BBC Radio 4 audio-only drama, "Life lines"
Fantastic drama series about people calling 999.
BBC radio 4.
If you like it, you've got 6 series of 5 episodes. Hurrah.
All episodes.
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This is a sterling series
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hoppitygoestotown The temporal displacement occurred exactly, Sun 19 Sep 2021, 0:32,
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i heard one of these a wee while back and it were good
ta for the linky
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unclepills, Sun 19 Sep 2021, 21:53,
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^ Agreed
Surprisingly emotive in such small portions.
Hopefully this will keep NHS support up as the fatigue sets in.
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jagwap, Tue 21 Sep 2021, 10:54,
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Spaaaaaaaaaaaaace
If you’re awake around midnight (Sat 18th)…
Some of the first “non-NASA” astronauts land. SpaceX.
Commercial spaceflight… they’ve been in orbit for the last few days.
I think that’s a big deal – unfortunately, it hasn’t had much news coverage.
[Mars is on the red list though, so you need a double vax]
More info here (wiki).
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"Billionaire on three-day jolly" isn't that interesting, no matter where it goes. Even so, they've been getting an article a day at least out of it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58561621
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58594365
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Sat 18 Sep 2021, 20:03,
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"Billionaire on three-day jolly" isn't that interesting
unless they return in a huge ball of fire
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Haven't you heard?
Billionaires are all inherently evil and everything they do is to be met with cynicism and disdain.
It was acceptable to show interest in similar endeavours back before we all got so woke, but apparently it's just not the done thing these days.
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He was quite the hotty.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Sat 18 Sep 2021, 17:15,
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rare concert footage of AC/DC playing George Benson's "On Broadway"
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sat 18 Sep 2021, 13:27,
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They really will eat anything in Japan.
I've been watching a few of this channel's videos. Lots of things look delicious, but I wonder if many Japanese folks get bored of dipping stuff in soy sauce.
Someone better tell Liz Truss (or whichever numpty fills her shoes now) that there might be a market there for Worcestershire sauce.
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jonbob loves you, Sat 18 Sep 2021, 8:46,
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Mmm, it's shirako (白子), which means "white children".
It's nice.
Soy sauce is a bit like salt, so it's not that strange to use it all the time.
Worcestershire sauce is extremely popular in Japan.
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Straight from the tin
or on toast then grilled, bit of vinegar and seasoning. yum
www.john-west.co.uk/products/soft-cod-roes/
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unclepills, Sat 18 Sep 2021, 13:04,
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Am confused
so I had a look on the web thing and I think that soft roe is male spermy sac thing and the other hard one is the lady's frou frou stuff before it comes out of the sac.
Still not sure but I didn't fully appreciate that I was eating sperm sacks if that's the case. Kind of put me off me tea.
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unclepills, Sun 19 Sep 2021, 13:44,
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Best served on a biscuit
So I'm told.
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VicJameson : fucking internet virgins since, Sat 18 Sep 2021, 15:26,
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Went down a bit of a Mukbang wormhole a few years back. Wormholes probably WOULD be included.
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I remember cod roe from when I were a nipper
So good! Would probably go together nicely
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simbosan nuck nuck nuck, Sat 18 Sep 2021, 19:22,
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Have you tried Kina roe? I've never found it outside of NZ but it is fucking delish
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fred zeppelin (Taylor's version), Thu 23 Sep 2021, 9:50,
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I had it in ponzu sauce last time I was there, it was pretty tasty
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gronkpan, Mon 20 Sep 2021, 4:41,
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It's about people's right to chose
and getting themselves and others killed.
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Fragile masculinity as usual.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sat 18 Sep 2021, 7:11,
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I walked past an anti-vax protest earlier,
and it made me realise that no expression ever replaced belming. I wasn't sure how I was supposed to express that they were fucking idiots in a non-problematic way. Vague contempt was the most I could muster.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Sat 18 Sep 2021, 21:37,
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Not necessarily stupid, deluded definitely.
Some want to be part of a special tribe.
Not sure you can call someone an idiot non problematically.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sat 18 Sep 2021, 23:23,
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I meant the act of belming as being problematic,
because it's disablist.
