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- Bennn0
System of a Down haven't done a new record since... 13 years!
WTF
- cause they can't get along.BabySnakes
- i've read a few months ago that they were kinda ashamed to be so lazy cuz they know they have a lot of fans waiting for new material since yearsBennn
- notype11
Happy Pride
- d_gitale0
my girlfriend had an epileptic seizure... damn that shit is scary
- sorry to hear mate. my uncle used to have them a few times a week...you feel kind of helpless when they happen.BusterBoy
- utterly helpless. Staying in a country where I only speak the basics of the language contributed to my panic.d_gitale
- Hope she's ok. One of my friends had one in class, and it was like she was possessed. We had to keep her from gnawing off her tongue.garbage
- A few months ago I was at the store, turned a corner and there was a guy foaming on the floor, and an older Vietnamese man just standing there waiting for the..garbage
- ..whole episode to end, like it was some sort of everyday thing with his son. There was a language gap, but it was weird as fuck because he refused all help..garbage
- ..and really just seemed annoyed that his son was having seizure fits in public again. It was fucked.garbage
- yes I read about it. the seizure itself is completely harmless. but the threat of injury due to falling can be very dangerous.d_gitale
- she hit her head and had a big bump as a result. but no bleeding. we did an CT, just to be sure. she is ok now.d_gitale
- Must have been terrifying, glad she's ok.garbage
- Haven't seen people seizures here. Mostly just OD... :(pango
- :/ jeeze
can she do anything about it?
was it her first?notype - not the first time. but first time for me to witness. she takes medication, but forgot it last week :/d_gitale
- I’ve dated ppl who have seizures they give me the 411 on what to do if X scenario happens, who to call etc. hope you guys have a longer convo about it. ♥️notype
- BusterBoy1
Ha...a friend of mine from school days - had a relationship and a child years ago with a very high profile hooker. The hooker was also involved with one of the richest men in the country...got pretty messy when she sued his estate when he shuffled off.
Anyway...I was bored and checked out her Twitter profile. One of the first post says "AVOID Bad Client Melbourne XXX St XXX Vic. Ladies DM anytime for further info" - with a google street view of the house! I live about 2 mins away from it and know it well! LOLz.
- i need some distraction, url?
weird that she announces that on twitter...sted - so you live in St Kilda? :Dsted
- Not St Kilda. St is street. I better not post the tweet...could give too much away.BusterBoy
- u see my point here :)sted
- You've already posted too much. That tweet is very easy to find.
#pocketssoundofreason
- i need some distraction, url?
- eryx1
@Mugwart did I read you were going to pop the questions? I though you would have been cured of marriage after dealing with your crazy ex.
godspeed bud
- kingsteven0
A good mate of mine has Hep C. from doing smack/ sharing needles in the 80's, now coming up to 50 has been clean for nearly 30 years. Was really optimistic a few years ago when he heard there's a cure but he moves around a lot and so far hasn't been able to secure the medication... Meanwhile, has seen a bunch of his mates die from liver cancer and fearful he's going to go the same way... I've talked to him a bunch of times about it but only just took the notion to start asking around this week about options for his treatment (i work in the medical faculty of a university) and it's so fucked up, i've more or less just been reading about it all week.
Just the idea of having disease that will kill you that can be cured (95% success) by taking one pill a day for 12 weeks and you can't get the meds!
The drug (Epclusa) will cost you £36,000 (UK). The company (Gilead) that makes it justifies the price in the US ($84,000 for the course) by comparing it to the cost of a liver transplant! The executives say shit like "well, people get a mortgage to make sure they have a roof over their head in the future" yet sell exactly the same drug to Egypt for 1% of the cost. If you're in Australia (or a country that legislates for generic drugs) it's £1500 for the whole course... Even if you live in Glasgow there's a far better chance of being prescribed it on the NHS - total lottery. Here, it's not epidemic so they won't prescribe it unless you're on monthly Hep C medicine and worsening.
Feel like we're making some movements towards getting him the generic version imported (paying £36,000 isn't an option) but needs to pay his way through a bunch of private consultations to determine if thats even an option - at this point we don't even know if we can find a consultant locally that isn't in Gilead's pocket.
