Carrey Beg and the Catnip
I made this!
In which we introduce our rescue cat to hard cat-drugs.
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Sun 12 Jun 2022, 13:30,
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Oh yeah, that's the good shit right there.
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VicJameson : fucking internet virgins since, Sun 12 Jun 2022, 15:23,
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You are worse than Kurt Zouma. Administering a stupefying narcotic to a vulnerable animal is egregious conduct.
Well done.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sun 12 Jun 2022, 20:15,
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Pffft I've got three varieties growing.
The strong one is protected by a bird cage.
The downside is that so many cats visit the garden, it smells of piss.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sun 12 Jun 2022, 20:42,
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OMFG you’re running some kind of moggy trap house.
You’ve probably got a feline county lines operation on the side. ‘Pussycat, pussycat, where have you been?’ indeed.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sun 12 Jun 2022, 21:01,
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Lovely video
There seems to be a lot of black cats about at the moment.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sun 12 Jun 2022, 20:50,
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Man! That cat can swallow anything!
NSFW
No kidding! I read about this before, but couldn't find a photo of the sex toy. LOOK AT THAT THING!
Educationally, Blue Catfish are some of the largest catfish in North America...
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CapnChkn I would rather be flying elephants., Sat 11 Jun 2022, 19:29,
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blue catfish have an enormous education?
Well every day is school day!
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simbosan nuck nuck nuck, Sat 11 Jun 2022, 23:45,
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That is indeed a large dildo. I was wondering where I'd left it.
Though of course the irony is that Ronseal is the opposite of catfishing.
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jonbob loves you, Sun 12 Jun 2022, 8:09,
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Yeah, if you could tidy the link before posting, that'd be grrreat
www.huffpost.com/entry/catfish-sex-toy-ohio-river_n_62a36b03e4b0cf43c848ba6f
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But then how would he earn that sweet sweet internet money?
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Sun 12 Jun 2022, 22:52,
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Voyager:TAS
Another gem of retro-animation
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Sat 11 Jun 2022, 13:22,
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Very well done
but it's still Voyager. :/
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Sat 11 Jun 2022, 14:21,
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Voyager answers the question
"what if starship captains were evil?"
(, Sun 12 Jun 2022, 0:12, Reply)
Another episode which fills the crew with a sense of dread.
No matter what happens there will be an hours long lessons learned meeting rehashing the old arguments about shuttle bay security.
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T-1000 IRL
..and so it begins.
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notoolsovernight you're all luvvly an' 'orrible, Sat 11 Jun 2022, 12:55,
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ACTUALLY...
More like the Cyberdyne Systems T-800 series. The T-1000 consisted of a mimetic polyalloy and contained zero biological tissue.
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T-800, shurely
The T-1000 was the liquid metal fella
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Sat 11 Jun 2022, 13:24,
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I THINK YOU MEAN THE T800 ACTUALLY
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2 Can Chunder Word to your mums — I came to prod bums, Sat 11 Jun 2022, 13:35,
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I, for one, welcome our realistic robotic sex toy overlords.
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Varmint, Sat 11 Jun 2022, 13:54,
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Until they learn how to create a soul, I'm not worried.
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cowcat Bituminous squeegee, Sat 11 Jun 2022, 16:50,
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My stellaris experience
Tells me that the best bet is to destroy all robots as soon as they ask about souls, or upload yourself into machine bodies and hope they don't kill you.
Both work, but don't ignore the problem.
The other way to deal with robot uprisings is to be the robot uprising. Are you human or roomba?
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why hasn't it occured to anyone that this is clearly more similiar to the T-800 than the T-1000?
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Woodkovsky ☹️➝🚻➝🚽➝😣➝💩➝🧻➝😁, Sat 11 Jun 2022, 19:55,
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Pedro will have advance ordered all the feet they can make.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sun 12 Jun 2022, 0:23,
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TikTok remake of William Friedkin's Sorceror
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Ambegris likes his tea stirred anti-clockwise, Fri 10 Jun 2022, 23:40,
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A b3ta of a tweet of a tiktok of a react to a tiktok
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Sat 11 Jun 2022, 8:58,
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i read a reply about a comment about a post about tweet about a reaction video about a tik tok that danced with the prince of wales
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 12 Jun 2022, 4:00,
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Video yourself doing it, for the you tube's
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Sat 11 Jun 2022, 10:06,
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With a nude version for his onlyfans
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2 Can Chunder Word to your mums — I came to prod bums, Sat 11 Jun 2022, 13:38,
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Penga, a penguin physics game
I made this!
