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Couldn’t make it up – Tate’s response to Thunberg tipped off the Romanian Police that he was in the country – so they arrested him for trafficking!
Sometimes living in the stupidest timeline works out.
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Couldn’t make it up – Tate’s response to Thunberg tipped off the Romanian Police that he was in the country – so they arrested him for trafficking!
The feel-good story to finish out 2022.
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From this article, the Twitter back and forth between him and Greta and this picture of the pizza box in Romania gave the police proof that he was there.
Unbelievable how it worked out.
Greta is a hero!
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That other guy wins too, though.
Not any more.
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Couldn’t make it up – Tate’s response to Thunberg tipped off the Romanian Police that he was in the country – so they arrested him for trafficking!
What was that about there being no such thing as bad publicity?
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Apparently in the video Tate boasted that he wasn’t going to recycle the pizza box.
What a badass!
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Apparently in the video Tate boasted that he wasn’t going to recycle the pizza box. He hoisted himself on multiple petards.
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What was that about there being no such thing as bad publicity?
Might have to amend that with an “as long as the police isn’t looking for you for human trafficking”.
I’ll take it all back, this was awesome. On the other hand though:
Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan were detained by Romanian cops yesterday
– Prosecutors say they are suspects in a human trafficking investigation
– Crime ring allegedly forced women into performing porn for sale online
– Chicago-born Tate, 36, has been branded ‘the king of toxic masculinity’
– Spokesman says Tate will ‘assist and help’ Romanian authorities however he canJesus, I hope he’ll help by going away for a long, long time. What a miserable excuse for a human being.
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Genius:
Has @neilhimself seen this? 😂 pic.twitter.com/zm2sl3WKlJ
— Ali Trotta (@alwayscoffee) December 30, 2022
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And then there’s this.
— Gul Dukat (@realGulDukat) December 31, 2022
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This is an unusual paragraph. I’m curious as to just how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it. It looks so ordinary and plain that you would think nothing was wrong with it. In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is highly unusual though. Study it and think about it. You still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out. Try to do so without any coaching.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Void
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Looking at that cover I count four letter Es so it’s failed before it even begins.
He’s definitely sorted for Es.
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I was walking by the water here and there was abig Muscovy duck sitting by the water side. I stood still and the bird turned around and slowly started walking towards me. It came real close and stared at me with his head askew. We had kind of a special moment.
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John Williams turns 91 today. I genuinely feel like he’s one of the greatest creators still with us. Even just having written one or two of his themes you’d be a legend. But imagine having done Jaws and Star Wars and Superman and Close Encounters and Indiana Jones and ET and Jurassic Park and Home Alone and Harry Potter… and so much more besides. The guy is a genius.
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Do not fuck with Generation Z:
I'm mercifully unaware of most of the ways that my 15-year-old and his friends taunt each other online, but I did happen to overhear him zing one of them with "why don't you go order pizza in Romania?"
— Zander Cannon 🍄 (@zander_cannon) February 6, 2023
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Some bugs decided to make a meal of my ankles the other day and I’ve been suffering through the itchiness of bites since. Been using antihistamine cream and savlon repeatedly with brief, minimal respite.
I decided to look for other options this morning and found, (from no less a source than the Leicestershire Mercury!), the suggestion of using a hairdryer. You put it on the hottest setting and hold it over the bite. Just before the heat starts to get uncomfortable on the skin, the bite will go tingly and voila – no itching. Incredibly effective. Lasted for several hours, vs like ten minutes for the creams. I can’t believe this isn’t more commonly recommended.
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“Your prices are surprisingly low for such a primally satisfying experience, but then again I know I will feel deeply hollow and ashamed shortly afterwards.”
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“Where’s my shake?”
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“Hold the gherkin, please”
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I decided to look for other options this morning and found, (from no less a source than the Leicestershire Mercury!), the suggestion of using a hairdryer. You put it on the hottest setting and hold it over the bite. Just before the heat starts to get uncomfortable on the skin, the bite will go tingly and voila – no itching. Incredibly effective. Lasted for several hours, vs like ten minutes for the creams. I can’t believe this isn’t more commonly recommended.
Heat is very effective for this. I’ve been using a “biteaway” pen for years and that’s pretty much what it does. Works great for me. (Only in the case of these pens, it actually does get hot enough to cause a little pain. I don’t mind that though.)
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The BBC’s Scottish rugby correspondent is called Tom English but he’s Irish.
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The BBC’s Scottish rugby correspondent is called Tom English but he’s Irish.
I heard you shouldn’t make a wager with him because he’ll welsh on his bets.
