
he probably old enough to play for real now!
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Ross Turnball, ex-Chelsea stand-in keeper. His son Josh was two at the time (2013)
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but I have an irrational problem with Steve Carrell so there's basically bugger-all chance of me seeing it.
( , Thu 21 Jun 2018, 14:13, Reply)

But Evan Almighty actually works for me, after a couple of watches. Not spectacularly, but it certainly lasts a lot better than Carey's outing.
( , Thu 21 Jun 2018, 16:55, Reply)

I agree. I mean it's not a good film by any means, but I'll still watch it when it's on.
( , Thu 21 Jun 2018, 20:44, Reply)

Just watch the documentary it's based on instead - www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMWFhplFSEQ
( , Thu 21 Jun 2018, 19:37, Reply)

with the notable exception of the concert-hall in Astana, which is lovely.
FUN FACT: Dushanbe is Tajik (that is, Persian that uses the Cyrillic alphabet) for Monday. The city grew from a market that used to happen there on Mondays.
( , Thu 21 Jun 2018, 11:55, Reply)

The others looked like the usual celebration of wealth and ego.
( , Thu 21 Jun 2018, 12:54, Reply)

That bank in Ashgabat and the one below in particular.
Some utter horrors too though.
( , Thu 21 Jun 2018, 12:01, Reply)

I'd take most of those ahead of half the shit that's currently being built in London.
( , Thu 21 Jun 2018, 12:31, Reply)

Clearly Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov sees himself as a modern-day Peter the Great - looks exactly like the "Bronze Horseman" in St Petersburg.
( , Thu 21 Jun 2018, 12:55, Reply)

And block a lovely view of a perfectly good temple.
( , Thu 21 Jun 2018, 17:09, Reply)

A guy at work brought one in and said it would take me a good while to get the hang of it, and while we were chatting I handed it back to him unlocked - the look on his face was priceless! It's very therapeutic and better than any stress toy I've seen, and is also a useful skill to learn even if it's just on cheap office desk locks. It's got several of my colleagues out of a jam when they've lost their desk keys, but it does have the downside of risking having the finger pointed if anything goes missing at work.
( , Thu 21 Jun 2018, 21:04, Reply)

I recently went down an accidental YouTube rabbit-hole-binge on lock-picking.
Loads of channels dedicated to stuff like this.
Don't burgle, kids.
(Also don't burgle kids. They'll kick you in the shin).
( , Fri 22 Jun 2018, 10:34, Reply)

"Phantom Islands are artifacts of the age of maritime discovery and colonial expansion. During centuries of ocean exploration these islands were sighted, charted, described and even explored – but their existence has never been ultimately verified. Poised somewhere between cartographical fact and maritime fiction, they haunted seafarers’ maps for hundreds of years, inspiring legends, fantasies, and counterfactual histories. Phantom Islands – A Sonic Atlas interprets and presents these imaginations in the form of an interactive map which charts the sounds of a number of historical phantom islands."
( , Thu 21 Jun 2018, 11:25, Reply)

... even if I seem to be in the minority.
Ugi
( , Thu 21 Jun 2018, 22:05, Reply)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Atlas-Remote-Islands-Fifty-Visited/dp/1846143489
( , Fri 22 Jun 2018, 0:11, Reply)

Which is fine, I guess. *passive aggressive eyeroll*
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But here specifically I disagree with the sentiment.
Fascism eventually requires that people who don't agree with it take a stand or be killed. In contrast Anti-fascism doesn't require that people become fascist in response.
The hate breeding seems fairly one way to me.
I would prefer that the violence were not required ofc, but honestly, if you tolerate Nazis indefinitely then sooner or later you have to join them, or be killed by them.
(another thing that is not true of anti fascists)
edit: huh, seems they only talked to the guy too.
( , Thu 21 Jun 2018, 12:18, Reply)

Unfortunately, a not inconsiderable percentage of Antifa members are nothing more than middle-class slacktivist twats who care little about the ideology of Antifa and take more interest in causing a bit of a nuisance at protests and feeling like Mr/Mrs Big Balls.
As soon as you let cunts represent your organisation, you begin to lose all credibility. It happened with Anonymous (although those gay Guy Fawkes masks didn't really help matters), it happened with Black Lives Matter and now it's happening with Antifa.
I guarantee a lot of these twats were also falling over themselves during the Kony2012 nonsense a few years back.
( , Thu 21 Jun 2018, 13:11, Reply)

