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Marc Meakin

Anyway , shouldn't we be boycotting NASA for employing Nazi war criminals

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip

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The benefits of science isn't really a great reason to do something hugely expensive. Yeah. Knowledge, Who needs it? Have you considered a career in tabloid journalism. Unless you was being deliberately facetious , I was trying to make a point that the ends don't justify the means Yeah the ballpoin...

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Has anyone else here been watching Dispatches From Elsewhere? I guess that's a no then. 8-) Now it's finished I'm not much wiser as to what it was all about, but it was imaginative, thought-provoking and I enjoyed the ride. Also, the soundtrack featured some great original music, of which this is a...

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Next time you go bowling , sometime in 2023/4 , try to bring extra footwear , play two games , one with bowling shoes on and one without and compare scores

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The benefits of science isn't really a great reason to do something hugely expensive.
The Falklands War and the Iraq war benefitted science with treatments of burns victims and prosthetics but surely we don't want to justify conflicts.

Marc Meakin

Waistcoats....unless you are playing snooker.
I'm forced to wear one today

having difficulty breathing

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Worth a look.
How current times compare with medieval times.
A lot of baloney , but worth a watch
https://youtu.be/z2RujJ04vxY

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Bowling shoes are awesome in that they are designed to help you play the game properly and reduce injury. They weren't just designed to personally annoy Gevin. (That's just a happy coincidence). They allow for a degree of sliding that regular footwear doesn't and you don't want to scuff up the thro...

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Bowling shoes are awesome in that they are designed to help you play the game properly and reduce injury. They weren't just designed to personally annoy Gevin. (That's just a happy coincidence). They allow for a degree of sliding that regular footwear doesn't and you don't want to scuff up the thro...

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I have never used an iron. My current partner does iron my clothes but I never ask her to But as I spend most of my working life wearing some kind of uniform I have never really needed to. But it's surprising how many people don't own an iron. I did used to get suits dry cleaned when I needed to wea...

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Snooker cues. Why do I have to use the equipment provided that has been specifically designed to play the sport properly? Why can't I just use a stick I found or roll the balls with my hand? Because A) that would be shit B) It would fuck up the table and the balls By all means if you have your own ...

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I used to go ice skating in my youth and bought my own skates to avoid all this queuing up and wearing second hand shoes that a quick squirt of odour eaters is meant to prevent catching something and the laces were invariably frayed/ broken.
Maybe buying your own bowling shoes is the solution

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And Black Lives Matter's UK branch have just ruined everything they've done for the last three weeks by posting the notion Jews don't have a right to self-determination on their Twitter feed, including the rather stupid assertion that British politics is "gagged" when disputing it. Racism is not ab...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑
Mon Jun 29, 2020 8:12 am
Bowling shoes.

Golfing shoes can be added to that list.
Most golfing clothes too.
Only a seventies pimp would where some of the getup that's acceptable on the golf course

Marc Meakin

People who send novelty wreathes to funerals.

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The Eurovision Song Contest : The Story of Fire Saga.
This was a fun silly campy film.
I'm not sure Americans will get it but if you like Eurovision you will like this
Even Will Ferrell is not annoying , which is hard to achieve

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The UK is in global terms a small island (well several actually ) but I love a regional accent.
My ex wife comes from the Midlands and I liked the way she pronounced tooth and bus.
Also my Northern Irish friend likes to say film as Fillum.
But I pronounce water as wartah.
What quirks do you like ?

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Regarding the aitch/haitch situation, where I live there is a rather funny/depressing split along typical Northern Ireland lines for the pronunciation. I taught in a school for a year and intentionally changed my pronunciation of the letter, mainly just to avoid boring conversation. I did randomly ...

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Jon O'Neill wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 25, 2020 10:27 pm

No open top bus to celebrate the momentous occasion , but they thoroughly deserved their win .

Marc Meakin

Not so much a joke item but more a joke ritual. 1) Funeral Cars.....why can't people use their own cars. 2) the standing up and sitting down after hymns at a funeral service. 3) the excessive purchases of flowers at a funeral. I have four siblings we only need one wreath to say mum. I would rather g...

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I have found it harder to lose weight since I became a veggie in January and this diet I'm on (Team RH fitness ) relies on a higher protein and fibre intake.
The fibre is easy but the protein less so and I am reluctant to rely on Whey powder

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Having spent the first 6 weeks of furlough watching TV or movies on my phone or tablet I put on over a stone . So for the last 3 weeks I've been averaging 15,000 steps a day and eating healthy and watching my macros. I've lost half of the stone I've put on and hope to at least get back to my pre cov...

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The hyphen Our IT helpdesk at work also decided that the hyphen was a joke item, and introduced a new rule meaning that it wasn't allowed in anyone's name. Boy was that fun for me. The number of internal processes that just don't work for me any more is ridiculous. The best one was when we rolled a...

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Kiss from a Rose by Seal was ahead of the game

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The hyphen

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People who get tetchy about the grocers apostrophe

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Yes.
Also Skypeted , WhatsApped and DMed

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Mark James wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 19, 2020 8:25 am
The space race was kind of stupid. The whole point was America beating the Soviets, to show that free market capitalism was better than communism. And in order to win they had to use a Government funding programme.

Boots on the moon by 2024 !!

Marc Meakin

Instead of snacking on unhealthy potato crisps, trying Yushoi . They're much healthier and actually taste quite nice. The "plain" flavour have 19.4 grams of protein per 100 grams, compared to 6.1 for Walkers plain. And they're baked rather than fried. I'm not going to pretend they're better than go...

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Where is love ?

