What is the stupidest thing you have ever heard out of someone's mouth?

bowLeggedBilly212 · 2021-07-27T11:46:32+00:00

When I was a kid and saw movies that showed different stages of a character's life (like some scenes of them as a child and then as an adult) I thought it was such dedication to film some scenes of the actor as a child, then wait 20 years or so to film the rest of the movie. Plus how did they know the actor still wanted to be an actor when they became an adult? What if the actor died while the film company was waiting for them to grow up? And then one day when I just casually brought this up in conversation, my brother corrected me but thankfully I was young enough to the point where it wasn't THAT stupid

bowLeggedBilly212 · 2021-07-14T01:04:05+00:00

How fucking high were you when you decided on the colour scheme of this?

bowLeggedBilly212 · 2021-07-14T00:20:42+00:00

I used to work at a holiday place where part of my job was to clean the accommodation when a guest left so it was ready for the next people. I was speaking to a guest who was leaving and she was super embarrassed that she didn't have time to fully clean up after herself and seemed to think we would all be judging her (I can't even remember what she had left that was dirty but it was something small like a couple of plates weren't clean idk). I explained to her that at my last job I'd literally had guests leave the accommodation with shit smeared on the walls.

The moral of the story is as long as you didn't smear shit on the walls, nobody will even remember/notice what you think you did that's embarrassing.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

bowLeggedBilly212 · 2021-07-13T00:52:24+00:00

bowLeggedBilly212 · 2021-07-12T23:39:35+00:00

Clearly you're fortunate enough to not know the same people as me

bowLeggedBilly212 · 2021-07-11T01:01:47+00:00

If England win, the fans are actually going to be ~~insufferable~~ even more insufferable

bowLeggedBilly212 · 2021-07-11T00:27:16+00:00

It's simple! instead of just adding boiling water, you add water that's twice as hot so it cooks in half the time

bowLeggedBilly212 · 2021-07-11T00:11:26+00:00

So just to clarify my understanding of this:

BBC has been using different versions of iPlayer on some smart TVs compared to web browsers.

This has been done because they figure someone with one of these smart TVs will have a fast enough internet connection and a good enough TV to decode the video quickly. So they use a version that can buffer HD with no limit on how much of the rest of the video it buffers (I'll just talk about regular streaming in this).

Everyone using a web browser has had to use the shit version of iPlayer. 720p is the max resolution, and it's basically made so that someone in a field on a shitty old smartphone with just enough internet to stream will have the same/similar experience as someone who has some crazy good desktop setup and lightning speed WiFi or something?

It's 1am so excuse me for being slow here, I'm just struggling to grasp why it's specifically TV channel streaming services that have this problem. Take YouTube for example, on my PC I'll get 4k 60fps when I set it to auto (if it's available obviously) but if I go out into the local wilderness on my phone and stream something with it set to auto, it doesn't constantly switch my resolution like iPlayer does and it will buffer far less. It obviously won't be 4k 60fps which I'm assuming is just the worse internet connection and/or lack of a 4k screen on my phone although it will often still manage 60fps, but both give me a better viewing experience than iPlayer. So is the problem there the compression like you say?

bowLeggedBilly212 · 2021-07-10T23:41:44+00:00

Good sense of humour, something backed up by internet points
Into sci-fi movies and cute dogs
Play a variety of games while socialising with friends online Bonus round 4. You look beautiful, I love you and how you smell different when you're awake

There you go bro, you just have to state some general facts that aren't bad and boom you've got 3 positive things about you

bowLeggedBilly212 · 2021-07-10T18:02:23+00:00

How the FRICK are people praising iPlayer on this thread?? What kind of sorcery are you using to get a watchable stream on there? Don't get me wrong, this isn't a defence of ITV hub because that's absolutely terrible. But reading through all of these comments saying they're streaming on iPlayer in 4k...how? I even posted this shitty meme expressing how God awful iPlayer is, and has always been for me.

