Fuckwit
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Experience: I had an erection for three weeks
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I grabbed a wine-cooling sleeve from the freezer and wrapped it around my penis
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"I was so inspired by the care I received in hospital that I want to channel that into training as a Reiki healer and teacher."
Peak Grauniad.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Fri 23 Aug 2019, 19:41,
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I do still like the Guardian website
But it's being filled more and more with utter horseshite.
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Thrill_My_Chinchilla is old and unimproved, Fri 23 Aug 2019, 20:28,
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It's the most unbearably left-leaning wishy washy lower middle class twaddle imaginable.
It's the kind of publication for people who regard Stacey Dooley as a legitimate current affairs journalist. The kind of folk who will readily call out Islamophobic sentiment on social media yet will proceed to swallow their plane seat with their anus the moment a vaguely brown person walks down the aisle. Just awful.
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Wow, I sure am glad I'm not one of those straw Grauniad readers right noe
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Your failed HTML correction really ends your snappy put down well.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Fri 23 Aug 2019, 22:48,
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Wow, I sur
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Given that I just said I like the majority of the content
I guess that is a personal insult. More importantly though, what would you consider the bastion of integrity when it comes to reporting?
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Thrill_My_Chinchilla is old and unimproved, Fri 23 Aug 2019, 22:51,
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A Guardian reader? Engaging in whataboutery?
Now I've heard it all.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Fri 23 Aug 2019, 23:07,
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don't worry
post Brexit, whataboutery, which btw, is an EU regulation, will be banned.
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The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Fri 23 Aug 2019, 23:21,
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It always comes back to Brexit with you Benny.
*waves blue passport*
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Fri 23 Aug 2019, 23:38,
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That’s you. What about me?
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The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Sat 24 Aug 2019, 0:38,
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I know you're proud of being a twat on here
But given the rant about the Guardian website and its users, is it really whataboutery to ask what alternative website someone would suggest using instead of the one they just ranted about?
(I am not expecting an intelligent answer from either of you)
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Thrill_My_Chinchilla is old and unimproved, Sat 24 Aug 2019, 9:25,
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You're harping on about how much you love The Guardian, and I'm the twat.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sat 24 Aug 2019, 10:38,
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And you continue to evade the question
of what you consider to be the bastion of integrity when it comes to reporting.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Sat 24 Aug 2019, 11:10,
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You question is based on a false premise.
When did I ever state or imply that such a 'bastion of integrity' in 'reporting' exists? How was that article reportage? It was a first person single source account published entirely uncritically. Is that reporting?
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sat 24 Aug 2019, 12:08,
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It's not "reporting"
It's the Experiences column in the Life & Style section. It's not meant to be hard-hitting journalism, or even just professional journalism. They solicit stories which are then submitted by not-journalists, and the "best ones" are picked by the editorial team for publication every Friday.
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neuro 's cheese game is strong., Sun 25 Aug 2019, 5:08,
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So why are chinchilla and fish using the term 'bastion of integrity in reporting' when discussing this article?
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sun 25 Aug 2019, 10:01,
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Because they're conflating "journalism" with "some other stuff our core readership will lap up something fierce"?
I do like the Grauniad's actual journalism, like actual news articles about things that actually fucking matter, but the sideshow stuff they rightfully get ripped for to either pad out the print edition or to go fishing for clicks does absolutely nothing for me.
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neuro 's cheese game is strong., Sun 25 Aug 2019, 22:50,
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Is Carole Cadwalladr your favourite actual journalist?
My favourite actual journalist is Owen Jones.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Mon 26 Aug 2019, 0:13,
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Excuse me, can I just point out
My whole original post was that the Guardian website is getting more and more full of Horseshite.
Mr Penis ranted insultingly about the content of the whole site (and readers), and I asked him for his alternative, that's the entire sensible discussion, and it died out pretty quickly.
Prufrock separately being a twat unable to use words like "whataboutery" correctly or understanding concepts like "Guardian website" or "when the sun is shining" is pretty much a given. And since he somehow seems to link "horseshite" with "love" I can only assume he is a coprophilic weirdo. Which doesn't surprise me.
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Thrill_My_Chinchilla is old and unimproved, Mon 26 Aug 2019, 0:34,
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I realise you "can't be bothered to waste any more effort on this" but the puerile ad hominems you have plenty of time for.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Mon 26 Aug 2019, 8:01,
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I hadn't replied to you but still..
