I stopped smoking about the time of this thread starting. I was wheezing away with a chest infection outside in the cold and rain puffing away furiously on a pipe and I had a 'what the fuck am I doing?' Moment.

I am definitely still getting the itch but the fact that i was pretentious enough to smoke aromatic pipe tobacco means I'd have to go out my way to acquire more helps.

Might resort to vaping but for now I am alright.

Alan Carr's book is really working so far. I'm not even sure there is much "method" to it, what has really hit home is a section early-on where he just highlights the whole absurdity of it in terms other than health.

The example that if the shop doesn't have your brand you will still buy a shit brand that tastes awful to you is something I've never thought about. Made me feel like one those people who crack open the fag bins for ends.

>>5089
Not sure there is much of a method to it - it's just pleasant repetition of things you already know and agree to. It's a clever book, but there isn't a great deal to it.

>>5088

Vaping is more or less the same thing as smoking flavoured pipe tobacco, honestly. Even the way the inhale feels is far less like a cigarette and more like a good wide bowled pipe.

You'd probably take a shine to it if you tried. Maybe get some zero-nicotine flavours to try.

This won't work for everyone but I found that just seeing how long I could go without one helped. At 9 months now and I'm so determined not to ruin my streak that I haven't been tempted to have one since I quit.

Cutting back on boozing also really helped

Good luck bigman

Probably just a misunderstanding after seeing how they made soap from women's fat in Fight Club and spotting your mum near a zoo.

Its made from their fat.
After it's been processed it'll be completely identical to soap made from beef tallow, but given the niche nature of farming buffalo in this country, there's probably a lot more money to be made from selling value added products like soaps and leather and horns, than there is in just selling the meat alone.

The long version is the best. 1974.

Just outstanding.

>>7859
Their raison d'être is that they don't charge any fees, hence the name.

>>7860
How magnanimous!

>>7854
I got blind-sided by the shiny app Wealthify provides and sunk in £10k. I've since shut down my account with them (or tried to... they are like herpes) because they made more in fees for themselves than I earned in the two years I had the account. It is a S&S ISA, so performance (and hence your experience) will vary. To me they are a poster child for making it easy to sign up but a pain in the arse to get rid off. If you pick the right plan/level of risk that works for you they may be acceptable but I can't really recommend them.

>>7862
>I've since shut down my account with them (or tried to... they are like herpes) because they made more in fees for themselves than I earned in the two years I had the account.

It seems a bit strange to blame Wealthify for the massive drop in the stock markets.

>>7863
There was no major down turn in the time I held the account. I did pick the lowest risk investment idea, but their fees turned the meager gains into de-facto losses. Almost. They charged a fee to do better and basically did not. That's fair game, but disentangling myself from them. That's where I take issue.

Working link: https://discord.gg/SCN3E56

Talking Discord briefly; do server admind and mods see IP addresses and other metadata? Can they see what time members log in and out of the server, even when they don't talk?

>>23631
>do server admind and mods see IP addresses and other metadata?
No.
>Can they see what time members log in and out of the server, even when they don't talk?
Typically yes, everyone can. Most servers have automatic welcome messages and some also have automatic farewell messages which show when users enter or leave (but not come online/offline). The gs one doesn't have that, at least not one that's visible to users right now.

>>23633
That's what they want you to think. because it is true

>>89685
>It's really quite baffling they never thought of it sooner.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery

Romania retains a lot of its communist governmental inefficiencies, so it's easy to see why it's stagnant. Pair that with less social freedoms and it doesn't seem a very appealing place, especially when you can easily move to a 'better' nation.

It's not neo-colonial or unethical to offer a better deal. Romania could improve itself for the betterment of its people but it isn't. A country can fuck its own people over much more than 'the big bad rich ones'.

>>89689
It's a bit hard for the country to improve with such a massive brain drain.

>>89687

>you do realise that the British student finance system has no obligation to continue payment once you move abroad?

