The Graun's reporting of the bloke suing his parents for chucking his $29,000 porn stash used this glorious image.

>>29427
I might need to email them to see if I can have a full HD sized version to use as a wallpaper. I really like the Hustler with the woman dribbling ice cream all over herself, high art.

>>29444
Getty have it.

Context:
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/madame-roxy-s-erotic-emporium-lucy-sparrow-interview-artist-behind-felt-soho-sex-shop-porn-censorship-and-her-stripper-past-a6684181.html

>>29445

Setting this as my missus' wallpaper to get her back for that little Owen Jones stunt earlier this year.

>>29537
This had fucking better be automated. If some spamming cunt thinks this place is a likely venue for shifting such tat, I despair.

>>9067
He made it abundantly clear he wasn't interested and told people not to vote for him.

>>9068

Which shows just how boring the British public have become. Threatening legal action to be removed from the awards shortlist is infinitely more interesting than anything Hamilton has ever done. We saw a perfect opportunity to make a mockery of the whole thing and chose the totally dull option instead. No craic.

>>9067
Well, Mr. Charisma Andy Murray has won it three times. The British public are fucking idiots.

>>9070
Mr Murray is not boring, he just has a dry sense of humour.

>>9071

The impression I get from Murray is that he's so dedicated to his sport that he is indifferent to, and maybe even resents, the personality/celebrity aspect of things.

>>67724

Because your idea of normal is abnormal to people who are used to doing the things that you find to be abnormal!

I want to be a Christmas Lad - I've got about £70 on my Iceland Bonus Card and I plan to spend it all on Glen Moray and Jameson.

Pretty sure they just use Sinterklaas in the Netherlands.

Don't fuck with the yule goat.

>>67729
SINTERKLAAS is just Christmas Man's zero-hour contract worker who takes naughty children to Portugal. He just gets lots of attention now because he's a symbol against American cultural imperialism.

>>29386
The verdict was pretty much "we're almost certain that you knew you were dragging him behind your car, but we can't completely prove it."

>>29386
Yes they were scum, completely without remorse.

>>29411
'kay.

>>29411

What law forbids being unremorseful?

>>29413

No law forbids it, but it's a recognised factor in sentencing and parole guidelines.

I have the same problem but I hardly notice it while the screen is in use. Same pattern, btw. Short of getting a new device and religiously using a microcloth to divide the keyboard and the screen it will happen.

>>27691

Is this a troll post that will actually melt my laptop?

>>27693

It won't melt your laptop, it'll just completely remove the anti-glare coating. That's why they tell you not to use window cleaner on your monitor. If your anti-glare is damaged, it might be preferable to completely remove it.

>>27693
It didn't melt the scanner so I'm guessing it won't melt your laptop, unless these things perhaps react differently on whatever a laptop screen is made of.

>>27698
Scanners are plain regular glass.
Laptops, tablets and phones have special coatings. Some laptops still have plastic screens.

>>24523 Painting works OK at a tolerable manufacturing cost, but since all gamers live in dingy hovels with no sunlight, UV yellowing isn't really anything the manufacturers worry about.

Plastics have improved hugely over the past few decades. White plastics still have a tendency to yellow a bit over time but it's barely a problem now compared to how it was in the 80s and 90s.
Yellow PS5s might be something that vintage tech collectors 50 years from now will be worrying about, but it's not really a concern for the usual lifespan of a console.

>>24383
>How many Xbox exclusives are there?

Cyberpunk.

>>24604
This post aged well.

>>24605

The Personal History of David Copperfield

If you liked In Bruges then try The Guard and Calvary.

I'm only 17 minutes into it but Say Your Prayers seems like a good shout.

>I'm only 17 minutes into it but
Yep that's a good British film. Maybe 15 years too late but still essentially a solid film.

I saw Make Up when the Cinemas first reopened and it was a excellent kitchen sink horror/thriller. Not sure whereabouts it is available at the moment.

For something a bit more indie, try and track down some films by a guy called John Williams. He makes some really good horror comedies, The Slayers and Crispy's Curse are excellent. I think they have US DVDs, not sure about UK releases, but he'll probably sell you copies directly. He has a new anthology coming out soon too.

