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  • shapesalad0

    Why do all the ubereats, deliveroo etc delivery guys on their e-bicycles over here in London... Why do they all wear a hoodie and a down jacket on a bright sunny day when it 23˚c outside?

    I can't cycle more than 100metres in todays weather in a t-shirt before I break sweat.

    Are they not sweat buckets under all that?

    • secret of the middle eastern garmentssted
    • i guess becuase they're not cycling, they're just riding the ebikes like scooters. at least i've not seen any around this part of town actually pedallinghans_glib
    • Yup. Gets cold after a full day on an ebikenb
  • Continuity12

    Success!!!!!

    THE KITCHEN DRAIN SAGA IS FUCKING OVER!!!!

    Stubborn cunt that I am, I couldn't accept that:

    1) This seemingly simple problem was unsolvable;
    2) I'd have to shell out minimum 250 € to have someone fix it for me.

    So, I brought it back to basics.

    No Draino.
    No plumber's snake.
    No calling the professionals.

    I re-drained the pipes under the sink into a large bucket (and not, as I did yesterday, into a stock pot, which was clearly unfit for purpose), plugged up the P-trap, connected the hose back to the wall, and dumped half a box of sodium bicarbonate in the drain, shoving every last grain of the stuff in there with a chopstick.

    Then I topped that up with about half a litre of white vinegar, and plugged the sink before too much of the mixture overflowed into the sink. My idea was to trap all that in there, hoping that — seeing its upward route of escape blocked — it would snake down into the pipe behind the wall.

    Fifteen minutes later, I remove the plug from the sink. The effervescence had subsided, but the vinegar level was more or less the same.

    Undeterred, I topped it up with a bit of boiling water, so that it could pool a bit in the sink, and busted out the plunger.

    Remembering what I was told in the notes yesterday about blocking the secondary drain, I held a wet cloth to it with one hand, and starting pumping with the other.

    Not too vigorously or rapidly. But certainly with intent.

    Paying special attention to the suction part, more so than the compressing down-stroke.

    Six pumps. Seven pumps. Fifteen pumps. Twenty pumps.

    Gurgle.
    Sputter.
    Glug-glug-glug-glug-glug-glug-gl...

    And, just like that, the sink drained like a champ.

    I boiled a full 1.7 litre kettle of water, and poured it in. All gone.

    Ran the water from the tap for about 15 seconds. Like nothing ever happened.

    As one might expect, I'm feeling pretty relieved. And not just a little proud of myself.

    Now. I've got dishes to do.

    • Sigh.
      'Signs you're getting old'
      This sort of shit is fucking mattering to me.
      Continuity
    • Bravo! Now, stop keeping all your semen in jars and emptying them out in one go every 8 months.Nairn
    • *golf clapspango
    • @Nairn ... wot? What else should I be doing with it??Continuity
    • ah man - yes you got to block the 2nd drain! of course, else all the pumping just pushes air out of there. Next time you'll have it fixed in 1min now you know.shapesalad
    • ^ it's THE critical part to all this.shapesalad
    • Wait.. you didn't block the overflow when you were plunging?Nairn
    • The first time? Err ... no ...Continuity
    • Ah yes, reminds me of my first timedrgs
    • Have you ever asked yourself in an hour of meditation, which everyone finds during the day, how long we have been striving for greatness?garbage
    • Not only the years we've been at war, the war of work, but from the moment as a child when we realized that the world could be conquered.garbage
    • It has been a lifetime struggle. A never-ending fight. I say to you, and you will understand that it is a privilege to fight!garbage
    • This saga needs to turn itself into a Medium article my man.

      Congrats.
      ideaist
    • @cont - oh, that is beautiful! hahah, you silly buggerNairn
    • Rejoice and behold the work of manGnash
    • Loving these QBN mini-soap dramas!! Not sure if this or ‘dating a pro’ is my fav at the mo!!dee-dubs
    • QBN IS BACK!!!!!!!pedromendez
    • I read from "Remembering what I was t..." In a my inner sexy voice and now I'm all flustered.thumb_screws
  • jagara6

    It's my day off, woke up groggy and exhausted. Spent 3 hours trying to gather momentum to do something constructive with my day.

