The Off Topic Topic

[Tonitrus]

Why were the children screaming?

Probably because their parents were freaking out.

But still very British when asked about it afterwords...

"It was a bit mad. I don't know how it got on there. It was a whole mess with the ferry crossing. People were really disgruntled."

[mongers]

Back in the day the school bus we were taking a daytrip on was playing shitty VHS tapes and suddenly a porn movie came on. The bus went so quiet the driver immediately realized what had happened 

 

[celedhring]

I remember when we used to go on daytrips with my school and in hindsight the movies they played were probably not too adequate for a bunch of 10ish year olds - we all loved them mind. One of the memories of my childhood is half the bus screaming when the goon falls into the toxic waste in RoboCop

[Maladict]

Yeah, they typically were all highly inappropriate 

[Syt]

We watched Peter Jackson's Braindead at school with our English teacher. Though granted we were all around 16-18 at the time.

[Sheilbh]

Didn't watch it as a class but my French teacher lent me a copy of La Haine when I was 16 to convince me to do French AS and I think just flag there was more to France than Amelie

It worked. And I often think about it because it also actually really kickstarted my interest in film - within the year I was watching the Mark Kermode curated season of Iranian films on Film 4 (back when that was just what Channel 4 became when it was late).

[Tonitrus]

I remember when we used to go on daytrips with my school and in hindsight the movies they played were probably not too adequate for a bunch of 10ish year olds - we all loved them mind. One of the memories of my childhood is half the bus screaming when the goon falls into the toxic waste in RoboCop

I saw old-school Conan (and other dubious sword & sorcery films) at around 10...and many of the fantasy novels I'd read as kid were easily borderline pornography.

I turned out fine.   

[Jacob]

Billionaires afraid of their own mortality: https://www.techspot.com/news/110217-transhumanism-bullshit-hindering-legit-neurotech-research-experts-warn.html

[Valmy]

Billionaires afraid of their own mortality: https://www.techspot.com/news/110217-transhumanism-bullshit-hindering-legit-neurotech-research-experts-warn.html

It is almost like having unelected and unaccountable people weilding complete control over a huge percentage of the world's resources is a bad thing.

[Jacob]

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The image is the face of a pretty woman (probably AI generated).

Sounds pretty good for any singles out there. You get to "access" 10/10 women, even if you're not perfect yourself. And it's free.

It almost seems too good to be true...

[Valmy]

We have to find somebody who is genetically flawed enough to accept you, but gentically perfect in all other ways. I can see that being a very small number of potential partners.