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I'm not sure my French is good enough to understand the full subtleties of Libé's review of the Michael Jackson biopic
Yep. Example; if you get sexually harassed at work in the UK, your three realistic options are endure, find another job or quit.
* If you endure it can cause psychological problems.
* Job hunting can take months.
* Quitting makes you ineligible for benefits.
UBI would resolve this.
2 of those are other best albums of 1970...
Best album of 1970.
Is it Withnail?
Mighty Baby.
Screenshot of a tweet: God Save Great Britain & @GSGB01 WOW: The NHS has ordered staff not to use the phrase 'It's raining cats & dogs' in fear of upsetting people from other cultures and religion. Britain has gone absolutely
Screenshot of a tweet: @Jenny_1884 The NHS has ordered staff not to use the term "It's raining cats & dogs" as it may offend foreigners. Tough If you don't like it jog on is what I think The NHS needs to get back to concentrating on making people better & not being more concerned about offending
For the love of God, could the "common sense" brigade PLEASE develop some actual COMMON SENSE?!
No, the NHS has not ordered staff not to use the term "it's raining cats and dogs" for fear of either upsetting or offending anyone...
Please engage your brains for a minute🙏
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A four piece cartoon #1: white text on black background, reading "Why You Don't See Crocodiles In The Orchestra" #2 a crocodile trying to play a trumpet. The long maw and short arms make it impossible to reach the trumpet's buttons with the fingers #3 a crocodile trying to play violin. The long maw is lying over the strings, making it impossible to play them with the bow. #4 a crocodile trying to play with two cymbals. The long maw is placed between the cymbals so that they can't be smashed together
Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘April’
Shell Guide to Trees and Shrubs Artist: SR Badmin
9 here.
Goodnight from Nev Rampley, clothes reeking of petrol and burning after attempts to destroy evidence of his dealings with Faeries in Hedgegate Lane. Goodnight from Sarah Passmore, hoping the cart and call of the phantom cat’s meat man won’t keep her awake. Goodnight from Hookland.
Literally the only use case for IQ is determining whether you qualify to give your money to Mensa, and frankly anyone who decides to do that has rather disproven the premise that IQ measures any kind of general intelligence.
Cartoon image of a chef cutting Shawarma with the words“unknown pleasures” underneath
Such a great song by Bryan McLean too.
It just occurred to me that the famous Rocky trumpet fanfare is almost identical to the introduction to The Floral Dance.
'Evening Sun From Southwark Bridge' (2015) by Benjamin Hope
benjaminhope.net
This is "Charmouth" by John Cooper from 1934. Cooper was a great friend of Richard Eurich's who had lived & worked in Lyme Regis in the early 1930s & Cooper & his wife, Phyllis Bray stayed with him on occasion & both of them painted in the area, hence this view. #JohnCooper #Dorset #EastLondonGroup
Goodnight from The Fall of Frogs pub, where regulars are acutely nervous at news that Old Mother has returned to Long Thurlstone. Goodnight from Tilly Ragworth, carefully picking gravel and thorns from her feet after sleepwalking to Pennyhill Copse again. Goodnight from Hookland,
The first image in the thread illustrates everything wrong with AI mashups.
Why are there Ewok tree bridges if the Hobbits like to live semi-underground. Why is there a sand speeder in the woods?
Because those are Star Wars and LotR things and that was the prompt.
Absolutely not saying nobody else should be held to account for all this, but Mandelson for the umpteenth time is the actual villain here and again for the umpteenth time seems to be wriggling out of it while everyone else is looking elsewhere. He should be in prison, and isn't.
I'm old enough to remember when "prestige drama" meant a play where the hero was killed by an exploding pressure cooker.
The Long Neolithic is a fever. It infects all of us stone botherers – whether we are archaeologists or lithic pilgrims. None are free of its symptoms. The call to visit, that palpable feeling ongoing ceremony when you walk into a stone circle. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday
Somewhat later than I'd intended (I've been clearing out my Google account storage!), here's our traditional start to #SundayMorning: this is "Sunday Morning, Farringdon Road" by Cecil Osborne from 1929. It is in the collection at Brighton & Hove Museums #CecilOsborne #EastLondonGroup
a green female presenting humanish figure coated in moss with glowing pods around their head glances over their shoulder at you. Pencil drawing with colour applied (mostly green-because)
Moss maiden of Hookland bids you a good morning.
A picture of a canal tow path and canal barge passing by. There is a well-camouflaged duck ‘hiding’ among the flora.
“From the moss-covered old alder stump young leaves are breaking, and close beside the stump there is a wild duck on her nest”
Writer: EL Grant Watson
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
‘What to Look for in Spring’ (1961)
14 across both charts
The real beginning of his peerless 70s run.
Ink drawing with pencil colours on white paper. White sky, Banks of grey cloud on the horizon. Full, grey moon high in the sky. The ground is flat land for what looks like miles around, and is grey/green, red, dark yellow, black and brown striped. Not immediately obvious, but the moon's shadow is directly under it on the ground, raising all sorts of questions I will not be taking. Over on the left, and quite far away from us, a building. A music venue! The whole building is grey. The ground floor features the doorway and round windows either side. Above this is a sign: "tonight's live band STRIX ALUCO AGOGO. 8 TIL LATE! (11 o'clock)". Above this, the next storey up is wider than the ground floor, in which we see a window with yellow light and a crowd inside. Presumably the gig. In the sky, over on the right and far away, three birds fly.
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