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Dia duit, Colm :hi:

Ya gotta admit, these aliens are crafty fekkers: they've been coming and going for a few hundred years - or more - and, like the most model hiker, never leave any tangible trace of their presence. Not only that, but they've chosen as their favourite stomping ground the US of A, so the rest of us...

Go easy on the plot twists - I'm still trying to cope with shift from pallets to palates and back to pallets again. 😵‍💫

Are you growing your own bacon too? Pics, pics, pics! 🐷

This sounds rather similar to a problem described on another forum recently, by someone who couldn't get their new-ish TV to accept a signal from a brand-new graphics card. The consensus on that discussion was The workaround in that case involved using a display port adaptor to help reconcile...

Greetings, Aahz ! :hi:

Never saw them in airports, but they were a regular presence in Dublin city centre during my youth. And then they weren't. Don't think I've seen one in the flesh for at least twenty years, though, so I reckon there's a whole generation who'd have no idea that you were referring to a group that...

They'll need us to cope with the default state of chaos that applies to this planet we live on. Robots, and the computers that control them, can only work efficiently in a neat and highly ordered environment; and we humans thrive in mess. Frequently its a mess of our own making, but not always...

As always, these lads have their finger on the pulse of the world ...

:weird: D'you mean the fee you've just posted in plain text on a public forum, right after a link to the song in question ...?

I thought the most impressive thing was genetically modifying all the tomato leaves to be basil. Makes so much sense to have tomato and basil on the same plant. :lol:

Congratulations ! 🎉 But be advised : you are now on a slippery slope that could lead to an all-out obsession with growing your own food. 🧑‍🌾

It's funny how some movies can completely escape the consciousness of some people. This afternoon, a minor incident prompted me to link it to a scene in the movie Amélie. This was the highest grossing movie in France in the year it was released (2001), has a swathe of cover versions of its...

Damn! I thought this was going to be a work of unrealistic fiction. :tear:

Better get a move on - you have competition. :D

;) And therein lies the problem: it can only be anachronistic if we know what is normal for the time and the place. In your imagination, that's the style of a "mid 20th century residential subdivision" ; in my reality in France, that's the style of popular early 21st century housing. But neither...

Good start ... where's page 2? :D My only quibble would be this phrase: "a small mid-20th century style residential subdivision" Given that styles are intimately linked with place as well as time, and the place in question is Mars, how do we know that this martian style dates to the...

On a verrrrrrry long (and hot) drive today, I was thinking: what about running a movie-making experiment where the entire budget was devoted to marketing? :D

But if that sounds like too much of a constraint on your creativity, the future of video entertaiment also includes videos of people opening boxes containing the equipment that they'll use to make videos and reacting to what they find inside. A very modern twist on the phrase "what it says on...

True story: I was at an event yesterday where two women introduced themselves using different names to the ones on their birth certificates. Why? Because they both have the same first name, which happens to be very common in France (there was a third one at the same event) and independently (and...