I'm still on a Boards of Canada tip from last night...
Here's a remix they did under another name...solid gold!
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Bookmarks for later
I actually rarely listen to BoC, believe it or not. Might have to rectify that...
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I find them dull wandering hipster junk meself
twitchy zone
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oooh you dont wanna go there
full of popcorn y'see
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So basically no-one should be saying anything mean about him because clearly he's just an eccentric old man who needs to be gently indulged.
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And he does his daily shouting at seagulls via the medium of Twitter.
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"We are happy to continue providing this platform on which [redacted] can make a complete tit of himself on an almost daily basis, because we firmly believe 1. in freedom of speech and 2. that mental illness is a comedy goldmine."
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I would say early onset dementia, but he's in his 70s so not so early
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Must admit I put a lot of his incoherence down to him lacking the skills of a seasoned politician
But judging by those old clips it seems like he used to be pretty good talking on camera
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So what's Diane Abbott's excuse?
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sat 6 Jan 2018, 10:23,
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diabetes
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Silly subject, silly article
I like how, at the end of the article, it basically says, 'could be stress or something' really conclusive stuff.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Fri 5 Jan 2018, 23:32,
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I was surprised by
one of George W Bushe's debates from when he was in his 40s/50s. articulate, intelligent, common sense.
when he was in power in the 00s he was a total fuckwit retard. but earlier in his career, seemed very smart and on the ball.
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Perhaps just being in the White House for any decent amount of time makes you stupid.
Just look at Obama - when his presidency began he was intelligent, articulate and well respected, yet by the time he left he, oh wait.
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Had an epiphany
The first modulation of the 'Shine On' verse (g minor - f# major - bflat major) is pretty much parallel to the first modulation of that of 'Astronomy Domine' (e major - eflat major - g major).
Just one of those moments when the two faces become a candle.
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...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch3BfpZp8PI
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Averse as I and others are towards cliché
this is haunting. Sincere, shoe-gazing, schizophrenic outpourings kick the arse off all the current glib, shoe-gazing ephemera.
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Good clip
the drummer looks utterly wasted though.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Fri 5 Jan 2018, 21:49,
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It's like he is seeing his drumkit for the first time.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Fri 5 Jan 2018, 23:34,
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Why are all flautists unable to be in tune
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I don't know.
Why are all flautists unable to be in tune?
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MyFrontFellOff ; his mouth full of teddies, urinating defiantly, Sat 6 Jan 2018, 8:57,
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Cos they're cahnts
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAGuANkEa80
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If you've got it...
Flaut it.
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Yet another video giving games arbitrary numbers and fake awards.
I made this!
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Snorty McBumhole YouTube.com/MinistryOfGeeks, Fri 5 Jan 2018, 20:35,
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I made a song about spaghetti
I made this!
Well, kinda
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jefvel next to this text there will be a date, Fri 5 Jan 2018, 17:19,
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Indie Game Review: Dinosaurs A Prehistoric Adventure
I made this!
Happy New Year b3tans! Let's get prehistoric!
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Order your "Raw Water" now!
Yes its unsterilized water from some stream somewhere delivered to your door! Full of natural silica to upgrade your brain.
What could possibly go wrong!?
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Just the sort of fresh product John John, Elton John's brother, would use.
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Fucking hipsters.
Hopefully this will encourage them all to catch cholera and thin out the numbers a little.
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More expensive than beer.
Fucking bellends
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Especially ironic given the history of (small) beer.
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Yup
That's why people who's ancestors had clean water can't handle their booze.
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Argh!.... *Says "fuckin hell" through gritted teeth*
Mind you, if they filled the bling water bottles with this raw water shit we could be onto a winner
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I hope they all get the squits
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Fri 5 Jan 2018, 14:46,
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if you knew enough about what's upsteam and the geology then most "spring" water in uk mountain areas is fine to drink
it all goes tits up of course if there's excessive animal shit or better yet a dead sheep upstream
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Mountain Dew... no thanks!
A workmate and his mate went hiking/camping in the alps. Found a crystal clear mountain stream to drink from. Few days later his mate fell VERY-VERY-ILL indeed, and had to have air ambulance off the mountain. No-one told them the mountain water is rich in Copper.
