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Apparently Norway is demanding that all ships wishing to enter their ports have bar codes painted on them.
It’s so they can scan da navy in.
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Sebastian Stan’s cryptic Instagram post has ignited another round of Marvel controversy (x)
Welcome Mr Stan ! Welcome. pic.twitter.com/iuhHD2bbnR
— John Boyega (@JohnBoyega) January 30, 2020
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Sorry to drop into the thread like this but I need some advice.
Someone sent me this image by artist Eric Zawadzki.
Its the cover for Heart break issue 6 from sky bound and image comics.
Now here’s my Logo for my Comics Label Aroha Comics
https://arohacomics.threadless.com/
Should I be worried?
I haven’t Trademarked the design anywhere but the one thing I do have up my sleeve is that the outline is my right hand.
I dunno.
I‘m probably overthinking this.
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I was looking for a book with Tibetan art and came across this: at a measely 10,000 euros it’s practically for free.
Each copy is sgned by the Dalai Lama and it comes with that bookstand.
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Steven Spielberg’s Daughter Mikaela Is Becoming a Sex Worker
I wonder if her dad will direct her movies?
You’re sick just for thinking that.
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Steven Spielberg’s Daughter Mikaela Is Becoming a Sex Worker
I wonder if her dad will direct her movies?
You’re sick just for thinking that.
;)It could be an Oscar winner!
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I’ve had an unusual run of sales on one of my t-shirt designs the last week or two, a Transformers one. I tried to find out why – I assume it’s been found and posted on a forum somewhere – but instead only managed to find that design being pirated on several sites. They’re mostly fly-by night print on demand ones, but also Threadless and Amazon, of all places. Threadless took down the pirated design ASAP, Amazon are dragging their feet over it (I had to fill in a form, as soon as I did that, I got an auto-reply in about 11 seconds saying they couldn’t determine I was the owner of the design, please provide more information and had me fill in exactly the same form again :unsure:) and the fly-by night sites are either ignoring me, or in one case arguing that anything uploaded to the internet doesn’t automatically have copyright protection and thus becomes fair game for anyone else to copy.
Anyway, the upshot of this is that I hadn’t realised Threadless was open to anyone, I thought it was more curated, so I’ve opened a store there (there’s presumably a market for at least one of my designs there, so I might as well make some money from it) and THEY SELL CUSTOM SKATEBOARDS! They’re $90 each mind, but I (or you – preferably you, thinking about it) could get one of my designs on an actual skateboard that someone with balance and better knees than me could conceivably do tricks on! Radical.
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The world of social media had me amused today. The Conservative party chancellor posted a picture of himself preparing his budget with a large bag of Yorkshire Tea. Twitter went mad with calls of boycotts for the product and whoever runs the social media account called for everyone to calm down, they don’t endorse any party, they can’t stop someone posting a photograph with their tea in it.
The account manager then made a call to remember there are humans on the end of this stuff and they did nothing wrong.
One of the first responses clearly didn’t quite get the message and went into a multi-tweet rant about the damage austerity has done (which I agree with but it really has nothing to do with Yorkshire Tea). The response was a classic:
Sue, you're shouting at tea.
Please do look after yourself and try to be kind to others. We're going to mute you now.
— Yorkshire Tea (@YorkshireTea) February 25, 2020
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The Conservative party chancellor posted a picture of himself preparing his budget with a large bag of Yorkshire Tea. Twitter went mad with calls of boycotts for the product
Would you say this is a bit of a tempest in a teapot?
No, you wouldn’t?
I’ll just be running along, then…
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To make a long story short…
What would you do?
I’d refill the paper tray in the copier. Obviously.
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My new ambition is to find a job with a communal coffee pot. Sounds like paradise. Is that actually a real thing? If so, how could anyone take it for granted and let the pot run dry for the rest. I thought it was reserved for hard-bitten cop shows or something. I can’t tell if Christian is only messing.
Oh yeah, it absolutely is real. I started the communal coffee pot, and founded it on communist principles: everybody according to their needs and abilities, meaning that if you want to drink from the communal pot, you bring in coffee, milk etc. whenever you feel like it’s your turn. And you put on a new pot when you empty it.
The last bit still needs to be worked out. There seem to be people resisting our communal ethics. But I have already written one almost-harshly-worded e-mail about it, so we will see.
Also, a teacher show should be a lot like a cop show. Especially when it comes to the scenes when people are taking breaks and standing around the coffee pot. People on the edge. Cynics laughing at the idealists. Men broken by the things they have seen.
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Also, a teacher show should be a lot like a cop show. Especially when it comes to the scenes when people are taking breaks and standing around the coffee pot. People on the edge. Cynics laughing at the idealists. Men broken by the things they have seen.
Like the fourth season of The Wire?
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Like the fourth season of The Wire?
…I guess? Sadly, The Wire forms one of the holes in my cultural knowledge.
You need to get on that
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Like the fourth season of The Wire?
