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This is a link post Multiple vehicle accident on snowy highway.
Wait for it... and for heaven's sake, get off your damned mobile phone while you're driving.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 17:25, , Reply)
This is a normal post That'll T-Cut right out.

(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 17:29, , Reply)
This is a normal post That was a slow builder
Hope the dicks on the bridge didn't get too cold waiting for it to happen

Btw, ebaumsworld - isn't that site widely hated for ripping off content?
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 17:40, , Reply)
This is a normal post You must be familiar with that bridge to know you can find dick there.

(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 19:08, , Reply)
This is a normal post "here we go...here we go...here we go...here we go...
".....uuuungh" *spaff*
(, Wed 11 Jan 2017, 11:22, , Reply)
This is a normal post What a set of derisible twats

(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 16:28, , Reply)
This is a normal post The things Britons have to do for some hedge porn these days...

(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 16:29, , Reply)
This is a normal post How did he get it stuck in the fence?
Was he trying to volt it?
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 16:34, , Reply)
This is a normal post That's shocking

(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 16:43, , Reply)
This is a normal post Watt are you saying?

(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 16:57, , Reply)
This is a normal post Try to keep up with current events

(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 17:12, , Reply)
This is a normal post Ohm my god that was such a bad pun

(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 17:17, , Reply)
This is a normal post I don't understand your resistance to it.
Perhaps it's a phase you're going through.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 17:19, , Reply)
This is a normal post I can't believe how insulated you are.

(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 17:26, , Reply)
This is a normal post I believe there is nothing wrong with my conduct.

(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 17:31, , Reply)
This is a normal post You lack capacitance.

(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 17:53, , Reply)
This is a normal post Bit short mate.

(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 18:12, , Reply)
This is a normal post Well, at least I don't come from a family of deviants. Unlike you and your trans-sister.

(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 18:12, , Reply)
This is a normal post buzz-killer

(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 20:50, , Reply)
This is a normal post bit rude
it's just big boned
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 16:40, , Reply)
This is a normal post I call bullshit on this one...
Looks nothing like a typical electric fence, and you'd be unlikely to conduct enough through both a coated bike frame and gloves to get a shock...and if you did, just pick the thing up by the handlebar grips and seat...
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 16:44, , Reply)
This is a normal post They don't really have the look of a comedy troupe or a "youtube sensation" do they?

(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 17:08, , Reply)
This is a normal post No, they don't...
But what do I know? I'm working for these guys on Thursday...
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 17:47, , Reply)
This is a normal post Better lube up good before you start.

(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 19:09, , Reply)
This is a normal post I've a bit of experience with electric fences, and that's genuine.
Funnier than that vid was a time when my brother gathered a lot of speed down a wet grassy hillside, hit an electric fence that pulled the poles out of the ground. As he fell he rolled he became wrapped up in the fence and couldn't escape. We had to find the battery supply about 200 yards away to disconnect it. Meanwhile he suffered considerably bigger shocks than those nancies.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 18:14, , Reply)
This is a normal post That reminds me of a show that used to air in the 60's.
I can't remember what the name was. Oh yeah, Candid Camera.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 19:19, , Reply)
This is a normal post But where are the insulators with the fence posts?
(A wet wooden fence post would just short the whole thing out.

And why the fuck did he try to put his bike over a wire fence, rather than the gate or wooden fence right next to it (in my experience of chucking a non-fat-tyred bike over styles and fences, you appreciate being able to stand on a stable structure and place the bike directly on the ground).
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 19:21, , Reply)
This is a normal post There's an insulator visible in the preview shot, and despite wobble cam I grabbed this:
Enhance!



But I agree with you asking WTF it ended up caught in any fence. They are just incompetent MAMILs with shit for brains, giving mountain bikers a bad name whilst out on their hilarious jaunts.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 19:36, , Reply)
This is a normal post That looks far more like a cable tensioner to me...
And I'd expect to see insulators anywhere the conductor touches any form of support...
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 19:44, , Reply)
This is a normal post It's not a Gripple, or anything like that, it's a cheap plastic insulator.
The whole set up looks typical of a farmer with a "that'll do" attitude.



