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- pango3
My profile page is glorious! Lol
- gilga_mush (aka) terry_cum cloth
(aka) yurimon (aka) OMG (aka) ORAZAL
has a mad crush on you!utopian - 3 different people tho.pango
- utopian has been riding my dick for a while now. I've got my bots locked in, patterns are beginning to emerge.********
- Lol nice user name.pango
- Sheeeeeeit, we go way back. You know how I roll (none of that fufu bullshit).********
- gilga_mush (aka) terry_cum cloth
- bainbridge0
What is the process for coming up with a song like this and when do you decide that you're finished?
- https://www.youtube.…sted
- Starved of oxygen during birth plays a major part, I would guess.face_melter
- ^ lol.Gnash
- omgosh, are they actually the lyrics?detritus
- detritus2
Gipsy Saga Pt. II
So as I walked into work the other day, I noticed a gate to a light industrial space down the road was open, when it shouldn't've been. It's been worked on for a few years and is, or at least was, in its last transitional phase.
Outside were two blockheads yabbering away in an indecypherable mess somewhere between derpest Cork and Old Geordie.
"Aye Aye" thought I "Gypsies casing the place — I wonder how long it'll be before... " Well, I had my answer today.
Gates are now locked, from the inside.
On the outside is an official-looking notice, but not one of eviction or official authority, rather a legalese wrangling printed by the gypsies themselves. A statement of residence and a warning against trying to turf them out undfer some obscure bylaw. I peer in through a hole and see 4 caravans lined up on one side, and on the other side a growing mass of commercial waste, of course dumped.
*popcorn.gif*
Should be interesting to see how this plays out.
I'm most amused at how they've deployed the official laws of the land against itself whilst they themselves choose to live completely outside of them.
Fucking cheeky bastards.
- cannot hate the gypsies, they have their own world and good for them!renderedred
- that would be dandy if 'their world' wasn't someone else's shortly beforehand. if they paid their way, if they were of any societal value at all.detritus
- Detritus' Big Fat Gypsie Saga: When Sole Traders get Fly-tipped.Fax_Benson
- instead they rip people off and intimidate them, steal and [significantly] dump shit at their arses - they cost everyone around them, whilst they drive BMWs etcdetritus
- I'm sure someewhere thye're ok - I've just yet to see where in my 40 years on Earth.detritus
- They not are OK anywhere. Scum.Hayzilla
- Just found out that someone's had an expensive camera stolen from front of shop here today. Coincidence?detritus
- I guess the owner of the land will have something to say about them pitching up. Bylaw horseshit or not, if it's privately owned they can get fucked.face_melter
- And if it's anything like Glasgow, look forward to an entirely innocent and accidental fire in a very specific spot...face_melter
- These are caravans, not ice creams vans!
:)detritus - It's pretty bad in the PNW. I used to find random bums sleeping in my back yard when I lived in Oregon.garbage
- Which was totally strange. I had two gigantic apple trees that would drop fermented apples, so deer would eat the apples, get drunk, and pass out til morning.garbage
- And the passed out deer would attract mountain lions. In the morning I would find bums, drunk deer, or cougar scat.garbage
- I apologize to all.
@detritus no they aren't ok anywhere.
we're living together with gypsies for centuries, they simply can not fit in.sted - @garbage wtf?? is that a real story?? hahahaHijoDMaite
- LOL @garbage. Funny shit mate.Hayzilla
- ^^ oh, buildings mysteriously burn down when the land is needed. A whole strip of old sheds at Partick went on fire. Then they built apartments. Weird, eh?face_melter
- And it's not like they were derelict, a few were architectural reclamation businesses with antique fixtures and fittings. Fire lasted for about three days.face_melter
- Samesame in Camden, face - curious how every time old buildings stand in the way of shitty over-development, they spontaneously combust.detritus
- Yeah, 100% true. Oregon is a strange place. Here in Seattle we occasionally have people break into our stairwell and sleep under the stairs.garbage
- A few months ago I found an old pair of jeans and a few unused tampons. Massive homeless problem here.garbage
- Bonus on the unused tampons though, eh?
Always handy.detritus - Always.garbage
- HijoDMaite3
I just read the whole Gypsy saga thing here on the blog and I got to thinking. What would be the equivalent of that here in California?
