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- Nairn2
Two things i've noticed today:
• Emergency calls (999 here in the UK) don't appear in your call history. I understand why, I just didn't realise. Annoying here, as I wanted the timestamp for when I did so last night, but I get it.
• I somehow fucked up and had my secondary SIM off - the one that has my unlimited data rate, so my data stopped on my main work SIM which isn't unlimited and I was like wtf?. Oh. D'oh. Changing the SIM to that which I typically use has entirely changed the contents of my Facebook feed. The last week or so has had ... a lot of stuff I'd rather not have had in my feed.
That's it. As you were.
- Facebook? "Signs your...";)OBBTKN
- I just use it to keep tabs on my hometown, but yeah. I've only used it for the last couple of year after thinking I'd closed my account back in 2012 or so :/Nairn
- facebook is like the hotel california, you can never leave. i quit fb decades ago and yet effing meta still spams me with updates about my "friends".hans_glib
- Why’d you call 999, Nairn?
Why do you have a Facebook account, Nairn?
Are you okay, Nairn?Ianbolton - hahaha!
re: FB, maybe not.
re: 999, I was being oh so noble and so very worthy. Not a personal thing.Nairn
- _niko6
Don’t know what the fuck’s going on here, I was driving yesterday and this guy on a bike weaving in and out of traffic cuts in front of my car at the last second as I’m about to make a right. He puts up his hand and says sorry.
Didn’t punch my hood, didn’t kick my headlights in, didn’t spit on my car.
Dublin is a bizarro world where people are polite, well mannered and courteous.
Crazy.
- Gardener10
Another one of my mum's treasures I have found is this very heavy sculpture in what feels like heavy brass by Belgian artist Jef Lambeaux (1852-1908). Depicting 2 female lovers it's a really beautiful thing that now sits on my top shelf in the studio. I remember my dad buying it from someone who came into his second hand shop in the early 70's and he thought it was so cool he had plastercasts made of it and they sold like hot cakes in the shop!
- Le Muff Diver
-Jef Lambeauxnewcunt - Awesome.ideaist
- @newcunt, saw/liked your Hetfield illustration on IG. Wonderful stuff!Continuity
- I love everything about thisbezoar
- phwoarzardoz
- I can smell this brass muff.utopian
- @continuity
No idea what you're talking about :)newcunt - :|Continuity
- Le Muff Diver
- Gardener4
Now this is a VERY old plate, I know this for a few reasons. It used to hang in my house when I was growing up, I think that once again, it came into my dad's shop in the early 70's and mum liked it so put it on the kitchen wall. Mum used to go on about how it was an early Willow pattern plate as it had just ONE man on the bridge - most you see now will have 3 men, and although it has a couple of cracks it has always been like this, but is braced on the back and sides.
I did a bit of research and it turns out to be a pre-Willow pattern dating from the mid 1700's! and it was exported to UK from China where a story was built around the idea of the willow plate, the people on the bridge and other additives were given a twist by manufacturers like Spode and Wedgwood to create a story that became a phenomenon as it went on to become the worlds most famous and recognisable ceramic design. If anyone knows more about this story I'd be interested, for now it's now hanging in my kitchen.
- spl33nidoru0
Do you ever want to buy books you already own ?
I have 2 copies of some art books that I love so I can use one extensively and keep another in perfect shape.But sometimes, especially when it comes to comic books, I can feel the need to buy some over and over again though I usually don't act on it. I do own several different editions of comics I adore, the issue is when I want to buy one I already own, just because it's $12 and why not.
Ii think it's of course admiration for the work but also a remnant of childhood fascination due to the "scarcity" we experienced in our youth. Some books were so hard to find that finally laying eyes on them would be a real thrill. Plus, we simply couldn't buy everything we wanted (not that we can today either!).
