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This is a link post Sweet and Full of Grace
Select a random Culture ship name.
This generator isn't perfect but it occasionally throws up a good one such as The Fairly Meagre Axe:
shipnames.iainmnorman.com/
Title:
Culture Ship Randomizer · A gravitas free zone.


(, Tue 3 Dec 2019, 6:42, Reply)
This is a normal post clicking this just on general principle

(, Tue 3 Dec 2019, 7:31, Reply)
This is a normal post
My favourite so far is "Municipal Basement".
Most of them don't feel very culture shippy though...
(, Tue 3 Dec 2019, 8:32, Reply)
This is a normal post Ah I just worked out this is Iain M. Banks...
And it has reminded me to start reading him, thanks.

Your sincerely,
Congenital Optimist (Mrs.)
(, Tue 3 Dec 2019, 8:47, Reply)
This is a normal post amazon apparently have a tv series in works based on banks works
no idea on the details though
(, Tue 3 Dec 2019, 10:53, Reply)
This is a normal post Based on Consider Phlebas
Should have started with Player of Games but better than nowt
(, Tue 3 Dec 2019, 16:50, Reply)
This is a normal post yeah problem with that is i'm not sure how easy it would be to make
interesting tv out of someone playing a board game
(, Tue 3 Dec 2019, 17:53, Reply)
This is a normal post most of the book reads like a cgi artists dream
a fourteen year old cgi artist who likes fist fights and lasers and plasma guns and space ships and sex and drugs and...
(, Tue 3 Dec 2019, 22:38, Reply)
This is a normal post Isn't that what Phoebe Waller-Bridge was in?

(, Tue 3 Dec 2019, 18:31, Reply)
This is a normal post I don't know who that is.
But given that it's a book... probably not.
(, Tue 3 Dec 2019, 21:39, Reply)
This is a normal post 'Phlebas' / 'Fleabag' reference.
No worries.
(, Wed 4 Dec 2019, 14:21, Reply)
This is a normal post Based on Consider Phlebas
randomly re reading this recently and finding it hard going - a fist fight takes up six pages and many 'scenes' seem like 90s hollywood scifi screenplays explained in far too much detail - though there are some good ideas in it
(, Tue 3 Dec 2019, 22:36, Reply)
This is a normal post Ooh
Some culture on TV?

Could be good, could be really naff.
(, Tue 3 Dec 2019, 17:23, Reply)
This is a normal post Is Melvyn Bragg still available?
...
..
.
I'll get me coat.
(, Wed 4 Dec 2019, 14:26, Reply)
This is a normal post Marvellous. Thanks.

(, Tue 3 Dec 2019, 11:15, Reply)
This is a normal post Unfortunate Conflict Of Evidence

(, Tue 3 Dec 2019, 17:56, Reply)
This is a link post another great one
Greedy is the singer. This clip was filmed in one long shot.......

(, Tue 3 Dec 2019, 2:04, Reply)
This is a normal post Oh no! Sad to see that news. He was really funny live.
I worked on a show with them a few years back. In the middle of certain songs he'd just start marching around the stage to the music. Played a pretty slick harmonica too. Those guys did a great live show
(, Tue 3 Dec 2019, 7:31, Reply)
This is a link post Greedy Smith RIP
Mental as Anything keyboard player......
love this song....very early one of theirs....

(, Tue 3 Dec 2019, 2:01, Reply)
This is a link post Mark Lamarr was good
wasn't he?