They were waving flags with saying how great Andrew Wakefield is, and WWG1WGA t-shirts. I'm quite confident that fucking idiot is accurate, but didn't know how to express that both facially and childishly.
If one had told me that covid is a hoax, I could have just done a Jimmy Hill and that would have been fine.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Sat 18 Sep 2021, 23:56,
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Okay, I understand you're lacking an acceptable, but satisfying non verbal response.
I'm saying, it is none of your concern that they hold that (deluded, misinformed) belief, unless you actually believe that somehow you can reform them with belms.
They in turn might harbour the idea that they might convert you to their belief system, equally unlikely.
IF they feel a tribal sense of belonging it makes it even more satisfying to maintain the fiction and harder for an outsider to assert facts.
TL:DR Wasting your time getting annoyed.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sun 19 Sep 2021, 2:37,
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You can't reason somebody out of a belief they didn't reason themselves into.
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Precisely, the energy behind these movements isn't rational, it's fear.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sun 19 Sep 2021, 8:49,
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I think a lot of it's fear of needles.If they put it into like how they turn the frogs gay. I'd be fine with it.
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That explains it.
Try not to post when wasted.
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I think most of it is, "we don't know the potential long-term effects" of the vax.
My counter argument to that is... you'd try a new flavour of crisps, and we don't know the potential long-term effects of that.
I don't think most of it is fear of needles. It's quite rare for people to fear that enough to avoid obviously-save-your-life jabs. Speaking from personal experience.
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Part of the enjoyment of B3ta for me.
Waking up on Sunday to find out what I posted.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sun 19 Sep 2021, 18:53,
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I think it’s dawned on me what one of the major problems is.
People think that vaccination programs are about saving individuals, therefore they think as an individual they have the right to opt out. But they aren’t about saving lots of individuals, they are about saving one large group. I know that sounds like petty semantics, but it isn’t, bear with me.
The trouble with viruses is that they mutate. But in order to be able to mutate they must spread and have a series of hosts. So in order for any vaccination program to work it must have an extremely high take up before a new mutation can really take hold. If only 50% of a group gets vaccinated, the virus is free to spread and mutate amongst the unvaccinated 50%. In due course the virus is likely to mutate to a new form that the vaccine is not effective against, and so the vaccination program fails.
We don’t really seem to talk about public health (and by this I mean the health of the public at large, not of individuals) in terms of group health when we talk about disease. We understand it when we talk about sanitation, sewers, food hygiene etc, but not viruses. I’m not sure the NHS understands this either. Now you can get PrEP meds on the NHS which means an individual can probably dodge HIV when they have unprotected sex. But what about all the other STDs you can get from unprotected sex that PrEP doesn’t prevent? Will PrEP drugs contribute to conditions where syphilis and gonorrhoea viruses can spread and mutate into even more serious diseases? I don’t know. I just put it out there. But I fear it does, and I’m certain in this instance individual health and avoidance of one disease is being prioritised over public health and the prevention of multiple diseases..
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sat 18 Sep 2021, 23:52,
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Well, the march was in Leeds.
Home of super gonorrhoea.
From people I know who haven't had the vaccine (and who aren't QAnon nutters), I'd agree that it does seem to be about viewing things as an individual rather than seeing their place in the bigger picture. That, and the sheer amount of disinformation that I've never seen any official attempt to combat.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Sun 19 Sep 2021, 0:07,
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If there is such a thing as society, we need to talk about it and what that means, and end this fetish of the individual.
But I fear the cult of the individual has fully taken hold, and it’s a very bad thing for society.
I had these thoughts when an old, good friend who has been double jabbed, but only so he could travel, expressed sympathy for people who are anti getting jabbed. He’s not an anti vaxer, he knows vaccines work, he just thinks people should be free to opt out. I think he just doesn’t get the problem a mutated virus presents. It’s very sad. He’s a mate though, so what can you do?
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sun 19 Sep 2021, 0:16,
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^this^
and ^^this^^
I've a friend who subscribes to the "not enough vaccine testing to prove they're safe" school, ignoring the well documented risks of not having the vaccine. What's really bugging me is that we've been bumbling along at an R number of almost exactly 1 for several weeks, so even some minor changes that reduce infection rate by even a small amount could have a massive effect, but I can see no indication of any attempt at this. If anything the opposite is happening.
