Interesting reads
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@Stockcar86 Wow. Some people don't age well at all do they?
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@antipodean I guess the two bottles of vodka and 10 grams of coke per day wasn't the best moisturising regime.
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@dogmeat said in Interesting reads:
@antipodean I guess the two bottles of vodka and 10 grams of coke per day wasn't the best moisturising regime.
Yeah an addictive personality really ages people. Somewhere in their forties they add an additional twenty years.
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@dogmeat Reminds me of Barry Crump's ex-wife Robin's book. Her concluding paragraph that I just dug out was:
I'm sure Barry was unaware he taught me the greatest lesson for my entry into middle-age - when he was alive and I looked at his well-lived face etched with deep lines and skin burned too many times I realized exfoliation was never high on his list of priorities. I'm reminded to reach thrice daily for the moisturizer, so there is much wisdom he's left me.
No letting bygones be bygones there.
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@Stockcar86 said in Interesting reads:
Interesting empathetic interview with Tony Slattery
Tony Slattery: ‘I had a very happy time until I went slightly barmy’
His appearances on Whose Line Is It Anyway? made him a major comedy and improv star in the 90s, but then his life fell apart. He talks about love, addiction, bipolar disorder and a long-buried secret
I remember him and that show. By god he looks like absolute hammered shit nowadays and yeah, really sad. You really do assume people like that retire from public life into some luxurious pad in the country with servants and lots of sports cars.
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@Chris-B said in Interesting reads:
@dogmeat Reminds me of Barry Crump's ex-wife Robin's book. Her concluding paragraph that I just dug out was:
I'm sure Barry was unaware he taught me the greatest lesson for my entry into middle-age - when he was alive and I looked at his well-lived face etched with deep lines and skin burned too many times I realized exfoliation was never high on his list of priorities. I'm reminded to reach thrice daily for the moisturizer, so there is much wisdom he's left me.
No letting bygones be bygones there.
I loved that guys books as a kid, after working with his nephew and reading the book written by Barrys brother I'm not surprised she still loathes him.
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@jegga said in Interesting reads:
@Chris-B said in Interesting reads:
@dogmeat Reminds me of Barry Crump's ex-wife Robin's book. Her concluding paragraph that I just dug out was:
I'm sure Barry was unaware he taught me the greatest lesson for my entry into middle-age - when he was alive and I looked at his well-lived face etched with deep lines and skin burned too many times I realized exfoliation was never high on his list of priorities. I'm reminded to reach thrice daily for the moisturizer, so there is much wisdom he's left me.
No letting bygones be bygones there.
I loved that guys books as a kid, after working with his nephew and reading the book written by Barrys brother I'm not surprised she still loathes him.
Remind me.....what did he do that made him such a prick ?
I mainly remember him from the Hilux ads.
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@MN5 said in Interesting reads:
@jegga said in Interesting reads:
@Chris-B said in Interesting reads:
@dogmeat Reminds me of Barry Crump's ex-wife Robin's book. Her concluding paragraph that I just dug out was:
I'm sure Barry was unaware he taught me the greatest lesson for my entry into middle-age - when he was alive and I looked at his well-lived face etched with deep lines and skin burned too many times I realized exfoliation was never high on his list of priorities. I'm reminded to reach thrice daily for the moisturizer, so there is much wisdom he's left me.
No letting bygones be bygones there.
I loved that guys books as a kid, after working with his nephew and reading the book written by Barrys brother I'm not surprised she still loathes him.
Remind me.....what did he do that made him such a prick ?
I mainly remember him from the Hilux ads.
Beat up women he was in relationships with, abandoned a bunch of his kids. He was pretty fucked up, his dad used to beat him pretty badly and he figured out not crying or showing pain used to wind his dad up and that was his best way of getting back at him .
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@jegga said in Interesting reads:
@MN5 said in Interesting reads:
@jegga said in Interesting reads:
@Chris-B said in Interesting reads:
@dogmeat Reminds me of Barry Crump's ex-wife Robin's book. Her concluding paragraph that I just dug out was:
I'm sure Barry was unaware he taught me the greatest lesson for my entry into middle-age - when he was alive and I looked at his well-lived face etched with deep lines and skin burned too many times I realized exfoliation was never high on his list of priorities. I'm reminded to reach thrice daily for the moisturizer, so there is much wisdom he's left me.
No letting bygones be bygones there.
I loved that guys books as a kid, after working with his nephew and reading the book written by Barrys brother I'm not surprised she still loathes him.
Remind me.....what did he do that made him such a prick ?
I mainly remember him from the Hilux ads.
Beat up women he was in relationships with, abandoned a bunch of his kids. He was pretty fucked up, his dad used to beat him pretty badly and he figured out not crying or showing pain used to wind his dad up and that was his best way of getting back at him .
Married five times too !!!!!
Wow, fuck that !
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The human-fat market of the 16th and 17th centuries was so lucrative that butchers during the French Revolution offered freshly executed “graisse de guillotiné” as a specialty
The Lucrative Black Market in Human Fat
In 16th- and 17th-century Europe, physicians, butchers, and executioners alike hawked the salutary effects of Axungia hominis.
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Soviet rail disasters:
At 1:15 local time, two passenger trains of the Kuybyshev Railway carrying vacationers to and from Novosibirsk and a resort in Adler on the Black Sea exploded, 11 kilometres (6.8 miles) from the city of Asha, Chelyabinsk Oblast.[3] A faulty gas pipeline 900 metres (3,000 feet) away had unknowingly leaked natural gas liquids (mainly propane and butane), and special weather conditions allowed the gas to accumulate across the lowlands, creating a flammable cloud along part of the Kuybyshev Railway. The explosion occurred after wheel sparks from the two passenger trains heading in opposite directions ignited the flammable cloud. Estimates of the size of the explosion have ranged from 250–300 tons of TNT equivalent to up to 10,000 tons of TNT equivalent.[4][1]
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@Tim said in Interesting reads:
Soviet rail disasters:
At 1:15 local time, two passenger trains of the Kuybyshev Railway carrying vacationers to and from Novosibirsk and a resort in Adler on the Black Sea exploded, 11 kilometres (6.8 miles) from the city of Asha, Chelyabinsk Oblast.[3] A faulty gas pipeline 900 metres (3,000 feet) away had unknowingly leaked natural gas liquids (mainly propane and butane), and special weather conditions allowed the gas to accumulate across the lowlands, creating a flammable cloud along part of the Kuybyshev Railway. The explosion occurred after wheel sparks from the two passenger trains heading in opposite directions ignited the flammable cloud. Estimates of the size of the explosion have ranged from 250–300 tons of TNT equivalent to up to 10,000 tons of TNT equivalent.[4][1]
Something something Russian safety record during the 80s...
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The story of Guns N Roses first out of town gig
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It's eighty years since the Listener was first published.
They have just come up with a list of events that shap-ed NZ during that time
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Word of the day: barratry
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Interesting article on the history of MI5 failure:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/3662a707-0af9-3149-963f-47bea720b460
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Interesting to read this two years on
Jacinda Ardern and the left look boldly to the future
Simon Wilson does a little dreaming, because why not?
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https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2018/p1220-veterinarians-suicide.html
Veterinarians in the U.S. are at an increased risk of suicide, a trend that has spanned more than three decades, according to a new CDC study published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association (JAVMA)external icon.
The study is the first to show increased suicide mortality among female veterinarians. Female veterinarians were 3.5 times as likely, and male veterinarians were 2.1 times as likely, to die from suicide as the general population. Seventy-five percent of the veterinarians who died by suicide worked in a small animal practice.
Arzamas train disaster - Wikipedia
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