
Nothing to do with some other sporting event or anything like that I swear.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 15:59, Reply)

and attempts to emulate them in every aspect of his life.
( , Sat 4 Aug 2012, 19:07, Reply)

I had mad praise about you from someone I met the other day, they said you were their favourite thing on the internet. Props.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 16:28, Reply)

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Does anyone know the youtube video where he tells the story about the building and his guess at what the problem was? Very funny!
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 15:42, Reply)

Here's the story as told in his book:
quanta-gaia.org/reviews/books/FeymanJoking.html
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 16:32, Reply)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=84GtktcIxpc
this is the 5th part, the whole book is there.
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It is all good stuff so it is really worth listening to the whole thing.
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( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 14:23, Reply)

And I thought the Harry Potter one was shite. If I were them, I'd get busy with a Back To The Future Lego Game. 3 episodes, enough characters (er...maybe) and I want to see the Libyan's Lego VW Van exploding into pieces.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 14:34, Reply)

AICMFP
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 15:52, Reply)

I'd buy that for a dollar.
www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=2257803
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 16:29, Reply)

since the first Batman came out. Harry Potters weren't as fun as the first few, but think that may be tighter copyright/trademark control as much as anything.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 18:26, Reply)

A 10 sec video of the Bronze medal fight in men's under 60kg I think. Anyway one of them Judo's his own face into the floor.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 14:01, Reply)

Andy Murray? He should stick to coming second in tennis...less painful
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 14:41, Reply)

Seems to be a debate whether we've fucked it up yet. Let democracy decide I say.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 13:45, Reply)

At the end of the day we'll all be able to work out which countries we're better than.
BTW anyone else notice the rather impressive "wide on" Marianne Vos was sporting at the end of the bike race?
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 13:55, Reply)

And I had to laugh at this from the BBC: "Zoe Smith lifts 90kg in the snatch at her first attempt". That's some snatch.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 14:16, Reply)

I was blase about it all, but it's happening so let's make the most of it. Getting seriously ticked off with the petty cunts in the press whinging about non-existent traffic problems and empty stadiums etc.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 14:26, Reply)

I've not heard the phrase "wide-on" since I was a teenager and a friend kept going on about it
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 14:28, Reply)

plus don't forget... the french *really* wanted to host it.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 19:14, Reply)

Not entirely sure this is real, but if its fake its well done. If not its awesome.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 13:31, Reply)

and I can't help to think what the hell went through that fish's head as the guy comes jumping out of the blue?! probably not a lot, as it is... a fish.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 13:54, Reply)

i needed a laugh at work today. hahaha! :D
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 17:24, Reply)

Those fish swim like 50 miles an hour. If you got near it, it would zoom off like it had 4 million volts thru it. That fish was obviously STUNNED pre-jump.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 17:20, Reply)

There's some activity over there, and we got a cameraman over there and in the water next to the fastest fish in the ocean, and faster than a chopper could get there. Yeah, right.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 19:16, Reply)

on a fishing line. And tired out over miles so that it was practically half fucking dead.
Then got a man to jump on it.. Impressive?
( , Tue 31 Jul 2012, 19:58, Reply)

Tim Watson never said that was real. However, he caught the fish jumping off a boat , later they added the chopper scene. This guy is known for some wacky fishing, like catching sailfish off a surfboard or southern bluefin tuna with a handline (these beast weigh up to 300kg).
( , Wed 1 Aug 2012, 10:18, Reply)

Fun footage though watching it come in. Probably worth it on balance.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 13:08, Reply)

about the testing of the Tallboy bombs. Basically, bomb aiming at that point was primitively inaccurate, so it was cynically suggested that the safest place to put the camera was dead centre on the target.
Six tons of steel-encased RDX landed squarely on top of it...
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 13:23, Reply)

I've been watching quite a lot of the archery. The only time they showed a view from that cam was when it broke.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 13:48, Reply)

umm what I said up there
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 12:31, Reply)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TTJ4LtkJWA
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 12:34, Reply)

is this the first time I call glasscock? hurray!
also: www.b3ta.com/links/834562
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( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 12:39, Reply)

I was hoping for something more supportive, seeing me being a capable internet watchdog (ahem) but I'll settle for "yer Maw" or any other insult.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 12:43, Reply)

the link didn't flag up so I posted it.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 12:45, Reply)

don't mind me. I just got a bit excited. I live a dull life, you'll reckon. i couldn't care less either. I've learned a lot from this experience.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 12:53, Reply)


