The little things in life that fuck you off

[Queenslander]

I think it's justified. Governments don't pay attention to anything truly peaceful. I'm not necessarily pro-XR, but I'm pro doing what it takes to get results.

My problem is mainly due to them wasting the time of our emergency services and targeting the working class' ability to get to and from work. They need to be targeting State MPs and Adani.

It wont stop me voting greens but the people in Brisbane at least wont be stopping any new mines being built.

Edit: Just now a bloke has chained himself to a busy railway line.

[Pepe]

You speak a latin language, Solaire & Hydrolique can't be that hard to interpret.

Not the language, the size.

[Pepe]

If anyone is genuinely interested, this is a good read:

https://www.withouthotair.com/

[Shindig]

A few years ago, our council slapped a load of solar panels on the the council housing around (and including) my parents' place. I'm kind of surprised that hasn't become more of a thing with new builds.

[Giggles]

You have to put them on all new builds here.

[John]

Yep, I don't think I've seen a new build house without a solar panel in a long time. The roof of the church near me was rebuilt a couple of years ago and even that is covered in solar panels now.

[Spikey M]

My sister in law has just bought a new build and I'm pretty sure there's no solar panels on it.

There's new builds springing up on every available blade of grass here and I don't think I've seen solar panels on any of them, actually.

[Lewis]

And this is the issue, it's mostly ill thought out token gesture shit. To actually stop the impact it would take a fundamentally, properly fucking fundamental, change to the way we live and very few are actually prepared to do that.

There's also no chance the 2nd/3rd World will get anywhere near it either as they'll just see it as the established order keeping themselves ahead. Think when GS was moaning about Man Utd's inherent advantage over Liverpool because their 90s success coincided with the Premier League.

You say we have to change our lives, but it's actually just x amount of businesses (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/09/revealed-20-firms-third-carbon-emissions) polluting for fun in an economic vacuum. If we can get rid of fossil fuels then we don't have to alter a thing.

[niko_cee]

:D

The way that article goes you wonder if they're actually going to lay the blame at all the plants and animals that died to make all that oil and coal in the first place.

[Pepe]

I love articles like that. Just superb reasoning.

[Shindig]

I swear growing up we used to get the odd article about how we'd all run out of crude in 30-50 years. Although they probably just found some more oil.

[Pepe]

Yes, every time we're 'about to run out' we just find more. We might run out at some point, of course, but we won't get to see that.

[Shindig]

Well, at least Thomas Cook going under gets a few planes out of the sky. Unless the guys sick of waiting for the 737 Max orders are going to snap them up.

[bruhnaldo]

Wasn't there a Grand Tour episode where they made electric cars look completely and utterly useless

[Queenslander]

My misusses just told me that she knows of 17 women so far who have had their chemo or radiotherapy appointments pushed back at the Mater this morning because of the protests on the South East Freeway on ramps and off ramps aswell as the dozens of street closures in the city. Lol

[Kikó]

Extension Rebellion will be targeting my work on Monday so we've been asked to stay away. 😎

[Yevrah]

I've been so busy at work lately, I've largely missed what they're doing.

It's peaceful demo's right? So why are people being asked to stay away from their workplaces?

And what do your work do that's particularly met with their ire Kik's?

[Giggles]

Peaceful?

[Yevrah]

Well, like I said, I haven't been paying attention much, but they're not smacking the shit out of people, are they?

[Jimmy Floyd]

'Extension Rebellion' sounds like a group of suburban boomers making a stand against lax planning controls.

[Spikey M]

Extension Rebellion will be targeting my work on Monday so we've been asked to stay away. ��

I don't see why they're opposed to people making the most of their land to be honest. As long as they have the proper planning permission, anyway.

[niko_cee]

What is the end game for extinction rebellion? A return to pre-industrialised society? Which extinction are they rebelling against anyway? If it's our own, I don't think carbon neutrality is going to have much say in that, if it's the one that's been going on pretty much since we pitched up and started chucking sticks at all the other megafauna, well, again, probably pissing in the wind, most of those dudes are already gone and their replacements aren't going to come along whilst we're around.

[Kikó]

I've been so busy at work lately, I've largely missed what they're doing.

It's peaceful demo's right? So why are people being asked to stay away from their workplaces?

And what do your work do that's particularly met with their ire Kik's?

We "invest in fossil fuel industries". While peaceful, it would probably be awkward to get in and out.

[Kikó]

'Extension Rebellion' sounds like a group of suburban boomers making a stand against lax planning controls.

Down with that sort of thing.

[Shindig]

Mate, that conservatory is blocking my Sky dish.

[Spikey M]

Jimmy both beating me to the punch and on execution. I'll put a fucking boat on his garage, the cunt.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I don't have a garage, but you can park your caravan across my dropped kerb if you want to irk me.

[Lewis]

'Extension Rebellion' sounds like a group of suburban boomers making a stand against lax planning controls.

https://www.cpre.org.uk/what-we-do/housing-and-planning/itemlist/category/10-green-belts

[bruhnaldo]

So these comic book fiends are up in arms about Martin Scorsese not liking their little nerdfics.