FUCKED UP!
- The portuguese NHS managed to get the cure for free to the patients, with 9000 cured since 2015.dmay
- @dmay The same on the Basque NHS, I've got a friend now on treatmentOBBTKN
- Pharma research is a tricky one - it costs a fuckload and requires capital motivation to span years... But there has to be balance and a cut off.detritus
- I get that det but Gilead openly justifies the cost because it also makes the monthly treatment and will loose long-term profit if cured...kingsteven
- it's a combination treatment of existing products so not sure R/D costs would even be as much as a new drug + Gilead's profits are >3 x spend on R/D annually.kingsteven
- Hep C is America's plague. 3 mil affected, but you have to be very sick to get meds, first cure in decades, 90k for 90 pills for 90 days is the treatment!robotron3k
- Get over to China where they sell the base ingredients for these drugs for a fraction of the price https://www.facebook…whatthefunk
- ^ yeah, he's considering that as an option too... still hopeful we can sort it out here.kingsteven
- What about a gofundme type fundraiser. See these all the time. Or a local one for friends and families. Auction donated art etc...microkorg
- .. fund holiday of a lifetime over to Oz and get treatment private over there?microkorg
- ^ yeah, all options, he's raised some money already, just finding the most convenient way... ATM just appalled by the general monetisation of illness vs cure.kingsteven
- Sounds like a 12wk vacation to Egypt is in order.monNom
- As a Type 1 diabetic who has seen insulin prices go up at least 400% in the last decade FOR THE SAME INSULIN. Our pharma system is insane.mathinc
- ^^ @mathinc, have you heard about the BGC vaccine for Type 1?Gnash
- some are calling a potential cure for type 1Gnash
- https://medicalxpres…Gnash
- Oh fuck, did I post that earlier? haha, I wrote it then thought i was being a bit obvious and superfluous so decided against posting..detritus
- ..clearly I hit 'Save' instead of 'Cancel' or just scooting off elsewhere.detritus
- Those execs will be held accountable for crimes against humanity, one day, the scum...set
- I think governments should fund private/commercial therapy development, then use and distribute at cost, then once paid-off, open source.detritus
- The US/EU/Asianosphere have oodles of money they could support hardcore developments with. Set up a global pay back rate, then genericise.detritus
- Because sure as fuck, the capital incentive to counter our immediate antibiotic (for example) crisis doesn't exist in stock market terms.detritus
- Growth and profit expectations are the single-biggest cause of ALL of the world's problems. But, annoyingly, the source of much of our development.detritus
- 'Growth'. 'Development'.
These words are as disgusting as they are inspiring.detritus - The sooner some cunt develops LSD bombs, the better.detritus
- I have a step-uncle who has HepC from 80s excess. Moved to China to carve jade.
A fifty-something white man playing an old Chinese game. Lives as he wants.detritus - Biding time, whatever comes.detritus
- *looks at can of cider*
Less. Sharing.detritus - heh, interestingly enough there's been studies in to Hordenine (originally discovered as the antibiotic agent in peyote 'Peyocactin') can be used to combatkingsteven
- antibiotic resistant bacteria, so you could kill two birds with one stone there @detritus.kingsteven
- detritus1
I'm about to run out of spray paint on a fairly small job.
Muggins here forgot that Montana is acrylic, rather than the plaastic-based stuff I usually use for this sort of job, so I didn't bother priming the MDF and... yup, fucker's just soaking that shit right up. Third coat on a metre-wide piece and I'm going to run out of fucking paint. I was hoping to hand over in a couple of hours too.
Bollockry.
- Oh muggins, when will he learn?i_monk
- yahwehurry buderyx
- toyoey
- now seriously, I hope you can make it and therefore wish you good luck!oey
- It's ok. Not happy with surface finish, so am going to splurge on some plastic bullshit clear spray lacquer or something. I am a stupid, stupid little man.detritus
- it's for a Nigerian client (am trying to get in with the Nigerian Events Mafia) so it needs to look a little bit bling. Finish now looks more like 70s Dundee.detritus
- Always prime your shit before painting, folks. It takes fuck all effort. Even just a diluted PVA wash would've done here.