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that fucker who stands there breathing and looking wholesome grumble grumble
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It is all about the jars and pretention.
Purest, filtered, undiluted bollocks.
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Was reminded of this by the train thread below
NSFW
Can't believe this is not GC but I am told `Link may not have been posted before. Maybe.` so here you go (probably again but fuck it, it's funny)
Song contains rude words so NSFW.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Fri 5 Jan 2018, 13:31,
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Heard it before, but obviously it doesn't exist until it's on YouTube.
Now do Southern Rail...
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joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Fri 5 Jan 2018, 13:39,
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Also,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEv6dqVPLSM
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joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Fri 5 Jan 2018, 13:41,
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For southern rail
I am sure it would just be the word `cunts` over and over again.
EDIT :
Ah, here you go.
Kuntz
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Earning 30k
Fucking rich bastard elites!
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Zero Wing!
sorry for lack of politics but i fuckin' loved this game! also includes comedy intro
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sock more tea vicar?, Fri 5 Jan 2018, 11:02,
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We have posession of all your bases!
Sorry I am crap at this.
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XD
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn9Xsmj942E
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the ending was great too
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uTqFPErJEU
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mutated monty, Fri 5 Jan 2018, 12:09,
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ha missed that!
seems really out of place
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sock more tea vicar?, Fri 5 Jan 2018, 12:32,
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Im surprised they didnt spell it "Congratulation"
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You might be thinking of Hudsonsoft's 'Stop the Express' on the ZX Spectrum...
youtu.be/Xze0SGFH_9s?t=1m51s
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joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Fri 5 Jan 2018, 13:33,
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Let's hope were seeing the beginning of the end (whatever that may be!)
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showrat I Fought The Law on, Fri 5 Jan 2018, 8:42,
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meanwhile popcorn sales increase dramatically
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www.theguardian.com/business/2017/sep/29/popcorn-sales-uk-fastest-growing-grocery-gourmet
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no thats just uk sales, we're always behind....you gotta think globally in this day and age ;-)
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showrat I Fought The Law on, Fri 5 Jan 2018, 9:28,
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Aha! https://www.bakeryandsnacks.com/Article/2016/03/08/Popcorn-to-grow-4bn-in-five-years-but-US-market-share-to-shrink
https://www.bakeryandsnacks.com/Article/2016/03/08/Popcorn-to-grow-4bn-in-five-years-but-US-market-share-to-shrink
So, the world will buy lots of popcorn to sit back and watch the US with
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FAKE NEWS...those are projected figures...
global sales of popcorn have declined (albeit marginally) from 2015 to 2017.
Whilst a fatuous subject matter (unless of course you are in the popcorn industry), the allegories do not go unnoticed! :-)
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They revised those estimates quite soon afterwards
www.tinyurl.com/pvrwwoj
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TownsendsPublisher is all gravy baby, Fri 5 Jan 2018, 10:33,
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yes
but that would mean Mike Pence would be president. Which may be worse.
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Mster Johnny Ekstrom, now that's a name, Fri 5 Jan 2018, 9:10,
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I'm not sure how things could be any worse!
I just hope that GOP get wiped out in the 2018 midterms.
Perhaps then the rest of them will develop a backbone and dump Trump.
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showrat I Fought The Law on, Fri 5 Jan 2018, 9:32,
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that, and it will further entrench Trump supporters
in their weird "system is against us, it's all rigged" belief. Some will probably go on a killing spree but then that's hardly unusual over there these days.
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the VP and the whole cabinet would have to agree
If that happened I think they'd take all but the craziest with them because they themselves are nutjobs by any reasonable standard
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Someone was saying he'd form his own party and split the GOP is he was impeached
So this way might be less messy. But he'd probably fight it just as hard as impeachment so maybe not. Great telly, whatever happens
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There is a section in 'fire and fury' which says he was in shock when he won.
It says his intention was never to win, just to make some money out of it as all of his other business interests were heading down the shitter.
