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  1. Posted

    32 minutes ago, Toast said:

    Just as an aside, when did we stop debating a subject and switch to debating one's opponent?

    "Debate Rishi Sunak" used to mean discuss him, but now it means argue with him.  Weird change of meaning.

     

    I suspect this has an American derivation....

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  2. Posted

    24 The Drifters - There Goes My First Love 

    24 Bay City Rollers - Summerlove Sensation

    24 Van McCoy & the Soul City Symphony - The Hustle +1

    24 Lulu - The Man Who Sold the World +3

    21 The Wombles - Remember You’re a Womble

    21 Kenny - The Bump
    20 Cozy Powell - Dance With the Devil
    20 Hot Chocolate - Emma
    20 Slade - Everyday
    20 Peters and Lee - Don’t Stay Away Too Long
    20 Paper Lace - The Night Chicago Died 
    20 R. Dean Taylor - There’s a Ghost in My House 
    20 Slade - Bangin’ Man
    20 Johnny Bristol - Hang On In There Baby
    20 The Rubettes - Juke Box Jive
    20 Mud - The Secrets That You Keep
    20 Fox - Only You Can
    20 The Moments and Whatnauts - Girls
    20 Peter Shelley - Love Me Love My Dog
    20 The Stylistics - Sing Baby Sing
    20 Smokie - If You Think You Know How to Love Me
    20 Bay City Rollers - Money Honey

    16 Paul McCartney & Wings - Band on the Run

    16 Mac and Katie Kissoon - Sugar Candy Kisses -4

     

    00 Gary Glitter - I'd rather not remember you at all -2

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  3. Posted

    23 May

     

    52 Mott the Hoople - All The Young Dudes +4

    49 America - A Horse With No Name

    41 David Bowie — Life on Mars?

    37 Suzi Quatro - 48 Crash

    23 Carly Simon - You’re So Vain -1

     

    00 David Bowie - Drive-In Saturday -5

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  6. Posted

    22nd May

     

    50 David Bowie - Life on Mars? 

    48 Mott the Hoople - All The Young Dudes

    41 America - A Horse With No Name 

    33 Suzi Quatro - 48 Crash +4

    28 Carly Simon - You’re So Vain

    20 Hawkwind - Silver Machine +4

    13 T. Rex - 20th Century Boy 

    13 David Bowie - Drive-In Saturday 

     

    00 The Shangri-Las - Leader of the Pack -6

     

    Temptation accepted. I'm ok with Carly. Actually I'm ok with the shangri-la's too, nothing I detested here but we need to move on.

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  9. Posted

    1 minute ago, YoungWillz said:

    Well, we don't know, although I was being slightly flippant.

     

    6000 feet drop. Dunno if that is usual during turbulence. Might be something to do with the internal design leading to some sort of injury, or maybe the poor person was having airline food and choked to death.

     

    People don't generally die during turbulence - we'll find out soon enough - and then the whistleblowers can tell us what really happened. :lol:

     

    Aye, I know mate. And I'm no defender of Boeing. Just rather focus on their actual flaws.

    It isn't, not by a long way. That's an absolutely massive drop.

    No, they don't because - as above.

    Whistle under seat in case of ditch in ocean 2000 miles from land. Handy. Oh wait not that kind of whistle blower. Yeah, they can :lol:.

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  10. Posted

    1 hour ago, maryportfuncity said:

    Fuck knows which thread this really belongs on but...

     

    There was awesome turbulence, the plane's landed safely albeit with a load of injured and one dead: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8889d7x8j4o

     

    Too late to fasten the seatbelt, heart attack in terror or thrown around to the point of a neck break,  or summat?

     

    Doutbless it'll be revealed in time

     

     

     

    FWIW, my guess would be no seatbelt, out of chair, broke neck or such on roof/overhead locker. Clear air turbulence can occasionally be that bad. I barely fly anymore but have always kept the seatbelt on.

     

     

    33 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

    Boeing. 'Nuff said.

     

    Not this time Willz. Their behaviour as a corporation has been attrocious and it's not an unreasonable thought at all but this could as easily have been an Airbus, it wasn't due to a fault with the plane.

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  11. Posted

    21 May

     

    51 David Bowie - Life on Mars? 

    48 Mott the Hoople - All The Young Dudes 

    43 America - A Horse With No Name 

    34 Carly Simon - You’re So Vain

    29 Suzi Quatro - 48 Crash 

    26 Hawkwind - Silver Machine +4

    18 David Bowie - Drive-In Saturday 

    18 T. Rex - 20th Century Boy

    17 The Shangri-Las - Leader of the Pack -6 

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  13. Posted

    1 hour ago, TQR said:

    Tell you who is evil: those who plant insane ideas in the minds of vulnerable, mentally feeble people like the engineer. Cruelty.