Two minutes worth of work.detritus
- Bennn0
i just ate a large poutine and now i regret everything and want to die ... the afternoon gonna be one war against sleep
- Damn, i still really want to try proper Canuckistanian poutine. I've made some - meh-ish, and bought some from some UK hipster fast food place, moltomeh.detritus
- poutine has been invented in Quebec, you have to come here to taste the real thing. Lots of great ones these days.Bennn
- you can get just as good poutine in many, many other cities beside quebecmonospaced
- NO!Bennn
- ;)Bennn
- slightly off topic but did bennn always have 3 n's? I always thought it was 2.fadein11
- ugh, it’s just gravy and curdsmonospaced
- ;)monospaced
- Tsk tsk. It's not the same. Mono.pango
- @set There was a local hockey bar with insanely good poutine, but it blew up a few years ago. As in gas line explosion. I think they were from Winnipeg..garbage
- ..what I'm asking is do you consider Winnipeg poutine legit?garbage
- I think Winnipeg poutine would about as legit as brie from Denmark. :)Continuity
- pangolin how is gravy and curds different there than anywhere else?monospaced
- How is pizza in New York different than anywhere else? It just is!pango
- -_-monospaced
- capn_ron16
left my job today. new job on monday. let the games begin!!!
- Sports coach? Congrats.Fax_Benson
- https://www.youtube.…jaylarson
- help that person who can't find workimbecile
- help imonk out!pango
- not a coach fax, just a capn! I am gansta jay! hahaha. also, i can put anyone in front of the person who will hire at my last place. email is in my profile.capn_ron
- senior designer role. on your own to create in the skateboard industry.capn_ron
- Congrats Ron! Tj told me a bit about it, looks interesting :)dyspl
- First thing you do on Monday at the office, is to figure out who's in charge. And make him your bitch! Survival!pango
- I'm so lazy, I always tell new job I can't start till leave notice + 2 weeks. Then I have 2 weeks off in between jobs.shapesalad
- skateboard industry... sounds like a dream job. but i'm ok.SimonFFM
- come on Simon.....you could shoot girls on skateboards at this gig!capn_ron
- ^ sounds like a great calibration project!mugwart
- collaboration evenimbecile
- freedom0
Do you have a dress code at work?
Can you wear shorts?- Yes.
No.monospaced - No.
Yes.
Speedo's rule @ work!utopian - men in offices usually adhere to dress codes, but women wear tank tops, flip flops, mini skirts, high heels, tights, ripped jeans, pretty much anything reallyrobotron3k
- is that why you dislike women? because they can wear what they want?monospaced
- No.
NEVER, dress code or not.notype - I mean:
No,
Yes, but wouldn't be caught dead.
I'm really passionate about this one.notype - No shorts?
Seriously tho you would prefer me wearing shorts than me sweating balls.pango - no - work for myself.
yes - I haven't skipped leg day and my shorts are tapered, not those awful usa style floppy things.shapesalad - i've worked at least 2 days this week in my pants (underpants).fadein11
- No.
Yes.Continuity - No.
Yes? I'm the only one who doesdrgs - Once had to work in underwear because my pants got wet in rain.SimonFFM
- hahaha monodetritus
- pango, wear the shorts please; boxers if you will. ;)notype
- Yep. One of our bosses wares shorts and flip flops in the summer, often time walking around barefoot. Gross, if you ask me.elahon
- No shorts is the dress code. I like to dress nice, so I probably wouldn't even if we could. That, and the fact that the A/C is cold af in our office.section_014
- no
yesdmay - nope.
yep.pedromendez - no
yesPonyBoy - No
YesApeRobot - no, no.kingsteven
- Have a dress code: no sneakers, if wearing jeans they can't look old, no t-shirts, and definitely no shorts. (it's corporate)Maaku
- my dress code is FR coveralls, Safety glasses, steel toned boots a helmet and a Radiation monitor. Other then that I have complete freedomeryx
- Yes.
- PonyBoy0
Luke Cage season 2... music is SO good
- omahadesigns0
Do you eat lunch with your coworkers? Are you friends with them? Or do you just go to work do the work and go home?