(, Tue 3 Dec 2019, 0:38, Reply)
This is a normal post he was

(, Tue 3 Dec 2019, 1:12, Reply)
This is a normal post That's funny,
This last week I've just been endlessly watching every available NMTB vid with him in. I'd forgotten how fucking funny that show was with him in it.
(, Tue 3 Dec 2019, 6:58, Reply)
This is a normal post I often wonder what happened to him
Just wandered away, it seems.
(, Tue 3 Dec 2019, 7:41, Reply)
This is a normal post Me too
Wasted not being on TV. When he starts hitting Bill Bailey with the question cards... (No time to watch so don't know if that's here or not)
(, Tue 3 Dec 2019, 14:49, Reply)
This is a normal post Yep
And given one of the songs is Ben - about a Rat - I think "in the burrow!" is a valid answer..
(, Tue 3 Dec 2019, 19:39, Reply)
This is a normal post The bbc's choice of photos to illustrate a court case he was involved in are interesting
Links in the wiki bio
(, Tue 3 Dec 2019, 18:20, Reply)
This is a normal post S'funny...
I was watching this very video whilst drunk in the early hours of Saturday.

Dare I mistaketh coincidence for providence?
(, Tue 3 Dec 2019, 7:46, Reply)
This is a normal post Certainly better than Anstis

(, Tue 3 Dec 2019, 17:55, Reply)
This is a normal post ah I didn't mind him either
I'd happily have NMTB back on in any of its guises
(, Tue 3 Dec 2019, 19:37, Reply)
This is a normal post oh i'd forgotten the moyles bits
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez7KlFBRDuU
(, Tue 3 Dec 2019, 19:41, Reply)
This is a normal post Amstel had his moments
youtu.be/YXOu4ePnMM8
(, Wed 4 Dec 2019, 6:44, Reply)
This is a link post Who'd be a parent?


(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 20:52, Reply)
This is a normal post I would click this to find out what it means but I don't want child molestation on my youtube history, thanks

(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 21:17, Reply)
This is a normal post So you don't want to be in my gang then?

(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 21:48, Reply)
This is a normal post Slightly better than the gang wanting to be in you...

(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 21:52, Reply)
This is a normal post *Drops Vault 108 jumpsuit*

(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 22:15, Reply)
This is a normal post If I had kids I wouldn't humiliate them in public for money.

(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 21:58, Reply)
This is a normal post depends how much money really tho

(, Tue 3 Dec 2019, 1:13, Reply)
This is a normal post Most parents
do that for free
(, Tue 3 Dec 2019, 10:57, Reply)
This is a normal post
That looks awful. It looks like the sort of thing that will result in years of therapy for the kids.
(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 22:15, Reply)
This is a normal post This is Murika!
This will end with Guns, Thoughts and Prayers.
(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 22:32, Reply)
This is a normal post If it were Austria it would end in a cellar

(, Tue 3 Dec 2019, 7:26, Reply)
This is a normal post I have everything about this
layers of hate I have

oop have = hate in title
(, Tue 3 Dec 2019, 16:30, Reply)
This is a link post Tom Cruise head turn animation using 27 posters I made this!
Warning: it’s a bit strobey
(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 20:27, Reply)
This is a normal post That's great is that.

(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 21:00, Reply)
This is a normal post Wow
That is fantastic.
(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 21:44, Reply)
This is a normal post That man does not get older.
Maybe there's something in this Scientology bollocks after all!
(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 23:33, Reply)
This is a normal post Blood of the young. Obvs...

(, Tue 3 Dec 2019, 16:10, Reply)
This is a normal post Great work!

(, Tue 3 Dec 2019, 7:50, Reply)
This is a link post Jazz Complex: jazz, complex I made this!
My musical partner made some rather pleasing jazzy music so I made pictures to go with it, daddio.

(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 19:54, Reply)
This is a link post Dystopian dating I made this!
Why bother talking to humans.......send your dick pics to robots

(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 17:24, Reply)
This is a normal post Why bother proofreading your own copy.........it's always fuckng shit anyway

(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 19:02, Reply)
This is a normal post
fork handles and another one
(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 20:40, Reply)
This is a normal post and so in an unexpected twist the first true A.I. was discovered

(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 20:20, Reply)
This is a normal post There's a few usernames on here that are probably Culture ships

(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 20:52, Reply)
This is a normal post there is the occasional
frank exchange of views
(, Tue 3 Dec 2019, 1:15, Reply)
This is a normal post or in this case an exchange of views of Frank

(, Tue 3 Dec 2019, 7:03, Reply)
This is a link post A quick plug. Plug! I made this!


