The Six Dollar Fifty Man
Some lovely work from NZ.
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Mr Jamie Once saw a naked man running through his garden on, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:04,
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smooth!
there's something "Soundcard demo MIDI file" about it too
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h3donist wibble, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:19,
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international church of pancakes WCKR SPGT
IT'S MUTHAFUCKIN PANCAKE DAY. here's my fave pancake song.
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@ AT, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 13:42,
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the great horse meat scandal of 1948
actually got this link off david "david stevenson" stevenson. interesting innit.
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Stallion_Explosion (formerly known as crab_bloke), Tue 12 Feb 2013, 13:33,
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Gross
The thoughts of eating horse meat is putting me off my Tesco Spag-bol lunch, which is quite delicious.
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Tug Of War: 1 Horse Against 18 Men.
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Dawn Of The Bread $$$$ E-THUG 4 LIFE - THAT'S HOW I SCROLL $$$$, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 13:27,
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Well, the night is still young.
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Dawn Of The Bread $$$$ E-THUG 4 LIFE - THAT'S HOW I SCROLL $$$$, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 13:32,
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Always an option.
If they're into that.
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sir_spicious2000 Old crap I've watched: www.filmplop.blogspot.com/, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:51,
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Not much of a contest really...
But by doing the maths my 245hp car is 4410 manpowers! :)
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gardenclaw mac fuckes your gradeds balls!, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 13:32,
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245 hp!?
Let me guess. One of: Mitsubishi Impreza, Subaru or old BMW 330 type?
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DinivanX Too old for my own good, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 13:36,
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Nope none of those.
Not that type of car person. I like Old yank stuff and tinkering.
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gardenclaw mac fuckes your gradeds balls!, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 13:53,
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Now you have my interest
What old Yank stuff?
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TheSundaeLunch has a sharp bodkin, so watch it., Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:09,
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Nearly all of it to be honest...
I'm not one of these Ford or Chevy only types. I currently Drive a 94 Mustang GT, Not a classic I know but was cheap and the Old Chyrsler New Yorker had just gone bang. The styling is the main thing for me, some of the older cars are like pieces of art. Muscle cars are great for their Simplicity yet awe inspiring performance. I like to be able to work on my own cars and American ones are nice and easy to do that on. So basically a whole mash up of these reasons. I'd Love a 67 Barracuda Fastback if money was no object or an AMC Gremlin. It's just finding them thats the difficult part.
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gardenclaw mac fuckes your gradeds balls!, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 18:56,
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Wow, full respect to the Tesco staff there, trying to get it to the abattoir.
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Some kids were trying in the second one, just goes to show that Every Little Helps.
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Dawn Of The Bread $$$$ E-THUG 4 LIFE - THAT'S HOW I SCROLL $$$$, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 13:45,
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY DARWIN!!
FUCK YEAAAAH!!
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Sweeplovesfisting Sick on me! I loves it!, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 13:05,
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I do like our money.
Every other country's looks like monopoly money.
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Mu Dinofiddler, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 13:28,
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Yeah, a hell of a lot of other currencies look and feel cheap, which is a bit ironic.
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Dawn Of The Bread $$$$ E-THUG 4 LIFE - THAT'S HOW I SCROLL $$$$, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 13:31,
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funny...
it looks the reverse to me. as you guys have all the pretty colours and pictures.
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miss fortunate might be drinking on..., Tue 12 Feb 2013, 13:31,
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this
I like the little plastic window they put on Aussie $
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h3donist wibble, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:23,
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Northern Ireland fiver is the best
www.banknotes.com/ien203.htm
Plastic banknotes, featuring Space Shuttle!
Also, unusual vertical orientation.
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Moon Girl Technologies don't take my word for anything, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:30,
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I wish you hadn't put specimen on that image. I can't print it out for profit now :(
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Pig Bodine., Tue 12 Feb 2013, 13:42,
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Imaginary leader is still stupider than hereditary leader.
