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the administration is none-the-wiser/
Ha! that secret is more well known than the fact that Trump is a criminal.
Todd wrote: Will people stay home and with nothing else to do, start having more sex than usual?
The mid 20s receptionist at here is planning to sleep on the couch and play video games. He will give his fiancee a hearty elbow bump though. Todd, you may want to rethink that idea.
p.s. Can I be in charge of the ATF? please?
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Can someone please let me in on the secret?
You are our favorite, not Tim.
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Don wants to lead the ATF.
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When there’s a crisis in the UK, the PM convenes the COBRA committee. COBRA stands for Cabinet Office Briefing Room A — which is literally the room where the committee meets.
If there’s a briefing room A, it stands to reason that there must also be a briefing room B. But you never hear anything about what goes on in briefing room B.
So clearly that’s where the really important stuff goes on. The stuff they can’t even admit to. What they hell are they discussing in room B ???
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We were really prescient with the name of this board given the current times.
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@Bernadette if I have offended you in any way I apologize.
No, of course you haven’t but thank you for thinking of me. Todd’s joke about me wasn’t kind to Tim. Everything is mostly terrible and I’m very anxious and frightened and then there’s all the news. And I overreacted and I’m sorry. I’m blanker than blankety blank and neither use nor ornament right now when it comes to words so I don’t know how to be useful here.
Ummm…
A socially-distant virtual
cuddlewave to all.Random thought of the day: geography is stupid.
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When there’s a crisis in the UK, the PM convenes the COBRA committee. COBRA stands for Cabinet Office Briefing Room A — which is literally the room where the committee meets.
If there’s a briefing room A, it stands to reason that there must also be a briefing room B. But you never hear anything about what goes on in briefing room B.
So clearly that’s where the really important stuff goes on. The stuff they can’t even admit to. What they hell are they discussing in room B ???
You won’t believe what’s Inside Room B
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But B is my favourite number.
Inside Number B: Clara Who isn’t haunted by too many ghosts.
There are ten green bottles hanging on the wall.
Brexit is banned and there’s infinite bog roll.
Dave got my reference – I’ve levelled up to be The Boss of storytellers!
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Todd’s joke about me wasn’t kind to Tim
Oh I didnt take that to heart.
Todd utterly adores me, as it is mandatory too for everyone here.
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When there’s a crisis in the UK, the PM convenes the COBRA committee. COBRA stands for Cabinet Office Briefing Room A — which is literally the room where the committee meets.
If there’s a briefing room A, it stands to reason that there must also be a briefing room B. But you never hear anything about what goes on in briefing room B.
So clearly that’s where the really important stuff goes on. The stuff they can’t even admit to. What they hell are they discussing in room B ???
So in a crisis, your PM becomes COBRA Commander?
(Sorry, I know that was awful, but I couldn’t help myself)
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Let’s not forget that Trump was tweeting about COVID as far back as May, 2018.
Oh, wait, I just checked. It wasn’t COVID; it was Covfefe.
Never mind.
Jerry, this pandemic was planned by Trump as an excuse to not have the elections so he could remain in office permanently. “Covfefe” is a misspelling of “COVID-19” that he inadvertently tweeted while listening to a briefing about the plan.
OPEN YOUR EYES, SHEEPLE!!!
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Todd utterly adores me, as it is mandatory too for everyone here.
Isn’t it a little too early to be drinking hard liquor?
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Not where I am, Todd. Good plan.
10 green bottles hanging on the wall. 10 green bottles hanging on the wall.
And if one green bottle should accidentally fall, there’ll be 9 green bottles hanging on the wall.
9 green bottles hanging on the wall, nine green bottles, etc. and if…, etc. etc.
There’ll be B green bottles Inside Number B. (Sláinte just as soon as I procure some liquor).
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Jerry, this pandemic was planned by Trump as an excuse to not have the elections so he could remain in office permanently. “Covfefe” is a misspelling of “COVID-19” that he inadvertently tweeted while listening to a briefing about the plan.
Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. Glad to finally know what is going on!
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Todd utterly adores me, as it is mandatory too for everyone here.
Isn’t it a little too early to be drinking hard liquor?
