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I do not get paid to post but I do sometimes get paid to go nice places and take photographs, and the phone the thread helped me pick does panoramas.   
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More like GullFancier. It is a very fancy gull though
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May 18, 2021 19:01
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GlyphGryph posted:This is definitely not true. There's lots of ways you can end up doing stuff that isn't worthwhile: miscommunication, misunderstanding, priming for misprioritization, delusions, compulsions. Any time where your actions don't line up with your desires, basically. The list is long, and pretty much everyone does a lot of poo poo off it pretty frequently because making good decisions is hard. Desire is a strange thing. My deepest desires would require extraordinary hardship to attain, and half of them I don’t even know of because I don’t have that level of self-insight. It’s certainly not just a question of what you want to do in any given moment. I want right now to go home, smoke weed and play Slay the Spire until I fall asleep and I’d probably do that pretty much every day, but I wouldn’t call it worthwhile. It’s worthwhile in small amounts but I’d argue a life spent in pure indulgence without hardship or danger is about as good for the soul as a life spent in the drudgery of work. I’m a firm believer in variety, and even more so that humans need to push themselves beyond their comfort zone with some regularity to live a really fulfilling life. I’ve always struggled to sum up my attitude towards this sort of thing well but the Greek concept of eudaemonia gets pretty close.
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May 18, 2021 19:08
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I have no soul, only posts.
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May 18, 2021 19:09
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OwlFancier posted:I have no soul, only posts. This is the sort of attitude that allows posters like OwlFancier to transcend eudaemonia and enter a state of Divine Posting. P.S. lovely pics! Where were they taken? I wanted to say Whitby but feel like it’s not.
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May 18, 2021 19:10
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It is whitby but it is at the end of the pier. Or at least as far to the end of the pier as I am going because fuuuck you I'm not goin on the wooden bit.
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May 18, 2021 19:13
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May 18, 2021 19:15
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OwlFancier posted:It is whitby but it is at the end of the pier. Get in there. Makes me miss the north east. We really do have some of the best spots in the U.K. and still no fucker comes on their jollies, it’s great.
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May 18, 2021 19:16
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Of no particular relevance: I'm on a training course this week, every evening on zoom for an hour. Yesterday and today so far the trainer has waffled on about herself, her son's girlfriend seems to ring the door bell exactly 5 mins after it starts every time, spends 10 mins reading all the comments in the chat which are 'hello everybody, I'm Jae from UK' type stuff. Yesterday she waffled on for half an hour, we're now 16 minutes into this and she is still waffling on about herself. Grrr. I can't check out from this as it is a legal thing I have to do.
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May 18, 2021 19:17
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Two separate people stopped me to ask for photos/directions/general information so there are some people coming for holidays at least. I dunno why I look like the tour guide though. It's odd, I hope people come back but at the same time I also maybe would rather they wait a bit longer til more people are vaccinated, I guess it was mostly old people though who probably have had it.
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May 18, 2021 19:19
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Darth Walrus posted:https://twitter.com/rd_haie/status/1394673591673819142?s=21 That's exactly what I imagined. I cannot for the life of me understand why so many women seem to want to shag it. (Trainer now on 19 minutes of waffling instead of the bloody CONTENT).
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May 18, 2021 19:19
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Of no particular relevance: Ask if its ok to record it so you can go back for anything you missed, then ask will there be any way to rate the trainer after the course. If she doesn't take the hint here, just give the vids as feedback.
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May 18, 2021 19:20
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:That's exactly what I imagined. I cannot for the life of me understand why so many women seem to want to shag it. It's just power, right? Like there's literally nothing else to it. I guess maybe he can do the David Koresh charismatic mind control thing as well? Honestly doesn't seem like he'd be that good at it
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happyhippy posted:Ask if its ok to record it so you can go back for anything you missed, then ask will there be any way to rate the trainer after the course. There are going to be recordings, it's just I know I'm unlikely to watch replays. And tonight is the most important 'live' night. She's still bloody waffling on repeating herself from last night.
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May 18, 2021 19:28
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I work at a cultural institution and we just re-opened and it is utterly kicking my rear end at the moment. I've had maybe 25 minutes to sit down throughout the entire day, running around making sure stuff is sorted, helping out and so on. I also found out that the reason a cafe on site is not open at the moment is because the outside contractor made a load of people redundant at the start of the pandemic before furlough was a thing and the stupid bastards haven't been able to rehire anyone. The fact that some of the management team seemed to support the company for doing this is very much sus to me.
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May 18, 2021 19:49
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OwlFancier posted:Anything you do is worthwhile because if it wasn't you wouldn't do it. This is untrue but a nice thought
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Josef bugman posted:I also found out that the reason a cafe on site is not open at the moment is because the outside contractor made a load of people redundant at the start of the pandemic before furlough was a thing and the stupid bastards haven't been able to rehire anyone. The fact that some of the management team seemed to support the company for doing this is very much sus to me. I can't help but shake the feeling that with covid meaning a load of workers went home and then brexit making it unappealing for people to come back, anyone trying to hire back up to full strength for hospitality is about to get a rude kick up the arse.