I've done a fair bit of fencing over the years.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 21:09, , Reply)
This is a normal post Fair enough...
I still don't get the zap factor, give I've handled more with less...
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 22:19, , Reply)
This is a normal post 10,000 volts is the maximum allowed under international agreements apparently, but only 120 mA
They are usually pulsed (presumably to allow capacitors to charge and discharge), and I can vouch for the belt they give you.

Have a look on YouTube for a few people getting zapped. In my experience if you properly grab the wire then you get a good unpleasant wallop, but it's perfectly manageable.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 22:49, , Reply)
This is a normal post That's why modern electric fences only deliver a zap every second or so
Rather than a constant shock.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 19:48, , Reply)
This is a link post I don't know who I am I made this!
God knows.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 14:19, , Reply)
This is a normal post I would love to help.
But I can't.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 14:27, , Reply)
This is a normal post I'll stick my head out the window for a bit.
Maybe the postman will recognise me.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 14:35, , Reply)
This is a normal post Massive lurkage!

(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 14:42, , Reply)
This is a normal post Sapristi nabolas!
He must have just made parole!
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 14:46, , Reply)
This is a normal post That is championship, gold medal, Olympic and world record lurkage

(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 16:06, , Reply)
This is a normal post You're Jill

(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 14:41, , Reply)
This is a normal post Thought so!

(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 16:38, , Reply)
This is a normal post No idea
But you probably died in 2016
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 14:44, , Reply)
This is a normal post Ralph Macchio's stunt double.

(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 14:57, , Reply)
This is a normal post just looked through
"celebrity cardboard mask" search results on Amazon and couldn't find him.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 16:16, , Reply)
This is a normal post With a part-drunk bottle of red wine and a single glass
You are DVD Fever AICMFP
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 16:25, , Reply)
This is a normal post You know it is
It really is.
Thank you
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 16:51, , Reply)
This is a normal post That's what I thought too.

(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 18:15, , Reply)
This is a normal post You're Spartacus

(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 18:06, , Reply)
This is a link post useless tit continues fucking everything up
He might lose his own seat at this rate I reckon
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 11:08, , Reply)
This is a normal post Gary-fucking-Glitter has got more chance of winning an election than that irrelevant old cunt
Thanks lefties! 16 to 20 years of tory rule coming right up
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 11:36, , Reply)
This is a normal post open goal at the moment too
Imagine what the pound will do when they finally trigger Article 50 and he's essentially going to be a cheerleader to it all. He should be tearing the whole thing to bits
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 11:54, , Reply)
This is a normal post So hang on
"He will say", so this is an article about things that Corbyn hasn't said yet, but somehow they know exactly what that will be?
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 11:37, , Reply)
This is a normal post Yes
because typically the content of speeches like this get released in advance.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 11:44, , Reply)
This is a normal post Oh okay
nice to see they are so stuck for news that they couldn't wait until he actually says it then. No doubt they will cover it again when he does say and just change the text to "he said".
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 11:46, , Reply)
This is a normal post No, this is how politics is done now.
Rather than make a passionate speech about values you believe in and will stick doggedly to, you leak your speech and watch the public reaction. If it's a howler you deny the content of the speech and make a u-turn without losing face.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 11:56, , Reply)
This is a normal post I just found all these pen marks on my arm.
He must have been on the telly recently for something.

(It's a Doctor Who joke...)
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 11:58, , Reply)
This is a normal post He did say this on R4 this morning
Was tripped into it by the interviewer
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 12:35, , Reply)
This is a normal post he is a massive disappointment
why did he fight so hard for the leadership when he was going to be this ineffectual?
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 14:07, , Reply)
This is a normal post I wonder if he's waiting for a major disaster
He actually wants 20% unemployment and hyperinflation at which point he reckons the voters will flock to his side
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 14:24, , Reply)
This is a normal post He is.
I think you're probably right, he is. Except he's too stuck in his "the people will flock to the left in a crisis" blinkered outlook to realise, that come a crash/crisis, these days, they're more likely to flock to Aaron Banks "New England" party (when its formed), the result of which will be him up against a wall and shot for being incredibly dreary.

