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Darth Walrus posted:Did anyone watch this? I'm trying to find it now. The things I do
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Tarnop posted:gently caress yeah, wrestling makes me genuinely happy, and that forum is alright! I think it's healthy to have a mix of what are traditionally regarded as low & high sophistication things. Like yes, wrestling is dope but I also like to read a lot of history books. If it worries you, have you tried just reading some literature? You can basically just walk into your local bookshop and look at their Penguin Classics collection and pick something that takes your fancy and have good odds of reading something good, like Sartre's Nausea or Bulgakov's The Master & Margarita or Dickens or Austen or Dante Alighieri or Cervantes. Quite possibly school left you with the impression that literature is tedious because of how they teach them but it turns out they are classics for a reason and can be quite fun when you don't have to do really dumb textual analysis imprinting ideas on the book that the author didn't even put there.
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Darth Walrus posted:lol, the Democrats are watching their front-runner slowly transform into Trump: The vast majority of democrats are just a right wing as the republicans, they just say the quiet parts less loudly. More at 11.
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Aug 9, 2019 15:24
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Barry Foster posted:She will endure The Trials just as all those who have preceded her. Worry not, comrade Sanford. She'd better be down with chocolate oranges though 
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Rarity posted:She'd better be down with chocolate oranges though That's a direct yes/no question, and the first of the Trials. Only one has given the Incorrect answer and has lived to post, and He Shall Not Be Named forkboy84 posted:imprinting ideas on the book that the author didn't even put there. *coughs a syllable that sounds suspiciously like 'barthes'* Barry Foster fucked around with this message at 15:28 on Aug 9, 2019 |
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Aug 9, 2019 15:26
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Camrath posted:Hey now, TCC and TFR are ok.. Hope your friend can find a better therapist and lots of support, that sounds like a very bad time. Superb cat.
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Rarity posted:She'd better be down with chocolate oranges though Is it cheating to put together a ukmt primer?
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I would advocate for the approach of abandoning the notion of socially acceptable things to like and go instead with your actual brain. If you like playing d&d then good, you're having fun with people you like. The point of living, if it can be said to have any point, is to enjoy it, collectively. People who put stock in being cool are thick..
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thespaceinvader posted:The vast majority of democrats are just a right wing as the republicans, they just say the quiet parts less loudly. Hillary Democrats are actually more right wing than the Republicans, they're just a bit less authoritarian.
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Jose posted:I hate the new York times I hate all US papers; for Correct reasons obviously but also for their meandering style, full of useless details about the location of the golf club Trump was in when he said something (Bedminster, New Jersey!), and never describing events in chronological order but giving them in little flashbacks. At least that article doesn't have voxpops adding a note of bittersweet whimsy as well.
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forkboy84 posted:I think it's healthy to have a mix of what are traditionally regarded as low & high sophistication things. Like yes, wrestling is dope but I also like to read a lot of history books. If it worries you, have you tried just reading some literature? You can basically just walk into your local bookshop and look at their Penguin Classics collection and pick something that takes your fancy and have good odds of reading something good, like Sartre's Nausea or Bulgakov's The Master & Margarita or Dickens or Austen or Dante Alighieri or Cervantes. Quite possibly school left you with the impression that literature is tedious because of how they teach them but it turns out they are classics for a reason and can be quite fun when you don't have to do really dumb textual analysis imprinting ideas on the book that the author didn't even put there. I'm reading my way through the books in the OP at the moment, but that's not exactly helping with my stress levels regarding the world as a whole. Fiction wise I'm reading Dune at the moment. I read it when I was a teenager but clearly I didn't really absorb what was going on so that's been enjoyable reading it again with new (older) eyes. I'll love Nausea. I might give Austen a try as I've never even attempted
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OwlFancier posted:I would advocate for the approach of abandoning the notion of socially acceptable things to like and go instead with your actual brain. If you like playing d&d then good, you're having fun with people you like. The point of living, if it can be said to have any point, is to enjoy it, collectively. This is correct. Read classic literature or whatever because it is worthwhile, but only do so if you want to. Otherwise you're just setting yourself up to fail. It's not quite the same but I don't read nearly as much as I would like to/used to right now, but that's because I simply don't have the energy or motivation to do much that involves active concentration. It sucks but I'm trying to remind myself there's no right way to be and I'm not at fault Edit I am re-reading the Silmarillion at bedtime, because it's a fine sleep aid lol
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Junior G-man posted:She's most welcome, just warn her to stay out of GBS. Jedit posted:And FYAD, and YOSPOS, and TCC, and TFR... Yospos has a bunch of trans posters and an LGBTQ+ chat thread, I think it's pretty friendly. For a bunch of Silicon Valley type tech nerds I feel like there are remarkably few shitheads. I don't read the cat thread or cjs though. big scary monsters fucked around with this message at 15:38 on Aug 9, 2019 |
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Ratjaculation posted:I'm planning to make a large vegan jaffa cake at the weekend It does but when I was in Germany I had some off brand Jaffa cakes that were strawberry and lime flavour and they were amazing. (Wouldn't have bothered with them but I was cycling around Berlin and after 8 hours biking in a heatwave turns out my recovery was lying down in my hotel shower and scarfing Jaffa cakes till I felt strong enough to move). Wish you could get them here
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Barry Foster posted:This is correct. Read classic literature or whatever because it is worthwhile, but only do so if you want to. Otherwise you're just setting yourself up to fail. Yeah, this is solid advice. My particular blend of brain-wrong is anxiety, perfectionism, and depression, so seeking external validation and worrying myself down to a nub about enjoying things wrong is really the core of it. Trying to unlearn overthinking everything is a nightmare, like operating on your own broken arm but you have to use that arm to do it.
