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EVERY
THING
IS
SO
EXPENSIVE
- literally everything. Tacos are $4 now. it is so crazy. anyway, here is my cash app........capn_ron
- This morning: two espresso drinks, a cookie and a muffin. $23.50 (after tax and tip)********
- oof, tough to even go out and enjoy a snack and drink with the wife anymore cause it hits the wallet so hard.capn_ron
- GET
A
JOB
MORANutopian - At least my salary is going upheywaitasecondstoplying
- My mans I spent $23.50 on a coffee and snack with the wife. You better believe I have a job lol********
- job? what is this word you speak of?capn_ron
- The only advantage is that the mortgage also dissolves with inflation.stewart
- $14 for a taco bell meal :xpinkfloyd
- I’m a renter I’m fucked********
- 6 bucks for a pack of sliced sharp cheddar. Insane.dasohr
- My $5 footlong was like $14scarabin
- In my day Subway paid ME to eat their foodscarabin
- I’m done buying anything.********
- cash is losing valueinteliboy
- McDowell's Happy Meal $12.99-utopian
- jupmilfhunter
- Mortgage dissolves with inflation BUT interest rates increase as a counter measure as well.Jrdntnnr
- Mortgage doesn’t get affected at all.monospaced
- I made £3k trading forex while working last week, every is cheap.shapesalad
- That 3k is already worth less than 3k********
- Nairn0
I'm pretty sure I asked this about 5-10 years ago, but..
Do any of you guys use AliExpress? If so, is it generally trustworthy? Any pitfalls to watch out for?
There's a high powered laser diode unit I want to buy and then likely blind myself with, but I've no experience with AliExpress beyond some girl on the bus the other day saying "They were only 15p each on AliExpress!".
- normally you find different sellers for same product. check shipping costs. look at reviews. also, check if the laser power is legal in the UK.uan
- if not, customs might take it and fine you.uan
- don't store cc number with them. cloth sizes are different than EU/UK. It take months to get the stuff. It was faster 3 years ago. that's my exp.uan
- read the product descriptions, i mean read it not just scan :) oh and check if you can import that specific product.sted
- Was way cheaper and faster years a go... Don't used it on like 3 yearsOBBTKN
- Pretty cheap but things take for ever to ship. Some times they never arrive._niko
- Got a friend who ordered a Rich and Morty phone case for $0.75 and came as advertised within 2 weeks...grafician
- Rich and Morty? thought they dont care about IPpango
- I dropship with aliexperss. It entirely depends on the sellerscarabin
- I tried once but the guy was like "you need a shipping container" for a lamp.i_monk
- SimonFFM0
I arrived in Athens but my suitcase hasn’t. First time this happens to me. I am only staying 2 nights and all my stuff for my shoot is in my suitcase. I now sit here and wait with cheesy music played way too loud in the baggage claim area while it’s sunny and nice outside. Hope my day will turn better in a few hours.
- Shit, you're in Athens? I was there for two days at the start of my holiday this year in Aug. If you have a chance, go to this bar, it's fantastic:Continuity
- https://couleurlocal…Continuity
- I am here to work only. But thank you!SimonFFM
- 4 hrs later all is good!SimonFFM
- Noice!
Now go to that bar.Continuity - :DContinuity
- It’s only 13 minutes away from me.SimonFFM
- Nairn7
Had a student phone last night, a Saturday evening, at 6pm asking if I could do some lasering for him today. I suck air over my teeth and tell him to send me the designs and I'll see if I can fit it in as I've got a full day booked in. I was working 'til 11pm last night, nothing back.
I got in today. Sunday, at 11am and still nothing. I get on with my work and figure he's found a different path.
At 4.30pm he sends me the files.
I respond, telling him it's far too late in the day, and he replies with a response that is of the same calibre of bullshit excuse I used to pass as a student.
I'm guessing he's going to miss his deadline tomorrow, cos as soon as I've finished this next tranhce (@2 hours), Imma going home.
I'm always curious to receive shit like this - like, in his last email, he was genuinely surprised that I might not be positioned to take on a job so late on a Sunday. World doesn't revolve around your inadequacies, chum. It'll be a hard lesson to learn, but we all do.
- Well done!OBBTKN
- Not really. I'm not in any way proud of this exchange. Just irritated.
