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"What did Yoda say to the Chuckle Brothers about social distancing? Two metre, you."
This Week:
* QUIZ - How decisive are you? 
* FESSHOLE - Cat nipple doctor shock
* BBC MICROS - a surprising amount of them. OK, two 

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B3ta email 755 - 2nd Nov 2020

Read this issue whilst huffing the air of Wham!
http://b3ta.com/newsletter/issue755

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: WHAT B3TA PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DOING THIS WEEK
  Other than eating ham and wanking
  
  * HOW DECISIVE ARE YOU? Monkeon has been
  mucking about trying to work out how decisive
  you are, and writes, "Hopefully the question
  format I chose doesn't detract from the twist,
  but the idea of a Sophie's Choice quiz amused
  me more than standard personality questions."
https://monkeon.co.uk/howdecisiveareyou/

  * BIG VAG ENERGY - Fogfood tells us about this
  "Goofy rap video I made with some pals. The
  animation was erm time-consuming."
https://b3ta.com/links/Big_Vag_Energy

  * VIRAL COMICS - Ambegris writes, "Not blogged
  for a while but have a look at how comics have
  handled viral outbreaks over the years."
https://the-slipper.blogspot.com/2020/07/viral-com...

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: BUY A SWEARY SCARF YOU SEXY PEOPLE
  Gazooks! A scarf that swears!

  Hebtro are now selling scarfs with swearing on
  them, and they'd love suggestions for new
  phrases. Rude and all made in the UK too. Buy
  them now before they sell the toss out. 
https://hebtro.co/product/sweary-scarf/

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: FESSHOLE
  Your confessions, fessed up for cheap lols
  
  Each week we ask you to spit your lies into a
  box and publish the ones that either make us
  laugh or boggle:

  * TATTOO - 'I'm Chinese and love to ask people
  why they have "butthole" tattooed on
  themselves. I can't even read Mandarin.'

  * MEOW - "Took my cat to the vets because I
  was concerned about some lumps I'd found on
  him. Paid £32 to have the vet tell me that my
  cat did indeed have nipples."

  * SHOES - 'My husband refuses to help our
  local homeless guy, because "Every time I see
  that cunt he's wearing a new pair of
  trainers!" I wonder why, Mr "I've got 80 pairs
  of Adidas Gazelles" No mate, you've got
  73....'

  Join the 90,0000+ arseholes who've typed over
  a million words into a tiny Google form. Link
  goes to the best of September so share it for
  goodness.
https://twitter.com/fesshole/status/13182496235349...

  BTW: As the Elon Musk of bullshit Twitter
  accounts, we welcome these new rules where BBC
  staff can't post anything they really think.
  Post anonymously - we wont rat you out for
  your contentious opinions.

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: B3TA IMAGE CHALLENGE
  Celebrating Sean Connery

  With the sad demise of the Highlander II: The
  Quickening star Sean Connery, we're asking you
  to pay tribute using your pirated copies of
  Corel Draw:
  https://b3ta.com/challenge/seanconnery/popular
  /

  And still open, we've got Horror Books which
  is well worth a click.
https://b3ta.com/challenge/horrorbooks/popular/

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: SITES IN BRIEF
  Projects made by people we are "othering"

  * WHAT CAN YOU CODE IN 280 CHARS? - That BBC
  Micro Twitter bot now has a website.  Glad
  they have done this, as these things always
  look best side-by-side in one massive
  collection, and they are now safe from the
  Twitter spam-ban-algorithm.
https://bbcmicrobot.com

  * PAT SHARP VS ZELIG - Pat Sharp's has written
  a weird fictional autobiography where he's
  inserted himself into 1980s history. Not sure
  we'd bother reading the whole book but it's at
  least interesting that he's taken an odd
  approach. 
https://twitter.com/anitathetweeter/status/1319364...

  * ELECTION 1982 GAME - See if you can run the
  country better than the tories did in the
  '80s. This made us laugh until we cried,
  sticking up VAT to 100% and refusing to spend
  any money. Click the PLAY button.
http://bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php

  * MAKE ME A ZOMBIE - everything is using GAN
  technology now, including shitty zombie
  make-over apps. Still, we got some cheap lols
  from putting Gary Glitter into it and thought
  "best not post this on Twitter"
https://makemeazombie.com/

  * AI-GENERATED BOB ROSS PAINTINGS - get your
  relaxing images via more GAN stuff.
https://twitter.com/happylittlepx

  * MONKEON RECOMMENDS - Rico writes "a game
  which passed my test that if I play it to the
  end then it might be newsletter-worthy.  I was
  expecting a remake of Scary Maze Game, but
  it's not a screamer."
https://donitz.itch.io/dreader

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If you think about it, most films could be a
Jurassic Park sequel / prequel, but just telling
you part of the story that doesn't contain
dinosaurs.

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: WHAT HAPPENED NEXT
  Follow-ups on previous stories
  
  * GANKSY ART SELLS SELLS SELLS - Holy shit.
  Matt Round has sold 110+ of his Banksy-esque
  AI artworks - the first one cost £1 (we bought
  it) and for each sale the price as gone up £1.
https://vole.wtf/ganksy/

  * B3TA CODER HAS SPUDS STOLEN - one-time B3ta
  coder Paul Curry has had his potatoes nicked
  and went straight to the papers. https://www.sussexlive.co.uk/news/sussex-news/man-...

  * YOKO ONO BOT TALKS TO SEAN LENNON - Just
  Sean Lennon having a chat with his robot mum.
https://twitter.com/seanonolennon/status/131854811...

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We recommend our audience of largely middle-aged
UK men who like comedy and old computers vote
against Trump in this election they are not part
of.

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: STAR IN NEXT WEEK'S ISSUE
  Make something good, you know you should
  
  * HOW ELITIST ARE YOU? - analyses your Twitter
  account sees whether you reply to people with
  significantly lower follower accounts than
  yourself or mostly talk UP.

  * HOW DRUNK ARE YOU? - Amazon could
  theoretically predict if you're drunk from
  your mouse movements and then funnel you into
  product list of crisps and speedboats.
  
  Send your bobbins to:
https://b3ta.com/mailus/ 

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