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This is a link post Sweary Tony meets up with a serious mushroom fanatic.
Warning: Proper science words.
(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 22:28, Reply)
This is a normal post enjoy his vids, I should watch more of them

(, Thu 9 Sep 2021, 2:09, Reply)
This is a normal post I get bored of his schtick sometimes.
But his enthusiasm and the rare landscapes I will never see, keep me watching.
(, Thu 9 Sep 2021, 2:49, Reply)
This is a link post This is what politics looks like to me.

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This is a normal post A cat would improve that vid no end.

(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 22:10, Reply)
This is a normal post This is better
m.youtube.com/watch?v=wiYuOlrQ2Dk
(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 22:13, Reply)
This is a normal post That was brilliant
It should have had its own post. It improves with each viewing.
(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 22:15, Reply)
This is a normal post Certainly better than the first one.

(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 23:36, Reply)
This is a link post Have you ever danced before?
You should get out more.
(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 20:25, Reply)
This is a link post As a change from Binky
here is a guy fixing a car (mostly) in one video. He sort of nearly knows what he is doing and just wants to get the job done, rather than make a million brackets to increase video funding...
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I do like Ageing Wheels, and especially the fact that he doesn't take himself at all seriously. I put him in a triumvirate with Regular Car Reviews and Technology Connections for comfort-watching on YT.
(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 17:52, Reply)
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I need to have another look at regular car reviews. I dropped it from my list for some reason, but I can't remember why.
(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 18:31, Reply)
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thanks, I'll watch more of this channel

his gas/petrol tank trouble sums up all of my experience of working on any car in my past
(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 21:41, Reply)
This is a link post If only we had a word for this
Some way of describing living things changing over generations to better fit their environment.
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"Prominent appendages such as ears are predicted to increase, so we might end up with a live-action Dumbo in the not-so-distant future."

Maybe if she hadn't spent so much time studying animals, she'd have noticed that it came out 2 years ago.
(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 13:00, Reply)
This is a normal post Shape shifting is the effect, evolution is the cause
Or as they say at the creationist museum, God works in mysterious ways
(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 13:05, Reply)
This is a normal post to be fair, it's just the headline that's a wank

(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 13:16, Reply)
This is a normal post a difficult wank, or an easy wank?

(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 14:15, Reply)
This is a normal post easy with the sexy rosella pic below

(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 14:41, Reply)
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I was just pointing out a clumsy headline that seemed to go out of its way to avoid the e word, and ended up evoking American Werewolf in London instead.
(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 18:39, Reply)
This is a normal post It's a science communication problem
The title of the paper this report is based on is Shape-shifting: changing animal morphologies as a response to climatic warming. But then the paper is intended for biologists, who would interpret the title in the context of evolution by natural selection.
(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 20:00, Reply)
This is a normal post Why 'Shape Shifting' which evokes the supernatural, other than the main title.

(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 22:17, Reply)
This is a normal post Thing is
It's a Newsbeat article aimed at kids, and they're much more likely to read about exciting shapeshifting than boring evolution.
(, Thu 9 Sep 2021, 11:36, Reply)
This is a normal post Man made climate change began, at most, about 200 hundred years ago.
I read somewhere that evolution takes a little longer than that.
(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 13:49, Reply)
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Eh?
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This is a normal post The Romans!!


www.newscientist.com/article/2205025-ancient-roman-air-pollution-caused-climate-change-in-europe/

Quite apart from the climate changing fires, they also polluted the air with heavy metals, especially lead. Not as dense as our lead petrol but they did it for 500 years.

phys.org/news/2019-05-roman-polluted-european-air-heavily.html
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This is a normal post I liked the lead article, the carbon one is behind a paywall, which is a shame.

(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 16:49, Reply)
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worked for me. clear your cookies???? (frankly I have no advice. ..like turn it off and on again)
(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 21:51, Reply)
This is a normal post I suspect the site logs how many articles have been viewed.

