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This is a link post Slide to unlock
I doubt that this works on a computer screen
(, Wed 31 May 2023, 20:40, Reply)
This is a normal post Gave up on the 4 slider ones...
impossible whilst bouncing around in the passenger seat of car going down the motorway...
(, Wed 31 May 2023, 21:30, Reply)
This is a normal post please use tablet or phone
No, fuck off
(, Thu 1 Jun 2023, 12:33, Reply)
This is a normal post
Given that it requires multi-touch in order to function, it's a reasonable request.
(, Thu 1 Jun 2023, 14:38, Reply)
This is a normal post But I've got two USB mice plugged in

(, Thu 1 Jun 2023, 14:59, Reply)
This is a normal post IBYDYDOB

(, Thu 1 Jun 2023, 16:17, Reply)
This is a normal post Plug and Play

(, Thu 1 Jun 2023, 18:05, Reply)
This is a normal post DOOBIDOOBIDOO

(, Fri 2 Jun 2023, 12:56, Reply)
This is a normal post Zoinks!

(, Fri 2 Jun 2023, 16:34, Reply)
This is a normal post Again?
Seriously though, what a true hero.
(, Thu 1 Jun 2023, 7:33, Reply)
This is a normal post Can't have been very hardy then.

(, Thu 1 Jun 2023, 10:55, Reply)
This is a link post Aliens discover a planet whose inhabitants are trying to build a machine that's more intelligent than they are. I made this!
I made Ten of these now. And the world still isn't destroyed yet. Hadn't realized it'd be such a long job to chronicle the end times. This time the existential risk is AI.

(, Wed 31 May 2023, 20:30, Reply)
This is a link post Scofield adjacent, but fascinating regardless
The time when Talking Telephone Numbers went completely wonky, then replayed with the talkback from the gallery as they madly scramble to save the show (plus, bonus certain presenter losing his cool at the end).

(, Wed 31 May 2023, 20:20, Reply)
This is a normal post Can any one explain
What the numbers being read out over the human league mean?
(, Wed 31 May 2023, 21:00, Reply)
This is a normal post Coded message for intelligence officers
Here's a more plausible explanation from the yt comments..

I don't know all the ins and outs and the various people involved OR how the tech worked at the time, but roughly: A member of the production team will have prepared a shot list, planning cuts between the various cameras and zooming in etc to give a dynamic feel to the song, as was the fashion at the time. It wasn't all made up on the fly, I think this would have been prepared this at the rehersal. For example, it looks like at 21:05 we have shot 72, an arty zoom in by a camera into the keyboard player. For the live performance, the vision mixer needs to make all these cuts but they can't operate the desk and read from the shot list, so the PA (production assistant) is "calling the shots". They are counting to keep in time to the music, and to keep their place in the song, although at times this has gone out of the window due to all the fuss going on. She holds it together very well. Interwoven with the shot numbers are beats in bar 1, 2, 3, 4 so she knows where she is, but as muscians do, they will often count "*1*, 2, 3, 4, *2*, 2, 3, 4, *3*, 2, 3, 4, *4*, 2, 3, 4" so they can keep track of the bar and the beat. It looks like the shot 72 on the keyboard was planned to last 2 bars so she called "72.....(pause 3 beats) 2 (second bar), 2 (beat) , 3 (beat), 4 (beat), 73 (next shot, band in a line looking stoopid)". It seems a lot of the planning went out of the window and the vision mixer was guessing a lot of the time.
(, Wed 31 May 2023, 21:58, Reply)
This is a normal post Not a million miles off.
I worked for a short time back with the old beeb of the C and it was when people thought it was "cool" to try and use video and visual effects in the same way that we used lighting effects in a nightclub. It required (along with many other things) some technical savy and indeed a feel for music (or at least the ability to keep time to the beat)
Nowadays its all computerised and controlled but then it was a bit of MIDI, some SMPTE codes and a lot of manual fading and switching using clunky controllers and more often that not some home made kit to keep it all together (in one instance we welded a massive iron bar on springs with little nipples (arf) that when pressed down would trigger multiple presses at once (for lights/smoke/confetti cannons etc) on a keyboard - itself most likely home made in a steel box that may or may not have been grounded - no idea how we got out alive now I think about it. Pyrotechnics controllers with the safety keys bypassed as they required a 3rd hand to use and there was never enough staff to go round so foot pedals for guitars would also be modified and used. Good times, if somewhat dodgy elf and safety wise :)
(, Thu 1 Jun 2023, 14:59, Reply)
This is a normal post rehearsed cuts and timings off a sheet?

