En Passant

kebabs?* No need to apologise that I can see. The revolving door isn't mentioned nearly enough by most politicians of any flavour. *sorry yes, a spieling lame.

I'd vote for that. My problem with the whole debate thing is it probably favours those with a knack for public speaking and quick responses whether those are due to masses of pre-prepared answers or merely being quick-witted on the fly. It doesn't tell us who has the better policies we are seeking. Those are mostly known beforehand anyway and are in my opinion better delievered in a format we can pore over and come to our own conclusions. The idea of 5 years of governance by whoever has the better sound bite on any given day is scary. Shouting matches don't interest me any more than vox-pops do, so I don't watch them.

Cunt fuck prick shit and wanker are ok, but v-i-a-g-r-a gets translated to 'SPAM'? Still, I suppose I can see the objection to trademark names.

12/6/24 48 Donna Summer - Love’s Unkind +4 43 Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street 41 Earth, Wind & Fire - September 40 The Jam - The Eton Rifles 38 The Rolling Stones - Miss You 38 Electric Light Orchestra - Don’t Bring Me Down 31 Ian Dury and the Blockheads - Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3 30 ABBA - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) 28 The Cars - My Best Friend’s Girl 28 Donna Summer and Barbra Streisand - No More Tears (Enough is Enough) 27 Michael Jackson - Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough 25 ABBA - Angeleyes/Voulez-Vous  18 The Sugarhill Gang - Rapper’s Delight 18 Frankie Valli - Grease 16 Johnny Mathis and Deniece Williams - Too Much, Too Little, Too Late 13 Marshall Hain - Dancing in the City  13 Sad Café - Every Day Hurts 00 On Vi-agra These Days - C’mon Everybody -6

11/06/2024 42 Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street 42 Electric Light Orchestra - Don’t Bring Me Down 40 Earth, Wind & Fire - September 40 Donna Summer - Love’s Unkind +4 37 The Jam - The Eton Rifles 32 The Rolling Stones - Miss You 29 ABBA - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) 27 Michael Jackson - Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough 27 Donna Summer and Barbra Streisand - No More Tears (Enough is Enough) 27 The Cars - My Best Friend’s Girl 26 Ian Dury and the Blockheads - Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3 25 ABBA - Angeleyes/Voulez-Vous  23 The Sugarhill Gang - Rapper’s Delight 22 Johnny Mathis and Deniece Williams - Too Much, Too Little, Too Late 19 Frankie Valli - Grease 15 Marshall Hain - Dancing in the City  15 Sad Café - Every Day Hurts 11 Lene Lovich - Lucky Number 10 The Sex Pistols - C’mon Everybody 02 Racey to the bottom - Lay Your Love on Me -6

I don't often. Wasn't letting this one go though. You're just collatera da, sorry, COLLATERAL DAMAGE. And that's a reply to him that has fk all to do with me! Am I just about to mute him as you unmute? I was going to unite us, by finally blocking the berk. Oh well.

If only there were any teachers in this place who fancied weighing in on that (heh, I'm not namechecking you, though it was close but ultmately decided "no-fair" ) Not going to matter what they think in a month is it?

Says who? You? Are these parents going to pay for them? Yeah right dump it on the teachers, they don't have anything better to do. I knew it was a mistake engaging in a discussion with you, you're now typing so fast your spell checker can't keep up. Mea Culpa. @TQR Close, so close .

Can you point me to a definitive source that that is the case? You know, a bit beyond 'it sounds like', I know I'm being nit-picky here but well, you have previous for not differentiating between, 'this is the case' and 'I think'. The above aside, and if indeed it is the case, where's the problem? There's enough of a market if all the kids currently with phones have to have them replaced - for companies to make them if legislated. I did, and there were no phone boxes on the route. (yes yes I know, 'back when I were a lad' and all that). Whatever else happens that's not coming back.

The companies don't have to as such, just make such facilities as the law denies unavailable via software locks then the legal onus is on the parent. The makers won't care as they will cost the same and they make the same profit. The parents will pay the same as they do currently. I'm no smartphone guru, but the cheap ones probably cost about the same to manufacture as a non-smart one anyway today. If a non-smart one is still cheaper to make and the numbers were sufficient, they'd make them. Whether all that is enforcible in practice is another matter. Over-stretched police hunting down teens with 'unlocked' phones and taking the time to prosecute the parents over them seems to me to just add to an existing problem of expending the limited resources in the wrong place.

If they'd taken that stance in 2010 they'd be much better off today, come to think of it so would we.

09/06/2024 () 38 Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street  34 Ian Dury and the Blockheads - Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3 +4 34 Lene Lovich - Lucky Number  33 Donna Summer - Love’s Unkind  31 Earth, Wind & Fire - September 29 Electric Light Orchestra - Don’t Bring Me Down 26 The Jam - The Eton Rifles 25 The Rolling Stones - Miss You 25 ABBA - Angeleyes/Voulez-Vous 25 The Cars - My Best Friend’s Girl 24 Donna Summer and Barbra Streisand - No More Tears (Enough is Enough) 24 Frankie Valli - Grease 24 ABBA - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) 23 Marshall Hain - Dancing in the City 22 The Sugarhill Gang - Rapper’s Delight 22 Johnny Mathis and Deniece Williams - Too Much, Too Little, Too Late 22 Michael Jackson - Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough 21 Sad Café - Every Day Hurts  20 Racey - Lay Your Love on Me 20 The Sex Pistols - C’mon Everybody 17 A Taste of Honey - Boogie Oogie Oogie 14 David Essex— Oh What A Circus 11 The Three Degrees - Woman in Love 00 Bee Gees - Gone To Heaven -6

