>>442648

Why don't you suggest one, seppo?

>>442648

Do you need me to copy and paste the interview to pastebin so next time you can read it before giving your opinion on it?

>>442651

Your "everyone who disagrees with me is an X" attitude is at least 100% more American than I am. Also "seppo" is a terrible contraction of "septic"; it always makes me think of "separatist" rather than "septic tank". Even "Sherman" is a better minor slur for our transatlantic inbred cousins.

>>442652

Archive.is would be fine. Thanks.

Although if he's not giving interviews to more serious scientific publications that you can link to it really probably isn't my (or anybody else's) time to be frank. Once you hit that level of banality you might as well just flick on the BBC and watch some Brian Cox style vox pop drivel written for room temperature IQ types who can't find the remote at the end of the One Show.

Sage.

>>442653
Woah, woah, woah, woah, woah. Call out that lad for seeing Americans everywhere as much as you like, but don't go complaining about the word Seppo.

Could not give less of a shit.

Made in Abyss has a nice episodic story telling style. It's a bit like Kino's Journey in that there's "mild peril" in it, but it has that feeling of exploration that seems to only scratch the surface of the world it lives in.

I should say that another anime that I'm watching right now is Re:Zero. It does have cliché elements being an anime about a NEET transported into a fantasy world but there's an interesting idea around how fucked up it would be to live with a particular superpower.

Spoiler for what that is ruins episode 1 but I assume you will have watched it already if the above were enough: When he dies he returns to a save point. Every 3-4 episodes is him facing off against some challenge and mostly having to watch all his friends die over and over until he gets it right.

>>23186
>ACCA:13-ku Kansatsu-ka (not the Insurance company) - A bright and colourful web of political intrigue in !NOTAmerica. Everyone is fucking beautiful for some reason.

I really enjoyed this. I'd say its really more a political thriller in !NOTJapan if it never formed a unitary state because you have elements that fit strongly with the past and present of Japanese monarchy and an underlying allegory to the Japanese succession debate.

I'd say Golden Kamuy is probably the best tv show running at the moment. Overall its a historical western adventure set in Hokkaido shortly after the Russo-Japanese war with plenty of comedy, cooking and learning about Japanese aboriginals mixed in.

The story follows competing groups on a hunt for hidden Ainu gold - the protagonists being a Japanese veteran and a Ainu girl with blue eyes but you slowly get a backstory for every reoccurring character. I've found myself opening up wikipedia to learn about various events described in the series which is a fascinating look at Japan's expansion into the wild Northern Islands to secure control, the short lived Republic of Ezo and Russo-Japanese strategic competition in the area.

Also to find the gold they have to use maps tattooed on people's skin. A proper good romp.

>>23196
Should say that you can watch a good portion of anime for free on Crunchyroll and with adblock you don't even have to watch ads. The catalogue doesn't have everything but I'd say there's more hours of content on a free platform than you'd find on Netflix.

This season I've been enjoying Yuru Camp. It is what it is but as the name suggests it's a laid-back camping anime about high-schoolers whose hobby is camping in winter, you might learn something. I rate it as okay for watching before bed.

Also they updated the Azumanga Daioh intro for 2021:

>>23595
>The coronavirus vaccine contains lots of poisons, it will mess you up and slowly kill you. Search google and youtube for the truth about it.

Is that part of the update? Seems strange to include in an anime intro sequence.

>>92501
The point of announcing tax rises now is to pledge making cuts in your manifesto right before the election.

>>92497
Why Opinion Polls Don't Matter Now That My Guy Is In Charge Even Though I Spent All of 2015-20 Tweeting Bad Opinion Polls With Glee by A. Prick - Labourlist - Mozilla Firefox.

>>92503
Whilst I largely agree with this sentiment, for the majority of those years we were looking down the barrel of an election basically every month. Overall though the hyposcrisy of Labour's centrists is quite baffling. If you and I were mugs for thinking all Corbyn's "ideas" and "policies" were a bad play, then quite why we should think that Starmer's lack of either is a great and brilliant idea is beyond me. Imagine how bad these current polls might be if Starmer was already facing a leadership challenge and constantly being publicly and privately undermined by the left of the PLP too?

