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This is a link post Bet Ed Harris wishes this could have been left in the Abyss
Knightriders trailer 1981
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This is a normal post Jesus, quite possibly the earliest example of LARPing seen on the big(ish) screen.
Count me in! This is getting watched at the weekend! Huzzah!
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This is a normal post It's amazing!
It's unusual, and low budget, and brilliant.
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This is a normal post Written & directed by George A. Romero???
How exactly have I never heard of this?
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This is a normal post My thoughts exactly

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This is a normal post Pretty sure Alex Cox introduced this on Moviedrome
Plenty of great films on there, but kind of blotted his copybook with one in my eyes.
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This is a normal post I'll have to look up a list and check. If asked I'd have named Repo Man or Electra Glide in Blue

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This is a normal post He did!
I recorded it and watched it regularly through my childhood. I love this sort of beautiful and damn awful and wonderful film :)
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This is a link post Charlie Watts RIP.

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This is a normal post Buggrit
Still, 80 is impressive, considering.
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This is a normal post Meanwhile, Keith Richards remains inexplicable to science.

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This is a normal post still married to the woman he wed in 64
Never lived a rock and roll life. Oh yeah, apart from the 80s
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This is a normal post I know, it was the 80s heroin escapades I meant
When Keef tells you to ease off a bit, you know you've gone a bit far.
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This is a normal post charlie's not good tonight, inee?

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This is a link post TANK BALLET!

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This is a normal post and Tanks Balletting too here
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PqJkXNkCpk
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This is a normal post TVs should have this as a feature whenever any greasy little crotch goblin
or adult sized mouth breather touches the TV screen with their horrible dirty fingers. STOP IT. NO.
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This is a normal post Nasty loud sticky things.

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This is a link post Unfairly accused (alt. title: creepy sex pest)

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This is a normal post Not watching that, might be a paedophile

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This is a link post Paddington Bear found in Peru

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This is a normal post The bear in search of a hat, a coat and a marmalade sandwich
sounds a bit like an allegory banned in the communist era later animated for the National Film Board of Canada
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This is a normal post Not so sure they would have banned it
As they did a decent job of animating Winnie The Pooh.
youtu.be/SvyZp0Xks54
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This is a normal post Eeyore seems appropriate for Russian

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This is a link post The Fascinating Story of Afghanistan's last Jew...
... who, to be fair, does seem like a bit of an arse. Still, props to a man whom the Taliban let out of jail because he was too annoying.
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This is a normal post happy candles, m8

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This is a normal post Ta!

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This is a normal post My invisible friend in the sky is real
Your invisible friend in the sky is just a figment of your imagination.
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This is a normal post Like, whoah, man.
Really makes you think, doesn't it?
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This is a normal post happy feast of st candleberts day!

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This is a normal post Candles!
"the two argued so much in prison that the Taliban released them both"

That's not on the Prisoner's Dilemma matrix
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This is a normal post *rescinds John Nash's Nobel prize*

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This is a normal post CANDLECEPTION!

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Waxy salutations!
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This is a normal post Have a flmaing good day
edit: that's how the cool kids spell you know.
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This is a normal post I think you mean "cook kdis".
But yes.
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This is a normal post Oh happy happy day of flames

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This is a normal post Happy Candles, and so many!

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This is a normal post You're on fucking fire!
Many, many candles.
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This is a normal post "Jews, the people who don't like to take yes for an answer."
Woody Allen
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This is a normal post quoting a creepy nonce, good work!

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b3ta.com/talk/8309759
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This is a normal post Good grief.
I'd completely forgotten about him, the silly sausage.
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This is a normal post not that I have any inside info, but woody is one I still put a question mark over
as in: I'm not certain he's a nonce, there's enough doubt, but I probably wouldn't leave my kid over at his house on a sleepover
It's more that I've been an onlooker at some vicious divorce/custody battles where they've made up some god awful lies to win (one couple later reconciled, and it was hard not to mention "didn't you lie under oath about him threatening your children with a gun?" when I saw them together again) , and mia farrow is widely acknowledged to be fucked in the head
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This is a normal post He's definitely a few tiers down from Jimmy Savile and Chris Pilchard.
I wouldn't even put him on the same level as Kevin Spacey. He seems more like the kind of guy you'd find positioning himself to take photos down teenager's blouses than the kind of predator that would go out his way to physically molest them.

That being said, I've always thought he seemed like a bit of a creep. Just not a paedophile.
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This is a normal post he molested and married his stepdaughter

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This is a normal post Except she was never his step daughter, and the rest is allegation
rather than fact. Feel free to prove it.
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This is a normal post he was the de facto father figure in their household.
Whether there was a 'legal' relationship there, such as adoption, doesn't make a lot of difference. He was in a parental role in the household and he had sex with her.