Well, I've considered it for Crem, but he's really the only one that isn't even amusing or informative in some way except once in a blue moon and the background white noise of the rest of it drowns those out pretty effectively anyway. (that's the exceedingly rare informative ones, he's never been amusing). Uli and especially SC can be so blunt they just crack me up even if I completely disagree with them, so never even considered it. I can take daft, incomprehensible or even rude, what truly gets me close to the mute button is 'boring'. But maybe that's just me. And in this case, if you and I hadn't taken the time to look up his 'sources' and discover his perfidy regarding the actual content, who else was? Or would have? I don't think things of that nature should go unchallenged. If we'd not seen it, we couldn't have. And yes, it's in one thread and easy to avoid if needed.

In my case because he's been here a long time and prior to the pandemic wasn't the one trick pony he has since become. Hence my sporadic requests that he goes back to contributing on other topics and let this one alone - unheeded though they seem to have been - his call. Also, I'm not keen on muting people. Even if they are a bit barking. That ones on me though .

Telegraph appear to be the first of major outlets. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/06/09/body-found-search-dr-michael-mosley/ (paywalled). Edit: Sun / Sky etc. now. So PA reuters or whoever have it. Took a while, have to see why.

Which seems to me also to be a completely understandable timeline. The only thing confounding me is why can't they find him? There's reportedly been over 100 people searching for him - that's 1 person every 52 yards over the 3 miles, yeah i know, not necessarily done that way but as a rule of thumb it points out they have what you'd think would be more than enough. Helicopters, dogs, the townsfolk, and that's excluding boats and divers which you pointed out earlier isn't the best use of resources whilst he might still be alive. The BBC even have a reporter onsite now ffs. Very odd.

So having had your BMJ and Telegraph misrepresentation rightly shot down and (unsurprisingly) being unable to come up with any kind of response to that you return with some talking heads from Twatter? k.

I don't know about any of that but that Capricorn One film? Definitely a fake.

If wishing made it so.

Give the bloke a break. Anyway, you don't know that votes for binface are ones that would have gone to lab / lib whoever comes second by those few thousand anyway. Might well have come from people who would never vote that way, but are utterly disaffected by the tories. First past the post has a large part to play in that also innit? Hard to get shot of when having the power to do so depends on having used it to attain that power in the first place (as we all know ofc). I'm still sitting in a small puddle of shock that he came top of my policy quiz. Perhaps I shouldn't be.

Edit, amended, I've just read the latest report. 11 June. Blah blah blah. TLDR. I've had money on him being dead since this story first broke. Not a shocking revelation I know. I know it's just a tv personality we see, but he just doesn't strike me as the sort to vanish voluntarily leaving his wife in the lurch like that. His whole raison d'etre on the telly is being reasonably slim and fit and the whole fackin island is only 5 miles long so he's unlikely to have got lost and be lying in a ditch somewhere waiting for rescue. Interesting that he apparently made it to town and then vanished though...Got to have gone on from there somewhere, up to wherever they were staying maybe? Nah, it's got to be Mary's aliens. This is in fact the sensible answer.

1. Gareth Southgate. 2. Not sure I know that many more football managers. Whoever is at ManU: Erik Ten-Shun or summat. Yes yes, I know I know nothing about football and also suspect that the National Team is outside the rules. But the little football I do watch? I suddenly remember why I don't watch.

Oh don't fret, a tenner isn't that much taken from your podcast earnings. @DCI Frank Burnside and I are definitely not the same person so don't think you can weasel out of the debt by claiming that either.

8/June/24 34 Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street 30 Ian Dury and the Blockheads - Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3 +4 28 The Rolling Stones - Miss You +4 27 Donna Summer - Love’s Unkind 25 Electric Light Orchestra - Don’t Bring Me Down 25 Lene Lovich - Lucky Number 24 ABBA - Angeleyes/Voulez-Vous 24 The Jam - The Eton Rifles 23 Marshall Hain - Dancing in the City 22 Earth, Wind & Fire - September 22 The Cars - My Best Friend’s Girl 21 Johnny Mathis and Deniece Williams - Too Much, Too Little, Too Late 21 Michael Jackson - Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough 21 Donna Summer and Barbra Streisand - No More Tears (Enough is Enough) 21 The Sugarhill Gang - Rapper’s Delight 21 ABBA - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) 20 Frankie Valli - Grease 20 Bee Gees - Too Much Heaven 20 Racey - Lay Your Love on Me 20 The Three Degrees - Woman in Love 20 The Sex Pistols - C’mon Everybody 20 Sad Café - Every Day Hurts 18 A Taste of Honey - Boogie Oogie Oogie 16 The Sex Pistols - Something Else/Friggin’ in the Riggin’ 16 James Galway - Annie’s Song 15 David Essex - Oh What A Circus 14 The Dooleys - Wanted 14 Rose Royce - Wishing on a Star -6 12 The Bellamy Brothers - If I Said You Have a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me 00 Boney M - Hooray! Hooray! This song has gone away! -6