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Joy Division was just the personal preference. I'll give you The Fall for sure but still can't stick The Smiths or Oasis (and most of the rest of the list). Duran Duran though are terrible I concur. Not sure my musical tastes are representative of the majority though* *not complaining. Everyone else is wrong

It's all about winning the internet!

Horsesh*t. A lot of the lore was written many years before WW2. Indeed "The Shire" was named in the Hobbit which was published in 1937 so many years before he went to Stoneyhurst. Far more likely that the English countryside generally inspired his writing along with the general development of language. Indeed, his time in on Cannock Chase during WW1 could be argued to be more of an influence as the "nature" elements of LOTR/Middle Earth than this location. And this isn't anywhere near Manchester; it's the other side of Blackburn. Also on the music side of things, that list is a lot of band, but only Joy Division are any good. Sorry, i have very little time for Manchester and hate how it assumes it is the best place ever. /rant.

To be fair, this sounds like he is getting a promotion... I would love a promotion every time I bunked off, I would be the CEO by now.

Had completely forgotten that this was still a thing. Even Farage’s numbers are down Nigel Farage’s GB News show loses over half its viewers in just two weeks So yeah hopefully it’ll go into further obscurity.

Almost as bad as the Birmingham Mail website. Almost.

I thought that closed about 10 years ago?! Just googled and suggests it shut in 2014 but there’s still a website?

On the link above if you have got a specific post code then you can put it in to see if it is in the zone or not, but if you were just passing through so to speak, then it will be difficult to pick up exactly where you went (although if you did it through google you can check). The main road most people would likely go down without realising is the Queensway/A38. If you avoided that and going inside the ring road generally, you should be OK. I think the reason they don’t have a page like the one you want as they expect people to know. Also a lot of petrol cars are OK (2011+), it’s just diesels that are screwed apart from the most modern. I’ve not paid the most attention save to check my car is OK.

https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/info/20076/pollution/1763/a_clean_air_zone_for_birmingham/2 Here’s a map of the zone. Pretty much if you go inside the inner ring road you’ll have gone in it. Where about a did you go?

@Designer1 yeah that's alright. Not really listened to much IDLES so not necessarily my favourite but definitely sounds more like IDLES than Metallica anyway. @Chindie the St Vincent one is pretty cool, generally felt that Sad But true has held up better than Nothing Else Matters, or rather with Nothing Else Matters, all covers sound pretty much like the original. @blandy - always got some time for a Rodrigo y Gabriella Metallica cover! Think it helps that they were in a metal band before they were doing the acoustic stuff. @bickster f*** you!

Likely to be one of the better covers on the Metallica album coming out today

New Mastodon coming out next month!

Laurence Fishburne in Nightmare on Elm Street 3 always stuck in my mind given I watched it around the time The Matrix was out

Surely claret and blue vinyl instead?!

I gave up shortly after the beginning of season 7 (the Neegan killing episodes). There was always 1 or 2 good episodes per season but there was such utter drivel as well, I called it quits. Having read up I probably called it at the right time, it seems to have only gone downhill from then.

Oh I know, it’s just when you say that no one is doing a bad as job he instantly came to mind! Boris is just a horrid excuse of a human being. An odious slimeball of a man, I still don’t think he has any believes whatsoever, just whatever will make him continue in power and/or make him more money.

Covid: No plans for October lockdown, says government So, when does everyone think that the u-turn will occur?

The true impact of the Trump presidency is now really taking effect. Whilst Trump was pretty much all bluster, the appointment of all the Judges has meant that these sort of decisions are likely to come think and fast and will take decades to sort out. I still can’t get my head around how the US is meant to be one of the most modern societies yet can be completely backwards at the same time.

Apparently he has the same name as the player in "Goal!" film............. I'm not sure they realise that the film is actually fiction....

Given that they normally have tent recycling points as well, it is people just being too lazy/hung over/high to take down the tent and take it home. I did just have a look at the line up as a curiosity, and wow that is woeful. Its not even an Indie/Alternative festival - noticed that there is no 2nd stage tent anymore and they just have a 2nd main stage but probably worse is that the 3rd stage (Festival Republic) is now just 1 day and in rotation with the "rock/punk" stages (which are pretty poor as well).

I hope so!

This, also not my thing but I certainly know who he is and how much influential he was. Sorry guys

It wasn’t that boring - you have a genuine problem and a complete d*** of a relative from the sounds of it! It should piss you off so actually maybe off topic for this thread, but I read it late last night and was going to respond this morning as I would have made more sense. In short given you grandfather transferred the title deeds, probably not a lot I’m afraid. Whilst he may be frail it sounds like he is a pretty sound mind so able to make decisions himself and therefore unlikely to say that the transfer is illegal. with that you will need to see what happened during the process and ensure that your grandfather was OK with it. Did the legal representative check with him about why he was doing it or did they do the transfer without legal? Whilst I think it sounds like he would have at least wanted to create some sort of trust to ensure the family had use of it, that should have been written into the transfer/title deed to prevent future sale (and to be fair maybe limit other use such as AirBnB). There maybe possible injunctions you can get to prevent sales etc. but I am not a property solicitor so can’t say whether you have a case or not and the legal groundings of it. I would definitely speak to a solicitor who specialises in property disputes. They will usually do either a free 20 minute consultation or a fee of around £50-100 + VAT but it sounds like your only way to stop the actions is through litigation sadly. Whether you have a case or not, your grandfather needs proper legal advice. I hope that helps in some way anyway!