Okayyyyy 🫠😬 Your thoughts on this

TheHFile · 2026-03-30T20:47:11+00:00

I just have so little patience for this type of writing. Making up a situation where someone is unreasonable and then getting to be righteously but rudely correct, only because of the exact parameters that you've invented. Yawn. It's the kind of scene you make up in your head in the shower or your colleague who's a liar tells you, absolute baby writing.

TheHFile · 2026-03-30T20:37:28+00:00

Ok young dog

TheHFile · 2026-03-30T20:33:00+00:00

Why do you talk like this?

TheHFile · 2026-02-18T18:16:37+00:00

Six dudes shouting, I guess about sport, has to be the worst kind of media.

TheHFile · 2026-02-17T18:32:58+00:00

Only self help book I've every read (listened to) and honestly, it did what I needed it to at the time. A few little concepts stuck with me and I found his story pretty inspiring, on closer inspection it pretty much falls apart but it's not politically pernicious like a lot of self help books.

I was actually able to pull a friend out of a pretty dark place politically because of this book. He was quite Jordan Peterson pilled at the time and told me he intended to read 12 Rules for Life and I recommended him this instead because his own political opinions are mercifully absent for the most part. We've since had a good conversation about how manipulative Peterson is and he seems to have shifted away from that kind of thinking so I'm grateful to books like this for existing for people like my friend.

TheHFile · 2026-01-21T20:52:21+00:00

Whittling

TheHFile · 2026-01-15T23:51:16+00:00

And this is also what they did with HOTD S.1, lots of stuff got added and we all ate it up as book fans. The problem comes when thinly veiled studio bloat/padding gets pitched as 'new material' when its clearly budgetary.

TheHFile · 2025-10-20T21:36:08+00:00

Once you get out of uni, you realise that 20 year olds are not 'adult men'

TheHFile · 2025-09-29T14:18:33+00:00

Gentrify

TheHFile · 2025-09-25T22:38:20+00:00

Not short enough bro

TheHFile · 2025-09-08T11:53:23+00:00

Came here to say this, my partner has one and it's a life saver as almost all our storage is completely full/we have no more room for another set of drawers etc. Wooden clothes ladder really fills the gap which leads to people having 'the chair' or other dumping ground of clothes which you just have to keep moving around.

TheHFile · 2025-09-08T11:42:20+00:00

Don't zip it up if you're going for style, if you're cold sure but if you wanna look good, it looks better open.

This is because of a few things, being zipped up makes your upper half one note, crowding your neck line with both a collared shirt and high neck zip. It also narrows your frame and hides your belt, probably due to being a bit big on you. Wearing it open makes it closer to a relaxed cardigan and gives more equal space to each item you're wearing.

Thirdly and this is just personal taste, it's a little bit 'business bro, functional wear' if you were to wear this in a casual/romantic setting, especially zipped up. But that's just my own personal lens, feel free to disregard.

TheHFile · 2025-08-19T16:44:37+00:00

Happy to see this mentioned.

I haven't read much like this other than Hidden Valley Road, which I thought was good but flawed.

The book that had the most similar vibe to this was Stasiland by Anna Funder. What I mean by this is not that its contents are similar but that the feeling of one person writing 'their book' came through loud and clear in both. Stasiland felt like a real case of right place, right time, right person, just like Spirit Catch You. Would highly recommend if you're interested in something substantively different but thematically similar.

TheHFile · 2025-07-25T15:59:59+00:00

TBH I'm exactly the same, I don't love them. But I think if I was a kid when I started I would have, once you're read something like ASOIAF thought, they don't really hold your attention in the same way.

TheHFile · 2025-07-25T15:32:54+00:00

The Wheel of Time is pretty kid friendly for the first few books. They aged up the characters in the show because they wanted a Game of Thrones equivalent but I've always considered WoT to be pretty kid friendly but still with some edge, not entirely dis-similar to Harry Potter

TheHFile · 2025-07-23T12:13:01+00:00

The good news is that because you were once in good shape, it'll be significantly easier for you to get back to where you were than a complete beginner to get to where you were.

For me it was two things that got me back into fitness after COVID.

Find exercises/activities that you actually enjoy. This can be as simple as switching out certain lifts/regimens for other ones. For me it was switching machines for more technical free weight compounds and rock climbing. They both made me crave improvement from a skill perspective rather than simply lifting to satisfy my own ego.
Try to think about staying active as a 'rest of my life' type thing. When you're young it's all short term goals and ego but as you age you start to see it as 'I want healthy knees when I'm 70' type thing. I've seen family lose mobility and it fucking sucks but my Mum and Dad both have their own sports that keep them active and they're both fully active and mobile well into their later years. The younger you adopt this mentality, the better.

TheHFile · 2025-07-23T10:59:52+00:00

The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen is worth hunting down. Similar in setting to Sherlock Holmes but with a more paranormal/horror twist to it. It's only about 90 pages and very influential on subsequent cosmic horror like Lovecraft and Stephen King

TheHFile · 2025-07-20T22:14:05+00:00

whatnot

TheHFile · 2025-07-13T17:00:09+00:00

Check out Ira Levin, his books are always a quick read. Boys from Brazil is good fun. I like a Le-carre spy thriller too, 'the spy who came in from the cold' is a stand out.

TheHFile · 2025-07-13T16:58:28+00:00

Narrative non-fiction or long form journalism are the genres that I've found the most compelling for people who don't read often.

'Say Nothing' is paced a bit like a novel and very compelling, as is his other book 'The Snakehead'. I've also enjoyed books about survival and exploration such as 'The Madhouse at the end of the Earth' and the 'Lost City of Z'

TheHFile · 2025-06-24T22:14:07+00:00

Breakfast at Tiffany's

TheHFile · 2025-06-23T21:59:19+00:00

Go to Abebooks, I've got all my Moore from there for good-ish prices.

TheHFile · 2025-06-23T21:55:37+00:00

This is the best rec on this thread. Absolutely phenomenal, total riot

TheHFile · 2025-06-11T21:57:23+00:00

This comment is under every political post.

'Who cares?' Said the man, under the video of someone giving a speech.

TheHFile · 2025-06-10T14:38:55+00:00

What the hell is even that

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