We battle, then we drink.
- hans_glib4
- Great image. Not thestopsign, but the original.PhanLo
- Aye, nice - Embra?detritus
- fuckers!hans_glib
- http://i66.tinypic.c…hans_glib
- That's not Embra, is it? I thought that was the castle reflected in the windows of those fucking atrocities they've built that overlook The Meadowsdetritus
- These, I mean..
https://farm6.static…detritus - Also, that's clearly a N.American hard hat.detritus
- Ah those luxury student flats? Could really do with a few more of those in Edinburgh. Plus some more hotels.PhanLo
- dunno what embra is but this is where that pic comes from https://loeildelapho…hans_glib
- They're STUDENT flats?! Fucking hell, how on Earth was that ever decided as a good thing?detritus
- hans_glib3
- How's he doing that?
He says in his fish tank.Hayzilla - looks like he's dropping ink on the surface and the clip is upside downdmay
- Hmmm. Even upside down it looks strange though.Hayzilla
- Simple: r e v e r s e dnbq
- distilled water, oil, and mix some color with detergent to change the viscosity, also you can work with hot/cold mediumsArchitectofFate
- ofc up side down, and timeshifts, to get transparency shoot baby oil (transparent) with color in a regular ketchup-squeezythingArchitectofFate
- Good thinking ladsHayzilla
- How's he doing that?
- capn_ron4
Retirement Talk
I put 15% of my income into retirement right now. I fund a roth ira independently as well as put 8% into my company roth 401K. Which they match 4%. I was lucky to have a company that profit shared for 7 1/2 years so my base to build from is pretty good.
I listen to Dave Ramsey's podcast religiously and as of this year finally got a handle of my money. I highly suggest the book "The Total Money Makeover" to get started. The principles are easy to follow and it is all based on retiring comfortably and not trying to rely on Social Security (which probably won't be around when we retire).
- shellie13
blog
I was just awarded a second scholorships at Upright Citizens Brigade. I thought I wasn't going to get it. I just bought myself a celebratory creme brulee doughnut.
- congrats! I love an occasional night at the UCB :)monospaced
- nice. i havent been to ucb in ages.
tho i recently saw a groundlings showfuturefood - Well done!BonSeff
- fuk yeee!! congrats...robotron3k
- I'm going to go to some shows while I'm in nyc. Hmu If you want to go. I'm all about sketch/scripted. Might do a character open mic too.shellie
- Cool. What's UCB??docpoz
- !notype
- I just looked it up and now I know. And knowing is half the.. GI... Zzz zzz zzzdocpoz
- Geez leave some for us.pango
- Better have been vegan ;-) (congrats)mugwart
- congrats!utopian
- i have a special face for when i find out people do improv comedy. same as my wtf face but eyebrows at half mast because they're usually really nice people.kingsteven
- Not really into inpov tho. I do sketch comedy (scripted stuff) which is different. But I going to take improv to improve my pitch skills in the writers room.shellie
- I hate performing so much. But lots of sketch writers improv their ideas in the writers room so I've been at a disadvantage. Now I can do it for free!shellie
- nice! not knocking it, a friend teaches/runs an improv club and we were talking about this just a couple of weeks back... my eybrows hurt just thinking about itkingsteven
- CHEERS MATE! Ride the wave!umbee54
- I made a few songs back in 97 using UCB samples, sent them to the UCB and they had them on their site for a while. And congrats to you!stoplying
- utopian9
- awesome video. Thank you for posting this utopian.kona
- i like thisBluejam
- Clare de Lune is such a beautiful, beautiful soundtrack for this awesome video. Nice post.stoplying
- Flat...nbq
- americans react to the moonmilfhunter
- whoop yeah whoop that there is the usa moon whoop.shapesalad
- cool lens.shapesalad
- Gardener2
- No more beeps at the checkout.robthelad
- Reminds me of my fake-tanned orange first boss.microkorg
- RRP Dale :'(mutanthands
- RIP 80s Tom Hankssarahfailin
- he once waved at me from his convertible Mercedes when I was pointing him out to a friend whilst drinking outside London a pub.Fax_Benson
- our paths never crossed again.Fax_Benson
- Ramanisky211
- lold_gitale
- I want to believe.sarahfailin
- Striking resemblanceshellie
- MrT6
- Look again...MrT
- is that baby donald trump giving the middle finger?capn_ron
- in chicken nugget formcapn_ron
- yep. landing on nuggetsdocpoz
- so hungry.shellie
- Did KFC do this? If so, well done.dbloc
- Doubt it - they've made the logo negative.Luda
- Yes, they did. Ogilvy Hong Kong.Longcopylover
- does this belong to the cotd thread?SimonFFM
- ^ there's Chicken OTD thread?Gnash
- Shoddy logo work if Ogilvy had anything to do with it.Luda
- took me way too much time to get itBennn
- renderedred7
- Drama * Downvotes = Drama²BabySnakes
- Downvotes + Downvotes = More Downvotespablo28
- Drama + Drama is the mission statement for every shit reality show on Bravo including Project Runway. He'd be a teacher and nothing else without it.CyBrainX
- futurefood5
blog
ahhh upvotesss...ahhhhh downvotesss.... lol
what a wacky thing to waste your time worrying about...
