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- BusterBoy0
Anyone know of a Chrome extension that will automatically remove specific sites from your history etc? *nudge nudge wink wink*
- https://i.imgur.com/…utopian
- No no no. I don't want my family to see all the news sites I visit.BusterBoy
- scientists came up with a solution to this problem years ago: incognito mode.sted
- yes yes...but sometimes it's a pain and I forget.BusterBoy
- Just browse in Incognito modeok_not_ok
- ahh missed Sted's reply...carry onok_not_ok
- Get a sandbox - sandboxie is really simpleFax_Benson
- use a different browser when you're looking at "news"sarahfailin
- Bennn1
Need ultra-wide computer monitor recommendations.. What are you using? Something good for colors is important
- Two monitorsnb
- Dell Ultrasharp. I've got a 27 and 21, side by side, no need for a uw.OBBTKN
- https://tinyurl.com/…
colour quality control from left to right seems like a lot of work. I still have doubts about it. haven't seen one in person yet.pango - Color on the ultrawide lg sucks, i have itmoldero
- i think i will go with two monitor mounted on those arm for the desk, thanks guysBennn
- It is the way.pango
- i_monk10
- bainbridge0
Should I use semicolons more?
- Yes;!Nairn
- imbecile
- only when they're necessarysarahfailin
- sarahfailin0
I'm going to dinner at my best friend's girlfriend's in the suburbs. He has been with her for a while now, and since they moved in together I don't see him much anymore. I don't get along with her much because of repeated bad impressions she's made on me (complaining about stuff, fighting with him in public, generally being a stick in the mud).
Got any ideas how I can go into this with an open mind and try to give her another chance?
- I'd suggest: Go into it with an open mind, and give her another chance.Nairn
- get drunk, get chill. get in the state where you wave your arms in the air like you don't care.pango
- Get over your own personal feelings about her... sounds like you witnessed he and her interacting like 'normal humans'. :) If that's too much for you—don't go.PonyBoy
- They don't drink!sarahfailin
- Drink before you get there. Drink on the way there. Party on the street with random strangers.pango
- ^good advice.sarahfailin
- take some special cakes for dessert.microkorg
- they're bickering in the carsarahfailin
- Did you bring popcorn?pango
- kill me!sarahfailin
- Your friend chose her. His cross to carry. You won't change his mind. Maybe some ganja to help take the edge off..sea_sea
- Also maybe try to find common ground with her. If all else fails, spike the punch.sea_sea
- sit down, start eating, then standup throw the table and all the food over and start crying, screaming "I miss you duuuddddeeee"fadein11
- ^this is what I didsarahfailin
- good ladfadein11
- Nairn1
Today I learned a huge lesson about why it's not a great idea to do business with people outside your economic bloc. Nothing wrong with person, but a problem (my problem) cropped up and instantly we have an issue of import duties. Thing I sent out got taxed; Thing I'd need to get returned would be taxed; Thing I'd fix and send back would then get taxed again.
This is a massive clusterfuck.
This, in a nutshell, is Brexit.
Country I'm dealing with is Norway, ffs. Not fucking Bophuthatswana. So much complication.
- Also: I really fucked a job up.
I have no idea how.
I dissected my process and.. no clue how. just a total fuck up.Nairn - Just a minor fuck up - but, a major fuck up.Nairn
- tell me how many kilometers that is away from you so i can decide how hard to laughimbecile
- tbf, if i describe a radius from where I am, it's utterly outside my tiny cluster of islands here. Still 'inside Germany' radius, so 'EU'.
Bunch of fucker.Nairn - *squints*
*extrapolates poorly, but considerably using finger measurements from GMaps scales*
about 650km.Nairn - Sorry, more like 900km. I was using the wrong thumb.Nairn
- Client used to be based in UK, but moved (with her English partner and child) back to Norway after Brexit. This is an outlier case, for sure, but still. BuggerNairn
- i presumed it would be closer, that's still a significant amount, still though taxes each time for a "state away", from my perspective is quite sillyimbecile
- eh, Europe is just about as big as the contigous US is, with a lot more complicating politics and geographic features (ie Seas)Nairn
- but yeah, it's fucking retarded that we have taxation in betwixt the UK and Norway.
