SepticShock

Septic Tank/Seppo: Australian rhyming slang for Yank, a varyingly derogatory term for an American. In this case, a 20 year old guy who likes trains and 78s.

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@cartycinema It very much is! If you don't mind me asking, does the Betacam footage used here contain timestamps within the cropped 4:3 area?

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@guruglinda Are these silly things even that rare?

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@dom7067 We need to know where the Gauge 1 Gramophone prop is today.

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@ericthomaschu It reminds me of the machines used in the 1900s-1920s to shave down wax discs for recording on in recording studios.

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@Cake_Of_Slice Stupid thing is probably one of the oldest continually used CAD or CNC files in the toy industry.

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@LORDCANTl Is this like the MLP G3 equivalent of a TWR Flying Scotsman?

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@Je5___ @Andre_85_HIR Arc likely had stuff dating back at least to S12 (which they reused face meshes from methinks). I wouldn't be surprised if they also had stuff from the Stinky Cheese pilot.

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@worst_egirl McDonald's too TBF.

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@mornings0da 0:55 he pronounces the /j/ in "opportunity". Happy tensing is absent, so the ending "y" aforementioned is pronounced as a lax "ɪ" (as in "fit") rather than tensed "i" (as in "feet"). No "æ" tensing either, so "a" in "ambush" is the same as in "cat".

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@mornings0da which is at odds with the textbook examples of the accent. But IMO more importantly, he definitely has a trap-bath split. His native accent likely lacked yod dropping, at 0:25 he pronounces "two" as approximately /tɪʊ̯/,-

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@CrispyFrise Thomas got a decent amount of this sort of stuff (everything here except Toby was cancelled).

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@LinMoreira1015 This also explains the existence of this Flying Scotsman face, not only was it useful as a reference for creating the tampography for the Hornby/Ertl models/toys, it also could be additionally casted to create the master pattern for tooling the face via pantograph machining.

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@LinMoreira1015 via a mechanical linkage that converted, say, five inches of movement over the large face to one inch of carving into the metal tool block. (Screencap credit: https://t.co/HoacLs6Goq)

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@JesseKellyDC Also, Chiles v. Salazar, which is perhaps even more so a betrayal of her "people", ruling that conversion therapy is free speech! Both sides think it's fun to pretend ideologically adverse SCOTUS justices are partisan hacks, but it's really not true for at least most of them.

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@JesseKellyDC https://t.co/VXFK36iCcQ. Surprisingly often, though certainly not in a majority of cases, this example is particularly awful, dissenting to allow the Sacklers to be shielded from civil liability without the consent of victims' families.