
Some weeks, I'm away for days with work, and I come home and find my other half in a dreadful state with her depression and anxiety. Today was a bit like that, until we started talking about what she'd been drawing, and it all turned around.
She started drawing and painting as part of therapy - hadn't really done it since her days in education - and it's a joy to behold, both because it makes her happy, and because she has a good eye and a heap of talent.
Anyway, here's her Instagram thing. I thought you Philistines might enjoy it too.
Title:
Helen McLaughlin (@helenmclaughlinart) โข Instagram photos and videos

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- and thanks to whoever's added her to their following list.
You know how it is: I can tell her that her art is awesome till the cows come home, but my motives are suspect - random strangers on the other hand, your praise is worth having!
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My other half also gets depression and anxiety.
Sometimes you just need some complete strangers to say "That's not bad at all, you know"
I don't have the insty gams but have a click.
I am always amazed by how often female artists like to draw the eyes and faces of females.
She draws very well.
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But I've loved that castle since Highlander.
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"I'll bluddy weial wark outta hieer!"
Loved Lambert's accent.
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Title:
Second whale found dead in Thames in 10 days

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and a raffle to choose who presses down on the comically large plunger.
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Very impressive skillz considering the conditions. Also a nice soundtrack full of menace and foreboding.
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Day was nearly a write off
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after a wildebeest refuses to cooperate
Edit: in other crocodile news, a crocodile found crushed under a dead elephant

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"Oh shit should have stayed in bed today"
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Wildebeest:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMJXvsCLu6s
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... to think it's just a few years ago. I doubt the BBC would broadcast this now..
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As it was shite but people always seemed to shit their pants laughing at those two talentless cunts. It should have been put in the same concrete box as Jim Davidson and everything else from the seventies and dumped in the North Sea.
Not because of the racism though, all that stuff was just HILARIOUS!
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Fork handles.
Dead parrot.
These two^^
Mrs Browns Boys
Allo Allo
Jim Davidson
Really depressing
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I liked the premise and the characters (policeman/spy speaking bad French in English) more than most of the jokes.
Still love MPFC even though certain sketches(yeah yeah parrot blah) have since been done to death.
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They expect me to like red wine while avoiding ze Huns...
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I donยดt get aroused by all this resit-nonce nonce sense.
( , Sat 19 Oct 2019, 11:30, Reply)

The "Faith" line did raise a chuckle though.
( , Fri 18 Oct 2019, 11:47, Reply)

Haven't quite taken to their new stuff but the Layne Stayley era albums are gold.
Check out Mad Season if you've not heard them.
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Very much after you Claude
( , Thu 17 Oct 2019, 18:04, Reply)

I did a couple of 45s to the get shit off from parties back in the late 70s, and it worked well but getting every last bit of dried glue off can be time consuming. Too much glue and it takes forever to dry, not enough and it doesn't come off cleanly, but it does work.
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PVA glue doesn't adhere to non-porous material, including PVC and other material records are typically made of. It will penetrate the record's groove and trap particles in there, pulling them out when it has set and is removed.
However, it'll do fuck all for wear and damage, which is an inherent property of records.
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Spray on isopropyl alcohol then dry with compressed air would do it.
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That said, pure IPA is generally not recommended for cleaning PVC, as it tends to evaporate too quickly to be an effective cleaning agent, can potentially remove chemical additives (plasticizers, protective coatings), and may adversely react with other chemicals (e.g. acetic acid) and damage the material.
There's also the risk of damaging the record's label by applying liquids to it.
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Then 8 bar of air then.
Works for removing crude oil.
( , Fri 18 Oct 2019, 20:53, Reply)

They cost a bit initially, but they can make almost dead records come back to life.
The Spin Clean MkII
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As long as you are prepared to commit to it, it does work very well. The downside is that any muck dries back onto the surface, meaning you have to use it every time.
I wouldn't use any proprietary fluids which can leave additional residues - just a mix of isopropyl alcohol and deionised water.
There are arguments that it reduces wear due to a water film lubricating the contact surface, but that's also said to cause distortion.
Sounded fine to me!
snvinyl.co.uk/Analogis-Wet-Type-LENCO-CLEAN-Arm-art-5930
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Stick them in the washing machine at 60 degrees, then dry them over a radiator.
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Might need to send it some of your dick pics to get rid of any moisture.
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have to single file on the way out, there is a microscope for you.
(hope that makes you feel better)
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list of them here - clicky - a friend had one of the VPI ones
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Apparently that works on all sorts of random things.
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and if it doesn't work, you've got yourself a nice woodglue copy of the record that you can play instead
( , Fri 18 Oct 2019, 7:50, Reply)

Stick it through a Keith Monks machine. A few places round the UK have them, was ยฃ5 a shot few years back from memory.
www.vinyldiscovery.com/united-kingdom
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Title:
The truth about boy pulled out of school after he 'missed lunch' because of poo

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I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you!
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More justification for parenting licenses.
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is that it wouldn't take very long before they'd stop being handed out to stable couples, with good education, and the means to be able to look after their children properly. They'd instead be given to protected categories of people.
( , Thu 17 Oct 2019, 16:27, Reply)

