filbertwang.bsky.social
An incoherent mix of motorbikes, motoracing (& other sports), modelling & wargames, retro gaming, anything else that takes my interest !
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To be fair this is not the first time Marc has done something like this.
And its also why, while I would never bet money on a riders injury or misfortune, £20 on Alex being WC for 2025 would not be the most unlikely wager.
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Reading your book & have got to the bit about import motorbikes in the late 80s/early 90s, its funny how there was a parallel between both industries, games & 'grey import' bikes coming into the UK at that time (and being the way to get the 'best' stuff!)
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The scale of conspiracy required for this would have required a sizeable team of very smart people (Musk has repeatedly illustrated he himself does not have the tech nous).
I can't believe that no-one would have come forward and spilt the beans, or some 20yr old would have messed up.
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I have read similar articles & the problem I come back to is the level of competence needed to pull this off; remember these people booked the 4 seasons landscape gardening shop and will no doubt go down in history as the most inept admin ever.
Also, no honour amongst thieves, someone would 'rat'.
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Wow! Best one they have run since the old Yamaha America racing ones back when Rossi & Edwards were on the bikes
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Wow.. you would never have guessed! Excellent!
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Andy just to say these posts every week are really appreciated. I genuinely look forward to the replies every Friday morning, such a wide array of material and incredible how creative a lot of it is. Keep up the good work! 👍😎👍
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Some rarer & unusual bits from my Epic collection: tiny 3mm marines, an old forumware metal fellblade, steam gargants & Rangdan cerbiovores and mind slaves!
#nerdlings #findfolkfridays
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Wow those are cool! Can I ask what scale are they?
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I believe I can recall a few stories of Dredd venturing into the old/undercity and finding all sorts of horrible stuff down there 🙂
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Lot of Asimov/Foundation ideas in 40k! In many ways, the central concept of a once magnificent but now doomed to decay Empire is as you say an idea from Asimov's series.
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The great thing about this story is that even the right wing news outlets like the DM realise that picture is so funny, and use any excuse to publish it
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Well, people had to find out sooner or later!
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Utterly despicable. How do they get away with this? Why do people vote for it?
I am at a loss.
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That is a bummer about Rama, was really looking forward to what he could conjure 😓
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I think MotoGP has a longstanding tradition of being undersold as a form of entertainment. Dorna didn't even have a proper marketing department until a year or so ago, so in this respect at least I'm optimistic they can do something positive.
Looking at F1, they know how to sell a product!
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A book by one of my favourite sci-fi authors, Adam Roberts. Almost too clever for its own good, but they always contain such original concepts (so I try to save them and read them periodically)
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It is such a crazy story. Have you read the Werner Herzog story about it?
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Love that book! Randomly, I am staying in a holiday home in France and a previous visitor left it here, so I am going to read it again!
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Absolutely-fucking not. I remember even my maths teacher in secondary school, at age 11, if you only learn in one class make sure it is history, its the most important.
Does mean you are condemned to watch our rulers who have not studied history repeat the same errors, but there we go 😅
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Very sorry to hear that Zoë 😓
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Does it not let you still select 'special' on the postage page and choose your own?
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My God.. I think just close your eyes and go for it!
I love how the panels on almost every car in Paris looks like a piece of paper that has been crumpled and then laid flat 😄
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Wow this is such a great idea!
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F'kin hell man do I need those coffees this morning. WHAT a world we live in.
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Funny (except it isn't) that we have ended up with a bunch that look like a scene from Dr Strangelove
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It is just absolutely exhausting.
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Does this classify as a kind statement then? "Oh fuck off, you tosser."
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Wow that is a good friend!
Astro Bot is the most fun game I have played in the past decade. Wonderful if you are a Sony games fan and almost feels like they have stolen some Nintendo magic & sprinkled that on it
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Hot as a bear suit in a burning building RN!
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You can imagine some conscientious tech person surreptitiously feeding Grok copies of Rolling Stone & The Atlantic in the early hours
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I agree with you in 99% of cases. But I do think bringing back the Primarchs and the Primaris/new armour/tech reversed a narrative of a decaying empire hanging on by its fingertips.
100% can understand why it was done for business reasons, but to me it did underwhelm the 20yrs of 5 mins to midnight
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Why do these always look like an outcut from the Monkees filmed in 1973
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Ooh which one is this? It looks like a good variety there! And just missing the haze of cigarette smoke and desperation
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It's so great that we're seeing top GP and WSBK riders in the race again, albeit not back to the heady days of world champions riding.
Good that BSB have managed to not clash this year as well so those guys get a chance too & to earn some $$$.
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Just missing the Diet Coke !
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Very cool, I love the colour combination and the effect on the pickaxe!
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This might be one of those things that almost ends up bring right (date of civilian transport to Mars, not believing that Arnie could somehow fit inside that woman in a suit).