https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/05/who-are-the-favourites-to-succeed-boris-johnson

Penny Mordaunt is very attractive, I don't know her politics, but if she is PM we could rival New Zealand and Finland as nation with hottest leader.

>>96207

Attractive? That article only rates her 6/10

>>96206
Suella Braverman said on ITV's Peston last night that she would run if a leadership challenge happened. Her main policy that she seemed most passionate about was tackling "all this woke rubbish", which seems a bit rich coming from a bloody woman. Must be that time of the month. She also talked about how her parents came to this country with nothing, but sadly there was no mention of the National Front correctly informing her of just how much black there is in the Union Jack.

Steve Baker has also said he wants to run and wants to tackle wokeness, but at least he's English and won't constantly be distracted by pictures of shoes, so he's not a hypocrite at least.

>>96207

Conservative Home run regular polls of verified Tory members. Their polling suggests that Sunak would lose badly in a run-off with Mordaunt, Wallace or Truss. The bookies still have Sunak as 5/2 favourite, but unless they think there's going to be some sort of shenanigans to avoid a full leadership election, I think they've badly misjudged this one. I already got a decent lump of money on Mordaunt when she was 11/1, but I'm definitely getting a few quid on Wallace at his current 6/1 price.

https://conservativehome.com/2022/07/03/our-survey-next-tory-leader-wallace-leads-mordaunt-by-two-votes-in-over-seven-hundred/

>>96210
I don't think the next Prime Minister has even announced they're running yet. Because otherwise, it will have to be one of them, and I really don't want that. And I expect to see a very crowded field, in the absence of anyone who looks like they'd be remotely good at it. Everyone's going to fancy a pop.

>Any tips for slow riding in the city? When will I reach that zen state of never coming to a complete stop?

Your instincts are to try and manhandle the bike like a pushbike, hence your concerns about getting your feet down. The trick is to use your leg solely as a kickstand to stop the bike from tipping over. All of your forward momentum and directional control comes from the bike.

The geometry of the steering means that the bike will naturally stabilise itself under throttle unless you disrupt that balance. It doesn't matter if the bike has quite a lot of lean angle when you're stopped, because the bike will pull itself upright as soon as you move off. Look where you want to go, stay relaxed, trust the inherent stability of the bike in motion and the rest will come naturally.

>>4737
>One thing I did notice is that my hands were feeling the vibrations after a while -- anything I can do about that?

You mentioned you haven't rode a bike for a while - these will be physical issues on your side, and in a few weeks/months will have disappeared. You're probably feeling a bit of a tired neck, some tingling in the hands. There is a natural tendency at first to lean too far forward and actually put too much weight on your hands - it's a core body strength thing - at the same time, if you're too upright, the wind will buffet your head and you'll find yourself thinking about getting a bigger windscreen - don't do that, just practice more.

Incidentally, this is why the BMW RT is the king of all bikes - people complain it doesn't have much character, quite clinical in a way, but it is ruthlessly efficient and very very fast. The seat is much lower, the windscreen is much bigger and the angle of it is electrically adjustable. It means you can adjust the bubble of air you sit in, to the point that the airflow is going correctly just over your helmet - there is a joke among RT riders that when its in the correct position, you could probably smoke a fag while riding along. These ergonomics (and how quick it is) is why its the most popular police bike in the world. I intend to buy one when my wife isn't looking.

A big thank you to those who offered a bit of advice and encouragement.

I'm now fully in control of the bike at slow speeds and rarely ever feel the need to try to put both feet down. It's mad how, psychologically, the bike now seems "small" and manoeuvrable.

I'm travelling about 80 miles per day on it for my commute. I've comfortably hit about 90mph, driven it through busy city centres, filtered through traffic, and also stalled and dropped the bastard in my garage (damage now repaired). I've never been so in love with a vehicle, and had entirely forgotten how much I enjoyed motorcycling.

The tingle in my hands were mostly down to giving the poor handlebars the deathgrip. Now that I'm not feeling the same level of nerves, my hands and shoulders are more relaxed and I'm not getting all the engine vibrations.

>>4739

Great post. The engine is 100% doing the work now, and I realise that my urge to manhandle the bike came from not feeling in control in first gear. In my defence, most reviews on the F800ST seem to criticise that narrow biting point and the gear box more generally (a reviewer on MCN said the first gear felt like second), but now everything very easy.

