A life's work raising rescued, orphaned and abandoned cubs is threatened within a few minutes.
I'm not crying!....You are!
(, Sat 2 Apr 2022, 23:10, Reply)
I’m starting to think 8 year old he was a twat
(, Sat 2 Apr 2022, 21:04, Reply)
John Barry didn't have many nice things to say about working with/around Durran Durran.
(, Sat 2 Apr 2022, 21:24, Reply)
after the gig tickets. He said they were nobs
(, Sat 2 Apr 2022, 21:31, Reply)
If they don't respect people like that why are they exploiting them-oh right, because they're cunts.
(, Mon 4 Apr 2022, 14:02, Reply)
Gary Lightbody - cunt (allegedly)
Jay Kay - cunt (allegedly)
Violent Delight - all cunts (allegedly)
Rivers Cuomo - cunt (allegedly)
Calvin Harris - cunt (allegedly)
I find it helps to initially assume everyone is a cunt. If it turns out to be the case, then you aren't disappointed, and if it turns out not to be the case, then it's a lovely surprise!
(, Sun 3 Apr 2022, 14:43, Reply)
And just to double-down on playing devil's advocate: I can easily imagine John Barry being offended by any band that didn't have a brass section.
Don't get me wrong; I think the old soundtracks are much better. It's just that Duran Duran happened to be in vogue when that film was made. I also happen to think that the theme to OHMSS was one of the better ones, so what do I know?
(, Sun 3 Apr 2022, 8:03, Reply)
It was A-Ha that he fuckcking loathed. I read that Barry had a great time working with the brummy boys.
(, Sun 3 Apr 2022, 22:58, Reply)
A-Ha's contribution was a lot more Bond-like and, y'know, musical than Duran Duran's.
(, Mon 4 Apr 2022, 14:07, Reply)
got him pissed and they spent the entire recording process behaving like dandies.
When the band gathered with Barry in November 1984 to start work on the song, things didn’t come together quite so easily. In his own memoir, Wild Boy: My Life In Duran Duran, former guitarist Andy Taylor recalls that he and John Taylor “were both heavily into booze at the time” and corrupted Barry by “heavily leading him astray with more drink. There was a great little pub just down the mews street from where [the composer] was based, and we would all disappear there for long afternoons.”
Things weren’t quite so collegial between Barry and keyboardist Nick Rhodes: The pair clashed, often contentiously, because “they were both stubborn and had very specific visions of how things should get done,” John Taylor wrote in his memoir.
Andy Taylor elaborated on the friction in Wild Boy, revealing that Rhodes especially bristled when Barry confronted him about musical matters: “‘I’m fucking not doing that,’ Nick would say flatly. ‘You can say all you want, but I know what I am talking about and at this time, you don’t,’ said Barry in his posh voice. ‘I’ve worked with people like Shirley Bassey and Roger Moore, and this is my gig, young man.’”
May all be bullshit but I'm pretty sure an interview where John Barry said the best band he worked with was Duran Duran and the worst was A-Ha
(, Mon 4 Apr 2022, 22:18, Reply)
I was 9 and hated Duran Duran but I still thoight it was a cool video
(, Sat 2 Apr 2022, 23:20, Reply)
really have not aged well.
(, Mon 4 Apr 2022, 12:48, Reply)
первоапрельский ублюдок!
(, Sat 2 Apr 2022, 12:48, Reply)
and seeing a highly mechanised army being absolutely cut to pieces by a bunch of squaddies with comparatively cheap ManPads, NLAWs and drones.
They can only come to the conclusion that the age of the tank is over, and the age of the attack helicopter is similarly threatened.
(, Sat 2 Apr 2022, 15:28, Reply)
If they had secure coms and the tanks had adequate supply lines, they wouldn’t have got terminally bogged down and generally have fared much better. All the gear, no idea.
(, Sat 2 Apr 2022, 16:43, Reply)
And conclude we need to increase defense spending enormously to counter the Russian threat. When this episode appears to show what a load of shit they are likely destined to go home with their tail between their legs.
