RoverAndOut
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7/6/24
22 Ian Dury and the Blockheads- Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3
22 Gerry Rafferty- Baker Street21 The Rolling Stones- Miss You
21 Earth, Wind & Fire- September
21 Electric Light Orchestra- Don’t Bring Me Down
21 The Jam- The Eton Rifles
20 Johnny Mathis and Deniece Williams- Too Much, Too Little, Too Late +1
20 Michael Jackson- Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough +1
20 Donna Summer and Barbra Streisand- No More Tears (Enough is Enough) +1
20 The Sugarhill Gang- Rapper’s Delight +1
20 Donna Summer- Love’s Unkind
20 Rose Royce- Wishing on a Star
20 James Galway- Annie’s Song
20 Marshall Hain- Dancing in the City
20 A Taste of Honey- Boogie Oogie Oogie
20 David Essex- Oh What a Circus
20 Dean Friedman- Lucky Stars
20 The Cars- My Best Friend’s Girl
20 Bee Gees- Too Much Heaven
20 Racey- Lay Your Love on Me
20 The Three Degrees- Woman in Love
20 Lene Lovich- Lucky Number
20 The Sex Pistols- Something Else/Friggin’ in the Riggin’
20 Boney M.- Hooray! Hooray! It’s a Holi-Holiday
20 The Sex Pistols- C’mon Everybody
20 The Dooleys- Wanted
20 ABBA- Angeleyes/Voulez-Vous
20 The Bellamy Brothers- If I Said You Have a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me
20 Sad Café- Every Day Hurts
20 ABBA- Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
14 Scott Fitzgerald and Yvonne Keeley- If I Had Words14 Frankie Valli- Grease
14 The Barron Knights- A Taste of Aggro -6
Ooh, there's some good ones here.
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@En Passant I entirely agree that flag waving and symbolism should not decide the election. But duty, honour and statesmanship do matter. Diplomacy matters. The President of the United States flew halfway around the world for this. The President of Ukraine left a warzone. Sunak couldn't spare a day? It's about our reputation. Our standing. He represents us. What he does matters. How he conducts himself matters.
And all this just adds to the reasons the lying, graceless little shit needs booting out of office ASAFP.
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4 minutes ago, En Passant said:I do.
I've spent the last couple of days re-watching 'The Nazi's and the final solution' a bbc documentary from 2005 and I still believe we need to move on, even whilst drowning in my own tears. This is now all history, we need to care about those alive right now and ensure these lives weren't given away for nothing. Symbolism isn't it.
You can do both. The whole purpose of history is to learn from the past and not make the same mistakes again (which we are). D-Day was arguably the most significant day of the 20th Century. It was daring and it was dangerous and it paved the way for the defeat of the most dangerous regime in the history of modern Europe (yes, up to now, even more dangerous than Putin). It is commemorated every year, but this year is a significant milestone as it is the 80th anniversary and, probably, the last significant milestone for which there will be veterans alive for (85 is a possibility, but that's not as significant, 90 is unlikely). Reaffirming the commitment to peace and remembering the sacrifice that brought it to Europe is symbolic, but also crucial to us not repeating those mistakes. Sadly some of us need to stop reading revisionist history. For your tomorrow, we gave our today. As the Prime Minister of this country, the 80th anniversary of D-Day should be a solemn occasion where he represents the nation in giving thanks to those who died and honours those who are still with us. Instead, he bailed and did a political interview as he tries to stay in office. This is exactly why Sly Ronnie said having the election around the D-Day commemoration was a bad idea.
We can worry about the world today tomorrow. One day to remember is not an issue. Without them, we wouldn't have tomorrow.
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11 hours ago, Bibliogryphon said:I have never gone for absolute definitive lists for example the Time lists one last time was hell to research as many of the lists were not visible for non-Time subscribers
Like with most games there is a balance between getting a hit (that is reported) or getting a unique - because Uniques here have a special place in the game the wider the category possibly the quicker the game but all three way of winning have been achieved in the five games so far. Buffalo Phil got one in each category which on the face of it looks the easiest way to win
There was one suggested category that got dropped because of lack of definition - Atheist Musicians
I'm currently updating my stats for previous games (I lost some data on a corrupted hard drive, so it's taking a bit of time), but one thing I mentioned in the last thread was that Game 1 was won by Unique Picks, Game 2 by All 5 Categories and Game 3 by Whole Category. Game 4 was won by Unique Picks, so if the pattern continued, Game 5 would be won by All 5 Categories...which it has! Whole Category should be next but that may require a massacre at the Met Gala or something.
What I would say to people throwing ideas out is be careful! You may need to save some ideas for your own game! (Especially if it's a good one
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1 hour ago, Bibliogryphon said:I love the irony that the woman who sang of the dream sapping drudgery of being a wage slave now goes by the title Dowager Princess Reuss, Countess of Plauen
As a child that Heartfelt nature of the first verse struck a chord and I will continue to support this one
I'll be honest, I'm not sure most of her riches come from her title...