(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 22:35, Reply)
This is a normal post evolution is a continuous process, not something that takes a certain amount of time then is finished
the ratios of alleles change in response to complex selection pressures, and the organism becomes different to what it was before with each generation, and generally the more profound the change, like global warming, the greater the selection pressure and the faster it moves in one direction, but it always moves regardless. what we think of as species are really just snapshots in time of a continuum, the concept means less with modern understanding of genetics and mutational drift rates
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This is a normal post I was looking for the anti smokinhg ad from a while back
found it vimeo.com/59304258

in this article

www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/meet-graham-similar-1985-anti-smoking-ad-win-says-cannes-lions-juror/1437572
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This is a normal post christ
I always thought that anti smoking ads were ineffective no matter how scary, and they'd be better of getting a whole bunch of past it celebrities that teenagers parents liked to tell them how cool it is. "sally , put your twitch down for a bleeding minute and watch this ad. That's baddiel and newman promoting malboro. I saw 'em at wembley. that's your mum, ha! What? no, they're not boring, they were massive"
(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 23:08, Reply)
This is a normal post I've already
developed rather large ears and an enormous member down there. The ears do tend to keep my head cool but not by heat dissipation but rather shading my neck and sides of my head. The large member I've not found a good use for but I'm sure something will come up.
(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 14:47, Reply)
This is a normal post I read somewhere about this virus who has been evolving the past two years

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This is a normal post that's just what the chinese want you to think

(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 15:21, Reply)
This is a normal post The WHO team concluded it's highly unlikely the lab in Wuhan created a bat-pangolin-human centipede

(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 15:32, Reply)
This is a normal post I read somewhere it had been mutating, which I read somewhere else was not the same as evolving.
Cancer is a often DNA mutation, not an evolution.
(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 16:46, Reply)
This is a normal post Isn't evolution the long-term result of mutations, though?
The first Polar bear was a mutation, for example. But it was a mutation that proved helpful towards survival and so eventually the mutation developed into an entire species.
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This is a normal post Mutations are half of the story
You need selection as well for evolution to occur Darwin style. Both mutated viruses and cancer cells are subjected to selective forces such as our immune system, which can result in the rise of variants and more aggressive cancer cells.
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This is a normal post So have these birds in your article been evolving faster than Darwin’s finches?

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This is a normal post What's your point?
You seem a bit right wing on this issue.

Are you convoluting evolution with speciation?
(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 18:00, Reply)
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Can you stop steering every conversation onto politics please? It's getting very boring. TIA.
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This is a normal post Are you mistaking me for someone else?
Complaining that X is too political is a bit, er, right wing.

I just checked all my posts on this page, this is the only time I mentioned politics. At a push you could say my contribution to the golf discussion was political, but only if you are inclined to categorise environmental concerns as politics.

I'm worried you might have lost a tiny little bit of your mind.
(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 18:58, Reply)
This is a normal post No point. I read an interesting article on lead pollution in alpine ice and snow though.
I’m yet to be convinced that evolution can take decades rather than millennia, but the moth picture was pretty and its story was interesting too. I’m not going to ask what your point is, for reasons that’ll be abundantly clear to many on here.
(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 18:42, Reply)
This is a normal post Derp.
It's pretty obvious that you're convoluting evolution and speciation.

There's no onus on reality to make sense to you. If you open your mind to a fact based world view, your outlook will improve and people will find you more attractive.
(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 19:10, Reply)
This is a normal post You’re just a twat that wants a fight. It’s very boring.

(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 20:30, Reply)
This is a normal post He says, fighting, adding nothing.
I think if you really applied yourself you'd understand the difference between evolution and speciation and be able to insult me at the same time.
(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 21:41, Reply)
This is a normal post Evolution has been observed in real time in birds
www.nature.com/articles/news.2009.1089
And lizards too:
biology.ucdavis.edu/news/hurricane-study-shows-natural-selection-lizards
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This is a normal post Hmmm, evolution is more dynamic than I had previously thought.
But I was hoping for a video of a bird evolving in front of my eyes.

