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  • MiketheSnowM Offline
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    @Victor-Meldrew said in RIP 2023:

    @dogmeat said in RIP 2023:

    @MiketheSnow Always seemed to turn up at a picket line.

    Great actress and good for her in actually standing successfully as an MP rather than wank on from the sidelines. For me, a bit of a racist who thought it OK to call pro-Israeli Jews Nazis and who defended Corbyn's antisemitism.

    Is Corbyn an anti-Semite or anti-Israel?

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    @MiketheSnow said in RIP 2023:

    Is Corbyn an anti-Semite or anti-Israel?

    By his own belief that people who don't oppose racism are racists - probably both.

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  • TimT Away
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    RIP John Goodenough, materials scientist, co-inventor of the lithium-ion battery.

    Very few people have had the positive impact that he did.

    The biggest F.

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    Just reading about him last night! Amazing that 26% of world’s Lithium supply contained in a group of salt lakes in Chile!

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    @pakman Fortunately for us, nearly 50% of world production is in Australia.

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    @Tim said in RIP 2023:

    @pakman Fortunately for us, nearly 50% of world production is in Australia.

    WELL, if we're trying to save the world by moving to electric machinery, then the 'benefit' of Aussie lithium oxide rocks being shipped to China, where coal powered machinery refines it, is somewhat hard to get excited about!

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    @Tim said in RIP 2023:

    RIP John Goodenough, materials scientist, co-inventor of the lithium-ion battery.

    Very few people have had the positive impact that he did.

    The biggest F.

    He joked that his pacemaker relied on his technology!

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  • MiketheSnowM Offline
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    Standout performances for me

    The Return of Captain Invincible (1983)
    Escape from Sobibor (1987)
    The Rocketeer (1991)
    Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
    Indian Summer (1993) - filmed at the Summer Camp I worked at, Camp Towanda in Pennsylvania
    Grosse Point Blank (1997)
    Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
    The Kominsky Method (2018-21)

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  • MN5M Online
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    @MiketheSnow said in RIP 2023:

    Standout performances for me

    The Return of Captain Invincible (1983)
    Escape from Sobibor (1987)
    The Rocketeer (1991)
    Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
    Indian Summer (1993) - filmed at the Summer Camp I worked at, Camp Towanda in Pennsylvania
    Grosse Point Blank (1997)
    Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
    The Kominsky Method (2018-21)

    What a hilarious, bizarre flick that one was ! I must see it again for nostalgias sake.

    Really likeable performer, this was also an awesome small role in an otherwise uneven movie.

    RIP, thanks for the memories.

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  • WingerW Offline
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    @MiketheSnow said in RIP 2023:

    @Victor-Meldrew said in RIP 2023:

    @dogmeat said in RIP 2023:

    @MiketheSnow Always seemed to turn up at a picket line.

    Great actress and good for her in actually standing successfully as an MP rather than wank on from the sidelines. For me, a bit of a racist who thought it OK to call pro-Israeli Jews Nazis and who defended Corbyn's antisemitism.

    Is Corbyn an anti-Semite or anti-Israel?

    Good question. But probably not the thread to discuss this.

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  • TimT Away
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    RIP Milan Kundera.

    Jul 12, 2023  /  Books

    Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being author dies aged 94

    Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being author dies aged 94

    The Czech novelist found himself silenced by the communist regime at home, but achieved international fame with playfully philosophical fiction

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    https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/food-drink/300932045/merrill-j-fernando-the-founder-of-dilmah-tea-has-died-at-93

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    @mikedogz said in RIP 2023:

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/food-drink/300932045/merrill-j-fernando-the-founder-of-dilmah-tea-has-died-at-93

    Tea and Dilmah Tea Parties at the cricket. A life well lived.

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    @Donsteppa said in RIP 2023:

    @mikedogz said in RIP 2023:

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/food-drink/300932045/merrill-j-fernando-the-founder-of-dilmah-tea-has-died-at-93

    Tea and Dilmah Tea Parties at the cricket. A life well lived.

    Iconic

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  • MN5M Online
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    I did try it.

    Love a good cup of tea in an evening.

    RIP.

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    @pakman said in RIP 2023:

    @Tim said in RIP 2023:

    @pakman Fortunately for us, nearly 50% of world production is in Australia.

    WELL, if we're trying to save the world by moving to electric machinery, then the 'benefit' of Aussie lithium oxide rocks being shipped to China, where coal powered machinery refines it, is somewhat hard to get excited about!

    It's double the export value here!

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  • NTAN Online
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    Tony Bennett. Dang.

    96 years old

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  • MiketheSnowM Offline
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    @Donsteppa said in RIP 2023:

    @mikedogz said in RIP 2023:

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/food-drink/300932045/merrill-j-fernando-the-founder-of-dilmah-tea-has-died-at-93

    Tea and Dilmah Tea Parties at the cricket. A life well lived.

    Apparently all the tea in hospices in NZ is supplied for free by Dilmah . There’s probably a lot more stuff this guy did that will come to light over the next few weeks.

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  • MiketheSnowM Offline
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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65949435

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