NEWSLETTER: "WE HOPE DRY WANKUARY ISN'T MAKING YOU TOO CHAFED!"
This Week:
* SWEARS - 750+ of them written by YOU
* GODLEY + CREME - Fucked up by AI
* CONTENT - to appeal to Generation Z (hashtag fibs)
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B3ta email 736 - 06 Jan 2020
Read this issue whilst farting the national anthem:
http://b3ta.com/newsletter/issue736
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: WHAT B3TA PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DOING THIS WEEK #1
Other than sicking up old mince pies
>> Sgt Pepper 2019 final update <<
Chris Barker has been murdering people all year
and recording the results in his annual Sgt.
Pepper death pic. Keep killing them Chris, we
need the content.
https://twitter.com/christhebarker/status/12127216...
>> Godley & Creme's Cry, but older <<
Shardcore writes, "I ran Godley & Creme's
seminal 1985 video through a StyleGAN." This is
a bit weird to watch - everyone spontaneously
gets glasses. Still, love the song.
http://www.shardcore.org/shardpress2019/2020/01/01...
>> Attenborough made of animals <<
"I drew a few animals and stuck them together."
writes Q4nobody. Nice. Hopefully won't be a
2020 entry to Chris Barker's murder catalogue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch
>> Things that look like other things <<
"Been collating a thread of pictures for the
dirty mind on Twitter" writes i124nk8. Good for
you mate. Nice to have a hobby.
https://twitter.com/i124nk8/status/120329272652512...
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"Happy Ex-mas!" You can have this text message
for free if you wish to dump anyone next
Christmas.
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: B3TA TWITTER BOT STUFF
Contribute and join in
>> 750+ user submitted swears <<
Our Twitter account @Swearclock needs you help
and some new swears for 2020. Read the
submissions so far here - there's also a link
to add your own. Please help. We need your foul
language.
http://bit.ly/swearclock
>> Real time 1980s charts <<
Bot Of The Pops isn't the bot we've promoted
the most but it's fun - it does the charts from
the 1980s in real time - the complete top 40
spread over a week - and with the start of the
new year it's switched over from 1989 to 1980.
Do follow. https://twitter.com/botofthepops
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The New Year does not start until February 1st.
Stop celebrating early you idiots.
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: SITES IN BRIEF
Some sort of stuff made by not b3tans
>> AI Generated Text Adventure <<
Sn0tters writes, "I have no idea how this works
but it's really like being in a dream." We
managed to make this spit out quite sexy porn
very quickly, which is exactly what we do the
odd time we lucid dream too.
https://play.aidungeon.io/
>> "Hey Siri! Have a stroke" <<
Turns out that setting your name to a hot mess
creates some cheap lols out of Apple's finest.
http://b3ta.com/links/1530943
>> UUU EEE U. UUU U UUU UUU EEEU UU. UUU YY <<
What if you made a video ONLY out of the er
bits you might normally chop out? Well, you've
made art that's what.
https://b3ta.com/links/EEEEEEE
>> Shania Twain interactive <<
We think it's mostly the shit MIDI we enjoyed
about this. <bgsound> used to always cheer up
the web. Thanks a lot for getting rid of it,
web-Hitler, Tim Berners-Lee.
https://profaniti.itch.io/shania-twine
>> Number game<<
This game has a nice 2048 feel to it. Although
we are shit at it.
https://gridentify.com
>> ZX Spectrum: Super Enquiry Simulator<<
Looks like there wasn't a Crap Spectrum Games
competition this year, but people are still
making stupid things like this 8-bit game which
simulates the tedium of trying to use a phone
for enquiries.
http://arbitraryfiles.com/games/ses/playonline.htm...
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: IMPORTANT DIGRESSION INTO BEATLES STUFF
Because obsessions have to go somewhere
The final Apple LP release from a non-Beatles
artist was Badfinger's Ass.
Yes that's the title. The LP is called "ASS".
The cover has a picture of donkey's arse (an
ass's ass) with a big carrot, horribly
suggestive of insertion - lurking in the sky.
Guess what? It didn't sell.
"Hey have you listened to ass?" "I'm really
getting into ass right now" "Hello shopkeeper,
do you have ass by badfinger?"
