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Let me get this straight, a dance group who wear leotards and perform a dance that is solely shaking one's ass got upset that the broadcaster focused the camera on said asses?
Why this group was deemed the right fit for commissioning a Navy ship is a different discussion.
 
Barra333
Let me get this straight, a dance group who wear leotards and perform a dance that is solely shaking one's ass got upset that the broadcaster focused the camera on said asses?
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It's because they shook their ass, but didn't watch themselves and showed the public what they were working with. Mystikal would be disappointed.

***Since that song came out in 2000 and there are people on these boards that were born after that, I should preface this with I'm old and that this is a rap song.
 
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UKMikey
ABC apologises for Australian navy ship twerking video after dancers allege ‘deceptive editing’
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The headline is about ABC apologizing:

The ABC has issued an apology for the way the video was edited, saying a government MP had told the reporters both the governor general and the chief of navy were present for the dance.

“The video should not have been edited in that way and the ABC apologises to the Governor-General and the Chief of Navy, and to viewers, for this error,” the statement said.

The ABC has also added a correction to the original story, which acknowledges the video was edited in a way that did not reflect the actual chronology of events.
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In some cases, by the time the apology is introduced, the damage is done. In the US I imagine a lawsuit would follow.
 
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Barra333
Let me get this straight, a dance group who wear leotards and perform a dance that is solely shaking one's ass got upset that the broadcaster focused the camera on said asses?
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I think they're more upset that the "Top Brass" were editing in, looking on disapprovingly despite not having been there and viewing close-ups from angles that neither they nor the public could have seen.

Barra333
Why this group was deemed the right fit for commissioning a Navy ship is a different discussion.
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It is, but of any navy in the world I'd expect Australia to be the one whose motto was "**** it, Party!".
 
I'm assuming @daan's silent comment meant to say that he thought it was touring cars and not oyez-oyez town criers in which case hey, me too.
 
Joey D
I thought this was about the British Touring Car Championship (does that even exist anymore or am I just old?) at first. This is better though.
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:P
 
Grayfox
Kinda a lie, there are some disabled spots.
So unless he has a permit to use those spots he has not "using each spot"
If he doesn't have a permit, he has confessed to a crime even if minor
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If you read his tweet or peruse his colourful spreadsheet, you'll notice he said he only parked at the spots for which he was eligible.
 
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UKMikey
If you read his tweet or peruse his colourful spreadsheet, you'll notice he said he only parked at the spots for which he was eligible.
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Started reading it.
A lot of people keep asking the same question.
Why is the last spot on Row E "Avoid".
Saw the a pic, yeah I agree.

But his system is something I would not agree too.
His system is based off "Closest distance to store"
Most people that want normally get in and out of the car like idiots and door cars parked next to them.
I personally park further away, where few park.
If I find a car enthusiast parked in a spot, I will park next to them, As I know that person is the type that knows how to respect other peoples cars.
 
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Grayfox
Started reading it.
A lot of people keep asking the same question.
Why is the last spot on Row E "Avoid".
Saw the a pic, yeah I agree.

But his system is something I would not agree too.
His system is based off "Closest distance to store"
Most people that want normally get in and out of the car like idiots and door cars parked next to them.
I personally park further away, where few park.
If I find a car enthusiast parked in a spot, I will park next to them, As I know that person is the type that knows how to respect other peoples cars.
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With a young child his priorities are probably different to yours.
 
If you want to own a piece of crowdfunding infamy, the first production Spectrum Vega+ is on sale.

If you're not familiar with this thing, it was planned to be a portable revival of the famous Spectrum ZX microcomputer, and promised to have over 1,000 games pre-loaded onto it. They raised over £500,000 to make it in 2016, spent the next couple years failing to find suppliers and having their license to the entire games library revoked, before finally shipping out a couple hundred shoddily built units (out of a promised 4,500) that could barely run an open source emulator for the few games it did have on it, and finally closing up shop in 2019 leaving behind £1.2 million in unpaid debts and a lot of very angry British retro gamers.

In fact, this whole debacle is a major reason why most every crowdfunding platform makes it very clear now that you are not guaranteed to get anything if you pledge money to a project, and once the money changes hands the platform no longer takes responsibility for what happens after. All in all it was a pretty fascinating thing to watch unfold, given the large amount of scrutiny that was placed on it while it went on.
 
At £1500 it sounds like it'd be cheaper to hire Clive Sinclair to build one for you. At least it'd have more chance of being able to play games.

I like the accompanying story about one of the chief scammers behind the project being a buddy of Steve Bannon's.
 
UKMikey
At £1500 it sounds like it'd be cheaper to hire Clive Sinclair to build one for you. At least it'd have more chance of being able to play games.
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I presume the huge markup is the seller taking advantage of people who would actually care enough to want some obscure and infamous bit of gaming history. But apparently they're throwing in some guitar equipment with it as well, so maybe that's where the money is really going. :lol:

Sir Clive was also petitioned to intervene on the whole mess more than once too, but seeing how he's very much retired I doubt that would have resulted in anything more than maybe a somewhat tersely-worded letter, at best.
 
That trucker didn't bring home the bacon. If he's not lucky, his job's likely to be for the chop. Especially if any drivers whose cars may have been damaged by flying pigs are of a mind to sooey sue the haulage company.
 
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