random stuff

[El Pibe]

more proof that we really do live in a dystopian hell, but shia can redeem us...shia.....

 

[david_carnell]

Kickended is a project documenting Kickstarter ideas that received absolutely no backers (these folks couldn't even get friends and family to chip in). There are a lot but some are real crackers. Behold! A portal to another dimension! In Yorkshire!

http://kickended.com/projects/1852687802/

[El Pibe]

ironyyyyy!!

http://kickended.com/projects/1786276540/

[Seabag]

Watching Planet of The Apes (original)

I notice the 'apes' can't actually climb or fight that well

However, the horses can ride up stairs

[DaveR]

Nuclear war near misses since 1945

http://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/files/chathamhouse/home/chatham/public_html/sites/default/files/20140428TooCloseforComfortNuclearUseLewisWilliamsPelopidasAghlani.pdf

[Jeremy]

Seabag Wrote:

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> Watching Planet of The Apes (original)

>

> I notice the 'apes' can't actually climb or fight

> that well

>

> However, the horses can ride up stairs

It's a good film though... one of the all-time classic endings. The linear story arc of the remakes is so disappointing.

[Seabag]

El Pibe Wrote:

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> I can't stop staring at this lead performance.

> It's weirdly brilliant in a sort of hi-speed car

> crash fashion.

>

> He channels a bit of everything from Jim Kerr via

> David Brent via Napoleon Dynamite, to Cookia

> Monster via Paul Shane (via Vic Reeves).

>

> And those sliiightly mistimed punches, sick

> genius!!

>

Oh GOD this is so very good. I've not felt like this, watching something in ages AAAAAHHHHHGGGGGGGG !!!!

I can't wait to watch it again later

(maybe through my fingers, hiding behind the sofa)

That dance is mesmeric indeed and the near tears, and the voice , and the bass guitarist has that "ooop, here he goes again" look on his face

[Jeremy]

Does anyone else click on the "personal trainer" advert on the right a liiiittle bit more than strictly necessary?

No? Just me?

[El Pibe]

http://thequietus.com/articles/16933-dapper-laughs-political-comedy-2014-review

enjoyable essay, ostensibly reviewing the year in comedy, essentially takes a dump on britain.

[david_carnell]

Ooh, the odd sacred cow knocked over in that. Jolly good read though.

And as one of the comments points out, the civility of the comments section is a joy to behold.

[DaveR]

it's been a long time since I've read such a load of pretentious bullshit; I read the Viz annual afterwards and felt cleansed.

[????]

Awful, so pretentious it's untrue, boring and a struggle to read (despite being simplsitic) - applying some sort of marxists diadatic critique to comedy, er, you know it's meant to be funny. I'm gonna find my Viz as aoon as I get home too.

[maxxi]

I suspect it's a friend of Russel Howard - annoyed he didn't get the Post Office gig.

Nothing on the political ramifications of Keith Lemon's scathing satire of the quasi-intellectual comedians' "back-slapping panel shows"?!?*

*Or an opinion on endless jokes about tits and toilets?

[El Pibe]

Given he echoes some of your windmill tilting at the straw man of liberal consensus I'd have thought it right up your street quids ;-)

I actually thought it was written with tongue firmly in cheek, if so then pretentious rather misses the point.

I thought it was fun.

I could of course be wrong.

[????]

I actually though it might be Dave Spart :)

[Robert Poste's Child]

This drink calculator is interesting. This week I am like a Kuwaiti.

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/health-30500372

[Jeremy]

I'm like a Namibian. Quiet week.

(after band practice tonight the picture might change somewhat)

[El Pibe]

Slovenia, but it was the christmas do and a trip to london so not entirely typical.

[david_carnell]

I am also Namibia but that was on one night for the work xmas do. I've been on call and sober the rest of the time.

[Parkdrive]

This past week I've been Kuwait, until tomorrow when I could be Belarus.

[steveo]

Unless I filled it in wrong I drink 106 times the national average

[Robert Poste's Child]

If you have half a bottle of wine every night you'd be off the scale, apparently, which seems unlikely but I suppose it is comparing with a national average.

[El Pibe]

when london's streets really were paved with....wood?!?!

http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2015/01/10/the-time-when-londons-streets-were-paved-with-wood/

[Loz]

Wrong. So wrong. And yet...

http://www.shipyourenemiesglitter.com/

[Salsaboy]

Pure genius.

Loz Wrote:

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> Wrong. So wrong. And yet...

>

> http://www.shipyourenemiesglitter.com/