He's utterly useless. He couldn't find his way out of a wembley-sized paper bag, even if there were arrows pointing the way out, loudspeakers telling him where to go, and those kind of Olympic-volunteers guiding him. He'd seek a consensus from all working people in the bag following a workers collective meeting. By which point everyone trying to help him would have got so fed up they'd have left, leaving him stuck in the bag.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 15:43, , Reply)
This is a normal post bag

(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 15:53, , Reply)
This is a normal post Banks is someone I'd quite happily push down some stairs

(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 16:06, , Reply)
This is a normal post I predict the Lib Dems will gain just enough seats
to make no fucking difference.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 21:35, , Reply)
This is a link post Is side fumbling still present in your wane shaft? Then you need this!

(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 10:59, , Reply)
This is a normal post Pfft
I'd rather use a Wankel-Smith preduced hypertension configuration than this shit.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 11:37, , Reply)
This is a normal post Ha! Good luck making that working without a drawn reciprocating dingle arm, buffoon!

(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 11:59, , Reply)
This is a normal post But with the malleable logarithmic casing the span distance to the inverse-coliodal bushings is less than a femtock.
It's basically a giant heat-sink with counter spacial valving. That's why space X uses it.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 16:17, , Reply)
This is a normal post Just the thing to help me with my Wizzo Space Ship
I hav the parts list, and can assemble in 5 minits:

1 cormthruster
1 envelop
6 Wizzo crabbing pins
4 Wizzo girders
10 special grabs
1 computator with vertical helicons
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 16:11, , Reply)
This is a normal post There's a fucktonne of history to this
Started by a student in the 1940s. And what with engineers being novelty tie (and matching socks) yukitupsters it went whatever the incredibly slow 1940s and 50s version of viral was.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turboencabulator
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 19:26, , Reply)
This is a link post Vendée Globe Round the World Race, some French Navy Images from a few weeks back.
NSFW if you can't handle seamen going down deep in the south on the wrong side of the globe.

Bonus video of Dick taking a sea facial: youtu.be/Ly--WO14mw0?t=61
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 10:33, , Reply)
This is a normal post Looks tough, not my idea of fun.

(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 10:50, , Reply)
This is a normal post Blimey 28 knots.
I used to do yacht races in my dad's boat. The only time we won was when everyone else abandoned the race and scuttled into to Dundar to hide. He had me changing sails with snow on the foredeck.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 15:05, , Reply)
This is a normal post Nope.

(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 18:09, , Reply)
This is a normal post Solo
Awesome really.
(, Wed 11 Jan 2017, 10:14, , Reply)
This is a link post Convoluted progressive art-flow - highest quality animation!
Sorry to be posting so much tonight, it has been busy.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 6:44, , Reply)
This is a normal post it's ace

(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 8:17, , Reply)
This is a normal post
she could just send her a child minding bill for £700
(, Wed 11 Jan 2017, 2:16, , Reply)
This is a link post stupid woman complains
this is news??
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 6:02, , Reply)
This is a normal post I am trying to convert to local currency
so I can fully appreciate.
We talking pre or post brexit pounds?
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 6:35, , Reply)
This is a normal post wow
what a stuck up cunt, breeding a stuck up cunt kid.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 6:49, , Reply)
This is a normal post
Fashion blogger or some such...so wouldn't be surprised if she drew the pen on herself just to get her child exploiting dailyfail sadface some attention.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 8:40, , Reply)
This is a normal post ^this

(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 23:34, , Reply)
This is a normal post Coverage in Daily Mail and The Scum
Job. Done.

poor kid
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 9:17, , Reply)
This is a normal post Reads like an advert for Sharpies to me
Or am I just a cynical fool for not trusting such a hallowed institution as the British tabloid press?

