Just shut up and SMASH the like button m8.Originally Posted by Ben
Just shut up and SMASH the like button m8.
Don't forget to hit that notification bell so you don't miss when someone calls you a cunt.
It really helps them out. Along with the Patreon, ko-fi, affiliate links, super thanks, superchats, tips and bits. Also check out their documentary on Nebula.
Thanks, will take a lot. It's more Vodafone's new fibre broadband which is wank. The new router doesn't allow splitting of the 2.4 and 5 ghz. It's apparently clever enough to tell the device to use 2.4ghz withoutsplittingit manually. Does it fuck.
On the podcast thing, I don't mind the ads as I just hit the 30 second fast forward every time.
How do smart plugs help with wank routers?
Most of them can only use 2.4 and won't work with some routers.
Yep, my Google WiFi router doesn't have separate network IDs so it's a nightmare. Fortunately I've got a solution that involves using my wife's phone as a hotspot with the same SSID as my router, but it's a bit of a pain.
That's one I've never had a problem with. It doesn't have the two SSID's but most of my brewing stuff is 2.4 and connects no bother.
Doesn't really go here, but whatever:
It's crazy to me that an item I bought from Hong Kong was shipped yesterday and is already out for delivery today, while stuff coming from California usually takes at least five days.
You're enabling the Chinese takeover, don't do it. Embrace inconvenience.
I got something else from HK a few days ago and they didn't even charge me any TARIFFS. We'll see this time
Is it actually from there though? Quite a lot of stuff off AliExpress, for example, seems to be warehoused over here in the UK now, presumably they have a similar arrangement for the US.
Yes, FedEx tracking had it in three different Hong Kong locations yesterday. This comes from a small company, not temu and the like.
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Yeah I find a lot of my AliExpress stuff seems to be coming from the Netherlands now.
Stoners.
Mate of mine who owed us some cash said he'd send me some weed from his friends outdoor growhouse (I can't smoke the stuff the kids are buying/selling these days, it's too strong and a couple puffs put me on pluto). It hadn't turned up so I reached out, the knob couldn't be bothered to go buy stamps so just used some he found in the back of his cupboard which are out of date so they don't have the barcode. He thought 'if I just put four of the old ones on there to make up the difference'.
Went to the co-op earlier, to scout out the reduced section, and some bloke grabbed both of the big cheesecakes. I always think this kind of behaviour violates the unwritten rules of the reduced section. In a way I'd respect it more if it was like ten pizzas, cus that's just very frugal, some alchie throwing them in the freezer to sustain himself, but two fucking cheesecakes, you greedy cunt.
When I worked in the Co-op no matter how many packs of mince etc were reduced someone would often come and just take the lot, which I think there should be a limit on but is standard behaviour apparently.
Some people just feel amazing getting a perceived bargain I think. I mean, we all like a saving from time to time, but some people it properly gets them up in the morning to think of getting a deal on frozen goods.
It's never the most badly off people either.
I've noticed there's a certain... genre of person that stalks the reduced sections when I'm in Southend. I don't know how to put it delicately, but I will say that I suspect the reduced sections in Bradford are fiercely competitive.
Not Jack Monroe then? Always used to find it a bit suspect she'd parade her yellow sticker hauls on social media as if she didn't have her own cookbooks and appear on tv, maybe leave some for the needy eh?
Absolute fraud of a person. I can understand lefties wanting to believe in people like that, and I do think accusations of hypocrisy are sometimes unfairly thrown at public do-gooders, but it was very interesting watching the people on a very left leaning forum I also frequent slowly accepting that jack monroe was full of shit.
It was like the classic stages of grief, and I think there are still a few holdouts who still think it's all just a conspiracy to make them look bad.
It's just weird to carry a façade like that. "Look, I'm poor and everything but I'm dead clever with how I shop. Watch how effortlessly I make this quiche." Fuck that, noise. I want a woman on a council estate, wearing an Iron Maiden t-shirt struggling to break up mince. You can't fake that authenticity.