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The BBC’s Scottish rugby correspondent is called Tom English but he’s Irish.
I heard you shouldn’t make a wager with him because he’ll welsh on his bets.
And he’ll get off Scott free!
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The BBC’s Scottish rugby correspondent is called Tom English but he’s Irish.
I heard you shouldn’t make a wager with him because he’ll welsh on his bets.
And he’ll get off Scott free!
I can’t believe you’re making such cornish jokes.
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Now, there is talk that AI will replace a lot of jobs and do the work of search engines.
The interesting aspect here is we have had technology taking jobs for a long time. Automation has reduced millions of factory roles, agricultural machines means far fewer people are needed on farms, MS Word and printers got rid of secretaries and typing pools, online banking and shopping is closing retail spaces at a rate of knots, a program now does my tax return for me with minimal input, actuaries have been replaced with algorithms that are more accurate, 50% of law graduates in the US don’t work as lawyers because all the old form drafting jobs are defunct.
However we have arguably more people in work than ever, considering that it wasn’t until around the 1960s/70s that married women entered the workplace in large numbers.
AI has the potential to eradicate a huge number of roles and is probably getting more focus because they are white collar roles that include journalism but will we ever reach that point always mooted where we develop a leisure economy based on UBI?
I think political parties are still really fighting battles from 40 years ago and not considering this stuff an how it has the potential for both utopian and dystopian outcomes. You could have a scenario where that potential free time is thrown into community enriching projects or people sit alone and eventually die of a fentanyl overdose.
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Opened a new bottle of Pepsi yesterday and thought it tasted a bit thin and flat. Figured maybe it had been shaken up a lot in transit to or from the shop. Had a dodgy stomach last night and a headache but didn’t really connect them. Another glass this morning and, again, really struck me as tasting weird and making me feel a little queasy. So I decided to check the bottle – just out of idle paranoia, they surely wouldn’t bother changing regular Pepsi, they have both Max and Diet – but nope! “Regular” Pepsi in the UK now contains Ace K and sucralose.
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A husky next to a wolf. 🤯 My entire life I thought they were the size of dogs. I’ve been heavily mistaken. pic.twitter.com/6AQWruGRP2
— Today Years Old (@todayyearsoldig) March 21, 2023
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I have come to the conclusion that the most accurate depiction of social media and bad faith reality/discourse is The 2 Ronnies’ Four Candles sketch. Go watch if you haven’t.
There is also a slight possibility that reality is drunk (I hugged Batman and encountered Oscar Poe + Jerry is my Auntie twice removed on my very, very distant Pirate Queen’s side. Hope you and yours keeping well, Jerry).
Just in case, no worries, just a wee bit crook, will one of yous look out for Tim and Simon for me. Just send them the odd pupsy pic now and then. That’s all I ask. (On that note, very sad news about Paul/Lily).
Oh, and did Miqque get his bench? Or a tree. I hope so.
May the forks be with you, Ben
*waves* to Gar for accommodating all this.
I hugged Batman!
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Been approached in the street by two groups and I got to looking into Steve Hassan and his BITE list of group characteristics.
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JWshttps://freedomofmind.com/cult-mind-control/bite-model/
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I got to say: This AI, between the writing and the art, is getting creepy.
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A horse goes into a bar and asks for a pint.
The bartender says ‘you know, you’re in here pretty often, do you think you might be an alcoholic?’
The horse says ‘I don’t think I am’ and promptly vanishes from existence.
You see this is a joke about Descartes’ famous line from philosophy ‘I think therefore I am.’
But if I had explained that before the rest of the joke it would have been putting Descartes before the horse!
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A dog walks into a telegraph office, goes up to the clerk and says “I’d like to send a message to my friend.” Clerk says “OK, what’s the message?” Dog says, “Woof woof. Woof, woof woof. Woof woof, woof woof. Woof.” Clerk looks at the message and says, “y’know, we charge by the line, so you can add another ‘woof’ in there for no additional cost.” Dog says, “But then it wouldn’t make any sense.”
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A horse goes into a bar and asks for a pint.
The bartender says ‘you know, you’re in here pretty often, do you think you might be an alcoholic?’
The horse says ‘I don’t think I am’ and promptly vanishes from existence.
You see this is a joke about Descartes’ famous line from philosophy ‘I think therefore I am.’
But if I had explained that before the rest of the joke it would have been putting Descartes before the horse!
I told that joke on a friend’s charity twitch stream last year to massive groans.
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I have it clipped, of course:
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Your friend certainly showed the adequate reaction.
