
There's still a chance. He didn't say where they are. We need to organise a search of the Albert Hall.
( , Thu 6 Aug 2020, 7:32, Reply)

but do not fear, genosse. plans are afoot. we have men in za right places. Ze Fatherland shall rize again!
But zis time, no more mr. nice guy!
( , Thu 6 Aug 2020, 11:27, Reply)

A few weeks old, but i don't think this has been posted here.
( , Wed 5 Aug 2020, 16:43, Reply)

"Dumb fanatics are dumb" doesn't exactly get to the heart of America's problems.
( , Wed 5 Aug 2020, 20:45, Reply)

Boris Johnson's Spitting Image puppet unveiled

The TV programme, famous for its mockery of politicians, is set to be relaunched this autumn.
( , Wed 5 Aug 2020, 14:54, Reply)

It'll be interesting to see how they manage to portray black personalities without massively offending a huge portion of the Twittersphere.
( , Wed 5 Aug 2020, 15:15, Reply)

But then again also strangely aroused. I only hope they will ignore the snowflakes and get on with it. If this country needs anything right now its a return to the "I don't give fuck" school of entertainment.
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and cannot see how he's actually getting upset? He did have a point about how "edgy" this show could get compared to the original.
( , Wed 5 Aug 2020, 15:54, Reply)

but he responded to the unveiling of a Boris Johnson puppet by complaining about things he predicts to happen, based on and demonstrative of his own faulty and fearful perceptions of people he characterises as faulty and fearful.
WRT how edgy this show might be, it will be reflective of its time, just how it used to be. 30-50 years from now, new Mr. Penises will hark back to the 2020s as the paragon of edginess and permissiveness, or whatever virtue is held in nostalgic esteem by then.
( , Wed 5 Aug 2020, 16:24, Reply)

Thank goodness then that we've got you to constantly tell everyone how they're thinking wrong. Otherwise we might turn out to have opinions or something.
( , Wed 5 Aug 2020, 16:37, Reply)

Because we are not exchanging ideas without engaging in any criticism?
What?
( , Wed 5 Aug 2020, 17:10, Reply)

TBH I don't think anyone should need it, it's obvious just how upset and fearful Mr. Penis is.
( , Thu 6 Aug 2020, 14:23, Reply)

I think you come across as upset and fearful far more frequently than I do. But just like your latent racial prejudice, you don't seem to be able to recognise it and/or admit to it.
( , Thu 6 Aug 2020, 16:55, Reply)

You turned a story about the reveal of a puppet of a white man into an anti-anti-racist right wing talking point about how this country is too easily offended.
To me, this looks like Daily Mail style racist fear.
Please now describe my latent racial prejudice.
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There will always be the professionally outraged.
Much of the sensitivity relates to the use of caricatures by racists in the past or just punching down generally.
( , Wed 5 Aug 2020, 16:02, Reply)

- they've ditched the caricature and just gone for what he actually looks like

( , Wed 5 Aug 2020, 16:12, Reply)

The original was very patchy, and bringing shows back relies on nostalgia over ideas and talent.
Nice to be proved wrong, but it should be as good as the Are You Being Served remake.
( , Wed 5 Aug 2020, 18:13, Reply)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWZKuuFli2o
( , Thu 6 Aug 2020, 12:40, Reply)

People remember the puppet designs, but was the show actually that good? My only memory of it is that bloody song.
( , Wed 5 Aug 2020, 16:07, Reply)

That's the one.
I mean there's the other one I guess, but that's the one that always turns up.
( , Wed 5 Aug 2020, 16:15, Reply)

and I don't recognise any of their other songs except those two.
( , Wed 5 Aug 2020, 17:00, Reply)

Worth it just for that one song.
( , Wed 5 Aug 2020, 19:04, Reply)

I mean, I french, so I am humming a French song.
What?
( , Thu 6 Aug 2020, 12:52, Reply)

Much of it doesn't stand up, really. Some of that is because it was satirising forgotten events of one week of the 80s/90s. Some is because Ian Hislop just isn't that funny. The last series or two were the worst.
( , Wed 5 Aug 2020, 18:08, Reply)