One such fiend posted a facebook status today to the tune of "Oh... am I really going to take film nuance advice from a guy who let a literal rat run across the screen at the end of Departed?!"

to which I honestly thought hey wait I've seen that movie like 50 times what is he talking about? Then saw all of these fucking petitions to get the rat removed and all of this shit.

Imagine that. Martin Scorsese, not someone whose advice you take w/r/t film.... because he doesn't enjoy your comic book movies?

I'm just.....

[niko_cee]

Well, if a person's frame of reference for a Scorsese film is The Departed then that probably tells you all you need to know about them.

[bruhnaldo]

But that's half of it. The only reason this guy brought that up is because he probably googled Martin Scorsese and saw people complaining about said rat and thought it was some sort of widely accepted commentary as opposed to a much smaller group of pedantic losers trying to ruin a perfectly good film with their own (extraordinary ironic) snobbery.

Imagine cinema snobbing off The Departed because you thought a rat was too IN YOUR FACE just so you can in turn call Martin Scorsese himself a cinema snob because he thinks comic book movies are trash.

You've literally suspended disbelief and logic for what, 48 hours just so you can cheer on CaPtAiN aMeRiCa but FUCK a scene where a rat slowly crawls across a picturesque frame of the Massachusetts State Building which, even if not exactly subtle, probably speaks louder in 5 seconds than all 48 fucking hours of ha durr "i LoVe YoU fIvE tHOuSaNd" bullshit!

/rant

[Ian]

Three thousand.

[Lewis]

I like different types of films me.

[bruhnaldo]

As do I, I'll watch all kinda stuff. It's the commentary itself that annoys me.

Like let's not act like Spiderman is the pinnacle of cinema.

[Pepe]

Don't read the commentary then.

[bruhnaldo]

As if social media and specifically facebook works like that.

Please share with me your strategies for only seeing great, well thought out takes on the internet?

[Pepe]

No Facebook + no Twitter does 90% of the work.

[Ian]

Not being on Facebook only gets better every time somebody tells me their most recent Facebook-related story / drama / argument.

[mugbull]

Superhero movies are the worst social phenomenon of the last decade or so. They used to come out like once every few years and you could deal with it. Now it’s all Hollywood produces. There’s nothing good about them. I assume there’s a similar explanation for why WWE is popular, but I’m not sure what that is

[Disco]

For WWE it's market position and inertia.

[SvN]

It's also probably currently as unpopular as it's been since the mid 90s.

[mugbull]

yeah but i think it’s mass nostalgia driving both

[Lewis]

It can't be nostalgia driving superhero films when they have a far bigger audience than the nerd comics ever did.

[Offshore Toon]

There were still superhero TV shows and films back then, though. You might have a few new players these days but it'll still instill a decent hit of nostalgia.

[Disco]

yeah but i think it’s mass nostalgia driving both

WWE is more popular in older age groups but mainly because it's bad not because wrestling is just about nostalgia. Marvel films are popular because someone already did the hard work, it's multiple decades of established characters with existing storylines. All they had to do was find a few good looking people to play everyone, make them sufficiently appealing to the action film crowd, and keep cranking them out. It's easy money compared to making something original.

[Lewis]

Which nobody watched.

[phonics]

It is in no way nostalgia driving them, considering the main reason they make bombshells worth of money is China.

[bruhnaldo]

Marvel films are popular because someone already did the hard work, it's multiple decades of established characters with existing storylines. All they had to do was find a few good looking people to play everyone, make them sufficiently appealing to the action film crowd, and keep cranking them out. It's easy money compared to making something original.

Which is inherently why this "Well fuck Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola they don't know shit about film!" shit is driving me entirely up a wall.

[Shindig]

It is in no way nostalgia driving them, considering the main reason they make bombshells worth of money is China.

America sells. I looked briefly into Chinese superheroes but their Batman and Superman equivalents have only been going for 3 years.

[Yaysus]

America sells. I looked briefly into Chinese superheroes but their Batman and Superman equivalents have only been going for 3 years.

most of the MCU's money is made in china

[mugbull]

It might be China yeah. But so many of my friends are into superhero movies now that never had any love for them a decade ago, and it’s not because of the writing or acting

[bruhnaldo]

It's because it's the popular thing and they're jumping on the bandwagon as to be apart of the zeitgeist?

[Offshore Toon]

As if China think for themselves. They have the numbers to overtake the West by imitation, so they don't bother with innovation.

[phonics]

It might be China yeah. But so many of my friends are into superhero movies now that never had any love for them a decade ago, and it’s not because of the writing or acting

So, considering you're in your 20s, in what sense is it nostalgia?

[Spikey M]

Superhero's are shit.

[Ian]

Better than your use of apostrophes, mate.

/sickburn

[Spikey M]

*apostrophe's

[bruhnaldo]

I liked superhero movies when they were infrequent and a bit of "Aha you know how you liked Batman as a kid well what if all that corny shit kinda grew up and matured with you and now you get The Dark Knight" instead of "Ok so you know The Dark Knight well what if we did that with literally every super hero"

[Shindig]

Out of interest, I looked at how quick they banged out the four Christopher Reeve Superman films. Two years, three years and four years between them.

[Smjffy]

I find the majority of them boring so I've barely watched any of them. I don't feel I've missed out on much.

