I really like that
Reminds me of my favourite bit of Auden:
Clearer than Scafell Pike, my heart is stamped on
The view from Birmingham to Wolverhampton.
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fred zeppelin II: Electric Boogaloo, Sat 2 Dec 2023, 10:45,
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A quick tutorial on boxing in an RSJ, it saved me loads of time
I made this!
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moogman, Fri 1 Dec 2023, 9:37,
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thanks
now I know
think I can even change careers and get into the old building trade, see what old Loadsa Money was going on about
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lustreboy making himself laugh since 1973 (tm), Fri 1 Dec 2023, 11:12,
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In all seriousness.
Watching a week's worth of decent how-to DIY videos would make you a more competent Joiner than the vast majority of fuckwits that actually call themselves 'Joiners'.
(, Fri 1 Dec 2023, 16:42, Reply)
In all seriousness.
I imagine you think the same about every job/profession in the world, due to the Dunning-Kruger effect. I apologise if this is inaccurate.
(, Sat 2 Dec 2023, 6:42, Reply)
Apology accepted.
I don't know enough about other professions to make that call. I know more than enough about joinery to know that a worrying percentage of 'joiners' that I speak to on a daily basis don't even know the difference between a self-drilling and a self-tapping screw or how to correctly install a hammer fixing, never mind the sheer number that use the "I'm not really fussed, it's not my house" and "I'll be long gone before any problems crop up" mantras.
#notalljoiners, mind. But the good ones are usually in such demand that you're waiting six months to do a job you could have done yourself with a bit of practice in one.
(, Sat 2 Dec 2023, 11:08, Reply)
Carrot Noggins
Sounds like a WWII pilot's cheeky co-pilot.
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Fri 1 Dec 2023, 13:41,
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Useful. For the laymen among us, why would you use a carrot? Instead of say, frozen prawns?
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Fri 1 Dec 2023, 14:01,
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I wouldn't recommend it
... as soon as they thaw, they will lose what little compressive strength they had in the first place.
King Prawns on the other hand - better than carrots, if you can afford them!
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moogman, Fri 1 Dec 2023, 20:09,
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A friend of mine made a computer from scratch many years ago
I nearly didn't make it past the intro but I'm very glad I did.
*edit* Sozzers for the random subject - it was an attack of auto-complete even though I'd deleted it and typed something vaguely relevant!
It's there now.
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Fri 1 Dec 2023, 8:12,
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A lot of work for five grammes and a load of dripping slags.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Thu 30 Nov 2023, 23:54,
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It's AI bollox
but the optical illusions it generates are fantastic
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Sn0tters 🇯🇴🇧🇧🇮🇪, Thu 30 Nov 2023, 19:34,
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Sorry to be negative but
it all looks like shit except some of the animal drawings (and I'm guessing that's a fluke and/or plagiarism).
It all highlights how AI has no conceptual understanding of the functions it performs, imho.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Thu 30 Nov 2023, 22:38,
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Also, what does
Happy Holday mean? I do love an ambigram though.
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tinglto 3 sheets to the wind, Thu 30 Nov 2023, 22:59,
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thanks
now i be trippin
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lustreboy making himself laugh since 1973 (tm), Fri 1 Dec 2023, 11:15,
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Another one for the end of year deaded people poster thingy
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TBL I posted this on, Thu 30 Nov 2023, 13:46,
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And Dean Sullivan
AND ALISTAIR DARLING!
What the bloody hell is going on? What aren't we being told?!
#standrewsdaymassacre
(, Thu 30 Nov 2023, 14:05, Reply)
It's the end of the world basically.
I expect aliens any moment now....
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TBL I posted this on, Thu 30 Nov 2023, 16:34,
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and Cameron's mum
never met her. cam was a mate of my brother's on facebook I haven't seen since high school, and he posted about it last night. Apparently she was much loved
Sullivan, cameron's old mum, kissinger, mcgowan and darling. what a day
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 30 Nov 2023, 22:28,
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there's an RSS feed for direct cameron updates
if you just want status updates alone
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 30 Nov 2023, 23:49,
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Henry Kissinger, I won't be missing yer
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unclepills Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think., Thu 30 Nov 2023, 8:50,
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i had no idea
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_Vicky
a machete, no less.
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unclepills Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think., Thu 30 Nov 2023, 17:22,
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since you been gone
Away
I won't be missing you at all
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simbosan is too tired, Thu 30 Nov 2023, 19:48,
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petulant billionaire man-child definitely not digging deeper hole with falling ad revenues
NSFW
nsfw for swears
I imagine this would have gone down better on his 40 billion priced personal soap box, rather than a conference of exec including some of the CEOs already worried about brand damage.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 30 Nov 2023, 1:30,
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People don’t seem to have realised he doesn’t care if ad revenue and brand value goes down.