- lol fuck that second gif was gonna be used for something elsefuturefood
- http://www.qbn.com/r…sted
- I'm upset at my lack of downvotes, I might leave forever!garbage
- that post stirred shit garbage! and i contributed by downvoting, therefore i must leavee!futurefood
- I like the rise and fall of downvotes, it's like owning bitcoin but way more important.robthelad
- zarkonite0
Apple
So I've been using an iPad with pencil at work for sketching and stuff... I'm still not sure how to handle carrying the pencil around, do any of you have tricks/gadgets?
It's kind of too long and flimsy to store in my pockets, it's not magnetic like the microsoft surface one, and frankly it's too expensive to consider it "expandable"...
- I just toss it in the bag with other pens. Or in the little pen holder pouch in my messenger bag. At home it sits in the pencil jar with all my other drawing stmonospaced
- I have a Killspencer case for the iPad Pro which includes a loop for the pencil which works wellMondoMorphic
- I have a case/bag that I put the iPad in with a zipper. It also has a pocket in the outside for the pencil.ArmandoEstrada
- https://www.amazon.c…ArmandoEstrada
- Cool, nice suggestions. thanks!zarkonite
- https://odditymall.c…sted
- That's a conversation starter.zarkonite
- Just throw it in the backpackpango
- https://i.imgur.com/…sted
- Have you already filled up your default pencil holders? https://i.imgur.com/…monNom
- Any apps with palm detection for sketching?Hayoth
- I slide mine in my anus.robthelad
- Hayoth: I've been using Adobe Sketch, it's pretty good at palm detection. I haven't heard any complaints online in the reviews that I read about using the iPadzarkonite
- as a sketching device. Are you having problems?zarkonite
- sofas10
Vid of the Day
"video tape" by Ben o'connor
"15 years ago i bought a Cannon XM1 mini DV camera
was just sifting through the hours of footage i decided to put together a little edit because i feel enough time has past to give the dv format a nostalgic feel and all the things i once hated like grainy ,soft, low res, shaky hand held with digital zoom, now these things remind me of a time before smart phones and to record something was rare. All the footage is untouched no color correction, levels its as it was captured
this is some of the from my home town hanging about with my friends"- brilliantinteliboy
- i like this
nice 1Bluejam - superb.fadein11
- captain obvious comment but you should farm this out to labels. Reminds me of this a tiny bit.fadein11
- https://www.youtube.…fadein11
- Nostalgia level 10shellie
- totally wrong vid. hang on.fadein11
- can't for the life of me remember who did it, thought it was that Erol tune but not. Similar feel. I will post when/if I find it.fadein11
- https://www.youtube.…fadein11
- not a fan of Chase & Status at all but this was a great promofadein11
- @fadein11 this one?
https://www.youtube.…Bluejam - yes! I remembered in the end. glad someone knows what I'm talking about hahafadein11
- Wonder what those guys are upto now.PhanLo
- beste !katznteddy
- Who is Ben o'connor?pango
- dopemilfhunter
- chukkaphob0
- this is how i picture all brits when i was a kidGnash
- Alexander NixFax_Benson
- My Cocaineaslip
- ^ clever ! hachukkaphob
- Paul Whitehouse?mugwart
- Ellen?MrT
- Roger EbertRamanisky2
- Dad?robthelad
- Phew, almost guessed who it actually is. Huge QBN foax pauxsarahfailin
- helloeatbreathedrive12
ProtonMail
Cambridge Analytica used self-destructing email (Proton)
- smart for not using GmailLMFAO
- but by swiss law they have to keep the data 2 years on their servers.
https://protonmail.c…uan - I wonder how connected they are with people traffickers. Since the get mentioned Ukranian prostitutes a few times.PhanLo
- Continuity3
blog
Despite yesterday's 'good' news, I still feel like the worst sort of human being imaginable today because I let this spiral out of control, and because I can't solve the problem immediately. Vulnerable and ashamed.