…I guess? Sadly, The Wire forms one of the holes in my cultural knowledge.
You need to get on that
After the Transformers stuff, mind.
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Like the fourth season of The Wire?
…I guess? Sadly, The Wire forms one of the holes in my cultural knowledge.
Ohhhh you’ve got something to look forward to. The Wire is the best tv thing ever made.
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It’s an absolute masterpiece. Even Alan Moore loves it.
EW: Do you ever relax and just watch television?Alan Moore: Selectively, mostly on DVD. The absolute pinnacle of anything I’ve seen recently has got to be The Wire. It’s the most stunning piece of television that has ever come out of America, possibly the most stunning piece of television full-stop.That’s a great example of storytelling that takes its time.Absolutely, that is grown-up television! It’s novelistic.You get to find out about all these tiny different aspects of Baltimore, to build up a huge picture of the city with all of its intricacies — from the wharf side, to the kids in the projects, to the power structure with the boardrooms and police department and governor’s office. And it’s got some great writers: it’s got George Pelecanos and David Simon. And so many wonderful characters, Bubbles, Omar. So yeah, everything else looks pretty lame next to The Wire.5 users thanked author for this post.
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It is interesting in light of Moore’s own novels too, he really took that “single location explored from every angle” concept to its apex with Jerusalem.
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https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/princess-charlotte-can-already-speak-11848448
She may only be two, but Princess Charlotte is already showing language abilities beyond her years, it has been reported.
As well as her native English, the tiny Royal – who started nursery school this week – is already picking up Spanish phrases from her Spanish nanny.
Princess Charlotte was this week said to be making huge strides toward becoming bilingual thanks to Maria Teresa Turrion Borrallo.
I do find the monoglot view on these things hilarious, this is true for billions of 2 year olds globally. This was the norm for me, my wife, for my kids and every kid in Malaysia and a fair few do three or more.
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It’s also a good example of the media working to make the Royals seem special and important by making something a few people know is mundane but making it out to be exceptional
Yeah. Call me when Charlotte has a grasp of DCU continuity. THAT would be exceptional.
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It’s also a good example of the media working to make the Royals seem special and important by making something a few people know is mundane but making it out to be exceptional
Yeah. Call me when Charlotte has a grasp of DCU continuity. THAT would be exceptional.
There’s a happy medium between “something plenty of kids do” and “something nobody can do”
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Well, all I know is Todd dubbed me queen of Ireland, ergo me exceptionally non-mundane.
Tis but a sheeeeeeee-it quest:
By royal decree, I shall recuse Christian from the usual humdrum of bribing me with tiaras and pearls and curtseys and cloaks upon puddles and whatnot if he goes forth and watches The Wire forthwith. -
I have a friend who’s a publican in Kuala Lumpur but Dublin born and bred.
He has some weird obsessions, he despises Tony Blair and still rants about him daily even though he left power 12 years ago. His politics are very left wing and anti war but he only goes after Blair and leaves Bush and gang alone. He’s incredibly patriotic, which to be fair is quite typical of people who move overseas but he takes it a step further with daily social media posts on how Ireland is best at everything, even though he’s chosen not to live there for 25 years.
Anyway this week he’s been posting about the royal visit of William and Kate to Ireland and has turned rather weirdly into a 70 year old Daily Express reader from Tunbridge Wells. Every 2 minutes there’s a comment about how wonderful the couple with photos and links to various news sources about the ‘glowing duchess’ and all that. If that isn’t weird enough I looked at some of the comments underneath the Irish press stories and they have quite a few crazed royalists there like those people who camp out for 3 weeks on the pavement to see a royal baby for 10 seconds. I knew there were plenty in the UK but surprised to see so many Irish also in on it.
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My new ambition is to find a job with a communal coffee pot. Sounds like paradise.
They’re not all they’re cracked up to be. Like most things Communist, they seek out the lowest common denominator. So the coffee in them is generally the shittiest available.
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Food and drink taste nicer when shared.
If I was Christian’s comrade no one would dare contribute bad coffee for him to drink.
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Food and drink taste nicer when shared.
Had a conversation today at a local liquor shop with the guy in charge of ordering the wines that they sell. Very passionate about wine, he made this observation: while beer is generally purchased in individual 12-oz or 16-oz servings, a bottle of wine is meant to be shared, and the experience of drinking wine with your family or friends is a very communal, social one.
One moment I really enjoy is when I open a bottle of wine that I picked out specifically for a shared meal and, during the course of the meal, someone comments that they really like they’re drinking.
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Food and drink taste nicer when shared.
Had a conversation today at a local liquor shop with the guy in charge of ordering the wines that they sell. Very passionate about wine, he made this observation: while beer is generally purchased in individual 12-oz or 16-oz servings, a bottle of wine is meant to be shared, and the experience of drinking wine with your family or friends is a very communal, social one.
One moment I really enjoy is when I open a bottle of wine that I picked out specifically for a shared meal and, during the course of the meal, someone comments that they really like they’re drinking.
