chrisp65

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO94MYyc7SE

noooooooo From memory, I somehow got an early copy of the Plastic Letters album whilst in Germany on holiday with my parents. I decided I'd take it home and appear cool and sophisticated and continental. Turned out it was genuinely **** awesome! I urge a quick visit to the music thread for Detroit 442.... Debbie Harry was responsible for an unexplained spike in tissue use in our house.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VA8cwqlIZI

I once ordered a baby octopus salad as I only wanted something light. When it arrived it was a structural marvel, it was a giant pyramid of dozens of whole baby octopus with a token bit of shredded lettuce at the base and about three olives. Once you got over the squirms of sticking the fork in the first few it was heffing gorgeous. there are few things in life that can beat coming across juicy melons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-WXzz9cZLc the second half of the 70's, what a time for music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAtUw6lxcis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ0EoavJ2ss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue5jyj_nosc

I've just googled up some images of that shirt. It's not a great shirt. But I'd rank it below Ebola and ISIS in the list of things to get stressed about.

I kid you snot. I had auditions to be the milky bar kid when I wee lad. Ah, if mum could see her little darling now, one minute auditioning to be the clean cut and homespun Milky Bar kid, the next, licking sweat off the tits of a stranger in some foreign club.

Milky Bar

I already know I'd hate the music made by the long haired clearing in the woods in the clearing in the woods sunglasses, he looks like a clearing in the woods.

Nah, it's horses for courses innit. In my little social circle I've got friends that are 'proud' to be married and others that are resolutely single and some that have long term partners. I don't see any of them obviously more happy than the others. You do sometimes see people that are sad singles because they are desperate for a partner, but you suspect their tick list of 'must have attributes' and the slight smell of desperation are what's making them stay unselected by that illusive other half. You do also see people that you can't work out why they bother being together, they clearly don't really like each other and yearn for something else. What's the bloody point of that? But marriage for life really really works for some people - and the very best of luck to 'em too. I think the main problem is people pressuring people into any one size fits all system.

My totally vague contribution, I've seen a programme where there was an investigation into the amount of deliberate shooting high that was going on with both sides and how long it took to get troops into the mindset where they would deliberately harm 'the enemy'. Whole encounters with the enemy where lots of ammunition was used, no ground gained either way and hardly a casualty with upper ranks going apoplectic at the 'incompetence'. A few weeks of sleeping in the rain and shitting where you stand and seeing some casualties had to pass before troops would aim low enough to actually shoot anyone. But just like all WWI stuff, it's difficult to know what's true and what's propaganda and myth.

14th November 1908, Albert Einstein gives the world his quantum theory on light. Not sure of the exact wording, but it's along the lines of 'nobody ever admits leaving the **** bathroom light on, but the bathroom light is always **** on.' 14th November 1922, first BBC radio broadcast. 15th November 1922, commentator Alan Green heard to tut and sigh and mention it's not as good as it used to be.

the number of chavs on 'ere that watch ITV

Octopus today. Weirdest thing though, I stuck the fork in a piece of octo leg and did that sort of drag around the plate to snow shovel up some sauce. The sucky pad things stuck to the plate! Definite resistance when I tried to get it of the plate. Tastey though, one he finally gave up the fight.

twitter can be excellent if used correctly and you can easily filter out the crap I use it keep tabs on a couple of bands, keep tabs on a couple of friends and hook up with escorts when I'm staying over in a new town. My other account I keep strictly for trolling the recently bereaved.

I was actually hovering over the 'ignore', he'd have been only my second ever ignore.

That was shopping fuel, Saturday morning. I'm a proper regular again since the office returned to the centre of town, feels good. Went back at lunchtime and had ham egg and chips and another mug of tea and a coke for £4.50 - the ham is cut from a joint / leg on one of the other stalls when you order some. They keep a tab and he settles up as and when. f awesome system. *self edit for looking show offy* I'm now sporting M&S elasticated chino's.

I know you can sometimes appear to post for effect, but that is particularly uninformed and particularly offensive. You've clearly read that no females died on the front line and no nurse died at the hands of the enemy, you've taken that and run with it. You've then either deliberately ignored female workers dying of typhoid whilst helping the troops or 'forgotten' all the women that died of slow poisoning or explosions in munitions works. There are 655 women officially recognised as war dead but this is not the full number. Many local graves and local commemorative memorials around the country recognise the local women that died as part of the war effort. These are sometimes not 'recognised' or counted nationally. But the bare statistics aren't that important are they? It was people that sacrificed lives, not a class a colour a creed or a sex. Or was this an attempt to drag the war dead into your recent ukipesque narrative of feminism declining to take on dangerous 'man' work?

woooooah! Don't upset the Maqroll. Last time we did that they threw all the tea in the sea. Britain's fine, it's the 'British' that are clearings in the woods.

When Starbucks can do a bacon and runny egg sarnie with a mug of builders tea for £3 then I'll consider it. Until then, I'll remain the hippest guy in the Bullmastiff caff. It's as rough (ruff!) as it sounds.

Good list that. I'd like to add: The depression/loneliness that can be felt by many at that time of year, who may not have many friends/family. It's 'traditionally' a family time, and those without do sometimes suffer. It can certainly exacerbate the problem for those with a tendency of getting low. Could you just cheer up and get some friends? Smiling wouldn't kill you.

Scorpion fish. It was all about scorpion fish tonight. Big milky white flakes of fishy flesh, with artichoke, caper, aubergine, tomato.......and roasties!