Failed Imagineer posted:

If anyone is ever in Dublin there's a chain of Chinese chippers called Charlie's that do a 4-in-1, i.e. chips curry rice and battered chicken balls. It's pretty good but overpriced now imo. Definitely powered some late night post-club sessions when I was a student

Guavanaut posted:

Good call, Maltesers are good crisps.

Or go broader and say 'food that comes in a packet'. Jelly babies are the best crisps.

Jose posted:

Rarity posted:

Reminder that you must take a course of CBT before you can ride a motorbike

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

I have STEM degrees falling out of my ears -and am perpetually studying something or other so a relative asked me to 'tell' her daughter she 'must' go to uni. I said I can't possibly do that. She doesn't have a burning desire to study a particular subject at any advanced level, she has no burning need to gain a professional / vocational qualification and the prospect of £00,000s of debt. If she eventually decides she wants to then that's up to her and she can do it then. (At least in the UK we still have the possibility to study as a mature student. Not true of all countries.)

I chose my highly theoretical degree subject (against some parental opposition I have to say!) and I also have a degree and a couple of postgrad thingies in a professional subjects which involve some technical skill (say HND level if that still exists) and a bunch of irrelevant management and other courses thrown on to make it into an unnecessary degree. The only benefit of the degree was to get myself Chartered Thingy Doer professional qualification.

A former boyfriend was a nurse who was totally against the idea of having to do a B.N. on the same grounds. (He had qualified before it was a requirement). You have the technical bit and a bunch of useless other courses thrown on top to turn it into a degree, meanwhile not meeting any real patients at all during the first couple of years of 'training'. (Some of this might have changed in the last 20 years!)

At school I would have arguments with other girls in the sixth form over the relative worth of various subjects. Some doing the very academic subjects were disparaging about those studying the more practical subjects. I would always argue that after the apocalypse (nuclear in those days) who would you rather have in your gang - someone who understood the finer points of a piece of literature, or someone who knew how to make clothes, prepare food or knock up shelters?

TL:DR despite my own academic background I think the push to degreeize everything is wrong.

Necrothatcher posted:

I uh, walked into the wrong off licence on holiday.

Jakabite posted:

God I wish the Lib Dems would just gently caress off. They're just so... Annoying. In a way that even the lunatic fringe of the Brexit camp just aren't. I'd genuinely rather go for a drink with a kipper than a lib dem. Ugh

Jakabite posted:

Kippers are probably worse people but they're not quite as irritating as Lib Dems

Gonzo McFee posted:

Didn't realise there's a new page when I edited this into my last posts so here it is again.

https://twitter.com/nickeardleybbc/status/1161984289510252546?s=19

Guto Bebb.

Lt. Danger posted:

It's a Welsh name, you cunts.

bump_fn posted:

lol, of course the literal day i pay out the rear end to extend my visa my house gets robbed

classic

Sanford posted:

Looking for some help arguing with an ultra-centrist libdem here - does anyone have an up-to-date counter to "so why are Labour bombing in the polls if JC has played it so well over the past week"? I don't think I've seen any polls for about a fortnight.

Sanford posted:

I think we might be not friends quite soon.

Rarity posted:

I propose that we partition the UK based on favourite Monster Munch flavours. Flamin' Hot can stay up North, Pickled Onion Wankers get the Midlands and cool and good Roast Beef lovers come down South.

Praseodymi posted:

If we're still going over the problems with the tweet, Stalin also wasn't an inexperienced outlier.

Private Speech posted:

Yeah Denmark is pretty fash recently. Also their housing crisis is just as bad, from what I hear from of people who moved over there (and they are mostly computer touchers so it's not just the poors).

The wages might be high but tax rate and cost of living are exorbitant in comparison.

Darth Walrus posted:

Has the whole Kashmir thing had any political bleedover in the UK? Generally speaking over the past few decades, I mean - it seems a bit soon to measure its political effect in the here and now. I ask because we've got big Pakistani and Indian communities, and it seems like the sort of thing that'd get them het up and lobbying like British Jews and Muslims do over I/P.

Private Speech posted:

Interestingly this isn't complete bollocks, the Omani mostly follow an Ibadi tradition of Islam which adheres a lot closer to the letter of quran, paradoxically making it considerably more liberal.

e: What were you doing in Omani desert? Am a bit curious.

Only Kindness posted:

We're sharing from time to time, here's my story.

