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Reply | Things You Have Changed Your Mind About
at 16:37 20 Nov 2024
Oooh, olives, salty almonds and freezing cold dry sherry, holiday heaven.
1970s music. I read a review of Chris Stapleton at the O2 by NW5 Hoop in the Spectator where he described his sound as imported intact from 1972 (I’m paraphrasing, in case he’s reading). As a true son of punk I would have curled my lip in my best Sid Vicious sneer up to five years ago but I’ve finally opened my mind and started to appreciate the craft and quality that went into music then. I don’t know to what extent it’s customer taste or the economics of the recording industry but listening to music of any genre and there seems to be so much more going on. I might have mentioned Mrs Sheen likes an NPR jazz station WGBO of Newark and they often have a 70s funk show on Sunday lunchtime. Never heard the tracks or in most cases the bands, but the sound is sensational - brass, percussion, guitars, singers - it sounds like there’s at least a dozen in the studio at once. What we’ve lost… |
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Reply | Wembley Stadium
at 10:43 20 Nov 2024
Typical Wembley, fur coat and no knickers. We’re not just Willesden, we’re Kilburn and Harlesden too. |
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Reply | Wembley Stadium
at 13:47 19 Nov 2024
I’m still willing to take up arms to take back the occupied territories - Staines and Ashford. |
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Reply | Wembley Stadium
at 19:42 17 Nov 2024
Next to the Married At First Sight Flats. My daughter told me. |
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Reply | Beautiful women sports stars
at 13:54 16 Nov 2024
Surviving women’s world records from the 1980s:
100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 4x400m.
Heptathlon, High Jump, Long Jump, Discus, Shot
https://trackandfieldnews.com/records/womens-world-records/
Only Flo-Jo and Jackie-Joyner Kersee standing up for the Free World. There’s only one surviving men’s record from the 80s, the Hammer, but quite a few from the 90s, eg High Jump, Long Jump, 1500m, 4x400m. |
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Reply | Beautiful women sports stars
at 09:42 16 Nov 2024
I mostly agree, but the ambition of the athletes to succeed within a system that otherwise gave them nothing played a small part. When East Germany fell, researchers found a letter from Marita Koch (still 400m world record holder) to the athletic authorities complaining that Bärbel Wöckel was getting better steroids because her uncle ran a pharmaceutical company. |
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Reply | Beautiful women sports stars
at 23:29 15 Nov 2024
41 years on, still holds the 800m world record, the oldest on the books. Kids today, just aren’t willing to put the effort in. [Post edited 15 Nov 23:31]
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Reply | Bluesky
at 09:56 15 Nov 2024
Just need Danny P to show us the Irish Tricolour fluttering over Mars, or “The Rebel Planet” as it will be renamed. [Post edited 15 Nov 10:07]
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Reply | Bluesky
at 09:41 15 Nov 2024
Crystal Palestine |
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Reply | Bluesky
at 15:06 14 Nov 2024
275m did seem improbable given its lack of public impact! |
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Reply | Bluesky
at 12:51 14 Nov 2024
I imagine even the Green Party is a lot less civil these days, given their expulsions and lawsuits.
I was reading on Bloomberg today that Bluesky users have increased from 10m in September to 15m this week. Threads has 275m. Another resemblance to the Green Party? [Post edited 14 Nov 12:51]
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Reply | Bluesky
at 21:59 11 Nov 2024
I gave it up years ago, but I wouldn’t replace it with a knock-off. I prefer communities based around my interests (not necessarily my priors), rather than all-comers. |
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Reply | Half decent tv
at 21:53 11 Nov 2024
After a 9 year wait, the second series of Wolf Hall has arrived on the BBC. I probably should have watched the first again to remind myself who all these characters are and what they want (not helped by some of them having to be recast since) so it takes a lot of concentration and careful listening but it is well worth the effort. Looks amazing, commands your attention, a real treat. |
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Reply | RIP Quincy Jones
at 08:47 4 Nov 2024
I thought he was going to live forever. What a career! |
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Reply | Half-time entertainment
at 14:32 3 Nov 2024
I said to the man next to me, they’re on a hiding to nothing here. Either, “anyone can do that” or “they can’t even do that”. Even round-the-pole would have been a better idea. |
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