Always, so irritated.Nairn - Don't give signs of life until 16:30 on a sunday... That kid needs to learn more than just a lesson, not youOBBTKN
- Tell me his address and I will kill himdrgs
- imo, right lesson would be, to make it happen but charge him 3x or 5x.uan
- he is probably rage destroying your reputation on ticktock/twitter/... and blaming your business for not being professional instead of thinking it's his fault.uan
- ^OBBTKN
- Gardener2
40 years ago today I saw Genesis play at the Milton Keynes Bowl. Early 80's Genesis were a different beast to the band I had liked when Peter Gabriel was the singer but he had left in 1975. Due to Gabriels financial woes with his WOMAD festival he was persuaded to reform with his bandmates for this one-off reunion.
Former member Steve Hackett who had also left in the 70's joined them for what proved to be a magical night, indeed the whole day was great as support included Talk Talk and John Martyn. Sadly no film of the event has surfaced although there are bootleg recordings, and quite stupidly the ushers ripped my ticket in half as I went through the gate but I have fond memories of the day apart from one shameful admission... I was pretty stoned that day, hey it was a Genesis show ffs,
I do remember that when Talk Talk came on stage I started heckling them quite a bit, including bizarrely shouting for no apparent reason "suck yer own dick"!! to the lead singer but, it just came out all wrong and actually sounded like "suck yer OWN dick" and the folk standing in front of me all turned round and laughed at me (I just moved to another part of the arena in shame) but I did enjoy the main event and even became more of a fan of Talk Talk as I grew up, it was quite a day and now 40 years ago, jeez.
tracklist
"Back in N.Y.C."
"Dancing with the Moonlit Knight" (intro and first verse only)
"The Carpet Crawlers"
"Firth of Fifth"
"The Musical Box"
"Solsbury Hill"
"Turn It On Again" (vocals: Phil Collins; drums: Peter Gabriel)
"The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway"
"Fly on a Windshield"
"Broadway Melody of 1974"
"In the Cage"
"Supper's Ready"
"I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)" (guitar: Steve Hackett)
"The Knife" (guitar: Steve Hackett)
- shapesalad0
Now that it's only just turned to October - the super markets are already full of xmas junk here in North UK. Everything is super high sugar, high carbs, or salty carbs.
Just pure obesity fuel that no one really needs to eat or 'treat' themselves too. Would you treat yourself to a stroke, heart attack or alzheimer's? No? oh ok.. but you're fine with 'treating' yourself to the causes of that...right.. great.
- Continuity13
10.5 years ago, when I first moved to Munich, I started dating a woman for a while, and — whilst I really liked her, and she was 'crazy' about me (her word) — I was in a really weird place in my life, and I couldn't give her or the nascent relationship what was needed. Net result, she dumped me some months after.
Didn't like it at the time, but I figured there was nothing I could do. Nonetheless, I kept thinking back over the experience over the years, and had a nagging feeling I let something really awesome go. Well, that's on me, anyway.
She ended up moving to Berlin some years ago and, during 20212 and now, we communicated very sporadically. Which is to say, she was the one to initiate almost always. But it was never for any extended length of time. She'd text or message me on LinkedIn, ask me how I am, we have a brief conversation over the course of a couple of hours, then nothing. Radio silence, until the next time she does it (usually 1 year later or more).
So, anyway, in the course of these sporadic conversations, I find out she's got her PhD, a career in the federal civil service, she's a mother, has been in a relationship for years, and seems happy (despite some difficult family things, with her dad committing suicide almost 2 years ago). Nice.
So, like any reasonable person, I think, 'Well, that's that. No opening for me there.' Not that I was pining for her for ten years, but it was certainly a nagging question that would pop up occasionally.
So, fast-forward September 2022. She told me she would be in town for a few days on business, and wanted to know if I'd be up for a drink. This was 2 weeks ago.
Not having seen her in person for 6 years, when we had a brief coffee another time she was in town, I was understandably curious. So I took her to my favourite bar for a few cocktails, and it was great. Meaningful conversation came really easily for the whole time. No awkwardness. Lots of flirting. Physical contact.
Anyway, I ended up asking what is on her mind when she reaches out to me — out of the — blue like she's been doing for years.
