I'll keep it nice n simple.

- You're the biggest joke, so thanks for this
- Aren't you fucking Armenian? So "Fuck you, I got mine" it is then for healthcare.
- You got any examples of 'remote criticism of pride month'? Genuine.
- Youtube is a piece of shit, and it isn't your soapbox
- Trump has likely not been around enough to generate you 2 jobs, unless you're a contractor building the wall and a nuclear engineer in Saudi Arabia. If anything, he's done fuckall on changing America's course in policy and you were going to be a slave to 2 jobs getting slightly better pay so you would ignore the lack of having 1 well paying job in the first place...
- Hateraid fucking rofl
- Falling for the violent video games bait. No shit, it isn't games, clued-in politicians are using it as a scapegoat to sidestep the US's massive guns problem.
- You flipflop from "if we don't love enough we'll have a second civil war" to "I need guns for the upcoming apocalypse". Alright Doomer.
- You're right about "it" being fucked within the next decade, but for entirely the opposite reasons.
- Jesus Christ you over-dramatic vitamin-deficienct dumbfuck, America is far from NK or the Soviet Union where they actually removed people. You've got other problems but you drank the koolaid.
- Gays don't just have pride month mate, it's for lesbians and trans and all them too. If you're still struggling, think of it as Independence Day, but for people who are born some way rather than from somewhere. You celebrate liberation from a tyrannical force, gays celebrate not being lynched or oppressed as much as 50 years ago. Who'da thought?

And fucking hell do you have to use so many empty idioms and cliched phrases, it reads like a paranoid depressed footballer's interview.

A great short book

A shame about the film though, wasn't very good.

Space obviously. Doesn't space mess with something in your DNA as well that makes you age slower while up there?

Space doesn't do shit to your DNA. Gamma radiation does though, and that's just basic cancer risk which is increased in space because you're more exposed in a tin can with no atmosphere around to absorb it.

Relativistic speeds make you appear to live longer, but it's negligible (like, <1s difference for the time you'd be up there). You'd live 1s longer than someone who never went to orbit at speeds several thousand kilometres faster than usual, but to you it wouldn't make a difference, you'd still live and die at a normal age.

An analogy to this would be if light was bouncing between two mirrors in a tube. Shove that tube on a car, and if it drove around you very fast the "beam" of light would bounce in a zigzag rather than up and down if it was stationary("I" vs "V"). Because going diagonal takes more distance, it would essentially take longer to go up and down, but on the car you'd just see the beam going up and down like normal.

6 months, either in the darkest depths of the ocean in a submarine, or in upper Earth orbit in the ISS.

Which, why/why both fucking suck?

The similarities;

- Cramped conditions
- Instant death on the other side of the walls
- Limited human contact (AFAIK both have some connection for the internet so shit-sub/space-posting on 4chan would be possible but limited).
- Living without your usual comforts (living space aside, no TV, not much storage space for books, clothes, restricted diets, can't go for a run or get "fresh air")
- You need to be highly trained to operate or be assigned to them (for this scenario just assume you know how to run a sub or a spacestation, or all that would be sorted by everyone else on board).
- Besides this 6 month restriction, it takes a while to get back to civilisation, up or down, and across a bit.

The differences;

- Being surrounded by highly compressed water (not that water is compressible, but that only means a rupture would get that pressure transferred to you and force you to the size of a peanut) vs being surrounded by a vacuum strong enough to boil your blood and burst your lungs. Neither pretty.
- You get a pretty view in space. Ocean floors are virtually deserts apart from the scattered wrecks and "islands" of life around carcasses and volcanic vents, and I'm not sure conventional subs have windows. Periscope?
- Flying at thousands of kilometres an hour vs I dunno, a few knots underwater.
- Following and creating a bit of a juxtoposition from my last point, in space you can't go anywhere because it's so vast, even if you weren't going around in orbit. In a sub you can "go" places that can be interesting.
- Experiencing virtual Zero-g vs the ol' 9.8m/s^2 everyday, and all the problems associated (or not) in dealing with that.
- No sun can penetrate deep underwater to the point it's pitch black and you'll return a vitamin D deficient pale fuck, vs too much exposure that you have an increased risk of cancer when you get back. Nice.

So, what'll it be?

Goodbye Christopher Robin

Ah fuck, it's either PTSD inducing, cp, or furries, I can't win.

You should write a book about your fucked up life.

Diary of a Supertramp already exists.

