What's the date?
Hello. It's been a while.
Have a look at the second picture here. Is it me, or, er...?
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 5 May 2023, 15:07,
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The problem here is that I can't say that you're wrong about leaving without proving that you're right.
Arse.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 5 May 2023, 15:42,
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Apparently, it's a trick of the light
Having zoomed it myself, I find that hard to believe, but who am I to question that esteemed publication.
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Hmmmm.
I mean, rationally-speaking, I don't doubt that it is - but I'm struggling to believe it without a fight.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 5 May 2023, 16:17,
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Upon further investigation,
Yep.
I found the "original" images here, and now I understand. It's shadow/reflection weirdness, and compression.
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Definitely photoshopped
I can tell by the pixels.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Fri 5 May 2023, 16:28,
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Yeah. If I screw up my eyes, I can see it as "2333", so I guess it's just pareidolia. Maybe there was a mote of dust on it, or whatever.
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the coronation ceremony is going to be that long
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 5 May 2023, 23:01,
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That was sadly quite dull.
But relatively impressive I suppose that they were able to do that live, at all.
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Invisible Wizard - 12th Level Errorer, Fri 5 May 2023, 14:10,
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Seemed like they had a script but Terry fucked it up.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Sun 7 May 2023, 15:44,
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Reminds me of when I saved up the 99 p for a Star Wars figure in 1977
I got the original Han Solo.
My brother cut his thumbs off so he couldn't hold his blaster.
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Invisible Wizard - 12th Level Errorer, Fri 5 May 2023, 9:07,
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Well, no, not really.
It was still a piece of articulated molded plastic. No amount of parts cut off it would change that.
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Invisible Wizard - 12th Level Errorer, Fri 5 May 2023, 12:25,
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Aw noo Mary, are ye dancin'?
"Oh no, it's just the way I'm staunin'"
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Fri 5 May 2023, 0:22,
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McSweeney's being quite funny
Made oi larfff anyway
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simbosan is too tired, Thu 4 May 2023, 23:51,
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NEW BABYLON 5 ANIMATED MOVIE, HOLY SHIT
100% completed, official title and release information to be released next week!
(Apologies for the Twitter link.)
— Link to tweet
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Thu 4 May 2023, 22:35,
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Was Babylon 5 any good?
The only evidence I have to go on is the line in Spaced ("Babylon 5's a big pile of shit!") and the sheer mind-numbing awfulness of the soundtrack, composed by ex Tangerine Dream hero Chris Franke.
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fred zeppelin II: Electric Boogaloo, Fri 5 May 2023, 8:38,
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Eh, bits of it were. I loved it at the time, but in retrospect season 1 was a slog, but necessary for the back story. Seasons 2 to 4 were good. Season 5 and all the TV movies were not. Even then the episode quality varied wildly within the series.
The spinoff series Crusade was a fucking dumpster fire that should have been canned far earlier than it was.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Fri 5 May 2023, 11:07,
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It was a weirdly fascinating series
A lot of the acting was excruciating, but there were some real superb performances. Jakar and Molari being the obvious choices. It starts slowly but the the big story unfolded into something awesome.
I've watched the whole series 3 times now =) It's a kind of cosy friendship.
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simbosan is too tired, Fri 5 May 2023, 12:28,
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Sat down and ploughed through all five seasons again a few years back
In general it stood up OK. The story was strong enough to carry the wobbly sets and early CGI.
I'll agree with you about the acting, but would say that some of the actors were let down by having to deliver some pretty hammy dialogue.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Fri 5 May 2023, 14:48,
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JMS does great plots but clunky dialogue.
The actor who played Ivanova was terrible, and everyone's hair was always too clean. Those rogue telepaths living down below, for example, should have been stinking, grubby, unkempt, but apparently there's a load of free showers, shampoo and conditioner down there.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Fri 5 May 2023, 15:20,
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It was an example of how to do arcs well.
JMS apparently laid out the plot from beginning to end first, rather than seemingly making it up as he went as writers often do these days.
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jonbob loves you, Fri 5 May 2023, 13:12,
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It was excellent for the time and budget. One of the best science fiction series ever.
