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  1. 1 hour ago, monkeygirl said:

    Explain this to me? I've never been able to understand this. How does the presence of dogs ruin a place where humans eat, please?

     

    Hygene for one.  When it comes to cainines they will almost without fail spend the time staring at the people eating trying to beg for food, sitting under your feet or generally try to somehow leverage themselves up the pecking order.  And in public spaces there is always a dog or too that either whines yelps or barks at the other dogs while your just trying to eat or work without nuisance. 

    Also, as a staff member I am always on high alert checking to make sure all the dogs are well behaved as we have young kids everywhere, and I shouldn't have to do that shit. But the other week a guy had his hands severely bitten by his own dogs and I had to deal with that too. They're just an added complication in hospitality that shouldn't be an expectation. In my view they belong outside, or inside in their own homes. Not in coffee shops/eateries. 

    Having said that, I quite like a pub dog which seems like a weird distinction to make, but dogs are way less of a problem for some reason with people just drinking. Obviously depending on the dog. But there is also way less toddlers running around in pubs, and much fewer dogs in pubs too. 

    But in the cafe I work at, there can be as many as 5 or 6 different dogs kicking about at any given time and it can be a nuisance 

  2. My wife loves watching Scandinavian murder mystery thriller dramas. They all seem to have the same tropes which tickles me and she laughs about:

    A divorced, hard drinking, living in semi-squalor, senior detective who's addicted to the job but also absolutely brilliant, solving a series of grisly murders of beautiful women in a remote frontier town in rural Scandinavia with huge forests, mountains, snow, and sleek modern Volvo's. A ridiculously good looking female boss with high cheekbones, an amazing house with a bangin' kitchen island. (It will be used for banging on at least once in the show). Every interior has impeccable modern interior design. There is always an affair or illicit sexual relationship. The murderer is almost never the creepy weird guy with the psychological issues in the town the show tries to set up as the red herring. 

    The show is always shot low saturation with a blue/grey/green colour grade to emphasize COLD and alpine. 

    Sometimes she watches french versions of these shows. In this case switch out modern interior design with cozy homes with lots of bottles of wine, food and eclectic tastes in furniture. The protagonist smokes. There are more cobbled side roads and old 1970s and 80s Renault cars and Citroen painter vans parked on the set. Slightly less alpine and mountainous but there's way more sex. Otherwise it's the same show. 

  3. I like dogs. I like most animals and pets. I don't have a dog, cause currently I can't be fucked with another 4 year old. 

    Trouble is most people are selfish arseholes and this translates into dog ownership as well as parenting and bad behaviour in public. 

    The number of times people try convince me their dog is 'a good boy' whilst he's barking in the shop while other people are trying to eat. If I owned the place I'd have a flat no dogs inside rule. I can't abide four legged friends in a place where humans eat. 

    If I were to get a dog it'd probably be a lurcher. Greyhound crossbreed with something else, preferably shaggy..they go fast as fuck for an hour then chill on the sofa/dogbed, and generally dont bark. That's my kinda pooch.

  4. 14 hours ago, Destiny Skywalker said:

    Can I rank stupid TikTok crazes? What is this water bottle shit that middle school girls are obsessed with? First it was Hydroflask, then Yeti, and now Stanley. It's a freaking WATER BOTTLE. I have no idea how your cup makes you cool.

    Consumerism reinforced through predatory social media platforms. Working like a charm 

  5. From an outside perspective, Biden seems like Satan in a Sunday hat. Albeit Satan with neurodegenerative disease. And an absolute warhawk. Not to be trusted with the keys. 

    Trump seems like a political opportunist with zero scruples and zero actual values so he'll do whatever it takes to win. But potentially might be less of a warhawk as it seems he wants more of an isolationist policy, which if I'm honest, seems like it's better for the rest of the world if the US kept its beak out of everyone else's business.

    Neither of them can string a coherent sentence together.

    Better the devil you know? 

  6. On 1/5/2024 at 5:59 PM, Hobbes said:

    One warrior killing dozens of enemies in a sword fight, especially when it is a movie set in antiquity.

    Missiles doing nothing against Hulk or Iron Man or whatever. 

    Technology that is completely out of the realm of human capability and is against fundamental laws on the universe.  I understand Iron Man has this super power source, but where is all the heat going?  And in Infinity Wars the suit is self-assembling nano robots??

    Unlimited ammo 

    Not to nit pick cause I largely agree but I'm going to pick some nits...

     

    I can get past the chainmail wearing Ubermensch  warrior taking out scores of enemies single-handed, cause from what I've heard a well trained and seasoned mideaval warrior could be worth at least half a dozen regular men at arms, and a half dozen more untrained levies. But what I can't get past is how few men at arms wear actual fucking chainmail or armour in supposedly historical TV series. They're all in some crazy waffle knit leather patchwork stuff that looks ridiculous! 

  7. Every now and again ill read something. I know I should read more. I used to read a lot, but since games have been getting better and better I've found them to be my favourite way to consume narrative. I listen to a lot of podcasts so consume a lot of non fiction in that way. 

  8. Yeah that's fair. Some of those natural wines are spenny. Like you can get  half decent conventional wine for £10-£12 but naturals the average price for something tasty seems to be closer to £18. They're definitely treats more for immediate close family rather than second cousins and aunts and stuff.

  9. I don't know if it's a trope or just shitty writing.. but I hate series where they add twist after twist after twist. It happens a lot in edgy netflix crime dramas.. but wait here's another twist, and anoyher twist, and before you know it all logic and plot is tied up in knots 

  10. Bullying sucks. Particularly since the only way to make it stop (with boys at least) is violence, and then that doesn't always work and sometimes can make things worse.

    I got bullied in school a lot by this particular kid and it didn't stop till I snapped and punched him in the face a few times. I then ran away and cried cause I felt bad. But the bullying stopped. 

    My wife was getting bullied when she was a kid too and asked her dad what to do. He was like, "ahh just punch him in the face and tell him where to go". So she did. Got in trouble with the school as did her dad but the bullying stopped.

    But then a guy I know stood up for himself and bet up his bully, then the bully came back with a crew of friends and ganged up on him. But he went to a tough school. Middle class and posh kids are generally ******* though and violent reaction usually shocks them enough to stop. It's kids that get violence in their day to day that shrug that sort of thing off. 

    This is terrible advice so ignore me. 

    Unless you get Q into jiu-jitsu or judo. Then she could safely put someone in their place. More a preventative measure really. When my son turns 5 we are going to get him into jiu-jitsu. If for no other reason to help expend that kinetic boy energy that is constantly on the boil.

  11. To be fair farmers and hunters use horses all the time, particularly in mountainous terrain.

     

    Also rebel moon looks terrible. I've read some pretty funny user reviews. But the general consensus seems to be a 13 year old boy must've written it.

  12. On 12/12/2023 at 9:14 PM, Rogue 3 said:

    Finished the game this evening! Simply superb! 114 hours on the clock and did all the side quests I could find - I’m sure there are ones I will have missed, but felt a real good conclusion to the story!

    Such a great game - level of detail is astonishing!

    Im glad you had a blast! 

    I'm replaying it as a heroic barbarian. 

    My first play through I went as indulging the dark urge evil character and it is so drastically different it's crazy. 

  13. Talisker-  is a very nice single malt from Skye around £40-£50 (from memory)a bottle and it looks classy. 

    https://www.malts.com/en-row/brands/talisker

    Personally I prefer Japanese whiskey than scotch, it's generally way smoother but more often they are blend than single malt. I'm not a whisky nerd but I generally don't like whiskey that makes me feel like it's trying to make me prove how much of a man I am by drinking it. 

    if you can find it I highly recommend Yamazaki, which is a single malt. Might be creeping up in the more expensive territory though 

    https://www.distillersdirect.com/products/suntory-yamazaki-distillers-reserve-70cl?variant=42147441410229&currency=GBP&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiA4NWrBhD-ARIsAFCKwWu7wTDZzeKjASmqfIEifgZGaEHOM0zhIvXaQ99rK-86GTrmx8XtAsoaAijMEALw_wcB

    My neighbour who is a proper scotch nerd says 12 year old is the magic number. Something about 12year aged single malt makes it way smoother than younger whiskeys. I don't know why, but he had some long winded answer why 

     

  14. How's the insurance on EVs? Cause in the UK it's gone up massively because it's so expensive to repair litterally anything with EVs. People finding minor prangs effecting battery costing £10k and companies not paying out etc 

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