*sigh* Another voice we’ll never hear again.
I seem to have reached the age where all my childhood favourites start to die off.
Has anyone checked on Neil Buchanan lately?
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jonbob loves you, Thu 27 Aug 2026, 20:10,
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I'm not paying for the guardian so can't see the article
But i assume you mean Ratko Mladic.
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Free to read. Just click Maybe Later on the nag screen.
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jonbob loves you, Thu 27 Aug 2026, 21:34,
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Guardian has always been free to read
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social hand grenade I was a lurker before you were a lurker, Fri 28 Aug 2026, 9:59,
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And that's why you're banned from the newsagents.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Sat 29 Aug 2026, 15:05,
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Man hits the skids
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 27 Aug 2026, 6:31,
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A man’s got to have a hobby.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Thu 27 Aug 2026, 11:58,
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Impressive
But I'd be more impressed if he was doing parallel defeacation.
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Thu 27 Aug 2026, 18:54,
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This was "breaking news" when I followed that link:
www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/bloke-no-trousers-shoved-carrot-37601485
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Thu 27 Aug 2026, 20:39,
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Damn. But at least he’s gone to a better place…
SPAAACE!
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jonbob loves you, Wed 26 Aug 2026, 16:48,
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Shit, first Dolly now Tim.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Wed 26 Aug 2026, 17:09,
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I’m counting Sam Neill so as to prevent any more celebrity deaths for the near future.
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jonbob loves you, Wed 26 Aug 2026, 17:32,
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If only Dolly Parton were connected to Home Alone 2 in some way...
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jonbob loves you, Thu 27 Aug 2026, 0:39,
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This might not be a popular opinion right now but still,
fuck Dolly Parton.
Very sad about Tim though.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Wed 26 Aug 2026, 17:48,
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Were they her decisions though?
However decent she may have been, she still had to operate in a borderline theocratic, patriarchal place, with all the hate and discrimination that entails.
Jury's out for me, maybe she left it a better place in some ways, encouraging literacy and supporting vaccination.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Wed 26 Aug 2026, 18:05,
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Her words were inclusive, her deeds were, for want of a longer and protracted definition, evil.
Imagine a Nazi theme park where children are encouraged to defend the Fatherland against the Allied invaders and pack Jews onto cattle trains, etc.
Imagine a restaurant where you can choose to have waiters serve you wearing SS uniforms.
This is Dollywood.
Just swap the swastika for the battle flag of the Confederacy.
Were they her decisions? Well, she chose to put her name on it. Superficial changes were only made after years of being called out on it.
She still thought it was a good idea to have a light-hearted theme park based on the fucking Confederacy.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Wed 26 Aug 2026, 18:18,
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Evil is a rather religious word and hyperbole.
It is also one often reserved for the most heinious acts, not a tasteless theme park pitched to appeal to the American masses in the South USA.
That seems way out of proportion, at worst the theme park is propaganda.
She didn't actually own slaves, she was born there.
Compared to the shitshow in the White House and Congress it is a misdemeanor, thousands died from the covid response and withdrawal of aid, ICE even have camps.
I'm not a particular fan of hers but, evil is a very black and white judgement. Is there anything a Elon Musk fan like yourself actually approves of?
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Wed 26 Aug 2026, 20:35,
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I'm not a Musk fan.
Even when I was something of a spacex apologist, long before the Nazi shit came out, I was very critical of his anti-unionism and his relationship with the truth. Go back and check.
I approve of humanism, class/sexual/racial equality, so naturally I lean towards anti-Nazism, anti-slavery, anti-Confederacy. I'm not sure why I need to defend myself, when I have not attacked you...
I also said evil is shorthand for what her deeds entailed, which was making a pro-confederacy theme park, for fucks sake. You think it's just tasteless to make a theme park celebrating a moral evil? Is me pointing out this obvious moral evil why you feel personally attacked?
The shitshow in the White House has ordered flags at half mast for Dolly. It seems their values were more closely aligned than you thought.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Wed 26 Aug 2026, 21:01,
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I don't feel personally attacked.
