themaninblack

Yeah, I noticed that. I'd be very surprised if the Duke is around in the next "new" parliament in 2020...

Blatter stepping down as FIFA president.

Ex-Chancellor Helmut Kohl is apparently in intensive care... EDIT: oops, didn't realise he had his own thread!

Shame. I liked him. He wasn't full of shit like most politicians. He was full of whiskey...

Perhaps they're chums?

Off to Tenerife for a week tomorrow. First trip abroad in five years so looking forward to it...

That reminds me, sometime this summer I will update the stats and facts when the pics and bios are done before turning towards the future of the DDP and how It can be possibly revamped or at least more efficiently run, albeit from a technical point of view...

And we're up again... Special mention to the heavy scoring in April. Multiple hits for the big teams last month...

Well, who Goddammit?

Can't blame him. Those freeways are a pig...

One of the great mysteries of life is why Ms Graham is such a sought after actress, she can't act her way out of a paper bag and she isn't much to look at either. I guess she must be a fantastically filthy fuck or something. To be fair I reckon she is...

They'd have still lost...

Crowe...

My own personal view is that David Bowie is overrated by his fans, underrated by the rest... I wouldn't know an Olly Murs tune if you hummed it to me, but that's pop music in all it's multi-coloured wonder.

John Smith, leader of the Labour Party, died today in 1994 aged 55...

It's always a good time to say that when I'm looking in, though I'm careful not to mention it in the presence of one of my friends who changed her name to Bowie (seriously). Agreed, he's another one that in a career spanning what feels like 140 years he's averaged about one good song and one shit film per decade. Ah the "David Bowie is shit" brigade, alive and well and still thinking they're cooler than the rest...

Bagsy Gerald Kaufmann...

I thought Norman Tebbitt looked pretty frail when he was TV in the aftermath of the election on Friday...

Pink Floyd Fleetwood Mac Deep Purple AC/DC Iron Maiden Television Sex Pistols (although they were known then as either the Strand or the Swankers) Can

I think that's just about killed her leadership hopes stone dead...

Phew. I'll admit to being a tiny bit concerned when I saw the exit polls last night, but in the event Ben tripled his majority and I got my money. Wait, I'm a bit thick at betting - what does 1/33 mean? Does that mean for every quid you put on, you get 33p back? Hardly worth the shoe leather plodding down the bookies for that, innit? Less than that! If you put £1 on at 1/33, you'd get £1.03 back. I won't say how much I bet, but I'll let you judge by my (virtual) demeanour whether it might have been more than £1 or not. :champagne: :champagne: Fuck me, judging by that you must have bet your wife on it! (And that's not a typo!) If that was the case he should've bet on Douglas Alexander!

Sorry,thats an absolute crock of shit. People got the opportunity to vote on an alternative in 2011 and a whole 42% of the population managed to drag themselves away from the telly and overwhelmingly reject a change. THAT is democracy, not perfect by any stretch but democracy all the same. Im getting massively fucked off at all of the whinging about the result. The Tories polled the most votes under the system that WE wanted to keep. If things here were that shit there wouldn't be hundreds of migrants across the channel risking their lives to get here let alone the millions trying to get into Europe with the main aim of getting into our social and economic utopia. On a personal level, laying my cards on the table, Im grateful that a Political ideology that should have been left back in 1973 hasn't got into power to arse rape ordinary folk like me. There are multitudes of people out there who have worked their fucking arses off to make their lives as comfortable as possible while significant amounts of people around me look on in resentment that I have dared to buy a home and have two holidays a year and a new mowtah on the drive etc etc. The fact that I shifted my arse from my bed at 4.30am to go and put some hours in at work to pay for these 'luxuries' has fuck all to do with anything, right? I used to laugh about my much missed Dad and the amount of 'Angry from Tunbridge Wells' letters he used to write about all manner of things. Thing is, when I really think about it, here was a man who came home with ingrained oil on his hands, smelling of Engines who spent his life working his arse off through the grim times and the hard times. No summer holidays, no new cars and the council house that he bought off the Council was repo'd back in the 80s because the small business he tried to build couldn't survive that recession. So it was back to a council house and two years unemployment for a highly skilled man. A life where he was loved and a life ended in a hospital bed in the lounge of his and mums council house. Angry of Tunbridge Wells was actually angry at the hand wringing 'oh woe is me' food bank society that have grown up completely unable and unwilling to take any responsibility for themselves, instead blaming governments and resenting those that wanted to get on with things. Truly pathetic.

I thought he died years ago. I loved the Video Show he did in the 1970s...

It'll certainly be a culture shock for the Libs when Parliament resumes business on May 18th. Lowest number of MPs since 1970...

In my constituency, the Tories are 1/100, so not worth putting a fiver on... I'm still tempted by betting that the Lib Dems will get more votes than UKIP overall though. Glad I kept my money there then! Saying that, the Lib Dems deserved everything they got...