Certainly, I can't be tossed to get enraged in the way you're supposed to when reading something like this.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 9:44, , Reply)
This is a normal post She made a dress out of pubic hair!
If only I could have got a match to that.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 11:30, , Reply)
This is a normal post I've got a match to that:
Your face!
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 15:26, , Reply)
This is a normal post Hahahahahahahahahah!
Nice one.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 12:14, , Reply)
This is a link post 1958 TV show predicts the future!
An episode of the 1950s western TV series 'Trackdown' featured a character named Walter Trump who claimed he would build a wall in order to protect a town from the end of the world!
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 4:12, , Reply)
This is a link post I wrote a poem. Brian 'X-Men' Cox narrated it. I made this!
Do your worst you cynical bastards.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 2:56, , Reply)
This is a normal post Better than anything I ever wrote.

(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 5:45, , Reply)
This is a normal post I liked that so I will click 'I like this!'
So I did.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 8:54, , Reply)
This is a normal post as a cynical bastard i'd just like to say that was really nice

(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 15:33, , Reply)
This is a normal post lovely but
Not terribly unlike Dr Seuss's "oh the places you'll go" in look and feel.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 17:47, , Reply)
This is a normal post I suspect
that's what he was going for.
(, Thu 12 Jan 2017, 18:38, , Reply)
This is a link post posting this here. feel free to have at with the usual.
this one... a bit too close to home...

you folks tell me what i should do.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGIFublvDes
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 2:23, , Reply)
This is a normal post Get a gun?
All the cool kids do it.

Even the uncool ones with mental health problems have a few with loadsa ammo!
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 5:50, , Reply)
This is a normal post Never leave the house!
Ever!
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 7:39, , Reply)
This is a normal post Work remotely
Shop with Amazon Prime, never directly interact with other humans, wear a vest to make tea etc.
The NRA's dream come true, everybody armed, everybody afraid, nobody move, nobody do anything, except the semi brain dead people willing to dress up like a fat version of a SEAL that somehow forced this silly situation upon the rest of you.
Like being a hostage, but with internet and a credit card.

And move to Canada.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 9:57, , Reply)
This is a normal post What could possibly go wrong?
At least the Sheriff seems to have a grasp on reality:

Broward Sheriff Scott Israel... said he's strongly against ideas such as Raburn's to allow more guns in airport terminals.

"I'm opposed to it, just as I am opposed to open carry in schools," he said. "It makes us less safe, as it would hinder law enforcement by legally allowing potential active shooters to openly carry their deadly weapons right into airports to carry out their heinous attacks."
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 9:06, , Reply)
This is a normal post Start practicing Iron Shirt Qi Gung.
The Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists believed it could protect them from bullets in the Boxer Rebellion of 1901.

It didn't work, but that's probably because they didn't believe hard enough.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 9:19, , Reply)
This is a normal post If it can stop a truck ramming people or some a-hole shooting people at the baggage carousel, I say good.

(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 15:32, , Reply)
This is a link post Farewell Address
It is all true!
(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 23:24, , Reply)
This is a normal post

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This is a link post Marbleous
Something of the scarfolk about the production of this old vid. Very satisfying all the same
(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 22:20, , Reply)
This is a normal post Not a dissimilar technique to modern water transfer printing
https://youtu.be/X86uAWWZHi0
(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 22:40, , Reply)
This is a normal post Very nice
Not enough old guys smoking roll ups but very nice none the less.
I could,go a set of paisley pattern rims.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 1:24, , Reply)
This is a normal post he goes on a bit, doesn't he?

(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 22:28, , Reply)
This is a normal post he loves the sound of his own voice
his YouTube channel is basically him shouting at you in a Alex Jones esq way.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 8:19, , Reply)
This is a normal post Yeah but there's quite a bit of difference between
being shouted at by a highly skilled, intelligent and friendly man,
and being shouted at by an ignorant, angry, uneducated, terrified child.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 15:14, , Reply)
This is a normal post that's true
doesn't make either less annoying though.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 15:43, , Reply)
This is a normal post he's right though
ultimately.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 17:55, , Reply)
This is a normal post
Does this debunk my link down there?
(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 23:33, , Reply)
This is a normal post Not as such
It does rather skewer the Git Wizard though.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 7:32, , Reply)
This is a normal post i like penn & teller
and what Penn says, at 2:07 i agree with one thousand percent.
and 9:33, the whole thing is worth a listen. thanks.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 0:30, , Reply)
This is a normal post
boohoo
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 9:01, , Reply)
This is a normal post I'm with Penn
When you pretend the stunt has danger, or if it actually does then you've crossed the line from entertainment into charlatanism.

