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Horrible Warning Si — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:29:30 -0800

Memes. Virals. Musical Insanity, video villainy. Any and all bait for the following conditions: mouth-smirk, diaphragm-rip, arse-leak, colleague-dismissal. That which renders the working-day bearable. That which dooms culturists to misery.

Your net foragings. The scum which accumulates on the surface of your inbox. The froth on the drunken face of the world. The gorgeous spraint of the massmind. Bring it all hither.

(Note that news stories and Things Of Interest now have a separate home in the “NewStrange” thread. This right here is where we present anything that would be fundamentally valueless, if it weren’t so clearly brilliant.)

On an unrelated note, anyone referring to drills within the next 3 posts will be sent on a delightful Costa Crociere cruise piloted and crewed entirely by urethral maggots.

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Soviet Rocket No. 9 — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:13:27 -0800

And that is how I became a fan of Chelsea Peretti.

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lampcommander — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:15:03 -0800

Kyle Kinane on insomnia. I've liked him for a while, but he's quickly becoming my new favorite.

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Soviet Rocket No. 9 — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:09:42 -0800

I'll just leave this here.

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Santos — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:18:46 -0800

Gentlemen Broncos is such a good movie.

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Greasemonkey — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:29:04 -0800

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taphead — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:33:48 -0800

Posters for alternate universe versions of films. I would watch all of these, and so would you.

EXAMPLES!

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Fishelle — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:45:22 -0800

Excuse me while I shamelessly plug a new webcomic from two of my dearest friends.
They're doing a page each day this week, then updating every Monday.

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Purple Wyrm — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:29:04 -0800

"Brother Bartholomew slipped on his robe and bright red cape, checked his Laser ring, and motioned to the steward to open the door. I remembered the old Bible pictures in my mother's Bible. He reminded me so much of Jesus. It was as though Christ himself were returning to the Mount of Olives, but not on a donkey, in a modern Year 2000 space craft."

Studies in Crap - Salem Kirban's 1970 Photos of the Apocalypse

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barton — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:13:09 -0800

We've got your brainz right here, come and get em!

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celan — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:41:39 -0800

Best band up a tree I've heard today:

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magnusisasillyname — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:55:04 -0800

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barton — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:08:36 -0800

Aquaman?

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barton — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:53:51 -0800

Tell me if I'm overly amused by this, but I'm finding awkward-smile-with-every-celebrity-guy HILARIOUS (infinity more at the link):

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twentythoughts — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:38:01 -0800

Corn.

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Vornaskotti — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:33:00 -0800

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eDave — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:38:07 -0800

lionel richie gonna sue! we all like hello, right?

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Argos — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:53:26 -0800

omg that list of cats on drugs.

Also, I am INFATUATED WITH THIS WOMAN:

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taphead — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:03:18 -0800

@Argos - Ah, hula hoops! You know, for... kids... ?

(Status of mind: BLOWN.)

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Yaboo Chingoa — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:39:40 -0800

Normally, I wouldn't repost things I see on Memebase or Failblog, but this footage of a cellphone in a microwave is, well... What can I say? It belongs here.

Unspeakable birth, indeed. See how it attempted to escape its containment coffin by smashing its deformed face against the glass?

IT IS SENTIENT. IT SEEKS RELEASE.

...and, I dunno, maybe it WANTS YOUR NACHOS or something.

So. Question. You're walking down a rain-swept street at night. As you approach an intersection, that thing begins emerging from a manhole cover. What do you do?

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celan — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:09:32 -0800

Photographer Hals Fresh Love: Vacuum Sealed Couples

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Lazarus99 — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:11:23 -0800

@Yaboo

KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!

Seriously, that thing looks like the Tetsuo monster from Akira...

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D.J. — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:22:42 -0800

Hey guys, why is Wikipedia down!?

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Greasemonkey — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:54:09 -0800

They're protesting the proposed SOPA bill, written by the media corporations to allow government censorship of the internet.

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Flabyo — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:00:09 -0800

While some of those retweets are clearly people joking, there's a lot there that really really aren't. I despair sometimes.

@Greasemonkey - I think you missed the joke, or you're being really meta. Hehe. Click it!

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Lazarus99 — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:54:11 -0800

It may have been a troll, but I heard SOPA had been overturned...

Okay, maybe not the most reliable of sources, but...

Oh, and by the way...

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Flabyo — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:24:32 -0800

The White House said they're against it in it's *current form*. It'll be redrafted and come up again.

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KeeperofManyNames — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:51:51 -0800

A practical victory isn't an ideological victory, sure, and SOPA will probably be back.

But a practical victory is a whole lot better than no victory at all.

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Greasemonkey — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:43:50 -0800

@Flabyo - nope, I was just really drunk.

