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  #2271186 6-Jul-2019 21:01
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New Zealand gets mentioned a couple of times.

Honest Government Ad

"Visit Australia!

The Australien Government has made a new tourism ad, and it's surprisingly honest and informative!"


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  #2274225 10-Jul-2019 18:50
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This one is only audio. A chilling short story by horror maestro H P Lovecraft:

 

 

Please don't read the comments until you've listened to the whole story.

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  #2274268 10-Jul-2019 19:27
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Hunting the One Percent’s Doomsday Bunkers in New Zealand


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  #2274789 11-Jul-2019 19:21
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Chiitan Japanese Mascot

Safe for kids. Unsafe for sanity.


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  #2281621 22-Jul-2019 17:31
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Wellington's penguins at sushi restaurant get a mention.

Rough language. Not safe for work.

Storm Area 51, Fellow Teens - Weekly Weird News

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  #2284741 28-Jul-2019 09:11
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Penn and Teller: The Best Magicians in the World

SNL


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  #2287938 3-Aug-2019 10:49
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Someplace for Stephen Joyce to call home

Canada Has Been Hiding Their Dildo

Jimmy Kimmel Live

There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada that has a most unusual name and Jimmy wants to know everything about it.


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  #2293356 10-Aug-2019 07:53
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Moby & The Void Pacific Choir

In This Cold Place

Brief scene of Robot Trump, and Care Bears racism, and building Trumpian wall.


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  #2294565 12-Aug-2019 10:14
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An old one:

 

 

Chimps can learn to do this for a peanut.  Humans generally can't do it very well - if at all.  IMO, this hasn't been adequately explained, a hypothesis being that humans evolved to "lose" short term memory recall to free-up our mental resources for "higher thought" - our mental "bandwidth" would be cluttered up by the need to process and commit to memory everything we encounter, so we unconsciously evaluate, prioritise, and discard information. IOW our relatively poor memory recall is a feature, not a bug.  Could be correct, but IMO it smacks of having an anthropocentric origin.

 

Edit to add comment - the stupid human who posted this clip on Youtube couldn't even remember that chimps aren't "monkeys".


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  #2302567 20-Aug-2019 19:26
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Pass The Salt

Joseph's Machines

If you have a long table this is a useful way to pass the salt to the opposite end.


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  #2307906 29-Aug-2019 16:01
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A warning about the Area 51 raid

It's Alex Clark

Warning... On Sept 20th 2 million people want to raid area 51.... Will they find aliens?


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  #2307940 29-Aug-2019 17:14
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NASA Names “Rolling Stones Rock” on Mars. Hires fun animator

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The team behind NASA's InSight lander has informally named a rock on Mars “Rolling Stones Rock” after the band.

A little larger than a golf ball, the rock appeared to have rolled about 3 feet (1 meter) on Nov. 26, 2018, propelled by InSight's retrorockets as the spacecraft touched down to study the Red Planet's deep interior. In images taken by InSight the next day, several divots in the orange-red soil can be seen trailing "Rolling Stones Rock." It's the farthest NASA has seen a rock roll while landing a spacecraft on another planet.


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  #2310657 4-Sep-2019 14:46
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Whilst the difficult we can do immediately, the impossible takes a bit longer. However, miracles you will have to wait for.


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  #2311409 5-Sep-2019 18:10
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Why the internet breaks: Sharks!

 

Yup - the next time you get a 404 page itmigh be becuase of sharks. Seriously!

 

Apparently sharks are attracted to the magnetic field created by the high voltage carried through newer undersea cables and, thinking they’re fish, they bite them. Then, if underwater footage is anything to go by, they realise their mistake and swim away from the damage they have caused.

 

There is some good news. The cables are now largely shark-proof ...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2014/aug/15/internet-broken-sharks-netflix-cables

 

 

 


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  #2311438 5-Sep-2019 19:34
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From God's Perspective

Bo Burnham

"The books you think I wrote are way too thick.
Who needs a thousand metaphors to figure out you shouldn't be a d_ck?
And I don't watch you when you sleep.
Surprisingly I don't use my omnipotence to be a f__king creep

You're not going to heaven
Why the f__k would you think I'd ever kick it with you?
None of you are going to heaven
There's a trillion aliens cooler than you"


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