(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 14:36, Reply)
This is a normal post Take it back
It has the CE mark on it, and shouldn't.
(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 16:20, Reply)
This is a normal post Yes it should.
In fact, it's mandatory.
(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 16:59, Reply)
This is a normal post Why? What directive applies?
- soz, my mistake, hadn't watched the source video yet. Usually people thibk simple plugs need to be CE marked, and they don't, cause we don't have a harmonised set of standards for plugs and sockets.
Anyway, this thing needs to comply with fucking everything, cause it's full of scary features.
I would hate this to turn up on my test bench: so much to fail!
(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 18:02, Reply)
This is a normal post 2014/35
But you already knew that.
(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 18:47, Reply)
This is a normal post And the rest!
RoHS, EMC, ErP - they're all CE marking directives.

Don't reckon it'd pass any of plug or socket standards, though. Seen this sort of thing before - they never make it through the dimensional assessment.
(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 19:59, Reply)
This is a normal post Dimensional assessment sounds a lot cooler than it probably is.

(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 22:54, Reply)
This is a normal post It actually sucks.
My new transgalactic portal didn't get the go ahead, because the strings were all too short.

:(
(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 23:14, Reply)
This is a normal post *clever joke about quantum physics*

(, Tue 3 Dec 2019, 0:46, Reply)
This is a normal post well its hard to measure them when you keep wriggling them about

(, Tue 3 Dec 2019, 1:16, Reply)
This is a normal post Meh, those are regulated by other departements.
We only look at aspects directly affecting consumer safety.
(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 23:21, Reply)
This is a normal post
"Mr Wilkinson adjourned the hearing until March 182020"

So basically they can't be fucked with it. Wish I could put some of my work off for 180,000 years.
(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 14:59, Reply)
This is a normal post Even weirder is
that they apperantly used a histopathologist to ascertain cause of death. Histopathologists usually only look at tissue cells. Surely the poor sod wasn't mauled to a fine paste.
(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 15:23, Reply)
This is a normal post Did he fall or was he pissed?
Tissue analysis to ascertain if death occurred prior to ending up on the tracks perhaps?
(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 18:41, Reply)
This is a normal post Good point.

(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 18:50, Reply)
This is a normal post once they've jetwashed him off the rails we'll find out

(, Tue 3 Dec 2019, 1:17, Reply)
This is a normal post I laughed too much at that top line.


Pffft!
HAHAHAHA!
(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 20:48, Reply)
This is a link post Vote Them Out I made this!
as above

(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 13:15, Reply)
This is a normal post that's great, how do I vote them out exactly?

(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 13:59, Reply)
This is a normal post Voting?

(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 14:36, Reply)
This is a normal post With added
"them out"
(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 15:01, Reply)
This is a normal post But you can only vote them in, not out.

(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 15:24, Reply)
This is a normal post
So add your own box on the form

[ ] Them out
(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 16:18, Reply)
This is a normal post "them" is racist talk

(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 21:22, Reply)
This is a normal post Oops
I seem to have accidentally committed a hate crime. I'll come quietly.
(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 21:56, Reply)
This is a normal post I want all of Parliament, Hierarchy and the whole antiquated system gone.
Apparently this will happen if I vote. Thanks for the clarification.
(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 15:35, Reply)
This is a normal post But what would you replace it all with

(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 22:20, Reply)
This is a normal post I'm voting them in.
So there.
(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 15:53, Reply)
This is a normal post What's it going to do? Shoot me?

(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 13:01, Reply)
This is a link post A British farmer talking about that BBC meat documentary...
As you might imagine he's not entirely on board with their conclusions.
(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 12:30, Reply)
This is a normal post I'm vegan because I think animals are great, and I'm not prepared to exploit them in order to make my weekly shop easier.
All these cunts talking about going vegan or cutting down on red meat consumption in order to save the planet are fucking halfwits. Our number is up as a species the moment our crude oil reserves begin to run dry. Assuming we don't end up completely annihilating each other in a worldwide resource war (which, we will), we've become so utterly reliant on crude oil for just about every single conceivable aspect of our daily lives that we'd cease to function as a society once we no longer have unlimited access to the stuff.

