What have you bought recently?

[Boydy]

Careful, Boyd. You spent a month posting that Spongebob meme all over the place. Cracks about maturity are not for you.
That spongebob meme is better than 'lol gay' jokes.

[Giggles]

That spongebob meme is better than 'lol gay' jokes.

Are you a fag now?

[Pepe]

That meme gets a :thbup: from me. Especially when used against GS.

[Magic]

That spongebob meme is better than 'lol gay' jokes.

http://risovach.ru/thumb/upload/200s400/2013/05/generator/spanch-bob_20028143_orig_.jpeg?b5til

[Spikey M]

That spongebob meme is better than 'lol gay' jokes.

ThAt sPoNgEbOB MeMe Is BeTtEr ThAn LoL gAy JoKeS

[Boydy]

ThAt sPoNgEbOB MeMe Is BeTtEr ThAn LoL gAy JoKeS

It doesn't work without the picture, you amateur.

[randomlegend]

It's only ice cream, lads.

[Spikey M]

It doesn't work without the picture, you amateur.

iT dOeSnT wOrK wItHoUt ThE PiCtUrE yOu AmAtEuR

[Pepe]

'Black sesame' 'ice cream.' 'Mate.'

[Lewis]

Returning ice cream. :D

Mate it tasted like old ice cubes. The first one tried to bilk me when I told her to try some, but the second one agreed and looked suitably ashamed.

[Pepe]

They probably tossed it right back into the 'ice cream' bin and sold it to the next person in line.

[Lewis]

Yeah well I'm not eating it.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Fight the power!

[randomlegend]

Hibiscus sherbet up next. Maybe pair it with some rhubarb and a white chocolate cremeux. Just need something crunchy.

[Pepe]

Boydy's cock lol.

[Spikey M]

Hibiscus sherbet up next. Maybe pair it with some rhubarb and a white chocolate cremeux. Just need something crunchy.

Cameras are crunchy. £50.

[igor_balis]

blood oranges taste totally different to regular oranges you spacker

[John]

That spongebob meme is better than 'lol gay' jokes.

Not really. It's every bit as childish and requires less thought.

I bet the youngest child you've heard make a gay joke is older than the youngest child you've heard repeat someone's words back to them in a silly voice.

[Boydy]

So homophobia's cool now? Alright.

[phonics]

This is the worst argument on the board in a while. Both Boydy's softness and the bad meme is worth a lol at, the lol gay stuff from Spikey is just being a bellend

[John]

So homophobia's cool now? Alright.

No, but it's clearly more mature than that meme.

That's a properly good Harold impersonation, by the way. It's nice to be reminded what a diddy he was.

[Spikey M]

This is the worst argument on the board in a while. Both Boydy's softness and the bad meme is worth a lol at, the lol gay stuff from Spikey is just being a bellend

I bEt YoU’d LiKe SpiKeY RiGhT ArOuNd YoUr BelLeNd

[Giggles]

This is the worst argument on the board in a while. Both Boydy's softness and the bad meme is worth a lol at, the lol gay stuff from Spikey is just being a bellend

In fairness, you getting all Helen Lovejoy is a nice slab of normality in it all though.

Fuck knows what's happened Boydy though. To turn into such a sap in a matter of days is an odd one.

[igor_balis]

lol gay jokes are worse than repeatedly posting memes and stuff in an annoying way, but i am biased on account of enjoying repeatedly posting things in an annoying way and not being homophobic

[Spikey M]

I imagine, and hope, that ‘lol GAY’ jokes are used similarly to just ‘lol’ on here. It’s used in irony in most cases. It’s basically a ‘Your mum’ joke or a ‘your face’ joke to take us back to the days of Sandman.

[Pepe]

Anything that involves John is worse than anything that doesn't involve him.

[Giggles]

I imagine, and hope, that ‘lol GAY’ jokes are used similarly to just ‘lol’ on here. It’s used in irony in most cases. It’s basically a ‘Your mum’ joke or a ‘your face’ joke to take us back to the days of Sandman.

Of course, but genflake can't even be having that.

[John]

Anything that involves John is worse than anything that doesn't involve him.

That makes you just about the worst poster on the board by your own metric, given how often you make almost that exact post.

[Pepe]

Suck a dick.

Because you're gay lol.

[igor_balis]

does anyone want to eat my ass

[Magic]

If you shave it I'll tuck in.

[Mike]

Had a new three seat sofa, chair and foot stool delivered today. I’m currently maxing and relaxing on them.
I’ve never owned a brand new soda before.

http://dfs.co.uk/kirkby/kby13akrb
In mocha :cool2:

[igor_balis]

Just paid £55 for a pool cue. I'm so embarrassingly excited for its arrival.

[Giggles]

I miss pool. Fuck all the knackers for getting them taken out of most pubs.

If I'd ever bought a house the plan was to have a room big enough for a proper pub one.

[igor_balis]

I miss pool. Fuck all the knackers for getting them taken out of most pubs.

If I'd ever bought a house the plan was to have a room big enough for a proper pub one.

Aye, the disappearance of pool tables from most pubs is a shame. The ones that remain are always fucking shite and charge £1 a game as well. Thankfully we've got a Rileys (well, formerly Rileys, but same kind of set up) with about 10 british pool tables, all well maintained, and it's about £5 an hour per table. There's a £1 supplement for non-members but they only seem to charge that about once in every five times we go, depending on if the person on shift can be arsed.

And I have very limited interest in living in a big house or even owning one, but having room for a pool table is something I'd love as well.

[Boydy]

I'd fucking love my own pool table.

The best thing about the job I had when I lived in London was the pool table in the office. I got so good (again - I used to be good when I was younger but hadn't played in years) but now I'm probably rusty as shit again.