- not the one with Sheldon bumming Amy in blackface, but a stoner theory actually elevated to "real science" status.
The Big Bang may be a black hole inside another universe
We may be living in a daughter universe inside of black hole from a mother universe.
( , Wed 5 Aug 2020, 8:31, Reply)

The whole origin-of-existence thingy is a chin-scratcher, that's for sure.
( , Wed 5 Aug 2020, 11:51, Reply)

Really, this theory doesn't help us much. It just kicks the original can down the road. Where did the previous universe come from, eh?
( , Wed 5 Aug 2020, 13:07, Reply)

similar to virtual particles. To start with, you just need a chance that something might appear. Eventually, something becomes a certainty. Then there is something instead of just the possibility of something. That is why when we examine the deepest levels of reality we find nothing more than probability.
Once there is something, that collects, makes black holes, and these become new universes.
These new universes have slightly different physics and some of these trend towards enabling more black holes. This also trends towards physics rules that support life.
We are probably many many universes deep compared to the prime universe. It is unlikely we will ever know what it was truly like.
Like a photocopy that has gone through the machine too many times, the original information is long gone.
Essentially, we are made from nothing more than the merest possibility that something might exist and a fuckload of something like time that made that possibility a certainty. Nothing is real and what there is, is falling towards a singularity that will destroy everything.
Have a nice day :)
( , Wed 5 Aug 2020, 14:43, Reply)

Trouble is, "...you just need a chance that something might appear" is a big precondition to start with!
What was there before there was something, for the something to appear in?
It's hard to consider the origins of something so fundamental as space-time. Where was it? When was it?
*head asplodes*
( , Wed 5 Aug 2020, 16:02, Reply)

Nothing, with a smattering of possibility of something.
Of course, this suggests that possibility itself is a fundamental part of reality separate from matter, space, or time.
Or at least it was in some other universe.
I find the concept of eternal inflation to be as likely, or possibly happening alongside.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqjsZEZMR7I
If you have a spare hour to listen to people talking about it
There is another idea which I am not sure is being considered, which is that inflation is just how it looks inside a black hole.
The idea of being in a black hole inside a universe eternally inflating which in turn is inside another black hole etc etc etc is a real head asplode moment for me.
At that point, my brain says "Just give up and be a Buddhist"
( , Wed 5 Aug 2020, 17:14, Reply)

Nothing or something has always been there for us to be here
( , Wed 5 Aug 2020, 20:40, Reply)

if you let go of the concept that one thing has to happen after another and that time flows in a particular direction and has only a single dimension then it is possible that there is no 'before' or 'after', they are just an illusion caused by our motion through time and so as soon as a thing exists, it is possible for it to have always existed.
check out at 3:49 for an explanation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2azFOX9P0fc
( , Thu 6 Aug 2020, 13:56, Reply)

I think I am getting there in stopping my tummy from flipping the more I think about it. I guess we are just hard wired to time and a beginning/end as that's what we experience.
( , Thu 6 Aug 2020, 13:59, Reply)

I'm afraid I didn't understand that. Could you stand on a mountaintop and explain it to a camera on a helicopter please?
( , Wed 5 Aug 2020, 16:43, Reply)

the helicopter flew me up there, my knees are not what they were.
But yeah, I'd love to go to exotic places and stand about looking real moody while a helicopter flew around. I could talk a load of bollocks about stuff while it happens if that is what is wanted.
( , Thu 6 Aug 2020, 15:54, Reply)

It's only real science if it is experimentally observable. Unless you can provide a proper mathematical theory to describe it that is provable by experiment and observations then you might just as well say it's turtles all the way down.
( , Wed 5 Aug 2020, 13:35, Reply)

