38 hanger, but on closer inspection it was a 40. There's no good left in this world.

Also, there's a really shite clothes shop in Stoke-on-Trent that's been having a "closing down" sale for at least two years. Pretty funny scam. The only guy who works there just stares at you with his arms folded the whole time you're there too.
>> No. 471670 Anonymous
8th August 2025
Friday 1:03 am
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Anyone know anything about boating?
I need to work from Manchester during the week without selling my house up here and preferably without buying a second home or renting one.

So naturally I thought why don't I buy a boat. Proper narrow boats appeal to me, but are pricy enough I might as well buy a bedsit. River cruisers with live aboard amenities seem plentiful and relatively cheap.

From what I've googled, it seems that I'd not need a residential mooring, as I'd only be there four nights a week, but the interpretation of what you can get away with on a leisure mooring seems to vary depending on the company running it.

Yes, I know boats are expensive to maintain, but I'm handy and have taken on many projects people have thought I was mad for even considering. That part is a non issue.

As for actually living on a little boat as an alternative to a flat, is that a stupid idea? I'd more than likely develop a taste for boating, I wouldn't just keep the thing tied up all year round.

Surely one of you must have an unexpectedly deep knowledge in this field.
>> No. 471671 Anonymous
8th August 2025
Friday 1:22 am
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>>471670

Additionally I have also considered a campervan and joining a caravan club, which would be even cheaper, but I'm sure most campsites would not appreciate me motoring off the site at 6am every day. The other option of a stealthier van conversion and just sort of finding a place to park each night might work better, but it's probably an added complication I don't really want to be dealing with.

I really just don't want to have to give a landlord any money.
>> No. 471672 Anonymous
8th August 2025
Friday 9:51 am
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>>471671

>I really just don't want to have to give a landlord any money.


Your aversion is understandable, but have you really worked the numbers.

And how permanent is your work arrangement to work in Manchester going to be? It's much easier to move out of a bedsit where you're staying part of the week for a shorter commute than to sell a narrow boat again or a camper van.
>> No. 471673 Anonymous
8th August 2025
Friday 10:31 am
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I've know people who lived in a van (deliberately made to look like a normal tradesmen van) for a few years and my parents part owned a narrow boat for a few years for holidays

I want to state the obvious- neither are a house. In a van you miss out on basic adminities, like washing clothes or having any meaningful storage. A boat you are guaranteed to lose thousands in maintenance, that can not be put off because it will only make the situation worse. Both will be terribly inefficient in terms heating and electric.

I know living in a van when it wasn't pleasant outside drove both the people living in it stir crazy. I have received phone calls about break ups where the real problem was that it was raining for a few days.

My parents seem to be quite happy with their boat as they saw it as it was a part share with other people and they saw it as cheaper than a normal holiday.

Mooring costs are in theory cheap but you get a weird black market in city centers for a patch someone is deliberately hoarding that people want you to pay if you buy the boat, which you obviously lose if you ever actually use the boat as a boat. So expect to lose that.

I also knew a girl who lived on a small yacht in a dry dock for a year and that looks like it must have been hell squatting under an overpass looked more secure and pleasant.

Unless the costs of property has shot up in a way I am ignorant of in Manchester it is probably cheaper to buy a shoe box of a flat that someone hasn't inexplicably gentrified in the way people seem to like you want a polished turd, than a boat you would want to live on.
>> No. 471674 Anonymous
8th August 2025
Friday 12:16 pm
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>>471670
I know two people who live on boats on the canal. One sticks to one region mainly, but there are time limits on how long he can be in one place. After that period he has to move at least the minimum distance away. Not sure about if there's a cooldown for returns. But he sticks to the same 6 or 7 mile stretch. The other one travels across different canals, again changing mooring before the time limit runs out, and I suppose it's quite a nomadic life which is fine as he works remotely.

You've always got to be mindful of whatever boat service stations are called for refilling water and fuel, and clearing the sewage system. There are issues like in winter the shower water being too cold unless the engine is on to heat everything up, and the reliance on solar means in bad weather, you might only have a couple of hours of power that day.

It seems a decent lifestyle if you fit into it, but more suited to a slower pace of life losing out on a lot of modern conveniences.
>> No. 471675 Anonymous
8th August 2025
Friday 3:26 pm
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I ordered a CD from Greenland in late June, and it arrived today. Wahey! I was starting to think it would never get here. (I should confirm that I am not the poster who loves buying old CDs, but I am the poster who posted a load of Greenlandic bands in the foreign-music thread a couple of months ago). I bet I never actually listen to it now, but it sure is nice to have.
>> No. 471676 Anonymous
8th August 2025
Friday 4:21 pm
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>>471675

At least you've not fallen victim to the scam where Icelandic/Scandinavian/Baltic lads randomly try to sell CDs of their "band" to passers-by in the car park outside Tesco.

Or at least I was never quite sure if it was a scam or not. Something seemed fishy about somebody from Latvia, I think it was Latvia anyway, just coming up to me, asking "do you like good music?," and then telling me about their band in shaky English and asking ten quid for their CD.
>> No. 471677 Anonymous
8th August 2025
Friday 5:59 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0CyiuYSFXo

Is that who I think it is?
>> No. 471678 Anonymous
8th August 2025
Friday 6:43 pm
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>>471672

>Your aversion is understandable, but have you really worked the numbers.

Honestly not really, these were just late night numbers. But even with a 45 minute commute I'm looking at £500 for rent, plus I'll be paying council tax and bills for two houses. My partner pays half of all bills on the current house, but I'll be on minimum wage. What I do have is a healthy savings account, so buying a van or boat, which I would absolutely still make use of after I'm done, makes sense in my head, but I think hidden and unexpected costs are the risk.

>And how permanent is your work arrangement to work in Manchester going to be?

I'd be down there for four years. I'm the lad that just got the apprenticeship, for context. It's monday to friday, I'd be home for the weekends. If I do rent, I'd probably end up buying somewhere very cheap, once I'm established down there. But again, unexpected costs could quickly overtake the savings I'd be making in rent.

>>471673 >>471672

I appreciate the input, this is all basically what I was expecting to hear. The idea of living free on my own terms on my little floating or driving shelter does appeal to me, but probably it's something I should do when I have actual money coming in, and am not on 25k and studying intensely.

So from that, I suppose, and at the risk of slightly doxxing myself, does anyone have a decent recommendation for areas to look that are no more than 40 minutes drive from Manchester airport? The closer the better, but I'm willing to commute that long if the price is right.
>> No. 471679 Anonymous
8th August 2025
Friday 7:50 pm
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>>471678
I live in Wythenshawe, which is the area all around Manchester Airport. I can walk to the airport from my house. It's notoriously grim, but nowhere near as bad as people say. It is easily the cheapest part of south Manchester, and you can make massive savings by walking to work if you live in Woodhouse Park. The nicest part of Wythenshawe is Peel Hall. Failing that, the second-cheapest place to live in south Manchester will be somewhere in Stockport. If you're willing to live somewhere nice and have a good nightlife, West Didsbury, Chorlton, and Altrincham are the nicest places. Levenshulme and Burnage are somewhere in the middle. Depending on traffic, you might be able to drive to Manchester Airport from north Manchester in 40 minutes, if you really want to save money. North Manchester is all horrible.

We might run into each other and both get doxxed; I'm the Wythenshawe resident who is much, much posher than anyone else round here. Watch out for scrotey children.
>> No. 471680 Anonymous
8th August 2025
Friday 7:56 pm
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On second thoughts, that post I just wrote is probably completely useless. For one thing, you can drive to the airport from almost anywhere in 40 minutes. Why don't you describe the sort of area you want, and I'll see if I can still help?
>> No. 471681 Anonymous
8th August 2025
Friday 8:29 pm
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>>471678

If you're happy to drive, then it might be worth looking in Warrington, Newton-le-Willows or Ashton-in-Makerfield - they don't look all that close on the map, but they're an easy drive to the airport on the M6/M56. Alternatively, there's a direct bus from Stockport.

If you scout about on Spareroom, you should be able to find a room in a shared house with all bills included for about £500/mo in any of those areas. I'm not necessarily recommending that long-term, but it might be very sensible as a starting point - it's a low-cost, low-commitment option.
>> No. 471682 Anonymous
8th August 2025
Friday 9:27 pm
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>>471680

No, that's quite useful - my main priority is price, and though I'd be willing to have a lengthy commute, the closer the better really. I'm not after anything other than a base to sleep in four nights a week. I'd need parking, but street parking is fine.

I'd like to live in a quiet suburb if possible, but I really, really would like to keep my rent under £600 a month if feasible.
>> No. 471683 Anonymous
8th August 2025
Friday 10:25 pm
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>>471682
I looked on Rightmove to see what rents are like in Heald Green (a lovely and sedate suburb that's less than five minutes from the airport by train), and there aren't many options. I increased the distance and you can get some places under £600/month in Wythenshawe or Stockport, but rents are much more extortionate than I was expecting. If you want to be my neighbour, Wythenshawe is a quiet suburb with a lot of council houses and children in balaclavas and winter coats in July, and there's one of almost every supermarket so the cost of living is very low. Otherwise, if you're willing to drive, it might be wiser to do what >>471681 said and look at places like Warrington, St Helens, or Salford.

