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Bloody Pom posted:Well that didn't take long. He's the only one I could see being able to function in normal society if (when) the monarchy is purged. The others would be face down in a pond full of swan feathers within ten minutes.
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Josef bugman posted:See I have never found Tom Clancy fun to read, it might turn pages but it also puts you to sleep. There are definitely segments that put me to sleep, the parts you can assume Clancy enjoyed writing the most, coz you can tell he got a rip-roaring hard on every time he lovingly describes so piece of military hardware. That was a man whose copies of Jane regularly had the pages stuck together. But the pew-pew-pew action just puts me in mind of some of the absolute dreck I watch on TV like NCIS and because it's so far outside of my own world I just find it amusingly dumb. I think part of it is that a lot of the time I read books that are quite dry histories so taking a break to gorge on absolutely shameless trash is a nice change of pace. There's also something about the Cold War which I really love as a background for fiction, especially poo poo written during the period, there's a whole lot of mythologising the big bad Soviet Bear that just tickles me. I would never recommend someone read them though. If I'm going to recommend fiction I'm going to recommend poo poo that makes me sound cool & smart, like Crash. Because what's cooler & smarter than people getting off on car accidents I ask you?
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forkboy84 posted:There are definitely segments that put me to sleep, the parts you can assume Clancy enjoyed writing the most, coz you can tell he got a rip-roaring hard on every time he lovingly describes so piece of military hardware. That was a man whose copies of Jane regularly had the pages stuck together. But the pew-pew-pew action just puts me in mind of some of the absolute dreck I watch on TV like NCIS and because it's so far outside of my own world I just find it amusingly dumb. I think part of it is that a lot of the time I read books that are quite dry histories so taking a break to gorge on absolutely shameless trash is a nice change of pace. There's also something about the Cold War which I really love as a background for fiction, especially poo poo written during the period, there's a whole lot of mythologising the big bad Soviet Bear that just tickles me. I don't think Clancy writes a lot of the books that come out in his name. He gets the big shiny writing on the front cover but often isn't the author. I hated Crash. All my uni friends read it so I tried. I enjoyed High Rise though. I forgot Ballard also wrote Drowned World. Think I might give that a re-read as it's rather topical now. (The Drowned World is a 1962 science fiction novel by British writer J. G. Ballard. The novel depicts a post-apocalyptic future in which global warming has caused the majority of the Earth to become uninhabitable. The story follows a team of scientists researching ongoing environmental developments in a flooded, abandoned London. wiki ) Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 01:34 on Jan 9, 2020 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I don't think Clancy writes a lot of the books that come out in his name. He gets the big shiny writing on the front cover but often isn't the author. Well yeah, he's pan bread. But I've only read his early stuff that was actually written by him.
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forkboy84 posted:I would never recommend someone read them though. If I'm going to recommend fiction I'm going to recommend poo poo that makes me sound cool & smart, like Crash. Because what's cooler & smarter than people getting off on car accidents I ask you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USu8vT_tfdw ? I am a big fan of whichever rear end in a top hat designed a bridge to give haircuts to 12 foot box trucks. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 01:38 on Jan 9, 2020 |
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Jan 9, 2020 01:35
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OwlFancier posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USu8vT_tfdw I really really really really want to live in a house that gets to watch this. Coz it seems like someone is ploughing through in an ill-fitting vehicle every couple of weeks at least. This is good. Crash makes a lot more sense to me now. Just laughing at how anyone in the Durham, NC area would even bother having vans or lorries at their car rental place, seems like a disaster waiting to happen. I'm assuming the bridge was built in an era where tall automobiles weren't much of a thing. forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 01:45 on Jan 9, 2020 |
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Jan 9, 2020 01:42
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OwlFancier posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USu8vT_tfdw Sad news, theyre raising the bridge  it's the reason for the GBS schadenthreads amazing title
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OwlFancier posted:I am a big fan of whichever rear end in a top hat designed a bridge to give haircuts to 12 foot box trucks. 
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Pilchenstein posted:Any of the clips where they make it out the other side minus the top two inches of the vehicle are super satisfying I know right, like key tin opener but motorized. That or a device for removing air conditoning units from camper vans.
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Josef bugman posted:See I have never found Tom Clancy fun to read, it might turn pages but it also puts you to sleep. Red Storm Rising is the only readable Clancy book, presumably because he (or more importantly his cowriter) wrote it before he was TOM CLANCY. Still quite a lot of masturbation over Jane's books but there's at least an attempt at an interesting storyline and some relatively believable non-Mary-Sue characters.
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just checked, the raised bridge is a massive succe- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQssl0sM9As oh
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Pilchenstein posted:Any of the clips where they make it out the other side minus the top two inches of the vehicle are super satisfying The best is the last one in the linked compilation, where the driver clearly decides to go around, then goes "nah gently caress it" and only then rams the bridge.
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Now I'm stuck watching compilations of insane americans in 4x4s gunning it or trying to steer with the brakes locked in snow.
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If incomprehensible ghost written airport fiction is your thing then can I introduce you to the Markov chain generated plots of Clive Cussler?
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Lee Child is my go-to escapist fiction. Also I really like Mick Herron but his stuff is about present-day spies (and has a loving fantastic faux-Boris Johnson character in the background of the first few books) so is a bit less escapist, but very loving funny at times.
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Total Meatlove posted:If incomprehensible ghost written airport fiction is your thing then can I introduce you to the Markov chain generated plots of Clive Cussler? Are they any good (as in lightweight reads)? I have 26 Cussler ebooks on my computer. (I did have them all in German as well but I zapped those).