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Lord Keeps meaning to procrastinate., Tue 12 Feb 2013, 13:43,
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Cheers hotpiss
Inspired me you have.
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Sweeplovesfisting Sick on me! I loves it!, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 17:38,
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umm actually the UK is technically a Theocracy,
the Queen explicitly derives her authority to reign directly from God and was crowned in a Christian ceremony.
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Moon Girl Technologies don't take my word for anything, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:25,
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technically all 'subjects' of 'her majesty' are like, slaves, and totally have to do everything she says. it's an outrage.
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you should write a stern letter
to the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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Moon Girl Technologies don't take my word for anything, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:41,
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i am going to...
what kind of theocracy legalises gay marriage? it's a bloody outrage i tell you.
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one that legalises it for every religion except the State one,
on account of the clash with canon law that would happen otherwise.
And the Byzantine Empire.
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Moon Girl Technologies don't take my word for anything, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:52,
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it's worth noting
that out of the UK's 8 Muslim MPs, only one voted against the measure. Two abstained, and five voted in favour.
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Moon Girl Technologies don't take my word for anything, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:57,
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Impressed with your well informedness here
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Locus213 Slightly to the left of Bakunin, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 16:50,
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Hmmmm
I take your point. In reality, though, it's not. Someone might swear on a Bible whilst being sworn in as a parking attendant, but it doesn't mean they derive their authority from God and the local council is thereby a theocracy.
The Queen is a special case because of all the 'Defender of the Faith' guff and being head of her own Church, of course, but still, I can't imagine her claiming her authority to rule 'derives directly from God'. Can't imagine anyone has tried that line with any seriousness since the Stuarts.
I did once know a man who claimed to believe in the Divine Right of Kings, but he was a nutcase. Think he later joined UKIP...
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true, it's somewhat archaic,
although it was derived from a line in the Bible so a lot of Christians still believe it.
Oh we also have the Lords Spiritual (Church of England Bishops in the House of Lords) which makes us the only country other than Iran to explicitly include religious leaders in the legislative assembly. Or so I heard.
The "In God We Trust" thing in the states is an odd one though, because their State is very much more secular than ours, technically. They aren't even allowed religious observances in state run schools (a policy which is sometimes enforced with an absurd level of fervour). But the Federal Reserve isn't actually part of the government, but a sort of private company. Actually the way the whole outfit works is so odd that, frankly, God help them.
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Moon Girl Technologies don't take my word for anything, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:50,
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The US is very interesting as a contrast
In the UK there's an enormous detritus of tradition and convention which is sometimes pretty benign (things like the Monarch being anointed before Coronation) and sometimes quite worrying (like the Bishops in the upper chamber). Most people don't worry about it most of the time.
In America, on the other hand, they had Founding Fathers who set up a secular state, and were pretty unequivocal about that (Treaty of Tripoli, for example), but a population many of whom are passionately fighting to make it less so.
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Bishops in the House of Lords don't worry me,
there are only 25 of them, far fewer than Tory hereditary peers (49), and if they were in proportion to the number of regular churchgoers we'd have about a hundred.
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Moon Girl Technologies don't take my word for anything, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 15:09,
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This is the kid's favourite thing on CBBC at the moment
Especially "night time/day time"
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Spooky Spoon
This scares the living daylights out of my 2 year old.
Anyone else watch Numberjacks with their children? Are they scared? Are you scared? The Puzzler scares me.
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Yeah, scares the crap out of the kids.
Well, they aren't my kids and we aren't watching Spooky Spoon, i tend to be tying them up whilst wearing a mask made from the flesh of my last victim.
Still, all those things considered they're quite similar situations.
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Dawn Of The Bread $$$$ E-THUG 4 LIFE - THAT'S HOW I SCROLL $$$$, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 12:40,
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Kind of like that, but my name isn't Jim and i specialise in breaking stuff.
