Back in the day of The Word Blog as a newcomer I suffered from some serious foot in mouth moments including doubts about the moon landings, stating that John Lennon was a great front man and pronouncing my love of Howard Jones (musically not physically although after a couple of Crème de Menthes who knows…) So what else should newbies avoid saying should they happen upon this here corner of the web?
An example to be going on with for example would be “Bruce Foxtons bass on “Start” is far superior technically and much more subtle than McCartneys on “Taxman”
Bingo Little says
Talking smack about Limp Bizkit.
It’s my experience that if you come in here and talk that shit, then fail to quit you’ll generally find you’re leaving with a fat lip.
seanioio says
Fat Lip? Wasn’t that Sum 41 Bingo?
seanioio says
🙂
Bingo Little says
Any excuse!
seanioio says
Joanna Newsom.
I will just leave it at that
seanioio says
^^^^ ignore that one – that was meant to go at the bottom of this thread ^^^^
However, I like that you saw the opportunity & took it Mr Little. ’tis a top tune
fitterstoke says
Beatles……meh…..
JustB says
Actually this one is almost true. But it needs some refinement.
“The Beatles are enormously overrated” – that one genuinely gets ’em going (because, despite the fact that they were pretty great, it’s true).
Bingo Little says
The Beatles were just a band. They’ll eventually be forgotten, like all the rest.
Dodger Lane says
Remind me again, who are The Beatles ?
Moose the Mooche says
Even da Bizkit?
Bingo Little says
Tsk.
Da Bizkit aren’t a band, they’re a muddafunglin way of life!
*revs chainsaw*
deramdaze says
‘That David Bowie was good but, boy, did he suck eggs once the 1970s started or what?’
Hawkfall says
Well that’s being contrary (though I admire your style). However, I think the statement “David Bowie was a mediocre recording artist for about 20 years (1982 – 2002)” has a lot of hard data to back it up.
Rigid Digit says
“Second Coming is better”
“Have you heard about Gerry Rafferty?”
Lando Cakes says
But Second Coming *is* better!
Moose the Mooche says
Amen brother.
hurrrr
welshbenny says
If 2nd rate Zeppelin riffs are your thing yes 🙂
Vulpes Vulpes says
What you have to bear in mind is that a second rate Led Zep riff is roughly eight times better than an entire shelf full of Oasis CDs.
Mousey says
Why do you keep going on about Gerry Rafferty?
chiz says
Newbies? Here?
The Good Doctor says
Yes, Newbies here.
chiz says
When did we last have a new regular contributor here? It’s a closed shop.
Kaisfatdad says
Not strictly true. Ruby Blue is quite new. She’s only been here for about 20 years.
RubyBlue says
That’s true, although not as regular as I once was. But that’s another story, best left for the Chubby Checkers thread.
I joined a few months before Drupal. I don’t think the two things are connected.
Moose the Mooche says
The resulting traffic from middle-aged blokes going “Ooooohhh! a woman!” caused the site to implode.
I started contributing to the Word blog in September 2011. The Word folded about six months later. Connected? You decide.
Bingo Little says
Get you. “Contributing” now, are we?
RubyBlue says
He’ll be ‘curating a thread’ next.
I was trying to shoehorn a double entendre into that, but, meh.
‘Horn’, hurrr. There you go. Got there in the end. Hurrr.
Bingo Little says
Moose is always curating his thread. I’m amazed there isn’t more chafing*.
*you’re welcome
Moose the Mooche says
Chaffing? You’re thinking of the Birdwatching thread.
“Contributing” is a very malleable verb. Cows are contributing to greenhouse gases by burping and farting a lot.
“Curating” I take to mean “making sure it is good in parts”.
Moose the Mooche says
Well I thought that was funny
Kaisfatdad says
Steely what?? A metal band, are they?
Uncle Wheaty says
NWOBHM!
Uncle Wheaty says
Still love this though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMtt1MlsWC8
Rigid Digit says
NWOBHM?
Must resist …
Oops, tempatation was too much
Kaisfatdad says
Have I come to the right place for laughs, fun and beautiful, young Russian girls looking for sexy English men?
Moose the Mooche says
No, no and yes.
Cheeky.
Dave Ross says
I just want to share apropos of nothing much that since I wrote in the OP the phrase “musically not physically” I’ve had “The Word Girl” as an ear worm (no bad thing). Although as I’m back on this thread I would like to contribute. That Green Gartside, what a wanker he is….
