
Swedish design agency decided to see how easy it was to start a rumour about Apple developing an "asymmetric screw" to keep you out of the hardware. Interesting.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 15:48, Reply)

This is like a war of Nazi's vs Zombies. There really are no winners.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 16:02, Reply)

and probably a member of the Living National Party.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 16:05, Reply)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZcxChFsUSM
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 16:47, Reply)

The days of proper journalists relying on primary sources for their materials has long gone. But then why not just repeat what everyone else is saying. It's all about 'traffic' these days. It's like the purveyors of this crap have no responsibility over the stories that they spread, as long as they're out there saying it as well. If you've not read Nick Davies' Flat Earth News yet, it's a belter of a book. It'll destroy what little confidence in the media you still have, but that's no great loss, is it?
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 16:48, Reply)

It flags in the middle a little but the last chapter on the Daily Mail is outstanding.
I also highly recommend this book.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 17:35, Reply)

No engineer would create a screw with a round profile thread,
The only point I could see of a screw head like that is one that is destroyed on closing.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 17:07, Reply)

The screw has a head like a straightened-out cam so that you can tighten one with a flat head screwdriver but need a special tool to loosen it. This is pretty much why I figured it was a hoax: there are less moronic ways of making one-way screws.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 19:15, Reply)

at around the 250db mark
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 15:12, Reply)

hard to comprehend the enormity of some of those volcanoes.
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In a handy coincidence, I think humans' perception of loudness follows the log of the actual intensity.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 19:21, Reply)

Something about the frequency of his voice almost immediately makes me want to go ploppies. Thank god for mobile phones (the feeling's not mutual).
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 17:07, Reply)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_pressure#Examples_of_sound_pressure_and_sound_pressure_levels
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 16:13, Reply)

it doesn't tell me what my new 46dBA bathroom extractor fan will sound like.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 16:24, Reply)

to mask the hideous racket eminating from your backside.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 17:31, Reply)

Also:
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 21:34, Reply)

They stick to the alternative stuff.
Fucking hipsters.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 22:46, Reply)

First episode in a web series about a new reality TV show. It's really quite good.
Episode "0" that introduces everything is here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ8XGe1s42E
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 14:34, Reply)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEImD_r6D8o
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 14:37, Reply)

I didn't realise myself, but Gary Barlow and his wife has a baby girl at the beginning of the month who was, sadly, stillborn.
This is a slightly wordy reply to the people who slated him for performing at the closing of the Olympics, be they trolls, misguided or, simply, cunts.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 14:22, Reply)

What a well written, level-headed, reasonable response. And you say you found this on the internet?
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 14:37, Reply)

but also on (whisper it) facebook. I guess trimming my friends list paid off...
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 14:44, Reply)

If only that fucking usless cunt Jason Manford had been stillborn.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 14:37, Reply)

And I admit I love Gary, and Wobbie. Unlike other boy bands, they write their own stuff and play instruments.
Just because you're stuck in the "Do What You Want" era, doesn't mean that I can't mature gracefully.
Yub yoooo!
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 18:00, Reply)

Could not give less of a fuck.
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I don't know if he's on Twitter or Facebook or anything, and I can't say I'm a fan, but if your wife gave birth to a dead baby and you put on a brave face and fulfilled the duties you'd agreed to do so's you didn't let people down, and all you got for it was a line of people calling you a money-grabbing bastard, even if the work you'd done was unpaid, how would you feel? Honestly?
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 14:59, Reply)

But that's the point isn't it. There will always be twats. More so if you're successful.
Twitter and BookFace give these celebrities more intimate access to the public, so quite honestly I'm amazed they're not surprised at the kind of vitriol they get.
Better not to be on it, surely? What do they need it for? Promotion worked just fine before it. I see no use other than a hunger for adoration and the occasional 'hi, look at me... I have something of no value to say.'
Not unlike my facebook, in fact.
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Bet he's kicking himself that he lost that shitarse job on mind-numblingly tedious The One Show. Well done to the simpering wet blanket Matt Baker for exceeding the possible boundaries and actually helping to make the show even more awful.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 16:37, Reply)

