En Passant

It's an example. In general you're absolutely right. I like cycling, you like tennis (and I'm still in awe of your 2 hours sleep in 3 days or whatever, to sit in a queue to watch it). The point really is you can pick and choose any damn thing you like they're showing absolutely everything. I'm not usually a supporter of paying for bought rights and highest bidder and so forth, but in this one case, I'd pay that just to turn ads off for 2 weeks (and more). TLDR....I used to cycle a bit, and these races can be like chess, even from a long way out. I'm not suggesting other people will like it, but I get to choose, and so would they for whatever floats your particular boat. Not by your terms no. But by mine? Yes. There were several breakaways that might have come to something. There's no race radio in this event so it makes the teamwork and tracking much harder etc etc. Yes that's pretty specific and yes you'd need to care about it and no in the end there were no brits. But at the risk of repetition the point is for minimal outlay, I can watch what I want to and you can watch what you want to. And both minus the jingoistic 'yeay the brits' stuff that drives me potty, and ads which also drive me potty. I'm boring myself now.......

Turns out that they aren't showing any adverts at all online. Which explains why I've not seen any, I was swapping after event ends to dodge them and wasting my time, what a dope . How do I know this for certain? Because I just watched about 4 hours of the 6 odd hours bike road race and they kept referring to 'Our TV viewers are going for a break" and "welcome back to the TV viewers". Result. 4 quid? I'm not complaining. Oh, and is the bike race on the BBC? Of course it's not they're showing horses dancing and other events that bore me rigid. ETA: Fuck fuck fucketty fuck. Because I forgot to swear in the foregoing.

3rd Aug 72 Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper — Shallow 68 Lewis Capaldi — Someone You Loved +4 66 Lil Nas X — Old Town Road 56 Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa — One Kiss 17 Benny Blanco, Halsey & Khalid — Eastside 17 Ava Max — Sweet But Psycho 12 Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello — Señorita 00 Windbag — Whatty Wot? -6

Some of them not even certain they actually are protesters at all.

Or take them all and reduce the 2010 to 0

Yeah, this.The jingoism drives me potty, I can cheer the Brits if i want without having it shoved down my throat tyvm. And of course with less overall coverage you'll get more of it. I just swap channels on Discovery plus when the adverts hit, though to be honest I'm no tennis fan, so they don't seem to have interrupted much of what I'm choosing to view.

I'm with toast on this, it's absolutely barking mad. Do they think we can't handle it or something? Reminds me of that stupidity of actors voicing over Martin McGuinness and Gerry Adams back in the day.

This Simon Cowell Not this Simon Cowell Who you may be thinking of. 9th June 2024.

One event where a poor start won't necessarily mean a loss. - you can bounce back. I'll get my coat.

2 Aug 63 Ultravox - Dancing with Tears in My Eyes 39 Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill 39 Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time 33 Giorgio Moroder & Philip Oakey - Together In Electric Dreams 32 Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy +4 27 Tina Turner - What’s Love Got to Do With It 23 Madonna - Like a Virgin 17 Queen - I Want to Break Free 11 Tina Turner - We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome) -6

Comment. But it's not enough. You've stumbled on a site where you need a bit of smarts. You need to back it up in this place. We're a level above your standard gobshite site. If you're not saying something of note rather than generic twaddle you're getting your arse kicked (rightly). Welcome! .

Murdered by Putin. Everything else is a subset of that.

He''s an American about 16 years old tops, give the guy a break. (I did, but you'd need to look it up).

Almost nothing of any conceivable value for 24 years then. I don't even like myself for that. But......really what is there? ugh.

So, even though I'm whinging, you agree it's shit? I seriously wish it were otherwise. I really don't want to appear as 'you only like things from your childhood/adolelscence' but what does one do? I moved on from Pink Floyd and Genesis to the beats of the late 80's and 90's, absolutely gone on some of that trance....but since then? I don't think it's me being old, or just liking what was 'from our age'..... ...it really is crud. Autotuned schmaltz, generic rap, covers (featuring, always fucking featuring some cunt) etc. I just want to die at this lack of innovation.

Oh gimme a break, I listened to all of this shit in order to throw in a vote and speed it up and all it's done is give me an understanding of why every single radio station plays 80's or even 90's.

Forgetting? I can't even spell it/him.

I hate punching down. However....

I didn't know the Three Fucking Bears had even fucking entered.

That's two of us. I read TQR as too much and Rover not specifying at all, just responding to TQR.

Eh? Isn't that exactly what he said? too much, not too little? Maybe I'm mis-reading the mis-read. I wondered about this. Whatever the rights and wrongs of it - "I've never been hit so hard" had me thinking that whilst a woman may not have the physical ability to hit as hard as a man, is there a physiogical difference between the sexes in 'taking' a punch? Certainly in pain terms I've often seen it quoted as due to childbirth women could take more pain than men (again, rightly or wrongly and with no judgment on my part).

Because you'd get an 'oi' from tqr? even though he seems to be reading them again... Anyway. Fucking TOC wins again cause we're even talking about it. Grrr.

But you knew that surely?

Much as I would like to berate Crem yet again, it turns out this is actually what it's called in this context now (well, at least for this week).

1 Aug 64 Ultravox - Dancing with Tears in My Eyes 43 Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time 40 Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy +4 35 Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill 33 Giorgio Moroder & Philip Oakey - Together In Electric Dreams 33 Queen - I Want to Break Free 31 Madonna - Like a Virgin  29 Tina Turner - What’s Love Got to Do With It 14 Tina Turner - We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome) -6