>>27676

Those specs look very recent - are you still under warranty? I wouldn't bother troubleshooting anything weird if I can just get an RtB.

Failing that, my first course of action would be to open up Resource Monitor and wait to see if anything weird happens; any runaway process that is using up all of your CPU should make itself known. If that reveals nothing, I'd use msconfig to reboot into minimal Safe Mode to see if the problem still occurs. If it doesn't, then I'd use Device Manager and msconfig to disable every non-essential driver and background process, then re-enable them one by one.

Caveat: I admin Linux boxes in a professional capacity, but am very much a non-expert when it comes to Windows.

Is there no warranty or what have you? Have you tried bitching really hard about it to customer support? Looks like a newish laptop so I'm sorry if that's not an option.

>>27676
>7gb dual channel
Huh?

>>27695
Gig for GPU m8

>>27696
Ah, so the system shares a pool of memory. Fair enough, never had a Laptop with an APU in it before.

>>67648
I broke some champagne. Turns out you shouldn't throw the boxes in the back.

>>67636

Who is talking about morals? It's common sense.

>>67700

Shid my pant into pieces, this is my last resort.

>>67649

If you didn't name either the boxes or the back on the spur of the moment then it was definitely a waste of time and broken champagne.

>>440668
Huh it's almost like we were warned this would happen years ago and did nothing to prepare for it at all.

>>440673

The recent uptick in the prevalence of celiac disease and gluten intolerance is a govt psyop to reduce demand for wheat as the Department of Bread knew that this shortage was coming.

From your friendly neighbourhood /boo/lad. watch the skies.

>>440679
>celiac

Do you mine Wikipædia for your conspiracies as well as your medical terminology?

>>440682

Mæbye

>>440679

>Department of Bread

Surely, you mean the Ministry of Bread Truth.


>>440673

On the upside, climate change is making wine growing in Britain increasingly feasible. So it's not all doom and gloom.

https://inews.co.uk/news/environment/climate-change-britain-south-england-wine-growing-region-global-warming-390761

This is actually a pretty interesting insight into Russias perceptions of America.
The undertone here is that the American Government is OK, but heavily under the influence of the mafia.
In turn the imagery of the Mafia here (skinheads, trenchcoats, vampire-ish old Italians) seems intended to show an association between the American Mafia and fascism/Nazism, and there's probably some grain of truth in that.

>>29350

I think you're broadly correct, yeah. I think I was just mincing words a bit because I don't want to entirely rule out the possibility of racism and sexism happening independently of class.

I'm sure the former two would decrease massively if class dynamics changed, but I can't say if it would disappear entirely.

>>29350

Conrad Lant runs (or did run ten years ago) a studio/rehearsal space in newcastle, it was all a bit odd when I went. You'd think he wouldn't need to charge teenagers fifteen quid an hour to rent your room but there it is.

>>29363

Not surprising, most bands of that sort aren't exactly loaded. They're big names in terms of influence and respect, but they never truly had commercial success in their heyday, or if they did, that money will have long since dried up.

I always think it must be really weird to be at that level of sort-of-famous, in a very specific demographic, where you can wander about Tescos and the vast majority of people have absolutely no clue who you are, but every so often you bump into some grebo who points at you and goes "Fuck me it's Cronos!"

>>29366

I think that's the only sort of fame I could tolerate. Back in my cheflad days I ran a place in a small town and people would just stop me and talk to me on the street about poached eggs and such - sometimes with reverence like I was on the telly, sometimes with familiarity like I lived in the same house as them. It was awful - it made financial and logistical sense for me to move to that town when I worked there, but I much preferred living many miles away.

The bloke dressed as a builder in the "hands, face, space" adverts is a family friend, and apparently nobody has directly recognised him from it, but often people just stare at him in confusion, trying to work out why he looks familiar to them. That doesn't sound fun.

>>29371
Should've taken your chef hat off when out and about.

>>440660
Try baking soda first.

>>440661
Or boric acid - you can buy it cheap in powder form on eBay, or you can buy a commercial product called Borax, which is a different formulation of the same compound.

Super cheap and cleans up fungal, mould and insects/things like silverfish. Also good for stinky shoes and general cleaning. I think you can also use it to make things fireproof, too.