I attempted the thing Yevrah did but for me it got old very quick.

[mugbull]

So, considering you're in your 20s, in what sense is it nostalgia?

People used to read comic books? I dont get your point

[bruhnaldo]

I mean..when I was a little kid I used to play with the action figures and watch the cartoons.

My cousin and I had a bunch of them (okay I had like 5 but he had a bunch of them) so many summer days were spent concocting complex story lines and scenarios for our assortment of heroes and villains.

That, as well as going outside and pretending to be said superheroes in the same way.

So for me that would've been the nostalgia factor personally but idk, after the first Avengers movie I had no interest whatsoever and a passing interest prior.

My cousin, however, is ashamed of this fault in me, though I did really enjoy the Deadpool movies.

[bruhnaldo]

Comic book movies worth a shit in no particular order

Deadpool 1 and 2
The Toby Maguire Spiderman trilogy (though the 3rd one was a mess).
The Dark Knight trilogy
The first Avengers movie I guess
Black Panther was cool why not
Iron Man 1 and 2
?????????????

Scott Pilgrim vs The World probably counts in some sense cause it was a comic book and if that's the case that's the best one out of the entire bunch by a long shot.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Doesn't even list the best ones...

[mugbull]

Scott Pilgrim was decent yeah

[bruhnaldo]

Doesn't even list the best ones...

*sighs exasperatedly*

Which.. ones...are...the....best...ones.....Mahow? https://www.kanyetothe.com/forum/Smileys/default/rsz_1b5bscyv.png

[Spikey M]

Which is shortest?

[Pepe]

Comic book movies worth a shit in no particular order:

[Boydy]

Comic book movies worth a shit in no particular order:

Watchmen
V for Vendetta

That's it.

[bruhnaldo]

I always get Watchmen confused with that movie Ben Stiller was in

[Disco]

Zoolander?

[bruhnaldo]

Mystery Men if i recall. Could be something else, more fun to speculate and not google.

[Giggles]

https://prodimage.images-bn.com/pimages/0883929555918_p0_v3_s600x595.jpg

/thread

[Shindig]

Mystery Men if i recall. Could be something else, more fun to speculate and not google.

Pretty sure that had Smash Mouth on the soundtrack.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

*sighs exasperatedly*

Which.. ones...are...the....best...ones.....Mahow? https://www.kanyetothe.com/forum/Smileys/default/rsz_1b5bscyv.png

Thor Ragnarok, Captain America Civil War, CA: Winter Soldier (probably the best), Infinity War and I personally have a soft spot for Dr Strange as I love the character although it isn't the best of films.

Also, Iron Man 2 was a mess.

[bruhnaldo]

I haven't seen any of those.

[niko_cee]

I've seen Dr Strange.

It's watchable nonsense.

All the Captain America ones just sound too awful to contemplate for me personally.

Black Panther was alright, but again, we're not really talking great cinema here. It's a decent yarn.

[Shindig]

It's a shame they're all so disposable now.

[bruhnaldo]

But that was fine for those movies. Watch it once, be mildly entertained without much real thought, move on with your lives.

The way they go on about this shit now is insane. It's all very American Psycho to me.

The early films were a little too campy for my taste. But when The Dark Knight came out in '08, I think super hero movies really came into their own, commercially and artistically...

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Why do you care so much?

People like different shit, move on.

[Offshore Toon]

Why do you care so much?

People like different shit, move on.
Because it's still real to him, dammit!

[Lewis]

I like seventy per cent of the things I like ironically.

[bruhnaldo]

Why do you care so much?

People like different shit, move on.

I'm just adding to the conversation, dickhead.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

By acting like a true American teenage girl, got it.

[bruhnaldo]

By continuing to talk about a topic I started?

Anyways.

[Lewis]

https://life.spectator.co.uk/articles/why-i-regret-inventing-the-innocent-smoothie-brand/

Yevrah

[John]

I have a carton of Innocent coconut water right now, and it does say 'stop looking at my bottom' underneath. Ugh.

[Baz]

Well I suppose I should count my blessings that I got to experience multiple viewings on Into The Spiderverse (and listening to “Sunflower” and “Hypnotise” from the soundtrack, on near repeat for months) all the Toy Story films, animated Mr Bean, the original Pokemon series and underrated treasure Gigglebiz - but the inevitable has finally happened. My 2yo daughter is obsessed with something I’m not really keen on... Frozen.

Sigh. I understand it could be worse but when you’ve gone from daily viewings on an awesome Spider-Man movie and constantly requests of “I want Biggie Smalls” in the car, changing that to Frozen and “the Forever song” is pretty grim.

She’s probably too young to watch the new one at the cinema too, so it’s just the first one. Was probably kidding myself thinking the “cool stuff” could last, I guess.

[Foe]

Your kid has good taste. Good reminder to look out frozen to take “home” over Xmas.

[niko_cee]

If you like gigglebiz then just get the Justin Fletcher version of Let It Go, it's quite funny and the album has other such classics as What Does the Fox Say? on it.

Frozen is decent. Quite a few of the that era disney princess films are alright (Tangled is good).

[Spikey M]

What has become of us?

[Shindig]

Our Disney was better, lads. They used to do drawings.