Possibly GC but I don't care. Just rudely using it as an excuse to get some help from any animator type peeps knocking about. I'm looking to do an animation.
Crude figures on a white background (like dumbland) nothing too flashy. Would it be insane to draw frames in photoshop and then edit them together as stills in iMovie or something?
Has anyone got any helpful tips or links to useful tutorial vids or anything? Would be greatly appreciated.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 14:17, Reply)

Also I suppose you could make a series of gifs then add them together with sound..?
FUCKING HEELER COPTERS, FUCKING MOTHERFUCKERS
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 14:26, Reply)

I know nothing about Gifs. I've got the audio already, I've been sat on it for ages waiting for a friend to do it but he hasn't so I'm gonna have a stab at it.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 14:34, Reply)

I use GIF Movie Gear it's a basic program that can do all sorts, if you want it, lemme know.
Since you already have your audio track, maybe break it up into small pieces then animate to those pieces.
I just realised you're using a Mac, not sure if GifMovieGear will work on that.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 14:44, Reply)

If I don't get on with Flash I'll do some research and see if there's a mac equivalent of said software.
I'll probably be on here in a couple of weeks looking to pay someone for their animation skillz. Ha ha!
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 14:54, Reply)

especially if you're doing stickman stuff, well worth a try
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 15:00, Reply)

I might see if I can go home early from work.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 15:15, Reply)

then as you exit the building scream FUCKING HEELERCOPTERS!!
good stuff
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 15:22, Reply)

That's what I do at half 5 everyday anyway. We do get a lot of helicopters round my way though.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 15:25, Reply)

I would say use flash - may take a bit of getting used to but it can be pretty damn powerful for animationy type things
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 14:37, Reply)

I do have it but it baffled me the first time. I'll give it another go.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 14:44, Reply)

it's worth it - and a lot of the techniques are useful across animation as a whole. my advice would be: start with a very simple achievable goal for the first test, then work up from there. Plenty of tutes out there as well.
edit: ps, I'm not an animator but a programmer who has done some animation n' artwork n' shit... just FYI
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 15:02, Reply)

Decent freebie 2D animation jobbie. Nothing flash but it will handle the bare essentials which you describe
www.synfig.org/cms/
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 15:00, Reply)

I have tears in my eyes from laughing :D Good job, little buddy!
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 22:23, Reply)

I know it's GC but I'm posting this because it's a frightening example of what some people do on motorbikes. Oh, and for the fact that I passed my full test yesterday and will be picking up some super-powerful 2-wheeled death machine at some point this week. Yay to me.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 12:31, Reply)

No, I do not wish you to come to any harm, but yes, I am serious.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 12:34, Reply)

Cars are cunts
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 12:37, Reply)

but if you ARE intending to ride like that, make sure your donor card is laminated.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 13:01, Reply)

makes the doctors job alot easier, But seriously congrats dude! bikes are alot of fun.
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Just on the off chance can I call dibs on your pancreas though?
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 14:07, Reply)

the swerve in between cars bit after 4:00 made me cringe - it would have only taken one car to change lanes without looking....
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 12:40, Reply)

so it's not that bad.
I've always taken the view that as a biker you are responsible for your own safety and have to assume you are invisible to car drivers. Always worked for me.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 12:43, Reply)

yes you'll look like a power ranger, but worth every penny.
rant: But what is this new trend with ABS on superbikes eh? It just pushes new riders to ride faster, braking in corners they should have leaned into.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 13:05, Reply)

Then just don't go so mental that you need thousand pound power ranger leathers.
Good point on ABS too, the EU want to make it compulsory. There is a theory that if you feel more safe, you'll ride more dangerously. I certainly calm down (from already pretty chilled) in jeans and open face on a damp day.
( , Wed 15 Aug 2012, 1:03, Reply)

leading to the bike rider catapulting into the vertebra of one of the passengers in the car. Bike rider one broken arm, healed quickly. Car passenger transection of cord at T8. Paralysed for life.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 13:12, Reply)

where did they clip the car that led to them being in the car? or was it another car. car.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 19:56, Reply)

