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I keep confusing william burroughs and edgar rice burroughs. Spare rear end annie of mars.
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therattle posted:ALL OF THEM! Jaelunji: has very kindly sent be a file which I’ll review in my laptop in the morning. Done you an even better version that doesn't need manually generated string or pivot table. And all without having to add-in the not free xlstat. Better tell me if Sheet3 doesn't appear because I forgot to close the file before uploading it! ed: I've done an even more improved version this morning (20th) but won't send it unless you want me to as I'm sure your excel skills are sufficient to do the same if you want! (just changed some of the values to formulae). Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 08:04 on Jul 20, 2021 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I take it you're referring to William Burroughs? Guavanaut posted:I read that years ago and I cannot remember anything about it. It's a book that slides off the brain somehow, and yet inspired a ton of pop culture, including the band Steely Dan and the UK sci-fi magazine Interzone.
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Jul 20, 2021 00:08
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Actually I think if you add william/edgar burroughs together you just get the guy who wrote Gor.
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Apparently a bunch of the manuscript pages got mixed up on the way to the printer and he just went 'ehh, gently caress it.'
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Apparently a bunch of the manuscript pages got mixed up on the way to the printer and he just went 'ehh, gently caress it.' I know you can't be referring to any upcoming Labour manifesto, for the all thy pages be blank.
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Communist Thoughts posted:Settle in for a century of plague and you won't be disappointed imo Non Brit lurker I like to keep up on the news in the UK (and this is the best thread in D&D) and I’m quoting this so I can find it and steal it.
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Jul 20, 2021 04:56
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is this good
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Jul 20, 2021 06:06
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Naked Lunch (novel)<Naked Lunch (film)<this radio documentary about Burroughs narrated by Iggy Pop https://www.thisamericanlife.org/546/transcript
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Jul 20, 2021 07:09
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Christ https://twitter.com/adambienkov/status/1417368847833837581?s=21 It was a mistake to teach stupid people about life expectancy
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Jul 20, 2021 08:02
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Get Covid, live longer
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Jul 20, 2021 08:05
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https://twitter.com/GeorgeMonbiot/status/1417378314977751050?s=19 George Monbiot's one of the good 'uns.
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Jul 20, 2021 08:10
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Looke posted:Get Covid, live longer If the wrong right wingers talking head utters those words, millions will die.
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Jul 20, 2021 08:11
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Looke posted:Get Covid, live longer It's the sort of shite you'd expect to hear down the pub. Turns out it's also the basis if national policy and pandemic response.
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Jul 20, 2021 08:28
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Noxville posted:Christ "I no longer buy all this nhs overwhelmed stuff" what the actual gently caress you have access to all the actual data around it for CHRISTS SAKE
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Jul 20, 2021 08:29
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Noxville posted:Christ Boris should have died to teach the world a life lesson in hubris. Also just in general.
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Jul 20, 2021 08:29
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Just realized that noone under the age of *corrected by Imagineer... Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 09:00 on Jul 20, 2021 |
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Jul 20, 2021 08:30
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Just realized that noone under the age of 35 will even have been alive for the summer of 1976 with the high temps and the droughts! Wait til you realise that was 45 years ago!
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Jul 20, 2021 08:32
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Just realized that noone under the age of 35 will even have been alive for the summer of 1976 with the high temps and the droughts! And all the dead elms
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Jul 20, 2021 08:41
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Just realized that noone under the age of 35 will even have been alive for the summer of 1976 with the high temps and the droughts! I thought that was 1977? Literally the only things I remember about that summer were that I had a Silver Jubilee T-shirt and that it was hotter than hell.
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Jul 20, 2021 08:45
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https://twitter.com/Bassam_Khawaja/status/1416989567467630593 Here's a good thread on privatisation of buses and how it failed spectacularly for everyone but the people who own the buses.
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Jul 20, 2021 08:45
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Failed Imagineer posted:Wait til you realise that was 45 years ago! Oh yeah LOL I blame having only had 3 hours sleep..... (not because of the heat but because of having to let the roof menders in early!)
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Jul 20, 2021 08:59
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Just daydreaming here but I wish rich people's heads would fall off
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Jedit posted:I thought that was 1977? Literally the only things I remember about that summer were that I had a Silver Jubilee T-shirt and that it was hotter than hell. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_British_Isles_heat_wave I just looked up 1977 and I had forgotten this: 11 July Gay News found guilty of blasphemous libel in a case (Whitehouse v. Lemon) brought on behalf of Mary Whitehouse's National Viewers and Listeners Association.[17] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitehouse_v_Lemon Something to wave in the faces of people who claim only 'backwards muslim countries' have blasphemy laws when England & Wales only abolished them in 2008 and Scotland THIS YEAR!