*throws bottle at todd*
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A bottle just fell from the ceiling.
Where did it come from?
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(Todd, why do you live above queen B?)
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I’m now hearing voices. Can’t quite make out what the sweet dulcet toned one is trying to tell me.
I’m sure it’s adorable.
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I’ve been thinking about this novel I read as a kid:
It’s by John Christopher, who wrothe thr Tripods books and quite a few dystopian novels that I read when I was like fourteen or so. This one was basically like, if The Stand was only the first third or so. It’s about a new sickness eradicating pretty much everybody in England, and the protagonist is the only survivor (he meets some others later on) wandering around an empty world.
It was a very memorable reading experience as a kid.
Been on my mind for obvious reasons.
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I’ve been watching a crime drama called Bang on S4C which was filmed in my home town of Port Talbot. I was always used to it but after many years away it did strike me how weird one image is. The town is very long and narrow as it’s a small gap of land between the sea and hills so when they built the M4 motorway in the 1960s they had to send it right through the centre of where people lived and worked and placed on stilts.
This house was once part of a terrace of houses but now just exists on its own right under the shadow of the motorway. It’s also an interesting look at how sound travels because with the cars moving up above there’s very little noise despite how incredibly close they are.
The elevated section runs for a couple of miles and it ends up being used relatively frequently in film and TV for a rather obscure location as it looks a little weird. When we were kids we’d play football and cricket under the motorway when it started raining (although my house was nowhere this close, it was about 20om away).
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That is very odd. It’s got a slight Hitch-hiker’s vibe to it – if Arthur had managed to get the road going through his house diverted around it.
There’s a house a little bit like that in the middle of the M62.
Apparently though the story behind it is less interesting than the urban myth of the owner refusing to sell up, and is instead to do with a geographical fault on the land that meant the road couldn’t be safely built on it.1 user thanked author for this post.
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Clearly it’s a TARDIS.
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You wonder how the owner gets anywhere, there doesn’t seem to be any way to walk of drive to the property without running across a busy 3 lane motorway (which I believe is illegal anyway). Maybe there’s a tunnel to the left there?
Yeah there’s an underpass apparently, I just googled it before posting the photo to check I had my facts straight.
Many may wonder exactly how you get to and from the farmhouse.
The answer… an underpass accessible via a lane off the A672 near Booth Wood Reservoir in Ripponden.
And from a girl who grew up in the house:
“When they were building the motorway my mum used to go through the underpass to get to school. My granddad put the rams into the underpass and closes the gates. Mum and her friend were too scared to go through the underpass because they were terrified of the rams – so they decided to run over the motorway instead!”
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Apparently though the story behind it is less interesting than the urban myth of the owner refusing to sell up
I think that’s always the automatic assumption (the plot from UP) but it’s the same in the case of the lone house in the terrace in my pic. It’s all under compulsory purchase so digging in wasn’t really an option.
It was just part of the agreement to remove the minimum possible, a few terraces are ‘chopped’ in the same way but this was the only one where the measurements had one house remaining. This is the view from above where you can see it runs through what were several streets:
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I think that’s always the automatic assumption (the plot from UP)
Yep. Also currently playing out in Better Call Saul.
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There is just something innately dystopian about that image, however old the wall looks.
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There’s a few dystopian images round there, it’s home to the largest steel works in Europe which has echoes of Blade Runner at night and in the 70s/80s a coal seem opened and turned a small beach cove black. That was seen by Terry Gilliam and he says inspired him to think about Brazil.
By contrast though this is the area where my primary school was:
and this is less than a mile from the walled off street, so it wasn’t all bad.
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Wales must be beautiful, I would really like to go there some time.
I’ve spent a fair amount of time at the Welsh coast and in the Welsh countryside on holidays over the years, and I honestly do feel like it has some of the most beautiful places on Earth.
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It’s also an interesting look at how sound travels because with the cars moving up above there’s very little noise despite how incredibly close they are
But think about when it was built — they couldn’t have known that for sure. It flies in the face of all common sense, they had no computer modelling, and probably few other real world examples as proof of concept. Someone somewhere said we’re going to build a 150-decibel road 20 feet from a terrace of houses, and everybody was fine with this?