So this morning on my way to the office, I walked by a construction site and
“oh shit” I thought “niggers casing out the place - wonder how long before...”
Or is it: “oh shit” I thought “Mexicans casing out the place - wonder how long before...”
Or is it: “oh shit” I thought “homeless dudes casing out the place - wonder how long before...”
Or is it: “oh shit” I thought “tweakers casing out the place - wonder how long before...”
I have no idea about gypsys tbh so I am just curious if it’s derogatory by their nationality (or lack there of) or skin colors or status?
Lol it’s just funny.
- I don't think there's an equivalent.monospaced
- itinerant people who speak romani, incorrectly identified as being from egypt = gypsy. a racial slur. https://www.theodyss…sarahfailin
- these are irish gypsies - literally gypsies, so it's not a derogatory term, just a derogatory lifestyle. (lol, sorry)detritus
- Most people in Europe don't like them because their lack of respect for laws and common sense social rulesdmay
- They have their own laws and social rulesdmay
- No sarah, nothing to do with Romanys. Although they're cunts too (as too Spanish gitanos). And 'gypsy' is NOT a racial slur per se. May as well be though. loldetritus
- tbf, there're a lot of grounded Romanys these days, and it's unfair they should have the shadow of cuntery fall over them too.detritus
- People like the authors of that article are the sort of ignorant middle class idiots I referred to in my original gypsy rant.detritus
- i think gypsy might have become a slur since the gyppos (definitely a racial slur) have debased their own "culture" by behaving so badlyhans_glib
- when i was a kid we were told they were noble people. i was never too sure as they always seemed very stand-offish and suspicious of mehans_glib
- (as a kid i once innocently wandered up to a couple of passing caravans to say hello and have a closer look for myself at these "noble people".)hans_glib
- i don't remember too much about the encounter, bar a hard stare from the mam, and a sorry attempt to make any connection with the kid...hans_glib
- ... who seemed very old for her age. (or maybe she was old. maybe she was the mam, and the mam was the gran.)hans_glib
- we have these hippy/backpackers cruising the streets, but I don't think they break many laws. lol http://c8.alamy.com/…HijoDMaite
- maybe they are the equivalent?HijoDMaite
- well if they're Irish they aren't gypsies: https://en.m.wikiped…sarahfailin
- fascinating ^^ been reading about these travellers.HijoDMaite
- Thanks Sarah, good to have centuries of linguisic tradition and the very wiki you've linked to proven wrong by incorrect opinings.detritus
- @Hijo.
1. Imagine your neighbourhood with a nice green space for playing, walking the dog etc.
2. 30 caravans turn up in the night + 30 cars all over it.Hayzilla - 3. They are loud, obnoxious and aggressive.
4. They steal everything that isn't nailed down on your streets.Hayzilla - 5. They travel door to door asking if you need your drive tarmaced or trees cut down.
6. They don't pay taxes and are mostly cash in hand builders/landscapersHayzilla - 7. When the council/police finally get them to move on, they leave behind all the rubbish, building rubble and garden waste they accrued in that area.Hayzilla
- I mean. Just LOOK at these cunts.
http://www.dailymail…Hayzilla - it is insane. i got one of those flyers handed to me once that amongst fly tipping and gardening services... "WE FIND LOST TREES" wtf.kingsteven
- also, in ireland they're considered as irish as roma gypsies are considered romanian. only ireland decided to give travelers basic human rights...kingsteven
- where Romania changed it's country code from ROM to ROU and brought in a ton of discriminatory measures to avoid association...kingsteven
- Loving the the confusion of trying to explain gypsies to Americans. Closest would be trailer park boys/ white trash... Is this why they made the film Snatch?kingsteven
- bainbridge0
What do you do when a somewhat promising lead from out of the blue flakes on you?
Do you forget them or try to stay in touch?
