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Has no idea how this Bluesky thingy will develop. Let’s see…
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AAAAAH! With a rise in tone in the middle. Nottingham, mid to late 70s.
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"Get ready for a surprise!"
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And on YT title sequences that last more than five seconds.
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My black trousers go beige, and my sleeves go short. I may don a stupid-looking* hat if the sun's in my eyes.
*all hats look stupid on me.
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"You get an ology, you’re a scientist!"
"Open channel D, please"
"01 811 8055"
"M m m Max Headroom Headroom M Max Headroom room h heh h"
"*WORDWISE"
"Eranu! UVAVU!"
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For an additional degree of meta, you can have the AI invent the phrase, and then explain it. No thinking required.
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Michael Praed will never forgive you for this!
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"What's on the end of the stick, vicar?"
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Around twenty years ago, we were in a pizzeria in Berwick Upon Tweed, and the miserable couple at the next table were picking fault with everything. At the end of the meal, he loudly asked, "ARE WE DISAPPOINTED?"; to which she replied, "YES, I THINK WE ARE".
We still say it.
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I'm guessing you've seen these two Tom Scott videos...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bij-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0el...
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Books I have absolutely no recollection of buying, and struggle to understand what would even have possessed me. I'm looking at you, "Sea Serpents and Lake Monsters of the British Isles".
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Whenever we introduced improved computerised reporting systems at work, the reporting requirements became more complex. Admin teams still grew and data-drudgery didn't go away.
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I had to look that up, because I heard an old French guy announcing, "It is I, Leclerc!".
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Which reminds me, "tactical kilts" are a real thing you can buy.
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"I can't bag the turd if I can't see it".
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Post your favourite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only. #DoctorWho
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I'm still annoyed that the antimaskers didn't, en masse, start wearing masks as soon as the government declared it safe to discard them. You know, on the basis that the government lies about everything, so they needed to continue to do the opposite of what they were told.
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Sheldon Musk. (You think this one is bad? My first attempt generated him naked).
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See those horrible decaying zombies in the Michael Jackson video? That's you, that is.
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Nottingham - front and centre - A8 - Give me a wave!
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I saw that chin and thought of the unfortunate kid from s01e01 of One Punch Man.
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Semi related. This sign I saw in Tenby was fun on my FB for a little while, with stuff along the lines of "Chuck Norris etched Tenby out of the raw bedrock with his own bodily fluids" and "Chuck Norris is over 250 years old, and pretends to die occasionally, just to f*ck with you".
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I hadn't noticed the dog until I ran the photo through an AI thingy and it started moving.
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And now I have James Acaster's Robo Bongo Cuckoo Cop stuck in my head again.
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LegalEagle's got you covered there... www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1I7...
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Given her position, it wouldn't surprise me to learn that Elmo has got someone individually curating the posts she does and doesn't see.
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Well, Q can do pretty much anything, mon capitaine.
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So we're to be the runt kid who hangs out with the school bully and thinks it makes him big and powerful?
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It was Borat, wasn't it.
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Gemini came back with this from Feynman...
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Whenever I look up at a starry sky, a goofy American voice in my head says, "Beautiful stars! Better see!".
Damn you, you stupid robot.
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He's not alone. An educated librarian friend of mine initially thought Google Streetview was live.
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- Alexa, what time is it?
- Good morning David. It's 8:53am. By the way, if you like, I can...
- Alexa, shut up.
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Happy New Year to you and yours, Prof!
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Story reminds me of a pre-production puzzle toy my friend showed me at junior school, that his (mathematician) dad had been given by its inventor at a conference. One can imagine that, had it remained only a niche curiosity, the Rubik's Cube would be a thing only found on the desks of certain nerds
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DW:WTNAV -- Didn't watch. Want text, not a video.
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I hear you, but, OTOH, I bought a cheap (16 quid) one on a whim, and it's pretty good. It's 35 watts on max and decently warm. It'd be nice if it was a bit bigger and had an "off" timer, but I'm not complaining. And I'm no longer tempted to stick the heating on at night.
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Six months ago, my order was Insta (get it out of the way, no need to check it again today), Twitter, FB, Threads. Now it's Insta (same reason), Bluesky, Threads, FB, Twitter.
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I helped Terry Pratchett to buy a wasp trap.
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This guy did a video outlining why the Phoebus Cartel thing is more complicated than usually described - there's even some physics in it. It's worth a watch if you don't mind his slightly eccentric presentation style. youtu.be/zb7Bs98KmnY?...
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Bloody hell. I actually did it. I just mansplained science to a scientist. At least I spotted and deleted it.