I get the impression that the more additional characters I type now, the more you consider this some kind of victory? Okay, knock yourself out, you winner - especially for you - s shinosns Ed his hjsnshjs shjsnsjsn snksnjsnj snisninis snksnsnjska amankankskdhdjsnks bjdksk smism sjemplehdnd
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Thrill_My_Chinchilla is old and unimproved, Mon 26 Aug 2019, 9:38,
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You weren't replying to me, but you were insulting me by name.
Are all Guardian fanboys this catty and brittle?
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Mon 26 Aug 2019, 11:17,
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Yes, you are
Since my original post was "I do still like The Guardian but it's being filled more and more with utter horseshite"
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Thrill_My_Chinchilla is old and unimproved, Sat 24 Aug 2019, 12:02,
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How could you ever like the Grauniad?
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sat 24 Aug 2019, 12:09,
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Jay Rayner's restaurant reviews. The Observer, but same website, for a start
But I can't be bothered to waste any more effort on this, on such a nice day.
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Thrill_My_Chinchilla is old and unimproved, Sat 24 Aug 2019, 12:17,
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Your defence of the Guardian amounts to the restaurant critic of the Observer because it's the same website
There's no arguing with that.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sat 24 Aug 2019, 13:06,
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Your apparent inability to read makes this argument utterly pointless. Not replying after this
The silliest thing of all was that I was originally going to reply to your first post with something like "yes, the guy is a knob, but the Guardian can get even worse than that at times, still best of a bad bunch though."
Hope you got out to enjoy the sunshine like I did.
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Thrill_My_Chinchilla is old and unimproved, Sat 24 Aug 2019, 18:16,
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It's a relief to know you can't be bothered to waste any more effort on this.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sat 24 Aug 2019, 22:31,
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Have you not seen all those passionate gentlemen on the youtubes?
They're independent journalists, so they're free from bias and all external influences, it's incredible.
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its the lifestyle section
For news and investigative reporting the guardian is one of the greatest papers
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simbosan liked your link on, Sat 24 Aug 2019, 2:15,
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Attention seeking fucknuckle seeking attention
He was in the i last week
b3ta.com/links/Man_has_permanent_erection
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Fri 23 Aug 2019, 20:51,
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Moral of the story
Don't let strangers inject medicine directly into your dick.
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Many thanks
This would never of occurred to me previously.
I'm going to get these exact words tattooed on my dick tomorrow.
What an unbelievable dick (ahem) this guy was/is.
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The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Fri 23 Aug 2019, 23:20,
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If the Pathetic Sharks from Viz wrote a newspaper, it would be a bit like the Guardian.
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When I do something really really stupid
I make sure that I don't write to the papers about it.
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rob, Sun 25 Aug 2019, 14:35,
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I like that they left the comments open by mistake for a bit.
Unfortunately didn't get to see them.
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Best line of the article:
"When I woke, I was no longer in agonising pain. I felt hope. My partner and I had become even closer and my friends started fundraising for my recovery".
"So how much have you raised so far, mates? £ 2.37 ?!" What the hell! I drifted back off to sleep and awoke a few days later. When I woke again, my friends, my partner, my penis, my hope, and the £2.37 were all gone."
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Fleet Foxes - Mykonos
Been here before but a nice song and some surfing.
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Long board hip high shite
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The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Sat 24 Aug 2019, 0:41,
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Mum fucks up daughter's hair and uniform after first day back at school for likes and shares on Facebook.
Well, who wouldnt?
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Girl's before and after school photos go viral
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Lucie's new school uniform is on the dishevelled side by the end of the five-year-old's first day.
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I call shenanigans
It just looks totally fake. I can't wait for the uproar and forthcoming witch-hunt.
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I actually didn't read your headline. For shame
I bow to your superior internetting.
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Indie Game Preview: Boxwrecker Arena!
I made this!
It's the bank holiday weekend, so you have permission to bring toys and games from home - and start drinking early!
BRING ON THE WALL!
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dogbomb, Fri 23 Aug 2019, 12:48,
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I can't drink now, I'm at work. You'll get me sacked!
