Insubstantial Phantom

Can recommend getting in touch with @adamjkucharski.bsky.social, who has some experimental data on this topic.

I wonder if any of homeowner Frank's four daughters ever dated any GIs during or after the war. The article makes no mention.

Seems rather an obvious alternative avenue of investigation to trawling through thousands of army records, no?

Fried Cheezus Christ, been trying to remember for ages who it was and which outlet.

Feckin Tapper, the prick!

I'll just leave this here

ssd.eff.org

No bets taken at this time

Ah, no, he knows.
Don't feed the animals.

YouTube video by Foil Arms and Hog How to Speak Dublin - Foil Arms and Hog

Back to school with ya so

YouTube video by Netflix A Message From Dr. Jane Goodall | Famous Last Words | Netflix

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall — a UN Messenger of Peace — sat down for a deeply reflective conversation about her legacy and to immortalize her final words with the understanding that it would only be shared with the world after she passed.

Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?

The average Yank has no idea and thinks everything is about them.

Eejits disparaging anyone who doesn't say "y'all", claiming "i understand plenty", proudly singing their Battle Hymn of the Undereducated.

Embarrassed for them.

SI units

Excellent form Jezzo!
Another year older, no less a legend.

Have a good week, and all ye #at40 jabronies as well!

Oh HELL YEAH
Stevie's best, imo
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Ah it's not-Tom Jones
🙄
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Ah hell yeah!
Sly was too good for this world
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Wings imitating Queen for Bond.
Peak 70s
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The better-half remarked that this remake was Paul Simon-esque.

Huh.

#at40

Ah well had to give up on the Joe Walsh for a Wilson Pickett tune.
#at40

This live Joe Walsh vid is cracking.
And 8:16 long.

Would be a damn shame if the Osmonds are next up and I had to miss it.

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Absolutely warms the heart cockles to see these original Soul Train videos, but slow dancing to the Temptations is just... weird.
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And so, in conclusion, Barry White is a land of contrasts.
😂
#at40

Happy Saturday Jezzo!
Hope you had a good birthday.

And hope all ye #at40 turkeys had a good week

Belated happy wishes, mate!

Great piece! Never knew the film inspired the games. Painfully obvious in hindsight. 🤦

Reckon the liminal space Singer inhabits btwn life & death is rather the book between Hell and Paradise: Purgatory.

But then you couldn't have dropped the brilliant line "Hell, it turns out, is New York City"

Ooh, a letter!

I bet it'll be strongly-worded

Well, in hindsight, we should have known it would not exactly have echoed history, but would be equally dangerous and, characteristically, so much more stupid.

Fun fact: in Ireland "fell pregnant" is a common idiomatic metaphor with the same it-was-an-accident energy.

A podcast app screenshot of the 1 Oct, 2025, episode of 'The Daily' from the New York Times. The breathtakingly idiotic title is: The Democrats' Big Shutdown Gamble

Who, exfuckinactly, do the New York Times think is in power?

The most enervating aspect of this incident is that the Tesla apparently didn't burst into flames