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You forgot While My Ringpiece Gently Weeps

Far be it for me to comment on the appearance of your missus but come on man have some respect, she can't possibly look like a chip shop

If you increase the number of small boats, there will be more naturally occurring speed bumps, thus saving the tax payer money

Love you hun

Father of Scottish descent with heavy Welsh influence. Google comes up with nothing

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Interestingly, I had three possible words for my second guess today, the NYT Wordle Bot reckons there were only two. There definitely were three words, the one the bot didn't know and therefore presumably isn't in the database, is a homonym for the solution but with an entirely different meaning

Wordle 772 2/6

There was a chippy in Waterloo where I used to live that did this unique thing called a spitfire, it was essentially a piece of cod with a scallop on top and another on the bottom, then deep fried in batter. The chippy had been there for three generations, they invented this thing and you could only get them in there, people would come from afar just to get them. What I don’t understand is why no-one has ever replicated it, even in the locality the chippy used to be in. They were magnificent

Nah even then he was saving children’s lives by sending them down coal mines

When did he actually have any?

So they wouldn’t have banned smoking in public places because people would talk shite on SM? That’s what Dem was saying I reckon not

What’s that got to do with what you said? Of course they have

Why on earth would anyone think this? When has any Government stopped doing anything similar science / health because of the outcry on Social Media? ULEZ? - nope COVID vaccine rollout? - Nope COVID Lockdown? - nope None of those were stopped because of SM all that happened was that some whoppers turned into bigger whoppers

Erm…

It’s not. This man is one of the more intelligent denizens of Widnes, he's had a lobotomy, that’s an NHS toupee

Haha, Discogs leper Been there done that myself You should have seen the discussion about the latest pressing of the My Bloody Valentine album Loveless and the fact I wanted to distinguish between those sold off the bands website that included one form of artwork and those released into the wild that had different inserts. I wanted to distinguish them by the weight of the shrink wrapped product. That one went of for over a week

They were extremely in favour of it. They are for anything that removes the Russian connection from their country, they’ve been busy tearing down all the soviet era statues, even the Orthodox Church in Ukraine has separated from the Russian one. What is left of the pro-Russian OC has been under suspicion of spying for Putin. The Ukrainians are very much in favour of the change. Also the change started as far back as 2020 and even prior to that the Julian calendar Xmas was was a public holiday in Ukraine as was the Gregorian Calendar Xmas because there were always a significant proportion of followers of the Romanian OC in Ukraine and the Romanian branch of the faith follow the Julian calendar anyway. Oh and don’t mention the Armenians in Ukraine celebrating it a day later again… Also worth noting that Xmas has only been allowed at all since the end of the soviet era

That’s not the original cover And they still got sued over it by the four Shriners in the cars Its also not a typical DK album Frankenchrist, I love the nods to Morricone's Spaghetti Western soundtracks in the guitar work

I was on a Bulgarian flight run by the national carrier at the time, just after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The plane was basic, you could see the rivets in the metalwork, none of that fancy panelling you get these days. It wasn’t that full and we hit some turbulence. The air hostesses reaction was to break out the red sparkling wine (and when I say red I mean deep crimson red - never seen or tasted anything like it before or since) and the Russian ciggies. Russian ciggies were back then and probably still are, the most rough heinous things known to man, they might as well have been filterless. The whole aircraft was thick with acrid, yet vibrating smoke (due to the turbulence) within a couple of minutes, Quite bizarre when I think back on it Nobody quite like the former soviet countries back then for lack of safety and ignoring risk

Haha if it’s music you're after, that isn’t it BUT…. Some of those who like drone consider it a masterpiece. It is of course influenced by his former band mate, John Cale's experimental work in the early 60s… and heroin. Possibly one of the bravest or dumbest records ever released by a major rock star, it absolutely trashed his reputation for years Also for fans of Star Trek, the race of aliens known as the Breen's language was based on MMM, the people making up the language were told to use it as their reference point. I'd buy a copy of it just to listen to it once for the experience if it was cheap enough. It’s not something that’s pleasant to listen to but it is one of the most important records ever made, it’s influence spreads far and wide

Haha I just had to look up if Anthony Gordon was actually from Widnes (he isn’t) but someone has had a little go at editing his wiki

Those days never really existed. Profits have always gone to the shareholders A lot of shareholders of large multinational companies are pension companies

Fiduciary responsibility

It's really not a chicken and egg situation. Blaming it on the complacency of savers when there's Eff all point in saving is dumb If the carrot was there maybe the donkeys would follow