(, Wed 31 May 2023, 22:31, Reply)
This is a link post Secret's out
Twitter's Secret Tory unmasked

(, Wed 31 May 2023, 15:42, Reply)
This is a normal post The Secret DJ is Tim Sheridan

(, Wed 31 May 2023, 15:55, Reply)
This is a normal post The Secret Barrister is Bob Mortimer

(, Wed 31 May 2023, 18:21, Reply)
This is a normal post The secret Barista is James Michael Tyler

(, Wed 31 May 2023, 18:29, Reply)
This is a normal post The Secret Squirrel is Mel Blanc

(, Wed 31 May 2023, 19:00, Reply)
This is a link post Say "CHEESE!"


(, Wed 31 May 2023, 14:06, Reply)
This is a normal post It;s time they get a bit more inclusive
and add a wheelchair session.
(, Wed 31 May 2023, 20:07, Reply)
This is a normal post Is that for
paraplegic former competitors?
(, Wed 31 May 2023, 20:15, Reply)
This is a normal post They're OK
but they're no Flo Early
(, Wed 31 May 2023, 21:55, Reply)
This is a link post Finnish Space Program


(, Wed 31 May 2023, 11:21, Reply)
This is a normal post Call me a killjoy if you like
but I fucking hate cunts on youtube who do shitty stunts like this. I hate the fact that it makes economic sense to waste resources and poison the environment for stupid youtube clicks.
(, Wed 31 May 2023, 14:58, Reply)
This is a normal post OK- You are a killjoy

(, Wed 31 May 2023, 17:04, Reply)
This is a normal post Thanks!

(, Wed 31 May 2023, 17:15, Reply)
This is a normal post you are also a massive buzzkill
but i completely agree with you
(, Thu 1 Jun 2023, 0:08, Reply)
This is a normal post If this is bad...
Wait 'til you discover the sheer waste of the Russo-Ukraine war.
(, Wed 31 May 2023, 17:27, Reply)
This is a normal post I don't think either side is doing it for clicks.

(, Wed 31 May 2023, 20:47, Reply)
This is a normal post They seem to be doing it for posterity, reestablishing an empire.
Probably why they get on with Tories, that and the money.

Here's another car launch, for those who haven't seen it yet.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=yAc0uqrSkPU

Seems The Dukes of Hazzard carries on.
(, Wed 31 May 2023, 21:03, Reply)
This is a normal post Unwise but not illegal

(, Wed 31 May 2023, 17:44, Reply)
This is a normal post killjoy!
Just listen to those squeaky Finnish voices.
(, Wed 31 May 2023, 19:30, Reply)
This is a normal post Isn't everything except basic survival a waste?

(, Wed 31 May 2023, 19:49, Reply)
This is a normal post No.
You're thinking of anything bigger than a handful, but that's still wrong.
(, Wed 31 May 2023, 20:46, Reply)
This is a normal post I agree about the pollution aspect
I've never liked youtube videos where people blow stuff up and they don't tell you that they clear up the resulting mess

Fly tipping would be much worse if people smashed up the items in to hundreds of fragments too
(, Thu 1 Jun 2023, 21:13, Reply)
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and they could cause a terrorist attack - say on downing street

that would be terrible
(, Fri 2 Jun 2023, 11:44, Reply)
This is a normal post Furze could actually do this i recon

(, Wed 31 May 2023, 17:09, Reply)
This is a normal post It is commonly said that it's impossible
to launch an object into orbit with a single impulse (like the idea of Superman punching villains into orbit for example) and it's mostly true. To reach orbit, vehicles need to perform a circularisation burn to raise the perigee to orbital altitude.

However, it is possible to launch an object with a single impulse to escape velocity, and if it's done at the right angle and at the right time, you could launch into a resonant solar orbit that intersects with Earth in such a way that results in recapture and a stable (probably retrograde) Earth orbit.

