
This is spookily relevant to my interests, given that I'm currently kitbashing a spaceship and listening to the Hitchhiker radio series.
( , Sun 5 Oct 2025, 12:02, Reply)

If you're a wizard, tell me how I should attach these engines. I can't figure it out.
( , Sun 5 Oct 2025, 12:17, Reply)

If Greig Johnson has taught me anything, it's that almost any problem can be solved with an appropriate application of hot glue.
( , Sun 5 Oct 2025, 13:25, Reply)

I've been trying to work something out with steel rods, but I'm beginning to think the answer might just be a fuckton of Milliput.
( , Sun 5 Oct 2025, 14:21, Reply)

Works for me, some of my stuff is still holding together a good fifteen years later
( , Mon 6 Oct 2025, 9:46, Reply)

Today is the day of the one pull up. Awful night's sleep - I imagine this is how footballers feel before the FA Cup final. Whatever happens today I have absolutely loved training for this one pull up. I'd go so far as to say it's been transformational and I've never been so committed to something so seemingly pathetic. Anyway I'd highly recommend it to anyone who is a slightly chubby, out of shape, and looking for a moderate, but obviously epic, challenge. Thanks for the support (from most of you!). That's been the best part really - chatting pull ups, and general 'getting older' advice over the DMs etc. Cheers. Simon
( , Sun 5 Oct 2025, 11:09, Reply)

than I was expecting to be when you started.
You’ve got the first half of the movement, you’ve got the second half. You can absolutely do this!
UNLEASH THE BEAST!!!
( , Sun 5 Oct 2025, 12:17, Reply)

you've been close for ages but your mindset hasn't kept pace with your physical progress
( , Sun 5 Oct 2025, 13:37, Reply)

If YouTube is starting to recommend the Critical Drinker, you're already on the alt-right pathway.
( , Sun 5 Oct 2025, 10:32, Reply)

while she looks at her sixty million pounds...
( , Sun 5 Oct 2025, 18:53, Reply)

as this sneery vid makes out. it was a "I still care for her anyway" olive branch, though I think Rowiling was well within her rights to tell her to get fucked
( , Tue 7 Oct 2025, 5:14, Reply)

This one is for the engineering/physics nerds - I know there are one or two of you here. lol
I've followed Huygens Optics' channel for a few years. I think it's one of those gems in the Youtubiverse that gives me a glimmer of hope for the interwebs.
( , Sat 4 Oct 2025, 23:28, Reply)

Again, surprised this 17-year-old clip isn't GC...
( , Sat 4 Oct 2025, 20:14, Reply)

New 9/11 Evidence Points to Deep Saudi Complicity

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to saying "the global War on Terror was based on a mistake". I guess it's punchy for those who tldr and grist to the "saudi bad. no comedy for bad saudi" mill
I had a quick wade through the court filing for my own curiousity and they seem to be making the legal argument that they don't actually need to show evidence of direct involvement or knowlege of the saudi government for their tort (damages claim) to be valid, citing cases that they only need to show material support (aparment finding help) and that those giving it were employed by a foreign government. Good luck to them, I think the yanks have been stingy with their compo, so perhaps the saudis might cough up something after almost 30 years, they're not short of a quid.
My take is it sounds like this Thumairy character had been getting a stipend by the saudi intelligence service since 1990 to report what various saudi in the US were up to while performing his main job of giving consular help. That's pretty much the shocking new revelation in the case, "fbi records...confirming Thumairy’s regular involvement in receiving radicals upon their arrival in the U.S.and hosting them while in Los Angeles" It's possible he was sympathetic to wahabist causes like al queda, but no evidence he knew about the plot or had any direct involvement in it, or in fact, treated them any differently to any other saudis he dealt with in previous years. He might have been getting regular pay for being an informer, little diferrent to how other spy agencies use embassy staff.
As a small aside, I once had a saudi student staying at my place for a brief year I lived in Sydney. Nice bloke, paid his board and was no fuss. Had a few chats with him to learn about life there, though he did once offer to give me a koran which I politely refused. Said his dad was a real estate agent in Riyadh. Had a knock at the door one evening and it was the Consul General from the Saudi embassy. He'd come personally to my apartment in maroubra to check up on this kid.
( , Sat 4 Oct 2025, 15:59, Reply)