- I eat all their lunch in the fridge...pango
- I can eat lunch with most of them, but I'm friends with a limited number of them outside the office.sea_sea
- right now I eat lunch at random places, most of the times alone. few months back the city was far away. I was eating together with my colleagues or at my desk:/sted
- I used to fool around with some of them at lunch time...ended up marrying one. Was great fun...I'd get #metoo'd nowadays.BusterBoy
- detritus0
It's fucking hot in LDN today - certainly to my Northern blue-skin - and for some reason I decided to use deodorant after my daily shower.
I've basically not regularly-used deodorant for a good couple of years now - I used to use that alum stick stuff - and realising that after a few days of smelling a bit whiffy, armpit flora reaches some equilibrium and its not really needed.
So, anyway - I'm sitting indoors and genning up on exciting things like Wordpress RestAPI ('thank you' imbecile and hotroddy) and my fucking pits are like the Victoria falls.
Motherfucking fatherfucker - the deodorant conspiracy runs a lot deeper than i'd imagined.
- Deodorant only. Absolutely no antiperspirant (alum) here. Agreed.monospaced
- Alum is evil... And yes, with this hot, the northern tribus suffer a lot. All my support and sympathies!! lolOBBTKN
- Learned to survive this wave under our garden's tree with an aperol with tonicOBBTKN
- Shit! Aperol! I forgot! i have two bottles of poor prosecco to use too..!detritus
- This https://uk.lush.com/… bonus of no plastic packaging.shapesalad
- ^ Started using it in 2003 when I went travelling and it being 100% product = weight reduction in backpack.shapesalad
- ^ used an organic/non-alum alternative once and sweated like a rain shower. Used alum product once, and felt un-natural, sticky and smelt like teenage boy.shapesalad
- Ianbolton1
Update to housemate situation: Apart from the fact she owes me money and fails to recognise the fact that's why she's being evicted, she's finally moving out. She thinks I've masterminded turning everyone else who lives there against her (including the landlord) and I fail to recognise the fact she moved me in in the first place - which means nothing in this instance. She's posted on Facebook saying I drink most nights until I'm sick, I've bullied and harassed her until eventually she's had to call the police and I've sabotaged her cake making business because ya know, that's the kinda guy I am - in her head! I'm not on Facebook but friends have sent me her post which really pissed me off.
Anyway, she's gone but still owes me £480
- fuckin hell man... what a piece of shit!pedromendez
- Adios mentalist. Enjoy the peace now ;)microkorg
- Give up her details.
2 can play that game. ;-)Hayzilla - not much you can do once a person has decided to identify themselves as a victim. That are now relieved of any personal responsibility. engaging is futile.Gnash
- Is she single??robotron3k
- Put down an order on her site or call for £480 worth of cake. And then cancel the transaction.Maaku
- So then she's £480 further in debt and less likely to pay him back?detritus
- "I feel responsibly for not warning your recent landlords before about the difficulties they have to face with you"sted
- eject eject!jaylarson
- Drinking till sick most night? time to join AA buddy.shapesalad
- You will never see that money again - move on and just be happy it’s overSlashPeckham
- I don’t drink till I’m sick most nights - just every night! Just relieved to have rid anyway.Ianbolton
- DId you say "piece of cake" as she left?mugwart
- Actually I said 'close the fucking door behind you, you're letting the heat in, thanks'. No pun intendedIanbolton
- wow! Take her to court for the outstanding money.mugwart
- eryx1
I am so fucked. i stayed up all night drinking beer and smokiing weed. it is 6 am and i have not slept.
the wife is going to be pissed!!
- that's a lot of beer & weedKrassy
- similar to porn in terms of brain mechanism and behavioural result: https://www.youtube.…shapesalad
- Pull yourself together idiot.Hayzilla
- I did that on Saturday eveningMaaku
- used to do this all the times just without the wife factorsted
- Hayzilla0
Might be a massive noob here or ahead of the game. I have a couple of clothing items I'd like to buy but want to wait until they are in a sale. But how will I know when and where that happens?
