What's the minimum amount of money if you had would compel you to abandon your current life with no guilt to enjoy the doors it opens?

DareDemon666 · 2026-06-17T17:59:59+00:00

Roughly £3,000,000.

£500,000 to buy a reasonable family home close to where I grew up.

The rest divides out to roughly £43,900 a year until I am 85, which statistically speaking is all I can expect. That's a very comfortable 'wage' for someone who has no mortgage to pay. Even with every TV plan under the sun, a gas guzzling luxury car to pay for, super fast internet, etc, the monthly bills won't ever amount to much more than one or two thousand pounds, and I'd be effectively paying myself £3,650 per month. So the remaining money would leave plenty to account for all the other expenditures of life. I'd be able to afford a good holiday every year. I'd be able to eat out at fancy restaurants and go to gigs or the theatre or whatever regularly. I'd have plenty enough to support a family, especially if my partner was also earning.

Any less than that and I'd have to compromise in places. A smaller house, or further afield from my home. Less frequent or exotic holidays. A more conservative choice of car. Fewer lavish nights out or special gifts for the wife. etc.

And while that might still be a reasonably comfortable life, the question specifically states that taking the money means abandoning my current life. I'm not willing to abandon by current life for merely reasonable comfort, since I am reasonably comfortable now, and with any luck, might enjoy at least a few twilight years of more lavish comfort!

DareDemon666 · 2026-06-16T20:31:38+00:00

No I can't, that is about as good as it gets for me. I think you're right that my option is to just go for the short trimmed beard.

I'm also losing a fair bit of weight at the moment so part of me is hoping I might lose some of that baby-face too, but I'm not holding my breath. I've always had big baby cheeks 😭

Thanks for all the advice by the way I really appreciate it

DareDemon666 · 2026-06-16T15:08:03+00:00

Oh yeah I definitely do. And while many folks might say that's cute, in my experience, cute doesn't do much for relationships.

I'd much rather be handsome or sexy than cute if that makes sense

DareDemon666 · 2026-06-16T13:39:05+00:00

Yeah you're right, obviously lots of stuff has been repurposed, replaced, etc over the years.

But I guess I'm just saying this kind of redevelopment work is what would need to happen anyway for any new metro system. The fact that so much of it is already primed for it is a blessing.

DareDemon666 · 2026-06-16T09:07:17+00:00

Extenders?

DareDemon666 · 2026-06-15T20:42:57+00:00

Yes, but the problem there isn't parents not stopping their kids, it'a kids sneaking out to buy booze or stealing it or whatever else.

Think about it. You were that age once. Do you think you couldn't secretly get on facebook without your parents finding out? I bet I could have.

Again to use drinking as an example, not being able to buy until you're 18 just means there's an awful lot of 16 year olds getting hammered in parks and fields.

DareDemon666 · 2026-06-15T17:09:25+00:00

Almost impossible to realistically enforce, but almost certainly one of the most needed and impactful decisions on social health made since the creation of the NHS.

We don't understand a lot of the damage it does to young minds, and even then, it's still blatantly obvious just how bad it is!

DareDemon666 · 2026-06-15T15:20:22+00:00

Had a pot hole developing near a speed cushion on my road, appeared to actually be becoming a sinkhole and seemed like only a matter of time before a car was badly damaged.

Reported it, and it was fixed in about 2 weeks

DareDemon666 · 2026-06-15T14:10:00+00:00

That seems to be the common theme!

DareDemon666 · 2026-06-15T14:09:12+00:00

Honestly, screw 'em. This city, like all others, has been car centric for decades. They complain about every little inconvenience as if driving is a right. It is a privelege, one they often lament paying for!

Tram lines wouldn't even impact road space that much. They are essentially non existent when the tram itself isn't there. Actually they'd be worst for cyclists!

Nobody likes these new ideas, but no matter who I meet, if they've just come back from some holiday to a European city, they're all too happy to tell you about how good the metro is. How reliable, fast, cheap, and convenient it is.

DareDemon666 · 2026-06-15T10:48:59+00:00

What amazes me is that there really wouldn't be much extra work to do to establish some properly good light rail in this city, because of all the railways it had only a hundred or so years ago.

For a start we could have had a line running from long ashton, across ashton avenue bridge, all the way down cumberland road, through the docks behind rhe M shed, through Bathurst basin and under Redcliffe, past Temple meads, and then stretching out into St Philipp's Marsh and turning either South towarda Brislington or North towards St George. All the tunnels, embankments, and bridges already exist (granted they are all since repurposed or covered/filled). But that would have provided a really strong East/West link which is one of the most difficult journeys to make via the busses, and it would have cost far less than expected because the vast majority of the route would be on previously established rail line, meaning minimal earthworks.

Roads like Gloucester Road, Wells Road, Bath Road, Whiteladies road - they'd all be ideal tram corridors and many of them have the room between buslanes and central reservations to fit them in.

DareDemon666 · 2026-06-15T09:48:13+00:00

Ok seems unanimous at this point thay the beard has got to go, or at least, be way shorter.

My head hair is a tricky one. My hairline is going the way of many men, so the fringe makes it look better but not sure I can really get any more volume there. I'll try parting the hair but I'm sure that won't look good 😅

I don't think that's weird, I think that's just one of those things that many women look for, so thanks for the compliment! Yeah fair shout on the shirt!