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It seems another idea of mine is already in existence.
Cycling undershorts with a padded seat.
I wish I had known 2 weeks ago as I spent £30 on a seat cover that I have to constantly take off for fear of it getting stolen

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I must be a freak of nature If I buy an open bag of chips from a chippy I can guarantee they are too hot to hold but in my mouth they are not . The saliva is a factor in sure of that . Different parts of the body can be more sensitive to heat A baby's bottle is deemed too hot if it feels warm to you...

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Instead of snacking on unhealthy potato crisps, trying Yushoi . They're much healthier and actually taste quite nice. The "plain" flavour have 19.4 grams of protein per 100 grams, compared to 6.1 for Walkers plain. And they're baked rather than fried. I'm not going to pretend they're better than go...

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This is a fascinating discussion as I don't think there is a clear answer it depends on what you are consuming , and how , also the tolerance level of the individual. I readily admit I'm more of a Larry David when it cone to hot beverages , it has to be hot. I know it's thirty years ago but I develo...

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This is what I would dispute. It's all about what's too hot to put in your mouth. Your mouth is more sensitive than your hands to overly hot food. No-one find themselves in a situation where their food is cool enough to eat but too hot to pick up. It's not a thing. Make yourself a bowl of soup and ...

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Gevin : food is hotter to the touch than to the mouth How come I can comfortably hold a slice of pizza in my hand yet it burns my mouth when I try to take a bite? Maybe my mouth is conditioned to accept hotter foods or maybe your hands are instead. Or more likely you hold the crust ( cooler than th...

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Gevin : food is hotter to the touch than to the mouth

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Fake crowd noises

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There is a reasonable temperature difference between what can be eaten with your fingers versus utensils This is what I would dispute. It's all about what's too hot to put in your mouth. Your mouth is more sensitive than your hands to overly hot food. No-one find themselves in a situation where the...

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Goodness me , we are a touchy lot today.
I wanted to illustrate that my neighbour was pissed ( as he frequently is ) and urinated in the street rather than it was a lame excuse for being on the sex offenders register for the more usual reason

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I had a neighbour who got put on the sex offenders register because he took a pee up against a tree near a primary school even though it was mid afternoon when the children were at lessons
A passer by reported him.

At least that's what he told me.
He looked more like an alky than a paedo

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Would a vacuum even work? Presumably you lose the cooling effect of convection, and conduction and radiation remain the same. But the lower pressure will cause evaporation. I would have thought putting it in the freezer would be more effective. I wish Brainiacs was still on TV it would be a good qu...

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You use a watch, and get dinner ready 5 minutes earlier! 5 minutes for a hungry child is a lifetime. Also I'm not keen on eating my food if it's not piping hot When my kids were young it was usually eating in restaurants that was the biggest problem. Although I wasn't strict on them not using their...

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For and hose with young children it's a feff to cool their dinners down at mealtimes , usually fanning a newspaper works But as most people don't buy newspapers now my idea is to have a dome over the dish and a device to create a vacuum inside the dome thus cooling the food Or a can of co2 maybe Yo...

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For and hose with young children it's a feff to cool their dinners down at mealtimes , usually fanning a newspaper works
But as most people don't buy newspapers now my idea is to have a dome over the dish and a device to create a vacuum inside the dome thus cooling the food
Or a can of co2 maybe

Marc Meakin

Having used public transport with a compulsory mask on a suitable way of eating and drinking with a mask on needs to be invented.

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In the 2030s we will be putting driverless cars in here

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I like choral versions of hits like Creep and Smells Like Teen Spirit.
Also Elvis impersonators version of modern

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Peter Shilton and Peter Schmeichel have very similar names for two goalkeepers. I noticed because I was doing a Sporcle quiz and one of the answers was Peter Shilton, but I couldn't think of his name. I was like "Peter Sh." and ended up with "Schmeichel" in my head. I got it in the end though. Goes...

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I don't use cis in the same way I don't have to announce myself as heterosexual.

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So I guess JK Rowling has stirred up a TERF war

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I'm posting this here.
First they came for Little Britain , then they came for Fawlty Towers , next will be 'allo 'allo , Dad's Army and
all The Simpsons containing Apu.

Marc Meakin

If you are in any way in the public eye or work for the government or any major corporation , now would be the time to have a cull of your social media output for anything that could vote you in the arse politically. Or if you can't be bothered just make a blanket apology for everything casually or ...

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As regards Ms Rowling , I'm surprised post menopausal women and those that have had hysterectomies or have been sterilised are not up in arms too

Marc Meakin

Warning.....boomer alert
I long for those simpler days when the way to tell if you were a man or a woman was to look inside your pants

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 09, 2020 12:51 pm

Mark James wrote: ↑
Mon Jun 08, 2020 8:47 pm
I've never used shaving foam in my entire life.
Manual razors generally. Move into modern times and use an electric one where using foam would just be weird anyway.

If you shave every day then electric is best .

Marc Meakin

Mine is : " There is no such thing as bad weather , only inappropriate clothing "

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Anyone else think the protests would be even cooler if they just kept to social distancing rules. The same amount of people at the protests but at least making a decent effort to stay 2m apart, even 1m as a compromise. Obviously it would take up more of the streets and stuff but I just think would ...

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Black lives matter , that's not in doubt but , social distancing should also matter .
These mass protests have less effect than social media.
We wouldn't even know about the circumstances of George Floyd if it wasn't for social media.

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 06, 2020 6:52 am
People who call daddy-long-legses craneflies.

I used to think they were different species.

But then again I thought an Alsation was different from a German Shepherd

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