Riding like that really pisses me off, all it does is add fuel to the "bikes are dangerous, ban them hard" arguement. Plus I grew up on a road where at this time of year, the weekend power rangers are crashing like flies pretending they know how to ride 200BHP with about 10 miles riding under their belt.
I prefer classics, they tend to break down before you can get in any trouble :D what are you looking at getting?
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 12:53, Reply)

I've got a Triumph Bonneville T100 squarely in my sights. Classic, nimble enough for the commute, comfy enough for the touring and loads more. Can't wait.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 14:35, Reply)

What a twat - I myself have a 636ninja. I love just cruising on it. However i did see what it could do on the autobahn. Top speed of 167mph... knowone in sight so the only person id hurt would be myself... still id never do it again. Anyone can ride fast, its the real biker that has fun within the speed limit.
Enjoy the two wheel, remember your life savers and stay safe :)
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 13:17, Reply)

...must not point out punctuation and other grammatical errors... arrrrgh... must not... muuuust nooooot... gaaaaah!
edit: edited for punctuation and grammatical errors :|
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 13:29, Reply)

but on a bike, with the poor condition of road surfaces on the autobahn have always bottled it at 120.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 13:34, Reply)

Yep, I'm a bit of a speed limit gaybo, but if the road is clear, I'll give the throttle a good twist.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 14:42, Reply)

I expect you will have tons of fun now you are free to ride where you like :)
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 14:09, Reply)

I'll be careful.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 14:43, Reply)

You seem about as sensible as it's possible for B3tan to be ;) I'm sure you will be fine :D
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 15:43, Reply)

I had an SV650 as my first bike which I'd recommend; I have a GSXR 600 now. So much fun, just keep safe ;o)
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 14:15, Reply)

there was a cold-hearted bit of the darkest part of my psyche hoping for just one car to change lane.......
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cracking animation
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 22:15, Reply)


The season is almost upon us and that means that it's the time to make a fantasy football team and convince yourself it's excellent and then stop playing the game in 2 weeks time.
Make a team, click "Leagues," "Join a League," select "Private league" and type in this fucking pin: 481879-265185
If you don't know the rules, not only are you probably a cunt but I'm not even going to explain them. You can read the rules here: fantasy.premierleague.com/rules/ Cunt.
So start thinking up some witty names, football manager.
If people could 'like this' it'd be appreciated. Otherwise I'll just incessantly spam it and annoy everyone.
May the worst prick lose.
|¦:¬D|
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 11:40, Reply)

Edit: Having read these rules I'm still baffled. I'll take heart from this definition from The Meaning of Liff:
ABOYNE (vb.)
To beat an expert at a game of skill by playing so appallingly that
none of his clever tactics or strategies are of any use to him.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 11:53, Reply)

Come on England score some goals!
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 13:41, Reply)

Belmchester Rovers have entered the arena (to be slaughtered in the first week)
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 12:13, Reply)

Worst season ever last time around so got some work to do.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 12:54, Reply)

resplendent in their magenta kit. Their manager, Mr Wooyay Houpla, a newcomer to this league. Personally I don't rate their chances.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 15:43, Reply)

so may as well join the fun. I'm shit at team names though so Jim Leighton Orient it is.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 16:02, Reply)

Don't plan on placing anywhere as I usually don't
EDIT: My team is the Rectadons
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 20:08, Reply)

And if its anything like the fantasy side I picked for the Euro Championship, that'll be the last time I log in to the site.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 22:48, Reply)

Pannellthinaikos, since my name is Pannell it's probably the best team related pun i could come up with.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 22:50, Reply)

1 jayasumithras_armpit Ben Reid 2,192
2 Letsby Avenue Tristan Sanders 2,162
3 NorfolkENchance Jamie Nazareth 2,148
4 PhoenixFromTheFlames Umo Papis 2,127
5 Eboue Umfufu danny fletcher 2,121
( , Fri 17 Aug 2012, 14:23, Reply)

and it stuck with me. Very moody and driving. And it features a banjo.
Edit: wrong link, this is it! Thanks pod
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu4Rr07bgVQ
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 10:11, Reply)

