For what it's worth, some people seem to like the smell of arse.

>>70948
Why are these women getting excited by their brother/father's cologne. I don't get turned on by my mum's perfume.

>>70949
You're gay. Riddle solved.

>>70948

Everyone loves Bartolo Colon.

here's a funny cat picture i found

I don't see why I, an embittered and miserable bachelor, am posting assistance to help the rest of you fucking pussy-patrollers get laid yet again. Perhaps I should only post bad images from now on.

>>70971

That's the thing lad, the worse they are the more birds like them. It's like dad jokes, but memes. Dad memes.

What is this shite?

>>70975

Read the OP.

Refer to dogs as 'doggos' or 'puppers', that always goes down a treat with basic bitches.

>>70977
chronic masturbator boy here again. If you do that, I hope they give you monkeypox. Even I have standards.

The bane of social anxiety.

>>70979
And you'll stay chaste with those kind of standards.

>>70982

https://www.marriage.com/advice/relationship/signs-you-might-be-single-forever/

A bit gynocentric, that website, but the article raises a few fair points.

>>70982

A reverse search shows that image exclusively on ifunny, funnyjunk, kiwifarms and /pol.

>>70972>>70982
hmmm

>>70984
It's from Tumblr, if you'd spent a few more seconds in detective mode you'd see the ifunny catches the top of a post.

>>70983
I think I did recommend Logan Ury's book a couple months back that actually addresses that first point about being a maximiser. Why can neither of you two do as your told?

>>70983

i think i wuold like to be single forever, honestly, but women just can't get enough of my cock.

no sooner have i set up a date with the mexican girl, the czech one is back on the radar now asking me to come stay over the jubilee weekend. i was hoping to go for a nice walk in the peak district on my own but instead i'll probably be off my tits on md rutting her like a rabid fox humping a dead badger.

i had started to consider posh english girl from a while back a cold case, but she started sending me photos of the sunset out of nowhere and is coming back soon. i was just going to settle in and catch up on the films i've missed, but instead i'm going to have to swot up on bronte and austen to figure out how I make her flaps soggy.

it's all so distracting, how do i learn to be an chronic masturbator?

>>70987

Standards are relative and are really only an impediment if you are trying to punch above your weight. Lads who try and fail are often entirely oblivious to the fact that women have standards too, as well they should, and that they're not just going to go for a git like you who doesn't measure up, just because you fancy them.

I don't normally like the phrase that much that women owe you nothing, but in this case, well, they really do not.

And if as a lad you don't like your lot in life, then it's up to you to change and become a more attractive person (within your possibilities).

I had an idea. I would go through Facebook and pick my favourite "Suggested for You" filler shite, because this will surely be the perfect image for this thread.

It might not have been.

>>70992
Heil allow it.

>>70992
I was buying some Puma trainers a couple of weeks ago and looking into the story behind their "Rudolph Kessler tribute" shoes was very interesting.

>>70977
It's also seemingly vitally important to regularly announce that you have lots of unread books, but will - gasp! - buy more books anyway. Yes, that's the whole joke, every time.

>>70995
I have lots of unread books and have stopped buying books. I hope you enjoyed my fresh twist on the formula.

>>70995>>70996
I for one, do not own a Kindle.

>>70997
>>70997
I've owned 2 or 3 kindles, but sold them every time because I never use them and can't abide all the Amazon advertising that they forcefeed you.

I treat myself to a ReMarkable tablet for taking notes at work, and find that it handles PDFs better than any Kindle, not least because it's substantially bigger. Now it has support for all the major cloud providers, so I just yank PDFs from my online storage and read from there.

That said, I am still amassing physical books even though I've got absolutely loads that I haven't read, what am I like?

>>70994

It's a weird one - Rudolf and Adolf Dassler were both fairly keen Nazis, but they also sponsored Jesse Owens and Tommie Smith.

>>70999

Or look at Hugo Boss. He joined the NSDAP quite early on and his company made the bulk of all Nazi uniforms.

>>70998
The kindle app for iPad doesn't have ads, because they aren't allowed to sell kindle books on there.

>>71000

Hugo Boss was a straightforward Nazi, but the Dassler brothers were Nazis who played a supporting role in the black power movement. Maybe they just didn't give a toss as long as they could flog trainers.