It's sort of like Jenga.
But with penguins.
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malevole, Fri 10 Jun 2022, 10:07,
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8 but only just
managed to get rid of all of the penhuins apart from the top one but nothing else happens, should it?
Used the sweeping penguin move to knock others off.
Didn't scroll down to the other levels - my mistake
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You can't change your mind over which penguin to move, IDK if that's a bug or a feature, seems like a bug.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Fri 10 Jun 2022, 14:10,
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no it's deliberate...
If you can choose another penguin, then I'd need to allow all falling penguins to give you points (otherwise it'd be confusing/unfair if you deselected one as it's falling).
If I let all penguins score points, when do you get the points? Does the timer keep resetting? Is there a queue waiting to add to the score?
And what's to stop you just grabbing one penguin and using it to knock all the others off? Wouldn't ruin the game but felt like it distorted it too much.
Had to weigh up all sorts of knock-on effects
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malevole, Fri 10 Jun 2022, 15:00,
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ICICIC
TYTYTY
Now I get it.
EDIT:
19. And you're a bastard.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Fri 10 Jun 2022, 15:11,
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20, and you're still a bastard.
Is it possible to complete without losing the crown?
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Fri 10 Jun 2022, 20:53,
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People have scored 1 & kept the crown
But getting 20 without knocking it off seems virtually impossible, the royal bounces around so much when high up
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malevole, Fri 10 Jun 2022, 22:52,
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When it falls on its side to his left or right it stops wobbling. I got to 14 before making a stupid mistake and knocking it off.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Fri 10 Jun 2022, 23:24,
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I kept the crown, but not on his head:
I think it's possible to keep it on his head for 20.
I take it the crown's centre of gravity is offset somewhere above the top..?
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Sat 11 Jun 2022, 16:50,
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Did it in 3
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Fri 10 Jun 2022, 17:52,
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Did you use witchcraft?
I can't do it no matter how I try. Life isn't fair!
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cowcat Bituminous squeegee, Sat 11 Jun 2022, 0:03,
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a couple of tips:
* You can lift the penguins up off their platform
* You can use a penguin to slide the king around and get it centred again
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I go for a lift and drop with the middle penguin.
Also high risk platform removal procedure when I'm down to the last couple of layers.
(, Sat 11 Jun 2022, 9:25, Reply)
Aha. You guys and your creative thinking!
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cowcat Bituminous squeegee, Sat 11 Jun 2022, 14:11,
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Well that’s infuriatingly addictive.
You talented bastard.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Fri 10 Jun 2022, 18:21,
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you're still about!
You tribute to Ray Harryhausen was the first thing I ever saw on B3ta and look I'm still here because of it!
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parsons* *restrictions apply, Sat 11 Jun 2022, 19:57,
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20...
.. by removing the platforms systematically as I go down.
Couldn't keep the crown though
Great game!
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Ugi , it's a game of give and cake, Wed 22 Jun 2022, 14:12,
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An actual LEGO computer brick.
And to think I have trouble adding a single LED to a papercraft model.
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jonbob loves you, Fri 10 Jun 2022, 3:39,
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A Lego brick you might see in the dark, before treading on it.
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Varmint, Fri 10 Jun 2022, 9:31,
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Except
It will almost certainly be in power-saving mode....
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P-MONKE We're all fucked, Fri 10 Jun 2022, 13:52,
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Doco about that Yank nutter with the armoured bulldozer.
...probably half an hour too long.
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I blame Frank Lupo and Stephen J. Cannell.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Fri 10 Jun 2022, 15:41,
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and that was a wee one by dozer standard
A D11 dozer driver at one of the mines I worked told me if you put one going forward in any city, no normal house or building would stop it, it would just straight line until it ran out of fuel. some of the komatsus in iron ore mines are twice as big again
nice doco
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sat 11 Jun 2022, 7:01,
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Matt Zimmerman (the voice of Alan Tracy on Thunderbirds) 🙁
Has left this mortal coil.