Lodestone of Wrongness says
That Richard Thompson’s a bit boring isn’t he?
Say what you like but the Charts don’t lie.
That Duco bloke – he’s mental, no?
Moose the Mooche says
I’m quite happy with the download.
Vinyl? Why bother?
bungliemutt says
That Bono chap from U2 – I just admire his contribution to politics and his uncanny knack for saying and doing the right thing without any thought for his own self promotion.
retropath2 says
That David “Heppo” Hepworth’s a all-round good egg, isn’t he.
Beany says
He has a new book out you know. I think it’s about a topic close to his heart; hip hop culture.
welshbenny says
I might have ‘missed the memo’ as Heppo would say, but when did the Heppo bashing start?
Black Celebration says
1971
Bingo Little says
Whenever I trot out the argument that 1971 was the annus mirabilis of publicly slagging off David Hepworth, just as 2009 was the annus mirabilis of writing mean things about Andrew Collins, people say “well, we all do that with our own youth”. And we all do.
The difference is I’m right. This blog proves it.
PS – “Heppo bashing” – one for Moose and/or mini, surely?
Moose the Mooche says
Heppo? A bebop-loving creature wallowing in mud?
Not fit to be bashed in any sense.
oscar patterson says
don’t often post, but this one has me at hello…
On the old place, I recall getting in touch about something and *trying* to be helpful, i.e. not controversial or ‘silly’.
David H’s response to my perfectly reasonable comment was downright rude and really made me feel differently about him and the mag in general. It really irritated me, and I thought it might just have been me, turns out that perhaps it wasn’t…
Black Type says
I think Hepworth’s pragmatic/hard-headed reaction to the demise of The Word, and the implied whiff of disdain towards the widespread and genuine feeling of loss expressed by ‘the Massive’, lost him a lot of goodwill around these parts. By comparison, Mark Ellen’s warm and heartfelt response to the collective howl of anguish was further evidence of the endearing chap we all suspect him to be. I’m sure this yin-and-yang aspect of the two personalities is why they have made such an effective team over the years.
Bingo Little says
I think that’s exactly it.
I don’t really have any kind of track record with David Hepworth – the Word was my first introduction to him – but my sense is that he worked well in a double act with Mark Ellen, whose natural enthusiasm and charm offset his counterpart’s sourness and need to believe he’s perpetually the smartest person in the conversation.
ruff-diamond says
His blog posts tend to have an “I’m right and everybody else is wrong” feel about them too.
bungliemutt says
Being silly is now de rigueur round these parts.
Blue Boy says
Yeah, and that Mark Ellen – what a knob, eh?
Harold Holt says
How do you know what it’s like ? I think we should be told….Ugandan discussions etc (Oh dear, I’m having flashbacks. Nurse, the screens).
bobness says
iTunes? Apple products in general? Peerless…
Railroad Bill says
I ❤️ JOOLS HOLLAND ( I do actually)
The Actual North says
“Yer a bunch of middle-aged tossers and you can shove yer cliquey mingles up yer ‘arris!”
Moose the Mooche says
The famous album that everybody bought is so much better than the obscure early b-sides and demos.
Black Type says
The BBC is a National Treasure and the licence fee is a bargain.
count jim moriarty says
True.
ianess says
Again, total misreading of OP.
Beany says
You are all talking rubbish.
That’s it. I’m staying.
ianess says
EC, Nick Lowe, Richard Thompson – indubitably minor talents.
JustB says
Haha! This has the virtue of being funny, accurately observed and true.
Junior Wells says
the MP3 is the high point of audio reproduction
fentonsteve says
And anything over 64 kilobits per second is just wasteful.
Black Celebration says
Is it me, or is pop music just getting better and better?
Diddley Farquar says
Not just pop music – life in general. TV, films, young people, the media, everything!
JustB says
And language! I just love how language changes and how new generations invent new phrases. So refreshing and invigorating.
Vulpes Vulpes says
Innit just.
Mousey says
ELP were just better than Yes, no question
Mousey says
That Andy Murray’s a boring bastard isn’t he?
Cookieboy says
The Wire? I saw bits and pieces it’s not much good is it?
JustB says
“Isn’t Scotland pretty much just a glorified county?”
ianess says
North Britain?
Diddley Farquar says
I don’t really know enough about this matter/person’s private life/alleged crime, other than a few things I skim read on the online newspaper whose commentators’ views I often find myself in sympathy with, so I won’t post.
Vulpes Vulpes says
For goodness’ sake, that’s with WHOM. Get a grip, boy.
