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It's not the Big Lebowski - it's the small-time Lebowski. The Big Lebowski was the businessman blokey in the wheelchair.
themoreyouknow.jpg
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 16:34,
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Whatever his name is. I'm not studenty enough to know the film that deeply.
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 17:26,
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pretty much every post on b3ta is a parody of something. what are we supposed to do different?
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 16:36,
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...Consider what their name is a euphemism for.
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 18:15,
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I'm going with Vedders explanation that it's got something to do with how pearls are made *tries to convince himself*
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 21:10,
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Can't seem to find one anywhere. :/
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 17:13,
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but it is
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 18:59,
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that took me right back to my Dunkirk days
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 15:42,
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I think you probably are
and no! I dont want to see inside!

Or is that just internet cunts?
*edit* oh and click.
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 15:29,
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*edit* oh and click.

Too true! £3 for a brew? and A FIVER for a mug?
That's why I went once and stole the mug!
Great mug though, keeps a pint of coffee warm for an hour.
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 15:36,
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That's why I went once and stole the mug!
Great mug though, keeps a pint of coffee warm for an hour.

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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 16:01,
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brilliant. And I love the appending of 'cunt' to anything. James Bond - Secret Cunt etc.
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 15:39,
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from the moment I read "Dan Dare - Space Cunt".
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 15:42,
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editing old comics' speech balloons is the last refuge of a scoundrel on b3ta
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 15:56,
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I think i got a few more...

click for big but not that much more legible
Mirror article, tweeted by Charlie Brooker
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 14:48,
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click for big but not that much more legible
Mirror article, tweeted by Charlie Brooker

I think 'Government for Dummies' is actually "The Notorious Bettie Paige".
The filthy swine
www.imdb.com/title/tt0404802/
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 14:52,
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The filthy swine
www.imdb.com/title/tt0404802/

It might be good for his man-of-the-people credentials.
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 15:09,
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The Guardian are asking the same thing
www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/may/25/downing-street-bookshelf-flat
The papers are obviously all bored today...
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 15:17,
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www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/may/25/downing-street-bookshelf-flat
The papers are obviously all bored today...

I like the Mirror article, the captions are written like a children's TV programme
"Here's the top shelf, what can you see?"
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 14:53,
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"Here's the top shelf, what can you see?"

is much better
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 14:55,
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I would have thought, given how careful his 'people' are about backgrounds and avoiding anything that might make him look like some kind of elitist toff, it represents a balanced collection of populist and classical cinema, interspered with a few children's classics, and maybe the odd slightly controversial or risque element in there to show he's one of the boys.
Pretty sure Government for Dummies is actually Kill Bill...
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 15:08,
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Pretty sure Government for Dummies is actually Kill Bill...

I can see the phoenix nights box set there, so he can't be a complete thwaight.
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 15:10,
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also be there, and I bet he can't see any drop in quality.
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 15:29,
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You know what, I don't know what the spine of that abortion looks like...
but if it is there it proves that he is a thwaight.
If it was the spine of Dave Spikes AMAZING "Dead man weds" then I would love him.... But it didn't get a dvd release because of music rights! this is why the parody law is so important! (i think)
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 15:33,
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but if it is there it proves that he is a thwaight.
If it was the spine of Dave Spikes AMAZING "Dead man weds" then I would love him.... But it didn't get a dvd release because of music rights! this is why the parody law is so important! (i think)


I prefer to be asked first:

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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 14:49,
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Hey ho it's for a good cause

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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 14:21,
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(never seen the original nun reference)
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 14:24,
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Have a musical wooyay

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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 14:36,
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"This act by American soldiers is simply inhuman and condemnable in the strongest possible terms" How is pissing on a lifeless object worse than taking the life in the first place which seems pretty much the done thing in a warzone? or torturing a living person before killing them as you see in many a terrorist video?
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 14:23,
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That'll be £112.68 please.
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 14:21,
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Still haven't come across a heston touched one though....
I would like to try it...
If I could afford it, I would go the fat duck, but I am too poor even for his b&b
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 15:17,
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I would like to try it...
If I could afford it, I would go the fat duck, but I am too poor even for his b&b

I have a bunch of these somewhere, or I lost them in the fire.
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 22:37,
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Ace! Oo, Faye from Steps, I had bit of a thing for her.
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 13:33,
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For some reason that is the best bit of that sketch for me....
You can see him fumbling for the switches and buttons all the way through,
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 15:47,
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You can see him fumbling for the switches and buttons all the way through,

When you can't go on and you've lost your bong it's Parody!
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 14:04,
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Oh and I before E except after C*
* Well apart from freight, deity, heifer, sovereign...and so forth
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 13:38,
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* Well apart from freight, deity, heifer, sovereign...and so forth

and I've cleared my cache too :(
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 14:03,
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...in Norwich, as it happens.
When Star Wars was released, a few of us actually borrowed a ladder and switched the sign round on the local Odeon cinema. Amazed we weren't nicked, astonished we didn't fall off, sad that I never got a photo.
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Fri 13 Jan 2012, 6:36,
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When Star Wars was released, a few of us actually borrowed a ladder and switched the sign round on the local Odeon cinema. Amazed we weren't nicked, astonished we didn't fall off, sad that I never got a photo.