>>440661
Way ahead of you. Also found out that they're like little Americans where if you throw generous amounts of salt about the place they will gobble it up and even bring it back to their families to be desiccated.

I believe they call it genetics.

Just had a generous portion of chili and garlic spaghetti, made with some of my homegrown chili peppers. Quite delicious.

And dead easy to make. Finely chop about half a clove of garlic and a whole red chili pepper, glaze very briefly in a midsized, deep frying pan at low temperature in about four tablespoons of virgin olive oil, then add your freshly cooked spaghetti and stir carefully for a few minutes. Add salt to taste, and if you want to go fancy, a dash of Italian herbs.

>>440660
Those "insert specific insect here killer" insecticides are just a way of selling the same stuff several times with different labels at different prices.

The safety data sheet for that one says it's 0.1% Cypermethrin solution, so you'll get the same results with any cypermethrin carpet spray.
You can find it cheaper by searching directly for cypermethrin spray, It's usually sold as carpet moth killer, bedbug killer or something like "Protector C" or "Formula C".

>>440643

Isn't that what the trade deal is all about?

A very gently spoken Chinese man spoke to me about ten years ago. He said to me that I will have great fortune within ten years, else complete wrack and ruin fall upon everybody I have ever known.

That man was Mao Zedong, current leader of China, people.

Beware rambling half-bald fuckers, lest ye yerself be taken in. Ye have been warned. Ye shan't need warning again.

>>440642
Fuck the French. What does he honestly think he's going to do with all that money?

>>440650

Probably taking his two mates off Frogchan to Disney Land.

Let's not get downhearted anyway chaps, I reckon we can still get away with sneaking a few tinnies into the Tommy Tinkaboo Boat Ride and squatting overnight.

>>440652
Well, I doubt £175m is going to make him happy, Disney trip or not.

>>66107
If I had a penny for each time I'd accidently pressed the "delete every single piece of social media I have ever had" button I'd have no pennies because it doesn't exist and entirely coincidentally I'm not a rapist.

>>66108
Just conjecture at this stage, of course. But he is in his fifties, a prominent tory and an ex minister.

Fucking delicious if true. He's a loathsome cunt.

>>66107
Since the whole Brexit thing got done finally, he's completed life. He just needed to delete Facebook to get the platinum trophy.

The rozzers have dropped the rape case against francois.

https://twitter.com/JAHeale/status/1337874312762707969

>>67691
I am genuinely disappointed - would have been an excellent end to the year.

Perhaps you lads would have appreciated more detail.

>>30226

This was comforting to read, thanks. Particularly:
>Every day, it gets easier to deal with.

I was totally floored and couldn't really do much on the day she told me, but I've since become more open to this new version of life.

>>30227
>no pissing about with phones, right?

One of the true .gs nuggets of wisdom.

>>30228

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>>30244
>I'm graciously sidestepping all replies about bonking pregnant girls, only quietly agreeing it's a lovely upside.

Just wait until you're woken up in the middle of the night and told "I really need you to fuck me in the arse right now."

>>30244

>To shorten the story as much as possible: the missus is older than me, 36 going on 37, and for various reasons she had doubts about her ability to have kids. I have soundly proven her wrong, but it happened sooner than either of us were expecting. I would have liked more time, but there are much worse circumstances under which this could happen.

The way I've always seen it, you either want kids or you don't, full stop, and if you're the former rather than the latter it doesn't make all that much difference when. "The right time" will come round before you know it and you'd only think, "Ah, maybe in another year..." like you would kicking any other can down the road.

Personally I'm never planning on having them, but anytime in my 30s would feel like the right time to start, 40s onwards is leaving it a bit late perhaps. A couple of my mates had kids in their early 20s and it ruined one of their lives, because the mum was a psycho, whereas the other one is the picture of a happy family man now.

So the moral of the story is probably just Consider if you are truly mentally and emotionally capable of supporting a partner with their own mental health issues, and everything will work out okay, as with all else in life.

>>30246

Ah yes, I forgot about that wordfilter modlads. n1, showed the best piece of advice this board has to offer what hit it.

I naturally meant "refrain from involvement with women of dubious mental stability".

>>30244
You're welcome. Keep us posted lad, some of us have been through this process before, and it can feel lonely.

>>15588
You what mate?

