Blastronaut

Thats almost exactly how Ive been picturing the new Flamingo Land at Loch Lomond if the plans ever get approved.

There's some big Devo and Brainiac vibes in that Snooper song, sadly minus the chaos. I'll check them out though. Decline and Fall? Aptly named. Are they finally conceding that they ran out of Richey James lyrics 20-odd years ago?

Crows were just mentioned in my house too by Mrs B. I mistakenly confused them with a similarly named Polish crust-punk band so I've retreated to the kitchen in shame to listen to Senseless Things.

Not many hills I'm willing to die on but ffvii was overrated and Panzer Dragoon Saga was the better rpg of that era by a country mile. Short, sweet and to the point with an art direction and soundtrack that was that absolutely on point. Far more deserving of a remake or sequel than any of the FF series but neither will ever happen. FF was a grind. Panzer was a trip.

You're a top class arsehole. Long may it continue, don't ever change.

With the benefit of hindsight, Britpop is the result of all the places Brett Anderson stuck his cock back in the 90's. Damon Alburn was only there for sloppy seconds and made a career out of courting girl bands like Sleeper, Republica and Oasis.

A fucking fortnight? Man is my finger not on the pulse on of the progressive UK. I know a guy (known locally only as "Clink") that doesnt just deliver alcohol at 4am on a pushbike, he leaves with half a ton of empty bottles and absolves his customers from that glass bin recycling day shame.

Ouch. I meant more "let the guy fix the fucking car rather than brag about your social climbing endeavours". But fair, it runs in the family. His brother literally drank himself to death, but that was more hardcore shit yourself and go on a four day bender alone alcoholism rather than our brand of I can go days without it, so long as I can still have a drink at night/I'm a drinker, not an alcoholic alcoholism. That's harks back to my original point on why I've more respect for surgeons. After so many years of their profession being sneered at and then offered the same title as the cunts that historically thought themselves above them, they've collectively said "nah fuck yer meaningless title".

I might be wrong about this but my understanding was that surgeons here were historically referred to as Mr as they were looked down own by other medical professionals for working a manual job that involved getting their hands dirty and the title just stuck. For the rest of it I was mostly just taking the mince out of the insufferable "you will address me by my proper title you little shit/don't you know who I am?" types. Even my da had moments where he was crossing into that territory and I had to say shit like "wise up dad, I don't think the AA guy really gives a toss how many years you pissed about at uni".

I was starting to think you were sound but if you need the thought of Lindisfarne and Mead to keep you halfway erect I'm resigned back to questioning my character judgement skills.

I'm not buying that. If nothing else Dave Grohl has definitely taken mushrooms, but hearing the last few foos albums he clearly hasn't taken enough.

Doctor is a shite and desperate title, and the folk that insist on being referred to as Dr. are usually cunts, even the ones with legitimate PhDs. I remember my old man getting his doctorate and making a big deal about changing his title on everything, I dunno why, maybe so the postman knew? More respect for surgeons and the like that accept and embrace Mr as their title, and hopefully/probably frown upon the small mindedness of arseholes that chase titles for clout.

In terms of how she's fought the dying powers that are still trying to control the music industry and somehow managed to come out on top, aye absolutely. I'm terms of her actual musical output, not so much.

@The Fish I mean no harm man. I've got four, life without a washing machine is brutal. All that chat aside and back on topic, I'm quietly optimistic that clan Blastronaut have survived the school holidays. Only two Houdini acts from the lad, and only one that involved having to collect him from a Polis riot van. He's 7. Thankfully on both occasions other parents of kids from the same Autism provision clocked him gleefully running barefoot down a main road into oncoming traffic and actually downed tools to run after him make sure he was safe while I had his (also autistic) siblings, polis and a neighbourhood search party out for him. Good quote's from the other dad of a lad on the spectrum that followed him on foot for 2 miles trying to guide him away from danger "he's got some fucking stamina" and "the sheer amount of folk rubbernecking it was sickening". I'm a fairly devout atheist, but there's some absolute angels out there that somehow manage to be in exactly the right place at exactly the right time and intuitively know how to deal with mental situations like that without judgement. Then there's the lazy miserable "I'm alright jack" cunts that come out of the woodwork weeks after the event begging for some recognition for having watched the lad run barefoot, kamikaze style into oncoming traffic that did sweet fuck all to help at the time. Current mood - feeling blessed, but it's bittersweet knowing that the overwhelming majority of folk simply don't give a fuck about anyone but themselves.