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06/06/24
50 John Newman — Love Me Again
44 Gotye ft. Kimbra — Somebody That I Used To Know
40 Carly Rae Jepsen — Call Me Maybe
39 Florence & The Machine — Spectrum
39 Coldplay — Paradise
38 Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams — Get Lucky
38 Lily Allen — Somewhere Only We Know
37 Olly Murs ft. Flo Rida — Troublemaker
37 Lorde — Royals
36 Little Mix — Wings
30 Avicii — Wake Me Up
29 Duke Dumont ft. A*M*E — Need U (100 Percent)
29 David Guetta ft. Sia — Titanium
28 Miley Cyrus — Wrecking Ball
27 Maroon 5 ft. Wiz Khalifa — Payphone
27 Jessie J — Domino
27 Swedish House Mafia ft. John Martin — Don’t You Worry Child
25 Rudimental ft. John Newman — Feel The Love
25 Rihanna — Diamonds
24 Icona Pop ft. Charli XCX — I Love It +4
23 Fun ft. Janelle Monae — We Are Young
22 Avicii Vs. Nicky Romero — I Could Be The One
21 DJ Fresh ft. Rita Ora — Hot Right Now
21 Naughty Boy ft. Sam Smith — La La La
21 Will.I.Am ft. Eva Simons — This Is Love
20 Cover Drive — Twilight
20 Calvin Harris ft. Florence Welch — Sweet Nothing
20 Rudimental ft. Ella Eyre — Waiting All Night
20 Ellie Goulding — Burn
20 Storm Queen — Look Right Through
20 Calvin Harris ft. Alesso & Hurts — Under Control
20 OneRepublic — Counting Stars
19 Katy Perry — Part Of Me
18 Ne-Yo — Let Me Love You
16 Labrinth ft. Emeli Sande — Beneath Your Beautiful
14 The Saturdays ft. Sean Paul — What About Us -6
08 Macklemore ft. Ryan Lewis & Wanz — Thrift Shop
06 Gabrielle Aplin — The Power Of Love
Haven't voted today, I've checked.
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3 hours ago, Toast said:IMO the worst one left is the inferior ABBA song.
I'm not going to pretend Money, Money, Money is the finest of ABBA's considerable output, but it's still better than most of what we had to vote on.
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Refreshing boldness to the England squad announcement, but I've got to be honest, the only reason I'm commenting is, against the odds, having started the season at Ewood Park, local lad Adam Wharton is somehow in the squad. Loads of plaudits after his debut the other night, Southgate clearly rates him. Amazing for the lad.
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Oh I don't know about that, Sir...
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YouGov's new poll (I don't have a link to hand) has the Tories on 19% and Reform on 17%. Highly implausible, I grant you. Labour still only 20-odd points in front on 40%. Lib Dems 10%, Greens 7%.
Electoral Calculus says:
LAB - 490 (+293)
CON - 56 (-320)
LDM - 63 (+55)
RFM - 3 (+3)
GRN - 2 (+1)
SNP - 14 (-34)
PC - 4 (+2)
Let's see what the others are saying in the days ahead...
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3 hours ago, Sod's Law said:Murdoch's been proving there is no god with his continued refusal to croak for the best part of decades by now.
Murdoch's never had a life-threatening situation though, to my knowledge. Fico's been shot, Bolsonaro was stabbed, Farage has had cancer and survived a plane crash. Even Trump had Covid (forgot about that). But all still living to spread their hatred, intolerance and idiocy.
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2 minutes ago, Bibliogryphon said:If you want to DM the initial thoughts before going public so we can kick around any boundary issues.
As I said there is no hurry I probably will not launch the new game until second week of July
But Toast needs thinking time!
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Full of hate as predicted. All the opposition's fault naturally that his extremist views elicited an extreme reaction.
Fico, Farage and Bolsonaro are the living proof that only the good die young.
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Thu 6 Jun
57 David Bowie - Sound and Vision
43 Bee Gees - How Deep Is Your Love
40 ABBA - Money, Money, Money +4
27 The Four Seasons — Silver Star
16 David Dundas - Jeans On -6
11 Mike Oldfield - Portsmouth
10 Manuel and the Music of the Mountains - Rodrigo’s Guitar Concerto de Aranjuez
1 hour ago, TQR said:Go on then. Let's make it interesting.
Please let's not...
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5 minutes ago, En Passant said:Because it's not true? Or, at least it'd also be news to me. (and twbd7 has also edited now).
I mean not that it matters a jot, especially in this place where it's a pretty fluid concept in the first place.
Thought I was going mad! I was sure Biblio talked about his wife and daughter, then I started wondering if I'd been presumptuous in the 21st century.
No harm done, we all make mistakes.
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13 minutes ago, ThereWillBeDeaths7 said:She's
How did I not know this?
