Random internet link of the day

[Futtocks]

This has just been released on YouTube - a 30-minute documentary on Lon Chaney. And it is really good! There was so much more to him than I'd ever realised.

 

[Bedford Roughyed]

 

[ckn]

Today's xkcd is a delightful timewaster

Edit: I just looked to see what it'd look like on mobile devices and it's not worth the effort.  Computers only today for this one.

[jacksy]

On 01/04/2018 at 10:34 PM, Bedford Roughyed said:

 

I don't know why but that made me cry. Thank you

[Futtocks]

On 01/04/2018 at 10:34 PM, Bedford Roughyed said:

 

We were once lent a telescope to look after, while the owner was moving house. The family home being on top of a hill, we used to check the time by training the lens on a church clock 16 miles away.

But it was a fragile antique, so we didn't risk it by taking it outdoors to look at the night sky. Shame, as a clear night from the back garden is an astonishing sight even without magnification. It is one of the things I miss most about having moved down to London.

The kit this guy is using looks pretty good.

[JohnM]

 

[M j M]

Puffin beaks are fluorescent and we had no idea

[ckn]

Daily Mail trolling its own readers.  The comments were amusing. Here's a summary:

 

[M j M]

The art of old B&H ads

 

[Futtocks]

As movie career summaries go, this may be as underwhelming as it gets.

[ckn]

Sussex Police officer Dick Holder was sacked for selling himself for sex while on sick leave. 

Dick Holder

Quote

The force's Police Federation chairman Matt Webb, representing Holder, said he had "fallen on his sword".

Fnar, fnar.

And I've just been smacked round the back of the head by the wife for being so childish.

[graveyard johnny]

14 minutes ago, ckn said:

Sussex Police officer Dick Holder was sacked for selling himself for sex while on sick leave. 

Dick Holder

Fnar, fnar.

And I've just been smacked round the back of the head by the wife for being so childish.

I wonder what he did with his truncheon?

[Bedford Roughyed]

 

[Futtocks]

Pie-based fury at Morrisons.  

[Bedford Roughyed]

8 hours ago, Futtocks said:

Pie-based fury at Morrisons.  

“There’s more to this,” he said. “Morrisons have got their own agenda.

[Futtocks]

46 minutes ago, Bedford Roughyed said:

“There’s more to this,” he said. “Morrisons have got their own agenda.

I know; it really is sinister...  

[ckn]

Blatantly nicked from another forum.  Was There a Civilization On Earth Before Humans?

Adam Frank and Gavin Schmidt pose the Silurian Hypothesis: "Perhaps, for example, some early mammal rose briefly to civilization building during the Paleocene epoch about 60 million years ago. There are fossils, of course. But the fraction of life that gets fossilized is always minuscule and varies a lot depending on time and habitat. It would be easy, therefore, to miss an industrial civilization that only lasted 100,000 years—which would be 500 times longer than our industrial civilization has made it so far."

Full link to journal paper.

[ckn]

I suppose it would be cheaper...

[Futtocks]

Confused Punk fan. Yes, a parody, but not that far from some of the navel-gazing self-important pomposity of a certain (and familiar) type of "music fan".

[JohnM]

Its not the coffin they carried him off in.....

 

http://www.budgetfunerals.org/coffins.html

[Bearman]

3 hours ago, JohnM said:

Its not the coffin they carried him off in.....

 

http://www.budgetfunerals.org/coffins.html

Drakey is missing a trick. He should get them to sponsor the obituary thread.

[Futtocks]

[ckn]

What is the capital of England?

http://www.skoften.net/item/snuggere_prom_queen_wordt_gevraagd_wat_de_hoofdstad_van_engeland_is

[ckn]

STV cover the launch of a new chocolate in Scotland.

 

[ckn]

Shamelessly stolen from another site.

BBC release 16,000 sound effects for people to use non-commercially.