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 This Week:
 * SIMULATE A WETHERSPOONS PUB WITHOUT VISITING
 * HOW TO GET PAST PAYWALLS (THIS WEEK)
 * GAME - CHILL OUT STACKING ROCKS
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 B3ta e-e-e-email 794 - 8th Nov 2021
 Invent time travel and read this issue to Hitler:
 http://b3ta.com/newsletter/issue794
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 : WHAT B3TA PEOPLE HAVE MADE THIS WEEK
   Other than making love to Wogan fleshlights
   * MOVING POSTCARDS - Drivelsieve writes, "I
   made these postcards move", and "I live on the
   Isle of Wight" he continues. So that's more
   Gilliamesque mini lols.
 https://b3ta.com/links/I_made_these_postcards_move...
   * GARTH MARENGHI FAN ART - Mrmenfolk writes,
   "My friend made a concrete Darkplace hospital
   and asked me to do a promo. I made a reboot
   set in the 00s." This has some charm.
 https://b3ta.com/links/Garth_Marenghi_reboot
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 : HEBTRO SPONSORSHIP
   B3ta sponsors ask you to buy stuff for Xmas
   We contacted Hebtro to ask what they wanted in
   their promo this week and they mentioned that
   they've got some new jumpers out, "Made in
   Nottingham, from wool from Yorkshire." Then
   they asked us to point out that they make
   stuff here but aren’t flag shaggers.
   We then went on to have a conversation about
   discount codes and we suggested they do one
   called IAMATORY that doubles the price and
   they instead told us about their actual
   discount code page and offered up this:
 https://hebtro.co/2021/10/29/discount-codes/
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 : FESSHOLE
   Your confessions fessed up for internet likes
   Each week we ask you to vomit into a Google
   form and we pick out a few we like to see if
   anyone will share them on Twitter:
   * ROBOT DANCING - "As a small child in the 80s
   I received praise for my ability to move like
   a robot, I displayed my skills at every
   opportunity and I remembered how proud I felt
   many years after. It wasn't until I had kids
   that I realised adults were just humouring me,
   wankers."
   * CHARMING - "My wife is a terrible dancer.
   She gallops around and does a weird rock the
   baby thing. I love her endlessly and would
   never tell her or anyone else I feel this way,
   but I just had to say it once not in my head."
   * ROOKIE ERROR - "I made the mistake, five
   years ago, of telling my wife I found ironing
   relaxing when I was stressed. Now it's 'my
   thing' and she leaves it for me to do no
   matter how much I complain. I got a fucking
   iron for my birthday last year."
   So join the 196k people who say stuff like
   "Listen right it goes into the oven at 180C,
   don't give a fuck what your instructions say."
 https://twitter.com/fesshole
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 : SITES IN BRIEF
   Content made by people who don't talk to us
   * TAKING THE PISS OUT OF NFTS - Love them or
   hate them, everyone must admit that there's a
   shedload of crap being peddled as NFTs.  This
   Tumblr blog saves you time searching for jpg
   masterpieces by collecting only those which
   are *very good*.
 https://verygoodnfts.com
   * WETHERSPOONS PUB SIMULATOR - Long
   location-based ambient soundtracks have been a
   thing for a while now on YouTube, and Foxdog
   Studios have joined in by recording 1 hour of
   a Manchester Wetherspoons at 11am on a
   weekday, should you find a background hum of
   Mancunians dropping the f-bomb comforting.
 https://youtube.com/watch
   * GET PAST PAYWALLS - neat site to help you
   hop over newspaper paywalls which works by
   digging out the Google cached version that
   publications show to robot crawlers to try and
   get stuff ranked higher.
 https://12ft.io/
   * IT'S FULL OF LIES - Incredible thread
   exploring how a musical toy works, and it
   works in the shittiest way possible. Do read
   to the end.
 https://twitter.com/Foone/status/14542305859336314...
   * REMEMBER THIS? With Owen Paterson in the
   news, this old UsVsth3m game is sort of
   topical again, as is Super Tory Boy which you
   can find on Matt Round's website seeing as the
   Mirror binned the lot.
 https://tomscott.com/usvsth3m/owen-patersons-badge...
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 : FRIDAY GAME(S)
   Let's stack rocks
   Nice relaxing coastal game of stacking rocks.
   Seaside games could make for a nice series,
   also featuring rock-skimming, drawing in the
   sand with a stick, and changing out of your
   trunks under a towel without having a
   traumatic accident.
 https://neal.fun/rocks/
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 What's really thick and lives on a globe? A flat
 Earther.
