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Started by mongers, June 10, 2012, 07:29:20 PM

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frunk

I've been listening to XTC for years, but this is the first time I've seen their video for Respectable Street.

Habbaku

Tom Scott is a Brit who does a lot of neat, semi-documentary informational videos, usually once a week. His back catalogue is voluminous and varies a lot in topic.

Today's is how air formation flying works, explained and shown by the UK's Red Arrows:

https://youtu.be/RYGFczNMAMk
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.

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garbon

http://video.newyorker.com/watch/sara-berman-s-closet

Interesting video of a life in 5 minutes / about how that life is now represented in a museum.
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Habbaku

The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.

-J. R. R. Tolkien

grumbler

Someone has uploaded a lot of highlights of Would I lie to You?

Such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AXbbEe-Cbg

Good stuff.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

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Maladict

Quote from: grumbler on April 24, 2018, 06:38:40 PM
Someone has uploaded a lot of highlights of Would I lie to You?

Such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AXbbEe-Cbg

Good stuff.

I recorded the Bob Mortimer bits when they aired and I must have wached them at least a dozen times. The Castle Douglas story still cracks me up.

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grumbler

Quote from: Maladict on April 25, 2018, 11:14:41 AM
I recorded the Bob Mortimer bits when they aired and I must have wached them at least a dozen times. The Castle Douglas story still cracks me up.

Half the fun with him is that he cracks himself up.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

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Maladict

Quote from: grumbler on April 30, 2018, 03:43:25 PM
Quote from: Maladict on April 25, 2018, 11:14:41 AM
I recorded the Bob Mortimer bits when they aired and I must have wached them at least a dozen times. The Castle Douglas story still cracks me up.

Half the fun with him is that he cracks himself up.

And it still turns out to be true.
The latest one is another classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgI3Y7gxMO4

frunk


Habbaku

The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.

-J. R. R. Tolkien

Malthus

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Berkut

Quote from: Habbaku on May 12, 2018, 05:46:44 PM
This Is America, so Call Me Maybe

https://youtu.be/YUWq_aBiE_s

I used to click on anything you linked as a matter of course.
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Habbaku

The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.

-J. R. R. Tolkien