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This is a link post Way of the exploding arse
New species of exploding ant discovered.
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They could have been named Colobopsis assadii
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This is a normal post i'd like to hear David Attenborough use the phrase "rumbly in the tumbly"
in one of his nature docs
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This is a normal post There is a serious lack of Winnie the Pooh references in nature documentaries

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This is a link post Chris Morris Talks Four Lions
Film School Rejects
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This is a normal post Colonel Gaddafi is looking well.

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This is a normal post It's uncanny!
There's obviously a very fine line between comedy genius and dictatorial insanity.
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Gaddafi
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This is a link post Okay, I got two questions regarding this
1. How come shaving someone's head is "actual bodily harm"?
2. The runt called 999, why didn't he get a bollocking seeing as the matter clearly wasn't an emergency?
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This is a normal post I imagine there's precedent in case law where hair has been included as part of the body for the definition of bodily harm
Oherwise it's like saying ripping off someones aerial on their car doesn't count for insurance purposes.
But yes, calling 999 does seem an overkill to a haircut
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This is a normal post christ, I bore myself sometimes

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This is a normal post ZZzzZzzZzzzZzz
*snort*
ZzzzZzzz
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This is a normal post Overkill?
I'd say that a 10-year-old boy under attack from a 21 year old man "while others sat around and laughed" is a damn fine reason to call 999.
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This is a normal post under attack with mousse and comb
he wasn't being beaten
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This is a normal post If only there were some source other than your imagination by which we could seek clarity on matters of criminal law.

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This is a normal post I used to create training for the coppers in the UK at the police training college in Hendon; criminal damge, PACE, misuse of drugs, etc
it was a few years ago now but I probably know far more than the layman. The statutes tend not to go into exhaustive definitions, e.g. "Spitting is but licking is not within the definition, unless it's on the eyeball", but instead rely on case law (unlike Frog law). It would take the CPS a few minutes of tapping to look at relevant precendent in GBH and Haircutting before deciding to proceed, if indeed the news report was accurate about the charge
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This is a normal post Balls of the eye

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This is a normal post For common assault
you don't even need to touch someone - a threat will do
Make contact and it's actual bodily harm -Worth bearing in mind next time you think about grabbing someone's lapels.
The problem comes at the upper end where 'grievious bodily harm' has covered everything from broken facial bones to that guy who had himself euthanised following total paralysis, blindness and constant paid from an acid attack.
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This is a normal post Sam Fox's first attempt "needed polish"

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www.b3ta.com/links/1484488
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This is a normal post Time to drop the Lapel Chat
Acknowledged
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This is a normal post Thanks Mr Justice cumquat

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This is a normal post In liberated France newly emboldened froggies would publicly and forcefully shave the head of women who had, ahem, collaborated with the Nazis.
It was intended to humiliate and temporarily mark them, and was very obviously a physical assault. I really don't see what you aren't getting here.
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This is a normal post Assault occasioning actual bodily harm (taken from wikipedia)
Cutting hair

In DPP v Smith (Michael Ross), the defendant held down his former girlfriend and cut off her ponytail with kitchen scissors a few weeks before her 21st birthday. The Magistrates acquitted him on the ground that, although there was undoubtedly an assault, it had not caused actual bodily harm, since there was no bruising or bleeding, and no evidence of any psychological or psychiatric harm. The victim’s distress did not amount to bodily harm. The Divisional Court allowed an appeal by the Director of Public Prosecutions, rejecting the argument for the defendant that the hair was dead tissue above the scalp and so no harm was done. Judge P said:

'In my judgment, whether it is alive beneath the surface of the skin or dead tissue above the surface of the skin, the hair is an attribute and part of the human body. It is intrinsic to each individual and to the identity of each individual. Although it is not essential to my decision, I note that an individual's hair is relevant to his or her autonomy. Some regard it as their crowning glory. Admirers may so regard it in the object of their affections. Even if, medically and scientifically speaking, the hair above the surface of the scalp is no more than dead tissue, it remains part of the body and is attached to it. While it is so attached, in my judgment it falls within the meaning of "bodily" in the phrase "actual bodily harm". It is concerned with the body of the individual victim.'

It has been accepted that actual bodily harm includes any hurt or injury that interferes with the health or comfort of the victim, and which is more than transient or trifling. To damage an important physical aspect of a person’s bodily integrity must amount to actual bodily harm, even if the element damaged is dead skin or tissue. As Creswell J. commented in his short concurring judgment:

'To a woman her hair is a vitally important part of her body. Where a significant portion of a woman's hair is cut off without her consent, this is a serious matter amounting to actual (not trivial or insignificant) bodily harm.'
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This is a normal post Intriguing
I had assumed "actual bodily harm" meant "actually harming someone's body", but it seems not. Okay.
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This is a link post 808kg pumpkin dropped from a 45m crane
Ronseal
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This is a normal post why oh why
are these things never dropped on richard hammond or anthea turner?
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This is a normal post Someone tried it on Anthea with 'splosions and a motorbike
Can't imagine it's not GC.
youtu.be/uQo6t9vcZYc
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This is a normal post I've never seen that before
and by God it was a good effort
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This is a normal post 55555555555
A Classic
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This is a normal post This always pickes me up
It should be posted weekely!
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This is a normal post ^This

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This is a link post It's nice being Dale!