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Dawn Of The Bread $$$$ E-THUG 4 LIFE - THAT'S HOW I SCROLL $$$$, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 12:44,
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A kiddies TV theme day,
or a elaborate paedo ploy to lure kids?
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Fadgebadger /links's pedantic bellend, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 13:26,
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I was browsing the madness that is 4chan last night (with my 2 year old)...now that is an elaborate paedo ploy to lure kids
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I'm quite glad to say I don't venture near that place...
It's like a seedy pub down a back alley with a load of run down choppers parked outside.
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Fadgebadger /links's pedantic bellend, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 13:44,
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I was sat watching childrens tv with my granddaughter last week
it is amazing what crap they make for youngsters now.
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Hello Susan D.
welcome to /links. :)
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miss fortunate might be drinking on..., Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:40,
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My grandson set up this account forr me.
As I wanted to comment on the black and white video someone posted a while back. but you had to wait a week before you can actually talk and now I cant remember which video it was!
Hello everyone!
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Yeah thats generally how it works
You haven't been exposed to the silly swearing or tasteless sex gags yet though. Everyone's being remarkably polite!
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DinivanX Too old for my own good, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 15:43,
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You're a grandmother??
*Combs hair*
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Fadgebadger /links's pedantic bellend, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 16:17,
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Problem Blob
I have almost had to be a counsellor to my three year old over the problem blob and he had a three week period of waking up in terror and refusing to sleep with anything green visible in the room.
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The Problem Blob a green blob with a single eye on the tip of his long tongue who spits out lumps of green slime that cause anything they touch to suffer from a particular problem. He is usually found in dark corners and doesn’t speak, only heaving and spluttering.
Ahhhh teh fear
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Ekko, Ekko, Ekko...
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Dawn Of The Bread $$$$ E-THUG 4 LIFE - THAT'S HOW I SCROLL $$$$, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 12:12,
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Hello Sam Pling
It would be more fun if you a) got involved or b) posted a link to that Durex ad you directed:
vimeo.com/52961994
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Hair You go - Worlds hairiest teenager
just gonna slop this in here.
Dunno about you sluts, but i would.
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awsm! namaste bitches, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 11:29,
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www.b3ta.com/links/A_Mexican_Dude_Dressed_Like_Wolverine_Saves_People_From_Burning_Tower
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Dawn Of The Bread $$$$ E-THUG 4 LIFE - THAT'S HOW I SCROLL $$$$, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 11:33,
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Is this how BrokenCoccyx got his username?
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maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 11:43,
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No, you wouldn't want to watch THAT video...
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Fadgebadger /links's pedantic bellend, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 13:45,
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Call Now!!
I posted the Pancakes Day vid without noticing it had been linked already (despite being on the same page, wally). So here's something from another fine kids show that may well be posted every Gymnasium Day from now on.
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You certainly like a lot of kids stuff
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Fadgebadger /links's pedantic bellend, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 11:25,
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I like comedy, some of which is on CBBC.
Like Horrible Histories. I suggest you watch some :)
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My Daughter watches CBBC.
I don't watch much TV these days, spare the odd sciency programme. I'm old, boring and prefer to watch porn on my computer.
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Fadgebadger /links's pedantic bellend, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 11:43,
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I think he meant bottoms.
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Tab Hunter DVDfever: The fat ghost of Simon Weston, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 11:58,
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Theres some tip top stuff on there.
Serafinowicz is on that sketch show every week and Horrible Histories has material from Steve Punt, David Baddiel and The LEague of Gentlemen. There's another one sketch show with David Armand and MArcus Brigstocke. Good stuff.
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As a straight female, I can't say I've been searching for them, to be honest.
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We all know you're a grey haired, sweaty, bearded old man
with a box a kleenex and some sudocrem next to your laptop.
ADMIT IT!!!!
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Fadgebadger /links's pedantic bellend, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 13:42,
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Oh that's right, because women can't use the internet.
And you're surprised to find yourself addressing one of us. And besides, it's vaseline.
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You're really a woman???
On the internet????
