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[hk blues]

9 hours ago, Nkomo-A-Gogo said:

Start a new one.

I have Kribensis that ive managed to breed after six or seven bunches of fry never made it for various reasons. 

Really beautiful fish.

It was good to ask a question now and again.

'Tropical Fish' thread for this pish. 

[GordonD]

10 hours ago, Nkomo-A-Gogo said:

Start a new one.

I have Kribensis that ive managed to breed after six or seven bunches of fry never made it for various reasons. 

Really beautiful fish.

It was good to ask a question now and again.

If you fried them it's hardly surprising.

[RH33]

12 hours ago, tamthebam said:

'Eunuch-maker' case: Male escort jailed for removing man's genitals - BBC News

Has anyone on P&B ever cut off someone's knackers? 

"The Old Bailey had previously heard the procedure carried out by Byrnes is linked to a subculture where men become "nullos" - short for genital nullification - by having their penis and testicles removed."- I thought that was called marriage and is pretty common.... 

This should have been a thread started by @ICTChris with his Customary have any p&b sign off....

[Mark Connolly]

14 hours ago, Venti said:

Ok I'm really a fucking fanny.

Restaurant manager said I'm fired If I get injured again.

If he hires @Shandon Par for any decorating jobs, you can share an ambulance

[Shandon Par]

14 minutes ago, Mark Connolly said:

If he hires @Shandon Par for any decorating jobs, you can share an ambulance

2024 is the year of the careful new me. Got pulled over the other day in a “routine check” and the police complimented me on my careful driving and obeyance of the speed limit.

[Jacksgranda]

14 hours ago, tamthebam said:

'Eunuch-maker' case: Male escort jailed for removing man's genitals - BBC News

Has anyone on P&B ever cut off someone's knackers? 

"The Old Bailey had previously heard the procedure carried out by Byrnes is linked to a subculture where men become "nullos" - short for genital nullification - by having their penis and testicles removed."- I thought that was called marriage and is pretty common.... 

"extreme body modifications."

I suppose it could be called that.

[Jacksgranda]

3 hours ago, hk blues said:

'The Tropical Fish' thread for this pish. 

There you go.

[Miguel Sanchez]

On the wonderful website efukt - I was introduced to it via the NSFW forum but I've not been on it in a while - they featured one of those 'nullo' people once. They were complaining about the police being on at them because when they'd carried out the action they hadn't done it right, so they hadn't cut off the blood flow properly, so when the actual severance happened there was a lot more blood than there should have been and they panicked and phoned an ambulance. 

I wonder what that paramedic visit was like. 

[Jacksgranda]

2 hours ago, Miguel Sanchez said:

On the wonderful website efukt - I was introduced to it via the NSFW forum but I've not been on it in a while - they featured one of those 'nullo' people once. They were complaining about the police being on at them because when they'd carried out the action they hadn't done it right, so they hadn't cut off the blood flow properly, so when the actual severance happened there was a lot more blood than there should have been and they panicked and phoned an ambulance. 

I wonder what that paramedic visit was like. 

"Aw, naw, nae anither ane"

[Shotgun]

I have a long, vicious, vertical scar on my face from a knife fight in a waterfront bar in Marseille just after the war. I'd been running guns through Algiers and...

Ach, I slipped on the ice and the dug leapt in for the kill, catching me under the eye with a toenail. Once I'd washed my physog you could hardly notice it and it's almost completely invisible this morning.

Made me look dead fierce for a couple of hours though.

[Shotgun]

On 14/01/2024 at 02:24, throbber said:

Nice pub for sale in Glasgow city centre

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/86659578#/?channel=COM_BUY

 

On 14/01/2024 at 05:39, Derry Alli said:

That seems an incredibly high priced valuation. 

 

On 14/01/2024 at 06:58, MazzyStar said:

You’ll make that back in a couple of months. 

 

On 14/01/2024 at 08:30, throbber said:

I don’t think there’s much money in pubs - also if it was that profitable a business the family wouldn’t be selling after 40 years 

How many active users are there on P&B these days? We could all chip in a few quid and make it our official clubhouse. Handy for all central belt games, especially those in Glasgow and the surrounding environs. Given the number of alcoholics on the site, we'll never be short of customers and there are enough teetotalers here to set up a Designated Driver rota. Get in a decent pie vendor, negotiate a deal with Tennents and install a kettle for the Bovril and we'll be raking it in.

@Shandon Par could decorate the place, @throbber to do a tasteful mural and give @RH33 a stool near the door to entice the passing trade.

I think we could be onto something here.

[RH33]

I'd scare them away.

[Rugster]

6 minutes ago, Shotgun said:

 

 

 

How many active users are there on P&B these days? We could all chip in a few quid and make it our official clubhouse. Handy for all central belt games, especially those in Glasgow and the surrounding environs. Given the number of alcoholics on the site, we'll never be short of customers and there are enough teetotalers here to set up a Designated Driver rota. Get in a decent pie vendor, negotiate a deal with Tennents and install a kettle for the Bovril and we'll be raking it in.

@Shandon Par could decorate the place, @throbber to do a tasteful mural and give @RH33 a stool near the door to entice the passing trade.

I think we could be onto something here.

Already under offer. The closing date was in November. 

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, throbber said:

And here was me thinking this was a legitimate business proposition that was about to get going.

You just wanted to draw a big nob on the wall.

[Rugster]

15 minutes ago, throbber said:

And here was me thinking this was a legitimate business proposition that was about to get going.

Didn’t want you getting your hopes up. 

[Sergeant Wilson]

48 minutes ago, Shotgun said:

I have a long, vicious, vertical scar on my face from a knife fight in a waterfront bar in Marseille just after the war. I'd been running guns through Algiers and...