However this video tells me to shut the hell up about these things.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=W9pVEP0AzZ4&feature=emb_title
(, Sun 3 Apr 2022, 8:20, Reply)
I'm watching this guy's analyses (Chieftain in comments)
m.youtube.com/watch?v=mUyAPQEb01Q
(, Sun 3 Apr 2022, 16:42, Reply)
fun to watch, even if some of it is staged, but not especially revealing
But overall, i think you wouldn't go to all the trouble of pushing down through fucking chernobyl and taking all those losses in order to surround chicken kiev, just to pull back again as they seem to be doing now. So I reckon which ever way you slice it the Russians have made one big strategic fuck-up somewhere along the line and have had to change plans. Maybe they're going to try to slowly grind their way westward now, blatting everything to rubble like they did in mariupol, but I don't think time is on their side. The Ukrainians with the wests belated support will slowly become better armed. Maybe the Russkis new strategy is to try and just consolidate the big mouthed donbass region and hope ukraine concedes it as a compromise in peace talks, saving a bit of face for Putin who'll claim this was what he wanted all along, but again I think the ukrainians will see this as weakness and could just continue to bleed the russians and again ,take advantage of their centre not being threatened to power-up their troops. I can't see them conceding it, myself unless things turn a lot worse for them. I heard one MI guy say it's not just the weapons, it's the training time need to use them effectively, especially some of the high tech systems, if the west isn't planning to intervene directly. that's my 2p to add to every other armchair general's two bits
(, Mon 4 Apr 2022, 15:19, Reply)
Possibly they wanted to hold kiev hostage by surrounding/ occupying it while demanding the black sea coast/eastern regions become Russian.
That would have been great for Russian; secure a warm water port, neutralise ukraine, show how badass they are.
......lol.
(, Mon 4 Apr 2022, 15:25, Reply)
I made a song about Elon Musk using Iain M Banks space ship names for lyrics
(, Sat 2 Apr 2022, 8:43, Reply)
are a win for me anyway :)
(, Sat 2 Apr 2022, 20:38, Reply)
It could be, although it might take some arranging.
(, Sat 2 Apr 2022, 0:50, Reply)
Here's another live feed from a war obsessive:-
m.youtube.com/watch?v=64b7oxdoko4
Mostly map based and dry assessments of front line movements with the odd video and viewer questions.
(, Sat 2 Apr 2022, 3:39, Reply)
You'd have thought evolutionary biology would have sorted this out by now.
Or perhaps it is.
(, Sat 2 Apr 2022, 1:12, Reply)
Normal service will resume.
Society depends upon bandwidth.
We are entering a period of none.
(, Sat 2 Apr 2022, 2:58, Reply)
It just isn't as simple as that.
(, Sat 2 Apr 2022, 3:34, Reply)
By most accounts these weapons are very effective at destroying tanks that probably cost ten times as much.
As for evolution, the people who die in wars are seldom the ones who start them. Moreover, evolution as it applies to every other species on the planet ceased for us around about the time that we invented medicine. I've been re-reading the Draka series lately, so naturally this terrifies me.
(, Sat 2 Apr 2022, 6:47, Reply)
That’s nice dear
My own theory is if there is a gene for warlike behaviour it’s probably a successful one, and I suspect if we did outcompete the Neanderthals to extinction it was because of our paranoid terratorialism and aggression rather than any edge in intelligence that Homo sapiens possessed. We just can’t stand anybody different living nearby
(, Sat 2 Apr 2022, 13:06, Reply)
We're just significantly better at being greedy than any other species.
We could absolutely wipe out poverty and hunger if we were all just a wee bit better at sharing, and generally a wee bit more open to living slightly less comfortably than many of us do currently. But it'll never, ever happen. Because we're too greedy.
We're not inherently bloodthirsty, we're inherently stuffthirsty. So stuffthirsty, that we're willing to spill blood in order to achieve our goals.
