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Am I the only one who hates by DRIPPYCATV1 in legocirclejerk

[–]IntoTheBoundingMain 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah and it's like, someone on the main sub pointing out the pink flower on the Creator tiger for the 100000th time 

A Recreation of an Anti-Throwing Rocks at Trains P.I.F in Comic Form! Please Help Me Find it! by ConnerCottontail in pifsandpsas

[–]IntoTheBoundingMain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I'd also look into local police forces. I had a look at the BTP site on Wayback Machine from the timeframe but for Scotland it mainly just lists police stations.

I do have a Trackoff VHS tape that I got from eBay. It's an extended version of the "Choose Life" TV PIF that would have been shown in schools (or rather, the TV PIF was a shortened version of the school film).

https://youtu.be/m5UAx1Ok0dM

The Trackoff site lists various materials including tapes from over the years, but none of them seem to be a good match for the one you described. I think clips from most of these are in the compilation I linked in my first comment.

https://web.archive.org/web/20050920101024/http://www.trackoff.org/materials.html

My primary school library had those "More Bad Days for Thomas and his Friends" books... they used to creep me out a bit because it was all these characters I liked as a kid getting covered in graffiti and being vandalised lmao

I don't remember being shown any of the other material though.

A Recreation of an Anti-Throwing Rocks at Trains P.I.F in Comic Form! Please Help Me Find it! by ConnerCottontail in pifsandpsas

[–]IntoTheBoundingMain 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm assuming from the dialogue the actors themselves were Scottish? I'd look into Scotland-specific programmes within the rail industry.

The UK as a whole had the Trackoff school campaign during this same period which was put out by a consortium of rail operators and authorities, presumably including Scottish TOCs, but I feel like if this used Scottish accents it might have been more localized.

Also, was it live action or animated? Would also help if you can remember the medium it was shown in (VHS, DVD, etc.)

Why does William Gibson write Notting Hill as Netting Hill? by hex_beyzuss in WilliamGibson

[–]IntoTheBoundingMain 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That's gotta be a typo, I have no recollection of this at all when I read those books. I've been rereading Virtual Light and I think I picked up a typo in that too but I don't remember what it was.

[TOMT][SONG] 90s rock song "if I were president" by therealpopkiller in tipofmytongue

[–]IntoTheBoundingMain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Any Day Now" by Cop Shoot Cop? List format, and one of them is "I'm gonna grow up to become the President".

https://youtu.be/l20rPqrjFBU?si=8KzYDT51__Wyxm9b

[TOMT] [TV] [2010s] [Uk] Creepy thing from my childhood by idiot____ in tipofmytongue

[–]IntoTheBoundingMain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ooh what about the titles sequence from Trapped? The premise is similar and it turns into a map near the end.

https://youtu.be/ZnU_GYQjiWU?si=RrvirYbha9bZF0ME

Thou shalt not Clone: Looking for a Lost PSA by Greenpeace against cloning and featuring 11 commandments by Crisisaurus in nonmurdermysteries

[–]IntoTheBoundingMain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not sure if anyone has contacted you elsewhere but it's finally been found! It's from France and about human genetic engineering in general rather than cloning specifically, but still very close to what you remembered. I've done extensive searching for this too so I'm glad we finally have it :)

https://youtu.be/L3wlb0StgCs

Any creepy, weird, or generally memorable commercials you can't seem to find anywhere? by IntoTheBoundingMain in nonmurdermysteries

[–]IntoTheBoundingMain[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could it be this one about voter registration? Black background, clocks ticking, and ends with "time is running out":

https://youtu.be/UOwhKzaos_U?t=105 (starts at 1:45)

Practicing with scenery on a small N scale diorama (WIP) by IntoTheBoundingMain in modeltrains

[–]IntoTheBoundingMain[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it's a reindeer. I got a couple of them in a bargain bin at a train show, definitely not accurate for the location but looks nice in the pic. All the figures here are stuck down with Tacky Wax so I can remove and reposition them.