>>92504
>constantly being publicly and privately undermined by the left of the PLP too?

The impression I get from Labour is that there is a lot of sniping from the left and that the entire party is still beset by infighting.

>>92504
>Imagine how bad these current polls might be if Starmer was already facing a leadership challenge and constantly being publicly and privately undermined by the left of the PLP too?

So he's got the same polling as the 2019 general, after the Tories posted a broadly popular budget, but he's still managing to keep the party together? Oddly much is being made of Ed Miliband predicting the result:
https://order-order.com/2021/03/05/watch-milibands-unfortunately-timed-polling-prediction/

>>31568
OR, they've just spurred some lighting off the ring main, which is ok as long as the wires going to the lights are protected by a separate fuse, but from your description it doesn't sound as though that's the case.

>>31556
>Fella, I'm sure everybody here would vouch for you and all of your co-denizens and lodge a complaint and request on your behalf while you're at work during the office hours. Other channels than this are open, e.g. Discord. The Census is serious work, so why should you be fined for the incompetence of the government?

Oh I'm sure that'll work out fine for me.
>It says here, how many jammy dodgers do you have the cupboard?
>Where do you keep your secret rice?
>Now for the economic questions, how big is your telly?

Anyway I managed to get on the webchat today and had a few jokes with a Scottish lass about housing these days. That was okay I guess but I'd still rather not have to socialise if I can avoid it. Had I not done this then they might've sent someone with a clipboard, unannounced and gasping for a brew that turns into watching afternoon gameshows.

I'd also like to complain that national data collection of all things shouldn't be devolved

>>31569

The oven trips the downstairs lights breaker, that's as far as I've gotten - it could be a few things, likely none of them particularly good.

It's not an issue, I can get someone in to do it right, but it pisses me off that people can't just do their literal job half decently.

It's also possible I'm an idiot and it's a normal, fine job they did.

>>31571

Now that I think about it, it's probably tripping one of two main RCDs that the smaller breakers share (like the lighting ring). I didn't think about it too much because I was too busy being annoyed that the oven wasn't isolated, but that makes sense. It likely does mean >>31569 is right about how the lights are spurred off.

>>31572
Actually I forgot all about RCDs.
In most installations you'll find that several different circuits are all commoned onto a single RCD (due to the cost and space of having a separate RCD on every circuit.)
Ovens do tend to trip RCDs pretty easily because eventually moisture works its way into connections and shorts to the metal case which trips the RCD but not the breaker.
So if it is only the RCD tripping it's no big deal, its no danger of killing anyone or starting any fires, its just an inconvenience as long as the RCD is working the way its meant to.

The electronics in breakers have got much better now so it's common on new installations to see combined breaker and RCDs, and its no longer allowed to have a lighting circuit sharing an RCD with other circuits, although circuits that meet the old standards are still fine to leave in place unless you have any major changes need doing.

How much sleep are you getting? How's your diet and general health? Drink much? These things become a lot more of a factor in your libido as you get older.

>>30525

I get about 6 - 7 hours of sleep, diet isn't great but isn't awful either, bit bland. I normally drink a crate of Guiness and a couple of large Hoegaarden's a week.

>>30524

Whenever I hit the depressed part of my bi-polar cycle I lose all interest in sex completely. I've been through a very similar situation (where I got a lot of grief and emotional blackmail off my gf at the time) and I was only 23 or so, so I can definitely sympathise.

I probably can't offer any real advice as my situation / causation is probably quite different to yours but like other lad said more sleep, less alcohol, and a bit of exercise will probably turn things around.

Best guess is a bit of seasonal effective disorder. When did it start? Although its a bit of an exercise in false-positives, were you feeling a little down before this started?

Is your relationship OK otherwise? Have you been feeling particularly stressed or depressed? Do you get any exercise?