Ach, I slipped on the ice and the dug leapt in for the kill, catching me under the eye with a toenail. Once I'd washed my physog you could hardly notice it and it's almost completely invisible this morning.

Made me look dead fierce for a couple of hours though.

Aye, spread out about 50 tables for one in booths, so there needn't be any engagement.

[MazzyStar]

2 hours ago, throbber said:

I don’t particularly like that area of Glasgow anyway, it’s hardly the west end.

You’re right. It’s better than the west end 

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

These people who live upside down.

 

 

[DA Baracus]

I used to think I was fairly bright but have come to the conclusion that I’m probably not that smart/intelligent at all.

 

A couple of years ago I tried to do an online course through the Open University and just struggled to take things in. I found myself having to read things over and over again and it just wasn’t going in, and I was struggling with various maths components. Admittedly my mental health was in a real state, but I had to stop after the first semester as I just couldn’t do it. Was quite the blow and made me feel worse. I see plenty of folk with a degree and think to myself that surely I can do it, but I just can’t. I’m shit at studying and shit at taking a lot of details in.

 

I attended Aberdeen University for five years and only got to third year, repeating first year and third year. I’d struggle to take stuff in during lectures and would often actually fall asleep. I’d just get really drowsy at times. I was/am atrocious at studying. Been that way since high school. Think I could have got better grades in my highers if I was able to study better, but all I was able to do was just try and read things over and over again. Lectures at university caused me trouble because I tried to take notes whilst listening but ended up not doing either effectively. There were mental health issues here too mind, so that could have played a part. In group sessions and practical classes I found things much better, as physically doing stuff and talking about it with others made things much easier, but then I’d often forget things after, so unless I was doing things over and over I was not having much success (I recall in Int 2 maths in high school that when we’d do things equations I could breeze through them once I got the concept down and did a load of them, but came up against much simpler ones in the OU course and was lost). I probably could have used some help with study skills, but had no idea of the concept at the time.

 

I attended Abertay University for one year way back in the day. Admittedly this failure was much more of a mental health one (boring story), but even then I did struggle with trying to get information down. Lectures again proved troublesome.

 

All that for a student loan that I’ll be paying off for decades for zero return! Could fucking kick myself.

 

Anyway, just wanted to vent a bit. Really in a rut job wise as I simply have no qualifications and really worried I’m going to be stuck in jobs that pay a fairly average to low salary, which each year gets eaten in to by inflation. I want to get a qualification so that I can get a decent job (although that’s another issue as I don’t know what I want to do/study, just that I need to do something or I’ll be stuck forever with a ceiling I can’t break). It’s a frustrating situation! I’m in a much better place mentally now thankfully so would hope that that barrier would be removed, but the reality of not being cut out/not being smart enough is still a tough one to take. Plus I'm shit with money (zero savings) so would need to try and save up to pay for it (I'm hoping to be much better with money this year, although January has not seen the best start to that, but have been reviewing things and can see where I can make a lot of savings; just need to try and do it!).

[Brother Blades]

1 hour ago, DA Baracus said:

I used to think I was fairly bright but have come to the conclusion that I’m probably not that smart/intelligent at all.

 

A couple of years ago I tried to do an online course through the Open University and just struggled to take things in. I found myself having to read things over and over again and it just wasn’t going in, and I was struggling with various maths components. Admittedly my mental health was in a real state, but I had to stop after the first semester as I just couldn’t do it. Was quite the blow and made me feel worse. I see plenty of folk with a degree and think to myself that surely I can do it, but I just can’t. I’m shit at studying and shit at taking a lot of details in.

 

I attended Aberdeen University for five years and only got to third year, repeating first year and third year. I’d struggle to take stuff in during lectures and would often actually fall asleep. I’d just get really drowsy at times. I was/am atrocious at studying. Been that way since high school. Think I could have got better grades in my highers if I was able to study better, but all I was able to do was just try and read things over and over again. Lectures at university caused me trouble because I tried to take notes whilst listening but ended up not doing either effectively. There were mental health issues here too mind, so that could have played a part. In group sessions and practical classes I found things much better, as physically doing stuff and talking about it with others made things much easier, but then I’d often forget things after, so unless I was doing things over and over I was not having much success (I recall in Int 2 maths in high school that when we’d do things equations I could breeze through them once I got the concept down and did a load of them, but came up against much simpler ones in the OU course and was lost). I probably could have used some help with study skills, but had no idea of the concept at the time.

 

I attended Abertay University for one year way back in the day. Admittedly this failure was much more of a mental health one (boring story), but even then I did struggle with trying to get information down. Lectures again proved troublesome.

 

All that for a student loan that I’ll be paying off for decades for zero return! Could fucking kick myself.

 

Anyway, just wanted to vent a bit. Really in a rut job wise as I simply have no qualifications and really worried I’m going to be stuck in jobs that pay a fairly average to low salary, which each year gets eaten in to by inflation. I want to get a qualification so that I can get a decent job (although that’s another issue as I don’t know what I want to do/study, just that I need to do something or I’ll be stuck forever with a ceiling I can’t break). It’s a frustrating situation! I’m in a much better place mentally now thankfully so would hope that that barrier would be removed, but the reality of not being cut out/not being smart enough is still a tough one to take. Plus I'm shit with money (zero savings) so would need to try and save up to pay for it (I'm hoping to be much better with money this year, although January has not seen the best start to that, but have been reviewing things and can see where I can make a lot of savings; just need to try and do it!).

If you really struggle with taking information in, have you investigated employment that is more vocational & allows you to re-train whilst working? This would alleviate two stumbling blocks in my view as you’d not need to build up savings to effectively take time away from the workforce & less stress of having to do classroom learning full time? Just a thought.