    When making scrambled eggs for lunch, i cracked one of the eggs directly into the garbage because of being tired and distracted. Afterwards, I accepted that this day would consist of doing nothing, and made my peace with it.

  • i_monk3

    "Imgur is temporarily over capacity. Please try again later."

    All day, but status.imgur.com says everything is good.

    I'm trying to post something funny!

  • OBBTKN29

    Here we are. The day has come. Today is my 50th birthday.

    Although the body says otherwise, I don't feel old yet.

    I remember, when I was a kid, that then a fifty-year-old person was already almost an old man.

    Well, inside that old man, there is still a young soul.

    It's been a good trip, let's go for another fifty!

    Love and peace, locos ;)

    • feliz cumpleanos OBBTKN, que tengas muchos años mas :)BuddhaHat
    • \(◕ヮ◕\)BuddhaHat
    • Happy birthday, sir!

      (I'm a year and a half away from where you are)
      Continuity
    • ¡Muchas felicidades y que cumplas muchos más, tómate algo rico y disfruta del día!uan
    • Muchas felicidades amigo, que tengas un dia muy bonito con tu familia. Cuidate y nos vemos en 50 años otra vez!oey_oey
    • Felicidades!!! Que disfrutéis un montón.
      Zorionak zuri !!!...
      Miesfan
    • Welcome to the club!mort_
    • Zorionak! Que tengas un buen día!Chimp
    • Happy birthday! I hope you have a lovely day.fadein11
    • HBD! Hope you have a good one.garbage
    • HBD, i'll be joining you in the 50s club next year :|dee-dubs
    • happy birthday from someone well north of thathans_glib
    • congratz young old man!milfhunter
    • Congratulations on the decoupling of 'age you feel' with 'age you look like'.shapesalad
    • I remember being a kid and thinking a 25 year old was an old man hahaha HAPPY BIRTHDAYnb
    • hbdrgs
    • HBD. 50 is the new 40.bezoar
    • HBD...Now get off my lawn!utopian
    • HBD!Wordsworth
    • 1/2 way to 100 brother; xoxo!ideaist
    • Love you, Felix!! Even if you’re and old man!! ❤️PonyBoy
    • Give us a chance to catch up, FFS!
      HBD!
      palimpsest
    • HBD!

      I'm almost there
      YakuZoku
    • Happy birthday and congrats dude! I'm turning 40 in a couple months. You "old guys" on here give me something to aspire to.nocomply
    • Happy Half Century, dude! Live it up!Krassy
    • If we are what you aspire to there's no risk of being disappointed when you get there.palimpsest
    • H A P P Y B I R T H D A Y !SimonFFM
    • Big time!stoplying
    • Happy 50!desmo
    • congrats! post a pic old man!ArmandoEstrada
    • Happy birthday! I'll be joining you shortly. :(MondoMorphic
  • desmo18

    Welp -- was just let go from my work today due to 'budgetary reorganization' and not due to any quality of work (at least that's what they tell me).

    I know this shit is all part of the game but feeling super bummed out. Hope y'all doing well!