I feel (but don't know) it would be possible to do a similar trick without achieving escape velocity and instead shooting for a lunar gravity assist, but the chances of such an orbit being stable seem slim; the object's final orbit would have to intersect with the moon's and so would be regularly perturbed, probably getting chucked out of the Earth/Moon system if not colliding with the Earth or moon.

The delta-v requirements for either option are huge, and the object you send will need to be protected both from the force of the impulse and from the ablative effects of the atmosphere on a hypersonic object (which will increase the weight of your payload meaning you need a bigger explosion meaning you'll need more protection which will increase the weight of your payload and so on).

tl;dr: I'm not saying he couldn't, just that it's not a trivial thing to try and do.
(, Wed 31 May 2023, 17:44, Reply)
This is a normal post Pfft. All you need is an atom bomb, a manhole cover and a big hole.

(, Wed 31 May 2023, 18:11, Reply)
This is a normal post I think Scott Manly(?) did some maths
and concluded it would have ablated to nothing before leaving the atmosphere.
(, Wed 31 May 2023, 18:44, Reply)
This is a normal post The Beatles' less-popular etc

(, Wed 31 May 2023, 21:24, Reply)
This is a normal post Project Orion in other words

(, Thu 1 Jun 2023, 8:16, Reply)
This is a normal post
Yes that's true actually.
(, Wed 31 May 2023, 23:15, Reply)
This is a normal post AI Bros are just evolved NFT bros
Fuck this shit
(, Wed 31 May 2023, 10:48, Reply)
This is a normal post I actually think they're worse

(, Wed 31 May 2023, 11:00, Reply)
This is a normal post You get a type of person on
LinkedIn who has no technical skills, but will check boxes like "Wordpress" because they've used the admin.

Most people selling themselves as an AI "expert" reminds me of that. They've got an OpenAI account and read a few blog posts, and then flog their training courses to the gullible.
(, Wed 31 May 2023, 12:02, Reply)
This is a normal post You get these LinkedIn people, don't you?

(, Wed 31 May 2023, 12:54, Reply)
This is a normal post "prompt engineering" used to be called LMGTFY

(, Wed 31 May 2023, 13:50, Reply)
This is a normal post Imagine being a school careers advisor nowadays
where do you even start
(, Wed 31 May 2023, 15:09, Reply)
This is a normal post ChatGPT could automate the repetitive task of explaining why being an influencer is not the best career choice

(, Wed 31 May 2023, 17:26, Reply)
This is a normal post
www.youtube.com/watch?v=azhPzP3nl5A
(, Wed 31 May 2023, 9:34, Reply)
This is a normal post once you pop your heart stop

(, Thu 1 Jun 2023, 0:11, Reply)
This is a normal post Seems like a very odd pairing at first glance. I fucking love the Reznor/Ross collabs, though. The Social Network score is incredible.
That TMNT movie looks gorgeous.
(, Wed 31 May 2023, 6:47, Reply)
This is a normal post Down in a Sewer

(, Wed 31 May 2023, 7:21, Reply)
This is a normal post Genius. How do you come up with these?

(, Wed 31 May 2023, 7:27, Reply)
This is a normal post Head Like A Manhole

(, Wed 31 May 2023, 8:56, Reply)
This is a normal post Reptiles

(, Wed 31 May 2023, 9:24, Reply)
This is a normal post A Mutagenic Fluid

(, Wed 31 May 2023, 9:24, Reply)
This is a normal post

(, Wed 31 May 2023, 9:39, Reply)
This is a normal post Raceswap Bebop

(, Wed 31 May 2023, 18:45, Reply)
This is a normal post Man Parrish'szz

(, Wed 31 May 2023, 18:46, Reply)
This is a normal post Get Down The Sewer, Make Love

(, Wed 31 May 2023, 9:52, Reply)
This is a normal post Help Me I Am In Shell

(, Wed 31 May 2023, 10:09, Reply)
This is a normal post Turt

(, Wed 31 May 2023, 10:15, Reply)
This is a normal post Turrible Lie

(, Wed 31 May 2023, 10:20, Reply)
This is a normal post Every Bandana Is Exactly the Same In The Mirage Comic

(, Wed 31 May 2023, 10:32, Reply)
This is a normal post Changed them for the telly.

