Alex

Get the UK in while we’re at it

I guess you can’t really use the excuse of missing 6 weeks when you’re 4 months into your stint at a new club

The axis of irrelevance

I always post from my personal phone. At work

Kewel story, marra

He reversed the polarity

Aye. I was going to say there’ll be a ridiculously overpriced bid waved through, no questions asked.

He’s a sergeant in the Home Guard

Aye. But Man City are one of the best teams in the world, marra

Someone I went to school with rather than a renowned ex-poster

Just twigged who you are

Quite possibly, but if they want Tino it’s highly unlikely we can do much about him going anyway. We can probably put them off until the summer (at best).

They’ll double or treble his wage which is the real deal clincher for him and his agent

There was a piece recently (think it was in the Sunday Times) about his struggles with alcoholism and mental health. He was very good friends with Shane Warne too as they played together for Hampshire. One of my heroes due to his skill and bravery, particularly in an era when he was going up against loads of top class fast bowlers. And one of the few shining lights in a dodgy England batting line up. The power of his square cut was immense. Very sad news

Only one sub allowed then too which I don’t think changed until the end of the 80s.

I worry about you worrying about that

And only about 16 players

That local authority at its absolute craziest btw. Making people drive much further to recycle / dump rubbish. Thereby discouraging recycling and making fly tipping much more likely. Not that there’s any excuse for the latter but you know what I mean. My lass’s parents are the same. It’s just a two minute drive but they can’t use it

I think the two housing estates next to West Moor / Camperdown (where the Miller and Carter is and the one over the road from there) were both marketed as East Gosforth.

Well my old high school (Seaton Burn) has rebranded itself as North Gosforth Academy. It’s not even in the same local authority as Gosforth

There’s hardly any surviving episodes from the 60s because the BBC wiped loads of them when videotape was so expensive. But in terms of eras, it jumps all over the shop anyway. And much of the brilliance of it is their going into details about how shit performances and videos were. Not to mention how cringey, awful, creepy and unrehearsed the likes of Edmonds and DLT were on there. They also go off on massive tangents about music in general plus old fashion trends, tv, films, etc. They’ll also go through the TV schedules from the day of the TOTP episodes as well as what was in the news. And even going through old copies (including the letters pages and single reviews) from contemporary music magazines like Smash Hits, Melody Maker*, NME, etc. Honestly, it’s great and really funny at times. Taylor Parkes and Neil Kulkarni (RIP) especially imo. The nostalgia is brilliant (it made me realise some of my earliest memories are late 70s TOTP) and it also reminded me of some music from my youth I’d almost forgotten I was ever into. I’ve nearly listened to the whole lot twice through now. I would say if you’re not sure initially then stick with it because I seem to remember the sound being a tad ropey initially. It’s NSFW like so be careful when playing it within earshot of someone who might not be prepared for lines like ‘the bent cunts who aren’t fucking real’. *everyone bar the presenter worked at Melody Maker at some point as a writer.

Assume there’s lots of bots in the comments? Can’t say I’ve ever looked there or the Mail’s comments sections. But in the case of the latter it’s fairly notorious for being full of bots, plus Chinese / Russian troll farms I believe

The first time I looked at the one In Cumbria the website described it as being in ‘the heart of the Lake District’. It’s not far away but it’s about 10 miles outside the national park, near Penrith and on completely the other side of the M6. So not in the Lake District at all. That level of blatant bullshitting completely put me off tbh.