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Proper parenting! :lol:

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MrLongbeard wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 11:32 am Image2020-12-21_01-44-54 by MrLongbeard, on Flickr
Did you meet Hiro Protagonist?
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David wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 8:51 pm Did you meet Hiro Protagonist?
I had to google that.

I knew I knew what it was from. Must be over 20 years since I last read Snowcrash!
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David wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 8:51 pm
Did you meet Hiro Protagonist?
No, nanny state, also known as Her Maj's Government caught up with me :angry-cussingblack: and I was forced to dishonour Hiro Nakamura.
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The BBC reckon this is todays Daily Star front page...

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I can't decide if it's brilliant or just ridiculous.
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KungFooBob wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 8:56 pm
David wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 8:51 pm Did you meet Hiro Protagonist?
I had to google that.

I knew I knew what it was from. Must be over 20 years since I last read Snowcrash!
I read the baroque trilogy a while back and again recently....working my way thru fall or dodge in hell. Read diamond age, snowcrash. Seveneves recently.

Bit addictive....
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MrLongbeard wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 9:19 pm
David wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 8:51 pm
Did you meet Hiro Protagonist?
No, nanny state, also known as Her Maj's Government caught up with me :angry-cussingblack: and I was forced to dishonour Hiro Nakamura.
Bit harsh...had you been a naughty boy with it?
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David wrote: ↑Wed Mar 31, 2021 1:22 pm Bit harsh...had you been a naughty boy with it?
Nope, but they're cracking down on ownership now after tightening buying restrictions many many many years ago
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inewham wrote: ↑Wed Mar 31, 2021 1:25 pm
David wrote: ↑Wed Mar 31, 2021 11:47 am
KungFooBob wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 8:56 pm

I had to google that.

I knew I knew what it was from. Must be over 20 years since I last read Snowcrash!
I read the baroque trilogy a while back and again recently....working my way thru fall or dodge in hell. Read diamond age, snowcrash. Seveneves recently.

Bit addictive....
Fall or Dodge in hell is a bit of a trudge.
Anathem is OK, borrows a lot from Gene Wolfe
REAMDE isnt as bad as the critics suggest
Reamde I quite enjoyed.... you aren't wrong about Dodge
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MingtheMerciless wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 9:51 am Post night shift dog walk.2882CC55-C88D-4898-AB84-F1EFE6894104.jpeg
Socks and sandals???

*plonk*
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Yorick wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 12:03 pm
MingtheMerciless wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 9:51 am Post night shift dog walk.2882CC55-C88D-4898-AB84-F1EFE6894104.jpeg
Socks and sandals???

*plonk*
We rarely agree, but on this one, fucking 100%

Pass the mind bleach. :shock:
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Priests and hippies at Glastonbury Festival 1971
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First thought: 'Never saw that episode of Father Ted'
Even bland can be a type of character :wave:
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In my head David Attenborough is doing a voiceover about predators stalking their prey.
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Skub wrote: ↑Fri Apr 02, 2021 7:34 pm Image


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A day late. :roll:

Well, aksherly, 3 years and a day late. :P
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Local TV station today posts a report on both their FB page & their website about Covid vaccine now available at Wally World.

Apparently no one checked the pic they used to illustrate the report...

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Well. Just because. 8-)


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In those shoes?
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