
Jumping castle operator jailed over arson attacks on Melbourne rivals

( , Thu 18 May 2023, 15:08, Reply)

Behold some truly awful Scottish accents
I spat on myself I was so insulted
WTF is Ken and sasenach. Fuck off.
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I guess he's trying to disguise his voice because the dialogue is so terrible.
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Maybz I just get sneered at regardless.
( , Thu 18 May 2023, 14:08, Reply)

I am from Bridge of Allan, though, so I'm exceedingly posh. At least according to all the people from the Raploch I went to school with.
( , Thu 18 May 2023, 15:59, Reply)

"Lionsgate+ is the place where you can watch original titles such as Outlander, Station Eleven, The Serpent Queen, The Great, Power Book, Gaslit, Tokyo Vice, Blindspotting, Dr Death, Doom Patrol and more."
I challenge anyone to claim that they have ever heard of any of those things.
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( , Thu 18 May 2023, 16:26, Reply)

Has the Venture Brothers central theme of failure so you’d probably like it.
Michelle Gomez is in the later series giving it her usual best.
( , Fri 19 May 2023, 1:16, Reply)

I've watched Doom Patrol, it's a dark super heroes but they're all a bit crap at it type of show.
( , Thu 18 May 2023, 16:27, Reply)

My guess is that they are graphic novels.
( , Thu 18 May 2023, 22:22, Reply)

I'm doubtful any of the others are.
( , Fri 19 May 2023, 7:50, Reply)

north of the border is an unintelligible wasteland
( , Thu 18 May 2023, 15:38, Reply)

I watched the first episode of it years ago, and it was just fucking dog shit - all voice overs telling us what we were fucking looking at on the screen "Yes I can clear see that you stupid whimsy" - utter shite.
Then some eejit told us it was good in the second season, so I tried it again and made it maybe 20 minute in before "Seriously what the fuck is wrong with the writer of this piss" and turning it off again.
It brings me great joy to see that it's still got all the same minging pompous self-important ball bag bollocks even after all these years - and only have to spend a couple of minutes confirming that.
Thank you colmcq2 for this great service.
( , Thu 18 May 2023, 17:52, Reply)

But do you know the answer without looking at the comments?
— Link to tweet
( , Wed 17 May 2023, 19:19, Reply)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=69O4PXzAQ5Y
end of 70;s nerd mode
( , Wed 17 May 2023, 20:00, Reply)

"Fuck off Martin, you insufferable Beano-faced cunt"?
( , Thu 18 May 2023, 7:02, Reply)

it is also a correct answer.
( , Thu 18 May 2023, 14:38, Reply)

I made the point that it depends on how much you value the non ingredient covered crust. Given a generally fixed distance from the edge until the topping starts, with a larger diameter pizza you lose a several cm2 more topping than the smaller pizza, and you should factor this in to any area comparison
( , Thu 18 May 2023, 10:18, Reply)

Quote: "with a larger diameter pizza you lose a several cm2 more topping than the smaller pizza, "
Yes, but you lose less proportionally. I.e. in the smaller pizzas, the crust is a bigger proportion of the whole (assuming, as you said, the same width of crust on both)
( , Thu 18 May 2023, 14:31, Reply)

is even more if you discount the crust. If the crust was (to take it to extremes) 5 inches thick, then you would get no toppings at all on the 10" pizzas and 5" of toppings on the 15" pizza.
To nerd out, 1" of discounted crust changes the area of the 10" pizzas from 50 sq inches to 40.5 sq inches, and on the 15" pizza it changes the area from 56.25 sq inches to 49 sq inches. This would mean the ratio changes from 1.125:1 to 1.21:1 (15":10").
Of course, as said here already, stuffed crust changes the whole deal because with the 2 10" pizzas, you get an extra 5 inches of crust compared to the 15". It doesn't IMO make up for the loss of 8.5 square inches of toppings to get 5 inches of stuffed crust. It may even be that the crust on a stuffed crust is larger than on a standard pizza, which just complicates things even more.
Let's just have a curry instead, eh?
( , Thu 18 May 2023, 14:56, Reply)

Not the ratio. You don’t eat ratios. And that’s just the ratio of the radii. The outer ring that the larger pizza generates will always have a larger surface area for the same radial segment distance if it’s further way from the centre, despite have a lower radial ratio for the inner radius. Anyway, I can hear her yelling at me to just buy the family pepperoni and be done with it
( , Thu 18 May 2023, 15:40, Reply)

And are any of them sour cream and chives?
( , Thu 18 May 2023, 10:30, Reply)

