ReconciliationTime22128

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Aughts is good too. Funny nobody thought to call the year 2007 ‘double-0 seven’. Man, what a missed opportunity.

 

A day or two ago, I posted here about a memory I had of a tv show and thankfully, the kind users of this platform were able to help me identify the show, even down to the episode. It also brought back memories of a crisp advert I remembered seeing once around the 2000’s-early 2010’s that I just can’t find on Google, YouTube (including ad compilations), etc. so perhaps the good folk can help lightning strike twice!

The advert I remember in significantly more detail. It is a British advert (or at least aired on British TV). It was an advert that featured two pilots sat in the cockpit of a plane messing about with crisps on the ends of their tongues (I always thought it was a Hula Hoops advert, but I guess it could’ve been another type of crisp like monster munch or something, but I don’t think so). I think the stewardess was there too and she was perplexed by their behaviour. The pilots were talking to each other (obviously in a funny voice since they had crisps on the ends of their tongues).

Does any other Brit have any recollection of something like this, and what it could’ve been? I’ve searched on the internet but cannot find the advert?

Many thanks.

Unless you start a community where users can? Just a thought…

That’s a good suggestion, however another user has seemingly already found it. Turns out it was likely something called ‘Grange Hill’ season 20 episode 1

[–] ReconciliationTime22128@sh.itjust.works 1 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

To be clear, the NHS is just one example of everything that I see is broken in the UK, I’m not singling it out for any particular reason.

But to answer your question, lack of resources and funding (staff, equipment, money etc.) has led to basically staff shortages and what is widely considered to be inadequate healthcare. I’m not saying literally nobody gets good quality care, but a lot of people don’t and it’s not really acceptable, especially considering that some major surgery waiting lists can reach up to a year or more (in other words: if they need surgery then they will have to wait for it for a year or longer).

[–] ReconciliationTime22128@sh.itjust.works 1 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

I’m not political. I say what I see. And what I see is crime rates sky high, year long nhs waiting times, etc. I don’t look at it from a political perspective — if I did, I’d be scathing both left and right corrupt fuckers in parliament. They’re all the same any way you slice it.

[–] ReconciliationTime22128@sh.itjust.works 1 points 20 hours ago (6 children)

Every way imaginable

Have you tried old sites that actually scan/preserve old newspapers? The moguls cannot scrub them words away as easily.

None. They’ve already got names, and in any case, I don’t think anyone would let me name any of them (which is a shame, because I’d name Mexico as New Tenochtitlan, spelling accurate of course)

What kind of a business are these people running??? I cannot comprehend?!^}|=]

[–] ReconciliationTime22128@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

He asks on a platform where you can do just that…

 

I grew up in the noughties (British) and for ages since then, I’ve always had this fragmented memory of this episode of a tv show, likely on CBBC or CITV, it was a live action show. In this episode, a teacher instructs the caretaker to construct a cage for the back of the classroom. Later in the episode, as the teacher is teaching, you can see a student stood in the cage watching from the back of the class.

Always struck me as kind of a weird thing. Any idea what this would be? What show and what episode it might be? It’s been driving me insane for years and Google is no help (nor Reddit)!!!

 

You couldn’t make this stuff up if you tried lol

 

This is not AI. Google it.

For those who have seen it, what’s your favourite bit?

 

Load of shit, nobody trusts it, and the article barely goes into anymore detail than saying ‘it runs off Amazon’.

What… A pile… Of shit!

 

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This was long before 9/11. Obviously, it was purely a fantasy thing (there’s no way some amateur teenage Guy Fawkes-wannabe could’ve single handedly pulled off what a major terrorist organisation spent years rigorously planning). However, I do find it interesting how manic minds think alike — even if their ideology is completely different.

 

Like so many social media platforms, Pinterest has gone way down the plug, and sadly I don’t think it was redeemable.

Way back in the early 2010’s, when there was no AI or shit algorithm, you uploaded what you wanted — no spam, slop or mass editing. That was the way it should be.

Inevitably, with the rise of online protection laws, AI junk effort (both the users and the staff) and mass internet creeps, Pinterest has become a cesspool of utter crap. All the best images gone — either banned for crap reasons, or the former account owners are driven away, or they may still exist out in the aether but the damn ai algorithm makes it impossible to find.

Sadly, as many people here point out, Pinterest is completely (and out of control) so sodden with AI that it’s barely even worth using anymore.

Today, I randomly remembered a bunch of images I’d seen and, feeling nostalgic, I went to look. I typed in some search words related to the pre-AI age images I used to love. Instead, I was met with nothing but AI generated images. Crap, crap, CRAP!!! I couldn’t believe how far it had fallen.

In some way, it almost makes me hope that the dead internet concept will come true, if only to slap open the eyes of these big AI corporations and force them to scale back the damage they are doing, and maybe, just maybe, formerly decent platforms like Pinterest might possibly return to some form of normalcy. For now though, I think I’ll retire from that ‘platform’.

To be clear, it’s not AI images in and of themselves I am complaining of. I have no issue with such things in moderation (like say you upload 10 natural images, complemented with 1 or 2 AI things. That is fine for me). My gripe is with the sheer mass of uploads and the way such things have vastly changed the social media/image sharing platform landscape in the last 5-6 years.

Mini-rant over, thanks for reading (if you did).

 
 

Only problem is: if it be so, how does one reclaim it?

Randomly, or course!

 

They’re both off-white in color and they’re both frustrating right when you don’t need or want them to be.

The only real difference is that wallpaper paste tends to get less sticky as it ages.

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