https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Idol
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Sun 14 Jun 2020, 20:58,
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Waxies' Dargle
Starring Spider Stacy on the beer tray. And a tin whistle. And Cait O'Riordan... who later married Elvis Costello.
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Excellent lockdown kitchen moshing music,
and takes me back to the days when he had nearly half a mouthful of teeth.
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fred zeppelin II: Electric Boogaloo, Sun 14 Jun 2020, 18:47,
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pogues
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Sun 14 Jun 2020, 21:00,
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Bear's feet
or bears' feet if two bears were involved in the trans-species graft
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Surely it's sherpas
bearing a foot?
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buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Sun 14 Jun 2020, 16:33,
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Second_That_Emotion
youtu.be/mv9cWgkpIZ4
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George Blank my 2nd last sig was funny, Sat 13 Jun 2020, 20:51,
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surely 'motion'
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 14 Jun 2020, 23:27,
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Shit
would sum up my emotional response to hearing that shite on the radio.
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George Blank my 2nd last sig was funny, Mon 15 Jun 2020, 1:36,
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Away with the fairies.....
Then some Place else
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spazzcaptain Misses Valin @, Sat 13 Jun 2020, 21:16,
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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Betty#Ram_Jam_version
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George Blank my 2nd last sig was funny, Sat 13 Jun 2020, 3:11,
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Thing that surprises me about the song is that it's 1977
So like new wave era, not contemporary to grand funk railroad and the like.
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Zuowan, Sun 14 Jun 2020, 9:47,
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That clip always amazes me that it's not an outtake from Gummo.
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fred zeppelin II: Electric Boogaloo, Sun 14 Jun 2020, 18:49,
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Not normally my thing but, it works.
The Trooper - Iron Maiden Cover - Gálata (Medieval Folk)
Medieval folk band "Gálata" playing " The Tropper" song by Iron Maiden.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Fri 12 Jun 2020, 23:12,
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Yes - "The Tropper"
I remember it well: the sound of strangled cats and an overclocked drum.
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Invisible Wizard - 12th Level Errorer, Sat 13 Jun 2020, 9:16,
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SpaceX launch on Saturday morning (+Electron redux)
Tomoz. 12 hours from now.
Falcon 9, Starlink, 13 June, 10:21 AM UK time.
"Instantaneous launch", so no hours of waiting. Will either go at 10:21, or won't.
Another 60 satellites, for a global comms network, ie internet/phone everywhere. They have already launched about 400; thousands more to come.
Before that, for early birds, Rocket Labs, Electron. New Zealand. "Don't stop me now", which got stopped by high winds a few days ago.
Launch window: 05:43-07:32. Will be here.
Not so instant, and very early... but that link should show the replays after.
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...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dokLwszdUgY
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Fri 12 Jun 2020, 22:49,
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I've just watched Moonraker on telly...
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Fri 12 Jun 2020, 22:45,
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I feel your pain
Tad dated but I gave it 5 minutes. Fuck all else
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spazzcaptain Misses Valin @, Fri 12 Jun 2020, 22:57,
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How much stuff can be dumped into orbit without crashing into everything else?
Fly tipping in space
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spazzcaptain Misses Valin @, Fri 12 Jun 2020, 22:54,
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do a link
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Sat 13 Jun 2020, 0:24,
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“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”
--DNA
The Moon is in orbit, for example. It is quite a long way away. You could dump a trillion bags of waste into that area, and not even notice them. In fact, it'd still be quite hard to even detect one.
The volume of a sphere 380,000 km wide is about 21x10^25 cubic meters.
You could throw all the junk of Earth in there, and still not notice it. Even your Mum isn't that big.
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can you imagine being hit by a peanut in orbit?
at the probability of two to the power of 276,709 to one against?
not even star crossed, just unlucky
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Fri 12 Jun 2020, 23:31,
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtx4ZJ1cwI0
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sat 13 Jun 2020, 0:57,
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not even star crossed, just unlucky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y60Y323q__0
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Sat 13 Jun 2020, 1:04,
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it depends, have you sorted you spacedegradables from your non-spacedegradables?