[Disco]

Gigglebiz is top tier, you lucked out there.

[Spikey M]

Justin's House > *

[Disco]

Supermarkets trying to be your friend.

No Sainsburys you are not a 'part of christmas', you sell groceries (and do very well out of it) stop trying to make us feel like we should be setting a place at the table for you.

[Giggles]

This is where Aldi is the job. They hate you, you hate them, but the transaction takes place with minimal fuss and everyone wins.

[John]

Went to the registrar today with my gran's death certificate, hoping to get whichever form is required to get the funeral directors moving with a date from the crematorium. That didn't happen because there's a fucking bonkers system in place where ten percent of people are flagged up for some extra scrutiny on their death certificates, apparently at random, but they only decide you're being flagged during your appointment and so you find out on ten minutes notice that everything is being pushed back at least a day. She was flagged for a 'Level One' review, which is the smallest of three possible embuggerances.

[Giggles]

Didn’t know she’d passed away (if you’d said elsewhere). Sorry to hear that.

[Smjffy]

Went to the registrar today with my gran's death certificate, hoping to get whichever form is required to get the funeral directors moving with a date from the crematorium. That didn't happen because there's a fucking bonkers system in place where ten percent of people are flagged up for some extra scrutiny on their death certificates, apparently at random, but they only decide you're being flagged during your appointment and so you find out on ten minutes notice that everything is being pushed back at least a day. She was flagged for a 'Level One' review, which is the smallest of three possible embuggerances.

How is that even a thing? :cab: It's bad enough when a loved one passes away but to have to prove it too....Jesus.

Sorry to hear of your loss.

[John]

It isn't about proving anything. The questions they ask when you take in the certificate are all about what she did for a living and how many siblings she had. It's about keeping family records up to date, but they're well aware nobody would bother their arse with that stuff if they didn't have to so they make the form you get at the end a legal requiremenet for the funeral directors to collect the body from the hospital.

[Smjffy]

Well that's slightly better but still it's a faff I'm sure you could be doing without at such a shitty time.

[bruhnaldo]

Sorry for your loss, John.

[Spikey M]

Sorry for your loss John.


How is that even a thing? :cab: It's bad enough when a loved one passes away but to have to prove it too....Jesus.

Sorry to hear of your loss.

I know this isn't what they're doing here, but they absolutely will be looking into every death to make sure it's legitimate. There are are a lot of people who could benefit from being officially dead.

In my last job we'd have an offenders spouse lie about them being dead at least once a week. It got to the point where it was made up more often than it was true and it was awful when it was true, because people become so used to the bullshit that they don't even attempt to hide their doubt, never mind offer condolences.

[Jimmy Floyd]

'Back from the dead canoeist', five words guaranteed to light up any social gathering.

[Shindig]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50734000

What absolute arseholes for parents.

[Pepe]

So now he won't graduate at all? How is that better?

[Shindig]

You want the wrestling thread, @Mahow.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

No idea what you're talking about.

[Giggles]

Don’t know what’s happening there.

[Shindig]

He posted a wrestling gif here. Unless a man falling over completely fucks him off.

[Pepe]

Took my wheels to put the winter tires on to the same place I did last year. Ten minutes later I get a call saying that they don't have the tools to mount those low profile tires on my custom wheels (they are the stock wheels). Said he did them last year, he says I don't think so. Fucking lazy twats.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Are you sure they did them last year?

[Pepe]

Yes. They did moan about them being hard to mount, but they still got it done.

[mo]

Fucking phone won't charge. Not relishing the prospect of having to take it to the apple store.

[Giggles]

At least you have some there.

[Disco]

No Apple stores :drool:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Yes. They did moan about them being hard to mount, but they still got it done.

But are you really sure they did it?

[Pepe]

Don't kno' no mo'.

[Spikey M]

Fo' sho'.

[mo]

Took my phone to the local bloke-in-the-market phone shop, put a new port in, £35, 45 mins, job done. No going to Bath for me.

[Giggles]

That’s probably warranty up in smoke then (if it was under warranty still).

[mo]

Nah long time out of warranty now I'd have thought.

[Gray Fox]

Looking at getting some wireless earphones, without spending a bomb.

The amount of obvious Apple knock offs is ridiculous, not to mention there's countless unrecognisable brands who all have very similar products in the £30-50 range(I was hoping to be spending about £50).

No idea where to start with it.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Looking at getting some wireless earphones, without spending a bomb.

The amount of obvious Apple knock offs is ridiculous, not to mention there's countless unrecognisable brands who all have very similar products in the £30-50 range(I was hoping to be spending about £50).

No idea where to start with it.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07KT66WHT/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I tried these in the past and they're pretty good (they're a brand with lots in the price range though), I returned them though as they don't work with Alexa and Amazon announced their own earbuds.

[Boydy]

I'm not sure you'll get decent 'true wireless' ones for that price. You should be able to get 'wireless' ones that are joined to each other though.

I ordered these the other day but they haven't arrived yet.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B071GNH9MT/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[Gray Fox]

I'm no audophile or anything so as long as they sound reasonable I'm good. The ones Mahow posted are more the style I'd like.

The ability to stick them into a case when done with them is something I like.