What kind of pace is human evolution going at? I know through better nutrition and health care we’re bigger, stronger and cleverer generally, but has something really dramatic happened yet? Are babies without an appendix coming soon? What kind of effect will the prevalence of IVF have on natural selection and therefore genetic evolution? I really should just google this, shouldn’t I?
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This is a normal post I'm pretty sure humans are actually going backwards

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This is a normal post Technology could be detrimental to the evolution of our brains in the long term.
In a similar way to how the domestication of the dog took evolutionary pressure off our sense of smell, the development of computers and communication technology could be taking pressure off our need to reason and retain information.
(, Thu 9 Sep 2021, 16:23, Reply)
This is a normal post evolution is a process, not a destination or event
RNA viruses like covid have the highest mutational rates of any organism, there is a mutation every generation on average. they're constantly undergoing darwinian evolution on trillions of allele variations
change accumulate over time and there may be enough that we decide to call it a new species, but it's a fairly arbitrary definition difficult to apply (it's generally based on the ability to produce viable offspring in sexual reproduction, but while you may be able to compare something with existent variants, how do you apply this definition to an ancestor? you cant fuck the past), and with bacteria and virus and asexual organisms we tend not to use the term at all but group them into familial lineages.
Cancer is not a separate organism, and cancer mutations are not passed down to the next generation, though genetic cancer risk might be, unless it's sperm or egg cancer I guess, but that tend to result in infertility rather than mutant offspring.
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This is a normal post The process within a tumour can be evolutionary
The cells within it are not identical as a result of mutations and then selected.
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This is a normal post well, there's a lot of things that are analogous to evolution, even ideas
based on the profound "if something is able to increase itself, there will be more of it". Cancers tend to miss that final step, that of passing it's genes to a new organism, but I seem to recall tasmanian devil had facial tumours that scientist believed were communicable, so perhaps it could evolve
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This is a normal post The evolution of cancer within a body meets the definition of biological evolution
albeit on the level of populations of cells - being based on mutations in the DNA sequence and selective replication of individual cells with advantageous heritable mutations. The fate of those populations is extinction but then so is the fate of most species
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This is a normal post I think you'll find most definitions of evolution have it acting on the level of discrete organisms, and population of those organisms, rather than the body parts of multicellular animal
I know it's a semantic point, and I understand the way successful (in growing) tumours accumulate mutations seem highly analogous to the evolution of organisms, but it's not precisely the same thing. there is no inheritability because there is no path to the future. Its fate is tied to the organism it is part of, and its mutations will not be retained, whether good or bad. As I said, there are a lot of natural process that are analogous to evolution. If I hose gravel, and leave the heavier pebbles and wash away the sand, you could say the gravel evolved a heavier grained mix, in the same way cancer cells that have surface proteins that hide them from T-cell will survive and increase in ratio to those that don't. But the gravel and the cancer cells don't create new organisms that inherit those traits, so it's not strictly evolution. It's just similar to it. the odd tassie devil tumours may be an odd exception, and you could classify it a virus though I'm unclear of the mechanism of spread
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This is a normal post Gravel can't replicate, either sexually (judging by the lack of hardcore gravel porn) or asexually
The focus on organisms instead of any type of biological population is too narrow. I'm sure our microbiome undergoes evolution without leaving our bodies. Yes, a lot of semantics is involved to do with the dfinition of species and life (there are still those who argue that viruses are not living things).
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This is a normal post Did all those peppered moths die in vain.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppered_moth_evolution
(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 17:39, Reply)
This is a link post Your application is whack
Planning application system goes awry, Happy Pants owner holds cock
(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 9:55, Reply)
This is a normal post The Happy Pants Ranch?
In Swale? WTF?
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This is a normal post Your visit is confidential, from their website:
“what happens on The Happy Pants Ranch, stays on The Happy Pants Ranch.”
(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 17:14, Reply)
This is a normal post What sort of clientele are they looking for?!
Go there, check out if the animals walk funny or smell of lube.
(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 19:57, Reply)
This is a normal post To be fair
The happy pants ranch does sound pretty whack.
(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 19:26, Reply)
This is a link post Charlie the Unicorn: The Grand Finale (Part 3)

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This is a normal post awesome

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This is a normal post I should watch pts I-II before watching this

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This is a normal post Brilliant

(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 13:31, Reply)
This is a normal post Charlie the Unicorn just jumped the shark.