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This is a normal post "He's a queen." "He's a fruit." And you were sanctimonious with me for making a lame innuendo less than 24 hours ago.

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This is a normal post Mercurial, aren't I?

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This is a normal post Er, I'm going to go with hypocritical prick, if it's all the same to you.

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This is a normal post most people who take offence on the internet aren't really offended
it's just a way of saying, "I exist. I want to feel important"
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This is a normal post Bit rich mate. I haven't forgotten the hissy fit you had at me, and the subsequent gaz you sent.

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This is a normal post TV Offal?

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This is a normal post Yes, clearly.
Why even ask such a stupid question.

Anyway, the funniest one of these has to be this one...
noisetosignal.org/audio/its_nice_being_dom.mp3
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This is a normal post Hurrah!
We've been too long without mention of Detroit.
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This is a normal post not so nice now though is it?

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This is a normal post That depends.
It would probably be nice to be Wensleydale.

Or Darley Dale, Thorpe Arch & Hull.


Less so, Dale Winton.
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This is a link post Interesting looking 'game'
about animation, although it ran a little slow on my tired, old computer...
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This is a normal post Crickey, you can say that again
Almost brought my browser to a standstill.
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This is a normal post Your Mrs would understand

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But a not very interesting Bandwidth Limit Exceeded error.
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This is a link post It's me!
Sorry for the plug
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This is a normal post Hi Jim, interesting vid.
In your opinion, what does the future hold for 3D printing and what do you think the timescale will be? Will they cease to be specialist only or a curio for tech heads and become a commonplace in people's homes soon? Or will I be popping to the local DIY store to have summat printed?
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This is a normal post I don't think they will be in every home but.......
do think there will be more 3D print bureaux which will print stuff for you - like there were fax bureaux (remember them?) on every high street.
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This is a normal post Interesting.
I'm thinking of getting a wimpy lulzbot or something. But to be talking about manufacturing parts at a magnitude beyond what we're doing now it's pretty cool. Also nice seeing an actual face from someone here.
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This is a normal post Interesting.
What's the process there?
Looks like a bed of powder getting fused on each pass.

Looks expensive, will stick with my 2 frankstein i3 clones and my smelly bastard d7.
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This is a normal post That sounds like laser sintering
But the name "Multi jet" is a bit misleading if that's the case. These guys do an impressive range that aren't silly money for the performance, but not something you'd buy to have a play with unless you have a few grand lying around doing nothing!

formlabs.com
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This is a normal post It's an infra-red based system
The slice you want to fuse is printed in an infra-red absorbing 'ink' on each pass which is heated by the high-intensity lamps fore and aft of the printing head. So, if you have a load of separate parts in the same layer they're all done at the same time on each pass - hence the speed.
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This is a normal post Depends what you call expensive
£300k gets you the whole kit - bargain!
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This is a normal post But why aren't you singing?!

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This is a normal post Thanks
Passed that on to some colleagues
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This is a normal post Thanks for that
Apologies for the testicle-shaped head
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This is a link post Dean's Week in the Media

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This is a normal post Catherine Backhouse
Last thought of the day: wanker
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This is a normal post like how comment with the most likes is simply
'Prick'
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This is a normal post You forgot to click "I made this!"

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This is a normal post What a cunt

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He's dreamy.
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This is a normal post in a roofy sort of way or nightmare sort of thing?

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This is a normal post Frank Sinatra's first attempt "needed polish"

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yeah... but... brexit
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This is a normal post Having read that, I have absolutely no idea what he actually does.
It seems like there's a lot of meetings about things, but nothing for them to be about.
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This is a normal post those orangutan videos dont approve themselves

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This is a normal post just read it again sorry, he's too important to even approve the orangutan videos
His job is to check they have been approved
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This is a normal post He's a self-facilitating media node.
Totally fucking mexico.
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This is a normal post Nathan Barley - "10 years on, it looks more like a documentary about the future"
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/feb/10/nathan-barley-charlie-brooker-east-london-comedy
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This is a normal post What the fuck is this shit?
I bet this cunt eats activated almonds
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This is a normal post What a fucking cunt.

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This is a normal post Who is this person
and why should i care what he does?
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This is a normal post He is providing a salutary lesson
in not taking your job too seriously, and highlighting the danger of a too-rapid ascent in the vapid career of public relations.
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This is a normal post This is like the ultimate quote piece
Everything he has written is hilarious and he doesn't even know it.
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This is a normal post Nathan Barley

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This is a normal post "Last thought of the day: Syria…"

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This is a normal post is it not yours, you monster

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This is a link post Cabin Pressure
I forgot just how ace this series was. Good, old-fashioned sitcom but with stellar performances from Cumbersnatch, Roger Allam & Stephanie Cole; funny jokes, bit of pathos every now and then.

