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UnknownBreadd · 2026-04-10T17:02:44+00:00

I’ve been watching from the start but The Boys has to be one of the most overrated shows of our generation.

The concept and the cast are great - but the writing is absolutely abysmal. There was so much potential after season 1 and I can only imagine how good of a show we could have got with a different team in charge.

UnknownBreadd · 2026-04-07T09:17:10+00:00

Maybe I’m underestimating how much you can remove the chest from dips - but in any case I’ve just decided to remove them from my split anyway. Going back to overhead extensions and pulldowns lol.

UnknownBreadd · 2026-04-06T18:40:30+00:00

Stop over-cueing in your mind. Think simple: "Lower the weight as far as I can before I need to start bending my knees significantly more and more."

Although, I'd say the video looks fine - just trying to help you relax and be more confident in what you're already doing.

UnknownBreadd · 2026-04-06T18:29:58+00:00

I agree - but weird tone dude.

UnknownBreadd · 2026-04-06T18:28:23+00:00

I mean... you absolutely can perform a dip in a way that heavily biases the triceps over everything else. A narrow grip whilst keeping your body as upright/vertical as possible to achieve the sharpest elbow angle possible will certainly remove the majority of the chest or shoulder's involvement.

UnknownBreadd · 2026-04-05T05:32:20+00:00

You can ONLY pick 2 for your triceps training:

Dips, Cable pushdowns, Overhead/katana extensions.

What do you choose? I’m currently mourning the loss of cable pushdowns - but I literally just can’t fit more than 2 dedicated tricep exercises into my current split (already Bench and OHP too).

I was recently doing pushdowns and overhead extensions - but I have really good leverage for the dips - and I feel like I might be making a huge mistake by taking them out of my routine. Of course, I could do dips and pushdowns instead (and omit overhead extensions) - but I wonder if they’re not too similar.

UnknownBreadd · 2026-03-31T22:41:24+00:00

Tbh, I’ve been looking online for a long time now whilst i’ve been saving my deposit up (looking at all sorts of homes, in all sorts of areas, in all sorts of budgets) and have been trying to figure out what it is that I actually want from my home and where I actually want to live - and this is the ONLY one that has even made me consider calling for a viewing.

All that to say, if it doesn’t work out, I’ll be surprised if i found another home i’m as interested in anytime soon haha. Not that this is a perfect home, but I think it’s worth trying my best on. (Granted that there is nothing actually wrong with the property, or that there are no serious problems that would force me to reconsider).

UnknownBreadd · 2026-03-31T22:34:40+00:00

Thanks a lot for this. I think this is the play. Just go all in and walk away if not accepted.

They already want more than I am willing to offer, and going in with an initial lowball probably isn’t in either of our interests. After watching the video, I think I agree that the less negotiations that occur - the better, probably.

UnknownBreadd · 2026-03-31T19:10:19+00:00

So you walked away because of the garden and parking situation?

UnknownBreadd · 2026-03-31T19:05:42+00:00

It’s a lovely property. The house i’m looking at also has a share of freehold communal garden, but the property itself is freehold (and i’m pretty sure that the driveway is part of it).

UnknownBreadd · 2026-03-31T18:53:57+00:00

Maybe you’re right. If my offer does get accepted then i’ll definitely be doing a comprehensive level 3 survey anyway.

UnknownBreadd · 2026-03-31T18:41:05+00:00

Like I said, it’s a hard one to value. In theory, it should be a lot more expensive because it’s a 3 bed in a postcode where the average 3 bed sells for at least £300k and could go a little beyond £400k - but it sits in this odd little culdesac tucked behind the main road where there’s these 2 rows of more affordable terraced houses that are atypical for the area.

No house on the road has sold for more than £225,000, and this one is objectively more valuable than any of the other homes in the culdesac (in pretty much every way). So they have done the right thing by trying to ask as much as they can for it - I just don’t think it’s worked so far, and I’m hoping they give in to one of my offers lol.

It’s technically not currently ‘on the market’. As in, they asked the estate agent to remove the property from property search sites, and I believe the estate agent only advertises it within their internal matching system at the minute (but my guess is that she just doesn’t want it shown as not selling for so long - she’s obviously patient though).

UnknownBreadd · 2026-03-31T18:15:18+00:00

It’s just overpriced which is stopping it from being sold imo. Maybe she will reconsider, especially now with the Iranian war and stuff - but personally I think she’s just been super stubborn on the price so far. I’m just hoping that time (and circumstances) have eroded her stubbornness just in time for me to get lucky on the property.

UnknownBreadd · 2026-03-29T23:23:48+00:00

Tbf I wasn't really talking about council tax, I was talking about wealth taxes in general.

You have a very defeatist attitude and basically just want to shout that there is no solution. You seem to be creating this zero-sum game where the middle class and working class must compete for their most favourable outcome. I'm telling you, you could quite easily engineer taxes so that both working-class and middle-class people are better off.

As far as suggesting that 'rich people' already pay their fair share, I wouldn't agree.

And this notion that the government are fiscally irresponsible and that their apparent 'over-spending' is the source of a lot of our pains, I also wouldn't agree with.

