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  1. Posted

    36 minutes ago, Sly Ronnie said:

     

    Who uses the term "beloved" for a porn star? For a 1970s children's presenter, sure.

    "Much wanked over" would probably be more appropriate.

     

     

    An over-simplification in my view and if I could be arsed I could likely dig up posts somewhere on this site that made it clear there were, and are, children's television presenters who are much wanked over too. 

     

    From the era of Susan Stranks and Jenny Handley to Konnie Huq and Helen Skelton, I'm fairly sure a criteria for their selection in the first place was their potential as wank fodder.

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    Another day, another drug frenzy drives the Daily Express back into la-la land, or summat

     

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    And, yeah - I take Crem's point above that Reach PLC (formlerly Trinity Mirror) are their owners for the last six years. But stand by my point. The Express is down to a die-hard audience of ageing Tories fond of Britain-first ideas and rhetoric. Their circulation is - crudely - about 12% of what it was 35 years ago and their case is more desperate than most other dailies since their readership are - on average - older and more present in God's waiting room. So long as they go on believing the front pages, some of them might die happy, mind

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    Just an idea - if we do this again we should have a kind of side-bet competition of picking the manager who'll have the most jobs whilst the competition is still live. I.e., managerial jobs, reserve team coach, chief scout, football agent etc. don't count. Main managerial jobs or nowt. I'm thinking there are a few - particularly non-league types - who can clock up three home dugouts in a season, but calling them would be hard.

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    On 26/02/2024 at 10:24, gcreptile said:

    "Cult" singer-songwriter Bill Fay:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Fay

    https://www.theguardian.com/m/2024/feb/22/cult-singer-songwriter-bill-fay-i-didnt-leave-the-music-business-the-music-business-left-me

     

    He gives his last interview as the Parkinson's disease "has really kicked in".

     

     

    Oh man, I love his stuff - he's played semi-regularly on Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone. This track being a particular favourite: 

     

     

     

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    There's times I think the Daily Express is desperate, falling readership, totally irrelevent ideas and the toxic problem of having to pander to an ageing group of die-hard readers who are, well, dying and leaving the Express stranded and light-years away from attracting the kind of audience that'd give it any kind of robust future. 

     

    Then there are times I look at the front cover, wonder if everyone working there is on drugs and quietly envy them!

     

     

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    23 minutes ago, openviews said:

    Linking the recent stories together maybe Kate was having an affair with Thomas Kingston which came to light because she became pregnant and needed to have an abortion (abdominal procedure). Maybe the recovery time is less for the procedure and more for her to get her head back together.
     

    Did Thomas end his life or was he killed for knocking up the future Queen?

     

    Don't stop there though - how many shape shifting lizards were involved and is David Icke already on the case?

     

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    6 hours ago, RoverAndOut said:

     

    If he got you promoted last season against the odds, and is a Carlisle legend, surely he deserves the opportunity to keep you up and, if necessary get you back up?

     

     

    Yeah, well, I think so - but that's seven defeats on the bounce and a club record string of games without a clean sheet - some of the fans are getting restless. I'm struggling to see how we'd help the meagre survival chances by changing things now and if we do go down I'm thinking Simmo has form getting a relegated Carlisle promoted the next season. And, he's local, and a local legend. 

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    Hmmm, been saying the new owners at Carlisle are talking a long-game and have put in the kind of money that buys a revival in a relegation zone team. Up until this afternoon it looked like Paul Simpson was safe but a 0-4 home spanking in a relegation six-pointer has forced him on the defensive. Performances, especially surrendering midfield possession and then chaotic defending have done for us, though it likely can't help that we brought in enough new talent to make those already in place restless and we've struggled in the transfer window to offload the displaced players. The atmosphere on the training ground with the newbies being spanked and others unable to get on the bench still training with them is likely a challenge to any manager. Simmo saved us two years ago when the National League was beckoning and - last season - got a team with a bottom half budget promoted via the play-offs. He also went down (to the Conference) with us in 2004 and managed two promotions in a row from that point. So, who knows: https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/sport/24126673.carlisle-uniteds-paul-simpson-pledges-keep-fighting/

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    2 minutes ago, Kenny said:

     

    Or just challenge Biden to a debate live on television? Trump is batshit crazy but Joe has "lost his marbles" totally. Americans deserve better than a choice between those two useless arseholes.

     

    Similarly, we Brits deserve a better choice of PM than Riches Sunak, Sir Weird Starmer and Sir Dead Davey who are just failed establishment numpties..

     

     

    You got anyone in mind? 

     

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    Saw Mary Trump - The Donald's niece and a psychologist who's made a decades long study of the dysfunction in her own family, declaring the latest legal decision to be the end of her grandfather's legacy, and saying how much it will (personally) hurt Donald Trump. 

     

    So, someone in the family's happy, then!

     

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    Key point here being that he has to deposit that amount so's he can continue the legal fight. There's always been doubt about the distance between the wealth he claims and the wealth his biggest critics think he actually has. It's getting tasty. 

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    1 minute ago, GEMINEYE said:

    I respect your opinion, but you are wrong. The Tories will be annihilated at the next election. Even Tory voters are abstaining or voting for Reform UK. Starmer will win by default.

     

     

    Aye, the giveaway for me is the lack of anything new  from the Tories other than some half-hearted stuff attacking Labour and the tax cuts/public service cuts that always play well to the (less than) 100,000 paid up party members who are largely monied, ageing and wedded to anything that smacks of Thatcherism. 

     

    Point being the lack of new direction suggests strongly there's nothing in their private polling that gives them hope that there's a winning idea lurking in their policy dept. that can disinfect the current shit show. Far from it, Reform are cutting swathes out of their agenda on the right. Whether they'll stabilise after a pasting or totally disintegrate is the real question.  I'm thinking Labour will underwhelm enough to give them hope but that hope is at least a couple of years away. The alternative, has  a historical precedent, it's about a century ago that we last had a Liberal government as opposed to a load of Liberals propping up a coalition. Point being, there was a time that party were a party of government and mattered on a national scale. Much of the near terminal damage to their standing was done by a bunch of upstarts called The Labour Party.

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    24 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

    Interviewed on Sky News about Navalny's death.

     

    I see time hasn't changed him. He's still doing the whole "I've answered 2 or 3 of the questions, now I shall abruptly walk off, stage left" thing.

     

    Must be hurrying off to try and reap more millions of taxpayers' money. :lol:

     

     

    Aye, time's literally money there, mind - going on last night's by-election results the Tory gravy train will be careering down the embankment in a few months.

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    5 hours ago, RoverAndOut said:

     

    Conservatives + Reform = 11, 253

     

    Simplistic, but Tories would have won by 77 votes. That will be a discussion point.

     

     

    Yeah,  but - John Curtice was discussing that this morning, a recent poll suggested if there were no Reform candidate over 30% of those voting Reform wouldn't vote Conservative (either UKIP, though they're practically irrelevent now, or wouldn't vote at all). That stat would be enough to nix the hypothetical 77 vote win.

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