You know, I think it’ll be a while before Chat GPT catches up on the jokes thing…
Christian U.
Can you tell me a joke involving descartes and a horse?Sure, here’s a joke involving Descartes and a horse:
One day, the philosopher René Descartes decided to go horseback riding. As he was getting on the horse, the animal suddenly spoke up and said, “I think, therefore I am.”
Shocked and confused, Descartes replied, “Whoa, whoa, whoa! A talking horse? This changes everything!”
Sorry if it’s not very funny, horse jokes can be a little “neigh” or miss!
Christian U.
Can you tell me another one?Of course! Here’s another joke for you:
Why did the horse go on a diet?
Because he wanted to look stable!
Christian U.
No, another one involving Descartes and a horse.I’m sorry about that! Here’s another joke involving Descartes and a horse:
Descartes walks into a bar, and the bartender asks him if he’d like a drink. Descartes says, “I think not,” and then promptly disappears.
A few minutes later, he reappears and explains, “I realized that if I don’t exist, then I can’t drink, so I must exist!” The bartender is a bit confused, but before he can say anything, a horse walks into the bar.
The horse looks at the bartender and says, “I think not,” and disappears just like Descartes did. The bartender, stunned, turns to Descartes and says, “Okay, what’s going on here?”
Descartes replies, “Oh, don’t mind him. He’s just a little horse that’s been studying philosophy.”
Christian U.
Can you explain why that joke is funny?Sure, I’d be happy to explain why the joke is funny!
The joke plays on the famous philosophical statement by Descartes, “I think, therefore I am,” which is also known as the cogito or the Cartesian cogito. In the joke, Descartes is using this statement to assert his own existence, but then disappears when he realizes that if he doesn’t exist, he can’t think or drink.
The horse’s use of the same phrase “I think not,” is funny because it’s unexpected – we don’t normally associate horses with philosophical thought. The fact that the horse disappears just like Descartes did adds to the humor, as it’s a silly image to imagine a horse suddenly vanishing into thin air.
Overall, the joke is a humorous take on a famous philosophical concept, and it uses the unexpected appearance of a talking horse to add an element of surprise and silliness.
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One of the key drivers of Sicily’s economic recovery is its strong export sector, particularly in salami trees. The island is the second-largest salami orchard growing province in Europe, behind Tuscany, accounting for around 10% of Sicily’s GDP. pic.twitter.com/cnmy4GgTO8
— Thinkwert (@Thinkwert) April 20, 2023
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That’s reminiscent of the BBCs famous spoof in the 1950s when the normally very serious Panorama programme (which is still running) did a feature on spaghetti farmers in Italy.
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I’ve been trying to finish off my collection of Discworld novels, in the “adult” black and gold trade dress from about 10 years ago. Easier said than done, as they’re all out of of print now, but I’ve only got a handful to go.
One of those is Night Watch, which is my favourite DW novel (I had it in the original hardback). I currently actually have four copies of it. All bought from second hand book retailers online over the past month or so, all stated to be in “very good” condition and all in absolute states: ruined spines, creased covers, massive dogearring. One even turned out to be a heavily stained ex-library copy covered in stamps and stickers.
Aside from being a visceral statement about how poorly some online book sellers grade their stock, it’s baffling that I can’t seem to get a good condition copy of this one book. I’ve had bad condition copies of other ones, but it usually only takes two goes – three tops – to get a copy in good condition. Along with some misfires last year, I’m at about 7 for Night Watch and still no joy.
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Did you know that bees sleep between 5-8 hours a day, sometimes in flowers? Also, they like to sleep with other bees and hold each other’s feet.
(📸: Joe Neely) pic.twitter.com/xgmbIylzN9
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) April 24, 2023
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Ok random and consolidated:
The chess championship is tied 6-6. I give credit to Liren for stepping it up.
The other guy Nepo (for short) only had to play it safe and draw the rest of the way.
But now… it is on!———–
Fitness is Ok for me, but when it comes to people touching me or saying I lost or gained… I am not into physical contact unless it is close significant other
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I’m seeing this news about two women bullying another young woman taking selfies at the Houston Astros game. Now the bullies have been identified, are getting death threats, hate mail, the place where one of them worked at closed down over it. Now the two are saying it has gone far enough. They started it, and are upset now that they can’t control the backlash.
Sh*t struck a nerve.
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Elon Musk is proposing a charge for certain article links for Twitter.
