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- Nairn8
It's hot here in LDN, it may have been mentioned. I came home early and am now sat at the kitchen table fart-arsing around on the internets with just my boxers on and - wait, the image gets worse, so please mentally-extrapolate the idea and let your imagination run riot - and i've just looked down to realise that the gusset of my boxers have split and a testicle has flopped out.
It's just sat there in between crossed legs like some kind of malformed elephant foetus.
i gotta stop buying shit boxers.
- man, that made me chuckle.PhanLo
- i have to go out and retrieve a pair of shorts from the line out back. I can hear my new neighbours yakking in the garden next door. ...Nairn
- should I go out with my red face and arms and blindingly-ultraviol... skin otherwise, with a single testicle hanging out and get them, waving a cheery "Hullo!"?Nairn
- Get a towel just in case.
On second thoughts go shorts, I want to see the next blog post :-)PhanLo - High-end undies are my only real extravagance in life. It's a different world.Fax_Benson
- @Naim you need to write a book, dudeKrassy
- i did go out in just boxers, but quickly and minced a bit as i did so, so nothing was able to make its attention.Nairn
- Perverse thing is, i had shorts here otherwise to wear.Nairn
- been there lolmonospaced
- lol Nairn, let me add the happy end pic:
https://i.imgur.com/…rzu-rzu - lol!stoplying
- zaq26
Last Tuesday I went on a hiking trip with my 13 years old son that was supposed to be a 2 nights camping, covering the distance of 22 miles in Adirondack (West Canada Lake Wilderness) It was our first time in that area. We traveled 11 miles the first day, stayed 2 nights at a beautiful lake, then planned to walk another 11 miles through a different route back to the car.
That's where I learned the hard lesson of relying on technology.
The app Alltrails was used to guide me. It did a pretty good job, even sending me notifications as soon as I am off the path. But the app also drains the battery fast. My phone died the second day. I had a small battery charger, so I thought it would be enough to get us back the next day. However, it ran out of juice half way.
Then I thought it's not a problem, we will just follow the trail marks and eventually get back.and ...
we missed a turn that resulted in 15 extra miles and 1 extra night and a day in the wilderness.
Since we had to carry everything ourselves, we took enough food just to get us through 2 nights. So we were out of food too.
The red line on this map is our original path, the orange line is the detour.
When we got to the lake (the end of the orange line) that's where I realized we are completely lost. We turned back, but it was too dark at that point, so we decided to spend the night right there and continue our search in the morning.
Meanwhile, my wife freaked out that we haven't returned as promised. She got contacted the rangers, who started a full-blown search for us in the morning.
Luckily, overnight the charger miraculously got a little juice. It was enough for my phone to receive 1%. I was able to launch AllTrails app for a few seconds, locate us on the map and see where we missed the turn.
A few hours later, we bumped in to the rangers, who escorted us to the car and notified my wife that we were ok.
When I got home, I ordered a real map and a compass. I will never travel without that in my backpack.
- Glad oit all worked out - how was the 13yr old ?_me_
- He took it very well. I am proud of him. Although he said he will never go again with me :)zaq
- HA! dont think the missus is gonna let you anyways !_me_
- that is quite the scenic detour !_me_
- The Life and Times of Grizzly Adamsutopian
- Man...I can’t even imagine what was in your wife’s head. Still you did good. Happy everything ended well.oey_oey
- Wow! And always Carry more food than you need and life straws.Hayoth
- Damn, glad you have a sense of humor about it. Great bonding experience.bezoar
- Next BD gift for you: a solar / hand-crank Charger.uan
- sounds like you got more than the adventure you were seeking plus a lifelong bonding memory for you and your son. glad you made it back safely.Krassy
- "... a lifelong bonding memory for you and your son ..." - those were my thoughts as well.SimonFFM
- Wow, that's a great learning experience.Chimp
- https://images-na.ss…pango
- Glad you’re ok but your poor wife! :)_niko
- Damn dude, glad ur goodGuyFawkes
- Awesome experienceGnash
- Into the wild!PhanLo
- great tips. glad you made it out ok!kaiyohtee
- Moral of the story, have analogue backups, understand how to use them and take more batteries.kalkal
- Hope you got to enjoy the camping part anywaystoplying
- Glad you made it out! I also second the hand crank charger. It’s a literal life saver.monospaced
- I recently bought a solar powered brick that will charge a phone about 10 times to full and can be recharged by solar cells on its face.shellie
- how fast does it charge? and ... its always cloudy here... usually those are the reason i haven't bought a solar powered battery.pango
- Come to Denmark! Here, there's a Lidl in walking distance wherever you are :)jagara
- I got a rugged solar-powered charger too, in addition to a map and a compass.zaq
- oey_oey0
I had the best sexting ever today.