Fucking thanks, Brexiters. THANKS A LOT.Nairn - You should move to Lisbon. https://thespaces.co…shapesalad
- It's where your clients will be in the future. Everything is slowly dying off in London/UK. In 20 years time the creative and financial industriesshapesalad
- will have moved on from London, where it once was the focus... it'll move, and London will be a shadow of it's 2000's glory.shapesalad
- Lisbon you can rent a bigger space, maybe across the river in Cacilhas. You'll will be warmer. You'll be within the EU, so a bunch more opportunities.shapesalad
- Norway is not EU, you're fucked :))grafician
- As anti-Brexit as I am, you're a schmuck if you don't appreciate the value, much as I am often to deride, of LDN. It's a world capital, and will be for a while.Nairn
- @nairn shape hates the UK, not sure why he's here.fadein11
- London has value in russian/arab and chinese money. On the streets it's just immigrants festering in poverty of three main groups, blacks, indians, arabics.shapesalad
- In-between those two extremes of wealth and non-wealth are a fine grain of British, EU, USA, JP, types trying to get by, trying not to fall into the ghettos,shapesalad
- where the immigrants live, and the crime/drugs is depressing, while constantly being held down be the money laundering chinese/russian/arab...shapesalad
- Thats london. After near 20 years here, that's my economic and demographic analysis.shapesalad
- And man.. I want to get out to where just normal families and people live. Sick of this odd fucking city of misery at either spectrum.shapesalad
- for the record - i've been trying to get out for the past six years. That said, your outlook is utterly misguided, and not necessarily for bad reasons.Nairn
- LDN will evolve and do just fine whatever happens, barring catastrophe.Nairn
- With, or without us. It doesn't care. It doesn't need to. And that, I think, is the realisation people who migrated here should realise at some point.Nairn
- er.. and by 'migrated to' - i mean in the salmon lifecycle -like thing wherein people like us moved in from the sticks, like salmon out to into the angry sea.Nairn
- at some point we need to spawn and so fuck off back to a little stream somewhere.
And then, die.Nairn - if you've been here 20 years, as i have, you're now either Londoner forever or Past Best and should fuck off.
As I say, I'd like to myself.Nairn - I'll probably die here.
Hopefully not too soon, at least.Nairn - Big cities are chaos, small too (you don't have anonymity), you need to find mid range.i_was
- Also: I really fucked a job up.
- doggydoggdog-6
What would you do if you got $500,000 tomorrow?
- Keep 100k for, you know, stuff, 100k for a rainy day, and 300k in investments.Continuity
- And by 'stuff', I mean spending/walking around money.Continuity
- Buy my small house in the north of Sweden, a copy of the recent Funhouse anniv. edition, invest, and spend my days painting and taking photos.face_melter
- Finish paying of the mortgage, buy an elevated bush block close to the ocean, build a pimped get away shack.thumb_screws
- I would invest in gold, convert a shitload to £ and go try to get my EU national id card in Dublin. Then go back to Cardiff to live with my missus.cherub
- i'd sleep on it. literally.pango
- build a properly spec'd rehearsal facility in belfast, buy a house somewhere remote on the coast in the free state.kingsteven
- Apply for portugese NHR tax scheme with the view of permanently relocating there. https://www.globalci…shapesalad
- And consider the portugese Golden Visa option too.shapesalad
- Bunch of cocaine & hookersNBQ00
- buy lots of tiramisuneverscared
- pay off debt, buy the house I'm living in and then continue paying off debtmekk
- buy an awesome house, blow 10k on a holiday, retire early and live off the rent moneyProjectile
- give away half to family and friends, do lots of drugs and build a bangin' recording studio.renderedred
- Retirejtb26
- Payoff the house, get the kiddo set up for college, invest the rest, and with the last few $ buy a really, really nice bike.skwiotsmith
- 2 chicks at the same time man.Beeswax
- Way to stay true to yourself Lawrencemisterhow
- invest all of it.showpony
- - pay my debt.
- what about the rest?