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Sanford posted:The woman in my office who calls her son a little poof, or gayboy, or human being (to his face) today was letting everyone know that gay men are more likely to be pedos aren’t they, she’s not being horrible, it’s just a thing, everyone knows it. Last time I called someone out I got told off and when I said “I’m not listening to that poo poo” got told it’s not my place to correct people, we have a complaints process. Soooo.... made the formal complaint, and then got up and left. My “not going to listen to that poo poo” was never formally addressed so I’m treating it as my current position on the matter. I’m cross, but I’m also home by three and drinking a beer in the garden. Not sure how I feel about all this, or how it’ll play out next week.  That sounds like it's an invitation to come up with the biggest lot of bollocks that one possibly could in the safe and confident knowledge that nobody is allowed to correct you or call you out, and so whoever opens their mouth first gets to set the tone. I'd be tempted to just open up with "it's wild how everyone was bisexual until Henry VIII forced people to be straight, we should undo that" or go on about the bathing habits of the English or whatever.
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OwlFancier posted:I would advocate for the approach of abandoning the notion of socially acceptable things to like and go instead with your actual brain. If you like playing d&d then good, you're having fun with people you like. The point of living, if it can be said to have any point, is to enjoy it, collectively. Yeah, I meant to say "only if you want to". More just that literature is good and there's so much of it that you're bound to find something worthwhile out there. I've got a copy of The Republic I bought years ago which I'm pretty sure I never got more than a third of the way through before deciding it wasn't at all for me but on the flipside I could probably reread something like The Stranger by Camus every couple of years if there weren't so many other books in my house. There's nothing wrong with liking what you like, I listen to lots of music which people generally regard as dumb (& in the case of bands like Pantera & Slayer they are right to do so, it is dumb but good). But if you personally feel self-conscious about your tastes for whatever reason there's no harm in jumping out of your comfort zone and trying to read Dostoyevsky or whatever, it can be fun. But yeah, do it for yourself because you want to, not because you have to or expected to. Ain't nobody taking wrestling away from me.
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Rarity posted:Realtalk: Rowdy Ringsports and Games are both secret hotbeds of left-wing theory and I love them for it I've been off the grappling a few years now, but if I decide to go back it will because of AEW and missing the Pagoda.
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Tarnop posted:Yeah, this is solid advice. My particular blend of brain-wrong is anxiety, perfectionism, and depression, so seeking external validation and worrying myself down to a nub about enjoying things wrong is really the core of it. Trying to unlearn overthinking everything is a nightmare, like operating on your own broken arm but you have to use that arm to do it. How do you do, fellow me?
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Camrath posted:She is pretty awesome. Retrained as a lawyer in her thirties, started a punk band with me and played all over the country and America in her forties, now manages a really sweet brewery. Part of me wants to buy her an account here tbh All right, all right, it's taken over 15 years of Camrath nagging me but drops of water wear away a stone. Here I am. I am his friend who's been having issues with the mental health system. There have been some developments (also a few of Cam's original details are, innocently, a bit inaccurate). If there is interest, I can expand. I am also advised that I should confess that I don't eat chocolate oranges, or chocolate at all, as part of my gritty smack battle to lose some effing weight. (She says, remembering Camrath's home made fudge guiltily)
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Klepsie posted:I am also advised that I should confess that I don't eat chocolate oranges, or chocolate at all, as part of my gritty smack battle to lose some effing weight. (She says, remembering Camrath's home made fudge guiltily) ...acceptable. There may be further questions on crisp flavours though. Welcome to the thread! We're very glad you're here.