 Thank you "Graham Coxon out of Blur" but
 probably not that one.
 https://b3ta.com/questions/imsorryivewrittenajoke/
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 : BEST IMAGES THIS WEEK
   From the place that we call /board
   * Ian Corrigible brings us a horror take on
   Horace Goes Skiing.
 https://b3ta.com/board/11354638
 
   * Electricgoose manages to connect up Linda
   McCartney to Zuckerbeg:
 https://b3ta.com/board/11354690
   * And it's goodnight from him and goodnight
   from memes with Octo:
 https://b3ta.com/board/11354871
   Slightly confusingly we've got two challenges
   on as it's always a good idea to split the
   photoshopping public in two. First there's the
   Metaverse challenge:
 https://b3ta.com/challenge/meta/popular
   And also there's the Halloween challenge:
 https://b3ta.com/challenge/horrorgames/popular
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 : PATREON THANKS
   We love all these people. Almost romantically.
   *HEBTROCO* *JAMES O'BRIEN* *KATE* *MARK
   MCCREADIE* *MR PHIL DONNELLY* *SHOWRAT* *SIMON
   JAMES* *STOOBERT*
   24-7 DEATH, ALAN CHARLTON, ALISTAIR, BRIAN
   EELES, CHRIS BLAKENEY, CHRIS CARLINE, CHRIS
   LOCKE, CRISS MORENO, IAN SHEEN, JAIMIE
   VANDENBERGH, MARK ADAMSON, RICHARD BARCLAY,
   SPAZZCAPTAIN, WENDY GOODE, NAT KING COLESLAW,
   ALBERT MARSHMALLOW, DANIEL MUDFORD, CARL DENCH
   Ed Zitron, Eugenie vT, Tom Dolan, Tom Wright,
   lee burnett, Richard Matthias, @mattdawhit,
   Adam Atack, Adam Cooney, Adam Lloyd, Adrian
   Woodfield, Al Davidson, Albion Gray, Andy
   Storrar, Andy Tillett, Andy Webber, Anna,
   Anne-Marie Scott, Ben Watson, Bertram Wooster,
   blossomshed, Carl Morgan, Catherine
   McAllister, Chris Evans, Chris Shaw, Craig
   Tonks, Damien Smith, Dan Stott, Daniel Brown,
   Dave Nattriss, Dave Tickle, David Ault, David
   Catley, David Gardiner, David King, David
   Mills, Derek Law, Dominic Haigh, Emma Lay,
   Eric von Borstel, Faith H. Martin, Fiona
   James, Fraser Lewry, Gaynor Clarkson, Gia
   Milinovich, Greg Neilson, Gus Nicol, Iain,
   Iain Brassington, Iain Fuller, Iain Ruxton,
   Ian Beveridge, Ivan Kelly, James Donnelly,
   James Kerry-Barnard, Jane Baker, Jason
   Stewart, Jerry Quartley, Jim Dabell, Jim
   Frayling, Jim MacArthur, Jim Woodward, Joe
   McNally, Joe Simmonds, John Faragher, John
   Foster, John Hammersley, John Matthews, Jude
   Evans, Jm McNven, Kate Devlin, Kev Adams,
   Konrad Petrusewicz, Martin Beer, Martin
   Holloway, Martin Peache, matsimpsk, Matt
   Buchanan, Matt Drewry, Matthew Collinge,
   Matthew Forman, Matthew Morris, Matthew
   Wilkes, midnightrambler, mil jamieson, Neil de
   Carteret, Nick Ross, OBiW4N SHiNOBi, oliver
   bewes, Paul Cherry, Paul Smith, Paul
   Westerman, Peter Ashtray, Peter Coombe, peter
   wouda, Philip Kinchington, pookong, Rich Pope,
   Richard Beckett, Rob Mahon, Rob Vincent,
   Robbie Lesiuk, Ross Carter, RossOverThere,
   Saleem Ahmad, Scott S. Kramer, sean casely,
   Simon Cowan, Simon Holmes, Simon McDougall,
   Simon waterfall, Stephen Waller, Steve
   Anglesey, Steven Smith, Stuart Ashen, Tim
   Jokl, Tim Mouncer, Tim Weaver, Tom Crick, Tom
   Rees-Williams, Tom Ryan, TownsendsPublisher,
   Wil Hadden, Will Goulden, AuntieSash
   Hazlewood, Byron Geoffrey Farrow, Chef Twat,
   Chris Gough, Chris Whitworth, Craig Turner,
   Daniel Chote, Fergus McKay, fourstar, Geoff
   Tidey, Geoffrey Balme, Graham Licence, James
   Macinnes, John Higgs, Jonty Wareing, Mick
   Curtis, Rhys Wynne, Rob Affleck, Chris
   Saunders, George Preston, James O'Malley,