Newton-le-Willows is a beautiful place if you can find something there, but I think you'd be lucky.
>> No. 471684 Anonymous
9th August 2025
Saturday 12:47 am
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I think if we all ganged up we could take over Beetham tower and have it all to ourselves.
>> No. 471687 Anonymous
9th August 2025
Saturday 11:19 am
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>>471683

Thank you for the advice but in particular thank you for this -

>but rents are much more extortionate than I was expecting.

Because I was losing my fucking mind, as everyone I've asked has made some comment about how cheap Manchester is, but my research on Rightmove has suggested otherwise.

If you happen to have a garage you don't use maybe we could be very close neighbours.
>> No. 471704 Anonymous
11th August 2025
Monday 10:21 am
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You know something I learnt this weekend? I learnt that while I'm not ever going to look like early-seventies era Al Pacino, being an ug-mug is no barrier to having an attractive girlfriend. I was so ready to flirt with this one woman I knew I'd be seeing on Saturday, but she showed up to the event with a boyfriend. I was miffed, and I kept thinking "that guy? Really?", but also "well, at least I know I had a shot in another timeline".

So, thank you, ugly-boyfriend-I-never-even-asked-the-name-of, seeing you was half-a-dozen therapy sessions worth of self-esteem.
>> No. 471705 Anonymous
11th August 2025
Monday 10:39 am
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I'm trying to give up pop and alcohol for health and money reasons. I bought one of those big retard bottles that shows you your drinking progress.

Still drinks are a joyless experience. If I buy fizzy water I may as well buy pop. I could get a SodaStream but I'm scared people might sabotage the packages to kill potential Zionists.
>> No. 471706 Anonymous
11th August 2025
Monday 11:05 am
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>>471705
Sparkling water legit helped me when I stopped drinking pop many years ago. When I'd get an uncontrollable hankering for Dr Pepper, I'd grab a carbonated water instead, so I wouldn't rule it out. Flavoured water helped likewise.

Anyway, you should be drinking 4 to 7 cups of coffee a day as well. It's what Real Men do.
>> No. 471707 Anonymous
11th August 2025
Monday 2:54 pm
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>>471705
Try some herbal teabags, mate, seriously. Since using all of mine (here >>/nom/16181) I simply stopped drinking water regularly. After buying more 2 days ago, I'm drinking every time I pass the kitchen.
One bag will flavour up to 2 litres of water depending on your taste, possibly varying with bag variety.
They're like those strawberry flavor water bottles you can buy from shops, only it's light, delicious and costs less than 25p per day.

Prior to finding a use for herbal teabags, I tried various cordials/squashes, black tea, even watering down fresh juice. Nothing had stuck.
Herbs are where it's at for flavouring water, you could probably grind them fresh with seeds.
>> No. 471708 Anonymous
11th August 2025
Monday 3:08 pm
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>>471705

> I could get a SodaStream

If you don't clean your SodaStream frequently and meticulously, it'll end up becoming a considerable breeding ground for bacteria.

I always just buy sixpacks of 500ml sparkling water. If you factor in the cost of a SodaStream including CO2 cylinders and cleaning, then buying water bottles is far more convenient. And they are recyclable nowadays.
>> No. 471709 Anonymous
11th August 2025
Monday 4:27 pm
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>>471707

This is a good idea.

I'll add that decaff coffee is another good option if you need the placebo effect.
>> No. 471710 Anonymous
11th August 2025
Monday 5:12 pm
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>>471706

I've lately been trying to cut my billion cups of coffee a day down and drink more water. As much as anything, what helped is just being lazy and convincing myself that boiling the kettle is a pain in the arse. I'm down to maybe 3-4 a day now, and half of those come from the free vender at work, so it's also saving a fair bit of money.
>> No. 471711 Anonymous
11th August 2025
Monday 6:35 pm
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Well the inflatable boat I mentioned last week now has a multi-racial party BBQ in their garden. A lot of moist dicks in my face, indeed.
>> No. 471712 Anonymous
11th August 2025
Monday 8:18 pm
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>>471711
How much of this post is word filters?
>> No. 471713 Anonymous
11th August 2025
Monday 8:34 pm
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>>471712

I think it might be MI5lad(s) using the site for secret cyphered message communication.
>> No. 471714 Anonymous
11th August 2025
Monday 9:30 pm
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>>471713
With nobody but themselves, apparently.

They've sorted themselves out into an arguement that's attracted police attention, not from myself I might add ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Perhaps I was too hastey in lending my crowbar to break up their firewood.
It's an unusual set dressing for a birthday party, looking similar to a journalist video piece about an active French crossing point.

I'll get out of the habbit of posting trash here, I'm sorry.
>> No. 471715 Anonymous
11th August 2025
Monday 9:33 pm
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29 degrees in my bedroom. Bollocks to this.
>> No. 471716 Anonymous
11th August 2025
Monday 9:46 pm
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>>471714
I felt obliged to stepped in myself. Overheard the process of a man overwhelming a womans emotions, physically restraining and I believe choking her before attempting to return her too his room, despite protestations.
I don't think I will see further issue, must make sure to approach the guy during day, appologies and shake hands.

No police presence.
>> No. 471717 Anonymous
11th August 2025
Monday 10:42 pm
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What is it with these immigrants, it's like some of them don't even speak English.
>> No. 471718 Anonymous
12th August 2025
Tuesday 12:06 am
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I don't get what people find exciting about a cruise. A friend is really looking forward to a cruise from mainland Spain to the Canaries in autumn with her husband. But I've never understood why people pay lots of money to be stuck on a ship for most of the time with nothing to look at but open sea in all directions, and then you only have a day or just a few hours on land at each stop where you're rushed through a handful of attractions without really being able to appreciate any one of them.

To each their own, I guess. But it's not for me. And my perception is that it's mostly women who love cruises. For whatever reason. The blokes usually seem more like they're getting tagged along by their wives or girlfriends.
>> No. 471719 Anonymous
12th August 2025
Tuesday 12:13 am
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>>471718

I don't know if it's because I'm getting older, but I do sort of like the idea of having a holiday where I don't really have to think about anything or plan anything, but I still get to see a few different places along the way if I want to.

I do enjoy just being at sea though, maybe that's the difference. Whenever I go to Belfast I try to take the ferry if I can, it's just nice sitting out on the deck, though to be honest in Inupiater conditions it might not have the same romantic effect, plus maybe I would just get bored.

There's some lass on youtube I watch who reviews cruises, and from what I can tell, if she's representative of cruise people, the appeal is being on a giant Butlins style hotel, just eating buffets and watching caberet.
>> No. 471720 Anonymous
12th August 2025
Tuesday 12:25 am
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>>471653

>I can't remember if flights were actually cheaper before dynamic pricing

Before dynamic pricing, last minute deals were often desperately cheap, because an empty seat is negatively profitable once you're over a certain load threshold. When I was a kid that is how all our holidays went, grandma getting a ludicrous bargain on Teletext a week before the flight.

Air travel is more expensive now, full stop. Dynamic pricing probably doesn't help, but fuel is far more expensive than it used to be, landing fees are, all the carbon neutral ground equipment is more expensive to buy and run, it's just a bit of a nightmare. An airline making billions in revenue will only see 100-200m in profit, which isn't nothing, but I think if they quit now and bought corner shops or something instead, their profit margins would be far better.

Personally I work for a 'cheap' airline and our prices are fucking ridiculous. The tickets are scaled to the loads, so although we aren't filling planes like we used to, the people who are on board are offsetting the cost by paying 3 grand to go to Majorca.

Personally I don't think that's sustainable, but we still posted growth this year, so what do I know.
>> No. 471721 Anonymous
12th August 2025
Tuesday 1:37 am
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>>471718
They're for boring people who like safe and predictable fun. I went on one around the Mediterranean and loved it.

If you had the money I bet you could make a millennial experience around it. The problem with modern cruises is largely the clientele, if you can revert it to aristocrat journeys from before air travel with pipes, novels and interesting conversations at breakfast then I bet there's a huge market for it. Even better if you can enable your passengers to be digital nomads as you go so they can travel the world with a little family of other eccentrics.
>> No. 471722 Anonymous
12th August 2025
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>>471720

>Before dynamic pricing, last minute deals were often desperately cheap, because an empty seat is negatively profitable once you're over a certain load threshold. When I was a kid that is how all our holidays went, grandma getting a ludicrous bargain on Teletext a week before the flight.

I think you still see that at times, from my observations anyway. If you're able to fly at two days notice. But it has become more rare.