Nice to see you defending that behaviour on grounds of a technicality, it's true what they say about /links.
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This is a normal post yeah, except that he wasn't
most testimony collected in the police investigation following farrows allegations said that allen hardly had any interaction with her at all until she was almost 18. he had his own apartment and nobody could remember allen saying a single word to her. he made 3 films in two year during that time, so if he was a parental figure he was an absent one. or is that a technicality too?
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This is a normal post STOP DEFENDING A CREEPY SEX PEST!

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This is a normal post prince andrew was just working through fergie related trauma

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This is a normal post *a joke about sweating like a rapist*

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This is a normal post You can fuck off as well you sock of santorum

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This is a normal post funny, soon-yi, now 50 and still married to woody, seems an articulate and intelligent woman with her own agency,
who has always been open about the circumstances of her relationship to woody, and has never claimed she was abused by him. She does claim that she was physically abused by farrow, but I guess you know better about what happened to her
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This is a normal post not that i give that much of a fuck.
it's just there's not many forums where you can speak your mind about the woodster without a lot of indignant certitudinous incoming fire, so I thought I'd take the chance on b3ta
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This is a normal post In that case
is this a safe place for me to admit that I'm not aware of ever having watched one of his films, and that the only thing I vaguely remember of his is that moose sketch?
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This is a normal post you're a bigger anti-semite than Jeremy Corbyn, mate

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This is a normal post he has a certain schtick, that if you like you'll like most of flicks but if not you'll wonder what the fuss is about
i liked most of his earlier films, but they get more uneven as time goes by, and him as a romantic lead got less and less credible until he finally gave the on-camera stuff away. play it again sam was almost his stand-up act on film
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This is a normal post Who knew Woody Allen had so many sockpuppets on b3ta?

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This is a normal post Woody's always concerned about what the crucial b3tan demographic thinks of him

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This is a normal post well, he's a creepy sex offender innit

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This is a normal post Surprised SockCooker isn't on this thread.
Or is he?
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This is a normal post I'm SockCooker, and so's my wife!
[Insert strikethrough gag here]
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This is a normal post Hello.

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This is a normal post he was the one who spent four years in thailand whoring with indentured child prostitutes?
but it was ok, they just liked hanging out with him
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This is a normal post funny how Woody Allen's son Ronan Farrow is the spitting image of Mia Farrow's life-long lover Frank Sinatra, isn't it?
So he's not a nonce but he entered (fnarr) into an intimate sexual relationship with his own stepdaughter?

Ok.
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This is a normal post to me that's just more evidence that farrow's a lying cow

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This is a normal post Happy Candleday!
He needs to post on /links, pretty sure he'd fit in.
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This is a normal post Have a flmaing good day
You're so HOT, you're cook.
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This is a normal post Happy candleday!
How very B3ta for such a thread to dissolve into an argument about nonces…
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This is a normal post Happy B3taday
Despite the mid thread meltdown. My eyes cannot be bothered with it
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This is a normal post It did go a bit unusual, didn't it?

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This is a link post Mattiel - Looking Down The Barreell Of A Gun
Excellent female vocal version of a great Beastie boys track
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This is a normal post Meh.
I'm only a fan of covers if they bring something new to the song*. This is just a carbon copy of the original with a bit less passion.

And the video is super wanky. Just my opinion, though. I'm sure some folk will think it's just wizard.

*as long as it isn't transformed into a fucking awful low tempo John Lewis Christmas Campaign ballad.
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This is a normal post Hello Brian

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This is a link post and thanks for all the fish
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrbv40ENU_o
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This is a normal post He's still alive, you know
At the grand old age of 93.
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This is a link post John 5 spanking his plank

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John 5 is live
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This is a link post Heavy Industrial Music and Visceral Film for you and your loved ones I made this!
xxx
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This is a link post Cunt Power! NSFW
pt 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN0oGWNzNxo
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This is a normal post What a word
and Victoria Coren-Mitchell being near it is something

(that was interesting thanks)
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This is a normal post Cunt!
It's free and thrilling.
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This is a normal post hey, he's just putting up links we might like

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the once was a woman from Stroud,
who opened her legs in a crowd.
A man in the front
said, "I can smell c...(just like that; real loud)
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There once was a woman from Bude
Who went for a swim in the river
Then a man in a punt
Stuck a pole up her nose
And said "Don't swim there, it's dangerous"
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This is a normal post Mary had a little bike, she rode it back-to-front,
Every time she pulled the brake, the seat went up her ____.
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This is a normal post Mary had a little lamb, it had a lot of mishaps
it sat down on a knife one day and cut off both its pissflaps
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This is a normal post There once was a man called Piers Morgan
Oft compared to a gentleman's organ.
Such confusion arose
Because everyone knows
That he's really a cunt is Piers Morgan.
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This is a normal post Canesten?