I don’t think this will work but somewhere behind it there is a sensible idea. Newspapers moving to a digital format have had two solutions, free or paywalled. The former has an issue of forcing clickbait and intrusive ads (outside of unusual funding models like the BBC). The latter doesn’t fit how we really engage with news on the web.
I often get linked intriguing articles in places like the NY Times or even The Telegraph where I hate its politics has very good sports coverage. Yet they all ask for stuff like $20 a month which nobody is paying for 2-3 articles. It needs a Spotify model, pay $10 a month ‘Press Pass’ to every paywalled news or magazine site, and then share the proceeds based on traffic (not a new model by the way, it’s how radio paid royalties for decades, pay a set fee to play what you want on the air, the combined fees get shared by level of airplay).
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There was a tiny bat here stuck to the outer wall of my house. I thought it might be sick as it didn’t move all day despite people walking by so I called the animal welfare people who came to pick it up. Such a beautiful little animal, never seen one up close before.
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Something I posted on Facebook 4 years ago today:
Game of Thrones, Season 8, Episode 6
At end of the episode and after the fade to black…
FADE IN. SAMWELL TARLEY IS SEATED ACROSS FROM THREE MEN SITTING AT A TABLE.
Man 1: So Mr. Tarley, what can the Iron Bank do for you today?
Sam: Well, I have this idea for a play. A really epic play. So epic it will take years to tell the story.
Man 2: A… play?
Sam: YES! And it will be brilliant! Each week will tell a different part. And those parts together will tell a chapter of the larger story.
Man 3: So that’s why the full story will take years to tell?
Sam: RIGHT! I’m still writing it with the help of my wife Gilly but I have the basic points down. The other reason it will take years is because we have to build sets and travel to different areas to put on the weekly set of plays.
Man 1: So how many yearly sets of weekly plays are you thinking.
Sam: Right now, in me head, I see about 7 years with 10 weekly plays each year. And as I said before, all the gobbly bits of casting, creating costumes and sets and traveling to about two or three major kingdoms per year to put on the shows.
Man 2: This sounds quite expensive. You would have to perform at large venues to draw the paying crowds to pay us back and make a tidy profit for yourself.
Sam: Absolutely! But this will be so epic, they will be talking about it for centuries! It will be the greatest story the world has ever seen!
Man 3: So Mr. Tarley, just what is the story? What is this “epic” that you want the Iron Bank to fund?
Sam: Right. Well, you see, there’s this pleasure palace full of clockwork people that go mad and turn on their creators…
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So Redbubble shit the bed the other week by introducing new fees that basically rob artists of half of all the commission they’ve earned from sales (this is on top of what RB already takes as a fee from the amount customers pay). Really shady stuff (you had to accept the new t&cs to see what level your account had been set to, which determines what fees you’re going to be charged). Given that, I’ve taken all my designs off there and have started adding them to Threadless, who are really making a PR push in the fallout of this (understandably).
And Threadless is pretty cool. You can get skateboards! Turns out I already had an account I’d set up and done not much with a few years ago, so I’ve been filling out my catalogue there. It’s a slightly finnicky process (it’s not obvious how to get to individual product settings) but that’s nothing compared to ordering.
They sent me a $20 coupon so I could get a shirt sample, which is a really great idea. I went to order a shirt and it discounted it automatically to the base cost of $16 or so, as it was my design. But with postage and everything, that still turned out fairly high. I remembered then that I’d seen something about there being a $15 shirt sale on soon, so figured I’d wait for that. Turns out it’s on now and going back to my cart from a different part of the site discounted the shirt to $12 (I assume that’s the $15 minus the artist commission I don’t need to pay myself). After postage and the coupon it came to about $9.40 or something. I went to checkout, something went wrong, it threw me to a different checkout where the total had now been recalculated as $8.19. I have no idea how or why, but I went with it before it decided to throw yet another completely different total at me. Very strange site.
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iPhone announcements are usually in September.
Yes. There used to be this running joke here about my indecisiveness on buying
a new iPhone. (Back in my “happening kind of guy” days but I digress…)This time around, I definitely know now to wait for the model with
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Things are getting bad in NYC and it includes the air these days.
The wind currents have carried the air from the forest fires in Quebec
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Things are getting bad in NYC and it includes the air these days.
The wind currents have carried the air from the forest fires in Quebec
and we are advised to stay indoors for the next few days.There are more people wearing masks in Manhattan today than ever did during the height of COVID.
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This time around, I definitely know now to wait for the model with
the USB-CI’m with you on that.
I think the model released this year is supposed to have USB-C.
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I heard that Europe got Apple to change from their exclusive lightning connectors to the common USB – C because of all the garbage.