Now you only need to win an image challenge, get top of /links/popular, win a QOTW and get top of /talk...and you're free to leave :-)
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 13:08, Reply)

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( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 13:18, Reply)

Knowledge of all the memes on b3ta.
Glasscock, Ris etc.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 13:13, Reply)

/edit..Here tis!
dictionary.mictoboy.co.uk/
Still good reading.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 13:16, Reply)

( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 13:21, Reply)

I do hope it's better than G4S's...
In other news, just found this: b3ta.com/board_stats/mainboard-users.html
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 13:26, Reply)

Edit: www.b3ta.com/links/812018
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 13:29, Reply)

He always used to be right at the top of that list.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 13:55, Reply)

i'll probably have to stick around for a few more years to get around those things as well...
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 13:44, Reply)

Some days it's something that's posted multiple times on the same page, other times it's sufficient for it to have been posted five years ago at 3am on a Sunday. Guess it depends entirely how autistic the person shouting glasscock is.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 13:35, Reply)

I took the chance because it was just a few days since the first post
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( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 13:19, Reply)

Lovely line to finish with. Hope it's still there by the time you read this.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 11:58, Reply)

which version are you referring to?
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 12:00, Reply)

en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jan_Moir&oldid=504913857
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 12:06, Reply)

How do you get old versions of a page. Way above my internet ability.
The line was something like "The offending article included a picture showing his (or her) ongoing weight problems."
A subtle but wonderful bit of wiki-raping, I thought.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 12:07, Reply)

en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jan_Moir&oldid=504916713
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 12:10, Reply)

Instead of "its", there was "his (or her)".
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 12:14, Reply)

web.archive.org/web/20091019190332/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Moir
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 12:10, Reply)

302 captures for /links web.archive.org/web/20060430050705/http://www.b3ta.com/links/
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 13:12, Reply)

web.archive.org/web/20010723123310/http://www.b3ta.com/
looked alot different back then.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 13:17, Reply)

pfff, don't really care anyway. I think thewaybackmachine might have even been in the newsletter.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 18:45, Reply)

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Seems to have lasted quite a while.
edit: It now seems to be "Fat Bitch. Shemale."
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 13:45, Reply)

is there no health and safety over there???
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 11:32, Reply)

The passiveness of those watching is incredible, like they've all gone: "Well, that's him dead, what shall we do now?"
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 11:42, Reply)

She's amazed by the silence on the street- people DON'T interact/get involved: she's walked past lots of dead bodies too, which seasoned Muscovites happily walk over, as if not noticing.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 13:11, Reply)

seems folk got used to people dieing in the very cold and snowy winter nights and then turning up in spring. not sure if it's true but similar behaviour is observed with New Yorks homeless.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 13:20, Reply)

I (used to) know a guy in Bristol who used to lie in an underpass and one day he died there. No-one noticed all day.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 15:44, Reply)

seriously you are the first.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 18:28, Reply)

Using high speed capture
and fake seals
(no seals were harmed in this carnage)
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 11:24, Reply)

Putting a slow mo camera together with sharks is the best combination since someone decided to make scented candles.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 11:48, Reply)

Pussy Riot members go on trial in Moscow
Three members of Russian punk protest group Pussy Riot have gone on trial, in a case that has divided Russia and inflamed the religious establishment.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 10:13, Reply)

because Russia is known for being so tolerant open and free?
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 11:09, Reply)

No being worked to death on Stalinist building projects.
Or even the good old "Being fed slowly feet first into a Furness."
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 11:34, Reply)

apparently there's a health and activity program being run there called "Feet First in Furness". Which is nice.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 12:02, Reply)

Must look it up, its rare that I find a sitcom that I like/find funny.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 12:49, Reply)

( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 12:53, Reply)

Saw this linked on Twitter. Do you think the Fail have sent an edict to staff to be as contrary as possible? Here, she laughs at Sharon Davies' face, and says that Lizzie Armistead lost to "...some bitch from Holland."
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 10:05, Reply)

I feel genuinely sorry for the woman. Because she has a forum for her cross-eyed bile she doesn't ever question her behaviour. She'll stay old, alone, bitter and vicious forever and still think she's doing the world a favour by stopping low enough to interact with it.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 10:28, Reply)

