>>433951

Likewise, you can get most of your iron requirements by using cast iron pans.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.1365-277X.2003.00447.x

>>433955

Which one? I mean there have been at least four people who've talked about using crack on here before. At least.

>>433958

The most recent one, probably. I think he made three posts that sort of went like this:

>lads, should I try crack?
>fuck you all I'm trying it anyway
>was pretty good. Off out to get some more

So we can extrapolate from that, probably.

I've probably not posted it here but I tried crack. Made it at home from about 2g of decent coke. It was good, had some excellent sex on it, but ultimately I realised that despite the superior high, regular powder was just a lot more portable and fit into my life a lot better, as it's a lot easier to knock a line out at work than smoke a rock. I also found the process of racking up a line a lot more pleasing than smoking a rock.

That's something not many druggies talk about, the ritual of preparing your high. It can be intoxicating on its own, much like a religious ritual bringing about certain feelings. I think I'd probably just get a head rush from rolling up a note.

>>433959

>>433955 >>433959
I didn't take it again after those two nights despite being offered and don't anticipate repeating the experience for many years if ever. It might well have been shit crack, but IME there are plenty of drugs that are better in every conceivable way.

>>64828
No, because it generally only recommends what you've been watching.

>>21079
I don't get the impression that most coppers are particularly enamoured of doing paperwork. Ask any of them that has had the privilege of completing a "force activity survey".

>>21079

>"Allegedly" coppers are given targets for arresting a certain number of people to arrest per week

I've never bought that one, it doesn't seem to make much sense, since arresting loads of people is expensive.

>>21080

Every copper I've spoken to says that being stuck at a custody suite is the least favourite part of their job. Beat coppers have no lack of ways to skive off, most of which are far more interesting than babysitting an arsehole and filling out forms.

>>21081

The targets were brought in under Labour and scrapped under Cameron but the senior police officers loyal to Labour kept them in place anyway. I'm a Labout voter.

To clear up the issue of legality the police can do what they want internally unless instructed to the contrary. If targets are X then under labour they were instructed to have X, under Cameron they were instructed they no longer need to have X but they decided to keep it under a different name anyway.

This was big years ago, I don't know if the senior management of the popo was purged by May or Johnson and they've fixed the targets issue but I haven't heard of the targets being scrapped so I assume they're still there.

pigs

LOOK AT THE FILTHY BITCH. I BET THAT'S WHAT SHE'S INTO.

>>21091
Coronaviruses jump from animals to people. It's almost certainly something they've eaten, so flying rats is one of the main suspects at the moment.

>>21091
Yes. Do you remembers MERS? As >>21093 said, it jumps from animals to people. SARS also came from bats. Bats (as well as birds) are a reservoir species for viruses of this ilk. I don't think it's confirmed yet, but it's incredibly likely and with good reason.

>>21089

Having a resistance to diseases is the most obvious evolutionary trait there is. Not dying when everyone else around you is tends to mean your genes pass on and theirs don't. It is the only instance I can think where a gene would become entirely dominant in a species within a generation. It does of course require diseases to take their natural course and kill millions of people so it isn't really a relevant mechanism in 21st century society.

>>21091

>>I find this act distasteful

As far as something can be objectively distaseful I believe this might literally be it, it's covered in fur and skin and looks like it was boiled. I'm not really sure it was meant to be eaten, and if it was well god help anyone with a palate like that. Probably just included for mystical medicinal powers or some bullshit.

>>21093
> It's almost certainly something they've eaten
Or bummed.

>>29331
Don't join Tinder when Slimming World exists.

>>29331

Don't join slimming world, don't do anything. It sounds like the only reason you want a relationship is out of some sort of social pressure, and that seems like a terrible justifications. I think learning to not care about what those people think would be a better solution.

It sounds like all you want is a partner any partner like you don't even care what they are like and that to me rings an alarm bell.

>>29333
I agree with this lad.

My aunts used to ask me if I had a girlfriend. Then they started asking if I had a girlfriend or a boyfriend. Now they have just given up.

>>29335
They have been through the "...or boyfriend" stage, but seem to be looping back.

>>23022

Partner wants to wear vulcan ears, I'm not too fussed.

I mainly want to try and ask him about/demand his next spoken word album.