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Welcome to the revolutionary council, you'll receive your petrol bombs, mosin, and multi pack of monster munch by post in 3-5 working days.
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OwlFancier posted:Welcome to the revolutionary council, you'll receive your petrol bombs, mosin, and multi pack of monster munch by post in 3-5 working days. Nobody ever sent me mine 
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Klepsie posted:All right, all right, it's taken over 15 years of Camrath nagging me but drops of water wear away a stone. Here I am. I am his friend who's been having issues with the mental health system. There have been some developments (also a few of Cam's original details are, innocently, a bit inaccurate). If there is interest, I can expand. Hey! Welcome to UKMT! Really sorry to hear about what happened to you we're always happy to listen if you wavnt to share.
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thespaceinvader posted:Nobody ever sent me mine
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Chuka update (starts 2hr36): https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0007dj2 "Chuka Umunna is a walking example of how politicians can't work together" - Nick Robinson, to Chuka Umunna
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The bomb munch is for feeding the monster mosins. Don't feed them after midnight or they turn into DShKs.
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That sounds like something that I do want to do.
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OwlFancier posted:I would advocate for the approach of abandoning the notion of socially acceptable things to like and go instead with your actual brain. If you like playing d&d then good, you're having fun with people you like. The point of living, if it can be said to have any point, is to enjoy it, collectively. As somebody who only came to D&D in his 30s... it fuckin' rules. It's painted as this super nerdy thing, and I guess it is a bit cause you have to get into the rules and stuff, but the actual experience is dope as hell. Helps that I play with goons from this very thread. And yeah as a more general point, I said recently that more people should be OK with liking pop music... just like what you like, gently caress everybody else. People who get so heavily into one music genre and start saying stuff like "Yeah that's not real Norwegian Ambient Hillbilly Death Metal" are the real nerds. Gatekeeping sucks. Like what you like, let others like other stuff if they want to.
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DnD is basically if someone sat down and wrote rules for that thing you did as a kid where you invented some super dude who could totally beat up everyone else''s dude. Roleplaying in general is, I think, one of the best things of the modern age because it really leans on the best parts of human nature.
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OwlFancier posted:Welcome to the revolutionary council, you'll receive your petrol bombs, mosin, and multi pack of monster munch by post in 3-5 working days. But you'll have to generate owlfancier posts, the scrip currency of UKMT, yourself.
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Klepsie posted:All right, all right, it's taken over 15 years of Camrath nagging me but drops of water wear away a stone. Here I am. I am his friend who's been having issues with the mental health system. There have been some developments (also a few of Cam's original details are, innocently, a bit inaccurate). If there is interest, I can expand. Glad to hear about your disdain for chocolate oranges, welcome to the secret socialist club. Feel free to vent or rage into the void or whatever, we're pretty chill as long as you're not secretly an aristocratic landowner or anything.
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WhatEvil posted:As somebody who only came to D&D in his 30s... it fuckin' rules. It's painted as this super nerdy thing, and I guess it is a bit cause you have to get into the rules and stuff, but the actual experience is dope as hell. Helps that I play with goons from this very thread. Introduced my wife to D&D this year and she loves it to death. Now apparently half her office want to play a game and she's sounded me out about gming. It really seems to be exploding amongst 20/30-somethings. Camrath fucked around with this message at 16:14 on Aug 9, 2019 |
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Camrath posted:Introduced my wife to D&D this year a d she love it to death. Now apparently half her office want to play a game and she's sounded me out about gming. It really seems to be exploding amongst 20/30-somethings. Stunningly people who are both insanely poor and insanely stressed like cheap escapism.
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Klepsie posted:All right, all right, it's taken over 15 years of Camrath nagging me but drops of water wear away a stone. Here I am. I am his friend who's been having issues with the mental health system. There have been some developments (also a few of Cam's original details are, innocently, a bit inaccurate). If there is interest, I can expand. Hi! So glad you could join us! What happened with your therapist is awful, I'm so sorry. If it'll help you, talk about whatever you're comfortable with. If it wouldn't help, then instead please join us in laughing/despairing at people on twitter and almost certainly crisp chat. Or both.
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