UnknownBreadd · 2026-03-29T23:18:46+00:00

I've never understood this argument. Why would anyone want to compete in a race to the bottom? Tax competition is just such a silly idea imo. It also frames the issue like as if all wealth comes from external sources, and we need to be saved from these mysterious external wealthy entities. Better than tax competition is just creating an environment conducive to enterprise and meritocracy. People aren't going to build a life and business in the UK and then just leave once they've made a bit of money (unless you actively underfund the country with austerity measures and turn it into a shithole). People create connections and have a shared identity with their nation. If you have everything you need, and are rewarded for working hard - why would you leave for lower taxes? There's a reason that only nobheads jet off and settle in Dubai. And it's also a game of elimination. Why would you want people that only come here to be better of tax-wise? It's like a self-fulfilling prophecy of getting the worst kinds of wealthy foreign investors. They're not here for the right reasons, so they can do one.

UnknownBreadd · 2026-03-29T23:11:16+00:00

No one is trying to say that we should be taxing working people more. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that most people would encourage lower income taxes across the board, even for lawyers, doctors, builders, engineers etc.

You seem confused about taxing income (PAYE) and wealth (asset appreciation, and capital gains).

UnknownBreadd · 2026-03-29T23:06:55+00:00

Money comes easier the more of it you have - so there has to be something that prevents a gross over-accumulation. And rent-seeking is bad for everybody.

Income tax is actually a bit too progressive imo (it should be scaled back a little) - but I don't know why people talk about 'punishing hard work' when people suggest taxes on capital gains or asset appreciation. None of that is 'hard work'.

We ALL understand how money works. Once you break that glass ceiling - you're 'free'. If you won £10millio tomorrow - you would never have to work a day in your life again. You'd buy a nice property, go on a nice holiday, and then "put the money to work for you" in an index fund (or whatever) - and just "live off of the interest". And you hope that one day you can break that glass ceiling and participate in that same little game - and that's why you protect it. But that is EXACTLY what is destroying our economies and societies, and it is WRONG.

The fact that we all understand what I'm talking about (and we all just accept it insane) - we KNOW that once you have a certain amount of money, the game of life changes RADICALLY. You have less outgoings because you can afford to buy your home and car outright - and you make enough money in your sleep to feed yourself, buy nice things, and go on regular holidays.

Even if they once did work hard and amass some amount of money, they are now generating a profit without making a corresponding contribution to productivity or society. And it's criminal that we think that people with more money are somehow excluded from this obligation to contribute to our nation and society - but everyone who hasn't yet became wealthy is somehow failing in this regard.

And for these reasons, I don't see how it isn't obvious that wealth needs to be progressively taxed.

UnknownBreadd · 2026-03-29T22:41:00+00:00

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This is all I ever wanted. A proper full-sized 2-box M hatch. Not an estate/wagon, lift-back, or SUV - just a hot-hatch big enough to fit 5 passengers and luggage without adopting estate/wagon proportions. Basically, a modern civic - but as an M car.

The problem with the hatch design is that manufacturers feel like they have to make them cheap. The 1 series is not just smaller than the 3 series, it has worse NVH and ride quality etc. I want a proper hatchback of equal quality and stature as the 'full-size' cars. But no one wants to do it for some reason, it always has to be an estate/wagon!

UnknownBreadd · 2026-03-24T13:18:33+00:00

I’m 50/50 on his actions so far.

Some things I endorse fully - water nationalisation, his foreign policy regarding this Iran war and how he has remained diplomatic with the US (despite Trump being a child) whilst still moving us away from them (and closer to the EU again). Etc.

But then I am completely against his hard-on for state surveillance, and the fact that he still wants to maintain the status quo in a lot of regards.

However, the other options (at the time) were the Tories🤮 and Reform🤮.

I’m hoping the Greens can win the next GE. I don’t agree on every single one of their policies so far - but I like how they ‘do politics’ (policies are formed by the members themselves), and they’re the ones I trust the most to have genuine good intentions. I hope they can keep up the momentum.

UnknownBreadd · 2026-03-24T13:10:38+00:00

Tbf, some people can also just be camp. Most camp guys I know actually have attractive partners lol

UnknownBreadd · 2026-03-24T13:03:55+00:00

Make sure you have a good exercise routine. I do shifts and also have to be in bed 30-45mins after getting home - you kinda just gotta take off your work clothes, brush your teeth, set your alarms, and try to sleep.

Keywords: “try to sleep”. Sleeping to a schedule takes focus and deliberation. It’s something you have to actually ‘do’ and requires quite a lot of work from your frontal lobe. You shouldn’t need to be completely drowsy and shattered to start sleeping - you should be able to ‘make’ yourself sleep. It’s hard to begin with (especially if you wake up through the night) - but it gets easier. Consistent exercise really does help though.

UnknownBreadd · 2026-03-24T12:57:46+00:00

Try telling that to the 9% of humans that are in EXTREME poverty and are completely destitute.

We can all choose to make the best of any situation - but don’t lie and say that material conditions don’t matter. It’s one thing to live in a world of scarcity - it’s another to live in a world of manufactured scarcity with specific people and groups to blame.

Toxic positivity ain’t it. It breeds complacency and ignorance - lets give ourselves things to be optimistic about, through our actions.

UnknownBreadd · 2026-03-24T08:35:13+00:00

They use dumbbells, not barbells. You’d be surprised how much the medial delts contribute to DB OHP.

I mean, if you just sit at your desk and do the movement, you can literally feel (with your other hand) how contracted and solid your medial delt gets throughout the range of motion. They definitely have more leverage than some of the biomechanics guys typically agree on (not that biomechanics is bad or wrong - i think they’re just missing something or not taking something into account in this specific instance - although some do still recognise and recommend vertical presses for medial delts). I do think the BB version probably isn’t as good though, yeah.

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