Johnny Concheroo says
Electric blues guitar played painfully loud and at breakneck speed is the best thing ever. If only we could find a way to combine the skill and dexterity of Yngwie Malmsteen with the soul and emotion of Alvin Lee, why, we could conquer the world!
*passes Bob the smelling salts and does that two-handed wafting thing in front of his face*
JustB says
Shurely you mean @hp-saucecraft? I didn’t even post on that thread, if memory serves.
Johnny Concheroo says
I have it on good authority *taps side of nose* that you hate widdly blues guitar generally
JustB says
Well, that’s true, but there’s not much point my repeating it on threads. It doesn’t make me angry or anything. It’s just the musical equivalent of a Pringle jumper. 😉
Fintinlimbim says
That Ringo. Wasn’t even the best drummer in the Beatles.
minibreakfast says
I guess I’m just not *that* into music.
Kaisfatdad says
Have an Up Mini. The nail hit firmly on the head.
Dodger Lane says
Cassettes will make a comeback.
I like David Hepworth’s writing and his cussedness.
I don’t much enjoy going to gigs anymore and fuss about the last tube home.
Maradona will go down in history as being better than Messi.
Kaisfatdad says
What is the Afterword like?
Well if you can imagine a more glamorous, up-market version of Mumsnet inhabited by Morris Men, Deadheads, church organists, wily bankers, trampolists, post-modern buskers and dancing train drivers, you should get the general idea.
Dodger Lane says
You haven’t included ne’er do wells (or do they come under wily bankers ?). If not, I feel left out.
retropath2 says
Wily Bankers? Sounds like a malapropism for how a goatherd might pass his (or her) time.
retropath2 says
(And don’t say bil(e)y wankers, as that just sounds unpleasant and excessive.)
deramdaze says
‘Let me get this right.
In the 1980s, when original ‘vinyl’ going all the way back to Elvis was as cheap as chips, you lumped onto often highly dubious sounding CDs at £17 a pop?
Then, once the CD medium had advanced, CDs contained more music, sounded fab and cost a fiver, you lumped onto non-original ‘vinyl’ at £30 a pop?
(long pause) As I now consider you a close friend, want to buy an apple?
One careful owner. Only a fiver. To you, two for £15.’
Sewer Robot says
Do you think I’m a mug? I have it on good authority that this apple is being reissued next week in a cardboard box also containing some inedible twigs from the tree it was picked from and several glossy photos of the apple, all for only £100.
Gary says
Depression? S’just feeling sorry for yourself, innit? Nothing a bit of fresh air won’t cure.
Clive says
Who remembers Spangles?
Sniffity says
This is reading more and more as submissions for the Afterword t-shirt competition.
Kaisfatdad says
There used to be (still is perhaps?) a band with the wonderful name; The Lost T shirts of Atlantis.
Nothing compared to the lost T shirts of the Afterword! This place is often like a herd of slogans looking for an undergarment on which to imprint themselves.
David Kendal says
I read the Daily Mail.
Mousey says
Thank God (=Neil) for Pono, we can now listen to music the way real musicians intended it to be heard
Excitable Boy says
Little Feat are really just dull plodders aren’t they ?
Moose the Mooche says
Since Lowell carked it, yes.
pencilsqueezer says
Homeopathy cured the niggling little problem I had with leprosy.
badartdog says
are
badartdog says
or even ‘arf’.
Charlie Gordon says
Public schools are best.
BigJimBob says
Proof of this being David Cameron’s performance as an excellent Prime Minister.
count jim moriarty says
Not to mention Gideon Osborne’s peerless management of the economy…
Charlie Gordon says
Eton fees are £35k a year…what a bargain to ensure top calibre politicians!
duco01 says
There simply isn’t enough money in modern football. Mediocre Premier League players deserved to be paid a great deal more.
BigJimBob says
What is Rob C (or what ever daft name he is taking nowadays) on about?
Kaisfatdad says
Rock music is so past its Sell-By date. Excitement and creativity? Give me a new PS4 game any day.
Music festival? What’s that good for?
DreamHack is the place to be.
Bingo Little says
I keep meaning to write an extremely minority interest blog post on Bloodborne, the PS4 game that is vastly smarter, more exciting and just downright better than any music I heard in 2015.
Kid Dynamite says
Do it. I am wavering on Bloodborne now it’s cheap on the PS store. I have heard nothing but good things about it, but somehow there is an underlying whiff of Doritos and Mountain Dew about all the praise. I am ready to be won over.