A genuine surprise when something this good makes it onto R4's ultra-shit 6.30pm 'comedy' slot.
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This is a normal post “Attention, mes amis! Regardez-vous le bear polar!”

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This is a normal post Oh dearie me...
No, wait, that's wrong.
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This is a normal post "The Lemon is in play"
Radio 4 extra is repeating the first Hitchhikers, which is really showing up how cack the recent "And Another Thing..." was.
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This is a normal post John Finnemore is on this week's sitcom geeks
aca.st/a9ed79
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I like JF lots but had trouble with the latest souvenir prog series

but this sitcom geek link.....oh my, thankyou.
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This is a normal post That's not the "hole in the wall party" I was expecting....

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This is a normal post It should not have been a surprise
that dale winton was not hosting it TBH
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This is a normal post Agreed.
I am surprised this was even broadcast. Harry Hill should really be embarrassed by his total lack of research on this one. Remember, this was broadcast AFTER the first episode of series two of Hole in the Wall had gone out. He should have spent more time watching Hole in the Wall and less time organising parties, like I did in 2009.
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This is a normal post I assume this is satirical
I hope to Christ it is
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This is a link post Surprisingly harmonious
Musical World Map
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This is a normal post marvellous
:D
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This is a normal post Nice
They should use a moon crater map for drums and throw in Mars craters for bass. Then Venus could come in with a saxoph... - oh you get the idea...
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This is a normal post I don't think Holst would mix very well with this.

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This is a normal post It's a bullseye!
And here's your host,Jim Bowen
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This is a normal post how much dicking around did that take to make work?
even has a little New Zealand resolve
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This is a link post Climber rope solos El Cap in 24 hrs
A simply ridiculous challenge, basically covering the height of one of the world's largest and most iconic granite walls thrice, in a day, alone.
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This is a normal post ...
I was about to say that I admire but don't understand people who do this kind of thing. But, on reflection, I'm not sure you can admire someone whose actions are utterly opaque.

And to admire someone implies a kind of wishing that you could do the same. I don't. I've no desire at all to do anything like that.

So... yeah. Turns out I don't admire him after all.
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This is a normal post yep it's a total mystery tbh
I admire the effort and perseverance though
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This is a normal post I don't think that that's enough.
To borrow a hackneyed example from the literature: imagine that someone spent hours and hours, and a great deal of effort, trying to teach asparagus to speak. I don't think we'd admire his perseverance, because the whole enterprise is worthless.

Of course, the analogy isn't perfect, because we know something about the chances of success in that case and this. But it does show, I think, that perseverance itself is not enough; likewise, effort. The aim in mind has to make a kind of sense as well - and that's where I lose grip. I simply don't get it. In fact, it's more than that. I'm kind of hostile to the whole thing...
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This is a normal post one of the most iconic granite walls
yes, because we all know the others. Everybody has their own top 10 list of iconic granite walls
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This is a link post Sad news
gc

1 April, 2018
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This is a normal post GC

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This is a normal post COCKOSILLICA

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This is a normal post ocra and coke? weird combination.

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This is a link post Morning!

Yes, cliched, but someone's got to post about so it may as well be me. Today is the 75th anniversary of "Bicycle Day", the day Albert Hoffman 'discovered' LSD. I was going to post some kind of documentary about it but I thought I'd post my favourite trippy fractal video instead. I really like the music and lost this video for years, only to findit again yesterday. Turn on, tune in, and drop out :o)
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This is a normal post I remember something like this on a vhs tape with some wierd glasses that split out the colours to wear while watching it
I seem to remember..
Happy trip-day Albert!
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This is a normal post If it's what I had then it was Cyberdelia by Prism Leisure
Had some paper glasses with star filter lens in them

VHS rip

VHS rip with filter to simulate the glasses
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This is a normal post holy smokes yes I think that is it! haha
Thanks!
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This is a normal post I always remember
that `acid day` is the one before `weed day`...
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This is a normal post :-o

That's never occurred to me before!
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This is a link post A Subtle Reminder

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This is a normal post Well of course that's what 'they' want you to think...

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This is a normal post Fear is the mindkiller!

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This is a normal post Shut up Spock

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This is a normal post Rez flashbacks!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByFDR0bTyAQ
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This is a normal post Bloody elites and experts
wanting to make society better just because they think that learning things makes you know more. Best we just do the opposite whatever that is.

That is what the papers tell me anyway.

Did I get the right message from all that?
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This is a link post Paint Shaker
DIY - can you tell?
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This is a link post The Armada
- 3 part doco on Spanish Armada
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This is a normal post Thank you.
I shall be watching all of this. Sober narration bodes well.

On an aside, I read that when the BBC's latest Civilisations programme went over to the US, they cut almost all of the Mary Beard out because she's not perceived to be particularly telegenic - even for the sorts of people who'd watch an hour on Babylonian pottery.

Sad soup.
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