*Runs for the hills*
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Fadgebadger /links's pedantic bellend, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:12,
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Careful now...
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Dawn Of The Bread $$$$ E-THUG 4 LIFE - THAT'S HOW I SCROLL $$$$, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:19,
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The Tory's Back to Work Programme is ruled to be Forced Labour and Slavery
Should lead to anyone who refused to work for nothing and had their benefits stopped getting it all back. That is of course if they find out about it from whatever hostel or cardboard box they now live in.
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slartifartfast When all around are losing their heads, duck., Tue 12 Feb 2013, 10:44,
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when I was on the dole
I wasn't even allowed to work for free. Well, not for a company that could be "reasonably expecte4d" to pay its staff. I did do voluntary work for a charity, but there were rules about how many hours you were allowed to do.
One time at a careers fair I spoke to a man about how to get a job in finance (because that's apparently what people with science degrees are expected to do), and the cheeky cunt actually said I should expect for free for a year! For a BANK!
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Moon Girl Technologies don't take my word for anything, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 10:54,
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Ha!!!
I love that, they make out they're doing you a favour and you should be grateful for the 'opportunity' too.
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Dawn Of The Bread $$$$ E-THUG 4 LIFE - THAT'S HOW I SCROLL $$$$, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 10:55,
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yeah, great,
work for the most profitable industry on the planet for nothing for a year, with not even any benefits to live on, that would work.
I guess Mummy and Daddy are supposed to pay your way. Class mobility. Great.
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Moon Girl Technologies don't take my word for anything, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 11:02,
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its called an 'internship'
widely used in the industry as a 'rite of passage'
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Do post graduates do internships?
I thought they were usually done during a degree course, not after.
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Fadgebadger /links's pedantic bellend, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 11:49,
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yes because a degree is often not vocational...
and jobs are about leaning how to do the actual job... the amount of post graduates that i have interviewed who think they could literally walk in and work, is incredible, some genuinely think the degree they have means they can do whatever "job" they want.
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I'm not a graduate.
Aside from doing a (very) basic home learning course, I taught myself everything about the job I do now. It wasn't as easy as you think, and I had to do a load of free work over many months outside of a normal 40 hour a week shift job, just to bolster my skills and experience enough to warrant landing a full-time position. I still work stoopid hours, but at least I love what I do.
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Fadgebadger /links's pedantic bellend, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:10,
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Yeah I was led to believe that, too,
someone please explain the situation to my parents.
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Moon Girl Technologies don't take my word for anything, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:11,
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Oh be quiet.
Lots of companies do internships for low pay. I was a runner at a place in Soho for a year and was basically a slave. .
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jamtallons Sokath, his eyes uncovered!, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 11:55,
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so what's ok for the private sector
is terrible for the government.
No, I won't be quiet. Slavery is terrible wherever it happens, and just because you shut up and put up doesn't change that.
Anyway, out of curiosity, how did you live?
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Moon Girl Technologies don't take my word for anything, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 11:57,
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What???
Grow up! You bring the tedious greedy bankers and class bulls*hit up all the time and this has got nothing to do with it. F*cking tedious.
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jamtallons Sokath, his eyes uncovered!, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 11:59,
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*Gets popcorn*
*Puts on 3D specs*
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Fadgebadger /links's pedantic bellend, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 12:00,
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Oh right.
I am immature because I think slavery is unacceptable.
Ok.
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Moon Girl Technologies don't take my word for anything, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 12:04,
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you're immature because...
you compare a workfare (as opposed to welfare) scheme to slavery. beyond hyperbole, just utterly fatuous really. do you actually know what the reality of slavery was?
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JamTallons compared his own internship to slavery.
His words, not mine.
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Moon Girl Technologies don't take my word for anything, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 13:04,
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he was clearly employing hyperbole to illustrate how shit it was...
you are using it as you wallow in your self-righteous poltical indignation. it's pretty fucking sick to compare low wages to slavery and shows profound ignorance. it's real SWP bullshit.