Cutting down on your drinking would be a good start - try taking a couple of days off per week to give your liver a breather.

It's stupid, really stupid, but I can't get it out of my head.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6n2NcJ7rLc

>>12715
Not being funny but did anyone else feel it's a bit freshwater crustacean that the video pushes some stereotype of upbeat African party vibes despite Riton and Nightcrawler having nothing to do with Africa? Compare it with the original Nightcrawlers video:

But if you wanted to ruin your Friday, Rebecca Black did a remix of her song and it's a bad time:

>>12716
It's because of this video.


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

>>12716
Childhood fame really did a number on her. But judging from all the bollocks and troll faces in the video, she's 'in on the joke'. But it's still quite sad.

>>12718

She seems remarkably well-balanced, all things considered. She became an international hate figure for no good reason, but she has been savvy enough to parlay that 15 minutes of infamy into a legitimate music career. Fair play to her, I couldn't have managed it.

>>30518

Everyone is into Peep Show, hardly makes for a good partner.

>>30519
You reminded me of my suspicion of people who bring up they have never seen star wars like an achievement, what are they trying to prove?

>>30520
That they haven't been tainted by low-brow mainstream culture. They probably read history books and encyclopedias.

>>30521
>That they haven't been tainted by low-brow mainstream culture. They probably read history books and encyclopedias.

Once again the arch villain of britfa.gs strawman strikes.
There is nothing wrong with not liking something even with mass appeal, I don't think I've ever watched a full episode of a soap opera when I wasn't forced to. But that is different from making it your personality to be purposefully contrarian (I don't bring it up like it is some sort of victory). And I doubt highly the kind of person who I think about blurting this info out after they have had a few too many Weatherspoon cocktail pitchers is really the intelligentsia, who is just too good for it.

What I am getting at here, is similar to your one 'gay friend' in the 90s, or the internet atheist of 00s, or the cliché vegan. The person who didn't happen to be those things, but made it their entire persona in a weird over compensation.

>>30521

Amusingly, isn't there an episode of Peep Show about this, but Ghostbusters instead of Star Wars?

Other lad is right now. The most intelligent and accomplished person I know spends most of his time watching cartoons. He is a bit weird though.

>>68183
They've seen your posts, lad, and they've come to deliver some irl moderation.

>>68183
Was he on fire?

>>68183
That was his hearse on the way back from the funeral.

The lorry is back again today. I am getting a bit concerned.

>>68190
It's the clapping detector lorry. They're onto you m8.

>>31615
It mustn't have been one of his, then.

>>31614

How dare you blaspheme against our lord and saviour Jon Tickle!

>>31613

I'll subtle you a slap in the face!

https://www.If I post a link to this website again I will be executed by the proletariat along with the other bourgeoise.com/world/2021/mar/05/covid-uk-scientist-says-substantial-degree-of-mortality-inevitable-in-future

>Looking back on the beginning of the pandemic, Hayward, a professor of infectious disease epidemiology at UCL, said: “I think one of the reasons that we’ve had so many deaths is that we left things far too late, in terms of taking more restrictive measures.

>“We should have been taking social distancing measures – if not a full lockdown then other measures that were trying to separate people – much earlier. At that time, of course, we also didn’t really have the same mechanisms to measure how much disease there was in the community, so we were largely only really seeing the tip of the iceberg of cases.


Bozza knew best, innit.

>>31617
Isn't he in the same office as one of you lads?

SMERSH was real?

>>68188
SMASH?

>>442578

>just that they got pinched between the rim and the tyre

One thing you could do is rub some extra talcum powder on the tube, so that it slips into place more easily.

The sky's so radiant and blue and my room so warm that I'm loath to go outside and force myself to accept that it's not yet midsummer.

>>442580
If you're lucky enough to have the weather today, it's a fantastic day. Really doing a good job of cheering me up; lovely golden sunshine in the South, warm enough to sit outside with a book/cup of tea.