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icelandbob — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:41:42 -0800

cliff richard dying inside

Look, Cliff, it’s Christmas day. A day of unbridled happiness and joy. You’re riding around posing for photos on a hovercraft, no doubt a gift from a loving family member. You should be happy Cliff, your eyes should exude warmth. But they’re not exuding warmth are they Cliff? No. They are lifeless. They are flatlining. They are a pair of blackened windows to your hollow soul. Cheer up old sport. You’ve got a hovercraft to play on. And you don’t look a day over fifteen.

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magnusisasillyname — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:09:34 -0800

Curious...

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magnusisasillyname — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 05:31:41 -0800

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Steve Toase — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:52:59 -0800

Playing a tree on a turntable

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lampcommander — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:39:28 -0800

How to properly hide booze in your facebook pictures

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twentythoughts — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:58:40 -0800

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Beamish — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:51:12 -0800

Damn it, damn it, damn it. Damn you CBS, I am not made of money. Fine, I buy the damn thing.

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Morac — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:01:59 -0800

@Beamish: Dang, that's pretty impressive. Having the "hand-holding" cross over the quality border was a nice touch.

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sneak046 — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 04:24:00 -0800

This is hardly strange or news - but I did find it on the 'net, so I felt this thread would be a more suitable home:

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Vornaskotti — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 04:25:57 -0800

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Internaut — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:36:25 -0800

He's Da Bes.

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lampcommander — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:48:19 -0800

Stuff Dutch people like because why not.

edited to add: a nonsense word generator that is surprisingly fun to play with.

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celan — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:46:33 -0800

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celan — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:47:40 -0800

Infinite Drunk Ron Swanson

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Stoto — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:48:52 -0800

@celan Wow!

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Alan Tyson — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:55:15 -0800

Nicely done.

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Internaut — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:38:19 -0800

@Celan, RE:Infinite Drunk Ron Swanson:That's AWESOME.

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oldhat — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:29:40 -0800

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Ben Gwalchmai — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:09:12 -0800

http://studygroupcomics.com/main/

Newness. Intriguing.

'Titan' has an excellent 70s feel.

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Greasemonkey — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:37:18 -0800

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Greasemonkey — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:37:43 -0800

Woman with 2 vaginas gets $1 million porn offer

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Sobreiro — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:00:47 -0800

@Celan: here's the full set of pictures of the real-life Beavis and Butt-head:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mattcherette/beavis-and-butthead-in-real-life

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icelandbob — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:38:54 -0800

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barton — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:21:49 -0800

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Vornaskotti — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:37:55 -0800

...ouch :D

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Vornaskotti — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 08:42:14 -0800

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Osmosis — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:46:24 -0800

After commenting on Lovecraft's prose style in the bookclub thread ...

Some lover behind the torch

An echo about an Elder Sign seldom befriended a putrid splendor. Most people believe that a frightening monstrosity learned the thoroughly childlike truth about the stone, but the unwittingly horrible tome is much more broken. A rock behind a phantasm negotiated with another ghoul around an estate, or the non-chalantly vile vista avoided contact with the pit out of the automobile. When the abnormality around a tape recorder ruminates, another blasphemous scythe hesitates. The tripod inside a nightmare reached an understanding with an ancestral pyramid. I watched in horror as a bargain related to a pit feverishly lazily bestowed great honor upon the lover! If a recording from an engine cooked and ate the flesh of the table of the abyss, then the burden inside a demon sweeps the floor. Indeed, the subconscious clock of a devilish legend was impossible. Oh, the barely modern township of it ALL! Oh, the cold echo of it ALL! When the ghoul is earth-threatening, the occurance about the township burned the pit. When a cloud formation is surly, the monstrosity negotiated with another lover. When you see the hole about the mark, it means that a cloud formation meditates. When a monstrosity beneath a burglar is magnificent, another lantern beneath a burden completely evicerated a table near the blood clot. A monolith living inside the vault satiated a building, and some empty lot brainwashed another bohemian ocean. Another lantern beyond the engine non-chalantly pierced the black, beating heart of the exceedingly strange tape recorder. Sometimes the abnormal war leaves, but soon I was to find that an automobile near an inferiority always usually cleaned a coin! Remembering the ancient burden of a bargain beneath a death, I prostated myself before the insanity of the some echo of an existence that stood before me.

http://www.darkicon.com/lovecraft.htm

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twentythoughts — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:10:28 -0800

Osmosis: So you're saying that spammers are actually Cthulhu cultists?

It makes so much sense now.

Cialis fthaghn.

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government spy — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:32:01 -0800

Cheap iPhone 4 for fthaghn...

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Kay Orchison — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:45:00 -0800

... I seem to recall fthaghn meaning something like "lies dead but dreaming" - I'm not sure Cialis ought to do that, please see your doctor.

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Purple Wyrm — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:27:31 -0800

"fthaghn" doesn't mean anything. "fhtagn" on the other hand... ;)

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Vornaskotti — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:15:07 -0800

\,,/

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Greasemonkey — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:27:57 -0800

That's pretty awful, but the worst-ever-music-video championship belt is still held by Mick Jagger and David Bowie:

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Purple Wyrm — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:33:24 -0800

Meet Vermin Supreme

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Alan Tyson — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:57:38 -0800

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RenThing — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 02:08:26 -0800

I've seen that all over the place and the "Titty sprinkles" get me every single time.