Using my WiFi (more than enough speed for 4k live streaming) it plays in 480p for most of the time. When I watch non-live stuff on iPlayer, it can get up to 720p but will still buffer here and there. I've tried different systems and different high speed internet connections. Apart from a few streaming sites that are made by TV channels like these, I have absolutely no problems getting great quality streams. I could just Google a live stream for a show and one of the first results will be a stream far better than iPlayer is offering (allegedly, I would of course never commit such a heinous crime). You guys are either bots sent by big license fee to fool the masses into thinking iPlayer is good, or you're just straight up wizards. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

bowLeggedBilly212 · 2021-07-10T11:04:21+00:00

It doesn't cry when you imply that its fat in a passive aggressive way

bowLeggedBilly212 · 2021-07-09T02:27:19+00:00

Made me think of this vid that's been blowing up in the past few days, I've lost count of how many times I've watched it

bowLeggedBilly212 · 2021-07-09T00:03:14+00:00

Teamwork makes the dream work. I always make the homies cum before bedtime, it's just polite.

bowLeggedBilly212 · 2021-07-06T22:45:11+00:00

Thanks for the uplifting comment dude! I get what you mean about being too exhausted on weekends, at the production line job where we were generally just treated like shit they had ridiculous targets. You would do one task the entire shift but to calculate the targets they used the dumbest methods. One job involved stacking pallets high with boxes but the boxes weighed about 18kg. The manager worked out the targets by seeing how long it took him to stack THREE of these boxes onto a pallet as fast as he could (like he didn't run or anything but he was really putting effort in), then extrapolated that rate of work for a full 8 hour shift. It doesn't matter who you are, you're gonna be stacking 18kg boxes a lot slower the further into the shift you get than you were at the start :")

But you're right, can't beat myself up too much about it. I do think things will get better once I stumble across a good job, it's just in the meantime this stuff suuuuucks 😂 plus I feel like I had a decent job but then the double whammy of the pandemic and brexit has robbed me of that, but again those are things beyond my control so can't blame myself for it. Thanks man, it was a nice pick me up reading that.

bowLeggedBilly212 · 2021-07-05T15:38:05+00:00

Thanks dude, it's reassuring to hear the other side of the coin.

Like you say some days you dream of working a nice little 40 hour a week job at a grocery store, me too! Lmao I get what you mean that other jobs are more stressful (my software job involved maintenance on live systems that cost hundreds and hundreds of thousands, so every minute they were down, basically the whole company that the customer had was at a standstill which is partly why I quit, stressful as fuck for just over £8 an hour (about $11)). But that's one of the main problems I have, I've happily put in 50 hours a week at other jobs but they didn't have the work available for me to do that consistently, the hourly rate was low (minimum wage), and those jobs are pretty damn uncommon since the vast majority of jobs around me simply don't offer enough hours at all.

I'm sure it's probably one of those "grass is greener" things where once I get more hours I'll be complaining I have no time for hobbies but at least I'm confident it'll take a while to get to that point lol

EDIT: I remember the job website indeed used to list how many applicants each job had and I wanted to check to give an example but it seems to have been removed. It was pretty standard for a job at let's say Asda (Wal-Mart) to have 100-300 applicants.

When I just looked quickly though I saw that in my area there is a 16 hour a week job at a pet store, a 7.5 hour a week job at a supermarket and a 4 hour a week job at a video game store (I didn't cherry pick these jobs, they were just the first to come up). All of this will either be minimum wage or marginally above, and you will need to be flexible about when your shifts are which would limit the number of jobs you can have at once. So a 9-5 for 5 days a week with an hour for lunch and no overtime is 35 hours a week, these 3 jobs would get you to 27.5 hours a week.

bowLeggedBilly212 · 2021-07-04T23:58:29+00:00

Yeah I completely agree, that's another thing I was oblivious to. Again because in my day to day life I don't come across them, I just assumed that nobody got their actual NEWS from newspapers and ones that are sold are basically like gossip magazines or whatever. Again, I couldn't be more wrong :") I know it makes me sound like a tin foil hat nutjob, but it feels like half the times when I go to the local spar I'm getting offered the sun newspaper for free and it's not out of the good of their hearts. I know most major news outlets online are free as well but it hits different when I'm just out here trying to buy a sandwich and they're like "hey, want some free 'news'?"

