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Uk coronavirus deaths put in perspective
I made this!
Three and a half months into a global pandemic, tens of thousands of people have died in the UK. The numbers are almost meaningless, so I tried to put them in perspective.
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JimmerUK Everyone's Favourite Jim, Wed 17 Jun 2020, 12:06,
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Wel, I've been to Broadstairs* and frankly
...obvious joke.
amirite?
Cheers Jimmer
*substitute Stamford Bridge/Merthyr Tydfil/Franklin's Gardens as appropriate.
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unclepills, Wed 17 Jun 2020, 12:13,
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Ha!
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JimmerUK Everyone's Favourite Jim, Wed 17 Jun 2020, 12:19,
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Great. Now do it excluding deaths of those over 70.
We have fucked our economy for geriatrics who make no contribution to the economy.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Wed 17 Jun 2020, 13:39,
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it's time for you next consultation, Dr Shipman
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 17 Jun 2020, 14:10,
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Shipman was a true NHS hero.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Wed 17 Jun 2020, 17:01,
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Are you really really really autistic or something?
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Wed 17 Jun 2020, 14:10,
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Are you really really really old or something?
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Wed 17 Jun 2020, 16:58,
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You seem to struggle with the concept of empathy.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Wed 17 Jun 2020, 23:59,
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I am hugely empathetic to those of working age who are going to suffer the economic consequences of lockdown for years to come.
I'm somewhat less sympathetic to those who could have taken steps to shield themselves without necessitating the shutdown of practically the entire economy, i.e. those not of working age. Their pensions are guaranteed, jobs are not.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Thu 18 Jun 2020, 7:20,
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Don't worry about those working age people
There'll be plenty of statue guardian jobs available
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Thu 18 Jun 2020, 8:34,
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Good point.
It's not like people over 70 are still people or anything.
What the fuck is wrong with you?!
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JimmerUK Everyone's Favourite Jim, Wed 17 Jun 2020, 15:03,
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not sure whether you're talking about covid or brexit now
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benito vaselini no not that one, Wed 17 Jun 2020, 15:16,
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*belms*
You may hate your parents but I quite like mine.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 17 Jun 2020, 16:02,
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That's sweet, but you should know, they don't speak very highly of you.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Wed 17 Jun 2020, 17:00,
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I’m their favourite.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 17 Jun 2020, 18:09,
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Aktion T4 rides again.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Wed 17 Jun 2020, 16:59,
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they do contribute to the economy though
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Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff, Sr., Wed 17 Jun 2020, 17:17,
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"Being old...
they would have died soon anyway"
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Hugh Breeze likes it. A Lot., Wed 17 Jun 2020, 18:44,
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Being employed...
we'd all have been out of work soon anyway
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97800, Thu 18 Jun 2020, 13:34,
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Very good
but I don't think it's appropriate to beg for coffee if you liked it. Just seemed really jarring.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Wed 17 Jun 2020, 14:08,
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Fair point.
I just reused the same footer from when I did the Should you go out? questionnaire.
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JimmerUK Everyone's Favourite Jim, Wed 17 Jun 2020, 15:02,
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I liked that one too!
Yeah I don't want to be a downer, just that bit stuck out at me.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Wed 17 Jun 2020, 16:37,
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The 13th of May annoyed me.
Couldn't we just have got rid of Merthyr instead of having the virus?
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The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Wed 17 Jun 2020, 14:45,
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This government is all about wartime analogies,
so what’s the crossover point for civilian casualties during the Blitz?
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Thu 18 Jun 2020, 9:46,
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Unpopular opinion?
Watching the figures unfolding leads me to think about how the CV19 situation will develop over the coming weeks, months and years. I'd be interested to know if anyone else agrees with me:
First off - I'm not sure that a vaccine will emerge. The common cold is a form of Coronavirus and we all know how successful we've been at developing a vaccine for that.... I'm therefore thinking that CV19 will become a treatable disease that the world population begins to live with and stops fearing quite as much.
