Blastronaut

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".

What a massive shitebag. Trying to appear all statesmanlike while snivelling out lines like "James O'Brien called them Farage Riots, he's inciting violence towards me and I've had to increase my personal security" which I've taken to mean "oh shit the authorities and counter protesters haven't taken the bait. I desperately need to portray myself a victim of incitement before I get accused of incitement again". And contradicting himself with lines like "we have to realise that none of these people crossing illegally on boats will ever be granted asylum" but "they're the ones taking up all the private let's and social housing". I'm not entirely sure many of his base will have the attention span to have watched the entire 8 minutes of that, so I imagine it'll get cut up into short soundbites he'll feed to them like dog treats on TikTok or YouTube shorts. I'm sickened by a lot of the events we've seen unfold, but I'm quite reassured that it's mostly a a minority of over-emboldened dickheads that will simmer down once the football season kicks off. Most of them probably just the types of brainless thugs that were too thick to work out how to actually get to Germany this summer after having voted to leave the EU. I'm sure they'll simmer down and go back to punching walls or kicking their dogs once they see their pals land jail time and Farage and co selling them down the river.

James O'Brien earlier today said there's been a different vibe in Scotland when it comes to this level of racism and hate and I smiled to myself and remembered the old joke "are you catholic or protestant?" "I'm a 3rd generation Muslim immigrant, actually" "Aye, but are you a catholic 3rd generation Muslim immigrant or a protestant one?"

Hopefully. There's a less than 0% chance they'll find the complete frontal lobes of many "rioters" somewhere in his back passage. 100% chance they'll at least be able to cross reference some saliva traces to folk they've already lifted though.

I'll have to confess I got a good laugh at seeing he'd been nicked from a Sunderland pub at half 10 in the morning. Adds an extra-special layer to this swastika tattooed prick from Stoke's misguided worldview. I'll wager this guy doesn't even have opposable thumbs.

Don't blame you man. I was doing largely the same and trying to avoid giving it any head space. My subconscious had other ideas and suggested Laighills Park as good place to take the kids to burn off some steam this afternoon. Penny dropped pulling into the carpark by the cathedral. "Oh shit. Now I probably have to try to process these thoughts".

White person = metal health issues / Possibly involved with pedo's. Non-white person = religiously indoctrinated individual/ terrorist attack. That's how it works. I've been trying not to think about it too much (my youngest is around the same age as the youngest victim and a massive Taylor Swift fan) but was in Dunblane earlier today and couldn't not be reminded just how fucking horrendous attacks like this are. Knock-on effects for not just the victims, the survivors and their families but the overall community will outlast most of us. Whether the attacker here was Muslim or not, it's quite telling that these far right protestors aren't drawing parallels to other incidents like Dunblane. Doing that would be an admission that white British people are just as capable of commiting similarly heinous acts.

When we heard on the news it wasn't being treated as a terror related incident Mrs B and me said in unison "white British lad, then". Fascists will twist anything to further their agenda and rouse their base. Heads up though: Southport, not Stockport. Small detail that doesn't make a blind bit of difference in the grand scheme of things but my inner pendant won't let it go uncorrected.

And I thought I was a miserly bastard. You've got more than 50 kidneys but would only consider parting with one of them?

Nice! They get a lot of undeserved hate and looked down on in some circles but LP Juniors are great. At the Carcass show last year my uninitiated mate nearly had a coronary when I told him Bill played an old LPJ in B-Standard. He left the show converted.

Aye, features most off Page's trademark licks. Quite a lot of off Slash's too.

Ah bollocks, In my drunken stupor I've misread your post and thought you were suggesting MF Junior thought Oh Well was a zeppelin tune.

Love it, still probably one of my favourite riffs to play. For shits and giggles instead of mentioning Fleetwood Mac play him the recent Slash cover and try to convince him it's actually a Guns n Roses song. I'm a total sucker for any live albums that are even somewhat passable but even with that in mind, Live at the Greek is phenomenal. Fyp!

Turned it off before Coma.

Small world! Our car's gearbox packed in about 50 miles from there sometime last year. If I actually supported Newcastle and didn't actively dislike Hearts we'd be like brothers from another mother. Heads up, the mods and regulars here are largely a weird mix of ex-pats, ex-polis and potential serial killlers. To quote Fox Mulder "Trust No One" and "If I'm not home by midnight, feed my fish".

Surely odds-on they'd knock that back.

I was not aware of that. 'mon the Swiss!

He failed to actually vomit on the bus? Even on the twisty bits just north of Leeds early on a Friday morning? That's disgraceful. I once vomited on the metro in Paris and 20 odd years later it's still one of my fondest memories.

Trump might have admired and aspired to Putin and Kim Jong Un but in his own mind he's whole schtik has always screamed Back to the Future 3 era Biff Tannen. Hilariously, deloreans and old sports almanacs are back in fashion.

Isn't that a Gibby Haynes + Al Jourgensen song?

This fucker will catch out large swathes of the Scottish vote with this shithousery, as well as anyone without photo id. Half of Scotland will be away on holiday that week while the English Schools are still in full flow, and the new postal vote deadline is literally a few weeks away. It's a hilariously desperate attempt by sunak but it might fucking work and he's definitely shifted the goalposts.

That sounds a lot like being yer run of the mill jaded employed person tbf. Your free from that now. Enjoy retirement.