What I've also found is that travel websites like Kayak don't get you much of a discount anymore versus booking directly at the airline. Flights cost near enough the same, and if you book on Kayak.com, you could actually end up having less luggage included. I remember about ten years ago, you could actually save something like 100 quid on a flight to Greece or Tenerife.
>> No. 471723 Anonymous
12th August 2025
Tuesday 12:01 pm
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>>471717
I'm glad it's not just me. I was beginning to think a tumor, or prehaps a neuron-hungry amoeba, had consumed the part of my brain where my English GCSE resides.
>> No. 471724 Anonymous
12th August 2025
Tuesday 12:41 pm
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>>471722
Is it possible that the good deals still exist, and the websites take them all and resell them at a much lower discount, keeping the profit for themselves? That sounds like the sort of thing that happens everywhere else in society these days.
>> No. 471725 Anonymous
12th August 2025
Tuesday 12:44 pm
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I was looking at package holiday deals for singles, and you can get some real steals so long as you go out of season. Is it still worth going to Majorca in October? Maybe, we were still having warm days here last year around that time, so in terms of weather I can imagine it's fine. It'll naturally be quieter but I think if you are the type to be going on your own anyway that might not be a bad thing.

Moreover though, I just feel like a holiday is in itself one of those things you really do because of the company you spend it in, and not for the activity itself. I don't really see what value I would get out of it if it wasn't as a bonding experience with a partner or quality time with family. I would likely get more out of that time staying at home painting Warhammer.

An awful lot of things are like that. You don't go to the pub because you just love the atmosphere and the great service, you go because it's the agreed upon place to socialise with the lads.
>> No. 471726 Anonymous
12th August 2025
Tuesday 1:21 pm
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>>471725

>Is it still worth going to Majorca in October?

It's definitely still warm and you can swim in the Med comfortably. Temperatures will be a tad lower than in July or August, but it'll still be 25-28 degrees most days. Most people would still call it enjoyable summer weather, but without the potential for heat stroke at 35 degrees in July.

On the other hand, October is about the time that Magaluf winds down for the winter. You'll still have people holidaying and partying there, but it's going to be a bit more quiet and fewer people. So it really depends on what kind of holiday you have in mind.


>Moreover though, I just feel like a holiday is in itself one of those things you really do because of the company you spend it in, and not for the activity itself.

If you feel uneasy about travelling alone, my advice is to just try it. Even if it's going to feel like the most boring week of your life, it's just that, one week out of your life.

I went on holiday on my own for the first time a bit over ten years ago. It was a time when everybody else had little kids at home or other obligations, and getting the lads together one more time, or even getting one friend to go with me became increasingly impossible. I was also single at that point, so I didn't even have a partner to go on holiday with.

It's no understatement to say the experience was a complete game changer for me. If you're in the right frame of mind for it, then travelling on your own is actually a lot easier, because you can just do whatever you want all day long, you don't have to compromise, there are no arguments with friends or your partner, and all that sort of thing. Knowing that I was fine on my own vastly expanded my ability to go see the world even when I had nobody else to go with.

I've been on family and couples holidays again since, and they also admittedly have their advantages. But just knowing that I can travel on my own if I have to, and spend an all around enjoyable holiday somewhere, is a welcome addition.

Also, don't feel funny because other people at your hotel might see that you're alone and think you're somehow weird because you had nobody to go with. On the one hand, you'd be surprised how many people of all ages travel alone these days, and on the other hand, no, just block that thought out entirely. You're not weird, and if you're open and don't mind a chat with strangers, you might even end up getting to know more people than if you're travelling with a partner or a group of friends where you just stick to yourselves.
>> No. 471727 Anonymous
12th August 2025
Tuesday 3:39 pm
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I always find brie disappointing in a cold sandwich.
>> No. 471729 Anonymous
12th August 2025
Tuesday 3:51 pm
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Is buying two of the same blazer at £60 because you ruined the first one within 24 hours of buying it a good deal, even if it usually costs £240? I don't know, probably not when you're as ill-off as I am. However, I've looked high and low for a really nice standalone blazer for a year now, and quite besides that I just don't give a shit anymore.

>>471727
It's just not its place. I think it can do well if the bread's suitably chewy and crusty, but in soft bread? The brie was set up to fail and it's unfair for anyone to expect it to thrive.
>> No. 471730 Anonymous
12th August 2025
Tuesday 6:16 pm
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A flat popped up on the finder that'd be perfect for me - cheap and spacious, on a quiet road overlooking a public garden. I called the agency, asked for a viewing but their agent was already seeing potential clients and I could call back later to check availability. So I went over to the rental property and asked the agent on the street if they have time for an additional viewing - a brief interview later they refused, but were very agreeable.
With a hour left before closing, I called the office to find the place had yet to be let, and that with my name and phone number the agent will get back to me once returned to their desk. Unfortunately that hour has gone with no returned call.

I'm unsure whether I should give up having spooked the agent with my unusual approach or if I should persist and call them for a viewing tomorrow morning.
I've never interacted with the letting process alone, before.

I really need this place to the point that I may offer an additional sum in monthly rent and double deposit if they have issue with my guarantor situation.
I am concerned they'll believe my money is illegitimate considering how unusual I might be behaving.
Though it must be normal for somebody to call a letting agency twice in the same day, morning-evening, for updates on a specfic property? I guess it doesn't help that I was dressed in rags and briefly disrupted their viewing process during the day.

Fucking mania, init. I'm struggling against losing my positive outlook, currently. I may crash hard, soon.
>> No. 471731 Anonymous
12th August 2025
Tuesday 6:35 pm
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>>471730
I can't imagine they'd be put off by you being very keen, although maybe estate agentlad has other thoughts. If it's a nice property there are probably a lot of people who would really like it, and the reality is the agency is dealing with a lot of other people just like you. If someone has taken issue with your entirely ordinary and understandable actions, then you're just an unfortunate casualty of living in a country that's overwhelmingly populated by social spastics. You might want to dress up a bit next time though. One thing I've found, owing to being a ponce, is that not looking like shit does get you treated a little better.

No crashing allowed, I'm afraid. Not until Christmas, then you can go mental and spend three weeks wanking and eating cinnamon with far less fallout.
>> No. 471732 Anonymous
12th August 2025
Tuesday 6:58 pm
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>>471731

Estateagentlad reporting in.

First thing off the top of my head, if you're keen to rent a property, please follow through with that keenness, and don't start ghosting the estate agent right the next day as if you'd never met. It does happen all the time and you develop a bit of thick skin in that respect as an estate agent. But you're really wasting everybody's time that way.

But also, even if you're keen on a place, play it close to your chest. Don't make any additional offers or promises. Don't explain your desperate life situation. The landlord and/or the estate agent will welcome genuine interest in a property, but we are not the council or social workers. I know you have to stick out these days to be able to beat out the competition of other possible tenants. But less is often more. Your best bet is still to leave a nice, agreeable, inoffensive but memorable impression. Landlords really aren't that difficult to keep happy. If you come across as somebody who has a steady job and will likely pay the rent on time, not throw drug parties in the middle of the night and will leave the flat in one piece, then that is likely going to make a bigger impression than if you promise to pay extra on your rent or the deposit. Because in the end, I and many landlords would ask ourselves, why does he need to do that. Are you genuinely desperate to get a place and just haven't found one (understandable), or have you been turned down already by other landlords for unknown reasons (red flag).
>> No. 471733 Anonymous
12th August 2025
Tuesday 7:07 pm
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>>471732

>If you come across as somebody who has a steady job and will likely pay the rent on time, not throw drug parties in the middle of the night and will leave the flat in one piece, then that is likely going to make a bigger impression

And how do you judge that, by how they dress? Their accent? If they have tattoos? You don't know a thing about a person, so the impression you have of an applicant is just that, a superficial impression.

I was fairly convinced back when I still had to deal with the headache of renting, that most estate agents/landlords were just straight up discriminating against myself and my partner. Just taking one look at the weirdo goth couple with long hair and tattoos and thinking not a chance. When the truth is, we would have likely been better tenants than whoever they did go with. We looked unusual but the truth is we were just a pair of nerds who kept to ourselves and spent our weekends playing videogames, not getting drunk or high.

We had instances where we knew for certain we'd been the first to express interest, done everything to the letter, polite and courteous and punctual as could be, and still being passed over. So I wouldn't be surprised that it happens, and might be what's happening with otherlad.
>> No. 471734 Anonymous
12th August 2025
Tuesday 7:50 pm
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>>471733

>And how do you judge that, by how they dress? Their accent? If they have tattoos?

It can be tough, you're not wrong. By the same token, somebody can come to a viewing in a suit, and next thing you know, a few months down the line the rent arrears pile up. I usually go with gut feeling, which is part intuition and part experience of having done this job for a good amount of time.


>I was fairly convinced back when I still had to deal with the headache of renting, that most estate agents/landlords were just straight up discriminating against myself and my partner. Just taking one look at the weirdo goth couple with long hair and tattoos and thinking not a chance.