They're what the Olympics are really all about.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 10:21, Reply)

and thereby increase ad revenue. Every time Twitter gets its knickers in a knot about it they increase the traffic to the site, thereby making stories like this more likely.
Deny them the oxygen of publicity and they'll give up because it will no longer be profitable.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 10:24, Reply)

I no longer click or get involved with the daily mail's twitter outcrys, as I'm sure they absolutely cream themselves whenever it happens.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 10:28, Reply)

I'm sure some of the Heil columnists try to out-do each other for being controversial \ stupid \ racist etc.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 10:30, Reply)

the daily mail gets coverage on b3ta...
this doesn;t make them look any worse... it just makes us look fucking stupid...
is it in the mail? yes? then its racist and nasty and xenophobic... do we really need more proof of that?
either do something about it, but just stop pointing at it and saying "this is wrong" we all know it is...they know it is... but its a very succesfull advertising strategy for a newspaper sold on opinions... create outrage...
its boring obvious and again.. .makes b3ta look like dicks...
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 10:38, Reply)

The content doesn't anger me that much. We've got a free press after all. My anger is directed at the cunts who buy it because they feel its content is newsworthy, balanced and rational. My Mum buys the Mail on Saturdays "because it's got a good TV section", but even one day-a-week's-worth of Mail reading causes her to come out with some of the most uninformed, bigotted shit I've ever heard.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 10:40, Reply)

As basically a few men are fucking all of us, so to speak, male and female. Genuinely changed my views on feminism.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 9:50, Reply)

The idea that feminism would be misandrist is as ridiculous as saying that disliking systematic bias against black people makes you anti-white, or disliking systematic bias against the working class makes you anti-middle-class.
There's a lot of debates and arguments and disagreements that're worth having in respect of feminism* - but the basic idea ought to be utterly trivial; the puzzle is why it isn't.
*For example, there's recently been a proposal about a way to combat sexism in philosophy conferences. I have my problems with it; but the basic idea that there's a problem that needs scrutiny and a solution is fair enough. Dealing with questions about what ought to be done seems to me to be an area that'll throw up arguments that're worth having; but an argument about whether or not it's anti-male to do anything at all is not. That's just chaff.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 10:14, Reply)

The perception that its anti-male creates huge resistance to even the concept of feminism.
I also don't think you can say that feminism isn't anti-male universally, I've met plenty of women who are angry and hateful towards men and use feminism as their smokescreen.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 10:27, Reply)

I mean the word in the sense of the stuff that aircraft shoot out to distract missiles - a diversion: something unimportant made to look important. Perhaps we're talking at cross-purposes there.
You put your finger on it in your final word: if there are people who are genuinely misandrist, they may be using feminism as their smokescreen, but that's all it is; it's no more an indication of actual feminism than appeals to multiculturalism by the Muslim Council of Britain are really indications that they're all fluffy and inclusive. But just as the MCB's appeals won't tell you anything useful about what multiculturalism is, its merits, and its defects, the same applies to those of your misandrist: they won't really tell you anything useful about feminism.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 10:49, Reply)

I'm never quite sure where I stand on the "they're not real X because they're making X look bad". I don't think one section of a group can makes judgements on another section of the same group.
If two (or more) sets of people have chosen to interpret the same set of beliefs/aim/cause in different ways, can the one in the majoirty then decide that the minority group is wrong?
Bu as I say, I'm not quite sure where I stand.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 12:01, Reply)

is that its fighting a battle against greed on the one hand and idiocy on the other. And there's no shortage of either
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 10:56, Reply)

What is this "substantial minority" of men that makes women feel vulnerable? Why isn't feminism about equality? Are "so many men... raised to rape"? Are "our ideals of masculinity... based around a social model... of decently-paid, stable work, industrial jobs"? Really? "Capitalism is a system built on the subjugation of women, and that’s still what it runs on"?
Frankly, this reads like a load of old cobblers to me.
Equality good, other things bad.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 13:02, Reply)

The film crew disguise themselves as terrorists and attack a bus full of tourists for a laugh...I wouldn't have laughed at all. It's actually fucking appalling what they did as a 'joke'.
Gets going at about the 2'30" mark.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 9:50, Reply)

You can't edit subject lines. At least I can't anyway...
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 11:39, Reply)

like 10-20 minutes or so.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 12:16, Reply)

"Haha, look how you would have shat your pants and possibly had a heart attack if a terrorist shoved a gun in your face, you pussy!" Hahaha.
This is genuinely fucked up and dangerous.
And is the guy being pranked the middle-east's answer to Michael Gambon?
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 11:03, Reply)