The incidental music is mostly unobtrusive... It's marmite, I've never been enthusiastic about it, but I've met fans who absolutely love it and seek out every CD. I never paid much attention to it at the time. The main theme is fine, the establishing shot stings are good, the rest is quite unmemorable.
As others have said, S1 is slow (and a bit stiff in a militaristic way), 2, 3 and 4 are great, 5 is not so good (the network cancelled season 5 forcing the writer to compress everything into season 4, then they were so impressed with season 4 that they uncancelled season 5, but there were only subplots left to tie up by that point).
The aborted 'Excalibur' spinoff is not quite as bad as Lexx. It's interesting to watch as you can practically see the executive interference ruining the show in real time. The various straight to video movies are okay, but not essential viewing.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Fri 5 May 2023, 15:13,
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Worth watching just for Bester, G’Kar and Londo.
But I’m obviously preaching to the choir here.
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jonbob loves you, Fri 5 May 2023, 22:18,
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Damn right.
Have you ever read The Demolished Man?
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Fri 5 May 2023, 22:23,
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No, but would like to.
I doubt I could get a decent kindle version though, what with the way telepathy is represented.
Isn't that the one that calls earworms "pepsi's"?
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jonbob loves you, Fri 5 May 2023, 23:12,
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I don't recall, soz.
2nd hand paperback is only a few quid!
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Fri 5 May 2023, 23:35,
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Re-reading the Draka series at the moment.
Maybe after that. I don't think I have any books lined up at the moment.
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jonbob loves you, Fri 5 May 2023, 23:56,
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The CGI for the first season of Babylon 5 was rendered solely on a network of Amiga-based Video Toasters. That's why it looks so incredibl
y bad.
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And they didn’t keep any assets so a remaster would mean doing from scratch.
To be fair, that probably wouldn’t take nearly as much time these days, but AI upscaling would be easier. What a time to be alive.
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jonbob loves you, Fri 5 May 2023, 20:39,
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Even if they had, good luck opening 30 year old files on anything other than the original hardware and software.
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Fri 5 May 2023, 21:35,
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You never know with industry stuff.
www.discreetfx.com/openvideotoaster.html
If it’s obscure, someone on the internet is bound to have made a pet project out of it. Not saying that it actually works but I wouldn’t be surprised.
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jonbob loves you, Fri 5 May 2023, 21:56,
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I haven't tried it in recent versions
but you used to be able to import Deluxe Paint IFFs into Photoshop.
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Sat 6 May 2023, 0:31,
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For CGI at the time it was pretty damn good.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Fri 5 May 2023, 22:27,
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Yes.
Hollywood films of the era like The Lawnmower Man, Hideaway and Super Mario Bros had massive budgets and still look like shit by modern standards. It's all that the tech of the time was capable of.
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Sat 6 May 2023, 0:35,
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I only skipped through because it seems to be a long advertorial of some kind.
That plugin cat hormone shit is a gimmick, all the expensive services she suggested are bullshit too.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Thu 4 May 2023, 20:30,
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Didn't think it was that bad
The piece from about 4mins, give them their own space they can retreat to, could apply to teenagers. Though I'd draw the line at teenager trees.
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I've seen the plug-ins appear to work.
As for the expensive services, she is from California and rip off medical services are part of the 'merican way.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Fri 5 May 2023, 13:48,
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I'm convinced it's just placebo for the owners and it does nothing for the cats.
My somewhat feral rescue cats calmed down over 3-6 months, but you would expect them to do that without a hormone plugin too.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Fri 5 May 2023, 15:26,
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That's a bit of a non sequitur.
The synthetic feline hormone is not something humans can sense. Cats supposedly can, but I'm not convinced.
Our sense of smell evokes memories of our unique individual experiences. There is no known universally calming smell for humans. The same is most probably true for cats and most, if not all our other animal cousins.
Your cat probably likes its own cat-stink a lot more than the expensive odourless magic water from the pet shop. The pet shop has yet to find a way to sell you your own cats body odour in cartridge form but it would if it could.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Fri 5 May 2023, 22:19,
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I didn't watch, and I didn't say hormones either.