I'm now practicing getting more lean into my corners and trusting the physics of the bike to keep me off the floor.

I really can't express enough how happy it makes me to ride every day.

>>4764

I'd offer you a thumbs up emoji, but I'm pretty sure that's a bannable offence. Anyway, happy riding m8 and try to keep it shiny side up.

>>4765
👍

>>38883
We tried banning parties but the government kept on having them.

>>38879

If the Scots had unilaterally declared independence after a violent coup backed by Denmark and most of the SNP leadership were on Denmark's payroll, then yes, I think it would be OK to ban the SNP.

Side note: Until a few months ago, the paper was printing articles in support of the self-declared states in Donetsk and Luhansk. It has repeatedly referred to Ukrainian forces as "fascists", referred to Putin-backed forces as "anti-fascists" and presented Kremlin propaganda as fact. The Morning Star was largely funded by the Soviet Union prior to 1991. The Morning Star has been running at a considerable loss for many years and is almost wholly reliant on donations; I would be very curious to see where those donations come from.

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/nato%E2%80%99s-fascist-wedge-ukraine

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/a-f1e2-what-the-donbass-rebels-are-really-fighting-for-1

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/a-3c94-the-past-informs-the-present-in-rebel-held-eastern-ukraine-1

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/a-48c5-anti-fascists-honour-ceasefire-deal-1

>>38879
If the SNP were openly encouraging an ongoing Norwegian invasion of Yorkshire then yes, we ought to ban them. Well, in a normal times anyway, personally I'd have crossed the lines weeks ago.

This is why you need read all the replies to a post, or you end up making the same Scandi invasion gag as the previous lad, only worse.

Good to know we're all clued in to their icy machinations though.

*Irishly* My name's Fergal Keane, here's a crying woman.

>>33328

> Did you get nervous we had another Falklands War on or something?


No, but it was unsettling to read about Jimmy Saville hosting another charity event.

Ball deodorant is truly /101/worthy.
Can't find stick stuff for love or money, so now it feels as if I've got a beefy poz load congealing in each armpit.

>>33330
Sounds like you grouted it on, that's really not necessary. Full disclosure I am a roll-on ultra.

>>33330

Some roll-ons can be claggy, but I've had zero issues with Dove Men+Care Clean Comfort.

There's a certain kind of middle-aged internet user who feels the need to end everything they post ".... LOL", regardless of what came before.

I had one of those Refresher lollipops earlier, at work. I opened it up, and it immediately fell on the office carpet. I picked it up (three-second rule) and looked at it, and it looked fine so I put it in my mouth. After about a minute, I had sucked and chewed it down and found a sharp, stonelike substance embedded in it, like a tiny piece of gravel. Revolted and horrified, I threw it in the bin. But I had checked it after dropping it, and it was fine. Where did this small hard object come from?

Anyway, I have just discovered that a filling is missing from one of my teeth. Fuck.

>>452400
Well did you find out where the grit came from? Don't leave us in suspense.

>>452401
The grit was the filling. Sorry; I tried to tell the story so that would be the plot twist.

Honeycomb or cinder toffee?

My neighbours are on holiday, so I've wheeled their empty bin out and put my own excess rubbish in it. This felt incredibly transgressive.

>>38878
>Course it's not actually about any of that and that's the point. If we were to look at it at all rationally we'd conclude that that's perhaps a sensible line of approach. But it's entirely just the dregs of the tank from the old-guard fisherperson arsenal, attempting to stay relevant. People assume the fisherfolk demographic is lefty but it's really not, most of the OG fisherfolk are deeply boomer, they're middle class middle aged women who have time on their hands to get annoyed that nobody pays enough attention to them. Same shit as the wave of pedo hysteria 20 years ago.

What the fuck are you talking about. This is the policy response to a public consultation on mixed-sex bathrooms, it says nothing about you and the hons visiting the women's restroom of your local pre-school so long as you've got a dress on.

>>38880

You must be quite dense.

>>38876

>Are you from a broken family?

I just think everyone should have a toilet attendant at home, like they do in clubs.

>>38884
Do women's bogs have those too?

>>38885

If you assume that women's toilets don't need them because they might be more cleanly with their number 1's and 2's and with taming the red dragon, then no, that isn't the case. In fact, going by what some attendants will tell you, a lot of women's toilets especially at clubs where half the people are off their tits all evening can look worse than men's bogs.