Saying that the laws of physics break down at the singularity is trueish, but spaghettification and the weak and strong nuclear forces are well understood. 'You' are not getting anywhere near the singularity. Complete atoms are not getting anywhere near the fucker without being ripped apart.
Hawking revealed that black holes eventually evaporate 100% of their mass back into the universe that birthed them, therefore they don't send material or energy or information elsewhere, certainly not to another universe.
The properties of a black hole, 'white hole' and big bang singularity all share common and complimentary features. That does not prove a holographic universe, or a nested pocket universe, or a Boltzmann brain at the end of time simulating us in its imagination, or any shapeshifting reptile woowoo shit.
( , Wed 5 Aug 2020, 14:39, Reply)

used as a thumbnail, get some wire wool and a 9V battery, a metal whisk on a chain and a camera on a tripod.
Put the wire wool into the whisk, touch the 9V battery to the wool and is starts glowing, spin it around your head and it burns and bits fly off.
Take a long exposure photo of that.
It's not a black hole.
( , Wed 5 Aug 2020, 14:47, Reply)

I demand my money back, internet! I demand it!
( , Wed 5 Aug 2020, 15:58, Reply)

a lighter works just fine. That's physics I guess.
( , Wed 5 Aug 2020, 17:13, Reply)

Potentially the flaming bit of the engine before touchdown as well.
Still worked though.
( , Wed 5 Aug 2020, 7:40, Reply)

SN5 was resting on a wooden frame before takeoff, and amazingly most of it survived.
( , Wed 5 Aug 2020, 14:42, Reply)

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( , Wed 5 Aug 2020, 4:08, Reply)

Edit:
Just found this nicely done vid of him arguing with himself:
youtu.be/W7rJp2Tx7vc
( , Tue 4 Aug 2020, 22:57, Reply)

twitter.com/Darren_Dutton/status/1290578605991440384
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Destroying the fake news MSM with facts and logic.
( , Wed 5 Aug 2020, 0:31, Reply)

It makes me second guess my own thoughts on the crazy old cunt.
( , Wed 5 Aug 2020, 1:36, Reply)

Find some peripheral metric that the US is not the worst at, then ignore all else.
( , Wed 5 Aug 2020, 2:32, Reply)

A Republican friend of my mum sent her a WHO report showing the US had the best health service in the world. My mum, an NHS medic all her career, thought something was off about the report, so she went looking for the original source. The division of the WHO that supposedly produced the report didn’t exist.
And this was before Trump.
( , Wed 5 Aug 2020, 9:06, Reply)

Rabid delusion doesn't quite cover it, I actually feel myself getting more depressed as I browse.
Their support seems almost beyond tribal and into religious.
( , Wed 5 Aug 2020, 14:49, Reply)

Makes it look like The Office
( , Wed 5 Aug 2020, 8:02, Reply)

Boy with three penises undergoes successful surgery

The 2-year-old was born with an extremely rare condition known as diphallia
( , Tue 4 Aug 2020, 22:08, Reply)

Fuck me, that's a big explosion though.
YouTube

Auf YouTube findest du großartige Videos und erstklassige Musik. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder mit der ganzen Welt teilen.
( , Tue 4 Aug 2020, 18:17, Reply)

How about this one?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-p-wnDGkZ4
( , Tue 4 Aug 2020, 18:56, Reply)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEImD_r6D8o
( , Tue 4 Aug 2020, 21:43, Reply)

could blow up in your face.
( , Tue 4 Aug 2020, 20:01, Reply)

www.breachbangclear.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Explosion-in-Beirut.mp4?_=1
More stuff:
www.breachbangclear.com/explosion-beirut/
( , Tue 4 Aug 2020, 22:46, Reply)

Reminiscent of that one in Tianjin. Wonder what they were storing here.
( , Tue 4 Aug 2020, 22:46, Reply)

One rather specific rumour seems to be 2500 tons of nitrate.
Which would probably do it.
( , Tue 4 Aug 2020, 23:45, Reply)

the lebanese gay community are going to be devastated
( , Wed 5 Aug 2020, 3:12, Reply)

like it should have been.
( , Wed 5 Aug 2020, 8:56, Reply)

Remix by old b3tan Ricardo Autobahn.
With visual help from Happy Toast and Dr Dunno.
( , Tue 4 Aug 2020, 17:59, Reply)

Any of you were still alive. Or is this computer learning giving it some?
( , Tue 4 Aug 2020, 18:05, Reply)

It's funny at the start of lockdown I was going through YouTube looking for things to sample and I cam across this www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGi8dLrNYpI Alan Bennet reading the shipping forecast which I duly sampled along with Brian Clough in conversation with Don Revie amongst other things. Oh and a great Duckman rant.
( , Wed 5 Aug 2020, 19:19, Reply)