Nor do I have a cat. Pretty sure it's actually a pheromone, which apparently works really well according to my cat-owning friend. I'm told that the Feliway plugs give off something called "feline appeasing pheromone".
If humans can make musk, it's not too much of a stretch (to me) that there's a chemical that makes people feel a little less stressed. I mean, pheromones would hardly work if they were specific to the individual would they? Lavender is the common one, though it might well be a placebo. Hard to test that.
I defer to FCM.
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jonbob loves you, Sat 6 May 2023, 0:28,
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Oh yeah I meant pheromone rather than hormone, soz.
It is not proven that adult humans have adequate pheromone receptors. There's some info on the human vomeronasal organ debate here: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6050168/
Feliway is the very expensive magic water cartridge I'm talking about. There's a summary of Feliway research studies here: whatyourcatwants.com/feliway
There are chemicals (drugs, medicines) that make humans less stressed, but these chemicals are not pheromones that we can (or probably can't even) smell, and smell is not the direct medium by which these chemicals affect the brain. These chemicals also have fairly unique/non-uniform effects on individuals.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Sat 6 May 2023, 20:18,
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I guess it would depend on the concentration, quality.
I don't see why not, plenty of odours have negative effects.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Fri 5 May 2023, 16:35,
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In my experience, cats should be apologising to us
Because cats are cunts.
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Varmint, Thu 4 May 2023, 21:49,
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I'm not clicking that link,
but from squinting at the preview picture I'm going with her name being Sarah Wookiee.
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The Bee Gee's looking like young beavers.
Wait for the ending.
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cowcat Bituminous squeegee, Thu 4 May 2023, 17:53,
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Just got done watching 'This Place Rules' - which is completely batshit.
And was reminded of this equally batshit conversation between Andrew Callaghan and Alex Jones.
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*sighs* Which one of you?
Again?
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fred zeppelin II: Electric Boogaloo, Thu 4 May 2023, 12:54,
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How the hell did they get the extension cord to reach?
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Thu 4 May 2023, 17:44,
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The three pube per ball rule cannot be ignored.
Couldn't have been a B3tan. Must have been one of those fucking Bt3ans. Fucking splitters.
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Octo I ruin everything., Fri 5 May 2023, 13:50,
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Just wanting to 1-up us in Canada eh?
well you can't. Ours was way more majestic.
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Cock, Fri 5 May 2023, 14:54,
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Someone from here
definitely wouldn't have gone for such a precise style. The cock is meant to be crudely drawn & with sparse pubes.
The plan view with shaved sack is just far too formal. Almost deferential.
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An hour and a half of ambient / trip-hop stuff to have burbling in the background
I made this!
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quackpipe swings like a pendulum do, Thu 4 May 2023, 9:44,
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if there's any burblin in the background, it's going to be me!
Lovely stuff, cheers!
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simbosan is too tired, Thu 4 May 2023, 10:07,
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Whole lotta burblin' goin' on
Well done
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fred zeppelin II: Electric Boogaloo, Thu 4 May 2023, 16:12,
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Thanks Fredders, Houie has made four of these for me, I'll chuck them all up on YouTube over the next few weeks
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quackpipe swings like a pendulum do, Thu 4 May 2023, 16:20,
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"If people don’t like it, they didn’t have to come through my door.”
OK, we won't say Carlsberg, Heineken, and Innserve.
Some good news for this morning. The 'Golliwog pub' has closed.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Thu 4 May 2023, 9:22,
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Another victory for The Woke Brigade!!!1
*Dons beige pyjamas and sips banana-broccoli shake*
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Thu 4 May 2023, 10:45,
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He’s still on holiday?
He mustn’t care too much about his business.
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jonbob loves you, Thu 4 May 2023, 21:11,
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Man now wearing a pair of crocs
Human remains found inside crocodile in Australia believed to belong to missing fisherman | CNN
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 4 May 2023, 5:32,
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"Human remains were found within one of the crocodiles, though police officers believe both were involved in the incident with Darmody"
So one was an accomplice luring the fisherman to his death?