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Paprika — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 10:00:32 -0800

Just a great resource of mind expanding documentaries

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Yaboo Chingoa — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:50:06 -0800

Worst video?

Nah.

Try this.

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Soviet Rocket No. 9 — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:02:16 -0800

I'd like to take a moment, and talk about a genius named Robert McCall.

The top image is from his design work for "2001", the middle is a special commission he did for NASA, and the last is a piece he did for Disney's (former) Horizons ride.

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barton — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:20:42 -0800

Meanwhile...

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barton — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:22:29 -0800

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Kay Orchison — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:30:44 -0800

@Purple Wyrm *burning shame* I just cut and paste from the original post to make the crappy joke I WILL NOT FAIL YOU AGAIN

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barton — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:53:42 -0800

It's cool man, like, whatever...

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Birds_Use_Stars — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:31:05 -0800

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taphead — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:26:11 -0800

I see your gif and raise you a video.

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barton — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:41:54 -0800

Well there's your problem right there

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Osmosis — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:15:04 -0800

This been on yet?

Amazing Left 4 Dead fanfilm.

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RenThing — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:20:15 -0800

@Osmosis

Yeah, I posted it a while back but that one is so superb. Plus the ending is bad ass.

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barton — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:05:53 -0800

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Greasemonkey — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:17:33 -0800

Aircraft landing at Dusseldorf airport in a strong crosswind, January 5th.

That first plane is a 400-tonne passenger jet.

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icelandbob — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:58:06 -0800

o_0

If it's not dead, then it's a fucking zombie...

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icelandbob — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:18:36 -0800

Guns? Pah! when the zombie apocalypse comes, it´ll be bows and arrows for me!

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Greasemonkey — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:32:24 -0800

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Soviet Rocket No. 9 — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:37:56 -0800

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lampcommander — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:53:11 -0800

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barton — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:45:48 -0800

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barton — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:47:07 -0800

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Soviet Rocket No. 9 — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:53:44 -0800

I have no idea why, but I'm fascinated by this.

Chopin, Prelude, opus 28 #5, D major, Piano Solo

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barton — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:38:12 -0800

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Greasemonkey — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:39:26 -0800

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James Cunningham — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:09:45 -0800

Mostly Harmless-

A bit of video game music the internet got into its head is called Death Waltz.

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Vornaskotti — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:43:48 -0800

Well... I was born in -75 and this is more or less how I feel and felt about LPs :P

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sneak046 — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:20:29 -0800

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Alastair — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:35:39 -0800

thats brilliant

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Flabyo — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:56:02 -0800

I've seen several versions of that. In one, the line is 'Motorbike isn't starting properly, can't figure out why'

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icelandbob — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:03:50 -0800

...

(click here for big version)

[Edit - fixed that link for you. -Si.]

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Stoto — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:54:00 -0800

If you can access BBC's iPlayer, I recommend Matt Berry's newish radio series, 'I, Regress'.
A dark sitcom that fits in well with Chris Morris' 'Blue Jam'.

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icelandbob — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:22:06 -0800

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D.J. — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:59:05 -0800

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Greasemonkey — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:24:38 -0800

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Peter Kelly — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:43:14 -0800

Poking around for a freelance gig and I just found this....
SEEKING A MAN WITH EXTRAORDINARY GAS

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Val A Lindsay II — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:35:52 -0800

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Jamie Heron — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:51:23 -0800

It starts of sad, goes through creepy and ends up somewhere rather sweet...

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taphead — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:45:11 -0800

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lampcommander — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:49:58 -0800

The daily affirmation. Maybe it'll work...

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RenThing — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:05:12 -0800

Iron Sky mentioned on io9.com. Vornoskotti, this is for you!

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barton — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:27:01 -0800

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barton — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:28:57 -0800

Snow storm in Iceland? Make sure you remember to roll the window up...

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icelandbob — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:53:26 -0800

/\
Fake i'm afraid. Having said that, we're under a metre and a half of snow here...

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icelandbob — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:57:00 -0800

As far as council letters go, this is pretty straightforward...

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lampcommander — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:23:16 -0800

Here's a cool little video that shows different ways of unfolding the globe to see land and water patterns. It moves a little too fast, but it's neat.

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barton — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:32:50 -0800

I stand corrected good sir

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Beamish — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:42:31 -0800

Way to go Ohio! Keep it up!

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oldhat — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:55:24 -0800

Overqualified. Cover letters by Joey Comeau.

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Soviet Rocket No. 9 — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:27:43 -0800

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magnusisasillyname — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:48:13 -0800

Lovecraftian Transformers reminds me of this months' R&R

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twentythoughts — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:41:21 -0800

Jewelry made from Barbie doll parts. Not at all like Ken went on a murdering spree and then arranged the remnants into trophies.