I just don't think it's quite that clear cut, I'd need to know more and I don't follow celebrities.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Thu 27 Aug 2026, 1:04,
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I would imagine that a reasonable person would count whitewashing the Confederacy as one of the most heinous acts, up there with condoning slavery or denying the holocaust..
I don't know all that there is to know about Musk, but I know he's a fucking Nazi. I don't know much about Parton, but I know she profited from a theme park dedicated to the pro-slavery Confederacy.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Thu 27 Aug 2026, 22:23,
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Here's a more serious/nuanced source than a celebrity gossip website
wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dolly-partons-america/episodes/dixie-disappearance?tab=transcript
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Wed 26 Aug 2026, 19:50,
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It's a nearly unreadable transcript of a radio show.
My linked article at least gets straight (no pun intended) to the point.
ETA:
This transcript only deals with one attraction at Dollywood, does not deal with the homophobia, the welcoming of the KKK to protest the Gay Day, does not mention the train ride which was the origin of the park, and is a does not try to suggest that Dolly, the owner and main contributing content creator of the racist theme park, is at all a fucking racist.
What you call nuance I'd call wilful ignorance.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Wed 26 Aug 2026, 20:24,
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"welcoming of the KKK to protest the Gay Day" is not true
advocate.com/news/2004/05/20/kkk-protest-theme-park-gay-day-12497
I agree with FeralCat's point about your very black and white thinking but maybe that's your online persona
There's a Listen button up there in the WNYC link for anyone interested
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Thu 27 Aug 2026, 5:28,
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Okay I misunderstood that bit,
but it is fair to say that she sided with the KKK's 'Christian family values' over the free speech of the gay group, that she waged lawfare against those gays for using the Dollywood name, and essentially ended the Dollywood Gay Day group as a whole.
Remember that gay parent families were made to feel unwelcome for acknowledging the existence of gay people; that the same anti-political speech policy that applied to, for example, Islamists, communists and Nazis, was equally applied to homosexuals.
Still seems sinister to me.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Thu 27 Aug 2026, 22:11,
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From that it sounds like a business decision.
An entertainment company playing to the crowd with whitewashed history, not exactly evil.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Wed 26 Aug 2026, 20:56,
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Have you ever studied the American Civil War at all?
Like *at all*?
Do business decisions trump basic morals? Do business decisions make supporting the KKK okay? Do they make excluding homosexuals okay? Do they make whitewashing genocide and human rights abuses okay?
Slavery itself was a business decision, wasn't it.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Wed 26 Aug 2026, 21:03,
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I mean the day to day decisions might be made by those who ran the business.
Not her as owner deciding to be racist. She might have been, I don't know.
Business decisions don't usually reflect moral or ethical behaviour, unless there are regulations and enforcement. Their responsibility is to return a profit. That is partially why the world is pretty fucked.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Thu 27 Aug 2026, 1:20,
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If that's the worst hatchet piece you can find about someone who's been in the public eye for that long it's pretty weak stuff
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It was the first result in ddg, I think Dollywood being a pro-Confederacy theme park is common knowledge.
Last Week Tonight did a good piece on it if that's more your cup of tea.
If you think that's a hatchet piece, I fear you might be the kind of stupid cunt who thinks it's somehow acceptable to have a racist theme park that also enforces homophobic 'traditional values' while welcoming the KKK.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Wed 26 Aug 2026, 20:20,
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The Dolly thread is below.
Let’s keep it Curry, eh?
I wonder what Tim’s favourite curry was…
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jonbob loves you, Wed 26 Aug 2026, 20:46,
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Okay, Tim Curry
Sometimes I cheer myself up by remembering how much he seemed to enjoy playing Frankenfurter.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Wed 26 Aug 2026, 21:00,
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There was just something about that smile of his.
He could deliver the most salubrious line, voice practically dripping with erotic juices, while holding a mouthful of scenery and still maintain a Cheshire cat grin.
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jonbob loves you, Thu 27 Aug 2026, 0:39,
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He was certainly a better friend to the LGBT+ community than Dolly ever was.
I can't see a Dolly thread below so it must have been started by a /links racist. Massive coincidence, I'm sure.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Wed 26 Aug 2026, 21:05,
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Meh
The whole point of the piece is 'the dark side of Dolly' so it literally is a hatchet piece, trying to spoil her reputation.