(, Wed 31 May 2023, 13:34, Reply)
This is a normal post Downward Manhole

(, Wed 31 May 2023, 13:40, Reply)
This is a normal post One of his more obscure tracks

(, Wed 31 May 2023, 14:44, Reply)
This is a normal post there is nothing left to ooze

(, Wed 31 May 2023, 12:14, Reply)
This is a normal post hang on, that was the foo fighters wasn't it? Christ, how did I get those mixed up?
In my defence, Dave Grohl did play drums on some of With Teeth.
(, Wed 31 May 2023, 14:46, Reply)
This is a normal post What if Dave Grohl had teeth?

(, Wed 31 May 2023, 15:05, Reply)
This is a normal post sounds like a job for Artificial Intelligence!

(, Wed 31 May 2023, 15:36, Reply)
This is a normal post Sure, here are some pictures of Dave Grohl With Teeth.

(, Wed 31 May 2023, 16:23, Reply)
This is a normal post How many more band members is he going to sacrifice?
His never-ending quest to make the dullest music imaginable has claimed two lives already.
(, Wed 31 May 2023, 15:45, Reply)
This is a normal post I really can't stand him at all.

(, Wed 31 May 2023, 17:07, Reply)
This is a normal post You hide it well.

(, Wed 31 May 2023, 18:47, Reply)
This is a normal post He's detestable, and so are his die-hard fans

(, Wed 31 May 2023, 18:51, Reply)
This is a normal post Yippee-Ki-Yay, Johnny Park

(, Wed 31 May 2023, 20:26, Reply)
This is a normal post Today I learned
That TMNT had a rival comic called Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters.

Really.
(, Wed 31 May 2023, 22:04, Reply)
This is a normal post the first time I encountered it was as a role playing game
This was years before it had any cultural recognition. I remember picking it up and looking at the box and thinking that it was fucking weird name for a role playing game
{edit} looked it up: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles_%26_Other_Strangeness
It says you can make your character a pedophile, so better not let sockcooker know or he'll be hounding anyone who reviews it, bless his mentalist heart
(, Thu 1 Jun 2023, 12:13, Reply)
This is a normal post E&L really went for it with the "comedy" edginess in the early days eh

(, Thu 1 Jun 2023, 14:12, Reply)
This is a normal post Me and Scott Murphy from school did our own rip-off comic strips, mainly for each other's amusement.
I did the Psycho Mutant Sadist Hedgehogs (which is where my b3ta usernames were derived from) and he did the Bunnies Wiv Machine Guns. They were as deep and thoughtful as you'd expect from a couple of 12 year-olds.
(, Thu 1 Jun 2023, 15:37, Reply)
This is a link post "Everybody loved Hitler"
"Everybody loved Hitler"

(, Wed 31 May 2023, 0:30, Reply)
This is a normal post '...and I still have the same outlook as when I was 13'
I don't believe anything these people say. Like Russian propaganda telly, it's a scattergun firing anything and everything that might get attention or confuse and manipulate.
Fuentes hung around Trumpf for a while at Mar-a-lago, picking up tips I imagine.
(, Wed 31 May 2023, 2:10, Reply)
This is a normal post All these Far-Right fuckwits are part of a false flag psy-op conducted by the radicalised left.
Likewise, Extinction Rebellion and their many splinter groups are part of a false flag psy-op conducted by the Far-Right.

It's a complete zero-sum situation.
(, Wed 31 May 2023, 6:57, Reply)
This is a link post TWEET TWEEEET!
Fun fact: “laying an egg” is a German euphemism for taking a shit.

Some nice animation work on the faces in this one. I just love the slap.

(, Tue 30 May 2023, 22:39, Reply)
This is a link post My dog needs new ears; make his eyes see forever.
A reminder of when singing in a breathy voice wasn’t just an excuse for not being able to hold a note.