It's a massive down side of running things anonymously/ openly (anyone can join in.) You'll get some natural assholes, and you'll get people actively trying to undermine the group.
I reckon, where a group is righteous, judge the individual members by their own actions. Admittedly it's harder when they're all wearing masks...
This particular subset though, just put some of their time in, ran a bit of deception, and only gave the guy a talking to. They might be ineffective, but cunts is little harsh.
( , Thu 21 Jun 2018, 13:37, Reply)

So it's maybe not as harsh as it first seems.
( , Thu 21 Jun 2018, 14:08, Reply)

Screaming at people in German. Telling the boss "Yes mein Kommandant! At once!" when he asks you for some photocopies.
I just reckon I'd enjoy it
( , Thu 21 Jun 2018, 11:10, Reply)

From what I can tell, they do have quite a lot of fun.
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This is currently available. I saw it in Tesco the other day. Odd.
( , Thu 21 Jun 2018, 14:20, Reply)

Imagine having so little to do that you catfish a nazi for months just so you can go and tell him off.
( , Thu 21 Jun 2018, 12:39, Reply)

Probably been posted before but I hadn't seen it in a few years and forgot how great it is
( , Thu 21 Jun 2018, 9:12, Reply)

Is Ireland even on this map? Seems a bit harsh. Oh, yeah, U2.
( , Thu 21 Jun 2018, 8:57, Reply)

I've tried
This bird only has one wing and has pink legs
This bird has a long neck with small wings and bendy legs
This bird has a head that is twice the size of its body
This bird has two heads and three legs
Some pretty impressive work from Microsoft.
( , Thu 21 Jun 2018, 4:30, Reply)

"This bird has a large round magenta head and thin pink body"
Edit: well tried to embed but imgur appears to be completely fucked
( , Thu 21 Jun 2018, 6:57, Reply)

got random picks. small beaks the lot of them. bot not there yet
( , Thu 21 Jun 2018, 12:29, Reply)

It's entertaining to give it descriptions of actual birds and see how close it gets. e.g.
Gannet - "This bird is white with long straight wings that are black at the tips, a yellow head, and a long grey bill."
Swift - "This bird is black with a white chin, long crescent-shaped wings, a short beak and a forked tail."
( , Thu 21 Jun 2018, 14:31, Reply)

a cape, a monocle or a top hat.
( , Thu 21 Jun 2018, 15:13, Reply)

I did the animation, not the song
( , Wed 20 Jun 2018, 23:46, Reply)

I muted it to watch to the end.
( , Thu 21 Jun 2018, 23:14, Reply)

Said the chap who got divorced, twice.
( , Wed 20 Jun 2018, 22:14, Reply)

Contains swearing. Obv.
( , Wed 20 Jun 2018, 15:37, Reply)

/board and /links might be in a bit trouble here.
Hope the crack B3ta coding team is up to the task of autoscanning scanning every upload here for copyright violations.
( , Wed 20 Jun 2018, 13:53, Reply)

Database of copyrighted work? what is this? A system of head slapping?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR1mdQrG26o
( , Wed 20 Jun 2018, 14:48, Reply)

Psst! Remove the 's' from https and it'll be clickable.
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If you've been to Greece lately and noticed there are no longer bottles of olive oil and vinegar on all the restaurant tables, look up that batshit legislation and how it arrived.
( , Thu 21 Jun 2018, 17:04, Reply)

Well that's a nice way to increase the amount of single use plastic pollution.
For fucks sake the EU makes it too easy for sceptics sometimes.
( , Fri 22 Jun 2018, 10:53, Reply)

I'd assume the only people who are going to add images to the database are stock photo sites, so hopefully the main impact will be to have all these removed from Google Images.
Also, creating and policing that database sounds a fucker. Can't see it getting very far.
( , Wed 20 Jun 2018, 16:09, Reply)

Then no one need worry.
( , Wed 20 Jun 2018, 16:53, Reply)

Nothing i've read on the subject has stated "doesn't include b3ta"
Even if somehow it doesn't don't you think mass censorship of communications in Europe is a bad thing?
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Tell me, how is automatically vetting peoples uploads of audio, video, text etc against databases of prohibited items not mass censorship? It prohibit it is censorship and the mere checking of peoples uploads is mass surveillance.
You twat.
"We support the consideration of measures that would improve the ability for creators to
receive fair remuneration for the use of their works online. But we cannot support Article
13, which would mandate Internet platforms to embed an automated infrastructure for
monitoring and censorship deep into their networks"
Signed, "the inventors of the fucking internet" and a bunch of gobshite m.e.p's
www.eff.org/files/2018/06/13/article13letter.pdf
( , Thu 21 Jun 2018, 10:19, Reply)