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This is a link post The chief opens a time capsule

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This is a normal post {:-D

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This is a link post Upward-facing iguana pose

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This is a normal post Darwin tried this with the marine iguanas on the Galapagos
hence the bite marks on the specimens he collected
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This is a normal post origin of the teethies

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Not surprised, that guy sure ate a lot of rare things.
allthatsinteresting.com/charles-darwin-glutton-club
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This is a normal post i read his contempory wallace's "Malay Archipelago" book
I remember in one chapter he shot about 50 orangutan out of their trees in a vain attempt to find a good specimen to mount that wasn't too fucked up from the fall or bullet wound. and he was one of the more enlightened and progressive victorian scientists of his day
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This is a normal post "He bit my fucking finger"
I'm sure you can use another finger for that, love
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This is a normal post {:-)

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This is a link post Ping pong ball led wall V2
Inspired by an earlier link. Here's more ping pong action. There is a V3 but our frazzling modern attention span might get gumphy.
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This is a normal post I've used ping pong balls before as diffusers
But I really want something that fits tight on my LEDs, rather than by mostly luck.
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This is a normal post Also, for mine I used a toolboard for a holed back
And a Twinkly Christmas tree light set for the actual do thingery
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For small WS2812 arrays I use the diffuser layer sheet removed from any old LCD screen BUT its not the holy grail of an on device diffuser as it requires a little distance to work.
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This is a normal post I'm sure I've seen Poundland LEDS with little diffusers
Balls, butterflies and that sort of thing, that just sit neatly on the LED.
It seems strange you can't easily buy a bucket of them off Alibaba.
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I've seen them as well and also have failed to buy them in bulk. Thats Dragons Den terrible niche idea #494 sorted.
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This is a normal post What about the single dot flat clear lego pieces, would they fit?

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This is a normal post That's something I can investigate
Not sure how snug a fit, but I love the idea of being able to build on it.
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This is a normal post filtered for transparent
here
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This is a normal post Slightly off the wall idea.
Abrade the surface of the LEDs, ideally with a gritblaster using fine media.

Edit: Bonus odd idea, PP or PE mouldings, eg.
www.evolab-th.com/16763423/96-well-nonskirted-pcr-plates
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can confirm fine grade sand paper works
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This is a normal post I was thinking on a bigger scale for a big array.
Stick the leads through some thick foil and blast many in minutes.
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This is a normal post Wait, you can buy addressable less on wires??
Fuck. I made a 29x5 array as a scrolling marquee banner and had to solder every single one of those bastards together. Eight hundred and something individual joints. That's a week of evenings I won't get back...
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This is a link post The surfrajettes - Toxic
Surf music is not my thing......No, wait!


This appeared in my brothers recommendations.

I fully recommend it.
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This is a normal post I was expecting the tit-guns to come out at some stage

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This is a normal post I'm surprised they can keep their eyes open with those lashes.

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This is a normal post Jesus fucking christ.

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This is a normal post Why aren't they chained to a fence?
I demand a refund.
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This is a normal post Twaaaang
(surf music is just two notches away from Country isn't it?)
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This is a normal post A shed load of reverb on the guitars
Plenty of tremelo also.
That must be a Boss/Fender reverb pedal i can see there.
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This is a normal post Nice gimmick.

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This is a normal post Heard them loads of times
Didn't know they looked like that, though.

P.S. For more of this kind of thing, open this ice10.securenetsystems.net/LUXOMP3 in VLC Player on Saturday evening at 22.00 UK time.

luxuriamusic.com/shows/fiberglass-jungle/
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This is a normal post Keep practicing

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This is a normal post I like this kind of music and styling as much as Q Tarantino
Cheers
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This is a link post Kensington, Philadelphia
Pretty shocking footage. Apparently, it's not uncommon for major cities in the US to have dystopian, zombie neighbourhoods.
Why the people of one of the most affluent countries in the world are ok with a large proportion of the population being homeless and desperate is beyond me.
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This is a normal post This is what happens when you don't have universal healthcare.

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This is a normal post That's certainly a part of it.
That, and the lack of decent social security.
My theory is that the root cause is the basic American christian believe that the poor didn't pray hard enough.
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This is a normal post Not really the answer as Universal Health Care has to deal with the outcome rather than being the solution

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This is a normal post Not really. NHS Doctors are very good at not just dishing out painkillers willy nilly.
Combined with a health strategy that focuses on prevention and proactive health messaging, as well as a stronger societal safety net, we have fewer people left to get into these situations.
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This is a normal post Far fewer mainly because we have a much smaller population.
After years of SNP rule Scottish drug deaths have been increasing year on year and are now the highest in Europe, so I respectfully disagree with what you say. In Portugal, where drugs have been decriminalised, they have far fewer deaths, despite having more addicts.
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This is a normal post Still, it's unlikely the Gorbals will end up looking like this, though.

