En Passant

I saw what you did there, oh yes indeedy. Tough call between that and this particular BoneyM song for me. Others close behind too...

7/6/24 26 Gerry Rafferty- Baker Street 24 David Essex - Oh What A Circus 24 Donna Summer- Love’s Unkind 24 The Sex Pistols- Something Else/Friggin’ in the Riggin’ +4 22 Ian Dury and the Blockheads- Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3 21 The Rolling Stones- Miss You 21 Earth, Wind & Fire- September 21 Electric Light Orchestra- Don’t Bring Me Down 21 The Jam- The Eton Rifles 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 20 Rose Royce- Wishing on a Star 20 James Galway- Annie’s Song 20 Marshall Hain- Dancing in the City 20 A Taste of Honey- Boogie Oogie Oogie 20 The Cars- My Best Friend’s Girl 20 Bee Gees- Too Much Heaven 20 Racey- Lay Your Love on Me 20 The Three Degrees- Woman in Love 20 Lene Lovich- Lucky Number 20 The Sex Pistols- C’mon Everybody 20 The Dooleys- Wanted 20 ABBA- Angeleyes/Voulez-Vous 20 The Bellamy Brothers- If I Said You Have a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me 20 Sad Café- Every Day Hurts 20 ABBA- Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) 14 Frankie Valli- Grease 12 The Barron Knights- A Taste of Aggro 12 Dean Friedman- Lucky Stars 12 Scott Fitzgerald and Yvonne Keeley- If I Had Words 8 Boney M — Hooray! Hooray It’s AHoli-Holiday -6 I'll be hugely surprised if Baker St doesn't walk this. I like it well enough of course but it's almost the text book defintion of overplayed.

People not dying. Terrible. My morals are....conflicted?

Oh he's a fuck and bye bye is not an issue for me, I'm voting that way. But on the right grounds, not just because he was a bit of a tit at a flag waving ceremony, for me that's a bit like a dress dinner, they all have to know the protocol just to be there at all. It isn't ultimately what gets that homeless guy out from under Waterloo bridge, simply a hurdle you must pass to be in the conversation (even if actually you'd really rather leave him there, which is what I really care about.)

Surely not?

At the risk of sounding like a repeating alarm clock I care about what they do, not whether they make the right noises politically. In fact the more time they spend on image (whatever political party) the less time they are spending fixing what can actually be fixed. (I've already stated how I'm still crying like a baby about the things I've seen, take that as read).

7th June 63 David Bowie - Sound and Vision +4 46 ABBA - Money, Money, Money 37 Bee Gees - How Deep Is Your Love -2 26 The Four Seasons — Silver Star 00 Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells it isn't -4 Is that it?

Wear a poppy. But I care about the living, not the dead, I remember and am aware and have tears falling down my face watching images from then, but I want my politicians to stop people living on the street now, not be criticised because they didn't do the right thing at the cenotaph. I know that's not what you were saying, but I'm a noisy bastard mate and from your original post it looked like that. Entirely possible I misread it. We are of the same opinion I think.

The difference is that I'm saying they all know this well enough. However, Willz first post on the subject makes it appear that somehow what current politicians do or say about historical events completely negates their view on where we go from here. It shouldn't. What is done is done, we should learn and move on. I've already said I am (probably still) crying like a fucking baby about what happened then, but it's done, no? I went to Dachau about 30 years ago, I died inside, especially at 'Arbeit Macht Frei', but we can't fix that now, we can put 'never again' as the current administration had, and must, must move on. Sunak is an asshole, but not respecting history is not the greatest of his sins.

I don't believe I said that. Sunak is a self assured hedge fund arsehole, but his suitabilty as a current leader is not to do with whether he waves the appropriate flag over history. Nor is any politicians. Criticising them for not waving the appropriate historical flag vigourously enough is a waste of time. Of course I feel it, like any other, but it doesn't help people living under bridges right now.

I do. I've spent the last couple of days re-watching 'The Nazi's and the final solution' a bbc documentary from 2005 and I still believe we need to move on, even whilst drowning in my own tears. This is now all history, we need to care about those alive right now and ensure these lives weren't given away for nothing. Symbolism isn't it.