If you believe that b3ta is a satire and humour site (which I believe it to be), then copyright violations don't apply, as you have fair use rules in place to protect satirical material.
Secondly b3ta is not a medium/large scale organisation to which this legislation applies, b3ta is the definitive micro-organisation which is explicitly exempted in the wording.
Do I think this law is good? No, it's largely unenforceable, willfully misunderstands how the web works and is going to be very expensive for companies to implement. It's not censorship though, it's just crap legislation.
( , Thu 21 Jun 2018, 9:22, Reply)

What about wikipedia, reddit, github, wordpress, comments sections of newspapers etc? All those will be required to pass every upload onto another server to check if it's ok by the computer algorithms.
And as for satire, lets hope A.I has a full an rounded knowledge of satire shall we?
( , Thu 21 Jun 2018, 10:24, Reply)

It's fooled by tiny variances, Eg. Crop the image a tiny bit, speed the video up a tiny amount .. Done.
It's most definitely not AI and it just won't be effective.
Crap legislation.
( , Thu 21 Jun 2018, 14:52, Reply)

Put half of /board into google image search and it'll find the originals.
And text, source code etc. Can't see there being any issue.
Make a subversive comment like
"Type 2 diabetes? I’m Lovin’ It,"
(comment blocked due to trademark violation.)
Create protest artwork against a multinational using their logo somewhere in it? (image blocked due to violation of intellectual property.)
It won't cost a thing to make a claim to get a video, image, text, code whatever blocked either. Don't like something? Make a false claim.
Facial recognition is pretty damn good now. What is someone like Trump claims the rights to his image? Shit ton of political images just got wiped from the internet.
And even if you've done everthing right, created something original or used images you have a right to use. There's always false positives. Get something blocked unfairly, what is the appeals process? How long and how much does it cost?
I'ld go beyond crap legislation and say bloody dangerous legislation. Once this is established then it'll only get stronger due to the increasing power of AI.
If the tories tried this shit there's no way it would fly but because it's the eu most people don't even know it's happening. And when it does, then a whole bunch of europhile's will bend over backwards to make excuses for it.
( , Fri 22 Jun 2018, 9:16, Reply)

Finally had to turn off the porn filter...
( , Wed 20 Jun 2018, 18:49, Reply)

and begin to understand what lies behind the gusset.
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Must be on a shit list somewhere.
( , Thu 21 Jun 2018, 8:44, Reply)

Every now and then my work's filter get set to default settings, which means b3ta suddenly requires me to click through an "Are you sure you're supposed to be looking at this?" screen. A day later it's be back to normal again.
( , Thu 21 Jun 2018, 12:18, Reply)

No word of a lie, it’s categorised as “pointless”.
( , Thu 21 Jun 2018, 15:04, Reply)

This place is many things ...
( , Fri 22 Jun 2018, 10:50, Reply)

fuck the economy, I'm on team brexit now.
"Marge !Marge! Get me my Union Jack pants"
( , Thu 21 Jun 2018, 4:59, Reply)

imagine this maniac being first on the scene at your accident and slowly realising hes just there for kicks
( , Wed 20 Jun 2018, 11:17, Reply)

This guy is still about and doing this stuff, he's broken into several ambulance stations in the south east trying to take gear/supplies.
( , Wed 20 Jun 2018, 11:36, Reply)

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/obsessed-fantasist-given-restraining-order-after-bid-to-steal-las-papers-a3406326.html
( , Wed 20 Jun 2018, 15:58, Reply)

But my Sister watched it and told me the plot
( , Wed 20 Jun 2018, 16:01, Reply)

I'd be all like "let's go down the nick dickhead". Totally pathetic explanations too even when it's obvious he's rumbled
( , Wed 20 Jun 2018, 12:30, Reply)

Amd coming out with a stretcher of Royal Doulton, and a spoon collection... Or even to speed like a prick... but as a way to pass the time??
( , Wed 20 Jun 2018, 18:51, Reply)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwlL5aJQC-Q
( , Wed 20 Jun 2018, 18:56, Reply)

was dropping off dry cleaning when he noticed a pair of police officers stopping traffic on Franklin Road.
( , Wed 20 Jun 2018, 8:33, Reply)

There appears to be no punch line. Would not read again
www.academia.edu/1398364/Why_Did_the_Snake_Cross_the_Road_Effects_of_Roads_on_Movement_and_Location_of_Mates_by_Garter_Snakes_Thamnophis_sirtalis_parietalis_
( , Wed 20 Jun 2018, 13:17, Reply)

It's not an NHS hospital. George Best got his new liver there.
( , Wed 20 Jun 2018, 8:04, Reply)

It was at latest 2014 when we first "went right at the wedding cake" like a bunch of crazy people.
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