we love the web email us go to messageboard newsletter archive home NEWSLETTER: "B3TA ANNOUNCES 100% TARIFFS ON U.S. MEMES SO YOU START SHARING 'BADGER BADGER BADGER' AGAIN" next issue » « previous issue * CHALLENGE - De 'Americanise' US movies * CADBURYS - Actual Dairy Milk scandal * PUBLIC TRANSPORT - where is the busiest bus? ------------------------------------------------- ________ ____ __ ___ ____/ _)|_ // /_/ _ | "We're saving the web ___/ _ |/_ > This week: De-Americanise Movies << Donald Trump is coming for the movie industry with his massive tariffs. Show how studios can dodge paying them by remaking Hollywood movies outside of America. Suggested by ChrisTheBarker. http://b3ta.com/challenge/deamericanisemovies/popu... ------------------------------------------------- : FOLLOW UPS ON PREVIOUS STORIES Yes, it's 'what happened next' * CHRIS SHAW OF EGG POD BECOMES BEATLES PROFESSOR OR SOMETHING - he writes, "Thrilled to announce that I've been selected to sit on the Editorial Board for The Journal of Beatles Studies, published by Liverpool University Press." I am the eggprof indeed. https://iamtheeggpod.com/2025/05/06/the-journal-of... * LIGHTS, CAMERA, AMSTRAD ACTION! - Sean McManus writes, "I share your love of Amstrads! You might be interested in my free 90-page ebook of articles about and listings for the Amstrad (with one Spectrum article in there too)." We gave this a quick read and were surprised to realise that Sean wrote Gigo, an Amstrad type-in we typed in in the 1980s and for some reason looms large in our memory. He also says, "Thanks for reading my message and for the newsletter which I always look forward to receiving." So the love is mutual! https://www.sean.co.uk/books/retro-compendium/inde... ------------------------------------------------- : STAR IN NEXT WEEK'S ISSUE Some ideas to kick you off your own wifi * VAPE OR PROFESSIONAL KAZOO - maybe not the most exciting quiz ever, it's not dog toy or sex toy, but it is remarkable how similar they look according to 15 seconds checking on Amazon. * GRAND THEFT AUTO, TRAINSPOTTING EDITION - noticing that Rockstar Games is based in Edinburgh we wonder what the game would be like if we didn"t live under US cultural hegemony. We want to chase old bangers around Edinburgh, doing smack deals, all sponsored by Dragon Soop. * "ARE YOU STREAMING FACISM? INSTALL BITTORRENT TODAY" - a campaign to get the whole world to pirate streamers again given that Trump wants to put tariffs on non-US media. 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