And Blaine is a bit of a twunt anyway so there's that.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 11:01, , Reply)
This is a normal post
He's 2/3 the man he used to be, potatoes apparently.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 23:40, , Reply)
This is a link post Cadillac TAG Function Car
Television, two phones, four quilted armchairs...

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This is a normal post That's all kinds of hideous wrong.
I love it.
(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 20:38, , Reply)
This is a normal post A coachbuilder who is not much met by most of the persons.

(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 20:41, , Reply)
This is a normal post Rodimus Prime

(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 20:45, , Reply)
This is a normal post rejected designs for the series, UFO, no.49

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This is a normal post

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This is a normal post Hahaha!

(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 21:32, , Reply)
This is a normal post Ah... a car for Homer
It's what I like to quote around the office once clients start to change the brief midway through the project! Still it may inform a view of the Cadillac being a relative success considering the abortion the customer originally wanted.
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This is a normal post That means we have to hand it over to our tame racing driver.....
............Some say he is ginger, likes cut price ham and was once the fuhrer of a puerile digital arts community called B3ta. All we know he is called the 'Rob'
(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 22:19, , Reply)
This is a normal post That's brilliant
I love the way it looks like the chassis is snapped in half already.
(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 22:25, , Reply)
This is a normal post 1960's 'Hearse of tomorrow'

(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 23:09, , Reply)
This is a normal post Looks like something out of Fallout
I want one.
(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 23:15, , Reply)
This is a normal post in spite of this it'll probably be the cholesterol that gets him in the end

(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 17:16, , Reply)
This is a normal post If only they all had buns

(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 17:42, , Reply)
This is a normal post They'd have an anaconda infestation?

(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 18:42, , Reply)
This is a normal post I cannot lie and you other brothas can't deny!

(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 18:53, , Reply)
This is a normal post Buns don't kill people; people with buns kill people

(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 21:24, , Reply)
This is a normal post With buns.

(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 10:43, , Reply)
This is a normal post I'm glad they were able to talk him round caerphilly

(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 17:25, , Reply)
This is a normal post That was a gouda one

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This is a normal post He sounds like a chedd-case

(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 17:39, , Reply)
This is a normal post sounds like an emmental case

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This is a normal post Cracker

(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 20:12, , Reply)
This is a normal post That is quite possibly
the most American news story ever.
(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 20:23, , Reply)
This is a normal post I like a nice grilled cheese sandwich + some nice hot tomato soup
Anyway this guy sounds like a psycho..he could have made grilled cheese sangas for everyone and would have to go to prison.
I wonder what his reaction will be to prison food?
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 17:44, , Reply)
This is a link post US magician David Blaine shoots himself in the mouth
Apparently, his trick went 'wrong' it says here... but I cant see any mention of anything not going brilliantly.
(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 16:47, , Reply)
This is a normal post
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVoiYZum9Zg
(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 16:53, , Reply)
This is a normal post Sadly, there can be but one outcome.

(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 17:12, , Reply)
This is a normal post NRA advises that all magician's assistants should be armed at all times?

(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 19:33, , Reply)
This is a normal post IF EVERYONE HAD BEEN PACKING THIS WOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED! SAY WOKE!

(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 21:06, , Reply)
This is a normal post .. as in he survived?

(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 17:16, , Reply)
This is a normal post Sadly yes

(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 23:32, , Reply)
This is a normal post How can we get him some depleted uranium bullets?

(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 17:19, , Reply)
This is a normal post looks like he's been practising with doughnuts

(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 17:24, , Reply)
This is a normal post Oh well
I'm sure the publicity won't hurt.
(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 18:30, , Reply)
This is a normal post People in glass boxes shouldn't shoot guns.
Or something.