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ok how about
"The Tory's Back to Work Programme is ruled to be Forced Labour and Slavery"
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Moon Girl Technologies don't take my word for anything, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 13:26,
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it wasn't.
read the ruling. it's been ruled unlawful. largely down to our old friend the HRA as derived from the ECHR. the judge did not describe it as forced labour and certainly not as slavery. that's just SWP bullshit and lies.
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the one who started the thread said it.
ok how about www.b3ta.com/links/943780
"We did outlaw slavery in this country, right?"
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Moon Girl Technologies don't take my word for anything, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 13:43,
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uh, yes, we did...
would you like to borrow my Amistad DVD?* you really seem to have a great deal of difficulty understanding the true meaning of a very fucking simple word.
*oh, i don't have that DVD. how about Watership Down?
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I'm just trying to point out
that three people compared unpaid work to slavery before I did, and somehow I'm the only one to be called immature for repeating it, in a direct reply, the point of which is to call out the fallacy of the argument, "I had to do it, therefore it's fine".
I didn't even make the comparison myself. Three other people did and got away with it.
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Moon Girl Technologies don't take my word for anything, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:03,
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yeah, it's called injustice...
get used to it, slave. now go and make me a sandwich.
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I was a runner at a place in Soho for a year and was basically a slave. .
Who compared what now to what now?
And we all know what slavery was like, we watched Django Unchained
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A Rory Borealis A collision of charged particles is predicted on, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 13:17,
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I haven't seen it yet,
no spoilers pls
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Moon Girl Technologies don't take my word for anything, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 13:28,
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I did lots of unpaid "work experience"
From about the age of 14 upwards. How did I afford it? I lived with my folks (as you would expect at that age) and I had a weekend paper round which paid for my travel (which was £1.20 a day to get to anywhere in London).
This enabled me to have a much better CV than my peers which I began looking for work, so I got a better salary.
An internship or work experience is NOT the same as slavery. Slaves have no choice or say in the matter and there is a massive massive distinction.
Saying the two are the same IS simply wrong.
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DinivanX Too old for my own good, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 13:02,
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Fair enough.
But it still seems wrong and exploitative to me to expect a grown adult (graduate or otherwise) to work for nothing.
"I put up with it, why shouldn't everybody else?" is not a valid argument.
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Moon Girl Technologies don't take my word for anything, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 13:12,
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But they aren't any use yet
What sort of useful computer work (for example) would I expect to get from an untrained 14 year old.
Essentially you're really giving them free training at the expense of one of your paid employees time.
Cash isn't the only for of renumeration; Skills and experience are worth something, thats what I'm trying to say.
For a year? You're joking. But for a few weeks/months it can make perfect sense.
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DinivanX Too old for my own good, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 13:19,
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Yeah I'm not talking about an untrained 14 year old though,
I'm talking about a 22 year old, with a degree. And bills to pay.
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Moon Girl Technologies don't take my word for anything, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 13:21,
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in my case, no.
it was Theoretical Physics.
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Moon Girl Technologies don't take my word for anything, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 13:34,
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Learn PHP/HTML in about a week then
And get a job coding. You'll have no issues getting one with ease. Hell string theory and quantum mechanics are a lot more complex than that.
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DinivanX Too old for my own good, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 13:38,
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That was a long time ago.
I've got 3 years experience in C++ now, thanks to nepotism.
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Moon Girl Technologies don't take my word for anything, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 13:40,
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One of the funniest moments I remember
was having a poo before my animal physiology exam, nervous as hell, when finished I reached for the paper and on the first sheet was written
"arts degree - please take one"
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A Rory Borealis A collision of charged particles is predicted on, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 13:38,
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they are NOT working for nothing...
it's simply that for the period of their placement, they are not getting their 'benefits' for nothing. for some of them it could be quite an eye-opener, how the other half lives.
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this is about unpaid internships in banks.
you don't get benefits while you are doing one of those.