I think that the death rate in most countries is falling, not just because of the distancing measures but in a large part due to the fact that the medical profession is learning how to treat the disease succesfully and outcomes are improving massively on what they would have been for patients taken into hospital at the beginning of the pandemic.
Actual infection rates worldwide seem to be settling at about 1 in 1000 (I think in the UK the ONS believe it to be at about 6 in 10,000 in the UK) so it's not a disease that is running rampant in the general population and therefore the actual chance of contracting and subsequently dying from the disease is becoming vanishingly small for most of us. The Government and the press have done pretty good job of spreading panic and fear which is probably deliberate and a good thing and has helped avoid complacency.
The world can't stay indoors until nobody dies anymore and we can't afford a second lockdown. Hanging on to the hope of a vaccine seems rather vain to me. I think we need to start being positive and get out there.
Discuss.....
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penrose your dog's got tits, Thu 18 Jun 2020, 13:13,
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"The common cold is a form of Coronavirus and we all know how successful we've been at developing a vaccine for that"
Developing a vaccine for the common cold has never been a comparable priority. And the reason no vax has been developed for the old school Sars is that the world lost interest once it disappeared, which also made clinical trials impossible to run.
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Thu 18 Jun 2020, 13:54,
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Also the common cold is extremely rarely, if ever, fatal to humans.
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Thu 18 Jun 2020, 15:16,
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Absolute fucking bullshit.
Colds kill geriatrics and others with comprised immune systems (we used to call them the infirm) every single day.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Thu 18 Jun 2020, 19:06,
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Don't believe your fake news
*dons tinfoil hat*
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Thu 18 Jun 2020, 20:52,
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The common cold is mostly caused by rhinoviruses, which are very different. Not just a different family, but a different order.
The reason we don't have a vaccine for the common cold is not because it's impossible to make one. We could.
The problem is, there are too many types of rhinovirus.
Even if we developed vaccines for the most common hundred, it would continue to mutate.
Covid is not rampant because we're locked down.
The chance of catching it and dying is substantial.
The UK has one of the highest death-rates per capita - over 600 per million. Compare to e.g. the USA, about 340.
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SockCooker ПТН ПНХ, Mon 22 Jun 2020, 9:09,
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Simulated sea slug gets addicted to drug
"Scientists built a computer model of a simple brain network based on that of a sea slug, taught it how to get food, gave it an appetite and the ability to experience reward, added a dash of something called homeostatic plasticity and then exposed it to a very intoxicating drug. To no one’s surprise, the creature became addicted."
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Wed 17 Jun 2020, 11:19,
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I need stimulation
I therefore donate myself to Science.
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spazzcaptain Misses Valin @, Wed 17 Jun 2020, 20:02,
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OVERPRICED BASIC TITLE
I made this!
Hipster minimalism is all the rage, so I've created a clothing/homeware range that costs more and gives you less
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malevole, Wed 17 Jun 2020, 11:07,
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see every white t-shirt featured in How to Spend It
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Mehitabel_Itrang, Wed 17 Jun 2020, 13:19,
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Lah di dah.
Hark at the FT reader.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Wed 17 Jun 2020, 14:03,
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Except the art
That's quite reasonably priced
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WinnieTheTurd, Thu 18 Jun 2020, 9:19,
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Strutter Bubble - block out the world
Live your life in your own private cocoon of huff, muff, and puff.
Paul Garner and Paul Kaye 2007.
