Godot

I wonder if will switch to Gangnam style. He's looking a bit passe these days.

Well I never! We're a bit cut off in Godot Towers so only just heard the news. I found this celebrity age tracker (they haven't heard yet either) that tells you how old other members of the cast of Dad's Army would have been. Private Godfrey would have been 116. James Beck (Private Walker) has been dead nearly 40 years!

A good day today to recall palindromic dates . Plenty more this year if you forget.

That all over warm feeling you get when the man who put w***er in to tat is given the bum's rush by a US TV station. Were all those strategically placed mud smears all for naught?

Let me get this straight Banshees. Someone hired you???? You stood next to someone bizarre in an elevator? How do you think they felt?

Wanted, one cool box, extra large.

Harry you can always be relied on to post the important deaths. I never knew there were books DDT. I only ever saw the telly version which could be quite racy for a four-year-old. It taught me all my social skills. I don't think I'd ever heard swearing on TV until Tag turned round to Bobtail one day and told him to fuck right off. And that was many years before Bill Grundy.

Spade you're such a cynic. Good to give him his own thread. Now we can post Joey Kony sightings.

Take it easy, have a drink, chew the fat and oh, if we must, chase the robber.

Don't look at my photographs on Facebook anytime soon Godot . But you're not posting them every bloody day.

Awful, isn't it? I joined a family history site with the same calibre of posters. They get upset so easily. I once helped someone find what happened to one of their great great great etc grandmothers. The old woman committed suicide. I posted that...I got a telling off and my post was removed because the poster may have found it 'distressing'. If you are critical of them, they almost have a nervous breakdown! Any 'controversial' threads which lead to differing (usually political) opinions are locked. If you question the moderator's judgement, you get PM'd by someone higher up the chain to be told 'be nicer to the mods because they have been kind enough to volunteer their time'. It really is terrible. So far I have managed not to get banned, but I don't post much there any more. That reminds me. I posted this image in the landscapes section that was maybe a bit marginal and the twat who moderates the section kicked it out - and he's a shit photographer too. So I started a forum debate on what or was not a landscape, pointing out loads of other pics in the section that were a lot dodgier and far crapper than mine and people were getting kicked out left right and centre so I didn't make myself too popular there. But I did have fun.

I can post any old crap and I'll get about 20 people "liking" it. The wife invited me to Pinterest. I've yet to put anything up there and already have 10 people following me. I might wait till I get 100 people following me until I decide to do anything. Can't remember how many are following me on Twitter, I have posted anything there for several months and still get one or two new people a week Pinterest deserves its own spot here. I had a look then got outa there fast. Sooner or later you won't be able to go for a piss without someone knowing on the internet or comparing "streams" in iPhone pics. It's all getting out of hand, pardon the pun.

Photographs of sunrises and sunsets. Out of boredom I joined one of these online photographic sites where everyone is nice to everyone else. One woman posts the same sunrise scene every fucking day, I kid you not, and it seems to get other posters creaming their jeans. I post a flower or an interesting rock or something and no fucker notices. At least I can come here and sound off or exchange insults. I mean some people post really shit pictures and people are putting up comments like "gorgeous" and "magnificent". No-one can bring themselves to say the obvious. It's as if you pass through a shit-to-nice converter when you enter the portal. Even I find myself making pleasant comments on stuff like an out-of-focus pepper pot that some misguided disillusioned twat believes is a work of art. All I can say of the experience so far is that it disproves the infinite monkey theorem. There ain't no David Baileys in that place.

Indeed, I'd say 3/10 is generous. Whatever you do, don't attempt Bob Dylan's Tarantula, it's enough to make Cohen's efforts look focussed and down to earth. Speaking of tales of rampant sexuality my PhD studies lately led me through H.G. Wells' three volumes of autobiography. The third one - H.G. Wells in Love - is summat of a relentless bonk-fest, with some splendid psycho-babble about his eliptical relationship with his "Lover-Shadow" thrown in. A bit old-school in the telling and lacking the specifics of exactly what got shoved where but it's an eye-opener to the levels of rampant shagging in supposedly constrained times. Michael Foot's biography on Wells is worth reading if it's Wells you're studying MPFC, not as much shagging in that one but lots on his loopy ideas on eugenics. I mean he was no Adonis,so how did he pull the women?