[Lewis]

I should be crap at pool, because I am crap at doing what makes up pool, and if you put me against another crap player I will more than likely lose; but I am able to test and even beat objectively superior players because once I go a few down I just slam the balls around as hard as I can and get all sorts of awkward bounces.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I'm fairly shit but I used to think I was class as I would almost always attempt hard shots and now and then they'd obviously come off.

I also liked my breaks (just smash it as hard as I could) but it was probably hurting me if a ball didn't go in.

[-james-]

Surely everyone's break is just smashing it as hard as you can and hoping one goes in?

[Giggles]

I used to live near a place with loads of tables in Portadown but the cunts from work always wanted to play snooker instead of pool. Those tables are too big for people of our standard.

[John]

A mate and I went into a really shitty old man pub about six months ago and the only other people in the place were two irresponsibly old men and a little spastic bloke sitting talking to the barman. We started playing pool and they all came over to watch. Three games in my mate bounced the black off both knuckles leaving me with an easy finish, and the little spastic shouted 'YASS' as loud as I've ever heard anyone shout. My friend refused to play another game and seethed for about two hours afterwards. He's still furious now any time I bring it up to lol at him.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

We used to have a table at my Dad's house but all bar one of the cushions needed replacing. Also had to use child cues in some places as there wasn't enough room but it was brilliant.

[igor_balis]

A mate and I went into a really shitty old man pub about six months ago and the only other people in the place were two irresponsibly old men and a little spastic bloke sitting talking to the barman. We started playing pool and they all came over to watch. Three games in my mate bounced the black off both knuckles leaving me with an easy finish, and the little spastic shouted 'YASS' as loud as I've ever heard anyone shout. My friend refused to play another game and seethed for about two hours afterwards. He's still furious now any time I bring it up to lol at him.

:lol:

That's quality, and I like how easily an image of that pub is conjured up from that little anecdote. I've been in plenty almost identical, I imagine (i was probably the spastic).

I used to play virtually every week for an hour or so from when I was about 11 to 16 and got quite good, then started playing for hours on end in the summer holiday of 2008 when Rileys opened and I got fucking amazing. Then I basically stopped playing for a few years after I discovered girls and booze (not that either particularly liked me back). I played again after I'd had my retina de- and then re-attached, which had fucked up my depth perception, was fucking wank and assumed it had ended my time of being an alright pool player, but obviously looking back I was just proper rusty.

I've started playing again more regularly and I've been getting back to roughly the level I was when I was in my early teens.

I'm quite inconsistent, and really bad at long, straight shots, but I've an uncanny knack of making utterly ridiculous pots - long cuts along the cushion, long plants, cannons and my fave - doubles across the length rather than width of the table.

[Foe]

In a couple of years I'm going to buy a house and I plan to have a table tennis table in one of the rooms. You plebs playing pool need some decorum.

[Giggles]

In a couple of years I'm going to buy a house and I plan to have a table tennis table in one of the rooms. You plebs playing pool need some decorum.

You may have a good solid wall to hit the ball against, as nobody wants to play that shit.

[Lewis]

Joining Rileys (or local equivalent) when you're seventeen, going twice, and then realising that going all the way to town to play fucking pool is a waste of your life. That British Problems dickhead would get a book out of that observation.

[Danny]

I think we have used our pool table less than 20 times in the 2 and half years we have had it. Its pretty much become a giant cat bed.

[niko_cee]

What kind of pool cue? An actual pool cue? Surely, in a Riley's, you'd be better off getting a snooker cue, and playing on the snooker tables. It'd make you a million times better at pool for starters. Long shots you say?

I've still never forgiven my parents for giving my (ok their) pool table away when I left home.

[Magic]

Why is pool so awesome? Don't know anyone that doesn't like it.

[Spikey M]

I get Pool in a way that I don’t get Golf or Darts. I think it’s more likeable (to play, anyway) because it’s easy to be/feel relatively good at it. With Darts or Golf I’m well aware that wherever I try to send the thing, it’s going nowhere close. With Pool I am atleast competent purely through having functioning hand - eye coordination.

[Magic]

Could be. Also hopeless at darts. You can fluke a pool win over a much better player but not with darts and definitely not with golf.

[Giggles]

I've finally came to the conclusion I won't be leaving Ireland again so I'll never be playing golf again. I've 3 sets of golf sticks in the attic that need to go in Donedeal

[Boydy]

I've finally came to the conclusion I won't be leaving Ireland again so I'll never be playing golf again. I've 3 sets of golf sticks in the attic that need to go in Donedeal

You never play down there?

[igor_balis]

What kind of pool cue? An actual pool cue? Surely, in a Riley's, you'd be better off getting a snooker cue, and playing on the snooker tables. It'd make you a million times better at pool for starters. Long shots you say?

I've still never forgiven my parents for giving my (ok their) pool table away when I left home.

Yeah an actual pool cue.

After years of intermittently playing pool I've reached a standard that I'll beat pretty much any of my mates 7 or 8 times out of 10, and lose against anyone who is actually good. There's room for becoming "quite good".

I played snooker with my dad every weekend for about 3 months and we stopped because we just had to accept that we were fucking horrendous. It was never an enjoyable experience. If I can find the motivation and enjoyment from playing pool on a very regular basis and I get really good I'll consider giving snooker another go. But probably not.

[igor_balis]

If memory serves, the best break either of us managed, by some distance, was when I got 17 (red black red black red).

[Giggles]

You never play down there?

Riff raff doesn't get to play here. No such thing as a council.owned course like I used to play on in Loughgall and most around here are close to €10k a year upwards.

[Boydy]

Riff raff doesn't get to play here. No such thing as a council.owned course like I used to play on in Loughgall and most around here are close to €10k a year upwards.

Jesus.

Are there not even any cheap pay-per-round ones like Kilrea?

