"Outside the bathroom, hand in hand / You looking like a statue in Hiraizumi – Temples, Gardens and Archaeological Sites Representing the Buddhist Pure Land"

Fun Fact: Versailles was not originally the World Heritage Site that Olivia Rodrigo planned to mention in "drop dead". The first draft of the chorus went "Outside the bar to take a vape / You looking like an engine house in the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape"

Think about how often the average amateur spends breathing. Now imagine if you optimised your lifestyle and cut that in half. Boom, you've reclaimed 12 hours a day for ideating, concept creation, and hardcore thought workshopping

Becoming some kind of LinkedIn sage by saying crap like "If you don't occasionally pass out from oxygen deprivation, you've wasted too much time breathing over the course of your life"

"we are confident the game will achieve success under its new title, Wicked Arcade Novelty Quartet"

Expansion opportunity here to provide a parallel newsletter with identical content but rebadged as LondonSceptic

most left-wing Bexley resident

Let the record state that I too was fooled by the title "drop dead" into thinking it would be another insouciant kiss-off to an ex instead of a sweet little love song. Queen Livvie the bamboozler

Looking out intently for the Bill Clinton bit of the video behind them #TOTP

That Whyte Funkie Boys (or whatever) song was obviously crap but I think it might have tipped over into "endearingly crap" #TOTP

It's no "Viva La Radio" #TOTP

I'm assuming this was the theme tune to Thunderbugs' short-lived promotional CITV series where they all lived in a big house together and had wacky adventures... but also learned valuable life lessons #TOTP

Mavis the train from Thomas the Tank Engine

"She calls my name / Pulls my train" - is this about Mavis? #TOTP

Why would the BBC be telling Gail not to mention Ibiza? "Other Balearic islands are available?" #TOTP

"The Message" also takes a short break from social commentary to proclaim "fellas, don't you hate it when a woman is watching her stories when you're trying to watch the game?" IIRC

crediting charlie with one iota of respect for this but obvs having actually recorded it still puts him massively in the negatives

Broadband communism 😡

(plane spotting at Glasgow airport)
ME: Excuse me, what's that flight's destination?
STAFF MEMBER: Disneyland
ME: What, it just keeps flying round forever?

An extravagant obelisk labelled "FALCO" flanked by a large glass sector of a circle, engraved with a picture of Falco and the titles of a number of his songs

Obligatory reminder of what Falco's gravesite looks like #TOTP

George Michael with "Water Level Music From An N64 Platformer" there #TOTP

Be grateful I never followed through on my hilarious idea to do a version with all the lyrics about Michael Bay films instead #TOTP

I love "E=MC2", spoilery as it may be #TOTP

A little bit of tiling on the roof, a little bit of making waterp— oh #TOTP

"Dolce vita", that famous Spanish phrase #TOTP

Which one's Alice, which one's Dee, and which one's Jay? #TOTP

My partner is doing MC Lars's Moby Dick version of the lyrics over the chorus #TOTP

Tony Hancock reference there, for the kids #TOTP

actualy just statistical error. Spiders Brian Wilson, who swerves to a stop at the kerb because of a song on the radio over 10,000 times each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

It was fine but I think you definitely have to be primed to enjoy just watching video game things happen for 90 minutes, there's no story to speak of and it doesn't conclude so much as end

point for remembering that Wales exists immediately revoked for forgetting that Northern Ireland exists