United Kingdom chat thread V4: lamb rogan josh, £3 meal deals, and brexit - General

Was good to see my brother and his boyfriend today. Haven't bloody seen them since they moved out in March or April! Been hella busy...

[QUOTE=ReligiousNutjob;53005383]The Queen's Christmas Address this year, talking about the warmth and safety of home was kind of depressing when she mentions Grenfell and the Manchester Arena.[/QUOTE] Who the fuck lives in Manchester Arena :v: Not that I disagree with you mind.

I guess I've had a bit too much fun with my Leaf... checked my front tyres which are 9 months old with 9000 miles on and I've only got 2mm tread left on them. :what:

Hope you all enjoyed christmas, spent the best part of the day in bed chucking my guts up, fuck the winter :(

So after watching the Ross's Game Dungeon episode on The Black Mirror, I bought it myself on GOG.com. It's god-fucking-awful as an adventure game. The attempt to 'streamline' the point and click adventure formula to do away with any sort of menu of interacting with stuff by having you sometimes right-click to do something different just ends up obscuring solutions that any other adventure game would make clearer. There is a clear separation between player knowledge and character knowledge and a lot of the time the main character will have to be suggested a solution to an NPC even if the player has figured out what to do. There's a lot of padding, sometimes you go backwards and forwards between NPCs just to relay information and learn nothing new or even foreshadow anything. There are even times when the game just stops in its tracks and makes you wait while an NPC promises to do something off-screen and you just have to pot about the game map with nothing to do until the game decides that making you wait 30 real minutes is enough. Many interactable objects are too close to another, making pixel-hunting nearly impossible when the needed item is so small and blends into the background already, but also gets mixed up with another larger but currently irrelevant object that the MC still 'sees' as important. The story is predictable from the title and tagline alone, and has a major plothole that is frankly inexcusable. I paid a little less than £3 for it and still feel ripped off. There are so many other, better adventure games out there. This one may be old, but good is the furthest word I would associate with this piece of work.

[IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DR9rL3bWkAEdCIR.jpg:small[/IMG] seat snowledo

Me and the boys have got a few things planned for new years eve but I'm not sure I even want to go, doesn't sound like much fun. I don't want to stay in but I don't want to go out just for the sake of it.

Belated merry Christmas to you all Hope you are all having a wonderful time. I don't even get my main present till January :v:

I ordered a hogie wrap with bbq sauce and they gave me one with sour cream instead. Didn't realize how much that change would disgust me so. Never again. I guess the bright side is that it has put me off hogie wraps forever so that'll help my health.

"the big fat quiz of the year 2017" is on as I'm typing this, they just did a section on the Internet and I just had to explain to my grandparents what Pewdiepie, fidget spinners and dabbing was. :why:

I'm watching it on plus one now, or would be if my missus' family would stop talking over it [editline]26th December 2017[/editline] I'd be calm with it if they were arguing but they just all talk really fucking loud

[QUOTE=_Maverick_;53007320]"the big fat quiz of the year 2017" is on as I'm typing this, they just did a section on the Internet and I just had to explain to my grandparents what Pewdiepie, fidget spinners and dabbing was. :why:[/QUOTE] You just needed to say "a tool of nazis to brainwash the youth" for all three :v:

[QUOTE=DiscoInferno;53007387]You just needed to say "a tool of nazis to brainwash the youth" for all three :v:[/QUOTE] Ha! They'd probably believe it too. I'm sad there is no 2017 screen wipe this year. Big fat quiz and screen wipe are good together

Oh look, snow. Just when I'm driving home from North Wales.

Looks like feckin summer where I am in Scotland. But it feels like it should be snowing cos it's cold as fuck.

Will be in UK/Europe from 18th Jan to 19th Feb, for a friend's wedding, some travels, and meet up with friends. Let me know if you wanna meet! And maybe I can give you a souvenir or postcard

[QUOTE=loopoo;52998128]neighbour turned into a real ass over this mouse problem (which, by the way, have I mentioned isn't even my fault?). wall cavities are shared between like 8 houses, and other than getting every single person to agree to chip in on an exterminator and have him seal up all the holes, we're not gonna fix the problem with bait. legit worried one of these fuckers will die under my floorboard and stink the place out. she has "information" that an appointment with a handyman (to put more bait under the floorboards) was supposed to happen today. when I told her no, it is happening tomorrow, on the 23rd, as it has always been planned, she starts grilling me and pretty much using thinly veiled accusations that I'm lying. I told her it's always been happening tomorrow, and if she doesn't believe me, that's fine, then I dropped her with a bombshell saying I don't appreciate being interrogated, and after tomorrow, I'm not considering myself a part in any of this even if the problem persists. feels good man. spent so long being so polite she totally took me for a pushover. told it to her straight and she's now apologising profusely, but whatever. I'm gonna distance myself cause I can't be dealing with this shit. lady, I've been doing you a favour. you could have been hassling the neighbour to your left as they live above you as well, and I've got every right to tell you to piss off seeing as the mice aren't even here as a result of me. it pisses me off because she was using my naivete and throwing heavy-handed shit around like "we are getting our landlord involved and will be contacting your landlord" and initially this scared the shit out of me. but then I called my landlady up and she was a total G, told me she's on my side and if they keep harassing me, she's happy to step in and shut them down. feels great calling her out on her bullshit and seeing her wilt.[/QUOTE] Mice don't noticeably smell when they die, rats do. Not enough water in their bodies, they just turn into little mummies iirc