I was meant to sit one of my college membership exams this afternoon at some random test centre but they couldn't get the app to work on the computers so it got cancelled.
The "IT guy" was literally Chabuddy G, I don't think he'd ever used a computer before today.
As it turns out it's all kicked off on X tonight because she's been given some £60k nepo job at Southend council and Reform have found out and called it on the agenda.
FFS. Does anyone remember my dad writing that retarded new age philosophy book? I thought he'd basically gotten over it, but I received this message just now:
I look forward to retiring on my percentage of the proceeds of Business Secrets of the White Van Men.
I'm particularly amused by his earlier message this morning when I was asleep, telling me "the vanity publishers are interested in my book!", which suggests he knows exactly the kind of scam this is, yet he was still pleasantly surprised they wanted to take his money.
Mum, Sue and igor Too.
Isn't this literally the plot of a Peep show episode?
Edit: ah I see you have indeed alluded to that with the title
Please live stream the book launch in the pub.
I just found out that, the Indian people who bought my flat halfway through my lease tired to jack up my rent illegally and then evicted me have been registering the council taxes under my name for the last year.
Im the least organised person in the world and within 3 minutes of receiving that email I sent back 12 pages of evidence.
Hahah oh shit, weren't they there snooping around that weekend I was there ?
The Indian bloke who bought my first house tried to dump four months of energy bills onto me because he hadn’t got a tenant yet.
I literally had to send the debt collection company evidence I’d sold the house to him for them to back off, because he genuinely believed he didn’t have to pay anything until tenants were in.
Don't know if you've noticed this Jim but I've now been out of the country for 3 years and I can't translate French clips I read.
I find it's very much a form is temporary, class is permanent thing. When I go there I tend to flounder for 36 hours and then it all comes flooding back and I'm using the verb ranger all the time and shrugging.
Has phonics broken the forum for everyone else?
I got a Charlie horse having a wank and kicked out the plug for the server. My bad.
It's my birthday next week and I have three different people asking me what I want. Working out birthday presents is your chore, not mine ffs.
I’m not sure which thread it was being discussed in but I got stricken into watching big GarethEcon and that Aussie go to war and my biggest takeaway from the whole thing is that Mr Huel might be generational levels of thick. I think Steve Irwin but for Tech is fundamentally wrong but he has actual thoughts. Meanwhile Stephen’s in the corner popping up every 25 minutes to tell me a stat produced by Grok 3.0.
I saw that and thought it can't be too long until Gary has another breakdown.
I particularly enjoyed the bit where the Australian's plan for the betterment of THE YOUTH was for them all to become a brand / tech start up and have their own social media enterprise. What could possibly go wrong?
Gary also needs to get better handlers / briefing so he can push back more on the extremely prevalent argument that Singapore / Switzerland / Ireland are doing well so we should copy them. As a former inhabitant of that sort of place it doesn't take a genius to realise that not everyone can be a fucking tax haven and that even in those places, where affluence is off the charts, many people still struggle.
As someone who grew up in Geneva who’s friends bounced between there, Singapore and Delaware I am constantly perplexed how hard the side of the argument I agree with doesn’t hit that it the park for a home run.
IVE JUST GOT TO THE PART WHERE STEVE IRWIN SAYS ‘my mate went clubbing and woke up with no arms or legs and that inspired him to be an entrepreneur’
I’m losing it. I have no idea where this is going but it’s one of the most absurd things I’ve ever heard.
This will be the best day of my life.
My new pet conspiracy theory is that Huel kills brain cells. Or, at the very least, only appeals to those that have some kind of degenerative disease of the brain.
So I’m minding my own business listening to music on Spotify when a podcast about mental health pops up (not sure podcasts are good for mental health generally tbh considering how many I listen to but we move on) and the guest they were advertising was ‘TUPPENCE Middleton’
I’m just walking round the house now just repeating the name over and over like a mad man.
She was in a great Netflix show called "Sense8". I think you can see her tuppence in it
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