50, diagnosed autistic ~3 years ago (mostly highfunctioning), PTSD from childhood incident, lifelong undiagnosed depression, one suicide attempt at 19, hoarder (I don't throw much away e.g. only just thrown away the box for the toaster I bought in 1992). Drifted into solitude (not loneliness) so no support network (apart from GP). Some private therapy a while back, anti-depressants for a couple of years, mirtazapine now, probably working but it's like my 5th one. Involuntary redundancy after nearly 30 years with BigCompany coming up next month, which I was actually looking forward to as I'm OK for money. Still, it'll probably hit me pretty hard.

I CAN cope with all that poo poo.

The twist.

The one thing that is literally destroying my life is finding that my (bought) flat has a lot of airborne mould spores, and has for ages without me noticing somehow - they escape vacuuming a lot of the time - and it has gone from great to unliveable in the space of a few weeks. My tongue is painfully irritated and burning, my lips both stinging and numb at the same time, metallic taste in the mouth. Textbook mould symptoms. Ironically they go away in bathroom and kitchen but everywhere else is contaminated.

Twistier.

I tracked it down - the mould spread came originally from the cardboard packing boxes I used when moving (escaping) a few years ago from an older house I was living in that had a mould problem, and was the reason I moved! I loving kept them and let them contaminate my new place and now I have the same symptoms!

So I promise you again, my life is bizarrely great despite everything. To the extent that even with Oct 31 looming I was looking forward to a period of unemployment. But I'm stuck in a hellish place I can't get away from and have been up for 52 hours now with the pain and worry - and nothing can relieve the symptoms apart from solving the problem completely and that could take months or years or longer or might not be possible at all.

Called Samaritans multiple times in last ~30 hours. Talked down from looking for painless methods of suicide to escape this hopeless situation. Painful method would shock me out of it like before.

I have a blood tests coming up. I think I should also ask GP to refer me for some sort of lung testing. My immune system won't last forever and I need to see how bad I'm already compromised.

But I did make progress. I have a call out tomorrow to a mould remediation expert.

Somehow I will survive this.

Junior G-man posted:

They do not and you shut your blasphemous mouth.

Only Kindness posted:

Thanks for the replies and encouragements guys, I was in a really bleak emotional place with the mental agony, physical symptoms with no relief, lack of sleep, hopelessness, fear, despair and seeing no way out but breathing foul air and then dying of pneumonia or something. I sobbed for probably the first time in 35 years. Despite my depression, my suicidal ideation isn't frequent but it is strong when it hits.

Feel immensely more positive now. Noted about the causes, damp, unlikelihood of actual cross-contamination etc, matches up with my own research but I recognise I need the expert onsite. 51% humidity is highest I've ever seen with 0 ventilation, middle-low-40% in winter, dehumidifier a yes though, it cannot hurt.

I am executing a plan, have decluttered bathroom, kitchen, hallway and my bedroom. Hoovered. Got PPE coveralls and N95 masks. Thrown away stuff already this morning. Seeing clear and clean areas of carpet again is satisfying even if the air is still fouled. 2 rooms to go: tackling a box a day, every day, bojack-it-gets-easier-you-just-have-to-keep-doing-it style. Progress is being made. Calling my expert at 11:30am today.

Ratjaculation posted:

Almost all of that is areas that have already been long burnt down and converted to agriculture, so the farmers just blazin 420

His Divine Shadow posted:

This can't possibly be real, that all the red area = on fire?

Ratjaculation posted:

Then you should be the first to point out that the Paraguayan savannah woodlands at the south of that map, aren't part of the Amazon basin, and that "Biomass burning is concentrated during the months of July-October in the Southern Hemisphere portion of South America, and is linked to agricultural activities, including the use of fire to permanently deforest areas and convert them to agricultural land."

The Atlantic Forest is almost completely removed due to this, and seperated entirely from the Amazon.

Ratjaculation posted:

Using a shock and awe image of a continent burning is great, but implying that everything that is a red dot is a pristine rainforest is an outright lie, and risks laying a false image in peoples minds that we haven't actually already destroyed masses of primary habitat.

Hope that helps op.

Rarity posted:

What has happened to sensible politics? There are no better examples of this than in the Labour Party. This doesn't mean that any of my comrades are left-wing fascists. I don't believe that is the case. The left has nothing in common with the right at all: there's barely even any commonality in any of the three most extreme anti-democratic tendencies – and certainly nothing to do with the most extreme anti-democratic elements within the Labour Party. All of the political positions that are on show are absolutely ridiculous and ludicrous. It's a question of how far-fetched are people's ideas of what fascism is.

Maybe the truth is in the middle.

Failed Imagineer posted:

You kinda have to call Earth Terra then as well. Which is fine