>>70999
>Rudolf and Adolf Dassler were both fairly keen Nazis, but they also sponsored Jesse Owens and Tommie Smith.
People who sponsor race horses probably don't overlap much with people who want horses to have human rights.

>>71002

>BUT THE DASSLER BROTHERS WERE NAZIS WHO PLAYED A SUPPORTING ROLE IN THE BLACK POWER MOVEMENT.

Bit akin to having that one token black friend.

>>71002
Hitler gave Jesse Ownes a congratulatory Nazi wave after he won his medals, which is far more recongition than he got from his own president. Owens also said that he got the greatest ovations of his career in Berlin.

A lot of Nazis seemed to be down with the brown. "Real recognise real" as the saying goes.

>>70998
Pay an extra tenner and the advertising goes away.

Interested you have a Remarkable though - I like the look of those very much. Has it been as good as they look?

This was "Suggested for you" by a Facebook group called The Vintage News. I mention this purely so I will know why if I get recommended thousands more posts from that group now.

>>71016

It's no wonder facebook is losing members.

In the younger generation, it's generally avoided nowadays because it's "full of mums and paedos".

>>71017
I don't think that's a new thing. My girlfriend worked in a school about 8/9 years ago and even then it was only the low ability kids who used it.

>>71017
>>71018

Facebook is weird in that I think everyone has it, but most people don't use it. It has the legacy advantage of the bygone time where it was THE social media, between about 2008-2012ish, but nowadays everyone uses Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat or TikTok. I have a Facebook but I don't have any of those others.

It's also interesting in terms of how people do use it, if they do- I've got like 120 "friends" on there, but if I scroll through it I only see a dozen or so people actually posting. The people who do use it use it constantly, everyone else just passively comments every so often, or trolls on groups. The people who do post only post memes or pictures of their new vinyls or something like that, the whole "post pictures and statuses of what you're up to each day" way of using it has dropped entirely out of fashion.

I feel like people are highly alienated nowadays because we all figured out that social media is dogshit, but by the time we realised, the damage was already done, and we never went back to the old way of doing things.

>>71020

I stopped using facebook when it started becoming a mere money making machine for Zuckerberg. And it became more true every day that if the product is free, then you are the product. As the saying goes.

>>71021

i stopped using it when i realised it was shit which was about 4 days after i signed up

>>71022

It always was shit, but what could you do when 80 percent of your circle of friends were using it for almost everything.

>>71023
In my first year of uni (2010), my hallsmates (is that even a word?) made me one because I didn't have it, and I had to assume ownership because everyone would think I was a gay pedo or something if I didn't.

I deleted it about a year later, and ever since I've had nothing. I have a close core group of friends but always wonder if I'd have more right now if I had kept up with it all.

>>71020
It's very useful for organising events and generally keeping in touch with people that life puts distance between, which if we're being charitable does make it a very good tool as you get older.

I bet the young people these days will have a worse time as they get older. You can't organise a piss-up with a mate from your university days using a tik-tok dance and I refuse to believe anyone actually enjoys doing audio/video-notes rather than typing over text despite that apparently being all the rage with the 20-somethings these days.

>>71028
>You can't organise a piss-up with a mate from your university days using a tik-tok dance
Bees can.

Saw this and thought of you two x

>>71184
How indeed are you supposed to build a pyramid while someone's giving you head?

>>71185
Your mum can't stop me.

>>71219

it's fine m8, the tech companies are all going bust in the upcoming great depression 2: revengeace anyway.

mark zuckerberg is gonna be mark flip-a-burg before long

lol

>>71222
I would welcome Mark Zuckerberg becoming Marx Uckerberg as much as the next man, but high streets will die long before people stop inventing phone apps to privatise and monopolise basic social interactions.

>>70947

There is university called Keck in America. https://keck.usc.edu/

Remember when Kek was a popular phrase?

I recently insisted on sending the "In the Deer 2nite" video to two different women on a night out, and I even asked them afterwards to make sure they'd watched it. They both said they liked it and had not seen it before.

I am now going to send one of them the 10-minute "Amazing Robocop Rap", another favourite YouTube video of mine. If she admits to hating it, that will prove that In the Deer 2nite is a winner. If she claims to enjoy it, then I don't know, because maybe she's just being polite but also maybe she has outstanding taste in YouTube videos.

