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There is literally me and the Foreman in the factory right now, and I don't think he realises I'm still about, as he is blasting Sinead O Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U at MAX volume in the factory  Dude is a 100% pura occa bloke, and I think I've just seen beneath the facade 
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Apr 16, 2020 06:23
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Lolie posted:Every time I'm tempted to be critical of our responses, a quick look at the numbers coming out of the US and the UK gives me a reality check. I think it’s good to be critical of our responses tbqh. We’re doing comparatively great by most standards but I’d hope we would do so well - we have every advantage and our government should be doing what it’s doing. Congrats to them for not selling us out ... they’re not meant to. Should we congratulate them for not being total nvjwords? I feel like we deserve what we’ve got.
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Apr 16, 2020 07:03
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Crossposting from the meme thread This is why America is hosed (their general public is stupid but I hope this isn't legit)
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Apr 16, 2020 07:08
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loving crazy but ... I can easily imagine the same happening on the g*** c***** just with a diff accent.
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Apr 16, 2020 07:16
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Not smoking cigarettes today, trying to quit and beep boop i'm already getting wicked depressed, its probably not even close to the worst of it yet.
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Apr 16, 2020 07:41
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On one hand i'm impressed our government killed the economy to save lives although it happened a solid month later than it should have, on the other hand I'm like lmao the holy line that cannot be crossed is a plague that wipes out old people en masse for our government to (temporarily) drop the "capital is the most pure important thing in all existence" bullshit. All I can think is it's like if HIV started out focusing in white straight communities, we would have done loving something, anything, without hesitating. gently caress though, having a cigarette outside work at lunch break and some guy driving past yelled at me, like I already definitely want to be at work right now with this poo poo going on mate cheers. Maybe if I make it through this poo poo without some oval office coughing on me and killing me i'll be okay with how it was handled.
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Apr 16, 2020 07:42
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Some gloomy cunts are always gunna look for the negative in everything, they'd somehow manage to find the downside in getting a free rimjob at NVJ's Wheels N More in Woolloongabba.
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Apr 16, 2020 08:11
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my dog ate a chilli right off the plant and is having a rough time of it right now e: the vet recommended giving her some milk so now I'm 100% dealing with dog diarrhea at some point in the next 24 hours but at least the milk seems to have helped Jezza of OZPOS fucked around with this message at 08:21 on Apr 16, 2020 |
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Apr 16, 2020 08:15
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Listen to the podcast The Dollop, on the episodes about Reagan. It covers how the us reacted to HIV outbreak. Funny podcast on a wildly not funny topic. It’s insane and really reminds you that history repeats. We really are doomed to repeat history. People just don’t care about this stuff until someone noticeable dies. It’s in the part of our brains left over from being a monkey who knows like 12 other monkeys and has a hard time caring about that 13th monkey who’s not in the troupe.
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Apr 16, 2020 08:20
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I know you're being euphemistic but its not even a monkey brain thing, its further back than that, simians show remarkable diverse social groups when things are good and resources are plenty just like people do, but when resources are scarce they absolutely go planet of the apes on each other for no discernable reason
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Apr 16, 2020 08:34
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Apr 16, 2020 08:56
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Malcolm Turnbeug posted:I know you're being euphemistic but its not even a monkey brain thing, its further back than that, simians show remarkable diverse social groups when things are good and resources are plenty just like people do, but when resources are scarce they absolutely go planet of the apes on each other for no discernable reason yeah that’s true. it’s frightening to see people just flip the switch and be total fuckwits. it’s partly human nature and partly societal and we don’t do much to address either factor.
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Apr 16, 2020 08:59
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I think that humans by nature are pro social But there need to be a catalysing event. Like st the moment it hasn't hit home to do some people and the leadership in America doesn't want to man up and admit there is a problem. But if say, Tom Hanks/old Mike pence or someone of little political merit but high cultural, died that pro-social part of their lizard brain doesn't kick in It's sorta how schools didn't get shut down here but on massive scale. I think had school shut down everyone would have been taking this far more seriously far more quickly , but it's less mental stress to be ignorant
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Apr 16, 2020 09:19
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McSpergin posted:Crossposting from the meme thread gently caress sake. Is that real?  loving Americans I swear to god.