    • oh damn :(YakuZoku
    • Ah fuck.Continuity
    • Time for a drink!palimpsest
    • Sorry to hear. New things ahead.mort_
    • "Budgetary reorganization" is some new corp speak. Sorry to hear, keep your chin up.garbage
    • Sorry to hear. But. One door closes, many others open. Chin up!Krassy
    • Well that blowsstoplying
    • Sorry to hear it bud. How long you work there?Ianbolton
    • All the bestSimonFFM
    • That sucks, sorry to hear. Time to enjoy putting together an awesome folio. Share it here and we can all spread the word.BaskerviIle
    • Their loss, fuck 'em.bezoar
    • Welcome to 2022, the bubble of everything is about to burst, you will have 7 career changes and 56 jobs across your resume... get used to the new normal.shapesalad
    • Onward and upward you’ll land something better_niko
    • Sry manpango
    • Sorry to hear that. You’ll find something great!instrmntl
    • You in Toronto? Take a day to chill but then collect yourself and move fast. Apply for everything. Put 8 hrs a day into finding a job.nb
    • There are still plenty of companies hiring but you want to get in somewhere before the market gets flooded with candidates in the 2nd half of the yearnb
    • @Krassy This is the way!api
    • Thanks y'alldesmo
    • too bad. At least now you can do whatever you where dreaming of doing.milfhunter
  • omahadesigns0

    I don't really like dogs.
    Cats are much better.

    • We can’t be friendsautoflavour
    • it's the people who like neither that I avoidMrT
    • Cats are much better,
      but I will tolerate dogs
      futurefood
  • pango0

    my cat is starting to push things off the table....
    (╬▔皿▔)╯

  • Nairn2

    We're accruing a load of shit that my daughter makes in nursery, and yesterday she came hom with a splodgey painting that didn't gel much with how it was explained - "Dinosaur shadows".

    When my partner came home from work I encouraged my daughter to show her the latest work and then my partner comes in and says "she told me she didn't paint this". What? It's got her name on? I ask my daughter, and she shakes her head. Ok?

    Each day we get an email through with a load of photos of the kids so we can chart their progress. Personally I'd rather teachers taught, rather than spend time checking boxes to keep helicoptering parents happy, but whatever - it's quite sweet seeing my wee one doing her thang out of our context.

    I check yesterday's photos to see if I can spot her artwork and lo! The one my daughter did is clearly fucking dinosaur-like and even pretty good given she's a tiny little midget.

    Some of the other kids' are less so and... what do I spy there? THAT'S the one we've got in our house, done by some completely different fucking kid. What the fuck?

    My partner's been wary about the nursery recently, much stoked by a friend whose daughter also goes there, who is massive fucking whinger, so I take everything she says with a dollop of salt. This might push my partner over the edge though.

    ho hum.

    • You'll have to go in Mission Impossible style and replace the artwork.PhanLo
    • No. I'm just going to have a conversation I don't want to have with the people in there. Not the first time. Perhaps the Whinger's right :(Nairn
    • doesn't looks like you did a full interview :) what if the little one exchanged it with that fellow groupmate?sted
    • Have you any idea how possessive toddlers are?Nairn
    • *"pre-schooler" apparently.

      'Toddler' is 1-3 years.
      TiL.
      Nairn
    • None of my ideas in the toddler subject is based on real experience...:)
      so you say something like that is impossible?
      sted
    • This is a weird hill to try dying on, sted.Nairn
    • You gonna go Karen on them over this? ;) they have to watch a dozen of these monsters all day, so I excuse a few oversightsmonospaced
    • print the evidence then state your caseimbecile
    • not very precise work from the nursery... question is .. will it happen more often if u don´t tell them .... i guess so.neverscared
  • kingsteven1

    Hacked lol. classy stuff...

    There were tens of thousands of these random articles

    Bonus, finally managed to move all these old sites off mediatemple as a result. Started a support ticket yesterday morning when I sorted everything out and mt still haven't got back to me 30 hours later. It's my own fault for neglecting a wordpress install for several years but still... just moved everything over to another (far cheaper) host in a few hours this evening.

    • had this same experience 3 years agoimbecile
    • You're still with MT?! haha, wonderful :)Nairn
    • ahahaha i'm laughing so hard. i hope you googled your own nick to find this out :D
      put a wordfence on that site.
      sted
    • got an email from google first, then mediatemple an hour later :D most of these sites i had on mt hadn't been touched in 10 years :-| daft for what i was payingkingsteven
  • MrT7

    Rupert Murdoch lost the Australian election and Leeds avoided relegation. Not a bad weekend.