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This is a normal post I think that's got more to do with the climate than anything else.

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This is a normal post Maybe the SNP/Green not-coalition will do something about it when they realise that most of them support independence.
I was working in a particularly drug-prone pharmacy on referendum day in 2014, and two methadone clients stood out. There was the guy who'd put all the Yes posters up on his window, but when the day came "nobody told me you've got to register to vote!" Then there was the one who'd been to vote, but was irate that he'd been given a pencil to do so. "I've never voted with a pencil in my life!" he exclaimed. "You know who that is? The English."

Yes, the English rigged the vote by altering the slips with a giant rubber. You heard it here first.
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This is a normal post The law isn't helping here.
www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/police-scotland-defend-decision-charge-22900959
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This is a normal post FFS
Give the guy a government grant, don't prosecute him.
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This is a normal post If he tried selling smack from it, local dealers would shut him down anyway.

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This is a normal post He could always get an ice cream van.

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This is a normal post I'll bet the permits are very expensive.

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This is a normal post That cost could easily covered if he had a deep fat fryer fitted.

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This is a normal post Lots of people in the US lose everything due to medical bills.
GoFundMe is littered with pleas for help with medical bills.
Do a search on 'medical bankruptcy'
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This is a normal post and crack is pretty more-ish

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This is a normal post People without capital or work are no use to the system.
I could have been one of those people.

It might look worse than it is because it is safer to sleep in the day.
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This is a normal post on the bright side, you can get a blowjob for a fiver

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And the obesity rates amongst them are a lot lower than the national average, so it's not all bad news.
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*throws money at screen*
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You have to contact cumquat may directly for one of his blow jobs.
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This is a normal post eye contact costs extra

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This is a normal post These new Resident Evil graphics are realistic.

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This is a normal post in Sao Paolo, there was an inner-city zone called cracolandia (crack land)
There was a few clubs nearby and walking through it was like a zombie game set on easy mode (shuffle speed). They cleared it out with baton-wielding riot police for the world cup in typical brasilian overkill style, so the tourists wouldn't get freaked out, as it's quite close to some historic zones and easy to stray into by mistake
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My first trip to the US was to San Francisco about 15 years ago and I could not believe the amount of homeless people.

I can only liken them to pigeons, they were all pretty harmless and moved out of the way when you walked past, but they were just everywhere. I was pretty shocked.
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This is a normal post SF filled up when they closed the mental hospitals
It's also a pretty nice climate if you're sleeping outdoors.

(Well, nice is not the word but you get me).

I stayed downtown for a conference several years on the trot and it didn't get any better. The American political system breeds fear and short-sighted selfishness, in my opinion.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsrBlKpbBS8
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This is a normal post Prisons are the new mental hospitals.
Politics feeds on greed and fear, the homeless are part of the fear.
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It isn't just confined to the US either. The Mrs is from Vancouver, and I've had extended stays over there a few times over the last decade. I'm no expert, but the way it appears is that in the late 90s a particularly hawkish local government closed all the asylums and instituted a 'care in the community' type policy, booted the inmates out and tossed them a monthly stipend. That did not go well. So despite a more UK-like universal healthcare system, Canada is more apt to wash its hands of undesirables in a US-like fashion by tweaking the system away from direct accountability.

Which is why, now, we have areas like East Hastings (immortalised by the Godspeed You Black Emperor track of the same name) which are aglomerations of addicts, the mentally ill, veterans and the general dispossessed - with a roaming tent city on its general periphery.

Your experience of SF matches mine of Seattle and Portland as well. I'm not so well-versed on the socio-economics of the Western US, but it seems to be an endemic problem there too. Certainly as a first-time visitor it's shocking. But 95% of the time, you learn, they aren't that interested in you and you can more or less travel unmolested. I just kept half an eye out, and ladies, do not ever walk barefoot.
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This is a normal post What's the problem here? They're all exercising their constitutional right to pursue happiness. This is what America is for.

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This is a normal post Well that’s pretty grim
Bleakest thing I’ve seen all year
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This is a link post Classic and unseen bits (oooh matron)
Must be getting to the end of the road now if they are dishing out a "best of" video. For some this is a sad end (if it is the end as they say they will be back next week) for others a small mercy. Me? I'll be in the corner peeling onions. (and frantically pulling one off just like everyone else with a pulse)
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