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bazzargh

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Baldy bespectacled beardy, beer breathed, B- bloody biker.

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thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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A ghost sign on Yorkhill Street in Glasgow. I've not been able to track down who's Family Department it points towards.

bazzargh,
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@Andy_European @thisismyglasgow it seems unlikely as the hospital's the other way. This old description of the horseshoe https://www.followfollow.com/forum/threads/an-old-story-about-a-pub-in-the-gorbals-from-the-30%E2%80%99s.220180/ and a more recent one https://www.oldglasgowpubs.co.uk/sylvesters.html suggest Family Department is just what they used to call the family area of the bar - that building's been a pub since the 1880s

... better link: George "McCallum’s brother John was the first to introduce the family department system to Glasgow pubs" https://oldglasgowpubs.com/the-big-glen

simonvarwell, to random Esperanto
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Imagine if the Three Wise Men had brought gold, frankincense and mirth.

Things would have been so different.

bazzargh,
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@simonvarwell imagine if they had brought gold, Frank (incensed) and myrrh. Frank'd probably still be complaining about it now.

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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11 and 13 University Gardens in the West End of Glasgow. Designed by John James Burnet in a Classical style and built in 1882, they're all that's left of a terrace of similar buildings which once lined this side of the street. Originally private houses, they're now part of Glasgow University.

bazzargh,
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@thisismyglasgow the door on the right used to be the Research Club, the union for postgrads, until inexplicably they failed to make money selling beer to students. I was on the board there at one point; we tried to get a blue plaque because the story was that it was at a dinner party there that Margaret Todd suggested Frederick Soddy use the word "isotope" for his new discovery (that got the Nobel). But, we were a couple of years late to find any living attendees

simonvarwell, to random Esperanto
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Overheard from a passer-by just now:

“There’s one in Dornoch. There was one in Tain, but it got vandalised.”

You can now join me in wondering what they were talking about.

bazzargh,
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@simonvarwell Harry Gow Bakery. Vandals filled all the holes in the doughnuts

foone, to random
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I had a weird realization today:
You know how I make terrible keyboards? It turns out I can also made good keyboards!

Well, kinda. I had this silly gamer keyboard I kept around because it was small and I used it when I needed a random USB keyboard, but it was horrible to use. No contrast on the key labels...

but wait I have a bunch of keycaps since I'm a keyboard-making punk. what if I just put some onto it... and now it's readable! and looks snappy!

bazzargh,
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@foone Those are nice, but, does the clarity even matter? I got milkshake weirdos on mine because they look cool when I'm not using them, even tho they'd be awful for finding keys if I didn't touch type. I took them off to clean on sunday and put half of them back on upside down in the wrong places! I think I'd quite like a set that was more abstract art, das keyboard but by jasper johns

bazzargh, to Montreal
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Cloud creeping in in but at this point the is still visible...

bazzargh, to Montreal
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Glorious weather in for the today

7:45 am at the Kandiaronk Belvedere on Mount Royal. Haze in the distance, but clear blue skies

simonvarwell, to random Esperanto
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Watching the Scotland-Northern Ireland match. A pathetic territory that’s not even a proper country, packed with funny accents, bedevilled by identity issues and riven by deindustrialisation and sectarianism, versus…

bazzargh,
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@simonvarwell ehh I am out but was about to book my hotel in Munich ... dont tell me, I think I can imagine well enough from trips past

bazzargh,
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@simonvarwell I'm not even getting to a game! Meeting a mate who is-he kept his travel club in the first draw after 20 years of living in the states by having his brother go to the hampden games. finally paid off

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Church in the Broomhill area of Glasgow. Built in the early 1960s, it was designed by Charles W. Gray.

bazzargh,
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@thisismyglasgow it was going to be Our Lady of Perpetual Soccer but then they realised those were tennis courts opposite.

Richard_Littler, to random
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Wow. Even after all this time, @scarfolk can still attract interest. Apparently, the blog was visited by 25k people yesterday.

bazzargh,
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@simonvarwell @scarfolk @Richard_Littler well I wasnt up on geopolitics being 6 at the time but my understanding is that there was a shortfall of imported sugar from the carribean. Potatoes had a poor harvest so old potatoes ran out before the new potatoes came in. There also seems to have been panic buying and stockpiling (like TP in lockdown), which led to supermarkets rationing sugar

bazzargh,
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@simonvarwell @Richard_Littler @scarfolk In the hacker news thread that led to that flood of interest I commented about a couple of lesser known grims of the mid 70s, the sugar and potato shortages, and for the first time realised the latter coincided with my dad planting the entire garden with potatoes (it was a new house with crappy clay soil that needed broken up too, but too much of a coincidence? We lived off those tatties for years)

geomannie, to cycling
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I am pretty hardened & streetwise in cycling in traffic, but today I experienced the awful experience of a . Approaching a roundabout I was suddenly overtaken by a van giving ~25cm clearance. Van then cut in clipping my pedal and then sped off without stopping.😡😡😡