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TBL I posted this on, Thu 9 Jun 2022, 21:22,
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Our Dinosaurs are going to live on Netflix
I made this!
Wheeeeeee! Our silly dinosaurs cartoons are going to Netflix as Bad Dinosaurs. Just starting production now, just got announced so I can mention it at last. Hooray!
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crab_bloke), Thu 9 Jun 2022, 15:09,
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Thanks
Thanks! B3ta old-timer Natt is head writer, we're holding the b3tard flame high
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crab_bloke), Thu 9 Jun 2022, 16:36,
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Hello!
I can see your face right now, mere inches away from my face.
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Natt, Thu 9 Jun 2022, 17:26,
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Congratulations
Hopefully it will make up for not being asked to do a Mother Theresa animation for the Jubilee
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Thu 9 Jun 2022, 16:45,
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Thanks!
Although nothing will make up for that of course.
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crab_bloke), Thu 9 Jun 2022, 17:12,
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Yay!
It's the big time.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Thu 9 Jun 2022, 17:47,
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Congrats!
Please also pitch them a dramatic reimagining of Tales of the Blode.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Thu 9 Jun 2022, 18:06,
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Absolutly
Amazing news. I look forward to seeing it. Congratulations!!
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The invisible ham Fig rolls are the best, Thu 9 Jun 2022, 19:02,
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Congratulations!
How many superyachts will you be buying with the proceeds?
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Thu 9 Jun 2022, 20:44,
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They are terrible lizards
but they'll be AMAZING bad dinosaurs, YUSS wonderful gg congrats.
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gaijintendo Regular Member, Thu 9 Jun 2022, 20:48,
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Many congratulations!
Does this mean we can have Thomas the Wank Engine back?
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Thu 9 Jun 2022, 21:13,
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top stuff, big congrats on getting it commissioned
hope you keep your silliness through the demands of production
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 9 Jun 2022, 23:28,
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Congrats!
May this bring you all the fame and fortune you can eat.
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Rob T Firefly talked, like, William Shatner, on, Sun 12 Jun 2022, 6:05,
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Pino Palladino playing fretless on this. Blimey.
he gets everywhere, I tell you...
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Thu 9 Jun 2022, 12:59,
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I listened to Pretty Hate Machine the other day, for the first time in YEARS
A couple of tracks still sound alright, the rest has aged really badly.
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The music
or the production? Because I do think the songs are well written, but Trent Reznor was very much in the thrall of the tech of the time.
I used to love the Seinfeld-Style-Sampled-Slap of the original, but fuck me Sanctified is in another realm with Pino playing on it.
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Thu 9 Jun 2022, 14:49,
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with that stuff the music is inseparable from the production really, innit
Sin sounds very 80s, and Down In It was always a bit shit; it's a ripoff of Skinny Puppy with a godawful attempt at rapping.
Something I Can Never Have is one of the tracks that's aged well.
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God, I thought it was garbage the day it came out
Some record shop guy said "Hey, you like industrial stuff - you'll love this." I took it back.
They got better. Usually it's the other way round "I liked their early stuff" beard-stroking.
Still, they're one of the only bands I've ever walked out on - shite live experience. I'd far rather hear them in a club.
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Thu 9 Jun 2022, 16:13,
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nine inch nails weren't really industrial when they started out, I reckon
Obviously clear influences from Ministry, Depeche Mode etc, but not 'industrial' in the same way as Throbbing Gristle or Skinny Puppy.
(, Thu 9 Jun 2022, 16:48, Reply)
Exactly -
I was most upset. Where's my screeching dalek vocals and fuzzy horror film samples?
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Thu 9 Jun 2022, 16:55,
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We didn't walk out, but yes, probably the worst gig I've been to.
Awful sound, drawn out meandering versions of the less "danceable" tracks, and a few black silhouettes standing in front of a red screen for the entire thing - could have been anyone up there.
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Thu 9 Jun 2022, 19:47,
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I still reckon he did the deed with Brian back in the day
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Thu 9 Jun 2022, 22:47,
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I seem to recall
that the digipack of 1996's antichrist superstar contains a photo of him with a tube going from his dick to twiggy's mouth
And now people have started accusing him of being a pervert
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Fri 10 Jun 2022, 12:22,
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the only MM album remotely worth listening to is Portrait of an American Family
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BANG!!
