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67-73 was a bit golden wasn't it. I suspect a heady combination of technology and drugs helped. The ratio is up for debate.

Barnet have now said that if you were turned away earlier and can't get back you can 'possibly' get an emergency proxy vote if you re register before 5:00pm. Somebody has then asked if it's legal to be altering the electoral register half way through an election day and have been tweeted the response 'probably'. At it's most banal, it's just an admin error that could happen pretty much anywhere. But it does give people the opportunity to dial their indignation up to 11. At it's most serious, there will be people that have been denied a vote today. Imagine if any of the results are anywhere near being close. The fact the Chief Rabbi was told he couldn't vote as he wasn't on the list, and that it was Barnet where part of the process was outsourced just add to the fun.

I know that if I had a choice of Premiership and Champions League experience, or a portion of a season at a Championship club in chaos, working for my old boss, it would be a no brainer.....

Yeah I stumbled across that programme too. Very interesting character and by the sounds of it very much 'of his time' with a lot of his views. Funding his scatter gun excavations by flogging off the finds, was the m.o. as far as I could tell. Must have been a hell of an exciting time. We find a piece of broken crockery on a building site now and we all have to stop work, put neon bibs on and get a gazebo over the find until Neil Oliver and his hair can get there.

Yeah, I'm in and out of Swansea a fair bit at the moment and you do tend to see students doing the long walk to that campus. It looks fantastic, but a little remote right now. I'd guess that campus will drive a fair bit of development in that area though. I'll toot toot next time I pass. Be sure to wave and strike a VT gang pose if you see a balding bloke in an old Merc beeping at you.

Shiny new science and tech campus out of town, or the one by the cricket ground on the seafront? Seafront, always looks like a pretty funky place to be in Uni, access to the beach almost literally on the doorstep. Did a tour of a few Uni's with the nipper a few months ago. Brum and Swansea were the two clear faves, but a few staff and lecturers in Brum gave the impression of being a bit up their own arse with how great they were, whilst at the same time, giving out duff information.

To be fair, the double dream sequence in American Werewolf was by a country mile the most scary thing I'd ever seen. It was a proper state of the art movie at the time and one of very few I've got on DVD. But to chime in with Mooney's point earlier about not having great film memory, I was going to add 'The French Connection' to the list as it's one of my absolute all time faves. Turns out on a quick google, it's 1971.

I bought my first house at the tail end of the 1980's. It was terrible, I needed to buy a house right at a spike in house prices. £30,000. If I'd been buying 6 months earlier houses in the same street had been £25,000. Crazy crazy end of days prices, but we managed some how.....

Yep, looks like the out sourcing of democracy to Capita by Barnet Council is going really well.... Hendon Times Capita telling people to 'come back later', brilliant. I bet next year you'll be able to pay a little extra and get an enhanced executive service where a vote is almost guaranteed.

Yeah, in ye olden days you could wait for the manager to leave the bar, unscrew the front of the machine and write down the sequence on the rotating drums. The skill was in not winning too much and having the machine taken away.

Come on man, I was being hipster. Music is music was supposed to be the thrusting message. There's nothing better than a Blondie / Beatles / Jam mixtape.

let me just consult my map....... yep, both Birmingham and Leeds are above the M4 you're a northerner

I think statistically, the Hispanic vote is around about 1 in 12 voters. Of those, the majority traditionally vote democrat anyway, and live in democrat voting states. So the maximum damage Trump can do to himself by alienating 100% of the Hispanic vote would be limited. But a small and slightly ropey exit poll in Nevada suggested Trump got a higher cut of the republican Hispanic vote than Rubio or Cruz. Which I think means, for Trump, being rude to Hispanics probably makes very little difference.

Historic Kits So a bit like a combo of the two 1884 kits.... Personally, I'm all over a revival of the 1885 kit.

I've got broader taste now than I've ever had. I still struggle massively with what I would clumsily describe as 'rock' and all it's variations from Bon Jovi to U2 to Kiss, Supertramp, Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne etc.. That said, my last few gigs and my next few up coming could loosely be described as punk, folk and a sort of country n western techno.... Coming up in December, my first ever gig at the Hammersmiff Empire. Alabama 3 (again!).

I miss Useless. I just hope he didn't take 'bantzz' as criticism. There is no such thing as good taste and bad taste, music is music and all that. (obviously mid atlantic rock and anything with high sales volumes is total shit, but yeah, you know)

turn the clock through 90 degrees (or change the batteries to something with more oomph)

somebody on that twitter yesterday pointed out that given the 2016 we've had so far, that's quite an optimistic line up for 5 months time...

I'm not sure giving someone the middle finger in an east coast park is the right way to celebrate gay rights. But, the more I think about it....

I don't think the Children's Commissioner is saying once you've ticked a box you have to stick with it. I'd suggest that for the great majority of teenagers up to 18 years old asked to fill this in, the answer will be a spectacularly simple one. For that tiny minority of people that already know at 13, 14 , 17, 18 that they are something else then there are boxes there for them too. It kind of suggests there are lots of version of normal, doesn't it. I'd also guess, that if a 17 year old doesn't know what a trans girl is, then that's probably not the box to tick. So many people hung up with everyone else having to conform. Exactly how many parents have complained about this I wonder? I bet no parent with a child that is struggling with their gender has complained about this national survey. There you go, I must be very right on.

I know one bloke that 'forgets' his kids after a decent pub lunch so he gets an hour's free babysitting.

Yep, we generally eat the evening meal together, sat at a table in a room that doesn't have a TV in it. I'd guess that happens 5 or 6 evenings of most weeks. It's not strict, if someone is going out or not hungry then that's fine, we don't go all Jim Jones over it. It's just the habit we are in. Sometimes we even continue to talk to each other after the meal has been eaten.

To be fair, the article is in the Daily Mail. They're still upset they didn't back the winners in World War II. I don't see it swaying many voters.

Crap parents in restaurants / shops / trains / planes / football grounds. Ban them.