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Favourite weird websites.

DiogoJ42 said:
Not a weird website, but I've just read the most insane troll project I've ever heard of. Music fans: I give you a piece of music that takes 639 years to play:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Slow_as_Possible

The current note began on October 5, 2013. The next note won't start until September 5, 2020.
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With everything that's happening this year I forgot to clear space in my diary for this one :(

5th of Feb 2022 it is then :D

John Cage musical work changes chord for first time in seven years

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54041568
 
Closed season bump.

Anyone got a nice new off the beaten track site?
The sabre site remains a recent favourite of mine, and atlas obscura.
Now that I have turned all brony for the closed season, I can truly recommend Equestria Daily.
New fresh stuff please to keep me through the latest social isolation.
Kind regards...please and thank you.
Best one wins a dead rodent wheel...if the winner collects from the Beach.
Remind me.
 
bumping this thread for one I've had for a while but not shared,

What Day Is It?

So what day is it that we are celebrating. National Day Calendar is the original and authoritative source of National Days. Click play to listen above or view the clickable list below and discover the answer to the question, what is today?
nationaldaycalendar.com nationaldaycalendar.com
good fun, every single day is got a few national days, I've seen some random one's over the years. It's a shame it's quite Americanised.
 
Funny, diogo (god bless him, where did he go?) first pushed scarfolk the best part of a decade ago.
No longer updated, but very funny indeed.
Anyone know the title of the stupid science fiction one, something like scicorp, that used to pop up all over google maps?
We had a secret alien centre close to my home, but it has vanished off the map.
 
neal.fun

Absurd Trolley Problems

Every problem is the trolley problem.
neal.fun neal.fun

Spent some time going through some various "Trolley Problems" with friends and discussing whether we would kill 1 person vs 5, 1 person vs the original Mona Lisa, 1 cat vs 5 lobster or just killing one person vs your amazon delivery being on time.

Some interesting debates but yeah I wouldn't trust have them to save my life now 🤣
 
Just discovered this fun little program by Google Arts and Culture, which allows you to creat operatic pieces sung by blob-like characters. Is pretty fun, have a listen to my tune or have a go yourself!

g.co

Blob Opera - Google Arts & Culture

Create your own ML-powered opera song! by David Li with Google Arts & Culture
g.co g.co
 
Sorry to bump this thread, but I stumbled across an interesting site named ILiveHere this morning: https://www.ilivehere.co.uk/

It’s basically a site containing lots of rather cynical opinion pieces about many towns and cities in the UK; if you put your nearest semi-major town or city in there, it’s probably there!

As an example of some of what the site offers, here’s an opinion piece on my local semi-major town, Lydney in Gloucestershire:
Lydney: The “Lovely” Little Brother of Coleford
There is much to be said for a Forest of Dean education. Lydney is home to some of the region’s best and brightest; a town of philosophers, poets and deep thinkers.

There is also much to be said for sarcasm, which the previous paragraph is full of.

The inhabitants of Lydney (or Lydiots as I like to call them) are perhaps the worst of all Foresters; ignorant, bigoted and utterly unprepared to accept that we are now living in the 21st century. I believe it was Aristotle who once said “All men by nature desire knowledge”. Hmmm, I wonder if he ever visited Lydney…

The town itself is like a section of the Natural History Museum, however this is less because of the charming architecture or old English character, but more because of the Neanderthal-like people roaming the streets. The main shopping area of the town hardly gives Oxford Street a run for its money, and unless you are looking for a second hand pram or a bag of chicken feed, you had better look elsewhere.

Lydney is soul crushingly drab in appearance, and colour is a rarity. The typical Forest of Dean architecture comes in just 3 colours; brown, grey… or a mixture of brown and grey. Most of the houses only come half finished, as if someone started painting an exterior wall and then just thought “oh **** it” and gave up halfway through. Some other styles you may encounter include chipped pebbledash, cracked rendering and red brick that has turned a kind of polluted black over time. I don’t know which architect was employed to design this town but I can only assume they were a complete drunkard and/or utterly insane.

One surprising fact about Lydney is the fact that it boasts a train station (well, more of a shack really). My guess is that this was hastily constructed by the first outsider who moved to the town, wanting to establish a quick escape route for anyone else foolish enough to move there.

The dense forest surrounding the town acts as a meeting place for doggers from all over the South West. At night, literally every pull-in or forestry track is taken up by a suspiciously rocking car or two. The height of dogging season usually coincides with the local deer population’s mating season. It is a noisy and disturbing time of year.

The three main towns in the Forest of Dean (Lydney, Coleford and Cinderford) form a kind of Bermuda Triangle; anyone not from the area who is travelling between them usually disappears without a trace. If you do get lost in the Forest of Dean, do not expect the locals to help you. Instead, expect to be hunted through the trees by a group of six-fingered mutants in a manner akin to The Hills Have Eyes.

The dialect of the Lydney folk is difficult to understand and impossible to master. It is a harsh, deep West Country drawl that sounds like Long John Silver swallowed a Brillo pad. The reason for the offensive sound they make when talking is because decades of alleged inbreeding has now altered their vocal chords to the point of mutation. They do not converse with each other so much as communicate in caveman-like grunts. The world’s leading scientist of primate behaviour is currently undertaking a study to better understand their communication techniques.

I remember a conversation I once had with a colleague of mine. We were discussing the Forest of Dean when she asked me what Lydney is like, as she had never been there before. I told her “If you can imagine a classical Parisian suburb of beautiful renaissance architecture filled with sophisticated intellectuals. Maybe you can picture a grand country estate in the Cotswolds with lovely ornate gardens and lakes, inhabited by royalty. Perhaps a quintessentially English village with cobbled lanes, thatched cottages and duck ponds, where the children frolic and play in the nearby meadows and buxom maidens milk their cows with glee; Lydney is like none of those things.”
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Source: https://www.ilivehere.co.uk/lydney-the-ugly-little-brother-of-coleford.html

This site will certainly offer a different take on your local area, if nothing else!
 
As an "a" level geographer, with a strong general interest in maps, I have never heard of Lydney...
Every day is a schoolday for this ignorant northerner.
 
Matt N said:
Sorry to bump this thread, but I stumbled across an interesting site named ILiveHere this morning: https://www.ilivehere.co.uk/

It’s basically a site containing lots of rather cynical opinion pieces about many towns and cities in the UK; if you put your nearest semi-major town or city in there, it’s probably there!

As an example of some of what the site offers, here’s an opinion piece on my local semi-major town, Lydney in Gloucestershire:

Source: https://www.ilivehere.co.uk/lydney-the-ugly-little-brother-of-coleford.html

This site will certainly offer a different take on your local area, if nothing else!
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I'm enjoying this website a lot; thanks!
 
Alix said:
Do the spellung mistooks not bother you @zeock? On my town’s page not only have they moved us to the wrong county, but they also misspelt violent as “volient” for the whole page which got me twitching
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Oh dear! I haven't seen any spelling mistakes yet in the articles where I have been looking, but I have seen one instance where the first letter of a town was lowercase.
 
rob666 said:
As an "a" level geographer, with a strong general interest in maps, I have never heard of Lydney...
Every day is a schoolday for this ignorant northerner.
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That’s understandable given you’re from the North. I don’t know what reason you’d have to know about Lydney, in the same way that I have no reason to know about numerous small towns in the North!

I must admit that I did find it interesting to see how people perceive some of my local towns, and my local area more generally…
 
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