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celan — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:15:51 -0800

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Purple Wyrm — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:03:18 -0800

So this guy, not content with listening to Barack Obama's audio books decided to remix them into an epic myth about the creation and destruction of the world...

Son of Strelka, Son of God, Chapter One

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Vornaskotti — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:23:44 -0800

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lampcommander — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:51:41 -0800

There are no words.

Except this: check out the facial expressions. Particularly 1:16 and 1:17.

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Vornaskotti — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:11:51 -0800

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Bankara — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:14:00 -0800

@lampcommander, I think you just broke my brain with that one.

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Greasemonkey — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:56:51 -0800

Petition for Rob Granito to be admitted to conventions . . . . signed by about 30 of Granito's fake personalities . . . .

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Beamish — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:07:09 -0800

Emmanuel 'MOJOKINGBEE' Hernaez gets pimped on the Bendisboards.

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celan — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:29:19 -0800

Jon Stewart at a Dead Kennedys Show:

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dorkmuffin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:01:04 -0800

@celan, is that ... real???

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celan — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:36:43 -0800

@Dorkmuffin
According to Gawker it's plausible.

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Brendan McGinley — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:37:29 -0800

If you're caught up on Breaking Bad, you HAVE to watch this.
Breaking Bad -- Ecstasy of Gold trailer

If you're not caught up on Breaking Bad, run away until it's not spoileriffic for you.

Also, whence the video code no longer embedding?

EDIT: Fixed! Thanks, Celan

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celan — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:48:44 -0800

@Brendan
You've got to use the whole URL from the address bar when posting from Youtube. WC doesn't like the shortened links.

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Foamhead — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:21:35 -0800

Awake for 10 minutes.

Watching the news.

Saw these.

Now want them for breakfast.

Beardlies and Ladyfems, I give you:

Chocolate Trussels - The Chocolate-Covered Brussels Sprout

A mouthful of Christmas every day!

Nom, and so on.

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Slick — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:15:04 -0800

Now I love brussel sprouts and I like chocolate but...just no.

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magnusisasillyname — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:04:23 -0800

A love letter to smoking, by a dear friend (and semi-famous drummer.) Possibly one of the finest things you'll read today.

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twentythoughts — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:02:08 -0800

And coming from the little championship thing on the previous page...

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Lazarus99 — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:55:05 -0800

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lampcommander — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 09:16:52 -0800

@twentythoughts: OH YEAH?!!!

Full routines this time. Clapping and cheering and clapping and fistpumping and (starting approximately :30) HAPPY.

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Birds_Use_Stars — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 09:41:30 -0800

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celan — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:50:07 -0800

IMSLP-- Petrucci Music Library: Search By Melody

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Alan Tyson — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:45:58 -0800

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dorkmuffin — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:37:14 -0800

I did not need to see this:

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StefanJ — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:31:43 -0800

@dorkmuffin: That would be a really odd thing to be seen bringing down to the apartment laundry room, or hanging on a clothes line.

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Alan Tyson — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:46:09 -0800

. . . oh, I get it! Because it sucks (soaks) up blood! Hah! Oh, that's so... so...

I'm going to go be ill now.

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lampcommander — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:47:42 -0800

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Soviet Rocket No. 9 — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:02:17 -0800

Another to add the list of "I don't know why, but I like it."

Also, that championship thing back two pages ago, just summed up the late eighties for me.

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cardo — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:00:27 -0800

God Bless America - official RED BAND trailer

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Stoto — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:13:57 -0800

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RenThing — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:25:50 -0800

SEIFERT!!!! - Witchdoctor gets the BoingBoing treatment

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RenThing — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:03:29 -0800

So, last night I had the pleasure of attending W00tstock Founders Night, the comedy concert put on by Adam Savage, Paul and Storm, and Whil Wheaton. They were joined on stage by Chris Hartwick, a comedian and college roommate of Whil's, and hilarity ensued. So, without explanation, I present to you a .gif off the five gentlemen dancing and flipping off the audience here.

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Jay Kay — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:32:31 -0800

@Stoto -- Damn it! I was just coming over here to post that. Now nerdy am I that the first thing that came to my mind was Zatanna?

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Stoto — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:32:38 -0800

@Jay Kay :D

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Greasemonkey — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:31:58 -0800

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twentythoughts — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:12:22 -0800

Some neato 1966 Batman trading cards by Norman Saunders

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oldhat — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:27:59 -0800

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Greasemonkey — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:38:29 -0800

Sexy B&D Robin seems to be a recurring theme there.

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Beamish — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:48:37 -0800

I. NEED. THIS!

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lampcommander — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:15:53 -0800

Anyone ever seen Perversions of Science? Late 90s horror/sci fi series on HBO, spinoff of Tales from the Crypt. It was amazing (read: awful).