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Flumper, Wed 17 Jun 2020, 8:57,
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It's made of something that looks remarkably similar to glass
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Wed 17 Jun 2020, 12:10,
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Unused Twin Peaks theme rediscovered
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Ambegris likes his tea stirred anti-clockwise, Tue 16 Jun 2020, 22:27,
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Very good
And reminded me of this, from years ago.
youtu.be/NmpAx8Z5z40
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Thrill_My_Chinchilla is old and unimproved, Tue 16 Jun 2020, 23:17,
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Twin Peaks is filmed in front of a live studio audience
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Mehitabel_Itrang, Wed 17 Jun 2020, 0:36,
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Very brilliant indeed
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fred zeppelin (Taylor's version), Wed 17 Jun 2020, 13:32,
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More than a breeze
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Tue 16 Jun 2020, 21:31,
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Those Viennese police don't take any guff
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ProjectWeasel The Bird is the Word, Tue 16 Jun 2020, 22:31,
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Clearly his cover was blown.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Tue 16 Jun 2020, 22:46,
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What an uncouth Austrian
Better in than out, as Fritzl used to say to his kids
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Tue 16 Jun 2020, 22:44,
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they're letting him off
I expect tomorrow's headline to be "fart man quietly released"
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 17 Jun 2020, 1:40,
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into elevator
chaos ensues.
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smellysamlyingcable Seaman on, Thu 18 Jun 2020, 21:23,
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He must have a mighty ausfahrt!
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simbosan is too tired, Wed 17 Jun 2020, 3:00,
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Funk Turkey is at it again.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Tue 16 Jun 2020, 20:59,
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Markov Chains are AI?
Nah
I learned to shoot his gun,
Truth covered in security,
Man, you're son of a bitch,
In all the wrong places.
The asperities of the world are near,
Real feelings, touch us in a way,
My friend must not have been far,
She's afraid,
She's scared
Smother, Smother, Smother,
Smother, Smother, Smother,
Smother, Smother, Smother,
Smother, Smother, Smother,
Smother, Smother, Smother,
Smother, Smother, Smother,
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gaijintendo Regular Member, Wed 17 Jun 2020, 7:45,
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Or how about
I learned to shoot his gun,
Truth covered in security,
Tried to speak to his true feelings.
Do you know the thing?
The plain majority will wish
That we lay down the mantle of tyranny
And usher in a glorious age of liberty.
(Intermission)
You will pass through the last gate.
At the end of a long year of administration,
We will be the best, we will shine in history.
You will witness the talents of a great nation --
The hearts and minds of all the citizens.
There is much we have to do to build those hearts and minds.
To do that, we must strive to be ourselves.
Once again, our flag will flutter high in the sky.
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gaijintendo Regular Member, Wed 17 Jun 2020, 7:51,
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Hmm too topical
I learned to shoot his gun,
Truth covered in security,
All he did was shoot me,
He saved my life,
He saved my life,
He saved my life
Oh baby don't make a song
Just throw me a bone,
Here comes Mr. It's grunge baby,
This is grunge, you're rock and roll,
Liver kickin, red meat, and worse,
Coughed up the sheet metal,
Coughed up the sheet metal,
Coughed up the sheet metal,
I want my front seat,
Mommy's first,
I want my
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gaijintendo Regular Member, Wed 17 Jun 2020, 7:53,
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Why are people so angry today?
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Wed 17 Jun 2020, 16:35,
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Those were gpt-2 iirc
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gaijintendo Regular Member, Tue 21 Jul 2020, 8:45,
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Social distancing pub fight
Loved watching these two growing up
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Testicles just for you, Tue 16 Jun 2020, 19:59,
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Me too!
The two Rons were my favourite.
Ron: We don't like smarties do we, Ron?
Ron: No, we don't, Ron. Except for the red ones because you can rub 'em on your lips and it looks like lipstick.
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The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Tue 16 Jun 2020, 20:27,
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Hahaha!
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spazzcaptain Misses Valin @, Tue 16 Jun 2020, 21:03,
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Bananas in the refrigerator
Straight EU ones or not, bananas like the climate of the very, very tropical equator
So you should never put bananas in the refrigerator
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Tue 16 Jun 2020, 13:56,
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The preview reminded me of this gem from a few years ago
Sweary banjo silliness
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRM5knY5Frk
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Tue 16 Jun 2020, 17:20,
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Very a-peeling
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MC Chicken Sandwich All I want for Christmas is your mum, Tue 16 Jun 2020, 21:58,
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This is what it feels like to be Australian....
really.....