- No. I buy 1 second hand copy, that's it. The more worn the better :)jagara
- yeah absolutely, I'll see a comic book on a wall for like $20 and think ah man I wish I bought that back in the day or one day I'll be able to afford it...and_niko
- ...promptly go and purchase a latte and a smashed avocado toast for like $30 lol._niko
- I’m also trying to complete my uncanny xmen collection 100-300 and I’ll pop into random comic book stores and buy issues that I’m missing, problem is I go mostl_niko
- ...mostly from memory and I end up buying the same issue twice, some three times! lol_niko
- Ha that makes sense! I too sometimes want to buy a book when there's a sale, and realise just in time that I did buy it at the previous sale already!spl33nidoru
- The comics I've bought the most of are Akira (how can you resist a 1100 yen edition ?) and David Mazzucchelli's work for Daredevil and Batmanspl33nidoru
- Just can't get enough of those guys' drawingsspl33nidoru
- Gardener8
Going through boxes I left stored at mum's house, literally in a box in the attic, I found a book listing my early gig going years from 1979 to 1983. I have memories of all of them to some extent but I neatly recorded the artists I saw live until about 1985 by which time I couldn't be arsed, but if anyone wants to know more about any of these shows I'll try and post up memories if I can be arsed, lol.
- Curious handstyle, I dig it.garbage
- Thanks, I went to a posh schoolGardener
- We write identicallycanoe
- Scorpions!!canoe
- legend!prophetone
- What a great memory - amazing list of bands!stoplying
- Amazing. Will it be even possible to see a list from today in 50 years' time?MrT
- what can you tell us about Jazz Sluts?scruffics
- Very jealous. I moved to the UK because of the music (among other things).maikel
- speaking of the cramps, new (old) album outGnash
- Just noticed this list is from 77 not 79 lolGardener
- Jazz Sluts were a kind of jazz fusion band, they later became Boys Don't Cry, who were just as unsuccessfulGardener
- You need to find all the gig posters!, heres the talking heads gig at hammersmith odeon. https://encrypted-tb…Leigh
- https://sonicmoremus…Leigh
- i was 6 months old then lolLeigh
- what can you share about the Pink Floyd show???exador1
- I'd love to have seen The Police back in the day.
lol at Sore williesNairn - PF gig was the 1st performances of The Wall, still one of the top 5 gigs of my lifeGardener
- i was also at that talking heads hammy odeon gighans_glib
- NBQ000
neverscared mate, why are you always in a bad mood?
- thats rich coming from a bloke who is in the darkest mood pumping up enthusiams for mass deportations...neverscared
- and claiming to know all daily german news reports on migrant criminality over a year.neverscared
- Never said I'm pro mass deportations but deporting criminal Islamists and those who want Sharia law in EU/ UKNBQ00
- OBBTKN0
Back from the doc for the results of some blood tests, I'd had high blood sugar for six months... I was terrified.
Changes in habits (beer is pure poison...) and stopping acting like an IDIOT for a while have brought my blood tests back to normal.
It's not good to work so many hours sitting down and not take time to exercise. Thank goodness I've always watched what I eat.
Lesson learned ;)
- Just make sure to not put any spices on your chicken and you're good. ;-)palimpsest
- ^ HAHAHA, touché!OBBTKN
- jagara2
Rewatching Breaking Bad. It's not high art (occasionally it's even pretty retarded story wise). But fuck me, it's entertaining :)
- monospaced4
LA is more gross and depressing than I ever remembered. Yikes.
- smells like piss and weedGuyFawkes
- I grew up in socal and I come back regularly but fuck LA is just sad and dirty now.monospaced
- There’s that funky, fucked-up death stench of the Corpse Flower, blasting demon-semen seed into the night...utopian
- Holy fuck, LA smells like rotten meat, hot piss, and something that crawled out of Satan’s asshole.utopian
- never been. should i go in 2 years?pango
- BR 2026OBBTKN
- I was there at the beginning of the year, stayed in Hollywood for a few nights, it was gritty and grungy, but fun, was thinking it desperately needs a good rainprophetone
- Anecdote versus reality....New York City receives the most 311 odor complaints of any major US city.neverscared
- I don’t think it’s fair to compare nyc to la. Apples to oranges. I was in West Hollywood this week and drove through south central. Damn.monospaced
- Now they have fucking robots driving cabs and boxes delivering food. Taking away some of the last unskilled jobs. Sickening.monospaced
- Sounds like escape from LA_niko