EDIT: You're in around Dublin, aren't you? This place (https://www.sillogeparkgolfclub.com/cheap-green-fees) looks reasonable.

[Giggles]

Not yet, but this is definitely on the list.

https://youtu.be/yml9UaBXKHc

[Giggles]

Jesus.

Are there not even any cheap pay-per-round ones like Kilrea?

EDIT: You're in around Dublin, aren't you? This place (https://www.sillogeparkgolfclub.com/cheap-green-fees) looks reasonable.

Never seen this first time round, but I did a bit more looking and found a place fairly close. A non membership course, must be a fairly new development.

Still need to put a couple of sets up for sale. I'm going to keep the middling set and the good putter. Could never get used to the expensive Yonex ones that I was given as they've really small head woods and stupid hybrids in it.

[Pepe]

Not yet, but this is definitely on the list.

https://youtu.be/yml9UaBXKHc

:sick:

[Giggles]

:sick:

Yeah technology, how awful.

I'll just light a fire in a can and ride a BMX around it while I find myself instead.

[Magic]

Sound bars. :harold:

[Dquincy]

My father in law has light bulbs he can tell Alexa to turn on/off. Load of bollocks. Just get up and use the switch.

At what point does new technology just became pointless and gimmicky? Saying that, a disabled person or elderly might have use for the light bulb thing if they can't get up.

[Pepe]

Yeah technology, how awful.

I'll just light a fire in a can and ride a BMX around it while I find myself instead.

It's not "technology." It's the fact that it is easier to press a button than to shout at the TV. Also, I like giving you trouble.

[Giggles]

My father in law has light bulbs he can tell Alexa to turn on/off. Load of bollocks. Just get up and use the switch.

At what point does new technology just became pointless and gimmicky? Saying that, a disabled person or elderly might have use for the light bulb thing if they can't get up.

That's where that idea falls down.

[Giggles]

It's not "technology." It's the fact that it is easier to press a button than to shout at the TV. Also, I like giving you trouble.

:D can't argue with that.

I still use my remote, nothing can beat that convenience, but I like being able to tell my GH to talk to the remote if I've left it in another room or at the far side of the room.

[Danny]

My father in law has light bulbs he can tell Alexa to turn on/off. Load of bollocks. Just get up and use the switch.

At what point does new technology just became pointless and gimmicky? Saying that, a disabled person or elderly might have use for the light bulb thing if they can't get up.

We installed 3 light switches that do the same thing. You can tell google Home/Alexa to turn the light on and off. It’s been a god send cause the missus is notorious for leaving lights on.

I bought this a week or so back:
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/microsoft-surface-book-2-15-touch-screen-pixelsense-display-intel-core-i7-16gb-512gb-dgpu-silver/6145602.p?skuId=6145602
Was able to stack it with another 25% off at a different store. Loving it so far.

[Giggles]

I bought this a week or so back:
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/microsoft-surface-book-2-15-touch-screen-pixelsense-display-intel-core-i7-16gb-512gb-dgpu-silver/6145602.p?skuId=6145602
Was able to stack it with another 25% off at a different store. Loving it so far.

:drool:

[Pepe]

:D can't argue with that.

I still use my remote, nothing can beat that convenience, but I like being able to tell my GH to talk to the remote if I've left it in another room or at the far side of the room.

I can see it being convenient under certain circumstances. Rightly or wrongly, I do worry about privacy shit though.

[Spikey M]

Bought a WiFi booster and it’s mustard. I won’t have to waste my 4G taking a shit now.

[Foe]

We installed 3 light switches that do the same thing. You can tell google Home/Alexa to turn the light on and off. It’s been a god send cause the missus is notorious for leaving lights on.

I bought this a week or so back:
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/microsoft-surface-book-2-15-touch-screen-pixelsense-display-intel-core-i7-16gb-512gb-dgpu-silver/6145602.p?skuId=6145602
Was able to stack it with another 25% off at a different store. Loving it so far.

Use something similar at work and it's a load of shit. I either have a very basic model or it's just buggy as shit. Try and open two excel files simultaneously? No sir. That's a office crash every day. Working on an important email? Yeah, Microsoft office will close all its programs by itseld and remove them from the quick start tab along the bottom.

Piece of shit. Give me back my heavy piece of shit HP laptop.

[Giggles]

Use something similar at work and it's a load of shit. I either have a very basic model or it's just buggy as shit. Try and open two excel files simultaneously? No sir. That's a office crash every day. Working on an important email? Yeah, Microsoft office will close all its programs by itseld and remove them from the quick start tab along the bottom.

Piece of shit. Give me back my heavy piece of shit HP laptop.

They won't do that, it's the same windows 10 as any windows 10 (unless it's that S shit) Definitely an underlying issue with another program on the machine or a corruption somewhere.

[mo]

Bought a WiFi booster and it’s mustard. I won’t have to waste my 4G taking a shit now.

Which one, out of interest? Wife bugging me to get one as we can't get signal in our bedroom.

[Foe]

They won't do that, it's the same windows 10 as any windows 10 (unless it's that S shit) Definitely an underlying issue with another program on the machine or a corruption somewhere.

Wouldn't surprise me at all. The amount of crap and updates we get forced to do.

The pen can fuck off too. Modernisation can get fucked.

[Giggles]

Wouldn't surprise me at all. The amount of crap and updates we get forced to do.

The pen can fuck off too. Modernisation can get fucked.

That said, I've fuck all programs on mine (similar specs) and it's has one incredibly annoying bug I can't get to the bottom of. Doesn't even make sense that it has it, so there could be alright version/machine differences.

[Giggles]

Which one, out of interest? Wife bugging me to get one as we can't get signal in our bedroom.

Google WiFi is very good, though there probably are cheaper options out there.

[Dquincy]

We installed 3 light switches that do the same thing. You can tell google Home/Alexa to turn the light on and off. It’s been a god send cause the missus is notorious for leaving lights on.