Howitzer barrel explosion photos.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Thu 9 Jun 2022, 5:13,
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I came across this the other day on my wikipedia timewasting
it was on a page about ww1 hand grenades. I just like the way the woman appears to realise that he's stuffing around with a live grenade and it might be an idea to run away
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenade#/media/File:Stick_hand_grenade_throw_clip.gif
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 9 Jun 2022, 6:14,
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Many happy candles!
I'm not surprised she ran, he was way too casual about that.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Thu 9 Jun 2022, 14:42,
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I did this when I were a lad
Had a little diecast howitzer and making gunpowder was my hobby at the time. I loaded it up and rolled a 22 pellet a little to fit the barrel nicely. When I set it off the barrel exploded, a bit of metal cut my face and the sound left me ears ringing for the rest of the day. The barrel was like a flower and I never found the muzzle.
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simbosan nuck nuck nuck, Thu 9 Jun 2022, 7:39,
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They should write ACME on the side
meanwhile in stealth technology news
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The old 'art installation' trick.
They've not heard of infra-red or simply bombing the funny moving rectangular things anyway.
That barrel explosion is straight out of cartoons.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Thu 9 Jun 2022, 17:56,
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Rectangle things with cannons sticking out of the.
And caterpillar tracks behind them...
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gaijintendo Regular Member, Sat 11 Jun 2022, 19:05,
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Some of you might find this interesting
People who deny free speech won't.
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An Egg ,D, Thu 9 Jun 2022, 3:39,
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not sure what the issue is.
the terms of the FOI requested are set out in the Act which the government are complying with, and were nice enough to point out the specific clauses that support their refusal. Are they upset with discovering what the FOI legislation terms are?
Vicki spit was unable to prove a causal link sufficient to access the compensation fund for her husband dying of a blood clot 8 days after receiving a vaccine. It's sad, but at known worldwide complication rates, you are 14 times more likely to die of blood clot in any week from other causes than the minusculely low rate of thrombolytic reaction to AZ, so the government is right to ask for evidence of a causal link other than an eight day synchronicity before paying out taxpayers money
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 9 Jun 2022, 5:26,
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sorry, I know getting into a vax debate is so 2020
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 9 Jun 2022, 6:11,
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I understand why she's angry and suspicious, but pretty much ^this^.
It's not evidence of a cover-up, because there is no cover-up. Safety of medicines is very strictly monitored, and this goes for older drugs as well as new ones.
It's true that pharmaceutical companies have got away with very dodgy practices in decades gone by, resulting in real harm to lots of people, but the regulatory framework and monitoring in place now means that really isn't likely to happen these days. Pharmaceutical companies are far more likely to drop a promising new drug if the risk:benefit ratio looks like increasing beyond 'infinatesimal'.
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Well that’s pretty comprehensive. Next!
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Thu 9 Jun 2022, 12:08,
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I really HATE this trend that the TABLOIDS have started of TYPING certain things in uppercase for EMPHASIS.
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They've probably developed a script or plug-in that scans the text and capitalises any word that matches a list they have
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I've been damaged by more than one drug.
The risks are outlined in the data sheet, so tough.
There is no such thing as a free lunch or a perfect pharmaceutical product; especially if the product is produced in an emergency.
If people want to complain about nasty side effects and dodgy companies, try the 'beauty' industries and products like fillers and skin lighteners, weight loss pills etc.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Thu 9 Jun 2022, 15:07,
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Watching Maajid Nawaz's spiralling mental health over the last few years has been tough.
I stopped listening to his LBC show a few months before he was sacked for spreading covid conspiracies. It was alleged by some that his pivot from liberalism to American right wing libertarianism coincided with Quilliam being funded by and operating from an actual Republican Party office.
It's really sad, he should know that he's susceptible to paranoid conspiracy theories, given his history.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Thu 9 Jun 2022, 16:09,
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Was going to post something, but saw candles, many candles, so instead I'm posting this
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 9 Jun 2022, 2:40,
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Groovin to your candlebrations
So that's where that sample came from!
