Anyone who has entrusted their futures to the “Digital Revolution”, is an unthinking, trusting cunt who deserves everything they’re going to get, whether they want it or not. No links needed.
Those who ditched their CDs, LPs, DVDs and Books for the “convenience” of subscription to online media, via subscription to mobile and broadband networks, are seeing record rises in those subscriptions for media they don’t physically own and can only access as long as they keep paying. With the inevitable demise of free-to-air TV for online “on-demand” via a “smart” TV and your every activity tracked, your viewing will no longer be private, or free.
Increasing numbers are subscribing to otherwise unaffordable cars and paying rent on otherwise unaffordable homes for no gain. Is this what Klaus Schwab of the WEF meant when he stated that “you’ll own nothing and be happy”? If the money runs out, you miss a payment, or your Bank or the authorities shut you down, what then? A non-person, cancelled, erased?
With cashless, we won’t even own or control that “convenient” programmable “smart” digital money, every transaction monitored, limited in what and where we’ll be allowed to buy, do and go, cancellable for “wrong-think”, age limited purchases, or “exceeding your carbon allowance” in our total surveillance “convenient” 15minute “smart” prison cities.
Welcome to “convenience”, to total control, owning nothing, a life sentence of Digital Slavery to ever rising subscriptions and behavioural Serfdom.This is the “convenient” future, “smart”, only for those who pull the strings and rake in the money.
Do any of my fellow cinters think I’m wrong? Have I missed anything out?
Nominated by : Sheikh Anvakh
I think you’re spot on. I’ll be gone soon enough and no longer give a shit. Left wing morons are encouraging all this crap without any idea what it means for everybody. Them too, not just us. Not a single intelligent thought between them.
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I don’t think the left can claim monopoly here.
It’s the brain fart of the eternally-grinning neo-liberal right as much as anybody’s.
Global trade
Global data
Global jobs
Global pisstake.
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Cunty Chops – 404
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Me and the Mrs have spent an evening tonight with my oldest closest friend.
He has a Sonos sound system linked to Alexa.
Long story short he could not stop Alexa.
Fucking around for ages trying to stop it.
So I pissed on his cat.
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Never dumped my records, and I am still a record (I hate the term ‘vinyl’) devotee.
A lot of my mates (pre-ebay and Discogs, and before ‘vinyl’ became the new fad of the modern hipster cunt) dumped a lot – and in some cases all – of their albums onto charity shops because they were dazzled by the shiny CD boom.
One old mate actually got rid of a very rare and near definitive Bowie collection to Oxfam. I remember him saying ‘Oh, I can get ’em on CD, Norm’. He still kicks himself to this day over it (the daft cunt). I still love buying and listening to records, but I refuse to pay the extortionate swagman prices of the eternally overpriced HMV. 30 nicker for the Stone Roses album? Nigh on 40 quid for Abbey Road?! Shove it. But good to hear the long dead Vibes Records in Bury may be making a comeback. What a wonderful store that was.
MP3 and all that is handy, especially in the hospital when it drowns out noisy Parkis on their phones. But give me records every time.
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I treated myself to a Rega Planar 1 turntable a couple of months ago. Entry level for Rega but a great sound upgrade for me. Would have loved an RP3 but sadly way out of my available budget.
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I bought a Linn Sondek in 1982, still using it, also the Meridian M2 speakers bought shortly afterwards.
My LPs are all in good nick, over 1100 of them l, still use cassettes, plus CDs. My mate who runs Highview Video is my goto for repairs. NEVER chuck out 70s & 80s HiFi.
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Younger and hubby are rabid Queen fans ( I like them, but not to the point they do) and always buy 2 of any kind of vinyl /disc that is released.
One to listen too, and one to keep in its original, sealed, packaging, just in case it becomes collectable.
Muppets! I thought I’d bought her up better.
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He dumped a “near definitive” Bowie collection? What a dumb cunt!
Bowie may have had a couple of extra chromosomes but his music was (usually) great…in almost all of his incarnations.
As they pulled you out of the oxygen tent
you asked for the latest party
With your silicone hump and your ten inch stump
Dressed like a priest you was
Todd Browning’s freak you was
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Hiya Norman👍
I saw something I’ve never seen before on that vintage TV channel.
Maybe you’ve heard of It?
I hadn’t.