Turns out, she told me that she still really likes me (which makes me suspicious, considering we barely talk, much less see each other, but I let it slide because it made my ego feel good) ... and that she was always afraid of seeing me in person, because she knew she would do something she would regret, if she was in another relationship at any given point. Ooooookay.
The next big nugget to come out of that evening was the fact her current relationship (with the father of her kid) is open. It didn't jive with me, based on what I knew of her. I never saw her as being that kind of person. But, well, it's not like I've been close enough with her over the years to realistically draw that conclusion. And, in any case, open relationships are hardly the weirdest thing one can hear about.
In the end, we agreed on a FWB situation, given we both like each other. However, that evening I didn't suggest consummating it. I had a lot to turn over in my head about it all and needed the chance to do so, and told her as much.
Off she goes to Berlin again the next day.
Last night I texted her to see how things are going with her, just out of friendly curosity (I hadn't texted her since she'd left). Nothing. Radio silence again.
That is, until this evening:
'hey, sorry not everything fine at the moment. I loved talking to you but no contact is better for my relationship'
OK, well, not much I can say to that, really, other than, 'I'm sorry that's the case'.
What a bizarre turn of events, and I am struggling to figure out what exactly happened in those two weeks since she was here, and what she means.
Clearly, though, this relationship of hers isn't that open (or, indeed, solid), if my mere presence can threaten it.
I was right to not sleep with her that night, as it would have made things immeasurably worse for me, emotionally, if I'd then received this message afterwards. So, kudos to me for keeping some measure of detachment to mull things over first. And I'm at the point with it all where I will probably forget about it by Wednesday.
Still. Weird.
- This is not nearly as entertaining as me flooding my kitchen was.
Meh. I hate situations like these.Continuity - You did the right thing.
But you also both missed out on an opportunity to really fuck things up with a singularly-carnal night.Nairn - One for the WankBank™Nairn
- I know. But, I don't think one carnal night would have taken things to a new, productive level. Not for me, anyway.Continuity
- she wanted to have fun, maybe fuck, but not your brain with the answers to these vibe destructing questions.
fire and forget opportunity missed.sted - The "Anti-catpower"Akagiyama
- between now and 20212... you really are the time traveller ;-) glad it's not only me that can't type or proof read here on qbnshapesalad
- Sex is one of those things you really want, until you've had it, then you want to get on with other things.shapesalad
- Branch swinging?drgs
- @shape Right? Don't get me wrong: she's sexy, and we really clicked that way. And I miss it with her. But something was just too off. I knew I'd pay for it ...Continuity
- ... emotionally, somehow.Continuity
- Think you made the right call.garbage
- WankBank LOLutopian
- Right call was made. Treat yourself to a steak and decent beer.shapesalad
- slow clapoey_oey
- people casually msg people on linkedin?pango
- The open relationship talk of hers was weird. Congratulations for not making yourself her toy. No hungover feelings.SimonFFM
- sounds like you nailed every moment of that situation. no ragretsinteliboy
- Def branch swinging. She eyed you for al life boat.cannonball1978
- Sorry to hear about this, but sounds like you did the right thing. I think there’s ainstrmntl
- George Clooney movie about this, and you are George in this instance.instrmntl
- Like i told you. Bitches be kraizeeeeeeKhurram
- Well you missed pussy twice.NBQ00
- Akagiyama... LOOOOOOOOOOLnecromation
- Although seemingly okay for them to do, Men can often get jealous of even outside emotional relationship happening with their female partners.shellie
- Like, they want to be open, but not their female parters and its bullshit. Ive also seen “open” used as a cover to disarm the other person and put them at ease.shellie
- Come and see the violence inherent in the system!
There's always going to be one person that's more "open" than the other one. Regardless of your genitals.palimpsest - I don't know if you've been paying attention but his story is about a married laaaddy trying to get dicked by her ex.
Continuity made the right choice.palimpsest - Well, not married, but in a committed relationship, nonetheless. But the point remains.
And yeah, I don't think I made the wrong call.Continuity - I dodged a dysfunctional bullet, methinks.Continuity
- @Shellie 'I've also seen “open” used as a cover to disarm the other person and put them at ease.' <— I think this was precisely the case.Continuity
- And, I probably wouldn't be surprised if her dude wasn't also jealous, as you said.Continuity
- If she's not married then she's not being oppressed.
