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actually not true -a real, fully erect male member has been shown in the 1976 Derek Jarman film Sebastian (Channel Four) in the 1990s, and a 2020 documentary Me And My Penis (also Channel Four - might still be on their player - must have a look ) - the recent Netflix A Man In Full shown in the UK was a prosthetic

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AI images to get authors’ juices flowing…🔥

sexy guy pulls over to the side of the road with hazards on, and you walk over he looks like he works in an auto shop “Can I help you?" means offering help but allowing he may not need it ”May I help you?” suggests you’d like to ‘help him’…

British English is more complicated…

Earthquake (1974) the 1970s was the decade of the disaster movie, and 50 years ago audiences were swarming into movie theatres to experience the sights+sounds of a massive earthquake flattening the very city that made this movie - Los Angeles To augment audience horror, Sensurround was installed in auditoriums by specialist sound engineers - enormous speakers with18” drivers connected to powerful amplifiers and low frequency noise generators that added simulated rumble and vibrations to the movie at 15 Hz (below human hearing range) played back at a staggering sound level reaching 120 dB so intense that the onscreen earthquake could not only be heard but also felt Before installation, cinemas had to be checked out to make sure the building could withstand the powerful rumbling by a tech team of field engineers with a checklist covering every structural angle, and making sure enough electricity was available to power the amplifiers Despite this the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood (where the film “World Premiered” 15 November 1974) suffered damage from the vibrations and a huge “fish net” was installed to protect the audience from fallen debris during Sensurround performances That seems a shame - falling debris crashing from the ceiling would surely have enhanced the experience… https://www.in70mm.com/presents/1974_sensurround/in_sensurround/english/index.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_(1974_film)

Heritage steam railways Factoids #1 There are around 600 miles of heritage steam railways in the UK #2 Steam locomotive powered trains also run on normal main lines usually up to 75 mph (for some up to 90 mph or about 150 kph) #3 All the steam locos run on coal #4 The Severn Valley Heritage Railway (see video) is one of the oldest (formed 1965). Construction started 1858 and 4 years later in 1862 the line opened when 40 miles had been built (160+ years later, despite computers and modern construction equipment we could not build anywhere near 10 miles a year!) #5 The Pacific Class ‘Sir Nigel Gresley’ (shown steaming in to the platform near the end of the video) was in main line service from 1937-1966 and was run up to 112 mph - it’s sibling “Mallard” built a year later set the world steam speed record on 3 July 1938 when it reached 126 mph or 203 kph https://youtu.be/eurmhafwbf8?si=qxaiWDcJGR55DDhQ

Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag Peter Cook and Dudley Moore explored this interesting subject in the 1960s and, fortunately, their learned and erudite exploration of this fascinating aspect of popular culture has survived

deleted? removed? channel owner died? YouTubes aren’t forever

Having now used ChatGPT for over a year and a half, on a wide range of subjects, I am impressed: - by its speed (no pages of paid-for chaff you get from ad-driven Google etc) - it answers the question/s (but that’s the tricky bit +where the user skill lies - as Doctor Who famously said: “Questions are much more difficult than answers”) - it gives each conversation a neat title summarising concisely +accurately what the conversation was about (makes finding previous discussion subjects a doddle) - it has passed the “Turing Test” but this inflection point has kind of just got overlooked Anyone else tested it extensively? (I believe there’s now a subscription version offering more functionality - as a paid-up cheapskate I only have the text offering )

how about not *thinking Leatherman*

sounds complicated why not cut out the “middleman” and…

zombie loves zombie fries (and roadkill fries) sitting on the sofa watching his favourite movie

Beautiful Thing (1995) 11.10pm tonight Sunday 11 August, on Film4 (UK-only tv network ) only ever seen this on mp4 download from some long-gone gay movie website and cannot remember it being shown on network tv before (it has been - Channel4 made it as a tv movie and it was so successful it was released in cinemas) so it’ll be great to watch it in hd on a decent screen I remember it depicting a convincing mix of brutal, harsh working class life, rejection, acceptance and joyous romance (between actual teenagers, one of whom is gay in real life - Ste - , not adults pretending to be teens), with the happy ending most of us crave eschewing the hackneyed, worn out +depressing trope of dismal gay tragedy. We all need positive life-affirming entertainment and I’ve booked my seat for tonight!

Moritz Wesemann …tell us about that towel 🔥 💕

Hate flies ..so why was I hoping the fly would escape??

wonders what’s stopped the lawnmower working… should I take a look? *removes top cover* What’s THAT?? *takes a closer look* 🧐 OMG!!! Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeekk!! 🏃 🏃 🏃

Yohan Kim’s take on Blackbird

Gone With The Wind My Love - Rita & The Tiaras one of the greatest 60s Motown love songs of loss except: - it wasn’t a Motown release - it never charted - it’s by a group no-one’s heard of - it’s only known now because of a north England 70s dance club scene (“Northern Soul”) which sought out the most obscure 60s US releases from US s/hand record shops (before the internet!) and imported them at great expense, then danced to them 🕺 🕺 oh and, yeah, it really is a great song

yup, all these admin structures were primarily to get taxes and the Domesday Book was basically a national audit of assets by William the Conqueror so he could snaffle more booty But more than this, in time these were the proto-structures that eventually became the nations of the UK, many Commonwealth countries, and the US (‘hundreds’ was also a division in the US) including the legal system - “the sheriff (who) was judge on the two annual visits (his “tourn”) he made to each hundred court” in time became ‘travelling judges’ around a ‘circuit’ (origin of ‘Circuit Judges’) and hearing similar cases in different parts would give the same decisions - the origin of the Common Law.

Yohan Kim makes the world a better place

this is a really interesting factoid! The reason is because of Mercury’s highly eccentric orbit - the most eccentric in the solar system (which means its distance from the Sun varies proportionally the most of all the planets) This causes “spin-orbit resonance” locking Mercury’s sidereal year to its sidereal day in a 3:2 ratio (sidereal is planet rotation/orbit in relation to a fixed point) and its solar year to its solar day in a 2:1 ratio (for the Earth both are pretty much the same because its orbit is much closer to a circle) This YT makes it all clear *runs and hides *

maybe, in the interests of fairness, we should also take a look at the penguin’s moves Oh dear. Oh dearie dear…

the spiteful world of cats especially when one can run up walls …and the other can’t