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Fri 23 Aug 2019, 14:16,
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Headline du jour
OK, it's from 2016. Still, quite amusing.
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Tusk knows where you live, Fri 23 Aug 2019, 8:49,
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Pokemon Go was great
For about three weeks in 2016 you could talk to any random person in London and they'd all happily tell you about the Gyarados they found around the corner and if you hurry it might still be there.
Now everyone's back to assuming you're going to stab them for their phone.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Fri 23 Aug 2019, 9:51,
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Show me the monet
rare (or so I'm told) 100-year-old film clips of Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Auguste Rodin, and Edgar Degas. Monet paints like a pensioner playing bingo
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 23 Aug 2019, 0:29,
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Always Ludovico Einaudi's I Giorni - the ultimate in-memoriam segment music
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Fri 23 Aug 2019, 8:17,
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merry candles!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVyALKXMzoA
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Sun 25 Aug 2019, 2:10,
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2019 :: The Last Summer
I made this!
some more #deepfakery for you...
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Hey you.
Why the small face?
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George Blank my 2nd last sig was funny, Thu 22 Aug 2019, 14:11,
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I like
the animal farm quote at the end.
Very apt.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Thu 22 Aug 2019, 14:18,
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Can I be the first to suggest that anti-Boris sentiment is Islamophobia?
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Night trip to Walmart
The goose's name is George in case you miss it
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Thu 22 Aug 2019, 9:00,
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if i was george..
I would ask: "are you making a video of this? Because if you are, please put it on youtube so that B3ta people can comprehend this nightmare
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I'll have a gander at this later
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 22 Aug 2019, 9:24,
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probably should now
or the vid may be goosed
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SpookySpoon www.vivino.com/users/hig.func, Fri 23 Aug 2019, 12:58,
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Kerosene, Propylene Glycol, Artificial Sweeteners, Sulfuric Acid, Rum, Acetone, Battery Acid, red dye#2, SCUMM, Axle grease and/or knuckle bones.
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Ewww kerosene tastes awful though.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Thu 22 Aug 2019, 14:17,
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GAC
The only shopping I'd be doing with George is for sage, onion, breadcrumbs and potatoes.
Edit: Argh, I'm on fire.
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Lots of fire is helpful when it comes to roasting such a large bird.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Thu 22 Aug 2019, 9:51,
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You are the Amazon Rainforest
AICMFP
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Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Thu 22 Aug 2019, 10:57,
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burn baby burn
B3ta inferno
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 23 Aug 2019, 0:20,
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Merry b3taversary
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The_cold_stare Coming here only when very, very bored, Fri 23 Aug 2019, 0:32,
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Is George one of those emotional support animals?
I want an emotional support Honey Badger.
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antmulder Flick your icefloss, Thu 22 Aug 2019, 9:44,
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I've not seen any of these things over here yet
But I assume it's just a matter of time before these delightful little animals and their associated 'look at me I'm special' fat arseholes are waddling about in my local Tescos.
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Had a mild dose of the LSD yesterday and this helped me pull through. Thank you.
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pardon me while i shit myself
and....it was ....fantastic
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Turboesprit Volume knob, Wed 21 Aug 2019, 22:34,
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ooh nice, but wish i could get more info
I assume they've wrapped photos round a sphere object
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simbosan liked your link on, Thu 22 Aug 2019, 0:12,
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I have also had a trouser accident
But it happened on the other side.
That is beautiful.
(it's Jupiter BTW)
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Something something something Uranus.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Thu 22 Aug 2019, 9:49,
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My god, it's full of sharts.
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'The Future is Unwritten' (2007) - Part 1
On what would have been his 67th birthday, here's Julien Temple's rather excellent Joe Strummer documentary.
Part 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxQs2F0Y3Hw
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And IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII will always love you
I made this!
Another rejected trailer I made for my client...
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Geo-restricted
everywhere, not one country allowed.
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George Blank my 2nd last sig was funny, Wed 21 Aug 2019, 14:27,
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she had a lovely mouth
but then she was unavailable
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Turboesprit Volume knob, Wed 21 Aug 2019, 17:54,
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copyrighted by "I made this!", it seems
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Woodkovsky ☹️➝🚻➝🚽➝😣➝💩➝🧻➝😁, Wed 21 Aug 2019, 20:13,
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b3ta.com/links/1523385
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 21 Aug 2019, 14:00,
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Pretending to work
I made this!