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I tried to come up with categories in different areas: TV, film, music, public life and something else, but there's not a specific formula. Basically they need to have a wide enough pool of options that we don't all end up picking the same choices (sometimes we've been more successful than others on that front). Message Biblio, he's very helpful at kicking around ideas and knowing what might work and what might need a tweak.
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Just now, ladyfiona said:Any on-stage performer for a country in a Eurovision Grand Final. - would that include the supporting band?
We've already done that one! And we included anyone on stage. But not the conductors or orchestra.
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You know, at some point we're going to have to revisit some of these!
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1 hour ago, BuffaloPhil said:Thanks all, my first ever deadpool win in one of my favourite pools. Do I now have to pick the categories for the next one? If so, get ready for some supremely unimaginative ideas!
Having done it twice, I hear you, the stress is real!
51 minutes ago, Toast said:Looks like there's no rush, but the sooner you make them known, the longer we all have to get our teams together.
And be aware Toast is always eager for plenty of research time...
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37 minutes ago, The Old Crem said:This has been coming since she was deselected. IDS will end up surviving again and Shaheen will blame Labour. Stupid cow.
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Just now, TQR said:Fucking hell, we've voted quite similarly. it's a good job I was sitting down!
Came to that conclusion with Boney M. It's a bop. I'd personally swap it for the ABBA song I'm not a fan of, but that'd be pissing in the wind given the support that song gets.
I was sorely tempted, but sometimes you've got to cut your losses, and we don't disagree on *everything* musically, just nearly everything.
(I'd be putting ABBA through, for instance! )
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5/6/24
47 John Newman — Love Me Again
44 Gotye ft. Kimbra — Somebody That I Used To Know
42 Lily Allen — Somewhere Only We Know
37 Lorde — Royals
37 Carly Rae Jepsen — Call Me Maybe
37 Florence & The Machine — Spectrum
35 Duke Dumont ft. A*M*E — Need U (100 Percent)
35 Coldplay — Paradise
35 Olly Murs ft. Flo Rida — Troublemaker
34 Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams — Get Lucky
33 Miley Cyrus — Wrecking Ball
30 Little Mix — Wings
28 David Guetta ft. Sia — Titanium
28 Avicii — Wake Me Up
27 Swedish House Mafia ft. John Martin — Don’t You Worry Child
27 Maroon 5 ft. Wiz Khalifa — Payphone
26 Jessie J — Domino
25 Icona Pop ft. Charli XCX — I Love It +4
24 Rihanna — Diamonds
23 Fun ft. Janelle Monae — We Are Young
23 OneRepublic — Counting Stars
22 Avicii Vs. Nicky Romero — I Could Be The One
21 DJ Fresh ft. Rita Ora — Hot Right Now
21 Naughty Boy ft. Sam Smith — La La La
21 Will.I.Am ft. Eva Simons — This Is Love
20 Cover Drive — Twilight
20 Rudimental ft. John Newman — Feel The Love
20 Calvin Harris ft. Florence Welch — Sweet Nothing
20 Gabrielle Aplin — The Power Of Love
20 Macklemore ft. Ryan Lewis & Wankz — Thrift Shop
20 The Saturdays ft. Sean Paul — What About Us
20 Rudimental ft. Ella Eyre — Waiting All Night
20 Ellie Goulding — Burn
20 Storm Queen — Look Right Through
20 Calvin Harris ft. Alesso & Hurts — Under Control
19 Katy Perry — Part Of Me
19 Ne-Yo — Let Me Love You
17 Rita Ora ft. Tinie Tempah — R.I.P.
16 Labrinth ft. Emeli Sande — Beneath Your Beautiful
12 Wiley ft. Ms D — Heatwave
7 Justin Timberlake — Mirrors -6
4 Katy Perry — Roar
1 hour ago, Sleepiestpeep said:I spent summer 2013 working in a Greggs, and today's vote is inspired by the time Roar played on the shop radio six times in one single shift. one point off for each play, Katy.
I had a similar experience with Corinne Bailey Rae's "Go Put Your Records On", so I sympathise. I don't want to see the back of Roar personally, but won't save it from its inevitable fate. Also, I can't save everything and...I don't care, I love it.
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5/6/24
53 David Bowie - Sound and Vision
42 ABBA - Money, Money, Money
33 Bee Gees - How Deep Is Your Love +4
30 David Dundas - Jeans On
29 The Four Seasons — Silver Star
26 Manuel and the Music of the Mountains - Rodrigo’s Guitar Concerto de Aranjuez
11 Mike Oldfield - Portsmouth -2
9 Boney M - Sunny -2
7 Status Quo - Rockin' All Over the World -2
Not saving the Quo boys, they're clearly going out, so let's hasten the end of the round a bit.
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General Election 2024?
in DeathList extra-curricular
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Elected representative I suppose would be the distinction.