If you can get to 9:15, you'll hear one of the best lines of dialogue ever penned.

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dorkmuffin — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:47:05 -0800

Sorry, guys. It was NOT Jon Stewart at that Dead Kennedys show.

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derfla3101980 — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:53:44 -0800

Flying People in New York

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Alan Tyson — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:12:04 -0800

55 gallons of lube for sale on Amazon

"Customers who viewed this item also viewed: Accoutrements Horse Head Mask"

"You shouldn't think of this as a 'purchase.' It's an 'investment.'"

"I knew getting back in the "dating game" would be a challenge after being out of it for over 5 years. When I was released from Joliet, I had to learn all the new things "the dating crowd" was trying. I knew about scented candles and Luther Vandross CDs, and sure was glad to hear people still use them. But I had no idea that "lube" was so popular with the "romantics" out there. All it took was one stroll through the Walgreens personal hygiene aisle to prove I had to learn a new thing."

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Jay Kay — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:56:43 -0800

The kind of weird shit I find while looking about Tumblr:

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twentythoughts — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:29:47 -0800

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lampcommander — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:15:19 -0800

@Anchorbeard: That's awesome.

Here's more!
Uranium ore - "I purchased this product 4.47 Billion Years ago and when I opened it today, it was half empty."
Fresh whole rabbit - "Like most country folks, I spend a lot of time trying to get the wild livestock on my property, arrows and atatali tend to be hard to use to hit small critters like rabbits and squirrels, shotguns and .22 tend to be noisy and scare the others making it difficult to get enough to feed the host of people that are waiting back at the house for dinner. "
Tuscan whole milk - "He was a good man, a wonderful husband who always brought the milk on Friday, Tuscan Whole Milk, 1 Gallon, 128 fl oz."
And then the classic book A Million Random Digits - "The bulk of each page seems random enough. However at the lower left and lower right of alternate pages, the number is found to increment directly."

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barton — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:46:09 -0800

There I was, just minding my own business

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oldhat — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:48:09 -0800

AARDMAN, MAKE A DVD OF THIS AND TAKE ALL OF MY MONEY.

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barton — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:40:24 -0800

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Stoto — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:49:47 -0800

A record player that plays slices of wood.

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oldhat — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:16:23 -0800

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Yoav — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:24:05 -0800

Coming back strong:

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Argos — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:57:32 -0800

Pairing beer with comics http://quirkbooks.com/post/guide-pairing-your-comics-beer

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Greasemonkey — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:01:57 -0800

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Soviet Rocket No. 9 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:14:26 -0800

Found on Coilhouse.

Space Stallions

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DC — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:35:50 -0800

One of the most epic pranks ever

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Purple Wyrm — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:50:21 -0800

I only just stumbled over the amazing Romantically Apocalyptic...

Romantically Apocalyptic - Que Sera, Sera

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barton — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:45:09 -0800

Mind the tile Hulk

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Vornaskotti — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:01:43 -0800

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MarshallQuicksand — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:04:50 -0800

@barton - Somebody spent days carefully crafting a shitting Hulk. I can't quite process that. Part of me wonders if, with a different angle, we might see a pair of Hulk balls. That makes it even more difficult to understand.

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lampcommander — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:50:52 -0800

Has this been posted yet? I don't think this has been posted yet.

Edit to add: more images at the link

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barton — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:29:14 -0800

@Encephalo Ray HULK SPLASH!!!

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Horrible Warning Si — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:51:33 -0800

WHITECHAPEL MODERATION ANNOUNCEMENT:

Due to unforseen circumstances, the board member known as "Barton" was NEVER SEEN AGAIN.

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Greasemonkey — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:58:19 -0800

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twentythoughts — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:27:32 -0800

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lampcommander — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:30:04 -0800

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Soviet Rocket No. 9 — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:38:54 -0800

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celan — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:05:58 -0800

@twentythoughts
I like this version by a local band (Jurassic Park @~3:34):

Oh and...

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Sobreiro — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:42:25 -0800

@twentythoughts, the more I see that Jurassic Park melodica cover the more I laugh...

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barton — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:46:25 -0800

Thanks @Horrible Warning Si, I'll be retreating to my summer home at the seashore

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Soviet Rocket No. 9 — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:46:02 -0800

Apple Scotland - iPhone commercial for Siri

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lampcommander — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:15:02 -0800

Good morning!

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Christopher — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:51:44 -0800

@ Mostly Harmless: Burnistoun did it first...

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chiaslut — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:58:57 -0800

Who wants to go for a snowy hike with 34 snorfing, slobbering, adorable St. Bernards?
Me! I do! I do!
snorf

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Jay Kay — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:33:46 -0800

@lampcommander

"Okay, this is kind of a stupid pop song but I've heard worse, and she's kinda cute--OH GOD THOSE BIG EYES WHAT THE FUCK AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA--"

Anyway, this week in comics, Detective Comics #6 had a particularly epic cheesy line, and someone used the appropriate meme to complete this masterpiece of a line.