Are you sure you didn't mean this?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu4Rr07bgVQ
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 10:42, Reply)

Would help if I watched the link, rather than just copying the first result...
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 12:25, Reply)

Insurance company defend killer in order to avoid insurance payout...
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 9:37, Reply)

But it isn't. Insurers are all cunts. American ones, doubly so.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 10:18, Reply)

getting utterly outraged. On the Interwebs. Absolutely pointless waste of my emotional resources but, fuckit, this company Progressive Insurance, are a bunch of soulless cunts. Perhaps if enough people link Progressive Insurance with soulless cunts then we might bump up their google ranking.
Soulless cunts. Progressive insurance that is.
Cheers
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 10:23, Reply)

I'm not sure I agree with your tactic of calling Progressive Insurance soulless cunts. If we are going to suggest that they, Progressive Insurance, are soulless cunts, we should have very clear evidence that the behaviour of soulless cunts and Progressive Insurance are indeed similar.
Does anyone else have anything we could use to evaluate if Progressive Insurance are soulless cunts ?
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 10:51, Reply)

To be fair, I've only got that link that makes me think that Progressive Insurance are soulless cunts. I could be wrong. They might not be soulless cunts - Progressive Insurance I mean - not the link
Cheers
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 10:55, Reply)

So they would be soulless. So we can consider a simpler question: are Progressive Insurance cunts?
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 11:00, Reply)

why is a soulless cunt, less than just a cunt, what is it about being without a soul that degrades a cunt?
and is a soulfull cunt... say simple reds mick hucknall...therefore not a cunt?
its vital we ask that question before we can make the assertion that Progressive Insurance are soulless cunt.
Progressive Insurance are soulless cunts, is merely another strand in the wider argument of soulless cunts, and wether progressive insurance are soulless counts can only be answered after answering all the strands.
but personally, yeah progressive insurance are soulless counts all right.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 12:38, Reply)

It would seem very unfair if they couldn't reply to the allegation that Progressive Insurance are soulless cunts, and it merely began to rise in Google rankings to the effect that soulless cunts and Progressive Insurance become linked, and outside observers gain the impression that Progressive Insurance are soulless cunts.
Tsk, the internet. Strange business.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 11:06, Reply)

That they are soulless cunts.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 11:09, Reply)

that the other driver might have some sort of legal insurance by Progressive insurance, therefore making them not soulless cunts?
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 11:59, Reply)

Yes they do indeed appear to live up to that
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 12:01, Reply)

Does that make me a hypocrite?
Anyway, Legless is right. Progressive Insurance? Soulless cunts.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 10:58, Reply)

What's this I'm hearing about Progressive Insurance, whose website is www.progressive.com/, being soulless cunts? How could such a thing be stated as fact?
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 11:27, Reply)

Based on the article above, my opinion that Progressive Insurance are soulless cunts is honestly held and not malicious.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 11:40, Reply)

and we should be especially careful about linkages between the phrase soulless cunts and Progressive Insurance when such comments also feature their websites including www.progressive.com and twitter.com/progressive. That would inevitably have an impact on the likelihood of our inadvertently contributing to the impression that Progressive Insurance are soulless cunts.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 11:46, Reply)

it's just another example of the corporate equivalent of mugging old ladies and leaving them to die in the street.
it's not right that companies are allowed to get away with this
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 11:17, Reply)

Not you lot of soulless cunts, prgressive insurance are the soulless cunts.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 11:50, Reply)

( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 11:54, Reply)

Skellytor!!! :D
oh and i can say first hand as i have had them as an insurer...
Progressive insurance are indeed soulless cunts.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 12:01, Reply)

The bunch of soulless cunts.
www.facebook.com/flotheprogressivegirl
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 12:08, Reply)

( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 12:22, Reply)

