University of Queensland?
So, the pitch is actually falling upwards?
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Varmint, Sun 3 Jul 2022, 21:32,
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Wen drop?
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Mon 4 Jul 2022, 9:58,
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Betty Boo-throyd
I made this!
Pity me - this kind of shit sticks in my head, in this case since about 1992.
Alison "Betty Boo" Clarkson had a number 7 hit with this in 1990. Not your average pop bimbo, she studied sound engineering so she could do her own producing. I also vaguely recall seeing her on some quiz show where she demonstrated a suprisingly deep knowledge of music history.
Betty Boothroyd was the first and so far only woman to be Speaker of the House of Commons from 1992 to 2000, after having been a Tiller Girl until an injury put an end to her dancing career.
I've finally attempted to exorcise this nonsense from my head by putting it here. And if it's now stuck in your head - you're welcome!
(, Sun 3 Jul 2022, 11:01, Reply)
Earworm there all right
I liked betty boo in my teens. Her and Wendy james.
(, Sun 3 Jul 2022, 11:17, Reply)
There was obviously an enormous amount of work went into that.
Well done you.
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Varmint, Sun 3 Jul 2022, 12:27,
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Yeah
Took nearly 20 minutes. I'm the first to admit it's a q&d exorcism of a weak joke, I just thought someone might get a chuckle out of it. Not everything has to be bloody Dune.
(, Sun 3 Jul 2022, 13:19, Reply)
I remember this song
I sometimes get similar ideas that no-one is ever likely to find amusing other than myself, as the references date back many years and are a combination of entirely unrelated subject matters. However, your exhibit made the corners of my mouth turn upwards, so hopefully that is sufficient justification for your 20 minutes of work. It also provides me with hope that perhaps, one day, I may myself achieve such a level of mild amusement amongst the loveable weirdos of b3ta.
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Deepfake is getting alarmingly good
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Sun 3 Jul 2022, 18:45,
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This is just silly
and we need more of it.
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Tusk knows where you live, Sun 3 Jul 2022, 20:15,
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Holy crap
That's a nostalgia bomb right there. How on earth did anyone play a videogame via touch-tone phone and their TV. THE LAG!
(, Mon 4 Jul 2022, 9:45, Reply)
Well that made me laugh
more than anything I've seen in ages.
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Ambegris likes his tea stirred anti-clockwise, Tue 5 Jul 2022, 0:05,
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The Candle That Burnt Twice as Bright.
Burns no more.
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jonbob loves you, Sat 2 Jul 2022, 21:31,
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Tyrell from Bladerunner
The barman from The Shining
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jonbob loves you, Sun 3 Jul 2022, 0:31,
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There’s no denying it, the guy had range.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sun 3 Jul 2022, 22:42,
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What a terribly researched article. It calls The Shining a horror series. It also quotes one of his friends as saying "He was very proud of being the only actor to do three Stanley Kubrick films" but doesn't name the films. IMDB only credits him with The Shining.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Sun 3 Jul 2022, 10:56,
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They were
The Killing(1956, as Tiny)
Paths of Glory (1957 as Private Arnaud)
and The Shining.
Sauce
bladerunner.fandom.com/wiki/Joe_Turkel
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TBL I posted this on, Sun 3 Jul 2022, 11:08,
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Ah, right. Turns out they are in his IMDB filmography, but they're hardly his most famous works.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Sun 3 Jul 2022, 12:49,
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shining_(miniseries)
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Sun 3 Jul 2022, 13:03,
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If anything it proves what a shoddy job they did.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Sun 3 Jul 2022, 17:03,
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I suppose you could call it a series if you count Doctor Sleep as being the second installment.
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Oh man, I totally forgot that even existed.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Sun 3 Jul 2022, 21:49,
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Stephen King is a shit writer.
Getting through the Tower series was just painful.
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jonbob loves you, Mon 4 Jul 2022, 1:16,
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He's hit or miss for me.
I thoroughly enjoyed Billy Summers, 11/22/63, The Institute, Desperation and Mr. Mercedes. Although some of his books can definitely be a slog. Dumas Key was an absolute snoozefest.
When he's good, he's pretty fucking spectacular. But he's definitely put out a lot of shit.
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I bailed out halfway through The Wastelands. I liked the Gunslinger. Drawing of the Three was painful. The Wastelands wasn't any better, and I'm not bloody-minded enough to persist through another four and a half books like that.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Mon 4 Jul 2022, 10:03,
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This year's Black Stork nest cam in Karula National Park, Estonia
looduskalender.ee/n/en/node/6528
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Sat 2 Jul 2022, 18:20,
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Aliasing for dummies
With added jazz soundtrack
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Sat 2 Jul 2022, 17:51,
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A rather beautiful example of temporal aliasing.