I don't realise that, because it's not true. You still owe the SLC money and you're obliged to return an Overseas Income Assessment Form if you leave the country for more than three months. The SLC has information-sharing agreements with many European governments and while they have limited ability to enforce repayments in many countries, they can and will pursue you if you ever return to the UK.

How time flies.

>>5166
It does not go through.

Cheers thought as much. Used to hang a punch bag off it.

>>5167
If it does NOT go through, I would be a bit more careful hanging off it then. Is it just the garage door mounting?

I don't know about "sturdy enough", but it looks too tall and not being about to move your wrists seems like a pain in the arse when doing pull ups, but I'm no expert.

>>5168

Drat.

Yeah just the mounting.

>>5167
The wooden beam itself is easily strong enough to take your weight as long as it's not rotten.
If it doesn't go "through" the walls, it's hard to see what else is holding it up. It looks like it's physically resting on top of the breeze-blocks on the right hand side and is mortared in, I'd assume it's fitted the same on the left hand side with some plasterwork just boxing it in.
So as long as it's more than a couple of inches inside the blockwork it'll easily hold your weight.

As others have said though the biggest problem is being comfortable holding it. If you can get one, I'd try and find one of those over-door-frame pull up bars, and perhaps bodge it a little to mount onto that beam.

>>65339
Come on lad.

>>65338

the great migration to r/britfa has begun! itz!

>>65338
You looked for a page that doesn't exist?

>>65344
It's a 50x, not a 40x. That (in theory) means something went wrong in trying to fetch the resource, not that it didn't exist.

I saw the same page this morning for the URL

http://britfa.gs/sfw/

which is the same one I'm on now.

>>7126
Alright there, Keith

>>7127
Gone too soon.

>>7125
It's a fascinating book. I live in an area of Hampshire that is surrounded by MOD land - they own tons of the place (and give it to eco warriors to manage when they're not using it).

>>7126

>Technological Slavery - Theodore J. Kaczynski

You're on a list now.

>>7130
I remember reading it at the time it was published - if you didn't know who the writing was by, and what he was up to, it's actually well written.

>>65286
I BET HE DIDN'T EVEN MAKE THE FUCKING PAGE I RECKON HES A WRONGUN

>>65286

>>65327
I can't tell if I remember this cartoon or not.

>>65328
The plot was that the bad guy hated music and was leading a genocide of musical instruments, who were all sentient beings, so the piano would fly around and stop him. Anyways it was shit.

>>65327
WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT

>>65345
Oscar's orchestra.

>>/news/19943

>>4960
Make like Epstein and shut up, FOB freak.

>>4961
Thanks, man, I was sleeping.

>>4961
Who checks the other boards? Ffs. You're right but only on a technicality.

>>4963
Lurk more.

>>4956

Email westwood@gmail.com and let him know your batty is bare ready for his "shotgun". He'll understand the codewords and you'll get bummed the next time you dare take a middle class ramble through Kennington.

>>436538
"Dookie" what the fuck is this, you a yanklad?

>cats try to avoid doing that as long as possible.
>They have a sense of when a toilet is badly kept.
When I was a young child we had a cat that would shit behind the sofa, in the space between the washing machine and the wall, etc. It had a well-maintained litter tray and a catflap, the fucker spent a lot of time outside so it wasn't lacking choice when it came to shitting location. The other cat we had, the mum, was always well behaved. Some mothers do have 'em, eh?

>>436538 Dogs will shit up your place, indisciminately,

This has not been my experience of dog ownership, after the first couple of months.
He's crapped indoors once, and was clearly in distress, poor boy.
Cats also leave eviscerated creatures all over the place. Dogs just leave eviscerated toys - I know which I'd rather tread on in the dark.

>>436541

>behind the sofa, in the space between the washing machine and the wall

Our cat only gave up her bathroom etiquette when it came to vomiting, which could occur anywhere and anytime. Of course with cats you have a few seconds' warning and they'll do that weird noise for a bit when they start to retch before anything comes out, so there's still time to push them a few inches to the side so they won't throw up on your rug. But what was really annoying was when you went into the kitchen in the morning and stepped into a pile of cat sick in the middle of the kitchen floor that was left there for you during the night.

