Po(ta)to!
Just a clip from The Greasy Strangler.
I never really watch films but i found this part amusing.
I puked the next day after watching it.
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I watched this movie with a group of friends.
Afterwards we found out that half of us loved it and the other half were very angry that it had wasted their time. Fun.
I was in the first group.
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Ambegris likes his tea stirred anti-clockwise, Fri 15 Sep 2023, 1:45,
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I see your Greasy Strangler and raise you
with An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn - A much better film that won't have you puking.
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buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Fri 15 Sep 2023, 9:20,
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That'll teach me to watch more than 5 minutes before posting.
I actually didn't get that it was repeating. Must be the brain damage.
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cowcat Bituminous squeegee, Wed 13 Sep 2023, 19:36,
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Someone needs their hard drives searched...
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 13 Sep 2023, 15:59,
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No need to store it on your hard drive
when it's being posted on /Links
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Thu 14 Sep 2023, 11:45,
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I have no clue who Rebecca Black is
...and based on the first 20 seconds of that, why on earth would the world need a new Rebecca Black?
*edit* Christ, I sound like a grumpy sod - I shouldn't comment on things just after getting home from work!
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Wed 13 Sep 2023, 18:07,
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Everybody's lookin' forward to the weekend,
weekend
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Wed 13 Sep 2023, 18:31,
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Partying, partying
yeah
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unclepills Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think., Wed 13 Sep 2023, 20:27,
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Thanks for the clarification
Having looked it up I'm reasonably sure I've not heard it before - I guess that having kids who are in their 20s helps!
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Wed 13 Sep 2023, 21:49,
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the song she released a few months ago was actually very good
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colmcq2, Thu 14 Sep 2023, 9:38,
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Centuries of Sound Pre-historic Music Special
I made this!
So, I just put together a show about pre-historic music, interviewed Simon O'Dwyer of Ancient Music Ireland, he reconstructs bronze age / iron age instruments and figures out how they were played.
Here's the proper link to the show - centuriesofsound.com/2023/09/11/centuries-of-sound-radiopod-prequel-special-1-ancient-sounds-with-simon-odwyer-of-ancient-music-ireland/
Ancient Music Ireland are at www.ancientmusicireland.com
They've also just launched a sound library called Paleosonic - www.ancientmusicireland.com/sound-library
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Zuowan, Wed 13 Sep 2023, 14:28,
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Sorry for anyone hearing my voice for the first time, you'll recover eventually.
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Zuowan, Wed 13 Sep 2023, 14:31,
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The way I walk
(really surprised this isn't GC)
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Wed 13 Sep 2023, 1:59,
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Maybe, potentially, just possibly JWST might have dtected life on planet K2-18b.
Dimethyl sulphide (DMS) may have been detected in the atmosphere.
It might be a false positive (spectroscopy over great distances, unknown variables and all that).
Given that the planet is nine times the size of the Earth it's unlikely that the aliens have a space program.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Tue 12 Sep 2023, 23:40,
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It it's 9 times the size of Earth,
then it's unlikely that they have a space problem either.
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Let alone have a space program,
given that the planet is 9 times the size of the Earth.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Wed 13 Sep 2023, 1:51,
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Well it is 9 times the size of the Earth, so it's unlikely they have a space problem.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 13 Sep 2023, 10:38,
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And of course there's the matter of their space programme
In that, the planet being 9 times the size of earth, they probably don't have one!
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Zuowan, Wed 13 Sep 2023, 14:31,
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They must be eating a lot of fibre
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Wed 13 Sep 2023, 4:54,
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Is there nowhere private to have a guff these days?!?
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 13 Sep 2023, 7:36,
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Just behind the JWST though if you're holding on to it you might affect its position
(, Thu 14 Sep 2023, 11:58, Reply)
Game of the year?
Playing it at the moment - it's great. If you liked Obra Dinn you'll like this.
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insignificantsnivellinglittleturd I Like Peas, Tue 12 Sep 2023, 14:30,
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Currently splitting time between GTA5 and Starfield.
GTA5 mostly as after almost 10 years I finally have a PC that can play it and Starfield but also because Starfield is so damn big map wise its scary. I also have to allow time for things like, I dunno, life in general so need to be less of a nerd and more human. I shall place that one on my waiting list :)
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TBL I posted this on, Tue 12 Sep 2023, 15:30,
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I liked what little I played of Obra Dinn, but I found I really needed to devote long sessions to it in order to progress and I just couldn't find the time to do that.
Is this similar, or can I dip in and out of it where I find a spare hour?
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 12 Sep 2023, 15:52,
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absolutely
I'm only doing it in hour long(ish) spurts and really enjoying it. Took me about three weeks to finish Obra Dinn, this looks like it will probably be just as involved.