I think it's one of those things where you've either got it, or you don't, honestly. Some people like it, others aren't that bothered.

I think what stops a lot of people is that when you actually step back and look at it and think about the things you say in the heat of the moment, without the benefit of sexual arousal clouding your brain, it sounds cheesy, cringeworthy, embarrassing as fuck. You have to get past the shyness and just embrace talking about how big your cock is, and how deep in her cunt it is, and how tight she is, and what a naughty slut she is, and how you want to breed her, etc etc. Whatever it is that does it for you/her. Just embrace it. You only live once, and you only get to spend half of that time having a halfway decent sex life, before you're too old and grey to bother any more.

Some people just can't get over that, though, and to be honest they're the people I get along with the least sexually. You're already naked, exposed, both baring your body with your weird lumps and that one embarrassingly located birthmark and so on. If you can't loosen up and let go at that stage, then when can you? I almost see it as a sign of conceitedness.

Anyway it varies from person to person, but I think a good place to start is working out what words they like to have used. My ex was the first girl I'd met who preferred to have it called her "cunt", for instance. Then find out what concepts about sex really excite them. A partner I had once kept saying something along the lines of "You're proper gonna bucket me out!" which I thought sounded daft, but I realised after a bit that it was a turn on for her being gaped, stretched, or what have you, so I responded in kind by talking about how I was gonna leave her all loose and saggy and so on. She loved it.

You have to get to know the lass a bit and tailor it to their tastes, is what I'm saying. Some lasses don't need it, I'm shagging a lass at the moment who's much more physical than verbal or mental, plus doesn't speak the best English. So it would have diminishing returns. But still no harm putting in a few comments here and there. You might as well just give it a go.

My first girlfriend told me she was "sopping wet" while we were fooling around and that totally put me out of the moment.

I've only dirty talked one sexual partner, and it was very half hearted on my part. I remember once she sent me a text saying something like "I'm shoving a dildo up my pussy and thinking about you. What do you think of that?" It was a weird question, but I treated the whole exchange like a social link on Persona, just saying what she wants to hear then I get good points because she likes me more.

>>452387

Guess we're going to have to speed up our fusion reactor research to maintain any kind of edge on them in the future.

https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2022/business/fusion-economic-report/

>A prototype fusion energy plant could bring huge economic benefits to the region - potentially generating more than £1b in gross value added (GVA), an economic report has concluded.

>If the proposed site to host the plant near Goole in East Yorkshire is given the go-ahead by the Government, it could also create more than 8,000 jobs during the manufacture and construction of the prototype power plant.

>>452389
Turns out that nearly a year ago we had a report that found UK space based solar power both technically and economically feasible too. One would've thought it would be bigger news with our greenlads.
https://www.fnc.co.uk/discover-frazer-nash/news/frazer-nash-report-for-uk-government-shows-feasibility-of-space-solar-power/

>>452389

That's nice. Though in fairness we could have just gone all in on nuclear, and as long as we put the stations in East Yorkshire it would be totally risk free. The place already makes Chernobyl look welcoming.

>>452390

One day you'll post something that actually exists. Points for effort though m8.

>>452391

Also, the wind from any nuclear incident would blow over the open North Sea. Maybe Norway would catch some of it, but not many people live there anyway.

>>452391
City of Culture 2017, mate, you're just jealous.

>>71177

Can I just say I really like this sex scandal, compared to the last few, because it was blokes what he felt up, so the radio 4 Woman's Hour period power brigade can't make it all about themselves for once. And as it turns out, that makes people take it more seriously.

>>71178
Yeah, see, that's really concerning to remember that this is a Berlusconi-tier government. Not least because he's still fairly popular and as far as I know, has never suffered a day in his life for any reason ever, let alone his debased morallity.

>>71179
YOU TWITTER LOVING SCUM-FUCK, that's a very interesting read. It actually sounds quite familiar to me because of a conversation I had with a friend after Allegra Stratton (pictured here, centre, crying in the Build Engine) sacrificed herself for World-King Johnson I. I began denouncing the Oxbridge-PPE elite and their pally politics, but as my mate had studied PPE at Cambridge he pointed out how the alliances, interests and mindsets actually form in these people's school years. Of course, maybe he's one of them and was trying to throw me off the scent, didn't want the likes of me poking around where I don't belong... but given how he's basically normal and we mostly attended the same schools, I believe he, and your Twitterhead, are correct. It's horrible!

