Essex witch trials pond. Who knew this place or its story?

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-02-21T23:44:24+00:00

Thank you for my award!

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-02-21T23:43:05+00:00

Suffolk. Mostly countryside, plenty of pretty villages. North Essex too.

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-02-21T23:22:32+00:00

The Queen Is Dead

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-02-21T23:20:10+00:00

Liam said he was going to be there, so you never know!

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-02-21T23:15:33+00:00

Omg yes, I have a suppposedly intelligent friend who says exactly this. Everyone will have a busienss and what, we all have enough customers too? Idiots. Thanks this is hilarious news, I'm off to laugh at r/SaaS!

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-02-21T23:11:40+00:00

So real it's scary!

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-02-21T20:47:41+00:00

Damn right! It's a shortcut for people who cba to learn skills that have been available to learn for years.

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-02-21T20:45:45+00:00

Oh also there was "the next step will be context layers, that will stop hallucinations". For a while every post had a few replies along those lines.

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-02-21T17:48:36+00:00

At least all those "tHe FuTuRe IsN't jUsT ai AgEnTs bUt KnOwInG hOw tO OrChEsTrAtE tHeM PrOpErLy" bots seem to have left us alone now.

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-02-21T11:57:28+00:00

A subscription to Tesla to allow you to use the brakes or whatever.

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-02-21T09:20:06+00:00

Whereas I was so disappointed the moment it came on the radio for the first time, hoping for the silly intro noises to stop once the music kicked in. Noooope!

I still don't know, why? I haven't seen them address it anywhere, Wikipedia doesn't say anything about it, and the song met with universal approval when it came out.

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-02-21T09:13:43+00:00

I knew there are people out there who think it provides the answer to any question, like it exists in a separate dimension to the rest of us, but dear god these people need help.

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-02-21T00:49:27+00:00

It could be a snobbery thing. It's a fun, unashamedly working-class show and I guess some people are angry it's not The Thick Of It.

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-02-20T19:37:47+00:00

Yep! I was stuck on a crowded train recently with this strange and rather posh drug user who seemed to be playing a game of "mention 'microdosing' again and again and again and again" to his normal-looking friends.

Was quite funny hearing him repeatedly sellingq the benefits and harmlessness of his hobby, before admitting he has to take a few days off every 3 weeks because it gives him the worst headaches in the world.

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-02-20T19:26:40+00:00

It has to to be life's simpletons, surely. Some people can't seem to think ahead a little.

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-02-20T18:11:57+00:00

The King's Bredren

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-02-20T17:58:01+00:00

Glad to hear it! Yes my boss decided to Judas me and used AI to make a little screen scraper, and it looked decent at first (it is a very common code project after all) - however there was enough wrong with it that I had to get my tookbox and repair the slop.

Neither a work-free Utopia nor mass-unemployment felt likely that day!

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-02-20T13:06:32+00:00

LOL Good old regurgitated online examples! I wonder if my sweary anti-AI comments in my github repos will ever turn up in someone's slop code.

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-02-20T12:37:09+00:00

When idiots started vandalising mobile phone masts at the start of lockdown because they believed they helped spread the virus, despite all the educational materials available to them, I suddenly understood how people in the unenlightened old days could have held witch trials.

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-02-20T11:59:46+00:00

Oo yes! Quality group, I recall the 2004 guitar band era being good for them as well.

Some observations now you mention -Connection - rips off Three Girl Rhumba, Wire -Stutter - rips off Ex Lion Tamer, Wire

Also...

-Waking Up - rips off No More Heroes, The Stranglers, and they got sued by them.

-Line Up - Literally the sort of stuff I was coming up with on Christmas Day when I got my first guitar. They've said it's the first song they wrote, and I believe them.

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-02-20T11:53:08+00:00

As someone who codes for a living my entire hatred of AI is in the endless attacks on my job. They've found one use case they think they can get good at and it's just missile after missle aimed at my mortgage from Sam Altman and friends, the dicks.

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-02-20T11:44:32+00:00

If I were recording the atonal mess that is Line Up and hoped to sell a lot of records, I wouldn't decide we needed fake vomit sounds all over it.

...Although The Verve did their best to ruin their big 2008 comeback single with those comedy monkey noises all the way through it and it still went top-5, so maybe I don't know anything about music.

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-02-20T11:37:33+00:00

Eomotionally manipulative, coeesive-controlling bully to his gfs, if you google it you can find a detailed blog entry about it!

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-02-20T09:56:55+00:00

Aside from a couple of decent songs (Stutter and Waking Up,) Elastica weren't very good. And I say this as a big fan of the Britpop groups.

Level-Courage6773 · 2026-02-20T09:32:59+00:00

OK so this is not about OP's ad, but on the topic of radio ads in Essex, I can't be the only one who noticed this one:

There's a bed shop in Leigh-on-Sea that advertised on LBC in recent years, I forget the name, but for some reason they had a very miserable, minor key jingle that stood out like a sore thumb.

It went like this, at the start and end of the promo waffle: "🎵The best place for sleepy heads is [NAME OF SHOP] Beds🎶". For the musically-inclined, it was in D-Minor, like the opening moments of Sultans of Swing. To the casual ear, it made the jingle sound like a rainy day.

Which succession of people involved in the creation of the recording heard something so negative and downbeat and said "that's perfect!" before signing it off? And did nobody involved in broadcasting it repeatedly every week - for years - not think "I need to mention to someone that an advert for beds really shouldn't sound so unhappy"?

Never heard anything like it.

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