You're using a garbage old browser. Modern browsers block auto-playing audio by default.

There's a "cum zone" and I wasn't invited? Tossers.

>>15591
So you say, but both versions of Chrome (stable and canary) I tested allowed it.

Not sure if this documentation remains current. Gs doesn't seem to have crossed the MEI threshold and has the "Automatic (default)" permission for Sound.

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-policy-changes#mei

>>15593
It didn't work on my Chrome variant or FireFox so thanks, if you hadn't let us know it did work for you I'd have assumed it didn't work and never bothered doing it again.

>>91867
Corbynites aren't completely lacking in pragmatism (they are after all the ones in the Labour party rather than the ones hawking socialist worker at every protest going.) Their big problems are being mediocre at media management and occasionally preferring a new and gimmicky policy idea over a fine one from the 1970s that got orphaned in past Labour factional struggles, rather than fundamentally believing in some kind of utopian nonsense.

I'm not getting at you specifically, it's just that there's an idea floating out there that Corbynites becoming more pragmatic would mean "selling out" (to be glib about it) and accepting that they can't except the government to achieve very much, which is an awful way of looking at it. The Corbynite who decides to try and slip free broadband into the back of Starmer's 2024 manifesto in ambiguous language and takes a few public speaking lessons will be ten times the pragmatist politician that the mumbly former-Corbynite who moved dramatically to the right on policy in the hopes of nabbing a cabinet job will.

Full disclosure: I didn't care for the 2019 Labour manifesto, nor did I vote Labour. I just couldn't be bothered trying to pick a historical analogy for the progressive lowering of political expectations, which is what I really dislike. I could make similar points for the right, though (especially in the US) they tend to be more successful at incrementally working towards a long-term goal where the left usually just abandon hope after a few losses.

>>91868

All the Labour infighting makes me sad, but I have recently realised that this has been standard for as long as there has been a Left. Look at the schism between Marx and Proudhon.

Marx was a wealthy lad that adopted the cause of the working class, whereas Proudhon was a pleb who adopted the rhetoric of bourgeois intellectuals.

The people on the left who best understand the correct long term strategy are the least socially connected to the masses, whereas the people who are most apt at rallying the populace are not generally so prone to this kind of holistic thinking or long term strategy.

IMO University educated middle class Labour idealists would do better to be campaigning in Tory heartlands instead of alienating Northerners, but I am also a cynic and everything is terrible.

>>91866
He also had literally everyone else in the paddy fields though. Howver, if Britain goes that way we'd easily be able to replicate his army of teenage boys on drugs.

>>91868
>>91869

There is a lot of "well fuck this I'm taking my ball and going home" on the left, in general, to be very vague and abstract about it all. That's why there are so many shit little splinter parties that will only ever see a couple of thousand votes.

Too many of these people fail to realise the merits of the "big umbrella" or whatever the fuck they call it of the Labour Party. Fair enough it might be run by people you'd spit on as little more than common garden market liberals, but you're not going to pull them left from the outside of the party.

Funnily enough most of these people were pro-EU and always made the argument "but we're better off trying to change it from within!" when challenged by the fundamentally neo-liberal nature of that institution; but when it comes to the Labour party they're all about cancelling their membership and fucking off to vote Socialist Workers Democratic Worker's Democratic Socialist Party Party because Keith is a big evil racist.

>>91871
I know people came up with names like Dear Leader for Corbyn, but calling Starmer Keith/Kieth is a really bollocks moniker and I'm kind of surprised it's taken off.

>>4517
It's Tesla, just about everything they do is cuntish.

>>4517

Tractors have had it for a while, sucking dry the general populous is the next logical step.

About ten years ago Elon Musk was being lauded amongst my nerdy friends as an incredible technological innovator and entrepreneur. I don't speak to those friends any more so I don't know if they have revised their opinion, but in the time since Musk seems to have done everything possible to destroy his public image. I would never consciously buy a product from this cunt.

>>4517

The premise underlying 'Glasshouse' by Charles Stross is that there was a cryptological culture war in the past (our future) and as a result nobody in the present (also our future) knows anything about what happened in the past (possibly also our future).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WTSsTdUy4o
This thread makes me think of that episode of Silicon Valley.

>>4521
Alright Mark, thought you were dead?