I was going to make a serious post about the anxiety of growing up but I have a more pressing thought:

You ever notice that some women get inexplicably sexier and then in a few months you find out their pregnant. Like they start glowing? I looked it up and that's the term and it's because of hormonal changes making their skin flush and their breasts start swelling. It's a strange realisation but if you suddenly want to bend a woman over and give her a good seeing to then she might be preggers.

>>442643

>but if you suddenly want to bend a woman over and give her a good seeing to then she might be preggers.

It's probably an evolution thing in that a woman needs to still be attractive to the father of the child when she is pregnant, so he will stick around and take care of her.

It's the same with an increased sex drive that some women report during pregnancy. It can't serve the purpose of getting pregnant anymore, so it must be to keep the dad happy so he isn't going to move on and get his rocks off somewhere else.

>>31629
This really is some next level 'comment is free' - she's managed to piss me off with an irrelevant mystery I can never solve but which I know my mind will come back to. She clearly knew what she was doing as well by how she danced around it and sold it to us.

It's torture for the internet generation. We're going to remember this article in 10 years time just as we're drifting off to sleep and we'll be tossing and turning all night.

>>31630

>she's managed to piss me off with an irrelevant mystery I can never solve but which I know my mind will come back to

It really might just be entirely made up. I will ask someone from Derry what they think in the morning.

I am really curious how the Pontins policy came about. It is quite extraordinarily blanket.

>>31632
>The whistleblower said the company went to exhaustive lengths to try to ensure its policy was enforced. He said: “You were told from day one that you had to listen out for an Irish accent and find out as much as possible about a person such as their address and whereabouts. So if a person had an Irish accent and was calling from Ireland, then strangely that was ok. But if it was an Irish accent and the postcode was for a caravan site or an industrial estate in Britain, then that was a big red flashing light.

>“At that point we would have to signal to a supervisor to come over so they could put on a headset and enter the call silently. Depending on what they heard, it would either be a nod and a thumbs up to say it was ok to proceed or you were asked to put the caller on hold and told ‘we’re not having them’. It was an instruction to refuse the booking. It was up to us to find the way to refuse.”

>The EHRC found that Pontins had resorted to an additional tactic to weed out those it did not wish to accommodate by also excluding commercial vehicles, including vans and caravans of the type often used by the Traveller community, from all its premises.

https://inews.co.uk/news/long-reads/pontins-whistleblower-reveals-travellers-blacklisted-you-had-to-lie-893063

It wasn't as blanket as it has been made out to be. Not wanting gypsies staying with you is hardly a surprise, given their form.

>>31633

I was going to say the only really surprising part is that they had to make this an official policy and enforce it at all. I believe we mentioned as much earlier on in the thread, but anyone who's ever done a reasonable stint in retail can attest Mincéiríi are effectively barred by unspoken common knowledge.

The weird bit is the list of surnames. It's not as if there are loads of people with those incredibly common Irish names who aren't gypsies, is it. That'd just be confusing.

The Pocophone talk in /101/ got me thinking about my Pocophone F1 and how it's still working great, but the camera is fucking atrocious. If only they were interchangeable phone-to-phone, I'd upgrade it without having to ditch the rest of the phone.

Fucking planned obsolescence.

>>27802
I just bought a Fairphone 3+, I believe it is what you're looking for.

>>27803
Are fairphones upgradeable?

>>27804
Yes, they're modular so the parts are replaceable/upgradeable.

>>27803
Thank you for this, I'm looking to upgrade my phone at some point this year and wasn't aware of these.

>>442620
You're bunch of sick fucks. I'm going to get some fresh air.

>>442621

Do you use your left hand or your right hand to get that 'fresh air'?

I wanted to try making smoked salt on Monday but it seemed wasteful to run the smoker with just a little bit of something in, so I put about a kilogram of Himalayan Rose Salt in there. That was fine it seemed to work, I was left with about a kilogram of smoked salt. I wasn't really sure what to do with a kilogram of smoked salt so I've blended half of it with garlic and that's drying out in the oven, the other half with garlic, lime and coriander, which is doing the same.