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Moon Girl Technologies don't take my word for anything, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 13:29,
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Lots of companies do it,
so that makes it ok?
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Zuowance in royal david's city , etc., Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:35,
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fucking sound man!
off now to sign on now! im going to look so smug today in the dole. anyone fancy a pint im paying.
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Sgt. Welt, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 11:11,
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Fucking hell
.."working unpaid for 30 hours per week for six months"
Leaving him what time to actually properly look for a paid job?
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Jahled Kitab al-Azif, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 11:40,
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Paid job? Think of the loss in profits to the shareholders and the bosses!
The economy would crumble ;)
We did outlaw slavery in this country, right?
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maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 11:55,
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I don't think so.
Have you seen Tabbys dungeon?
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Fadgebadger /links's pedantic bellend, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 11:58,
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I think there was that once when I woke up with a canvas sack over my head but it's all a bit fuzzy
and I've convinced myself that it was just some terrible nightmare.
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maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 12:07,
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Myeh. Lower it to two 4.5 hour shifts a week, scrap JSA completely and give them the equivalent minimum wage.
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Mu Dinofiddler, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 11:50,
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I wouldn't actually have minded doing that,
it would have given me experience, at least. But they didn't even want me to look for part time jobs. To claim JSA "you have to be looking for full time work," even though that would have got me off benefits and there was no way I was going to get a full time job with no experience.
Stupid system is stupid.
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Moon Girl Technologies don't take my word for anything, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 11:55,
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Depends what you count as full time/part time.
Part time is (as far as I'm aware) anything 15 hours or under.
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Mu Dinofiddler, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 12:05,
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I thought it was 30 hours,
but even 15 hours at minimum wage is more than JSA.
For the purposes of tax credits, it was 15 hours if you had kids, and 30 hours otherwise.
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Moon Girl Technologies don't take my word for anything, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 12:06,
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For the college I work at full time study is counted as 15+ hours a week.
The council say 17.5+ hours for council tax exemption for full time students, and someone else I can't quite remember insists on 21+ hours.
I also got a bit of a telling off for refering to the part-time admin as part-time depsite the fact she works almost half the hours I do, because she works 15+.
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Mu Dinofiddler, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 12:14,
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full time study might not be the same as full time work,
also this was about the hours I was supposed to be looking for, not the hours I was already doing. Or they might have just been talking shit, or the rules might have changed since then, it was almost 10 years ago.
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Moon Girl Technologies don't take my word for anything, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 12:22,
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I don't seem to remember them telling me I couldn't look for part time work when I was on JSA.
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Mu Dinofiddler, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 12:24,
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I don't remember reading it in the rules,
but one time I printed off a couple of part-time job placements from the machine, and when I took them to my advisor he advised me that "you do realise we expect you to look for full time work," which surprised me then as much as it surprises you now.
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Moon Girl Technologies don't take my word for anything, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 12:29,
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You can do part-time work (under 16 hours a week, paid or voluntary) whilst on JSA,
as long as you declare any earnings when you sign on, so it can be deducted from your JSA. However, you still have to be seeking full-time work to continue to be eligible for JSA.
This is specific to JSA -- there are other benefits available to people working over 16 hours a week, or who are unable to work full-time.
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 12:52,
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Late reply, but you're wrong
www.judiciary.gov.uk/Resources/JCO/Documents/Judgments/reilly-wilson-v-secretary-state.pdf
Paragraph 35 (shortest thing in the whole document) says: "The judge found no breach of article 4". (EU thing on slavery and forced labour)
The ruling is that the regulations exceeded the bounds allowed under relevant legislation to some extent, but that notification and disclosure was definitely insufficient.
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prince-igor si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 15:28,
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Short Film set in the near future - '90 Seconds'
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I made this!
I worked on this last year (I did the opening titles and a few other vfx bits). It's half an hour long but if you have time it came out rather well. Cheers.