(, Sat 2 Apr 2022, 15:47, Reply)
www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain-sciences/article/differences-in-negativity-bias-underlie-variations-in-political-ideology/72A29464D2FD037B03F7485616929560
(, Sat 2 Apr 2022, 16:22, Reply)
There are certainly those of us who measure our level of success based upon our emotional/social wellbeing rather than our bank balance. But the vast majority of us measure our success on how much money we're taking home at the end of every month, and/or how unnecessarily large and upmarket our homes and cars are.
We're an overwhelmingly materialistic species, regardless of preferred political ideology. It's why Communism and Socialism is never, ever successful long-term. Regardless of good intentions, there's always going to be one bloke wanting more than the next bloke in order to feel superior. Doesn't matter who they vote for.
(, Sat 2 Apr 2022, 16:55, Reply)
(, Sat 2 Apr 2022, 19:24, Reply)
It's psychotic, by the way. Neurotic people are aware of their own problems.
(, Sat 2 Apr 2022, 21:39, Reply)
That simply aren't there.
(, Sun 3 Apr 2022, 7:26, Reply)
Hey Mr. Penis, please tell us how many of these you answer yes to:
Do you sense you are someone extremely important?
Would you say you need constant stimulation?
Do you find pleasure in manipulating people?
Would you lie in order to get your own way?
Do you never say sorry?
Are you known to be charming and persuasive?
Would you agree you show little emotion?
Are you incapable of feeling empathy for others?
Are you in and out of relationships all the time?
Do you have a promiscuous sex life?
Are you impulsive and live for the moment?
Are you known for behaving irresponsibly?
Do you fail to accept responsibility for your actions?
Is it right to get as much as you can from other people?
Is it hard to control your behaviour?
Did you display early behaviour problems?
Do you lack long-term goals?
Do you have a history of juvenile delinquency?
Have you ever had your parole or bail revoked?
Are you known for committing many different criminal acts?
(, Sun 3 Apr 2022, 14:15, Reply)
If our answers are largely similar, does it make us a good match?
(, Sun 3 Apr 2022, 14:24, Reply)
Odd that your mind went to sex when asked if you're a psycho. I guess the Hare checklist does mention promiscuity though.
FWIW I think you're most likely suffering from a form of alcoholic dementia and online RWA radicalisation.
(, Sun 3 Apr 2022, 14:38, Reply)
of a serious mental condition in a b3ta comments thread,
by working step by step through a list of diagnostic criteria?
I don't think that's going to work particularly well, as a professional opinion,
as an online argument winner, or as a particularly good jape.
(, Sun 3 Apr 2022, 18:18, Reply)
I just find pleasure in manipulating people that's all, and I don't see that as a fault, and I refuse to apologise for it.
Also that's a lie. :)
(, Sun 3 Apr 2022, 19:08, Reply)
using that much cash to kill a few people seems absurd to me.
(, Sat 2 Apr 2022, 15:23, Reply)
The CLU is reusable, and accounts for the most of the cost. Not that the missiles are cheap by any means. Your numbers are a bit off. The missiles are around $80,000 a pop, the CLU is ~$100,0000.
So, probably worth reading the instructions fully beforehand.
(, Sat 2 Apr 2022, 8:25, Reply)
NLAW doesn't have a CLU. Javelin does. Also your numbers are a better fit for javelin than NLAW. Check which system you're talking about before trying to be a smartarse.
(, Sat 2 Apr 2022, 12:08, Reply)
though as its military surely those numbers should be 1/32nd, 1/72nd or 1/76th
(, Sat 2 Apr 2022, 14:55, Reply)
Not sure that they’re still in production and I suspect the price on the used market is going up, regardless of condition.
Should be plenty available for spares & repairs though…
(, Sat 2 Apr 2022, 15:10, Reply)
for the replacement, or for what they cost at build. And that's for the base model. Start adding options like sat nav and leather seats and it only goes up
(, Sat 2 Apr 2022, 20:28, Reply)
Also how much to get it in Rosso Corsa?