What am I doing wrong?
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you reach into your pocket and pull out 24 pence without any hesitation.
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It's blatantly the single pizza, or they wouldn't bother to ask the question.
They obviously just want to surprise stupid people, the main (but not the only) audience for this sort of show, and thus the answer has to be that 1 is bigger than 2 miraculously surprising the idiots.
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Harry and Meghan in 'near catastrophic' car chase - spokesperson

( , Wed 17 May 2023, 15:30, Reply)

…instead of just stopping and flagging down a copper.
“They added it resulted in near collisions with other drivers on the road, pedestrians and police officers.”
I find it even harder to believe that the police themselves would let it go on that long.
Not necessarily saying that it’s entirely fabricated, but would be very surprised if it was even a tenth as bad as is claimed.
( , Wed 17 May 2023, 16:58, Reply)

Next they'll be denying it even happened!
( , Wed 17 May 2023, 19:06, Reply)

and the taxi driver said they wouldn't call it a pursuit or even dodgy, the paparazzi were just following them.
So they got him to drive back to the police station and got in their own vehicle, so they could get a story out of driving like wankers.
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Saying that, Tilda Swinton might as well be Archbishop Desmond Tutu when stood next to that cunt.
Anyway, don't hold Tony's ignorance against him. He's very much the result of a dysfunctional upbringing*
*or just a fucking dullard, either way...
( , Wed 17 May 2023, 17:13, Reply)

You'd have thought the previous 30 minutes of vigorous ramming would have burned off enough calories to compensate for all those yorkshires, but apparently not.
( , Thu 18 May 2023, 8:18, Reply)

Bet it's going to turn out that it didn't happen anything like they describe.
( , Wed 17 May 2023, 21:27, Reply)

Why didn't the police pull THEM over?
Oh.
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Made in Britain
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO-yV_HrUl0
Prick Up Your Ears
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZqqXjTHQPc
Got chatting with a Yank chum about actors, like me, he likes both Oldman and Roth, but only really knew them from their US work.
( , Thu 18 May 2023, 16:22, Reply)

I still think of this as new-fangled, but it's grown on me.
( , Wed 17 May 2023, 14:59, Reply)

Very clever tho
I thought these little ideas of his were pretty interesting, I think it's just brainstorming stuff
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlRZhOINeUU
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wShL3lIkro
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he was a champion of world music. Una Paloma Blanca was authentically Spanish.
( , Wed 17 May 2023, 10:00, Reply)

it sound like the B-side for the theme from QI. I fucking hate that bit of music. It's rank shite.
( , Thu 18 May 2023, 13:46, Reply)

That I share a totally rational hatred of that bit of pure BBC bland with someone else.
Even if it's you!
( , Thu 18 May 2023, 19:28, Reply)

good boy framed
Colorado driver tried to avoid DUI by switching seats with dog, police say

( , Wed 17 May 2023, 9:24, Reply)

Almost. I doubt I’d get out of my first traffic stop alive.
( , Wed 17 May 2023, 10:38, Reply)

Batman reimagined by famous artists throughly the magic of Midjourney.
Quite good.
— Link to tweet
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...and quite like something a B3tan would do, too
( , Thu 18 May 2023, 19:53, Reply)

Pretty old now, but I only just recently discovered this gem.
Various Japanese 80's adverts perfectly cut together with slowed down loops of the below tracks smothered in filters both audio and visual.
80's Tunes used:
Mike Francis - This Love
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpnoCt9JFmw
First Light - Loving You
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sk2spj4McY
Mike Francis - Ballad
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRAPf1SkK5o
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possibly by accident... I don't remember much about what happened that night... but I woke up the next day with a b3ta account and a funny feeling down below.
( , Wed 17 May 2023, 11:33, Reply)

Only footage ever recorded of the legendary Django Rheinhardt.
(possible glasscock)
( , Tue 16 May 2023, 19:40, Reply)

All that coal being burned and for what? Use of these planet killing machines should have been banned for decades.
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The sun's shining. Why not go outside and enjoy it instead of hanging around here being miserable all the time?
( , Tue 16 May 2023, 15:25, Reply)

More of an observation that your posts around here of late don't indicate a happy person. I mean you literally said you're getting feelings of despair.
( , Wed 17 May 2023, 21:28, Reply)

That said, those steam trains pale into insignificance compared to Australia's dependence on coal for generating electricity. Not that that is right either:
( , Tue 16 May 2023, 16:43, Reply)

