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Mark James

Another problem with time travel is that while you are off gallivanting through time you continue to age while everyone else in the "present" will stay the same. I'm also imagining someone who had a time machine in 2019 who decided to travel forward to find the results of Euro 2020 to bet ...

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Superman's flying around metropolis and he's horny as hell. He's checking out the rooftops and all of a sudden he sees Wonder Woman sunning herself on the roof of the Justice League. I mean she is lying there buck naked and spread eagle. Looks like she wants to get fucked right? So Superman starts t...

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The California Attractions and Parks Association is behind a plan to encourage riders to remain silent while on rollercoasters to prevent the spread of the covid. A whole rollercoaster full of people having a Mr Bean expression would be a good thing in my book.

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Can't believe time travel is that popular. Do people not watch movies? When does it ever work out? All that messing with causality and the dangers of paradoxes.

Could almost require another thread but for the people who picked time travel, how would you use it? When in time would you like to go?

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Thought this might deserve a thread of it's own. I wanted to keep the amount of options limited so I tried to pick options that would cover a broad range. Like super strength would cover bulletproof, heightened senses could include x-ray vision or super intelligence, body morphology could be the abi...

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People who, when asked which super power they would like to have, choose invisibility.

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I wonder if in the future 'biological sex' will be a term used in a similar way to ' birth mother' when describing the origins of say Eliot Page or Katlyn Jenner so as not to offend What does that even mean? Is "biological sex" not already a term? Can you give an example of how you would ...

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I don't think we massively disagree really. I came in at full steam venting some annoyance I had and maybe it didn't come across as well as it could in light of recent events. Definitely. That's cool. As I said I think your heart was in the right place. I was probably a bit on edge myself in relati...

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For what it's worth I don't much like Jess Phillips either as a politician. Maybe we just have a difference of opinion on what constitutes hysterical which is fair enough. I just felt your posts came across very dismissive of the issue. When you use the word hysterical and then bring the male statis...

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I don't see how saying your opinion has been coloured by Jess Phillips is supposed to be a defence against accusations of strawmanning. It's her you're strawmanning. In the link you provided (which you deemed necessary to label her as lunatic in chief which is way more hyperbolic than anything Jess ...

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Sorry Gev, what is your point here? A story about violence against a woman is being used as a jumping off point to talk about violence against women? You really think a murder of a woman is no reason to have a broader conversation about violence or abuse suffered by women? That would be like saying ...

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Are school reunions actually a thing or do they only exist in movies and TV shows? Is it more of an American thing? Does anyone know anyone who's ever gone to one? If you have gone to one how many years was it between leaving school and the reunion?

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Watched The Lighthouse. Was looking forward to this based on reviews I'd seen and I normally like pretentious artsy fartsy stuff but this didn't grab me. Everything about it is well made, the cinematography, the sets, the sound design etc. but I couldn't get into it and just wanted it to be over. Fo...

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When they discover a new species of animal is there someone who's job it is to lick it just in case? It worked that one time with the frogs. Did David Attenborough's Life in Colour where he talked about poison frogs make you think of this? No. It was a combination of a tweet about testing mushrooms...

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When they discover a new species of animal is there someone who's job it is to lick it just in case? It worked that one time with the frogs.

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I'm going for a mixture of Baby Spice Emma Bunton, Benny Hill and Grigori Rasputin.

Mark James

This is a really obvious thing I didn't just realise but I wish the people who are in charge of it would. They should stop making The Simpsons.

Mark James

I would be worried about your android spell checker as well.

Mark James

Finally someone pointed out the problem with the Dart Board. Like, I get it has to have Richard's silhouette but the trebles and doubles should be a different shade at least.

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I thought this thread was going to be about like a chess boxing thing so that's a bit of let down.

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And it's definitely a younger person thing. I just read up a bit about it there and it seems to come from a sort of opposite to on purpose. Like, I didn't do it on purpose I did it on accident. Just another example of how language changes I guess.

Mark James

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Tue Feb 02, 2021 8:30 am
Mark James wrote: ↑Sat Jan 30, 2021 10:10 am People who say on accident. Unless they did it by accident.
Do people actually say that? Is it an Irish thing?

People who say "The reason being is".

Seems to be an American thing.

Mark James

Feck sake. The Beth Harmon bots seem to be gone.

Mark James

After watchibg The Queens Gambit I'm interested what chess players thought of it. I play chess very badly but i definitely enjoyed it. There's loads of cool chess channels on YouTube. I'm on my phone and I can't get the links working for some reason but search for Agadmator's channel. He analyses c...

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People who say on accident. Unless they did it by accident.

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I don't think LMFAO were genuinely sorry for party rockin'.

Mark James

Love Fall Guys but only have it on PS4. No crossplay available unfortunately.

Mark James

Why is Manchester United's pitch in Old Trafford on that raised mound? I'm always amazed it doesn't cause more injuries when there's tussles at the side of the pitch. Anyone know if there's a reason for it? Drainage maybe?