(, Sat 2 Apr 2022, 21:45, Reply)
The Nlaw did not arm properly because the proximity of target was too close. Don't think a trained soldier fired that.
(, Sun 3 Apr 2022, 2:38, Reply)
I spotted this electronic gadget store way back when they were a local startup and said "Hmmm. Why does that name look so familiar?"
(, Sat 2 Apr 2022, 0:28, Reply)
When in reality it's because they don't know how to pronounce b3ta.
(, Sat 2 Apr 2022, 6:33, Reply)
I saw this live the other morning and I thought he was on the glue.
(, Sat 2 Apr 2022, 0:27, Reply)
Changing the url from twitter.com to nitter.net should bypass all that guff
Behold: https://nitter.net/Robritchie409/status/1509838735634059264#m
(, Fri 1 Apr 2022, 23:53, Reply)
If I had to join twitter, which I didn't, seeing this would have been reason enough to endure such a thng I'm almost certain. Almost.
(, Fri 1 Apr 2022, 18:13, Reply)
So smaller window will work.
If only it really was going to be him.
(, Fri 1 Apr 2022, 20:45, Reply)
Russia on 3rd day: we defeated Ukrainian Air Force!
Ukraine 5 weeks later:
(, Fri 1 Apr 2022, 14:47, Reply)
The chance of it being a Russian false flag seems 50/50 to me, but I can't quite imagine why they'd want to do it. An excuse to escalate, obviously, but while they're in retreat? Propaganda for the Russian audience hardly seems necessary at this point.
Maybe it was the Ghost of Kiev.
(, Fri 1 Apr 2022, 15:07, Reply)
so there's even less for Putin's Army.
twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1509779208817496065

(, Fri 1 Apr 2022, 15:35, Reply)
Like the helicopters are wrong, they'd have had no chance of getting that far into Russia, etc.
Nothing is true, everything is permitted.
(, Fri 1 Apr 2022, 15:37, Reply)
Given their attitude to the truth the temptation to fuck with them a bit must be irresistible.
(, Fri 1 Apr 2022, 16:03, Reply)
Can’t rule out a false-flag entirely, but it’s a soft target in easy reach of the Ukrainian border, with a significant strategic benefit to Ukraine in fuckering it up.
Russia did it? Well you’d have to believe that firstly they saw a larger strategic benefit in propaganda than in the supply of refined oil to their front line, and secondly that the Russian Air Force have units willing to conduct orders that amount to civil war against their own population.
(, Fri 1 Apr 2022, 17:40, Reply)
since that is ostensibly what they claim to be doing in Ukraine, and what they were doing in Georgia, Chechenya, etc., etc.
US intelligence have been pretty accurate about Russia so far, and they've been warning of false flags for weeks now.
(, Fri 1 Apr 2022, 18:00, Reply)
Would be interesting to know how much oil was actually in the tanks. If they were very low, it might make a plausible low cost excuse to escalate.
(, Fri 1 Apr 2022, 18:05, Reply)
Suggesting it was rogue elements within Russia! lulz.
(, Fri 1 Apr 2022, 23:13, Reply)
They want to turn the Russian public opinion against the war in order to stop it, not turn Russians further against them and have them to escalate attacks. They also don’t want to alienate any outside supporters, who might think this is a dangerous escalation and therefore stop supplying weapons lest they end up being used in Russian territory and dragging them into the war.
Only benefit of claiming responsibility is in providing good news to their citizens, and they’ve got enough of that right now already.
(, Sat 2 Apr 2022, 8:57, Reply)
They hit a strategic target without accidentally also bombing a children's cancer hospital 5 miles away.