"racist theme park" lol. I hear she had a racist dog and wore racist pants AND every year since she was a baby wore blackface for the whole of October.
But the worst bit is she didnt turn her Facebook profile picture black Martin Luther King was assassinated.
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You're a shit troll, dyllon.
You could at least claim that Dollywood is a theme park celebrating States' Rights.
Up your game or fuck off.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Thu 27 Aug 2026, 22:26,
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No 'AI', Ads, voiceover, music, soundeffects.
Like a wacky races care home.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Wed 26 Aug 2026, 0:07,
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Bloody marvellous!
I'm now wondering if they still run lawnmower racing.
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Wed 26 Aug 2026, 6:22,
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The atmosphere seems so relaxed and fun.
Just wandering about the site looking at the range of vehicles would be a lesson in automotive engineering design.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Wed 26 Aug 2026, 17:07,
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The balloon jousting is adorable.
Some boys really do never grow up, not on the inside.
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jonbob loves you, Thu 27 Aug 2026, 0:48,
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The key is to grow up, but not lose touch with the child.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Thu 27 Aug 2026, 1:09,
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Dolly done Deaded
She was certainly ahead of the game by 2 points.
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TBL I posted this on, Tue 25 Aug 2026, 21:13,
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We played a YuToob playlist of songs in her honour. With an ad-blocker, so her estate won't get ad revenue.
I think she would have approved
[Edited to add:}
And of course, in the wise words of Dumpy himself:
"The only good thing about Country And Western is Dolly Parton's tits"
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Boot I want to know what you meant, Tue 25 Aug 2026, 21:28,
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She was one of those rare cases where people make life-changing amounts of money, but use it for good. The Imagination Library is such a brilliantly simple and yet so profoundly right idea.
We lived in Southwark when my son was very little, so we benefitted from the Imagination Library and some of my most treasured memories from when he was little is reading those books with him.
I have nothing but respect for her.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 25 Aug 2026, 23:49,
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A graceful and beautiful soul.
Through her music and book project she brought light into many lives.
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hoppitygoestotown The temporal displacement occurred exactly, Wed 26 Aug 2026, 0:01,
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We all have to be a bit more Dolly now, to balance the books a little
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simbosan is too tired, Wed 26 Aug 2026, 2:48,
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KEXP turned into a complete Dollython last night.
I immediately thought it'd be tiresome as fuck, but it was bloody lovely. As wonderfully talented as I'm aware she was, I always kind of perceived her as being a big-boobed novelty act for the most part - probably due to being a British child of the '80s and not having much in the way of real exposure or inclination towards country music growing up. Some of her less-well known stuff is properly brilliant.
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Screw Waze or Google Maps
All I want to know is whether or not I’m going to get stuck at the bloody railway crossing gates. This is the web app of my dreams.
I haven’t tested it yet but hey, who needs to leave their house these days.
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Fray Brentos *mega-belms*, Tue 25 Aug 2026, 17:31,
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UK only.
Not much fucking good for the Train Des Mouettes, is it? What's the point?
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Boot I want to know what you meant, Tue 25 Aug 2026, 21:33,
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Reminds me of the school bus in the 80s
The level crossing barriers failed and our genius bus driver thought the best move was to drive with 40 odd kids around the boom on one side and then down both sets of rails between and then around the other boom. This was the main Sydney Melbourne line on a level crossing where trains over 1km long would barrel through at speed. Would have preferred being late.
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Massive Erection
How the working gubbins is fitted to a huge wind turbine in China. Hint: with giant cranes.
The music's a bit bombastic, but at least there's no wanky AI voiceover.
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What are the black things on the distal third of each blade - counterweights?
13" is insane how that truck doesn't topple backwards.
All very impressive.