Looking busy is something I know you guys are good at. So here is my ode to it. In collaboration with a pianist from New Orleans.
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Neil Young hates what the internet has done to music
"Neil Young, described here as “crankier than a hermit being stung by bees,” loathes Spotify, Facebook, Apple, and Steve Jobs, who it must be noted, is dead."
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Neil Young hates what the internet has done to music
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Spotify may not be literally damaging our brains, but he's not entirely wrong, either.
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Wed 21 Aug 2019, 2:12,
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whatevs
Since I started using Spotify and Bandcamp I've bought about 100x more records than i did previously - because it's easier to discover new music.
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Te Spotify algorithm
I see you like bread, have you tried toast?
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The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Wed 21 Aug 2019, 3:13,
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Better than Amazon's
I see you've bought a house. Here's 50 more you might also like to buy.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 21 Aug 2019, 5:56,
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Worse than b3ta's:
I see you've been here for X years. Here are X candles
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Wed 21 Aug 2019, 6:32,
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I see you like jokes.
Here's a page for you to tell jokes on STOP TELLING JOKES
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I think there's some truth in that,
but I'm not sure I've ever owned a CD player with speakers good enough to notice the difference.
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Well
personally, I always get either a WAV or a FLAC to listen to my music.
Just got some new AKG headphones which are so good I get goosebumps listening to some music.
When I listen to the same files through BlueTooth (which has its own compression involved) I don't.
He would be better off arguing against lossy compression. That is the real enemy of high-quality audio.
I use Spotify in the same way I use thumbnails when looking for pictures. You can get an idea of the thing quickly and browse many files, but when you want to get the real thing, get a lossless copy.
Spotify has enabled me to increase my music collection in directions I would not have otherwise considered, but I would not use it to get copies of files to listen to.
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What he did to Grunge with Crazy Horse or whatever was just as criminal.
Worst hard rock voice eva!
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I wonder how much of those goosebumps are psychological.
And how much are due to a genuine perceivable increase in quality when listening to lossless files?
I studied Audio Engineering and Music Technology at Uni, so I'm effectively very much in the 'Audiophile' camp (although, audiophile is a term coined by pricks, for pricks who read What Hi-fi and believe that spending thousands of pounds on digital interconnects will give them an honest-to-God better listening experience than a £10 interconnect from Amazon would.) and I can say with certainty that I could not tell you the difference between a 256kbit Mp3 and FLAC, regardless of the equipment.
I'll admit that there might be some quantifiable aural disparity between Bluetooth and hardwired audio. But even then, you'd be hard pushed to tell the difference in the majority of cases assuming you're using a decent Bluetooth codec, you'd likely need a side-by-side comparison and it's a little irrelevant anyway, since Bluetooth is designed largely for convenience and portability, not ultimate fidelity.
That being said, I still keep all my music as FLAC as at the end of the day. It's a lossless format, and you'd be mad to archive your audio lossy. But can you really hear the difference? Or is your brain just telling you that you can?
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Audiophile interconnects are not for listening , silly.
They are for persuading well off egotists that they have the best wires, the most 'taste' and spend bigliest because they deserve 'the best'.
See also, most expensive anything.
'The emperors clothes' rides again.
Edit: A fair dose of the placebo effect too.
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Hi Mr Penis
I too would count myself on the saner side of Audiophilia, and as such I wonder if you can eloborate on whether there's any distinction between your brain telling you that there's a difference, and there actually really being a difference? What else could possibly tell you there's a differnce if not your brain? If you can really hear the difference, then the difference is surely really real.
Even in cases where there is no independantly measurable difference, if you really can hear an improvement, then this is objectionally no differnt to the case where there actually is a real measuable differnce. But then, I'm lucky enough to own some really fucking incredible speakers, and there are LOTS of ways to describe the quality of a listening experience that are completely different to the resolution of a digital file etc.
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My point was
Would you still be able to tell the difference if you were going in blind (deaf)?
If you were listening to a 256/320kbps mp3 that somebody was passing off as a FLAC, would you be able to call their bluff?
You could probably tell the difference with some practise and some fantastically high end equipment, but that gear is going to be well beyond the capability of any set of AKG headphones. And well beyond the capability of most bank balances.
