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I've spent weeks negotiating the temporary fixing points for a scaffold on a public facing grade 1 listed building. I've spent far too long on it for the fee, the planner and listed guys have said last week they were happy with the plans. I've told the national reputable contractor it'll get approval and he's told me not to stress, they did it over the weekend. Scaffolding in Liverpool can also still be entertaining. There still appears to be an attitude of 'this is our town' you'll use our scaffolders and our security.

I never miss a thing.

I noticed mine was gone around 2:00pm / lunchtime today when I checked in. It had been there last night quite late, or at least I hadn't noticed it gone, and I reckon I would have. Sorry can't be more specific.

Ah, good find peterms, I didn't have anywhere I could quote or reference it from and that ties up pretty damn closely. I'd got it from a researcher / policy wonk what I knows. I was worried herr blandy was going to cane me for a lack of evidential quoting or some such 'fact' based nonesense.

At a recent hustings for the Labour Leadership Owen Smith made reference to immigration, understanding people’s concerns about immigration and in particular the number of Syrian refugees and middle eastern refugees. He gave an anecdotal example of the school in the Rhondda where his wife works being ‘under pressure’ from the influx of middle eastern refugees. So, Plaid Cymru did a little fact finding. At the time of the anecdote, the total number of refugees in Wales, adult and child, male and female, was 78. Of the 78, the number resident in the Rhondda was zero. But yeah, know your audience. Talk up the pressure of immigration if that’s what the crowd wants. As an update, the new figures released yesterday show a spike in the number of refugees settled in all of Wales. It’s now risen to 134. Still none at Owen Smith’s wife’s school though.

yeah that wouldn't be the absolute worst CD on a road trip, once you skipped through the Bowie / Prince / Springsteen / Sabbath shit tracks but it is just 500 word filler / click bait / opinion / chaff I'm still a bit upset at Snowy thinking Batman Theme is better than Non Stop Dancing, but I'm putting it down to him being less educated in cool than I am, so I'm going easy on him and his inferior tastes.

Yeah, the song was utterly immaterial to be honest, it was just the original point about lists of opinions. I've happily had a dance to Club Tropicana. If that flexi is £12 I can only imagine what my Mick Talbot signed copy of a 1983 Merton Parkas EP might be worth!

ah, the overly serious head nodding cool wallflower never got the lady. Up that London, buy something 'tailored', back home for 10:00pm, walk in to the Fantasia (the fanny) looking cool as a cool thing. Drinks. Then some moves to build up a good sweat in the new suit. Absolute guaranteed midnight snogfest. That's from somebody that has an original yellow flexi disc copy of Pop Art Poem.

That's an interesting choice the Snowychap.. By interesting, I'm meaning 'bollocks'. It's late, the local disco is getting serious, talk me through your serious dance moves to a 78rpm cover version of 'batman'.

Ah, well in which case they've clearly never heard Non Stop Dancing by The Jam, which pisses over anything Bowie ever did. True science fact in my opinion.

Is this latest 'best' list on pitchfork based on some measurable metric (number of radio plays, units sold, royalties), or just the opinion of someone that had to write 500 words to claim their fee?

Michael Mosley interesting programme a couple of nights ago that suggests personality can influence health which in turn influences life expectancy it's fairly light on analysis on drilling down in to data, but it suggests if you are 'negative' you'll suffer and it suggests there are tactics that can make you more positive make of it what you will, hippy bull, mindfulness, mind control, belief in yourself, belief in something good, placebo, or bullshit if it works for you, then it works

@dAVe80 well that was a voyage of discovery I'm working my way through the whole Wattstax film now, superb! That Jesse Jackson speech on 15 mins I'm presuming is the lifted speech Primal Scream put on Come Together. There's some movers and some style icons in that crowd!

I know, I know, it's too hot n stuffy for Ska. Have some Rock Steady...

We've been to the Moon, now we need to go to Mars. 'Now' does not mean before 4:00pm, it can simply mean, next.

I know nowhere near enough about Nietzsche to even begin to make a comment on that. A quick attempt at some google blagging suggests he over thought a lot of stuff and didn't get enough fresh air. Declared god is dead and then got syphilis in a gay brothel. So yeah, that pretty much chimes in with my life experiences.

Very similar story, met at 19, married at 25. Our eldest goes to Uni in a couple of weeks. Just couldn't imagine playing it any other way, if there is reincarnation, I'll have the same again please.She's funny and fit and I've seen her boobs.

yeah, I've had a dabble with Plaid as the best of a bad lot, but I'm uncomfortable with the inevitable ugly side of nationalism

Way back in the day I was a hanger on around some SWP / Militant types. Back when John Smith was trying to be our MP (not that one, the lesser one), back in the late 80's. It was fascinating to see the games, the plots, the blatant contradictory promises to various people and groups, the gossip and rumour. That was just the internal Labour stuff, nevermind briefing against the sitting tory scum MP. He was horrible, but the stories told about him were outrageous. More recently I've witnessed the opposite of 'militant' active within Labour, the promotion of filled suits, content to read from a script and tweet what they are told to tweet. It would take a sea change for me to vote Labour. I really need 'none of the above' added to the ballot.