In saying that, he was pretty good back in the day, for about ten minutes. Then he just became a huge fucking bore.
(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 20:16, , Reply)
This is a normal post The inhabitants of London were the best thing about his starvation stunt above the River Thames.
Flying burgers round his cage using a remote control helicopter and occasionally driving golf balls at it while he tried to sleep were commendable forms of reverence.
(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 21:31, , Reply)
This is a link post When virtue signalling goes wrong.
The stony faced reaction of Vince Vaughan, Naomi Harris and Christian Slater is priceless.
(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 13:58, , Reply)
This is a normal post "virtue signalling" a phrase invented by self centred arses who just can't stand other people doing good things
but that was an incredibly long winded and awkward story he told. He should probably stick to reciting other peoples scripts
(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 14:08, , Reply)
This is a normal post Very hard to receive an award without sounding like an arse
talk about yourself: conceited
thank other people: gushing
humanitarian work: boring

that just leaves funny thing happened on the way here
(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 14:15, , Reply)
This is a normal post Trip over on the way to collect your oscar, be fit, be starstruck by jack Nicholson and don't mention south sudan
Works for me.
(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 17:25, , Reply)
This is a normal post I'm a vegan, because I care about animal welfare, the environment and climate change.

(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 14:18, , Reply)
This is a normal post good for you, keep it up

(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 14:24, , Reply)
This is a normal post
care about animal welfare, the environment and climate change like hairy women
(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 14:47, , Reply)
This is a normal post "virtue signalling" a phrase invented by people who just can't stand other people bragging about doing good things
FTFY
(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 14:38, , Reply)
This is a normal post isnt the whole point of celebs doing some work for charity that they then use their position to publicise it?
Otherwise it would be just like me or you doing it. Valuable I suppose but the exposure is worth more
(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 14:48, , Reply)
This is a normal post Yes, unless the celeb is Jimmy Saville and the charity is a children's hospital or something.

(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 15:01, , Reply)
This is a normal post Maybe, but what does "raising awareness" achieve unless action is actually taken?
What has a twitter hashtag campaign ever actually fixed or improved? How much did the ice bucket challenge do for ALS sufferers or research? What, in reality, does Movember do for cancer research or sufferers? Pretty much every twat I've come across that does that doesn't even get sponsored, they just do it for a laugh. #BringBackOurGirls did nothing to accelerate those hostages' release, in fact many have still not been returned. But at least a lot of westerners got to show that they cared. Big deal.
(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 16:22, , Reply)
This is a normal post Ice bucket challenge raised $100m in 30 days
www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jul/26/ice-bucket-challenge-als-charity-gene-discovery

and Movember's raised over $600m over the years.

So quite a lot.
(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 16:27, , Reply)
This is a normal post I, for one, would like my awareness to remain unphilanthropically low.

(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 16:39, , Reply)
This is a normal post You missed the champion of the genre: #Kony2012
A campaign by middle-class American students to bring to justice a proper Heart of Darkness-style, heads-on-poles African jungle warlord complete with small but ultra-violent army.

When pushed on exactly how he was going to achieve this, the campaign organiser went on a naked wanking rampage through San Francisco, filmed by passers-by.

The warlord might be still hanging entire villages from trees but, as a method of raising awareness, a pavement wankathon meltdown has never been bettered.
(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 16:56, , Reply)
This is a normal post Bring back our girls worked fucking brilliantly though.
Boko haram just handed em back and promised not to do bad shit any,ore
(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 17:12, , Reply)
This is a normal post #StrongerTogether