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simbosan nuck nuck nuck, Thu 9 Jun 2022, 7:28,
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predated santana with the LA latin fusion, but disappeared before the scene got going
this is their standout.
melbourne has two great community radio stations, pbs and rrr, real gems. Heard the track first on www.pbsfm.org.au/program/blue-juice which broadcasts on sunday 1pm AEST which you can stream
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 9 Jun 2022, 14:40,
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The latest Star Wars thing has ruined the otherwise perfect Star Wars
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Ambegris likes his tea stirred anti-clockwise, Wed 8 Jun 2022, 22:56,
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TO GET YOUR ATTENTION!
DID IT WORK!?
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Ambegris likes his tea stirred anti-clockwise, Thu 9 Jun 2022, 0:51,
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Incredible
Thank you.
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Ambegris likes his tea stirred anti-clockwise, Thu 9 Jun 2022, 16:08,
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If you assume that the original trilogy is "good"
- and everything else is "meh" or "bad", then by run-time, over 95% of Star Wars is not good.
If you want to add a other movies or cartoon episodes to the "good" pile, then you might get it down to 90%.
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Thu 9 Jun 2022, 12:14,
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Reached my limit for shouty Aussies this week
Next week!
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simbosan nuck nuck nuck, Thu 9 Jun 2022, 12:43,
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8-Bit Tories Season Three Finale
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buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Wed 8 Jun 2022, 20:49,
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When the chips are down
Delightfully quirky insight into what worries the Welsh.
I need to explore this Gwyn Thomas chap a bit more...
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d0gbyte, Wed 8 Jun 2022, 18:14,
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Brexit continuing to twist the knife.
Thanks, cunts.
(I don't actually own an iPhone, but I still think standardisation for this kind of stuff should be mandatory).
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I’m actually pleased by this, though it probably won’t matter.
The original idea was to cut down on extra chargers, which is why before USBC they were all USBA. There’s no harm in including a cable in the box.
I think the Lightning connector is much better than USBC. Still, Apple aren’t going to make two different models and we’ll most likely see USBC across the board. Thankfully I switched to using Qi a long time ago so it doesn’t affect me much.
While I’m on it, I’m really annoyed that the new MacBooks don’t have any USBA slots on them. Last time I checked memory sticks still used that.
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jonbob loves you, Wed 8 Jun 2022, 18:28,
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Oh really...
...www.lifewire.com/usb-c-vs-lightning-5206813
...tell us more about the superiority of "lightning" connectors.
There's also the issue of not every portable device not being a wireless charging device...
But hey, when the result is a faster descent into a climate changed oblivion that will hopefully save the universe from the worst sexually transmitted disease ever created, we should all be outside burning disel soaked tyres till it's over. Right?
(, Wed 8 Jun 2022, 21:55, Reply)
We'll have all murdered each other/finally submitted to a megavirus long before the climate causes a mass extinction event.
Not that I'm in anyway a climate change denier. It's just that we're very good at engineering our way around these kinds of things. Musk and Co. will be producing Tesla Habdomes® for the masses to watch our planet turn into a scorched dystopian hellscape in air conditioned comfort well in advance of the environment actually becoming incompatible with human life.
The fossil fuel wars, on the other hand, are likely to end up with most of us either dead or sent back to pre-industrial era long before we seriously have to consider living out our days in a bubble.
It's either going to be that, or some form of mega-aggressive DonkeyPox that finally does us in. Because as mental as Covid was, we tend to have very, very short memories and I suspect those of us that didn't have first hand experience of a close friend/relative succumbing to the virus will look upon any future pandemic with a "Well, we survived the last one!" attitude. Good fucking luck making everyone stay in their houses for a month or wear masks in public ever again.
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Speed is irrelevant when it syncs over Wi-Fi and you only tend to do a full sync once.
I only care about how sturdy the connector is and how likely it is to fall out. On that score I think lightning is better. With one exception, everything I have with a USB-C port tends to wobble.
The whole speed argument just seems like a repeat of FireWire and Thunderbolt; the vast majority wouldn’t be able to saturate the link if they tried. My portable storage is barely fast enough for USB 3 as it is. I know there are things out there that can benefit from 3Gbs or whatever it is but phones aren’t one of them.
As for wireless charging, don’t most phones have it now? My last three have.
I’m all for the EU mandating a single charging standard, but I don’t see why they should get involved with what’s on the other end of the cable.
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jonbob loves you, Wed 8 Jun 2022, 22:44,
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I quite often use my phone as a portable mass storage device.