- Yeah LA, Waymos are everywhere, and cute ‘n happy little food robots doing their lil best to navigate thru the grungy sidewalk wastelandprophetone
- Also, was stunned to see how popular In-N-Out Burger was, 25 cars in parking lot lineup, then 15 cars waiting up the block, then another 15 around that cornerprophetone
- This one: https://maps.app.goo…
Up the block and most of way down Lanewoodprophetone - Meanwhile, while the poor people are fucked by robots, a 1 bedroom shithile bungalow is $1.5m so even good earners take it up thr ass hard. LA sucks shit.monospaced
- My brother in law sold two scripts this year for almost half a million dollars and isn’t sure how they will afford a house.monospaced
- LA needs some Mandani
well actually the whole nation needs someGuyFawkes - wordmonospaced
- US needs more Muslim mayorspango
- Religion has nothing to do with being mayor. Not in nyc or anywhere.monospaced
- how many muslim mayor does LA have? just saying lolpango
- Again, what does it matter? Religion is irrelevant to governing a single city in the US.monospaced
- bring on the sharia laws!!pango
- Gardener3
I have started sorting out my late mothers estate, which is going to take quite some time. She collected antiques and she inherited things from her mother and grandmother, so it will be tricky going through her old things which I will have to decide on keeping or moving on. Amongst the ornaments in her cabinet I found this odd, delicate and quite beautiful 7" high, glass model of a German Howitzer bomb! Decorating the sides are dates and depictions of 4 battles, the sieges of Maubeuge, Namur and Longwy as well as the Battle of Liège, all in August/Sept 1914, at the beginning of WW1.
There is a visible crack to the lid but otherwise it is pretty amazing that such a delicate piece has survived 2 world wars in Germany, I think it belonged to my great grandmother who was born and lived in there until the late 20's when they emigrated to America. I thought I would share some photos of it as it is pretty unique and a beautiful but sad reminder of such a terrible time and if anyone knows more about this glass bomb I'd be grateful for any info. I will be keeping it of course as I remember looking at it when I was a kid.
- Sorry you have to go through all that Gardener. Is her collection as wide and varied as your record collection?Ianbolton
- kinda, lots of unusual postcards, bookmarks, crockery, furniture etc, it'll take ages to sort through...Gardener
- That's a nice looking glass model though. And yeah, mad it's survived through all that.Ianbolton
- looking through a glass dildo..zardoz
- it‘s a fancy mustard glass. ‚ges. gesch.‘ means TM in ww1 german commerce times.uan
- This is not just any howitzer bomb/mine, this is Big Bertha. Can you show pictures of her bookmarks and crockery?coldarchon
- https://en.wikipedia…coldarchon
- I will get to those eventually coldarchon, thank you for the mustard glass translation uan.Gardener
- canoe0
Back to LA - the Olympics are going to be there in 2028 - I wonder what the hell they're going to do about the grit and grime - doesn't seem like the kind of problem that is a quick fix.
- it's gong to be one of the events - street vagrant hosing_niko
- lock things down where its at like paris ?neverscared
- _niko2
seems others share Mono's sentiment above from reddit:
Los Angeles is the biggest shithole in America and it’s not even close (I’m serious)
I have been and lived in most major cities in America, including 10 years in “LA” (west side) but in these 10 years, I can count on one hand how many times I went downtown.
I had to come downtown today to take care of something and it was gonna take a couple of hours so i decided to walk to a nearby restaurant literally like 4 short blocks away and I did not make it past the 2nd block.
absolutely filthy streets, a fucking wasteland of nothing but zombies walking around, full blown shanty towns on the street i turned around on, cops driving by and not giving a fuck.
I CANNOT BELIEVE this is the united states. how can a place be this horrid. how can the people here be the absolute lowest scum of the world? holy shit, this 5 min walk angered me so much i need a fucking Tylenol right now. this place is worse than Gotham city. I thought NYC was the biggest shithole in America but no, LA wins hands down. At least NYC is vibrant with people everywhere. the thousands of tourists help negate the zombies that roam the city.
the people running this city should be sent to Guantanamo bay with no food or water.
my fucking 3rd world city is MILES ahead of this catastrophe.
honestly, I’m contemplating getting the fuck out of this place and move down to Orange County where normal people live.