A knob drawn in POVRay or some other 3D tool.
3D Tool, ftw.
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 12:09,
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3D Tool, ftw.

No surprises there then. It's why the computers of most 16 year olds look like a plasterer's radio.
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 12:18,
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decoder
www.roubaixinteractive.com/PlayGround/Binary_Conversion/Binary_To_Text.asp
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 12:23,
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decoder
www.roubaixinteractive.com/PlayGround/Binary_Conversion/Binary_To_Text.asp
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 12:46,
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 12:34,
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 12:45,
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:D
edit: BTW, is this picture a one off or is it a serial?
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 13:24,
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edit: BTW, is this picture a one off or is it a serial?

but now that will be impossible to shift from my head.
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Sat 14 Jan 2012, 14:44,
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nice shop though and good reflection work :)
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:59,
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You're not supposed to photoshop Clansoul btw
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 12:03,
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Although I think we can coax him out of it if enough people say his name five times in a mirror or on Twitter :)
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 12:14,
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apart from that we should leave politics to Private Eye...who do a sterling job insofar as they know what they're on about
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 12:27,
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poor bugger spent ages trying to get the rope over that branch.
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:52,
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 13:30,
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with 1.7 million people claiming that they are too sick to work, it can't carry on as it is, unless of course today's students want to pay the sort of tax that is needed to keep that going for the rest of their lives, on top of the student mortgage they already will have to pay.
No right minded person would take money from the sick and disabled, but there are an awful lot of people claiming to be sick and are screwing the system.
It's easy to be generous with other people's money, but eventually someone has to pay for it.
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Fri 13 Jan 2012, 14:14,
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No right minded person would take money from the sick and disabled, but there are an awful lot of people claiming to be sick and are screwing the system.
It's easy to be generous with other people's money, but eventually someone has to pay for it.

Even the government's own research puts the number of fraudulent claims somewhere around 0.3%
A society that doesn't protect its most vulnerable because they think someone, somewhere is making a free buck frankly doesn't deserve to survive.
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Fri 13 Jan 2012, 14:28,
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A society that doesn't protect its most vulnerable because they think someone, somewhere is making a free buck frankly doesn't deserve to survive.

You claim sick benefit, therefore you claim to be sick.
As I said, it's very easy to be generous with other people's money...
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Fri 13 Jan 2012, 15:48,
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As I said, it's very easy to be generous with other people's money...

...and our budget's been cut by millions, yet we have to provide exactly the same service as before, without cutting any corners, or lose the backing of local authorities.
Bit sick, considering all the money that gets spent on MPs salaries and expenses and the billions poured into nuclear weapons like Trident.
Don't fall into the tabloid trap of focussing your rage on the small handful of sick-leave scroungers and benefit cheats, while dodging the bigger issue.
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Fri 13 Jan 2012, 18:13,
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Bit sick, considering all the money that gets spent on MPs salaries and expenses and the billions poured into nuclear weapons like Trident.
Don't fall into the tabloid trap of focussing your rage on the small handful of sick-leave scroungers and benefit cheats, while dodging the bigger issue.

But I know several people who are on incapacity benefit, and they are perfectly capable of working. Ok, maybe they can't do physical work, but they could easily work in an office.
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Fri 13 Jan 2012, 18:56,
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I'm not an ignorant Daily Mail reader, just simply highlighting that there are a very high number of people in this country who claim benefits on the basis they are too sick to do any work at all.
I have made no comment on the validity of those claims, just pointed out that it has to be paid for.
Neither am I in a rage about it, but it does irritate me when people (especially MPs and the House of Lords) say we have to support a huge welfare state knowing full well that someone else is footing the bill.
It is very, very easy to be generous and compassionate when someone else is paying, and let's face it all governments do is spend our money, not theirs.
And to be precise, it is 31% of all taxes collected goes on welfare. Bigger than health and education combined.
I assume that you are happy to pay the highest taxes in Europe and suffer these cuts though, because you don't seem to want to change things.
By the way, if you check you'll probably find that your cuts are a consequence of local authorities pushing funding into pensions instead of front line services because our dumb government didn't ring fence their income. Public sector organisations are often run for the benefit of those working there, not the people they are meant to serve.
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Sat 14 Jan 2012, 8:55,
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I have made no comment on the validity of those claims, just pointed out that it has to be paid for.
Neither am I in a rage about it, but it does irritate me when people (especially MPs and the House of Lords) say we have to support a huge welfare state knowing full well that someone else is footing the bill.
It is very, very easy to be generous and compassionate when someone else is paying, and let's face it all governments do is spend our money, not theirs.
And to be precise, it is 31% of all taxes collected goes on welfare. Bigger than health and education combined.
I assume that you are happy to pay the highest taxes in Europe and suffer these cuts though, because you don't seem to want to change things.
By the way, if you check you'll probably find that your cuts are a consequence of local authorities pushing funding into pensions instead of front line services because our dumb government didn't ring fence their income. Public sector organisations are often run for the benefit of those working there, not the people they are meant to serve.