(, Fri 1 Apr 2022, 20:47, Reply)
2021: his 18" Johnson
2020: breaking in his ex-girlfriend's back door
2019: getting into his wife's beaver
2018: manipulating his tiny coq
(, Fri 1 Apr 2022, 15:50, Reply)
Also the banana flavour that they had was a lot like artificial strawberry flavour in that it tasted nothing like the real thing. Still, at that age candy was candy.
(, Sat 2 Apr 2022, 7:20, Reply)
to the original (cavendish?) banana than the one we have today
-the same one all artificial banana flavours are based on
(, Sat 2 Apr 2022, 9:36, Reply)
I don't know why I watch so many of his videos but I think that's pretty common
(, Sat 2 Apr 2022, 0:21, Reply)
still, it hit the spot, thanks
(, Fri 1 Apr 2022, 11:40, Reply)
Come on ladies come on ladies
One plus one fish
(, Fri 1 Apr 2022, 5:52, Reply)
(, Fri 1 Apr 2022, 8:00, Reply)
And just for a change he's made a kiln. And some bricks.
(, Thu 31 Mar 2022, 22:39, Reply)
In a rapidly changing world, he’s still there, baking clay and building huts.
(, Thu 31 Mar 2022, 22:47, Reply)
oh yeah, that was it - cheers
ted talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ODzO7Lz_pw
(, Thu 31 Mar 2022, 23:13, Reply)
I am on the same page in my analysis of society and its future too..
(, Thu 31 Mar 2022, 23:59, Reply)
Which seems foolhardy, given that he’s already burned one hut down.
(, Fri 1 Apr 2022, 7:50, Reply)
haven't looked at cracked in years since they fired pretty much their entire creative team
(, Thu 31 Mar 2022, 22:01, Reply)
people with too much money pretending they don't have enough money to make a film but do?
(, Fri 1 Apr 2022, 23:44, Reply)
D'accord, en le Minecraft.
(, Thu 31 Mar 2022, 18:15, Reply)
Criticising a company which is still trading in Russia and is largely owned by his wife and in-laws is hardly personal, especially when Sunak himself criticised all foreign companies still trading on Russia. He and the rest of these chumps don't think that anything applies to them.
(, Thu 31 Mar 2022, 17:39, Reply)
(, Thu 31 Mar 2022, 19:17, Reply)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60947028
I smell the influence of religious twats.
(, Thu 31 Mar 2022, 19:23, Reply)
Same trick every time.
(, Thu 31 Mar 2022, 20:22, Reply)
Edit: fast 'U' turn there, or maybe just a distraction.
(, Thu 31 Mar 2022, 21:35, Reply)
Apparently trans people are fair game. Which is an odd position to take, given other news this week.
(, Fri 1 Apr 2022, 2:55, Reply)
I'd expect a dysphoric patient to be offered talking therapies before surgery or hormone treatment because those avenues are risky and irreversible. Would that be considered "conversion" therapy?
(, Fri 1 Apr 2022, 7:50, Reply)
Caveat: there must be some bad talking therapists out there, possibly even religious bigots who've bizarrely chosen to enter the mental healthcare profession, but the goal of CBT is not to create worse psychological problems for patients.
The people in the public consultation opposed to the ban on torturing LGBT people are not talking therapists, they are pretty much exclusively the 'religious freedom' lobby of hateful nutcases and weirdos.
(, Fri 1 Apr 2022, 14:38, Reply)
Exploring someones motivations, feelings, thoughts around transitioning is not the same as praying for salvation from 'sin', banishing 'bad' feelings with coercive religious services, aversion techniques etc.
It's the difference between an open discussion and being forced into a stress position while being told how 'wrong' you are.
Here is a professional document about the therapeutic pathway
www.genderpsychology.org/transsexual/hbsoc_2001.html
(, Fri 1 Apr 2022, 15:29, Reply)
But he lives in a different reality cut off from the real world.
(, Thu 31 Mar 2022, 21:23, Reply)
of being the first person on b3ta ever to mention him.
b3ta.com/board/11291717
(, Fri 1 Apr 2022, 12:55, Reply)
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