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This is a link post Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens
fox trot
(, Mon 2 Jul 2018, 1:08, Reply)
This is a normal post Probably the best Jazz/R&B chicken song ever, but there are others.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_urcQIuHPY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=88pD6vKNptk (possibly a better and earlier cover)

and then there is this: www.houstonpress.com/music/the-10-funkiest-chicken-songs-ever-recorded-6769956
(, Mon 2 Jul 2018, 5:42, Reply)
This is a normal post this should at least get an honourable mention
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq7ASMbOpmo
(, Mon 2 Jul 2018, 11:15, Reply)
This is a normal post Regional block
I like this one - not funky, just strange: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnBlst3T7bY
(, Mon 2 Jul 2018, 23:27, Reply)
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Blues chicken


Christ reply links are a ballache
(, Mon 2 Jul 2018, 21:17, Reply)
This is a normal post ch-ch-ch-choon
enjoyed that, cheers
(, Mon 2 Jul 2018, 21:36, Reply)
This is a link post Any minute now, Pop Will Eat Itself
They're very much like scruffy pigs to look at, and they've got big, knobbly warts and lumps all over their long, hairy faces. They are very, very ugly indeed.
(, Mon 2 Jul 2018, 0:09, Reply)
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pqxRCUp4r0
"Clinton Darryl "Clint" Mansell is an English musician, composer, and former lead singer of the band Pop Will Eat Itself. He has written film scores for several films ..."
(, Mon 2 Jul 2018, 0:16, Reply)
This is a normal post Didn't he leave PWEI in the 80s?
He seems to avoid publicity, which is a bit weird.
(, Mon 2 Jul 2018, 0:23, Reply)
This is a normal post too busy eating himself

(, Mon 2 Jul 2018, 0:26, Reply)
This is a normal post Nice trick if you can do it
NSFW Autofellatio is a thing
(, Mon 2 Jul 2018, 1:42, Reply)
This is a normal post just that one vertebrae...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros
(, Mon 2 Jul 2018, 1:51, Reply)
This is a normal post ...and you'd be alone here, watching an empty message board.

(, Mon 2 Jul 2018, 2:01, Reply)
This is a normal post :)

(, Mon 2 Jul 2018, 2:08, Reply)
This is a normal post Not far from the truth to be fair

(, Mon 2 Jul 2018, 14:30, Reply)
This is a normal post One of which you've definitely heard before
Requiem for a Tower
(, Mon 2 Jul 2018, 13:56, Reply)
This is a link post Morrissey's first TV Interview (The Tube) (1984)
"People might starting to call you arrogant"

"The video market [...] is something that will die really quickly"
(, Mon 2 Jul 2018, 0:01, Reply)
This is a normal post sounds like a career politician there
quality interviewing, too
(, Mon 2 Jul 2018, 0:21, Reply)
This is a normal post christ, he's a cunt

(, Mon 2 Jul 2018, 11:13, Reply)
This is a link post "Thanks for voting"?!
What fresh madness is this, b3ta?

WTF?

Rob, what you doin?
(, Sun 1 Jul 2018, 23:19, Reply)
This is a normal post It happens sometimes and links need a bit of a refresh to get headings with content
It's all of the B3ta charm so fucking calm down and don't be a needy twat.
(, Sun 1 Jul 2018, 23:50, Reply)
This is a normal post Never seen it in >10 years here
Popups? I retain my right to panic.
(, Sun 1 Jul 2018, 23:58, Reply)
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i have forever had these
(, Mon 2 Jul 2018, 0:02, Reply)
This is a normal post Weird
Maybe some blocker thing I have blocks them. But IDK how... I've literally never seen it before, and I've been active here for over a decade.
(, Mon 2 Jul 2018, 0:06, Reply)
This is a normal post Maybe it's the first time you ever clicked I Like This

(, Mon 2 Jul 2018, 0:11, Reply)
This is a normal post Not even the 100th time

(, Mon 2 Jul 2018, 0:25, Reply)
This is a normal post I thought everyone saw these messages...?

(, Mon 2 Jul 2018, 0:07, Reply)
This is a normal post Honestly never seen it until that moment,
After 10+ years heavy beta'ing
(, Mon 2 Jul 2018, 0:25, Reply)
This is a normal post #metoo

(, Mon 2 Jul 2018, 20:13, Reply)
This is a normal post This is FP now...!!?