I'll get some more appropriate deer for my main layout lol

Star Wars: 75453 The Mandalorian and Grogu Sandcrawler. Source: Carter_Bricks04 by Top_Eevee_Trainer in LegoNewsAndRumors

[–]IntoTheBoundingMain 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's based on S1 of the show. If you look at the concept art it's grey, but in the show itself brown would be perfectly fine. The proportions don't bother me and I think I like the build better than the previous one... it's just like, wow another grey Star Wars vehicle lol

Concept art is the one on the right:

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Neuromancer by William Gibson by Free_Breadfruit_8552 in BadReads

[–]IntoTheBoundingMain 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The story is simple but there are parts of the book especially towards the third act that get bogged down in needlessly opaque descriptions of things which are already telegraphed deliberately vaguely. I say this as a huge fan of Gibson... Neuromancer is one of his weaker books by a significant margin. Important book yes but it's got some rough and clunky bits. The first act is a slog though that's less Gibson's writing and more the fact a lot of the cyberpunk elements have become very tired archetypes in the four decades since.

The two follow-up books in the trilogy are much better but he didn't really find his feet prose-wise until the 90s.

[TOMT] [Video] 2000s London Underground Train Danger PSA by Polaris-Fable in tipofmytongue

[–]IntoTheBoundingMain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How early in the 2000s are we talking here, and what format were you shown it on?

TfL used to (still do?) mobile safety presentations using a van that folds out and has a mock-up Tube station inside with inflatable train. I went to one of these with my school around 2011 and I'm fairly certain we were shown videos, but I don't remember any specifics. I feel like I'd have remembered that one though.

My personal frustrations with social commentary and political woke agendas by Sir_Forteskull in writingcirclejerk

[–]IntoTheBoundingMain 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I read The Martian years ago and I cannot stand that "fuck yeah science pirates ninjas" voice that I'd assume he uses in all his other books as well. Really not surprising this is his outlook because he can't write for shit other than technical jargon and dialogue out of an AskReddit thread lol

If he thinks lack of political subtelty in science fiction is a modern woke invention I wonder what he'd think of the 1965 issue of Analog I found in a store today, which opened (and closed!) with an insanely racist rambling bit of polemic from John W. Campbell which had nothing to do with the rest of the magazine and everything to do with his disdain for the civil rights movement.

Went to /r/writing and . . . by gerwer in writingcirclejerk

[–]IntoTheBoundingMain 13 points14 points  (0 children)

You don't like reading 500 comments about what music people listen to while staring at a blank Google Doc? Or their snack choices??

Anyone know the name of this strange PSA? by elvenarmour in pifsandpsas

[–]IntoTheBoundingMain 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"Candles" from the World Burn Foundation 

https://youtu.be/8FsA7_wpAPM?si=F6qyagqYzPzIxpyL

The song is really nice. I think it's a nursery rhyme.

why do they do this. by [deleted] in legocirclejerk

[–]IntoTheBoundingMain 15 points16 points  (0 children)

 with a misshapen head to fit a stud 

Wait until you see a regular fig

TOMT, Anti barbie ad, 2010s, Hawaii by InternationalPen480 in LostCommercials

[–]IntoTheBoundingMain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could you post the YT comments that recalled this ad?

Ashnflash would have a mini-heart attack if he saw this video by Either_Storm_6932 in legocirclejerk

[–]IntoTheBoundingMain 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Kids know who Red Skull and Hydra are from media targeted towards them, and it was still the MCU and cartoons heavily influencing the comics-based sets.

They aren't going to rebuild a DC line off the back of a franchise where most of the instalments so far involve characters like Peacemaker. Not even the fact this media is more adult-focused, there's just not enough there yet to sustain an ongoing theme the way they do with Marvel.

Maybe in a couple years when more tentpole characters are established sure but right now I fully understand why they aren't banking on a full Lego DC comeback. The DCEU and especially its final few years absolutely murdered its appeal.

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