
If you hadn't heard, Frank Sidebottom died without very much money and was facing a paupers funeral. Donate here so he gets the send off he deserves.
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 17:11, Reply)

This would be better in my opinion.
Some of my favourite Frank bits were on Remote Control www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXPYVeoFhUA
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 17:27, Reply)

9 grand already. Cost for the funeral covered. Should be a blinder of a send off for a very nice chap.
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 17:30, Reply)

For those of you unaware, Hale has 2 or 3 of the most expensive post codes to live in outside of London. I dont see how it would be possible to die a pauper and also own a house there.
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 18:01, Reply)

(my mistake)
I liked the guy but still there are penalties to pay for living somewhere you cant afford.
Id love to live in Hale or some other swanky place, but I cant afford it so I dont.
He should have lived down the road in Timperley.
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 18:41, Reply)

I just see it as an equivalent of paying for a CD of his that he didn't get a chance to make.
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 20:04, Reply)

edit -
news.bbc.co.uk/local/manchester/hi/people_and_places/newsid_8752000/8752639.stm
a bit of a run through of all the stuff he got up to in his time.
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 18:35, Reply)

I'd want people to just put me in T-Chest and throw me up the dump.
Save the money and use it on a right royal piss up!
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 18:29, Reply)

I forgot to mention, I'm selling tickets now for a £100 quid.
I take PayPal
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 19:12, Reply)

..but assuming this is real, it's a sweet thought.
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 18:39, Reply)

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/10392981.stm
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 18:40, Reply)

Jon Ronson been on twitter about it all day. And if you can't trust Ronson who can you trust?
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 18:49, Reply)

Jon is great though, so he'll do on their behalf ;)
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 19:40, Reply)

Cant say fairer than that. Maybe if the money raised ends up being a crazy amount, then they could even send some of it to charity.
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 19:10, Reply)

Drug deaths are down, infections are down,drug usage ...well that's down too. Just confirming what we all knew ,really.
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 17:11, Reply)

Another great victory for prohibition, then...
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 19:33, Reply)

drug use is down? I can understand drug-related crime being down (for various reasons, not least of which being the fact that when stuff stops being illegal, doing it isn't a crime any more) and whatnot, but if drug use is down that suggests that there were people who were taking drugs just because they were illegal. That seems like some pretty odd behaviour to me.
( , Thu 24 Jun 2010, 12:40, Reply)

that relaxing drug laws might make it easier for drug addicts to seek help and thus get off drugs. So that makes sense then.
( , Thu 24 Jun 2010, 12:42, Reply)

A Welsh mate of mine calls football players, fans and anyone else who doesn't FUCKING LOVE rugby, 'poofs'.
( , Thu 24 Jun 2010, 8:24, Reply)

Also, if a match has an end score of 2 - 1, that means in an hour and a half 3 things happened separated by ages and ages of things nearly happening.
( , Thu 24 Jun 2010, 12:46, Reply)

and an NFL 'match' and they were both mindbogglingly shit and boring, but I had a good time nonetheless and didn't feel the need to have a cry about it. I don't understand what the obsession with calling football boring is. The vast majority of the world would disagree, no?
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 17:21, Reply)

In hockey, you have to have a shoot-out until someone scores. maybe it's the competition thing, donno.
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 17:23, Reply)

that was the first thing that sprung to mind when I read the story too. :-D
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 16:22, Reply)

Men are always shooting over each others arse's in Horsham.
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 15:37, Reply)

New Futurama season
Here's the first 2 episodes in full..
Rebirth
In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 14:29, Reply)

( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 14:32, Reply)

it has been brought back is because of DVD sales. Seems never to have rated brilliantly, but been cult enough to support secondary sales.
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 14:36, Reply)

let's all stop downloading and save the TV industry
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 14:39, Reply)

( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 14:42, Reply)

...I was wondering about the new series.
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 14:47, Reply)

online and in 6 years time when it is on Sky2
EDIT: but on surfthechannel which is slightly less ad-riddled than that dubious site listed above (and has first 4 eps)
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 17:05, Reply)

It's got the coffee episode, the universe boxes episode, the Sting, and an episode entitled Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles. Regardless of whether Season 2 was better, this is not a poopy season.
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 14:52, Reply)

Informative but very sobering stuff.
I'd try to put a photo or a quote here to fill the link out a bit but no, I really don,t want to.
Read at your own happiness's risk.
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 14:13, Reply)

i like stuff like this it makes me feel a bit better about myself...
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 14:17, Reply)

( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 14:47, Reply)

oh wait....
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 15:00, Reply)

almost sounds like Cheerleader Camp.
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 15:07, Reply)

mean that they actually the BEST at tyranny, and are therefore the BEST tyrants?
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 22:16, Reply)

( , Thu 24 Jun 2010, 12:50, Reply)

I have a feeling this twitter account is a fake, but this comment made laugh.
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 13:56, Reply)

Also, I think I'm going a bit mad. My stuff seems to be moving round my office by itself. I'm sure my desk was by the window. Ho-hum
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 14:01, Reply)

Thought I'd put this up here because I'm quite pleased with it!
"www.fiverr.com" was in the newsletter a few weeks back - people offering services for $5. I saw "artcarlson", professional American movie voiceover artist, and I thought "I'll have a bit of THAT!".
EDIT: It's a bit revealing about where I live (I only made it for the family), so please don't come round and toot yours too..
EDIT: Had to take it down I'm afraid, family privacy concerns.
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 13:39, Reply)

strangling his trouser snake when you snuck in!
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 13:41, Reply)

I put that in because my son delights in finding them!
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 13:44, Reply)

But you don't want to live next door to me parping that bloody thing all day
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 14:01, Reply)

I wonder if a slightly obnoxious website decided to have a go?
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 19:35, Reply)

We noticed that the photos on guyswithiphones.com often had GPS locations in them. So we plotted them on a Google Map.
Some of the photos have men showing off their "pride and joy", so you might want to proceed with caution if you're not into that sort of thing, but most are just guys showing off their work at the gym. We're don't think this counts as porn for the purposes of B3ta, but we're sorry if it does :(
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 12:36, Reply)

GAYSWITHIPHONES.COM as that what it seems to be!
there is a funny smel of meat product around here
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 12:53, Reply)

but the tiny nobs help my self image.
Overall I rate gay porn 3/5
Does the data come from the images metadata or are you scraping it, because I can't see any lat-long in the RSS feed.
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 12:57, Reply)

We're scraping the GPS location from the EXIF data.
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 13:04, Reply)

Cool thing about google maps + top tip, is you can paste in rss feeds containing lat and longs, and it will very often map them for you. Great if you want to do a really basic mashup. Might work with postcodes - not sure
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 13:06, Reply)

Apart from telling us that Scottish girls are crap at football, it is scary how well balanced the two countries appear - especially if you try and find a closer match.
Food for thought.
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 12:33, Reply)

also, for the England v Slovenia stats, the women seem to have scored 20 goals in 2 games
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 12:42, Reply)

women - its a very different story
www.fifa.com/worldfootball/statisticsandrecords/headtohead/team1=arg/team2=bra/index.html
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 12:46, Reply)

played one, won one
www.fifa.com/worldfootball/statisticsandrecords/headtohead/team1=eng/team2=svn/index.html
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 12:48, Reply)

1995 Brentford 17/04/1994 ENG 10:0 (2:0) SVN Group matches
1995 Ljubljana 25/09/1993 SVN 0:10 (0:5) ENG Group matches
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 13:07, Reply)

And people accuse England fans of living on past glories. Fuck knows why...
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 14:49, Reply)

Yes arty farty blah blah...oh!
What's that?
Rude painting taken away by police you say?
NSFW due to painting of Clarksons chipolata.
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 12:22, Reply)

But I'm afraid there'll only ever be one song about peanuts for me: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMPJZ4YZnqI
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 15:58, Reply)

Should be interesting....
More info Here
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 11:59, Reply)

They seem so happy.
I hope they don't end up starring in freaky porn. Although, people would probably enjoy that.
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 12:04, Reply)

25.media.tumblr.com/9Cc01YmFrot4yk6bTCwjNveno1_500.jpg
NSFW.
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 12:05, Reply)

Please tell me that's shopped and not them (or pass the mind bleach)?
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 12:12, Reply)

(that just wants to financially benefit from his daughters disabilities)
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 12:19, Reply)

Sorry for the ED link - very very NSFW
encyclopediadramatica.com/File:Hensel16.jpg
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 14:43, Reply)

Just when i think I've seen yet another crazy thing it's again fake :(
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 18:20, Reply)

( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 12:36, Reply)

the other one would have their face in the sofa.
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 12:44, Reply)

The other one must have been dragged along for the ride.
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 13:00, Reply)

obviously, she must have her eyes closed and be holding HER hand on his cock to stop her falling over.
I rate conjoined porn 4/5
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 13:03, Reply)

Would it count as a threesome or not?
A 2 and a halfsome?
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 13:28, Reply)

one head for choking it down, one head for breathing.
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 15:01, Reply)

the comment about "taking control" of the pedals makes me assume there is a kind of subconscious override thing going on.
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 12:12, Reply)