[Giggles]

Galaxy buds were released at about 120 and Samsung stuff normally drops like a stone in price so I’d check those before buying some licenced no-name set.

[Spikey M]

I had these (https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/audio-and-headphones/headphones/headphones/skullcandy-jib-wireless-bluetooth-headphones-black-10160962-pdt.html), which were alright for the price. But, because they're not fully wireless, they died the same death all headphones do, with one side conking out. That said, you'll struggle to get proper wireless headphones for the money you're spending.

[Gray Fox]

Maybe worth spending the extra then.

Cheapest pair of recommended and reviewed well ones I've seen so far are Aukey T10's which come in on Amazon at £80.

[Baz]

Maybe worth spending the extra then.

Cheapest pair of recommended and reviewed well ones I've seen so far are Aukey T10's which come in on Amazon at £80.

There’s an extra 10% off them (not sure if you need Prime), so that’s like 72? https://amzn.to/2srRRN8

[phonics]

I’m announcing my war on the 2p piece. Who’s with me? At least the 5p has the decency to know it’s place vis a vis size.

[Giggles]

I need to get some of those next time I’m up the north.

[Spikey M]

Phonics really does think all coppers are bad.

[Ian]

Waaaaay.

[phonics]

:D

[phonics]

I’d quite enjoyed being back in the UK so running out of cigarettes and having to pay FOURTEEN POUNDS for 20 Marlboro Reds was a good reminder that Geneva has its upsides. FOURTEEN POUNDS.

[Baz]

Don’t smoke. It’s free.

FREE.

[Gray Fox]

He's not wrong.

[Smjffy]

Dreams. I stop smoking weed around the last week of November and my dreams have been getting steadily more fucked.

I've played and scored for Liverpool, I've been stood up by my mates mum who I hadn't seen since I was a teenager, I stole a pair of shoes that were under a steel gate, I've free fallen from the sky, waking up before I've splattered and I've murdered a faceless character just this last week or so alone. I've never been one to really remember dreams but they are so real at the moment that they are really freaking me out. :(

[Offshore Toon]

Just start lucid dreaming and fly about the place.

[Shindig]

I had a dream the other night where I shot up an airport. Nobody seemed bothered.

[SincereTheRebel]

I haven't had a dream in a long time. Only recurring nightmares.

[Spikey M]

I had a dream the other night where I shot up an airport. Nobody seemed bothered.

If there's anybody on here that was going to do a Columbine it was always going to be you. This has your recent 'trips' making some sense at last.

[randomlegend]

I've been off the zopiclone the last 4 nights and had some fucking WILD dreams. Zopiclone suppresses REM (dream) sleep, so you get rebound REM when you come off it as your brain tries to catch up what it missed.

Dreamt I was a spider the other night and was trying to convince myself that eating the fly wouldn't take rank because I'm a spider and that's what spiders do.

[Smjffy]

From what I have Googled I think that's why I am having mine as weed suppresses it also?

Last night I dreamt Ellie had tried to escape out the window and as I tried to stop her falling she used my arm to scale the roof. I then go on the roof to get her but was met by loads of evil cats, dangerous and scraggy looking. I had to lash out at them and they would pop and vanish but still couldn't find her. This seemed to last an age but was so real it was horrible, quite a lot of black cats so the similarity was confusing. I couldn't find her but eventually woke up with her perched on my chair as norm. :cry:

Phew!

Happy New Year everyone and may 2020 bring you all good health and happiness. x onelove.

[Pepe]

so you get rebound REM when you come off it as your brain tries to catch up what it missed.

Sounds like pseudoscience to me.

[randomlegend]

Sounds like pseudoscience to me.

Perhaps you should read the research and educate yourself then.

[Pepe]

I can sleep just fine without taking pills, so I won't.

[randomlegend]

Ok boomer.

[Pepe]

:swing:

[Giggles]

Ok boomer.

That’s an idiotic reply at the best of times, but it’s new levels in this case. How does it even apply to what he said?

[randomlegend]

"FAKE NEWS"

"There's plenty of research.."

"I DON'T CARE DOESN'T APPLY TO ME"

[Giggles]

Exactly.

[Pepe]

I didn't say FAKE NEWS. This is not redit, so get of your high (for you) horse, nobody gives a shit that you're a doctor.

[randomlegend]

nobody gives a shit that you're a doctor.

As evidenced by the fact you've brought it up out of nowhere :cab:

Going around crying "pseudoscience" at stuff with no evidence or interest in finding out about it is retarded.

[Pepe]

I didn't "cry" shit. Merely said that it sounded like it. If it is not (and let's not forget the tragic state of affairs of research on the field) then so be it.

[John]

Yet 'Ok Boomer' is still the most pathetic post here.

[randomlegend]

Yet 'Ok Boomer' is still the most pathetic post here.

Like clockwork.

[Lewis]

I still sometimes lol at Mahow claiming he can control his dreams.

[Pepe]

Back on topic:

Some VERY IMPORTANT documents are getting delivered today. Since signature is required, I have to be home to get them, but of course those cunts can't give you a time window or anything. "By the end of the day." :mad:

[Pepe]

I still sometimes lol at Mahow claiming he can control his dreams.

Maybe he was referring to the Ukraine thing.