>>436508
>Why you snitchin', bro?
Laddo here thinks he can namefag his cats and get away with it. Not on my britfa!

>>436509
Is that you JeffMinterLad?

has she even got any?

>>65336

left

>>24524
I don't think I've ever seen anyone with a more punchable face than Sean Penn.

Shut the fuck up, you babies, Jesus.

Who the fuck gives a shit about some daft opinion piece from five fucking years ago? Imagine reading the fucking opinion section of a newspaper, let alone the stuff from half a decade ago? Imagine being that fucking retarded. Enough time has elapsed since it was published for the entire Second World War in Europe to have taken place. Why are you posting this shit?

>>24528
Calm down, lad. Go for a wank.

>>24524
>regardless of their pre-existing schedules
So Gordon was always so miserable because the Fat Controller kept giving him jobs when he had planned to go pick up the kids from his ex who has moved in with a big black engine on the mainland?

I'm sad enough to have watched this week's PMQs and it was indeed unsettling. This wasn't exclusive to Starmer though, everyone was being nice and completely uninteresting like I was watching a Lord's debate about some minor B road construction. The issue is that there's no public interest in soundbites at the moment and you don't mudsling during a national crisis.

Only interesting thing was getting another look at Ian Blackford's football memorabilia.

>As you would expect when a top QC finds himself up against a rather out-of-his-depth country conveyancing solicitor.

Awfully elitist for the Guardian.

What in God's name is your problem with this, lad? They can't play real tennis so they are doing something cute and fun during lockdown to keep us all entertained.

>>23618
I'm with you. Serena Williams competing in Mario Tennis is every kind of awesome. I hope she's good.

>>23618
I don't have a problem with it at all. I think it's hilarious, frankly. I would just never have thought it possible, that's all.

Monkey tennis?

I'll see myself out.

(A good day to you Sir!)

>>23621
Please do.

>>24447

If you say so mate. I don't see it, she looks okay to me. Different strokes innit.

Would. She reminds me of the Borg Queen.

would slam

(A good day to you Sir!)

>>24447
>>24453
I had a mate tell me she was a beauty just the other day. I have no standards to speak of and often pick the weird-looking ones but on this occasion I really can't see it at all - she's not ugly by any means, just thoroughly plain.

>>24508

She looks like she'd be dirty.

I don't earn enough to pay income tax, so mine is easy to calculate: for every £1 I earn I get £1.

>>89596

If you were on the higher rate you'd have 9p taken off for your loan, so the difference for you would be 10p. Is your problem that a low rate payer (with student loan) would effectively pay the same as a high rate payer (without loan)?

The tax system isn't that complex to wrap your head around and as I understand it's like that because of how it's been done historically (to combine NI and income tax would make sense but is practically a minefield). Certainly, it's not complex enough for the misguided belief 'I won't take a raise because I'll pay more in tax'.

>>89598
It was a bit of guesswork; student loans have been going for about 22 years so they won't be applicable to most over the age of 40 and people tend to have their highest earnings later in their careers, as well as that most people who are higher rate taxpayers and have a plan 1 student loan will have either paid it off or be very close to.

I know people who think the moment they reach the higher rate tax band all of their income above the personal allowance is taxed at 40%, meaning you lose money at first, which I've never understood.

>>89598
>'I won't take a raise because I'll pay more in tax'.
It's rare, but it's certainly possible to lose out on a raise. When the UEL and the HR threshold have been in different places, it's been possible to find yourself in a position where you pay less tax if you get a bigger raise.

I once lost out on a raise twice in the same year. Working in the NHS, I hit my anniversary and gained a point, but it took me over a pension threshold and so I ended up taking home less. A couple of months later, we got the annual 1% raise, but at the same time lost the contracting-out discount for NI. As a result, my gross salary was around £2k higher, but my take-home was around £50 a month less.

i just download a rom and It's not too bad.