    • That Jack Harrison winner and Raphinha crawling the length of the pitch was some great Leeds moments.Ianbolton
    • It was magic. I gambled and stayed up late to watch in Oz, screaming at the tv until gone 3am. Surprised there wasn't an Evertonesque invasion!MrT
  • utopian2

    What is your average monthly cost of living where you live?

    - Country: USA
    - Mortgage: $1,700-
    - Utilities (Electricity, Water, Internet) $300-
    - Auto, Home & Health Insurance: $500-
    - Auto Lease: $400-
    - Food & Entertainment: $700-

    Monthly Total: $3,600

    • USA? It’s a big country https://pbs.twimg.co…nb
    • start a thread utopian, comment section is not enough for the responses. besides, this is really an interesting theme/issue.oey_oey
    • Canada, 4p: 1750 mort/tax, 500 gas/ elec/ water/ sewer/ trash, 500 life/ dis /CI, 160 2x Car ins, 200 fuel, 100 internet, 100 phones, ~1000 Food=4310 (3362usd)monNom
    • Jim from Detroit.palimpsest
    • (£)1580 rent + 88 Council tax + 25 internet + 9 phone + 25 water + 25 electricity + 120 food + 0 entertainment + 8 bicycle shed = £1880 pmshapesalad
    • Soon rent will be 500~750 when I exit LDN.shapesalad
    • $2365 usd equivshapesalad
    • Madrid: mortgage: 650€ Bills, 150€. Health insurance 0€. No car, walk everywhere, occasional metro 1.50€ food and beer 600€Chimp
    • A thread would be useful!Chimp
    • ~$10,000/mo + for family of fourmonospaced
    • Fucking hell, Shape - how are you paying so little in CTax, internet and energy? Who do you internet with?Nairn
    • Romania, Bucharest mostly, 800-1k euros, single, living the life, nothing too fancy
      Make that 2k euros if not single...
      grafician
    • 7000 - for everything. Toronto Canada.Raybandana
  • imbecile-2

    Entry 1:
    According to my credit union... since December 8, 2019 (897 days ago), over 198 transactions, I have paid Amazon $5,243.56 and they have returned $1,776.35 (33.88%) for a total payout of $3,467.21 averaging a transaction worth $17.51 every 4.53 days or $3.87 daily.

    Entry 2:
    I've received a pending job offer? It's not final, I know I'm being considered alongside other applicants. Considering how little I've put into this, it's strange to have just received this email. The weird thing is we were walking the dog yesterday and I told her that I used to and still think I would enjoy living in Connecticut. The job is in Stamford.

    But I want to buy another house and build a shop behind this one... what the f? Signs you're getting old I guess.

    • USA economy is entirely held together via consumer spending. Good job. You guys do almost zero exporting. So keep buying shit you don't need.shapesalad
    • We need soap, towels, containers, etc She needs raw supplies for her business. How could I possibly spend that much on shit?imbecile
    • Your dog runs a business???palimpsest
    • better than mostimbecile
  • shapesalad0

    You all need to see the first 27 mins of this - covering the impacts of Russia invasion on the global food situation, it don’t look pretty:

    The crazy thing is.. these nut jobs might have had the right idea stocking up on buckets of dried food:

    • I hope Jim Bakker shits himself to death after eating his nacho cheese buckets.PhanLo
  • OBBTKN5

    My Fiat Multipla has passed the technical inspection, for another year. Another year enduring the complaints of my wife and daughters.