Depends on how you drink beer. When I brew, I bottle in bombers and tend to share when I drink. Also, kegs share a lot easier than bottles.
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My new ambition is to find a job with a communal coffee pot. Sounds like paradise.
They’re not all they’re cracked up to be. Like most things Communist, they seek out the lowest common denominator. So the coffee in them is generally the shittiest available.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_German_coffee_crisis
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Food and drink taste nicer when shared.
Had a conversation today at a local liquor shop with the guy in charge of ordering the wines that they sell. Very passionate about wine, he made this observation: while beer is generally purchased in individual 12-oz or 16-oz servings, a bottle of wine is meant to be shared, and the experience of drinking wine with your family or friends is a very communal, social one.
One moment I really enjoy is when I open a bottle of wine that I picked out specifically for a shared meal and, during the course of the meal, someone comments that they really like they’re drinking.
I disagree with that.
Beer is also meant to be shared. You are buying packs of beer. Like wine, everyone gets a serving. The difference being beer already comes in pre-portioned servings. There is a fellowship when someone hands out bottles/cans to others who are present. It’s all part of the communal experience.
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Lord of the Ring Pulls: The Fellowship of the Cans.
Lord of the Ring Pulls: The Two Tallboys
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Lord of the Ring Pulls: The Fellowship of the Cans.
Lord of the Ring Pulls: The Two Tallboys
Lord of the Ring Pulls: The Return of the Keg
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What if in a post-coronavirus world with all the voluntary social isolationism that goes on the Carrier becomes a chief information hub for the new global social economy?
Obviously this means Queen Bernadette and President Gar…. and probably like Leader of the House Dave or something.
Miqque for Chief of Staff!
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What if in a post-coronavirus world with all the voluntary social isolationism that goes on the Carrier becomes a chief information hub for the new global social economy?
Obviously this means Queen Bernadette and President Gar…. and probably like Leader of the House Dave or something.
Miqque for Chief of Staff!
No, I’m Chief of Staff. Miqque is over Health and Human Services and the Food and Drug Administration.
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the Food and Drug Administration.
You can skip the food bit on that one.
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the Food and Drug Administration.
You can skip the food bit on that one.
He’s going to have the munchies afterwards so it still works.
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Ooooh. Does this mean I get to tell everyone what to do?
Did the apocalypse happen whilst I was in the mountains?
I ask because I’m now on a bus and I’m the only passenger and there’s scarcely any traffic on the roads. It’s kinda eerie. I’m distracting myself by trying to come up with a role for Tim. I’m also practicing my royal wave out the window.
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Did the apocalypse happen whilst I was in the mountains?
It’s still going on.
I was thinking about it and this isn’t my first apocalypse though previous ones were natural disasters (hurricanes). There is an eerieness right after the event but before cleanup truly begins. My best description is “post-apocalyptic ghost story”.
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Ooooh. Does this mean I get to tell everyone what to do?
Did the apocalypse happen whilst I was in the mountains?
I ask because I’m now on a bus and I’m the only passenger and there’s scarcely any traffic on the roads. It’s kinda eerie. I’m distracting myself by trying to come up with a role for Tim. I’m also practicing my royal wave out the window.
Presumably I am the sexy Attorney-General who may or may not be having an affair with the Queen and the administration is none-the-wiser/
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Did the apocalypse happen whilst I was in the mountains?
It’s still going on.
I was thinking about it and this isn’t my first apocalypse though previous ones were natural disasters (hurricanes). There is an eerieness right after the event but before cleanup truly begins. My best description is “post-apocalyptic ghost story”.
It’ll be grand so. Had worse.
Are your Toddettes okay now?
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Probably.
I’ve enough to keep my hands occupied. Right now I’m busy excavating a tunnel to Straya-Land. No particular reason. If Boris can build his bridge, my tunnel is entirely feasible.
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Will people stay home and with nothing else to do, start having more sex than usual?
With all the great new stuff on Netflix?! Are you nuts??!!
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What if in a post-coronavirus world with all the voluntary social isolationism that goes on the Carrier becomes a chief information hub for the new global social economy?
Obviously this means Queen Bernadette and President Gar…. and probably like Leader of the House Dave or something.
Miqque for Chief of Staff!
Fuck. Give me back Trump. Plllleeeeassssse.
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What if in a post-coronavirus world with all the voluntary social isolationism that goes on the Carrier becomes a chief information hub for the new global social economy?
Obviously this means Queen Bernadette and President Gar…. and probably like Leader of the House Dave or something.
Miqque for Chief of Staff!
Fuck. Give me back Trump. Plllleeeeassssse.
Ronnie is Ambassador to Canada.
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Ronnie is Ambassador to Canada.
That could be a problem; I don’t think Ronnie speaks Canadian.
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Ronnie is Ambassador to Canada.
That could be a problem; I don’t think Ronnie speaks Canadian.
Eh?
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