keep punching joe posted:

Spring starts when the first snowdrops and daffodils appear (so mid feb).

Guavanaut posted:

I guess by some metrics it is April as the first spring month in the UK, but not in any part of Scandinavia.

The UK calendar was set by Rome (and its only legitimate sequel and successor state, Rome Mania), so March it is though.

Sir Sidney Poitier posted:

What loving justification does anyone have to argue for incandescent light bulbs? Do they feel their energy bills are too low?

I remember the last place I rented, probably around 2011, had a living room lit by 9x 50W GU10 halogen bulbs. 450W just to keep the lights on.

Just Another Lurker posted:

Never had McDonalds, KFC, Burger King or any other big brand that i can't remember in my life, got obese as f*&k all on my own.

cat botherer posted:

You don't have a link to this do you?

forkboy84 posted:

Monster Munch really aren't worth arguing about.

OwlFancier posted:

We would get a flood of articles about the ancient right of ultima noctae and how it is actually a real mark of his kingliness.

Mourning Due posted:

Couple vaguely unrelated thoughts:

Wife & I just had the privilege of a 48 visit to Stockholm to see The Midnight (awesome show btw). Whole time we were there we kept remarking on how spotless the city seemed. Everyone seemed confident, well put-together, pleasant in their general manner, all willing to point us in the right direction when we got lost. We'd heard tales of how crushingly expensive it was there, but either we weren't tapping out properly or public transit was cheaper than here, food was about the same price, alcohol about the same. Hotel was v expensive & of course we don't know about rent etc. Anyway: what a stark difference, between the gorgeous, clean and calm train from the central station to the airport, to the train from Gatwick to London Bridge. Train schedule all hosed up. When train arrived, completely packed. And while on the train, four separate times we had people down in their luck coming round & begging, so they could afford a night in a hostel. Made me think a couple things:

- Begging must be so much harder now that we're essentially cashless
- Not to second-guess: they all mentioned they needed to raise £20 to spend a night at St. Mungo's: is that right, that we charge people to stay in our homeless shelters? If so, that's insane.
- Putting aside the obvious fact that these poor people have had their humanity stripped away by our heartless & foolish leaders, who couldn't care less about them personally: if I was a business owner, I know which country I would rather open a branch office in. Sweden felt like a country on the move, lots of clear investment in infrastructure and public works, whereas England feels like it's falling apart at the seams.

We were in a very touristy part of their capital city so maybe we saw it with blinders on. But having lived in London for the past 12 years it was certainly eye-opening.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Secrets of the clit chat:
the person doling out advice is Pamela Stephenson who older posters may remember as being a popular comedian 40+ years ago on a show called Not the Nine o clock news which IIRC was also where Rowan Atkinson found fame. She married Billy Connolly and trained as a psychotherapist

Maybe she just doesn't fancy him anymore but considers it her wifely duty to do the minimum.

smellmycheese posted:

So, anyway, what’s the thread’s thoughts on ghosts?

josh04 posted:

Can't even get the name right, it's "Keith Stalin" not "Keir Putin"

e: vladikeir putin

ItohRespectArmy posted:

things were pleasant when you guys were young?

Drone_Fragger posted:

Fair warning - those piss chugging charlatans at pepsi uk have changed the recipe on pepsi classic to be nearly entirely sweeteners. As such its disgusting and undrinkable swill, yet they are still charging 2.50 for it as if its full sugar. Absolute crooks.

stev posted:

Pepsi Max is so much better than the vaguely brown water that is Coke Zero.

Aphex- posted:

Pepsi Max always tastes flat and almost gone off to me. Coke Zero just tastes like regular coke which is witchcraft.

Dabir posted:

Strong 18 year old desperately trying to pad their uni application energy

Maugrim posted:

There’s a chess thread in trad games and a friendly chess discord, both active but not too active, come join

You forgot to say how good he was at chess.

Wait, is he Magnus Carlsen?

OwlFancier posted:

To be honest I feel like a life skills class should probably focus on "figuring out how to do things" as a skill in and of itself, because if I want to know how to do something I just type it into youtube and there's someone who has made a helpful video on how to do it, which is how I pulled the light module out of my car to change a bulb and put it back in again, and then got asked to do the same thing for a friend who didn't feel up to typing it into youtube, on the basis that I already knew how.

I feel like a lot of people just assume they can't do things, and it's not limited to younger people either, I see it a tremendous amount in older people who just "can't do [x]" when in reality they're just looking at it and not really trying to learn how to do it, because the option is available to fob it off and/or get someone else to do it for them.

I've been able to do a lot of things just by being willing to have a go. Turns out a lot of stuff is pretty easy if you try.

I have told people many times that I don't actually have any expertise I just have a computer and the ability to watch youtube videos. Doesn't seem to deter them from assuming I can just somehow do things they can't. It's fair enough if it's a physical limitation for them but a lot of people seem to default to a state of self enforced helplessness when faced with relatively simple tasks.

I blame society, I'm sure it's intentional to stop people thinking about what else they could achieve by taking things into their own hands.

1965917 posted:

Concentration camp Kieth goes onto emphasis that it would only be temporary.

But theres nothing more permanent than a temporary solution

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

This link worked for me:



Can't actually see the difference between HDS link they posted and this though! (When I clicked the link HDS posted it didn't work for me either but now it does... weird, or what?)

Jedit posted:

Co-worker is full of poo poo. I spend a week in Germany every year for an enormous trade fair that dumps tens of thousands of people into a small city during a local festival week and it still feels less cramped than Manchester or Glasgow on a Saturday. There are homeless people, yes - there always will be - but the streets are not an open air hostel and I've never seen a cop moving anyone along. The rents are cheaper than here too, plus the average salary is higher.

smellmycheese posted:

Hotdogmeme.jpeg

https://twitter.com/westminsterwag/status/1643617757022285825?s=46&t=m_nNbkNoHG4lLitcpyHReg

Jedit posted:

They left it.

smellmycheese posted:

Scientastic posted:

Yes, but the problem is that you are ignoring the testimony of actual Chinese people who have fled the regime and now can tell their story without (as much) fear of reprisal. I’m sure your trip(s) to China was/were great, but to pretend that the people who live in China are not subjugated and controlled is to wilfully ignore the huge amount of easily accessible evidence to the contrary, because it somehow favours your personal worldview.

kecske posted:

chabuduo is the way to a happy life

OwlFancier posted:

What did he get banned for? I don't think posting AI pictures in the AI thread three weeks ago is the actual reason?

smellmycheese posted:

Rupert Murdoch’s week just keeps getting worse

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/25/prince-william-murdoch-phone-hacking-claims-court-filings-prince-harry

fuctifino posted:

https://twitter.com/Otto_English/status/1653155518154776577

feedmegin posted:

There are enough people (needlessly) freaking out in the world in general about 'soon ChatGPT will become self aware!' and suchlike without a new thread for it. It's fancy predictive text. It's not Skynet and will not and cannot become Skynet by iterating on what it is now.

smellmycheese posted:

https://twitter.com/chrisgiles_/status/1653678949736538112?s=46&t=m_nNbkNoHG4lLitcpyHReg

Hard cheese peasants