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I had to laugh at his youtube video title from yesterday: "Newcastle United club growth like a racing car getting faster and faster". This is a professional writer with an analogy that a five year old would consider hackneyed. Next video: "Newcastle go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!", opening with him playing with his favourite special edition black and white matchbox firebird on the rug in his living room.

Take care mate.

Although a week late but to move things along, that's it for MC5 touring ever again, bye Machine Gun - https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/may/10/dennis-thompson-dies-aged-75-death-mc5-drummer

Hey Martin, I'm probably digging a bigger hole for myself but I don't think that is what I said. Over the years I've read a lot about Albini and spent the last few days reading a lot more and there is no doubt some of the stuff he said and wrote is unforgivable, I was only trying to give context to it (and how it was common in the 80s hardcore scene), not justify it and definitely not brush it off that it was "for the lols". All the gross and despicable things Albini wrote have been on the internet since near day one and he's been taken to task over them many a time - https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/steve-albini-counsel-culture-interview Again I reiterate, I have no idea if he is what the internet troll, neo-nazi and Philosophy of Rape advocate, J Goldberg, has decided to tag him as, something this person did only after Albini can no longer respond and his family is too busy grieving, so why didn't he do this sooner? No actual journalist, fellow musician/colleague or officer of the law have ever actually taken it up with him makes for another interesting discussion, it's not like Albini had Saville levels of fame and infamy to avoid any of this. Let's be clear, what was written by Steve Albini is despicable and there is no justifiable reason why you would. Anyway I'd rather it not be "the weird thing I die on my hill for it" - I've got plenty of my own shite I can do that for.

Well that's horrific news if true but not massively surprising. Predators flock to the creative industries like flies to shit, and the "alternative" music scene has been the wild-west of the creative industries for fucking decades. You don't get ahead in that industry without being at least an enabler. Gullible and damaged or not.

Ive been lurking here since the days of The Grey Man being UNABLE to answer MY simple question (so over ten years), and i felt compelled to create this account to agree with Martin, that this is the weirdest fucking hill to die on I’ve ever seen. “He was just pretending to be a paedophile to make everyone think he was a cunt”. ??? Is this what people mean when they regurgitate that “you cant say anything these days”? You might offend the people who are anti-child rapist? a real head scratcher this one Edit: it’s going to take another dead celebrity before this thread can move on from this incident, if I HAD to choose John Cleese then that’s fine.

I'm sorry, sammy, but this sounds like exactly the kind of apologism that protected the likes of Savile for so long, "look at what he did for the kids" and all. In the absolute best case scenario here, you're asking us to defend someone who talked about his appreciation of gross paedophilia because he was doing so "for the lols". It's not much of an argument, is it? I mean, would it really be that tricky, even if you felt like pretending you got off on child rape was a fun thing to do, to maybe, like, not pretend like you got off on child rape? 🤷‍♀️

Ah fuck. I see the Big Muff now tbf. When would be the question. I'm no buying that this is Dave Gilmours current day rig. Maybe 30 years ago.

Arteta is winning nowt.

Son

The referee has been abysmal

Foden been kicked about all over

‘Right then, we’ve got Spurs v Man City coming up. Who are we getting on commentary?’ ’Well boss, seeing as it’s a pivotal game in the title run in maybe we should get two co-commentators so we hear both sides?’ ’Great idea son, great idea. Neville and Carragher it is then. You’ll go far with ideas like that.’

1-0 city

Bit of a sweeping generalisation iyam . I worked around Hackney for years, met hundreds of great A.F.C. fans. My digs were in Tottenham. I was less keen on those cunts mind…

She's lost a lot of weight in a short space of time. Laura Woods and Lynsey 'I'd put her Hip'-sgrave out over her.

God no, their fans are among the worst in the league, ya get me fam.

You’ve spelled Salma wrong mate.

1. Kelly Cates is milf royalty 2. I’d quite like Arsenal to win the league

I hate the way Man City try to walk the ball in. I fucking hate spurs