OwlFancier posted:

laphroig does taste a lot like suffering yes

Bloody Pom posted:

I can't remember which label it was but my dad brought back some peated whiskey from when they went to Scotland for their mum's funeral (she hated my mum and I's guts so we weren't inclined to go), and it was probably the most foul-tasting liquid I've ever put in my mouth. What exactly is the appeal, if there is one?

OwlFancier posted:

It tastes like eating out a bog mummy.

Kin posted:

Kraken and Coke, can't beat it.

I was told once that folk can have very different reactions to whiskeys based on the blend or whatever.

I'm not sure how true that is but I tried a whiskey once and just one sip of it was enough to put me off it.

I see other folk in real life and TV necking the stuff and just can't grasp how they're taking mouthfuls of it without gagging.

I used to drink a lot of shots including absinth (the weak off the shelf poo poo) when I was younger and I swear those were easier to drink than the whiskey I had.

Tesseraction posted:

*pulling out the monkey paw shaped defib*

Scotgoons, what does this "women what wheesht" phrase mean. I know it's a ScoTERF phrase but I didn't read enough of The Broons But Horrible to understand the meaning.

Rarity posted:

Southgate's boys are gonna win the World Cup and everyone will be so proud that Israel agree to free Palestine and Putin pulls out of Ukraine and Rishi says sorry and lets Corbs be in charge and James Corden's late night chat show gets cancelled

quote:

Risky and criminal online behaviour is in danger of becoming normalised among a generation of young people across Europe, according to EU-funded research that found one in four 16- to 19-year-olds have trolled someone online and one in three have engaged in digital piracy.

An EU-funded study found evidence of widespread criminal, risky and delinquent behaviour among the 16-19 age group in nine European countries including the UK.

A survey of 8,000 young people found that one in four have tracked or trolled someone online, one in eight have engaged in online harassment, one in 10 have engaged in hate speech or hacking, one in five have engaged in sexting and one in three have engaged in digital piracy. It also found that four out of 10 have watched pornography.

Julia Davidson, a co-author of the research and professor of criminology at the University of East London (UEL), said risky and criminal online behaviour was becoming almost normalised among a generation of European young people.

“The research indicates that a large proportion of young people in the EU are engaging in some form of cybercrime, to such an extent that the conduct of low-level crimes online and online risk-taking has become almost normalised,” she said.

keep punching joe posted:

I still p2p mp3s, they will never stop me.

Kin posted:

So, heating chat.

I've got central heating with the thermostat in the upstairs hall.

Is it better to heat the house with all the doors closed, open, or it won't make a bit of difference?

I figured with the doors closed, each room would individually heat up quicker and then the hall would be surrounded by warmth like an insulation, so it in turn would heat up quicker, not to mention the heat would stay built up in each room too.

I've noticed that if I open the living room door the heat built up "escapes" into the hall so figured closed doors are best.

Microplastics posted:

It's The Thought That Counts. And the Thought is About The Children

Microplastics posted:

Speaking of my struggle with eggs

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63864786

NotJustANumber99 posted:

Dunno I've usually found DPD to be one of the better delivery companies and with the renamed remains of Hermes still floating around there's still someone bound to be swimming slower than them.

The Perfect Element posted:

Eh. They say they still expect terrestrial TV to continue 'into the 2030s'. So realistically, there'll be an entirely new board, government and entire bloody social situation by then. This is basically meaningless other than a signifier of the overall direction of travel for broadcast media.

smellmycheese posted:

All going well at the UK’s premier government mouthpiece I see…

History Comes Inside! posted:

UKMT, what’s the easiest way to get your hands on Scottish bank notes that isn’t going to Scotland

OwlFancier posted:

That reminds me of something else that's been baffling me lately. It seems mad how much people gamble. If I'm in the queue at the kiosk in a supermarket more often than not there's someone in front of me just spending like, 15 quid or more on scratchcards and lottery tickets. And it's just crazy. Surely if you spend that much you must see that you keep losing it. I get that gambling addiction is a thing but that's a significant amount of money. loving garbage society that has people that desperate to get out of it that it has them spending money that would actually make a difference on a hopeless bid to get out of it.