(, Mon 2 Jul 2018, 0:22, Reply)
This is a normal post fp is like, 2 ppl clicked
b3ta is sleeping
(, Mon 2 Jul 2018, 0:26, Reply)
This is a normal post Check top right
"2 votes today so far on /links"
(, Mon 2 Jul 2018, 0:38, Reply)
This is a normal post I had to click
Just to check.
(, Mon 2 Jul 2018, 1:02, Reply)
This is a normal post I have of course clicked cos I iz a funny fukker

(, Mon 2 Jul 2018, 4:27, Reply)
This is a normal post bang
and the dirt is gone
(, Mon 2 Jul 2018, 10:14, Reply)
This is a normal post it's always done this but
are you liking your own links?
(, Mon 2 Jul 2018, 8:15, Reply)
This is a normal post ^ Asking the real question here

(, Mon 2 Jul 2018, 9:50, Reply)
This is a normal post I think you've noticed something that's been there for years
and is so old that Cal wrote it
(, Mon 2 Jul 2018, 10:12, Reply)
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Let's face it, his career peaked here.
(, Mon 2 Jul 2018, 14:27, Reply)
This is a normal post The hype was amazing
There were like, 20 "versions" of the 12", with just different bits of paper over them. I bought several.

Shortly later in life, I discovered indie, and a brill cover using guitar instead of synth; Pop Will Eat Itself
(, Sun 1 Jul 2018, 23:14, Reply)
This is a normal post Yay PWEI!
I'd turn this into Grebo Sunday if I wasn't off to bed soon...
(, Mon 2 Jul 2018, 0:02, Reply)
This is a normal post Very much like scruffy pigs

(, Mon 2 Jul 2018, 0:07, Reply)
This is a link post RIP Leo, the old senior dog friend
Leo, who passed to the rainbow bridge today.
(, Sun 1 Jul 2018, 23:08, Reply)
This is a normal post Good songs are handed down
from generation to generation.
(, Sun 1 Jul 2018, 23:12, Reply)
This is a link post NASA Fakes Moon Landing! Photographic Proof!
Combining topics of rockets, and the demise of The Clanger's creator.



(Can't believe it's not GC, it must be, surely. But meh)
(, Sun 1 Jul 2018, 23:07, Reply)
This is a normal post It is GC kinda
The original site was defaced and the guy who wrote it was insufficiently arsed to sort it out. This is a mirror.

Good to see it again though.
(, Sun 1 Jul 2018, 23:45, Reply)
This is a normal post Kthx,
Was pretty sure I'd found it from b3ta originally. Probably from the newsletter, when that was a thing.

It seems apposite though.
(, Sun 1 Jul 2018, 23:49, Reply)
This is a normal post Whatever the history
it's the most convincing moon hoax evidence I have ever seen. It should be added to all internet threads on the subject to settle the matter once and for all.
(, Sun 1 Jul 2018, 23:54, Reply)
This is a normal post Probably explains 911 too
Why is this hidden from us?

Why do the government stop me explaining that Bagpuss controls our minds? it's obviously a conspiracy.
(, Sun 1 Jul 2018, 23:57, Reply)
This is a normal post I remember seeing this link on 4rthur in 2004/5
And the poster got ripped for gc. Very old but oh so very good
(, Mon 2 Jul 2018, 0:06, Reply)
This is a normal post Yeah, agree
And with the sad demise of the guy who made Clangers... nice to see them out there.
(, Mon 2 Jul 2018, 0:37, Reply)
This is a link post RIP Peter Firmin, co-creator of The Clangers, Noggin the Nog...
...Ivor the Engine, Pogles' Wood and Bagpuss - The most Important, The most Beautiful,The most Magical Saggy old cloth cat in the whole wide world. Here's the first episode.

Firmin was an art teacher in the 1950s, when he met Oliver Postgate; they "just clicked" and formed Smallfilms. He died today, 1st of July, aged 89.

BBC Obituary here.
(, Sun 1 Jul 2018, 22:27, Reply)
This is a normal post Eeeh, nyeh nyeh nyeh nyeh nyeh

(, Sun 1 Jul 2018, 22:57, Reply)
This is a link post Careful now!
A few people have been asking how the internet works, so here's a simple explanation.
Down with this sort of thing!
(, Sun 1 Jul 2018, 17:48, Reply)
This is a normal post Down with this sort of thing

(, Sun 1 Jul 2018, 23:03, Reply)
This is a link post chet atkins playing a beatles medley. nice understated guitar work

(, Sun 1 Jul 2018, 15:05, Reply)
This is a normal post Go see Tommy Emmanuel if you want to see more of this kind of thing
He has inherited Chet Atkins crown as the world's best player in this style. He does sometimes descend into MOR hell, but when it's just him and a guitar it's very, very good.
(, Mon 2 Jul 2018, 8:14, Reply)
This is a link post Sad news for those of a certain age

(, Sun 1 Jul 2018, 13:36, Reply)
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Weee will fix him, weee will fix him.
(, Sun 1 Jul 2018, 14:09, Reply)
This is a normal post He had a great innings
I lived up near Postgates place in Blean about 20 years ago when he had a prop sale. I have an original clanger and two of the Nagoya's church mice.

