luka
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downs syndrome is the latest thing you cant have an ad without a downs syndrome in it.
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Advertising agencies decry throttle on actor supply from 90% Downs abortion rate.
sus
Moderator
What are some of the rabbit holes people seem to go down?
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
guinea-pig varietal, rampantly feverish except with actual procreation
Matt le Tissier varietal, 2ndary modern see also Ricky Lambert
adhd 123 tabs on nutrition open varietal with a subset of adhd 123 tabs open on ”can crisps give you belly fat?” varietal
adhd 123 tabs on different O9A sources varietal, as you might say “duuuude, Satanists got game, I’ll go out to bat for you too Satan”, see Current 93
Matt le Tissier varietal, 2ndary modern see also Ricky Lambert
adhd 123 tabs on nutrition open varietal with a subset of adhd 123 tabs open on ”can crisps give you belly fat?” varietal
adhd 123 tabs on different O9A sources varietal, as you might say “duuuude, Satanists got game, I’ll go out to bat for you too Satan”, see Current 93
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
Immigration varietal, soon to be witnessed out on boats shooting at outboard-powered rubber dinghies containing migrants launching from France
Surprised it hasn’t occurred yet I mean @HMGovt’s Glorious Return! lives on the south coast, he could kickstart his way with ‘rare’ NFT pyramid schemes
Surprised it hasn’t occurred yet I mean @HMGovt’s Glorious Return! lives on the south coast, he could kickstart his way with ‘rare’ NFT pyramid schemes
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
tons more
my kid brother and oldest mate can talk for fuckin hours about fuckin CARP
@DLaurent I understand the institution and Mick Harris must be fairly close but the gear? What’s going on with anglers and requiring so much gear? Gear mag, gear YT channels, river specific sources, or if they fuck off near Skegness all the tide times etc
I know one useful term - paternoster
my kid brother and oldest mate can talk for fuckin hours about fuckin CARP
@DLaurent I understand the institution and Mick Harris must be fairly close but the gear? What’s going on with anglers and requiring so much gear? Gear mag, gear YT channels, river specific sources, or if they fuck off near Skegness all the tide times etc
I know one useful term - paternoster
DLaurent
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I spend loads of fishing tackle but nobody needs to just to enjoy a day fishing, it depends how much you get into it. It's better to learn the basics before buying anything expensive, it's easy to end up like me "all the gear, no idea".
I like to fish in a variety of different places with different methods to keep it interesting and a challenge so need a range of tackle. Compared to some hobbies, like golf, it's reasonable as I've never spent more than £220 on a rod. A lot of people moan YouTube is full of tackle companies trying to sell them their latest stuff, but I reckon there's just as many that do videos for fun, including the sponsored anglers pushing stuff.
I'm primarily a coarse angler but just getting into proper Carp fishing, and that's costing a bit. I'm going to pay £370 x2 for two Carp rods. I could get one cheaper but prefer to buy good, buy once.
Probably the most expensive bit of tackle you can buy is a Pole. They go up to 16m long and you play fish off elastic in the end rather than off a reel. The high end ones are as much as £4000. I can't justify getting one as it doesn't suit my style of fishing at the moment. I had a cheap 13m one as a kid, but now all I need is an 8m Margin Pole that cost £160.
Paternoster is a good rig and there's road just down from my tackle shop called Paternoster Road or something. I'm always spotting stuff like that, eg Hemplands Road in Stourbridge (we use hemp as a bait sometimes).
Never seen Mick Harris on the bank but he's done some tunes about local venues.
Overdepth being a fishing reference I presume.
mixed_biscuits
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When are you going to find that paper for me? You know, the one that associates larger numbers of vaccinations with better general health?
germaphobian
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Mind itself is not what Moloch's interested in, it wants the bodies. That's why those materialistic explanations - no matter how kooky - are at least pointing in the right direction. I'm not qualified to untangle the mind-body relation, but that's not even important in this case.
What is important is the fact that any kind of propoganda will eventually take hold of the body, which is the real aim, because no one's interested in our puny minds otherwise the mechanisms of control would have never moved beyond rhetoric.
In its current form it probably starts with Jane Fond doing aerobics, which also nicley coincides with mass adaption of VHS. The Cult of Health. People spending their lives running treadmill. Anorexia. Laxatives.
The trans issue is just a different expression of the same principle - hijacking of the body. Right wingers have their own versions of this, of course. Doing deadlifts until their guts fall out through their ass or something like that.
But you could go on and on - snapchat filter dysmorphia, plastic surgery disasters, body positivity (cult of fatness basically), facial tattoos or whatever. What is the unifying principle is that it has to take hold of your body, so the question is why no to do it directly when (and if) possible?
What is important is the fact that any kind of propoganda will eventually take hold of the body, which is the real aim, because no one's interested in our puny minds otherwise the mechanisms of control would have never moved beyond rhetoric.
In its current form it probably starts with Jane Fond doing aerobics, which also nicley coincides with mass adaption of VHS. The Cult of Health. People spending their lives running treadmill. Anorexia. Laxatives.
The trans issue is just a different expression of the same principle - hijacking of the body. Right wingers have their own versions of this, of course. Doing deadlifts until their guts fall out through their ass or something like that.
But you could go on and on - snapchat filter dysmorphia, plastic surgery disasters, body positivity (cult of fatness basically), facial tattoos or whatever. What is the unifying principle is that it has to take hold of your body, so the question is why no to do it directly when (and if) possible?
mixed_biscuits
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I like this but the focus on the body is misdirection, intended to occlude the fact that we are all immortal spirits connected to the overmind, as any wise man know.
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
transubstantiation of the soul
COSMIC MAAAAAAN, COSMIC
COSMIC MAAAAAAN, COSMIC
We cannot, from within that ecosystem, restore old behavioral norms or develop new and better ones. No, to find a healthier alternative, we must cultivate what the great American novelist Thomas Pynchon calls “temporal bandwidth” – an awareness of our experience as extending into the past and the future.
In Pynchon’s 1973 novel Gravity’s Rainbow, an engineer named Kurt Mondaugen explains that temporal bandwidth is “the width of your present, your now … The more you dwell in the past and future, the thicker your bandwidth, the more solid your persona. But the narrower your sense of Now, the more tenuous you are.”
Given the way current communications reduce everything to the instant, it's no wonder we're falling prey to the media.
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
or Jesus, the o.g good news
wild greens
Well-known member
Very little crossover between this and the "normal mates" one, i assume
shakahislop
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absolutely anything obviously. there are small ones and big ones. specific things that come to mind: someone i know talking about how they want a higher salary so that they can spend it on supplements; some dude i was on a new years day walk with suddenly going on about the failures of socialism in Venezuela; feminist talking points erupting into conversations out of nowhere; my otherwise normal mate who went on a men's rights training thing in the woods; digital nomads; a mate of a mate who had an ultimately terminal illness and refused any non-homeopathic treatment; my brother somehow starting to talk about how modern architecture is rubbish and how classical buildings are better; my own frequent interjections for a few years about class politics and inequality.
mixed_biscuits
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They're carping on and you're floundering.
mixed_biscuits
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From a visual stress perspective this is objectively true: the newer the architecture the less natural its forms and so the harder the brain has to work.