[QUOTE=Ignhelper;53008687]Will be in UK/Europe from 18th Jan to 19th Feb, for a friend's wedding, some travels, and meet up with friends. Let me know if you wanna meet! And maybe I can give you a souvenir or postcard[/QUOTE] UK/Europe is a broad area, any particular places you're visiting?

[QUOTE=_Maverick_;53007320]"the big fat quiz of the year 2017" is on as I'm typing this, they just did a section on the Internet and I just had to explain to my grandparents what Pewdiepie, fidget spinners and dabbing was. :why:[/QUOTE] was it me or was the big fat quiz total wank this year. i normally like some of the people on it but they just didnt entertain me, i turned over after the first round after i didnt laugh once

[QUOTE=prinner;53009937]was it me or was the big fat quiz total wank this year. i normally like some of the people on it but they just didnt entertain me, i turned over after the first round after i didnt laugh once[/QUOTE] Kinda felt like they where really trying to force the funny

so its 20 past 1 in the morning and... [t]https://i.imgur.com/UUZyBvC.jpg[/t] Lexi is making one hell of a racket jumping about to and from the side of her enclosure.

[QUOTE=Bread_Baron;53009921]UK/Europe is a broad area, any particular places you're visiting?[/QUOTE] London, oxford, edinburgh. Oxford for my bro, edinburgh for my mate The rest is gonna be filled in if anyone wanna meet up/show me around

wtf guys does anyone else get this thing where you're dead tired but are forced awake by a sense of anxiety that makes no sense? past week I've been running on 5-6 hours of sleep cause I keep having to get up at 6am cause of a really horrible feeling of anxiety that only goes away once I'm up and at em. it's doing my head in, i'm a walking zombie rn

Ye that's life pal

fuck that, a week ago I was fine. I've always had trouble falling asleep, but never staying asleep. now I sleep within minutes of putting my head on the pillow but can't stay asleep past 6 hours.

[QUOTE=loopoo;53010673]fuck that, a week ago I was fine. I've always had trouble falling asleep, but never staying asleep. now I sleep within minutes of putting my head on the pillow but can't stay asleep past 6 hours.[/QUOTE] Weird thing I do to get around this is basically sensory deprivation, make sure there are no LEDs on inside your sleeping area eg LEDs on TVs etc. Blinds all the way down... Get a different mattress, I've had issues for the past year of waking up for no reason at all and it was actually down to a single spring inside my mattress buckling and making a noise loud enough in the middle of the night to wake me up. Also try sleeping on top a duvet or quilt, this made miles of difference for me and really helped. If have issues with getting too hot in the night don't get a memory foam style mattress, yeah they are comfy but heat really does not dissipate if it builds up. (A massive problem for me during the summer and hell even right now it can kinda destroy my sleeping pattern) If there is any form of light and I see it when trying to sleep, even if its with my eyes closed it makes me feel uneasy or starts thoughts racing through my head.

Cheers for the advice, I'll give that all a go. Also, fuck credit agencies. I've spent the better part of 5 years building up my score from "Very Poor" to "Excellent". Experian is the credit agency I used to check my score, and I went from like 180/999 to 986/999. People still won't touch me with finance. I've never missed a payment, but the second I put down I'm a full-time student, no one wants to look at my application in-depth. I'm a full time student, but I get a bursary. I also use this thread as my personal bitching diary, sorry boyos

I'm trying to build my credit at the moment too and it's a bit of a pain. Can't build credit because I can't get a credit card because I haven't lived in the country long enough (and doesn't let me enter the fact I lived in Australia), leading to not building my credit score so that I can't get credit in future. Ahhh the endless cycle.

[QUOTE=loopoo;53010875]Cheers for the advice, I'll give that all a go. Also, fuck credit agencies. I've spent the better part of 5 years building up my score from "Very Poor" to "Excellent". Experian is the credit agency I used to check my score, and I went from like 180/999 to 986/999. People still won't touch me with finance. I've never missed a payment, but the second I put down I'm a full-time student, no one wants to look at my application in-depth. I'm a full time student, but I get a bursary. I also use this thread as my personal bitching diary, sorry boyos[/QUOTE] It's because a bursary isn't really a proper income, like if you're applying for car finance they want to know that in 3 years you can still pay your debt. Whereas if you have a full time job you are more likely to be able to do that It'll improve once you're in full time employment

Speaking of employment, is anyone else finding it nigh on impossible to find work. No matter what I'm turned down. Even with college degrees, CSCS cards, health and safety qualifications, diplomas, 5 years of volunteering while not working. I couldn't even get a job with Mac D's :why: