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GOTT STRAFE ENGELAND

korean poop

your man tier

got a great looking haircut here lads

shit meme
fuck off

But why?

This is Water

There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, "Morning, boys, how's the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, "What the hell is water?"

If at this moment you're worried that I plan to present myself here as the wise old fish explaining what water is to you younger fish, please don't be. I am not the wise old fish. The immediate point of the fish story is that the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are the hardest to see and talk about. Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have life-or-death importance. That may sound like hyperbole, or abstract nonsense. So let's get concrete...

excellent post

the ""so-called"" gf

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r u cute

you've never created an autonomous gimmick and never will you lackluster hollowed-out yokel

So does she take her top off in the full video, or..?

A huge percentage of the stuff that I tend to be automatically certain of is, it turns out, totally wrong and deluded. Here's one example of the utter wrongness of something I tend to be automatically sure of: Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence. We rarely talk about this sort of natural, basic self centeredness, because it's so socially repulsive, but it's pretty much the same for all of us, deep down. It is our default-setting, hard-wired into our boards at birth. Think about it: There is no experience you've had that you were not at the absolute center of. The world as you experience it is right there in front of you, or behind you, to the left or right of you, on your TV, or your monitor, or whatever. Other people's thoughts and feelings have to be communicated to you somehow, but your own are so immediate, urgent, real-you get the idea. But please don't worry that I'm getting ready to preach to you about compassion or other-directedness or the so-called "virtues." This is not a matter of virtue-it's a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free of my natural, hard-wired default-setting, which is to be deeply and literally self-centered, and to see and interpret everything through this lens of self.

to the canada brain drain endorser
im literally moving to canada in a coupla years but i have no real skills lol
gonna work in the civ serv for a bit before so i have experience

Fuck off 2bqh

yeah I am but I have a bad smile

For their warcrimes

By way of example, let's say it's an average day, and you get up in the morning, go to your challenging job, and you work hard for nine or ten hours, and at the end of the day you're tired, and you're stressed out, and all you want is to go home and have a good supper and maybe unwind for a couple of hours and then hit the rack early because you have to get up the next day and do it all again. But then you remember there's no food at home-you haven't had time to shop this week, because of your challenging job-and so now after work you have to get in your car and drive to the supermarket. It's the end of the workday, and the traffic's very bad, so getting to the store takes way longer than it should, and when you finally get there the supermarket is very crowded, because of course it's the time of day when all the other people with jobs also try to squeeze in some grocery shopping, and the store's hideously, fluorescently lit, and infused with soul-killing Muzak or corporate pop, and it's pretty much the last place you want to be, but you can't just get in and quickly out. You have to wander all over the huge, overlit store's crowded aisles to find the stuff you want, and you have to maneuver your junky cart through all these other tired, hurried people with carts, and of course there are also the glacially slow old people and the spacey people and the ADHD kids who all block the aisle and you have to grit your teeth and try to be polite as you ask them to let you by, and eventually, finally, you get all your supper supplies, except now it turns out there aren't enough checkout lanes open even though it's the end-of-the-day rush, so the checkout line is incredibly long, which is stupid and infuriating, but you can't take your fury out on the frantic lady working the register.

>text walls
>CEO of Micked forcing his shit gimmicks

Shit thread

Someone make a new

how is that possible lad? really want to move to Canada but how can you get a job in the civ service as a foreigner?

At least you're white, I guess.

And if not, uh.. At least you speak English.

But England dindu nuffin.

Anyway, you finally get to the checkout line's front, and pay for your food, and wait to get your check or card authenticated by a machine, and then get told to "Have a nice day" in a voice that is the absolute voice of death, and then you have to take your creepy flimsy plastic bags of groceries in your cart through the crowded, bumpy, littery parking lot, and try to load the bags in your car in such a way that everything doesn't fall out of the bags and roll around in the trunk on the way home, and then you have to drive all the way home through slow, heavy, SUV- intensive rush-hour traffic, et cetera, et cetera.