[randomlegend]

I still sometimes lol at Mahow claiming he can control his dreams.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30880167

Again...

[Lewis]

There is some way between that and living your made-up dream reality like Inception. Why not just dose yourself up and sleep twenty-three hours a day if you can do that?

[Pepe]

Despite having been physiologically validated for approximately
four decades, the neurobiology of lucid dreaming is still incompletely
characterized. Most studies conducted to date have relied on small
sample sizes, which limits the generalizability of the findings. Not
surprisingly, the results of such underpowered studies are not consistent:
almost every EEG study reports changes in spectral power in a
different frequency band or brain area. Neuroimaging data on lucid
dreaming is even sparser. Currently, there is only one fMRI study
contrasting lucid and non-lucid REM sleep and it is a case study.
Nevertheless, the results of this study converge with MRI studies that
have evaluated individual differences in lucid dreaming frequency.
Together, this preliminary evidence suggests that regions of anterior
prefrontal, parietal and temporal cortex are involved in lucid dreaming.
The involvement of these brain regions in metacognitive processes
during the waking state is also in line with these findings.

You can definitely control your dreams mate.

[randomlegend]

There is some way between that and living your made-up dream reality like Inception. Why not just dose yourself up and sleep twenty-three hours a day if you can do that?

General anaesthesia isn't sleep, and I think that's the kind of sedation you'd need to stay asleep 23 hours a day. I don't think people who are anaesthetised dream at all but I might be wrong.

[Pepe]

There is some way between that and living your made-up dream reality like Inception. Why not just dose yourself up and sleep twenty-three hours a day if you can do that?

Apprently that's the goal:


A primary goal is to develop reliable strategies for making lucid
dreaming more accessible. As reviewed above, several studies have
explored methods for non-invasive electrical stimulation of the brain as
well as pharmacological approaches to lucid dream induction.
Electrical stimulation of prefrontal brain areas has resulted in
statistically significant but weak increases of dream “insight” ratings,
but so far it has not resulted in significant increases in the frequency of
lucid dreams. Currently it remains too early to tell how effective (if at
all) electrical stimulation of the frontal cortex, or other brain areas,
could be for lucid dream induction...

[Spikey M]

Just daydream you sad fucks.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I still sometimes lol at Mahow claiming he can control his dreams.

I haven't had a dream for a couple of years now (at least not that I recall the next day) due to anti-depressants, even after I went off them.

[Giggles]

Just daydream you sad fucks.

When you’re trying to live through dreams then it’s got to the stage where you’d be safer just jumping off something.

[Shindig]

The couple next door ordered 3 pizzas. Their lights are on but I've knocked four times and they're not answering. Retarded.

[Giggles]

Why does free pizza fuck you off?

[Shindig]

Because I've already put dinner on. :moop: 30 minutes later, they take the fucking hint.

[Foe]

I’m shit at diy. I do however need to change my bathroom ceiling light.

Bought a new one and of course after unboxing it, realised its fucked. Guess I’ll have to wait until the 2nd to electrocute myself.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Why does free pizza fuck you off?

My cousin entered the wrong address once and her pizza was delivered to a neighbour who gladly accepted it.

[Giggles]

My neighbours have got mine a few times because the twat can’t read numbers.

[Lewis]

You must live next to an Irishman.

[Giggles]

You must live next to an Irishman.

Pretty sure she’s a woman.

[Lewis]

Speaking of stupidity, did I set up my O2 account or did the nerd in the shop do it for me when I bought the account? I ask because it appears to have been set up to a non-existant e-mail account beginning with 'lweis', and I would quite like to blame them rather than accept that I messed it up.

[Giggles]

Normally these things have to be confirmed via an email anyway so if you don’t remember doing it then he did.

[igor_balis]

One of my most feckless and stupid friends visited me in Edinburgh when I briefly lived there. We came back pissed at like 3am, and cus Edinburgh is weird there was only one place on just-eat delivering, and it was £20 minimum. I went straight to bed, refusing to get in on food cus most of the reviews were saying how rank it was, so he just ordered a huge pizza and some chicken and chips for himself. He fell asleep, and the takeaway driver succeeded only in waking up my flatmate who blearily dumped the food next to my mate's carcass on the sofa. The pizza was so nasty that my mate managed about half a slice the next morning before chucking the lot away. And I've seen this cunt eat some nasty stuff.

Anyway, end up going out the next day. Stagger into the living room at 11am to see this dickhead sleeping next to another fucking 14 inch meat feast and soggy chicken and chips, completely untouched. My flatmate was too concerned for my mate's welfare to be pissed off. "Man, this guy has problems", from the guy who ate lasagna after 5 days sitting on work surface without even any clingfilm on it.

[Spikey M]

I had a similar experience in Ipswich, but it was based on proximity rather than Just Eats failings. I was away training people for my last job and the only shops nearby were a Polish off licence, which shorted me for beer and crisps, and a kebab shop, which provided a Kebab so poor that I don't think anybody working there xhas ever actually eaten one.

It had a burger bun instead of a pitta / wrap, the meat was fished from a tub, rather than cut from a spit and the only 'salad' was lettuce. He then poured on 'chilli sauce' that was very clearly actually water.