I bought this a week or so back:
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/microsoft-surface-book-2-15-touch-screen-pixelsense-display-intel-core-i7-16gb-512gb-dgpu-silver/6145602.p?skuId=6145602
Was able to stack it with another 25% off at a different store. Loving it so far.
Noice. I'm tempted with a Surface when my laptop kills over. Does it have HDMI connection to link up to my monitor at home?

[Foe]

Noice. I'm tempted with a Surface when my laptop kills over. Does it have HDMI connection to link up to my monitor at home?

Nah, only has 1 USB. You have to buy this special adapter box for more USB / vga / hdmi connections.

[Danny]

I haven’t looked into it too much but I believe you can use USB C to HDMi/VGA for single monitor but then like Foe said I think you need the dock to run two external monitors.

I haven’t fired up any games yet but it has a 6GB 1060 in it.

[The Merse]

MVMT have branched out into sunglasses, and these float my boat. Went for the 'Everscroll' ones which include blue light filtering for use with computers. Not sure if I'll follow through on using them whilst working, but they're almost-clear lensed so it would just look like I'd taken up the use of reading glasses, I suppose.

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0377/2037/products/IngramCLEAR.View3.Blue_600x.progressive.jpg?v=1522 787193

[The Merse]

Nah, only has 1 USB. You have to buy this special adapter box for more USB / vga / hdmi connections.

Got given a Surface Pro by work and whilst it's a lot nicer than the old bulky laptops of yesteryear, this is the major drawback for me.

Also, the gits won't pay for the stylus - is it worth shelling out for?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Fucking hell.

Also blue light filtering is bollocks. I had a pair of glasses with them and they put a yellow tint on everything, I thought everyone had jaundice.

[Danny]

Got given a Surface Pro by work and whilst it's a lot nicer than the old bulky laptops of yesteryear, this is the major drawback for me.

Also, the gits won't pay for the stylus - is it worth shelling out for?

I didnt get one, I would have no real use for it. One there is a sale I might think about it but until then 2k on a laptop is enough :lol:

[Spikey M]

Which one, out of interest? Wife bugging me to get one as we can't get signal in our bedroom.

http://http://www.argos.co.uk/product/6878810?storeID=41&cmpid=GS001&_$ja=tsid:59158%7Cacid:532-198-3455%7Ccid:598893978%7Cagid:24310582250%7Ctid:aud-144400486596:pla-395043214500%7Ccrid:86867309210%7Cnw:g%7Crnd:96393 75566141018276%7Cdvc:m%7Cadp:1o7%7Cmt:%7Cloc:10072 16&gclid=CjwKCAjw8r_XBRBkEiwAjWGLlGFRSfauyp2Sas05-4FL5f4CrQOWJNupIITSYZHXm8ZEKDp-_wDq1hoC1p4QAvD_BwE (http://www.argos.co.uk/product/6878810?storeID=41&cmpid=GS001&_$ja=tsid:59158%7Cacid:532-198-3455%7Ccid:598893978%7Cagid:24310582250%7Ctid:aud-144400486596:pla-395043214500%7Ccrid:86867309210%7Cnw:g%7Crnd:96393 75566141018276%7Cdvc:m%7Cadp:1o7%7Cmt:%7Cloc:10072 16&gclid=CjwKCAjw8r_XBRBkEiwAjWGLlGFRSfauyp2Sas05-4FL5f4CrQOWJNupIITSYZHXm8ZEKDp-_wDq1hoC1p4QAvD_BwE)

There may be better, I know nothing about this stuff, but it’s £20 and works well.

[Baz]

Do you put it downstairs (near your router) or upstairs (where you barely get signal)?

[Spikey M]

Do you put it downstairs (near your router) or upstairs (where you barely get signal)?

You put it towards the outer range (but where you can still get a decent connection). The booster then covers the rest of the house, unless you live in a country manor. For us it covers the whole house so we just connect to the booster no matter where we are.

[Magic]

Lol they are shite.

[Spikey M]

It isn’t, but ok.

[Giggles]

Lol they are shite.

They really aren't. Always used them and they've always worked.

[Magic]

Ok I'll do a full wireless survey to tell you how shite it is honestly. Shite.

[Spikey M]

I’m using it so I can use WiFi in the bathroom and garden. It does the job and I’be had no issues so far.

I can only assume you’re seeing this as lost potential sales in your new role. Soz lad.

[Magic]

You only realise how awful a WiFi solution is when you use a properly set up one.

Hint: you haven't.

[SvN]

Imagine being a snob about a WiFi extender.

[SvN]

Next week on TTH: You call that a potato peeler?

[Magic]

Imagine being a snob about some logo for a fucking whitepaper.

Next week on TTH: you call that a graphic design degree?

[Lewis]

Congratulations on successfully extending your Wi-Fi range Spikey. :)

[Magic]

I could successfully extend my penis with a toilet brush but it doesn't mean I'll be able to fuck women any better.

[Magic]

Ah, damn it. EFUKT is my downfall. I could fuck women a whole lot better.

[Spikey M]

Cheers Lew, it’s quite the WiFi solution.

[Magic]

At least your head is too small to be affected by any additional radio waves.

[Giggles]

Everyone is very on edge today.

[Magic]

It's the weather.

[Baz]

Just bought a radiator. I’m such a man. All part of the #dadmin these days. :baz:

[randomlegend]

If I pass my resits, I'm gonna blow my first paypacket on whatever I want.

Spending £500 on a knife :drool:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Japanese Damascus steel knifes :drool:

Do it.

[randomlegend]

I'm going to have a custom one made by this guy I think:

http://www.catchesidecutlery.com/store/c1/arts

Also considering this guys stuff:

http://www.prendergastknives.com/products

And this:

https://cleancut.se/butik/knivmodeller/kockknivar/gyuto_yoshikane-detail

[Giggles]

What sort of knife? Like a kitchen one or just one to go around as a hardman?