    I'm sorry girls, it will continue among us, until the oil runs out, lol

    • will there be a ritual burning ceremony when that ugly beast finally carks it?BuddhaHat
    • I had to google it because I'd no idea what one of these looked like.
      Wow.
      It's uglier than a jar of pickled arseholes. o_O
      Continuity
    • You guys, sorry, but know shit about DESIGN and functionality...OBBTKN
    • This car is my personal masochistic contribution to the sad people riding their 2 tons german tanks...OBBTKN
    • oh their faces full of satisfaction, seeing me in that monstrosity, while they sit their asses on such machines!!OBBTKN
    • Lol Homer Simpson couldn’t have designed a finer vehicle_niko
    • Hahaha, ok, but it works and it's comfy afOBBTKN
    • • ———— •slappy
  • jagara1

    I've eaten food with chipotle peppers in it, but never actually bought a chipotle hot sauce, until today. Mother of fuck. New realms of deliciousness.

  • emphor0

    TIL the meaning of 'jenkem', although kinda wish I'd remained ignorant of it.

    • lol and you knew that a large number of QBN'ers would look it up as soon as you mentioned it. kinda like 'if I suffer then you must too'BuddhaHat
    • PS. ew.BuddhaHat
    • QBN has given me so much, I just wanted to give backemphor
    • Jenkem is a topic over a decade old on qbnimbecile
    • It was a 4chan hoaxscarabin
  • imbecile0

    As some of you may know, I often buy and sell "stuff" for fun and profit. Usually I'm so far detached from a a seller or buyer that I don't care about people losing money or making mistakes.

    Well, today I do. Older gentleman living near me asked me to sell his truck, too cheap. It has a blown motor but otherwise a black short wide Dodge, desirable combination. I would have bought it myself, but I would prefer a Chevy in this setup. Still though, I think about it for myself.

    Honestly though, I mostly forgot about it for him. Never posted it, only offered it to one person. They weren't interested.

    I see him the other day in his yard while out walking the dog and we chat, then I decide to post it last night for double what he wants. A lot of lowball offers around his asking price, but a few serious around my asking price. One eventually says show me a title and I'll be there tomorrow for asking price.

    Therein lies the conundrum...

    Do I let the old man whose wife is recovering from diabetes amputation have all of this money, or do I buy it from him right now and sell it to the other guy later tonight?

    An easy answer, but I just put a new clutch, flywheel, and fluids in one of my cars. I want that money. :D

    • Why not meet this problem somewhere in the middle? Offer him more above his asking, but not quite your asking?Continuity
    • You take a small profit, he gets more than his asking (and it's clear he needs it) the interested party gets a fixer-upper.Continuity
    • 'If no-one is happy with the outcome, a compromise has been reached.'Continuity
    • As long as he makes more than what he was expecting, everyone is happy. Doubt he needs the drama considering his wife's well-beingIanbolton
    • Wanting the money back for your own cars seems morally insincere though.Ianbolton
    • take a 10% cut and give rest to him, imagine the look on his face. And you know what, he'll likely thank you so much that he'll give you a big chunk of $ back.shapesalad
    • win winshapesalad
    • Exactly, lanbolton. It’s the timing and proximity that makes me mention it at all. I plan to help my neighbor and hope the extra funds can do them some good.imbecile
    • https://i0.wp.com/ww…palimpsest
    • just trade him a Bored Ape NFT..hydro74
    • user name bla bla bla...LOL!oey_oey
    • Give him the full price. Make his day, his year. If he's so happy he wants to share, let him decide how much. If you've saved him from bankruptcy, just smile.monNom
    • You can be an angel for someone, and it hardly costs you a thing. Take the good karma. You'll never regret it.monNom
    • You're doing the work.stoplying
    • ^ the work of Michael Landonoey_oey
    • If you're hesitating and asking, you know the answer.i_monk
  • doggydoggdog0

    What amount would you say Jr and Sr design salaries are at a "cool" but small agency?

    Small team, full benefits, working under a creative director.

    • geography affects this more than titleimbecile
    • 40-80Kgrafician
    • If the roles are in Upper West Bugfart, Saskatchewan, the salaries would be miniscule.
      If they were in Paris, substantially higher.
      Continuity
    • Like imbecile said, geography is everything.Continuity
  • pango0

    bored? try to finish this puzzle.
    https://puzzle.aggie.io/h_m9VW