A short musical called ‘ Mods and Rockers ‘ 1965.
It’s set to the music of the Beatles set in a church dance evening.
It has original mod scooters and rocker bikes and fashion.
And the dance ends in a gang fight.
It’s shite really,
Lennon McCartney Harrison get music credits but the music is played by a band called the Cheyne’s.
The drummer?
A painfully young Mick Fleetwood.
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Yup, saw that…👍
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I recall seeing it, Miserable. I think it was supposed to be a British take on The Wild One, and it was bloody awful.
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Spot on Sheikh.
This is not a digital issue, but you can add to your list people with a spare bedroom being compelled to take in an ‘asylum seeker’ or have their property confiscated by the State. Politicians, Royalty and Gary Lineker will be exempt.
Brave New World.
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If Gal Gadot comes to my door asking for asylum, I’ll gladly acquiesce, GT.
Only if she’s wearing her Wonder Woman costume though; if not, she can piss off.
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I worry if Gal Gadot came to your house you’d secretly be like the Mad Scientist out of Human Centipede and subject her to some gawd awful ‘experiments’
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Well, there’d no doubt be a connection to her arsehole but not with his mouth.
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She can come in my house wearing a cloak made of dog shite and I’d still bang it until my nob eroded from overuse, or I died from starvation.
You getting soft in your old age, Thomas, or maybe you read a Mills and Boon today?
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I’d burn my house down, than be forced to accommodate people I don’t even want in my country.
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Load the house up with them first jp, at least three to a room.
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Oh and a box of fireworks for colour and sound.
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Will do, Barry.
Brilliant idea, and entertainment for the estate, who would cheer me on.
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Good cunting Sheikh, i agree with everything you have said here. As Moggie said I’ll be gone soon enough so fuck them all to hell. Mega CUNTS.
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Rip mate
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#metoo, CM.
And just in case, I have my exit bag ready.
See you on the Other Side, perhaps.
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I have no doubt mate. Let’s put it off for a few years yet though. Those cunts won’t cunt themselves.
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I heard some mong going on about how only neanderthal old cunts kept cds, dvds and books. I pointed out that he did not really own the shit he accessed via Amazon et al, as they could just switch it off and he would be fucked. As for books, not only did the same apply, but also the marxists are busy censoring texts to suit their new versions of our history. The wanker couldn’t see it. Probably still won’t as they march him to the fucking concentration camp.
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“…As for books, not only did the same apply, but also the marxists are busy censoring texts to suit their new versions of our history….”
100%… I regularly search for original hard copies of my admittedly ‘controversial’ reading bucket list. There is an urgent need for these original texts to be scanned and archived because once physical books stop being published in print form and everything is online then texts can and will be ‘edited’ for ‘compliance’.
I have little time for Churchill but …
“To historians is granted a power denied even to the Gods; …to change what has already happened.”
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This digital revolution shite transcends the Left/Right argument.
It will be attractive to anyone with an authoritarian,
Totalitarian/dictatorial Big Brother frame of mind,
Left or Right.
No way I’ll be dumping my LPs, CDs, DVDs, etc.
Whether I’ll have anything to play them on in ten years time is another question…
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It’s all nothing but a conspiracy theory according to the Beeb.
I can rest easy then.
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They probably said the same thing when money was replacing barter.
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Are we all supposed to lob our CD’s, DVD’s and anything used to play them into landfill then?
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Great timing admin cunts.
The Arsenal v Forest game was delayed by 30 mins today because their QR Code thing for proof of buying a season ticket didn’t work. The new cashless way of getting into the ground.
All the ‘stupid’ old fashioned cunts who took up the option of paying online and getting a print out got in on time.
All the other cunts had to wait outside for ages.
Haha!
Progressive?
Stupid fucking cunts.
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A cheeky little cunt at my work asked me if I knew what an Alexa was, I replied that I did but would not have one in the house – the other half and I rented a holiday property earlier this year which had one and it was switched on when we arrived, took us about half an hour to notice the cunt but we unplugged it.
I said I would not have it because it harvests personal information. This was met with ridicule until another woman said she had had one at home and noticed that if they had a conversation about a certain subject, adverts related to that subject would then pop up on her phone. She tested this over and over again to ensure she wasn’t imagining things, and got the same outcome. She then got rid of the thing. The irritating little cunt who started the conversation could see no problem with this. Some people really are beyond help.