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insignificantsnivellinglittleturd I Like Peas, Tue 12 Sep 2023, 17:21,
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I watched the trailer
and I think what I'm looking at is an unfinished graphical text adventure about getting to the top of a tower.
Has it been an uneventful year for games?
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Tue 12 Sep 2023, 20:08,
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Someone played Sable before starting this game
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simbosan is too tired, Wed 13 Sep 2023, 10:11,
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They call me Aloysius O'Hare
I made this!
Figured I'd get ahead of the curve and just start blatantly selling air.
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Snorty McBumhole YouTube.com/MinistryOfGeeks, Tue 12 Sep 2023, 11:03,
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FFS.
Hope it wasn't packaged on the day they do the muckspreading.
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Tue 12 Sep 2023, 12:29,
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We need a character name for an italian boxer, but nothing stereotyped or racist
one from the video arcades of my youth
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 12 Sep 2023, 3:45,
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The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Tue 12 Sep 2023, 11:08,
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The pasta foreign country. You were so close.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 12 Sep 2023, 15:30,
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Pretty cool
For only 100 views in 2 years.
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gaijintendo Regular Member, Mon 11 Sep 2023, 17:28,
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311 now
best looking noodle soup I've seen in a while.
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TBL I posted this on, Tue 12 Sep 2023, 15:32,
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Music and film made in sun-drenched Warwickshire
I made this!
Of course as soon as the schools go back the weather becomes proper summery, and I'm all for it.
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fred zeppelin II: Electric Boogaloo, Mon 11 Sep 2023, 6:35,
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I also enjoyed that, lovely stuff :)
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quackpipe swings like a pendulum do, Tue 12 Sep 2023, 17:01,
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Vaccine uptake times measured against cognitive ability
I do enjoy the bittersweet irony of any comparative studies that involves intelligence, how they're generally rejected out of hand by those incapable of critically analysing any negative implications to themselves.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 11 Sep 2023, 0:49,
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You mean the way reality is biased
in favour of smart people because they make better decisions, quicker, when presented with reality than everyone else does?
Yeah, I agree. We should eliminate that bias by reducing the resolution on reality. There must be a control here somewhere.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Mon 11 Sep 2023, 20:10,
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Sounds about right
the level of coding seems shoddy at best. There's no way they would have put in the extra effort to allow option changes without a full restart.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Tue 12 Sep 2023, 1:52,
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“Intelligent people get their COVID-19 vaccines much faster, suggests a study of more than 750,000 people in Sweden”.
Remind me, smart person, what was Sweden’s lockdown policy, and how did that comparatively pan out for them?
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Mon 11 Sep 2023, 14:33,
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it doesnt suggest anything, they're saying they found an inverse relationship between cognitive ability and vaccine uptake time
my observation wasn't around why this is, though a likely inference would be that smart people value the vaccine more, but about how studies that correlate low intelligence with certain behaviour are rejected out of hand for spurious reasons by people who exhibit those behaviours.
The catch 22 is that good science that should persuade a person of low intelligence that their behaviour is harmful or leads them to be misinformed, is ineffective as that person is incapable of being able to understand or critically analyse that research as it applies to them, or that they should give more credibility weight to a a well-designed study than some fuckstick selling protein shakes on a youtube channel
I'd love to see a qualitative follow-up where they go back to a sample of this cohort and show them the study and ask for them their opinion about it, and then map their responses to that already assessed cognitive ability. I reckon it would confirm what I already observe in people, and be depressingly hilarious in the reasons why they reject it
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 12 Sep 2023, 0:37,
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Well, the UK vaccine uptake was one of the fastest and most widespread of any country in the world.
Which, according to this study, means we’re very clever. Yet a majority voted Brexit, and the Tories have been in power for over a decade, which apparently means we’re very stupid.
All l’m saying is, I suspect the very smart people who conducted this study had decided what the outcome of the study would be before the study had even taken place. Did it even factor in the problems the non-vaccinated faced vis-à-vis work and travel? Were these people the cleverest or just the most pragmatic due to circumstance?
My fear is populations worldwide will be much less compliant when the next epidemic hits, as the dangers of Covid were, just a teensy bit, exaggerated. The West was well vaccinated, the rest of the world not so much, and yet nobody wants to talk about that. How come?
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Tue 12 Sep 2023, 2:14,
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I'd speculate if you had the data you'd see the same relationship in the UK
the reason they tend to use scandanavian cohorts is that they already have good data on things like cognitive tests (thanks to ones they do for compulsory military service) or genetic mapping (I think they've done most of iceland's population) , so that potentially expensive and difficult part of the study is already done. You just need to correlate it with whatever else you're looking at, in this case the time between vaccine release and uptake times.