It's a bit like the 16bit vs. 24bit audio debate. There are folk out there who will stake their reputation on 24bit being a superior listening experience. It's not. It's just fucking not. But again, I'm sure some folk will claim that theres a perceivable difference in dynamic range when there isn't.
I get what you're saying. If your brain thinks it can hear difference, that's all that really matters. Whether or not the is an actual scientifically Audible difference is irrelevant.
I also agree that bit rate is only a tiny factor in the overall experience. If a track has been mastered like dogshit, then having the highest bitrate/most sonically transparent listening apparatus isn't going to be of any help whatsoever. Your £20,000 Martin Logan's aren't going to make your £150 Cambridge Audio amp sound any better - they're only going to highlight its flaws.
But yeah, if Naproxeno has a better listening experience using FLAC then it doesn't really matter what anybody else thinks. It's his experience.
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I'm not an Audiophile
but I can definitely hear a difference between MP3 and FLAC. MP3 doesn't have the depth, and the bass and top end sound clearly stripped out, almost tinny. Bluetooth is inconsistent, my car vanilla bluetooth is awful but the stick I use instead is actually not too bad. Wired devices just to seem to have a better tone. I doubt expensive connectors make much difference to ordinary ears though.
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has no one posted the coat hanger link here yet?
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Wed 21 Aug 2019, 20:42,
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i get slightly different results when searching 'hi fi coat hanger'
but whatever floats yer boat, man
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Once you learn how to hear it MP3 top end distortion is very easy to hear
It's odd how your ears can learn 'where to look' for artifacts and from then on be tuned into them
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cocktail party effect ?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocktail_party_effect
also: www.vox.com/2015/3/4/8147377/mp3-compressed-ghosts
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oh he does
He even launched his own lossless digital music players.
And then, being Neil Young, he made his next album in a |Jack White's 1930's fairground direct-to-wax 2 mins a session booth. Fucking awesome!
www.clashmusic.com/news/neil-young-makes-entire-album-in-jack-whites-recording-booth
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I went down the audiophile rabbit home a few tears back.
Got the DAC, tube amp, tubes from the 60s back when they were good, Planar magnetic magnetic headphones.
Sounds fucking amazing for the 5 minutes a week a get to listen to them.
#Dadblog
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Most musicians are not audiophiles:
www.cnet.com/news/why-do-musicians-have-lousy-hi-fis/
While audiophiles tend to have a dull taste in music
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Wed 21 Aug 2019, 12:19,
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^ this
Always jazz and prog rock.
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Draconacticus Reject shampoo. Demand real poo!, Wed 21 Aug 2019, 12:36,
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really good point
creativie vs techy people have totally different brains. Who will win
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There's only one way to find out...
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 21 Aug 2019, 17:19,
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I'm a musician and the only hi-fi I have now is in the car. I do now have a set of 'high def' headphones which are nice, but as I grew up listening to music mostly on a crappy cassette walkman, low quality audio has never bothered me and I've never thought a song was particularly improved by increased audio fidelity. If you have a very expensive hi-fi then I suppose you are only going to listen to music with very high production values and that's probably a bit limiting.
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This is not entirely true. For an obvious example, most Aphex Twin music is not audiophile quality mastered, given his redisposition towards recording on casette decks and such. But do his incredibly complex soundscapes sound increasingly fippin' awesome on hi quality audio gear? Yes, the hell yes!
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Indeed, SAW is my go to reference album when setting up audio gear because:
1) I'm very familiar with it
2) It has a frequency range that will reveal how the set-up responds at both the low end and the high end.
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Wed 21 Aug 2019, 23:08,
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It's sobering to listen to old records from the 40s etc
The audio quality is shiiiiiiiite but the soul of the music still comes through.
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HA!
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Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Thu 22 Aug 2019, 9:27,
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Fuck you for thinking of that first
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Thu 22 Aug 2019, 10:32,
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Jesus Fuck.
Fuck sound, piss ears.
HHHHHUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRR.
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I used to make cassette tapes by holding my dad's transistor radio up to the built-in microphone of my portable stereo, and recording songs song off the radio
so I couldn't give a fuck about the differences between mp3 and FLAC and vinyl. It all sounds good to me in comparison
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