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OwlFancier posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USu8vT_tfdw The Durham, NC bridge is evidence that there is still something redeemable in the culture of the Anglosphere
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CoolCab posted:do you have to go to school for five years then, though? financing will only cover four... Dunno but, I did a foundation year at the start of my degree (which I didn't finish) and it cost £1200 for tuition back when main tuition fees were £3k/year so it might be cheaper. Guess you'd still have to cover living costs though.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Are they any good (as in lightweight reads)? I have 26 Cussler ebooks on my computer. (I did have them all in German as well but I zapped those). They are entertaining for as long as you only think about +/- 3 pages of plot. Read Sahara first.
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WhatEvil posted:Dunno but, I did a foundation year at the start of my degree (which I didn't finish) and it cost £1200 for tuition back when main tuition fees were £3k/year so it might be cheaper. Guess you'd still have to cover living costs though. These days they cost the same, but if you go to uni as an adult I'm pretty sure you get the full maintenance loan - only 9k though which is liveable as a student but as an adult...
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Nothingtoseehere posted:These days they cost the same, but if you go to uni as an adult I'm pretty sure you get the full maintenance loan - only 9k though which is liveable as a student but as an adult... Yeah I was an "independent student" when I did it because I'd been working and paying rent (to my parents) for 3 years when I started so I got full maintenance loan and grant without any means testing needed, which was nice. Of course now there's no such thing as grants because gently caress you.
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OwlFancier posted:Now I'm stuck watching compilations of insane americans in 4x4s gunning it or trying to steer with the brakes locked in snow. I like the enormous pileups in snowy, foggy conditions where vehicle after vehicle of texting, distracted drivers blindly slams into the ever-expanding tangle of metal at 50+ mph.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:have you been mis-sold ppj PPJ at his best was the Kramermod, and was kind of a noticeable presence in probing people without adequately reading the thread. Or just for telling liberals to gently caress off. Also Harry's got both a brain AND a spine, as a royal? Well, I wouldn't have called that.
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Pistol_Pete posted:I like the enormous pileups in snowy, foggy conditions where vehicle after vehicle of texting, distracted drivers blindly slams into the ever-expanding tangle of metal at 50+ mph. There is an alarming amount of people who believe AWD makes them immune to snowy conditions. There is also an alarming amount of people who want an AWD vehicle solely for the very rare day it might be a bit cold out, despite the increase in cost, weight, mechanical complexity, fuel consumption and emissions. A RWD BMW on winter tyres will cope far better in snow than a AWD vehicle on summer tyres.
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I'd feel more inclined to "support" Harry if he actually gave up his royal titles. Destroy the institution of the monarchy completely.
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Normal royal family member, marrying an American woman, suddenly ABDICATION! Many such cases. But yeah this is a celebrity family falling out over harassment and cover ups of multiple sex scandals to protect the family name and a monarchy as an institution so fine for them peacing out but it's not really peacing out so whatever.
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Goes to show how hosed up the media-monarchy relationship is if someone who was previously subject to paparazzi and gossip rags thinks it too much. The pressure over presenting the baby to the world was pretty gross, as was the criticism over not doing it. I guess everyone else just did it because they were expected to; someone used to being in control of one's own life and decisions would rightly tell the world to gently caress off and let them recover in peace. Republicanism now, no one should have to suffer the agony of being born into such privilege and wealth. Anyway, hold onto your knickers because I'm going full fubpee over this one: https://twitter.com/HouseofCommons/status/1214656753566208001?s=19
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how the gently caress does this forums drama stuff keep happening when every goon's like 37+ years old
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:how the gently caress does this forums drama stuff keep happening when every goon's like 37+ years old I only look like a middle aged white man, I'm actually a 4,000 year old dragon.
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The first few pages of Hunt for Red October has the bit about how Jack Ryan and other elites are rightfully elevated to positions of authority because why on Earth would rich people be susceptible to corruption?? American Studies taught me that low road bridges were a deliberate tool by local authorities to block access to places like the beach because only POCs take the bus.
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wish they'd just turn it back on the interviewer "would you kill millions of people?" https://twitter.com/AyoCaesar/status/1214966704767459331?s=20
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Chubby Henparty posted:The first few pages of Hunt for Red October has the bit about how Jack Ryan and other elites are rightfully elevated to positions of authority because why on Earth would rich people be susceptible to corruption?? That was just the guy in New York, low bridges sometimes just happen, especially for railways which put their tracks down half a century before anything bigger than a horse and cart were on the road.
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Jose posted:wish they'd just turn it back on the interviewer "would you kill millions of people?" I like him a little more after that but I like whatever channel that itnerview is taking place on a lot less. I can't imagine them pushing 3 or 4 of the same question on a Tory politician who just gave a terrible answer to that question, but they are happy to push 3 or 4 times with the same question after receiving a clear, categorical and nuanced answer that they happen not to like. The loving state of the media in this country
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Jose posted:wish they'd just turn it back on the interviewer "would you kill millions of people?" why are our presenters so loving horny for a nuclear holocaust
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Are they any good (as in lightweight reads)? I have 26 Cussler ebooks on my computer. (I did have them all in German as well but I zapped those). Cussler was my introduction to the concept of gear porn, and even as an idiot 12 year old I thought it was gross and boring. Which was a shame, because the plot was this B movie, conspiracy theory thing about obsidian skulls and a lost civilisation in Antartica, and that's the sort of dumb nonsense I could have really enjoyed if not for the grotesque milwank bits. How did these techno-thrillers end up being the default genre of books sold in airports, anyway? There's Clancy, and this guy, and I remember Colin Forbes showing up on those shelves.
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Tesseraction posted:why are our presenters so loving horny for a nuclear holocaust i mean, i am
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