By all means stop eating meat. But do it because you think animals are awesome, not because you have some misguided idea that you're somehow saving the world. That's just stupid.
(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 12:45, Reply)
This is a normal post I'm not one of those cunts cutting down on meat to save the world.
I'm one of those awesome people who are continuing to eat it because it is delicious.
(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 12:50, Reply)
This is a normal post Oh, boo hoo
The future of organised human civilization hangs in the balance, and the next few years are pivotal.
Get over it, you damn snowflake.
(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 13:22, Reply)
This is a normal post You seem to assume I'm bothered that we're all fucked.
Far from it. Once we're all gone, the planet can get on with being a lovely place to inhabit for all the species we've made miserable through our continued expansion and consumption.
Humans are a horrible, parasitic organism. I welcome our demise. Until then, I'm going to carry on spending and living in relative luxury. I should be almost dead before things start to get really bad (hopefully).
(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 14:49, Reply)
This is a normal post It's your life
If you take an honest look at the situation and decide that trying to save us isn't what you want to do with your time, then I personally think: fair play to you. That's everyone's own choice to make.

On this specific issue though you're probably going to get increasing push back as the people who decide in favor of our continue existence come to consider apathy and nihilism as a problem that's directly hurting the cause.

Honest question: have you considered still wishing the end upon us and all, but just doing it on a more personal, private level?

Second point: If you actually do care about animals, you'd be better off trying to control the outcome rather than wishing a vague end to us. If we vanished overnight, we'd stop accelerating through the current mass extinction (assuming we haven't already crossed a tipping point), but that is not likely.
We're probably going to stick around a while longer, and are on course for ~4 degrees atm, which is going to fuck up loads more ecosystems and their inhabitants than we strictly have to.
(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 18:31, Reply)
This is a normal post If only
your empathy stretched to humans too.
(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 14:27, Reply)
This is a normal post I have the ability to feel empathy for humans on a singular level.
But as a species, we're a fucking disaster.
(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 14:43, Reply)
This is a normal post I feel like that about animals.
There are individuals I like but when taken as a species, they are so pathetic you may as well eat them.
(, Tue 3 Dec 2019, 11:03, Reply)
This is a normal post Out of curiosity, do you consider manure to be an animal product too?

(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 17:51, Reply)
This is a normal post Ho ho ho!
Very droll. Well done.
(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 17:59, Reply)
This is a normal post
Out of curiosity Just to annoy
(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 19:45, Reply)
This is a normal post Animals may be awesome
but the domesticated varieties are only kept around because they're of use to us for meat, fibre or companionship, and the wild ones are only there because we haven't yet got around to eradicating them in order to use their land for growing soya beans and palm oil.
(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 21:28, Reply)
This is a normal post Mostly to feed animals for meat, at approx 5% conversion efficiency.

(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 23:07, Reply)
This is a normal post
Something nice, though
www.instagram.com/p/B5mO433AAEq
(, Tue 3 Dec 2019, 7:27, Reply)
This is a normal post How do you know if someone is vegan?
They tell you.
(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 22:27, Reply)
This is a normal post See also: crossfitters, atheists, comediennes with nigerian parents

(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 23:26, Reply)
This is a link post I got you Beeb


(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 9:41, Reply)
This is a normal post
Ah, see I knew there was a reason I always refer to her as 'Arch Tory Kuenssberg'.
(, Tue 3 Dec 2019, 8:52, Reply)
This is a link post John Hegley
Just because