- probably better off_niko
- maybe send a reconnect email, but other than that you can't force em to do work with you.capn_ron
- how did they flake?********
- send a reconnect dick picPonyBoy
- Someone reached out and asked if I was available to work on a project then said things changed in the budget they no longer needed me.bainbridge
- I've given up expecting anything from such leads - it's 50/50 whether they come through and it's not worth my heartache investing hope in them 'til fruitiondetritus
- ..which is to say, I leave them be and trust their guilt for wasting my time will haunt them into coming back for some actual workdetritus
- Thats hardly flaking tho.********
- PonyBoy0
crazy... the USA, Netherlands, Turkey, Chile and now Italy all failed to qualify for the World Cup...
- i see it as a positive thing. i very rarely watch a game, maybe two in a year but i follow a bit.********
- nl and it, rare not in world cup... but usa... never have been the best teamOBBTKN
- yeah... we're still babies but it had been 30+ years since we hadn't made the cutPonyBoy
- Turkey had its moment in 2002, since then like everything else AKP fucked up football as well.Beeswax
- Turkey didn't qualify since 2006 for a world cup.. Afaik soccer is pretty popular there?mekk
- i see it as a positive thing. i very rarely watch a game, maybe two in a year but i follow a bit.
- ********0
I see we got some updates in the Saga of the Gyptians.
It's a bit like the Book of the Law.Or the Wolf of Wall Street....hahahaha!
- I sent out a text to a gossipy friend y'day morning when I saw them first - now the whole community's abuzz with chatter and warnings about our new neighboursdetritus
- notype0
How do you encrypt a PDF w/o Acrobat (pwd protect)?
- click on tools in Adobe Acrobat, go from there.robotron3k
- thanks bud!notype
- wait... but you said with out acrobat...pango
- zip regular pdf with passworddrgs
- yeah i know pango. thought robo was saying there was not other option.notype
- zip files can be pwd protected?notype
- encryption should really be its own thread.notype
- are you on a mac?Gnash
- Open in "Preview"
> File > Export
- Format: PDF
- check "Encrypt"
add and verify passwordGnash - Yeah. Gnash whuuuuuuttt!!! didn’t know you could do that in Preview!notype
- *thumbs up*Gnash
- notype3
Have fun logo nerds
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr…
- HijoDMaite3
I have to admit I do get a bit perplexed at the problems you guys have in England sometimes.
Gypsies?
Travellers?
No-Go zones / Sharia law assholes (he, he)
lone wolf terrorism?what else is there?
Anyway, I think to myself:
Jesus fucking Christ people get your shit together, you're supposed to be the example around the world!
And on top of that you have a fucking tiny island to secure, how hard is that? You are just a little island right? Like the size of Arizona right? I mean you could drive from shore to shore in like an hour right?
Here is the U.S. we have 100 times that geography and population to worry about, so no more comparing our problems okay??
Seriously though, if I was Police officer or a federal agent in your country I would assume to know what is happening in every corner of the country at all times. lol
ok end of ignorant rant. :)
- you're right.
that is pretty ignorant.
;)hans_glib - https://www.youtube.…dmay
- No Go Zones and Sharia Law?
Turn off Fox News, man, that quite literally is bullshit. That said, there are Sharia Councils that arbitrate private matters. ..detritus - .. as there are in many countries, probably the US too, but they have absolutely no (none!) legitimate state power. At all.detritus
- Sorry, "that can arbitrate" - I don't mean to imply they absolutely do. It's a free country, people can choose the form of their dictation in personal matters.detritus
- Also, you do realise that the two most public-visibly surveillance states in the world are the US and the UK?detritus
- Sure, China, Eurozone, Russia and Israel probably are as if not more capable, but in terms of entrenched laws and such.detritus
- Gypsies and Travellers are synonymous with one another, despite what Sarahfailin might think - they've been around at least twice as long as the US has existed.detritus
- And are, for the most part, only very localised, occasional and itinerant problems, mostly of a thieving and dumping nature.detritus
- detritus i get it, you don't have to defend this. I'm mainly playing around. :-) the geography thing does perplex me a little though.HijoDMaite
- I've gone on about gypsies these last few pages from a personal and local observation perspective - mostly because it's bemused me ...detritus
- ...or I've been angered by dumping, which if you've followed anything I've writ here over the years is in keeping with my curmudgeonly old codger view on thingsdetritus
- I'm not defending - just explaining and trying to dilute any weight or concern I may have implied. It's all good in the hood.