[randomlegend]

Kitchen knife.

Not many gangs to join in Norwich, which is unfortunate given what a ghetto badman I am.

[Giggles]

That makes more sense. I always wanted to try a really good knife but I probably wouldn't be able to use it right anyway.

[randomlegend]

That makes more sense. I always wanted to try a really good knife but I probably wouldn't be able to use it right anyway.

The first knife I bought is an entry-level Japanese Gyuto/Chef's knife and cost about £80. It is a billion times better than a crappy knife.

I know that's not cheap, but you can use it for 99% of things you need a knife for in the kitchen so I don't think it's a ridiculous amount. Something like that, a cheap sharpening stone (I use this https://www.amazon.co.uk/Japanese-whetstone-Combination-Grit-1000/dp/B001DT1X9O and will continue to use it even if I buy a very expensive knife) and a bit of time on youtube is all you really need. It makes such a difference to how enjoyable and easy working in the kitchen is.

Well worth it in my opinion.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I use this knife:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/ZELITE-INFINITY-Chef-Knife-inch/dp/B0110EKTUU/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1530040080&sr=8-3&keywords=japanese+damascus

Got it in the last sale type things (after wanting it for ages) and it's fucking brilliant.

Not bought a whetstone but I really should.

[randomlegend]

I have this:

http://www.knivesforchefs.co.uk/tojiro-dp-gyuto-knife--f-807-blade-180mm--7-handle-120mm-1979-p.asp

(210mm version of this, not the carving knife I put before)

and this:

https://cuttingedgeknives.co.uk/brands/konosuke/gsplus/petty-150mm

If you want to learn to sharpen, this playlist is excellent Mahow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74muM8gQcEw&list=PLh7fhojwwhFiKbEpprwcrUoFvIVQrmZiD

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Cheers, will give it a look when I'm back home.

[Boydy]

The first knife I bought is an entry-level Japanese Gyuto/Chef's knife and cost about £80. It is a billion times better than a crappy knife.

I know that's not cheap, but you can use it for 99% of things you need a knife for in the kitchen so I don't think it's a ridiculous amount. Something like that, a cheap sharpening stone (I use this https://www.amazon.co.uk/Japanese-whetstone-Combination-Grit-1000/dp/B001DT1X9O and will continue to use it even if I buy a very expensive knife) and a bit of time on youtube is all you really need. It makes such a difference to how enjoyable and easy working in the kitchen is.

Well worth it in my opinion.

Bit of time on youtube?

[randomlegend]

Both learning some basic knife skills, and how to sharpen with a whetstone.

[Baz]

To be fair I wish I had a proper good sharp knife. Having to use scissors to cut bacon is just wrong.

[randomlegend]

Like I said, I could easily have got by with that one Tojiro knife and the sharpening stone for many years. With a bit of practice I can get it screaming sharp and it can be used for almost everything (it's a bit unwieldy for tiny stuff life garlic but perfectly usable; you would wreck the edge on frozen stuff/bones so that's the one thing I'd definitely avoid).

I really think it's a worthwhile investment for anyone who cooks at all to get one decent chef's knife and a whetstone.

[Giggles]

I wouldn't want to be sharpening it so probably no point in me ever buying one. Are there any made from something that would stay sharp?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Ceramic I think.

[randomlegend]

Ceramic knives are shit (although it gives me another opportunity to post my favourite video ever).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKZh70prVt8&

I don't think there's really such thing as a good knife which doesn't need sharpening, or everyone would be using them.

[Giggles]

Ceramic knives are shit.

Probably be a lot better than what I have though.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Ceramic knives are shit.

Yes they are.

I'd be worried as fuck of it shattering to pieces when using it.

[Boydy]

Both learning some basic knife skills, and how to sharpen with a whetstone.
What do you mean by basic knife skills? I reckon I'm decent enough with a kitchen knife but now I'm wondering if I'm missing something.

[randomlegend]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c4RD5E4vcs

Mostly just simple stuff like this. Learning to use a knife is obviously best done by practising using a knife rather than sitting on youtube, but it can be useful.

[Disco]

Who makes video about cutting technique and doesn't actually cut anything? Complete fraud.

[niko_cee]

I've often flirted with the idea of buying a really expensive kitchen knife, but I know I wouldn't look after it properly, so I just stick with my crappy knives and this odd tungsten sharpening device an old Australian dude made for me, which sharpens anything to within usable parameters. Realistically they're vanity items for the most part. ONE CLEAN CUT!

[Lewis]

I was in the York Outlet a few months ago looking at (obviously just looking at) an eight-hundred set of four knives, and the woman, who was either dying of boredom or thought I was one of those people with so much money they can afford to bowl around like a tramp, let me have a go cutting some stuff with them. They were very good at cutting the stuff, but unless you were literally wearing them out every day I think you would be better off just buying cheap ones and chucking them away when they turn shit.

[randomlegend]

The problem with shit knives is they don't hold an edge. You can sharpen pretty much any old crap until you can shave with it, but it will be blunt again very quickly.

Good knives take a very sharp edge and hold it well. But I agree, once you are comparing a £100 knife to a £500 to a £3000 knife you are not getting something which cuts 5x/30x better. There are definite but relatively modest improvements but yeah it's a vanity project. Probably like with anything really - you see a big improvement from 'cheap' to 'expensive' and then small improvements once you start going onto 'very expensive'.

I don't care though, I like nice knives and I feel like I've earned the right to blow a tonne of money on something unnecessary - just because I want it - after having no money since forever and everything I've been through the last few years.

Probably fucking fail now.