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Apr 16, 2020 09:26
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The Dirtiest Harry posted:There are mass graves in New York City There have been mass graves in New York City for ages https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-15/coronavirus-new-york-hart-island-mass-graves/12146208 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/15/nyregion/new-york-mass-graves-hart-island.html
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Apr 16, 2020 09:27
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I was in America, more specifically Tennessee, during 9/11 and even as a child I saw their brains all break. This is gonna be another massive cultural shift in America for the worst, some people are really never going to get over it. Like 9/11, their minds are going to use this as justification for their weird, bad right wing american value system to the extent we haven't seen before.
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Apr 16, 2020 09:29
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Caesar Saladin posted:Not smoking cigarettes today, trying to quit and beep boop i'm already getting wicked depressed, its probably not even close to the worst of it yet. Good luck my dude, the first 3 days are the worst. After that it gets way better.
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Apr 16, 2020 10:01
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Thanks man. Tbh a piece of nicotine gum made me feel a lot better. So spicy though.
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Apr 16, 2020 10:11
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Caesar Saladin posted:Thanks man. Tbh a piece of nicotine gum made me feel a lot better. So spicy though. The nicotine sprays are supposed to be pretty good and you’re not supposed to chew the gum continuously
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Apr 16, 2020 10:13
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The gum made me feel crook as a dog. I quit a shitload of times, the time it actually stuck I went cold turkey while reading the easy way to quit smoking by Allen Carr (I think, this is over a decade ago.) Every other time with gum or tapering or whatever it never took.
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Apr 16, 2020 10:36
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Yeah I've only had one piece. I'm basically just gonna use it when I start to go crazy. I'll stop it in a few days. I just need something to quell the rage inside my bones for a few days while I disconnect from the actual habit of going outside to smoke and the tickle in my brain that tells me its a good idea.
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Apr 16, 2020 10:52
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I always thought the bloke that wrote the quit smoking book was the guy who was a judge on Drag Race UK but it turns out they're two different people. Its a good book, I recommend it for any addiction thats serious enough to need to kick but not quite serious enough to need to get drug-arm involved. I still spin but i haven't smoked a dart in a couple of years now. Its obviously about smoking but theres a lot of good basic stuff in advice there that you could transpose it to jerking off too much if you wanted
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Apr 16, 2020 10:52
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ili posted:The gum made me feel crook as a dog. I quit a shitload of times, the time it actually stuck I went cold turkey while reading the easy way to quit smoking by Allen Carr (I think, this is over a decade ago.) Every other time with gum or tapering or whatever it never took. Cold turkey worked for me but I didn't try anything else. The smell of ciggies makes me feel ill now, but every now and then I get a hankering. Wife's the same so once or twice a year we'll buy a pack when we're out in the town but it hasn't turned into a second pack yet. I also smoke when on holiday overseas but at 3€ a pack you can't afford not to, and you can still smoke out the front of the on while eating dinner so it really brings the joy back
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Apr 16, 2020 10:56
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People are pro-social. I think a problem in the US is that they have seen time and time again people taking advantage of others in difficult times that they're extremely wary of anyone claiming to be working in their best interests.
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Apr 16, 2020 10:58
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About a month ago I stopped smoking mondo piles of weed all day, and that was a pretty rough physical experience of sweatiness and sleeplessness with zero appetite, I kinda kicked up the smokes to get myself through that. I'm pretty adamant on quitting them because honestly, they aren't much fun for me anymore and the price is a real kick in the nuts. I'm pretty much over sucking on bongs and smokes, it really fucks up my jaw muscles.
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Apr 16, 2020 11:01
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Caesar Saladin posted:About a month ago I stopped smoking mondo piles of weed all day, and that was a pretty rough physical experience of sweatiness and sleeplessness with zero appetite, I kinda kicked up the smokes to get myself through that. I'm pretty adamant on quitting them because honestly, they aren't much fun for me anymore and the price is a real kick in the nuts. I'm pretty much over sucking on bongs and smokes, it really fucks up my jaw muscles. Everyone is different as well, so just do whatever works for you. I tried the gum and the pills and cold turkey all multiple times before it stuck. One tactic that worked for me was just prolonging the time between smokes as much as possible. I would delay my first ciggie of the day until it was past the time I had it the day before, and then during the day just say to myself "I can last another 5 minutes, so i will". It took a bit of the pressure off because I could still have a smoke and wasnt going cold, but gradually I could go longer and longer till I was going days then weeks without a smoke. Once you hit 2 weeks without, you are pretty much there, because the short term poo poo has all left your system and its your habits that are telling you to have a smoke, not the nicotine.