- not sure how much they're exaggerating since they thought NYC was a shithole too because I think NYC is a bit gritty but amazing._niko
- the whole rhetoric with the tylenol , worst , zombie etc... sound like a full on idiot maga bloke carrying out donnies message to fuck up newsoms city.neverscared
- the poverty rate is 13% compared to new york 26%, national rate is 13%neverscared
- not that it cant be bad there... its different with the climate and big cities... how the whole thing kicks in..neverscared
- that whining bitch- i cannot believe - i cannot believe- sounds like a poor dumb ass bitch to me.neverscared
- an anedocte i can tell is that the two last people i met . one was in l.a the other in n.y were both not amused with the amount of people living the streetsneverscared
- in both cities... to be fair .. my impressionsis it also has shifted in the next gear in central europe too since 4 years.neverscared
- Having lived in both, I would take NYC any day. It is cleaner, vibrant and less dingy for sure.monospaced
- Can't even drink water in LA, or California. Tastes like an unfiltered public pool ffs. Disgusting.monospaced
- You won't see many people living on streets in NYC, btw. Certainly not entire encampments.monospaced
- According to the 2026 homeless count reported by NBC Los Angeles, there are 45,194 unhoused people in the city of Los Angelesneverscared
- More than 350,000 people are estimated to be without homes in New York Cityneverscared
- cant be true... that would be like 6 times more in ny...what u think could that be true ?neverscared
- Sheltered Dominance: Cities like New York City, Boston, and Milwaukee house over 90% of their unhoused population in emergency shelters or transitional housingneverscared
- West Coast cities like Los Angeles, San Jose, Oakland, Long Beach, and Fresno report that more than 50% to 70% of their homeless populations are unshelteredneverscared
- maybe not so much camps in ny because more urban tensity while l.a build for the car and wider spaces i would guess when it comes to city planning.neverscared
- whatever martime metroplosises are always kinda kool to me ...neverscared
- My son was in LA for 2 weeks earlier in year, he basically said the same things niko said, hated it so much came home earlyGardener
- Wait, I didn’t say those things :) somebody on Reddit did, I’ve never been and was asking how accurate it was :)_niko
- I wouldn't want to live in either city. Or that country in general.i_monk
- hey neverscared, how's your arm chair cowboy?canoe
- spl33nidoru0
I want to organise the accounts I follow on instagram by groups (work connections, photographers, comics, news etc).
Do it Zuck!
- I'd also like this. So I can separate an actual genuine timelined 'friends' feed from general scrolling which is 75% ads anyway.HAYZ1LLLA
- Yeah + the polite follows that you met once and don't care about. Muting is not enough, i want to quickly find them to unfollow in a timely mannerspl33nidoru
- jagara1
Going to Moldova (including Transnistria) next month. Have you been there? Any suggestions?
- Maybe we'll get an Airbnb.jagara
- Maybe I'll get Olga's number. Who knows.jagara
- Why does she sound like she sells grape leaves?palimpsest
- Transnistria... such a weird place...pango
- < Yup! I like weird! :)
Have you been?jagara - no. only read and heard about it. they're still very soviet looking. your usual credit cards might not work there. also they used to use plastic coin or still?pango
- https://i.haasie.com…pango
- Yeah, they kept a lot of soviet stuff in mint condition. Lenin statues, architecture. I'm a total ex-Soviet buff, it's a must-see for me :)jagara
- I think the plastic coins are being phased out at the moment, but still around. I'm gonna score some for sure.jagara
- Check out the ABOUT US quote in the footer at https://www.chisinau…microkorg
- "It's like visiting your granny, not modern, but clean, warm and relaxing."
Haha!microkorg - Haha :)jagara
- jagara5
Oh, btw. Saw The Odyssey. My fears put to shame, it was good. Not my thing, but good.
I liked the very non-sensational and slightly low key approach to filmmaking (for our era at least). It seemed like an antidote to the CGI noisefest of mainstream cinema these days.
- autoflavour1
here ya go Cotton
- its snapshot data as of August 19.. its not liveautoflavour
- Wasn't there a great post purge back in the mid 00s sometime? Funny to see certain members all drop off at the same time when they jumped to notalentcuntNairn
- How I ended up as high as 36th place is beyond me.Continuity
- Aaah, huddon, wait - am I being really dense - these numbers are just based on Blog?Nairn
- tbf, it does state that right there at the top, lol. *spack faces self*Nairn
- yep, just the blog thread.
and not including data from anyone who has had their account banned/deleted..autoflavour - Baffling how Jaline is second when she left 7yrs ago.HAYZ1LLLA