[Giggles]

I had one of them recently. I never paid any attention to whether there was a spit or not and just ordered and yer man pulls out these 4 perfect rectangles of stuff from a bag in the freezer and proceeds to cook them on the flat plate.

That said, the taste wasn’t the biggest problem. Twat wrapped it so loose and put so much sauce on it that it collapsed all over me on the first bite and I’d already started back on my journey.

[mugbull]

Wait, has nobody in here lucid dreamed? Lol at the fake news crowd on that one.

[phonics]

I havent had a dream in years. From reading around it appears smoking weed kills them.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I haven't had a dream in a long time. See, the life I've had could make a good man bad. So for once in my life let me get what I want, Lord knows it would be the first time.

[Offshore Toon]

Post-festival is the best time for lucid dreaming, as you basically can drift in and out for 23 hours a day.

[igor_balis]

Where the fuck are my fucking headphones

[Spikey M]

Mine were in my pocket, in the washing machine, if that helps.

[Giggles]

I’ve lost the ones came with my phone. They were shit AirPod shaped things anyway but I’ve nothing that fits the plug now.

[Spikey M]

'Oooh, what have you got for lunch?'

It doesn't matter if I'm wearing headphones, reading a book or wealding a machete. There is nothing that can stop these people asking.

Chilli. It's a chilli. Now fuck off.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Is it a nice chilli?

[Ian]

Reading a book is an absolutely guaranteed way to get somebody to talk to you about absolutely any old shit.

Especially as it gets more towards pisshead territory on a train home from Glasgow.

"S'at a book ye've goat there, aye?"

[niko_cee]

Flying Goose brand squeezy bottle tops, I get that they are probably seen as some sort of USP, but they barely work for sriracha (they don't) and they're just a calamity on the sriracha mayo thing they do. In fact, all twisty nozzle sauce bottles.

[Baz]

Thought you were knocking Twist n Squeeze for a second there. :brighton:

[niko_cee]

No, those things are great, although I'm amazed they still make 'em.

[bruhnaldo]

I havent had a dream in years. From reading around it appears smoking weed kills them.

idk fam i have very vivid dreams and a very destructive w eed habit

[mugbull]

Did anyone's adblock recently stop working on Youtube? As of yesterday every Youtube vid comes with an ad and there's nothing I can do about it. What a cruel world :violin:

[randomlegend]

Did anyone's adblock recently stop working on Youtube? As of yesterday every Youtube vid comes with an ad and there's nothing I can do about it. What a cruel world :violin:

Which adblocker are you using?

[Baz]

Did anyone's adblock recently stop working on Youtube? As of yesterday every Youtube vid comes with an ad and there's nothing I can do about it. What a cruel world :violin:

Why isn’t everyone using Brave Browser (https://brave.com/erq955) by now?

[SvN]

I can't believe you even used an affiliate link to recommend a browser.

[Disco]

Adblock still works fine for me, just need to find a version for mobile now.

[mugbull]

Yeah I’m using Adblock. I ended up getting a second adblocker specifically for Youtube and it’s all good now.

Beware though, it will be coming for you soon

[randomlegend]

Ublock origin is always touted as the best ad blocker.

[Raoul Duke]

I've been thinking about getting a Pi-hole (https://pi-hole.net)

Slightly technical write-up (https://www.troyhunt.com/mmm-pi-hole/).

It's not really the ads per-se, it's the amount of awful tracking shit.

[mugbull]

If all it takes is a Docker container then that’s pretty chill

[Giggles]

I haven’t had an ad on a website do me any harm in years. With all the trackers most of them are useful these days anyway.

[Baz]

I've been thinking about getting a Pi-hole (https://pi-hole.net)

Slightly technical write-up (https://www.troyhunt.com/mmm-pi-hole/).

It's not really the ads per-se, it's the amount of awful tracking shit.i made one once but ended up scrapping it because I wanted to use my pi something else. I can’t say I ever really noticed it doing anything, but I guess that’s a positive.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I burned my thumb eating a piece of deep fried quail tonight :\

[Pepe]

Did you thumb it in?

[Shindig]

I've just used a photo booth for some passport photos. Y'know how they usually show guidelines so you can position yourself right? This one just has a black screen and a countdown. 10 failed attempts. Fuck off.

[mo]

10 failed attempts. Fuck off.

Title of your autobiography.

[Shindig]

Or sitcom.

[Giggles]

Why does nearly every ad these days have to have a song slowed down and destroyed by some breathy bint who can’t sing? Heard the proclaimers be the latest to get the treatment.

[niko_cee]

I blame John Lewis, but it's actually probably the fault of/collateral damage from Donnie Darko.

[Shindig]

I blame Gary Jules.

[Baz]

Love Island has all that sort of music on too.

[Yevrah]

These things are never the fault of the originator.

John Lewis and Gary Jules did it very well, it's the legions of shit that followed that's caused the problem.

[phonics]

I'm seconding Niko with Donnie Darko. The fad was kicked off with that Gears of War ad that was all over TV and they didn't even bother changing the song.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy8LRlS1SCc

[Yevrah]

That works so poorly. The character doesn't move in anything like the right way for the music to compliment him.

[phonics]

It's nearly 15 years old.