Sometime we like to poke things with sticks too...
But you're right, I'm dying to get them into an fMRI machine large enough to house them and see what happens when one controls vs the other. 2 brains sharing a nervous system ffs. Makes me wonder if it is possible to share higher level cognitive functions, like vision and whatnot.
*sharpens scalpel*
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 12:50, Reply)

Most of Abigail's and Brittany's shared organs are located at or below the level of the navel.[2]
* 2 heads
* 2 completely separate spinal cords
* 2 vertebral columns with ribs bridging the two columns; their coccyxes merge.
* 2 arms (originally 3, but rudimentary central arm was surgically removed, leaving central shoulder blade in place)
* 1 broad ribcage, with surgery to correct scoliosis and expand the pleural cavities
* 2 breasts
* 2 highly fused sternums, traces of bridging ribs
* 4 lungs (medial lungs moderately fused, not involving Brittany's upper right lobe); three pleural cavities
* 1 diaphragm with well-coordinated involuntary breathing, slight central defect
* 2 hearts in a shared circulatory system (nutrition, respiration, medicine taken by either affects both)
* 2 stomachs
* 2 gallbladders
* 1 liver, enlarged and elongated right lobe
* Y-shaped small intestine which experiences a slightly spastic double peristalsis at the juncture
* 1 large intestine with one colon
* 2 left kidneys, 1 right kidney
* 1 bladder
* 1 set of reproductive organs
* 2 separate half-sacrums, which converge distally
* 1 slightly broad pelvis
* 2 legs
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 12:51, Reply)

One could tell when someone was touching the other one...although they said that they couldn't actually "feel" it.
Odd.
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 13:01, Reply)

* 1 slightly broad pelvis
as
* 1 slightly broad penis
Which would have upped the WTF factor by about 83%
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 16:06, Reply)

First reaction was 'must be fake'; but they're not. So many questions there, about mind/body duality, identity, consciousness, all the physiological issues.
Really excellent link, thanks.
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 12:26, Reply)

... blowing on the fleshy Vuvuzela. Is it classed as a threesome, or a 2.2Some?
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 17:04, Reply)

The Raytown farmer who posted a sign on a semi-truck trailer accusing Democrats of being the “Party of Parasites” received more than $1 million in federal crop subsidies since 1995.
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 11:58, Reply)

"That’s just my money coming back to me,” Jungerman, 72, said Monday. “I pay a lot in taxes. I’m not a parasite.”
Yeah, right. cunt.
good post, good find mate.
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 12:03, Reply)

and I said then its a retarded idea. The kind of person who is willing to rape a woman is probably the kind of person that would have no problems beating her to a pulp or killing her for causing him injury.
*edit* Oh the article is full of references to high rates of HIV, so they think causing someone with a high chance of having HIV to bleed all over you is a good idea?
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 11:36, Reply)

probably not so sweet when the attacker is still inside you
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 11:51, Reply)

As he clasps his throbbing member, it's a quick judo chop to the back and then you flee. As you exit the door, you turn around and say: "Well, that's you shafted," or similar.
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 12:03, Reply)

Give some sort of power and control over women who might otherwise become victims. Turn the tables.
Even if the rapist did decide to beat the shit out of the woman who had worn it they would firstly be in a damned lot of pain, secondly have to go to hospital to get it removed thus showing their guilt, thirdly be humiliated, and fourthly realise that women were retaliating.
If I were in a situation where I was raped but had one of these on and was beaten after, I'd have the satisfaction of knowing I buggered him up and stuck it to him.
Thus, good idea.
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 13:35, Reply)

As the saying goes, "Let's not turn this rape into a murder...."
Now if the condom was fitted with some sort of internal hypodermic that delivered enough poison to paralyse, or preferably,kill, the rapist, then it would get my support. As is, all you're going to get is a pissed-off rapist with a sore cock who will most likely beat the poor victim to death.
Notes on male anatomy: A severe injury to the actual phallus may hurt like fuck but it's extremely unlikely to incapacitate the average male. But, a severe injury to the bollocks, and most men drop like a sack of shit. Contrary to popular belief, the actual phallus isn't very sensitive. It can take a lot of abuse.
Cheers
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 14:57, Reply)

If you think there are no women who would do that, you don't know women. They're capable of cruelty beyond anything a man could dream of.
( , Thu 24 Jun 2010, 13:17, Reply)

www.tripbase.com/articles/images/Bizarreanimals/Lamprey.jpg
( , Wed 23 Jun 2010, 17:21, Reply)
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