E-waste is the more common term. People were binning perfectly fine chargers while changing devices so the EU set a rule every tech company do the same with USB-C as the default.
Nobody has to follow it but there are 451 million consumers in the EU that are relatively affluent so it is petty common firms just meet their standards. They would waste a lot of effort and resources having multiple standards.
I think it’s really sensible. In the end you have a lot of scope to innovate in many ways, you can change battery tech completely, some people are working on it being run from salt. I mean we sadly don’t have a universal global power socket (although adaptors can do it) bur the socket that charges your EV car remains pretty much the same one that did your gramaphone in 1910.
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This just appeared randomly in my Youtube feed and is old by now. I have expressed my issues with SNL in the past but it should be embarrassing for the comedians employed on the show that pop singer Ariana Grande does by a country mile the best impression of them all. The Woody Allen and Kevin Smith ones are just awful. None of them are good apart from hers.
It’s like the equivalent of being an Iron Man champion or Navy Seal going into Survivor and being beaten by Rick Moranis.
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Amazon have just told us that can’t deliver a package of tea, because tea is sensitive to hot weather
Weirdly, they are going to deliver a package of chocolate
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Amazon have just told us that can’t deliver a package of tea, because tea is sensitive to hot weather
Weirdly, they are going to deliver a package of chocolate
What tea did you order?
I have ordered loose leaf tea from online shops in the past, but it can be expensive. I currently have some Taiwanese black tea from a shop here in the Netherlands that is 20 euros for 100 grams.
Taiwan has some really good tea but the more expensive stuff like Lishan oolong is 60 euros for 100 grams. In my opinion, the best tea from Taiwan beats anything from China, Japan, or Darjeeling.
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E-waste is the more common term. People were binning perfectly fine chargers while changing devices so the EU set a rule every tech company do the same with USB-C as the default.
So that ‘s what they call it now. Anyway, setting USB-C is a smart move as it should cut down on the binning.
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That skit also appeared in my YouTube feed before. Ariana is trained as a singer, not an improv comedienne and she still outdid and shamed the cast. SNL tries to come across as this cool, “happening “show, but doesn’t deliver all the time.
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Ariana is trained as a singer, not an improv comedienne
To be fair, she is also an actress and has been since she was a kid. And SNL isn’t improv.
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SNL tries to come across as this cool, “happening “show, but doesn’t deliver all the time.
I don’t think it is entirely their fault. They are asked to come up a high number of sketches in a very short time which isn’t basically asked by any other format. Sketch shows generally are short run and take a lot of time.
Sometimes they are great and very funny, this one was particularly bad apart from Grande’s impression. I don’t know why the Youtube algorithm was pushing it.
On the improv thing, Martin is right that SNL isn’t improv, it is scripted, although a lot of US comics come from an improv background. I also find very little improv funny, if I go through the funniest bits of TV I have ever seen none would come from “Who’s Line Is It Anyway” which was okay at times but a lot of it seems to be about talking nonsense quickly.
Comedy tastes are very personal but I think in general, like most art, spending time honing things makes them better.
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The weather here has been so weird…we had a very cool spring, because the winds came from the North for like two months straight. And now for the last two weeks it has been hovering around 25-30 degrees, often making it warmer here than it has been in the South of Europe. And we had no rain at all for like two months.
Today we had huge thunderstorms and a deluge of rain, this afternoon there was thundering goung on without pause for like half an hour. Very unusual.
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Sometimes they are great and very funny, this one was particularly bad apart from Grande’s impression. I don’t know why the Youtube algorithm was pushing it.
I don’t think I’ve ever watched an entire episode of SNL, and I doubt I’d make it through more than a few minutes if I tried.
But there are times when they do produce solid gold.
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Yah that one is great.
Even on the topical ones I did love Melissa McCarthy’s Sean Spicer stuff. It’s really funny.
The moving podium was genius.
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I ran out of gasoline while mowing the lawn, so i put vodka in.
Now my lawn is half-cut.
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Heheh our queen is being ridiculed on social media for saying she shops at Zeeman, where poor people like me get their cheap underwear and towels and shit. People saying things like “yeah I met her at the ALDI, she was buying potato chips”.
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There was a piece on BBC News just now (in one of the magazine shows, not a bulletin) about dredging the canals in Venice for rubbish. They showed a boat being filled with the bits they were pulling out and it’s 80% road tyres.
In Venice.
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I ran out of gasoline while mowing the lawn, so i put vodka in.
Now my lawn is half-cut.
Sounds like something Steven Wright would say 🤣
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