- the rest will waitzaq - Buy a farm in Portugal for < $80k. Spend $50k on renovations, interior design/furniture, equipment, used car. Live off land. Build workshop, make stuff 2 sell.shapesalad
- Invest the rest in gold, bonds, index funds, property.shapesalad
- with a decent piece of land in portugal, you'd need max $10k a year to live off for a decent lifestyle.shapesalad
- https://www.youtube.…shapesalad
- buy bitcoinESKEMA
- build a ranch, go off grid, grow stuff and surf 8 hours a daymoldero
- in MX of course, 500k wont get you shit statesidemoldero
- Jump off a fucking clifffuturefood
- ...with my new jet-powered rocket pantsfuturefood
- lolmoldero
- it's not that much money in a lot of places. unless you're willing to leave it all behind and go somewhere cheaper like shape salad said._niko
- $500k gets you half a bungalow in Toronto. If I had $500k and no wife or kids i'd consider buying an air bnb or two or three on a greek island with a studio_niko
- Post pics of me and my money on QBNsarahfailin
- Pay off mortgage, buy a car, pay off my debts, maximum into my ISA. I think I'd have enough left to put a nice little studio in the garden.Wolfboy
- move out of americacolin_s
- 250k to a house downpayment, 200k into a broad index fund, and 50k to spend on watches, clothes and furniture.DaveO
- Retirescarabin
- Raise goatsscarabin
- finish paying off my mortgage (which is close to done now anyhow) put a downpayment on a condo in Toronto for my kids...exador1
- if not for Covid, I'd probably then take the family on a trip back to Nice... spend a few weeks chilling there...exador1
- Fire all my clients, do art until I dieOBBTKN
- Well, I know what I'd be doing tomorrow night, at least - having the best night's sleep for at least a decade.Nairn
- Wonder why I'd need at least another $1,000,000 to able to buy a house in the overpriced holiday gulag in which I live.MrT
- https://shittybanter…pango
- Continuity10
I finally have an interview tomorrow, for the first time in months. Client-side/internal agency gig, international CD for a food box delivery service based in Berlin (but serving something like 8 markets worldwide).
One of the tasks will be to do their TVCs, so I had a look at the only one they've ever done on YT (to see what I could potentially be dealing with, here), and it's completely indistinguishable from their biggest competitor's spots.
I really hope they don't ask me if I've seen it, because I'd be too afraid of going un-filtered/rogue and saying, 'Yeah, and it fucking sucks.'
- Maybe you should say that and then ask for more moneyoey_oey
- Try to say "I've seen it and here's why it's not working for you..." and give 3 main bullet points of why it's not working and how you'd do better at it.shapesalad
- "Yes, of course I've seen them. I'd love to talk about how you arrived at these spots and if you think they're successful. Frankly, I see a lot of room for imprnb
- ovement. There are some easy wins here, definitely, and also I think some areas we can think about for long term success in this area."nb
- Have you considered it may actually be working for them? Blending in is a strategy.i_monk
- "It's a 1st step, and I'm sure the cie has learned a lot by making and putting this TVC out. The next step is to build a campaign that stands out etc"spl33nidoru
- You're applying for International CD, they know they need one, so comfort that need with your confidence and ambitions for them. Just be polite!spl33nidoru
- Sadly, with a generalised lack of vision, most brands do what others do, thinking it can't be wrong. Remind them of the purpose of advertising.spl33nidoru
- the play is to say why it sucks...and how it wouldn't suck...and then convince them to put all those $$$ in your hands.uan
- but being polite is probably the better move. don't listen to me.uan
- Thanks for the advice, fellas. It's easy to forget that people hire people for knowledge and expertise, and not cos they're an arse-kisser during the interview.Continuity
- Yeah they hire you for what they can't already do.
Here's some inspiration!
https://www.youtube.…spl33nidoru - And don't shit on what they've done before! ;)spl33nidoru
- Good luck!!OBBTKN
- Say "Yes, I've seen it and this is what I would change about it to meet goal x:"mekk
- good luck man!renderedred
- Good luck!stoplying
- First he gets back with his gf and now thisdrgs
- Hey now, I didn't get back with her, she just tried her luck.Continuity
- Thanks, guys!Continuity
- how'd it go?shellie
- Meh, not my best performance, if I'm honest. I don't think I was detailed enough in my answers for the marketing director's liking.Continuity
- On the other hand, she did schedule a 15 min follow up an hour and a half later, because I mentioned I still had questions to ask, so who knows.Continuity
- shapesalad-1
What would you do if you received $500,000 yesterday?
- face_melter0
I had a powerful lust for scrambled eggs, but I added way too much tabasco and white pepper and now my mouth is numb and my teeth are singing.
- ... and your face is melting?
I love scrambled eggs this way too although tabasco's just touch too tangy for my taste... cholula ftw!PonyBoy - I go through a bottle of tabasco a month. It's the perfect spicy for me, cuz I love that vinegar.DRIFTMONKEY
- tabasco is way to vinegary, cholua or tapatio FTWdasohr
- That wasn't white pepper...sarahfailin
- ... and your face is melting?
- BusterBoy0
If a business name had the word "ritz" in it, would that evoke any negative connotations with youse?