What is in the mind of these people? I don't think they want me dead, yet their action was so close to achieving this I can't fathom what their thought processes are. Still a bit shaky.

bazzargh,
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@geomannie @simonvarwell it was just a dozen young teens, the one ringleader was a bad lot tho, he tried to hit me in the face with a half brick (I stopped that) but did hit me over the head with a stick - fortunately not a big stick, it bounced off my headphones and made a loud noise that mad the chasing group pause, and I got away. They did all this because I shouted at them for pelting another runner with stones ahead of me.

simonvarwell, to random Esperanto
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I’ve just been put in charge of the rail network, and honestly it’s hard to keep track.

bazzargh,
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@simonvarwell I hurt myself at a hypnosis show last night. He convinced me I was part of a steam train, then a pound note - and that's when I fell off the stage.

I'm still tender.

dragfyre, to random
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Speaking of , did you know that open registrations on your instance can lead to another, somewhat less irritating, but no less spammy type of spam?

Here are some fake businessperson profiles that were created recently on the instance mstdn.business (@jraitamaa did you notice these?). They're actually pretty funny, so I figured they were worth more than just a simple report.

bazzargh,
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@dragfyre @jraitamaa I for one am glad spammers have someone they can trust for their cerebral bypass surgery

simonvarwell, to random Esperanto
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fit d’ye caa an Aberdonian in the gym

bazzargh,
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@simonvarwell How was this guy a government minister?

bazzargh,
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@simonvarwell why oh why oh why is the toy spelled like that?

dirkdierickx, to windows
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Minesweeper - No need for anymore, the best game for it has been ported to your favorite by Under4Mhz

https://under4mhz.itch.io/minesweeper

bazzargh,
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@dirkdierickx well I couldn't let this stand so here is a very crappy and slow implementation for the BBC Micro https://bbcmic.ro/#%7B%22v%22%3A1%2C%22program%22%3A%22DIMM%28324%29%3AREM%20minesweeper%3A%20wasd%20to%20move%2C%20m%20to%20pick%5CnFORP%3D0TO323%5CnIFP%20MOD18MOD17%3D0ORP%20DIV18MOD17%3D0%3AM%28P%29%3D16ELSEIFRND%281%29%3E.9%3AM%28P%29%3D128%5CnIFP%20MOD18%3E1ANDP%20DIV18%3E1%3AM%28P-19%29%3DM%28P-19%29%2B%28M%28P-38%29%2BM%28P-37%29%2BM%28P-36%29%2BM%28P-20%29%2BM%28P-18%29%2BM%28P-2%29%2BM%28P-1%29%2BM%28P%29%29DIV128%3APROCC%28P-19%29%5CnPROCC%28P%29%5CnNEXT%5CnX%3D1%3AY%3D1%5CnREPEAT%5CnK%3DINKEY%2820%29%5CnP%3DX - with the help of @bbcmicrobot . Click in the emulated screen for keys to work then WASD to move and M to click where you think there's no mine. Because RND is seeded there's only one board! Move to top right to see the satisfying sloooow flood fill. Just marginally too big for a toot; I should relearn assembler.

18+ kim_harding, to fuckcars
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Just remind me again, who is winning the "War on the motorist"?
This is just one zebra crossing in Bradford, but the "war" is on every street...

Video show people crossing a zebra crossing, either being hit or very nearly hit by drivers.

bazzargh,
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@kim_harding regularly had to dive out of the way of cars when I used to work out by Rosyth station. The motorway exits onto the roundabout there and cars don't slow down before the pedestrian crossing, and scream through the red light. The nearest miss got a visit from the police.

simonvarwell, to random Esperanto
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I got some actors to help me demolish my shed. They managed to get the roof off with some difficulty, but they were particularly adroit at breaking the fourth wall.

bazzargh,
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@simonvarwell I had some workers try to re-roof my shed while they were sick but they were making a terrible job of it.

I told them to go away until they felt better.

timbray, to photography
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Quiz: Name the famous old city I’m visiting from these nocturnal pix. Also, find the moon!

Looking at the end of a yellow-painted brick building with a peaked roof, Asian-flavored golded decorations on a plaque near near the peak. Beam of light shines out from the peak and some further ornamentation is dimly visible behind it.
A back alley, brick paved, single streetlamp, bare tree, moon in the top right corner.

bazzargh,
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@timbray @hub the alley

bazzargh, to random
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Oh man, Tony Husband died? On the way to his Private Eye leaving party no less 😭 . Laughed a lot at his cartoons over the years, but also appreciated thoughtful pieces like this for dementia awareness

bazzargh, to lotr
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Treated myself, these are 1978 hardbacks of lord of the rings, same as I got from the library back then. I’d never bought a copy since because paperbacks felt disappointing after this, with its fold out maps (that lasted a few months in the library before being nicked for some teenager’s wall)

bazzargh, to random
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finally signed out of the birdsite everywhere. I'd only still been checking in read-only for things that hadn't moved off (mostly pro cycling commentary) but the amount of junk it tacks onto conversations now is painful.

bazzargh, to random
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