Twelve pounds fifty for a bus ride? Where was he taking you? Honolulu?

The pathetic brass brass band that supports the England football team, inanely playing (badly) the theme tune to the Great Escape ad fucking nauseum, and the national anthem that no-one wants to hear and Rule Bloody Britannia. Am I alone in cringing with embarrassment and wanting to put a boot through the TV every time I hear this. Now if they could play the Muppets' theme tune it might be appropriate.

How Jeb survived. Looking at this I don't know how he survived. He's my hero.

Not that romantic. It doesn't look as if DDT gives her many of his surefire tips. Still it's nice to have a hobby you can share.

I don't think it's the class divisions that needs reviving, it's having a good time whichever class you're in. People are generally far too miserable these days, alcohol has become the new demon (they've got rid of smoking almost); beer in my local has gone up to 3 guineas a pint. Holy shit! It was 2/6 (about 12p) when I first started going to a pub..... Half a crown? You wuz robbed. A pint of Younger's Tartan was 1/6 when I first started, mind it was like dish water. You could drink that stuff all night and still pass a breath test.

Shit, that's sad, I know knew her, one tough woman who'd already lost an eye in Sri Lanka. She was never the type to report from across the border like others do. She wanted to be where the action was so I suppose we shouldn't be surprised. RIP Marie. Always the way . With the high amount of scum journlists in the world one of the few good ones dies. I know a lot of journalists and the vast majority of those I know are decent people so be careful who you're calling scum when you clearly know fuck all about journalism. Hacking dead school girls' phones and laying down in gutters to take photo's photos up a girl's dress doesn't sound scummy at all. Nothing wrong with the odd "up shot". Most of the crotch shots I've seen involve shamless b-listers who'll do anything to promote themselves. I wouldn't defend phone hacking; that was shabby. My point is that only a small minority of journos were involved in that, not "many". A lot of this stuff that's shocking people is not just about the methods used to get information but also about the targets and the personal nature of the stuff disclosed. I'd be happy to report the hacked phone traffic of the Syrian military as some have done today, and I could see why some might monitor police frequencies. Sometimes you have to use technology to find stuff out. The question is whether the stuff is in the public interest or not. I don't think there is a public interest defence in listening to a hacked telephone conversation where the future King of England is describing himself to his mistress as a tampon. Or maybe there is.

OK Spade not complete bollocks but far too simplistic. I come from as working class a background as it's possible to get but I wouldn't have been surprised to find that my parents voted conservative - they never told me and I never asked. They had values, I suppose, that were more aligned to the BBC than ITV - and so do I. I couldn't warm to Magpie, but I couldn't relate much to people like Christopher Trace or Valerie Singleton either. But John Noaks, well he was very down to earth and working class. It's not just a class thing but a bit of a north-south thing too. The middle class is very strong down south but in the north in my town when I was a kid there weren't many middle class people so there were no Jonses to keep up with or to suggest what TV station to watch. The BBC just seemed better and didn't have any adverts. But when the other side did something decent such as Coronation Street, we watched it. The thing is, nearly all the best stuff was on BBC. ITV had Tommy Cooper, Benny Hill and World In Action and that was about it. Another thing - middle class very definitely didn't mean better as James Cameron pointed out when he showed all the Irish having a great time down in third class on Titanic - until it sunk and they all died. There's a lot to be said for the working class. It needs to be revived.

I've given up being nice for Lent.

Think you might be right watching this... Incredible!! But this guy can't have long to go because accidents do happen.... Although he managed to survive too! Why he wears a crash helmet. His broken legs are a serious setback in his bid to end it all before the year's out.

Spade that's bollocks.

Shit, that's sad, I know knew her, one tough woman who'd already lost an eye in Sri Lanka. She was never the type to report from across the border like others do. She wanted to be where the action was so I suppose we shouldn't be surprised. RIP Marie. Always the way . With the high amount of scum journlists in the world one of the few good ones dies. I know a lot of journalists and the vast majority of those I know are decent people so be careful who you're calling scum when you clearly know fuck all about journalism.