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Thu 4 May 2023, 11:07,
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give me a blowjob, and make it snappy
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 4 May 2023, 11:48,
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This guy is a genius, and funny too!
Making a fake Firefly, lantern!
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CapnChkn I would rather be flying elephants., Thu 4 May 2023, 1:49,
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A bit Mad Max.
A Remote-Controlled Armored Tractor Hits The Mine-Strewn Fields Of Ukraine
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Wed 3 May 2023, 22:52,
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Needs more tractor tomato boob girl
She would have them sorted in no time.
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spazzcaptain Misses Valin @, Wed 3 May 2023, 22:59,
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Knob-shaped iceberg arrives at Canadian town of Dildo.
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Mr. Tea 'ulmmm'/'mmneurgh', Wed 3 May 2023, 22:12,
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Wow
I was expecting some sort of flat iceberg that had a 2D outline of a cock.
That's rather more realistic.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Thu 4 May 2023, 9:15,
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How to make a juicy steak
You spit on it.
(more seriously, this is one of the guys who wrote 'modernist cuisine' and his channel has some good stuff on it)
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Wed 3 May 2023, 14:11,
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if you're doing Steak Diane, you really should Phlegmbé it
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 3 May 2023, 22:35,
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Snot the only way.
The pixellated thumbnail suggests something more intimate, like rolling it up and fucking it.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Wed 3 May 2023, 22:48,
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Doesn't pineapple have some enzyme in it that softens meat?
I don't particularly want to watch someone spitting.
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jonbob loves you, Wed 3 May 2023, 22:46,
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that's what
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Thu 4 May 2023, 9:12,
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Exactly what I was thinking
Love his line then - "Oh sorry, that's disgusting."
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Invisible Wizard - 12th Level Errorer, Thu 4 May 2023, 14:53,
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It's all kicking off at the Kremlin
Nothing false about that big flag on top of that dome
— Link to tweet
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buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Wed 3 May 2023, 13:23,
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Great "defences", you let the object get to about six inches away before blowing it up.
Make sure it's properly in camera frame first, which just happens to be filming that random piece of roof. False flag, anyone?
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Wed 3 May 2023, 13:46,
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Russian intelligence, disinfo and propaganda is pretty good, it's just everything else they suck at.
I'm not convinced this was a false flag or a genuine assassination attempt, as either way it's just shambolically incompetent.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Wed 3 May 2023, 14:01,
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Yeah, if Ukraine were actually intending to bump off Putin I'm sure they wouldn't make such a shit job of it. Probably a third party.
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Wed 3 May 2023, 14:34,
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A small quadcopter with a limited range? Western sympathisers in our midst! Time for a purge!
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Wed 3 May 2023, 14:40,
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Putin sleeps in the Kremlin now?
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 3 May 2023, 15:42,
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It's clearly for show
You don't air-burst your bomb above a building you want to damage unless it's a fucking big bomb. This gives maximum exposure with minimum risk of damage.
Still, there's three possibilities here:
1. Ukraine sticking two fingers up in a deniable way.
2. Dissident Russians.
3. False flag.
If I were a betting person I'd go with 1.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 3 May 2023, 15:53,
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Reaching the Kremlin would involve covering a fuckton of Russian airspace undetected
I'm going with 2. Highly unlikely to be a false flag considering how shit it was, but I'm sure that won't deter Putin and Co from seizing the opportunity for a little extra propaganda.
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Small drones can fit in cars.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 3 May 2023, 16:28,
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They can, but I'd still put that on dissident Russians rather than Ukrainian agents. Especially as it looked so amateurish.
probably just an anti-government type up to some wacky hi-jinx ahead of Victory Day.
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Hasn't everyone remotely critical been murdered or locked up?
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Wed 3 May 2023, 17:59,
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Depends how much of the anti-Russian propaganda you buy into, I suppose.
Not that I'm in any way suggesting that the current Russian Government isn't actively and enthusiastically repressive when it comes to outspoken members of the population exercising anti-war/anti-Putin rhetoric - but the suggestion that anyone remotely critical of the current regime is whisked away in the night and tossed into a Gulag for the rest of their natural lives sounds a little too much like bad '80s movie to me.
