Sonofrojblake

Try counting them, then trying to get that many people to wave "thanks" to you before you get where you're going. It's win-win. They feel better, you will feel better. Try it.

Tessa Niles singing the words "still drowning" at the end of that album is the best vocal of the 80s.

In fact, with Culture-level tech something like a GSV is actually preferable to a planet.

I suppose. It kind of *is* technologically possible to launch one. What's not is to make it actually reach anywhere habitable, or remain habitable for any reasonable length of time.
On reflection, I'm coming to the idea that it's not actually repugnant assuming Culture-level tech.

Large tracts of Marillion's "Clutching at Straws", they're talking about you.
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At last.

Don't get me wrong - I'd love to live on a GSV. The only fly in the ointment is that they're fictional. Real physics puts them out of reach forever.

There's nothing substantially wrong with being born in Luton.

The Sahara is a seven-star spa resort compared to the unrelenting, literally endless vacuum of deep space. It's not an "adverse situation" it's worse than any prison, no hope of parole, release or escape.
Tell me you know nothing about engineering/entropy without saying etc.

You wouldn't mind your grandparents deciding you deserve to be born, grow up and die in a tin can trillions of miles from anything? Not sure you're qualified to comment on morality.

JC has the Folklands podcast, but the way media works for everyone else seems to be "get known, get a show, be on everyone else's show, be on panel shows, maybe get another show, then a travel show or something, then Big Fat Quiz."
Jinsy chaps just did "get a show". HOW??? / Why?

And the MUSIC. There's so much great music in every show, including one which is almost exclusively just one absolute banger after another. And the characters are incredible. I just don't understand how it's possible to get something like that made with no record, then just stop. Where are they?

They do this despite never appearing on panel shows, not doing stand up, not appearing in anyone else's shows, and when it's done they just... evaporate.
It's like if John Cleese came out of nowhere (no At Last the 1948 Show, no Python), made Fawlty Towers, then vanished. It's absolutely baffling.

They then proceed to produce two series of what is a science fiction dystopia musical comedy sketch show, and the CAST - they get everyone, including the original Ford Prefect as a regular, David Tennant when he's just come off being the biggest thing on television, and the list goes on and on...

I quite seriously believe it's one of the best shows the UK has ever produced. It's incredible. What's even more incredible is that these two guys were not HatTrick/Avalon mafia, weren't ex-Footlights Edinburgh Festival regulars, they had practically zero footprint in comedy culture...

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You have no idea... I'm also a fan of the Rule of Three podcast. I wanted an episode about This Is Jinsy. It was never gonna happen, because who's going to pick that? So I wrote, recorded and edited my own. Nerdiest thing I've ever done.
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How would you feel if I held up your commute pushing my kayak to the river down the middle of the road on a hand trolley? Would you think me a selfish entitled git? If you can't afford a roof rack /trailer, don't buy a kayak. If you can't afford a horsebox, you can't afford a horse.

YouTube video by This is Jinsy MOCK FIREPLACE - THIS IS JINSY (SERIES 2)

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This vote for Baileys, ideally on crunchy nut cornflakes

If you're riding in an urban area, fuck off back to the country. I don't drive my car across the field where your horse lives, stop being so entitled you (almost certainly) posh twat.

Return of the Jedi

The thing that gives away the fact that this is made up is the very idea that anyone could fit a 65" TV in a car. I sold a 50" TV last year and the buyer had to go home to get a bigger van than the one he arrived in.

All this tells me is that Sam Altman hasn't met the smartest person I know.

Which is why plumbers are paid more than electricians and plasterers... aren't they?
(hired a plumber once. He complained electricians got paid more. I pointed out that if he screwed up he got wet, if an electrician screwed up he got dead. He didn't like that)

How often do you do it?!

The depressing thing being the people with the money don't know the difference

One thing you can say for GenAI is that it is focusing minds well on what constitutes actual human creativity, if only to make the distinction between that and whatever shit GenAI pushes out. There is indisputably a cohort of humans stealing a living churning out such shit... Until now.

This! The worst thing about the very wonderful movie Iron Man 1 is that a whole cohort of arseholes looked at Tony Stark BEFORE he character-developed into a functional adult and thought "I want to be like THAT". And wrongly thought they had RDJ charisma to pull it off.

"Rinsed By Twats"? I'd rather be raised by wolves.

They shot the wrong Kennedy(s).

She did, and just in time. 30 is an acceptable age to still be acting like a teenager, if you can. 31... not so much.