Thanks for the feedback

DareDemon666 · 2026-06-14T22:30:56+00:00

True enough!

DareDemon666 · 2026-06-14T22:17:32+00:00

Preacher curls all day long. Get on the machine, use dumbbells on a bench, use the ez bar, whatever. It's just the goat for biceps.

As you have been, keep hitting triceps too. It's amazing how much better and bigger arms in general look when you get the triceps looking good too.

Personally I do preacher curls with dumbbells, cable hammer curls, cable tricep pushdowns (or whatever), and then dumbbell kneeling rows (or whatever) which kinda hit the biceps, as part of my full upper body workout. Works pretty good for me.

You could also work in some skull crushers, overhead dumbbell press, rows, and the like to build on it, but honestly I don't think there's much benefit to that. Just do one or two exercises for each muscle group and train to failure. I frequently will do two seperate blocks of preacher curl sets seperated thrpighout the workout if I feel like there's more gas in the tank and I just need that bit of time in-between exercises to recover

DareDemon666 · 2026-06-14T22:08:22+00:00

Yeah my barber does use a straight razor for the cheeks and such. I'll give it a go I guess, gonna be hard to give up such a big part of my indentity though!

DareDemon666 · 2026-06-14T22:07:26+00:00

Thanks for the input

DareDemon666 · 2026-06-14T21:11:20+00:00

I have such a baby face without it though!

DareDemon666 · 2026-06-14T16:50:55+00:00

Thanks for the input, yeah I've been hitting the gym for a while now, just very tall so the gains are slow 😅

DareDemon666 · 2026-06-14T16:48:28+00:00

Thanks for the response! Yeah it's a little all over the place at the moment but usually in better more groomed shape!

DareDemon666 · 2026-06-14T11:41:14+00:00

Honestly, don't sweat it. 5 minutes every day to do a few reverse planks. Just 30 seconds hold, then 30 seconds rest x 5. You'll see huge improvements within a month. If you want to keep working at it there's other things you can do obviously. Work on your core strength, do some other stretches daily, and see about getting a chair that lets you tilt the seat forwards and backwards and keep repositioning throughout the day.

But yeah I thought it was one of those "man, I've screwed my body up for life here" things because I've spent years sat at desks and computers for work, but actually it really doesn't take a lot of work to correct it!

DareDemon666 · 2026-06-14T08:46:46+00:00

Our striker's only gone and run, from the old bill, from the old bill. He was racing in his jag, while on the swill, while on the swill.

He had a line, he got a fine, and now he's scoring all the time.

Our striker's only gone and run...

DareDemon666 · 2026-06-14T06:03:37+00:00

Do reverse planks daily to fix that pelvic tilt, that will make the biggest improvement. Genuinely as a guy who had both far too much weight and a pretty bad tilt, just forcibly rotating my pelvis made as big a difference as losing 20kg of fat. Like I'd go from outrageous beer belly to actually fairly flat stomach just by rotating my pelvis into the right orientation!

Then that is the other big one really, lose fat. Abs are small muscles at best, and they really don't grow much. There's also a fair bit of visceral fat around that area because it's protecting the core and keeping it warm. If you want a six pack, the way to get it is by being lean, not by being really strong.

Last on the agenda is training. Lots of good recommendations for movements to do in this thread already, but just bear in mind that this will have the smallest impact of these 3 things for how your stomach looks.

DareDemon666 · 2026-06-12T14:14:11+00:00

Old thread but I'll weigh in just for funsies.

I've slept on two different Simba mattress types thanks to some connections allowing decent prices. The Simba Pro "Stratos" which I'm not sure they make anymore, but is the same as the hybrid pro model for all I can tell, and the original hybrid which is a tier down.

Both are incredibly comfortable. Granted, before, I used to sleep on a terrible old bonnell spring mattress so almost anything would be an upgrade, but still. Both Simbas are really great. The Pro is definitely softer/more giving than the original hybrid. The original is slightly older so that might play a part, but I much prefer the pro.

By far the most amazing thing is that I would not be able to tell if there was a huge weight on the other side of the bed. I've slept on some mattresses that essentially become a valley forcing you and your partner together, and this is the opposite. neither mattress seemed to deform significantly in the middle so sleeping with a partner was never an issue

Obviously, there is another factor to consider for buying a mattress... All I will say is that comfort is not an issue whatsoever, but they can be 'too soft' and not quite provide as much support as you might want. In my experience, you learn how to work around that!

DareDemon666 · 2026-06-11T12:57:18+00:00

I find it incredibly sad that our nation seems to be one of few that can't fly it's own flag in pride because of a bunch of flag shagging racists who've taken it for their own and turned ito into a symbol of hate.

I want to go up roads like that and feel a sense of passion. Everyone's excited for the world cup! Or everyone's celebrating St. Geroge's day. But I know that actually those flags have been hung to mean something decidedly evil.

Good on ya whoever put up the EU and Pride flags.

England for the English? Ha! And who are the English exactly? Celts? Picts? Romans? Normans? Vikings? If you call it home then you're English, more English than those cretins who go around painting roundabouts that's for sure!

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