I was very confused when I went into a Canadian Tire and found they were more like B&Q than Halfords.
(evil_andyStick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 16:42,
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A minor trolling victory for someone.
(FeralCatManUnusual disease collector., Fri 3 Jul 2020, 17:21,
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Why's the cat called Spot when it doesn't have any?
(Happosai_,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 8:56,
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Why is the Spotify logo striped?
(MudfaceThe web isn't callipygian, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 9:19,
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why is there a lowercase letter t in the b3ta logo on the front page but none in the small and large graphics in the FAQ?
to be clear in the bottom of the letter 'b'
(Mehitabel_Itrang, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 10:21,
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Hong Kong Phooey fan
(My Namewas saying these words inside your head on, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 14:50,
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Surprise music history.
I just stumbled onto a comment by the woman who wrote this back in 1960. It actually does appear to be the prior evolution of Hey Joe before Hendrix.
(cowcatBituminous squeegee, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 1:12,
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I dont think there is anything wrong with not liking jazz. You either have a jazz brain or you dont. I dont, and i'm sick of jazz people pretending jazz is some higher form of entertainment. Same with opera.
(cackbastardcriminally inane, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 15:58,
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I think Jazz is too broad a genre to dismiss in its entirety.
It's like saying all Pop music is shit. Some of it is utter bollocks, but there's plenty of great Pop music out there, too. I'm not a fan of the Miles Davis stuff, and the Loungey freestyle interpetative Jazz can get fucked. There are some rare exceptions which I can really get behind, but mostly it's for the same kind of cunts that find the Turner Prize nominations intellectually stimulating. In my opinion
But then there are musicians like Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, hell, you could even argue that Joni Mitchell could be categorised as Jazz, and I bloody love all of them.
(Huw Edwards#notalljews, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 16:25,
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pretty much this
i’m quite partial to trad and gypsy jazz myself.
(ozof, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 22:07,
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Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners from historian David Olusoga
I've binged out on BBC Iplayer the past couple of nights and just finished watching 'A House Through Time' series by David Olusoga (a must watch as well)! But if you are unaware of this? It's a real eye opener on how Britain was built on the back of the slave trade. It show's how these slave owners came out of the wood work to claim their compensation for their human property. Unbelievably, the last beneficiary for abolition of slavery in the 1830's was paid in 2015. I post it here because if you haven't seen it? You should!
(Sneak7h1eftelevision is my religion, Thu 2 Jul 2020, 23:42,
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The Guardian must fall.
Back in the 1860s, The Manchester Guardian, as it was then, gave unqualified support to the confederacy during the American civil war; even reprinting confederate propaganda against the slaves’ liberator Abraham Lincoln.
“it was an evil day both for America and the world when he was chosen President of the United States”
– Manchester Guardian, 10th October 1862
Upon the news of President Lincoln’s assassination, the Guardian described the president’s time in office as “abhorrent”, specifically the Proclamation of Emancipation – the act that declared “all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free.”
Perhaps the opposition to emancipation of slaves was driven by the views of their founder, John Edward Taylor, who made his money in the cotton trade – an industry that prospered on the backs of cotton-picking slaves. After the death of their founder in 1844, the paper continued its relationship with its cotton merchant advertisers, going as far as demanding Manchester’s cotton workers, who refused to touch cotton picked by US slaves, should be forced back into work.
(PrufrockLucifer, son of the morning!, Thu 2 Jul 2020, 23:51,
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Wow, makes the Daily Mail sound like Hello magazine.
Surely the current share holders have no links to John Edward Taylor + co?
(Sneak7h1eftelevision is my religion, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 0:54,
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There are no shareholders. It's a trust. A very rich trust. Made rich off the backs of slaves.
(PrufrockLucifer, son of the morning!, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 2:11,
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They've been losing millions per year for over a decade now, they keep laying off staff,
and they beg and beg and beg me for money whenever I read their shit, so I don't think they're quite as rich as you think.
So anyway, what did you think of Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners?
(brbnatural fistic, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 21:18,
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The sole source? Apart from the contemporaneous quotes from The Guardian itself you mean?
Yes, I copied and pasted, well spotted. Why didn't I give any attribution or just post a link? Because a lot of people on here would simply say "it's a Guido story, therefore it's a lie, thus no need to stop wallowing in sanctimony." But it's not a lie, it's just quoting the paper back at itself. Given that multiple writers in The Guardian demand apologies and even reparations from others for such historical associations, for example they simply adore trotting out quotes from Daily Mail editorials from the mid 1930s sympathetic to Hitler, shouldn't they hold themselves up to the same standards?
(PrufrockLucifer, son of the morning!, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 11:10,
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not sure what your point is here
They have trotted the quotes out. That's where guido found them
(benito vaselinino not that one, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 11:38,
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The point is hypocrisy.
(PrufrockLucifer, son of the morning!, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 12:00,
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could you point me to the daily mail article where they discuss 'Hurrah for the Blackshirts' please
(benito vaselinino not that one, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 12:18,
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Just do a search on the Guardian website, love.