>>23024

>Partner wants to wear vulcan ears

Is this the one that wears cat ears to work?

Star Trek: Picard left a bad taste in my mouth so I decided to start rewatching Enterprise. I'm certain it would've lasted for more than four seasons if they stuck with a more traditional orchestral opening theme instead of the soft rock they went for.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtWT-H3XQGI

>>23025

Nah, she refuses to wear them outside the bedroom. Same with the pigtails.

>>23026

Fuck me. I mean, it's not amazing but it's infinitely superior.

So presumably if you can timestamp the intro sequence for each episode, and knew what you were doing, you could replace the current intro with this one?

>>23028
>So presumably if you can timestamp the intro sequence for each episode, and knew what you were doing, you could replace the current intro with this one?

You could do it with the Matroska Container's segment linking feature, but I remember it being a lot of work.

Top universities ‘not being chosen by low-income students’

Poorer students with good A-level grades are significantly more likely to opt for less prestigious universities than those with similar results from more advantaged backgrounds.

This is the standout finding from major research that throws into question how effective higher education is in equalising opportunities.

Successive governments have spent heavily to encourage disadvantaged students to go to university. The Office for Students in England recently set ambitious targets for wider access. But a team at the UCL Institute of Education say their research, published by the Centre for Economic Performance, throws into question whether simply getting poor students into university is enough.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/jan/26/poorer-students-opt-less-prestigious-universities

Not at all surprising, given that research has found many state school teachers have misconceptions about Oxbridge and don't encourage their brightest students to apply there.

>>88958
I probably I know but won't admit am not smart enough to have done the whole Oxbridge thing but as a state school kid who smashed straight As and A*s at GCSE with no tutoring or anything like that and then was predicted to smash As at A-level nobody even said to me 'consider oxbridge'.

I basically thought if I was good enough they'd have told me, so I didn't bother. Not that it changed much but the biggest shock now I'm in the working world mixing with all these people is not how private school kids are smarter than state school kids, other than knowing more obscure antiquities references I find they're not, it's how much more confidence and self belief they have in themselves. They might be the least qualified person in the room on a topic but they'll talk like they have a god given right to be there.

This isn't a criticism either, how do we get state schools to instill this sort of belief?

>>88959
Noticing as I hit submit I've added an extra 'l' onto instil so Oxford were right not to consider me all along.

>>88959
I was selected for the Young, Gifted & Talented programme, which meant trips to the local university, events with kids from other schools in the area and starting AS Maths when I was in Year 10. The importance of going to university was regularly drummed home but I can't remember a single conversation about the importance of what you study and where; I reckon sitting down with someone for half an hour to actually go through that would have been far more useful than the actual programme itself.

Not once can I remember a teacher or anyone else talking to me in a meaningful was about university. I'm doing fairly alright for myself, but nobody I know went to a 'prestigious' university and most are stuck in dead-end jobs over 10 years since graduating.

I wouldn't be surprised if the children of my peer group end up going to top universities seeing as their parents experienced the pitfalls of the system and should now know how to navigate it.

>>88961
At least yours did something, they basically just told us several times that we were in the group and told us not to let our grades job.

In hindsight I did think there was probably meant to be a lot more they slacked on.

>>27361
It's really, really not.

>>27362

Yes it is. It just comes back after every update.

There's many different ways to automate the process though.

Okay now I'm on Win 10. How do I get rid of all the spyware?

It's disabled my headphones somehow.

>>27364
I use ShutUp10, it's got quite fine-grained control over various privacy-related settings, but it needs to be run after each update. There's probably an auto-updating solution.

>>29457

My ex still calls emergency vehicles "nee naws" as in, oh, pull over, here come the nee naws.

It was sort of funny but mostly very odd.

>>29458

I was just thinking their cultural literacy must be as impressive as whoever thought [word redacted because I just got banned for an hour for posting it] was a good name for Woolworths kids beds. It's not like when you used to see accidentally goatse-looking logos and think oh well, the designer's just oblivious to memes. That was a bit enviable.

>>29460

Maybe someone at Cummings just thought it was finally time to address the company name with a little nod.

>>29456

>>27716
I used to read a trade mag called Computing. They had a long-running gag about "black women with routers". And it was true, almost without fail every advert for a router used to have a very happy-looking black woman holding it.