Started unexpectedly short before 11am and lasted with some breaks almost 12 hours...I was practically edging all day and I managed to cook lunch and dinner for my partner and daughter.
I told my partner that I was going crazy in the kitchen and she gave me the evening to continue.
Fucking wow, one of the best and most intense experience in my life!
- ummmm... ok_me_
- Well I'm not gonna share details except that there's people who really can write and be descriptive...oey_oey
- ...and open people's imagination.oey_oey
- Sexting
It isn't sex, it's the next best thing******** - Glad you stopped to cook for your daughter. On a Tuesday.monospaced
- So it wasn't with your partner?BusterBoy
- lol so many questinesGuyFawkes
- Upvote bump this post is gold!GuyFawkes
- so much to unravel here. your partner cool with this and you're torqued up cooking for your daughter?capn_ron
- Lol I feel bad for you if sexting was one of the best experiences of your life********
- On an old Nokia? They do have good vibrate.Nairn
- Don't feel bad for me nb...one of t he best experiences can be 100 experiences list...oey_oey
- My partner is cool with it, we have a open relationship and we know what are the important things we haveoey_oey
- And where our focus lays. Communication, consent, respect, honesty all are keyoey_oey
- We started to open now because our daughter is reaching an age where he can stay with me if my partner has her own thingoey_oey
- And we weren't really a couple in the start and we both love to be with people and have sex.oey_oey
- But it has to do always with connection and vibe. And the deal is not to start a relationship or if one of us noticesoey_oey
- That it's going to far or putting our ground at risk we stop. We talk about what's happening.oey_oey
- We have a secure respectful ground about what we have and we really appreciate what we have and know what's at riskoey_oey
- So we try, I it's not working or if we can not handle it somehow we stop.oey_oey
- This is a bit too private but I think that in general it's good to share our experiences and how relationships work.oey_oey
- I must say 1000km didn't felt that far away at all...oey_oey
- pango1
Just got 2nd jab. Hope I don't turn into a 5G crocodile.
- no surprise, in this economy everybody needs a second jab. i hope this one doesn't involves getting naked.sted
- 5G Croc life is best life********
- get some ice cream. helps cooling down the system who tends to overhit a bit.uan
- *overheatuan
- bth, I never got any side effects.... only sore arm and minor drowsiness.pango
- Bennn2
I dont know in wich thread post this :
''When two punk bands came to a psychiatric hospital, beautiful chaos ensued''
- Hayzilla2
I forgot I uploaded 2 photos to Unsplash 3+ yrs ago. Just logged in when someone tagged me on instagram. 7,000 downloads and has been used in loads of places including on Medium.com a couple years ago!
- Cool, how much revenue you receive?shapesalad
- None. I shared them for free. It's a free site.Hayzilla
- Hayzilla0
WTF is going on with car prices in the UK right now!! My BMW I bought 2yrs ago is worth £7k more now than what I paid for it?!
- brexit covid import shortagehans_glib
- oh, and no silicon chips for the engine management systems to build new cars pushing up 2nd hand markethans_glib
- Everyone, invest in used cars.DRIFTMONKEY
- Car rental cos sold off inventory for covid. Can’t buy new fleets now so they are buying used cars. More demand. Less supply. Higher prices.monNom
- kingsteven4
The heatwave here hit so quickly its rendered my Irish skin an unfamiliar brownish hue... my temples though, shielded by long hair until this morning are those of a corpse. Walked back from the barbers with what in contrast looks like a mint green arch encapsulating the forehead...trying to remedy the situation today, took the day off and in the hammock sipping sangria with a t-shirt pulled over my face in an attempt to invoke any latent Spanish blood I may have (yknow from the armadas). I'll spare you photos but more or less:
Crossed with
- PonyBoy1
A buddy named 'Adnan' and I have a joint client in which we receive group texts from... this one older gal in the group uses her voice dictation to send us texts... apparently the app interprets 'Adnan' as 'Eggnog'...
... I guess what I'm asking is exactly how long can I call him 'Eggnog' before the joke gets old? cuz... I can't help myself.