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Monkee girl not a monkee, not a girl, Tue 16 Jun 2020, 5:47,
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I've been on Reddit too long. This is the kind of quality content I have been missing.
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disco_doctor "Am I in?", Tue 16 Jun 2020, 10:11,
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was half expecting santa clause ya cunt where's me fucking bike?
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Tue 16 Jun 2020, 19:39,
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Ask and you shall receive
www.youtube.com/watch?v=af7LwnA913g
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Monkee girl not a monkee, not a girl, Wed 17 Jun 2020, 0:02,
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Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge
The hottest game of 1998
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Ambegris likes his tea stirred anti-clockwise, Mon 15 Jun 2020, 22:06,
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Are you some sort of joker?
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Jeffrey44 (User was banned for this post), Mon 15 Jun 2020, 22:24,
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Goddammit!
Is the GC machine broken?
I knew I should have checked manually...
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Ambegris likes his tea stirred anti-clockwise, Tue 16 Jun 2020, 0:04,
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Not deleting
It stands as monument to my hubris
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Ambegris likes his tea stirred anti-clockwise, Tue 16 Jun 2020, 0:09,
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*defaces*
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Tue 16 Jun 2020, 1:31,
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*defecates*
*simultaneously tweets a suggestion to put it in a new national museum of hubris*
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Tue 16 Jun 2020, 12:02,
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Woohoo!!
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Tue 16 Jun 2020, 12:20,
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Am a goat
Must be Ghana's answer to Doja Cat's Mooo
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Mon 15 Jun 2020, 20:05,
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I'm a cow
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8j0O4ejUaw
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buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Mon 22 Jun 2020, 16:20,
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Offerings
To the statue gods
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Mon 15 Jun 2020, 17:28,
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It's a statue of a fridge
the tuna, bananas, mini rolls, kippers and muffin are all offerings to the statue of Boris inside.
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buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Mon 15 Jun 2020, 18:15,
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What sort of cretin would put any of those things in a fridge?
It's all cupboard food except the EU regulated straight bananas.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Mon 15 Jun 2020, 19:00,
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Bollocks
Mini Rolls go in the freezer.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Mon 15 Jun 2020, 19:05,
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and penguin biscuits
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Mon 15 Jun 2020, 20:02,
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they are for when Boris comes out at night
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buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Mon 15 Jun 2020, 20:30,
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That's Arctic rolls, dummy.
Your mini roll stays in your Arctic pants.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Mon 15 Jun 2020, 20:47,
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Seriously, try it. Mini Rolls straight from the freezer. Fuck. Yeah.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Mon 15 Jun 2020, 22:19,
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Don't try and make us look like idiots.
We know that tuna lives in the sea. I mean, they would suffocate in a cupboard anyway.
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The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Mon 15 Jun 2020, 19:52,
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I might put kippers in the fridge
if I ever bought kippers
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Zuowan, Mon 15 Jun 2020, 21:42,
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Gifts for the homeless people who will spend the night slumped against it
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97800, Mon 15 Jun 2020, 18:23,
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Have they boxed in a food bank by mistake?
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97800, Mon 15 Jun 2020, 18:24,
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You set them up, you knock 'em out of the park.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Tue 16 Jun 2020, 0:07,
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Hit The Pine
I made this!
A chilled-out, sample-stuffed, disinfectant-swilling groove – one of the tracks I made for "The Dark Outside Inside 3" (online Saturday just gone). The looped backing sample is nicked from "In The Garden of Eden (Thinking Inside You)", by Courtney Pine (I love a pun, me 😁). I also photoshopped the coverart from a couple of separate Simpsons frames and a 'cartoonised' bottle of Pine. www.soundcloud.com/jimjar/hit-the-pine
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merkinhead poos sideways, Mon 15 Jun 2020, 13:06,
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It's no Bonestorm
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Mon 15 Jun 2020, 12:03,
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brilliant
actually pissing myself :)
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piss and shit, Mon 15 Jun 2020, 13:10,
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At last.