>A two Michelin-starred chef who has been in the UK for 23 years says he now feels “unwelcome” after his application to remain in the country after Brexit was refused. French-born Claude Bosi, 47, who runs Bibendum restaurant in London, said the system was “inhuman” and made him feel like leaving the country.

>He received a letter from the Home Office saying his application was refused after mistakenly seeking permanent residency and not the special route open to EU citizens only – the EU settlement scheme.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jan/24/renowned-chef-refused-residency-after-living-in-uk-for-23-years

It's been almost four years and the Graun's continual stream of "person denied residency after not filling in the application forms correctly" articles is really wearing thin.

>>29463

Even still, why was he refused permanent residency? As I understand it you qualify for that after 5 years.

Immigration stories make me angry and bitter about the really fit Yank bird I was destined to be with as a teenlad, but had to let go because the feasibility of us ever making it through the hoops of either country's immigration laws seemed too remote. The world really is a cold uncaring place and sometimes you just have to accept that you get the shit end of the stick.

>>29465
The Home Office said he didn't actually supply the evidence to prove he met the criteria. I think I read somewhere that his work means he's spent a fair bit of time out of the country.

>>29465
He didn't supply his 5 year history of P5s.

Home office bureaucracy is a complete farce though.
This guy went there in person, he discussed his application with staff, paid fees, waited a very long time, and then got told his application wasn't good enough.
And what's more for a simple omission that should be able to be solved quickly, the application is scrapped entirely and you have to start over again from the very beginning.
There's similar stories from people who employ specialist lawyers to assist with applications to the home office and still get caught out.

>>29467

>Home office bureaucracy is a complete farce though.

It's a legacy of Theresa May's "hostile environment" policy. The Home Office developed a culture of trying to catch people out, because they were under pressure to reduce net migration despite a lack of policy changes that actually reduced the number of people who would be eligible to live and work in the UK.

I've just seen an actual goth outside. An actual goth. Leather trench coat down to his boots and everything. Can't remember the last time I saw a goth before this.

>>433929
I saw at least three at the William Blake exhibition yesterday.

>>433931
This one was in a Tesco Express, using the Costa Coffee machine.

>>433925

It uses some sort of clever chaos technology, apparently. I occasionally get a cold spot and have to shift the dish halfway through cooking, but I had the same problem on my old microwave which had a turntable.

>>433932

> in a Tesco Express, using the Costa Coffee machine

I guess a little bit of conformism is just fine.

You need to bundle it up in an empowering message.

Smash the fash
Splash your gash

>>64817
The yanks have #Hotgirlsforbernie and the Canucks have Mexie https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCepkun0sH16b-mqxBN22ogA

>>64817>>64820

Who are these women and/or what side are they on?

I want to know if I'm having a subversive wank or a righteous one.

>>64823
Necklaces are a bit of a clue, m8.

>>64824

Ah. Got it.

righteous wank it is then

Crap OP.

>>13200>>13201
There are actually four different varieties of Linda McCartney sausages. The Red Onion and Rosemary is the best one I think, while the Chorizo version should be avoided like the plague.

>>13202

>nigella seeds.

Did anyone else get a little bit randy reading this?

>>13205

My local Fultons Foods sells Cauldron falafel burgers 59p per pack or two packs for £1. They're like a falafel in burger form. They're really nice, unlike their other burgers.

>>64731

he needs a neckbrace to complete the look

>>64732
Suggesting that disability is something you have to 'buy', or that someone has to meet your moral standards before you will acknowledge them as disabled, is a discriminatory position to take.

fucking fat fuck

>>64743
I'm sure you've enjoyed this intellectual exercise, but the bloke was kicking around just fine until he went to trial. Stress can do funny things to a person, but the timing is undoubtably suspicious.

>>64789
I look forward to your Sopranos review.

Games that have "seasons" or twice their cost in DLC before I even knew they'd released just make it impossible for me to motivate myself to play them, I wish it would stop, but it won't.

>>23309
>seasons
Really we have WoW to blame for nearly every sinister trick and dark pattern in gaming today.

But the gates to hell really opened when we established the idea that people weren't willing to pay more than 99p upfront for a mobile game. Now the games industry supports it self by actively making things shitter in the hope's of exploiting whales.