Except for the gypsies.detritus - They've got to go.detritus
- Realyl though - please don't be part of the populace that propogates the idea we're labouring under Sharia law and have no-go Zones. That's Sweden. }:)detritus
- i helped organize some neighbors using the Nextdoor app to rally and kick out a bunch of tweakers that were living in and around a Home Depot parking lot.HijoDMaite
- i had no compassion for their peril and all those that were taking advantage of parking their RV's and living there like all the time. I swear i smelledHijoDMaite
- meth cooking around there when walking my dog, and worst part is my daughter walks through there to go to school every morning. Cops said they couldn't doHijoDMaite
- anything and Home Depot manager said the same. after a few phone calls every trailer, rv, and abandoned car had a sticker one morning saying they had threeHijoDMaite
- days before they would be towed away. when night came we all came out with a beer in our hand and watched all that riff raff get towed away.HijoDMaite
- tow truck drivers told us plain and simple if they are allowed to "camp out" they will do it and word will get around.HijoDMaite
- this no go zones / sharia bullshit really makes my blood boil, as Det said ignore Fox News.fadein11
- why are you so freaked out by how small the UK is? I can understand struggling to comprehend the vastness of something. Somewhere enormousFax_Benson
- somewhere bigger than you've ever been before. But surely you've been to loads of places that are < 400 miles wide.Fax_Benson
- a small country is completely fathomable. utterly comprehensible.Fax_Benson
- I guess that's why Brits revel in the sad detail of the mundane while US folks are contented by simple shapes and colours and whether something isFax_Benson
- near or farFax_Benson
- lolfadein11
- haha... nothing but butthurt brits responding... although when you butthurt brits speak up about our guns and KKK you come off just as ignorant ;)PonyBoy
- I'm not being serious.Fax_Benson
- Although you should get rid of all your guns and stop being massive racists.Fax_Benson
- :DPonyBoy
- Not literally bullshit because that's the guff that comes out of a bull's arse. Though your post is almost quite literally ignorant bullshit********
- you're right.
- bainbridge0
Why does Kanye think he's a genius?
- bainbridge0
Great lyrics.
- Maaku2
Update on the whole soulmate status:
The chemistry has been growing. It seems like we're both on the same page about this serendipity and are fantasizing about the idea of a possible long-distance relationship.
I either need someone to slap me out of it, or I need to start saving for a ring.
- https://media.giphy.…Maaku
- Long distance? Fuuuuck dat********
- Have some nads and go to the DR********
- brah, now's your chance, she wants out of the DR!robotron3k
- lol @robo, you wrongnotype
- get in there, my sondrgs
- do it! Long distance at the start really helps in a way. Want photos!mugwart
- I'm loving it, it's all happening so fast.Maaku
- notype2
FYI QBN citizens,
NYFA grants are here :) I think you have to have a SSN and be in the US. http://current.nyfa.org/post/167…
Have fun if you apply
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- BusterBoy0
My cohort at school created a Facebook group for our year a while back. The same cliques that existed at school still exist online...it's pretty funny. I'm not particularly close with any of them.
When I'm alerted that it is someone's birthday, I generally write on their timeline and wish them a good day.
On my birthday, I'd maybe get 2 or 3 max from the group writing on my timeline.
So fuck it...I'm going to be a bitch and not extend birthday wishes to anyone from that group that hasn't extended the same courtesy to me.
It's like going back to year 9 at school!
- can you imagine growing up w social media? i would have killed myselfhotroddy
- you were not very popular then... you're right, fuck it!!OBBTKN
- LOL no I wasn't very popular. It's so funny...most of the guys who were dicks at school are still dicks! Probably me included.BusterBoy
- A few years ago I stopped sending FB birthday messages entirely. If we aren't close enough to send in a pre-existing text thread of some kind (or in person, ha)i_monk
- then it won't mean much to them and doesn't feel particularly sincere anyway.i_monk
- Good pointBusterBoy
- And just think, you can end it all by quitting facebook.stoplying
- chukkaphob2
Leonardo da Vinci Painting Sells for $450.3 Million, Shattering Auction Highs
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/…
- and still not 100% confirmed to be hisGnash
- very likely to be from his atelier but heavily and poorly restoredspl33nidoru
- Trans Jesus?robotron3k