although it is the perfect example of why parody laws need protecting
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:41,
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Awesome job.
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:43,
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Graffiti Bridge was a bit of a cop out, I went with a Cure font (close to me) as it was near enough
1999 was obviously all hand mangled
Also, the Penis '1' in 1999 is the original art :D
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:45,
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1999 was obviously all hand mangled
Also, the Penis '1' in 1999 is the original art :D

but this could all be rumour and lies.
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 12:01,
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www.righttoparody.org.uk/
Thanks muchly
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:50,
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Thanks muchly

Good plan....I like it!
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 12:14,
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I shot the websheriff but I did not shoot no deputy!
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:51,
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its a bit small but loads very quickly
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 12:04,
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and jokes are apparently still funny if you make them fit the FAQ ;)
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 12:09,
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I have owned nearly all of these. Sign of the times shuffling along that I no longer do.
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 12:21,
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(asked as an enquiry and not a statement)
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 13:31,
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Interesting to see b3ta gets a mention on Prince's wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_%28musician%29
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 14:49,
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Can anyone tell me how a series of 14 25k .jpegs become a 750K animated GIF? Is there a workaround I'm missing?
Edit: Kindly optimised by Gruffi - Thanks.

it causes virtually every single pixel in your image to change in every single frame
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 10:52,
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if you didn't do the fade it would work out much smaller in file size.
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:12,
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I just assumed that as I'd saved each layer as a 25k file, reassembling them would be about 350K.
Didn't realise GIFs end up much bigger!
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:23,
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Didn't realise GIFs end up much bigger!

the heavier the filesize I can't remember the name of the b3tard but he does those silhouette animations which have a massive canvas size but are extremely small on filesize because the only moving parts are the silhouettes which are usually smaller on the canvas this is a prime example of gif optimisation.
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:27,
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it's the amount of pixel movement, it ramps up the file size

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but it's possibly unhappy at being called Untitled.gif and has therefore started binge-eating and that's why it is so big
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 10:55,
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Thought it seemed more on message with the compo though, I'll upload the unoptimised one to the parody site probably.
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 10:55,
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psd is the photoshop file format
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:08,
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https://files.me.com/wd.goodier/yrbvem
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:08,
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nor can visualise how it would ever end up in court
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:12,
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imagine Blackadder in court contesting the copyright infringement of WW1 haha now there's a compo entry ;)
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:14,
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and Baldrick in the witness stand
Edit: Just seen your reply to me last night about the b3tards uploader. Thanks!
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:18,
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Edit: Just seen your reply to me last night about the b3tards uploader. Thanks!

the url to your uploads wasn't to b3tards - but even b3tards doesn't have a working delete button as yet :(
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:21,
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wasn't able to do that and we couldn't work out why then after seeing that I was using b3tards and she wasn't it made sense.
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:55,
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the Church would be outraged if such a film was ever made
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:18,
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"This Brian bloke is obviously a copyright infringement of Jesus!" :D
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:20,
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who want to ensure our right to parody isn't untarnished, as if it ever was anyway. The whole point of parody is that you're poking fun at something, governments have been toppled by parodies and in some way the fact that often it can be legally borderline makes it funnier to the nth degree. Imagine V for Vendetta where the corrupt Government can't take any action against the Stephen Fry Tv comedian character - rather pointless I would say. But if this bill goes through we can have an open day on The Artist Former Known as Squiggle who wouldn't be able to do a thing about it because it's "parody"
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:32,
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companies will try to leverage their intellectual property rights (copyright, trademarks, etc.) to attempt to take down stuff they don't like from the Internet.
As most web hosting providers are either a) feeble and gutless b) can't be bothered checked whether material is genuinely infringing,
they will take down material without much of a fight. After all, as a hosting provider which will you care more about -
a single customer paying £3.50 a year for cheapo hosting or the potential cost of court proceedings?
So companies simply use IP law and the chilling effect of a cease & desist letter to attack stuff they don't like.
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:47,
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As most web hosting providers are either a) feeble and gutless b) can't be bothered checked whether material is genuinely infringing,
they will take down material without much of a fight. After all, as a hosting provider which will you care more about -
a single customer paying £3.50 a year for cheapo hosting or the potential cost of court proceedings?
So companies simply use IP law and the chilling effect of a cease & desist letter to attack stuff they don't like.

and, of course, piracy is not theft either, despite what people tell you
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:58,
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