Kaisfatdad says
Yes, please write that. I’d be very interested.
Scary stuff by the looks of this trailer.
Bingo Little says
That trailer really doesn’t do it justice. This one, for the recent DLC expansion, is much better:
Bingo Little says
I’ll write the post in the next few days, but the short version is FOR GOD’S SAKE, BUY THIS GAME.
It’s not only the best video game I’ve ever played, it’s also probably the single best “thing” I’ve bought in about a decade. A Victorian monster-horror theme that halfway through morphs into pure H P Lovecraft? With genius game mechanics and a lore so deep and fulsome they could make it into a TV series and I’d gladly watch? What’s not to like?
Do be warned though: it will take about four hours for the penny to drop. It starts off determined to hand you your backside, and you will die a hell of a lot as you scramble up the learning curve. Don’t form a judgement until you’ve killed at least one boss.
More breathless praise when I get a chance. Oh, and don’t forget we need to talk Cerebus next week!
MC Escher says
Write it please. But only if it’s available on PS3
Bingo Little says
It isn’t. Playstation 4 only, I’m afraid.
I know a few people who have bought the console just to play it. None of them have regretted it. My own PS4 has effectively been little more than a Bloodborne machine for the last 10 months – it ruins you for other games.
Kaisfatdad says
Now you’ve really got me interested. No hurry with your review.
How violent is it? Is it strictly for me or would KFD Junior (plays Back Ops, GTA, Just Cause etc) enjoy it? From what you say though, maybe the actual gameplay would be too sophisticated for him.
Another great tip from Team Bingo anyway. Thanks!
Bingo Little says
It depends on what KFD Jnr is like.
Put it this: there are absolutely gallons of blood in this game. Literal rivers of the stuff which you find yourself wading through. And the monsters are utterly vile, on a fairly primal level.
A good question to ask is probably: would you want KFD Jnr to fight a demented horse-god with two heads (one of them with eyes instead of teeth) in an underground dungeon on top of a pile of corpses that he’s slowly grinding into pulp with his colossal mutant hooves?
Needless to say, this is the most Metal game ever made.
Kaisfatdad says
No I probably wouldn’t. And neither I suspect would he. We’ll stick to the new Avengers Lego game which is tad less crimson.
But thanks for that magnificent description anyway.
H.P. Saucecraft says
Post something that depresses the shit out of you!
Moose the Mooche says
The newly-remastered version of [insert name of frightful old Prog record here] is too expensive, doesn’t sound any different to all the previous versions and I will only look at the booklet once before putting the whole thing back in its box and up on the shelf that’s groaning with all the other overpriced crap I’ve bought over the years.
Buy the same music over and over again? That’s just stupid.
Carl says
I read the Guardian and am a bien pensant liberal.
BigJimBob says
I am a bien pensant liberal and so is my wife.
ianess says
I fear you may have entirely misread the OP.
BigJimBob says
I agree with Ian…and so does my wife.
Jackthebiscuit says
That Richard Littlejohn, he talks a lot of common sense. I love reading his columns in the
Daily Mail.
niscum says
If a new poster did say that Id be genuinely interested in who they were. Not that I agree with the comment but it would be a jarringly original one.
Bingo Little says
It would be Richard Littlejohn. Guaranteed.
ianess says
Said this before to mass swooning and clutching of perfumed handkerchiefs, but I’ve met him several times and had quite a few drinks with him. Very pleasant, quite shy and not at all how you’d imagine him.
Moose the Mooche says
You can’t make it up!!!
ianess says
I’m going to Hell in a handcart.
Bingo Little says
I have a secret spot for Littlejohn’s late 90s opus “To Hell In A Handcart”.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Hell_in_a_Handcart
It’s the story of Mickey French, a retired cop turned taxi driver, and his battle with bent coppers, local gypsies and immigrant Romanian contract killers who invade his house and who he kills in self defence, only to find himself being prosecuted.
Brilliantly, the names of the Romanian assassins are “Gica Dumitrescu” and “Illie Popescu”. I respect Littlejohn for going all in.
On the other hand, I once heard him say some very uncharitable things about Diego Maradona, for which he can cock off.
mikethep says
Whatever happened to Helena Handcart? Is she now someone else?
niscum says
Id say stick to music. If you really are into Duran Duran then do say it but you probably wouldn’t stick around here for very long.