It’s just a plaything to him, and he’s enjoying upsetting its fans.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Thu 30 Nov 2023, 2:35,
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he doesn't come across as someone who's not bothered, though perhaps I don't have the personal insight into his motivations as you do
but given he's launching self-described “thermonuclear lawsuits” against non-profits whom he blames for scaring advertisers, has just returned from a virtue-signalling tour in Israel with Netanayu looking sombre at massacre sites to try to demonstrate to fleeing advertiser that he's really not some antisemitic conspiracy theorist and must have accidentally reposted those antisemitic tweets, it's easy to do, you know?
...maybe he cares just a little bit?
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 30 Nov 2023, 3:41,
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You follow his exploits more closely than I do. He appears to me to do and say whatever he wants. He certainly enjoys the attention.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Thu 30 Nov 2023, 4:59,
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I read the papers, if that’s what you mean
But on his need for attention we’re agreed
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 30 Nov 2023, 11:39,
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He doesn’t care if it’s negative attention, and it’s quicker and easier to get negative attention.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Thu 30 Nov 2023, 17:09,
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I think he wants people to think he's cool and it's quicker and easier to get horrible fuckwits to think he's cool.
It's not the liberal tears he likes, it's the gentle lapping of the fash tongues at his scrotum.
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tickle I was away, Sat 2 Dec 2023, 21:47,
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Seems unlikely he wouldn't care.
His brand was Mr TED talk big tech future business guy.
His handling of Twitter has shown himself to be someone who doesn't understand basic tech or business, and who is a massive racist. Ratnered his own reputation.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Thu 30 Nov 2023, 10:00,
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Of course he cares
He bought it to cheer himself up and it hasn't worked. Exactly the same situation with Bezos and his rocket. Tragic men with tragic personal lives trying to take the pain away with money.
(, Thu 30 Nov 2023, 10:04, Reply)
I'm not sure he even wanted it.
Tried to get out of the deal before it went through, didn't he?
As far as I'm aware, he got the idea from some some random alt-right account who told him to buy it. He did it for the worst possible reason... bants.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Thu 30 Nov 2023, 10:17,
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The "fight" vs Zuckerberg as well
You can picture exactly what he was like at school.
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Exactly. He didn’t even like Twitter, but he thought fucking with it would be fun, and he doesn’t care about the damage he’s doing.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Fri 1 Dec 2023, 0:01,
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He's not really fucking with it in fun ways, though.
Besides bringing back all the fash accounts and once swapping the logo with a Doge, it's all been enshittification in a desperate attempt to make money - not stupid shit to amuse himself and his minions.
Anyone who has made 34000+ posts despite the money to do *anything else* likes Twitter, or is at least addicted to it. He just doesn't understand it as a business.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Fri 1 Dec 2023, 10:26,
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Enshitification is my new word of the week
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 3 Dec 2023, 1:39,
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i reckon his man-child ego is probably a good restraining force on him
that need to be liked. it's the quiet evil ones in the background, like the koch brothers sinking billions into climate denialism and propping up trump that are the ones I worry about. I just find the combination with musk of a billionaire with that kind of incel sensibility quite funny.
I do wonder what advertisers are after with twitter anyway. Facebook is bored idle scrolling good for selling shit. Are all the trolls, culture warriors and incels that infest twitter desperately trying to get their cutting remark liked above others really going "Sunak is a disgrace! All migrants have a legal right to.." oh, look, there's a special on Nikes..."equal treatment under law #StartTheBoats"
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 30 Nov 2023, 23:38,
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He's a cunt.
That's my detailed analysis, any newspapers who want to publish it can gaz me for my bank details.
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IT'S EVERYONE ELSES FAULT WAH WAH WAH WAH WAH WAH
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Octo I ruin everything., Thu 30 Nov 2023, 9:29,
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This video is private
Go home ... oh wait Go To Home
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simbosan is too tired, Thu 30 Nov 2023, 10:41,
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Ah it was a guardian branded video of some corpo conference on public youtube
Since I posted maybe some ip lawyer there realised they didn’t have the rights, or perhaps musk himself decided he didn’t like free speech as much as he thought and got all Prince on them. Doesn’t matter
it was a short bit with him on stage saying the advertisers who have pulled out can go fuxk themselves, to crickets in the audience, one that included the likes of bob iger from disney
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 30 Nov 2023, 11:47,
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The independent have it if you’re curious, a 2 second longer clip where he names iger
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm2aNDo58j4
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 30 Nov 2023, 11:59,
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Not sure the current situation is part of the plan
Tesla was kind of the brand of the aspirant do-good family. Would have been in a Volvo Amazon back in the 70s. Now who the fuck wants to be seen in Space Karen’s cars? There’s a reason car manufacturers steer clear of big personalities- it puts off part of your customer base.