Slay, queen!palimpsest - @shellie I've had the opposite, where a female partner pretended to be OK with an open relationship, but really wasn't. Jealousy killed everything..garbage
- ..including a friendship that goes back over a decade. My SO of 7 years ain't having it, so I'm monogamous now. Lucky for her, she's fucking awesome.garbage
- FWB are rarely that.autoflavour
- lots of people talk big on open relationships, but are mostly either 1 sided or just having fun talking about it, once it comes to action it becomes too realautoflavour
- This is not nearly as entertaining as me flooding my kitchen was.
- YakuZoku6
Cat 3 (Orlene) hurricane set to hit my ass directly by tomorrow, fun times.
- Stay safe, my guy.Continuity
- <3PonyBoy
- hold on to your buttspango
- Fuckscarabin
- stay safe!prophetone
- Are you ready?! Cuídate mucho!sea_sea
- Surf's up!uan
- Suerte Moldero!OBBTKN
- I drew a new path with my sharpie. You should be okay.imbecile
- storm passed, it was mellowYakuZoku
- shapesalad0
Made this months rent by trading £/$ this morning as the market reacted to Lizzies u turn.... before 7:30am. From bed using iPhone and iPad to monitor things.
I love fx trading. I started February last year. Before that I’d spent around 10 years going from safe FTSE100 investing to penny stock nonsense which was a great learning curve, to crypto and finally realising fx is a bigger market, with a decent news flow to trade from.
I started last year with the smallest lot size, being happy with £0.70 profits. Slowly slowly kept grinding at. And managed to double my account after one year. From £500 to £1k. Decided to put more capital in and trade bigger size.
All this market volatility has been a gold mine. Something to be thankful of the Tory’s...
- just think, if you spent as much attention to your marriage as you do with this financial wankery, she might not have walked out on you.face_melter
- ^ ouch!Ianbolton
- What are your costs/fees to date? Bigger size? Bigger loss! Everyone is master of the Universe until they go broke. You *will* lose it all, hang on to the rent.comicsans
- She didn't walk out on me, I kicked her out pretty much. Also she was the one doing the FX trading and lost 50% of £1k, hence I decided to trade it back.shapesalad
- Started with £500 in account - now it's at £6kshapesalad
- Biggest loss is £351 in one day. biggest gain is £1095 in one day.shapesalad
- this is just wanking the blog thread so we have to keep up with the insults: that's bonkers, how could you live in such a cheap shitty place?sted
- congrats. I never had enough discipline to succeed in day trading. I made good money off of pennys tho.Beeswax
- Youtube channel?grafician
- And yes, FX pays if you do it consistenlygrafician
- If you can double that 1k twenty more times in a row, you’ll be a billionaire********
- I wouldn’t, people hate billionaires these days. Better to be poor********
- You are playing with fire AND swimming with sharks. Good luck.monNom
- Funny, I was just looking at the Turkish lira hitting rock bottom and thinking it might be a great time to buy, it can’t get any worse than this can it Beeswax?_niko
- imbecile2
I don't use a case on my phone. I drop it occasionally. I'll catch it or on carpet at low level, never been a real problem for the last 5 years. My SE made it though just fine until the battery gave up. Now my SE2 has been good for the last 3ish years. Until yesterday. Forgot it was in my lap as I exited the vehicle. Picked it up from the garage floor, checked the corners and surprisingly very very little damage. Not enough to annoy me at all. No crack on the back or screen? Sweet. Oh wait, what's this? Hairline fracture down the center of the camera lens? That's cute. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- https://www.ijetech.… the best.shapesalad
- Does it affect the picture? I’ve used cameras with huge scratches on the lens and sometimes the light isn’t resolved onto the sensor********
- if the sun is in front of the lens, yes, it has a lens flare. aside from that, no.imbecile
- $10 in parts... I'm assuming you only cracked the lens cover...
A: https://bit.ly/3frHk…
B: https://bit.ly/3EdeU…PonyBoy - And you don't need step B unless you're actually replacing the lens... go w/step A and then this: https://www.youtube.…PonyBoy
- I had to replace both the lens and lens cover on my old SE... I went to have a 15yr old kid at a mall kiosk do it—lil fucker wanted $80. DYI was easy.PonyBoy
- hell yes. I figured that was easily replaced. It's just a single line through that little circular piece. perfect, thanks.imbecile
- Lens flares are hot********
- Just ask JJ AbramsContinuity
- scarabin4
I looked up nickelback on youtube once and now it think i’m the world’s biggest fan. It made playlists and everything.