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Leave them to it, the gormless dupes.
They’ll be the ones weeping when the aurora borealis can be seen in fucking Morocco.
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the same thing happens to me via my smart phone.
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I was there. Away fans had paper tickets. All the home fans now have to have it on a phone – I assume there must be an exemption for people who don’t have a smart-phone, but fucked if I could work it out. It was a near disaster – coppers and security fucking useless. Coppers were telling everyone they needed a qr code, which was untrue – you needed the fucking “app”. Nothing has been learnt from Hillsborough – spoke to a few Forest fans who had been there.
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Coppers being useless liars?
Shocking.
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Still got my audio cassettes from the 90s and a player.
Still have CDs too. Why should I have to keep paying for the same songs I already have. Same with VHS and DVDs. I’ve got a copy of the original Rush Hour film with Jackie Chan where he goes into a bar and greets the Bartender. You can still find the clip on YT so google haven’t won yet the authoritarian fucking megalomaniacs.
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Great fucking point.
If you’ve legitimately bought a CD, record, video or whatever, you should have a lifetime’s copyright access.
I go on YouTube sometimes and they say a song/concert is blocked for copyright even though I paid for a fucking ticket and bought the video.
Fuck off! I’ve paid. And that’s not up to me to sort out either, you fucking cunts!
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Don Henley from the Eagles is a fucker for getting his content taken down. Even if it’s some guy teaching the guitar solo for Dirty Laundry or something like that.
I think someone on here a while ago said something along the lines of how many times am I going to have to buy the Rolling Stones’ Albums. Might have Imitation Yank or someone.
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Take it easy harold, he was always a desperado.
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Cunted.
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Henley and Frey are (were in Frey’s case) complete cunts. When Eagles re-formed in 1993, they insisted they take a larger slice of the money because they said they had more ‘successful’ solo careers than the other Eagles.
First of all, it was bollocks. Henley had two hits and Frey had one (the diabolical ‘The Heat Is On’). Second, what the fuck did that have to do with the Eagles legacy? If the Beatles re-formed (if the two dead ones were still alive) then Macca would cop all the money, because his solo career was massive (albeit awful after 1973). Such a knob eyed M.O should not apply to bands and their work.
Frey was an infamous well documented cunt. But Henley isn’t far behind.
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Youtube could be on its way out. It’s ruining itself with censorship and ads. Facebook seems to be dying as well.
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Those Scousers will be mliking their Red and Blue greatest hits albums next month for the umpteenth time. The latest bit of Lennon grave robbing will be added on as a ‘bonus’.
Hey Jude. Calm down! Calm down!
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Get a VPN and torrent everything.
Fuck the world.
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I regret getting rid of my vinyl .
It was scratched to fuck to be fair, it wasn’t taken care of properly.
But still.
I’ve got thousands of CDs but it doesn’t sound quite the same☹️
I’ve got DVDs but never watch them.
Books too,that I don’t read.
But cash?
I couldn’t ever give that up.
It’s my way of life.
A religion.
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Same.
As you know, I was a (great and sexy) breakdancer back in the mid 80s.
Had two rare albums (Electro 1 early print and UK Electro rare version with extra lyrics on one song.)
Worth a fair bit some cunt told me.
Frisbeed them in the late 80s when I got into rock music.
And my old Commodore 64 with about 50 original classic games would be worth a bit now I also heard. Swapped it for BMX mag wheels.
Fucking hell.
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What happened to your six foot square of lino?
Did you donate it to a homeless soup kitchen?
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😂😂😂😂
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Funnily enough, I was the lino carrier BZ.
Serious role, being the B Boy lino carrier was, BZ. A bit like being the captain of a football or rugby team.
Think on.
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I had those electro albums as well Cunty, and a Malcolm Mclaren hip-hop album, christ that must be rare now.
Sorry Cunty, i sound like a cunt from yesterday’s ‘Being a Self Indulgent Show Off’ nom!
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I had that Malcolm album too.
Three buffalo girls round the outside.
Get to fuck. (not you, it’s a figure of speech.) Not sure why I’m pointing that out. Well, I am. Too many over sensitive cunts about nowadays.
Anyways. You can all get to fuck.
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Think I’ve still got McLaren’s ‘Duck Rock’ somewhere. The Supreme Team Buffalo Gals one.
