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[Encyclopaedia Britannica @Britannica]

Unlike Microsoft Outlook, these bad boys never go down.

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Wtf

[Samsara 🎤🎵🎹 @SamsaraSings]

Did all British comedy turn disgusting this century?

UK comedian Johnny Vegas, starred in a film adaptation of one of David Walliams’ children’s books. This is from one of his comedy shows in 2008:

“Vegas insisted that [a young woman] allow herself to be carried on to the stage by 6 members of the audience - he called them "pall bearers". She must pretend to be dead, he said, and he would bring her back to life with an onstage kiss. He warned her that there probably would be tongues.”

“As she was carried on stage, Vegas repeatedly goaded one of the pallbearers to "finger" the girl.

Once she was on stage, Vegas told her to lie very still. She couldn't stop her nervous giggling; he threatened to kick her in the ribs.”

“Eventually Vegas crouched down beside the nervous girl and started stroking her breasts while repeatedly saying, "don't f*cking move". Then he ran his hand up her leg and began pulling her skirt up. Every time he looked up to address the audience, she would reach down and pull her skirt back down, but he kept pulling it back up.

Vegas ended up "fingering her through her clothes for a second or two".

The more the young woman was groped, the more anxious one of the "pallbearers" looked. Then Vegas straddled the young woman, pinning her to the floor, and kissing her for quite a while.”

“Most disturbing, perhaps was that around half the audience seemed to find this really funny.”

#DavidWalliams

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[Kieran Maguire @KieranMaguire]

Companies House reports a change of a controlling person for Little Britain Limited

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[Ravikar Bagri @Ravikar_Ai]

【BRUTAL】Elon Musk: "People who only ask questions to AI are going to get completely left behind," his statement is insane hahaha

Employee: "What's the right way to use AI?"
Elon: "Most people use it wrong."

Employee: "Huh?"
Elon: "You ask a question, read the answer, and that's it, right?"

Employee: "Isn't that how it's normally done?"
Elon: "That's wasting it."

Employee: "So what do you have to do?"
Elon: "Give the AI 50 subordinates."

Employee: "What? hahaha"
Elon: "First, an AI Chief of Staff plans the day."

Employee: "Okay."
Elon: "Then, an AI project manager assigns the work."

Employee: "I see."
Elon: "And more than 50 AI agents do the work."

Employee: "50?! hahaha"
Elon: "And on top of that, they can work 24 hours a day."

Employee: "But isn't that like a human company?"
Elon: "Exactly. AI manages AI."

Employee: "So what do humans do then?"
Elon: "They set the goals and make the important decisions."

Employee: "……"

Until now, AI was a human asking a question and getting an answer.

But with AI agents, you can divide the work, distribute it among multiple AIs, and even set up a system to review the results.

Of course, human supervision and quality control are still needed.

Even so, we've moved from the era where AI was just a simple assistant to the era where you direct an entire team of AIs.

From now on, those who know how to delegate work to AI will earn more than those who know how to use it.

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@Melonhead999 David #sidsquiz

[Zyron @Zyron5m]

Two days before he died in 2018, Ken Dodd married Anne Jones, his partner of 40 years, and that wedding kept about £11 million of his £27.5 million estate away from HMRC. In the UK, whatever you leave to a husband or wife is free of inheritance tax, so all of it went to her. Thirty years earlier the Inland Revenue had put him on trial for hiding £336,000 in cash around his house, and lost.

The video below is that 1989 trial at Liverpool Crown Court, told by the people who sat through it. The court heard he had kept pound and five-pound notes in shoeboxes under beds, in cupboards and in wardrobes from the 1960s to 1981. In evidence he blamed his fear of banks, of what the Labour government of the 1970s might do, and of what he called 98 percent tax.

From 1979 he started moving the cash offshore, flying from Speke airport in Liverpool to Jersey and the Isle of Man with suitcases of five-pound notes. By 1984 he had about £700,000 spread across 20 offshore accounts. He told the court he had thought the interest was tax-free, and that banks outside Britain were none of the taxman's business.

The prosecutor, Brian Leveson, called him devious and deceitful. His barrister, George Carman, gave the jury the line people still quote: "Some accountants are comedians, but comedians are never accountants." The jury found Dodd not guilty, and the courtroom cheered.

Winning still cost him. He paid the Revenue more than £800,000 in unpaid tax and penalties, and with his legal and accountancy bills he was close to bankrupt. Asked on camera how much the trial had hurt, he says "very much", "because I know in my heart of hearts that I am an honest man." Then he admits he is probably "an untidy person".

He went straight back on stage and introduced himself as a "failed accountant", and kept touring for most of the 29 years he had left, still living in the same house in Knotty Ash. Anne Jones had been with him since 1978. They married on 9 March 2018, and he died at home 2 days later, aged 90.

For me the Revenue had a fair case in 1989. Hundreds of thousands in shoeboxes and 20 accounts he never declared look like more than untidiness, and the £800,000 he paid afterwards says he owed something. The wedding in 2018 broke no rule at all. If you live with a partner and you're not married, only the first £325,000 of what you leave them is free of inheritance tax, and the rest can be taxed at 40%.

The Inland Revenue spent 5 years on him and lost the trial, and 29 years later a wedding kept about £11 million from HMRC. Was Ken Dodd an honest, untidy man the taxman should have left alone, or a man who kept his money from the taxman twice and got away with it both times?

I post one story like this every day: a famous name, the money they made, and who ended up with it.

[Davy Shanks @Davyshanks]

This piece to camera went so far off the rails so quickly.

Filming in Niddrie on bonfire night… cameo by Police Scotland’s finest.

[Carl Hendy @carlhendy]

Sean Lock calling out Russell Brand back in 2014.

[sally solihull @sallysolihull]

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@MrsBlinkle @GraceMurphy2 @sallysolihull @fauxpaschick @Melonhead999 @godishomer @Essjayleam @LobbyComm @Sandy1Canada @Tabunny @dumphimlove I appreciate all of your messages everyone. It can be a tough time of year as the nights draw in and the days get colder.
Sending best wishes to everyone 💐

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@GraceMurphy2 @MrsBlinkle @sallysolihull @fauxpaschick @Melonhead999 @godishomer @Essjayleam @LobbyComm @Sandy1Canada @Tabunny @dumphimlove Mao's rule is widely recognised as one of the deadliest periods of political leadership in human history.
The Great Leap Forward alone potentially killed more people than many of the most notorious atrocities of the twentieth century.

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@Melonhead999 Is there a quiz tonight?

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@David_Crayford Hello that's a shame #sidsquiz

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Hello I'm ready
#sidsquiz

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Fireworks can fuck off

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@Melonhead999 #SidsQuiz Dominick Littlewood is an ex con

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Andy Burnham is a tosser

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3 in the dance off wtf #Strictly