Just for you Tour de France and/or video nerds.
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P-MONKE We're all fucked, Fri 1 Jul 2022, 20:53,
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There are an awful lot of people there with badly fitting bikes and/or terrible form.
Which annoyed me greatly, being that I'm one of them cycling cunts.
(, Fri 1 Jul 2022, 22:26, Reply)
same
I was expecting some interesting video effect
but it was just a video of a load of lycra clad bellends
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Temporal aliasing effect
On the white line to the left of the camera. It's not obvious unless you are looking for it. Took me a while.
Essentially the frame rate is close to the frequency of the white patches going past making it look stationary.
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Needs more of this:
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Sun 3 Jul 2022, 11:01,
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Elmo sings his Ted Cruz song
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Fri 1 Jul 2022, 17:13,
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Three links in one evening
You are a spammer sir, a spammer! But who can hate a Henge link. Watch the jolly fellows frolick among the humans of Prague
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simbosan nuck nuck nuck, Fri 1 Jul 2022, 13:36,
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TOAST
I made this!
learn about what happens to bread when you put it in a toaster
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I can toastify that this is a well done slice of chewn
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simbosan nuck nuck nuck, Fri 1 Jul 2022, 12:49,
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That's not toast.
That's bread that's been told, indirectly, about toasters.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 1 Jul 2022, 13:51,
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I love
Toast and I love this ..well done.
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The invisible ham Fig rolls are the best, Fri 1 Jul 2022, 16:37,
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*raises glass in toast*
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sat 2 Jul 2022, 0:39,
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Thanks
This was a valuable contribution to my overall life experience. I shall distribute this wisdom accordingly.
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Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Sat 2 Jul 2022, 10:34,
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Hatstand!
Now thats an ear worm i am not going to be able to get rid of!
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Hummel Who died and made you....oh wait...., Sat 2 Jul 2022, 12:19,
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More homage to toast
I'm reminded of this www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHptn_3RyYE
Amazing that humble toast can inspire such creativity.
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That's pretty exactly where i see myself in ten-ish year's time. Magnificent!
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Apols for double post
But this is important news
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simbosan nuck nuck nuck, Fri 1 Jul 2022, 12:07,
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yES
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE9Vwd9CZuo
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spazzcaptain Misses Valin @, Sat 2 Jul 2022, 22:33,
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Yeah Dave,
Sit in his mouth.
For perspective.
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ivesb Highly specialised Clinical Physiologist crapbag, Fri 1 Jul 2022, 12:50,
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"dinosaurs got wiped out 65 million years ago, when a twatting great asteroid hit planet earth"
Alligators - "Hold my beer"
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Hummel Who died and made you....oh wait...., Sat 2 Jul 2022, 12:21,
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I bet that corners really badly
The radius of curvature will be different for the two rear demi wheels.
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Varmint, Fri 1 Jul 2022, 12:12,
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it'd be hard to pop a wheelie on, too
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 1 Jul 2022, 12:18,
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Won’t all the air fall out of the tyres?
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Fri 1 Jul 2022, 13:15,
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When cornering the tyres are likely to collapse sideways as they have no intact bead or air pressure to keep their shape. The half wheels will shatter soon too because there is nothing to cushion impacts and the structural integrity an intact rim gave them is now absent.
If one broke from hitting a curb they’re brittle as fuck anyway, looks like carbon or possibly even plastic with minimal “spoke” count, how strong does he think just half of one is going to be?
Rearmost half wheel is reversed to align the disc with the chain, meaning the wheel dish will be backward and the centre line off, so handling will be constantly veering off to the side.
And is that one long chain driving both wheels? Better not ever change gear, then.
I hope the 60 seconds worth of riding round the park he got in before the thing broke was worth the hours thrown away on this stupid bullshit. Still, at least he has those all important channel views, on a video which will likely inspire dozens of fuckwits to do something similar and get themselves maimed or killed. Who needs engineers anyway?
edit: Okay so at 5:32 you can see he had to jam something inside the tyres to keep them round. My other comments last night still stand. Massively wasteful, after breaking* one cheap wheel he decides to destroy another plus ruin his bike frame. 43 million views, jesus. I guess the ad revenue is more than enough for a new bike.
* And that was clearly deliberate, it looks like he cut partway through the rim in a few places before filming himself repeatedly slamming it into curbs.
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Fri 1 Jul 2022, 22:11,
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Dead fuckwits is still a useful result.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Fri 1 Jul 2022, 22:17,
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I am starting to believe that a big chunk of YouTube is published with the sole intention of making impulsive idiots end their own lives.
See also: anything on social media with "Challenge" in the name.
