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Ambegris likes his tea stirred anti-clockwise, Sat 27 Apr 2024, 0:36,
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The origin of a football chant.
"Let's Go (Pony)" is a 1962 song by The Routers.
Is it pronounced Routers or Routers?
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Nigeria's turn.
I made this!
I post about every third one of these. Am I a spamchap?
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Worst Turkish fight scene ever!!
Martial arts at it worst
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Ninj, Fri 26 Apr 2024, 19:54,
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Nice fart intro
I doubt there is a "Best Turkish Fight Scene Ever" but I live in hope. Not
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spazzcaptain Misses Valin @, Fri 26 Apr 2024, 20:07,
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Boeing Rocket Concepts (Hazegrayart)
Compilation of Boeing's unused rocket concepts from the 50s to the 80s, back when they were a trustworthy and reputable company.
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brb homonecrobatrachophile, Fri 26 Apr 2024, 16:10,
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*sigh*
I used to have a 70s book about space that had all the GPO (yes, them) designs for space craft, among others. Lost it when they cleared out granny’s house after she died and never managed to identify it.
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jonbob loves you, Fri 26 Apr 2024, 16:43,
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Challenge accepted.
GPO=UK General Post office or USA Government Publishing Office?
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brb homonecrobatrachophile, Fri 26 Apr 2024, 18:01,
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Post Office. The actual Post Office drew up designs for space ships.
I want to say hardback with black cover but to be fair I was only 7 at the time and that probably covers most space books. I also remember there being a couple of pages devoted to space toilets.
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jonbob loves you, Fri 26 Apr 2024, 19:00,
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The 2 pages on
number 2s must be a common thing, when I read that I reached over for my copy of Living In Space by Peter Smolders (published 1986 by Airlife) which mostly deals with the shuttle program, Salyut, Skylab and Spacelab, was originally written in Dutch, and is definitely not your book.
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brb homonecrobatrachophile, Fri 26 Apr 2024, 21:03,
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I wouldn’t go to too much effort.
There’s every chance you could find the exact book and I wouldn’t recognise it. It had cutaways of NERVA and Daedalus/Orion engines too.
Every chance I’m misremembering but I think the toilet instructions part actually had a shot of those from 2001.
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jonbob loves you, Fri 26 Apr 2024, 21:56,
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GPO was dissolved in 1969, replaced by Post Office Ltd.,
but I have found one book published by GPO in 1970... Which has nothing to do with space. Finding a list of GPO publications is proving bizarrely difficult, I'm sure search engines and libraries used to be good for this sort of thing.
There are a lot of technical books/pamphlets relating to space published by the American GPO (e.g. presidential/senate/committee reports on space projects and research) that overwhelm search results on biblio and abebooks... Many of these are sure to contain diagrams and cutaways...
Also there are lots of cutaway books from the 50s onwards (Eagle dedicated at least two hardbacks to them) but relatively few devoted to space. This should be easy, dammit.
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brb homonecrobatrachophile, Fri 26 Apr 2024, 23:00,
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My money's on this one
dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2020/08/inside-information-on-space-travel-1970.html
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Dick Wonder ₐ wₒₙₖy, wₐᵥy wₒₙdₑᵣ, Fri 26 Apr 2024, 23:55,
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It wasn't produced by GPO.
Perhaps I'm not explaining well enough. The GPO produced serious designs for space craft and EVA suits. I'm not joking, though given how hard it is to find an example I'm beginning to wonder if I had some sort of fever dream.
Fuck. I seem to be gaslighting myself now, but I could [i]swear[/i] I even saw a feature on TV about them.
www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/393713192400027234/ Perhaps?
Fuck it, I'm driving myself mad over this post office business. Only hope now is to track down that damned book I suppose.
