Also, this manga artist is one reason why there was a run on rice in Japan, and there is currently a “shortage,” discussed here .
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kxkvi
July 2, 2025, 6:05pm
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Listen to Music Through Your Mouth?! What, hold your tongue against a speaker?
Here’s a good song for a sex toy:
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Oh god, I hope one doesn’t happen by coincidence on the 5th… the conspiracy theorists will never STFU then…
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The street finds its own uses for things.
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@ProfOddfellow edited & used a couple of my “ads” in this one!
@MagicFox
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This was the Daily Mail scratchcard thing, early 80’s, IIRC. My Dad won, as did four of his coworkers, and most readers of the Mail.
They ended up getting a cheque for £1 each.
You couldn’t pay me to read that rag.
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I’ve never lived anywhere that the street lights weren’t a municipal service.
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Heikki
July 3, 2025, 3:28pm
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Sounds like ERCOT poisoning to me.
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Private street lights exist is subdivisions with private roads around here. Heck, a bunch of the street lights on public roads aren’t owned by the city, either, they’re owned by the electric company, DTE.
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Were the homeowners dancing?
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Heikki
July 4, 2025, 8:40am
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Crashproof:
It’s a robutt.
I always miss heard this as “I’m not s rowboat”
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The bits I liked best are the 1st at 1:33; the 3rd, at 8:18; and the last, at 11:15.
Summa that shit is creepy as!
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I’d never heard of that one! I had heard of this one:
The Max Headroom signal hijacking (also known as the Max Headroom incident) was a hijacking of the television signals of two stations in Chicago, Illinois, on November 22, 1987, that briefly sent a pirate broadcast of an unidentified person wearing a Max Headroom mask and costume to thousands of home viewers.
The first incident took place during the sports segment of independent TV station WGN-TV's 9:00 p.m. newscast and featured a person wearing a mask swaying erratically in front of a semi-s...
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kxkvi
July 6, 2025, 3:32am
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I remember reading about the Max Headroom years ago.
Here’s an interesting Wikipedia article on this subject, with examples.
A numbers station is a shortwave radio station characterized by broadcasts of formatted numbers, which are believed to be addressed to intelligence officers operating in foreign countries. Most identified stations use speech synthesis to vocalize numbers, although digital modes such as phase-shift keying and frequency-shift keying, as well as Morse code transmissions, are not uncommon. Most stations have set time schedules or schedule patterns; however, some appear to have no discernible patte
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