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grumblegrumblegrumbleWellit’djustbenicetogetsomeadvancenoticenexttimebeforeIputinalltheeffortandstartbuildingthedeathtrapsandallthat
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All I understand is I could murder a cuddle right now.
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All I understand is I could murder a cuddle right now.
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Okay, fine, no one will murder Anders then.
I hope you’re happy now, @Anders.
I feel robbed.
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I can be two things.
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I’d feel robbed without you, Anders.
And now thanks to Todd you have a fierce wee friend to guard you from anything Christian is conspiring. Just don’t leave any odd socks lying around. (So that’s where they wind up. I have often wondered).
Cheers, Todd.
That’s the nicest thing I’ve received all week. Plus Tim gets to wake up to a pupsy.2 users thanked author for this post.
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This morning I was talking to my wife about possibly watching Hamilton tonight on Disney+ and I quickly realised that she had no idea what it was, what the concept was, who was in it etc.
How does something huge like that pass you by entirely?
When I mentioned Lin-Manuel Miranda she looked blank and then said “I thought it was about pirates or something.”
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Cornwallis pirated Nova Scotia.
People can be oblivious to plenty. I’ve been surprised loads of times. I’ll think of examples when I’m thinking of something else.
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“Cornwallis Nova Scotia” 100% sounds like some Harry Potter spell.
“But what does it DO Hermione?”
“It makes your accent completely indistinguishable.”
“Like GIBBERISH?”
“No, Ron. That’s not what I said. In-dis-tin-guish-ab-le. It means–”
“I KNOW WHAT IT MEANS, HERMIONE!”
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They should do a British musical under the same name about the Cash For Questions scandal.
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Or Brexit.
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They should do a British musical under the same name about the Cash For Questions scandal.
I remember one of the papers here basically doing that joke about a long-running series of corruption tribunals here moving to the West End and becoming a smash hit…
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They should do a British musical under the same name about the Cash For Questions scandal.
I remember one of the papers here basically doing that joke about a long-running series of corruption tribunals here moving to the West End and becoming a smash hit…
This is going to become a real life “The Producers” situation, isn’t it?
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They should do a British musical under the same name about the Cash For Questions scandal.
I remember one of the papers here basically doing that joke about a long-running series of corruption tribunals here moving to the West End and becoming a smash hit…
This is going to become a real life “The Producers” situation, isn’t it?
I mean, your president is a reality TV “star”.
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What about producing a forever running movie star?
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Here’s a newly published short story by Terry Pratchett:
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Here’s a newly published short story by Terry Pratchett:
Uhhhh…. I have some bad news for you…
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I said newly published, not ghostwritten.
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I said newly published, not ghostwritten.
These may be synonyms here.
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I’ve never backed a Kickstarter before but jumped at this – an in-depth book on the history of Street Fighter II.
I just finished the Read Only Memory books on the Megadrive and Dreamcast and they’re top quality.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/darrenwall/like-a-hurricane
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I’m not saying it wouldn’t be an interesting read (edit: I think I’ve read the original web version of it and liked it), but that’s a horribly designed book. The cover’s awful and they surely can’t be serious about doing interior pages of black text on bright red and yellow and red text on white pages?
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Some are saying this is Miley Cyrus’ future:
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Some are saying this is Miley Cyrus’ future:
I thought that was Miley Cyrus
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There is another B.
Charlie Kaufman has written a novel about a character called B who hates Charlie Kaufman. He wrote the book because he couldn’t get work in movies or TV at the time. That’s not right. I mean, he’s only made some of the greatest movies ever. I love Charlie Kaufman.
Still, it led to this novel which, according to the interviewer, is “stuffed to its mad gunwales with gags and ideas and scattershot erudition.” Fair warning, the interview is stuffed with plot spoilers. I won’t spoil it here.
I want to read his novel NOW! He’s also working on a new script.