Calm down, youtube
- this is a safe space scarabin, you're allowed to be honest here :PBuddhaHat
- Lol @BuddhaOBBTKN
- https://www.youtube.…garbage
- Private browser windows FTW.Continuity
- fuck all these tech algorithms thinking they know ushans_glib
- Lol!scarabin
- pango1
Hot damn! First time using a pair of ear buds with active noise cancellation. WHAT IS THIS WITCH CRAFT! It worked so well it's a bit freaking me out.
- What model?grafician
- soundcore life a31
https://i.imgur.com/…pango - so far sticking to transparency mode. not used to that much silence.... its freakypango
- Lol @ sticking to transparency********
- @pango will trygrafician
- I can't be bothered to fix auto correct. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ personally I think it's more accurate to call it "pass through mode"pango
- Not bad. Wait until you experience premium higher end noise cancellation.monospaced
- Nahh too much silence freaks me out. It's like(or exactly) losing one sense. The only scenario I'd use it is when there are loud construction noise or when I'mpango
- Sitting down doing nothing. Normally I'd pick open back headphones and ear phones for leisure sound enjoyment.pango
- Wait until Putin drops a nuke and blows your ear drums out - now that's what I call noise cancelling.shapesalad
- I have the XM5's and wouldn't survive the noisier days in the office without it, top notch noise cancellation IS witchcraft, and I'm all for it!BuddhaHat
- $500 bucks.... defug.... lol
no thankspango - haha I did a few hours work for someone and accepted a pair in payment because tax reasonsBuddhaHat
- NiceYakuZoku
- Good noise cancelling buds with a great seal are good for long haul flights too. Help reduce noise AND pressure on ears.microkorg
- Higher end isn’t more noise canceling. It’s just better.monospaced
- better how? better sound quality or better at cancelling noise? isn't that just quieter?pango
- PonyBoy0
I have a new client... his actual name is Robert Palmer.
He gets his own ringtone for sure... but I'm torn and need your help.
A.
B.
C.
- I used to fap to A. It's a timeless classic.hotroddy
- B. The others have that annoying snare drum sound.shapesalad
- Whiplash from C for suremonospaced
- Man, I Feel like a Woman by Shania Twain********
- Tha best thang bout bein a woman, is the prerogative to have a little FUN! ...FUN FUN!********
- scarabin3
My gf’s kia just got stolen while she was at work. Apparently stealing kias (they’re easy to hotwire) then abandoning them is part of a new tiktok trend
“Innumerable videos posted to TikTok show the Kia Boys participating in wild stunts around Milwaukee: Teens packed into cars ripping through neighborhoods and screeching their tires. Or teens on top of cars, laying on their hoods or standing up through sunroofs, driving by at top speed.
Inevitably, those stunts have led to crashes and even deaths. Now local police think the trend has made its way to Los Angeles, too.
Chief Michel Moore of the Los Angeles Police Department told police commissioners on Tuesday that thefts of Kia and Hyundai vehicles in the city have made up a significant chunk of the increase in stolen cars over the last two years.”
- – https://www.mercuryn…scarabin
- hmm, makes me want to check my Kia now... I honestly just assumed that all newer cars would come with an immobiliser =\BuddhaHat
- https://youtu.be/fbT…scarabin
- All it takes is USB plug https://youtu.be/ziF…scarabin
- If there is one thing I am sure of in my life, it is that no one will ever steal my Fiat, lolOBBTKN
- coding keys & other intrusions like this are surprisingly accessible. buying the equipment, I can make 3 bmw keys at home for what the dealership charges for 1imbecile
- OBB, that's a great security measure, having the ugliest car in existence :PBuddhaHat
- Budha, time ago, some gypsies offered me money for it, not even they dared to steal it... LmaoOBBTKN
- Corsa bonnets are a target here in the UK.zardoz
- "Corsa cannibals"zardoz
- Hadnt heard of corsa cannibals before, just googled it. Kias getting stolen for fun and joyrides. The cannibals will be stripping cars to sell parts.microkorg
- The end the result is the same. Folk with cheaper end cars are getting targeted.zardoz
- This is a tiktok trend? Jeez, fuck this app and all these Zoomers doing such trends.NBQ00
- Get one of those steering wheel locks? Also it's called 'Joy Riding' here in the UK, was big in late 90s.shapesalad
- doriangrey4
Lost another friend to drugs.
