This is practically a crime. I’m in the pub and all I want now is a sausage roll!

How to start an argument on the internet…

Any ship can be a minesweeper.

Once.

Pet Shop Boys - Give stupidity a chance (lyric video) YouTube video by Pet Shop Boys

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Feels like this needs a new outing about now

I remember being told of Winston Churchill saying to an aide (when beavering away with a glass of brandy in his office) that he’d be ready to continue work soon, once he’d finished writing his off the cuff speech for the afternoon.

I used to go to a physio who was also a member of a Premier League team’s physio staff. She was awesome, and sorted my ankle and calf issues right out. She did tell me some of the facilities and resources they had in her “other” job, proper sci-fi level technology.

Just keep still while I pull the ripcord on this chainsaw again!

BBC Radio 4 - Speed, Greed and the M25 James May uncovers the secret history of the M25 Road Race.

This happened (unofficially) back in the ‘80s, and James May made a documentary about it for Radio 4

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I used to play a game with a colleague years ago when we’d spend days discussing if we had a time machine good for one return trip, which gig would we go and see. We narrowed it down to CBGB in 1977 for Blondie and Talking Heads, Live Aid, and Glastonbury 1993.
Where else should make the shortlist?

Bravo

I saw them in panto a few years ago. Jimmy/Jeanette did a musical number in sexy lingerie (whilst John Barrowman made dick jokes). I think it was the universe counterbalancing for Epstein.

I am currently on heavy duty painkillers and was lying in bed listening to radio 4.
I’d assumed I was in some sort of aural hallucinogenic state. Thank you for confirming that it was, in fact, true.
Now to confirm if Goth Wrestling from Whitby is a thing as well, or if that was the drugs talking.

“It looks like you’re trying to run a government department. Would you like some help with that?”

Just had a conversation with my mother when she complained about old people like her not seeing their family over Christmas.
Whilst I was having a cup of tea with her when visiting.

Apparently you like massive thruppeny bits

Got it on tape Christmas morning 1986, and I’ve been playing it on and off for the last 40 years. Not on the original tape, clearly, it’d be stretched beyond recognition by now!

In 80s rock music, are there any songs when the woman/women wear any perfume that’s not cheap?

A bounce house sounds like it’s a euphemism for a very, very different sort of entertainment venue.

What a brilliant name for a black cat! The lieutenant of Barad Dur, slayer of small rodents. He’ll find you those pesky hobbits once he’s had a nap and some dreamies.

Back in the 90s my alma mater (University of Sunderland) claimed* that it could trace itself back to Monkwearmouth and Jarrow abbey. So I reckon Bede would be telling everyone that he remembers when the Big Tescos was Roker Park and the Stadium of Light was the colliery
*tongue in cheek**
**I think

My belief is that streaming devalued music. When you had to pay for a CD, and they were expensive (well they were when I was in my teens and twenties), the fact you only had a limited amount of music made you appreciate it more. Now there is an unlimited supply, its value has plummeted.

I mean, surely it is Georgians? Not people thinking “it’s the flag of St. George with more flags of St. George on it, so it’s extra English!”

I’ve been surprised to see there is clearly a sizeable local Georgian community, they’ve started hanging their flags from the bridges over the local bypass.

Bernard Butler & McAlmont - Yes Video YouTube video by catcha2007

I completely ignored this when it came out. Now, 20-lots years later, I e become somewhat obsessed by this song. youtu.be/SJSaRw1vjxM?...

There wouldn’t have been a Badly Drawn Boy if his dad had used a rubber.

In my 40 odd years of being left leaning and politically aware, the one constant is that the left far prefers to argue with itself than the right. So good luck with that…

I had an inspiring English teacher (if you’re reading this, Miss Bailey, thanks), who inspired a love of Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet. But from talking to others, it really sounds like she was a real outlier. Sure, teach it in school. But teach it well!

This is what social media is for. Not arguing with strangers. Just random pictures of post boxes. This made me unaccountably happy

There is an upper wallop.
My inner 8 year old hopes there is a bottom wallop.

Well… considering the fact that I’ve done a course annually on how not to be an arse at work since about 2005, I reckon the daily mail will be discovering takeaway coffee, Google and prosecco in the next few years