>>71226

>I am now going to send one of them the 10-minute "Amazing Robocop Rap", another favourite YouTube video of mine

Why didn't I think of this? that tune is a straight banger. you're certain to sort the wheat from the chaff this way.

>>71227
She didn't like it.

>>71233

Fuck her then, she has shit taste.

>>71950

Seems legit.

Absolutely love this.

Perfect timing.

>I'm a normal human being

>>72009

I'm not sure she needs a new location.

>>72065

I'm sorry

>>72065

This has ruined my day.

>>72068
If only they showed me them titties.

Seems a bit extreme for Prince William to put his kids out on the streets.

And:

This thread is making /iq/ look bad.

cute

RECENTLY THE INTERNET GOT ME INTO WATCHING YEAR HARE AFFAIR. A CHINESE COMEDY WEB SERIES WITH NATIONAL CHARACTERS.

IT'S ACTUALLY QUITE NICE TO WATCH, IT'S OBVIOUSLY FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE CHINIESE MAINLAND BUT I'VE LEARNT A LOT ABOUT THE CHINA-US HONEYMOON PERIOD IN THE 80S.The Americans seem to have gotten lost in the idea that it's hostile propaganda which it certainly can be but not more than anything they come out with.

>>72162
I THOUGHT IT MYSELF ABOUT WHAT IF HETEROSEXUAL WOMEN MIGHT WANT THE SAME THING BLOKES SEEM TO WANT IN REVERSE; A MIX OF A DADDY AND AN IMMATURE BOY. THEN I REALISED THAT I WASTE A LOT OF MENTAL BANDWIDTH ON STUPID QUESTIONS.

>>72165
>>72166
I've never seen a double post with a 15 minute gap between them before.

This AI image generation is alright for a laugh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=217FSRW3vSg

>>72311
Funny how Greggs is a place everyone knows, as though he's your mate or something. I've never known the cunt - what's his place like? Fatties, poor hygene and sausage rolls?

>>72312
It's a bakery. If you someone to explain what a bakery is you're in no position to start acting all superior.

>>72312
So many middle class posers started claiming to be his mate once it became a meme, it disgusts me

>>72313
And Weatherspoons is a pub but it's a certain type of pub, isn't it?

I fucking knew it. I've never been able to find evidence (maybe never tried), but here it is in black and white and the other colours: Greggs used to be called Braggs. At least it did in that same part of the UK where we call our mothers mom.

Apparently this Greggs in Elephant & Castle hadn't been rebranded even by 2019.

One more...

>>72316
How deep does the rabbit hole go, lads?

>>72320
Celebrating the media career of Rolf Harris is pretty shameful and you should feel shame.

>>72318
>The paint job on the bus
>No enrichment
Take me back to 1995...

>>72318
>The paint job on the bus
>No enrichment
Take me back to 1995...

>>72318
>The paint job on the bus
>No enrichment
Take me back to 1995...

>>72318
>The paint job on the bus
>No enrichment
Take me back to 1995...

>>72318
>The paint job on the bus
>No enrichment
Take me back to 1995...

>>72318
>The paint job on the bus
>No enrichment
Take me back to 1995...

>>72318
>The paint job on the bus
>No enrichment
Take me back to 1995...

I like how your terrible septuple-post was posted under seven different names. That's really nice.

Recently I've been made aware that Gen-Z have started bullying us about our ancient technology and ankle-socks. I'm not ready for all this, feel like if I went back in time 10 years I'd be doing alright.

>>72431

I always sense a hint of deep, burning jealousy in the way zoomers make fun of 90s and early 00s tech. Like, it's the stuff that's clearly a precursor to what we have now, it's not a bonkers ancient artefact that they wouldn't even have the first clue how to use like a ZX Spectrum or C64, and that enables them to have a nostalgia for it despite not really experiencing it.

At least, that's what I interpret the trend towards "analogue horror" where it's deliberately stylised like a 90s handy-cam and VHS, and the whole revival of PS1 style videogames, and even IRL 90s fashion made/is still making a brief comeback. None of those things are created by or for our generation, who were there to remember it; it's for people to whom Skyrim is a fond childhood memory.

