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Can’t exactly remember, but I think it was about £50 cheaper not to have Windows (Home Edition) installed.

I’m in the UK, and last year got a Lenovo ThinkPad laptop with Linux pre-installed that was cheaper than the Windows equivalent. I had a choice of RAM, SSD, display and OS. Ubuntu was the only choice of Linux, though.

What’s its heilage?

To think that thirty-so years ago it was jealousy that ired the West.

A story that The Onion would be proud of. Could have been used as a form of self-advertising, too.

I loved how Alien brought together horror and science fiction. If it didn’t do anything for you, as you admit that you’re not into horror, then fair enough.

Now, I’ll throw in here that I can’t abide Aliens. To me, it betrayed the horror elements of Alien, making it more akin to some dumb action movie with some added schmaltz thrown in. Unlike many, I actually consider Alien3 the better film than Aliens (certainly not Alien), in that it does try to bring back the horror elements and darkness in a different way. Still, I can understand why many deride that film. The Assembly Cut does make amends, and is possibly worth watching if you didn’t care about the theatrical version.

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Is there a shortage of dildos in Texas that they need such laws to stop hoarding?

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Reservoir Dogs
3. Jackie Brown
4. The rest (not that fussed about them to decide their order)

Just finished watching Joker: Folie à Deux.

Admittedly it was something different, but it didn’t really grab me like the first one. Being a musical and a promotion video for Lady Gaga did raise my cynicism level somewhat. Not terrible, had its moments, but a missed opportunity.

I suppose the joke’s on me…

Waldo Jeffers tried that with unexpected consequences.

Maybe dribbled the wrong way. Baby spit can be a projectile…

That’s what the constant cry wolf has lead to. The absurd has become real.

Should have made a detour to Pratt’s Bottom.

This thread could well have been written by an infinite amount of monkeys, too.

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Thankfully the BBC aired the MASH episodes that were without the laughter track when I was watching it years (decades) ago. However, I’ve seen it more recently on one of the minor UK Freeview channels, and that came with laughter added… which eventually grates.

The whole of The Ramones catalogue. Basically just one song split into parts.

You can have mouse support with nano. Alt-m toggles it on or off.

Depends on what wave of skinheads you’re talking about. Skinheads emerged in the UK in working class urban communities in the late sixties. They were influenced by the early sixties mod scene, the Jamaican rude boy scene, a strong identity towards their working class roots that alienated them against the government and the then middle class hippie lifestyle. As they were in working class areas in urban Britain, they were also rubbing shoulders with working class black people who brought with them their West Indian music and dress style. Ska Music and reggae were big influences on the tastes of first wave skinheads. In this way, it’s ironic that the second wave of skinheads in the late seventies and beyond got involved with fascist politics, considering its working class multicultural roots.

I’m not sure you can say that skinheads were an offshoot of punk, at least not the first wave of skinheads, as skinheads predate punk by nearly a decade. As I mentioned above, the first skinheads were interested in ska, reggae and other music from West Indian roots. They were more an offshoot of the early sixties mods, with added interest in black working class styles and music.

The second wave came around when punk was in the ascendency in the late seventies, and that is where Oi music is based on. But Oi and the second wave’s interest in fascism is certainly not what skinheads were originally about. The birth of Oi was convenient in a way for the likes of the fascist National Front in the UK, who were heavily recruiting amongst the skinheads in the late seventies, as it pulled skinheads away from that “problematic” (for the fascists) black music. I mean, there’d be a conflict of interest if you’re heavily influenced by black music and styles and yet want to “send the foreigners back where they came from”. In many ways Oi was a betrayal of the skinhead scene.

Mandrake 8.2

I have fond memories of it, as it weaned me off Windows.

Edit: Actually, Knoppix was my first foray into Linux, but Mandrake was the first Linux distro that I actually installed.