If you come to me as the estate agent and tell me a story that genuinely makes sense, I'm not going to tell the landlord to turn you down just because you're Goth. I try to determine if you're a reasonable person who has their shit together in life, at least in the areas that matter in order to be a good tenant. I actually have friends in my personal life who are sort of goth-ish, although not fully committed to the lifestyle, but they're honest people with full time jobs and dreams of starting a family.

I'm not going to lie though; there are landlords who will probably turn a lad down for wearing an earring and a bit of guyliner. Think Phil Oakey in the 80s. In the end, you're renting from them and not from me. I can only give recommendations, and I can only do so much to counter prejudice.
>> No. 471735 Anonymous
12th August 2025
Tuesday 8:12 pm
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Every so often I need to treat myself to take the edge off existential bleakness and keep myself out of trouble. And I didn't really treat myself to anything for my birthday this year. I just can't really decide on anything I fancy.

I was thinking of a digital piano. I've got just enough room in my office/studio/man cave that I could fit an 88 keyer in, in front of the window, and that'd probably be nice. I vaguely have the idea that if I learned to play proper piano I might get to grips with all that jazzy chord and music theory nonsense I've only ever begrudgingly engaged with as a guitarist, and it might expand my horizons and reignite my passion for making music. But on the other hand I might well just piss around with it a bit and then be bored of it.

I was also thinking I might try track down a decent quality refurbished CRT TV for playing the retro video jamses. It's a bit like the gaming equivalent of listening to music on vinyl, there's something nice about going back to the basics of putting in a disc and having your memory card and all that. I've got a fair old collection of PS1 and PS2 games on a shelf that never see any use now. But then again, it's still just kind of a novelty, and in reality emulators are more practical in almost every way.

It's a nice problem to have, I suppose, when you have sort of got yourself to a position in life that you already have pretty much all the stuff that you want. But as cancerous as consumerism is, it's nice to have a new toy to play with now and again isn't it.
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12th August 2025
Tuesday 8:38 pm
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>>471731
>If it's a nice property there are probably a lot of people who would really like it
3 in one afternoon alone, of a class I am clearly at the bottom of (which may work to my favor in this case, the 'flat' is a single glazed storage heated bedsit that noone today wanted - the property itself is a downgrade from my current place in all respects but the neighbourhood and rent)
I am currently sewing my best trousers a few inches narrower. Not looking forward to the heat in my 'smart' outfit but needs must!

>>471732
>if you promise to pay extra on your rent or the deposit. Because in the end, I and many landlords would ask ourselves, why does he need to do that.
That's a really good point, thanks for making it. My justification was that an increased offer would display sincerity of interest, but I can absolutely see how this could be interpreted otherwise.

>>471733
>I wouldn't be surprised that it happens, and might be what's happening with otherlad.
As dire my look in oversized torn shirt, patched trousers and ripped sandals; that I didn't once look at the agents tits during our brief interview will probably stand in my favor (and she was gorgeous).

I'd rather do what I can to improve my chances to be honest. The fun part is in making your character smart, not smart your character. Tomorrow I'll be wearing a country looking outfit reminiscent of lavender or thistle - a light perfume would go great to complete the style but I'm not that far out of my closet.
As Ponce-lad mentioned people really do treat you differently based on looks, it's just what people do. We've all been subject to it and we've all subject others. The interesting part is that it's largely group based, You may have fit in a grunge bar, while I looking like a educationally disabled bug catcher would not.

I seem to have avoided crashing, possibly due to an injection of pure Haribo, but I could feel that familiar fog overcoming my mind, twisting it to a distorted self reflection.

Thanks for the timely replies. I'll keep you posted :)
>> No. 471738 Anonymous
13th August 2025
Wednesday 9:31 am
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>>471736

>That's a really good point, thanks for making it. My justification was that an increased offer would display sincerity of interest, but I can absolutely see how this could be interpreted otherwise.

It's not going to be a red flag, but you are needlessly making yourself look a bit dodgy.

Some people even promise to pay the rent six months or a year in advance. And there are probably even some landlords who will gladly accept the offer. But any sense of extreme urgency you create may not play out in your favour.

There are ways you can project sincerity without all that. Just tell them you really, really like the flat and would be very happy if they put you on their shortlist. And keep calling, observing reasonable intervals.
>> No. 471739 Anonymous
13th August 2025
Wednesday 11:14 am
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>>471730
If you're the poster who wants to move near Manchester Airport, I remember I wanted to buy a house round here so badly that I once put in a bid, equal to the asking price, on a house, just so I could show them I was serious enough about buying it that they would let me actually look at it. They never even replied, still, until I phoned them and said I would increase the bid by £5000 but only if they got back to me that day. They did, to say no. This was Northern Etchells Homes; they're absolutely awful. If they're renting out this flat, you have my sympathies.
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13th August 2025
Wednesday 12:37 pm
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>>471738
>if you're keen to rent a property, please follow through with that keenness, and don't start ghosting the estate agent right the next day
I'm embarrassed to reveal I didn't and will not now call the letting agency. Sorry mate. There's a little more to the dynamic than simply ghosting, but I appreciate the time I've wasted. It was a panic response hence the mania, I'm just suprised how far it got considering I've usually just browsed listings online.
Still, it's good to know I can pull it out of my arse when necessary - my smart clothes fixed up well and I'm now willing to get a haircut.

A travellers sack would serve me well the next time I need to take a fucking break.

Thanks to those accompanying me on this short journey, beloved moist dicks in my face.
The wordfilter is a 2 character neutral face emoji, by the way.

>>471739
I suppose it goes back the economic discussion - transactions by volume. An estage agent has a list of potential buyers for a high value, low trade-volume comodity already, they're not going to quickly settle for an average offer, or in my case an offer from a visibly desperate character (what do you call that, liquidity? Surely not viscosity?)
>> No. 471742 Anonymous
13th August 2025
Wednesday 1:42 pm
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>>471741

>I'm embarrassed to reveal I didn't and will not now call the letting agency. Sorry mate. There's a little more to the dynamic than simply ghosting, but I appreciate the time I've wasted.

As I said, we're thick skinned enough to shrug that off. It literally happens every other day. I was selling a flat for somebody a while ago and one of the potential buyers who turned up was literally like, where do I sign. He told me his wife worked at a bank and he'd get the loan approved pretty much the next day. Long story short, it took me three days to even get him back on the phone, and only by borrowing a friend's phone for the call. He then said something like, oh yeah, he and his wife talked about it, and maybe it wasn't the best time to settle.

I don't doubt that maybe for a brief moment in time, he actually wanted to buy the place very badly. But again, that's just what happens. You do a lot of work for nothing. And the rule is that the champagne doesn't come out until a buyer has actually signed and paid the money.
>> No. 471743 Anonymous
13th August 2025
Wednesday 1:46 pm
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I am warm.
>> No. 471744 Anonymous
13th August 2025
Wednesday 2:36 pm
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The blackberries in my back garden are going from fully ripe to rotten within the same day at the moment. I really have to keep up.

But they are very tasty.
>> No. 471745 Anonymous
13th August 2025
Wednesday 2:38 pm
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>>471742
>And the rule is that the champagne doesn't come out until a buyer has actually signed and paid the money.
I have previously wondered why selling a house takes so long.
What is the quicket process you've heard of in your industry?
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13th August 2025
Wednesday 3:24 pm
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>>471745

>I have previously wondered why selling a house takes so long.
>What is the quicket process you've heard of in your industry?

It helps to have a house to sell that's visibly in good nick, doesn't need a lot of repairs and renovation, has a bit of a special touch here and there like a particularly nice balcony, patio, garden or kitchen, and where the seller has a realistic idea of what their house is worth. The latter is often one of the bigger problems. Some of it then depends on how urgently they need to sell. People who are strapped for money are usually easier to convince that maybe they need to go down a few grand. But then there are the ones who don't care if their house or flat stays listed for months or even a year because they just don't immediately need the money. And time is on their side because by and large, their property will only go up in value during that time.

But on a more average house listing, from the day you first put up the ad to the buyer gaining legal ownership and you getting your fee, always expect a handful of months to pass. There's just a lot of back and forth, it often takes weeks to find the right buyer, to negotiate with them, and to get through all the legal formalities. Theoretically, if you immediately find the perfect buyer who isn't fussy and you quickly agree on the price, it can be as quick as one month, done and dusted. But it's rare. Certain parts of it just inherently take time, and I'm not sure how they could generally be sped up.
>> No. 471747 Anonymous
13th August 2025
Wednesday 3:55 pm
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>>471745

The bit that takes forever has nothing to do with Estateagentlad and his job. It's the conveyancing process and the various levels of incompetence to laziness you can find yourself up against if you are unlucky in your choice of solicitor.

If everything goes smoothly, it can go from first offer to exchanging keys in a matter of weeks. But if it doesn't, it takes as long as it takes. Buying my flat took nearly a year because the solicitors were going around in circles for six entire fucking months over one fucking document, which one side said it had sent, and the other side said they hadn't. It was mental.