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I do have empathy and sympathy for Rhys. The lockdown is tough and I hope he has decent support. But I also think changing his politics would be a benefit to him as well as everyone else and would be an additional step to him feeling better. Well I disagree with that. If we all shared the same poli...

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My natural leanings are left wing, but some of the hatred and demonisation I've seen from the left towards anyone who disagrees with their views, and a refusal to recognise that people may hold different views for sound reasons - and some of those views may even have merit - is really disturbing. C...

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Sorry folks but Rhys is not some milquetoast centrist. If you say we need to avoid political extremes to maintain some sort of happy middle ground then Rhys is still going to have to adjust his politics to get anywhere close to that.

Mark James

I do have empathy and sympathy for Rhys. The lockdown is tough and I hope he has decent support. But I also think changing his politics would be a benefit to him as well as everyone else and would be an additional step to him feeling better.

Mark James

I too hope Rhys gets better*

*(changes his political views)

Mark James

https://cardgames.io/

Love this site. Think they have an app on the play store as well but I usually just play through a browser. Tons of card games and some other stuff including yahtzee and battleships and you can play against humans online too.

Mark James

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Wed Jan 13, 2021 4:29 pm
Jon O'Neill wrote: ↑Wed Jan 13, 2021 11:12 am Shameless
He is so bad. In every way.

Probably the worst thing the Conservatives have done. Make Piers Morgan look good.

Mark James

I decided not to read the book about free will. Or did I?

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People who go on about 2020 being a shit year as if 2021 isn't also going to suck.

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https://youtu.be/Vk-ZBYyjsko

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Why would anyone voluntarily buy one of those hairless cats?

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https://youtu.be/0UJLtHqPA1E

Song of the year for me.

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Issue seems to have fixed itself.

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More of a phone issue but anyone else having trouble watching YouTube on android. When ads play the skip ads button comes up but doesn't work when I press it and when the ad ends it freezes and the actual video doesn't play. If there's two ads due only first one plays. Tried googling the problem but...

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Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑Wed Nov 04, 2020 6:51 pm Romney 2024, anyone?

Eh no.
https://mobile.twitter.com/therecount/s ... 6118041602

Conservatism is a death cult.

Mark James

Knock knock.

Who's there?

Dishes.

Dishes who?

Dishes the ghost of Sean Connery.

Mark James

So do you reckon Starmer suspended Corbyn to distract from the fact he hit a cyclist with his car or do you reckon he intentionally hit the cyclist for fun knowing it wouldn't get much attention because he was suspending Corbyn?

Mark James

Pretty accurate for me too. I don't work in the field but the top suggestion was creative media which is what I got my degree in. It also suggested social work which is kind of what I do. Better get making those cakes Rhys. (What were you hoping it said?)

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https://metro.co.uk/2020/10/04/countdow ... -13370774/

Just wanted to mention this article as we finally get to learn Susie's real name. Fabulous investigative journalism there from the Metro.

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https://mobile.twitter.com/ChrChristens ... 1387334663

Interesting thread on the Swedish model.

Mark James

I watched Joker recently and thought it was awful. Forget being a poor man's King of Comedy, this was destitute. Watched a few based on a true story stuff which I enjoyed. American Made with Tom Cruise. Decent. Ended up reading about the real thing while watching the movie though. I tend to do that ...

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If you become anti blm or right wing because of this you were never neutral.

Mark James

Finally got a PS4. Have only played Fall Guys so far but it's great.

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Strimmers.

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Volume ocd. I prefer to have my TV volume set at multiples of 5. I can tolerate it a bit if it's late at night and 5 would be too low and 10 would be too high but normally it has to 10, 15 or 20. I've tried setting it to numbers in-between but I can't leave it like that for long. Doesn't bother me w...

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If they're gonna remove words they should remove some of those nonsense two letter words that no one uses in real life and that you only ever encounter in a game of scrabble.

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https://youtu.be/KAFbpWVO-ow

This is a pretty good video on antisemitism. In fact most of their videos are excellent.

Mark James

Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑Sat Jul 04, 2020 2:58 pm I mean, every argument on Israel could equally apply to Pakistan, but it doesn't.

In what way does it not?

Mark James

unless you're also denying the existence of Pakistan, established for exactly the same reasons merely with "Jewish" replaced for "Muslim". Well, I'm not actually denying the existence of Israel (it exists, right?), but sure, there's no reason why Muslims have a particular right ...

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But if you see it from the point of view of a random person who goes bowling once every 3.7 years, the whole thing does seem a bit weird. I don't get what's weird about it though. You use the proper equipment for the sport. For me it's no different to wearing ice skates to go ice skating or using c...

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The space race was kind of stupid. The whole point was America beating the Soviets There were huge benefits in the fields of science and technology from the space program. If it was just a pissing competition, why go another 5 times (6 if you count the aborted Apollo 13)? You left off the part of m...

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