I remember reading some time ago that something like two-thirds of all wealth in Italy had been controlled by the same families since the fourteen-hundreds. I can't find the article now, so maybe the details are wrong, but the point is it's very hard not to feel maddeningly angry or utter hopeless much of the time. It's like we're living in the Bart Simpson universe and somewhere beyond time and space there's a Hugo Simpson universe we were supposed to be in, but everything got mixed up. Dr Hibbert sent us the wrong reality.

>>71180
I can't get into this right now. I can't do gender politics and face up to the fact that Britain is governed by a cabal of incestuous hyper-poshos dating back to the time of the Druids. Meet outside the sociology department tomorrow, ten-past-three sharp.

Forgot to attach the image, ruining the flow of the thread because I can't delete posts still, for reasons murkier than this government.

>>71182

Tories cut funding for the delete feature back in 2018. You just have to report yourself to a mod now, like a homeless person getting locked up to spend a night in the warmth of the cells.

CHRIS PINCHER TOUCHED ME HERE.

>>25702

I'm increasingly realising you can't take WAB's opinion on pretty much anything that isn't a traditional PC shooter or strategy/management sim kind of game. He's great as a canary identifying bad ports with shite options or what have you, but he's not much good at actually identifying good games beyond that.

>>25701
I've settled on just getting remake bundle of Crash Bandicoot and Spyro along with Psychonauts 2. I might pick up Duck Tales too.

You heard me, I'm sick of point and click indie games.

>>25701

By this point steam sales serve pretty much exclusively for me to gradually pick up all the DLCs for the Total War games.

I think the problem is just that so little has come out over the last few years, that for a lot of companies, the game they were flogging four or five years ago is still the Current Product™. We've entered a wierd stasis of live services and perpetual early access games. There's never that thrill of picking up the last year's big release for a tenner any more because they realised in digital, there's no such thing as stock clearance; they can just keep selling it for 60 quid forever.

>>25705

>There's never that thrill of picking up the last year's big release for a tenner any more because they realised in digital, there's no such thing as stock clearance; they can just keep selling it for 60 quid forever.

To be fair, half the problem is that rather than knocking a game down to four quid in the Steam sale, you can flog it to Epic for their giveaways. I currently have 221 games in my Epic library - some of them crap, but many of them AAA or good indie titles - none of which I've paid a penny for.

>>25706

True, but that's the gamer's equivalent of a well meaning German citizen unwittingly falling for Third Reich propaganda in 1937.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z8o7qAIlIU

German punk band Die Toten Hosen enjoyed a niche following in many countries including Britain, in the days before MTV Europe became localised.

The song "Hier Kommt Alex" is a homage to the character Alex in A Clockwork Orange, and the lyrics essentially recount most of the book's premise.

I saw them live in Germany once at Rock am Ring, in its day one of Europe's biggest open-air festivals. They really rocked. A teutonic take on the Sex Pistols, coupled with some broad-appeal guitar rock.

>>13170
This song was all over Germany when I went travelling in the early 2000s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbGtni1d96A

I don't know why this wimpy ballad is so catchy, but I can't get it out of my head:

According to Wikipedia, this video is Penelope Cruz's acting debut. The single was released a few weeks before her 15th birthday, so she is presumably 14 here.

I think the DOW is in for a bit of a multi-day relief rally. Trying to find something like a leveraged ETF on the index to ride it for a couple of days.

>>9497

Just sold my ETF on the DOW and turned a tidy profit of almost 500 quid.

Weekend, here I come.

>>9498
Not bad if you made £500 in under a week. Do you mind if I ask how much you put in to start with?

>>9499

Upper four figures.

I don't normally take punts like that, but in this case, it seemed plausible to me that the Dow would be taking a breather.

I've found that watching CNBC really helps gauge market sentiment. They never really get credit for being a very good source of financial news.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/04/crypto-lender-vauld-halts-withdrawals-as-market-crash-takes-its-toll-.html

>Another crypto lender Vauld pauses withdrawals as market crash takes its toll


No, it's not a massively bonkers idea to take out loans that are collateralised against insanely volatile assets like a cryptocurrency. And then, as a "crypto lender", either letting customers buy more volatile cryptocurrency with the loan, or loaning the deposited crypto coins out to third parties.