I don't have any particular idea what I'm going to do with half a kilo of smoked garlic salt and half a kilo of whatever pseudo-Mexican salt either.

If I'm making a stir fry do I really need to do anything over than cook ginger paste and soy sauce together? It seems to be the optimum balance between effort and flavour.

And, of course, I can't correct typing over instead of other.

>>442634
>That isn't luck, it's being talented at a rare specialism.

Not them but is their talent not a result of so many complicated factors as to be the same as "luck"?

>>442633

Keep in mind that in the same way your maths skills are arbitrarily valued in one form of work, other legitimate and innate skills are not valued (even looked down upon) depending on the nature of the economic system we live in.

I would argue that only a few career paths really require many years of specialist training, and it seems to be completely unrelated to your salary; managers can get paid as much as surgeons. There also seems to be no relationship between innate talent and pay; I'm sure there are people (perhaps few in number overall, but they do exist) with your gift for maths that never had the chance to put it into practice. Again, it's survivorship bias -- you made it, but perhaps a similar version of you would not have made it if placed in even a slightly different context.

Indeed, it really doesn't matter how socially valuable, education-dependent, or difficult your work is in our current economic system. Your pay is mainly down to negotiating power.

As an entirely separate point, I also think we're ignoring the incremental stages of a person's development. What you write about apostrophes and memes is elitist nonsense, and largely down to socialisation. The Facebook posters you're poking fun of are a stone's throw away from your average .gs poster, if you go by critical thinking skills, only here we express our bile with proper grammar.

I'm a big wet lefty socialist, but I can't stand fatalism and defeatism. I just find it revolting, pathetic, undesirable. But it's not as simple of a dichotomy as you make it sound, crab bucket lad.

>is the biggest factor in how successful you are your own mindset and how you adapt to this

No.

Often a person can be emphatically correct that they're shit out of luck and there's fuck all they can do about it. But that's no excuse to go blaming everything in your life on somebody or something else- I have seen many cases where I can only assume that these people enjoy the situation they are in, because it gives them the excuse not to bother with anything. Sure, they might not have much chance of turning it around and becoming the next Geoffrey Benzos, but that doesn't grant you the freedom to basically regress into childhood and abdicate responsibility for every single problem in your life.

This is the primary driving motivation behind most of that Rudgewick-esque, Acrobatic victim culture if you ask me. Everything is somebody else's fault, because that's a get out of jail free card for ever having to shoulder an ounce of control over your own fucking existence. For instance, I've dealt with some deep, deep depression in my lifetime, and ultimately at the end of the day, the most important thing I learned about that particular affliction is that the only person who can dig you out of it is yourself. Someone who refuses to help themselves will never be free of it. It goes beyond the economy and politics and just into the basic will to live.

I could go very deep into my philosophical ruminations on this, but I won't bother. It's just that when the worker's glorious revolution comes, it certainly fucking won't be carried out by people who can't be arsed to get dressed because they've run out of fucking spoons.

>>442637
>when the worker's glorious revolution comes

Has the glorious revolution being mythologised? I guess it's because I've been watching too much Lucy Worsley recently, but the French Revolution was largely driven by the upper middle class, now canonised as workers, revolting against royalty and the aristocracy, with it ultimately being followed up by Napoleon becoming King in all but name.

>>442638
Well the French Revolution, as basically any historian will tell you, was not a "worker's revolution", several tonnes of nuance aside. Not to mention by the time Napoleon became Consul, let alone Emperor, the revolution was over. Given that the French Revolution was basically the event that kick started how we now view politics, many of the philosphies that we shape how we do that and ushured in the beginning of the end of European feudalism, one can hardly blame it for not implementing full Communism then and there, and people who think it could have probably got very confused about Les Misérables*.

*If this sounded like a dig it wasn't I was just speaking generally DO NOT SHOUT AT ME.