Awesome. And you've just prodded me to dig out my Cuban Boys CDs again.
( , Tue 4 Aug 2020, 18:10, Reply)

I'm mostly in awe that he co-wrote the Daz Sampson Eurovision track
( , Tue 4 Aug 2020, 18:10, Reply)

The legendary designer of the McLaren F1 has had another go at it.
Bloody hell it looks good.
( , Tue 4 Aug 2020, 17:38, Reply)


( , Tue 4 Aug 2020, 16:01, Reply)

Man has penis grown on his arm after losing genitalia to sepsis

‘When I saw my penis go black I was beside myself. It was like a horror film,’ says Malcolm MacDonald
( , Tue 4 Aug 2020, 13:47, Reply)

You mean they had the opportunity to put it on his forehead and they didn't take it?
( , Tue 4 Aug 2020, 14:51, Reply)

This man has created his own domain of reality where bravery, naivety and hope merge into one. After a lot of thought...respect!
( , Tue 4 Aug 2020, 15:33, Reply)

but good Gluck with that
( , Tue 4 Aug 2020, 15:48, Reply)

Tragically, though, I lack 10 fat German sausages.
( , Wed 5 Aug 2020, 15:59, Reply)

"That's not so bad, sometimes a banana is just a banana" then I got to the slogan they put with the advert:
"Lets your heart beat faster - in every aspect."
and yeah, that just not right.
( , Tue 4 Aug 2020, 12:29, Reply)

He who dealt it, smelt it.
( , Tue 4 Aug 2020, 15:29, Reply)

Caesar adsum jam forte. Brutus aderat.
Caesar sic in omnibus. Brutus sic in at.
( , Tue 4 Aug 2020, 15:54, Reply)

decided a girl with a banana was sexual?
( , Tue 4 Aug 2020, 12:51, Reply)

While the advert might be ill-judged, there's a lot of foamy-mouthed ranting going on:
Provocative pose - kid leaning on car.
Banana in mouth - it's quite clearly not.
Life-threatening - not if the car's parked, which it appears to be.
The driver would not be able to see the child - if there was a driver and they couldn't see the kid they should have their license revoked immediately.
I think I'm most angry that Audi have caved in to this lot.
( , Tue 4 Aug 2020, 17:11, Reply)

( , Tue 4 Aug 2020, 17:29, Reply)

to race your heart, in the aspect of your life which is being a parent?
That's suggesting driving dangerously! Ban this advert!
( , Tue 4 Aug 2020, 20:39, Reply)

I thought that was common knowledge.
( , Tue 4 Aug 2020, 12:54, Reply)

*probably not
( , Tue 4 Aug 2020, 13:06, Reply)

IT'S A FUCKING BANANA
Jezzuz what is wrong with people. To have read SO MUCH into a picture of a girl eating a banana. Mental.
( , Tue 4 Aug 2020, 13:35, Reply)

she's going to get her mucky banana covered fingerprints all over the nice clean paintwork
( , Tue 4 Aug 2020, 15:57, Reply)

but does anyone in the ad department think of that , no.
Though to be fair they probably can't afford audis so clearly pay rises and company cars should be supplied to the ad department to remedy this now and for the future.
( , Wed 5 Aug 2020, 12:08, Reply)

the original knee-jerk frothing outrage, the knee-jerk frothing outrage in this thread over the original knee-jerk frothing outrage, or my knee-jerk frothing outrage in this post over the knee-jerk frothing outrage in this thread over the original knee-jerk frothing outrage.
( , Tue 4 Aug 2020, 22:19, Reply)


Hello /links!
As you probably know, I've been making these mixes for every year for a while now, quite a lot of this has been trying so persuade people to try listening to badly-recorded, not-very-good-anyway music. That's finally over, 1927 is genuinely up there with the best years of recorded music, and I am really not joking here.
Under the link: stream, download, blog post, etc.
This is a good one to share with anyone you think may be interested!
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A short video about a session musician in the 60's. I wasn't aware of her until recently.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaHrqopeqIY
And he's been playing for 65,000 years
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