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An IBM cash register running Doom

playing doom on my cash register

Henry Cecil was a British barrister and later judge who wrote humorous novels about the UK law in the 1950s. He used to make precisely the same point.

Post a banger that is not in English.

Hermann Prey, one of the greatest baritones of the 20th century, sings Schubert’s Erlkönig. You’ll recognize it from cartoons. Listen to how he does the four distinct character voices.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFD8...

"New victories pour in daily"

BBC news item: Curlers spurn chance to secure GB's first medal Winter Olympics

Oh, is that what "spurn" means now

Post from r/crochet that says "mods are gone. All hail Mr. Nipples" and its a picture of the most disgusting crocheted doll/creature thats pink and has a creepy smile and horns and big pink nipples. It's truly horrifying

I need everyone to know that on the crochet subreddit the mods made a big post about how they're taking a week off because there was too much fighting/political posts. so there's currently no mods on r/crochet and people are being absolutely insane

Her voice was perfect for that material, I think, and I loved that recording when I first bought it decades ago.

I listened again recently to some of the Mörike for the first time in years: it was Elly Ameling singing the most elf-adjacent of the songs, and I thought no, these haven't worn well. These days I think some of the Italienisches and the Goethe are as good as he ever got.

One of those line readings I could never get out of my head after he'd been eviscerated by that American academic: "Ouch!"

YGM started at a disadvantage for me because I admired the original, but the plot just felt mechanical and it never really sparked. Harry worked beautifully, everyone at the top of their game.

Outrageous behaviour. Now, Mahler I could understand...

I tried Wolf thanks to a friend, who was listening to the Spanish Songbook for his music degree; it meant nothing to me at 20.

A couple of years later I tried him again, and have loved [most of] the Lieder ever since.

Absolutely incredible. No notes.

Brideshead Revisited? #OneForTheKids

How many predictions does Andrew Marr make? How many of them have come true? (And how many failed predictions will @lbc.co.uk tell us about?)

And, of course...

"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy..."

Flashback ~35 years to just outside a small cottage on a hill on Orkney.

Bracing against the wind, I bend down, select a sock, straighten up and peg it out.

I bend down again, select a second sock, straighten up. The first sock isn't there.

I give up and go back inside.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Macbeth: SHIT

Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance

Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance https://theonion.com/terrified-conservatives-lose-ability-to-speak-english-after-exposure-to-bad-bunny-performance-dios-mio-cry-millions-of-panicking-republicans/

Produced by Ed Morrish of course. I may have been the target audience: coming home from the pub, switching on mid-show and listening with drunken incredulity and increasing loathing

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poets' Tree, Episode 1 Poetry classics and an unusual person trying to write poetry for the first time.

I think poetry programmes were ruined for me by the Stewart Lee and Kevin Eldon piece 'Poet's Tree'.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

It's on YouTube, but listener discretion is advised...

I read it rather differently. Firstly he takes full responsibility for *his advice*; which he's careful to say he gave when he was asked for it. Secondly, he takes no responsibility for the vetting and due diligence; which presumably is somebody else's fault.

Don't know if @findmobydick.bsky.social is taking a watch below, but it's from Chapter 85, The Fountain, paragraph 2.

This is the future the left wants.

i forget who made it but it cracks me up lol

Post your favourite "Lord of the Rings" character. Wrong answers only.

Lloyd George may have been dead for sixty years, but I wouldn't put it past him