I agree she deserves zero sympathy, but she's only on remand because people were actually listening to cunts like her and acting on it and the whole world was watching. Remand isn't even the punishment, it's the same limbo pending trial, the only difference is the waiting time is in a cell. I'm just sympathising with Rentons sentiments that (unless I've misread this) are along the lines of "how's this bint on remand for a tweet yet Farage and Tommy Robinson still haven't been lifted, and how come Barry the racist headcase knife wielder down the road gets lifted every other Tuesday but never gets held on remand?".

I sort of get where Renton is coming from. Not so long ago we had a neighbour here who was frequently getting lifted for violent disorder, theft, gang related violence and general antisocial behaviour. Cunt was always back next day or the Monday. It's great that these bigoted fuckwits that are stirring up racial hatred online or participating in race riots are being held on remand until their trial. But it begs the question, if there's the stuff in place to keep some woman on remand for racial hatred tweets she made last week, how come Barry from down the road is back home on Monday after robbing and battering a Indian shopkeeper and getting lifted with a knife? The obvious answer is that very few folk outside of the street I loved would notice or care if Barry was made an example of. I haven't seen the tweet in question so I'm just going to guess she's being done for incitement. Fair fucks, she's done it to herself. Keeping her on remand until the trial though is just clogging up another cell we probably need to keep open for the actual volatile and violent cunts like Barry.

Im hoping the joiner shows up and says "Aye I could remove the doorframe, but that new washing machine should fit through there fine. Just turn it sideways"

I'm guessing the current one is narrower in depth, otherwise the obvious question is how the fuck did you get the old one in? I was just trying to help the man but he kept moving the goalposts. I've been trying to avoid resorting to just saying "you want to find a bit of backbone and a measuring tape rather than a joiner" but I suppose I've said it now.

Outside, on the washing line. Come on man, it was the first result searching "narrow 8kg washing machine". Maybe try searching "narrow 8kg washer dryer".

https://www.lg.com/uk/laundry/washing-machines/f2c509gbtn1/?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwn9y1BhC2ARIsAG5IY-6eh3SQpbyQZTpGIP0GPttfgEUUpWfuCPErBEGM5VcitF7rM38_krkaAqr3EALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds 60cm wide but only 47cm deep. Turn it sideways to get it through the door.

Sounds like a lot more work than getting a washing machine that fits through the doorframe.

I haven't seen it but I have noticed that the press coverage of the counter protests has been far less fervourous. I take it as a sign that a lot of these editors are struggling to adapt after the 5168 days of Tory rule that put them in their positions. They've either bought into or lost track of the lie they were selling. All for their own personal gain. Shower of spineless bootlicking grifters masquerading as journalists. Their problem right now is that they don't know whose boots to lick.

I wanted to say "Farage next please" but on second thought no. More of these types of arrests first please. Farage is already dying on his arse. I want to see more of him squirming and selling out his core voters in a desperate and futile attempt to save his own arse, before ultimately meeting the same fate himself. Same for that Yaxley-Lennon prick that calls himself Tommy.

I'll sound a dick here even though I can appreciate that's a great faux-live performance, but anytime I hear heaven 17 or the Human League I get weird flashbacks to sobering up at Karaoke in Intermezzo at some point during a works night out a few decades ago and wishing that Renfrew St had been closer to the river Clyde.

Current events make this one more relevant than ever. I've mentioned these guys before, dunno if I mentioned that those Proud Boys pricks tried to hijack this tune for their cause, too fucking thick to realise it was an anti-fascist song. Which should have been quite obvious to them with lyrics like: "Fascist Bob needs his head kicked in, 'cause punching Nazis is not a sin. If you catch him, see it, say it, sort it. And if you pregnant by Bob...... Abort it".