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Archie Valparaiso commented on the post, What ISN'T cool 3 weeks, 1 day ago
Oh, yes, and I’ve seen at least four of them live. But when they were at their most commercially successful, did you or would you?
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Archie Valparaiso commented on the post, What ISN'T cool 3 weeks, 1 day ago
To me “not cool” refers not to your naff ‘n’ cheesy Lieutenant Pigeons or Black Laces but to perfectly competent performers whose music for some hard-to-pin-down reason we were wise to keep quiet about actually […]
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Archie Valparaiso commented on the post, Your food hacks please… 1 month ago
Make your bechamel backwards instead of the “correct” way! It’s quicker, instantly smooth and never, ever lumpy. Make your roux as normal in a small frying pan, then set it aside to cool down a bit. Heat the […]
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Archie Valparaiso commented on the post, Rory Gallagher – "Best of the BBC Collection" 4 months ago
How different/the same is this from/as the BBC Sessions 2CD set that came out years ago? One CD of that was of studio material (presumably Whistle Test) and the other one was from presumably the same 1979 gig at […]
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Archie Valparaiso commented on the post, Your internet tips tricks and hacks 5 months ago
Googling with “site:” or “-site:” to focus on (or, with the minus sign, to discount) certain hits can be handy. Let’s say, frinstance, that you want to see what people have been saying about the “Mouldy Old […]
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Archie Valparaiso commented on the post, Social Media cleansing 6 months, 1 week ago
Leaving Twitter because of all the far-right raving suggests to me that people must be using the For You feed rather than the Following one. On the latter, the only knuckledragging Nazism you’ll see is whenever […]
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Archie Valparaiso commented on the post, The Olympics 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Forget Sinatra in From Here to Eternity. Forget Elvis’s 1968 Special. Forget Messi’s World Cup…. This will go down as the ultimate triumphant comeback. Four years without daring or even being physically able to […]
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Archie Valparaiso commented on the post, The Greatest Joke Ever Told 8 months, 2 weeks ago
The Aristocrats!
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Archie Valparaiso commented on the post, From Johnny Logan to Bambie Thug. From Ding Ding Dong to Rim Tim Tagi Dim. Welcome to Malmö 2024! 9 months ago
Or maybe people just liked the song. Before the contest was overtaken by all the controversy (read “virtue signalling”), a lot of people were saying this year’s Israeli entry was the best power ballad since “Rise […]
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Archie Valparaiso commented on the post, Now That's What I Call Afterword Friendly Music! 12 months ago
I am too late for this, as ever, but my reaction scrolling down the thread has been one of mounting incredulity as the one name I expected to top the list got not even a passing mention. Surely the Quintessence […]
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Archie Valparaiso commented on the post, UK voters abroad 1 year ago
No, I’m not bothering topping up in the UK, because Spanish pensions are much more generous than UK ones (a full one here is about 85% of your average salary over the last 15 years). Instead, I’m having my UK […]
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Archie Valparaiso commented on the post, UK voters abroad 1 year ago
Even though I haven’t paid any taxes in the UK for 35 years, I did invest money in the British state throughout my twenties by paying in all my NI contributions. I’ll soon be entitled to recover some of that […]
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Archie Valparaiso commented on the post, UK voters abroad 1 year ago
So anybody who is a citizen of one country but lives, works and pays taxes in another will always be unable to vote in either? Tough crowd.
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Archie Valparaiso commented on the post, UK voters abroad 1 year ago
Following the wonky logic of some people in this thread, If Brits abroad who pay no UK taxes shouldn’t be entitled to vote in UK elections, then presumably all foreign nationals who are currently working in the […]
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Archie Valparaiso commented on the post, I love the BBC, but… 1 year, 2 months ago
Dairylea Lewis?
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Archie Valparaiso commented on the post, I love the BBC, but… 1 year, 2 months ago
Oy! That’s no way to talk about Clodagh.
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Archie Valparaiso commented on the post, Bingo Little’s Best Of 2023 1 year, 2 months ago
Just a tiny footnote to dewonkify that Rosalía translation. “I could double the time/I could tie heaven up” should be something like “I can fold time up/I can tie the sky down.”
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Archie Valparaiso commented on the post, Jeff Beck has left us 2 years ago
We’re the knights who say “nay”.
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Archie Valparaiso commented on the post, Jeff Beck has left us 2 years ago
Not necessarily clearly the majority view on Twitter as a whole, and my tweet was in response to my timeline being filled with tributes when his death was announced, but the responses I got all amounted “thank god […]
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Archie Valparaiso commented on the post, Jeff Beck has left us 2 years ago
On Bingo’s final paragraph: That’s what I was referring to by citing Jessie J. up there somewhere. For the same people to enthuse about both Jeff Beck’s or John McLaughlin’s guitar playing and, say, Ian Curtis’s […]
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