(, Tue 30 May 2023, 4:43, Reply)
This is a normal post haven't listened to that for a while, magical stuff

(, Tue 30 May 2023, 6:49, Reply)
This is a normal post She's a proper little belter.
youtu.be/qVsETSgiMnU
(, Tue 30 May 2023, 11:54, Reply)
This is a normal post Reminded me I hadn't listened to Bjork's "Hunter" for a while
But I'd recommend ignoring the video - it's very striking but for that reason detracts from the song IMHO. Eyes closed every time.
youtu.be/WxL1rw6cw-E
(, Tue 30 May 2023, 20:30, Reply)
This is a link post An unnecessary deep dive into the Mr Blobby VHS releases


(, Tue 30 May 2023, 0:27, Reply)
This is a link post Final day of the Natsu Basho
With second place still to play for!

(, Sun 28 May 2023, 17:19, Reply)
This is a normal post HAKKEYOI
see ya'll next time
(, Mon 29 May 2023, 1:34, Reply)
This is a normal post Ura was ROBBED I tell you.

(, Mon 29 May 2023, 1:53, Reply)
This is a normal post ne'er a truer word was spoken

(, Mon 29 May 2023, 2:17, Reply)
This is a link post They are back (as is toyah)


(, Sun 28 May 2023, 15:11, Reply)
This is a normal post She's a GILF, get over it and move on.

(, Sun 28 May 2023, 21:45, Reply)
This is a normal post when you have been here as long as I have you tend to forget terms such as gilf.
They did not exist back then you know... I remember when this was all fields.
(, Sun 28 May 2023, 21:50, Reply)
This is a normal post I believe the correct technical term is Grilf

(, Sun 28 May 2023, 22:07, Reply)
This is a normal post Wasn't Grilf one of the minor characters in The Lord of the Rings?

(, Sun 28 May 2023, 23:22, Reply)
This is a normal post Bilf's grandson, from Back To The Red Dwarve

(, Mon 29 May 2023, 8:54, Reply)
This is a normal post Grilfrid Brambell

(, Mon 29 May 2023, 13:05, Reply)
This is a normal post Grilfas in the Mift

(, Mon 29 May 2023, 13:24, Reply)
This is a normal post East End Byofs And etc

(, Mon 29 May 2023, 13:54, Reply)
This is a normal post
move Wank
(, Sun 28 May 2023, 23:55, Reply)
This is a normal post has a cracking set of bristols for her years

(, Mon 29 May 2023, 8:48, Reply)
This is a normal post Very poetic

(, Mon 29 May 2023, 18:43, Reply)
This is a normal post Astonishing number of creepy virgins objectifying women on /links, eh

(, Tue 30 May 2023, 8:27, Reply)
This is a normal post Thank Christ there are some Niceguys here to call them out on it.

(, Tue 30 May 2023, 11:01, Reply)
This is a normal post
Please go easy on the misogynistic "I would" type posts whenever a picture of an attractive lady is posted on the board. Not only can it get a bit tiresome, but it can be intimidating and unwelcoming for a lot of lady boarders. Besides, even if you would, she probably wouldn't.
(, Tue 30 May 2023, 15:41, Reply)
This is a normal post I’m sure you doing your best to create a safe space for female boarder
And not posting pics on the main board of barbarians with giant ejeculating magenta cocks, as that would make you a fucking hypocrite, wouldn’t it?
b3ta.com/board/11394389
Oh, wait…
(, Tue 30 May 2023, 16:14, Reply)
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(, Tue 30 May 2023, 16:40, Reply)
This is a normal post What's worse - objectifying of cisgender women on /links, or the usual transphobic bigotry on /links?
YOU DECIDE.
(, Tue 30 May 2023, 11:10, Reply)
This is a normal post Unlike what HR managers across the world would have you believe
Sex, to desire or be desired, is one of the fundamental motivational impulses of human behaviour. Rather than being automatically wrong and offensive and objectifying to reference, it’s those that can articulate and acknowledge it directly that are generally the ones that have relationships.
Toyah has great tits, as a self-evident observation, and goes to a fair bit of artifice in order to flash them on a weekly basis. I reckon she’d be far more likely to appreciate an honest compliment than feel offended by it
(, Wed 31 May 2023, 0:35, Reply)
This is a normal post Don't mind Tony.
He's just being a chippy little twat. He enjoys shifting the focus away from his own repressed issues by pointing out how absolutely terrible everybody else is.
(, Wed 31 May 2023, 13:34, Reply)
This is a normal post he's fine
more an opportunity to trot out some nebulous counterargument of my own.
the pivot to being offended about tits is funny, though, on a board that currently has a a bunch of cocks on the main board.
As to female boarders, I don't think it was the puerile nature that scared a lot of them off, it's always been that way, and is much milder now because there's less people. My recollection was it was more the creepy whiteknighters who treated any woman they identified as some unicorn princess to be fawned over, instead of just a normal boarder wanting to join in. Everything they posted got gushing compliments and needy attempts at personal intimacy. Probably got a bit much for many of them.
(, Thu 1 Jun 2023, 3:21, Reply)
This is a normal post Put things on display, people will comment.
Like women never comment on others bodies, I smell double standards.
(, Tue 30 May 2023, 15:02, Reply)
This is a normal post MALE LIVES MATTER TOO!