(Marked NSFW because it might have some swears but I can't really remember)
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Your contributions are fairly seamless, so well done -
but the acting is awful, the storyboarding is lame, the sound is dire...
No-one seems to move - walking while talking is something even George Lucas can manage: trying sneaking and talking, or running and talking. The shots are poorly composed - there's an unnecessary thermos flask butting into shot in the first scene. The sound is dreadfully balanced, as though it was recorded straight in the room where the scene plays, and not a single second of post production was done on it - you should at least make sure the levels are similar, or appropriate: the sneaking character is talking louder than the geeky lady who's remotely instructing him.
There may be a good story to be told here, but I couldn't be bothered to watch it long enough to find out.
On the plus side, I did watch enough to try to put together few examples of how to improve it. You're welcome.
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Ye of Little Faith - tossing ewoks into a lake of farts, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:51,
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Well thanks for giving it a chance.
I appreciate the amount of detail you went into but obviously that stuff has nothing to do with me. I'm just trying to give the film some support.
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Alice In Wonderland, An X-Rated Musical Adventure
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Someone told me about this and I didn't believe them. A 1970s hardcore porn musical. It's one of the trippiest things I've ever seen. Here's a YouTube friendly snippet, the full movie's available online for free if you so wish. Just don't watch while on acid.
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The film initially received an X-rating in 1976 and subsequently, an R-rating a year later with three minutes cut from the film. It was later re-released on VHS with a somewhat grandiose title roll preceding the movie noting that quite a bit of hardcore footage had originally been shot, but "could not be included" at the time.
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The Scrunt Wants a Dozen Pints, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 10:38,
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I do hope dvdfever starts a petition over this gross act of censorship.
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Pig Bodine., Tue 12 Feb 2013, 10:40,
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I remember I watched the Sleeping Beauty porn version
it was quite good, they don't make good porn anymore, just gapping assholes.
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The Scrunt Wants a Dozen Pints, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 10:46,
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Die Hard(on).
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Dawn Of The Bread $$$$ E-THUG 4 LIFE - THAT'S HOW I SCROLL $$$$, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 10:47,
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A petition over the classification of a ridiculous action movie- jeez.
It's a bit special-needsy, isn't it?
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Tab Hunter DVDfever: The fat ghost of Simon Weston, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 10:53,
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Pfft!
His Twitter feed is as level headed as ever on this:
".@BBFC cutting Die Hard 5 down to a 12A takes the fucking piss. They ruined films 2-4 in this way with cut 15s. GIVE US THE FULL FILM!!!"
".@BBFC Can you also investigate where the Fox executive's brain has gone who decided to go for 12A for Die Hard 5, please?"
Any other Twitter users may wish to favourite this tweet for larks.
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Pig Bodine., Tue 12 Feb 2013, 11:14,
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I literally do not understand what that is trying to communicate.
Also- 5! There are now FIVE Die Hard films that I have yet to watch?
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Tab Hunter DVDfever: The fat ghost of Simon Weston, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 11:21,
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You don't have to watch them, i haven't and i think i'm doing ok for not doing so so far.
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Dawn Of The Bread $$$$ E-THUG 4 LIFE - THAT'S HOW I SCROLL $$$$, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 11:22,
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If you don't care, then you're useless here. Quit actively displaying your passiveness.
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Dawn Of The Bread $$$$ E-THUG 4 LIFE - THAT'S HOW I SCROLL $$$$, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 11:21,
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I LOVE YOU, MAN*
*In a platonic, online-acquaintance kinda way.
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Tab Hunter DVDfever: The fat ghost of Simon Weston, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 12:00,
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a good day to whine hard
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feckler https://twitter.com/LeonardEctric1, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 11:26,
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I did watch this as a young spunker
if I remember right, that film has an incest scene, as they are tweedle dum and tweedle dee. I waited till the end (after watching the film several times for clarity) and lo, they have the same second name in the credits.
ishityounot.com
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Looks like a whole lotta good clean fun
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Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 17:02,
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It's on the same page for fuck sake.