It's not an assessment of the rollout policy, or how different countries took different approaches, it's just saying when a cohort has the same opportunity for the vaccine, people with higher cognitive ability have the vaccine much sooner.
I'm not sure on what basis you say they decided the outcome first, or why this would have an affect on the validity of the data or methodology, which would be just looking at vaccination dates, which in most countries were registered in a database, and correlating this with known cognitive scores. The study is just about vaccine uptake time, transport issues of the non-vaccinated werent part of the study. Though unless sweden makes you take an IQ test to get a bus pass, I'd imagine that such issues were the same across the population regardless of cognitive ability scores, so it's unlikely to be a factor accounting for the difference.
As to the risk/impact/benefit of the various countries' approaches to the pandemic, there's a huge amount to unpack there, and I've no wish to rehash vaccine policy arguments again in b3ta. But there's no right answer, even if you have access to accurate data to base your opinion in something resembling reality, which many people don't, it still comes down to what you value more and your own personal circumstances as to what you considered a good or bad approach
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 12 Sep 2023, 2:52,
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The outcome was so very obviously decided first.
“Hey, who’s cleverer? Anti-vaxers or people who got the jab early doors?”
“I really have no idea. What a fascinating study that would make. Let’s find a suitable data set. It could go either way.”
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Tue 12 Sep 2023, 15:28,
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While the research itself may have had some value in terms of how to increase the vaccine take-up, it does seem to to have been constructed in a way to allow smug cunts to backslap each other about how smart they are.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 12 Sep 2023, 16:13,
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I think a study of relative wealth and its impact on vaccine take up might be interesting.
Would that prove rich people are cleverer than poor people? Are people richer because they are more educated or are they more educated because they are rich?
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Tue 12 Sep 2023, 20:31,
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Ah, I see what you’re driving at, thought you meant they’d rigged the results
Yeah, you’re probably right, though a lot of science is setting out to prove something you thought is likely to be true
But given it’s not a particularly useful finding there could well be an element of shitting on antivaxxers motivating it, as Garold said.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 13 Sep 2023, 12:13,
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It’s also about race and money. Rich white people got the vaccine first.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Wed 13 Sep 2023, 13:12,
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I'm going to type this as I think so these are just musings
but I think some of the reasons why the uptake was so quick in the uk:
We had one of the worst death rates in Europe. We locked down hard and were pretty compliant (not including our elected leader, the fucking cunt who set the rules) and the vaccine was presented as the way out of it so people were really looking forward to getting the jab.
The other thing that counted towards people getting it was that in the UK the anti-vax lobby was led by people like Piers Corbyn. With a Corbyn on your side, you know you'll lose.
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Tue 12 Sep 2023, 12:37,
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Is Jez gonna run for mayor?
That would be popcorn. I don’t think he will though. Probably.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Tue 12 Sep 2023, 15:31,
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Dunno
he likes losing though doesn't he?
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Wed 13 Sep 2023, 8:31,
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Smarter people tend to get paperwork done faster...
...so maybe they were just a bit less busy?
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last night of the proms
ex Tory MP who says " ... Rule Britannia represents freedom, sovereignty and self-determination, all absent in the EU. Thank God for Brexit.”
thinks its disgraceful that people can wave a flag of their own choice
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Behind a paywall
but glad that I don't have to read what Harvey Proctor has to say.
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12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2F2023%2F09%2F10%2Fbbc-facing-calls-inquiry-eu-flags-last-night-proms%2F
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Mon 11 Sep 2023, 15:40,
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as someone said, he would have to Phone a Friend to ask who wrote Mozart's Requiem
and his friend wouldn't know either.
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fred zeppelin II: Electric Boogaloo, Mon 11 Sep 2023, 6:36,
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Snivelling Remoaner take on it is here:
www.theguardian.com/music/2023/sep/10/brexiters-in-outcry-after-crowds-wave-eu-flag-at-last-night-of-the-proms
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Mon 11 Sep 2023, 6:39,
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I appear to have missed my candleday yet again.
That’ll teach me to post and run.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Tue 12 Sep 2023, 10:46,
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TTTT
Tories are Tiresome Tedious Twats.
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Quiver Search for FATALISTS on Spotify, Amazon, Apple, &c, Mon 11 Sep 2023, 8:57,
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I'm reminded of when
the Tories wanted to push The War Against Terror until some newspaper highlighted the first letter of all those words in red and placed the words on the front page in huge font one above the other, headlining some story about a Tory MP (IIRC). So they renamed it rather than stop being twats.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Mon 11 Sep 2023, 20:14,
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Oh yeah the BBC should certainly investigate anything that upsets flagshaggers.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Mon 11 Sep 2023, 14:25,
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Nice to see authoritarian types squirming because they can't control it.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Mon 11 Sep 2023, 15:04,
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Aki Basho 2023 Day 1 Sep 10th Makuuchi
Teru and Hakuoho are out with injuries, Hoshoryu has been promoted to ozeki, Takakeisho (the heart attack hamster) is back.