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that book seems designed to set fire to the whole thing
95% made up I reckon.
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When you barefacedly admit to and then deny things which are widely known black-and-white facts...
When you coin a term like "FAKE NEWS!" and apply it liberally to stories about yourself which are supported by hard recorded evidence...
When your entire political career is so farcical that Poe's law applies to it at all times, how can anyone make anything other than a 50/50 guess as to what is or isn't true about you?
So long as a story is humanly possible, I could happily believe it about Donald Trump.
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^this
www.darrenbeadle.com/ostwatter50118.png
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showrat I Fought The Law on, Fri 5 Jan 2018, 11:25,
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Its his own fucking fault though.
You can't cry wolf so many times in so many ways to so many people, and not suffer from it.
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there are people who wont believe any of it though
When you start claiming you've heard both sides of a phone call and seen one of the interlocutors shrugging people start to question that. It doesn't ring true. And if people start to question parts of it they start to question the rest of it, even the kernel of truth it might or might not be based upon
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what about if it was on speaker? Or the person at the other end was really loud.
I listened to both sides of an entire fucking conversation on the train the other day between some woman and her mother about their sister/daughter, who apparently is a thoughtless bitch who doesn't care about anyone but herself
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the 'he's a fucking idiot' quote and the shrug happened after the phone call ended
he'd have to be in Murdoch's office to witness all that unless it's been reported to him by Murdoch or someone else who was there who heard the convo on speaker. It's not something he would have picked up inside the White House
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you'd be suprised how much people bitch about their bosses and are indiscreet
I mean, I don't know the veracity of this author, the book could be anything from massively lies, to based on office gossip, to painstaking researched and everything crossreference with other source. That Trump acts highly irrationally as president in his daily routines is pretty common knowledge to most who pay attention to US politics, it's not really that big secret, but recent behaviour does suggest an increase in this and its interesting to speculate why. Senility or stress?
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There are people coming out corroborating bits of it.
twitter.com/janicemin/status/949005110671126528
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Draconacticus Reject shampoo. Demand real poo!, Fri 5 Jan 2018, 12:32,
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Good spot, hopefully some journo starts to compile these for posterity.
With the Murdoch one it has to be true. If Murdoch didn't want that quote out there it wouldn't be out there. If you can stomach it Piers Moron's shitty book The Insider gives an insight into how the Murdoch operates.
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Personally, I'm hoping he gets removed by one of the 2nd Amendment guys
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Draconacticus Reject shampoo. Demand real poo!, Fri 5 Jan 2018, 9:41,
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wouldn't be surprised if he does an Elvis
The weight will start piling on as the betrayals mount up
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I hope he visits his wall being built,
refuses to wear a hard hat, and his death plays out like a 70s Public Information Film.
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That would be perfect!
Although, I hope they then don't bury him under the wall and we're left with a Mummy 3: The Dragon Emperor type scenario in hundreds of years time.
An undead Trump is too horrific to contemplate.
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Draconacticus Reject shampoo. Demand real poo!, Fri 5 Jan 2018, 12:23,
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Oh, a Politico link?
*takes with MASSIVE pinch of salt*
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Fri 5 Jan 2018, 11:53,
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I think we can say that about large sections of the internet/media these days..everyone has an angle
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my wife was a fan of The apprentice, mainly the british and brazilian version, but I ended up binge wathcing a fair few Trump ones too
I fairly rapidly came to the conclusion that Trump didn't appear to be a smart guy. Irrational, massively conceited and easily influenced by flattery came across quite strongly. I havent really tracked his career to say whether this was always the case or that it was due advancing age-related senility. I think it says more about America that this wasn't immediately apparent when he nominated. It seems many responded to and credulously accepted his simplistic messages, and his innoculating supporters to disbelief any criticm was effective, though hardly unoriginal. Brexit already showed the way to this effectively by claiming media conspiricy. The Trump campaign merely copied.
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I had a dream last night that I was in a mafia gang headed by Trump.