Except that was before the existence of most drugs and the dick-suck economy, so it was by and large a success.

i keep a photo journal to keep track of what I've taken pictures of, how, and why.

Member since just before Uni, now graduated, a relationship, and a new hobby.

Most petered out, and sometimes the thread topics aren't very conductive to a larger conversation (see; Loaf on the retarded spectrum, Flee on the other side on law and political overloads, not that I'm complaining).

The mid life crisis hitting early eh?

Quote from: Ian on February 01, 2019, 08:00:35 PM

Is there anything preventing the UK from doing the same thing with Japan?

They can make deals with anyone after Brexit.

Yeah, but who would now that we will be out of the largest FTA. What does the UK have that the EU can't already provide, and Japan desperately needs?

Africa is the only one that has shown interest in trade post-Brexit and most of the continent is still developing or have got their resources already under exploitation by themselves or by 3rd parties like Chinese/Russian/European companies (SA, Nigeria, Cameroon, Angola, Zimbabwe, etc), while the UK deals in services, a sector that likely very few will need when it's not connected to a larger economic zone.

Difficult to pinpoint because without the setting and other characters the bits that make them great are gone.

I'm deciding between Phillip J Fry and Jean Luc Picard, but both are virtually polar opposites and neither would do well if their settings were flipped.

I mean there's currently this wizard bloke I'm using as my avatar now but it's because he's hilariously useless character in a comedy.

Tommy or Arthur Shelby would be a good shout too.

I'm not in the know on Brexit, but I thought the entire point of it was to gain independence from EU law. What is the point of "leaving" if the deal you make is just going to keep the country subject to it?

The UK is intrinsically tied to the EU in law, like fishing rights between France and the UK, and in the economy, with over 2/3rds of UK trade being with the EU. Leaving that is essentially impossible, let alone ridiculous as atm they can't trade with anyone outside of the EU on their own. The UK can't afford to lose the trade.

Buuuut since the UK has no bargaining chips and it's 1 country versus 26/27, the UK haven't been very successful in getting what they want, i.e. trade with the EU but being outside of the EU.

Instead the only Brexit deal they have been getting that keeps trade intact is the current proposed and subsequently shot down deal, which is what make the UK a sort of "trading partner" like Switzerland or Norway, that follow the laws of the EU for the trade deals, but have no say in those laws.

And you are correct, why would anyone sign up for that? Remainers point out it's essentially a crap deal to keep ties, and Brexiteers say it doesn't do enough, and both groups are right.

Heard that some MP's are planning to propose a "Norway" Deal to the PM.

Fuck me all you need to see is the news every so often to know that that exact deal was proposed months ago, and declined because:

i) Basically has the UK remain in the EU but in less stature (i.e. no say on EU policy or voting, just like Norway deals with EU laws in return for some minor freedom... in fishery policy or whaling I think? The former reason being off the table for the UK because of its proximity to France/Netherlands and Ireland, and the latter the UK isn't interested in.

ii) The fucking Norwegians said no because it wouldn't be in their own interests a few weeks ago on Euronews (as with all other Nordic countries not directly in the EU, I forgot the abbreviation they have) by having a "Norway" Deal with bits and bobs on the side, that devalues Norway's own deal with the EU, and in turn wouldn't be in the EU's interest to fuck over some countries that want to remain with them than the fuckers here who want to leave.

Sometimes I have sympathy for May, only because a third of her party are a bunch of self serving morons, her slim majority is run by some crazy chest thumping orange-marching bastards, her supporters are varying shades of complete wank, and the opposition aren't doing fuck all either. Currently the only party supporting a 2nd referendum are the the Scottish National Party and their counterparts in Plaid Cymru, essentially hamstrung by their own parties' national identities, and the Lolberal Democrats who I think have <10 seats and are led by god knows who anymore.

Still here every so often; fucked off to everywhere else most likely.

People went off to big wide world or with the friends they made here.

MSI Leopard GP62 6QE;
i7- 6700HQ @2.6GHz
16GB RAM (No idea what, 8GB was added by the company that sold it over the stock model)
GTX 950M 2GB

LG IPS Montior 1080p

Gigaworks T40 Speakers, with Sennheiser PC350SE headset on the right, Some cheapo Sony headphones on the left

Some shitey mouse and keyboard, a cheapy pad cooler that doesn't have a light switch underneath because MSI's heat like a bitch, plus a Minolta Film scanner on the far right for... well, my film.

Runs most things alright except ArmA 3 which flickers somewhere around 25 if you wanna play with decent distances.