If you join a politics thread, the most virtuous sounding of comments on the ‘plight’ of people in far off places who are killing each other will GO COMPLETELY UNNOTICED by other posters because no one cares about that sort of anodyne view, and it also just makes cynics like me suspicious of what kind of person you really are.
chiz says
In political threads, remember that being REALLY ANGRY about everything is much more important than trying to change anything
Twang says
Quoting made up or dramatically distorted “facts” is to be avoided, fake photos of MPs doing disgraceful things are not encouraged and under no circumstances make obviously ridiculous predictions about cherished institutions disappearing shortly, e.g. NHS, BBC, democracy etc.
GCU Grey Area says
Jools Holland.
Dogbyte says
Ed Sheeran is brilliant.
BigJimBob says
fuck this place – anyone wanna join me over at snapchat?
deramdaze says
‘Piers Morgan, eh?
Arsenal fan, Sun journalist in the dire 1980s, Kevin Pietersen’s best mate.
I mean, what’s not to like?’
mojitojoe says
DON’T say a word against comedian Stewart Lee.
Scarlet says
Hey all,
I’ve lurked for ages and ages and AGES but I finally plucked up the courage, took the plunge and joined recently.
Been trying to figure out where to start and this thread seems as good a place as any.
Good to see all the highly-useful tips on here, much appreciated.
I can now hit the ground running.
Possibly.
Bingo Little says
Hey there – welcome aboard!
minibreakfast says
Hello!
*waves*
BigJimBob says
Fuck off
Kid Dynamite says
Evening. Stick around!
RubyBlue says
Welcome!
JustB says
Hey Scarlet! Nice to have a new face* around the place!
* blue geometric squiggle
Scarlet says
I’ll try and work on the squiggle sometime.
Still finding my way around 🙂
Johnny Concheroo says
Hi Scarlet and welcome
Frankly my dear, we all give a damn
Moose the Mooche says
“plunge” – hurrr
Moose the Mooche says
….nice to see that, like me, you have a top-notch theme tune. 😉
Scarlet says
Ahhhh… I love a little bit of Joni.
Actually, I love a lot of Joni.
Moose the Mooche says
We aim to please!
niscum says
Welcome! so you’ve seen quite a bit then, Scarlet. Who’re your favourite posters, and why?
Scarlet says
Thanks!
I have seen a little bit of what’s been going on here during my time in the shadows (not the band). Some of the discussions can be pretty popcorn-worthy at times.
I’m not sure I’d be brave enough to single out anyone in particular just yet, given that I’m only just starting to participate, but I do love how passionate and in-depth some people are when describing their favourite music.
And there are a good number of posters on here who write absolutely beautifully, they are a joy to read.
I do have opinions, honest, I promise that I don’t always politely avoid giving a direct answer. I’m just easing in gently.
🙂
Moose the Mooche says
“easing in gently”
Hurrr.
Sorry, but you’re going to get the same treatment as everybody else 😉
Scarlet says
Fine by me. I probably deserve it.
niscum says
Diplomatic answer, eh? Like your style. And remember: don’t trust anyone round here (apart from me, that is).
GCU Grey Area says
Hello!
Twang says
Pull up a chair and set a while.
Scarlet says
Thanks for the welcome!
Brilliantly, just after I’d put up my first post my internet connection died so I couldn’t respond to anything. Had to go down the pub to drown my annoyance.
pencilsqueezer says
Shamai Scarlet.
Moose the Mooche says
….one of my top ten Belgian Nose-Flautists.
Rob C says
Lightweight.
Tibetan Arse Flute is the real deal.
Tiggerlion says
Welcome from me too, Scarlet.
The other meme is “the answer is always David Bowie”. That’s true even more so now.
pencilsqueezer says
Pay no attention to tigger. He knows the meme is “the answer is always David Whitfield.” He forgets his medication the poor old fella and gets a bit delusional.
bungliemutt says
I thought the answer was always June Whitfield?
pencilsqueezer says
Nurse! Nurse! Bungliemutt has broken free of his restraints again!!
Jeff says
Blame-storming and heavy drinking – an excellent first post, you’ll fit in perfectly here.
Welcome, Scarlet.
Carolina says
Welcome from me too 🙂 A new Afterword Bird – excellent!
Tiggerlion says
How can you tell? They all look the same to me.
Blue Boy says
A new person! See, we are still down with the kids.Welcome Scarlet
bungliemutt says
Welcome Scarlet. You don’t sound like a fat, slightly balding middle aged bloke. How did you get through the entrance exam?
mikethep says
Just tread carefully. I remember getting all courtly with Poppy Succeeds when he first stepped out of the shadows…boy was my face red.