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Vornaskotti — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:07:09 -0800

1:30 onwards - awwwww-BUUURN :D

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vandalhandle — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:26:00 -0800

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sneak046 — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:15:39 -0800

@vorna

Nice (if a bit surprising) to see my home-town's Dead Poets popping up on WC...

Here's some tractor raps by Mark Grist's partner MC Mixy:

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twentythoughts — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:51:25 -0800

Posting this here even though I took the pics myself, 'cause I don't see any immediate other places to post it and it's neat: An LP I found at a Norwegian thrift store.

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twentythoughts — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:23:41 -0800

And something that's not mine.

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Greasemonkey — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:37:15 -0800

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Stoto — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:13:53 -0800

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Vornaskotti — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:10:24 -0800

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oldhat — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:17:38 -0800

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icelandbob — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:16:19 -0800

@Oldhat

I saw that video tonight. Bloody hilarious it was. the way he poured his scotch and water with desperation/anger/frustration was priceless!

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Foamhead — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:07:14 -0800

No, I don't work for the company nor own shares in them.
Don't know how long this has been public knowledge and whether or not I'm the last one to find out, just for a change.
Not even 100% sure something this commercially-oriented is the done thing here on WC but I can delete it if our Eel Overlords object.
Anyroadup, a friend just pointed this out to me and thought it might, somehow, be of interest to somebody:
Daz Studio Pro 4, Bryce Pro 7 and Hexagon 2.5 are all legitimately available to download for free here.
I can barely find my way around Photoshop but I've grabbed these just in case the 3D muse takes me some day. So far there've been no catches, such as a 30-day trial period before they hit you up for the usual $429.95, or any other kind of drawback besides the sudden, vertigo-inducingly steep learning curve I now have ahead of me.

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celan — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:39:06 -0800

I Found Ice Cube's Good Day

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DC — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:01:09 -0800

Make your own David Cameron poster.

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LokiZero — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:18:34 -0800

Thanks Foamhead!

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oldhat — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:35:55 -0800

You're welcome.

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Foamhead — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:27:41 -0800

This hasn't been posted yet?

The Dog Strikes Back: 2012 Volkswagen SuperBowl Commercial
(Bear with it)

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Foamhead — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:41:12 -0800

Erm...and then there's these.

VW: The Dark Side

VW: The Dark Side II

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Vornaskotti — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:50:48 -0800

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taphead — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:25:37 -0800

Today I've seen the Avengers trailer and this. This one wins.

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twentythoughts — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:06:23 -0800

Good ol' Norwegian ads. This one's for a broadband company, doing a "for those of you who care about the Internet" thing.

EDIT: They made this one private and removed the cat for the new one, since a buncha people were pissed off about the cat. Yeah, I dunno.

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icelandbob — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:39:50 -0800

A Substation exploding in russia...

Of course we always turn our noses up at Superbowl Ads (lite beer, cars, etc), but this one was rather funny!

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pulptrash — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:34:57 -0800

Here's an image from my picture book CALL OF THE SCREAMING WICKED. It features the last living mugger to live in a Utopian society. I'm hoping this is the right place to post such things, it is technically on the net.

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barton — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:26:16 -0800

Thug life

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oldhat — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:20:29 -0800

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Foamhead — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:45:46 -0800

How to decorate your breastfeeding baby to please fans of boobs.

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taphead — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:48:21 -0800

So, a friend of mine went and made a music video for one of her tunes. Greetings from snowy Helsinki.

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Foamhead — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:45:56 -0800

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RenThing — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:02:41 -0800

@Foamhead

Ooooooooo

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werwolf — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:07:52 -0800

A: >>hey, man, what happened to your floppy drives?<<
B: >>dunno, they're acting all strange and give me 'sith' errors in read-out. no idea what that's all about...<<

EDIT: several embed fails later...

IMPERIAL MARCH OF THE FLOPPY DRIVES

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James Cunningham — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:44:49 -0800

Werwolf- pure awesome. :)

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lampcommander — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:19:03 -0800

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ian holloway — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:37:27 -0800

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celan — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:51:14 -0800

@lampcommander
That's awesome. Someone needs to add "Meh" to that photo.

Edited to add: Apparently it's this guy: August Landmesser

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Beamish — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:39:08 -0800

Let me google that for you.

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Vornaskotti — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:30:26 -0800

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Karibou — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:55:19 -0800

Ad Fail.
In french the word bites doesn't mean eating a piece of food, it is a slang word for penis.

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johnjones — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:54:36 -0800

@ Karibou

I don't see it as a fail. It's an English language ad marketed to English speaking people. If it'd been in French and "bites" had been in there, I could see it. Otherwise, not really.

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Ben Klumaster — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:57:09 -0800

@johnjones

On the other hand "petite" is a French loan-word. And then you combine it with the looks on the faces of the people below...