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Fri 1 Jul 2022, 22:27,
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Proving that there is always a silver lining
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simbosan nuck nuck nuck, Sat 2 Jul 2022, 1:45,
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People don't make decisions rationally, deal with it.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sat 2 Jul 2022, 3:09,
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I was trying to understand what Varmint said
This helps a bit
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spazzcaptain Misses Valin @, Fri 1 Jul 2022, 22:39,
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I think he was talking about this, but with an extra wheel complicating it further:
qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-9890d0a828a4ad65f74c45932936b312-lq
Imagine a non-articulated lorry with an extra pair of non-steering wheels halfway along its length. Every time it went anything other than straight, the middle set would be dragged sideways across the road.
Obviously on this bike with two half wheels, only one rear or the other would be in contact with the road at any given time, but it would still flip back and forth between two different radius turning circles with every half revolution of the wheels. So even keeping your balance while steering would probably be nightmarish.
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Fri 1 Jul 2022, 22:53,
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Bicycles don't have transversely mounted pairs of wheels, so compared to a lorry, any difference in the tracking radius on the extra wheel will be very small. The fact that the bike can be ridden at all means that it will go round corners (you have to be able to lean a bike to balance it) and you can actually see the bike cornering successfully in the video.
I think people are taking this a bit seriously. It's just a bit of fun, not a practical re-engineering of the bicycle!
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Alloy wheels apparently, this but restickered with "Flying" brand. Crap direct from China.
www.amazon.co.uk/ZUKKA-Wheelset-Magnesium-Freewheels-Accessory/dp/B089NN6BWB?th=1
Fucking HOW MUCH? I wouldn't pay 10 quid for them.
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Sat 2 Jul 2022, 13:01,
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That looks like someone chancing their luck with credulous buyers. Available for £50 elsewhere (although I agree that is still about £40.01 more than they are worth.
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I don't think you are meant to take the video that seriously
It's like an A-Team movie, the plot is full of holes and the contraption is entirely impractical and laughable, but it is entertaining. I enjoyed the strange effect where my brain expected the bike to clunk to a halt, but in fact kept going. It was better than an awful lot of YouTube drivel.
As for the ad revenue, I have heard other YouTubers say they get about $1 for every 1000 views, so 43 million view means a lot more than a new bike. $43K in fact.
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Of all the gif joints…
I made this!
Wrapping up my Star Turns project with a new gif every day this week
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dunk3d, Fri 1 Jul 2022, 0:49,
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It;s the iron age, again
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The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Thu 30 Jun 2022, 23:25,
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white skinned bloke hanging out in the jungle all day with no top or hat
I wonder if he'll still turn to primitive tech in his 40s to deal with melanoma
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 1 Jul 2022, 0:26,
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No top hat either
he's just not doing it right.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Fri 1 Jul 2022, 12:24,
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a top hat of bat scrotum stitched with vines
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sat 2 Jul 2022, 0:19,
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The greatest trailer of all time
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Ambegris likes his tea stirred anti-clockwise, Thu 30 Jun 2022, 21:59,
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Great. I'm probably on a list now. Thanks.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Fri 1 Jul 2022, 14:39,
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I watched it and it was vaguely interesting
and it's a thought experiment that probably has some real world applications somewhere
but it didn't blow my mind
(, Thu 30 Jun 2022, 18:24, Reply)
Originally proposed by a computer scientist
So probably has something to with crypto, searching or data structures.
It occurs to me that if you follow his method but the tickets are removed the probability drops back down to nothing.
Looking forward to the videos showing how veritasium is wrong. Sour grapes I know but I’m not really a fan.
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jonbob loves you, Thu 30 Jun 2022, 18:49,
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I enjoy the subject matter of Veritasium's videos.
But Derek Muller is a smug cunt.
Numberphile is a somewhat similar channel (albeit a bit geekier) but almost always has far more agreeable presenters and a more succinct video format.
(, Thu 30 Jun 2022, 20:37, Reply)
I do find him very smug too.
It might be an American thing; I distrust people with teeth that white and/or those who smile that much.
Or maybe I was just really soured by his speed of electricity shite.
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jonbob loves you, Thu 30 Jun 2022, 21:15,
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I enjoy all of Brady Haran's channels
(Matron)
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simbosan nuck nuck nuck, Fri 1 Jul 2022, 4:30,
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I was watching this thinking “Now where have I heard about this before?”
And then he put Matt Parker’s video up.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Thu 30 Jun 2022, 20:27,
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I hate that guy.
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2 Can Chunder Word to your mums — I came to prod bums, Thu 30 Jun 2022, 20:40,
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whether it's 1/3 chance or a much smaller likelihood of execution, it still feels like something that would end up in the Hague
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