If Mick had called Street Fighting Man Sink Cleaning Man all those years ago we wouldn’t be having this discussion today.

Other possible Stones’ rebadges include

Sympathy for the Persil

Paint it […]

@Rigid_Digit

Please, God, don’t let Van Morrison read this thread…

@Sewer Robot

Assume you mean the blessed Van.

As this triple is his seventh album in a little over four and a half years, it kind of justifies many of the brickbats being hurled Van’s way on the thread […]

Poor Mick’s solo career never really recovered after Keef dismissed Goddess in the Doorway as Dogshit in the Doorway

Thanks, Mr

Good news!

Lump turned out to be non-carcinogenic accumulated fat.

Won’t hear the surgeon’s advice on the X-ray til mon but the vet here thought it looked OK.

While no fun for Xena, leg pro […]

@moseleymoles

You might say that, mosleymoles. I couldn’t possibly comment.

Assume you’ve seen the UK original, MM. Ian Richardson’s peformance knocks spots off Kevin Spacey’s US simulacrum

Designated Survivor was great for one series after that it rapidly ran out of steam. The beginning of the end came the moment Kiefer uttered his first “goddamn it, people” and morphed from Jedidiah Bartlett into […]

@retropath2

Building on Sturgeon’s Law (“90% of everything is shit”) Jaygee’s 5th Immutable Law of Awful Pop Taste dictates that 99.9% of all US-based duos from the mid-1970s should be tried as pop war criminals.

Aside […]

The only show I can think of where I persevered after a pretty meh first season/series was Buffy which I loved. Were I ever to watch it again, I’d skip the first batch and go for a best 30 episodes or something. […]

You haven’t really accepted that he’s gone though. Around every corner will lurk comforting little reminders of happy memories you both shared and you will always cherish long after you get another dog.

Can […]

Hope you manage to avoid pissing off Sharon Osborne while you’re waiting for your copy.

And now Bernie Madoff has popped his clogs.

With 138 years of 150 year sentence left to serve, he died as he had lived – short changing everyone to the very last

The editor will be on the blower to commission you to write a list of “50 reasons why I was underwhelmed by Richard Thompson’s Beeswing” for an upcoming issue.

@Diddley-Farquar

Still stuck in the CD era I’m afraid.

As have never used – and have no intention of using – Spotify, being tight with tips is not something I am guilty of.

@Moose-the-Mooche

Given that we are living in an increasingly woke world
I suspect you may wish to change that to “vinyl of colour”

Have you given up now? A very good friend of mine used to run a bookshop in Norfolk (The Holt) that he had to reluctantly close last year. While he was going to retire anyway, I think he would have been happy to […]

@fortuneight

In Chinese culture, tats were long considered to be the exclusive preserve of triad gangsters. Things have only really started to change in the last 20 years or so.

Have you spent any time in […]