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According to the historian D. Adams, it was built by aliens.
No other plausible explanation.
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According to the historian D. Adams, it was built by aliens.
No other plausible explanation.
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It’s also an interesting look at how sound travels because with the cars moving up above there’s very little noise despite how incredibly close they are
But think about when it was built — they couldn’t have known that for sure. It flies in the face of all common sense, they had no computer modelling, and probably few other real world examples as proof of concept. Someone somewhere said we’re going to build a 150-decibel road 20 feet from a terrace of houses, and everybody was fine with this?
I don’t know, I think they probably could have. The start of the M4 at the other end in Chiswick began with a half mile flyover built in 1959. It doesn’t run through a housing area in quite the same way but they would have been able to measure sound levels from the side and below. There was likely more science involved than just whack it up and find out.
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Do people pronounce the Roosevelt in Teddy Roosevelt different than Franklin Roosevelt? I’ve heard some pronounce the “oo” as in “goose”. I thought it was o as in boat.
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What are you talking about?
It’s pronounced “Re-ho-oh-se-ve-let”
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I won’t mention any names, but I wonder how the others are doing at this time.
By “others” I mean those who were with us on Millarworld in the past who aren’t
here in the Carrier. Too many to mention… Hope they are doing wellHope you all are doing well for that matter. Please stay safe.
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Do people pronounce the Roosevelt in Teddy Roosevelt different than Franklin Roosevelt? I’ve heard some pronounce the “oo” as in “goose”. I thought it was o as in boat.
They’re distant cousins. So it should be pronounced the same.
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Both used Rose, but some people insist that one of them (different people will claim Teddy, others FDR) anglicized it to ruse. However, some people do say ruse. Google found an article that actually quoted a professor I once had, saying that in NYC people say rose, but elsewhere in America, ruse. I know that rose is the Philly pronunciation, and I found a Reddit post complaining about how Chicagoans say ruse, so it may be a northeast vs the rest of America thing
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I believe the name is Dutch in origin so basically Arjan gets to decide the correct way. He tells everyone else instead of asks.
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This is pretty cool, museum asks people to reproduce famous paintings with thinggs from their home:
Museum Asks People To Recreate Paintings With Stuff They Can Find at Home, Here Are The Results
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Arjan – how do you pronounce the man’s name Marien?
I may need to call a guy in the Netherlands in a few days for business and don’t want to screw it up. I actually thought it was a girl until I was corrected with would be even worse.
That’s kind of an unusual name, I think it is probably derived from Marinus which is more common. It should be pronounced pretty much the same as the English word marine. Ma-reen. With the stress on the reen.
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Okay that’s still good, that it’s Mar-een rather than Mar-ee-ehn.
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If there are two dots on the e it would be ma-ree-ehn, without the dots the ie is one syllable.
The r is probably a rolling r. Dutch people have a different r depending on where they come from but the rolling r is most common.
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This is pretty cool, museum asks people to reproduce famous paintings with thinggs from their home:
Museum Asks People To Recreate Paintings With Stuff They Can Find at Home, Here Are The Results
These (and the many more at the link) are fantastic.
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Okay that’s still good, that it’s Mar-een rather than Mar-ee-ehn.
Just try not to sing it to the tune of Jolene.
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And that is precisely why everybody everybody everybody is “dude”.
Ah, the simple life.
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I had an odd dream last night.
A group of us went back to Millarworld, except it was a planet and not a messageboard.
There were about six or seven of us who made the trip. While I don’t recall everyone, I do know that @arjandirkse and @christian were there with me. I think @jimohara was also there with us.
Millarworld was burnt to a black char with a dark, cloudy sky. All that was standing were burned and damaged pillars. When Arjan, Christian, and I touched different pillars, streams of comments would appear. The pillars were actually threads from the old board! The threads were incomplete and missing information due to the fire damage but it was fantastic seeing the old threads. Arjan, Christian, and I turned and smiled to each other as we were looking at different threads. It was a shared moment of camaraderie and happiness for all the good and positive Millarworld had brought into our lives and continues to do so with The Carrier.
I then woke up.