That whole ordeal is probably one of the contributing reasons I don't enjoy Terry Gilliam's Brazil. It doesn't come off as satire to me. I've dealt with that level of infuriating bureaucratic deadlock too many times.
>> No. 471748 Anonymous
13th August 2025
Wednesday 4:09 pm
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>>471747

It sounds like you had a bit of bad luck with those solicitors. While the bets can be off in a case like yours, it's not the norm, in my experience anyway, that it takes nearly a year. A timeline of 3-4 months from start to finish, including my part in it and provided you have an easily marketable property to sell, is normally not unreasonable, and should still allow for a few minor snags or hiccups.
>> No. 471749 Anonymous
13th August 2025
Wednesday 4:12 pm
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I overwintered a chilli plant last year and don't remember what it is. I put some on a pizza last night and it's not only been repeating on me all day, but clearly I got the oil on something around the house because I keep getting a burning sensation on my skin. On my fingers. Did I get it on the keyboard? Fuck's sake.
>> No. 471750 Anonymous
13th August 2025
Wednesday 4:21 pm
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I've just been on the phone with a delightful Indian woman who called me "Mr. [Forename]" almost every sentence. I think I need this kind of person in my life on a regular basis.
>> No. 471751 Anonymous
13th August 2025
Wednesday 4:22 pm
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>>471749

My advice would be to skip your wank for today.

From experience.

My entire crop of chili seedlings failed this spring. There must have been something wrong with the compost in the propagator. The seedlings came up but then just stopped growing despite all my efforts. Luckily I've still got one plant of Etna that is sort of an ongoing experiment, it's in its third season this year, I just want to see how long I can get a chili plant to live before it dies of its own accord. I can't really recommend it, as the yield visibly goes down from year to year. I guess it's one reason why most commercial growers start with new plants every year.
>> No. 471752 Anonymous
13th August 2025
Wednesday 5:01 pm
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>>471751

I'm aware of the reduced yield, I just wanted to see if I could, and which rooms. I think three survived but I chucked at least one out.
>> No. 471753 Anonymous
13th August 2025
Wednesday 6:17 pm
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>>471752

I've still got loads of dried Etna peppers from last year, but I'm getting low on my Cayenna. Etna is good mainly for salsas and spicy dishes like chili con carne, but it's a bit too strong to put on steak. Cayenna is better for that. It still packs a punch, but you can tell that it's lower on the Scoville scale. As there isn't going to be a Cayenna harvest for me this year, I might have to buy some fresh Cayenna from the supermarket and hang them up to dry, to carry me over the winter. Cayenna is by and large the typical long, curved variety that everybody thinks of when they think of chili peppers.
>> No. 471754 Anonymous
13th August 2025
Wednesday 6:36 pm
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>>471753

These are probably Bhut Jolokia or Naga Vipers. I think I'm just a bit frustrated with chillies as, even if I had nothing else in the greenhouse, it would never produce enough to last me through to the next harvest.
>> No. 471755 Anonymous
13th August 2025
Wednesday 7:13 pm
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>>471754

>Bhut Jolokia or Naga Vipers

I've meant to get into those kinds of varieties for some time, but ghost peppers seem a bit extreme to me. What are you realistically going to cook with them. Even for sauces, you're going to have to water them down a lot.
>> No. 471756 Anonymous
13th August 2025
Wednesday 9:01 pm
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>>471755
>What are you realistically going to cook with them
Probably similar things to you, just spicier.
>> No. 471757 Anonymous
13th August 2025
Wednesday 11:18 pm
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Heard a speech from a bride recently that directly referenced the groom's arms. I'm having to start with 2.5kg per dumbell so I should be married sometime next century. You're both invited!
>> No. 471758 Anonymous
13th August 2025
Wednesday 11:52 pm
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>>471757

I used to have real stick arms too. But they became bigger as my body weight increased with a poor diet. So maybe just start eating.
>> No. 471759 Anonymous
14th August 2025
Thursday 12:12 am
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>>471758
That's a non-starter for a few reasons. Primarily if I'd carried on as I had for the first six months of the year, I'd have to start buying an entirely new wardrobe. That's notwithstanding that my fat distribution is located entirely in my belly, tits and chin sorry lads, I'm straight. Finally, I'm going for more of a sinewy look than a big massive guy one. Women don't like this, but that's their problem.
>> No. 471760 Anonymous
14th August 2025
Thursday 12:52 am
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>>471759
Women like skinny men, because what they really want is someone they have things in common with, and women love to obsess about being skinny themselves. So a skinny man is someone they can talk to about diets and whatever. I know this because I am hench as balls, but similarly on the tubby side, and I'm about as attractive as a lunchbox full of woodlice.
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14th August 2025
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I did start off with heavier dumbells, but I realised that I'm coming from such a point of frailty that I need to start at rock bottom. I couldn't get halfway through my set otherwise.

>>471760
No way, dude. I've heard women speak very positively of a bigger brother like yourself. Unfortunately, women, like men, are host to a diverse range of sexual preferences. But, hey, that just means there's hope for all of us.
>> No. 471762 Anonymous
14th August 2025
Thursday 8:31 am
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>>471760

>Women like skinny men, because what they really want is someone they have things in common with, and women love to obsess about being skinny themselves.

Not really. Most like tall, strong men because women's lizard brains get off on the idea of being protected by a lad. And the skinnier women are themselves, the more that holds true.
>> No. 471763 Anonymous
14th August 2025
Thursday 8:33 am
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>>471760
Maybe it's because I mostly have been with fat women, but I've had success even when overweight. My wife and my ex both explicitly like chubby men.

Having said that I've met fat women that prefer skinny, not because they want to be skinny themselves, but because they like the contrast.
>> No. 471764 Anonymous
14th August 2025
Thursday 3:20 pm
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Today I'm the one who has chili pepper on his hand and can't get it off. I had chicken breast with a healthy dose of cayenna chili pepper for lunch, and I guess because I later used the same knife to cut the vegetables as I did chopping a chili pepper, it's all over the palm of my right hand and kind of stings. There's even a faint sensation of it on the side of my knob, just from going to the toilet at some point after preparing my food.
>> No. 471765 Anonymous
14th August 2025
Thursday 4:03 pm
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>>471764

Capsaicin (the spicy part of chili peppers) isn't soluble in water. Hand sanitiser, vodka or white spirit will wash it off.
>> No. 471766 Anonymous
14th August 2025
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>>471765

Probably best not to put white spirit on my knob though.
>> No. 471767 Anonymous
14th August 2025
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As long as you plug up the end it'll be okay.
>> No. 471768 Anonymous
14th August 2025
Thursday 9:51 pm
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>>471766

Have you never needed to wash gloss paint off your todger? Kids these days, they don't know what a real day's work looks like.
>> No. 471771 Anonymous
15th August 2025
Friday 9:45 am
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I saw Ibiza Final Boss rugpulled a meme coin, then I looked him up because I knew of him but not what his schtick is, and saw he met with Bonnie Blue, then I looked to see what she's been up to, and an article said Katie Price wants to be the next Bonnie Blue, then I saw Katie Price's current scheme is to make back her squandered millions by lending her likeness and personality (as 23 year old Jordan, the bot will got topless) to an AI chatbot called ohchat. Also on this platform are AI Kimber Lee (shemale porn star, goes full nude), and AI Gabbi Tuft (former WWE wrestler Tyler Reks who transitioned into a woman a few years ago, her bot does sexy pics but nothing nude).

That 40 minute journey down the rabbithole greatly diminished my desire to be alive.
>> No. 471772 Anonymous
15th August 2025
Friday 9:56 am
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Lad, don't you understand? This is the technology that's going to put the "great" back in Great Britain. Now, by order of the Rt Hon Peter Kyle MP, show ohchat your passport and get gooning, or do you want China to win?
>> No. 471773 Anonymous
15th August 2025
Friday 11:55 am
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I've just had to deal with a leak, thanks to water from an overflowing toilet dripping through the floor into my integrated wardrobe*. I've soaked up as much of the water from the carpet as I can with my spot cleaner and I've left a fan on in there in the vain hope it might help to dry it out. Is there anything else I should be doing? I'll look to give the walls and ceiling a coat of anti-mould paint, but I don't know if it's better doing that now or in a few weeks when the floorboards will be dryer.

* Don't have kids.
>> No. 471774 Anonymous
15th August 2025
Friday 12:26 pm
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>>471773
Have you stopped any more water from coming through? Stopping the source of the water is always the most important thing.
>> No. 471776 Anonymous
15th August 2025
Friday 12:41 pm
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>>471771
>That 40 minute journey down the rabbithole greatly diminished my desire to be alive.
Really, why? It's digital dreams. Once somebody pulls the research together we'll have 'programmable' dream experiences and .. well, people. Oh, right. That element of human nature. Is that why we can't have nice things?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_5aHf3saoY

TBH I wouldn't mind access to a Desktop projection 'sexbot' I could flirt with and convince to show me their tits.

