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He's lucky he didn't crash into the giant penis.
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/scottish-news/6668000/dundee-snow-penis-13-foot-accident/
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So what do you do when you develop an algorithm that can convert brain scans into images? Get a Doctor Who fan to try it out, of course!
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A genuinely lovely, wholesome staycation story from a family in lockdown.
I did blow coffee out of my nose at one point: describing his wife's cunning planning Dom Hodgson said "The little details really made it, she built a website to check in our passports for our flight, pre-recorded airport announcements and put tropical air fresheners around the room". Sounds well lush.
I did blow coffee out of my nose at one point: describing his wife's cunning planning Dom Hodgson said "The little details really made it, she built a website to check in our passports for our flight, pre-recorded airport announcements and put tropical air fresheners around the room". Sounds well lush.
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How spicy are Black Country Faggots? Too spicy for Facebook, it seems.
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Blood sausage is pretty big over here as a breakfast food (even though it's basically just a giant scab) along with the steak and kidney pie I mentioned in the Britain thread. Not quite viscera-related but when I was a kid in Staffordshire I used to be pretty fond of something called brawn until I found out what was in it.
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I've had both blood sausage and steak and kidney pie, both of which I had on a trip over there. There was nothing particularly off-putting about them, but I didn't really enjoy them. Korean blood sausage is awesome, though.
I haven't had brawn, or what was explicitly called brawn, but I've had and enjoy head cheese.
I've also had haggis, and it was actually the presence of oats in that preparation that made it unappealing to me rather than the organs and encasement.
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I don't know what a Black Country Faggot is, but it's wrapped in bacon so, therefore, must be good.
The name of English dishes always makes me laugh though since a handful of them do not translate to American English very well. I had to explain to my wife what Spotted Dick Pudding was when I ordered it at a restaurant. The look she gave me was priceless. Growing up with a British/Canadian grandma and a Scottish grandpa, I was always pretty accustomed to that stuff.
The name of English dishes always makes me laugh though since a handful of them do not translate to American English very well. I had to explain to my wife what Spotted Dick Pudding was when I ordered it at a restaurant. The look she gave me was priceless. Growing up with a British/Canadian grandma and a Scottish grandpa, I was always pretty accustomed to that stuff.
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And the irony of it all is that Metallica is one of the original reasons why the DMCA is wielded like a massive sledgehammer now.
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That music industry vs. Napster sketch on SNL with Conan O'Brien as Richard Fairbrass of Right Said Fred was ****ing hilarious.
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A young man from Clydebank matched all but one number on last week's Euromillions lottery draw which had a jackpot of £156 million. He got £666...
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She must have been hogging the Charmin.
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As an ex-teacher I know that staff-room rants about particular parents are par for the course*, but I couldn't imagine streaming those criticisms online. Oops... entire board of a Californian school resigns.
* An essential part of stress management, actually, particularly with those who are waiting at your classroom door every morning. **** off the lot of you.
* An essential part of stress management, actually, particularly with those who are waiting at your classroom door every morning. **** off the lot of you.
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I can totally understand - you should hear what customer support teams say when the phones are off...
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It's our right to defend ourselves against pastel colors which might interfere with pink and/or light blue onsies. Can you imagine a world with green, yellow, or even earth-tone choices? Soon people will want an entire spectrum of color and this opens the door to the infrared and ultraviolet, so we need to defend ourselves with explosive gender reveals to prevent future one-way trips to the customer service desk! You should too unless you want your Queen telling you to just rationally tell folks before the baby shower with something archaic such as a Facebook post or a telephone conversation.
Anyhow, this getting stupidly out of hand and probably won't subside because some people are just out of whack with their need for attention.
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Sounds like a case of the chickens coming home to roost.
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