They're very up on holding others to account for their historical positions. While you're at it, what was Piers Morgan's position on Justin Trudeau blacking up? What's his position on his own wearing of a Nazi uniform in public?
(PrufrockLucifer, son of the morning!, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 12:30,
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It's cute when right wingers try to apply liberal ethics to an obviously hypocritical attack on a left wing institution. Choose a fucking lane.
(brbnatural fistic, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 13:39,
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War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength.
It's cute that you think no one realises you're that fuckwit Sockcooker.
(PrufrockLucifer, son of the morning!, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 14:08,
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Just realised that when I've heard 'cotton-pickin'
used in old American cartoons/TV/movies it was in fact a massively racist insult...
(joefishIt's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 11:12,
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'Boy' as well, if you're thinking of Foghorn Leghorn.
(brbnatural fistic, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 13:44,
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Doomed to fail.
I mean, The Witcher TV adaptation was *okay*. But tits and swords and monsters are far easier to adapt for television audiences than cynical post-apocalyptic drudgery. Especially on an Amazon Prime budget. No other particularly successful (or memorable) video game television series adaptations come to mind. Perhaps a bit of a high bar for their first shot at it... Amazon is making a Fallout TV series with the creators of Westworld
I liked the Witcher
In theory this COULD work, but you might be right. I mean The Boys is the only decent show I've found that Amazon have pulled off.
(FadgebadgerSweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Thu 2 Jul 2020, 21:27,
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There's better game franchises they could have chosen?
Half Life? BioShock? Kerbal Space Program? Horace goes Skiing?
(Hugh Breezelikes it. A Lot., Thu 2 Jul 2020, 21:58,
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There's a few I think could work.
I've always thought Silent Hill could always work well as a TV series rather than a full film. Disjointed single stories interwoven through the series would work perfectly.
(FadgebadgerSweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Thu 2 Jul 2020, 22:03,
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I am still angry at what they did to Silent Hill.
Lost the atmosphere and tension with no time to build it up.
(FeralCatManUnusual disease collector., Thu 2 Jul 2020, 22:44,
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Silent Hill Street Blues
Lets be very careful out there
(Mehitabel_Itrang, Thu 2 Jul 2020, 23:22,
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Soccer Kid, 5 part series
(97800, Thu 2 Jul 2020, 22:06,
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International Superstar Judo
(FadgebadgerSweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Thu 2 Jul 2020, 22:08,
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You could make a fairly good scifi action film based on Alien Breed.
(brbnatural fistic, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 13:49,
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Oh well, that's the best joke I'm likely to tell all day.
No recognition for one's finest work, it is ever thus.
(brbnatural fistic, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 17:53,
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I found WW increasingly hard to watch as it progressed.
Note to filmmakers: non-linear storytelling may make you feel like you're Quentin Fucking Tarantino but it's painfully hard to follow.
As it happens this was my main gripe with the Witcher.
(jonbobloves you, Thu 2 Jul 2020, 22:00,
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Series 2 will be more linear apparently
(FadgebadgerSweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Thu 2 Jul 2020, 22:01,
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The Boys was great, up until the final episode when you suddenly realised they weren't going to wrap it up and were setting up a new series instead.
The only really good Amazon series is The Expanse, and they bought that when it was already established.
(evil_andyStick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Thu 2 Jul 2020, 22:40,
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Bosch was pretty good.
Goliath is fucking spectacular though. I heartily recommend it.
(Huw Edwards#notalljews, Thu 2 Jul 2020, 23:19,
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The Witcher was a series of books first
Which made it far more suitable for adaption.
(Thrill_My_Chinchillais old and unimproved, Thu 2 Jul 2020, 22:13,
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True. But even if Fallout had anything in the way of lore to base a television series on
(Besides China getting pissy with the USA and kicking off a thermonuclear holocaust), a fantasy series based on a somewhat loose representation of an alternate medieval reality is going to be significantly more budget/production friendly than a sci-fi series set in a retro-futurist post apocalyptic wasteland.
I'd have been far more optimistic about a prequel. A story written by Obsidian Entertainment based on the years/months leading up to the conflict. One of the things that made the first couple of seasons of Game of Thrones (for example) so fucking brilliant was all the politics and world building. The vast majority of Fallout fans will have played through the post-apocalyptic Fallout landscape in 7 different guises, already. I'm surely not the only one that would have preferred a television series covering the moments leading up to those events.
Maybe that's what we're getting. But I bloody doubt it.
(Huw Edwards#notalljews, Thu 2 Jul 2020, 22:57,
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Bit like Missile Command.
(FeralCatManUnusual disease collector., Thu 2 Jul 2020, 23:35,
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has the movie of it and centipede come out yet? Atari movies
I'm hoping for a Pong/Arkanoid/Breakout cinematic universe crossover.