I'm increasingly reminded of desk mates or whatever they were called. Those horrible little desktop animations with a few optional cycles. We'd download loads of them to the school computers, spending an hour watching blue jokes and sexual inuendo. One inparticular was the silhouette of a sexy figure doing various sillouete tease routines behind a screen. When you finally pressed the curtain button it's revealed to be a missshapen ugly pensioner.
Oh seeing this, the tech teacher ran into the cupboard and remote controlled my computer. Opened the curtain, first click of the program. Came back out of his cupboard disapointed and sodden.
>> No. 471778 Anonymous
15th August 2025
Friday 12:45 pm
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>>471774
Yeah, I've fished out the various turds and toilet roll that were blocking the toilet. I cannot stress this enough, do not have kids.
>> No. 471779 Anonymous
15th August 2025
Friday 6:23 pm
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After years of deliberation I have finally ripped down my sofa to clear a great deal of space in my living room. I can now roll and jump around freely, with some fine cushioning at the wall edges for lounging.
The bathroom is a bit of a mess, now housing the broken down wooden frame and fabrics. There's dust in there older than covid, and plenty of it.

I don't think people are even meant to use sofas, they're just too combersome and damaging to the posture. I sincerely look forward to sleeping on the open floor, tonight, freshly swept and dusted!
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15th August 2025
Friday 6:36 pm
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>>471779
>I can now roll and jump around freely
>> No. 471784 Anonymous
15th August 2025
Friday 10:30 pm
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>>471772
But people apparently pay to talk to an AI version of this person. Not the real person. An AI based on her. I'm incredibly pro-trans, but if I was down bad enough to resort to talking to an AI based on an unconvincing evangelist christian korean youtuber to get my sexual jollies, I would probably end up hanging myself.

>>471776
If they made a Star Trek holodeck IRL, and I could play Monster Girl Quest or FutaDomWorld in it, then I'll believe in the tech. When it's chatting to prime Jordan it's simply not good tech. I can do that on Grok.
>> No. 471811 Anonymous
18th August 2025
Monday 9:21 am
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I'm pretty sure the Oxford English Dictionary just add daft words every year as a publicity stunt to get people to buy dictionaries. I can imagine sales are pretty poor these days.
>> No. 471812 Anonymous
18th August 2025
Monday 10:15 am
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>>471811
I'd argue it's about driving "engagement" and pushing "brand consciousness", but yes, the "Word of the Year" thing is the same gag and always has been. Obviously it's not a bad thing to progress and change langauge, but I'm not sure adding every fly-by-night meme-of-the-week is necessary. Also I think it was Cambridge who added "skibidi", etc. to their dictionary.
>> No. 471813 Anonymous
18th August 2025
Monday 10:41 am
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Who even owns a dictionary?
>> No. 471817 Anonymous
18th August 2025
Monday 2:04 pm
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>>471813

I've got a copy of Webster's College Dictionary. But it's over 30 years old, so it predates the mass adoption of the Internet, and only has very rudimentary computer vocabulary.
>> No. 471818 Anonymous
18th August 2025
Monday 2:12 pm
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>>471817
Laugh-out-loud as they used to say in the old tongue.

It makes yme wonder what will happen with English when the dictionary companies go bust. We don't exactly have the same institutions for language that they have on the continent and pre-dictionary English lack standardisation.
>> No. 471819 Anonymous
18th August 2025
Monday 2:36 pm
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>>471818

>We don't exactly have the same institutions for language that they have on the continent

True. Just take Spain and the Instituto Cervantes, named after the famous author of Don Quixote, which was founded in 1991 by the Spanish government to promote both the teaching and correct use of the Spanish language and Spanish culture. The Germans have the Goethe Institute which has a similar purpose, and France has the Académie Française.

It probably has to do with English being very internationalised and all the former British colonies having developed very distinct dialects of English. On the other hand, Spanish is no less an international language with its distinct regional varieties, and speakers from Barcelona and Colombia can stretch the limits of mutual intelligibility. And Canadian French can also be very different from standard French.
>> No. 471820 Anonymous
18th August 2025
Monday 3:32 pm
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>>471819
It actually goes even further back to the Royal Spanish Academy in the 17th century for Spain with the very absolutist mission of language planning. Same with the earlier Académie française and the Accademia della Crusca (confusing that Italy of all places has it dating to 1583).

I think in this case we're just inherently right and correct, we never had a centralised royal academy to dictate language because the bad guys won the English Civil War so there was never the same dictionary with a gun attached to it to tell us how 2 rite gudly. Yeah you heard, fucking roundhead.
>> No. 471821 Anonymous
18th August 2025
Monday 3:46 pm
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>>471820

> to tell us how 2 rite gudly

Aight bruvm8.


I think it wouldn't hurt us though, having a standardising body. Pretty much everything else in this country is standardised to a T, even if people ignore it. Might as well have a language standardisation authority as well. Which we can then also willfully ignore.
>> No. 471822 Anonymous
18th August 2025
Monday 7:06 pm
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>The BBC has postponed the broadcast of a documentary showing the last years of Ozzy Osbourne's life, which had been scheduled to be broadcast on Monday.

>Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home had been due to air on BBC One at 21:00 BST, but was removed from the schedule earlier in the day. A BBC spokesperson said: "The film has moved in the schedules and we'll confirm new transmission details in due course."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly41jzxxmpo

He better not get fucking Yew Tree'd.
>> No. 471823 Anonymous
18th August 2025
Monday 7:23 pm
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>>471822

He was a rock star in the 70s, he's bound to have done something that's a cancellable offence these days.
>> No. 471824 Anonymous
18th August 2025
Monday 7:29 pm
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>>471823

Hum and Lemmy definitely have more than a few underage skeletons in the closet.

As I've said before, as I've said many times. Womenrespecterlad doesn't like it, but the only difference between getting away with it or getting done for it, is whether women regret it.
>> No. 471825 Anonymous
18th August 2025
Monday 7:45 pm
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>>471824

>Hum and Lemmy definitely have more than a few underage skeletons in the closet.

The 70s were just one big cocaine fuelled bonk fest if you were moving in the right circles. Everybody was fucking everybody. And how were you going to tell in your dusted mental state if that groupie the night before was really 18 or if you were being a carpet-bagger.

There was also just much less awareness about age appropriateness. Today, you'd have a much harder time partying with 15 year olds without somebody either telling you "mate, what the fuck are you doing", or actually reporting you.
>> No. 471826 Anonymous
18th August 2025
Monday 8:32 pm
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I have Covid. Confirmed with some dusty testing kits we found in the back of the cupboard. Had me bed bound for 48 hours but feeling a lot better now.

Annoyingly, I messaged my boss to say I wouldn't be online today (I usually WFH on Mondays - I am a "TWAT" worker), but when I checked my work phone I see my sickness has been plastered over many of the company's Teams chats, for some reason.

When anyone else is ill, no one hears about it or it's swept under the carpet, when I am ill, apparently it needs to be the talk of the town and every has their banter about how I must be suffering from 'Mondayitis'.
>> No. 471827 Anonymous
19th August 2025
Tuesday 11:01 am
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Was looking through Facebook Messenger chats I've had over the last 15 years. What was interesting was going back I'd see a name and face I've not thought about in ages, a deep cut character in my life's story. Long forgotten NPCs unearthed. Also I was such a simp it's embarrassing. I think a level of simping is acceptable during the early stages of a relationship, but the fact I pretended to a girl that I didn't find her shit political views retarded is quite shameful.
>> No. 471829 Anonymous
19th August 2025
Tuesday 12:27 pm
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Actually feels a tad nippy today.
>> No. 471830 Anonymous
19th August 2025
Tuesday 12:52 pm
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>>471824
So, are you saying "rape isn't real"? If so that level of idiocy would explain your substandard grammar.
>> No. 471831 Anonymous
19th August 2025
Tuesday 1:00 pm
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Hey, lads, remember the Fiddley Foodle Bim Bam Boodle Oo Diddley-Doodle Oodle Bird?

Fiddley Foodle does not like it when you're at risk of having another tedious cunt-off about rape and consent. Don't upset Fiddley Foodle.
>> No. 471832 Anonymous
19th August 2025
Tuesday 1:02 pm
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>>471830

Not him, but rape is obviously real. It's just that ideas about consent and what constitutes rape have shifted since the 70s. Mostly for the better, but there has been some risk for some time now of those definitions (and how they are applied) becoming increasingly overbroad. Which is handy if your target is an increase of convictions, but it might not always help serve justice for all parties involved.
>> No. 471833 Anonymous
19th August 2025
Tuesday 1:39 pm
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>>471830

Nah I was just being overly BRILLIANT because I was bored waiting for work tasks. I deleted it because it was pushing things even for my tastes. >>471832 lad has it more or less right though.