>double the price DLC

I have to disagree with you on this one, as I think this is very different. This is perfectly honest business in my mind it is just the reality of adding additional time and effort to a product. Of course it depends from example to example. I wouldn't fault the business practices Paradox games. But when a company releases day 1 dlc it is a piss take.

>>23311
Fighting games from the 90s were worse offenders for exploitative business practices than WoW. A game like Street Fighter II being rereleased half a dozen times, with each full priced iteration featuring maybe a couple of extra characters and some balance changes. They kept that shit up for several game generations and people still lapped it up even if they were spending hundreds of pounds to keep up with what was at the time the 'definitive' version of the game.

I don't know if the current business model is much better - multiple seasons drip feeding characters and features over the course of several years. Particularly egregious when some of these DLC characters are well loved and established ones which were removed from the base roster only to be released for extra money.

>>23311
>I have to disagree with you on this one, as I think this is very different. This is perfectly honest business in my mind it is just the reality of adding additional time and effort to a product.
But that's the thing, in many cases it just isn't. The new Total War games are litered with "culture packs" that are just making me think about how unfinished the base game would feel, or the way I need a guide to keep track of what's relavent to XCOM2 and what I can ignore. None of this makes the games bad, but it makes me not want to buy them, even heavily discounted, because it puts me off when there are walled gardens within it.

I did buy and start playing Subnautica tonight though, which I'm very intrigued by even if it took me two hours to properly figure out what to do.

>>23313

I get where you're coming from lad.

I think with some games like Total War, it's not so much of a problem because the base game is big enough and will occupy you for long enough that you'll never feel lost because of DLC; you'll just take it as another part of the game you hadn't experienced yet. I mean I have several hundred hours in Warhammer 2 and only completed campaigns with about four of the factions.

With your average single player action game though, I'd say almost 100% of the time nowadays you're better off just waiting for the inevitable GOTY: Blood Covenant- Super Enhanced Murdeluxe edition in the steam sale a year later. For any game that offers decent re-playability, you want to play it in a big chunk and not feel as though you'd already had your fill of the base game, but then those extra DLC tidbits scarcely offer enough new to keep you interested.

HS2's sounding like it's fucked in the South at least. Curious what the lads who've been living on the site are going to do now, I'm pretty sure some of them are technically homeless.

>>433924
Well I read they're more likely to cancel the Northern bit, its higher ROI notwithstanding.

>>433927

I have such a fucking hard-on for the Blue Shite fucking over the North and proving once and for all that the Tories do not give a single fuck about poor people. Maybe next time Labour destroys itself with laplander-loving or mental trannyism the backbone of this country, the working classes will vote for decent alternatives like The Monster Raving Loony Party or Count Binface.

Yes, I see the irony in hoping the poor get fucked to prove a point, but it's irrelevant. Trends are what matter, not people. It just so happens that this trend will help these people in the future. The poor (and the middle class, but they're not relevant here) are too thick to understand this which is why we have a permanent government class.

>>433930

I don't think she's Andrew's type.

I'd take my daughter to Pizza Express, IYKWIM

"Puddle moppers" were trendy in the early 2000s so some people still wear those or dad jeans.

>>6105
Weren't puddle moppers flared and designed to go over the shoe? People these days seem to wear normal cut jeans which end up bunching up horribly above the shoe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF97fZdqZF0

>>6104

Uniqlo only sell trousers in a 34 leg, but they offer free alterations in store.

>>6108
Recently found out you cannot order from them if you're outside the country your billing address is in. Absolutely bizarre, only website I've ever encountered that shoots themselves in the leg like that.

>>23010
Get it for a month, watch everything you want and then sack it off. There's little point having a monthly subscription with any of the streaming services.

>>23015

Normal people have friends.

>>23016
I, for one, don't even own a friend.

>>23015
There's got to be at least one to two dozen box sets worth watching. You can't do that in a month if you're an adult.

>>23018
Perhaps two months then. There isn't that much good content on Netflix, especially once you've got through the likes of It's Always Sunny, and certainly not enough to warrant subscribing to it continually over sporadically dipping in and out.

>>64814
We should raise that to 60% before rejoining the EU and letting Johnny Foreigner back in to harvest our vegetables.