But welcome Scarlet!
Kaisfatdad says
Welcome Scarlet. I hope you have fun here.
From your name, my guess is that you a ginormous, red-headed Scotsman with a big bushy beard and a fondness for jazz bagpipes and loud explosions who lives in a little wooden cabin in the Outback near Uluru.
Then again, I’ve been wrong before about this kind of thing before.
Rob C says
Welcome from me too. Hari Om.
(Beware the Ingrates, they’ll feed of your auric field like thirsty batlings)
bungliemutt says
I am actually a perky 19 year old blonde. But only at the weekend.
Jeff says
Weekends are good for me.
Scarlet says
Nope, am neither a fat, slightly balding middle-aged bloke nor a ginormous, red-headed Down Under- dwelling Scotsman with a big bushy beard.
Although my hair is a reddish colour.
And just to clear up any confusion, I’m definitely a non-feathery bird 🙂
Moose the Mooche says
No plumage? I am disappoint!
Gatz says
That Nigel Farage speaks a lot of sense and if you ask me he’s exactly what this country needs.
Twang says
You know what, this is actually a pretty decent place to live and compared to most countries at the moment we are doing quite nicely. I feel proud to be English.
Blue Boy says
Amazon. Brilliant, isn’t it? Cheap, efficient and you don’t have to bother going out to some tiresome record or book shop.
ganglesprocket says
Joni Mitchell? Tedious old slapper…
Declan says
Good album, Sgt. Pepper.
Why the reappraisal/hate?
bungliemutt says
Her Majesty? Now that’s real value for money.
poolhallrichard says
We need less grammar pedants around here.
Bingo Little says
Fewer.
Gatz says
I imagine you will check for replies using the ‘posts on which I have commented’ button.
GCU Grey Area says
Runrig.
Clive says
In a bookshop on the Isle of Skye I once saw ‘Runrig: The Early Years’. I’m still haunted by that moment.
chiz says
We are the wealthiest generation ever in one of the richest countries in the world. We have grown up with minimal conflict, free healthcare, free education, state pensions, near-full employment and abundant cheap food on our doorstep. We have instant access to all the knowledge, art, literature, music, TV and cinema every produced. We live lives of luxury that our grandparents and grandchildren, and 90% of people alive today, could never imagine. We’ve raped the planet of its natural resources and exploited poorer nations to give us cheap Playstations and trainers. We’ve never had to work down a mine, up a chimney or in a sweat shop. Technology has given us massive opportunities and we’ve used them to isolate ourselves on our sofas. Science has taught us how little we know, but we’re still free to peddle any old mystic bunkum to fill the gap in our understanding. We’ve got all the jobs, all the houses and all the money and we’ll live longer than anyone before or after. We’ve set a trap for our children, but we keep having them, because we need them to look after us after we’ve spent their inheritance.
– Life’s fucking great, isn’t it? High five!
Sewer Robot says
All that and I’m a university educated white heterosexual man with vision, hearing and all me limbs working so I can high five you right back…
Bingo Little says
So… you’re saying you have access to cheap Playstations? And trainers?
Sewer Robot says
NOT SO LOUD!!! *looks all around conspiratorially*
The car park behind the pub. 15 minutes…
ClemFandango says
Bono, Edge and one of the other two laying flowers at the Paris candlelight vigil was genuinely one of the most spontaneous, heartfelt and humble tributes I’ve ever seen
Jim Cain says
In my experience, the worst thing you can say on here is anything negative about Manchester United football club.
Rigid Digit says
really?
shall we test it?
Man Utd are sh*t, and all their fans live in Torquay.
Plus, they’re not even in Manchester. They’re in Salford.
I doubt there will be anything but agreement forthcoming
Clive says
I worked with a Man United fan from Torquay once. My oh my. The ribbing I used to give him about supporting United and not his local team. Until he told me he was Duncan Edwards nephew.
Moose the Mooche says
Bob Dylan is rubbish.
Harry Tufnell says
I’vejust seen a really funny personalised number plate…
slotbadger says
Thank God for esoteric office jargon, Americanisms and inventive new ways of using English, especially by the younger generations. They really put a smile on my face!
duco01 says
Hmmm … I see that Taylor Swift’s “1989” won the Grammy award for Album of the Year. That’s well deserved – and it’s a far better record than Stevie Wonder’s “Innervisions” or “Songs in the Key of Life”, which won the same award in 1974 and 1977.