EDIT: e.g.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P6klz6BTek

[Boydy]

https://i.giphy.com/media/i1hiQy3uVZ0KQ/giphy.webp

[Mike]

https://i.giphy.com/media/wPsgFr8PKECzK/200w.gif

[Spikey M]

Ah, you’ve played knifey spoony before.

[Danny]

Bullfrog? That's a funny name... I'da called 'em "Chazwozza's"

[randomlegend]

https://i.giphy.com/media/i1hiQy3uVZ0KQ/giphy.webp

https://pics.me.me/isobbing-im-gonna-treat-myself-33148994.png

[SincereTheRebel]

I bought one of those YI home cameras. They are brilliant. Easy to install as it just sticks to any surface. Links quick to your wi-fi and phone via the app.
You can subscirbe to the cloud storage. You get a free one-month trial, or you can juat use memory card which I'm doing now. Motion activated with an altert direct to your phone.

I would highly recommend them. I bought one and then bought two more on Amazon 30 minutes after I instaled it.

[Giggles]

I've one of those too. Great job, I've got it pointing at the driveway from the top bedroom. That's how I caught the neighbours using my bins :cool:

The Yi Dashcam is excellent too for anyone looking one. Saved me the other day.

[SincereTheRebel]

Special offer on Amazon for £30. I have the dome one too ive just setup which is probably too much. You can control it from the app and actually move the camera. Not necessary for my requirements but still pretty cool. It even has a mic you can talk through and catch people off-guard.

Im setting one up over my bed in plain sight. Make my own blue movie.

[Spikey M]

Aren’t those cameras ridiculously easy to hack? There was a couple on Watchdog who’s camera had been viewed by thousands Eastern Europeans.

[Giggles]

Well someone can look at my drive if they like.

[Shindig]

People watch a lot of shit on twitch. Never underestimate the size of a bored audience.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

People watch a lot of shit on twitch. Never underestimate the size of a bored audience.

How many subscribers have you got not?

[Shindig]

I think it's 12. About the same as my youtube subscribers.

[Spikey M]

Meanwhile Giggles driveway has thousands.

[Shindig]

I know. You can't compete with perfection.

[Disco]

Meanwhile Giggles driveway has thousands.

Most of those are Smiffy.

[Giggles]

Meanwhile Giggles driveway has thousands.
Hopefully :drool:

[Giggles]

Can you return stuff to Amazon if you just don't want it?



.

[SincereTheRebel]

Yeah. Amazon is excellent with returns. They will probably let you keep the item and just refund you immediately. (Depends on the item of course)

[Giggles]

Bought wireless earbuds (Jaybird X3) for the Mrs but ordered the wrong set and going by the reviews they're absolutely shit. Want to order a different set and just send these back as soon as they arrive in the post.

[Disco]

Absolutely, if it's not very expensive they may not even bother asking for it back, we frequently don't because it's not worth the carriage.

[Giggles]

They were £90 so I'd say they will, but that's grand so long as they can go back. There's another set at fairly similar money that has much better reviews.

[randomlegend]

http://www.catchesidecutlery.com/store/p77/SOLD_236mm_forged_geometry_Gyuto%2C_carbon_san_mai %2C_Red_palmera_Wa_handle..html

Right so I'll be getting a blade like this^

But with a custom handle made by this guy:

https://www.instagram.com/pcpken/?hl=en

Prolly something along these lines:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BjabEUAA8KA/?hl=en&taken-by=pcpken

Genuinely excited (what a twat).

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

San Mai too so the edge will be hard as fuck (and sharp) with the spine being a bit softer.

[randomlegend]

Found a nerdy knife forum to get suggestions and that guy apparently makes really great knives so excited for it. Few months wait but never mind.

Bought my mum a knife too (bit less extravagant) because she likes using mine. Thought it was the least I could do as a thank you for all the stress I've put her through the last few years and all the support she's given me.

http://www.japanesenaturalstones.com/kaeru-kasumi-stainless-gyuto-210mm/

[Boom-Boom-18]

Can anyone recommend some half decent TV speakers for under £40?

This is just for a bedroom TV that isn't used very often, the sound plays up.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

For under £40?

Have you tried attaching some strings and cups to the TV and putting them to your ears?

[Mike]

Can anyone recommend some half decent TV speakers for under £40?

This is just for a bedroom TV that isn't used very often, the sound plays up.

No idea if it’s good but this is on sale for prime day...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/LG-LAS260B-Channel-Bluetooth-Sound/dp/B01AHJTP22/

[randomlegend]

Did your knife arrive yet @mahow?

Decided with the maker on the design for my handle. Just a render at the moment, can't wait to see it for real.

[Spikey M]

That’s a bit sad, mate.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Did your knife arrive yet @mahow?

Decided with the maker on the design for my handle. Just a render at the moment, can't wait to see it for real.

Haven't ordered it yet as their on holiday until the 28th so I'll order it nearer then.

I also got the whetstone but I haven't used it yet. I've watched a lot of videos so far (haven't watched enough on burr removal though) and I'll probably start on the shit knifes my Mum has collected. I don't want to jump right in on my collection of good knives and end up fucking them up.

[randomlegend]

That’s a bit sad, mate.

Haters gonna hate.

[John]

Haters gonna hate.

It isn't being a 'hater' to suggest caring about what pattern is on the handle of your kitchen knife makes you a bit of an anorak.

[randomlegend]

Didn't you spend about a grand on a coat so you could cosplay the third leukaemia-ridden Gallagher brother?

[John]

Didn't you spend about a grand on a coat so you could cosplay the third leukaemia-ridden Gallagher brother?

No to all of that.

[randomlegend]

I know what I saw.

That was also a perfectly acceptable place to employ "haters gonna hate" so suck a dick you miserly, self-important, boring old cunt.

[Lewis]

Write him a prescription for butthurt mate.

[Spikey M]

I know what I saw.