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Still got my cassettes from taping pick of the pops on Sunday nights….🎵
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You young whippersnapper, mine are all on reel to reel. We’re talking 1968 onwards.
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I still have all my old Kylie records,
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And so you should. You sung on half of them.
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A lot of software is now subscription only. All the stuff I use is now exclusively online.
I kept all my original installation discs though, (now transferred on to USB) and manage quite happily.
You’d be royally fucked if you needed to access online programs, say, for a deadline, and had no money to pay for the use of it.
It’s a cunt’s trick – and I’m talking to you Adobe, you bunch of fucking chiselling, assclamps.
I still have the very few records that I ever bought, and invested in cd versions years ago, just for the convenience of the format.
I’m still waiting for the Stone-age invoking ‘Millennium Bug’ to kick in too.
What’s that smell?
Oh yeah, fucking rancid, horseshit…
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Apparently the Y2K bug was an issue, but because IT bods exist, it was resolved ahead of time. zi remember the dot com bollocks of ’99 being a bigger irritant to me.
Any clarification by techno cunt is welcome.
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Hi there jabby
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Klaus can kiss my arse.Plus the UK government want us to ditch cash for “Digital Currency” soon.I despair 😞.1984 is coming soon.
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1984 with the cheap, shallow entertainment, genetic diddling and druggy nonchalance of Brave New World thrown in.
Lets not forgot that other zombiefied future, Fahrenheit 451. Blue haired fucktards burning certain books.
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Yep 👍
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Outstanding nomination. Thoroughly righteous.
The only thing I would add is the “Social Credit Score”. Developed in China (where else?) and currently being implemented, it calls for…”the establishment of a record system so that businesses, individuals and government institutions can be tracked and evaluated for trustworthiness.”*
Those who are deemed not worthy of trust are erased in the manner you described.
It’s all part of the same scheme to control thought and behavior.
Put on your Covid obedience mask and hail the Brave New One World Order.
*Quote taken from Wiki-fucking-pedia.
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And they want it here too.Truly shocking 😲
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The biggest threat currently and for the near future is the arrival of AI in our lives!
Big corporations, and governments are pushing hard for this latest technical ideology to be implemented into the Digital Age and the cashless society. However, even Elon Musk is suggesting that they’re rushing too fast into this untested computer intelligence and that without proper controls could be a disaster for humanity if there is no “emergency button” to prevent the computers from completely taking over our way of interacting and behaving.
Just like the eco-loons and their push for Net Zero asap, they really haven’t thought this through to a realistic conclusion. The following article highlights some of the frightening dangers of letting AI out of the box at the behest of the usual WEF suspects.
https://builtin.com/artificial-intelligence/risks-of-artificial-intelligence
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Add in to the mix 5G (I believe work has already started on 6G), the Internet of Things and Smart Cities and you have any totalitarian dictator salivating like a dog looking at a string of sausages.
Talking about Klaus “Ming the Merciless” Schwab
The deepfakes thing is worrying as well (not the porn variety if that’s what you’re thinking Thomas! 🤭) .
Theoretically it would mean that a person with the skills could do a mock up deepfake of someone, and I believe you can also deepfake their voice, then use it to blackmail people, extort money, get people in trouble and so on.
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Said Hendrix, on the preamble to the Axis Bold As Love LP:
“As you well know, you just can’t believe everything you see and hear, can you?”
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A lotbof those concerns are valid, but I think a few have been happening forvreasons other than AI. Automation is a bit different. Many jobs may well become the orovince of automatons, but that’s not necessarily AI.
I dispute the article’s claims on healthcare. That sounds foolhardy, but given our government’s actions over Covid, nothing would surprise me.
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If AI is going to save the fuckers money then it will be used to the utmost. Problem is the majority of persons who are really pushing for AI to be integrated into everything seem to have little understanding of what that means. The future is looking interesting
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Youre rightbabout that. Increasing automation will be the thing that drives people out of repetitive jobs, be it scanning bar codes in supermarkets and warehouse work or scanning documents for a legal professional. Any where labour costs can be reasonably cut without the price of maintaining your robots/hardware cancelling it out. Even site carpenters might see a lot of their work disappear if they’re preparing roof joists etc. on a big site, although they might be on hand for minor alteractions as a ‘consulting chippy’.
