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You can be as far away from a more normal position as possible on that circle but if it helps you can go for the modified horseshoe The real answer is obviously the political compass approach but that doesn't really help normal not really engaged people where their affiliations lie

You are comparing apples and pears. Comparing Shitey Witney to proper bread is just silly, they are very distant cousins

Sue Ellen should be first tbh

Communism and Fascism are very similar politically. The terms far left and far right are pointless as they allude to a linear scale of political thought, when a circle is a more relevant description. Communism and Fascism would be very close to each other on the circle

Rekorderlig cider or whatever it’s called

I definitely did. And I've just had to do a weekly shop with the added hilarity of trying to buy two suitable birthfay cards for the two birthday parties I'm going to tonight. I suspect tonight will be messier still Anyway, last nights gig, the reformed The Room and their album launch. Good gig and they did actually do three old ones including @Seat68's favourite Things Have Learned to Walk That Ought to Crawl plus Numb and New Dreams for Old. The rest was a run through of the new album which sounded good and now I have a copy I'll be listening to that over the coming days. I knew there's be a number of old friends there but didn't know who, I won't bore you with who but some things I found out last night... Apparently I know the bloke that runs Witchita Records, news to me, I will have to research There is a video on YouTube of our old stage crew unloading a truck for a Gillan gig at the Ritz in Manchester, unsure if I'm in it, again, will have to look it up Oh and I can still drink 9 pints and remain standing and have a meaningful conversation, I thought I might have lost that

I saw the Charlatans in Bridlington one December

Southampton, never have I ever been anywhere so culturally.... deficient It's a city with the culture of a hamlet, nothing happens there, it's devoid of anyting interesting The fact that the missus sister lives there is beside the point, even ignoring that blight on the landscape... it's CITY where absolutely nothing happens... ever

This is getting messy

What time do the clubs shut in Brum?

Wouldn't the money come from some sort of negligence insurance?

Countless dead footballers including Jeff Astle are wondering if you are confused

I mentioned it the other day, Lost 80s Indie classic. The Room - In Evil Hour. Not going to waffle on about it again and it's on because I'm off out to see their first gig since 1985 tonight. I really don't expect to hear any of this though as it's clearly The Room mk3, another new start.

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Any AMSTRAD that doesn't have the iconic Double Cassette deck isn't worth having

Do Liverpool really do that? Sure there's a (very gut wrenching) Beatles tourist industry here but that doesn't receive any council funding etc There used to be a Beatles themed festival called the Matthew St festival which was council funded but that was cut out of the culture programme a long time before any budget cuts. The Liverpool Culture Company, despite cuts are still promoting events in the city to attract tourists and those events have very little to do with the Beatles. The Beatles industry is something that developeed naturally with all the American and Japanese tourists that came to the city every year. People filled a need and created their own businesses, it promotes itself. Football is a far bigger attractor to Liverpool than the Beatles in terms of tourist spend by a big margin Does Birmingham have a council run department that runs festivals and other cultural events? A city the size of Birmingham should have stuff on every weekend, big iconic events. In the summer we have Festivals in Sefton park, some of them are even free. There's other festivals like the Smithdown Road Festival where all the bars on the road put up stages, the road is closed, it all takes council approval and help but does anything like that happen in Birmingham? Councils need to act as a catalyst, offer advice and help too, to these events, show they can be done and after a while private business takes over and they become self serving. The idea that Liverpool's tourism or Manchester's for that matter is about The Beatles or Joy Division / The Smiths is silly, they are cultural reference points, that is all. Football does much more for both those cities tourism than music but the music of today plays a part, not some museum acts that don't exist any more Birmingham Council doesn't seem to have the imagination or the will to try and attract such events. The city has lots of parks that would be suitable, it has a musical history, they should use thos parks for festivals, they should use Birminghams fantastic multicultural history as another reference point. In short Birmingham doesn't celebrate it's cultural history anywhere near enough. It really is a case of build it and they will come.

You clearly don't know many Evertonians

Why wasn't shit an option? It doesn't even have the ONE THING that Amstrad introduced to the world of hifi

FTFY

It's great over here to, except there are none near me. Miles better than Aldi which is shit. There is a rumour that a former gym in the village has been bought by Lidl but as yet no signs of demolition let alone construction.

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In the plus column that's a significantly different take on the song in the negative column, it's sucked all the life out of it. Still its nowhere near as awful as the Paul Young version

I'll wager that a majority of the UK electorate don't even know who the Chancellor of the Exchequer currently is nor will they care. He's an absolute non-entity