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Maybe I'm just hard to please! Interesting article documenting the tower's various woes: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crgpkzgk4dgo

I was among those to get to go up to the top in the few months it functioned after it first opened. The science centre itself I found very dull, even as a child and seemingly the target audience.

I suspect the tower is worth a fair bit less than £51m. Mad decision to lend so much public money for this kind of gimmicky attraction.

A face and name that's only vaguely familiar to me, but regardless, lived a life that made for a very interesting Wiki read. Was once so sickly they reckoned he wouldn't survive childhood. Safe to say he defied that prediction! Seems like he was a genuinely nice guy too. Vegetarian, fed the homeless and campaigned for animals.

There it is, ladies and gentlemen. The most pointless contribution on this forum.

How did you guess?

I read The Ipcress File last month. It's not actually that good. Plot very underdeveloped and meandering. 'Palmer' goes off to Lebanon and the South Pacific for...reasons? For once the film version was the far superior product.

As a piece of music the new version sounds absolutely horrendous, if this BBC review is to be believed. I might pluck up the courage to listen out of sheer curiosity. I do find it amusing that the 1989 version has been firmly shoved into a memory hole.

I see that his first wife Pierrette, mother of Marine, is still alive, aged 89. Fun quote from her Wiki article: 'In a 1987 interview with Playboy, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who refused to pay alimony to Pierrette, said that "If she needs any money, all she has to do is clean". Pierrette Le Pen then reacted by accepting Playboy's offer to pose in a semi-nude maid's outfit'

Justice seems to be an old school paternalistic oligarch, a tax-avoiding, safety code-violating owner of mines, farms and a luxury hotel, but who seems about as moderate as a contemporary Republican is allowed to be under the Trump regime. He also has a bulldog called Babydog, who weighs 60lb, likes chicken nuggets, has been used to promote covid vaccination uptake, and has had a waterfall named after her.

How can you have a cardiac arrest when you haven't got a heart?

Rod giving us a fitness update in this Accidental Partridge post.

She was on the cover of Country Life just prior to her marriage. Unfortunately the caption doesn't include her age, but does she look 16? In the '50s everyone looked older.

This Dorian Gray-style photo is currently gracing the BBC News homepage. He exudes such youth and vitality!

Whatever they prescribed him didn't work very well.

I know how he feels.

Frank Auerbach, German-Jewish refugee turned British leading painter of blobby stuff, dead at 93. Guardian obit

To think, the five on the left cover 14 years, the remaining three 20 years, with Blair alone half that period.

I think what makes her look especially odd to me is that her hair and skin are now the same colour.

Unfortunate that this is what immediately sprung to mind.

It's just like reading Kerouac.

Get out more. Your insane reactionary family does not reflect UK public opinion.

There's a parallel universe where this stumbling streak of senility has just been reelected.

Pretty good argument for euthanasia.

Wisconsin called for Trump, for what it's worth.