A lot of this financial alchemy just always deserved to fail. It's making Lehman look like a bunch of schoolboys.

>>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.

>>452363

This is a boring answer, but my Wusthof nakiri I swear by, but I've used Wusthof all though my cheflad career, so perhaps it's more familiarity than anything else.

In general for Japanese style knives my first reccomendation would be Shun, but they're definitely over budget. Seki would be my next recommend, they're make by the same people as Shun (Kai) but are a little more affordable. They have a traditional look but a lot of modern techniques go into making them. They're very nice.

I have zero experience with the sort of knife you posted, with the super decorative handles, Damascus style blades and so on, but I've always been a little suspicious of them - to me they feel like they probably put form over function, but I have no hands on experience so really can't say for sure.

I also have a lot of time for ProCook. Their X50 range is ludicrously high quality for the price, and they last forever - they're definitely designed to live in professional kitchens. They do a posh damascus one now, I'm sure it's good, but I've only ever used their X50 stuff.

Controversial answer: get a vegetable knife (菜刀 - càidāo) from your local Chinese supermarket. It's basically a massive nakiri with a deeper blade, which also allows you to use it like a fish slice to transfer food to the pan. It looks a bit like a western meat cleaver, but the blade is much thinner with a finer bevel angle.

It's the only knife that most Chinese chefs and cooks use, so economies of scale mean that you can get a good one for about £20-£30. The cheap catering-grade knives look a bit rough, but they're made of good steel and will last a lifetime.

>>452375
Yeah, this is the general sort of oriental cleaver I'm after, not quite so fussed about how it looks, more if it's suitable to act as a paddle to move food from the chopping board to pan/pot after doing some fine, good chopping, but I am still open to the £100 mark.

>>452371
Heard good things about the Wusthof blades, I think the one I had in the past was another German brand nakiri from TK Maxx that I got for about £30 ~10 years ago, so I would imagine it would've been around the £70 mark.

I'll give it a fortnight of thought to make an informed decision. Cheers so far!

>>452371
>Damascus style blades and so on, but I've always been a little suspicious of them - to me they feel like they probably put form over function
In theory they're putting the hard steel at the cutting edge and soft steel around the outside to make it strong and tough.
Great on a big sword or machete you're going to be chopping deer antlers up with, on a little kitchen knife though, ehhh probably is a bit of form over function. Perhaps a good damascus knife can be made much thinner without sacrificing strength which would be good for japanese style knives, but the cheaper ones probably aren't made that well.
Indirectly, damascus does at least serve as visual evidence that the steel is forged and has been extensively worked from the billet. This is very good for the properties of the knife although you don't necessarily need it to be damascus to get these benefits.

I think raking over every stupid internet meme is beneath me. Will not be partaking in this thread.

Marg bar Amerika.

>>452362
Why do you always have to bring his mum into it?

>>452364

Yo momma so fat, the userbase of dot gee ess fancies her.

Anyway, while we're on the subject, why are women more likely to be fat than men? I propose it's because women are less capable of self responsibility, which we have already firmly established to be the root cause of fat.

>>452365
It's all biblical innit, the first thing Eve did was stuff her face without thinking of the consequences.
Us blokes should set about finding Eden again and asking that big flaming sword of a doorman if we can get back in since it wasn't our fault we broke the rules, a fat bird put us up to it while we were in a state of diminished capacity.

>>452365
Why does it have to be the fault of too much food, rather than not enough exercise? Society is undeniably more sedentary than it used to be. And while I absolutely could not ever walk my way to abs, it's worth considering that it's harder to eat while pushing a hoop down a cobbled street with a stick than it is to eat while watching TikTok in your bedroom.

>>452367

We're definitely less active than previous generations, but it takes a remarkably high level of physical activity to seriously shift the balance of calories. It's very easy to eat way too much and very hard to substantially increase your caloric expenditure.

You need to walk a mile to burn off the calories in a single chocolate digestive. If (as a lot of people do) you think nothing of scoffing half a packet of biccies over the course of an evening, nothing short of getting a job as a hod carrier is going to redress the balance. A single chocolate digestive per day in excess of your calorie requirements amounts to half a stone per year of weight gain.