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May 18, 2021 20:24
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Mr Owl posted:I can't help but shake the feeling that with covid meaning a load of workers went home and then brexit making it unappealing for people to come back, anyone trying to hire back up to full strength for hospitality is about to get a rude kick up the arse. Oh absolutely. The upcoming lack of staff is going to utterly gently caress the cafe. I feel bad for the workers still there, but gently caress the people running it. It does mean I now have a moral reason to not buy sandwiches from them at least.
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May 18, 2021 20:38
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I'm enjoying how the anti-woke brigade are insisting that Keith and the Grauniad are both woke, but the people who actually know what it means are all "gently caress off no they aren't"
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May 18, 2021 20:48
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May 18, 2021 20:50
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Namtab posted:This is untrue but a nice thought I mean, I feel like if you don't believe that it's going to be self fulfilling, yes if I constantly have doubts about whether what I am doing is the most worthwhile thing I could be doing then I am going to find fault with it, but ultimately I find it much better to simply look for why I am doing a thing and see the worth in it. If I spend my time sat on my arse relaxing or doing things I just find simply pleasant then that is a good use of my time, I wouldn't do it if I didn't feel like doing it more than doing other things. I probably could cook up some reasons to be dissatisfied with that but the way I see it I'm just making more work for myself. Sometimes I want to do other things and I do them if I am able, but a lot of the time I don't, so I don't. I don't think either state is better than the other. If I am doing something it is worthwhile for me to do it, otherwise I wouldn't do it. I can have opinions about other people arranging the world around me to make certain things worth my while to do, and I certainly have complaints when the things that are worth doing are unpleasant and when they are made worth doing only because I will starve otherwise, but for things I do of my own volition I definitely don't feel the need to start second guessing myself, and frankly I'm a bit resistant to the idea because it seems often like second guessing how you spend your time falls very much into the same category of "other people arranging the world around me to make me do things" because I see a lot of ideas put about in advertising that are about making you feel somehow inadequate, insufficient in your consumption or your actions or your appearance or countless other aspects of your self. And that rubs me the wrong way, so I lean pretty hard to the opposite when it comes to what I would call an optimal outlook on yourself and the world. Self doubt might have some uses but I would generally suggest people I like should have less of it and people I don't I hope are cursed with an abundance of it because it makes people miserable.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:The bit I'm enjoying most is the 3% of self-describing woke people thinking nigel farage is woke
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May 18, 2021 20:55
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Failed Imagineer posted:It's just power, right? Like there's literally nothing else to it. It's very revealing of the upper class - by their standards Boris Johnson is charming and attractive.
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May 18, 2021 20:58
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May 18, 2021 21:00
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ThomasPaine posted:second pfizer done today, here's hoping I don't get any side effects because I have a long day of meetings tomorrow lol Anecdotally I hear that Pfizer 2 hits hard while AZ 2 doesn't. The experience of my wife (Pfizer) and me (AZ) was consistent with this theory, I had a mild ache in my deltoid the next morning and nothing else while she was feeling poo poo for several days. So  I guess.
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Maugrim posted:Anecdotally I hear that Pfizer 2 hits hard while AZ 2 doesn't. The experience of my wife (Pfizer) and me (AZ) was consistent with this theory. Thats just apophenia, there's no real evidence of any pattern like that. But yeah to us all
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It could be Boris's raw sexual magnetism Or it could be that he illegally funnelled her millions (?) of pounds of taxpayers' money Probably one of those
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Borrovan posted:It could be Boris's raw sexual magnetism 
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Borrovan posted:It could be Boris's raw sexual magnetism Lol no, she shagged him for years for about 25 grand.
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May 18, 2021 21:53
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jiggerypokery posted:Lol no, she shagged him for years for about 25 grand. I thought she got an IT contract off the taxpayer for £125k (but I can't be bothered to google)
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May 18, 2021 21:55
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Failed Imagineer posted:Thats just apophenia, more vaccine side effects!
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May 18, 2021 22:00
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It's nice that the police will investigate their own officers for hugging protesters and expressing support for oppressed minorities, but won't investigate officers when they beat the living poo poo out of peaceful protesters or infiltrate protests as agent provocateurs to give them a reason to crack open the tear gas grenades.
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May 18, 2021 22:10
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kingturnip posted:It's nice that the police will investigate their own officers for hugging protesters and expressing support for oppressed minorities, but won't investigate officers when they beat the living poo poo out of peaceful protesters or infiltrate protests as agent provocateurs to give them a reason to crack open the tear gas grenades. The plod know their job mate
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May 18, 2021 22:19
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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Maugrim posted:Anecdotally I hear that Pfizer 2 hits hard while AZ 2 doesn't. The experience of my wife (Pfizer) and me (AZ) was consistent with this theory, I had a mild ache in my deltoid the next morning and nothing else while she was feeling poo poo for several days. I had it at 1pm today and still nothing, though it might hit me like a brick during the night. A friend had both Pfizer doses and didn't get any side effects at all so who knows. Maybe I will be one of the lucky ones!
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May 18, 2021 22:38
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