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 12 Jun 2020, 23:54,
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SPPPPPAAAAAAACCCCCCEEEEEEEE
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Sat 13 Jun 2020, 11:53,
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I like a satellite as much as the next man
but 12,000 of the fuckers? Musk can fuck the fuck off. What a rotter.
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Varmint, Sat 13 Jun 2020, 14:33,
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I don't see how that's an improvement.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Sat 13 Jun 2020, 19:25,
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30,000 simply gives you more coverage than 12,000.
Having a large network in LEO affords faster connectivity than an equivalently sized geostationary or geosynchronous network. It is more dynamic and flexible, and less environmentally destructive than an equivalent surface based physical network.
The increased frequency of launches to LEO grants more opportunities for smaller organisations (e.g. communication companies, universities, small countries) to piggyback their payloads into orbit more affordably.
More people across the developing world will have better and faster access to the internet.
Also the constellations of satellites flying overhead are awe inspiringly wonderful. It is comforting to see them as a sign of human progress.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Sun 14 Jun 2020, 15:35,
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Those constellations of satellites
fuck up my photographs big time, and I don't want to look up and see hardware. I want to see stars, planets and galaxies, not industrial equipment.
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Varmint, Sun 14 Jun 2020, 17:16,
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This seems more like a you problem.
JWST will launch soon*, probably**, next generation space telescopes are already in the pipeline, and if SpaceX get their Starship operating in a few years their lunar variant will be able to place a number of fairly large telescopes on the surface of the moon.
Useful astronomy is moving off-world, and I've seen some beautiful pictures of Starlink constellations. I think human made constellations are a thing of wonder, perhaps more so than the random movement of random accumulations of stellar nuclear waste.
*hopefully
**this century
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Tue 16 Jun 2020, 14:49,
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Those of you who remember Otterley running, here's Mambo in his late aunt's footsteps.
I made this!
Good boy, good boy x
EDIT: 2 minutes of black and silence *fixed*
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fred zeppelin II: Electric Boogaloo, Fri 12 Jun 2020, 20:39,
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nice - minded me of this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA8rmj0fk5E - a song about a dog called rabbit
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Fri 12 Jun 2020, 21:39,
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errr..
Two minutes of black screen?
Is that some gaming of youtube or something?
Also - how the hell do you get him to come back??
/jealous
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Boot I want to know what you meant, Fri 12 Jun 2020, 22:26,
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The black screen is in solidarity with #BLM and you should be more respectful
it's a problem with your computer
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 12 Jun 2020, 23:40,
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No
The racist joke was funny and everything, but there's two minutes of nothing after the 4 minutes or so long video. Looks like it might be an error here, but I have seen similar bringing a video's length to exactly 10 minutes.
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George Blank my 2nd last sig was funny, Sat 13 Jun 2020, 9:17,
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Ah no that'll be me, sorry
I usually stick about 10 seconds of black at the end as a breather, but must've left it long in haste.
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fred zeppelin II: Electric Boogaloo, Sat 13 Jun 2020, 10:04,
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Getting him to come back, that's where the catering budget comes into effect.
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fred zeppelin II: Electric Boogaloo, Sat 13 Jun 2020, 10:05,
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You could fix that without re-uploading it
In YouTube. With the magic wand icon, "enhancements", under the video.
And trim.
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Indie Game Review: Occupy White Walls
I made this!
Why not get into your social bubble and watch this weeks review. It's ART!
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dogbomb, Fri 12 Jun 2020, 20:27,
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700 character password??!!
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Thrill_My_Chinchilla is old and unimproved, Fri 12 Jun 2020, 21:40,
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Imagine thinking up a 700 character password only to be told that password already exists
:-D
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I made another track
I made this!
Started out as a Latin-esque thing, evolved into something else entirely. Curious as to your thoughts!
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c_kick or, as some people call him, Fri 12 Jun 2020, 19:54,
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Virtual Falmouth Sea Shanty tonight
Fill yer tankards and get yer singing lungs on for tonight. All for an amazing cause.
It's a FB broadcast.