     

     

    They are, but I personally don't think he is particularly mentally feeble (he has at least the strength of character to keep turning up here despite what must be around the 3rd highest facepalm count).

    Merely misguided and seeking conspiracy theories under every rock using his tin-foil-hat device.

    On the plus side, it's his first comment in what must be years now that isn't about the illuminati sponsored vaccine armageddon. Small steps.

     

    ETA: Mere seconds ago I just read This which seems extraordinarily apposite just at this precise moment. I wonder if it's a sign from God? (:P)

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  14. Posted

    1 hour ago, wannamaker said:

     

    Because it's an amazing song (an all-time favourite of mine), at first the goofy sound effects makes it a bit funny, but at the end you genuinely feel sad for the girl. In some kind of way this song is like a proto-Stan, songs that tell a sad story with silly sound effects where the guy ends up dying on a crash.

     

    I hear you - after a fashion anyway.

    But the problem for me is that it's exactly that, the interest is that it's a novelty song with a sad tale.

    What that doesn't do, for me at least, is make it repeatable. Musically it's banal at best and an earworm at worst.

     

    Still, if we all liked the same stuff these threads would be damn short lived.

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  15. Posted

    16 minutes ago, TQR said:

    Honestly thought Hawkwind was a safe bet to qualify :(

     

    So did I but I guess it's a bit marmite.

    It's also not really representative of their general output.  I really like the album Quark Strangeness and Charm (as an example only, there's quite a lot), which I think is much better than this oddity of a single.

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  18. Posted

    These how people look 'on the outside' lists are godawful.

     

    I wouldn't fuck Kim Kardashian with yours. Jo Brand is beautiful on the inside.

    I'd kick both of them out for Ruth Gemmel any day.

     

    Also reminded of - 'Of course I'd swap you for Michelle Pfeifer, but I'd have the grace to feel guilty about it'. (not perhaps verbatim, it's from memory only and a bonus point to anyone remembers where it's from).

     

     

     

    *this post is not fckin serious, none of these people would touch me with a bargepole, and rightly so.

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  19. Posted

    20 May

     

    51 Mott the Hoople - All The Young Dudes +4

    49 David Bowie - Life on Mars? 

    40 America - A Horse With No Name

    33 Carly Simon - You’re So Vain

    32 Hawkwind - Silver Machine   

    30 The Shangri-Las - Leader of the Pack 

    28 T. Rex - 20th Century Boy  

    27 Suzi Quatro - 48 Crash

    20 David Bowie - Drive-In Saturday 

    6 The Drifters - At The Club/Saturday Night At The Movies -6

  20. Posted

    19 May

     

    47 Mott the Hoople - All The Young Dudes +4

    46 America - A Horse With No Name

    45 David Bowie - Life on Mars?

    37 Hawkwind - Silver Machine  

    36 Suzi Quatro - 48 Crash

    31 Carly Simon - You’re So Vain

    30 T. Rex - 20th Century Boy   

    30 The Shangri-Las - Leader of the Pack

    26 David Bowie - Drive-In Saturday

    12 The Drifters - At The Club/Saturday Night At The Movies -6

    06 Python Lee Jackson - In A Broken Dream

  22. Posted

    1 minute ago, Toast said:

     

    It's really selfish not to name them Alfred.  Gives them the option of Fred or Freddie, and is the name of an iconic King.

     

     

    Such a great name for a dog, but you never hear it now.

     

    I was tempted to go with Rover, but we've got our own @RoverAndOut and don't want to cause offence :rolleyes:.

    Fenton also crossed my mind, but too many people don't know the video or mishear it as Benton.

    So, yes, don't know what happened to Fido really, seems dogs names have the same fashion issue as humans.

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  24. Posted

    35 minutes ago, Clorox Bleachman said:

    Charles is his surname so it's okay. I can't stand Firstname Middlename. No one thinks your surname's Zoë.

     

    You don't know some of my friends ......:rolleyes::D

     

    Edit: And now whilst I think of it the only Craig I actually know is a player on my pool team. But I forgot that - because - he detests it so much himself that he goes by 'Sally'.

    And no, I'm not making this up, it seems to amuse him (and other teams we play when we cheer him on).

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