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This is a link post To be gay to be gay!
I'm quite enjoyin his channel!

OMG KATLEEN!

Bonus gay lols
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0ByxyIAWrQ

Boners?

OMG KATLEEN!
(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 7:52, Reply)
This is a normal post He's a bit marmite in that some of his stuff
Is inspired and really funny and others can be somewhat shit. But yeah overall very good.
(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 10:15, Reply)
This is a normal post indeed
I like the charming relationship with his lady friend, she sounds rather jolly.
(Easy on the eyes too)
(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 13:18, Reply)
This is a link post are the stars out tonight?

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This is a normal post I think it's my favourite song of all time

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This is a normal post Beeeeootiful
And I love the Art Garfunkel version too
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This is a link post Olivine beach in Hawaii

(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 4:09, Reply)
This is a normal post calling olivine grains "a beach of gemstones" is stretching it a bit, it's one of earth's most abundant minerals
normal beach quartz is almost as valuable
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This is a normal post Yeah, when he said that I cringed, like it wouldn't have been taken.
Semi-precious would be pushing it.
(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 15:04, Reply)
This is a normal post His voice man!
Bueller?....
(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 15:41, Reply)
This is a normal post Yeah, I know

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This is a normal post Anyone?

(, Thu 9 Sep 2021, 9:51, Reply)
This is a link post missed a good opportunity to get it to say "fuck a duck"

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This is a normal post lyebird links incoming
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0ZffIh0-NA
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This is a normal post a couple of times I've been fortunate enough to witness their full performance while out bushwalking
about 20 years apart. unforgettable. not many of the buggers left, being flightless it's only the areas too rugged for feral cats and foxes that you still find them
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This is a normal post well jell
not the best example linked but posted in a hurry - also lyre not lye obvs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMP0ZijxQ0g
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This is a normal post He's no Hoover the talking seal
youtu.be/prrMaLrkc5U

Also, how come he hasn't got a lisp?
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This is a normal post didn't see barst link down the page on the same phenomenon
sorry about the glasscock
(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 13:13, Reply)
This is a normal post “You Bloody Fool”
On this occasion I think it's warranted. The double post I mean
(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 14:30, Reply)
This is a link post I want to say one word to you. Just one word. Plastics.
There's a great future in plastics. Think about it. Will you think about it?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxihhBzCjk
(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 0:49, Reply)
This is a normal post There's a ompany in NZ called Spotless Plastics
Gives me a lol every now and then when I see their name.
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This is a link post Is the metric system ready for ronna and quecca?
From 2019
Nerdy enough for you lot, I reckon.
(GC says "no")
(, Tue 7 Sep 2021, 18:30, Reply)
This is a normal post Are these ever going to be used apart from in nerdy yo mamma jokes?

(, Tue 7 Sep 2021, 18:46, Reply)
This is a normal post Indeed
we have "bigly" - that's enough, surely?
(, Tue 7 Sep 2021, 18:54, Reply)
This is a normal post Yes.
As the article says, data storage is set to reach a yottabyte within 10 years and we have no officially recognised numbers past that, so all the new numbers will start leaking out all over the place and nobody will know what the hell is going on.
(, Tue 7 Sep 2021, 21:32, Reply)
This is a normal post Lottabytes?
Whottalottabytes?
(, Tue 7 Sep 2021, 21:42, Reply)
This is a normal post And their quantum equivalent Notalottabytes and Nottawhattalottabytes.