- a lot.
gugule: RITZ vs. RITZMARCHE
and this: https://trademarks.j…sted - that would depend on if I'm... blue... and don't know what to do...PonyBoy
- *where to go (sorry)PonyBoy
- putin on the ritz .gif also comes to mind
(not saying these are negative) but my mind saw putin on a cracker w/that tune playing in the backgroundPonyBoy - fairy nuff. thanksBusterBoy
- ausch-ritz might be a deal breaker for me.monNom
- lol that is so bad :Dsted
- https://youtu.be/mjG…kingsteven
- TITssszzzinteliboy
- Is it an American diner?nb
- Ritz crackers.Morning_star
- nah, the first thing I think of are the hotels and ballrooms that held Northern Soul dance nights.face_melter
- Old -Timey glamour and excess even a bit kitschy._niko
- what does it all mean?canoe
- a lot.
- cherub0
I know we have scots here... Please halp me with this phrase; "takkin pish"
See, I always thought "takken pish" meant "taking (the) piss." What does "pish" mean?
Listen at 1:00
"Du(you) kens(knows) what I'm lick. Du sees me ?leher? not, and du sees me takkin pish"
Ummm, I'm pretty sure the bible doesn't contain the phrase "taking the piss" unless it was a REALLY drunk re-translation or something. Lol.
- i'm going to guess it means "talking nonsense"hans_glib
- you know what i'm like, you see me 'layin at'? and talking pish, before i open my mouth you know the very words i'll say.microkorg
- "Talkin' Pish" means speaking nonsense.microkorg
- no idea what the 'laying at' means. I thought lying out/downmicrokorg
- Mad accent, it goes a bit Scando sounding up that way. Talking pish is defo a lot of the bible, but I don't think it's actually in it.PhanLo
- My mind wants to hear the german verb "lernen"(to learn) but indeed microkorg nailed it. She is skipping over words, or reading a butchered version of Psalm 139cherub
- It is indeed "layin at". But the "at" should be "down."cherub
- 139 O lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my pathcherub
- and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.cherub
- Her next sentence is blending german and english in the same sentence. "Du geyns(goes) a'fore me, and du comes a'hundt(behind) me."cherub
- shapesalad-8
If you could live anywhere in the UK and work remotely, where would you live. Max budget on rent/mortgage is £1250pm.
Things to note: You don't like cold weather and you like seeing something - ocean, landscape, old architecture. You don't like modern uk architecture. You also don't want to immersed in chavs, poverty, immigrants, brexit voters.
- The UK isn't for you.Morning_star
- <^flolhans_glib
- you sound like a 75 year old Daily Express reader.Fax_Benson
- Californiamonospaced
- asking for a friend?oey_oey
- WATcherub
- Yeah, UK isn't for me at all.. but no choice at moment.shapesalad
- https://www.dailymai…shapesalad
- I grew up in a place that's been voted the worse place to live in the UK. I don't want to live in a scummy environment again.shapesalad
- To look out the bedroom window and see tracksuit wearing scum sniff glue, rape a girl and stealing your bicycle.shapesalad
- I Don't know the uk well, and so far most places I've visit are all variations of the same theme, not dissimilar to where I grew up.shapesalad
- Back! Bold! Brave! "trying to be less racist"fadein11
- Where are you @shapesalad?Morning_star
- coast + warm weather limits you to the south where the average terraced house will cost 350k (more than your budget if not in a dodgy estate) = yer fuckeredkingsteven
- GibraltarMiesfan
- gib is full of brexiteer chavs so failhans_glib
- Tunbridge WellsBluejam
- What's the equivalent of California in the UK, Brighton ?i_was
- California for me would be the North Devon Coast (Saunton, Woolacombe, Croyd, Ilfracombe). Winter would be challenging thoMorning_star
- In the south, North Norfolk, Suffolk coast, posh parts of Kent - Deal, Broadstairs, Canterbury - be careful though, Kent has brexiters + brown people.Fax_Benson
- Have you tried Portugal?Fax_Benson
- yes to portugalshapesalad
- @hans, eh?Nairn
- UK isn't for you, neither is QBN, why do you go to a site where nobody likes you at all, desperate smoodgecanoe
- Continuity1
I really don't know — as a burger-lover — how I ever managed until now without a 'smashula'. This thing fucking rocks!
