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I've shed a few tears for you

2nd video of skilled hands free smoking I’ve seen in minutes

It depends what terminal you are at. T1 and most of T2 is easy though there is that odd bit of T2 away from the rest plus T3 where you have to get the shuttle bus to the station

Portishead Pulp The Verve Supergrass Garbage Suede Radiohead Primal Scream Electronic

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Tbh it was always going to hit a brick wall. CDs being released months before the vinyl is commonplace now. The biz needs to stop rereleasing albums year on year because the pressing plants that are left are at capacity for 12” product. The only room for growth is in the 7” & 10” product. Only weirdos buy 7” singles these days because they are shockingly bad value for money now that people are trying to turn a profit on them which wasn’t the case in days of yore, they were cheap giveaways to promote albums which were the real product. And I’ve always been a sucker for 10” records, probably because it goes back to the original dub plates which often were in that format. I’ve bought more 10” records this year than any other year I think. The Advisory Circle released their latest album as a double 10” and I predict more of this. A Wire side project did similar the year before. I predict more of this will happen if there is to be growth TLDR it’s Taylor Swifts fault

Think you have that a bit wrong. Cool Britannia came about because of the success of Britpop and Blair becoming PM. They weren’t riding the wave, they and Blur, Spice Girls etc were the catalyst of Cool Britannia

I had this thought before Xmas that a needle might be due and I should for once buy early. Forgot.

Nonsense, Marquee Moon (Best debut album ever?) wasn't released until 1977. The NME had been championing punk and decided that everything that went before it was crap a good two years before Marquee Moon was released

Can't lsiten to vinyl until Wednesday probably grrrrrr

YMO were essentially the Japanese Kraftwerk, the US Hip Hip scene around the time of the Sugar Hill Gang and Afrika Bambata sampled YMO massively. Credited as releasing the first album made up almost entirely of samples and loops Also a huge influence on the New Romantic bands such as Duran Duran and obviously Japan, who Sakamoto would go on to work with. There's even a YMO vs The Human League thing out there. Pioneers also of ambient house, techno... it's a big list But you know, if Dave hasn't heard of them...

He did well to beat bandmate Ryuichi Sakamoto who has cancer for the second time and is at Stage 4

Awaits the influx of posters that will tell you that no circle can be perfect if Paris is the centre

Agreed and their response will incorrect too. They won't prepare Sunak better, they'll refuse to be interviewed by STV bloke again, just like the refused to go on Ch4 News for ages

I think most politicians could have answered it perfectly adequately as you say but this is Sunak, he's shit at it.

That's not really the way things work. One on one interviews like that are generally agreed in advance. Yes they are propaganda. We've seen it with Sunak before. There's a video out there of a journo going off piste and Sunak just unable to answer, so he says the interview is over and walks off, with his microphone still attached making him look like a masive dick. It seems he at least learned that lesson. But this will keep happening and it could be any subject. Sunak is useless at interviews and public speaking. Well he's useless at many things that involve personal interaction and empathy but public speaking and interviews are just one of the most obvious things

Clearly I'm no Sunak fan but to be fair to him, that's an ambush. He clearly wasn't there to talk about a theoretical de facto referendum extrapolated from the next General Election results. That is also a terrible awfully desperate tactic from the SNP. I'm no fan of Johnson either but you get the impression that Johnson would have answered the question and told the interviewer what a dreadful idea it was. Truss would have talked about Goat's Milk (and probably pronounced it milf) Starmer wouldn't have answered the question either but he's have done it with more polish and come across as human But it does essentially boil down to it being an ambush and a silly notion. Sunak just hasn't got the balls to go off script, he's the lad from school that did well in tests as long as he knew what the question would be beforehand

Thread resurection. I think I mentioned I got a Ninja Hot and cold blender (or soup maker but iots much more than that really) for Xmas. Now we've managed to get around to buying food thermos' to take to work, the new soup for lunch regime is about to start Method on link (Ninja Test Kitchen) Waiting for it to cool but just had a little taste to test and it tastes lovely. Also I used an extra clove or garlic because, well I like garlic. Obviously without the hot/cold blender the method would be slightly different but should be easy to adapt Just had a quick calculation and if that is 4 portions its just a touch over 150 calories per portion

I'm totally Heath Robinson. My proudest moment was on holiday in France in a rented apartment. The Missus and daughter we playing some game that involved the toilet door being opened and closed (I have no idea - don't ask) and somehow managed to rip the door off its hinges leaving some of the door attached to the hinge. Feeeerrrrk! I took a trip to the local DIY shop and came back with wood glue and a clamp (and some screws iirc). The repair was superb, the door hung and in the words of Eric Morecombe, you couldn't see the join. Still no idea how I managed it For all other DIY I may attempt, I have the bible

But that isn't what the conversation is about

So the trigger was COVID, the response was money printing. Governments didn't cause COVID

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Yeah, that'll be because its on fish

This is worth 12 minutes of your time, It's a translated interview with Andrey Piontkovsky, aRussian mathemetician, political writer, anylyst and former Putin opposition activist, who has been living in exile This is about what is going on in Russia behind the headlines and how the warlords like Kadyrov (Chechens), Prigozhin (Wagner) and others including Shiogu (Minister of Defence) are assembling private armies in readiness for the inevitable civil war that will erupt when (not if) Russia loses and Putin is gone. It references some things I hadn't heard, like Kadyrovs New Years address where he said that they had commited enough troops already and some I had but hadn't realised the significance like when Prigozhin was taking by the Russian bodybags and then went to meeet Ukrainian POWs and saying this story needs to be over (most accounts foucused on the bodybags bit). I also didn't realise that Shoigu was also buiding a private army The idea here is that these warlords know the war is lost and they are preparing for the aftermath. This was talked about some time back and it hasn't really been mentioned much since

Further proof that Elon Musk taking over Twotter is a band thing. People think they can just post photos of atrocities now without fear of retribution