In art school our teacher said “we don’t retire we die”. Well my brother lived it.
I wasn’t there for him like I could have been.
I was selfish. And ignorant.
Now he’s dead.
Not my fault but it’ll never feel that way.
Tried to kill myself this year, and this bastard succeeded where I failed. Turned the tables on me. Fucking hell.
- Fuck, that’s rough. Sorry, man :(scarabin
- First, take care of you... Later, so sorry for your lost, so sadOBBTKN
- sad, very sad, sorry bro.utopian
- That's rough man, all of it. I'm sorry for your loss, and hope you have strength and support to take care of yourself.BuddhaHat
- You folks are the best. I’m good. Just hit me hard.doriangrey
- What your art school teacher meant by “we don’t retire we die” is that those who are driven to create will never stop.BonSeff
- I am so sorry about your friend. Your last line of the post is concerning. Reach out if you would like a place to vent. bonseff@gmail.comBonSeff
- We all are selfish and ignorant in a way. Don't be hard on yourself. But still sorry for your loss.Longcopylover
- Thanks again folks. No worries - I had a dark year, came out the other side much better. Taking care of myself. This one was a hard hit.doriangrey
- Hey man. This aint no pretty picture, like life, but reach out. I'm always around on QBN and have also found it hard at times. Which drugs?Ianbolton
- Gardener49
There is a big feature coming in the main Dundee paper soon
about the rare football record I found recently but it's already gone up online here :
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/…- Is the record worth any moneydrgs
- around a hundred but I'll leave it to my offspring to sell it when I'm goneGardener
- Looking good S! All smiles +********
- I want a Hammy & The Hamsters reunion tour in 2023!fooler
- haha, it MIGHT happen, 2 are still alive!Gardener
- Nice one!instrmntl
- Congrats! Spin it for us!robthelad
- awesome!Krassy
- Sweet!YakuZoku
- Is that an original No Future UK LP?fooler
- it is, first pressing from 77Gardener
- Love ya Gardy. Question: What is your least favorite record you own?garbage
- wow very coolSquiddy
- Congratulations, always lovely to hear such stories!SimonFFM
- @Gardener You're Scottish? Didnae knoe.jagara
- from Carlisle, married to a Scotch lassGardener
- I have plenty of least fave records garbage, if only because I keep them for the sleeve and never playGardener
- The best Football song ever has to be 'We have a dream' by Scotland World Cup Squad in 1982
https://youtu.be/gmz…microkorg - Fair enough, and a followup question: What is the ugliest sleeve you own? It can't be a text only or The White Album..garbage
- ..but a cover that really makes you think "somebody made this?"garbage
- i'm not keen on this one!
https://images.eil.c…Gardener - lol, judging on where I know you from, I'd assume that would be a fave in a golden frame!garbage
- it just annoys meGardener
- Ha, that pig in boots neds to be put on a Tfaxion
- BabySnakes3
Giving my friends the benefit of the doubt. Well I've learned they were lying, could have cost a friends life about what they were not telling most of us. After all that i help them with and support, they lie to me to my face. They don't know i know yet.
Friends? Cut my losses and wish them the best on their idiotic choices in life? Forgive and see if it happens again?
- One of the biggest life skills I ever learnt was culling shit friends.
Now, of course, I have no friends.Nairn - ya....these are very close friends which makes the disrespect cut deeper.BabySnakes
- Had one who tried destroy my life because he was thinking that I fucked the girl who he loves while I was helping him to get her...sted
- Dropped both, feels free and good.sted
- bth i dont care about people lying. it's the consequences that matter. and also if they understand the consequence when they made the lie.pango
- if the intention was morally questionable and selfish. made no apology. drop em.pango
- I'd say walk away, too. Your life is entirely too short to keep potentially toxic people in it. If you keep them around, their shitty life choices will ...Continuity
- ... eventually affect yours. No bueno.Continuity
- Sometimes you have to appreciate the art involved in a good lie. But inevitably it'll get tediousIanbolton
- thanks guysBabySnakes
- Communication first, then decide?mort_
- One of the biggest life skills I ever learnt was culling shit friends.