>>72422

>>72432
For an average 16-18 year old, by the time they were 3/4 and aware of what mobile phones their parents/older siblings used, iPhones would have been the norm. They grew up in an age where most people were carrying a computer in their pocket at all times. I think to them, the idea of living without this convenience is very alien and kind of scary. Signal permitting, they have access to good GPS, the internet, online food/product delivery, infinite hours of entertainment on YouTube and other streaming apps, social media and messaging services etc. Everything is in the palm of their hands.

I compare it to the mid 00s when if I needed to find out how to get somewhere, I would have to go on a computer at home or if out and about at a web cafe or library, go on Google Maps, and print out a list of directions. Now it takes 10 seconds to put in the destination, select to set off from my location, and follow the map in real time. Even trivial shit like buying a new game, niche ones were expensive or hard to find, so you'd go to every Gamestation, GAME, EB, Argos, and HMV in town to find the right one. Compared to nowadays I turn on my Xbox I navigate to the game on the store, I buy it and download, and I don't even have to leave my house.

I don't think they're jealous. They just see it (correctly) as a grim time. I certainly wouldn't want to go back.

Why are you lads getting bullied by teenagers all the time? Did you all become teaching assistants or something?

>>72434

>I don't think they're jealous. They just see it (correctly) as a grim time.

It's all relative. I'm 50 and I remember a time before the Internet existed at all in daily life. If you wanted to buy music as a youngun, you had to hop on a bus to the big record shop on the other side of town, a trip that could take almost the entire afternoon after school, with no guarantee that they had the latest album or single you were looking for. Yes, you could've just called them, but part of it was about the whole experience of the bus ride and browsing that record shop. Something that just isn't the same today with instant online availability of almost all music that has ever been made.

Portable music existed only on your knock-off Walkman (or a real Sony Walkman, if your parents were posh or if you had a lucrative summer job), with all the drawbacks of cassette tapes. My brother had a mid-range Onkyo tape deck, which made him (and by extension, me) very popular for the ability to tape CDs for other people in decent quality, unlike most of them who has some sort of shite Amstrad music system with atrocious sound quality. But contrary to popular belief, cassette tape drives would not normally eat your tapes, as is the cliché today. Something had to be very wrong with the transport mechanism, which was quite rare in my experience. At least if you didn't have the cheapest gear on the market.

Streaming obviously didn't exist. If you were lucky, then your parents had a decent quality VCR where you could tape movies off the TV, with 240-minute brand-name blank tapes costing five to seven quid. Adjusted for inflation, that's a good £15 today. Or you could rent movies on physical VHS tapes. Which were often quite worn out. Picture quality was mediocre, but if your VCR was well looked after then it was worlds apart from what VHS video filters will have you believe today. Something taped off the TV with good reception, using brand-name video tape and on a machine that was in good nick would have almost no picture artefacts at all.

I started driving in the early 90s, and an assortment of neatly folded maps in your car was absolutely essential. It was also much more common to pull over and ask for directions. Which I think is also obsolete now, because when was the last time you two did that.

We didn't have social media, your social sphere was typically limited to the school you went to, and it was actually a bit uncommon to even have many friends who went to other schools in the same town. Did we miss out? No, I don't think we did. I'm actually kind of glad I'm past the age bracket where social media typically matters the most. I even boycotted Facebook and never had a profile, although I was still relatively young, at the beginning of my 30s, when it started. I don't see much of a benefit to social media, to be honest. IMO it tends to both make people more unhappy by comparing their lives to other people's, and it unduly permits and promotes narcissism. I don't see the fucking point of about 99% of all the Instagram stories I've seen, beyond feeding someone's mentioned narcissism. And I want to push every single person over a cliff who poses on an actual cliff for a selfie that'll go on their social media. I went to Dover last year and in some areas it's absolutely fucking mental how many people queue up just to take pictures of themselves in the most scenic spots.

Were the late 80s to early 90s when I was a younglad a grim time? Even more grim than the 00s when a great deal more technology existed? No, I don't think so. If you've grown up with smartphones, social media, streaming services and always-on Internet, then yes, you'd probably be bored to tears if you travelled back in time to 1989. But technology wise, in its own way, it was an exciting time to be around. Especially from the mid-90s and the dawn of the Internet age, but also before that. You saw the emergence of digital music, of video games and game consoles, and even mobile phones. We had it good. In our own way.