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Apr 16, 2020 11:30
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The only way I could finally quit was by getting the better half up the duff and then quitting the band I was in. I only ever really needed a smoke after sex or coming off stage and now I don't need to worry about either any more.... But seriously, try the veal.
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Apr 16, 2020 12:00
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Caesar Saladin posted:Thanks man. Tbh a piece of nicotine gum made me feel a lot better. So spicy though. I wasn't told the last time I tried to quit about how to use the gum. Pro tip is to chew it until the spicy comes out then store it in your gum like a squirrel with an acorn. This releases the nicotine faster into your system. And don't get a piece when you want to smoke/your old break times. Constantly change it out when it looses that spice. I was a smoker for 16 years and getting that advice on how to use the gum properly knocked my cravings in maybe a week. As for the physical associations with smoking I still went out on my 'smoko' but sat and checked phone etc. So I got that mind-reset that a smoke break used to do.
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Apr 16, 2020 12:08
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That's actually what it said on the side of the box, the cheek thing, and it worked surprisingly well for me. I know I'll feel sick if I have too much so I'm only acquiescing when the craving is strong and i feel my mood suffering. I've only had one today and it made me feel instantly better.
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Apr 16, 2020 12:12
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If I wanna not smoke I get the lozenges and suck 40 of them over the day
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Apr 16, 2020 12:23
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Megabound posted:Cold turkey worked for me but I didn't try anything else. The smell of ciggies makes me feel ill now, but every now and then I get a hankering. Wife's the same so once or twice a year we'll buy a pack when we're out in the town but it hasn't turned into a second pack yet. Yep pretty much the same. The smell was loving disgusting for years, it still is really. I'll suck down the lung lollies like an absolute madman when on the turps out camping, or when hitting the piss really hard in town, or if I have more than two fourex bitters, then not smoke for another 2-6 months without really missing it. It's a good place to be in where a 25g pouch lasts a year or more and the insanely high prices means there's little risk of buying tobacco more often.
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Apr 16, 2020 12:42
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I used to be a bartender 'back in the day', before they changed the smoking laws, and when I was a wee young glassie I used to come home afterwork and have a shower I could SMELL the smoke washing off me  Add that to the fact smokers are grotty fucks that would empty drinks into filled ash trays and that put me right off ever smoking Years later I worked as an IT Admin for a big club and when they did a massive refurb and got rid of all the old ceiling tiles from the 70s they'd flip them over and there'd be an inch thick layer of tar built up
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Apr 16, 2020 12:59
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Tbh the biggest reason i'm quitting is because i coughed some poo poo up in the morning the other day that had lil black dots in it.
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Apr 16, 2020 13:04
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Use that terrible drug that gives you crazy dreams worked for my mates
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Apr 16, 2020 13:18
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I used those nicotine sprays when i was quitting. They're good because they simultaneously remove the craving while making your mouth taste gross.
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Apr 16, 2020 13:58
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Quit smoking or the longest animal in the world will kill you https://i.imgur.com/uysreHt.mp4 
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Apr 16, 2020 14:02
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Infinitum posted:Quit smoking or the longest animal in the world will kill you You call that a long animal? *gestures at crotch*
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Apr 16, 2020 18:05
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This has no bids so if you are anywhere near Maffra you can grab it of gently caress all https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/PINNOCK-FRIDOR-Sewbest-sewing-machine/392756202831 Ive sorted mine, all oiled up and waiting on a belt. These things are australian made (!) and have a really solid industrial build. I watched a youtube of this model sewing through 8 layers of leather.
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100% that taped up power cord is an adhoc solution to whatever obscure power standard that thing was designed to use
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