Hakkeyoi!
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Sun 10 Sep 2023, 14:03,
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We’re currently watching The Ascent Of Man on iPlayer
Became fascinated by J Bronowski - check this out for an obituary…. What an incredible person!
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Sun 10 Sep 2023, 9:02,
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I loved that series.
Died way too early. The kind of homo universalis that has become almost extinct.
He was a personal friend of Leo Szilard, the man who conceived the idea of the nuclear chain reaction, with the newly discovered neutrons.
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Mex3 =mememe, Sun 10 Sep 2023, 20:22,
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It's absolutely compelling to watch
and at some points very anachronistic - they keep referring to four-hundred-thousand instead of four billion as we'd not given in and adopted the American billion=100,000,000. Also, we've found a few more elements for the periodic table.
Bruno was the kind of polymath who doesn't come along that often.
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Tue 12 Sep 2023, 12:28,
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This is why I'm not presenting tellly shows on maths or ssccience
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Thu 14 Sep 2023, 12:45,
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That towel you're using hasn't been washed in months
microbial film at eleven
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I wouldn't go near
no matter what he names it
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Mon 11 Sep 2023, 20:15,
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Look around you remix banger
Still find myself listening to this after so many years on the tube.
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Octo I ruin everything., Sat 9 Sep 2023, 22:09,
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I first read that as "Look around, you remix banger"
...and I still do, now considering myself to be a remix banger.
Very catchy, but somehow reminds me of "Gold dust" by DJ Fresh.
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Mon 11 Sep 2023, 18:49,
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We go straight to me. It's fast. It's happening.
Sorry for twixler link, and it is a clip of gb news as that fella was recaptured... so...
It's Chip Chapman and he's breaking the news!
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unclepills Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think., Sat 9 Sep 2023, 19:04,
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I have never seen GB news
and I can see from this piece of razor-sharp, finger-on-the button, as-it-happens reportage, that I am missing a gold mine of comedy moments. Fuck wits.
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Varmint, Sat 9 Sep 2023, 20:19,
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I think that's the first time
I've seen the X logo in the wild. It looks weird.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Sat 9 Sep 2023, 23:21,
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Chris Chapmahanmaman
You've lost the news!
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unclepills Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think., Sun 10 Sep 2023, 10:08,
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I felt a tiny bit sorry for him for oooh...one second before reaffirming that he's a
total cunt.
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fred zeppelin II: Electric Boogaloo, Mon 11 Sep 2023, 6:41,
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I love the way
he continues to use that 'urgent bad things are happening and YOU should be scared' voice while he totally fucks up and spouts nonsense.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Mon 11 Sep 2023, 20:18,
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"You found 2 kilos of cocaine in your wifes handbag and her mobile phone has been locked with a new pin number?"
Classic daytime TV.
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PooPants, Sun 10 Sep 2023, 14:44,
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Sound nerd explores Genesis sample disks
Either nostalgic or retro, depending on your number of grey pubes.
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Invisible Wizard - 11th Level MERPer, Sat 9 Sep 2023, 7:19,
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please put it away
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2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Sat 9 Sep 2023, 12:18,
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Phil Collins has truly terrible breath
- just rancid
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Invisible Wizard - 11th Level MERPer, Sat 9 Sep 2023, 13:02,
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I once tried to demonstrate a provable link between astrology and Phil Collins
But it was dismissed as Susudioscience.
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Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Sat 9 Sep 2023, 16:47,
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As a fan of machines in general this is great, thanks
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fred zeppelin II: Electric Boogaloo, Sun 10 Sep 2023, 7:17,
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Not only has YouTube been suggesting this to me for weeks
Now b3ta is suggesting it!
Thanks, this is good stuff. From the time when Genesis turned to shit
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simbosan is too tired, Sun 10 Sep 2023, 8:04,
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I always thought they were good until Steve Hackett left
Which is ironic what with him being the dullest guitar player in history.
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fred zeppelin II: Electric Boogaloo, Mon 11 Sep 2023, 5:52,
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I thought Trick of the Tail and Wind and Wuthering were near perfect
Saw them on the Wind and Wuthering tour in 77, my first ever big gig. Could well be the most amazing gig I ever saw. I guess being 15 made it extra wow.
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simbosan is too tired, Tue 12 Sep 2023, 4:16,
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