We were trying to communicate with an adversary over the phone before we decided to go knock the guy off. We weren't making any progress when Trump grabbed the phone and started in with his typical crude way. He was brilliant, and solved whatever it was we were trying to do. I walked away with huge respect for the guy. I might add that in the dream he was even more obese and lumpy than in real life. I can't remember more of the dream, but it had all kinds of gangster stuff going on. Haha.
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Once more for anyone who hasn't seen it (Jam - Stupid People)
Trump may well end up getting results despite himself, who knows Stupid Person "Negotiating"
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normally I hate people's dream stories but that one made me laugh
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I won't even go into the one a couple of weeks ago where I met a lady I decided to marry
because she had genetically built an 800 pound creature that was part human with a smooth brown salamander skin. I discovered she had also genegtically built herself a penis.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=E39WWj_RpBc
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Yes, very interesting there
Looks like I won't be going for a new year's dip. And now over to the sportsdesk.
Thanks. The only dip I'll be trying is with crackers and vegetable slices, ha ha. And we kick off with football news. Hozay Moreenyo again in the headlines
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SHUT IT, ALAN, I WANT YOU TO STOP.
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mugwump In summary then, oh no. Chris., Fri 5 Jan 2018, 10:22,
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Globalisation has fucked us. Not itself necessarily but some of its consequences. It has meant whatever awful shit humans get up to has gone global and there is no going back. Whilst individual psychogeography remains fixed to where we are, and I think, has permanently damaged how we do permaculture. (or I could be speaking shit)
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Max Cooper 'Emergence' AV Lecture
Kind of niche but if you're into electronic music, science and beautiful data visualisations then this is the lecture for you.
Long, but fascinating.
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Inside Einstein's Head
I'm mainly posting this here as a bookmark for when I'm done with this Meltdown/Spectre nonsense, but it looks good at first glance.
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TL/DR
Spectre - Completely harmless if you're the sole user of a processor, nasty in clusters/cloud computing
Meltdown - Fucking horrible and Intel are being weasels about it
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DinivanX Has stinging piss after drinking Pact Coffee, Thu 4 Jan 2018, 16:57,
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Meltdown. Already patched.
Spectre. Unfixable as yet barring product recall
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Not all the meltdown patches are out yet - try getting a patch on Debian for example. Also unless your AV software is confirmed to work with the Windows patches, they just won't install at all. We run Sophos and they're not planning on certifying it to work with the patch before next week.
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You're fine if you're running vanilla windows and primary Linux distos AND can have downtime for patches. Otherwise meltdown is a shocker...
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Shocker? You mean two in the pink
and one in the stink?
Not good for server environments although I hear subs are fine with it.
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We're running vanilla Windows 10, with a very popular corporate AV, and last I checked Debian was a primary distribution. So yes, we're fine apart from the fact the patches aren't available.
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My favorite is Asterdicks - Asteroids on Viagra
NSFW
NSFW: Crudely Drawn Cocks
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Backpackers learn the hard way: Don’t take someone else’s drugs
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Hahahhahaahahahhahaa
It was even labelled!
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I wish it could have been .............
"The alarm was only raised when another housemate returned home and had a bloody good fiddle with them before calling for an ambulance."
What complete idiots.
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spazzcaptain Misses Valin @, Thu 4 Jan 2018, 16:30,
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Very odd stuff, not much fun.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Thu 4 Jan 2018, 16:36,
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Too young to have seen this drug PSA
Not all that’s white and powdery is cocaine
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How the country is run.
It's by excusing this sort of behavior. (this is from 2012. In 2013 he was honored with a KCB. Well done, jolly good show old chap.)
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There should be a law
that a yes/no question like "Did you authorise X" should be answered by `no` if you did not, and any other reply will be deemed to be `yes`.
Of course, after the answer, you can qualify it for example `yes but at the time I was not aware of Y`
Make it so that `I do not recall` means `yes` as well.
Give a firm and definite answer or one will be provided for you.
Only for politicians of course.
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Ah, Margaret Hodge. Knowingly turned a blind eye to child abuse victims when she was a big wheel in Islington.
When one victim spoke up after she became a MP she very publicly slandered him as a loony and a liar. Utter scum. That's one way to run a country.