- sarahfailin1
Ordered some pretty good potstickers takeout from a Chinese place that came in a thin, plastic box, the kind you might serve salad in.
Well, the hot potstickers melted the plastic box, and I ate several of them before I noticed that I was probably eating some melted plastic along with the food.
I guess it's cancer for me!
- sounds gross but vomiting can
save you a ileus or cancersted - Sarah do be failin'face_melter
- RIPBusterBoy
- sounds gross but vomiting can
- garbage2
I saw a hit and run last night.
Giannis' post-championship Chic-Fil-A meal (50 piece and and a half lemonade, half sprite suicide) was hilarious, so the gf and I decided to scrap dinner plans and go to CFA. It's our guilty pleasure, fuck it.
Our CFA is really out of place, stuck in a notorious part of Seattle that's on a narrow four lanes of chaos lined with shit motels, dive bars, and an entire zone where cops turn a blind eye to sex workers.
Just driving there you are guaranteed to see at least a dozen half-naked women right on the sidewalk, and you will get flashed and mooned. There's also plenty of screaming junkies and some general gangery going on there.
Bored and sitting in the drive-thru that is always good for 10 minutes of traffic jam that extends out into all of this chaos, I glance over into the sideview mirror and see a motorcycle flying through the intersection, breaking into pieces, followed shortly by a man doing his best impersonation of said motorcycle.
Eventually the motorcycle dude comes back into frame, runs up to an SUV and starts having a fit. The sex workers show up to rubberneck, the motorcycle dude looks around and books it, leaving his bike behind. By the time we get our food it's a shitshow of prostitutes and cops dragging the motorcycle out of traffic.
Dinner and a show. The lemonade / Sprite is pretty great.
- scarabin3
Just once on Supernatural i wish a Grinder notification would go off and both Sam and Dean reach for their pockets
- ********3
https://imgur.com/gallery/4zRLVg…
This is ok but it would be better if I could just turn on the shower and do all my sink related stuff and be autocleaned
- BusterBoy2
Having a discussion with my kids today...whether life would ever return to anything like pre-COVID times. I really couldn't say one way or another...but for their sake, I bloody hope so.
- Fax_Benson2
kingsteven, how did the temple-browning go?
- drgs7
My accordion-playing neighbor went on vacation and left his alarm clock set for 06:30 every morning (it turns off after one hour).
Why can't this nitwit use his mobile phone, like normal peopleThis is him
- Piss through his letterboxPhanLo
- go to bed early, get up at 6.20am and go for a 1 hour run/cycle at 6.30am. profit.shapesalad
- find the fuse box for the floor and reset his apartment.uan
- 1. No letterbox
2. 1 hour run at 6.30 would kill me
3. His fuse box is next to mine and locks with a keydrgs - hahah wat a punchable face.milfhunter
- don't be a cuck pussy, fuck that fuse box with a hammer********
- Something tells me this wasn't an accidentAQUTE
- pour piss into circular baking trays and then freeze to make <10mm high discs of piss you can spin under his door, leaving pools of pee deep inside his house.Nairn
- lol AQUTENairn
- Buy an accordion, master it, steal his life and livelihood.garbage
- Or buy an alarm clock or three and plan a vacation for the day he gets back.garbage
- Ha! Nairn ftwbezoar
- hahah do what Nairn suggests and keep us updatedmilfhunter
- shapesalad0
You apply to a job.
• 2 weeks later asked to do some first stage questions, a few written questions, a few video recorded answers.
• a week later HR want a brief interview, to check you can legally work, salary expectations, notice period.
• week later big long interview with head of design, told you're the best candidate before interview even starts, interview goes on longer than schedule, good long talk, all seems great on both sides.
• 1 week later request to do a video interview with marketing boss and later that day a video interview with boss of creative director .
then.... nothing...
4 weeks later.
zip. nada. no email. no call. no rejection. nothing.
You google search company name + head of design's name... see there's a new microsite up to promote the design team with a 'join now' button... google search indicates this was newly put up 3 days ago.
You log back into the HR recruitment portal and your application says 'active'.
Is this normal? What the F is going on? Am I rejected via ghosting?
a whole month has passed and 2.5 months since I applied to the job. Zero contact from them to tell me what's in play.
Are they holding off on a decision until the see if they can get better applications - without thinking to perhaps keep me in the loop?
Just seems super rude. Worse there's no way to email/contact them unless i do something creepy like try to connect with them on LinkedIn.