What b unch of shitbags. And they talk funny.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 12:05, Reply)

If it's all the same to you, I'll work the lasso tool by myself, thanks. I'm actually tempted to send them three very well edited photos and see what they do with them. Silliest spam I've had recently.
Dear Sir/Madam,
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We provide high quality image editing and retouching (Certfied professionals)
* Image Editing : Clipping path, Product retouching, Model retouching.
Color correction, Masking, Background change.
* Graphic Design : Logo, Banner, Broucher, Newsletters.
Since i am contacting you personally, i would like to offer free work for 3 images so that you can see our work and its quality.
This will help you to utilize your time in more creative work and improve your business. It will be worth looking at the samples, quality of work and low prices for such services.
Please see samples at www.clippingpath3.info/
Price starts from 0.55 $ per picture)
You can avail the offer of 3 test pictures by sending us email .
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( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 8:51, Reply)

Cunts!
Fucking sweat shopping cunts.
Not content with ruining the textiles industry now they're going after mine.
I was half thinking about going freelance offering basic photoshopping.
They're half arse jobs on their site but management wouldn't care about that.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 9:04, Reply)

Got to be sweat shop and pretty poor examples to use to sell their wares.
If they'd really seen my website they'd have noticed that pretty much every picture on it has been photoshopped and some of them have been done better than theirs.
And it's not as if I'm even all that good at it - I put in as little effort as I can get away with to avoid seamhorses when posting on /board.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 9:11, Reply)

along with our entire telephone support department. It has happened to pretty much every other I.T. field over the last 10 years so while I do sympathise, welcome to the real world. Oh and yes the people likely running these companies are indeed cunts but the people working for them live in a different economic reality.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 9:31, Reply)

I'ld like to see them offer a full solidworks assembly for under a dollar.
I think the main people going to be screwed over with this are going to be people editing product photos for catalogues and web sales.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 9:34, Reply)

as I'm really confused by why this is in any way interesting or unusual.
As I understand it, you have a website, someone has sent you some spam offering to improve the photographs on it. However you do not need this service.
Imagine I worked in a garage and someone emailed me offering to do all my tyre fitting for me, but I am in fact able to do this myself. I do not think you would care.
Perhaps I have misunderstood, if so I apologise.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 9:43, Reply)

you might go out of business
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 11:01, Reply)

If soemone will do the job cheaper than you, they'll get the business. Not silly at all unless you think capitalism is silly, in which case.......COMMUNIST!!!!!!
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 12:51, Reply)

One of the other guys would send his pictures off to people like this, get all the basics done for around $2.00 (cleaning up the background, blemish removal etc) and would then finish off the work before handing them in and charging $25 per picture.
In all honesty though he was one of the slower workers.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 10:18, Reply)

but most rotoscopers charge by the day not by the frame.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 10:41, Reply)

( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 12:08, Reply)

"England is just a small island. Its roads and houses are small. With few exceptions, it doesn’t make things that people in the rest of the world want to buy. And if it hadn’t been separated from the continent by water, it almost certainly would have been lost to Hitler’s ambitions."
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 8:18, Reply)

...but we know what he meant. He's probably right on the last bit though. That moat has proved to be pretty useful over the last thousand years or so.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 8:50, Reply)

We need to follow the swiss example and lay demo charges there in case on invasion. Seriously, the Swiss have explosives built into their bridges.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 9:09, Reply)

We've got a tiny little stretch of water between us and Europe. America has the fucking Pacific and Atlantic either side.
Yeah who's cowering the most behind some monstrous oceans.
"If it wasn't for the 2 largest oceans in the world shielding the USA every fucker in the world would have a go at the sanctimonious bastards"
You can quote me on that too, look I put quotes round it and everything.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 9:18, Reply)

"If it wasn't for the 2 largest oceans in the world shielding the USA every fucker in the world would have a go at the sanctimonious bastards"
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 12:17, Reply)

Given the amount of stick he was given for daring to speak French once on tv, I'm surprised he's even prepared to admit he's heard of a foreign country that isnt Canada.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 9:38, Reply)

but I get the impression a lot of them think it consists of just Carnaby Street with Big Ben at the end of it.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 10:51, Reply)

i disagree with... in fact if an english friend had said it...i'd probably nod in agreement.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 11:28, Reply)

Something no one wants.
OK.
Fair point.
( , Mon 30 Jul 2012, 16:47, Reply)
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