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Remember in the 70s the craze for coloured vinyl?!
God I thought it was the future , totally impressed by it.
Lot of punk stuff done on phlegm green vinyl.
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Good evening MNC.
I still have Kraftwerk’s ‘Neon Lights’ 12” single on luminous vinyl.
And The Shirts first LP on blue vinyl.
And Hapshash & The Coloured Coat featuring The Heavy Metal Kids LP on red vinyl.
And Zappa ‘Hot Rats At The Olympic’ Trademark of Quality bootleg on orange vinyl.
And ‘Hendrix Alive’ on blue vinyl.
Probably best I leave it there…
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Hiya MJB 👍
Nice!
Wish I’d kept my LPs and taken better care of them.
That popping scratchy sound when you put on a old LP?
I miss that.
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Sadly most of mine are in near mint condition.
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Pink 78s in the 1960s Mis. Us kids had ‘Tubby the Tuba’ and ‘Over the Rainbow’.
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Indeed.
Quite a few Pinky & Perky singles were pressed on coloured vinyl too.
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My fed up dad must of been bemoaning his woes of having a young Miserable who was a punk rocker in work.
One of his workmates gave him some albums for me.
Never mind the Bollocks
And the Stranglers live at the Roundhouse on green vinyl.
The bloke never knew how grateful I was.
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I don’t know why but I pictured young Miserable as looking like Neil Morrissey’s character in Boon but without the Brummy twang.
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Sinceros, Sound of sunbathing – transparent orange vinyl. Looks like a giant barley sugar.
Space, Just Blue – yep, blue vinyl
Tangerine – Force Majeure, clear vinyl
Got another on white vinyl, but can’t be arsed to check which one.
Most of the cassettes I bought or mainly recorded from my LPs sound as good now as then.
Still have a few videos not available on DVD and Blu-ray, or programmes that were never repeated and probably never will be.
So much archive stuff deliberately erased or now being “censored” made “more relevant” and the usual crapitude used to excuse censorship and control freakery.
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Faust’s incredible 1st LP (first pressing) also on clear vinyl.
https://images.app.goo.gl/EfBSngSts64jCPUC7
Yes, I’m a proud owner of that too…
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I can only agree with the fine cunting and the worthy comments.
There’s no fucking way I’m going to rebuy albums,films etc just because some new tech emerges..I store everything I want on HDD so “streaming content” can fuck off.
Subscriptions can get fucked as well,if I’m paying for Internet access then I’ll just borrow it from there not pay some cunts like Disney et al.
When the Ivans destroy the deep sea cables all that shit is gone..bring it on..then Fuck Off.
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We might not need the Ivans. A large CME would fuck them up as it interacts with Earth’s magnetosphere.
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This is an excellent cunting, and I agree with it on grounds which are unrelated to music. (I’m a heretic – give me a clean digital file any time) Such as every digital innovation being designed to make life easier for upper management and terminally frustrating for everyone else. Such as , yes, digital currency, taking the concept of an intrinsically worthless fiat currency to its ultimate destination, the involuntary imposition of unaffordable debt. Such as the devaluation of productive industry in favour of supplying rewards for automated commodity speculation. And the removal of trained human contacts for every possible technical or commercial enquiry.
And the fucking mobile phone. And ‘smart’ cars. And plastic boxes which talk to you if you let them, and listen to you whether you do or not. And the sodding Chinese, all of them..(cont. p94)
Which will all go terminally tits up come the next big coronal mass ejection. Google it.
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Jolly well said.
I do sometimes wonder if the G20 or some such are destroying their fiat currencies by reckless money printing in order to declare it all “unsustainable” and table a move to a “Democratic Global Digital Currency”….probably after another “unprecedented global event” like a worldwide financial crisis or novel virus.
I hope we found out.
The Cunts.
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Find out..fuck off Samsung you dog kebab cunts.
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Yep. potential for far larger power surges than the Carrington event, and that caused disruption in the relatively un electrified era.
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The biggest threat to the wholly inadequate and unprepared grid will be the overload, brownouts and blackouts cause by those “green” EVs charging at 7.4 kW each and those magical “heat-pumps at up to 10 kW per household plus the 2kW immersion heater or 9 kW instant shower or inline water heater.