My diet consists mostly of tea, rollies and half-eaten sandwiches, but for normal people it's incredibly hard to maintain a healthy weight in our current food culture. There are too many cheap and tasty treats on offer, too many inducements to eat, too many well-meaning people who foist food on others out of a misguided sense of generosity.

>>14466

There's a majority of women in my department at the minute, but they're mostly older (50ish) so they don't seem to be as interested in putting each other down. Unless they all just gossip about me being a shit boss, maybe.

>>14481
Most times I've worked in a mainly female office it's been quite laid back. There's a lot of banal conversations about what they watched on telly or what they'll be eating that evening, but nothing bad. The only times it's been a paid has been the rare occasion there's some form of power struggle going on and a couple end up at each other's throats.

I've got an email for our work's Christmas party and it's dawned on me that almost everyone I actually like enough to spend an evening getting drunk with has left since our last one in 2019.

>>14520
For me, this is usually the sign to abandon a sinking ship. Even if the replacements are competent.

>>14521
A fair bit of that is because I've turned into a bit of a hermit over the past couple of years. Their replacements might be alright, but I've just not really got to know them.

hot, humid mid summer day?
Best grow some wings and hide under a paving slab, antm8s.

Angela Rayner is peng.

>>452335
Keir Starmer's probably staying as close to her as possible because at least he knows she's definitely a woman.

And if he loves LGBTQIA+ activism so much, they've really missed a trick by not calling him Queer Starmer.

>>452342
Well thank you for reminding me that whilst Labour's messaging has been weak these past couple of years, it could have been much worse.

>>452342

Is he a queer charmer or a queer harmer? We'll never know.

Also, if you were busy thinking of a political dig rather than enjoying that magnificent hourglass figure, you should probably check to see if you've dropped your gay card.

>>38834
You've got a much worse illness, no-friends-itis
https://news.sky.com/story/people-who-havent-had-covid-yet-probably-have-no-friends-a-korean-doctor-says-12576199

Covid's back on the BBC front page now. Didn't see that coming with everything else going on.

>>38836

When did Sarah Millican become a racist?

>>38836
You won't fool me with your fake headlines. Heather Watson is shit at tennis.

>>38836

If you really used paint you're a fucking madman.

>>31758
Can you go to the court and ask them in person? I am a big fan of interacting with people whose job it is to help me, and I've only ever wanted to violently dismember two of them with my bare hands. Also, check the paperwork you have signed so far; it's the bank's job to find these things out about you and if you get a CCJ after you've been approved, the bank obviously didn't care enough beforehand to stop you. People who are two or three years into paying off a mortgage probably get CCJs all the time, and the bank doesn't revoke their mortgages.

>>31759

Nah, haven't been approved yet, the valuation survey is on Thursday, so while presumably they will have checked my credit file before they booked that, I'm assuming they'll still flat out reject it when they run a proper check.

Never pursued social recognition, never pursued relationships (platonic or romantic) with any real gusto, stopped falling for materialistic trappings long ago. Main goal was to avoid work but I realised it would take less effort to treat easy work as a kind of waking meditation than to work to avoid work. I'm content but it feels like everything around me is trying to force an artificial discontentedness upon me.

I was going to say that this is a weird kind of headspace to exist in, but the very act of recognising this particular thought stream has rendered any judgmental power it might've had inert.

>>31758

Addendum to this: It's from a parking ticket by the modern day highwaymen of ParkingEye.

It's bullshit for multiple reasons, not least of which the fact I appealed it at the time, because I was parked completely legally, and never heard back from them. But they have the legal power to just directly fuck you up the arse, for absolutely no reason, without you being able to do a thing about it. Frankly it's criminal. But I bet they've got a mate or two in the Tory party to see to it they're allowed to just extort people like this. I digress.

None of that makes a difference to the here and now. Apparently there's a process to go through to appeal and overturn judgements that have made without your knowledge, like this one, but the process itself could take weeks and if it fails (I don't fancy the chances knowing my piss poor luck) you're stuck with an unsatisfied CCJ which is even worse. So it looks like my best bet is sucking it up and paying it even though it's horseshit.

I can't fucking take it lads. I think this is going to end in murder suicide. Just find me a fucking board member of that company. I've had it with living in Terry Gilliam's fucking Brazil.

>>31762
Sometimes I wonder if I might be depressed, based entirely on just how much motivation I have to learn computer hacking to bring down multiple massive corporations , and yet I never actually even try to learn or do it.