There is no fucking way on earth that US intelligence services weren't aware of an impending attack on American soil. The 3,000 dead is peanuts in exchange for the utterly perfect propaganda piece that a (second) attack on the Twin Towers offered.
The idea that using a hikacked plane as a weapon instead of a bargaining chip was unimaginable before September 11th is also utter bollocks.
The only mistakes made were in how American troops conducted themselves overseas in the following years.
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and it did eventually have a fair influence on change after decades. Consistent international sanctions and their stagnant economy led botha to internal reforms before de clerk ripped the band aid off. People were quite clear about the issue, the disenfranchisement of 85% of the population based on race.
However I don't see this with Saudi. they're not hugely different from other muslim country in the status of women or gays. They're an autocracy (that britain created), but so are many countries, so the question would be why pick on them instead of say, Oman or uzbekistan, or pakistan for that matter if people are posting about countries that helped 9/11 hijackers? I don't see this international movement or sanctions against them. If you do and think this will bring about change, I can respect that. Picketing BAE for doing huge amounts of business with them. refusing to fly with airlines that use aramco aviation fuels like many british airlines do, etc. Supporting Saudi women calling for change.
But I'd bet for most this is just people posting shit having a go at some comedian doing a gig there is the extent of their opposition. it's the lamest, laziest form of vitue signalling. And rather than aparteid, you could use the better example of an autocratic opressive state that had done horrible shit, the soviet union. It wasn't sanctions and the 40 years of cold war that brought it down. I reckon that opposition helped prop them up. It was when we finally relaxed and allowed them to be exposed to western culture. All the shit they were missing. blue jeans, billy joel touring there in 87. the population had a taste and decided they had dick of it, and it collapsed, even rejecting gorbi's compromise of glasnost. these things happen by internal pressure, what we really want is enough saudis to think our western values are worth adopting. Can't see how stopping the first comedy festival in an authoritarian state acheives this. Anyway, I've waffled enough and made my points, but I imagine if the soviet union was around today those same people would be whining online to cancel billy joel, and he's the piano man goddammit
( , Sun 5 Oct 2025, 1:14, Reply)

I remember when it was 'The War Against Terror' before they changed it because it spelt TWAT.
( , Mon 6 Oct 2025, 0:20, Reply)

2 minute satire ☆
Bound to generate further strawman and ad hominem attacks
sensible debate
- YouTube
( , Fri 3 Oct 2025, 17:55, Reply)

- but I don't like to wish death on even the shittiest of shits
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I may not always be entirely sincere when I say I am. Using 9/11 as a verb may be a clue to that.
That being said, there are more than 8.2bn of us and the greedy comedians are probably not potential Einsteins. I wouldn't be giving up my parachute to Jimmy Carr, and if there's a runaway trolley problem and Louis Ck is in its path, I'm not throwing that switch (unless there's an even better target).
( , Fri 3 Oct 2025, 22:03, Reply)

- but I would push Carr into the path of a combine harvester if
it meant I'd get a 99 with a flake.
( , Fri 3 Oct 2025, 22:36, Reply)

from long experience Ive found people reserve far more of their ire to whoever gets between them and the target of their righteous indignation than they have for the target itself. It's because that impulse never really springs from a place of empathy. Rather it's the licence the alleged trangression affords them to be awful online yet still feel righteous and approved that's seductive, and they hate it being taken away or challenged. This is pretty much all twitter is, but to give a b3tan example, remember sockcooker hounding that bloke off the board for posting a review about a game with a paedo joke in it? then we learn sockcooker spent four years brothelcreeping in thailand boasting about how the underage sex workers were probably older than they look. His response to me pointing that out was to put me on ignore rather than post a lot of further links trying to keep the righteousness alive, but you get the idea
How's that for ad hominen and strawman? Not bad, ay?
( , Sat 4 Oct 2025, 17:46, Reply)

3 days left until I stop posting about doing 1 pull up. I met up with a 60 year old bloke, who can do more than one pull up to inspire me over the bar.
( , Fri 3 Oct 2025, 15:14, Reply)

I am longer than you, heavier than you, my arms are thinner than yours, and I can do a pull up. You have less distance to travel than me, you have less mass to move than me, and you have more muscle mass than me.
You must have either a) a skill issue, b) a motivation issue, c) a profitable video series issue (which is possibly a a subset of b), or d) a humiliation fetish (which is possibly a subset of c).
( , Fri 3 Oct 2025, 20:14, Reply)

Even better than your pull-up progress..... healthily dropping some kilos in the process.
Might have to change your name to Pig Face Dikon Radish
or PF Rutabaga at the very least.
Dead happy this is going well for you.
( , Sat 4 Oct 2025, 9:50, Reply)

Ta UnclePills. Think the twirls get more views than the pull ups. Probably need to go on onlyfans yeah?
( , Sat 4 Oct 2025, 22:04, Reply)

A simple game based on one I wrote for the ZX Spectrum 40 years ago!