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The upcoming Zuckerberg Vs Musk caged fight will be subscription pay per view in an undisclosed location in ancient Rome
This will be the first screening of who’s AI bots are faster, my money is on Musk as he already seems to have implants for quiet sometime, so should be able to kick the shit out of Jlihistu Suckerberg
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Hiya Mecuntry 👍
Yesterday I did a job that another bloke passed to me,
They had their own labour to help me.
they were Nigerians.
They all drank Guinness!
But they told me it was Nigerian Guinness .
They showed me a bottle (foreign export)
Strong too! (7an half %)
Bit sweeter than your stuff.
You ever tried it?
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Report the cunts to the Home Office so they can stay in a nice hotel at our expense.
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Nah Mis but knew a neighbour who worked out there for years 80s 90s and sweared bye it. It was the biggest Guinness brewery in the world, he used to say.
Anyways my total subscriptions are pay as one goes
Internet, 20 euro for 28 days via sim card 4g modem, loads fast enough for me.
Bin collection Pop in 30 now and again and burn the rest of the shit in the fireplace during winter
No smart meter for electricity so standard bill in the post and pay at the post office. I could go on etc but they will keep reducing freedoms chip by chip, for the comply or we will not supply scenario.
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That supposed fight, if it happens, will be super-gay.
Like when two non council house girls had a pathetic fight at school.
All hair pulling and maybe their shirts got pulled up by accident and you could see some milky flesh.
Chocolate milk nowadays, I suppose 👎🏾
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Can you imagine a UK version?
James Dyson v Alan Sugar?
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Rylan Clark vs Gok Wan.
Although they’d probably end pummelling each other in different ways.
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Not if you concreted the disgusting cunts in place,within striking distance of course,weapon of choice a rubber fist dipped in enhanced Angolan monkeypox.
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Yes I could indeed,to the death with weapons of choice the cutlass.
Winner gets fed to wolves.
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No lube.
No Amyl Nitrate.
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Zuck will win. Being a giant goose wearing human skin the Zuck wiĺ peck out Musk’s eyes then eat the liver as revenge for all Goose-kind.
There will be a great honking and hissing, and humanity -now scared of everything – will cower in terror.
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All those bad, straight-to-video Martial Arts action films made by Albert Pyun I used to watch between 1994 and 1996 have come true.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhpViS43K-A
Zuckerberg is an android. He’s Mr Data from Star Trek. FACT!
Elon Muskrat has had cyber implants like Jax from Mortal Kombat.
I may or may not have had a few alcoholic beverages
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I also want to add that the shopkeeper did not give a tuppenny fuck that I was too young to be watching those films as long as I paid my money.
Looking back it was like a video shop version of Mr Ben but with bad action films.
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I think you’re right Harold, the two of em look a bit more than just plastic.
Mickey Rourke needs to be dragged out from some kip dive , to be referee on the night and fk things up for the Borgs
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Wants a moratorium on AI research.
Invests in neural interface tech.
Sounds like Elon.
MK? Hair curtains? NAFF jackets? All of that ‘Magic E’?
Welcome to the ’90s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI9hHo9_QB8
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Keep as little loot as possible in bank always draw out the cash keep it well hidden, you get fuck all interest anyway and I detest being questioned about what I want my own money for the nosey cunts, and being tracked for every thing I buy is a fucking cheek. Nothing stops you overspending better than cash in your pocket, credit and debit cards get you in the shit without you being aware. Once the control maniacs get rid of folding we are royally fucked.
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In saying that there is still a great deal of attachment and value to gold. Gold, Platinum, Silver. Watches and jewellery. Cars and boats. Has been for thousands of years.
“With the inevitable demise of free-to-air TV for online “on-demand” via a “smart” TV and your every activity tracked, your viewing will no longer be private, or free.”
I don’t think there will be a demise of free-to-air TV. There is too much money in advertising. In fact the video streaming services don’t make much profit and all use heavy advertising.
Having a lifetime of things is nice to have but in the small houses we life in it is difficult to have a place for everything and everything in its place. Every time my wife goes out she comes back with a bag of clothes.
If the politicians and corporations try to stop women shopping then they’ll be destroyed.
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Ive donated a lot of my CD and DVD collection to charity shops, as I generally spend less time watching films than I did in my twenties and thirties. I feel differently about books and the scanning tech used to create some digital book for Kindle etc is a bit wonky.