- $220 for a spatula is silly.i_monk
- Regular metal spatula + press down with handle from any other kitchen tool.i_monk
- Well, I spent 20 € for mine in a department store. And it beats the slotted spatula I already had, any day of the week.Continuity
- Even Tuesday?nb
- Even Tuesday, my friend. Even Tuesday.Continuity
- Just searched for 'smashula' on amazon, and... You gringos are crazy!!OBBTKN
- #notallgringosi_monk
- This looks exactly like the $16 onesscarabin
- sarahfailin1
wow I think I just spotted my next door neighbor in this photo next to Gavin McInnes, the founder/leader of the Proud Boys. he's in the MAGA hat on the left. ...we share internet in my apartment complex...- grabspopcorn.gifutopian
- All the rapey guys in bars ever_niko
- You going to ask him to confirm?Continuity
- ^yes i sent him the pic and i'm like yo dude is this you? we will see... we are on friendly terms. I will ask him to talk about this ish if it's him.sarahfailin
- Leave it alone, this will only cause more trouble than its worth.utopian
- Set fire to his door.i_monk
- invite him to join QBNKrassy
- good to have a neighbour you can rely on in a crisis thoughfadein11
- Which of the proud boys?drgs
- didn't Gavin quit his own group/ this has to be an old pic.fooler
- What sort of clown car did all these guys just spill out of?
Or, are they getting into one?Nairn - He'll be on a 8Chan group telling the boys how he's been doxxed.PhanLo
- Plot twist: he’s already here.ben_
- @sarahfailin cut the cable asap.sted
- Gavin said he quit when the heat was getting too close after his gang of shaved monkeys started actually doing the shit he wanted to. ie racial violence.face_melter
- Williamsburg, Greenpoint or Bushwick?instrmntl
- what krassy is saying.milfhunter
- change the name on the WiFi, calling him out as a MAGA pinhead cunt.face_melter
- I read a story about this, apparently he lives in an ultra wealthy community outside NYC and he was getting tired of other rich people recognizing him as theyuekit
- leader of this racist street gang.yuekit
- a hopeless sinner..neverscared
- Sooooo, sarahfailin ... is this your guy?Continuity
- The Proud Boys aren’t racists, they just go to the same parties that Neo Nazis go to.Al_dizzle
- Fred Perry polo, you can recognize a fascisti_was
- come on sarahfailin, you can't leave us hanging like this...or did they jump you into the gang?capn_ron
- That Fred Perry shirt though.ayport
- I sincerely hope that Captain Rainbow Helmet is a queer leftist infiltrator. I mean, he's clapping.Nairn
- Come on sarahfailin, you can just drop a bomb like this, then go all silent!Continuity
- Sorry for the silence! I talked to him and he said it's NOT him. We talked politics for like 45 minutes and he's conservative but not a Proud Boy. It's a reliefsarahfailin
- The pic was from Berkeley 2018 which is driving distance from where I live, so totally possible that it could have been him. he agreed it looks "kinda like" himsarahfailin
- I am not very good at recognizing faces, admittedly, and I have barely passed a face-blindness test before.sarahfailin
- OK. Whew. Guess you can put away the paper bag full of this morning's diarrhea that you were going to set light to and leave at his door.Continuity
- "and I have barely passed a face-blindness test before" wut?Nairn
- https://facememory.p… is one such test. i took one from a cambridge study that is no longer availablesarahfailin
- 1 invisible dickmoldero
- grafician3
this is a safe place, unwind...
- grafician0
late night, QBN, tumblr, a nice rain coming over the city, I just seen that guy with the cranberry rolling getting his own, it doesn't get much to make a good guy cry man, we still have a lot good in us...remember that!
- maquito2
1- MacBook Pro 15-Inch 2005
2- MacBook Pro 15-Inch 2010
3- MacBook Pro 16-Inch 2019- Are you a sentimental type?grafician
- :,(maquito
- Hahaha! Pacharán taberna vasca!! Que tal se come allí??OBBTKN
- never understood where people get all those stickers from. Is there a pack you can buy?shapesalad
- The stickers are collected over time through promos, etc.monospaced
- @shapesalad i got stickers from trading with friends, events, shoe boxes :)sted
- @OBBTKN De la ostia!!! http://pacharan.com.…maquito
- @shapesalad I get stickers all the time, from friends, promos, stuff I buy that comes with stickers... 10 years putting them on the computer.maquito
- wish i still had my titanium G4, gonna wait a month to see if there's any intel MBP updates in the November event before replacing my 2015kingsteven
- I still have a 15 inch 2013CyBrainX
- DRIFTMONKEY3
First thing I could think of.
Draw your own conclusions.
Mitchell & Webb love in the notes --->
- are we the baddies?pango
- just you pango, only you.sted
- :(pango
- I posted a Guess Who... a few pages back of him wearing a Skrewdriver t-shirt. You don't do that with any kind of irony or edgelord fuckery.face_melter