LOOPA 2D
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It should pop up a box showing the moves made and time taken. What problems are you having?
edit: the colours should end up in the same order as shown when you click the green help button.
( , Fri 3 Oct 2025, 15:42, Reply)

I'll have another go to confirm.
No pop up for me.
( , Fri 3 Oct 2025, 16:14, Reply)

Same here sadly. I've matched the pattern, but the timer is still running. Firefox on Android if that helps.
( , Fri 3 Oct 2025, 18:00, Reply)

Hopefully it's a simple fix if it's just the browser. Watch this space...
Just checked Firefox on Samsung Tab and it works fine.
*scratches head*
It uses local storage which, if blocked, might cause the failure. I'll check it out in the morning.
Update: Local storage problem is now fixed. If you are still having problems it may be due to popups being blocked in your browser.
( , Fri 3 Oct 2025, 18:26, Reply)

Yes indeed.
Patricia Routledge: Keeping Up Appearances star dies at 96

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b3ta.com/talk/8458121#post8458132
( , Fri 3 Oct 2025, 12:46, Reply)

On demand public transport is a big step backwards too. (Assuming they used to have a regular bus service with universal coverage, I guess if they had nothing before then it's progress of a kind.)
( , Thu 2 Oct 2025, 23:22, Reply)

Would AI manage Naragansett and RIPTA straight away or would there have to be quite a bit of work with prompts?
( , Fri 3 Oct 2025, 0:04, Reply)

You wouldn't claim a taxi is more efficient than a bus on a timetable though, eh.
( , Fri 3 Oct 2025, 15:42, Reply)

After Pete Hegseth's Department of War speech in front of his generals, I've gathered the world's peace activists, for a message from The Department Of Peace.
( , Thu 2 Oct 2025, 17:26, Reply)

I was disappointed with bill burr on his recent podcast. His moral objections to corporations and the media dividing people etc sound a little hollow if you go and get a huge amount of cash legitimising the people who lured a journalist to ask embassy and chopped him up (amongst a couple of other things).
( , Thu 2 Oct 2025, 11:37, Reply)

I sincerely hope someone 9/11s their plane directly into MBS.
( , Thu 2 Oct 2025, 16:33, Reply)

it's like saying Leo Sayer's tour of the US in the 80s legitimised the Iran Contra affair. His singing about loving you more than he can say rings hollow when you think about the Nicaraguan death squads. it's preposterous
burrs's doing a comedy gig there, the place is full of british expats working there anyway like half the gulf states, it's not north korea, and frankly I think them seeing a bit of western humour is a good thing and might even iberalise the place a smidgen if that actually was the goal rather than the internet sanctimonycancelgasm that seems to be what most are chasing.
if you want them to be less backward and more secular, boycotting them is such a stupid idea. You should be bombing them with our culture. Im not that fussed, myself. I like variety and I find the ragheads mostly decent chaps and I reckon all that waking up early to kiss the rug makes them mellow. I'm more worried about the chinese and their dystopian social credits bigbrother headfuck, but I don't seem too many turning down all the cheap shit and there's no upvotes to be had taking a stand on social media against them like there is about a us comedian however indirectly responsible he is for murdering journalists.
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My point was bill burr specifically goes on about how we should all be excellent to each other, corporations and geeks running Facebook etc are all awful people crushing the working man and being unfair and super greedy and dividing everyone. ie being awful is bad and he's not like that.
He has been employed there directly by the Saudi royal family. You know the dictators with all the torture, draconian religious rules, woman can't drive etc. And probably paid an outrageous amount of money.
Then goes on his podcast and gushes about how lovely everyone was there, in that suspicious manner broadcasters and VIPs (also being paid+++) do at the boxing events.
It's hypocritical.
Leo sayer was not employed by ollie north, your example doesn't make sense.
( , Thu 2 Oct 2025, 19:37, Reply)