Is there an online service that I can register an interest in something and maybe set a price I'm happy to pay and people will be in touch or I am alerted if say ASOS have them at that price or better?
- sign up to online shop newsletters, when they have sale, the email, you check for your items and finally... only size XXL is available.shapesalad
- Page Monitor extension for Chrome.DRIFTMONKEY
- lyst does that but it's also a pain in the hole...kingsteven
- https://www.lyst.com…kingsteven
- If it's on Amazon. Use keepa.com to monitor your wish list.pango
- camelcamelcamelfourth
- pinkfloyd0
This is kinda scary https://www.marketwatch.com/stor…
- and "saying she was taking the house and my retirement. "pinkfloyd
- after on 2 years she has no shot at retirement $ or the house.Gnash
- (only)Gnash
- he's screwed on the loans, though. He should consider himself lucky that she bailed nowGnash
- This seems pretty normal robber by way of marriage...robotron3k
- another reason why robo won't get near a woman ... EVERmonospaced
- pinkfloyd-1
Say one of your peers made a mistake and someone of authority asks who made the mistake. Do you snitch them out or do you not say anything? This is a general question i've been faced with many many times.
- I would say don't get involved unless it affects you directly and creates an actual problem for you. If so address it with the colleague first.spl33nidoru
- ^detritus
- Say a neighbor broke the mailbox, and the landlord asks who did it otherwise he will raise the rent for everyone.pinkfloyd
- If it's definitely him, give the neighbour a chance to fix his mistake. If he doesn't care, snitch away but make sure you don't get dragged into more drama...spl33nidoru
- ^
I'd rat them out in two seconds. I mean, if you broke, than you should fix it. Not fixing it is the dick move here.section_014 - ok, so if the landlord asks, i'll just say what really happened. I just don't want to be a snitch.pinkfloyd
- i'm just wondering if I snitch someone out, how would I interact and get along with them.pinkfloyd
- say we become friends down the linepinkfloyd
- could you become friends with such a person?detritus
- ah, no. I don't want to be his friendpinkfloyd
- Where I come from, snitches get stitches.ArmandoEstrada
- She hot?pango
- None of the abovepinkfloyd
- detritus5
At the studios where I work there's a girl who I guessed straight away is at least a little bit lesbian. Ok, so fuck, no one cares. But she's the sort of woman who reacts disapprovingly any time a male casts a glance her way, intended or otherwise. Instant sourness: 'ok, fuckme - sorry?'.
It turns out she's slept with a friend of mine - a male one. I found this out when he said that she wouldn't serve him at the bar, so he was having to ask people to buy his drinks for him whilst she was on shift. fucking lol.
Now, my male friend here is a filthy French bastard - clearly a louche motherfucker. I mean, he's like a coke-snorting, heavy-drinking chef version of Remi Gualliard - an over-grown boy; a total chancer.
We all love (/loathe) him, and he's fundamentally an alright bloke - but he's more fundamentally a broken slut who would fuck anything with a pulse. It's categorically obvious what sort of a guy he is.
So this daft bint sleeps with the absolute worst example of masculinity from her perspective and... lo and fucking behold, doesn't manage to reprogram him, doesn't bend him to her wont, does suffer the only fate that she should've ever reasonably expected - he'd had his way and fucked off. Game over.
So now the cycle of hatred is cranked and spun, her worst suspicions about maledom confirmed once again.
But I can only think - girl, what the fuck's wrong with your radar? You got everything you ever should've expected, and no more. Silly, naive girl.
.
Anyway, I write this here as I wonder if certain people are destined to seek out in opposites traits they actually despise. The sharpness of their perception blunted by their own conceits and inability to see beyond themselves and their own limitations. Hey, we all have them.
I write this in reference to certain displays of misogyny on QBN.
Not all women are the same. Not all women are bad. Not all women are virgin angels sent forth to simply Be, Perfectly.
If you ever find yourself criticising an entire gender for gender's sake, perhaps you should question yourself, not them?