The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing comes in. Because the traffic jams and crowded aisles and long checkout lines give me time to think, and if I don't make a conscious decision about how to think and what to pay attention to, I'm going to be pissed and miserable every time I have to foodshop, because my natural default-setting is the certainty that situations like this are really all about me, about my hungriness and my fatigue and my desire to just get home, and it's going to seem, for all the world, like everybody else is just in my way, and who are all these people in my way? And look at how repulsive most of them are and how stupid and cow-like and dead-eyed and nonhuman they seem here in the checkout line, or at how annoying and rude it is that people are talking loudly on cell phones in the middle of the line, and look at how deeply unfair this is: I've worked really hard all day and I'm starved and tired and I can't even get home to eat and unwind because of all these stupid goddamn people.

ed?

the beauty of /brit/ is that it's self-serving attempt for (You)'s and discussion improves the quality evermore

shame about the yanks though who are simply yelling muffled posts through a thick glass window of their own ignorance and naivety

sorry I read that incorrectly

what are you planning to do in Canada? like I said I'd love to do the same and want to apply for the Civ Serv in the UK before I go

Or, of course, if I'm in a more socially conscious form of my default-setting, I can spend time in the end-of-theday traffic jam being angry and disgusted at all the huge, stupid, lane-blocking SUVs and Hummers and V-12 pickup trucks burning their wasteful, selfish, forty-gallon tanks of gas, and I can dwell on the fact that the patriotic or religious bumper stickers always seem to be on the biggest, most disgustingly selfish vehicles driven by the ugliest, most inconsiderate and aggressive drivers, who are usually talking on cell phones as they cut people off in order to get just twenty stupid feet ahead in a traffic jam, and I can think about how our children's children will despise us for wasting all the future's fuel and probably screwing up the climate, and how spoiled and stupid and disgusting we all are, and how it all just sucks, and so on and so forth...

your man tier

Look, if I choose to think this way, fine, lots of us do-except that thinking this way tends to be so easy and automatic it doesn't have to be a choice. Thinking this way is my natural default-setting. It's the automatic, unconscious way that I experience the boring, frustrating, crowded parts of adult life when I'm operating on the automatic, unconscious belief that I am the center of the world and that my immediate needs and feelings are what should determine the world's priorities. The thing is that there are obviously different ways to think about these kinds of situations. In this traffic, all these vehicles stuck and idling in my way: It's not impossible that some of these people in SUVs have been in horrible auto accidents in the past and now find driving so traumatic that their therapist has all but ordered them to get a huge, heavy SUV so they can feel safe enough to drive; or that the Hummer that just cut me off is maybe being driven by a father whose little child is hurt or sick in the seat next to him, and he's trying to rush to the hospital, and he's in a way bigger, more legitimate hurry than I am-it is actually I who am in his way. And so on.

all me

>shame about the yanks though who are simply yelling muffled posts through a thick glass window of their own ignorance and naivety

yanx at it again lads

*rallies the troops for a counter offensive*

Again, please don't think that I'm giving you moral advice, or that I'm saying you're "supposed to" think this way, or that anyone expects you to just automatically do it, because it's hard, it takes will and mental effort, and if you're like me, some days you won't be able to do it, or you just flat-out won't want to. But most days, if you're aware enough to give yourself a choice, you can choose to look differently at this fat, dead-eyed, over-made-lady who just screamed at her little child in the checkout line-maybe she's not usually like this; maybe she's been up three straight nights holding the hand of her husband who's dying of bone cancer, or maybe this very lady is the low-wage clerk at the Motor Vehicles Department who just yesterday helped your spouse resolve a nightmarish red-tape problem through some small act of bureaucratic kindness. Of course, none of this is likely, but it's also not impossible-it just depends on what you want to consider. If you're automatically sure that you know what reality is and who and what is really important-if you want to operate on your default-setting-then you, like me, will not consider possibilities that aren't pointless and annoying. But if you've really learned how to think, how to pay attention, then you will know you have other options. It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer hell-type situation as not only meaningful but sacred, on fire with the same force that lit the stars-compassion, love, the sub-surface unity of all things. Not that that mystical stuff's necessarily true: The only thing that's capital-T True is that you get to decide how you're going to try to see it. You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship...

new thread

no absolute wastemen (you know who you are) allowed

your man tier posts

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ironic

I sold some stuff to a lady who lives in london and I had to go through a whole security procedure when sending money because of her bank. but the emails from that bank, they were written in gibberish, not english. do you hire curry niggers at your banks??

Because here's something else that's true. In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing some sort of God or spiritual-type thing to worship-be it J.C. or Allah, be it Yahweh or the Wiccan mother-goddess or the Four Noble Truths or some infrangible set of ethical principles-is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things-if they are where you tap real meaning in life-then you will never have enough. Never feel you have enough. It's the truth. Worship your own body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly, and when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally plant you. On one level, we all know this stuff already-it's been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, bromides, epigrams, parables: the skeleton of every great story. The trick is keeping the truth up-front in daily consciousness. Worship power-you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart-you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. And so on.

