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- Nairn2
My year and a bit old boots have worn down soles which have begun wearing into the internal cavitations, so I've had wee stones sneaking it and jostling around, annoying my walks to work.
I looked into getting them re-soled, but the cheapest I saw was £70, with most prices towards £90-100, so then thought "I can do this" (I likely could not) so looked on eBay for replacement soles, and added in the type of boot I had to ensure correct response and.. oh. Someone's selling a pair of boots they've "only worn for an hour" (yeah, right) and so be-cidered Nairn made an offer ten pounds under, for £70 and BOOMPH, accepted. Paid and today delivered.
And now I have a pair of essentially brand new boots that don't look like they're even been worn for an hour even and which cost me £120 less than I'd normally pay for a new pair.
I've contacted the seller to offer them the ten pounds back, as I feel a bit guilty, but fucking hell, I never expected to be happy at buying second hand shoes, never mind from bloody eBay.
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Still a bit irritated that the boots I'm wearing have a failed me after two winters - I usually replace them on the third winter, bunch of bastard.
- need a pic of you in them with your cargo shortsfadein11
- You're already half-way there. You can finish off in private...Nairn
- cider. man bun.beard. boots. cargo shorts (well, when summer comes..)
oh jeez. kill me now.Nairn - SECOND-HAND BOOT YOGHURT WARBLING DOPE-SMOKING HIPPYNairn
- no wonder my in-laws are so disappointed.Nairn
- hahafadein11
- Get yourself down to Brodie’s and get them fixed
https://goo.gl/maps/…shapesalad - You big cheapskate.shapesalad
- Got mine resoled there. Great chap and service. Money well spent.shapesalad
- OBBTKN8
Listening to Bicep, while doing a siesta, after a grilled hake and beef chop, daugthers (again) via to a party, wife near, with her injured leg, sunny day, mid-hot.
Out in half an hour for beers with friends.
Remembered I have to call to a friend, and talk about art, basque sculpture and paint, politics, the weather... oh! And talk about the new and old fascists...
Get out kids, and have a blast, love and PEACE!
- pango2
fuck you youtube for pushing these kind of ads to me!
"beautiful women seeking old man"
- thumb_screws0
what's this about?
https://www.urbandictionary.com/…Randomly stumbled on to it.
- https://www.urbandic…
<and those were regular contributors to the public voiceuan - Ahh cheers. I think I remember madirish.thumb_screws
- https://www.urbandic…
- scarabin-2
Deviled eggs is just egg salad. I don’t know why they frontin’
- SimonFFM0
It took me a long time to find ear plugs that work best for me. Still last night I woke up three times because someone was vomiting in my room.
The hotel acoustics here cannot withstand British party people. The ear plugs silenced their conversations (which were basically them screaming their names all the time) but the vomiting sounds were nasty. To them they were so normal they didn’t even interrupt their party.
Recently I have learned there are park runs and healthy people in the UK, too, and it was happy to hear, because yesterday I saw more drunken people than sober ones.
The reason for this must be that I am in holiday places when I work. Wish me luck for my shoot today. I just saw the instagram story of my model and she was out and up late.
- Wear expensive noise cancelling headphones over the earplugs. Add relaxing, drone music.********
- Good luck********
- The hotel itself is nice but unfortunately season opening of clubs was earlier than it used to be (due to a pandemic break of two years). I will survive.SimonFFM
- Prefer the club sounds over the vomitting noise though...SimonFFM
- And you wonder why I want to move to the Azores..,.shapesalad
- ^ LOLoey_oey
- I like the Azores. Just cannot work there.SimonFFM
- Wear expensive noise cancelling headphones over the earplugs. Add relaxing, drone music.
- milfhunter10
Just moved to my new appartement. Happy with the view.
- Nice.palimpsest
- Username checks out with the location. :)Longcopylover
- Geo locating you as we speak.shapesalad
- Nah, that's just an Apple displaymisterhow
- very niceYakuZoku
- what's up with these people putting plants in front of their monitors, i don't get it.sted
- Any milfs around there?NBQ00
- Milf spotted pushing walker right under that reddish treefuturefood
- Nice light!Chimp
- Ground floor :/pango
- first time spelling apartment?imbecile
- That’s how it’s spelled in Neverland. ;)monospaced
- Holland is very flat. This is the 6th floor.Nairn
- @imbecile ye sorry its dutchmilfhunter
- @NBQ00 not too much. At least not the good ones..milfhunter
- @sted had a housewarming last Friday which ended up in getting 10+ plants.milfhunter
- 10+ plants.