(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 17:18, , Reply)
This is a normal post hashtags not very effective i suspect
30 seconds talking about south sudan on prime time US telly probably resulted in a few hundred people googling it. Of whom one or two might be interested in working out there or donating. None of which would have happened had he thanked his mother
(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 17:02, , Reply)
This is a normal post You all make good points.
Especially eViLegion. Misanthropes unite!
(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 17:07, , Reply)
This is a normal post I mean to say, what kind of arse wants to ruin everyone's day
by depressing them with all sorts of heinous shit going on in the world?
(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 20:44, , Reply)
This is a normal post Quite a lot. Certainly more than not doing anything at all.
You make a good point, there is a problem with charity saturation and the fact that sharing something on Facebook isn't the same as actually *doing* something, but Movember are very open about where the money goes. Try this link: https://uk.movember.com/report-cards
One of the big things they did was set up a database of research that allows far greater international collaboration on time-consuming research. There's a ton more. Recent years have seen them shift from focus on testicular/prostate to general male health (including things like disproportionately high suicide rates), helping people with depression and stuff. They do good work.
For ALS, they hadn't anticipated raising so much so quickly thanks to such overwhelming support. It was kind of a nice problem to have, but it was a genuine problem to work out how best to spend it - they have now been able to fund huge amounts more research than existed previously.
And awareness is important.
As for #BringBackOurGirls, well, I suppose one other thing it has achieved is highlighting that we don't have any influence over foreign policy and that there are things that good intentions can't fix.
(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 17:32, , Reply)
This is a normal post Ok, fair enough.
It was still a shit anecdote to tell at an awards show though.
"Hey you guys! I went on a trip at the expense of a charity to Africa and guess what?! All the charity workers had seen my TV show! Really puts thing in perspective. Made me feel so proud!"
(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 17:42, , Reply)
This is a normal post I'm trying to decide if it's more virtue signalling, or humblebragging.

(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 20:51, , Reply)
This is a normal post The latter.

(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 0:08, , Reply)
This is a normal post Nope
virtue signalling is when people 'like' people doing good things. Or say 'look how terrible these bad people are, bad, bad'. Clicktavists are the saddest people in the world.
If they were actually doing good things no one would have a problem,
See also celebs loudly offering to fill their houses with syrian refugees then not doing it.
Or 'pledging' to give $1 billion to charridee and then not doing so.
(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 14:53, , Reply)
This is a normal post You're all wrong. This guy coined it:
www.spectator.co.uk/2015/04/hating-the-daily-mail-is-a-substitute-for-doing-good/

And writes about its coinage here:

www.spectator.co.uk/2015/10/i-invented-virtue-signalling-now-its-taking-over-the-world/
(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 15:35, , Reply)
This is a normal post ie exactly what i fucking said.

(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 16:00, , Reply)
This is a normal post Calm down, dear.
I meant to reply to someone else actually but they'll never read the links so what's the point?
(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 16:15, , Reply)
This is a normal post Vince Vaughan had a similar expression on his boat race when Meryl was busy lecturing what constitutes as art.
Also, MMA is full of teh forrins, so I really am not sure what her point was really.
(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 14:17, , Reply)
This is a normal post to be fair to him it's precisely the expression I'd expect Vince Vaughan to adopt when pondering both the humanitarian crisis in South Sudan and the nature of art

(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 14:28, , Reply)
This is a normal post A good point, well made.

(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 14:31, , Reply)
This is a normal post there's an element of team america at work here
I think his intentions were honourable but it came across a bit icky.

I have friends that work at MSF and IFRC and they do an exceptional, difficult job and I salute them

edit: update today confirms this. duh.
(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 14:20, , Reply)
This is a normal post Matt Damon!

(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 14:29, , Reply)
This is a normal post I am going to post a boring clip about virtue signalling
in order to signal that I am above signalling.
(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 16:47, , Reply)
This is a normal post just so everyone knows, I liked this comment

(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 17:05, , Reply)
This is a normal post I'm glad I'm not one of the people that would dislike your comment about that comment

(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 17:07, , Reply)
This is a normal post
It makes you so "edgy" doesn't it.
(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 20:14, , Reply)
This is a normal post An absolute edgelord!
And there is nothing embarrassing about a middle aged man trying to be an edgelord.
(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 20:36, , Reply)
This is a normal post Using "virtue signalling" is a form of "virtue signalling"
People are allowed to have their own genuine and personal politics.
(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 22:45, , Reply)
This is a normal post What a fucking prick

(, Mon 9 Jan 2017, 23:50, , Reply)
This is a normal post
^ The award for most concise and accurate single comment in a Link thread, well done.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2017, 9:11, , Reply)

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