youtu.be/PECQihXJb_g?si=xrSa1U5DY9QfdxPQ
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Every man has his price and the incorruptible man has the highest price of all.
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You either die a hero. Or you die a villain.
...or be a hero, become a villain, redeem yourself and then either die a hero.....or fall off the wagon yet again and die a villain. And maybe after you die a revisionist historian debates 'the greater good' etc and you get viewed as on balance a hero in some circles.
... but it is a great line.
( , Fri 3 Oct 2025, 13:48, Reply)

sounds like you are describing the average career of a politician
( , Fri 3 Oct 2025, 19:46, Reply)

Or live long enough to die of autoerotic asphyxiation
( , Fri 3 Oct 2025, 21:23, Reply)

It's either David Carradine or Micheal Hutchins.
I'm edging towards David Carradine though.
( , Fri 3 Oct 2025, 23:49, Reply)

You go up a peg in my estimations
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I don't know, maybe he is a hypocrite, I don't follow him that closely. I thought he was just a comedian but he obviously doesn't meet your high standard of ethical purity.
But he probably said he had a nice time and was treated well because he was, as they're not these manichean baddies you think they are. I know you have this laundary list of outrage. The US renditioned 1000s of people for torture, which also seemed quite a bad thing to me at the time, but at least they let women drive so we won't cancel anyone who has the temerity to visit.
But the human rights aside, it sound like Burrs thinks billionaire are an issue in our society, which while not funny is something I agree with. So you're saying he shouldn't attend saudi's first international comedy festival, which is what it is rarther than some private gig on the Salmon's superyacht, because as the saudi ruling family are super rich and it has royal backing which is exactly what you would expect in an autocratic kingdom, this makes him a hypocrite . is that the reasoning? Fine, I guess. though it's a little Louise Mensch www.youtube.com/watch?v=3252FSW7OC4
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Wealth inequality has been a thing since the dawn of man and arguably necessary for a functioning economy since we're all too selfish to make true communism or socialism work. Most of the arguments against Billionaires seem to boil down to 'It's not fair, though', which isn't exactly compelling.
( , Sat 4 Oct 2025, 21:29, Reply)

this vid probably sum it up www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM
but basically the huge shift in our society since the mid 20th century has been for the wealth of the super rich to fly of into the sunset to unimaginable levels, while wealth and living standards of the bulk of people, the middle clas,s has been going down. I. as you might have gathered, am not a billionaire. I wish people voted for policies that favoured themselves and a society where having a normal job still afforded having a decent life, but instead many seem to cheerlead billionaires like some sort of stockholm syndrome and save their energy for the important things like cancelling comedians if they're on the left or trans if they're on the right
( , Sun 5 Oct 2025, 1:41, Reply)

But the basic premise of that video still appeared to be 'It's not fair'. I'm clearly just not getting it, sorry.
( , Sun 5 Oct 2025, 9:01, Reply)

I just said that unfairness is the issue. perhaps you mistook it for sarcasm
( , Tue 7 Oct 2025, 6:20, Reply)

Are they going to be inspired to allow furious wanking during public beheadings?
Not sure the Saudi PR team are going to go with "Not as bad as North Korea, or China, Alhamdulillah"
( , Fri 3 Oct 2025, 5:25, Reply)

humour can become quite subversive, once you allow it.certainly better than isolation and the status quo,
that's my position and I reckon if people thought about it a bit more they might realise it's reasonable. But of course then they wouldn't get to jizz sanctimony on the internet
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some people just want to feel involved, bless 'em
( , Fri 3 Oct 2025, 10:30, Reply)

a lot of established comedians don't make the majority of their income doing ticketed shows or from radio/TV/movies/online...they sell out and do corporate gigs and keep quiet about it. Been going on for decades. Even Monty Python did a bunch of industrial films...
( , Sun 5 Oct 2025, 23:09, Reply)

just in from popbitch:
After all the social media chat, what was Riyadh Comedy Festival actually like?
Hugely popular with local male and female Saudis, is the answer. The only two events which didn’t appear to be sold out? Louis CK and Jimmy Carr. Perhaps Saudis don’t much care for pushy public masturbators or tax avoiders either.
( , Thu 2 Oct 2025, 17:36, Reply)