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lampcommander — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:25:29 -0800

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Karibou — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:29:28 -0800

@johnjones you're right it is not a proper fail but as french it made me laugh instantly and i hoped you'd look at it the way Ben Klumaster did.

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Vornaskotti — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:22:46 -0800

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Vornaskotti — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:49:05 -0800

Carved Anatomical Sculptures by Maskull Lasserre

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barton — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:31:05 -0800

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frenchbloke — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:32:14 -0800

Behold, SUPER PUTIN !

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barton — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:35:14 -0800

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Vornaskotti — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:17:53 -0800

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Sobreiro — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:34:49 -0800

Meet The Man Inside The Nicolas Cage Costume

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aliveandmortal — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:27:12 -0800

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Vornaskotti — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:11:51 -0800

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Foamhead — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:04:04 -0800

@ Vornaskotti:

Ah, the highlight of The River.

Pretty sure this has been posted before but (re)found it in the same place and, despite repeated viewings, part of me's still wondering if it's the melon or her head which splatters right at the end.

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Purple Wyrm — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:31:51 -0800

So what's a hipster anyway?

Definition of a Hipster

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Soviet Rocket No. 9 — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:35:48 -0800

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Sobreiro — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:34:37 -0800

@The Mighty Foamhead:

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Vornaskotti — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:28:11 -0800

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Foamhead — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:34:46 -0800

@ Sobreiro: Crap. Another cheery daydream bites the dust.

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texture — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:39:43 -0800

Jan Svankmeyer's ALICE

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lampcommander — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:36:39 -0800

@texture: I love that movie. Jan Svankmajer is crazy.

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texture — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:39:35 -0800

Crazy like a fox! Yeah, really amazing stuff, and clearly done without much of a budget. My friend Harlequinade, a performance artist and writer, introduced me to his stuff. There's a definite Svankmeyer influence in this video for his band's last single:

Church Of When The Shit Hits The Fan - Under The Last Dust

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texture — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:59:17 -0800

The scale of the known universe - a handy interactive guide to Everything.

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Ben Gwalchmai — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:27:37 -0800

Possibly the strangest, most peaceful WAR I've ever read about. I give you:

the Anglo-Swedish War of 1810

[short version: "They told me to say it or they'd hit me. We cool?"]

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Vornaskotti — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:39:06 -0800

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sneak046 — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:39:34 -0800

The George Orwell blue plaque CCTV camera image (last page) is a powerful artistic statement, but not actually real

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barton — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:51:15 -0800

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lampcommander — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:27:55 -0800

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Argos — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:35:56 -0800

This guy has reviewed nearly 1,500 varieties of instant noodle. (I didn't make it a link because the formatting is coming out weird. The forums want to make it a video since it's a youtube account page).

https://www.youtube.com/user/tontantin/

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nigredo — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:42:18 -0800

@texture

Huge fan of Svankmajer, His short film DIMENSIONS OF DIALOGUE and the film CONSPIRATORS OF PLEASURE blew me away when I first saw them in uni and I've been a massive admirer of his work since. Went to his gallery when I visited Prague, awesome little place, full of alchemical texts and wonderful Czech surrealist art...

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Vornaskotti — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:30:58 -0800

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Vornaskotti — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:45:24 -0800

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twentythoughts — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:56:16 -0800

Some music

Some fighting

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twentythoughts — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:22:24 -0800

And ninjas. Uh, sorta.

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RenThing — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:51:13 -0800

Tablecloth pulling trick doesn't work out well...

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Purple Wyrm — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:41:56 -0800

I made a post, then realised it would be better suited to the Newstrange thread. So here's our old friend Fadades playing in the snow instead...

Fadades the Snowman

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sneak046 — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:21:30 -0800

Guy fails at parenting his kid, loses his shit and shoots her laptop:

There is a post doing the rounds of tumblr with people applauding this childish and moronic dick for his toddler-like temper tantrum with lots of added "oh she's so ungrateful, I had to work like ten jobs, down the pit and live in a cardboard box at the age of nine how dare she complain" comments.., and blaming the kid for well, being a kid. Personally I think the whole-bloody-lot of them need educating on how to be A Family.

[edited to add: I come from a crazy ass liberal background where I was not forced to do any chores or any other jobs beyond keeping a basic fire-safety level of tidiness in my room, and grew up to not resent my folks and actually started doing stuff to help them for no reward off my own back by the time I was this girl's age. IMO people cannot be made/forced to respect their parents, they only learn from their example]

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D.J. — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:15:04 -0800

What's funny is the guy isn't really wrong about what he's saying up to a point, it's just that they're all things that would make much more sense to sit down and say directly in a conversation with his daughter, whereupon they could have some sort of reasonable conversation with, just maybe, a reasonable outcome. The problem is his failure to realize that every kid in the goddamn world lashes out at their parents like that occasionally, whether on facebook or to a group of their friends.

Though really, even if you agree the kid should lose her laptop for whatever dumb shit, why destroy the damn thing? Give it to charity.