   Martin Davies, Mike Middleton, Bex Cook,
   Hannah Chubb, Ben Ward, James Pearson, Shane
   McHugh, Stevey Garland, Ciarn R, Craig
   Liddell, Helen Gaskell, Christopher Orr, Will
   Moody, Nick Morgan, Ben Brice, David Green,
   Justin Brett, Louise Allen, Robin, Gavin
   Tommey, Stuart Richards, Tobie Fysh, Pete,
   Carl Mesner Lyons, Chris Johnson, Emma Sykes,
   Jan Spielhoff, Mike Congreve, Sean Flanagan,
   Tom Freke, Sam Anderson, Jess Baker, Adam
   Beardwood, David Stark, Julie Brumlik,
   Alastair Dodd, Alexandre Strube, Andrew
   Robinson, Andy Candler, Connor Parslow, Craig
   Naples, Daniel Moeller, Duncan STrickland,
   Harry, Irene Semanchuk, Joseph Mulvaney,
   Michael Kitt, Nicky Hewgill, Paul Topping,
   peter royal, Richard Speed, Sentient Meatbag,
   Tim Beachy, Dominic Le Garsmeur, Mark Benson,
   Danny Kodicek, Deny Coughlan, Nick Kent, Russ
   Anderson, Adam Kaczmarek, Andrea Vail, Andy
   Shirling, Ben Chapman, ben cowell-thomas, Ben
   Groom, Ben Sugden, Cat Conner, Centuries of
   Sound, Claire Allen, Claire Zolkwer, Darren
   John Harris, Dave The Hammer Parry, David
   Bond, David Ellinor, Daz Wright, Emily Payne,
   Emma Nicol, FuzzyFreaks, Gary Sharp, Gwyn
   Fisher, Hugh Noble, Iain M Barker, Ilya
   olak-Anti, Jennifer Moquin, Jim Lucking, John
   M, Jon Bounds, Lee Ball, Louis E, Lyra Jay,
   Marc Lindberg, mark madgwick, Matt Carr,
   Michael Bryan, Mr Flibble, Neil Ives, Nick,
   Nigel Ford, Oli, Paul Bayfield, Paul Slade,
   Peter Wood, Phil Barns, Rachel Tougas, Richard
   Abraham, Richard Midwinter, Robert Purkis,
   Robert Simpson, Rohan, Sam Brown, Seirian
   Hanner, Sham Courtney, Simon Lumb, Stephen
   McAuley, Stewart C. Russell, Stphane,
   Swedemason, Ted Bowyer, Thepfy, Tim Polglase,
   Tom Clark, Tony East, wigglywigglyworm, Adam
   Tickner, Al Napp, Andrew Harris, Bobod, Chris
   Ward, Jace Otting, James Meers, John
   Griffiths, Paul Mancini, Rob Potter, Tanya
   Kant, Victoria Wood, Graham Freeman, Caroline
   Kahn, Matt.
   EDITORIAL THANKS: Monkeon & Matt Round
   additional links; HappyToast for image
   challenge help; and Dr Dunno for extra
   support. Proofing by Kat E. Thanks Kat.
   And thank you to newish Patreons Ben Rout, Tim
   Clarke, Simon Balch, Clemence Saussez, Derek
   Colley. Martin Pritchard, Stephanie Wissinger,
   Dion Ashton and Paul Blanchard. Thanks to EVEN
   NEWER ONES: Fadgebadger, Mark (Mavis), Joshua
   Rackstraw, Mike Stringer, Eliot Beer, Harri
   Bionic, Chris Lindley, Stuart B, Jon Morris
   Smith, Daniel Malbon, James Heaver and Phil
   Lovell. And further thanks to newer ones: Ben
   Oliver, James Wise, Claire Turner, Omnipiss,
   Lindsay Mclaughlin, Mellyfish, Simon Edwards,
   Dave Wong & Stafford Lawrence. NEWEST -
   special love to NEW PATREON Phillip Spowart.
   NEW NEWSEST - extra love love love to si
   Jobling & Daniel Calvin. And bonus new love to
   Douglas Pennant, Roy Santos & Will Thompson.
   We love you. OH GOD, and more bonus love to
   Alex Collin-Oakley, Phil McGuire & Paul
   Blanchard - you sexy people. And Mike Powell
   and Damion Brown and Ross Carter and PJ. Love
   you.
  And a special thank you to the super generous
  Paul Topping.
  And do please donate as you get occasional
  "bonus" content. Maybe.
 https://www.patreon.com/b3ta
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 : TOP TIP
   Make work meetings more fun for yourself by
   taking notes on an etch-a-sketch (Monkey the
   Chicken)
 https://b3ta.com/questions/toptips

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