I did like his response to the final question posed: Does he feel as though reality is a stranger and more fragile thing than most people imagine? “Jesus yes!” he yelps.
Hmmm… What if I made Charlie Kaufman up inside my head?
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One of the guys who work in the liqor store here mocks costumers who buy expensive craft beer. I bought two beers there today that cost 2.50 each and he said, “Well I wouldn’t pay that for a beer.”
I’ve got a worse one. When I was 8, I went into a comic shop in Oregon with my cousins and one of the guys working there made fun of me for liking Wolverine. I repeat: I was 8.
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One of the guys who work in the liqor store here mocks costumers who buy expensive craft beer. I bought two beers there today that cost 2.50 each and he said, “Well I wouldn’t pay that for a beer.”
I’ve got a worse one. When I was 8, I went into a comic shop in Oregon with my cousins and one of the guys working there made fun of me for liking Wolverine. I repeat: I was 8.
It really does pay to nip that kind of thing in the bud.
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Yeah.
I mean, you could have grown up to be a fan of the Street Sharks!
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Some people should be allowed nowhere near customer service roles.
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Yay! Lets find out!
I have been watching some variety/late show segments on youtube lately where they interview celebrities in isolation on zoom.
Man some of those guys are going bonkers. It’s like watching these people like they really are without being coached by their media coach and appearance advisor. Tom Hanks has a touch of the crazy talkative dude you try to get away from at the grocery store.
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I read the EU is for 42 % covered with forest. I thought this was surprising, I always assumed it was much lower. Most is in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe though, the Netherlands is the lowest with only 8 %. If you take Europe as a whole I think it must be higher, seeing as Russia and Belarus probably have a lot of forest.
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I’ve enjoyed lots of books you’ve mentioned.
I finished reviewing On Beauty but I deleted all the wrong words and all I’m left with is the title.
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Well, whether or no they have, no one’s read your version of it. So, surely, (Shirley), why not write it yourself?
I have just read a good novella about the gradual deletion of multitudes.
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I remember when it was called Byelorussia. So instead of calling it White Russia, it should Be Yellow Russia.
Be Yellow Russia.
See what I did there?!
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No and I think you should explain in detail
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I liked this on Twitter. How many great band names can you get out of the short descriptions on the spine of an issue of National Geographic.
I like Bible Hunters’ early stuff but nowadays I can’t stop playing the latest Stateless Babies album.
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As for Gorongosa National Park, they’ve always been a bit too up their own arse for me.
Yeah, they’re no Sea of Plastic, that’s for sure.
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In truth I think in the English speaking world Belarus isn’t really referenced very much.
Well, you mean outside of the ESC.
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Just saw this on Twitter, which is fascinating.
I actually cannot believe this origin story for "Stockholm Syndrome" which is basically just a "myth invented to discredit women victims of violence by a psychiatrist with an obvious conflict of interest, whose first instinct was to silence the woman questioning his authority" pic.twitter.com/DN62JezT95
— Sarah Mohammed (@sezmohammed) April 21, 2020
Taken from the book Look What You Made Me Do.
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That was very interesting indeed, cheers!
So this is a bit like “hysteria”, it seems.
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Damn, I miss Jim O’Hara and Johnny Henning. That’s the weird thing with internet relations, people you interact with just disappear sometimes. That is probably much more the case with things like twitter than forums like this one.
I miss a lot of the Millarworlders.
I think the end of MW became a jumping off point for a lot of them. I don’t say this as a slam but it the fall of MW may have been the opportunity to let go and move on. I see some of them on Facebook and Instagram so I know they’re still active online.
When you consider that through various incarnations, this general collective has been going for around 20 years. That’s an eternity in internet time. I joined MW January 4, 2004. (I joined FB February 2008.)
There will come a day in the not too distant future where there simply won’t be enough members to sustain The Carrier financially. There’s only a relative handful of us that post regularly compared to the official number of 91 members.
The Carrier doesn’t seem likely to shut down anytime soon but in the end, Entropy always wins.