The Navalny documentary paints a pretty accurate picture of Putin's Russia in my opinion. Certainly not the kind of place where protest and dissent is encouraged by any means, and about as far-detached from the bastion of liberalist societal and political freedoms that is Ukraine - but hardly North Korea, either.
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"Russia - We're not as bad as North Korea!"™
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 4 May 2023, 12:38,
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Only just, mind.
Totally reliable figures from both sides, I'm sure.
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If you listen to the sounds as the video starts
I reckon you can hear the thing being launched near the camera. On reflection, I'm also going with 2.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Wed 3 May 2023, 22:03,
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I think you could combine those possibilities for a few bonus permutations.
Dissident Russians could be working for/with/on behalf of Ukraine, or they could be duped by the FSB, or they could be duped by the FSB to work on behalf of Ukraine. Or Ukraine could be duped into action by the FSB in order to expose dissident Russians.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Wed 3 May 2023, 16:39,
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Does that change the basic possibilities, or the actors & motivations behind them?
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 3 May 2023, 17:06,
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Depends how basic you want to get.
These situations are often convoluted and complicated. The whole thing could just be a random blunder.
It could have been one Russian teenager with a toy drone and a bag of petrol. It could have been a proof of concept/demonstration flight for the benefit of the Russians, Ukranians, or any number of other interested parties (arms companies, nation states, Russian states, elements within the Russian government/organised crime networks). It could even have been a harmless drone flight (perhaps connected to the people seen climbing up the side of the dome) shot down by a deeply flawed Molotov-based anti-drone system.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Wed 3 May 2023, 17:55,
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You're all massively over-thinking this, there is only one plausible explanation.
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Just so long as they don't know that we know that they know that we know.
You know?
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jonbob loves you, Wed 3 May 2023, 22:47,
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I can’t smell novichok, actually.
Because of an incident during the Falklands War, I am no longer able to smell it.
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You can always tell fake explosives
Fake explosives put out a lot of flame and last long enough to get a good shot on film, whereas real explosives put all their energy into the explosive force and are hard to film.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqJiWbD08Yw
Tom Scott did a video on exactly this which I have posted above
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Wed 3 May 2023, 14:06,
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I am not an explosionologist
but I think a Molotov cocktail also looks like that.
Slow motion Molotov cocktail video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfvceHUBWnU
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Wed 3 May 2023, 15:23,
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^ this
reminded me of a theatrical flash
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Dick Wonder ₐ wₒₙₖy, wₐᵥy wₒₙdₑᵣ, Wed 3 May 2023, 20:26,
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Flash paper burns itself out,
whereas this thing set fire to the roof below it.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Thu 4 May 2023, 22:21,
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That moment when you're glad you didn't hurry to the top when asked during the night
2 fellas
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Ros Atkins smashing it like usual by telling us nothing we didn't already know and offering absolutely zero insight.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-65471904
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"That's it", says Putin, "No more Mr. Nice Guy"
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 3 May 2023, 22:32,
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The gruesome ways volcanoes kill fish
#AshWednesday
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Wed 3 May 2023, 7:43,
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in butter with a dash of lemon?
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 3 May 2023, 12:16,
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AND they contribute to global warming
AND they mostly kill foreigners so must be racist (just like COVID)
!BAN VOLCANOES NOW!
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On the subject of new movie releases ‐ just watched this earlier this evening.
Bloody brilliant it was too. Much, much better than any of the Marvel bollocks they've been churning out for the last few years.
Also, no fucking idea why all these fucking trailers now have a pre-trailer trailer highlight reel before announcing that the trailer is about to begin. It's a fucking trailer. Why do we need a trailer for it?
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saw a poster for it, bit surprised
thought D&Ds time had come and gone
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 3 May 2023, 1:04,
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and Diablo IV and Cities Skylines II
#pcmasterrace
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Woodkovsky ☹️➝🚻➝🚽➝😣➝💩➝🧻➝😁, Wed 3 May 2023, 11:56,
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I was going to say Putty Squad for the Amiga 1200
but apparently that actually got released in 2013, after only a 19 year wait.
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