How long has Carol been hiding her weird tooth from us?

https://twitter.com/carolvorders/status/1366378584386985986

wait, you guys don't really want to bone her, right?

it's just a joke, isn't it?

>>68179
There have been 459 posts of salaciously-captioned images of her, what do you think?

>>68180
You need to add five to that. The 459 is the number of posts not visible from /iq/ unless you open the thread; the final five are visible so that's 464.

>>68179
>guys
>bone
Naff of yank teenlad.

>>2895

this thread might have some useful info >>/poof/6294

Nothing wrong with a nice pair of wellies.

>>2900

True enough, especially considering even really quite good ones are cheap. But I don't think I'd want to wear them all day, nor would I hike in them. Though plenty of farmlads do wear them for 12+ hours at a time so what do I know.

>>2901
I've got through so many wellies, couple of pairs a year or more.
I now rate my swampmasters, which are polyurethane and so far, so good. more expensive than regular dunlops or whatever, but 8 months in and they're surviving. Mud season is almost over - dust season will be next, and I'll be back in dealer boots.

>>2902

I've had Dunlop Purofort's for a long time now, they're about 60 quid but have lasted about three years - admittedly I don't do hard graft in them, just swanning about moors and muddy forest floors with maybe a couple of hours of proper work every few days. But either way they've lasted a good 15k miles.

>>442539
Reminds me of the Suebian knot or Norman haircut, you really need to back it up with some kind of swordsmanship or horse riding ability.

>>442540

Add samurai topknots to that list.

Generally you can make anything look silly if you are a deeply mediocre looking person trying to incorporate some eccentric aesthetic.

>>442541

> Generally you can make anything look silly if you are a deeply mediocre looking person trying to incorporate some eccentric aesthetic.


It's all about deciding how pretentious you want to be.

People get tattoos for all sorts of reasons, but part of me wonders what it says to someone else who has had similar experiences to someone, is perfectly open about their experiences when asked or it becomes relevant, but doesn't have the tattoos of their counterpart who does. It also seems strange to me people having tattoos about their life experiences on display, and then getting very cagey when asked about them.

>>442612

> It also seems strange to me people having tattoos about their life experiences on display, and then getting very cagey when asked about them.

It's because they mainly did it for themselves, and not for everyone to ask about that tattoo's siginificance.

What I've always found a bit tacky is people having tattoos of the names of their children and the date of birth. I may be wrong, but it seems to me like you only see that on decidedly lower-class people, often concomitant with exaggerated tribals.

It turned out that loads of people were androids and they all voted for each other so all the world leaders were androids.

>>442586

What's strange is that after a year of almost non-stop remote working, it hasn't entered my subconscious and I haven't had dreams about it at night.

One of my coworkers told me the other day that she had a dream about our usual team being in video chat and all of a sudden we all vanished and all she could see on her screen was empty chairs and desks.

>>442589
Is it strange? I don't remember having many exam-panic dreams while actually doing the exams. I'd expect that dreams about turning up to work and realising everyone's still WFH would mostly start happening after (if) WFH ends and everyone goes back to the office.

>>442586
>It's odd how frequently I have these.

I have this as well. Maybe it is something to do with the socialisation you undergo as part of a degree to fret over time management to maintain your life.

>>442589
>What's strange is that after a year of almost non-stop remote working, it hasn't entered my subconscious and I haven't had dreams about it at night.

The thing that confuses me is that if you watch enough of a tv show or play enough of a game you will still dream you're inside it. I think my subconscious has tried before with WFH dreams but there's something about exchanging information with floating heads that is beyond my imaginative abilities.

I wish it would though, I'm frankly tired of processing old memories.

>>442591

>The thing that confuses me is that if you watch enough of a tv show or play enough of a game you will still dream you're inside it.

Yep. I replaced the clutch on my car just recently, which dragged on the entire day, and I went to bed dreaming about all the different parts of the clutch assembly that had to be taken apart and put back together. I remember then saying to myself in my dream, "Right, that's enough for the day".