It's really making us giggle. It's absolute
self-sabotage.
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: STICK THIS IN YOUR OGG VORBIS PLAYER
Eggpod vs Mark Lewisohn
The Beatles nerd' Beatles nerd Mark Lewisohn a
stunning booking for Chris Shaw and he's done a
fab job with it. Sit back and learn about the
proto-Wings in Hamburg in their final gigs as a
club band.
https://iamtheeggpod.com/2019/12/31/the-star-club-...
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The correct way to pronounce 2020? Double tops - like darts.
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: FESSHOLE
Your terrible confessions confessed
* GUARDIAN FEATURE - Fesshole did some good
numbers over the Xmas break growing to about
46,000 followers on Twitter. This was partly
down to a best of that we retweeted like balls
and also down to writing an article for the
Guardian which did about a million views for
them and was their number one article for
Boxing Day. If you missed it, here's "I asked
the public to send me anonymous confessions. I
learned some terrible truths"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec...
* LIVESTREAM - This generated over 1200 new
confessions, and your editor figured it might
be fun to live stream moderating whilst dressed
as a priest. So if you've got 7 hours, watch
the damn thing. Ha ha.
https://www.facebook.com/fesshole/videos/581104776...
* BEST OF - And if you want something easier to
digest then this 'best of December' should do
the trick.
https://twitter.com/fesshole/status/12127688709871...
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Alternate 'Champagne Socialist' phrases to
improve your word power:
* Cava Communist
* Red-wine Red
* Lambrusco Leftie
* Lager Labourite
* Liebfraumilch Leftist
* Rum Radical
* Pink-gin Progressive
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: IMAGE CHALLENGE
Rats
Here's the best images from last week:
* GOLDEN RAT-IO - (TheCrookitFigger)
http://b3ta.com/board/11303003
* ARE WE HOME ALONE ON B3TA TODAY? - (LS18)
http://b3ta.com/board/11302746
* RATATORY. - (S4RK)
http://b3ta.com/board/11302780
* See all the other images from the 'Rats' challenge:
http://b3ta.com/challenge/rats
>> This week: Apocalypse TV <<
It might be the end of the world again, so
let's get ready by re-imagining all our
favourite tv shows from a world war
3/apocalyptic perspective. Show us Central
Perk under siege and Thomas the Tank engine
carrying troops to the front line - fun!
http://b3ta.com/challenge/apocalypsetv
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"Mystify, mystify me" Best ever song written about a humidifier.
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: STAR IN NEXT WEEK'S ISSUE
Make some content you content humans
* "LOOK MUM, IT WASN'T A PHASE" SAYS ROBERT
SMITH - we'd happily page through hundreds of
photos of people who've stuck with fashion
choices they made at 16 all the way to 60.
* NOT NICE BOT - A bot that looks for the
tweets that says "has died aged 69" and quotes
them going "NOT NICE."
* 'THEY LIVE' CHROME PLUG-IN - A version of
They Live where the glasses reveal the real
truth about advertising. "Oh God, will people
laugh at this?" "How many of these do we have
to right to a/b test?" "I hear Mark is leaving
and he's going to take the client with him, the
cunt"
* MAKE A RETRO POP-UP SANDWICH SHOP - based on
this early 1970s photo. People would eat the
shit out of these sandwiches. Literally.
https://twitter.com/robnitm/status/120808083002902...
Send photos of your man boobs to:
https://b3ta.com/mailus/
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All chess is 3D chess as the third dimension is time.
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: BONUS SWEARS FROM OUR REQUEST FOR SWEARS
* Draw Your Cock In Ms Paint And Send It As A
Dick-Pic
* Take Your Auntie Dogging Then Ask Her Why Her
Breath Smells Of Cock
* Shit Into Your Kid's Lunch Box Then Send Them
Off To School
* Don't Wank Now The Window Cleaner Isn't Here
Yet
* Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road? Because
You're A Cunt
Read on. Some terrible stuff here:
http://bit.ly/swearclock
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: PATREON THANKS
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Bands! Instead of saying "here's one from the new
album" say "now we're going to lead the audience
with a singalong of Joseph and his Technicolour
Dream Coat"