[Yevrah]

And?

..

[bruhnaldo]

Do you find syncing music to movement a new age phenomena?

[phonics]

Do you find syncing music to movement a new age phenomena?

In-engine cutscenes can barely sync to music now.

[Lewis]

I put the blame for every twee bollocks thing proliferating on that hateful JCB song.

[Yevrah]

My point was Phonics that it was a shit choice of song. I think that was your point too. I don't know why we're now seemingly disagreeing.

[phonics]

My point was Phonics that it was a shit choice of song. I think that was your point too. I don't know why we're now seemingly disagreeing.

As someone who has to make this sort of stuff with less budget, less choice, I think I just get overly defensive.

[Yevrah]

Wasn't having a dig at you bud, so no offence meant.

[phonics]

I know, I meant I just try to think of it from the production side of things and leap to their defense. It's all love.

[bruhnaldo]

Awwwh guys :wub:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I just went to Sainsburys and had to wait nearly 10 minutes because TWO people didn't know how to enter £120 into the system...

They ended up putting through that I gave them £110 and gave me £10 on top of the change so it worked out even.

[SincereTheRebel]

Its 2020 and some websites still don't allow you to use special characters as a password.

[bruhnaldo]

All of my stupid ass American friends who when talking about football all of a sudden start using English slang

The other day when City got banned "Fantastic news in the world of onions mate!"

Fuck off you stupid asshole

[Disco]

Onions?

[Giggles]

What? I think you need to brush up on your English slang.

[Pepe]

:lol:

[bruhnaldo]

Well that's exactly half of it too! They use shit entirely wrong. I've heard of the "ol' onion bag" to describe the net, but this asshole went and used it like the ball is the onion.

And it's always "mate". Muhfucka you are from CONNECTICUT and your family's heritage is PORTUGUESE.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Well that's exactly half of it too! They use shit entirely wrong. I've heard of the "ol' onion bag" to describe the net, but this asshole went and used it like the ball is the onion.

And it's always "mate". Muhfucka you are from CONNECTICUT and your family's heritage is PORTUGUESE.
Never heard that here.

[bruhnaldo]

Why do I come here

[Giggles]

I’ve definitely heard of the onion bag as the net before but nowhere near enough that it would be regarded as common.

[Shindig]

I have, although it's a very old term that's been consigned to history. You know what's difficult? Telling a three year old 'fucking idiot' is not a polite thing to call someone. The nephew's started doing it and, for him to understand why it's bad would require giving him too much knowledge in the first place. No context or anything, it's just a thing he'll say.

Also, it's funny as fuck. :D

[bruhnaldo]

I’ve definitely heard of the onion bag as the net before but nowhere near enough that it would be regarded as common.

Perhaps it's an Irish thing cause upon searching most relate back to Tommy Smyth, who would very well likely be the source of inspiration for my asshole friend's new vocabulary.

[phonics]

Ignore Mahow, 'onion bag' is a very famous/common parlance phrase.

[niko_cee]

It is, but has it ever been used in a non-jokey/ironic way?

In other football parlance gone wrong annoyance news, am I alone in thinking that the dominos advert that talks about putting it in the 'top bins' is an affront? Top bin surely? I may have moaned about this before.

[phonics]

Agreed but asking Americans to pick up on irony is a lost cause.

edit: No, the phrase is definitely top bins.

[niko_cee]

I'm pretty sure 'top bins' is the modern bantard version of the original.

[Giggles]

Either singular or plural, it sounds like some bollocks ‘Freddie’ Flintoff made up last week.

[niko_cee]

Apparently this is more topical than I imagined as 'top bin' (and top bins) was (were), apparently (according to Soccer AM twitter at least) added to the OED last week.


“Either of the top corners of the goal; (also) a goal scored by kicking the ball into either of the top corners.”

The adjective form - ‘top bins’ - is also described as “in the top corner of the goal”.

[phonics]

Apparently this is more topical than I imagined as 'top bin' (and top bins) was (were), apparently (according to Soccer AM twitter at least) added to the OED last week.

I can't find the video anymore but when 'Soccer' first broke through in the States and some commentator said that 'he blasted it into the upper 90' is burnt into my brain. Upper 90? It just makes so little sense as a way of describing the goal.

This is very niche but Ken Early of Second Captains doing 'Champions League Weekly' style dubbings of Egyptian Commentary of Salah was so good.

"Top Bins. Top Bins" in a monotone voice as this Egyptian goes mental in the background.

[Giggles]

I can't find the video anymore but when 'Soccer' first broke through in the States and some commentator said that 'he blasted it into the upper 90' is burnt into my brain. Upper 90? It just makes so little sense as a way of describing the goal.

This is very niche but Ken Early of Second Captains doing 'Champions League Weekly' style dubbings of Egyptian Commentary of Salah was so good.

"Top Bins. Top Bins" in a monotone voice as this Egyptian goes mental in the background.

The 90 degree angle makes a lot more sense than describing it as a bin, though that’s not exactly a stretch.

[phonics]

I found the clip and because I'm a nice guy I uploaded it. Mostly because I'd forgot how funny the phrase 'Inspect the damage' is. Arabic is such a good language.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqIImBlX2YI