That was also a perfectly acceptable place to employ "haters gonna hate" so suck a dick you miserly, self-important, boring old cunt.

Haters gonna hate.

[randomlegend]

Write him a prescription for butthurt mate.

I graduated today and I've had my GMC registration through. I'll whop it in the post for him.

[John]

I know what I saw.

That was also a perfectly acceptable place to employ "haters gonna hate" so suck a dick you miserly, self-important, boring old cunt.

You petulant little arsehole. :D

I think I know what you're on about, but it wasn't a grand, it wasn't a jacket, it looks nothing like something Oasis would wear, and I look nothing like a Gallagher ill or otherwise. I hope your doctorly observations are a bit sharper.

Also, do you think I spanked a grand on a crap jacket or do you think I'm miserly? You can't have both.

[randomlegend]

Jesus, imagine having such a high opinion of yourself you call someone on a forum 'petulant'. Get a grip.

[John]

Jesus, imagine having such a high opinion of yourself you call someone on a forum 'petulant'. Get a grip.

How does my opinion of myself in any way affect my ability to recognise that you're a petulant tit?

[randomlegend]

Because you think someone daring to call you out on being a cunt marks them out as 'petulant'. You're just a cunt. Honestly one of the least appealing personalities I've ever come across.

[John]

Because you think someone daring to call you out on being a cunt marks them out as 'petulant'. You're just a cunt. Honestly one of the least appealing personalities I've ever come across.

You'll notice people call me a cunt all the time on here and I don't call them petulant. I'm calling you petulant because it's what you are, just an absolute child whenever someone disagrees with you.

[Giggles]

Thatescalatedquickly.gif

[igor_balis]

My mate's girlfriend got the shots out after we lost against Croatia and I ended up throwing up all over the carpet when I got home, whilst my mum was away on holiday. I offered to pay for a professional to sort it out but she got me to put £50 towards a carpet cleaner instead. Quite an exciting purchase as I can now soil the house with impunity. Might do a poo in the front room later.

[randomlegend]

:wanker:

[Spikey M]

I thought doctors were meant to have patients?

:baz:

[mugbull]

My mate's girlfriend got the shots out after we lost against Croatia and I ended up throwing up all over the carpet when I got home, whilst my mum was away on holiday. I offered to pay for a professional to sort it out but she got me to put £50 towards a carpet cleaner instead. Quite an exciting purchase as I can now soil the house with impunity. Might do a poo in the front room later.

Amazing

[Disco]

Called it.

[Boom-Boom-18]

No idea if it’s good but this is on sale for prime day...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/LG-LAS260B-Channel-Bluetooth-Sound/dp/B01AHJTP22/

I went ahead with this and very impressed. So impressed actually that I bought another one for my TV in the living room.

[randomlegend]

Haven't ordered it yet as their on holiday until the 28th so I'll order it nearer then.

I also got the whetstone but I haven't used it yet. I've watched a lot of videos so far (haven't watched enough on burr removal though) and I'll probably start on the shit knifes my Mum has collected. I don't want to jump right in on my collection of good knives and end up fucking them up.

How you been getting on?

[Bam]

Johns a cunt.

[Spikey M]

You’re a right miserable old fucker these days Bam.

[Bam]

You petulant little arsehole. :D

[Spikey M]

Just calling a spade a spade. I can’t remember you posted something that wasn’t sniping at someone.

[Bam]

Are you off your tiny head?

[igor_balis]

Bought a big telly and sky sports & bt sports subscription.

Embracing being a pleb :drool:

[Bam]

Though you was dipping your foreskin in that sloot tonight?

[igor_balis]

Not until "9-10ish". However I've been drinking and watching cricket since 2 so if she does message me she'll just get me slurring about Englands top-order.

[Baz]

Bought a mug.

https://i.imgur.com/kBmyjyt.png

[phonics]

A bag and a few posters:

The bag is a mate of mines label so I'm supporting him more than caring about the bag:
https://i.imgur.com/gUNq8V1.png

and because I get mates rates I got myself a canvas of this as well:
https://i.imgur.com/PcYcSTp.png

A couple of Simon Stelenhag prints including:
https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.50743396.0897/flat,1000x1000,075,f.jpg

and

https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.235779511.0837/mp,550x550,matte,ffffff,t.3.jpg

and I'm buying a bunch of low-poly masks for the crew for Halloween from https://wintercroft.com/

[Bam]

Looks a load of :wanker: tbh.

[phonics]

Bams probably typed that while wearing something from Superdry.

[Bam]

No, I'm more Ted Baker.

[Giggles]

Wifebeater and some burberry.

[Lewis]

Those are his kids' names.

[Bam]

Wifebeater and some burberry would be some name. :D

[Lewis]

Wifebeater, Burberry, and Vercetti the pug.

[phonics]

I was chatting with my mates missus who's from Cheltenham so you'd think quite posh and middle class stuff, went to school with a kid who's first name was Jack Daniels. No hyphen, but he had to be called Jack Daniels.

[bruhnaldo]

That's the most beautiful thing I've ever heard.

- Man who drinks Jack Daniels regularly.

[bruhnaldo]

Wait that sounds gay now doesn't it. Welp. No turning back now lads.

[phonics]

Of course 'Florida Man' thinks it's a good idea.

[bruhnaldo]

I would personally never but I honestly drink so much Jack Daniels that I'm a huge fan of this guy's life now.

[Spikey M]

I haven’t had a poster since I was about 16. Fix up Phonics.

[randomlegend]

Knife and handle on the way. Whoop.

Went with a different blade in the end:

https://i.imgur.com/6Limb64_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

https://www.instagram.com/p/BnY91CaA9mT/

Can't upload to Imgur from my phone seemingly so that's the Instagram post.