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Jul 20, 2021 09:27
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I'm not even sure that England & Wales has abolished the blasphemy laws, they just extended them to cover all religions 'equally', something that Freethinkers have warned since the 1880s would not only be paradoxical and impossible but would only compound the problems of blasphemy laws.James Fitzjames Stephen posted:If the law were really impartial and punished blasphemy only because it offends the feelings of believers, it ought also to punish such preaching as offends the feelings of unbelievers. All the more earnest and enthusiastic forms of religion are extremely offensive to those who do not believe them. It did end the farcical situation where you could not claim damages when a vicar insulted Islam but if you turned around and said the exact same words about Christianity you could be prosecuted for blasphemy, but the law as Blair's government kept originally trying to pass it was pretty lol.
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Jul 20, 2021 09:50
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Noxville posted:Christ I’m not surprised. Boris is a man who fundamentally believes that everything is okay. Because in his incredibly privileged life, it always has been. In fact, it’s a large part of his appeal - we live in a collapsing world, but the man in charge doesn’t look bothered in the slightest, so maybe we don’t? It’s inevitable that through this whole crisis he would repeatedly reach points where he decided that it was all hype over nothing, and it’s over now anyway, regardless of how clearly that wasn’t the case.
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Jul 20, 2021 09:56
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The computers in Jurassic Park are (mostly) SGI workstations running IRIX, of the kind ILM were using to render the big CG T-Rex at the same time.
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Jul 20, 2021 09:59
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/Bassam_Khawaja/status/1416989567467630593 I know first-hand how everything in this report is spot on. In the ten years I've been working at my current job I've seen the buses going from serving the area every 15 minutes, to every 25 minutes and now every 30 minutes. Also the bus fleet is all terrible, all the buses that are too worn out and lovely for Cardiff and Swansea get handed down to our area so there's a decent amount of breakdowns and missed services. Despite getting less and less convenient as the years go on they still bump the price up on bus fare every year, like clockwork. But hey, over the last couple of years they replaced all the tatty fabric seats with the worst kind of pleather that you end up sticking too as soon as there's any heat. So that's an improvement...? Yeah, British buses outside of London suck.
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Jul 20, 2021 10:07
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Stagecoach cut the one bus going from Chesterfield to their own Supertram stop, which was already once an hour. Said it wasn’t used enough but they won’t increase the number of bus during rush hour. Utter bastards, the whole point of public transport is that the companies get the prime money making slots in exchange for running a few quiet rural buses.
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Jul 20, 2021 10:13
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learnincurve posted:the whole point of public transport is that the companies get the
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Jul 20, 2021 10:20
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Creamfilled posted:Yeah, British buses outside of London suck. This is also true of trains, it's a total piss take. love to pay more and more every year for a worse and worse service.
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Jul 20, 2021 10:25
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Guavanaut posted:I'm not even sure that England & Wales has abolished the blasphemy laws, they just extended them to cover all religions 'equally', something that Freethinkers have warned since the 1880s would not only be paradoxical and impossible but would only compound the problems of blasphemy laws. prosecuting every idiot that feels it necessary to actually show the charlie hebdo cover in a classroom, with a slap on the wrist and a public telling off, would be an excellent harm reduction idea
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Jul 20, 2021 10:33
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Jul 20, 2021 10:43
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https://twitter.com/siennamarla/status/1417420588021436428 lol tasty
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Jul 20, 2021 10:58
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This is probably bad for the Jam Man. He'll get the blame, despite Labour had no need to give those big payouts to those disingenous folk. I see in the thread for that tweet someone is blaming the festival (and jezza) despite Jezza didn't want the wretched thing anyway. I don't remember whose idea it was. And in any case the collapse in finances happened AFTER Starmer became Minister for Agreeing with Boris Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 11:07 on Jul 20, 2021 |
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Jul 20, 2021 11:01
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haha yikes
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Jul 20, 2021 11:02
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ahh, feels good to have the adults in charge again
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Jul 20, 2021 11:04
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Money lost on settling in the antisemitism cases (That Labour were likely to win) is payments in the hundreds of thousands. The lost membership and Union money is in the Millions a month. This is 100% down to The Adults being in charge again and having absolutely no clue how to raise funds.
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The chat has moved on from avatars in games but I’m reminded of 1994 sci-if crime thriller Burn:Cycle, where at the end (spoilers!) the main characters body gets murdered, and he gets put into the body of a lady instead. This was presented as an unambiguously good ending, which on reflection was very progressive for the time. I remember it being a really good game - I assume someone will be along shortly to disabuse me of that notion.
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