Sad times.
(, Sun 1 Jul 2018, 14:11, Reply)
This is a normal post Pictures?

(, Sun 1 Jul 2018, 23:03, Reply)
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They've been in the Beany Canterbury museum for about 6 years now. You can pop in and see them yourself. I paid a ridiculously low couple of hundred quid for them in about 1996 (I think.. Might have been 97)
(, Mon 2 Jul 2018, 13:18, Reply)
This is a normal post :(
m.youtube.com/watch?v=HArUmqqiL0s#
(, Sun 1 Jul 2018, 16:29, Reply)
This is a normal post Sorry it's a Vimeo clip
vimeo.com/165064527
(, Sun 1 Jul 2018, 20:37, Reply)
This is a normal post That is sad
I met Oliver Postgate once and shook his hand. I saw tiny clanger's 'voice' and the actual bagpuss used in the show.

He talked exactly the same in real life as he did on the show. He had the sort of voice you would want to narrate your own death with the words "And then they went to sleep"
(, Sun 1 Jul 2018, 16:46, Reply)
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I can recommend Oliver Postgate's autobiography.
(, Sun 1 Jul 2018, 17:47, Reply)
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I liked the story that all the Clanger whistling was actually scripted dialogue, and in one episode where a door sticks, Major Clanger is actually shouting "Sod it, the bloody things stuck again!"

When they released the speaking Clanger dolls a few years ago, the manufacturers asked Postgate what audio he wanted to put on the voice box. Guess what millions of childrens toys are whistling when you squeeze them...
(, Mon 2 Jul 2018, 23:17, Reply)
This is a normal post You MET BAGPUSS?!11eleven
Wow, amazing.

Was that when you were a kid, or...? How did it come about?

What was "tiny clanger's voice" - a little sliding whistle of some kind?

Definitely a mesmerising and soothing voice.
(, Sun 1 Jul 2018, 22:49, Reply)
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Sad news but also a long lived successful life so that’s to be celebrated. So much happiness to so many people.
(, Sun 1 Jul 2018, 17:38, Reply)
This is a normal post ^ This
So much. Perfectly put
(, Sun 1 Jul 2018, 22:36, Reply)
This is a normal post The Bagpussy Cat Dolls will always ave a special place in my heart.

(, Sun 1 Jul 2018, 19:52, Reply)
This is a normal post Sorry that I posted about the same news,
I searched before posting, but nobody in this thread mentions his name!

Ah well, I posted a vid of Bagpuss, which is never a bad thing.
(, Sun 1 Jul 2018, 22:44, Reply)
This is a normal post JOE

(, Mon 2 Jul 2018, 10:25, Reply)
This is a link post A less succesful rocket launch, today, in Japan
This is the 10-meter 1-ton "Momo-2" rocket by Interstellar Technologies, Japan's first private space-launch company, trying to offer low-cost delivery into orbit.
(, Sat 30 Jun 2018, 18:19, Reply)
This is a normal post “As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind -
every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.” ― John Glenn
(, Sat 30 Jun 2018, 18:46, Reply)
This is a normal post That one was partly crowd-funded
It cost several million.

Momo-1 failed similarly, almost exactly a year ago. The future of that company looks very shaky.
(, Sat 30 Jun 2018, 18:59, Reply)
This is a normal post LOL
Rocket with upside down sensors hammered in by someone on zero hours contract minimum pay. Land is sky

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl12dXYcUTo
(, Sat 30 Jun 2018, 21:43, Reply)
This is a normal post "as i munched on my lunchtime meal deal sandwich, one thought kept crossing my mind..."

(, Sat 30 Jun 2018, 23:16, Reply)
This is a normal post "You will not be going to space today"

(, Sun 1 Jul 2018, 9:51, Reply)
This is a normal post I wonder if the book is available in Japanese?
Gonna embed, and I don't even care.

(I have shares in scroll wheels)


(, Sun 1 Jul 2018, 22:56, Reply)
This is a normal post *packs gaffa tape in luggage*
"no, it's a family photo, honest, the heavy frame an heirloom"
(, Sun 1 Jul 2018, 23:00, Reply)
This is a normal post that first clip has perfect comedy timing