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jonbob loves you, Sat 27 Apr 2024, 0:18,
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There is mention in passing in here of the Post Office working on designs for comms satellites
spacesuit and pressure suit thread
If you go to the level above there are threads on the likes of Blue Streak and ELDO, one of the contributors is the author of Vertical Empire
level above
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Tommy Flowers worked for the GPO
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Flowers
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antmulder Flick your icefloss, Sat 27 Apr 2024, 9:18,
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What was on the cover and was it a book for young children, older children or adults?
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I hope you don't mind me posting another Paul and Larry skit
but they keep them really short - which is impressive - and they're on a bit of a roll at the moment.
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Fri 26 Apr 2024, 9:10,
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Banger Pisschips
Honestly, I just made a noisy scene of myself on public transport reading that.
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Fray Brentos *mega-belms*, Fri 26 Apr 2024, 12:55,
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Interesting QR code generator which allows prompts to tweak output image
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He usually does economics videos?!
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Thu 25 Apr 2024, 23:39,
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Do Your Own Research
I made this!
Me and my mates made a song about conspiracy theories, and then we made a video for it.
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I like this
and I also like how good it sounds at 2x speed, almost like it was designed that way!
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brb homonecrobatrachophile, Fri 26 Apr 2024, 16:31,
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Ha haaaaaa
That's ace at 2x speed. Going to have to rethink ALL our songs.
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I only noticed because I wanted to skip to the music at 2x.
Then I was like "this sounds unexpectedly good at both speeds, wtf?"
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brb homonecrobatrachophile, Fri 26 Apr 2024, 21:14,
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Bee amazing
Seriously I did not know bees could do this shit. Wow
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simbosan liked your link on, Thu 25 Apr 2024, 16:49,
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Are your sheds better than this, Arthur 'Two Sheds' Jackson?
With just over a month to go until the18th Shed of the year closes (31st May 2024) - some of the popular sheds entered this year from Studio Ghibli Totoro inspired shed, a hand painted wrinkly, rusty and retro shed and a Scottish tablet shed.
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unclewilco, Thu 25 Apr 2024, 13:40,
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BTW the shed is not made of tablet - they sell it
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unclewilco, Thu 25 Apr 2024, 13:45,
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What pills have they got then?
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Thu 25 Apr 2024, 20:59,
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I liked yours too.
Hope you didn’t think that link was some kind of dig.
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jonbob loves you, Thu 25 Apr 2024, 13:19,
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Epicly epicness
Woo, yay, hoopla!
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Hummel Who died and made you....oh wait...., Thu 25 Apr 2024, 15:00,
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good stuff
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 26 Apr 2024, 1:50,
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Underworld - Born Rishi
I made this!
Not my best work and it's probably a bit preachy, but if you are ok with spending 46 seconds of your life watching Rishi Sunak doing his own version of Born Slippy, here it is.
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Friar Tuck And His Psychedelic Guitar 1967
Freak out man
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simbosan liked your link on, Thu 25 Apr 2024, 10:31,
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Toilet review
Unintentionally sinister soundtrack
and good use of miso paste (2.41)
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Wed 24 Apr 2024, 16:03,
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"The toilet is empty and completely clean"
I'm sure if I wrapped my turds in cling film before flushing then my toilet would stay clean too!
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Thu 25 Apr 2024, 16:43,
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As The Crow Flies 🪟🐦⬛
I made this!
I've extracted one of the games from arcc so that anyone can play it, it's basically a 3D Flappy Bird that actually works thanks to everything being transparent
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malevole, Wed 24 Apr 2024, 10:25,
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Excellent
the grids reminded me of the lasers in Resident Evil
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Stay On Target
STAY ON TARGET
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antmulder Flick your icefloss, Wed 24 Apr 2024, 20:39,
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Starglider X Atari Star Wars
Like it. Actually a bit more playable than Flappy Bird; more like the Helicopter Game it was a brutal clone of. Do come back nearer Christmas, when I need ideas for a quick 48K ZX Spectrum game for the WOOT annual!
The flap will be with you... always.
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joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Thu 25 Apr 2024, 11:41,
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sadly on point
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 26 Apr 2024, 5:27,
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