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Once, Zhuang Zhou dreamed he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering about, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn’t know that he was Zhuang Zhou. Suddenly he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakable Zhuang Zhou. But he didn’t know if he was Zhuang Zhou who had dreamt he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming that he was Zhuang Zho!
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So our conclusion is that Todd is a butterfly?
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And that is precisely why everybody everybody everybody is “dude”.
That’s right, Mikey.
Uh, I mean Mickey.
No, wait Mick..
That’s right, dude.
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So our conclusion is that Todd is a butterfly?
The flapping of my wings causes tornadoes in Kansas.
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Millarworld was burnt to a black char with a dark, cloudy sky. All that was standing were burned and damaged pillars. When Arjan, Christian, and I touched different pillars, streams of comments would appear. The pillars were actually threads from the old board! The threads were incomplete and missing information due to the fire damage but it was fantastic seeing the old threads. Arjan, Christian, and I turned and smiled to each other as we were looking at different threads. It was a shared moment of camaraderie and happiness for all the good and positive Millarworld had brought into our lives and continues to do so with The Carrier.
Well, you’ve definitely read too many Grant Morrison comics, Todd.
Awesome dream, nice to have been involved! :)
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And that is precisely why everybody everybody everybody is “dude”.
Ah, the simple life.
As a teacher, who’s opening gambit to new classes is “It’s probably going to take me til at least Xmas to remember half of your names”, I approve this message.
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So I need a new laptop. Does the brand make any difference or is it pretty much all the same stuff?
The brand can make a difference, I suppose, if you really know what you need your laptop for and if it’s very specific stuff, but for the likes of you and me honestly you can just find one of the cheap models by HP, Lenovo or a similar brand. Go with something that is on offer and maybe take a look at whether it’s been tested well on one of the sites that test these things. But really it doesn’t matter if you aren’t into high-end gaming or movie editing.
EDIT: I should maybe add that I am saying this as someone who doesn’t have a clue about computers, just that that’s been my experience :)
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. Does the brand make any difference or is it pretty much all the same stuff?
The brand makes no difference at all. What you want to focus on is the model.
The first reason is that computers nowadays are pretty much all outsourced to 3rd party manufacturers in China. So a Dell model and a Lenovo model could be made by Foxxcon Shenzen but another Dell and a HP from Wistron in Chengdu. It’s common you will see a very highly rated laptop from a brand and then another that is deemed to be rubbish.
The second is that computer companies are really just assemblers, the parts inside are often exactly the same, even for Apple nowadays – it’s Kingston memory, Seagate hard drive, Intel processor, Nvidia graphics, Samsung screen, Sony battery etc.
So this is my advice on how to shop for a new laptop:
1) Look for a few models that fit into your price range and what you want/need to use it for.
2) Google those models + ‘review’. Sites like C-Net, PC Review or Engadget will have put them through various benchmark tests and scored them.
3) Buy the one with the best score across the review sites.
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Sophie Turner always wanted Sansa to end up with Margaery because 'the men thing isn’t working for her' pic.twitter.com/y7ereUaX9f
— Game of Thrones Facts (@thronesfacts) April 10, 2020
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I never played Mario Bros.
I played The Great Giana Sisters.
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Is anyone still in touch with Jim? I miss the old Irish bastard.
Is anyone still in touch with Jim? I miss the old Irish bastard.
Jim and his wife and kids are all doing well; I think after years of running the MillarWorld boards he just needed a break. He’s certainly earned it. Mostly I think he needed to get away from RonnieM.
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Is anyone still in touch with Jim? I miss the old Irish bastard.
Is anyone still in touch with Jim? I miss the old Irish bastard.
Jim and his wife and kids are all doing well; I think after years of running the MillarWorld boards he just needed a break. He’s certainly earned it. Mostly I think he needed to get away from RonnieM.
I used to think Jim was a bit gruff, at first. But later I really got to appreciate him, for his style and personality and the ideas he gave me.
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I think after years of running the MillarWorld boards he just needed a break.
It’s just not the same when you can’t delete posts you don’t agree with or threaten to ban the people you don’t like.
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Mostly I think he needed to get away from RonnieM.
He can’t get away from me. I know where he lives.