- From my side, looks like I'm rejected, by polite if they say so. This is the 2nd time I've gone through rounds of interview to then simple hear nothing.shapesalad
- obviously my proof reading and typing needs working on.shapesalad
- Only thought about all this - companies are full of young people (under 35) who are used to ghosting, culturally a norm, so they do that in recruiting?shapesalad
- Just, whatever - don't take it personally. My partner does, way too much, and it really breaks her. Oftentimes, companies are chasing their own tailNairn
- She got really despondent after one such interview. They didn't get back, then did via whatever industry site she uses. She took it personally as she thought ..Nairn
- ..she was an ideal candidate. A week later the director contacted her directly, apologised profusely and explained why, and told her she'd be moreNairn
- suited to working on other episodes they'd be working on. They were just mangled and chaotic with all the WFH confusion.Nairn
- But fucking hell if she wasn't miserable for a few days there, pouring scorn and hellfire over the industry she was Definitely Going to Leave.Nairn
- change your status on LinkedIn to "working at [your own studio]" then see the inquiries going thru the roof, then skip interviews just ask for offersgrafician
- Also when they say "you're the right candidate" that means you're cheap but when they ghost you, means you were not cheap enough lolgrafician
- they found your qbn account.
completely normal, some asshole didn't liked your face, probably generated in-house controversysted - and they decided to put your cv into the fridge.sted
- But if you interview candidates surely it’s common polite practice to tell people they are not the chosen one.shapesalad
- Looking for someone cheaperGnash
- Your role was contingent on some business they were hoping to win. And still might win. But as they were getting ready to go, new client ghosted.monNom
- Because that new client was ready to go and had funding all lined up, but just when they were about to pull the trigger, their funding ghosted.monNom
- Because that VCs money was coming from a big new investor in their fund, who decided hog futures were a better buy today and ghosted.monNom
- Last three long-term jobs I've had, basically called me out of the blue and hired me on the spot, because they got my name from someone and liked me in person********
- Every other job I thought I was perfect for didn't hire me and hired other people who fit some quota.********
- They read your shit here and gave the gig to an immigrant purely out of spite.face_melter
- @shapesalad nah not everywhere.
they go with somebody and if that doesn't works out, you're there as a second best choice :)sted - and what holds you back from dropping a line to one of your contacts at that place?sted
- There are some flakey af folks in the industry. good luck out there!kaiyohtee
- i was told "we'll let you know soon, we won't leave you hanging..." spoiler alert: they left me hanging...unfortunat... ghosting is becoming a normloool
- Have experienced this before. Nothing new here unfortunately.desmo
- Nairn1
Oh dear lord.
I've come into the studio for a couple of hours on a Saturday.
Bar out front isn't busy so person who is working in there is loudly playing jungle and drum'n'bass with some very (very) deep bass. So deep it was making me feel nauseous a few minutes ago. I could feel it in my chest.
And now some cunt down the road on my other ear has started playing some - i'm not even sure what it is - but it's like that really hardcore Dutch Gabba trance stuff and OH MY FUCKING CACOPHONY I just want to go back to bed.
- Found the source of those Havava syndrome attacksgrafician
- got a weird vertigo while listening to music for a few days after my first AZ jab, could be relatedkingsteven
- huh - did you have tinnitus or tinnitus-like symptoms, King? my ears have felt underwater. This today was genuinely just 'cos the bass was so loud and low.Nairn
- no tinnitus or headaches, but yeah i was working on music and then like a focus pull everything went mushy and mono followed by nausea. it was horrible.kingsteven
- could have just been a sinus infection, cleared up after 3 days or so...kingsteven
- Welcome to London.shapesalad
- Sound claaaassshh!PhanLo
- scarabin6
My neighbor just had a portapotty and a mechanical bull delivered. Those guys party harder than i do.
Guess i won’t be sleeping tonight
- Sup fellow kidsGuyFawkes
- Updates are mandatory.garbage
- setup the live stream !_me_
- 4 am today, taking beers with friends in the garden... And there was our bored to death psycho neighbor: "you're like f***ng kids!!!"OBBTKN
- Hahaha... We are not that old, we still know how to party and piss off this old bitch!OBBTKN
- whatever happened i hope you got home before the sun came up :)sted
- Aaand it was perfectly civil, quiet, and everyone went home by 10scarabin
- They had a boring lawn rodeo?!garbage