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Shirley he should be held in contempt of court
or whatever the equivalent is for this sort of enquiry?
Failing that, set Jeremy Paxman on him.
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who is this particular cunt just in case I ever get the opportunity to piss in his mouth (assuming I'll even get invited to that sort of party)?
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My favourite new sport
Probably not one for the health and safety nerds
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DinivanX Has stinging piss after drinking Pact Coffee, Thu 4 Jan 2018, 15:18,
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Should I invest in this new sport?
How much longer can this bull market last? Are we in a bubble on the verge of popping?
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Thu 4 Jan 2018, 16:54,
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You forgot the risks inherent in inflation-deflation and the difficulties in hedging stock positions.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Fri 5 Jan 2018, 1:02,
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One disappointment
The sign of the stand to the left says 'any truck you want'
I thought it said something else for a second.
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Once they are stuck in the inflatable...
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Fri 5 Jan 2018, 1:09,
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UK has cheapest rail fares in Europe
According to the usually excellent Seat61.
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Mr Mann I love pigs, best of all the animals, Thu 4 Jan 2018, 14:34,
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So unless you need to travel in rush hour the UK is okay and can be cheaper if you book in advance.
If you have to commute, you're fucked utterly.
They are indeed usually better than this.
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"This post was sponsored by our good friends at nationalrail.co.uk"
Limiting myself to speaking about what I know: Rail travel, short or long across the Netherlands and Germany is always a fraction of the price of the UK.
...plus in germany you can buy day tickets for unlimited travel within huge regions that are as cheap as piss.
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Thu 4 Jan 2018, 15:03,
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Price per mile in this country must be the worst in the world
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spazzcaptain Misses Valin @, Thu 4 Jan 2018, 15:19,
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It's 4 quid for a paper ticket from Covent Garden to Leicester Square. That's for 45 seconds of tube ride. Bargain.
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The .......
Front end arrives at Covent Garden as the back end departs Leicester Square.
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I think if anyone gets the tube between Covent Garden & Leicester square
then they deserve to be pushed under the train, never mind charged £4 to travel in it.
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Thu 4 Jan 2018, 16:10,
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Yes but think of all the exciting communicable disease you might pick up in that time!
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Draconacticus Reject shampoo. Demand real poo!, Thu 4 Jan 2018, 16:20,
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Accept a bit fucking myopic if 80% of your "investigation" focuses on off-peak.
Plymouth to London (not far off Sheffield example) is £12 advance (that is in a sale that you might only realise is on if you have fare finding alert apps up the arse), fine if booking 1 month in advance to get you into London halfway through the fucking lunch hour. Otherwise, and here is his other 85 fucking %...over £100. I would also add that the focus on London makes this a bit bias, any South-West location to midlands (e.g. Birmingham, again rough distance) is going to be more expensive. He can fuck right off back to seat 61!
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transparenttown Dead to worse..., Thu 4 Jan 2018, 15:05,
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I don't want to accept it
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mugwump In summary then, oh no. Chris., Thu 4 Jan 2018, 15:07,
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I fucking hate them...but I have to accept them as I have no other choice.
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transparenttown Dead to worse..., Thu 4 Jan 2018, 15:09,
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^trainsphobic
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Thu 4 Jan 2018, 15:10,
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I'd still rather be in my own car, with my own tunes and not have to mix with the hoi polloi.
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Draconacticus Reject shampoo. Demand real poo!, Thu 4 Jan 2018, 15:13,
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All that road tax and fuel duty that goes to subsidising public transport is worth paying to be in your own private space.
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CanonCaliber A big bore, Thu 4 Jan 2018, 15:45,
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You're not wrong there sonny-jim.
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Draconacticus Reject shampoo. Demand real poo!, Thu 4 Jan 2018, 16:09,
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I find that
driving there and back in my car works out cheaper and quicker than taking the train one way.
If I need to carry more than my phone it is always more convenient.
Public transport needs to have just one thing that makes it better than taking your car, especially if there is only one person travelling. It either needs to be more convenient, cheaper, or quicker.
It is none of the above.