Bring back galley slaves! Or at least market it as a free alternative to gym membership, combined with a round the world cruise.
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Only 40 years to wait until your container arrives at Felixstowe!
( , Tue 16 May 2023, 17:38, Reply)

according to the IEA, "In 2021 international shipping accounted for ~2% of global energy-related CO2 emissions." It's also widely reported that container ships and tankers have been going slower to increase fuel efficiency in recent years.
If you're suggesting that drilling and burning dinosaur juice is just as bad as mining and burning coal, I don't think that's right. Dino juice is less radioactive, less sooty, and you don't need to engineer a new wasteland to extract it.
Don't get me wrong, it needs to be banned too, obvs.
( , Tue 16 May 2023, 18:02, Reply)

www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste/
( , Tue 16 May 2023, 18:43, Reply)

Or in this particular case, the footnotes:
“As a general clarification, ounce for ounce, coal ash released from a power plant delivers more radiation than nuclear waste shielded via water or dry cask storage.”
So we’re comparing apples and oranges, then implying that one of those is a banana.
( , Tue 16 May 2023, 20:49, Reply)

A coal power plant releases more radiation than a nuclear plant, as your numbers clarify.
Mining practically anything releases Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials (mostly radon gas but also some much nastier stuff).
Refining practically anything that's mined also produces NORMs. But unlike oil and gas, the burning of coal also produces NORMs.
Unlike with nuclear power stations, coal waste is just chucked into the environment. It's packed full of other nasty poisons and pollutants. It has (at least indirectly) contributed to the deaths of *millions* of people, and has a terrible effect on biodiversity and habitat loss. Coal is the worst of the worst. Best left buried.
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I’m disputing whether the effect is significant enough to warrant mentioning it whether it’s just another radiation scare story.
“At one extreme, the scientists estimated fly ash radiation in individuals' bones at around 18 millirems ”
For comparison:
“Each banana can emit .01 millirem” - source: www.epa.gov/radtown/natural-radioactivity-food
So a worst case estimate makes it equivalent to 1800 bananas. Or three per day.
I think you may need some perspective.
( , Tue 16 May 2023, 23:02, Reply)

A banana a day will actually reduce your risk of cancer. Suffering a steam train to exist will increase your risk of cancer.
This is not complicated.
( , Tue 16 May 2023, 23:23, Reply)

this is, after all, the same shipping industry that repeatedly kept extending the deadline for doing anything about carbon emissions
( , Tue 16 May 2023, 20:01, Reply)

The only way to feel despair looking at a steam train is if you're tied to the tracks
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www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/ukraine-rail-update-trains-return-to-liberated-cities-company-ceo-suggests-steam-as-backup-plan/
Not a one off jolly, but a day to day event.
( , Tue 16 May 2023, 23:50, Reply)

Would you just look at all that lovely steam and carbon being deposited into the atmosphere... the trees and plants are sure going to love soaking it all up to keep us stupid twats alive for a tiny bit longer :)
(not sarcasm)
( , Tue 16 May 2023, 23:11, Reply)

I cannot open another copy after the time they featured celebrity software thief and probable nonce Bill Gates (who has very little influence over the content) as their page 7 stunner, pouting with his saggy man boobs on full display.
( , Wed 17 May 2023, 13:25, Reply)

but you can keep your flappy arse and your cheap nasty sausages. Can I choose a different prize?
( , Wed 17 May 2023, 16:11, Reply)

www.zazzle.com/iubum_tech_davy_jones_t_shirt-235262564027252651
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If you need an undersea medic then good luck!
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Austrian train plays Hitler speech over loudspeaker

( , Mon 15 May 2023, 18:29, Reply)

Just read about that on beeb. Fucking disgusting.
Probably kids, prank... sounds like they caught 'em.
I thought maybe they'd hacked in, but it sounds like they just used the intercom, from what I gather.
( , Mon 15 May 2023, 18:36, Reply)

It makes no sense, and smacks of a desperate middle manager with no idea what to say that doesn't amount to "we employ Nazis".
( , Mon 15 May 2023, 18:58, Reply)

"But the other two were strangely gleeful. We have opened an investigation."
( , Mon 15 May 2023, 19:07, Reply)

I've seen trains where there's an intercom thingy between carriages
( , Mon 15 May 2023, 19:28, Reply)

But they definitely weren't employees, no sirree. And they definitely didn't drive the train because then it would have been on time lolololol
( , Mon 15 May 2023, 19:34, Reply)

Just from reading an article which quotes an Austrian Federal Railways statement saying "We can currently assume that the announcements were made by people directly on the train via intercoms"? Your gathering skills are massive.
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