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Presumably beheaded or stoned to death

The Sister in law sleeping on our couch f***ing up my morning routine. Get up and f*** the f*** OFF

Wordle 924 3/6

He’s toast anyway, smallest Tory majority (105) I presume he’s already job hunting

It’s probably quicker, actually going in is hell with all the delivery riders these days

So that's where the phrase going round the Wrekin (Drive) comes from

There is also a Super Furries EP that has a closed groove in the middle of the record so you have to get up and bump the needle if you want to hear the last track on that side. Chris will know which one it is, B-Sides from RIngs around the world maybe that came out on RSD the other year. I've also got a Papernut Cambridge album that plays from the inside out on one side

iirc its track 99 on Second Coming

You want stupid things people do with text messages and that's writing down a shopping list on paper, taking a photo of the list and sending that as a picture message and thats without the added stupidity of the list having items like... tomatoes. (just tomatoes, not a hint of size, amount or what they are for) Yep thats the missus, no concept of me having to read her hand writing, shit spelling and vague amounts off a text photo whilst walking round a supermarket.

Call it what you want, it's just not something that interests me, it used to but it's just too nerdy for my time

The latest Yo La Tengo album has a secret side As in only the tracks on the first three sides are listed on the album but side 4 is one long 7 minute instrumental One of those famous "secret tracks" was Train in Vain on London Calling, it wasn't really secret, it was recorded as a B-side after the album sessions iirc but was deemed too good for a B-side and was hurriedly added to the album but they didn't have time to change the artwork Oh yeah and closed grooves at the end of albums, can't do that on a CD can you

Absolutely get that, I'm the same with early period Bunnymen out takes I still maintain that most bonus tracks are either filler or inferior takes

Toughie but I think the mantra is play the fixture. On paper our game is the easier fixture In other news, I've decided my transfer this week is Kabore out for Estupinian which gains me the extra flexibility in defence I've been looking for and then the following week it's likely to be either Joao Pedro or Cuhna for Semenyo to get me through the international Tournaments Then looking at offloading Tripper and Gordon... but hey, there'll be fires to fight by then no doubt.

But she answered the text in her sleep

You know that thing that you're sending those messages on has this revolutionary feature that lets you speak to someone in real time and actually hold one of those old fashioned conversations where you can usually get everything sorted out in seconds

The even funnier aspect of this is the sheer amount of serious news outlets that reported it as a fire for a good number of hours and even included that shit video from a phone that someone had posted on social media. Hours that story ran as it actually being a fire.

#metoo Still had a decent week minor green arrow and I'm up to 7th in my ML and clawed back 40 pointsish against the leader

You blew it over my way, complete fluke Wordle 923 2/6*

Yep, this is me too

Another one I forgot from this year. Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World. I said it at the time that it was very Sonic Youth, I stand by that. It probably goes in the honourable mentions section as opposed to the big list.

Its an audiophile response. I'm not an audiophile. I have a decent inexpensive HiFi. Its not all about the quality of sound. It's about the whole package, the experience, the reading of the sleeve notes, actually being able to see the artwork, the inability to easily skip tracks you don't like, you have to listen to the whole thing. CDs are good for sound, I get that but they are also instant and disposable. CDs rarely hold memories for me, vinyl on the other hand seems to remind me of an awful lot of life events. The CD era also seemed to bring forth the era of chucking as much shit onto an album as possible, standard album lengths went up from 40 minutes to 70 and the extra half an hour was generally shite. Bonus tracks are rarely any good, generally worse than your average B side in the 7" era. If people want to be audiophiles, that's fine, their choice but it's nonsense, especially to me who suffers from tinnitus, there are frequencies I can't hear well at all. Where vinyl is going wrong is pandering to the extreme audiophiles... 180g vinyl, single albums over two discs that play at 45rpm etc. I've got groove jammed 10 tracks a side Elvis Costello albums pressed on flimsy vinyl that play just fine for me. Audiophiles can have their soulless CDs and FLACs, I buy CDs but I'm less likely to play them for reasons I can't fully explain but like someone said above, all those bonus tracks can be really annoying, their are nice to have if you have a special interest in the artist but generally its inferior filler.

I really don’t like Metallica and they aren’t the worst thing on your list

Dog shit used to resemble water biscuits in the 70s

If he retains his interest in trains, when he's older you could take him to stay at Currour Station House on the West Highland Line. An actual station, miles from anywhere in Scotland. Nearest road is ten miles away I think and the highest mainline station in the UK

I presumed when he mentioned Kortney Hause, he was just going to get him to mow his lawn, not actually play football