I was riffing on how sometimes it pushes into absurdity how media often treats the crime of rape like the literal worst thing possible, but I don't see why you would read an extremely facetious post like that and then come to the most radical logical extreme of a conclusion such as denying the very existence of rape. That would just be daft.
>> No. 471834 Anonymous
19th August 2025
Tuesday 2:33 pm
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>>471833
Then it would seem that when one James Whale dies, another takes it's place.
>> No. 471835 Anonymous
19th August 2025
Tuesday 2:33 pm
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>>471833

>how media often treats the crime of rape like the literal worst thing possible

Probably is, for the person on the receiving end.
>> No. 471836 Anonymous
19th August 2025
Tuesday 2:43 pm
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>>471835

Sure, but there are still many things that are worse.

>>471834

Cool.
>> No. 471837 Anonymous
19th August 2025
Tuesday 3:25 pm
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I've spent nearly the whole summer so far wearing the same pair of Chinese made cargo shorts that I bought for 14 euros at a souvenir shop in Crete. I was in bad need of a new pair after I ripped my old ones down the arse while climbing over some rocks and shrubs on the second day trying to get to a more secluded beach.

Can't say I haven't been getting my money's worth for those 14 euros. I didn't think they'd last much beyond my holiday, but for that kind of money, they are surprisingly well made and still look like new, close to two months later.
>> No. 471838 Anonymous
19th August 2025
Tuesday 4:59 pm
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A m8 of mine left his pack of under the counter £5 Marlboros at mine, and they're so bad that they're not even worth smoking. I don't understand how a cigarette can have zero throat hit - it doesn't even feel like I'm smoking tobacco. I tried cutting off the filter, rerolling the baccy in a rizla, and it still doesn't feel like I'm smoking anything.

Someone once told me that the way they make the really cheap counterfeit cigarettes is by shredding paper and letting it absorb the leftover 'juices' from the tobacco manufacturing process. I'm not sure how true that is but it seems like a legit theory.
>> No. 471839 Anonymous
19th August 2025
Tuesday 5:11 pm
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>>471838

I think they cut the tobacco with sawdust.

Fun fact - when we were kids, about twelve years old, we nicked my friend's dad's cigarette rolling paper. We didn't have any tobacco, so we took some dried hornbeam leaves from one of the trees outside and crushed them into something that vaguely looked like tobacco.

If you want a throat hit, smoke dried hornbeam. I can still feel the stinging sensation in my throat from it after all these years.

We didn't care. We thought we were absolutely cool, smoking like the adults.
>> No. 471840 Anonymous
19th August 2025
Tuesday 5:18 pm
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>>471839

It's rather less salacious than all that, they just get the naff Chinese cigs from the factory in India with zero standards, and put them in a Marlboro box.

Anyway if they were the Gold ones there's no throat hit whatsoever anyway so they're as good as the real thing. Reds are great but how much do those fuckers cost in a shop now? Last time I got some on a night out they ran me 14 quid and that was at least 2-3 years ago, so I'd not be surprised if they've breached the £20 mark.
>> No. 471841 Anonymous
19th August 2025
Tuesday 6:25 pm
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>>471838
You lads need to start living it up a bit more.
>> No. 471842 Anonymous
19th August 2025
Tuesday 6:44 pm
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>>471841

How is smoking hornbeam not living it up.
>> No. 471843 Anonymous
19th August 2025
Tuesday 7:12 pm
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>>471842
Well, man, that's exactly why I didn't call you out.
>> No. 471844 Anonymous
19th August 2025
Tuesday 7:17 pm
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>>471843

You did though, because I'm also the lad with the 14 euro cargo shorts.

Here, have a puff of hornbeam.
>> No. 471845 Anonymous
19th August 2025
Tuesday 7:51 pm
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I've complained before about apparently random people talking to me in the street but there's this one guy who persists and calls out to me quite often, when he's around. I've seen him with young teens, pub hams, and troubled young men - a fair range of characters. I've also seen him innocently hassle a couple by not understanding their hint for him to leave.

This guy claims to have funded public projects and talks about giving back to the community. He also says he runs a tech business via Amazon, and that he inherits money from the lonely old people he befriends. He speaks with a slight slur, has an unlikely name and a visage of mild mental disability.
The only things he seems to say to me are trite catchphrases that I presume are targeted toward my general look as a hippy.

I just really can't put my finger on him. I wonder if he's mirroring my behaviours and feeding back to me ideas that'll form a familiarity - basic stuff in friendliness but it's such an unusual hint in our interactions.

I've just been out for a routine walk, tried to ignore his call but over he ran for a chat of nothing. Routine aborted, straight back home, disturbed my evening.
This time he was with a couple of loud, aggressive punks. He might have been high but that he lacked his usual energy and said 'we do what we can to help the world' I'm wondering if he wanted support helping his friends .. it's really strange.

I'm gonna have to understand what this guys deal is, though I'm concerned I'm being played or will be drawn into something unusual.

He fucking almost knows where I live and dread to think of him turning up at my door, fuck sake.
>> No. 471846 Anonymous
19th August 2025
Tuesday 8:28 pm
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>>471845
I'm afraid I have almost no advice for you. When you're out walking somewhere and he calls to you, it's okay to reply but never, ever stop walking. That's all I can offer. But I'm replying anyway, because:
>pub hams
Can you explain what these are? I might know several such people, and it would be wonderful to have a term to describe what they are, but I'd like to make sure before I start.
>> No. 471847 Anonymous
19th August 2025
Tuesday 8:59 pm
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>>471845

Why don't you just stay inside? I never have this issue, because in order to encounter these people, I would have to leave the peace and solitude of my flat, which I only begrudgingly do for work or the promise of sex/drugs.

You've only yourself to blame, lad.
>> No. 471848 Anonymous
19th August 2025
Tuesday 9:31 pm
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>>471845

Aggressively try to seduce him every time he talks to you.
>> No. 471849 Anonymous
19th August 2025
Tuesday 9:39 pm
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It's only half 9 and I'm fucking nackered.

>>471846
>pub hams
>Can you explain what these are?
I used it offhand to describe a stereotypically English pub goer, as pictured here >>/b/468303. I quite liked it suggests a meat raffle.
How did you interpret it?

>>471847
>You've only yourself to blame, lad.
Nah, I think next time I'll talk to him a bit more, atleast ask what his deal is. Actually try to follow what he's saying rather than concetrate on establishing my escape.
If he does lure me toward his sex-torture dungeon at least I'll be better informed to avoid it next time.
>> No. 471850 Anonymous
19th August 2025
Tuesday 11:45 pm
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>How did you interpret it?
Not in that visual sense, but culturally pretty similar. The people I know are the ones who go to the pub, simply to be in the pub. They're always there, even if they're there on their own. They might know the other regulars, but they won't necessarily join them because that isn't why they went out. They went out just to be in the pub. Some of them might have jobs, but they never talk about them. Some are enormously rich, but this is rare. In the more extreme cases, they communicate mostly through depressed grunts. They don't have any interesting stories, and when they do talk to other people, it's only ever about when they last saw the other people in the pub who are the same as them. Most of them are 50-70 years old, but some are much older. They aren't in the pub to have fun, or make friends, or have enjoyable conversations, or even to drink. They go to the pub and they just sit there.

I usually call these acquaintances of mine "barflies", but I think that's an American word and I would love to find a better name for them.
>> No. 471851 Anonymous
20th August 2025
Wednesday 12:39 am
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>>471849
>It's only half 9 and I'm fucking nackered.

I've had this as well lately. Early to bed and early to rise, even at the weekend and I'll wake up before my alarm clock.

My best guess is that this is the work of that sunshine. You see after billions of years of evolution our bodies just aren't ready for seasons. That would be asking for too much.
>> No. 471852 Anonymous
20th August 2025
Wednesday 10:23 am
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>>471845

Honestly, mate? My best advice is to try to be forgiving. He sounds like someone desperate to make human connection and is probably going through a phase of proactively approaching people.

It certainly doesn't need to spoil your day to have a chat about nothing, just try not to be self-conscious about talking to him. Certainly don't change your routines to avoid someone, that's actively anti-social.
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20th August 2025
Wednesday 10:39 am
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>>471845


>> No. 471854 Anonymous
20th August 2025
Wednesday 10:40 am
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In the past week I've had six notifications from Starling that a new direct debit has been set up with the DVLA. I've got them to cancel them as none are in my name. They've also said to speak with the DVLA as it hasn't come from them. The DVLA have said it is nothing to do with them and it's fraud against my bank account rather than anything on their end. This is going to be fun.
>> No. 471855 Anonymous
20th August 2025
Wednesday 11:09 am
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I was also very tired by half-nine last night. However, I bravely stayed up until half-one and now I feel like complete shit.
>> No. 471856 Anonymous
20th August 2025
Wednesday 12:17 pm
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>>471853
Nutters are far more interesting people to talk to compared to normies. It's simply entertaining, even if confrontational.

A mate of mine once had a lovely chat with someone outside a mental health clinic who was convinced they were one of 'them' sent to monitor their activity. I would have loved to try and navigate that.

