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So far, we've killed getting on for double the songs in this game than in the 70s game! And we're still 31 kills away from round 2.

Just how long can he get away with repeating that 'working assumption' line about the date of the general election when he is literally the only person in the country with the power to decide EXACTLY when it'll be? What a tosspot.

Sunackered is about to make a pre-election speech in about 10-15 mins time, setting out that we’re at a crossroads and to please “vote for a secure future with the Conservatives” et fucking cetera. Until he actually calls the election, all these shitty interventions of his will be a complete waste of everyone’s time.

The Striesand effect

@ladyfiona... Nancy Kassebaum and John Woodvine are duplicate picks:

13/05/24 48 Edwin Starr — War 28 Lynn Anderson - Rose Garden 28 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Up Around The Bend +4 27 The Four Tops - A Simple Game - corrected score 16 Andy Williams — Can’t Help Falling In Love 15 Ashton, Gardner and Dyke - Resurrection Shuffle 12 Bobby Bloom - Montego Bay -6 @RoverAndOut added 5 to The Four Tops - A Simple Game instead of 4, so I have subtracted a point to correct the score

5/13/2024 51 Edwin Starr — War +4 31 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Up Around The Bend 31 Lynn Anderson - Rose Garden 31 The Four Tops - A Simple Game 10 Andy Williams — Can’t Help Falling In Love 0 Ashton, Gardner and Dyke - Resurrection Shuffle -6

This speech fringe Rishi is sheer utter rubbish. 20 points behind in the opinion polls, clinging to power like a stubborn skid mark on a pair of underpants... I'll make the education system great. Yes mate. You've had 15 years to do that...

Wants to build on the success of the last 14 years. He's laughing at you. He's pissing on your chips (assuming you can afford to buy them). It's all too dangerous out there. We know Sunak, look at knife crime. Look at the reduction in Army numbers. Look at our leaky borders which Rwanda does nothing to fix.

13/5/24 63 Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris — We Found Love 58 Lady Gaga & Beyoncé— Telephone 55 Katy Perry ft. Snoop Dogg — California Gurls 52 Adele — Someone Like You -6 39 Cee Lo Green — Forget You 37 Yolanda Be Cool Vs D Cup — We No Speak Americano +4 34 Tinie Tempah — Written In The Stars 31 Rihanna — Only Girl (In The World) 31 Owl City — Fireflies 31 Tinie Tempah — Pass Out 30 Jessie J ft. B.O.B — Price Tag 30 Professor Green ft. Emeli Sande — Read All About It 28 Iyaz — Replay 28 Scouting For Girls — This Ain't A Love Song 28 B.O.B ft. Hayley Williams — Airplanes 25 Olly Murs — Dance With Me Tonight 25 B.O.B ft. Bruno Mars — Nothin' On You 24 Bruno Mars — Grenade 24 Example — Changed The Way You Kiss Me 24 Taio Cruz — Dynamite 23 Olly Murs ft. Rizzle Kicks — Heart Skips A Beat 23 DJ Fresh ft. Sian Evans — Louder 23 Flo Rida ft. David Guetta — Club Can't Handle Me 22 Roll Deep — Green Light 22 Bruno Mars — Just The Way You Are 21 Nero — Promises 20 Roll Deep — Good Times 20 Alexandra Burke ft. Laza Morgan — Start Without You 20 Example — Stay Awake 19 David Guetta ft. Chris Willis — Gettin' Over You 19 Little Mix — Cannonball 17 The Wanted — Glad You Came 16 Nicole Scherzinger — Don't Hold Your Breath 16 Pixie Lott — All About Tonight 15 Kesha — We R Who We R 14 Jason Derulo — Don't Wanna Go Home 13 Usher ft. Will.I.Am — OMG

Birubala Rabha dead at 70.

13/May/2024 53 Edwin Starr — War +4 32 The Four Tops — A Simple Game 29 Lynn Anderson — Rose Garden 29 Creedence Clearwater Revival — Up Around The Bend 14 Andy Williams — Can’t Help Falling In Love -2 09 Ashton, Gardner and Dyke — Resurrection Shuffle 00 Bobby Bloom — Montego Bay -4

Mark Damon takes @Grim Up North to two out of three hits here: https://www.screendaily.com/news/mark-damon-film-sales-pioneer-and-former-spaghetti-western-star-dies-on-eve-of-cannes-aged-91/5193304.article

Mark Damon QO: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/mark-damon-dies-monster-film-034217997.html

Johan van Oldenbarnevelt died on this day 405 years ago, aged 71. - Van Oldenbarnevelt would enter Dutch politics in the 1570s, and would become the Lands' Advocate of Holland in 1586 (effectively a high-ranking diplomatic position). Among the diplomatic trips he took during his time as Lands' Advocate included meeting Henry IV of France, and both Elizabeth I and James I/VI of England. - In 1602, Van Oldenbarnevelt became the leading founder of the Dutch East India Company, a monopoly over Holland's spice trade in Indonesia (specifically nutmeg and cloves). - A major highlight of Van Oldenbarnevelt's career was his meeting with Philip III of Spain in 1609, which led to a 12-year truce in the Eighty Years' War. - Van Oldenbarnevelt was a supporter of religious tolerance, and therefore supported the emerging Remonstrant movement in the 1610s. Riots between the Remonstrants and their opponents (the Gomarists), and Van Oldenbarnevelt would be deemed a political enemy for his support of the Remonstants. - Van Oldenbarnevelt would be arrested for "treason" in 1618, and was deemed guilty in what historians deem an unfair trial. He would be beheaded two days after the verdict, and his last words- to the executioner- were "make it short": Following this, his sons Willem and Reinier would lead a conspiracy to assassinate prince Maurice of Orange in 1623- they were found out. Reinier was captured and executed, while Willem would escape to Spanish-controlled Brussels with his family. - I've mentioned this before- Van Oldenbarnevelt is a distant ancestor of mine:

Most recent to die - Mark Damon: https://www.screendaily.com/news/mark-damon-film-sales-pioneer-and-former-spaghetti-western-star-dies-on-eve-of-cannes-aged-91/5193304.article

Well it didn't take Jennifer Connelly long to accept the Goblin King had stolen her brother in Labyrinth and she didn't have the Doctor to help square the circle for her!

Not so much a rigged vote as a statement vote. If everybody had accepted the fact that Israel were competing, sucked it up and got on with it without the insults and trolling, I am fairly confident her average song would’ve ended up middle of the leaderboard. But people wanted to make it political, and there we can see the result.

Rob Dray out at relegated Taunton in National League South (Southern Premier next year). Bit harsh, they've had financial problems compounded by the fact that their pitch regularly floods in bad weather and they got massively behind with their fixtures and had a run at the end catching up. At one stage of the season they also had a ground sharing arrangement with Truro (also in NLS) so their pitch got a double pummelling at times.

I've costed myself a fair few quid in the past when doing shopping under the influence that you don't remember the next day. Highlights are a pre-lit artificial 8ft christmas tree, and an 88-key hammer action piano-keyboard I don't know how to play. But Elton John knocks it straight out of the park with this: He took delivery of it, too!

This is so funny. I wanted to keep watching.

Certainly puts a new spin on "tummy tuck", I must say.

German recruitment poster. Now that’s what I call a Happy Meal!