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Christian's Bolt and Ski, Mon 15 Jun 2020, 14:38,
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This is superb!
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Mon 15 Jun 2020, 18:40,
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Brilliant.
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Shizzling, Tue 16 Jun 2020, 10:07,
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RIS
Amendment
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spazzcaptain Misses Valin @, Wed 17 Jun 2020, 21:07,
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Laughter can be infectious too
Simon Donald (out of Viz Comic) in an out-take from the audiobook of his autiobiography.
*or should it be 'contagious'?
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fred zeppelin (Taylor's version), Mon 15 Jun 2020, 10:23,
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Rik n Ade in 1991
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Ambegris likes his tea stirred anti-clockwise, Sun 14 Jun 2020, 22:35,
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Well that was a bit awkward. He really isn't a very good interviewer is he?
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Mon 15 Jun 2020, 9:59,
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Another inexplicably successful TV 'personality'
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97800, Mon 15 Jun 2020, 18:21,
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*** CONTAINS POINTIES ***
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Mon 15 Jun 2020, 18:54,
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The more you watch it ...
...the more you see the confusion of Rik and Ade's face as more nervous sarcasm gets shot at them.
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GeeFunk, Mon 15 Jun 2020, 19:31,
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150m CMC (Crudely mown cock)
I made this!
A giant, mysterious daubing has appeared in the field behind my house. But what does it mean?
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Wildyles is back to rimming chimps, Sun 14 Jun 2020, 20:33,
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Top moonraker cock.
Valkyries nice touch.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sun 14 Jun 2020, 21:09,
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Moonraker cock? I feel like an ignoramus
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Wildyles is back to rimming chimps, Sun 14 Jun 2020, 22:20,
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How is it in the South-West these days?
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2Pints , at the third stroke, it will be, Sun 14 Jun 2020, 23:47,
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3ppb standard
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piss and shit, Sun 14 Jun 2020, 23:37,
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megacephallic!
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piss and shit, Sun 14 Jun 2020, 23:38,
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It means you love the cock.
I'm glad I could clear this up for you.
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The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Mon 15 Jun 2020, 1:40,
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I like your large penis
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George Blank my 2nd last sig was funny, Mon 15 Jun 2020, 12:05,
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grasscock
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Mon 15 Jun 2020, 12:06,
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dammit, how did I miss that...
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Mon 15 Jun 2020, 13:54,
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lacist!
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GforGermany looks like some sort of retaining plunger, Mon 15 Jun 2020, 14:00,
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Great and important work.
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fred zeppelin (Taylor's version), Mon 15 Jun 2020, 19:02,
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3PPB, excellent.
But my my that's quite the bell-end.
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sm.pl.crt.rs I don't fucking know, do I?, Tue 16 Jun 2020, 14:59,
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Sorry, this is just not ISO standard
3ppb yes, but what about the globules of spunk?
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WinnieTheTurd, Thu 18 Jun 2020, 9:04,
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Come on down to Culmann Liquidations
Or don’t. I don’t care.
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JauntyArt, Sun 14 Jun 2020, 17:13,
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SO many questions, and quite a few worries.
Exceptional standards of photography though.
edit: it is real isn't it? i.e. not a Trailer Park Boys outtake.
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fred zeppelin (Taylor's version), Sun 14 Jun 2020, 18:42,
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It’s Rhett and Link...
So it’s a real commercial with their sense of humour, they used to do quite a few for their local businesses.
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Thrill_My_Chinchilla is old and unimproved, Sun 14 Jun 2020, 20:30,
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yes... sort of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msumaGL_wwQ
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buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Sun 14 Jun 2020, 20:33,
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