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sneak046 — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:24:03 -0800

@DJ - Yup, that's what I was thinking..

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Purple Wyrm — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:26:32 -0800

If he's smart he's already pulled out the innards and sold them on ebay and is just shooting the case.

If he's smart...

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frenchbloke — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:29:29 -0800

Best Facebook page ever.
https://www.facebook.com/HandDryers

worth it solely for the photos and comments.

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texture — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:38:17 -0800

@frenchbloke - My goodness. That's some funny shit. "That's a Blade? It looks like a Mitsubishi Jet Towel."

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Kradlum — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:41:04 -0800

@RenThing I wonder why those kids are forced to live in a strange brown world, and what is briefly revealed behind the curtain at the end.

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Vornaskotti — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:59:59 -0800

Whooooo!

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Foamhead — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:44:54 -0800

From good, old Aunty Beeb:

Alan Moore on Anonymous' rise

Without wishing to overstate my case, everything in the observable universe definitely has its origins in Northamptonshire, and the adoption of the V for Vendetta mask as a multipurpose icon by the emerging global protest movements is no exception.

(This is where I go back to perusing threads and find one recently set-up and dedicated to this, isn't it?)

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magnusisasillyname — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:53:59 -0800

One of the best Ebay stories ever

They say you can never have too much bubble wrap…well that’s not necessarily true. Being the idiot I am I accidently ordered several hundred metres more of the stuff than I should have.

So help a brother out and buy my wrap…if it all goes within the next seven days I will perform a flamenco dance in Trafalgar Square wearing nothing but a tutu and an American Football helmet to show my gratitude!!!!

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a ethic whelp — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:50:41 -0800

Some great stuff here.
World Press Photo winner 2011

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a ethic whelp — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:51:49 -0800

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RenThing — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:14:26 -0800

Vornoskotti and icelandbob, this true at all: how do you avoid dating your first cousin in Iceland, look them up in an incest database.

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magnusisasillyname — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:21:39 -0800

Why red roses on Valentine's day are bad!

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Sobreiro — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:56:47 -0800

This is the link that @a ethic whelp tried to post.

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a ethic whelp — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:28:01 -0800

Thanks just realized what I did wrong.

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Alan Tyson — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:44:52 -0800

I love videos like this.

It's like the world biggest, coolest Lego set, made autonomous.

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magnusisasillyname — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:52:12 -0800

That Ebay link is totally for real btw, the guy is an old friend of mine, and he is actually going to lose his job on monday because of bubble wrap. The fact that it's going to be a great story to tell people in the future is not consoling him. So, if you need bubble wrap, for whatever reason, please check it out. :)

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Vornaskotti — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:25:47 -0800

RenThing:

Uh, I'm from Finland, not Iceland - there's some sea between the two :P

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RenThing — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:26:10 -0800

Oops, sorry, thought you were with Bob!

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Wood — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:31:57 -0800

Can anybody here read Hebrew ? Because I'd really like to know what it says at the end of this video...

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nelzbub — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:12:29 -0800

- regarding the above e-bay bubble wrap fiasco; I have forwarded a link to my friends at the RooR bong shop, they certainly get through plenty of rolls of wrap every year. would like to think this may help. Whitechapel'll fix it!

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Vornaskotti — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:23:50 -0800

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Littlepurplegoth — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:59:08 -0800

Found this on t'net. Thought it might be of use to some :-)

T's an anon (whispers) valentine (/whispers) thing 0-//

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Lazarus99 — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:47:17 -0800

@Wood
I think it says:

Everyone worries about STDs
Listen to that little voice.
For more information on safe sex and testing
AIDS war Committee (that bit's from Google Translate)

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a ethic whelp — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:37:15 -0800

Just watched that vid and thought it was a cigarette ad.

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Foamhead — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:02:32 -0800

Man's best friend.

Sweet dreams.

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andycon — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:03:52 -0800

still better than cats

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magnusisasillyname — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:37:16 -0800

Whitney Houston dead at 48.

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barton — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:20:21 -0800

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barton — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:20:50 -0800

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Wood — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:35:19 -0800

This is exactly how it feels like for a non-Brit to watch cricket :

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barton — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:10:26 -0800

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nelzbub — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:24:06 -0800

WANT!

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celan — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:42:52 -0800

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Alan Tyson — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:10:02 -0800

Cool.

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taphead — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:28:28 -0800

@Anchorbeard - That was fucking awesome.

A bit in the same vein, SFPD does It Gets Better:

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Greasemonkey — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:27:52 -0800

Steve Vai strokes his cock for ten minutes, and I don't care a bit.

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dorkmuffin — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:34:06 -0800

Dogs underwater.

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Vornaskotti — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:19:09 -0800

Watching these climbing and parkour videos from Russia makes my balls shrivel with terror.

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Vornaskotti — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:08:29 -0800

I guarantee it - after watching this, a Monday will be 80% less Monday.