But how many milfs tho?palimpsest
- _niko5
Firms paying employees 20% less if they work from home
https://www.bbc.com/news/busines…
if they have less expenses, office rental, equipment, utilities, etc and the employees don't waste a couple of hours a day committing back and forth and are more productive at home, surely they should be getting a 20% INCREASE in pay instead?
- Because setting up to work from home is easy and affordable. Everyone has office space, desks, chairs and monitors, plus high speed internet.monospaced
- Holy fuck. Cost me like $10k to set up two home offices and the firm didn’t give anyone shit. Except for raisesmonospaced
- This is why people will quit and move on.monospaced
- ^yupYakuZoku
- drgs2
Young dudes wearing golden neck chains -- seeing more and more of this lately
Should I get one?Discuss
- nawjagara
- https://www.qbn.com/…OBBTKN
- ;) @jagaraOBBTKN
- Definitely. Do you, Darling.
It's been 'a thing' here in LDN for a good decade or so now. Started noticing it with clients from Central St. Martins back thenNairn - Awesome
Hair style tips?drgs - Severe.Nairn
- collector can't take what is on you.sted
- I got some as gifts I never wore them I think it's tackyYakuZoku
- Yes you should get onepango
- Yes buy some gold plated metal. Mined in one awful country. No regards to the local environment. Workers paid peanuts. Smelted in a shithole.shapesalad
- Most of your purchase money going towards marketing and store costs, just cos it ‘looks cool’ and hoping people will think you’re cool to wear that. Idiots.shapesalad
- Get a face tatt first, then the chains.microkorg
- ********0
My friend’s husband just got promoted. I estimate he makes between $500k and $800k per year.
His job is slightly worse than mine but not really that bad. He’s 12 years younger than me and I would consider him a regular guy, average intelligence, and a hard worker.
I’m happy for him but what the actual fuck. That’s like professional athlete money.
- What does the dude do...Investment manager?utopian
- Not even. He works for big tech and his new title includes “Head of..”********
- What does he do day-to-day?doggydoggdog
- This is a lot of money!!OBBTKN
- At ad/web agency at senior level I was on £X and likely wouldn't have got much higher no matter how long i stayed.microkorg
- Jacked it in. Now work at tech company. Started on £X. 2 years later at 1.5 x £X.microkorg
- He’s not a designer. Daily activities are managing people and writing and communicating strategy. Not creative, but not particularly difficult********
- I’m sure he paid his dues. Good for him.monospaced
- I just can’t get over how at 30yo he can do so much. Buy a house in any hood. Vacation anywhere. Buy houses for his fam. It’s fantastic.********
- yup that's a shitload of moneymicrokorg
- Some people are delegators some people are doers. Delegators are useless without the doers yet the delegators make all the money_niko
- Are you in the same position? Do similar work? Is it just a matter of finding a different company?_niko
- https://www.nytimes.…sted
- MrT0
I'm updating a video to reflect a recent rebrand. The bulk of it - a series of interviews - isn't changing. I asked the client if they'd contact the original agency for source files, at least the footage. Their reply;
"Sorry we don't have that any more, we only archive projects for one year."
WTF? One year? Can that even be called an archive?
Just a crappy lie to avoid releasing source files?
- i_monk26
Engaged.
- Cocked, locked and ready.palimpsest
- You made it so.
Good on ya, mate.Continuity - Congrats!Gnash
- good luck!milfhunter
- So gay!mort_
- https://y.yarn.co/2f…imbecile
- Did she/he finally ask?
Congrats to you two.Longcopylover - To what?Chimp
- Congrats!scarabin
- Yeah boiii(s)!!!ideaist
- Congratulations, just be sure 100% they are mentally sane....shapesalad
- Sweet!YakuZoku
- Great to hear!, especially with all the speed bumps along the way that you’ve graciously shared with all of us._niko
- i_monk, do you wear golden neck chains?
congratsdrgs - congrats!sted
- Congrats! Now go and get a prenuptial agreement ASAP!utopian
- So when are you having babies?
;)monospaced - congrats :)PonyBoy
- Hope you don’t get divorcedcannonball1978
- grats!
if I ever get a mistake baby, you can have that one.pango - congratulations :)BuddhaHat
- Congrats!formed
- Congrats! !bezoar
- Congrats. I read that in Picards voice.thumb_screws
- Congrats!Chimp
- Longcopylover0
To visualise presentations, simple storyboards or moodboards I often use pictures from shotdeck.com.
