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Re: Topic for going off topic
« Reply #1800 on: March 20, 2024, 03:20:48 PM »
Happy vernal equinox! It was at 3:06 this morning, but at least the day's right.
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« Reply #1801 on: March 20, 2024, 06:16:50 PM »
The origin of the word Thagomizer is fascinating.


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« Reply #1802 on: March 25, 2024, 10:53:41 PM »

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« Reply #1803 on: March 27, 2024, 09:23:55 AM »
Beautifully accurate description of a perfect episode of Grand Designs


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Re: Topic for going off topic
« Reply #1804 on: March 27, 2024, 09:56:17 AM »
Beautifully accurate description of a perfect episode of Grand Designs


https://www.whingewhingewine.co.uk/perfect-episode-of-grand-designs.html

As a viewer over the 25 years mentioned this is so spot on that it needs to be displayed on the 4th plinth in Trafalgar Square. It really is that good.
Before we work on Artificial Intelligence shouldn't we address the problem of natural stupidity.

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« Reply #1805 on: March 27, 2024, 10:10:29 AM »
As a viewer over the 25 years mentioned this is so spot on that it needs to be displayed on the 4th plinth in Trafalgar Square. It really is that good.
I like the bits where they explain what they want to do, and it's going along OK until they drop a piece of absolute madness in that you have to rewind to check that they actually said 'all of the builders that we've talked to have said this is impossible but we believe in it'.

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Re: Topic for going off topic
« Reply #1806 on: April 04, 2024, 04:57:44 PM »
Proposal to create square outside Liverpool St Station, and call it Sir Nicholas Winton Square - seems like a good idea.


https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/city-of-london-to-create-the-sir-nicholas-winton-square-next-to-liverpool-street-station-71421/

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« Reply #1807 on: April 04, 2024, 05:07:28 PM »
Proposal to create square outside Liverpool St Station, and call it Sir Nicholas Winton Square - seems like a good idea.


https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/city-of-london-to-create-the-sir-nicholas-winton-square-next-to-liverpool-street-station-71421/
Quite right too. I've seen the two rather moving memorials at the station.
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« Reply #1808 on: April 06, 2024, 05:46:09 PM »

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« Reply #1809 on: April 11, 2024, 10:25:06 PM »

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« Reply #1810 on: April 12, 2024, 11:10:56 AM »
How many circles?
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« Reply #1811 on: April 16, 2024, 08:29:04 AM »
The weirdness of chocolate smoking sets

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« Reply #1812 on: April 16, 2024, 08:29:27 AM »

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« Reply #1813 on: April 16, 2024, 10:03:53 PM »

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« Reply #1814 on: April 17, 2024, 07:14:42 AM »
That is absolutely brilliant - love it!

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« Reply #1815 on: April 26, 2024, 09:49:14 PM »
Phantom Time Conspiracy Theory - the odd things you discover on trawling through the net.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_time_conspiracy_theory
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« Reply #1816 on: April 27, 2024, 06:05:07 AM »
Phantom Time Conspiracy Theory - the odd things you discover on trawling through the net.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_time_conspiracy_theory
I've heard of that. What nonsense some people will believe!
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« Reply #1817 on: April 30, 2024, 07:24:06 AM »
Breaking News - Plato Dead!
This just in from our Herculaneum correspondent:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/29/herculaneum-scroll-plato-final-hours-burial-site
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Re: Topic for going off topic
« Reply #1818 on: April 30, 2024, 08:11:27 AM »

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Re: Topic for going off topic
« Reply #1819 on: May 02, 2024, 10:38:01 PM »
Of course

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Re: Topic for going off topic
« Reply #1820 on: May 05, 2024, 07:30:44 PM »
Separated at birth

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« Reply #1821 on: May 05, 2024, 08:18:36 PM »
Apparently one of at least 10 in the family

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« Reply #1822 on: May 10, 2024, 11:38:07 AM »
Walt recently asked if resurrection was contrary to physics. The answer is no.

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« Reply #1823 on: May 10, 2024, 07:58:01 PM »
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Re: Topic for going off topic
« Reply #1824 on: May 11, 2024, 09:17:20 AM »
Missed the Aurora Borealis here last night. Fiddle!