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red terror

"The Sports Imposter"
 
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.grantland.com/story//id/10035662/bryan-curtis-history-sports-hoaxes'>http://www.grantland.com/story//id/10035662/bryan-curtis-history-sports-hoaxes</a>

taniwharugby

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NTA

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Dad jokes........
 
 
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Do that to the kids all the time.

NTA

I'm an emergency warden in our building at work and today during the pre-exercise briefing we had a guy tell us about Rick Rescoria.
 
Seriously, fucking read this life story about a dead hard fluffybunny known as "The Cornish Hawk", who saved every one of his charges during 9/11 attack on WTC :
 
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Rescorla'>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Rescorla</a>
 
I'd like to show this story to everyone who gives me shit while I'm conducting an emergency drill, and ask them what they think of my humourless demeanour when I'm thinking about the possibilities of serious harm

antipodean

Wairau

haha-Toyota Hilux ad, good punchline....
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Tim

Something happened to Robert Fripp, and it was REALLY FUCKING BAD. This has got to be a "dead paul" type of conspiracy!

red terror

I've seen that before - was very bemused. He's one of my heroes. Ah well, he loves his wife.

JC

I saw Fripp, it must have been about 20 years ago, he came into the pub I frequented with his little black stool, a little amp and some pedals and blew everybody's mind. He looked exactly the same them, very dapper, very sober and hilarious. He played and told his Hendrix story and chatted and answered questions, one of the most entertaining nights of my life and it cost us absolutely nothing. I won't hear a bad word against him, but yes that's an embarrassing few minutes there.
 
FYI, I also saw Toyah at the Rock Garden. She was insane. Not insanely good, just insane.

red terror

After a couple years soliciting interviews (he won't do phoners - they have to be in-person), Bob wrote me a letter from England about 20 years ago, said he was going to be in NYC in two days, could I get down to interview at his hotel. Sadly, I had a conflict and could not make it on such short notice. One of the bigger regrets in my life. I am sure he would have been genuinely nice - I met him briefly circa 1983 prior to a lecture and frippertronics demonstration he was giving at the University of Waterloo, he was a super-polite gentleman, pretty much what you see in that TV clip with Toyah... but I would have shit my pants in fear.
 
Something new for your stocking stuffers...
 
KING CRIMSON 
THE ROAD TO RED
24 Discs
$200
 
The Road To Red offers a comprehensive overview of this final tour and at last does justice to a group who were operating at the very height of their powers.
 
Every soundboard quality recording known to exist is presented with audio fully restored, all released on CD for the first time.
 
There are also five complete concerts, drawn from multi-track recordings, alongside the restored audio bootleg of the bandâ€s final show from New York and a new stereo mix of Red by Robert Fripp and Steven Wilson undertaken in 2012.
 
A total of 16 concerts are featured across 20 discs, with the studio Red as the 21st CD. The set also features: A DVD containing a high resolution stereo presentation of USA (in all mixes) and the new stereo mix of Red 2 Blu-Ray discs containing the five full length multi-track concert recordings (newly transferred at the highest resolution available from the original analogue Dolby SR source mix-down tapes & presented in 24/192 DTS-HD master sound), new & original stereo versions of Red and the existing 5.1 multi-channel mixes of the album presented in 24/96 DTS-HD also feature on Blu-Ray.

taniwharugby

Luigi

Can you tell what it is yet?
 
<img height="276" src="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/GU_front_gifs/2013/11/27/1385574425751/The-design-for-Qatars-Al--009.jpg" width="460" alt="The-design-for-Qatars-Al--009.jpg">
 
Zaha Hadid's design for Quatar's World Cup stadium is perfectly suitable for a sport played by over-paid c*nts.

Luigi

In other news, residents in Liverpool are worried Google Earth images of their housing estate may put off potential buyers ....
 
<img height="387" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02741/NTI_PENIS858_2741442b.jpg" width="620" alt="NTI_PENIS858_2741442b.jpg">

Tim

Apparently there's an American conservative metal band called Madison Rising, and they have a song called Right to Bear. 
 
Ah, um, ah ah... that's not actually wycked sceptre style irony... 
 
As one wag has suggested: 
 
<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' >Hey, we got a Right to Bear 
don't tell us how to behave 
we got a Right to Bear 
not everyone wants to shave</blockquote>

mariner4life

from cracked.com: 
Texts from Last Night from Super Heroes
 
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.cracked.com/blog/15-texts-from-last-night-from-famous-superheroes-pt.-2'>http://www.cracked.com/blog/15-texts-from-last-night-from-famous-superheroes-pt.-2</a>
 
i laughed

NTA

The Punisher one to Spidey was gold. And the exchange between Odin and Thor.
 
But the stuff about Thor being ignorant of Earth's customs is LOL worthy.

mariner4life

i loved the Thor Halloween one, that fucking cracked me up.

Hooroo

Heh heh! I love stuff like that.
 
I love the Dog ones as well

antipodean

Facebook Video: <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=517437075021452'>Irish Rally</a>.

Wairau

Nice tear jerker ad for ya missus
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The Silver Fern

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