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Sun 19 Sep 2021, 8:01,
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What worries me now is that we're [our government, anyway] planning boosters jabs
- while the rest of the world has hardly started their first jabs.
If there are going to be pockets of population around the world who have no immunity, then there are going to be more new variants.
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Sun 19 Sep 2021, 12:02,
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I agree, up to a point.
The fact that no one is discussing, because of sentimentality replacing rationality, is just who Covid is killing. Deaths exclusively in numbers get headlines, so that’s what’s focussed on. But the unpalatable truth is it’s killing geriatrics and the obese. The media is obsessed with statistical outliers, but in the UK the average age of a Covid attributed death is 83. No one is talking about this. It never even gets a mention. Our approach to Covid has never been utilitarian, and people need to understand and accept that humans cannot expect to live forever. Seriously, 83.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sun 19 Sep 2021, 12:47,
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Yeah, oldies, the obese
- and asthmatics like me, and diabetics, like my mate.
You're not wrong, but from where I'm standing at least, it's not acceptable to throw us under the bus.
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Sun 19 Sep 2021, 21:59,
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Throwing people under buses would have been a lot cheaper than vaccinating everyone. And a lot more fun.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sun 19 Sep 2021, 23:55,
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Similar thing happened to me the other week.
I listened to what they had to say for about 12 seconds (long enough for them to claim that if a horse kicks you in the head, covid19 is put on your death certificate) before loudly proclaiming "Now I understand you're all a bunch of stupid fucking cunts" and getting on with my day.
"Did you hear what that masked man said??"
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Sun 19 Sep 2021, 14:21,
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"Mff mff mff!"
I'm going to expand on this.
Needles : Terrified
Knives : Quite scared
Swords : Not at all scared
Mhhh...
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Under the bed (1988)
may contain Bill Oddie.
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Oysdgp there's nothing to smile ABOUT, Sat 18 Sep 2021, 3:08,
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Mmm. Charlie Dore
better known for her Pilot of the Airwaves hit.
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Varmint, Sun 19 Sep 2021, 13:02,
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Just found this, folky/Lou Reed/Bowie sounding.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sat 18 Sep 2021, 2:20,
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Ha! That's an improvement on many of the songs
You can actually hear it as music, rather than boil in the bag perversion for accountants, or whatever it was Bisley said.
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Sat 18 Sep 2021, 8:02,
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he lives just up the road here in katikati nz
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simbosan nuck nuck nuck, Sat 18 Sep 2021, 15:46,
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Sinclair QL Presentation
the queues outside dixons were something to behold
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Sat 18 Sep 2021, 0:15,
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It could have been really good but
The entire machine and those dammed microdrives were really not ready and nearly all of the units we had for sale went back under warranty. The good old Sinclair "send them out and then fix any problems later" ethos. They overheated, the drives failed all the time, some boxes were missing the little Lego like blocks for tilting the unit up (for "easier" typing) the keys fell out if tipped upside down (just like the previous spectrum models) and in the end did Sinclair more harm than good.
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TBL I posted this on, Sat 18 Sep 2021, 14:12,
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The Ultimate (play the game) tribute to Sir Clive by Digitiser.
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Jabberwoc misses D.R. and Quinch, Fri 17 Sep 2021, 19:36,
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That's fucking awesome
I love the odd music and the weird expressions on your people.
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Fri 17 Sep 2021, 18:41,
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This is one of the good ones
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Fri 17 Sep 2021, 13:15,
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PopMaster Remixed - Episode 4
I made this!
Ken Bruce finally pushes someone to the brink.
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can't decide which is funnier, your racism, the rape, or his nose.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Fri 17 Sep 2021, 10:56,
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With a name like that you need an asymmetrical feature
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Fri 17 Sep 2021, 11:58,
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Apparently the cunt doesn't even celebrate Christmas.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Fri 17 Sep 2021, 13:20,
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He'll be stuffed in prison then.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Fri 17 Sep 2021, 16:14,
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I’ve heard gobblers are very popular in stir.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Fri 17 Sep 2021, 20:00,
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IKR. I love your edgy username BTW.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Fri 17 Sep 2021, 20:24,
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haha, funny name corner!!!!