If I wanted to go from Bristol to London right now on the train, it would cost me £34.80 one way (Super off peak single, Selected off-peak trains) and it would take two hours and involve a change. If I drove there and back it would cost £20 and take an hour and a half each way. If I filled my car with other people we could get there and back for just over a fiver each.
The most expensive ticket (first class, any train, any time) would cost £154.50.
I could get a return flight to Spain, with luggage, for less than that...
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Thu 4 Jan 2018, 17:29,
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There are so many other reasons why train travel is shite too.
If you want the cheapest train tickets you have to go on a specific train which gives you little flexibility if plans change/meetings run over.
I don't have to stand for the entire journey in my car whilst busting for a piss.
I've never had to sit in my car with the stench of sewage seeping from an overflowing toilet.
I don't have to get out of my car to change into another car, or take a fucking bus for part of the journey.
My car doesn't go on strike, and there is no argument over who is allowed to close the doors.
I don't have to hold my farts in.
I don't have to try and avoid making eye contact with a pissed up, cross-eyed Glaswegian opposite me on the phone to his missus telling her not to let the social take their kids away...
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Draconacticus Reject shampoo. Demand real poo!, Thu 4 Jan 2018, 20:10,
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My car doesn't leave me and my better half stranded at Haywards Heath at midnight
because it has decided to go to Eastbourne instead.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Thu 4 Jan 2018, 20:56,
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My car has never been steamed by a group of feral yout'
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The_cold_stare Coming here only when very, very bored, Thu 4 Jan 2018, 21:02,
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Steamed?
It appears I am unfamiliar with this practice and the googles come up with too many results when the words steam and train are mixed in a search.
What happens when `de yout` steam a train?
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Fri 5 Jan 2018, 13:22,
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I think the local children are taking steaming shits on cold stares car
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Fadgebadger (1 like), Fri 5 Jan 2018, 14:52,
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When `de yout` steam a train
`de yout` get on at one station, rob the whole carriage while the train is moving, then get off at the next station.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Fri 5 Jan 2018, 16:49,
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My car has never txt me to say I have no reliable way of getting home.
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transparenttown Dead to worse..., Fri 5 Jan 2018, 9:23,
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My car has never hit a fox so hard and got so fucked that it was unable to move for 3 hours.
My car can drive over leaves.
My car can drive through a moderate amount of water.
My car is capable of navigating faulty signals.
My car doesn't have a shit sitting in the back seat constantly trying to flog me mars bars.
My car's wifi doesn't need all my passengers to provide their email only to grind to halt at select times and then have me email them stuff about how great I am.
Fuck trains, fuck trains..fucking, fuck trains!
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transparenttown Dead to worse..., Fri 5 Jan 2018, 9:32,
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Trains can drive over leaves.
Trains can drive through a moderate amount of water.
Trains can be navigated through faulty signals.
Just saying.
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Fucking pedant. With all three it takes some early or late afternoon safety committee comprised of fluorescent orange rail goblins to decide on it though...in the car you just close your eyes hit the accelerator and 9 times out of 10 it works out ok.
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transparenttown Dead to worse..., Fri 5 Jan 2018, 13:55,
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What a bellend
Comparing the pricing for rail commuters to business flights is bollocks
1. If you fly business chances are your company will be paying for it. You don't fly business to commute
2. When flying business you will be guaranteed a seat something which many commuters dream about
3. Also flying business will probably entitle you to air miles/club points and maybe lounges, free food coffee etc. As a regular commuter you get fleeced and get fuck all in return. You see adverts for all the great savings and deals you can get but they never apply to you because you are taken for granted and shat on because you need the train to get to work to do your job. I have noticed recently that companies have been extending their peak times to stop those who might be able to work flexible hours avoiding peak travel.
Wankers.
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spazzcaptain Misses Valin @, Thu 4 Jan 2018, 15:16,
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“with the highest fares designed to get maximum revenue from business travel”
“Business travel”? ITYM “People going to work”.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Thu 4 Jan 2018, 15:20,
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My season ticket went down by about £20 this year
I’m trying not to be smug about that
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LP, Thu 4 Jan 2018, 21:27,
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