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The Pub / Re: Super-Twat
« Last post by Basil on Today at 09:25:23 am »
That is awful.
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The Pub / Re: Super-Twat
« Last post by ElyDave on Today at 09:15:33 am »
This both baffles and horrifies me in equal measure. How could the photographer in any sense consider this a good idea?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce5epgp2zdno
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The Smart Super Flash was decent for brightness and battery life but unfortunately not light life, as it succumbed to rain and spray.


blog from 2014
https://audaxing.wordpress.com/2014/01/04/not-so-smart-with-lights/

pretty sure i still have one or two in working order after this treatment
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Health & Fitness / Re: Cross Training: Running
« Last post by woollypigs on Today at 08:59:53 am »
Since Spanish soil turn to sticky and slippery clay when wet, I'm on a forced hiatus from trail running, thanks Storm Nelson.

Yes there's roads in Spain but the last time I did that my legs hurt for two days after and also the idea of pounding tarmac is filled with boredom and dread. 
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Audax / Re: Easter Arrow 2024
« Last post by aidan.f on Today at 08:58:19 am »
Last minute decision to ride a 200K perm overnight to York, see you at the finish..
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The Pub / Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Last post by rogerzilla on Today at 08:40:54 am »
Hedgehogs feature in this impressive list of Hungarian vulgarities:

https://www.thepoke.com/2023/03/17/hungarians-top-the-global-insult-leaderboard/
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Pissing down again.
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Rides and Touring / Re: Have you been out today?
« Last post by T42 on Today at 08:31:07 am »
Yes I did get a ride!.all the way to the a4 tescos against a strong gusty wind. And the rain caught me on way back. I am definitely slow  but it should come back soon   :)

Yay!   :thumbsup:
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The Pub / Re: The "I'm Such a Fecking Div" Thread
« Last post by T42 on Today at 08:30:20 am »
Ooops.

+1. 

When my daughter was at school they were asked one day to write down as many diminutives ending in -ette as they could think of.  One girl wrote salopette - which is French for overalls.
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Arts and Entertainment / Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Last post by T42 on Today at 08:22:07 am »
Another question: why do the Navigators not feature in this version of the story? Talking to my son after the film, he was saying he didn't get why spice was so important, which is a fair question - in the books (and the Lynch version) it's made clear that spice is essential to the Navigators, and therefore essential to interplanetary travel, so it seems like a pretty major omission.

Shades of 3 Body Problem, where 90% of the physics is knocked out because it'd bore the punters.  "Oh, they'll never notice."  Whereas physics and logic are 90% of the books.

I was once in a forum where one member had worked in set design for the film industry.  He once wrote that producers are ruthless with plot lines if a film is getting long enough to bore a given percentage of its audience: they'd simply cut out a chunk because they "know" that most people would simply blame themselves for losing the thread.  IIRC he was particularly miffed because one set he'd sweated blood over had completely disappeared that way.

Oh, I'll watch the rest of 3BP when it appears. I just hope the spaceships don't make a noise.

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