Real Yank hours

honestly couldn't give a rat's arse what they're writing, don't read a word of anything they type

i literally have no idea
all the career paths im looking at are pretty uk specific 2bh, either foreign office or town planning after a masters lmao

hopefully just get some shitty middle management job after a while there :( just want to leave haha

Look, the insidious thing about these forms of worship is not that they're evil or sinful; it is that they are unconscious. They are default-settings. They're the kind of worship you just gradually slip into, day after day, getting more and more selective about what you see and how you measure value without ever being fully aware that that's what you're doing. And the world will not discourage you from operating on your default-settings, because the world of men and money and power hums along quite nicely on the fuel of fear and contempt and frustration and craving and the worship of self. Our own present culture has harnessed these forces in ways that have yielded extraordinary wealth and comfort and personal freedom. The freedom to be lords of our own tiny skull-sized kingdoms, alone at the center of all creation. This kind of freedom has much to recommend it. But of course there are all different kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talked about in the great outside world of winning and achieving and displaying. The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. That is real freedom. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default-setting, the "rat race"-the constant gnawing sense of having had and lost some infinite thing.

burgers?

Really do enjoy watching south american trannies on cam

A bit rude tbqf

your man tier posts

I know that this stuff probably doesn't sound fun and breezy or grandly inspirational. What it is, so far as I can see, is the truth with a whole lot of rhetorical bullshit pared away. Obviously, you can think of it whatever you wish. But please don't dismiss it as some finger-wagging Dr. Laura sermon. None of this is about morality, or religion, or dogma, or big fancy questions of life after death. The capital-T Truth is about life before death. It is about making it to thirty, or maybe fifty, without wanting to shoot yourself in the head. It is about simple awareness-awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, that we have to keep reminding ourselves, over and over: "This is water, this is water."

youve been scammed haha

Getting my daily dose of Molyneux and Sargon lads

have you even been to Canada? it's really nice

what's the best way to apply for the civ service? was considering applying for fast stream but my maths and that just isn't up to snuff

don't know what I'll do in Canada either but I know people that will sponsor my application

yeah probably...

that song was quite comfy

Is hating Yanks real or it it only a gimmick?

Sure does seem to bring in a bunch of Yank (you)s

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>Is hating Yanks real

Yes.

It's just a gimmik m8.
All in good fun

yanks are the worst posters on Sup Forums and terrible elsewhere on the internet

kill yourself

report them for spamming and move on

*pushes you over and runs away*

Haha good ones

As I thought

Excellent gimmick

3rd (third) on medals table lads.

Are we the best sporting nation?

munching a durrie now lads

yanks need to die out they are ruining the world

Been going for morning walks lately. Feels a bit weird as I've been a hardcore NEET for 5 years

GOOD MORNING

Just filtered yankee doodle. Should have done it sooner desu

Genuinely wish we didn't share a border with Y*nks.

Umm take a look at the flag this post was made under okay sweetie x

wish we didn't have to share a planet with them

worst thing to come out of Britain in known history

Got some mini cheese and onion pasties sizzling away in the oven lads

>canadians think they aren't yanks

Heh

Soon you wont.
When Hillary gets elected we will have North American freedom of movement between Mexico, US, and Canada.

Mexico is the best sporting nation?

me + the boyos

who /fucked/ here

*digs a moat between canada and the us*

you're historie's greatest monster?

Do you see a fucking cactus on my flag?

We aren't North Mexico yet

Considering a move to Australia t b h to escape the demographic reality of the future United States

>Tower Hamlets

FOYWF (FUCK OFF YANK WE'RE FULL)

Business idea: One world government under mexico's leadership

Ironically, this is where the statement 'not an argument' is applicable.

Spics OUT

myself, standing to the left of the tanned gentleman

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this

absolutely rekt several posters yesterday who were getting too big for their boots

I could already walk into the states without going through a border control point if I felt like it. I mean I wish Canada would physically detach from the rest of the continent and float at least a hundred miles away, preferably North East.

>tfw no space colony, free of Y*nkroaches

>australia population: 23.3mil

australia is not full

Literally only like 10% of their land is habitable.

It's like the western US, but worse.

anyone here ever try the Burrito from Tesco? it's down to 2 quid, seriously tempted rn ngl

Australia IS full

Okay I'll give you a free 1000 acre plot in 6, 7, 8 or 9. Have fun.

really quite racist

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v. bigoted poster

Business idea: populate the Australian outback with spics

me on the left

I'll take it.

I don't have to live on it, do I?

>Me
>Bigoted
I literally have a peace sign tattoo on my ear