It’s not really a karaoke classic but for an example of the sub-genre ‘Songs with Booby Traps for Inexperienced Singers’ look no further than the first line of O Little Town of Bethlehem.

It’s not the altitude so […]

It’s a glorious melody. Perhaps that’s why they never even bothered to give it a proper title. It’s also got a blind bend in it which is where the unsuspecting karaokist comes unstuck. You’ve got:

Are you/still […]

You don’t have to be fruit
To rule my world
Ain’t no particular lime
I’m more compatible with
I just want your extra thyme and your
Cress

I’m in

La Bamba, I’ve been there many times. Yo no soy marinero, soy capitán, soy capitán, soy capitán. Very important to air guitar the tremolo, as well.

Unchained Melody is one of those where you’ve got to start lo […]

Way back before the world ended you might find me in the environs of Smithfield Market in a very small karaoke joint giving the world my Kiss by Prince. The key here is when to abandon the falsetto and go for the […]

Huh! I’ve been depodiumed and I didn’t even know I’d medalled

*DePlinths Moose*

Bermuda is and always has been in Oceania, Steve.

The title of that Bad Shepherds album, Yan, Tyan, Tethera, Methera, is ancient Cumbrian for the count in to this:

Reductio ad Windrush, the new Godwin’s.

Point-scoring

I should stress these are Mrs Chiz’s rules. Ketchup were in t’cupboard when I were a lad. After 30 years I’ve pretty much stopped fighting them, except the carrot placement

And you can hold it in your hand, or rest it on the arm of the sofa, and it doesn’t make a mess

very good 😃

Amen brother! It really is

All vegetable except potatoes and onions – in fridge. Big arguments over carrots in our house.
Berries in fridge, other fruit not in fridge. Unless you count tomatoes as fruit, which is technically correct, but […]

In that scenario I’d probably move and sit next to a footie fan instead

Yep, and fat bellies. Vulpes, the OP doesn’t mention St George flags or England shirts either. You seem to have introduced those aspects yourself. The OP doesn’t distinguish between good and bad fans, it says the […]

St George’s flag, England shirt, bald heads, fat bellies… these bastards?

Honestly Vulpes, you astonish me sometimes. The very next line after ‘twattish, maskless’ says ‘Spare me this crap about “real fans” jus […]