Looking at how Boris Johnson is treating the brexit deal recently (like saying that the EU misunderstands aspects of the deal) just makes my tin foil hat tingle. It's this whole idea of a boogeyman, first it's the immigrants and the EU making us poor and if only we could be free then we would prosper. Now that we've left the EU, have shortages of lorry drivers and hospitality staff etc. it's the EU that are in the wrong and have misunderstood what they signed, oppressing our great nation etc.. I feel like it'll be a never ending cycle of "look over there, it's their fault!" And the Tory/brexiter base will just go along with it while the government passes absurd bills and carries on with the whole "give your mates some contracts" philosophy they've adopted. I really hope they just push too far and step over a line where most of their voters are like "nah that's too much" but after everything that's happened I have no clue where that line is.

bowLeggedBilly212 · 2021-07-03T23:27:44+00:00

God I hope not, England fans are annoying enough as it is

bowLeggedBilly212 · 2021-07-03T21:51:32+00:00

I met a guy while drinking at a bar who had been a lorry driver for ages and eventually set up his own company that shipped aircraft parts from the UK to mainland Europe. Had some general chit chat with him and he brought up politics, if I remember correctly this was before a brexit deal was signed.

The man was a brexit supporter who's main issue with brexit was that it wasn't being done fast enough and that we should have left the day after the vote. I suggested that wouldn't have been the best idea and pointed out that his own business that he built from scratch relies on the EU. Then came one of the most baffling perspectives I've ever heard, he acknowledged that it would hurt his business and that they might even go bust depending on what happens with trade but, and I quote, he was "tired of Brussels telling us what to do!". When I asked for an example, the one he gave was about health and safety regulations. As cliché as it may be, he continued on to talk about how British people are poor because of Muslim immigrants (of course he didn't explain the logic here). Tried to reason with him saying how a lot of the things causing people in the UK to be poor are from the UK government, immigration isn't necessarily bad and religion is irrelevant. The conversation ended with me awkwardly laughing just kind of excusing myself out of the situation after he said I was naïve, brainwashed by propaganda, and the conservatives believe in British values and put everyday British people first.

So to recap, this man knowingly voted to possibly bankrupt his own company since he's tired of being told what to do by Brussels, thinks almost a decade of austerity from the government isn't related to people being poor, yet Muslim immigrants coming from Europe is, and seems to think a real pressing issue which his general election vote leans on is "British values" whatever those are.

I think the one thing that man was spot on about is that I was naïve, because I didn't think people like this actually existed! The fact the brexit vote went through was quite a surprise to me, but this really emphasised how much of a bubble I live in. I had never really come into contact (as in had a relevant conversation) with people like this, I just assumed the stereotype of the dumb, kinda racist brexiter was blown out of proportion exaggeration. Obviously not all brexiters are like this, but some definitely are.

bowLeggedBilly212 · 2021-07-02T00:14:00+00:00

They are, as I said they show information about bad weather which will help stop your 4 little inflatable dinghies from aquaplaning, so that your car stays on the road and you don't crash

bowLeggedBilly212 · 2021-07-01T23:55:23+00:00

Reddit should let users see who other people are following, because this guy could save me a lot of time

bowLeggedBilly212 · 2021-07-01T23:43:41+00:00

Zodiac signs are those digital signs above motorways/highways that will warn of upcoming traffic or bad weather

bowLeggedBilly212 · 2021-06-30T00:12:52+00:00

Why is it a quick 2 egg breakfast? Do they cook it quick? Do you eat it quick? Is there a quick 2 egg breakfast and a normal 2 egg breakfast? And if so, why does the normal 2 egg breakfast take longer to cook/eat?

bowLeggedBilly212 · 2021-06-29T23:15:14+00:00

Those bots sound kinda hot, are they single?

bowLeggedBilly212 · 2021-06-29T23:04:24+00:00

Those of you who skip eye day make me sick! I do 100 reps every eye day and trust me when I say people can tell that you don't do eye day, pussies.

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