(, Tue 30 May 2023, 15:41, Reply)
This is a normal post Culture/gender wars are a great distraction from real problems.

(, Tue 30 May 2023, 17:36, Reply)
This is a normal post the real double standard is that people who work up a good head of dreary sanctimony online
invariably turn out to be more awful than the target of their bile.
(, Tue 30 May 2023, 15:54, Reply)
This is a normal post Pointing out others faults is easier than remedying one's own.
Anger is also a common symptom of depression in older men.
(, Tue 30 May 2023, 17:38, Reply)
This is a normal post don't think we're the ones who come across as weirdly frustrated and angry all the time
b3ta.com/users/searchposts.php?id=99401&board=links
odd for a place where we come for a laugh
is everything ok, porgs?
(, Tue 30 May 2023, 15:59, Reply)
This is a normal post Virgin? Hardly. I can have sex with literally any woman I choose.

(, Tue 30 May 2023, 16:51, Reply)
This is a normal post Haha, jokes about rape! Brilliant!

(, Tue 30 May 2023, 17:29, Reply)
This is a normal post I am afraid I must take great offence at being called "creepy"

(, Tue 30 May 2023, 23:29, Reply)
This is a normal post Quite impressive for a hoarder
to actually find a use for an old TV aerial.
(, Tue 30 May 2023, 11:47, Reply)
This is a normal post Mmm. She was certainly err, first in the queue when God was handing out… chests, mammary glands. Ooh! I’d love to have it off with her. Oooooh-Urrgh! Sex!
#lads #fhm #loaded #trump2024 #igetthisweirdrashappearingafterIremovesmegmafromundermyforeskin
(, Tue 30 May 2023, 17:51, Reply)
This is a normal post What a funny story!

(, Tue 30 May 2023, 18:04, Reply)
This is a normal post glad you're above it
b3ta.com/questions/xmas/post2591521
(, Wed 31 May 2023, 1:27, Reply)
This is a normal post Oh yeah
I remember stealing that and winning the question of the week.
(, Wed 31 May 2023, 7:00, Reply)
This is a normal post oh. In that case I withdraw the imputation on your character
and offer you a hearty commendation for an accomplished piece of plagiarism, an underrated skill in the modern world
(, Wed 31 May 2023, 12:24, Reply)
This is a normal post If only it was still that easy.
Cannot wait until AI deepfake tech progresses to the point where I can do a full bodyswap and live out my dream of making £500 a day as a camgirl on OnlyFlans.
(, Wed 31 May 2023, 7:00, Reply)
This is a link post CDC I spotted in the South Pacific I made this!
If Ernst Stavro Blofeld was a b3tan I guess this would be his hideout...

Apologies for the portrait aspect (but not really you worms)
(, Sun 28 May 2023, 10:32, Reply)
This is a normal post It's just me skinny dipping

(, Sun 28 May 2023, 10:43, Reply)
This is a normal post you're quiet

(, Mon 29 May 2023, 7:40, Reply)
This is a link post The other half had never heard of this song
Turns out even Mr Bowie knew it.

(, Sun 28 May 2023, 7:36, Reply)

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