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Its hard on the board. Were all subject to moods and taking arguments personally. SteveUK is gone too. Weve all known each other too long as well. Its grumpy old men at the bar, some times.
Ive thought about leaving many times myself, but frankly I just dont care enough about other people to give them that reprieve.
At the end of the day, all you can do is try to be reasonable, rational and polite, and if its day when you fail to do that, then hope the other person is not failing at the same time.
What Im trying to say is: fuck you Christian, its your fault Johnny left us you right assmunch.
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Don’t blame yourself for that, Christian.
I think Johnny was getting challenged on a few of his arguments by various people and he may have interpreted it as us not wanting him here anymore. So he closed his account and moved on.
I never saw it as a personal attack but he may have taken it differently. Johnny is a good guy but he could overthink things.
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ts hard on the board. Were all subject to moods and taking arguments personally. SteveUK is gone too. Weve all known each other too long as well. Its grumpy old men at the bar, some times.
I think sometimes taking a break from here is a good thing. Go out and refresh and recharge.
I personally find this group, through its various incarnations and iterations to be an oasis on the Internet. It is the only place online I feel safe opening up on. I see so many people reveal a lot of personal details on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. I just can’t comfortably do that on those sites.
Here, among you all, I feel safe and understood. You are my friends. Even you, Tim. PUPPY FRIENDS FOREVER!!!
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Yeah, it’s sad. I feel bad about Jonny, he disappeared in the middle of a lengthy argument about the evolution of language, and I’m afraid I got a bit testy during that at some points of the conversation. Hope it wasn’t me that drove him away.
For what it’s worth, I don’t think you said anything unreasonable in that conversation.
I like Johnny and miss his contributions, but I sensed that he felt a bit challenged in that conversation about language by someone with a stronger grasp of the subject than his own.
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Hey, I don’t have any issue with you, mate! Sometimes I’m not 100% on board with the choices you make but I think you always conduct yourself with politic and reason.
I know I am an asshole and sometimes it’s a mental health thing, sometimes I’m genuinely wanting to die on that hill, but on the whole I don’t really harbour any ill will to anyone here. I think people who engage in dialogue in the way that you and Christian often do help to balance out the hot-heads like me.
As a side-note: I genuinely don’t like the “thanks” system, but I’m in the minority on that. Just because I don’t click a “thanks” on your post doesn’t mean I don’t like or appreciate what you’re saying. I will usually try to engage in a different way then clicking the thanks button, unless it’s just as a sort of sign off.
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Ah, we can all be assholes sometimes. Glad to know there’s no bad feeling there.
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Even you, Tim. PUPPY FRIENDS FOREVER!!!
When all is said and done and the light at the end of the world flickers and dies and the heat-death of everything hastens to its inevitable conclusion…
… it is the puppies that will have given you the most cuddles.
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Yeah, I think the system is probably important to use. I’ve read a lot about the psychology of social media likes only because I’m interested in it, and the downside is that we’re now so accustomed to that form of approval that people can feel disengaged if they’re not receiving approval. It’s a type of market that has been designed to follow a similar psychology to entrance compulsive gamblers, and I can’t in good conscious promote it.
I do the same thing with facebook – often using the like system ironically, if at all.
But, with that said, it’s now a necessary system to indicate that people are participating in the conversation beyond just responses. Having an “audience” has become important for our psychological interactions on the internet, because we don’t have the same contextual understanding that you might in a face to face or video/teleconference.
The thanks system is probably as good as we can get it, and I’ve previously mentioned my issues with it and at least suggested the text be minimised, but I understand it’s an important tool.
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Entropy always wins.
No it doesn’t.
grumpy old men at the bar
Hey! I can think of one example why it’s more than a bunch of grumpy old men. Thank you very much.
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Hey! I can think of one example why it’s more than a bunch of grumpy old men. Thank you very much.
You’re right, some of us aren’t grumpy or old.
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