(, Sat 30 Jun 2018, 18:59, Reply)
This is a normal post Famously
SpaceX's first three launches failed. Rocket science is HARD.
(, Sat 30 Jun 2018, 19:12, Reply)
This is a normal post phwoar!
*moistens*
(, Sat 30 Jun 2018, 19:15, Reply)
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...and sticky.
(, Sat 30 Jun 2018, 19:27, Reply)
This is a normal post ewww...
not as sticky as brain surgery, though
www.youtube.com/watch?v=THNPmhBl-8I
(, Sat 30 Jun 2018, 20:01, Reply)
This is a normal post For those who have not seen the brill fails of SpaceX,
How Not to Land an Orbital Rocket Booster
(, Sun 1 Jul 2018, 23:00, Reply)
This is a normal post Disappointing lack of explodey-boom
Top marks for the comedy cough though.
(, Sat 30 Jun 2018, 21:06, Reply)
This is a normal post This same thing used to happen to my Cortina
It would start OK then stall as soon as you shifted into second.
(, Sun 1 Jul 2018, 14:25, Reply)
This is a normal post We rotated the decal on ours,
So it was a 9·1 litre.
(, Sun 1 Jul 2018, 23:28, Reply)
This is a normal post R.U.D.
Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly
(, Tue 3 Jul 2018, 13:52, Reply)
This is a link post No Woman...

(, Sat 30 Jun 2018, 16:20, Reply)
This is a normal post Hilarious.

(, Sat 30 Jun 2018, 17:53, Reply)
This is a normal post Cultural appropriation at its worst.
I bet he's got some natty dreads under that tea towel.
(, Sat 30 Jun 2018, 21:35, Reply)
This is a normal post Unreal
I say something thus it must be true.
(, Sat 30 Jun 2018, 21:54, Reply)
This is a normal post the worst cultural appropriation there is his keffiyeh
a total affront to every Saudi. Even the agai is bogus.
shameful human rights violation.
(, Sat 30 Jun 2018, 23:32, Reply)
This is a normal post I like those oppressive societies
where music making is grounds for beheading
(, Sun 1 Jul 2018, 15:07, Reply)
This is a link post Chasbo Zelena -I don't like you I made this!
I don't know if any of you remember that brilliant Brendan Gleeson "Cunt Kids" line in In Bruges? That inspired this.
(, Sat 30 Jun 2018, 15:42, Reply)
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=Krz11xrRcaE
(, Sat 30 Jun 2018, 16:00, Reply)
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This music is the shit. Beautiful Bulgarian lady choirs.
(, Sat 30 Jun 2018, 15:32, Reply)
This is a normal post i was going to post this link too (also picked it up via HaD)
Lovely attention to detail...
(, Sun 1 Jul 2018, 21:32, Reply)
This is a normal post amazing work but...
...something seems to be going on with the lighting/exposure/white balance that could be sorted - i don't mind the effect but i'm not sure it is intentional
(, Sun 1 Jul 2018, 21:39, Reply)
This is a normal post Not really seeing it...maybe something that can be sorted out in post...
In fact, the only issue I have is the stylistic choice of going with 3/4 irises for her eyes...I personally don't think that works very well...
(, Sun 1 Jul 2018, 22:32, Reply)
This is a normal post yeah, those eyes bug me out too
maybe i was trying so hard to ignore them i couldn't help but notice the flicker? top work anyways
(, Sun 1 Jul 2018, 22:46, Reply)
This is a link post Half arsed and dragged from the past - The Zero Effort Sessions. . NSFW I made this!
I made a bunch of tunes that I haven't uploaded and to celebrate ten years of flinging shit at YouTube I'm compounding the issue by flinging more. It fits quite well and I personally give it a 6.5 out of ten and about 5 for effort. NSFW 'cos of naughty words. :-)
(, Sat 30 Jun 2018, 9:46, Reply)
This is a normal post Also...
Hello! :-)
(, Sat 30 Jun 2018, 9:47, Reply)
This is a normal post hello.
seems to be a massive disconnect between the backing track and the vocal as the main issue with this track. you could probably make something work quite well by being more creative with the sample eg. chopping and editing the backing creating new riffs with it as a sound source because the aesthetic itself isn't bad at all. I understand you're not planning to re-work this. just my pointless critique.
(, Sat 30 Jun 2018, 14:08, Reply)
This is a normal post Thanks, anything constructive is welcome.
I suppose I have grown used to it over the years (that's what she said) :-)
(, Sat 30 Jun 2018, 14:25, Reply)
This is a normal post that's *exactly* what I say
when I mean 'you don't love me? fuck off and die then, cunt.'
(, Sat 30 Jun 2018, 23:34, Reply)
This is a normal post What an odd reply...

(, Mon 2 Jul 2018, 15:28, Reply)
This is a link post When You’re Ugly - Louis Cole
A new song
(, Sat 30 Jun 2018, 7:38, Reply)
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spot the dickhead
(, Sat 30 Jun 2018, 10:15, Reply)
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Spotted..looks ugly
I kind of like the song though
(, Sat 30 Jun 2018, 10:58, Reply)
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Ahh Jesus. I've got to follow Lewis Cole.
(, Sat 30 Jun 2018, 14:16, Reply)

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