(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 16:28, Reply)
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Mmm, interesting.
Wikipedia:Unusual articles links to a bunch of similarly interesting things. I particularly like the one about measuring a bridge in Smoots.
(, Tue 7 Sep 2021, 20:46, Reply)
This is a normal post Sod all that
The kilogram's been redefined - who knew? I might have lost some weight!
(, Tue 7 Sep 2021, 22:59, Reply)
This is a normal post Or gained....
We all gained....
(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 7:26, Reply)
This is a link post Just out...

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This is a normal post Bee my favourite band for a while now :)
click
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This is a normal post She is attractive in a crazy way

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This is a normal post ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Uee_mcxvrw
(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 3:07, Reply)
This is a normal post I don't find her attractive.
Not sure why i like Amyl so much.
Maybe it's because she is an Aussie.
(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 17:49, Reply)
This is a link post Talking duck
No, really. I mean really - a talking duck
(, Tue 7 Sep 2021, 15:43, Reply)
This is a normal post It has begun and they are ready to unveil themselves
Not exactly known for their great vocalisation.in the past. I for one welcome.........
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The ducks had no resistance to the crumbs in our atmosphere to which we have long since become immune. Once they had eaten our thrown bread, crumbs, which no longer affect us, began to kill them. The end came swiftly.
(, Tue 7 Sep 2021, 18:58, Reply)
This is a normal post "we don’t know what female musk ducks thought of Ripper’s mild profanity"
I fear this will forever be a mystery
(, Tue 7 Sep 2021, 16:18, Reply)
This is a normal post Would be brilliant if it turned out the 1987 recordings were faked as some sort of student prank
"I just had to keep going, my 34 year career was at stake. Things got out of hand."
(, Tue 7 Sep 2021, 16:30, Reply)
This is a normal post I like to think he still has a shed full of ducks at home.
Desperately trying to teach them words.
(, Tue 7 Sep 2021, 17:02, Reply)
This is a normal post Turns out they've been talking all along, he just doesn't understand Mandarin

(, Tue 7 Sep 2021, 17:44, Reply)
This is a normal post Not terribly convincing.
Hey it might be real, but to me it sounds like an Australian man mumbling to himself and an actual door.
(, Tue 7 Sep 2021, 17:05, Reply)
This is a normal post His long 'fool' sounds quite eider duck

(, Tue 7 Sep 2021, 18:38, Reply)
This is a normal post You being serious?

(, Tue 7 Sep 2021, 19:01, Reply)
This is a normal post Let's talk about ducks baby
Lets talk anatidae
Let's talk about... er..
(, Tue 7 Sep 2021, 20:03, Reply)
This is a normal post Canada

(, Tue 7 Sep 2021, 21:05, Reply)
This is a link post I'll come anyway I made this!
Think had too much head exhaustion yesterday... But this was real personal video
(, Tue 7 Sep 2021, 15:16, Reply)
This is a link post Fred Dibnah, Steeplejack
On this day, the original Dibnah documentary was broadcast.

Reckon they'd make this sort of TV today? God, imagine the dickhead voice over, the endless recaps...
Voice over: "Fred is climbing up the chimney. It's delicate work. One false move... "
Dibnah: "Be off, you divvy."
(, Tue 7 Sep 2021, 13:41, Reply)
This is a normal post I find the climbing nightmarish.
Especially 2.55 as he transfers to the staging.
(, Tue 7 Sep 2021, 16:26, Reply)
This is a normal post Yeah, how did he live to such an age!

(, Tue 7 Sep 2021, 18:30, Reply)
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He didn't have a rope but he did have a ton of fags and plenty of booze.
(, Tue 7 Sep 2021, 19:29, Reply)
This is a normal post Woodbines.
They're packed full of vitamins and minerals.
(, Wed 8 Sep 2021, 16:31, Reply)
This is a normal post Defo sketchy and could easily equal sudden doom

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This is a link post Funkiness by the bucketload

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