Should both be here this/next week. Then I have to install the handle without fucking everything up :)

[Lewis]

Are you going to keep them in the kitchen, or display them next to you katana?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Katanas :drool:

[randomlegend]

Are you going to keep them in the kitchen, or display them next to you katana?

I'll chop things with it every day.

[randomlegend]

The abuse I'd get if I posted my keyboard :drool:

[Pepe]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Monster_Ball_Money_Honey.jpg/800px-Monster_Ball_Money_Honey.jpg

[Mike]

I think it each time it happens but having supermarkets deliver shopping is the best.
A nice man has just carried the majority of my shop up two floors to my flat, a shop I only ordered yesterday. The drinks are all chilled too!

[SvN]

I bought a clothes shaver yesterday and can't believe how good it is. It's made some of my old bobbled jumpers look brand new.

[Disco]

The bobbly effect is called pilling, I don't know how I know that but I do.

[randomlegend]

https://i.imgur.com/m0PoUK3.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/AeGubcU.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/w7wb41i.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/NaDmibX.jpg

Knifes innit.

[Baz]

Knives.

[Spikey M]

I can't even imagine a world where I'd care about a fucking knife.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Maybe if he was brandishing one of those at your throat.

[Shindig]

You don't brandish those. You invite people around to see them in their case.

[randomlegend]

Or chop food with them which is what I do.

[Shindig]

See, my dad's a retired butcher and he exercises function over flamboyance. Those are fucking ornaments.

[randomlegend]

They've got fancy wood in the handles but they are at heart just very functional blades.

Edit: top ones made by this bloke FFS

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bni3PHQA9G3/?utm_source=ig_web_options_share_sheet

[Giggles]

I had another lenovo smart display arrive. One in each room now.

[randomlegend]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BueS6YUBF5o/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Bought the cheaper of those two in a complete failure of willpower.

That's knife-buying done for the very foreseeable future.

https://i.imgur.com/wLGFGYe.png

[Baz]

£440 knife. :wtf:

[Disco]

I'm more interested in where they've chosen to take that picture. On a piece of wood, on top of some random stuff? Outside?

[SincereTheRebel]

Cleary its some type of coffin.

[randomlegend]

I'm more interested in where they've chosen to take that picture. On a piece of wood, on top of some random stuff? Outside?

Works in a workshop, finished the knives, took them outside the workshop to photograph them would be my guess.

[Mike]

Looks like they need cleaning.

[phonics]

Got a tasty mic, such clean audio, shame I hate the sound of my own voice.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71pv5z2dkHL._SY606_.jpg

and a pair of white Supra's that were on sale for 40 quid. Wasn't planning on buying another pair of shoes but Supras are so comfy that at that price I may as well have taken them and it means I can chuck out the older pair I have worn down.

https://static.footshop.com/28857/supra-vaider-white-white.jpg

[SvN]

What are you using the mic for?

[phonics]

Mostly just on discord with the boys and a bit of streaming here and there. Then also using it whenever I need to do some voiceover/ADR for video stuff we do at work. A few of the people I play D&D with have considered turning it into a podcast so maybe that. It's OTT for what I need day-to-day but I got myself a Canon EOS 200D recently too so I can basically do A/V freelancing on the side if I want to/need the cash.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/814OO6jtYGL._SX425_.jpg

[Mike]

Where did you get the Supras

[Giggles]

Buzz Aldrins eBay.

[mugbull]

They look dope honestly

[Spikey M]

You'd have to be on it to think so.

[Boydy]

Buzz Aldrins eBay.

:D

Lol

[igor_balis]

I laughed at Giggles' excellent diss even though I do have an almost identical looking pair of nikes.

Reminded me of the absolutely atrocious joke I made at work that somehow got my assistant manager to piss themselves. Some bloke in one of those ubiquitous NASA t shirts was hovering by the entrance, and when they said "wanna see what they want, Igor?", I feigned excitement and said "really?? awesome, I've never served an astronaut before!" Such wit.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Literally?

[Lewis]

I bumped into a camouflaged soldier coming out of the base gym, and, honestly without thinking, said 'Didn't see you there lad'. He called me a prick, and then I realised that I had accidentally donned him senseless.

[phonics]

No, you just did the equivalent of asking a tall person how the weather was up there or if he plays basketball.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

You're still hoping someone asks you the basketball question, aren't you?

[phonics]

At 5'12/6'0 that'd be a weird question to ask considering I'd be 7 inches shorter than the average.

[Spikey M]

I bumped into a camouflaged soldier coming out of the base gym, and, honestly without thinking, said 'Didn't see you there lad'. He called me a prick, and then I realised that I had accidentally donned him senseless.

:D

[Giggles]

At 5'12/6'0 that'd be a weird question to ask considering I'd be 7 inches shorter than the average.

Why write the 5'12 at all when it is 6'?

[phonics]

Why write the 5'12 at all when it is 6'?

5'12 is 180 cm. 6'0 is 181 cm and last I measured was 180 but I thought people would do the lol you mean 6'0.

[Lewis]

I took that as five twelve (lol) and six stone.

[igor_balis]

5'12 is 180 cm. 6'0 is 181 cm and last I measured was 180 but I thought people would do the lol you mean 6'0.

there's 12 inches in a foot

[igor_balis]

fuck you on about phonics

[phonics]

In other news, did you know that a kilogram is actually slightly less than a kilogram now?

[Giggles]

5'12 is 180 cm. 6'0 is 181 cm and last I measured was 180 but I thought people would do the lol you mean 6'0.

Then just do it in cm. 1 foot = 12 inches.

[phonics]

fuck you on about phonics

I'm taller than 5'11 but shorter than 6'0 so what would you call that?


Then just do it in cm. 1 foot = 12 inches.

Yeah but no-one actually does height in cm apart from european weirdos. It'd be like me saying I'm a size 46, none of you would know what I mean.