This is hardly glass cock, it's more like gormless cunt.
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Dawn Of The Bread $$$$ E-THUG 4 LIFE - THAT'S HOW I SCROLL $$$$, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 10:18,
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That's a thing of beauty.
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Dawn Of The Bread $$$$ E-THUG 4 LIFE - THAT'S HOW I SCROLL $$$$, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 10:29,
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Dear Dawn of the Bread,
I have seldom seen someone get so angry, so quickly, over so little.
Have you ever considered a career in the church?
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That would be an ecumenical matter.
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Dawn Of The Bread $$$$ E-THUG 4 LIFE - THAT'S HOW I SCROLL $$$$, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 13:35,
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I disliked you for calling me a cunt.
I dislike you less after that Jack quote. Which is good.
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But it's on the same page....
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Fadgebadger /links's pedantic bellend, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 10:28,
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Well, I know SOMEONE who won't be getting any pancakes today!
...That's unfair, you can have a couple.
I must have missed it, I guess I was mortified by the street execution and accidentally it slipped my view. No harm done hopefully.
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Sorry but I've given up watching snuff films for lent
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slartifartfast When all around are losing their heads, duck., Tue 12 Feb 2013, 10:21,
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Thanks, but no thanks.
Any kind of report on it i can read instead of watching someone die?
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Dawn Of The Bread $$$$ E-THUG 4 LIFE - THAT'S HOW I SCROLL $$$$, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 10:27,
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Ok
Cop pulls up alongside 3 men, one runs, cop shoots him in the back 6 times, then goes over to finish him off.
Summary execution by LAPD officer, who was subsequently cleared of any wrongdoing.
(, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 10:49, Reply)
Cheers.
Another one of 'them' then.
I wonder if there'll be any riots? Suppose it depends on how much press coverage it gets, if it was a massacre in a school etc. It would be rolling news footage, maybe not so with this.
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Dawn Of The Bread $$$$ E-THUG 4 LIFE - THAT'S HOW I SCROLL $$$$, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 10:51,
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See: The Capital Punishment Amendment Act 1868
It was brought in to end the "grotesque spectacle" of public executions.
Oh how times have changed!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_Punishment_Amendment_Act_1868
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My Front Fell Off ; his mouth full of teddies, urinating defiantly, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 10:34,
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Meanwhile...
You know that shit that BC was spouting about the need for the good guys to be armed? Well, police hunting for that bloke in California - you know, the policeman who appears to have gone a bit weird - have reportedly shot up two pickups on the grounds that... er... well... Who knows?
One, driven by two women delivering newspapers, was shot 46 times. Amazingly, neither was killed.
So, yeah. Thank goodness for the good guys with guns.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 10:46,
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if only the bad guys had guns too,
this would never have happened.
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Moon Girl Technologies don't take my word for anything, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 10:48,
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guns that shoot gnus would be better
but only if you give gnus gnu guns too
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LP, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 11:07,
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Not second hand ones either
You should give gnus new gnu guns
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Fadgebadger /links's pedantic bellend, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 11:26,
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I look forward to hearing how this develops
You could say I'm interested in gnus new gnu guns news
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LP, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 11:48,
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Did you see the channel four news report on gun control last night?
In bending over backwards so as not to appear liberally-biased, the report gave LOTS of airtime to the "arm the good guys to solve the problem" lot. Seems there is a lot of money to be made in arming & training teachers too...
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Tab Hunter DVDfever: The fat ghost of Simon Weston, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 11:17,
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Didn't see it:
half of me is considering tracking it down to watch now; the other half just knows what my response'd be.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 11:53,
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Don't watch it- it will spoil your day. The only knowledge you'll gain is
1/ how many tooled-up, trigger-happy teachers Dallas now has &
2/ that lots of NRA-supporting gun suppliers/ranges are making an absolute killing off the back of Sandy Hook.
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Tab Hunter DVDfever: The fat ghost of Simon Weston, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 12:05,
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