It gave me source material.
Truly soulless cunts.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 13:07, Reply)

Soulless cunts?
I haven't heard of either of these bands
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 13:00, Reply)

from their wikipage : 'Claims that the company is run by soulless cunts are as yet, unconfirmed.'
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Corporation
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 15:27, Reply)

Sadly, their own website doesn´t confirm it either.
search.progressive.com/search/?sp_q=soulless%20cunts&sp-a=sp10032b11&sp-p=all&sp-f=ISO-8859-1
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 15:44, Reply)

Thanks MF, that really made me chuckle!
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 19:30, Reply)

Your all soulless cunts calling progressive insurance soulless cunts. Do you not realise that putting progressive insurance and soulless cunts together on the interpipe so many times will only give the impression that progressive insurance are soulless cunts.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 20:19, Reply)

it would seem it has been corrected now though. :(
ooh i did do a screen cap this morning.

( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 20:19, Reply)

ooh bandwagon, jump on.
best part of this link is the current top comment by Brodka:
"We are talking about putting a dollar value on the human life. It's not an easy valuation to make. The only real way to ascertain that value is to litigate the case in front of a jury" "The villain here is not really Progressive. It's the jackass that killed Ms. Fisher and compounded that by having an inadequate insurance policy."
The US system if fucked, (insert gun law joke here) but taking the loss of a loved one out on an insurance company isn't the greatest use of your anger is it?
( , Wed 15 Aug 2012, 0:03, Reply)

I can across a DJ cheeba live mix the other week he has used Cyriak and Pogo's work in his visual mix vimeo.com/31795579 about 17 mins in
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 10:26, Reply)

He pinches the central channel in the 5.1 sound image using iOS routing, not sure how to do that under Windows 7. I assume he does that to get rid of extraneous sounds? Voice will probably be dead centre I guess.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 13:31, Reply)

( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 7:43, Reply)

in which you love kittens and tea, take walks by the lake, and enjoy a spot of badminton at the weekends?
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 8:03, Reply)

have Vladimir Putin style photos of myself wrestling bears in rivers.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 8:08, Reply)

Plus the FB T&Cs don't allow it either.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 8:32, Reply)

the US, it's just that if you want a job, you're less likely to complain.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 11:54, Reply)

If you can prove they didn't give you the job because you refused to perform the illegal act they asked of you, then surely you can sue the living shit out of them.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 12:42, Reply)

( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 8:53, Reply)

"Robert Collins took a leave of absence from his job as a correctional officer to grieve after his mother passed away. When he returned, his employer forced him to reapply for his position..."
His mum died, he went home to grieve and then had to reapply for his job?!
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 12:57, Reply)

Where freedom refers to the rights of corporations and state employers to maximise profits/efficiency by fucking over their employees as they see fit.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 13:30, Reply)

This is not a parody, its a real product. 'Vaginal Rejuvenation & Tightening gel' TV commercial. With a really dodgy bit with a granny at the end. Not NSFW, just weird as fuck. I kinda want to burn my eyes out like that man did in that slumcat movie.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 7:38, Reply)

should just do it up the arse if its good enough for dawn of the bread!
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 11:52, Reply)

www.18again.com/product.php
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( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 16:13, Reply)

Baby Got Back made from dialog from 295 movies.
Kudos to whoever made it
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 6:07, Reply)

Is it the product of a autistic memory for film scripts or countless hours of DVD trawling?
Either way, terrifying.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 10:41, Reply)

...yet already has that wrecked, far away look in her eyes that means she'll end wrinkled like a tramp's leathery scrotum, toothless, face down in a puddle of someone else's sick within the next 5 years.
At least she's enjoying herself.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 10:49, Reply)

this week she's in the New Times, next week she will most likely be found here...
interactive.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/mugshots/
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 11:42, Reply)

www.pic-upload.de/view-15596367/tattooed-asshole.jpg.html i have a close up
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 12:04, Reply)

my dangleberries often look like Harrison Ford trying to save Billy Dee Williams.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 13:43, Reply)
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