- "she's the sort of woman who reacts disapprovingly any time a male casts a glance her way, intended or otherwise. Instant sourness: 'ok, fuckme - sorry?"robotron3k
- sorry, what's your point about misogyny??robotron3k
- Yeah, she pre-judges the opposite sex based on her own, entirely poor, perspective.detritus
- if you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole.imbecile
- Read the last paragraph again.monospaced
- She's the ying to your yang.detritus
- @robo, obv.
+1 imbecile - i use that as a guiding light for my darker days.detritus - You're overthinking, she probably wanted a French fuk boi, but like all modern women, when the fuk boi doesnt call back, they absolutely lose their shiterobotron3k
- Fair enough, but there's a little more to the background that i've said here - already wrote way too much. She was genuinely, apparently, oblivious.detritus
- "all modern women" oh robofadein11
- But consciously-so, i mean.detritus
- haha, shit, i missed that fade.
Jesus. robo - you're an alright dude, but fuck me if you have a weird view on women. From my perspective anywaydetritus - er.. I don't mean 'holier than thou' perspective - i'm a schmuck. Just a third person perspective from Blighty.detritus
- I agree with this. People need to be less bigoted. Seriously.docpoz
- your buddy?
http://images.thesar…_niko - You like how i slipped that in fade? Hihirobotron3k
- By God he wishes, _niko.detritus
- not a chance she was oblivious to who he was. some people chose partners that they think they deserve, not what they actually want.Gnash
- her reaction is likely self-loathing redirected. not a gender thing, just a broken person thing.Gnash
- next time, don't glance at her, do this: https://media.giphy.…shapesalad
- If her suspicions are that he only wanted sex, then she is right, there is nothing wrong with that, and she is equally complicit in the transactioncannonball1978
- Should we expect this girl to make an appearance here anytime soon?sea_sea
- We live in an age of being triggered and lack of perceptive. Its all "think" one way.mugwart
- That said she's probably hurting really bad and might lost a part of herself. I speak from my experience. I was naive got manipulated.mugwart
- hah, sea_sea, no - not here, nothing to do with me! :)detritus
- "I guessed straight away is at least a little bit lesbian"
"So this daft bint"
"displays of misogyny on QBN"face_melter - haha, alright, touchy - although I'm wondering why on earth perception of her innate characteristics makes me misognynistic, but if that's your preference..detritus
- tbh, I thought she was 100% lesbian when I first met her - I used to hang around with the Stoke Newington lesbian massive - and she's very much them.detritus
- ..so I was genuinely surprised when it turns out she'd slept with my chum. Hence "at least a little bit".detritus
- and if she slept with my chum, she's a daft bint, in any language.detritus
- the amount of lesbians I know who sleep with mindless men expecting something spectacular is insane. Like your view on society rests on this one chance meeting?Ianbolton
- It's absolutely stupid.Ianbolton
- AS FUCK!Ianbolton
- I agree with Ian, not only do lesbians sleep with guys (girls like sex too btw) but so do gay guys. She probably just needed to get screwed no strings attached.sea_sea
- Perhaps, but the fallout from their tryst indicates everything otherwise. And i'm not relying on his word on it all - there's a biggish community here...detritus
- She cute?Maaku
- Dunno, hard to tell from behind the specs and scorn.detritus
- hmm. the gay guys i know are grossed out by pussy so Im not sure about that one sea sea. maybe they are bidocpoz
- Maybe doc or just desperate.sea_sea
- Bennn0
The new Youtube Music is here and it looks great. Larger music selection than Spotify and more.
I may give it a try.
- "YouTube Music’s default quality of 128kbps" ... is so bad, you might as well just listen to low quality on Spotifymonospaced
- They plan to add a 256kbps option at some point, which is still below the competition's quality. :(monospaced
- they're supposed to upgrade it in an update soon. But yeah its not good :(Bennn
- It's not terrible, but it could be better, imo. It's 2018 already!monospaced
- totally agree!Bennn
- the bane of all modern software: "looks like you're at the xxxx, so here's some uninspired drone we think you might want to hear, but which you won't."hans_glib
- < What is that sound on the video? Modern music? Weird stereo spread, irregular syncopation between bass and treble frequencies, too much reverb.shapesalad
- You dont know Cardi B ?Bennn