This suggests he might escape via education and meeting less dramatic people.
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I am more incredulous of them than anything contained in the story.
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The phrase "Steel Cube Idolatry" struck a chord with me, and by pure coincidence this video matched it perfectly.
Night, night, b3ta.
Edited for a better fit. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if there was a German machinist out there with a taste for Orbital and an admirable creative streak.
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... I actually really liked that. Horribly fascinating video, made all the more hypnotic by the music.
Top banana!
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This seems to be some new form of semi-intelligible free-form poetry.
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This one is more than usually Ginsburg-like.
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had a beautiful summer here in Canada
came on a Tuesday now that's all over
nice to not suffer apocalyptic wildfires
but the ticks were apoplectic never
fails but you venture into the bush with
your sweetie a little worse for the wear
inand she picks up a 300 kill a click
tick don't make no nevermind or creed
gasser diesel they're all junk broke
down by the side of the road this
particular ones surviving on the laurels
of glories bygone the best infernal
combustion engine ever SQUOZE out of a
Detroit City Friday afternoon shift 1 8
4 3 6 5 7 2 Rams wilfully issued only
dickheads drive dodge some bitumen
statement loyal Burton sled neck glass
fast you do in a buck 60 trailer for
Less skid whose spitting rocks and
he's driving a Dodge schadenfreude ugly
rapidly Paul seeing I'm tits up in the
rhubarb when you realize you'll be
crawling pastas Coquihalla summit red
plate yard sale for hours don't be silly
still gonna send it we gave you
Flatlanders part of the Rockies for a
reason what'd you come here for tick
removal your want to ignore that
loathsome engine speed dependent noise
seeing is how it comes and goes as the
engine warms up it's a mere trifle to
drown it out with angry teenage music
from your glory days nothing more
ennobling lee ignoble than blasting rage
against the machine driving to work at a
evil Omni Corp in your gas drinkin
piston Clank and air pollutant smoke
belching four-wheel buggy from Detroit's
Eddy I'm here to tell you a partner
ignore the signs at your peril deep in
your valve train a hydraulic lifter is
self-destructing either it's sticky
rolling or hydraulically collapse and
slams into the cam lobe slowly steadily
this burnell's the roller and Spall's
the case hardening off the cam one easy
trick big Lube doesn't want you to know
harvest your own for free from the
bottom of the pan congratulations you're
making homebrew never cease the
ancestral time-tested fix from time
immemorial
add engine oil change that engine oil
for thicker engine oil add STP die
engine thick goop assorted snake oils
and sundry voodoo charms and rattles
turn up the radio and ignore for a
minimum of six months remove a single
head and inspect every lifter but the
one that's stuck in the hole reassemble
and hide surplus fasteners take it to a
mechanic proclaiming I've tried nothing
and I'm all out of ideas bulk at the
discount shop rate you already tried to
fix it and it up limp ohm to
remove heads replace camshaft and single
faulty lifter vowing to never buy that
brand vehicle again in an ill-conceived
effort to economize legal tender reuse
torque to yield head bolts complain to
all and sundry that you're brand new
head gaskets are leaking repeat by
annually until a new set of used tires
is worth more than the truck and that is
how Canadians stay safe from ticks
( , Fri 18 Oct 2019, 14:53, Reply)

I've always been fascinated by robots, since before I was thirteen the first time around and I'm continually amazed at how machine vision has evolved since I first discovered that it was a thing, to say nothing of the awesome ways people are finding to combine the two.
Enjoy, everyone.
I can't work out how to embed YT links in a message, so here is where the the blue link above was meant to take you.
And, if you prefer the version without inspirational fluff, watch this instead.
If you're around, LP, you'd better bloody click this.
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You do something awesome, but make it look like CGI in the video.
Makes sense?
Edit: the faffless video looks better... I guess it's cos of teh instagarms or something? I'm a confused old man. NURSE!
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Happy day good sir.
Erm , i got mugged earlier and punched if the face a few times..
I don't like getting bashed onto a cold wet floor.
My friend called the cops..why i am saying this here? not sure..i think i'm bit shaky still. Gangs stealing things..swines =(
( , Thu 17 Oct 2019, 3:37, Reply)

In the last place where I lived it was basically a town of geriatrics. And there was one policeman. I laughed the first time I saw him driving around. He had to be at least 80 years old. One cop geriatric town.
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I hope you didn't lose anything you were attached to, and I hope you don't feel too terrorised. Get well soon.
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Caus' the perp is going to sue you for injury and lost wages.
( , Fri 18 Oct 2019, 20:56, Reply)

Theyโve stuck that robot hand in their drawers โfor a betโ
( , Thu 17 Oct 2019, 21:25, Reply)

I got down to loads of adverts and thought that was the end of the article.
( , Thu 17 Oct 2019, 7:03, Reply)

"In the past, the phenomenon was thought to be a supernatural creature dubbed The Big Grey Man of Ben Macdui and, according to legend, those who witness a Brocken spectre will die in the mountains the next day."
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It was always just a coincidence that I got the same wrong answer.
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Fucking journalists.
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in any way an 'illusion'?
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and not actually part of reality itself. Like everything else you have ever or will ever sense.
But in the superficial, and the spirit of your question, the answer is: it isn't an illusion at all and anyone that says it is, is a cunt
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Time for new glasses methinks.
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Title:
Winners of theย Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2019

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- BBC News
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Great timing!
That roof looks less than 9 years old...
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Oh, time at the bar you say? Well, I've been trapped in a...
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Track I made today, thought it was nice enough to upload. If you want to do some rap, feel free to drop me the samples :)
Title:
Patient Murder

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