Every year I think about doing it, and never do.

Sure, she’s got a niche. There’s plenty of other satire available if you’re not a fan. If it’s a grift, it’s not exactly harmful.

I’ve watched plenty of absolutely basic comedians entertain a crowd in my time, but I don’t wish they were all Stewart Lee.

Residents of other countries criticising American politics is entirely acceptable, given their massive influence on the global stage. My fucking fuel prices are obscene at the moment, and that’s a direct result of the current regime’s arrogance and incompetence. And my gripe is absolutely trivial compared to many other less fortunate recipients of US foreign policy.

I’ll take a simple protest comic over the latest bullshit headline coming from that shithole country every day of the week.

Haha I deliberately added “my mirrors” to that sentence. It was too much like low hanging fruit for me.

Ooh I did this last month too, after somebody accidentally smashed it off my parked car. To be fair, instead of driving off, she came to the house all flustered and I said “look, these things happen, it’s just a car” and although she offered to pay for it to go to a garage, I thought I’d have a crack at it myself. Got a generic replacement from eBay, but the most frustrating part for me after finally getting the door card and the interior trim off, was finding that the bolts that attached the mirror unit to the A pillar were some weird-looking things I’d never seen before.

I’m no mechanic, so I took the car to Halfords and said “I need a bit for this bolt but I have no idea what it is”. The guy came out to look at it and said “Yeah, not sure if we’ll have something for that”. Then he went, “Actually, maybe we do” and I followed him to the back of the shop where they were selling this huge toolkit for about £1k, and he went through it and found the right bit, in amongst the hundred other tools in this box.

I said “I don’t suppose you sell this separately!?” and he laughed and said, “No, but come to the till”.

We wander off to the till and he goes “Do you want to buy these microfibre cloths for £2.99?”. I’m thinking, what the fuck is he on about, and he must have read my face, smiles and goes “You do”. So I say yes, and he wraps up the bit in the microfibre cloth and hands it over.

What an absolute fucking star of a man.

Anyway just as a bonus, after spray painting the mirror cover (the eBay one was just a primed thing), I message the woman to say all sorted, and she asked me how much it cost and I said about £70 for the mirror unit, bit, and spray paint, and the next day she knocked on the door with an envelope with £150 in it “for my time” and a card that said “Thanks for being so nice about it all”.

10/10 would let her smash my mirrors again.

😂😂😂

This is almost exactly the opposite of what I was saying, and it’s a very telling interpretation.

No, I have no concern for the other men I was “competing” with. Why would I? They have absolutely zero bearing on my own successes or failure. If one of them got the girl, am I supposed to be mad about it?

As I said anecdotally, the majority of my friends met their partners on an app. There is no “I got mine”. I gave advice on what worked for me. The literal basics, widely acknowledged, that apply online or off. I’m not sure what other advice I’m supposed to offer in that respect that shows I “have empathy or concern for the other 79 men” that you’ve mentioned.

I’m also not sure what you’re talking about with regards to my concern for “the other 77 women”. Who are they? People who didn’t match with me? That’s fine - if someone’s not into my profile, then that’s okay. Do I have to be concerned for them somehow? In what way?

People have their own successes on the apps. Nearly 20% of UK adults under 50 met their partner on an app. That’s current partner - not all partners. The percentage who met anyone is higher.

To be honest if this tone is a reflection of how you talk to people online, then it goes some way to explain why you might not being seeing success on dating apps, presuming that’s the case. Try not to assume the worst.

You ever wonder what’s going on with the 77 other women you didn’t match with? Or are we supposed to believe they somehow never actually existed?

I don’t need to wonder, you can literally download your statistics, and they provide comparative results. But I would have thought the reason was obvious.

Most men literally swipe right on everyone. Most women are considerably more selective. They get more matches because chances are the guy they’ve swiped right on has already swiped right on them. That aspect is not a conspiracy.

Exactly the same as if your hot wife suddenly divorced you. There will be far more men knocking down her door than women knocking on yours.

Our Tinder experiences must have been very different.

Yes, men are competing in theory, but no more so than in real life. And the app literally puts you in contention with them.

The other thing is, if you’ve decided that it is in fact a competition, then the thing to remember is that those other people are also competing with you. Just don’t consider them, they’re not relevant to you.

My girlfriend had 80+ matches when I started talking to her. I had 3. And yet here we are. I’ve no doubt it was the same for the other women I met on there.

Dating on apps is the same as dating in real life. If you’re genuinely searching for someone, you need to get yourself noticed and be the best that you can be. The basics are equally important in both worlds. Be a good person, make people laugh, be interesting, be interested in them, don’t immediately be a thirsty prick, exercise, feel good about yourself, etc, etc.

What a boomer-ass sounding comment. Most of my friends met their partners on Tinder or Bumble, and so did I.

For people in more rural areas, shy people, or mid-life relationship-seekers/divorcees, dating apps are the absolute most efficient way of meeting people you wouldn’t otherwise normally get to.

Bot accounts may be a problem, but not everywhere, and not for everyone.

Personally, I can’t recommend dating apps enough. Boosted my confidence, made me better at conversation, allowed me to be pickier in my choices, and found me my soul mate.

That’s actually mentioned in this article tbf.

Additionally, the “‘thousands of severe vulnerabilities’ extrapolates from 198 manually reviewed reports. The Linux kernel bug was found by Opus 4.6, the public model, not Mythos,” Devansh said.

Oh god, you just reminded me of the time I donated my old PC to my dad, and managed to leave this game in the CD-ROM drive:

Lula: The Sexy Empire

Similarly dull, but I bought a Henry recently after years of having a Dyson Animal and the difference is night and day. It’s vastly less convenient but the suction of the Henry is on another level.

“Excuse me while I kiss this guy”

Jimi Hendrix, Purple Haze

Hacker was an absolute genius.

“WEEP THEN!”

https://youtu.be/nNoFzMljP0U

This is genuinely superb

The Martinez red was ridiculously soft, but he did do it, so he had to go. Absolutely absurd that a three match ban applies to that and a dangerous two-footed potentially career-ending foul though.

There’s a surprising amount of toilet kisses to keep track of.

Poseidon’s kiss, surely