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The invisible ham Fig rolls are the best, Fri 12 Jun 2020, 19:11,
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I'll be there until leave her johnny
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The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Fri 12 Jun 2020, 19:29,
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They'll be trying to ban these next!
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Ambegris likes his tea stirred anti-clockwise, Fri 12 Jun 2020, 17:49,
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One of the best bits ever
of one of the best things ever, ever.
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unclepills Sixty 25th of Decembers, Fri 12 Jun 2020, 18:05,
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Multiculturalism reached a sweet spot for a few years in the 90s, early 00s. Nobody noticed or cared that two of the three leads in Red Dwarf were black, despite the absence of quotas which we have now. There was blacking-up in Little Britain/Boosh/League but the difference was generally understood. South-Asian comics applauded Apu. Goodness Gracious Me good-naturedly mocked white Brits. We were all happy taking the piss out of each other. All was as it should be. And then...
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Fri 12 Jun 2020, 18:36,
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You're right, dear Penis
Blair's black genie is out of the bottle. We are all enemies now (yours has always, mystifyingly, been the Jews). And multiculturalism is utterly fucked.
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Fri 12 Jun 2020, 19:08,
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Valid grievances are inflated disproportionately and their blanket application is unfair and dangerous.
Some truth and reconciliation would be welcome, but I fear we're going to get more fear and loathing.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Fri 12 Jun 2020, 20:26,
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None of the usual adversaries here on this one, old chap.
No-one's prepared to mount a defence of banning The League of fucking Gentlemen. It's almost as though I were right all along.
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Fri 12 Jun 2020, 21:02,
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It's fun watching the Left cannibalise itself in their perpetual advancement of doublethink though.
JK Rowling's current woes are particularly amusing.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Fri 12 Jun 2020, 22:23,
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"The Left."
I have found that people who regularly decry "The Left" are usually talking about liberals, and are usually daft cunts who cannot be reasoned with.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Sun 14 Jun 2020, 15:39,
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It's just shorthand for
Reds, teachers, bleeding hearts, pinkos, strangely tactile scout leaders, students, junkies, non-African Anglican bishops, the feckless and trustafarians. Which one are you? I'm guessing not a bishop.
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Sun 14 Jun 2020, 16:36,
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Why you always so cold about the junkies, man?
Stop being so uptight and cut them some slack.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sun 14 Jun 2020, 21:24,
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After hundreds of years of being treated as 'less than'.
People might take a while to calm down and take a more reasoned approach.
A bit like virtually any human conflict whatsoever.
Anyway, if it wasn't for attention seeking twats, legitimate sneering would be trickier.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Fri 12 Jun 2020, 22:20,
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Is the power of inherited, collective grievance equal to that of individual, personal grievance?
Asking for a friend.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Fri 12 Jun 2020, 22:28,
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That's a difficult one to answer concisely.
Some statues being taken down and TV shows off, (probably temporarily), are not exactly equivalent to the prejudice experienced.
Some will always take the opportunity to kick off stupidly, make shit decisions or retreat into nostalgia.
It can be easy for others to criticise who haven't had prejudice regularly inflicted on them, it is both inherited and current. Imagine how you might feel if your community had a Tulsa massacre, etc, etc.
Too 'tired' for arguing
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Fri 12 Jun 2020, 22:53,
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Because of all the prejudice we've received working in England, all the "bartender" and "colonial" jokes
Us Australians demand our suffering be acknowledged by replacing the Colston statue with one of Rolf Harris
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sat 13 Jun 2020, 1:12,
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Only if you drop the rising inflection.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sat 13 Jun 2020, 1:18,
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has the entirety of the universes past condensed into this one brief present moment?
that's what my mate reckons
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Fri 12 Jun 2020, 23:14,
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He has better meds than I get.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sat 13 Jun 2020, 0:54,
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careful what you wish for
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXaGPc_vFSg
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Sat 13 Jun 2020, 1:59,
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Bum trip, man.
Or rather, a allegory for philosophical suicide in the absurdist sense.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sat 13 Jun 2020, 2:08,
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A virtue signalling competition that is getting ever more hysterical
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... people started doing coke instead of pills.