- as posted by b3ta user, 'Arseboon Dilbaro'.
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He has a face
that looks like it has been punched a few times already
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Sat 18 Sep 2021, 10:48,
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the cctv operator could have called earlier to prevent it but he was having a wank
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sat 18 Sep 2021, 13:53,
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Given yesterday's missive about insufficient Britishness in the media has any one come out with a youtube Britifier yet?
Not sure what it would do, maybe play Land of Hope and Glory over the top of whatever audio was present, like a variant of the youtube dubber.
Think the alligator should have taken a bite.
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Here's a screenshot from the Britified version
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Fri 17 Sep 2021, 15:27,
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The alligator would be represented by a sign 'beware of the alligator'
the lady would be startled by some floating rubbish moving towards her boat
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Completely successful seance with the ghost of Margaret Thatcher
She's a speaking angle now.
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fred zeppelin (Taylor's version), Fri 17 Sep 2021, 9:14,
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a different kind of seance
techraptor.net/gaming/news/margaret-thatcher-returns-in-new-doom-mod-thatchers-techbase
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simbosan nuck nuck nuck, Fri 17 Sep 2021, 11:19,
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"One Source, One Planet, One People, under the Sun of the Truth that is now rising. The universal Truth that transcends religious differences. Happy Science is a Universal Religion for today founded by Master Ryuho Okawa in 1986
with its members in over one hundred countries — beyond language, beyond skin color, beyond nations, to share a common understanding, to open a future filled with light: One Source, One Planet, One People. Welcome to Happy Science"
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Sat 18 Sep 2021, 19:30,
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When do we tell the Antipodeans that its all been over for months now?
Do we string it out for a bit longer?
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Playing this on repeat in honour of Sir Clive
(the whole Micro Men show is also on Youtube, and definitely worth a watch if you haven't seen it)
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the wub - guide onion for the blind, Thu 16 Sep 2021, 23:09,
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Haven't clicked the link yet
but why have they dressed Alexander Armstrong as Clive Sinclair?
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Fri 17 Sep 2021, 9:52,
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Oh wow
It really is Alexander Armstrong. I thought I was just making a joke about a bad thumbnail.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Fri 17 Sep 2021, 17:20,
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Pffft
I didn't know either.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Fri 17 Sep 2021, 20:55,
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I once got into Sir Clive's house when I was a Meter reader. New tenant, a Dutchman named Mr Teribaal showed me the Underground swimming pool.
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Clive Sinclair dies
Changed my life forever. I have an attic full of his products. Saved my teenage life, he really did
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The stuff in your attic has now become more collectable.
I had one of his Cambridge calculators, which was quite advanced, and affordable, for the time.
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Varmint, Thu 16 Sep 2021, 18:41,
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I don't think that I ever managed to progamme the 80 or 81 without it crashing
I'm still shit with computers, but I liked his vision and ideas and resilience.
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unclepills, Thu 16 Sep 2021, 19:38,
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We've come to the end of the C90
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Thu 16 Sep 2021, 21:20,
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the british zx spectrum and the american C64 were released around the same time in australia
generally I thought my parents made the best call with a c64, but I quite liked the spectrums "lords of midnight", and the zx did look cooler in black.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 16 Sep 2021, 23:41,
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Funny how the obituaries don't mention his former pole-dancing ex wife.
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The ZX81 put me off gaming for life.
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Fri 17 Sep 2021, 16:03,
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I can see how it might.
Pong had better gameplay and controls.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Fri 17 Sep 2021, 20:53,
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Shane's he's gone, but did they ever do anything good?
Yes the calculator, I suppose, but the computers were shite (yes I had a c64 so suck my balls), the watch was shite and the little bike was also shite.
He made a fortune out of it all and was apparently fucking bonkers to be around, so hats off to him. Can Alan Sugar please be next, lord?
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The zx81 was affectionately known as the doorstop in my house
when we got the c64.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Fri 17 Sep 2021, 19:40,
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