They took the message board down a few years ago but still do the free weekly email
( , Fri 3 Oct 2025, 8:33, Reply)

I have no idea who half of the people are but it's sill fun AND I can search back throuh my emails for fun stories about celebs when they die.
( , Fri 3 Oct 2025, 10:17, Reply)

yeah its hilariously scurrilous. Like how Servalan used to calm down her dog. Or Colin Fry's secret shop.
Heartwarming stuff like Brian Cant used to hang around in the reception at television centre and saw a woman going for a job who was very nervous and stressed, ran into the studio and brought out Humpty for her to hug and calm down.
also their guide to spotting a superinjunction is brilliant. you'll never look at a headline the same again
( , Fri 3 Oct 2025, 13:43, Reply)

Carr 4 Hire in the Viz is still relevant after all these years.
( , Fri 3 Oct 2025, 14:07, Reply)

"Aisha pet", he says, "will you put your finger up my bum?
"Do you think that might help you cum this time, mohammed?", she says
"No, dumpling, I need you to push the haemmoroid back in"
"Thank you Riyadh, you've been a wonderful audience"
( , Fri 3 Oct 2025, 14:47, Reply)

The woman quoted was an ex-pat asked about human rights.
Fucking hilarious
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyn2yqpnnpo
( , Sat 4 Oct 2025, 11:57, Reply)

but the second half of the video ...
( , Thu 2 Oct 2025, 1:31, Reply)

Or maybe that is just the algorithm for me?
( , Sun 5 Oct 2025, 11:00, Reply)

I did this so you don’t have to. You’re welcome / sorry.
8-Bit Rick

( , Wed 1 Oct 2025, 18:00, Reply)

I met him at the Sheffield Synth show a few years ago and he is a proper synth geek.
( , Wed 1 Oct 2025, 17:02, Reply)

( , Wed 1 Oct 2025, 18:57, Reply)

to remove your pinkie ring when you play something decent...
( , Thu 2 Oct 2025, 1:29, Reply)

I'm not interested in a chord-making synth (?) with only 4 chord options (plus secret other chord options). That sounds like a home organ with single finger chord accompaniment, not a serious instrument. Why have only a single octave of keyboard notes to play with?
Okay so it's not really a synth, per se, but a musical toy. Fine. But I'm still struggling to see what fun I could have with it compared to, say, any comparable synth with actual controls for each parameter.
( , Thu 2 Oct 2025, 16:52, Reply)

If it had a proper midi in it would be more usable but as it is it's pretty limited and expensive. Not having a simple drum machine or editing for the drubs they do have seems like another oversight
Still, I'm not the target market
( , Fri 3 Oct 2025, 8:32, Reply)

This online safety bill bollocks is starting to annoy me. Why can’t parents look after their own bloody kids?
I’d ask if there’s an alternative hosting site but at this point it seems to be only a matter of time until that gets blocked too.
( , Tue 30 Sep 2025, 20:10, Reply)

I use ImgBB or my local NAS for all my image hosting now.
( , Tue 30 Sep 2025, 21:18, Reply)

ImgBB still seems to work for now.
( , Tue 30 Sep 2025, 21:19, Reply)

It's the collateral damage that'll hurt. You may not host stuff there, but a lot of other sites do and now you can't see it.
Unless you get a VPN or something.
Until the government bans those.
( , Tue 30 Sep 2025, 21:30, Reply)

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without their own image uploader.
( , Tue 30 Sep 2025, 21:39, Reply)

Don’t give them a fucking smartphone with no parental controls.
( , Tue 30 Sep 2025, 21:24, Reply)

I just fired it up and Imgur didn't care. It thought I was somewhere else, not the UK. Then the UK can have as many pointless laws as they want, and you don't have to deal with them.
If you are the sort of person who has the inclination for other sites, you can access naked ladies and torrent downloads via TOR as well without being bothered by the bollocks...
www.torproject.org/download/
Although, I did just try and post an image here and it wouldn't have any of it
( , Tue 30 Sep 2025, 22:00, Reply)

about 50% of the speed of firefox, but Imgur wasn't happy about showing images here on /links.
Is B3TA hosted in the UK?
( , Tue 30 Sep 2025, 22:05, Reply)

but when I posted the image link as an image, it said it was region restricted.
( , Wed 1 Oct 2025, 21:38, Reply)
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