Makes me think of all those scumbag labour MPs in bed with the gambling lobbyists. Not enough rope in the world to right the misery they bring.

kecske posted:

just play vampire survivors imo, the game with one button

kecske posted:

more games would benefit from a 'go on holiday indefinitely' option

frytechnician posted:

Now that football's not coming home, let's get back to being angry at what a wreck our country is again please.

Spangly A posted:

If there's no part of you that didn't want to see a ginger Scots lad called Alex macallister rip off his Argentina shirt to reveal "las malvinas son Argentinos" after Argentina's penalty victory in the WC final against England, and the macabre moralising of the slaver-slobbering investment bankers at FIFA that would follow, I don't understand you

kecske posted:

it's fun to be the pantomime villains of world football, and ABEs anyone-but-englands make it happen

BalloonFish posted:

We got trapped in this last night - instead of 2.5hrs from the Chunnel to home it was 6.5, three of which were spent stationary and the rest was doing no more than 40mph through unploughed snow and slush.

We were coming back from a weekend in France, and I had a rant all prepared about how stark the difference is now going from the UK to continental Europe - our destination was a city broadly equivalent to our home town in the UK (dunno why I'm being so cagey - we went to Metz) and it was genuinely shocking to wander around and realise "Oh yeah, this is what a first-world country without crippling regional inequality and an amoral political system is like...look, there's a person sweeping the street, and here's an open library...and a post office bank...look at this covered market that's not just vape stalls, American candy stands and phone repair booths...huh, a multimodal transport system run by the municipal government with a flat charge of €1.50 per trip anywhere in the city...what unworkable fantasy is this?"

France is not a utopia, and certainly not a progressive utopia, and has all sorts of social, political, ethical etc. issues to grapple with. But it does pass the test of "functional nation-state" which I increasingly doubt the UK does for most of us. And slamming straight off the Eurotunnel into a four-hour traffic jam caused by;
a) a shortage of ploughs to keep the nation's busiest motorway around its capital city free of four inches of snow
b) the inability of one in every three people to not be selfish pricks and not try to drive through that snow at 70mph before crashing and blocking the one passable lane
really just brought that home.

Rarity posted:

That's Scotland and I expect your gritter programme is functional as well, this is an England problem

Mebh posted:

I went to our nearest grit bin and it has a padlock on it now. Those damned youths taking shots of grit in summer ruining it for all us sensible adult folk.

Dogatron posted:

Marx would not describe 12 months part time work for Jigsaw as a qualification for being working class.

How some parts of the upper class look at other parts of the upper class should not concern anybody but themselves.

Darth Walrus posted:

https://twitter.com/kadhim/status/1602447895453638656?s=46&t=-frTKe1zp-rsy8u-MaZcfQ

lol, dude gave a bunch of media interviews confessing to gigafraud and then sat around waiting for the FBI to cart him away. I know crypto attracts particularly stupid crooks, but he has to be the new world record holder.

killerwhat posted:

Forkboy84 and Jaeluni - I danced extra hard for you at the Sigh/Anaal Nathrakh gig!
Excellent night.

killerwhat posted:

It was only one of them, the vocalist, the other one is focusing on producing music right now. They had musicians from Akercocke and Voices to fill in. So he was claiming it might have been the last Anaal Nathrakh gig. Seems unlikely. Was an excellent show, non-stop bangers.

domhal posted:

Crust First posted:

Not going to lie, this thread feels a bit more tight knit and honest than many other threads and posting in it feels a bit daunting.

OwlFancier posted:

Urinal Death must be a band name.

Guavanaut posted:

Rarity posted:

No one buys records any more and there's no money in streaming

Angepain posted:

i just seal all of my doors with concrete and never go outside