>>72436

>But technology wise, in its own way, it was an exciting time to be around. Especially from the mid-90s and the dawn of the Internet age

That's where I reckon the jealousy comes in. Jealousy maybe isn't quite the correct word, I will give otherlad the credit that there is indeed a hint of fear perhaps. But they are fascinated with that era, the era of my childhood and your teens. They clearly know and understand that it was a turning point in history, it was a place in time where a complete paradigm shift occurred of the kind that's unlikely to happen again for a great many years.

millennials are going to end up going down as one of the most influential generations in history, and it's going to be because of cat pictures with text at the bottom. the memes and bizarre irreverent humour that now characterised the internet was our creation. the weird but distinctly altered use of normal language, the irony and detachment, that everyone now knows and takes for granted, that's our thing.

zoomers are salty that they have to follow in our footsteps.

>>72436
>BUT TECHNOLOGY WISE, IN ITS OWN WAY, IT WAS AN EXCITING TIME TO BE AROUND. ESPECIALLY FROM THE MID-90S AND THE DAWN OF THE INTERNET AGE

That's true, despite me talking about how great convenience is, there isn't the excitement of the 90s-early 00s. Stuff like getting a family computer with Windows 95, and going on the internet for the first time when it was a special thing. The leap from 16bit 2D to 32bit 3D, thinking the Final Fantasy VII opening FMV had the most realistic graphics ever, exploring those early open worlds. Mobile phones becoming mainstream, then they became polyphonic, then colour screens and cameras, eventually culminating in the smartphones of today.

I can think of stuff in recent years that has been quite transformative, like contactless, 4G/5G, stuff like Uber, Amazon giving you next day delivery on pretty much any item you could want or need (within reason). Streaming, both at home and on the go. Probably others I can't even remember.

In terms of gaming (just because I follow that area), the jump from PS4 to PS5 was unimpressive, there are games like Starfield and Rise of the Ronin which look and play like they could have been made in 2007, and they still seem to keep on trying to make VR a thing when most people don't give a fuck. Mobile phones, a 2015 iPhone and a 2024 iPhone are probably not massively different, save for AI and mega cameras. Not as different as a shitty black and white Siemens phone and then the first iPhone.

Maybe the technological state of my formative years weren't as grim as I thought.

>>72431

The fuck are gen-z doing making reference to a joke from an episode of a show that came out in 1993?

I think you've been had.

>>72437

You talk about shitty pictures on the Internet the way my dad talks about rock music. You need to tone down the self congratulatory rhetoric.

Rage comics aren't the fucking beatles. And I would look at my dad equally bizarrely if he tried to take credit for the beatles.

In 15 years gen z will be talking about how they invented doing a 30 second dance whilst dressed as an anime character with an equal level of self importance.

>>72441

If you missed the large helping of self deprecation in which "influential" was contrasted with "cat pictures with text at the bottom" then I don't know what to really say, lad.

I should watch more serious theatre.

>>72543
>the forbidden lamp

Horus Heresy novels if they were good:

Some mixes are so wide of the mark and unusual that they just plain work. I love this.

>>72544
First Five, up until Fulgrim.

I been really fancying a fag lately. I don't know why, just been a bit stressed. Not gonna buy any, obvs, they just been on my mind a little.

>>72663

I last smoked over a decade ago, and I still think about it.

>>72664

Same. Or near enough.

I quit smoking in 2012 and occasionally I've still got dreams at night where I've started smoking again. And where I'm then very disappointed with myself.

>>72663

These days I'll only smoke when I drink. I bought a pack of fags on Christmas eve because I was hammered, and they lasted me well into the third week of January. I'm perfectly fine going without between times. Off out for a drink and a date today so I will probably end up buying some. Then again I've also got a gram so actually there's no "probably" about it.

You know how most people get addicted to things like, in the sense that they need their fix routinely? For some reason I have never been like that, I am perfectly fine indulging in a vice every month or two, but at the same time I would find it very difficult to just say "nah that's it, never going to smoke/drink/take a drug again".

>>72663

Good god, they look delicious.

I like this one because it inadvertently implies identity changes to fit the environment. Layers, init.

>>72310
I don't really get who's screaming in this one. Sully scared of furries not that funny. Furries scared of Sully? That's the whole premise of the film.

>>72363
This one too, the mashup is follows no logic.