(brbnatural fistic, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 13:50,
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They could use a clip of Reagan saying 'break down that wall' in the 80s style theme tune
(Mehitabel_Itrang, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 15:30,
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Always cheaper and easier to write soap opera than hard sci-fi
I’m pretty sure the template will be the Walking Dead.
(Thrill_My_Chinchillais old and unimproved, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 8:03,
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Specifically a book series written like a compilation of side quests
Perfect game/TV fodder. Glad they didn't go for the film option.
(Extinct Jesus Dossier"...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Fri 3 Jul 2020, 10:54,
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I never got along with the games, so I think I'll have to give this a miss.
(evil_andyStick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Thu 2 Jul 2020, 22:42,
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I thought the previous one was a lot like Bridget Reily, but sideways.
This one is more like Bridget Reily, but not sideways.
(Hugh Breezelikes it. A Lot., Thu 2 Jul 2020, 20:04,
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Bridget Riley takes a nap sometimes
she deserves it
(fred zeppelinII: Electric Boogaloo, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 0:15,
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I'm glad we got to the bottom of that
but I'm sad her name is not jizz lawn yeah.
(brbnatural fistic, Thu 2 Jul 2020, 16:32,
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Is it a posh cum box?
(MudfaceThe web isn't callipygian, Thu 2 Jul 2020, 16:45,
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Eh?
Picture a lawn. A lawn of jizz. Yeah.
(brbnatural fistic, Thu 2 Jul 2020, 16:56,
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And now here's Rolf Harris with his version of the Simon and Garfunkel classic
'Jizz Over Troubled Daughter'...
/2Soon
(joefishIt's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Thu 2 Jul 2020, 17:53,
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BBC News just said Geez-lane, so that must be the correct way as they have a special office where you can ask how to pronounce things.
edit: and while I was typing the US reporter said Gee-lane. I don't know WHAT to believe anymore.
(fred zeppelinII: Electric Boogaloo, Thu 2 Jul 2020, 18:17,
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Gee like ghee or gee like gee-whizz?
I thought we'd got this sorted, come on people I'm a busy man, I don't have time for this.
(brbnatural fistic, Thu 2 Jul 2020, 18:50,
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I think we should introduce dedicated jizz lanes
to every major highway in the country.
(eViLegionChief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Thu 2 Jul 2020, 18:00,
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Boris has finally cracked
(97800, Thu 2 Jul 2020, 18:15,
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At least people aren’t arguing about how to pronounce Epstein any more.
(jonbobloves you, Thu 2 Jul 2020, 17:16,
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I've long given up with American surname mispronunciation.
For a nation so deeply obsessed with their ancestry, they can't properly enunciate Slavic surnames to save their lives.
Possibly something to do with concern over sounding like a Russian spy due to the Cold War/relentless American anti-Soviet propaganda, but still.
(Huw Edwards#notalljews, Thu 2 Jul 2020, 17:50,
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I’m constantly impressed with the names of the people Trump surrounds himself with.
Reince Priebert? How the hell am I supposed to be pronouncing that?
(wheresthefishPartly filled with wrong, Thu 2 Jul 2020, 21:34,
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If you're American, however the fuck you like, apparently.
Just ask Colin Powell, or any poor cunt named Graham.
(Huw Edwards#notalljews, Thu 2 Jul 2020, 23:16,
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Does she have a yacht called Cap'n Bob?
(fred zeppelinII: Electric Boogaloo, Thu 2 Jul 2020, 18:19,
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And would anyone describe her mood as 'bouyant'?
(Quote of the century, that was).
(joefishIt's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 11:14,
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I really hope this gets interesting
Epstein was a dirty fecker and with some plea bargaining a lot of brown stuff could be flying. But saying that she will probably be found dead in custody with a yacht in her cell.
(spazzcaptainMisses Valin @, Thu 2 Jul 2020, 21:00,
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"Oh, hi! I'm surprised to hear from you...
Oh, you posted bail, huh? How much?... Jesus... Marlin fishing? ...Yeah, sure, why not..."
(PrufrockLucifer, son of the morning!, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 0:43,
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Nicely done
despite not recognising the other film
(fred zeppelinII: Electric Boogaloo, Thu 2 Jul 2020, 10:55,
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I'm assuming it's footage from one of those 'survival' telly programmes
Where they hand-pick bloody-useless idiots or vaguely competent but wholly intolerable pricks and drop them off on an island together to see how long they can draw the format out until someone actually dies.
(joefishIt's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Thu 2 Jul 2020, 18:02,
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Yes indeed
Bear Grylls THE ISLAND. They were actually this spectacularly useless...
(Rex_Cymru, Thu 2 Jul 2020, 18:47,
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Not a film
Bear Grylls: The Island (reality tv survive on an island thing)
(Rex_Cymru, Thu 2 Jul 2020, 18:48,
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Its very very
good. Only small tip would be to make it 2 or 3mins long. No need to draw a great gag and premise out.