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The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Sat 13 Jun 2020, 16:33,
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I love The Day Today but it's a poor example of the point you are trying to make
'They' (presumably you disagree with this group) have taken down some old comedy shows due to perceived bad taste such as unironic black-face.
One can argue that it is all a bit of an over-reaction but it is nothing new. Media companies have been quietly retiring troubling material for years and mostly nobody has noticed. Perhaps our grandparents miss the Black & White Minstrels shows of the Seventies - that doesn't make that content any less gruesome (by today's standards).
The sad thing about this current take-down is that the right get to use it to distract from the real issue - real lived racism which pervades society. Statues and TV shows are small beer, the movement is about trying to get some equality.
Attitudes Night is making the point that the cultural norms of the past are disturbing or grotesque - it is out and out satire. Come Fly With Me is just black face, lazy, stereotype and offensive to the people it sends up. TV Executives/Streaming Services can tell the difference.
I'm guessing you are not campaigning for the return of Bernard Manning on TV or for Jim Davison's Chalky White routine.
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Hitler's Barber Soylent Green is high in saturated fat, Sat 13 Jun 2020, 6:38,
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You have grossly misunderstood me but I can see why. I was not trying to make the point you reasoned out.
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Ambegris likes his tea stirred anti-clockwise, Sat 13 Jun 2020, 11:55,
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Jesus
mOre of that youtube recs synchronicity. I watched that the other night also the Villan climbing Cemetery Gates with Joe Brown. I found it very sad. Whillans has some moments of beauty but it's generally a horrible wheezy scramble. Wait until Statement of Youth pops up. Moon and Moffat wrecked climbing for me.I was in Scotland where rock climbing is generally a midge infested hell. I led on 5c route and felt on top of the world then all of a sudden people were popping up 7cs and 8a left right and fucking centre. Stick to ice, that's my tip.
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The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Fri 12 Jun 2020, 19:49,
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Good grief
Not heard the name "Chris Bonington" since I lived with my old Da.
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Boot I want to know what you meant, Fri 12 Jun 2020, 22:30,
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I watched till the end.
It actually raises some interesting points about use of language and argument. The inquisitor used the same questions over and over, and got nowhere. When he finally defined his terms, he got an answer.
The answer he was given (xerox) was perfectly reasonable- in his office they may well use the term 'xerox this', 'xerox it for me', 'get a xerox'and so if asked does anyone ask for a photocopy, asking for clarification is, to my mind, perfectly reasonable.
But then again, I'm a bit of a dick.
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da5id <YOUR SIG HERE>, Fri 12 Jun 2020, 15:16,
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Asking for clarification is reasonable, I did wonder though if he'd been coached ahead of time.
If it wasn't for the fact that it was deposition and had it been a lot shorter I'd have said it would have worked as an ad for Xerox.
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Americans seem to be paticularly fond of using brand names to refer to all similar products.
I work with a lot of American touring crew (well, up until 3 months ago...) and it happens all the time.
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Fri 12 Jun 2020, 23:07,
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Yeah, I'm aware we're guilty to a certain extent here in the UK,
but the US seem to do it to a higher degree...it's noticeable when I work with crews from the US or elsewhere by what they use to refer to certain equipment, tools, components, materials, etc.
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Sat 13 Jun 2020, 16:33,
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We use the brand name Hoover as a common noun and a verb. The Americans do not.
All my life I've heard people talking about taking an aspirin. Aspirin was a registered trademark of the German pharmaceutical concern Bayer. The trademark was revoked in 1919 as part of a war reparation/retribution type deal. Bayer also named and trademarked heroin.
Tarmac is a British trademarked brand of asphalt. American don't really use the word much.
I could go on, but who'd read on?
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sat 13 Jun 2020, 18:08,
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Looks fun!
My daily commute is 22 miles of lane splitting along the North Circular or 16 miles right across London to Marylebone.
This looks a doddle!
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da5id <YOUR SIG HERE>, Fri 12 Jun 2020, 15:23,
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam
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