Years passing, fewer vets shocker.

Call me cynical, but none of them were even born then (few now alive were), it's all a political exercise anyway. I cannot get enthused about it one way or the other. In terms of what does matter, i.e. where we are going from this point in time? It makes zero difference. It's symbolism at most.

For that value of genes? Ok yes. For any other value? No, and apparently Lachlan is no better, though James appears to have an un-familial scruple, just the one mind.

And lets not forget, Nazi themed sex party participant, for it's worth a laugh.

Just as well, he'd definitely advise against drinking that much.

6/6/2024 (yeay - non confusing :P) 57 David Bowie - Sound and Vision 40 ABBA - Money, Money, Money 35 Bee Gees - How Deep Is Your Love 25 The Four Seasons — Silver Star 25 Mike Oldfield - Portsmouth +4 00 David Dundas - Jeans Off -6

Pedant Corner #13,565 Gryff Rys Jones declaring himself an Inspector whilst wearing the shoulder insignia of a Chief Inspector (edit and yeah in fact 'detective inspector' who aren't uniformed at all) . I know, I need to get out more.

Don't even start me, those I will even leave the room if they are on at somebody else's house. But this is a whole other topic. Ultimately it's unsurprising you don't know who he is. But most will. And anyway, I know who half the cast of Corrie are or Eastenders or footballers or dozens of other things I have zero interest in because unless you are a hermit they are unavoidable in this country. Mosely obviously isn't that famous.

Oh that list pretty much concurs with mine . But, in this instance, as above, I am interested to a degree in diet, the blokes a doctor (and speaks eloquently and sensibly) so despite the 'dumbing down' of a lot of the content for the proles I was prepared to wade through that to listen to what the man actually had to say. But yes. Trash TV for the masses bores me rigid. (oh and haha about Dr Who, it's the only thread I think I ever started, just so I don't (didn't) have to read about it all over the 'science fiction' thread )

Well, I guess all that says is, I saw reviews of some of his shows somewhere (probably Graun) and decided to seek them out because I was sufficiently interested and you weren't? It'd probably be the other way around if the subject were the Monarchy at a guess? Aside from the fact I can't really claim not to have heard of them .

You've clearly never watched any of those 'you are what you eat' type programmes that appear from time to time. Also the semi 'fasting' 5:2 which he wrote a book on and there was a tv promoter show about. I watch practically no TV unless I read about it somewhere first for a review and even I know who he is .

I'm as willing as anyone to listen if you actually come up with something new. The vaccines weren't perfect, this much is acknowledged, (and is true of any vaccine) and we needed these in a damn hurry, so whilst trialled properly it is possible that with more time they could have been better. It's not a perfect world. However: Is a misrepresentation of what was stated in the BMJ report. The conclusion actually states: My bold. That's definitively not "vaccine possibly causes 3 million excess deaths". What the Torygraph says, is A: behind a paywall ( yeah I can get round it) B: not unbiased, Oh and C: Pretty much simply paraphrasing the BMJ report anyway. At least you quote a source, which is more than some do. If you're going to continue with this and not return to "Football, Women, Travelling, Movies, True Crime and Computer Games" (your other stated interests), at least quote your source correctly, not misrepresent it to support your argument.

Unlikely. (to put it mildly) Ludicrous comparisons. And I'd be surprised if you don't manage to offend quite a number of people with those analogies. I didn't personally lose anyone to the first two, or a suicide or financial catastrophe to the latter one, but even I'm annoyed at your choices here. Pack it in.

Twitter/X embedded links taking 5 or more seconds to expand here. (actually it might only be 2, but I'm an impatient bastard) You try to read an entry in a thread that doesnt have a link whether or not you're waiting for the content of the links to show up - then what you're reading jumps down the page or even off the bottom of it when you're halfway through reading it because some link above just expanded. Rinse and repeat as one above that expands. No idea if this is the same on a phone (either o/s), never read this site on a phone. My pc isn't slow, nor is my 500mb/s wired internet. Grrrrr .