- drgs-6
Techno peaked in 1990-1995, house peaked in 1998-2002, trance peaked in 2000-2005
Full debate
- - Techno is huge right now.
- House hasn't fully recovered IMO
- Apparently the kids like trance now. But it sounds very different these days.jagara - Re: trance: not the Armin Van Buuren kind. The psy kind.jagara
- In my last agency, I worked with a senior account manager who moonlighted as a techno DJ.Continuity
- When she told me that, I nearly laughed, thinking, 'Who the fuck still listens to techno?!' Then, it occurred to me I haven't been to a club in nearly 15 years.Continuity
- So, I held my tongue behind my teeth.Continuity
- There are dozens of us, Continuity.Nairn
- flol!Continuity
- - Techno is huge right now.
- Nairn5
Saw a woman on the bus with one of these in her hand earlier - a digital tasbih, a recitation/prayer counter - basically, digital beads (not of the Chess-cheating anal variety).
Innovation never sleeps!
- Neither does god, that a lot of prays he has to listen to...shapesalad
- There 's an app for this.palimpsest
- chess-cheating? Have you read the rules of chess? There's nothing in there whatsoever about not using Anal BeadsIanbolton
- holy tamagochizardoz
- Is there like a daily quota? Why countingdrgs
- In the Catholic Church, if you confess a sin, the priest tells you to say e.g. 10 Hail Mary’s and 5 Our Fathers like a sin grocery list. Mental.mort_
- And then you’re absolved and free for another round of sins. Rinse, repeat.mort_
- Disclaimer: my knowledge of the Catholic church is mostly from Father Ted.mort_
- So this counter tool must be for their biggest clientsdrgs
- The tassel suggests it’s “mala”, which is buddhist. If it were catholic they would’ve hung a dead guy there https://en.wikipedia…scarabin
- like mantras, repeating a word so many times in the same rhythm has meditative effects. They count just like ppl count weights at the gym, different effects.Beeswax
- Trigger thumb coming right up.sea_sea
- Nairn5
Just went out to empty my bin. On the way back in someone brightly says "Hello Nairn!" and I am entirely at a loss as to who they are. I've been around this neck of the woods for years now, so I 'know' a lot of people, or rather 'have forgotten a lot of people', but they still know me because - well, I'm me.
I brightly say hello back and then walk in with them, racking my brain, trying to work out Who The Fuck They Are, to no avail. I walk with them to the back of the building, where my studio is and I'm at ghis point quite lost, so I ask "Where are you off to, then?", hoping that might illlict some mote of cognition.
"To see you, Nairn?"
Oh. Right. Of course, I had a client coming in, didn't I?
I spend the rest of our short meeting just fucking dying inside and really regretting not having had any food today. So fucking stupid. I've only met him twice, but jesus.
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I'm pretty sure I have 'contextual blindness' because this is far from the first time I've embarrassed myself with this sort of shit.
- Pot destroys your short and long term memory.shapesalad
- hahaha i have that beat. i once took a train journey and a woman (not unattractive but weirdly familiar) came and sat down opposite me.hans_glib
- i smiled and started to read my paper and as i looked down at the headlinel a voice in the back of my head started screaming at me that i knew who she was.hans_glib
- a quick glance up confirmed my suspicion, but i had no idea why. i started to panic then worse, blush. i sat back and held the paper in front of me to 'read' ithans_glib
- of course i couldnt read a word as i realised whe was a prospective client i'd met earlier in the week to pitch for work.hans_glib
- by now i could feel my face was as red as hell from embarrassment so i was trapped behind the paper turning the pages as if i was reading it.hans_glib
- of course i couldn't remember her name. plus if i dropped the paper and said hello it'd seem really weird. shit! i was trapped!hans_glib
- in the end i decided to double down on my snubbing and continued to pretend to read the paper for 20 mins until my face went back to it's proper colour.hans_glib
- then as cool as i could manage i lowered the paper and said hello, apologised b"ut it was early in the morning and i need time to come to life, you understand"hans_glib
- she pretended not to mind, and we talked about the project a bit further and i got the job.
but... fuuuuuuuucccckkk! so close!hans_glib - signs you're getting....utopian
- ...dementiaBeeswax
- ^ LOL!oey_oey