Also, I think a personal library is proving much more useful to me now that most modern AV entertainment has gone down the toilet.
This cunting is a great follow-on to my own about the increasing dependence on electricity to power our ‘smart’ society, but also pretty timely as my brother is no longer watching much of any streaming services, given they now censor and cut old films and TV programmes to bits for ‘modern audiences’ . He is now renewing his film collection with physical media. As ive mentioned recently, Netflix sees fit to cut un-PC material from Friends, not that there’s anythingbinteresting on Netflix these days.
NatWorst are doing their best to fuck up the lives of the old people who’ve paid in for decades. Both my mum and nan have to be driven miles to do any banking, and then the androids want photo ID as well as cards.
Not sending the mobile bank to the correct location at advertised times is also not helpful, and drawing large amounts of cash for any reason results in inquisitions and paranoid gibbering from the androids.
If you’re one of these trendies wanting to go completely digital, and press your phone to a scanner to pay for your iced mocha and petrol you are some sort of gullible bellend and will regret uploading your entire existence into cyberspace.
I personally feel social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter have gone too far and are poisoning our brains and increasing mental illnesses. I keep seeing these empty gestures on Mentsl health awreness and earnest Guardian types muttering about having a conversation about mental illness, but they never do. It’s all virtue signalling, as usual.
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People will barter. They can’t stop it.
And people will simply storm shops and steal, as they’re doing now.
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I think i’ll be okay. I don’t remember spending more than £200 in a supermarket at any one time, even in M&S around Christmas.
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This is a fine cunting.
I’ve managed to keep all my CDs and DVDs despite the Mrs repeatedly telling me to get shot of them over the years.
There’s something deeply soulless and troubling about all this digital only bollocks.
I was at Center Parcs late last year with the family and that place was a cash free extortionately over priced digital gulag bereft of soul.
Don’t know if any cunters have visited any of the Center Parc sites but when I say extortionate prices – I mean fucking extortionate.
Was in Edinburgh recently and that’s almost the same. Watching teens, twenty-somethings and just about everyone else waving their fucking phones or plastic cards about to make transactions for anything and everything, is a tad unsettling to me.
This digital contactless shite, is all very convenient at the moment but it might not always be the case and only the most naive could fail to see the potential for malevolence.
My new philosophy is that if any business says “card only” then they can fuck right off.
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Was exactly that way during the cough Herman, I walked out of many a shop when they said card only payment. I protest with my wad
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Mrs Cumber took to a café yesterday; Ayer we had drunk our coffees, she had to pay by cash or bank transfer….wtf was that all about?
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Ayer? after
Far too early in the day; sorry…
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I reckon those Beebscum will use AI to replicate old actors voices to ‘re-imagine; and ‘re-woke’ classic programmes.
We will have Sgt Major Shut Up reveling in poofery. Alf Garnett going on about how great black personages are. And Albert Steptoe being overjoyed because Harold is dating a trannie.
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I have everything mentioned one can touch, because of never relying on something that justs floats through thin air, besides I have hundreds of extra recordings I’ve recorded onto DVDs, especially the colloquial English subtitle on foreign language films from filmfour. Also video recordings before CDs & DVDs ever existed. Oh and extra backup on hard drive of 2 DVD recorders, which I know before being told aren’t as safe as the actual discs.
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Humour me: I don’t understand some of the points made in this nom.
Yes, CDs, LPs, DVDs and books are one-off payments but their content is fixed, unlike the constantly-changing content of subscription services, which could be regarded as the equivalent of purchasing a different CD or book each month.
Also, free-to-air ‘live’ TV from any broadcaster in the UK isn’t free: there’s the wretched and ongoing Licence Tax to be paid; unless it’s watched illegally, of course.
And, if you can’t afford to buy a house, you have to ‘subscribe’ to the rental sector. Indeed, the only people who can make a one-off purchase for a house are the wealthy: houses have been ‘subscribed to’ through mortgage payments since (I think) the Halifax Building Society was founded.
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Henning Wehn on mortgages.
‘You are your house’s slave. until you pay it off, and then most of the time you live in the hospital’.
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I’m not too worried about our robot overlords just yet.
https://www.ft.com/content/aaddf4b1-a78b-4289-b42f-fd3f5cd7f176
The Matrix would’ve been far more entertaining with Ocado-bots.
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