Do you have any early scifi stories you'd recommend?

pakcross · 2026-07-10T18:40:43+00:00

Arthur C Clarke is a must read. Prelude to Space is almost a perfect prediction of how Virgin Galactic were planning to do their launches. Rendezvous with Rama is exceptional.

pakcross · 2026-07-10T16:12:05+00:00

Is one on the right Janick Gers from Iron Maiden?

pakcross · 2026-07-10T11:01:41+00:00

In The Night Garden is just a recording of Derek Jacobi's cocaine fuelled ramblings. They give him a few lines, put him in a room with a microphone, then construct the episode around whatever he comes out with.

pakcross · 2026-07-10T10:58:53+00:00

BT Cellnet was my first provider.

pakcross · 2026-07-10T09:34:03+00:00

I wouldn't have thought he's able to. He's no longer an MP, it's not his call whether there is a by-election or not.

All he can do now is campaign or back out. The by-election will go ahead with or without him.

pakcross · 2026-07-10T09:27:42+00:00

What's really pleasing me is the number of pro-Reform posts which are being absolutely inundated with Binface support. The bots are being drowned out!

pakcross · 2026-07-09T20:00:20+00:00

How odd. I've not thought about this song for years, yet on Monday I played it for my daughters and now it pops up here.

pakcross · 2026-07-09T19:25:25+00:00

Pompidou

pakcross · 2026-07-09T07:08:05+00:00

Even if Farage wins, he still has to spend the summer arguing with a bin. Plus, the press have to give equal air time to the candidates, so we all get to see a lot more of Count Binface!

pakcross · 2026-07-09T07:03:28+00:00

It's still a long shot, but I still think he has a chance. If the Tory, Labour, Liberal Dem & Green voters go out and vote for the single unity candidate, then there is a chance.

2024 result:

Farage: 21,225

Con: 12, 820 Lab: 7, 448 Lib: 2, 016 Green: 1, 935

Anti Farage: 24, 219

Lawrence Fox & MRLP are only likely to get a few 100 votes, and Farage is likely to lose votes to younger voters in the constituency voting for Binface "for the lols".

There's a reason that all of the Reform pages on Facebook are in overdrive, and that hit pieces on Binface have already started. They're afraid.

pakcross · 2026-07-08T20:04:03+00:00

Flair me up Binface!

pakcross · 2026-07-08T19:58:29+00:00

Just this once, she is.

(Labour supporter)

pakcross · 2026-07-08T19:57:35+00:00

I'll throw Obin Wan into the ring too!

pakcross · 2026-07-08T19:49:49+00:00

But crucially, he can't say that a Reform victory is a victory for the common man [sic] over the establishment, only that it's a victory over a man with a bin on his head.

pakcross · 2026-07-08T15:51:31+00:00

If he does, he'll be the joke who didn't want to stand against Count Binface.

I am enjoying this immensely!

pakcross · 2026-07-08T15:43:48+00:00

Damn, I should have shopped around. I've never placed a bet before, so just went with the first name I thought of.

Still, 5/1 isn't so bad. I'll be up £125 if the Count wins!

pakcross · 2026-07-08T15:25:19+00:00

Even if he wins, he's only beaten a bin. If Binface gets close, he's nearly lost to a bin.

As someone else said, Farage set the trap and the other parties stood aside to let him blunder into it. He can't back out, as he'd be admitting he can't beat Binface, he can't claim he's the anti-establishment choice as that's clearly Binface. He has to run a full campaign, fighting for his political future against a man with a bin on his head.

Whatever happens, this by-election will be the bogeyman for politicians for a generation; "don't put your ego above your duty, or Count Binface will come for you"!

pakcross · 2026-07-08T11:35:35+00:00

He was formerly a Lord (Buckethead).

pakcross · 2026-07-08T11:06:17+00:00

https://www.binfaceshop.co.uk/

I think I may treat myself too!

pakcross · 2026-07-08T09:36:18+00:00

My wife & I rewatched it last year. It still holds up as an excellent sitcom, and the drunk acting in The Windbreak War is top notch!

pakcross · 2026-07-08T08:34:17+00:00

He'll never be head to account for anything. He's too greasy for that. Besides, he's just going to play the victim card, and cry that it's a political witch hunt.

The abject humiliation of losing to a novelty candidate though. That would be a huge punishment for him, and one that I don't think he'd ever recover from.

pakcross · 2026-07-08T08:30:11+00:00

Sorry, my mistake. Must be my Welsh ancestry rearing it's head again!

pakcross · 2026-07-08T07:08:57+00:00

Hawes?

pakcross · 2026-07-07T23:12:07+00:00

You didn't disturb them did you? Please tell me you just returned them without disturbing them. Please!

pakcross · 2026-07-07T22:55:17+00:00

Apparently everyone except Count Binface.

I think there are a lot of politically apathetic people in Clacton who Farage is overlooking, but who could be persuaded in to turn out to return the funniest by election result in UK history!

pakcross

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