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CarlManvers2019

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He did. She chucked away his stuff. It's his stuff. How would she like it if he chucked away her shit?

He pointed out the same

Her most annoying and insulting rebuttal was "Otaku shit" more-or-less

Be careful of how much you piss off fans of a series/franchise/entertainment-media
 

Laskar

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I read it. Now you guys get to read it too.


A furious row has broken out between a local tattoo artist and his client after what started out as a routine inking session, left both of them requiring emergency hospital treatment.

Vintage film fan and part time plus size model Tracey Munter (23), had visited the Ink It Good Tattoo Emporium on Wellgate last week to have the finishing touches applied to a double buttock representation of the chariot race scene from the iconic 1959 film, Ben Hur. Tattooist Jason Burns takes up the story.

“It was a big job in more ways than one.” he told us “I’d just lit a roll up and was finishing off a centurions helmet. It’s delicate, close up work. Next thing is, I sense a slight ripple in the buttock cleavage area just around Charlton Heston’s whip, and a hissing sound – more of a whoosh than a rasp – and before I know what’s happening, there’s a flame shooting from her arse to my fag and my beards gone up like an Aussie bush fire.”

Jason says he rushed to the studio sink to quell the flames, only to turn round and see Tracey frantically fanning her buttock area with a damp towel. The flames had travelled down the gas cloud and set fire to her thong which was smoking like a cheap firework.

“To be honest”, said Jason, “I didn’t even realise she was wearing one. You’d need a sodding mining licence and a torch to find out for sure. She could have had a complete wardrobe in there and I’d have been none the wiser.”
More satire at the link.
 

Laskar

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Courtesy of the Bayou Renaissance Man, I've stbled across the obituary of another Renaissance Man, a man from Slovenia who could have played the part of James Bond or Q.


Peter Florjancic, the Slovenian inventor who died last week aged 101, once remarked that even Alfred Hitchcock would struggle to make a film about his life.

He was at various times an Olympic athlete, film actor, author, and friend of the rich and famous. But throughout his extraordinary life he had one chief passion: the everyday.

Florjancic was fixated on inventing ways to make life easier, safer and, where possible, a little more stylish. And while he is far from a household name, his inventions have almost certainly found a place in millions of homes.

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"I've had five citizenships, 43 cars and the longest passport. The profession of inventor forced me to spend 25 years in hotels, four years in cars, three years on trains, a year and a half on airplanes and a year on board of ships."
 

PsihoKekec

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War trophies and battlefield loot were especially common during the two World Wars. However, one allied soldier’s hijacking habits during WWI earned him the nickname the “Souvenir King”. Despite his lack of military discipline, the Souvenir King was also one of the bravest soldiers in the trenches.

Private No 2296 John Hines, also known as Barney, was born in Liverpool, England in 1873. From a young age, Hines was a rebel. At the age of 14, he ran away from home to join the Army before his mother caught him. Undeterred, he joined the Royal Navy two years later and served on a gunboat during the Boxer Rebellion chasing pirates in the China Sea. The next year, he was discharged and began a globetrotting expedition in search of gold.

While searching for his fortune in South Africa, the Boer War broke out. Unofficially, he served as a scout for many British units during the war. Afterwards, Hines continued his quest for gold in the United States, South America, and New Zealand. Coming up dry each time, he made his way to Australia and found work at a sawmill before WWI broke out in August 1914. Though he was now in his early 40s, Hines tried to enlist but was rejected for medical reasons. Still, he jumped from recruiting post to recruiting post until he was accepted in 1916 as part of a reinforcement for the Australian 45th Battalion.

The "Souvenir King" was one of the best soldiers on the Western Front - We Are The Mighty
 

Husky_Khan

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Zofia Kossak Szczucka, the Polish Novelist who was an anti-Semitic activist before World War Two. Yet during the German occupation risked her life to spread awareness of the plight of Jews in the Ghettos and the Camps and also helped create organizations that forged over fifty thousand fake documents to help Jews escape the Axis and sheltered thousands of others.

For her efforts, in 1943 Zofia ended up on the concentration camps herself.

 

Bear Ribs

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This is a bit long, but an interesting look at how AI can be simultaneously amazingly brilliant and incredibly dumb due the nature of problems presented to it. Given a pile of robot parts and instructions to move from point A to point B, the researches expected the AI to assemble the robot and walk over. Instead it glued all the parts together into a huge tower which then was tall enough to fall over and reach point B. This has happened with multiple AIs and it appears that given the option, AIs find falling over to be the easiest way to travel. Other highlights include asking an AI to invent new Ice Cream flavors based on existing ones, whereupon it came up with "Pumpkin Trash Break" and "Strawberry Cream Disease;" an AI assigned to invent new paint colors yielding "Turdley," "Suffer," and "Sindis Poop" paint; and an AI tasked to identify a Tench Fish assuming that fish had human fingers and hands because most of the pictures it had of a fish were pictures of a person holding the fish up after catching it.
 

Laskar

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This is a bit long, but an interesting look at how AI can be simultaneously amazingly brilliant and incredibly dumb due the nature of problems presented to it. Given a pile of robot parts and instructions to move from point A to point B, the researches expected the AI to assemble the robot and walk over. Instead it glued all the parts together into a huge tower which then was tall enough to fall over and reach point B. This has happened with multiple AIs and it appears that given the option, AIs find falling over to be the easiest way to travel.
The early Terminator models... weren't exactly the subject of horror movies.
 

Husky_Khan

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Sperm Whales were even harder to hunt by 19th Century whalers not just because they were big and smart, but could communicate on novel evasive tactics to avoid a future Whalers harpoon even if they hadn't encountered these homicidal Humans before.

 

Husky_Khan

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Crazy to think one of these biracial twins has ingrained privilege and the other one sadly has suffered from the systemic race based oppression and generational trauma of slavery.

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Urabrask Revealed

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Crazy to think one of these biracial twins has ingrained privilege and the other one sadly has suffered from the systemic race based oppression and generational trauma of slavery.
... Nice.
 

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