Sorry for dumping my off-QBN drama on you guys like this. Guess I've just got no-one else I can talk to about this.
- Honestly - and this may sound perverse - it's good knowing I'm not the only one having a shit time of things, so thanks for spilling your heart. Good luck!detritus
- 'Good for me' :)detritus
- Thanks ... to you as well ... :\Continuity
- Continuity, everyone has their low points. You just don't hear about it. I surely have. This is your wake up call. You can plush through.shellie
- Open up your job options and you'll be fine. You can look for that big CD job while you get above water.shellie
- Same. It's so easy to think we're unique in our struggles. I'm terrible at doing this, but, you need to be positive about yourself and not take thatFax_Benson
- disappointment with yourself into your job searchFax_Benson
- What fax said! Feeling down about yourself mighty be a huge part of the problem.shellie
- Unfortunately, feeling down about myself is justified. I caused this situation to happen. I'd had plenty of opportunities to prevent it. But my pride got me.Continuity
- And now I really am in the shit. Especially knowing I'll be on the hook for court costs, etc, if it gets that far.Continuity
- I've had the lowest, saddest few months of my life, if that makes you feel any better :)
Probably not.set - With that comes lots of opportunity for growth and learning about oneself, at least.set
- Sounds obvious but how come you couldn't have just got a shitty average job to keep you going? Not really any of my business but...set
- Ashamed as I am to admit, set: good old fashioned stubborn pride, and some weird fear that if I did that, I'd never get back into advertising again.Continuity
- Unfortunately, I had my awakening too late, and I'm going to pay dearly for it.Continuity
- My partner's just taken a job at an Ad Agency after 5 months of not getting her usual roles. Thing is - I think it's a great job, haha. Can't tell her that thodetritus
- ..she's doing the same sort of thing she usually does, just not in the usual milieu. Better money too. And less assholes, or at least differently-flavoure...detritus
- Just spoke to my landlady: she's agreed to call off the dogs for a month, after I showed her my job-hunting progress and the appointment for social assistance.Continuity
- I'm going to do my fucking damnedest to get this debt cleared in 30 days.Continuity
- People hounding you over money can be the most stressful thing but at the end of the day it's just money...you still (I'm hoping) have your health.yuekit
- Well, my psoriasis is flaring up on just about every part of my body, and I really need to see a dentist but, yeah, I'm more or less healthy.Continuity
- Psoriasis is obviously stress related, but that's because stress makes the body acidic...set
- Eat lots of green vegetables and drink a teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda in a pint of water once a day and cut out coke and pizza :)set
- My sister totally cured her psoriasis by balancing her ph levelsset
- Hmm, I've never heard the bicarbonate trick before, I'll have to give this a go. Beats those damned steroid ointments.Continuity
- External treatments are just typical modern medicine's approach of trying to treat the symptom not the cause..set
- Might help for a bit but the real question is why is your body doing that in the first place. Rubbing something on it from the outside is nonsense.set
- ... but of course can understand why people feel the need to try it.set
- Just googled psoriasis and bicarb, big surprise it's all suggestions of applying it externally. Fuck that, drink it, and cut out acidic food and drink!set
- How anyone still drinks coke or similar stuff on a daily basis in 2018 with access to the internet is beyond the wit of manset
- If you are owed money, the worst thing is a creditor who won't answer calls. Keep your landlady updated with how you are trying to get sorted, daily if neccessacomicsans
- And deliver! Under promise and over deliver. Say "I can get you €150 by Friday", then give her €200.comicsans
- What kind of opportunity you are looking for man? And where are you based right now? I know for CD is a bit tricky, but what else could be on your options?Fabricio
- Vent away. I think it's a sign of a healthy community. Really glad things seem to be on the up.mugwart
- Don't be ashamed, you did what you thought was right at the time. It's totally ok. Now you have a different situation and goals to meet. And are wiser.shapesalad
- Yep and no apologies. If this place can offer some (distant) support for someone having a rough time, that’s a good thing. Wishing you well xMrT
- You're all fantastic, truly. Thank you, it means a lot to be able to talk about this.Continuity