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Russian training fail.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Mon 24 Aug 2026, 14:59,
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Clearly fake. Russia stopped bothering with training ages ago. /s
But more seriously I heard an anecdote from a Brit working with some Iraqis post-Saddam. There was a lot of Soviet hardware around, including RPGs. RPGs have impact fuses that are covered by little plastic caps. Normally you would remove them just before firing but apparently the natives had a habit of doing it as soon as they picked up the weapon and just throwing the caps away. The visiting Brit had to walk after them, picking up the plastic caps, then telling the soldiers to put them back on after explaining what would happen if they just happened to trip over while carrying their new toys.
The Russians used to have a special training version of the RPG-7, because even dummy projectiles cost money. They show-horned a single shot rifle into the casing and tweaked the bullet so the ballistics matched those of a real RPG.
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jonbob loves you, Mon 24 Aug 2026, 16:21,
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The training RPG-7 sounds like a good idea.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Mon 24 Aug 2026, 19:45,
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Skip to 10:00
youtu.be/8MrwJM1_kw8
My recollection was a bit off: they put a single shot rifle into a training projectile not a special version of the launcher.
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jonbob loves you, Mon 24 Aug 2026, 20:31,
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People in the comments very upset with the ending.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Mon 24 Aug 2026, 21:08,
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Not quite the “practice shot” they were expecting probably.
Ian, aka “Gun Jesus”, does get his hands on a flamethrower and a minigun in other videos, so there’s that. I like the channel. It’s mostly about how the weapons work rather than the tacticool+’splosions that so many others involve.
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jonbob loves you, Mon 24 Aug 2026, 21:19,
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I used to watch a lot of videos which tested the effects of the various calibres and charges. Amazing how much energy can be concentrated in a small piece of metal.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Mon 24 Aug 2026, 22:32,
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I like Suchomimas
but I get the impression that he only started talking when he got a youtube account, the poor lad.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Mon 24 Aug 2026, 21:19,
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Seems coherent enough to me.
Not sure where from, Sheffield? Leeds?
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Mon 24 Aug 2026, 22:25,
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Heasa tennency tuhmashis worstgevah
in some counterintwitiv waysumtimes, offen missin entiyahsybuls.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Tue 25 Aug 2026, 0:02,
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This makes perfect sense but I had just watched an interview with James Gandolfini
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Stop me if I've mentioned this before
but since he had 'corrective' surgery I find Isaac Arthur almost unintelligible compared to his former self. Same kind of deal, his words mash into each other now, before he was really trying to get the sounds out, now he's flukkimpossibuhtucompwehendwidowtusuftahbles.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Tue 25 Aug 2026, 2:10,
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I see what you mean.
I get more irritated by the sibilant sounds.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Tue 25 Aug 2026, 3:09,
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Nice beaver
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 24 Aug 2026, 7:27,
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In Norfolk...
The birth of the kits presents a conundrum, because they will have no mates to breed with in the future except their parents and siblings. “You can’t have just one family in the river system,” said Spowage. “You need a wider genetic pool.”
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Mon 24 Aug 2026, 14:55,
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we have similar jokes about taswegians
A young tasmanian bloke on his wedding night turns up at his parents place.
"What's wrong, son, why are you back here?"
"We were about to go to sleep together and she told me she was a virgin, dad, so I panicked and ran home"
"You did the right thing, son. if she's not good enough for her own family she's not good enough for ours"
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 25 Aug 2026, 1:44,
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Fakenham
Where the girls are loud.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Tue 25 Aug 2026, 3:12,
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If you like experimental music
you might like this.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Sun 23 Aug 2026, 18:35,
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My journey into experimental music
Might be a short one after this
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spazzcaptain Misses Valin @, Sun 23 Aug 2026, 21:50,
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Related
Björk during the recent solar eclipse
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Mon 24 Aug 2026, 3:47,
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Riiight...
Well she certainly hasn't gotten more mainstream
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Mon 24 Aug 2026, 5:40,
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"Let's experience the serenity of the eclipse"
Bjork: "Hold my pint"
Still, gotta love her for being bonkers.
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Mon 24 Aug 2026, 6:43,
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Keep those candles away from your face, or you'll crack!
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jonbob loves you, Tue 25 Aug 2026, 2:13,
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Douglas Adams: The Ends of the Earth bbc podcast
some 19 short and long pods.....: lot of new stuff along with what you migh already know ...
