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Both on their new Halloween themed album The story of how that came about is just as sad. Essentially they prostituted themselves in Vegas for a Halloween show where they played Halloween covers. For a band of their stature that is just desperate

I used to live very close to this village whose sign receives similar treatment

If you don't want to be distracted, post in the relevant topic, this topic is about the Labour Party and so is the story, nobody made you read it. I can just see it now, Kier Starmer decides to disassociate his party from a particular MPs actions just to stop the posters of Villa Talk discussing the Israel / Palestine situation. That must have been his thought process, I'm sure of it

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It's also a policy issue. Labour has been a two state solutionist party for as long as I can remember and as FTRTTS is widely interpreted to be a slogan calling for a one state solution (on both sides) so his pronouncement is also against a long held Labour policy (no matter which wing of the party was in the majority) As an aside both Hamas and Likud use a similar phrase in their constitutions, with obviously different intent in terms of the endgame

Treat yourself and claim it back on expenses.

Should have paid the M6 Toll

Yeah like I said that’s the argument put forward but it’s bollocks, makes no sense. No spare tyre just generates more cost for the motorist when they get a puncture and reduces manufacturing costs. No spare saving on CO2 is an arse of argument because now some people have to sit in a farmers field wearing a gimp suit until the big van comes to change the tyre at the roadside and charges you a vastly inflated call out fee compared to calling in for a repair / new tyre. The Tyres we come to you type stuff never used to be a thing, now there are loads of them. Even Kiwk Fit will come out to you now

Im actually beginning to question that last word, she’s an AI hologram run by Viscount Rothermere

Cars don't have spare wheels because the government relaxed the MOT rules to improve profitability. It started off with the space saver then went fully nutty with a can of tyre weld, which half the time means the tyre isn’t repairable if it’s the cheap stuff (which it absolutely usually is.) They might use the weight argument as a justification but you’d save more fuel by only running the car on a quarter of a tank or never carrying any passengers

You can't fool me, that’s Loch Ness, look behind you

Can't you just fashion the gimp suit in the boot into a tyre to get you to the nearest Kwik Fit?

I'm also seeing a numpty confess to not being able to see "the worlds biggest pothole" before he hits it If your car doesn't come with a spare tyre, buy one

See all I'm seeing is a numpty confessing to not being able to change a tyre

I think you missed the sarcasm

SHit week 61, I also captained Watkins not Haaland. My double Newcastle defence scored a whopping zero between them. Red arrows everywhere you look I'm still happy with last weeks transfer activity though even though I'd have been better off not doing it.

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Yes, two women arrested for it today, caught doing it with a megaphone, on video. Both women appeared to be white

You can get an annulment on those grounds

Today I bought an album (on CD) called Battle of the Wills released in 1980 by a bloke called Tymon Dogg. No idea what it sounds like as I haven’t played it yet. I'm imagining it to be folky with violins but only time will tell. I just find the whole scene he was part of quite fascinating but his story is kind of interesting in itself. It seems he was from Formby and used to play at The Cavern and other clubs in Liverpool when he was only 15 but soon enough he gets a record contract and moves to that London, releasing this as a single. (Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones as session men) He then leaves Pye Records for Apple where he’s booked in for a recording session to be produced by Peter Asher (of Peter and Gordon, Jane Asher’s brother), Pull McCarthorse on piano and James Taylor on guitar, except he buggers off with the master tapes because he thinks they are trying to turn him into Herman and the Hermit. So then he moves on to touring with The Moody Blues and he and Justin Hayward write some songs together which results in this single… So so far we're in typical had the opportunities but didn’t quite make it territory and he kind of drifts off the pop scene and finds himself in the Notting Hill squat scene and is just playing folk clubs. Now that squat scene is where British punk and Post-punk was born. One of his fellow squatters was none other than Joe Strummer, who he kind of takes under his wing and mentors him through the 101ers and the early days of the Clash. Also living in their squat at this time were The Slits (and presumably nearby or even in this house was Nora Forster, Ari Up's mother and future wife of John Lydon). There were lots of other artists in and around too for this is also the scene that would spawn On-U Sound and spread its tentacles to via Y Records to Bristol and influence their scene too. A complete melting pot. Anywaytime moves on and Dogg moves out of the squat. Later on he's collaborating with the Clash on Sandinista and Combat Rock. But one of his Sandinista tracks was released as a single under his name Lose This Skin and The Clash got no mention on the single at all, it is therefore probably the rarest single by The Clash to find. The Clash implode and what happens happens but before Sandinista was released he released his album Battle of Wills on Dick O'Dell's Y records, home to the Slits, The Pop Group, Maximum Joy et al, His was the last ever release and it was only rereleased the other week for the first time (it’s this album I bought today). Dogg continues but has already moved to the North East to live. He then works with the likes of Ian Hunter (Mott the Hoople) and Ellen Foley before returning to help the Clash with Combat Rock. The clash then implode and he and Strummer lose touch. He carries on working and does stuff with the Poison Girls and often supported them. In 2000 Strummer and Dogg are reunited at some poetry competition organised by Michael Horrovitz and perform an impromptu set with bizarrely Lilly Allen on backing vocals (her live debut), from that point forward he joins Strummer in the Mescaleros until Strummers unlikely demise. I just find the inter connectivity of these things fascinating and I have an obvious interest in that Ladbroke Grove squat scene and what it produced but Tymon Dogg seems to have lived through a lot.

It's like the old joke what’s worse than The White Album? Two White Albums

Last night I had a bottle of Abbaye de Vaulclair Blanche. (Lidl's own) For a wheat beer it was ok taste wise but a little thin on the body, which is why it comes in at below 5%. I guess if you wanted a session Wit it'd be ok but who wants a session Wit, you'd be shitting for England the next day 5/10

You sir are a Laughing Stock

Me too but it was Siouxsie and the Banshees in the middle of Happy House when she walked through the door

She got up early the other day Pissed me right off, I was in the middle of an album I was really enjoying, chatter natter talk talk… Shurrup and go back to bed was what I wanted to say