Another time I met these two semi-downsyndrome types argueing over nothing (they can be really nasty people, it's horrible, but then the opposite is also true). I didn't do very well considering this was early in my development engaging with difficult people - I tried to ask where they're from, linking it into a local special needs club as though I may have seen them there, but they took offense of my mere asking and shut down conversation rapidly ("Do I kNoW yOu?!").

I really think I should work in a vulnerable shelter or something, they must be rollercoasters. Caveat that this is being said from a non-urban locale, I would'nt last a minute in a big city.
>> No. 471857 Anonymous
20th August 2025
Wednesday 12:34 pm
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>>471856

>A mate of mine once had a lovely chat with someone outside a mental health clinic who was convinced they were one of 'them' sent to monitor their activity. I would have loved to try and navigate that.

I did some volunteer work for a charity for some time that was helping people who for one reason or another weren't managing daily life because of mental or emotional problems.

One older chap who was still living in his own home seemed perfectly normal most of the time, but he could have his episodes where he tried to convince me that the government were after him because he was a foreign spy, and he told me they'd come after me as well if they knew I was helping him. He told me to be especially wary of traffic speed cameras, as they were a key means of governent surveillance.

A while earlier, he had actually been arrested by police for attempting to damage a roadside speed camera by banging on it with his fists, shouting at it things like "You're never going to get me! You're never going to get me!".

It may sound even somewhat funny to you and me. But schizophrenia is a very sad and crippling mental disorder. You don't wish it on anybody.
>> No. 471858 Anonymous
20th August 2025
Wednesday 1:03 pm
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>>471857

And another time, when I got back from doing the daily shop for him, I heard him mumbling to himself in the bathroom. Or so I thought. I then went to check on him, and it turned out he had spent a good five minutes hunched over his rollator having a chat with an imaginary person in his bathroom who wasn't there. And he then even said to that person, "I have to go now, my carer wants me," and waved them goodbye.
>> No. 471859 Anonymous
20th August 2025
Wednesday 1:10 pm
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>>471857
>It may sound even somewhat funny to you and me. But schizophrenia is a very sad and crippling mental disorder. You don't wish it on anybody.
I absoultely hear that and didn't mean to make light of the condition or experiences people face.

I've had some troubling thought patterns myself including thinking my beloved dog was a robot, that my mother was an agent, that I was an embodyment of Moses, etc.
I'm glad now to practice (key word) better habits and thought processes to keep me from wider delusion.
>> No. 471860 Anonymous
20th August 2025
Wednesday 1:28 pm
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I've just seen the worst wig of my life, like a cross between Rod Stewart and Michael Fabricant. Copper streaks on top with blonde highlights on the tips. He also had David Dickinson creosote skin.
>> No. 471861 Anonymous
20th August 2025
Wednesday 3:27 pm
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I can't get enough minestrone soup lately. It's quick and easy, tasty, has loads of presumably super healthy and nutritious vegetable bits in, and stops me scoffing snacks before I get to proper dinner. I like to imagine a tin of this stuff a day is doing me a world of good.
>> No. 471862 Anonymous
20th August 2025
Wednesday 3:31 pm
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>>471861

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2o-snHDVQA
>> No. 471863 Anonymous
20th August 2025
Wednesday 5:10 pm
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So I rang 101 this afternoon to inquire about my speeding ticket, as it has been 14 days since I thought I got caught going 37-38ish in a 30 zone. They were a bit reluctant to tell me on the phone and told me normally you're now supposed to fill in their form first on their website, but we got there.

I was getting worried that maybe there was a problem with my V5C, which I know I updated in late 2023 when I last moved, but it turned out that information was up to date. Anyway, policelad said on the phone that they have "no record" of my car going past that camera "at an illegal speed at any time recently". He told me they don't really like to admit it, but occasionally there can be glitches with the cameras that prevent them from collecting or transferring data accurately. But that I should take no chances on having the same luck next time. He then asked me, "How fast do you believe you were going?". It sounded a bit like a trap, although it probably wouldn't have been prosecutable evidence, me telling him truthfully on the phone. In any case, I wasn't going to tell on myself more than I had to, so I said, "Just barely over... maybe not at all, I'm not sure". He then gave me a brief lecture about the importance of speed limits and minding them, and let me off. That was pretty much it. So yeah. I got lucky this time. I'll start paying more attention now.
>> No. 471864 Anonymous
20th August 2025
Wednesday 7:14 pm
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How specific is it okay to get when making Amazon purchases? Can I actually put anal douche in, creating tracking and purchase history, while relying on discrete packaging?
When I bought vaping oils I was later inundated with ads through the letterbox. I dread to buy poppers even with a pseudonym, lest my flatmates find out.
I'd rather not don a trench coat and dare witness the private shop.

We should have a /horny/ megathread somewhere. None of this [x/y] shit.
>> No. 471865 Anonymous
20th August 2025
Wednesday 7:44 pm
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>>471864

https://www.aboutamazon.co.uk/news/operations/how-to-use-amazon-locker
>> No. 471866 Anonymous
20th August 2025
Wednesday 7:51 pm
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I know shrinkflation is an issue, but I've had to use almost two full multipack packet of crisps to make an adequate crisp sandwich.
>> No. 471867 Anonymous
20th August 2025
Wednesday 8:07 pm
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>>471865
Holy shit that's brilliant. Thanks!
>> No. 471870 Anonymous
21st August 2025
Thursday 5:44 pm
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Did you know you can have cheese on minestrone soup?
>> No. 471871 Anonymous
21st August 2025
Thursday 7:03 pm
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Went for a wander around the city today, the old haunts.
I suddenly feel completely out of place, being 39 and around places I've visited for years. Everyone's too young now. The square is full of goth kids where I used to hang out with my own greb friends who are now mostly stuck with two children and dead end jobs. Even forbidden planet seems to be full of blind bag labubu shit.
>> No. 471872 Anonymous
21st August 2025
Thursday 9:30 pm
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A guy I know and haven't seen in a very long time apparently has had an autologous hair transplant and it looks kind of underwhelming. You can tell that that's not his natural hairline from five metres away. The density is also a bit off, and the hair roots kind of look too regular. Almost like a grid pattern. I didn't say a word or comment on it, just looked at it and drew my own conclusions.

Seeing him has kind of discouraged me from pursuing my own hair transplant. I've got only about a centimetre of natural hairline missing in the front, so that you wouldn't normally perceive me as bald if you saw me in the street. But if the result ends up looking like that lad, then I think it might be better to just live with it.
>> No. 471873 Anonymous
22nd August 2025
Friday 8:27 am
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>A 'real life Cinderella' was filmed and laughed at as cruel bullies stamped on her prom dress and tore it to pieces.

>Jessica Robinson, 11, left her primary school prom last month in tears when a bully 'repeatedly stamped on' her £450 blue dress as others 'filmed it and laughed' while it was 'torn to pieces'.

https://www.Please don't ban me.co.uk/news/article-15023975/bullies-Cinderella-tears-tearing-dress-pieces-school-prom.htm

I'm not saying "poor people can't have nice things" but if you live on a terraced street in Blackpool and you're spending £450 on a dress for a primary school child to wear to a school prom, this is the kind of reason why you stay poor.
>> No. 471874 Anonymous
22nd August 2025
Friday 10:15 am
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>>471872
>I've got only about a centimetre of natural hairline missing in the front
Alternatively you have a 1 centimetre strip of naturally developed baldness.
There's nothing wrong with hair loss, it happens to people. Get over it or you'll end up looking like a cheap threaded hair plastic doll.
>> No. 471875 Anonymous
22nd August 2025
Friday 11:12 am
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>>471874

>or you'll end up looking like a cheap threaded hair plastic doll

That's actually what came to my mind when I saw him. His hair looked just like that.
>> No. 471876 Anonymous
22nd August 2025
Friday 4:10 pm
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>>471873

>I'm not saying "poor people can't have nice things"

Right, and you don't seem to have a very strong sense of empathy either. What's wrong with you lad.
>> No. 471879 Anonymous
22nd August 2025
Friday 5:16 pm
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>>471873
>"poor people can't have nice things"
How would you suggest they live, specifically?
I've lived sans fridge now for (i think) 2 years, possibly more. I balk at a shopping recipt over £12 for the week. I'm wearing visibly patched, threadbare trousers. My furniture is either homemade, bodged from cord-seated stools or 3rd hand free.

I did try to buy myself new shoes today but I suppose £65 is breaking the bank when instead I could thread some scrap leather over the pair rubber-soles that've been sat in the gutter all week.

How many Yorkshire men we gon get?

Would you believe I went to the dump yesterday and was shocked at the kinds of things people threw away? There was a full sewing machine, a large iron hoop, fucking intact riders jacket, among masses of quality materials - wood, metal, plastic. And people just chucked it all out, wasted. It makes no fucking sense.
>> No. 471888 Anonymous
22nd August 2025
Friday 6:52 pm
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>>471879
No I wouldn't believe you were shocked. You're fully aware of what a weirdo you are.
>> No. 471892 Anonymous
22nd August 2025
Friday 7:50 pm
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>>471888
Oh no you didn't!

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