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What's your local branch of Rumpkins like?
Don't you just love these old shops? Cash only and years of invoice books stacked on the counter. Their till is easily from the 60s at the latest. Bite your fingers style as per Open All Hours. And check out the assault course the old boy there has to clamber over to get out.
Everyone has a Rumpkins near them. We had three actually, one just sold turf, one was a picture framers with authentic 1980s birthday cards still for sale. But this is the last one I know of near me.
u/BarryTownCouncil — 1 day ago
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u/Curious_Psychonaut — 6 days ago
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This is a weird post that will very likely not reach this person or anyone who can explain this but my partner and I figured it was worth a try.
My partner & I visited the national gallery last year and really took our time walking through the gallery, and there was another gentleman there taking his time as well and in front of each painting, he would like thrust his arms forward and then towards his head as if he was absorbing the painting. He was doing some sort of very intentional dance(?) in front of every painting, it looked as if he was trying to like absorb the painting and its power, LOL — all this to say, our biggest regret is not asking him what he was doing. And we decided to post this here in the small chance it reaches this person, we are constantly joking about what they could have been doing/attempting to do and the curiosity is killing us!!
So, if you were this person performing some sort of dance/spell/etc on the paintings at the gallery, what were you doing??
u/DEFarnes — 7 days ago
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I created a Spotify playlist for the Patreon episode "The Steve Forbert Sessions"
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0FN2fSImUh4mIn3HVy34Ei?si=8tJsSc1ETheCHLn23W1sNQ
Just the Beans' choices plus the one from Sam they decided to include, not the listeners' ones that were voted for.
(And I included The Chicks' cover of Landslide even though Henry voted it down, seemingly just because he felt like not everything should get through. Sue me.)
u/dnnsshly — 4 hours ago
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Wind of Change
Anyone else dive straight into the Wind of Change podcast? It's really good.
u/Spicy_Jim — 19 hours ago
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Hardest Listen?
I am now on my second listen of the latest "And then sparrows took their eyes",and the mix of Grimm fairytales and the beans is deadly. The level of concentration needed to understand what is going on in the conversation is immense,but I might be in a period of brain rot...What is the episode you must concentrate on the most to understand the flights of fancy?
Edit: Thanks for all the replies!Seems like there is some debate, but that it is very individual. Maybe the Welsh story by Ben was the hardest to follow.I just want to say that the fact that I have to constantly rewind is something that I really enjoy, it makes repeat listens so much more fun! I hope they do not change anything!
u/Vegmerker — 5 days ago
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Pompidou'd! at the Polling Station
Was wearing my classic green beans shirt to the poling station today to vote, and for the first time ever, I experienced an actual authentic pompidou in real life. At the fucking polling station. This is why democracy matters
u/WinterIsOnReddit — 7 days ago
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Today's countdown teatime teaser
Clue: a fruit asking a fish to be quiet
u/tweeniehalpern — 3 days ago
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Went to a secondhand book sale. Thought you'd like these Ludlum boxes.
u/PM_ME_COOKIERECIPES — 6 days ago
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Recently got back from performing at a music festival in China. All of the engineers and techs seemed fairly bewildered by the Beans sticker on my guitar case and were all reverse image searching it 😅.
I'd take credit for a spike in listenership, but they'd all have to VPN 😄.
Still yet to do a theme tune submission ... But thrilled that there was recently a post rock submission (definitely our world); if the contributor is on here, it was a dang fine effort.
u/alexcoates13 — 9 days ago
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3BS Miis in Tomodachi Life
I put Ben, Mike and Henry on my Tomodachi Life island. Here is a clip of them doing important business.
u/Upbeat_Word_3403 — 5 days ago
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Jingle Order Amnesia
I'm doing another Beans relisten (in reverse order, which I would strongly advocate for) and it's absolutely blown my mind that the switcheroo jingle was created before the email jingle.
I would have bet my house on it being the other way round, by several seasons.
u/Spicy_Jim — 5 days ago
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Am I losing my mind…(Ben’s music)
… I should start by saying I listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts and either via phone speaker or airpods…
Within the recent weeks has anyone noticed that the jingles / intros etc. have all ever so slightly changed?! I work in music and have a good ear for these kinds of things but it swear there’s been some changes to the audio, like they’ve been re-recorded?!
It’s especially relevant in the Patreon jingle which I swear has both different bed music and vocals..
u/SpicySalamiNips — 6 days ago
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Mike was a guest on Pappy's Flatshare Slamdown this month.
youtube.comu/AmateurLobster — 8 days ago
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Can't remember the name of an early episode
Hey Beanlings,
I am trying to remember a specific episode where Henry tells a story about his cat. I believe it was in the warm-up bit of the show before they turn on the Bean Machine. In the story his cat was either trying to catch a spider and failed, or it caught the spider and then ate it. It was in one of the early series, likely 1-4.
What I remember distinctly was the way he said "A SPIDER..." and then BP added a sound effect to give it more depth. If you can remember which episode this was, please let me know! And if you have the timestamp that would be extra helpful.
Thanks!
UPDATE: It was in S2 E10 "Titanic" at the very beginning. Thanks to those who commented.
u/Matthew371_ — 4 days ago
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https://youtu.be/K4JhImykpME?si=ovQdi4Uo7gXvFJGE
This video explores carcinization, an evolutionary phenomenon where unrelated crustaceans independently evolve into a crab-like body plan (0:00–0:34). While biology is often viewed as a random or purely contingent process, the repeated emergence of the crab form suggests that the universe has “preferences” written into the laws of physics and nature.
Key Concepts:
• Carcinization: The process where animals like hermit crabs, porcelain crabs, hairy stone crabs, sponge crabs, and true crabs have all independently arrived at the same body plan, a wide, flat carapace, a tucked abdomen, and lateral locomotion (0:49–1:27, 6:03–6:47).
• Decarcinization: The inverse process, where organisms that once evolved into the crab form eventually abandoned it, demonstrating that the crab shape is not a permanent endpoint but a flexible “attractor” in evolutionary space (1:29–1:49, 23:47–24:48).
• Evolutionary Attractors: The video argues that evolution isn’t navigating an infinite landscape; instead, physical constraints (such as fluid dynamics, environmental pressures, and developmental biology) funnel life toward specific, stable configurations. The crab body is one such attractor (48:40–49:59).
Scientific Context:
• The Fossil Record: Notable discoveries like Cretapsara athanata (an intact crab preserved in amber) show that these body plans were already established over 100 million years ago, much earlier than previously thought (30:46–33:13).
• Convergent Evolution: The phenomenon is compared to other examples of convergence, such as the camera eye in humans and octopuses or the streamlined shape of sharks and dolphins, all of which solve the same physical problems with the same mechanical solutions (5:52–6:03, 38:58–44:22).
Philosophical Takeaway:
• The crab is presented not just as an animal, but as evidence of the structure of biological possibility. The fact that nature keeps arriving at the same solution suggests that life is exploring a landscape with fixed topography, making certain evolutionary outcomes predictable rather than purely accidental (56:06–1:02:08).
u/Kindly_Ad_1599 — 8 days ago