I'll admit that the vast majority of my syncing is now done via cloud/remote access, but there are times when I might want a more immediate transfer of bulk data, and the phone is absolutely ideal for that. Transferring 100GB+ of data via USB 2.0 is arduous.
USB-C being 'less physically secure' than lightning is also a bonus in my book. When I nearly twat myself tripping over a rogue USB cable, I like to know that the connection between the cable and the device will be the weakest link, rather than needing to replace the cable every time my boat feet come into contact with it. It does tend to have some slight wobble/play, but I think this is probably specced in to allow for a slightly larger margin of error when mass producing USB-C plugs/sockets. My current phone is getting on for three or four years old now, is regularly used whilst plugged in (like now) has a 'wobbly' USB-C socket but has never given me any issues whatsoever in regards to reliability. If it was Micro-USB, previous experience says it would be long dead by now.
I suspect that Apple have done themselves no favours by sticking so fervently to Lightning all these years. It's a proprietary connection that became relatively obsolete just about a year after it was introduced. I suspect Apple's true reason for not wishing to replace it is due to their insistence on using the same internals whereever possible for the vast majority of their phones. Just about anyone with the means to own an iphone will also have some form of USB-C device by now. I'd imagine that requiring a specific proprietary cable that only charges your phone must be a massive pain in the tits for even the most indoctrinated of iphone zealots these days.
(, Wed 8 Jun 2022, 23:29, Reply)
It's horses for courses at the end of the day.
I only ever plug in my phone to charge it from a power bank, and for that I prefer lightning. Truth be told I seldom need to plug in anything in these days besides memory sticks, so while USB-C may be faster, that doesn't help me at all. I just want a solid connection for charging. I did use an iPod as an external drive a long time ago, but that was back when they had firewire ports, which were a lot faster than USB.
I also make a comparison to the shitty micro-USB ports that disconnected when faced with an especially loud fart, but for the sake of argument while USB-C isn't exactly new it's still not really widespread so time will tell. I'm not convinced that putting the thin breakable bit on the device side is such a good idea; it seems like it's the more likely end to break.
FWIW lightning was made obsolete because no-one really needed a port for data anymore, not that the protocol itself was too slow. Besides, only phones and tablets ever used it. The dock connector had all those pins because at the time wi-fi was only 11Mbps and portable devices seldom had it anyway. I think Apple stuck with lightning because it was slightly smaller, a lot less complex in terms of pinout and perfectly adequate for what most people used it for.
MagSafe on the other hand, has probably saved my laptop a dozen times over. Apple should never have been able to patent that.
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jonbob loves you, Thu 9 Jun 2022, 0:05,
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Pin 4 always dies in lighting connectors...
I refuse to buy anything that is not USB C.
I work at sea, and I have a 9x7 inch bag of chargers, adapters and cables, I'd say 700gr of wasted space and weight.
It is just a massive pain in the posterior.
(, Sat 11 Jun 2022, 18:23, Reply)
How is your not *actually* owning an iPhone relevant to your opinion about this sort of thing being standardised?
I mean, I'd understand why you would feel the need to point out if you *did* have an iPhone, but if the same tube plugs into all your devices anyway, why the gratuitous Applephobia?
(, Wed 8 Jun 2022, 23:32, Reply)
Sony were really bad for proprietary connections in the early '00s.
It was a massive pain in the arse then, and there's really no excuse for it now if there is a standardised alternative that does the job equally as well or better. I'll admit that I'm a bit 'Applephobic', also. But almost entirely due to nonsense like the Lightning connector.
(, Wed 8 Jun 2022, 23:49, Reply)
Their range of camcorders and outboard mics/accessories immediately spring to mind.
Not to mention their fucking Memory Sticks. They're still at it, mind.
(, Thu 9 Jun 2022, 15:54, Reply)
I always thought USB-A taught people an important lesson in life
about not being right the first time
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Thu 9 Jun 2022, 2:13,
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then you try the other way and you're still wrong and then you realise you were right in the first place
That's the lesson, you're not wrong until you've proved your wrongness was right... or something... help
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simbosan nuck nuck nuck, Thu 9 Jun 2022, 7:42,
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Or the second time
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Thu 9 Jun 2022, 13:36,
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