"Adams was also someone who thought deeply about the biggest problems in the world, from the internet, to artificial intelligence, to space exploration, politics, and conservation—he was a sharp critic and a profoundly disruptive thinker of the way we do things.
When Adams passed away in 2001, he left behind a treasure trove of recordings from his personal archive—many of which have never been heard before. Now, thanks to the Adams Estate, for the first time, these rare materials are available ...."
and so on
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unclepills, Sun 23 Aug 2026, 9:28,
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Thanks for this, I will listen later - have a click
- but I really cannot stand BBC Sounds as an app / platform. I constantly have to battle with it to play any series in order. It's cluttered. It's hard to find the stuff I've bookmarked.
Yech, bleurgh, etc.
Hate it.
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Sun 23 Aug 2026, 9:37,
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it seems to be in some other formats, audiobook etc, but not sure if same as this.
it seems to be in some other formats too, audiobook etc, but not sure if same as this.
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unclepills, Sun 23 Aug 2026, 10:44,
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Having listened to the introduction
he mentions it is an audiobook so suspect it is the same thing.
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Nun The Wiser : My middle name's still RIS, Sun 23 Aug 2026, 22:36,
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You're not wrong
Open the episode list (which has them in reverse order) so scroll down to the beginning, click listen to this
404
GJBBC
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simbosan is too tired, Sun 23 Aug 2026, 15:25,
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Sounds like the links are intentionally obfuscated, a quick search threw up mention of github efforts to address this to produce reliable links.
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get_iplayer --pid-recursive --pid p0p2kvkh
Seems to work ok.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Mon 24 Aug 2026, 10:26,
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thanks
couldn't find on search
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2Pints , at the third stroke, it will be, Mon 24 Aug 2026, 13:38,
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cheers
I'll listen to this
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 23 Aug 2026, 10:34,
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Having listened to the first couple of episodes or whatever, it's a little repetitive and far too hagiographic for my liking, but I'm going to stick with it as the later ones seem more promising.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Mon 24 Aug 2026, 17:34,
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YouTube has become increasingly weird in it's suggestions
What in the fkn world is this about?
Hamiltonians are maths something?
Warning: This is not a good link (or is it!)
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simbosan is too tired, Sun 23 Aug 2026, 8:34,
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Hamiltonian statistics, if that helps.
Not to be confused with Hamiltonian mechanics who are usually found just outside Glasgow or in Ontario, Canada.
Frankly with all the references to python I'm surprised Stan isn't used with Hilda.
Background on Stan relevant to your original link here
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So it's your fault it's in my recommendations?
*shakes fist*
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simbosan is too tired, Sun 23 Aug 2026, 14:22,
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Have you beend doing some late night data analysis again?
Looking for binomial friendly fit posteriors on OnlyNaNs?
(, Sun 23 Aug 2026, 17:11, Reply)
I'm usually checking hot comedians on OnlyFuns
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simbosan is too tired, Sun 23 Aug 2026, 18:40,
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We're Not Gonna Take It
I made this!
When a studio makes a band sound more mainstream but they want to sound more 'metal' - they re-record some of their songs years later.
This edit uses the the 2004 re-recorded version of 'We're Not Gonna Take It ' but (mainly) with the vocals and ad-libs from the 1984 recording.
Tentative tick of I made this as I did the arrangement.
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James Mason
goes home to Huddersfield
includes Wilf Lunn, satirical bike maker
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I had one
Pretty sure it must have been the d25d. Was in the late 80's so maybe 2nd hand. Can't remember, the girlfriend got me one as a prezzy.
Fkn noisy
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simbosan is too tired, Fri 21 Aug 2026, 13:24,
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I'm sorry for your loss
Made me laugh though!
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Fri 21 Aug 2026, 12:54,
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Barrel of laughs full of bricks
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ProjectWeasel The Bird is the Word, Thu 20 Aug 2026, 23:02,
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I've heard that in several variations over the years
The earliest is by Gerard Hoffnung who is probably the original author.
youtu.be/zZUJLO6lMhI?is=qn3Qpu7Ph_eWUyU9
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Fri 21 Aug 2026, 22:09,
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