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Sat 2 Dec 2023, 8:29,
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He just doesn't know when to shut up
And to think that people buy cars from this weirdo
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At last, a decent Ukulele
IMHO at least. And not too long.
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Varmint, Wed 29 Nov 2023, 21:19,
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sick as hell
A7b6 with no 5th in it makes it sound kind of like F aug which is sick as hell
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the prick of misery pierced my foot on a spiiiike on, Wed 29 Nov 2023, 23:26,
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an apt song choice for the ukelele sound, too
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 30 Nov 2023, 4:05,
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My remix of Polar Express' Hot Chocolate Ft. Tom Hanks
I made this!
I don't think there's any demand for this remix of a terrible song in a crazy movie, but here I had fun making it. The Hanks shots are from a low res Youtube clip I found.
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DRC Rally Season 1 (FULL SEASON) Diecast Racing League
Same idea as Marble League.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Tue 28 Nov 2023, 21:17,
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ok,
I'll just watch one race to see what it's all about.
30 minutes later...
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FridgeBadger, Wed 29 Nov 2023, 18:58,
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Beatles, Drum 'n' Bass
Although not a huge a Beatles fan, this is wonderful, not least the comments where Ringo gets the respect he deserves while being actually still alive.
Love & Peace & Impeccable Timekeeping
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fred zeppelin II: Electric Boogaloo, Tue 28 Nov 2023, 19:37,
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the groove is pure baby
You can hear so much of the infectious energy of the music in just those two.
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simbosan is too tired, Tue 28 Nov 2023, 23:01,
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next up is a clavioline-only version of the Magical Mystery Tour album
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 29 Nov 2023, 1:47,
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Far better than I expected. I'd need earplugs, but it looks like it would be amazing in person.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 28 Nov 2023, 19:23,
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I was there last summer.
And I found it a bit underwhelming.
Too much distraction from other visitors.
Great place to film and take pics though.
(God, I miss the food...)
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Mex3 =mememe, Thu 30 Nov 2023, 0:14,
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World's ugliest water fountain
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 28 Nov 2023, 12:02,
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catering
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 28 Nov 2023, 21:50,
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I like it...
and I like the artists responsible...
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Tue 28 Nov 2023, 22:17,
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"the world's ugliest" seems to be something the article writer read on twitter
rather than from anyone of eminence. 2 million seems a lot, though perhaps vienna council is so cashed up this means nothing to them
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 28 Nov 2023, 22:52,
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I love the idea that art critics ought to be people of eminence, whatever that means, that are deferreed to on account of their superior taste.
Are all your views on art co-opted? Are you such a brow beaten slave to orthodoxy that you are incapable of a visceral reaction of your own? And yet on matters of municipal expenditure you manage a degree of scepticism. It’s like you know the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Wed 29 Nov 2023, 20:41,
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you seem to going through one of your weird triggered phases again, pru, set off by my innocous pun the other day that you didn't understand
I wonder how long this one will last, though I do admire the tortuous effort you've put in to try to extract something insulting from the above.
briefly, my observation implied that definitive article headlines should perhaps be based on something more than an anonymous twitter opinion the writer came across, if this makes me a "brow beaten slave to orthodoxy incapable of a visceral reaction of my own", sorry, give me moment,....then so be it
my council bit was a joke, an ultravox reference, which once again you missed as oddly enough, some people post here just because it might be funny or interesting, rather than to express outrage at vienna council's fiscal decisions
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 29 Nov 2023, 21:37,
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Yeah, yeah. I got your Ultravox, bravo btw, I gave you some Wilde because you’re talking shit. It is a fucking shit piece of public art. Not sure why you’re so defensive about it.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Thu 30 Nov 2023, 0:00,
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the importance of pretending not to be earnest
I don't really have strong feelings about the sculpture either way. I don't mind it, more interesting than a lot of public art if you cornered me about it. just pointing out something for happosai's benefit that isn't apparent untess you bother to read the article.
"World's ugliest water fountain" Said Someone on Twitter probably wouldn't get the same clicks, even with us browbeaten slaves.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 30 Nov 2023, 1:02,
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This means nothing to me
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 29 Nov 2023, 21:57,
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What I keep wondering is
balls, bum or boobs, what are they?
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Wed 29 Nov 2023, 1:07,
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But why must they be assigned one of the three categories you recognize?
(, Thu 30 Nov 2023, 7:43, Reply)
Alliteration and the three word rule for slogans.
The lack of any other body parts that fit.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Thu 30 Nov 2023, 15:34,
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They can be whatever you want them to be...
and you can do whatever you want with them...
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Fri 1 Dec 2023, 18:22,
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One of the better EDM production tutorials out there. If you're into that
(, Tue 28 Nov 2023, 11:12, Reply)
love that track
The kick sound has so much bottom end
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