It's okay for that purpose but I could use more variety of pictures, especially to tell stories.
What sources do you use? Is there something bigger I don't know?
Not getty, not google, not pinterest.
- Wrong link: https://shotdeck.com…Longcopylover
- Is "Shotdeck" violating any copyrights? Because all of their images were taken directly from movies?utopian
- Unsplash.com?SimonFFM
- @Utopian: tldr, but I think for internal busieness use it's legal: https://shotdeck.com…Longcopylover
- @simon: Unsplash for is good for superficial search but not for very specific looks or scenes.Longcopylover
- Same energy maybe?SimonFFM
- https://www.pexels.c… maybe?PhanLo
- scarabin0
“Write a poem about nathan scarabin in the style of charles bukowski”
Nathan Scarabin
He was a man, a real man
Not some pretty boy or a mannequin
He was a man, a rough and tumble man
A man who knew how to take a fall
He was a man, a drinking man
A man who knew how to hold his liquor
He was a man, a fighting man
A man who knew how to throw a punch
He was a man, a loving man
A man who knew how to love a woman
He was a man, a Nathan Scarabin
And I loved him, I really loved him
Openai is fucking nuts
https://beta.openai.com/playgrou…- Ask it to write a script or a story about different things in dfferent stylesscarabin
- doggydoggdog0
I want to go to SF for the weekend on Memorial Day.
What's the cheapest way to find a 3-4 star hotel downtown and a flight for cheap, possibly packaged?
- Pro tip: search the web for deals. Do NOT book on package travel sites like Expedia or trivago.********
- Instead, book directly with the airline and then book directly with the hotel. You’ll pay exactly the same but get much better service.********
- If you have an area you want to stay in, google maps works to find a deal. For flights, I like flights.google.com but I don’t know if they list every airline********
- Pro tip: search the web for deals. Do NOT book on package travel sites like Expedia or trivago.
- inteliboy0
^ @scara and openai
"Write a short screenplay about a homeless girl who is a shapeshifter."
INT. HOMELESS SHELTER - NIGHT A group of homeless girls huddle around a fire in a makeshift shelter. One of them, a young girl with dirty blond hair, looks up at the moon. She suddenly shimmers and transforms into a wolf. The other girls gasp as the wolf runs off into the night.
CUT TO: INT. FOREST - NIGHT The wolf girl runs through the forest, her senses heightened. She can smell prey and starts to hunt. She finds a deer and brings it down, devouring it hungrily.
CUT TO: INT. HOMELESS SHELTER - NIGHT The wolf girl returns to the shelter and changes back into a human. The other girls are asleep. She curls up in a ball and falls asleep.
CUT TO: INT. CITY STREET - DAY The girl is walking through the city, begging for money. People pass her by, not even sparing her a glance. She's dirty and Hungry. She sees a McDonald's and her stomach growls. She goes inside and orders a burger and fries. She sits down to eat and sees a group of girls her own age laughing and joking. They have clean clothes and full stomachs. The girl feels a pang.
- inteliboy11
"Write a short story about a man who trolls Internet graphic design forums."
Gabriel was a lonely man. He spent most of his time on the computer, trolling graphic design forums. He loved looking at the work of other designers and picking apart their work. He would find flaws in their designs and point them out to anyone who would listen.
Gabriel was happy in his little world of trolls and designers. He didn't need anyone else. But one day, he came across a design that was so perfect, so flawless, that he couldn't find anything wrong with it. He was mesmerized by it.
He looked at the design over and over again, trying to find something, anything, that he could nitpick. But he couldn't. It was perfect.
He became obsessed with the design and the designer who made it. He started stalking their online presence, trying to figure out who they were. He wanted to know everything about them.
But the more he learned, the more he realized that he would never be able to find fault in their work. They were just too good. And that made Gabriel feel even more alone.
- drgs0
- https://i.imgur.com/…
https://i.imgur.com/…drgs - I could see Vlada liking getting pegged every now and then.Continuity
- https://i.imgur.com/…
- ********2
Write a short story about starting a new thread for those posts
- Bennn0
Hi guys! (yeah iam still here ;)
Anyone have a website for testing a design on stuff like, frames, packaging, mugs, tshirt, etc.... You know what I mean?