UKMT August 2019 - we (UK) should simply invade Ireland peacefully

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Sloth Life: Nov 15, 2014; Built for comfort and speed!; Fallen Rib

I do not have cats but this is my old mam's cuddlemuffin. He's very good with her, a soft gentle boi and he chats loud so she knows where he is

# ¿ Aug 1, 2019 08:06

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# ¿ May 13, 2024 15:21

Sloth Life: Nov 15, 2014; Built for comfort and speed!; Fallen Rib

CGI Stardust posted:

afternoon all, here's some caterpillars again, they're getting pretty big now

Day 1:

Day 2:

Day 3:

Day 4:

Why are you growing more horrible creatures, there's plenty out there already

# ¿ Aug 8, 2019 16:55

Sloth Life: Nov 15, 2014; Built for comfort and speed!; Fallen Rib

I had to drop a dictionary on a hawk moth once. It was loving huge and in my flat so death was the only possible outcome.

I do NOT like moths.

# ¿ Aug 8, 2019 17:24

Sloth Life: Nov 15, 2014; Built for comfort and speed!; Fallen Rib

Just imagine the look on their faces if JC went "ok fab, go ahead and take Dianne". They'd loving die (the wrong sort of woman you see). I'd think they would backtrack with Thornberry even.

# ¿ Aug 11, 2019 20:07

Sloth Life: Nov 15, 2014; Built for comfort and speed!; Fallen Rib

CGI Stardust posted:

Bitcoin uses nonces, and nonces use it in return

alternatively

Bitcoin miners need to find a nonce, bitcoin nonces need to find a minor

This was a great post

# ¿ Aug 13, 2019 11:50

Sloth Life: Nov 15, 2014; Built for comfort and speed!; Fallen Rib

CGI Stardust posted:

Furry monsters

This was also a great post. I'm coming round on nature's terrible beauty

# ¿ Aug 13, 2019 11:51

Sloth Life: Nov 15, 2014; Built for comfort and speed!; Fallen Rib

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.

Good on you for getting a professional in to look at the problem. That was a hard step to take when you're emotionally disorganized and you did it so thumbs up. There is the possibility that it is treatable and that things will be ok, after a rough patch of time cost and effort.

# ¿ Aug 23, 2019 06:04

Sloth Life: Nov 15, 2014; Built for comfort and speed!; Fallen Rib

I missed Willy Waggledagger chat but would like to add my tuppence worth : Branagh is a collossal asshat and should be shot. Christopher Eccleston was the best Iago and also is a bit of an asshat, shoot to wound. I saw Vanessa Regrave at the Globe when I was a youngin at upper school, she was playing gender bent Prospero in the Tempest. Found out I am not as 💯 straight as I thought, that day.

# ¿ Aug 24, 2019 20:21

Sloth Life: Nov 15, 2014; Built for comfort and speed!; Fallen Rib

Tarnop posted:

Responding to Shakespeare chat from a few pages ago

This thread moves so fast, and I know gently caress all about computers, actual socialisms or video games. Shakespeare and Samaritans are something I have passing familiarity with so leapt on it xc

# ¿ Aug 24, 2019 21:16

Sloth Life: Nov 15, 2014; Built for comfort and speed!; Fallen Rib

Just went and shelled out 100 quids worth of food n stuff at Aldi (2 of us, makes it a less outrageous 50 each). Cashier asked if we were prepping for the Apocalypse. Not far off hun, tbh.

Neither of us are survivalists (he likes camping a bit, I like a solid roof thank you) so if any goons have good ideas/spot a gap in our preps pls shout.

Bulk: Dried pasta / micro rice / couscous / tinned potatoes.

Protein: quinoa /peanut butter/ kidney beans/ chickpeas/ tinned chicken curry

Adhoc: selection of cooking sauces/ passata/ vegetable oil/ chilli and garlic oil/ 48 toilet rolls / 24 uht milk./ Coffee and decaf coffee.

(We are lucky to be able to spare the cash and the space for a pantry. )

Sloth Life fucked around with this message at 13:10 on Aug 31, 2019

# ¿ Aug 31, 2019 13:04

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# ¿ May 13, 2024 15:21

Sloth Life: Nov 15, 2014; Built for comfort and speed!; Fallen Rib

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Get some bottled water for rehydrating all that dried stuff and drinking. After all, Johnson did promise that the chemicals needed to purify water would definitely be available post Apocalypse....
Waitrose are doing packs of 4x2l bottles for about £1.50 (it's my nearest store and water is very heavy to carry in my back pack so don't wall me).
(Don't rely on using precious fuel resources to be able to boil dodgy tap water or river water for the requisite 10 mins on full boil)

Good idea! Thank you xc

# ¿ Aug 31, 2019 13:12

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