(, Sun 1 Dec 2019, 22:44, Reply)
This is a normal post Used to love this guy
Is he still about?
(, Sun 1 Dec 2019, 23:10, Reply)
This is a normal post Google says he is still touring
You're welcome
(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 1:30, Reply)
This is a normal post From time to time he shows up on the BBC.
I saw him, back in the 90's, in Exeter. After the show, my girlfriend and I were sitting in the theatre bar when he and the bloke that played Nigel came over and sat with us. The 19 year old me was quite chuffed that he would come join us. In more mature hind-sight, I realise that he was just after our table.
(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 9:00, Reply)
This is a normal post or
your misses
(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 12:49, Reply)
This is a normal post
Never met Hegley but Nigel's a lovely friendly guy.
(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 15:40, Reply)
This is a normal post Marvellous, but he didn't do my favourite of his:
Billy had a Roman Candle,
A firework without a handle.
A bit flew off,
It made him cough,
And turned his shoe into a sandal.
(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 10:38, Reply)
This is a normal post in a similar vein
Ruthless Rhymes
(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 18:46, Reply)
This is a normal post
If you haven't already seen it, do so. It's bloody good.
(, Sun 1 Dec 2019, 19:12, Reply)
This is a normal post What if I don't want to subscribe to Disney Streaming though?

(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 10:39, Reply)
This is a normal post
What's that?
(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 10:47, Reply)
This is a normal post Psst:
got a link?
(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 13:02, Reply)
This is a normal post you don't need to
It's all on flixtor.to/
(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 14:23, Reply)
This is a link post Major restoration of an old sailing yacht
Latest episode of Leo's re-build of Tally Ho.
I have been following the progress of this for a while now and it is thoroughly fascinating. The craftsmanship and dedication he puts into this is top-notch.
If you're like me you'll probably watch this and then go back to episode 1 and binge-watch to catch up.

(, Sun 1 Dec 2019, 17:48, Reply)
This is a normal post Oh fuckity-bollocks
There goes al my spare time for the next two months...
(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 10:42, Reply)
This is a normal post
I know more about rabbets and futtocks from watching Leo than I ever did before. Never thought I'd get excited about the latest episode of how to rebuild a wooden boat, but I wait for it to appear every fortnight on YT.
(, Wed 4 Dec 2019, 0:49, Reply)
This is a link post Masterclass Papier-mache I made this!
I'm putting on a shrunken head workshop in Kings Heath next Sundsy, 8th Dec.

Come on down!

(, Sun 1 Dec 2019, 14:18, Reply)
This is a normal post *fears*

(, Sun 1 Dec 2019, 16:09, Reply)
This is a normal post It's not often I wish I lived near Brum
Almost never in fact. But I'd love to do that. Can you not do a whole how to series and post on teh tubez
(, Sun 1 Dec 2019, 18:27, Reply)
This is a normal post I tried filming a workshop
But couldn't do filming and macheing at the same time.
One day I'll do an art attack show.... one day
(, Sun 1 Dec 2019, 21:18, Reply)
This is a normal post There's a guy on youtube making a fortune
constructing fucking bricks and roofing tiles. For the love of fuck find a mate to help out.
(, Sun 1 Dec 2019, 22:37, Reply)
This is a normal post You're right! New years plans

(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 16:25, Reply)
This is a normal post Thanks for the heads-up!
*hides*
(, Sun 1 Dec 2019, 19:05, Reply)
This is a normal post Heads up I'm using that...

(, Sun 1 Dec 2019, 21:17, Reply)
This is a normal post I'm putting on a shrunken head workshop in Kings Heath next Sundsy, 8th Dec.
Tyin' up my white tie
Brushin' off my tails
(, Sun 1 Dec 2019, 20:44, Reply)
This is a normal post Now I'm gonna have to be fancy

(, Sun 1 Dec 2019, 21:19, Reply)
This is a normal post I'm seeing them at Infest!!!

(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 7:45, Reply)
This is a normal post I live in brum
I used to have dreads when i was about seventeen. A long time ago..
I still have them in an old plastic bag. Maybe i could make a shrunken head and glue some dreads on there?
(, Mon 2 Dec 2019, 17:21, Reply)
This is a normal post Yes! Usually use wig hair but dredds are the one

(, Tue 3 Dec 2019, 7:51, Reply)

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