It's inflation.

Not sure about oversized, you need it to fit properly so get the correct size for you.

They come in three sizes, small, medium and liar.

Song of a Dead Pest - Cardiacs cover. YouTube video by ken binden

Dogstand come high in the #Cardiacs covers chart for me.
They bring a bit of their own interpretation and the instrumentation works beautifully.
A great version of a great song.
#Dogstand
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Will it be recorded? I booked and then realised that I double booked myself.

Sooty and Sweep Make a BIG Mess! 😅 | The Sooty Show YouTube video by The Sooty Show

Sounds like Sweep singing along youtu.be/l3rbnHMuLLE?...

I bet it will be something from Star Wars or Dune.
F'king religious illiterates.

Anything I Can't Eat - Cardiacs - Karaoke YouTube video by Shedposting

It's Sunday so celebrate with a bit of #karaoke.
@vennart666.bsky.social of reckoned it took a week to learn to sing this beast of a song, see if you can match that!
#Cardiacs
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Utterly glorious!
Great to hear it with a decent mix because Kavus was way too quiet from where I was that night.
Damn, what a song!

Jim plugs his bass in for 10 minutes YouTube video by ChasingTheBumblebee

Happy birthday to Jim Smith out of #Cardiacs.
There's Entwistle, Pastorius, Cliff Burton but nobody who can execute a bass solo like this bad-ass.
Watch and be awed:
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Goodbye Grace (Cardiacs cover) YouTube video by Warnebring Vilddjursdotter

One strength of #Cardiacs songs is that they readily translate into other genres.

It really isn't easy to do this sort of thing; Warnebring earns high laudation.

I might be tempted to post one every week so that the genius of #TimSmith gets more reach.

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But we also replaced one Khamenei with another; empowered the IRGC; did nothing for the protesters, killed over a thousand civilians, including hundreds of children and lost at least 13 US service members, alongside over 500 wounded); left Iran with enough highly enriched uranium to make 10-12 nuclear weapons; gave it greater incentive to try to build them; irreparably tarnished America's reputation; did lasting damage to the US and world economies; depleted our arsenal of scarce missile-defence interceptors; diverted valuable military assets from other regions; empowered Russia with an oil price windfall; triggered further conflict in Lebanon; further eroded domestic and international law; and may have left Iran in control of the most valuable waterway in the world, in a position to earn tens of billions of dollars in revenue per year through tolls, while holding the world economy hostage.

So @jderbyshire.ft.com asked @philgordondc.bsky.social if the Iran war is the US’s Suez moment. He said no, but then pithily and pitilessly sums up how it has been a comprehensive strategic failure. Oof!
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President Trump, "We win. Regardless what happens, we win"

"We've totally defeated Iran, so let's see what happens"

"Maybe they make a deal, maybe they don't"

"Doesn't matter"

"From the standpoint of America, we win"

Pete Hegseth’s holy war: the militant Christian theology animating the US attack on Iran The Bible-thumping US defense secretary is overseeing another strategic disaster in the Middle East. Is this a war or a crusade?

Those who believe absurdities commit atrocities.
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Possibly, although I'd argue that they just cherry pick from inherently unreliable texts and reinterpret them to suit their purposes.
Like the bollox talked about the story of Adam and Eve being about 'stewardship'.

There are songs and then there are #Cardiacs songs...

Anatomy of songs charts different genres. Most are very simple then Cardiacs songs are full of lots of different bits

Theology, if it even is a discipline, maybe?

I know people don't like to think of bad things happening, but anyone could become chronically ill or disabled at any time, through no fault of their own, no matter how healthy they are

It shouldn't only be disabled people having to fight the government all the time, it's up to all of us

A view of railings on a hilltop with the words 'All the world is my parish' in ironwork on the floor in front.

OK #TeamRE where am I today?

1/5 Loud Anecdotes have replaced the Quiet Revival.

In When Prophecy Fails (1956), Leon Festinger coined the term ‘Cognitive dissonance reduction’ - to describe the way UFO cult members simply reinterpreted a failed prophecy about aliens in order to keep believing.

Cardiacs Interview: “Where Tim Is, He’s Up Front” | Kıyı Müzik Photo Credit: Ashey Jones Call it progressive punk -though they hate that label-, call it psychedelic pop, or just plain rock… Either way, Cardiacs remain one of the most unique, most precious…

Lovely interview with HIM out of Cardiacs.
#Cardiacs
#JimJimJimJimJimJimJimJimJimJimJimJimJimJim etc...

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I used to teach RE in KS2.
What the children were being asked to do was fine. The stages of salah carry meaning and going through them helps with understanding.

I'm more concerned about the Collective Worship laws that allow the 1/3 of schools that are CofE branded to coerce kids to pray each day.

Same at that point, Portsmouth was very emotional when @vennart666.bsky.social hugged Tim's picture.

I was prepped for it at Manchester but still soaked numerous tissues with my eye juice 😭❤️

My mum didn't say anything.

She got the local Catholic priest in to exorcise the house.

I shied away from the holy water just to help her feel like it actually did something.

Glitter bomb them!

Kavus put everything he had into that solo.
It's such an emotionally charged album, far more personal than anything else in the catalogue.

Not nearly as much as some!

I think ppl are saying this was the best sound of the tour.
Kavus was too quiet at Manchester and the venue had varied sound.
I was right in front of him at Portsmouth so I have a great clip of his Fiery Gun Hand solo! Got to hear a lot of great guitar bits that are normally missed.

Maybe, I referred them to #AttitudeIsEverything because they can liaise with the venue to help them improve their access and enjoyment for all.

Probably get enough ppl that can stand up all night. Particularly since the awful news about Ginger 😭
It's more about the discrimination tbh.
Being effectively barred from gigs is poor.

You'd think so, there was still an incident during WWW when one person upstairs kept standing and blocking the view of others, it wasn't pleasant.
A very unwanted distraction to one of the very best songs. Ever.