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£60 for a band suggests he'll actually be stood 1.5 kilometers away from the band, watching their 'live' performance on a big screen. He needs to spend £15 on seeing a band, if they're rubbish you can spill your beer on their Converse. Then, go to a £7 football match and if that's rubbish, you can have a go at chatting up the player's mums.

I can't believe someone would get married AND buy a dishwasher. You've paid twice for the same thing there....

Do we know Lerner is alright? I mean, all this lack of communication. They have checked he's not been locked in his own bathroom for 8 months? I'd hate to think he's been sat in his own loo with a broken door knob, surviving on toothpaste and toilet water, wondering how Sherwood is getting on this season.

The Lovely Eggs - If you were fruit if you're short of time, it gets going from about 2'55

Well, I've sat through the first 12 movies in the Amateur Wives Call The Handyman series and I'd say there's still scope to explore the characterisations and plot twists further. So a decent director should be able to spin out the space environmentalist native american shamen stuff for a while longer.

random purchase, haven't heard of a thing on there, but I'm really hoping for great things from Johnny King and the Fatback Band...

I do know Sue is a real name and I do know Adolph is a real name. I don't know any Adolph's and I don't know any boys called Sue. I do know a woman called Fruit Bat and a girl called Tequila Sunrise. I can't believe I googled it, but there are 4 links to people in the U.S. called Susan Hitler.

I know that is a fruit bat, but it's not the fruit bat I know. Mine is a female.

Tequila Sunrise is the real name from birth, on the birth certificate. Fruit Bat was the elective name change.

It's not something for the judiciary to get involved in, is it? Is Adolph acceptable? What about Absinthe? What about Tequila Sunrise? What about Fruit Bat? What about calling a boy Sue?* I don't want some judge to tell me what I can or can't call my kids, that's a lot like the state having naming rights over your baby. * Quiz question: of those five examples, one was a real person with a real name given from birth, one was an elective change of name in adulthood. I know them both.

Nils Frahm, Screws I was going to buy it, then realised it was a legit free download off his site....so that's currently plinking and plonking in the background. Possibly a bit too relaxing for right now, I'm sat where there is traffic noise. I shall save it for later when I'm chillaxing wiv my crew.

......Jesus and Mary Chain.....Saint Etienne.....The Cramps..... it was one of those rare moments in time where you could buy something you didn't recognise because the label was absolutely on point ooh yeah, and the first Oasis album wasn't too scruffy either

One of the few categories anywhere ever where I'd have given myself a little mental fist pump of delight as I started spending my winnings whilst selecting which pointless answer to dazzle them with. You get me to that final, I'll get you the win. The Creation label could do no wrong for a while back there. The actually had the band 'The Creation' signed, I loved them. They had Primal Scream, they had 'The Times' with Ed Ball. They even had 'Super Furry Animals' at the time they released two songs we still sing at the footy every home game to this day. Primal Scream had the sounds and the songs, superb lyrics: Today on this program you will hear gospel, And rhythm and blues, and jazz All those are just labels We know that music is music That album Screamadelica is right up there. It annoyed their 'rock' fans and it pointed me at a whole new thing, standing in fields or laying in fields looking at the stars, or at least looking at the top of a big marquee tent. To win, and show off, I'd have gone for a proper tricky little title, Higher than the sun (a dub symphony in 2 parts). Boosh, where's my winnings? In fact, I'm going to go dig it out right now and transport myself....

I'm not defending the guy, not by a long stretch. But I wonder how much his 'condition' is down to the shit sack that is life at Aston Villa? Everything about the club is down and negative, he's on his third or fourth boss in just over a season of playing time, the atmosphere is bad, the ship is rudderless, like it or not there has to be stress (I know, I know, paid billions to kick a ball). All that. He certainly doesn't come over as someone that was well equipped to be captain even if the going had been stress free. Being some sort of nominal leader in this environment, when he struggles to breath and blink at the same time, that can't have been good for him. Like I say, I'm not defending him. But it wouldn't be the shock of the century if we offloaded 4, 5 or 6 of these losers, only for them to go elsewhere and regain their mojo. What would be the odds for Gabby ending up somewhere else, say Walsall, and really setting the goalscoring pace. Losing the great weight off his middle and then off his shoulders. But that isn't me saying to keep him. Better for all of us if he was to get out and get a fresh start.

back on the SFA

the new Manic Street Preachers album, not played it yet,

that's actually a really bad idea unless the chilli is mixed with sand and glue it will have no benefit whatsoever

Well, self assessment is a wonderful thing, but I have soul.

I heard the police were worried there was a sleeper cell within the Villa squad.....

Less convictions than Merle Haggard too!

It's an odd story and certainly nowhere near black and white. When I was in college I knew a couple of people that knew this bloke that had legendary status locally as some sort of jolly cannabis pirate. One of my lecturers was a relative and would tell tales of midnight visits back to mum's house (organised by the police) to have a cup of tea, catch up with the news, drop off some cash and be whisked away again. All very romantic and somewhat far fetched. I decided to stop believing the stories when I was told he'd been released from court for threatening to tell tales about MI6 and the CIA if prosecuted. I think at that point I decided it was all a bit silly and clearly made up. It was years later I realised the stories from college were all based on 'fact'. There had been a bloke with the same name as my lecturer that was from Bridgend like my lecturer and was a cannabis smuggler with links to MI6 and the CIA and all sorts of others including south american drug barons and the IRA etc.. Those stories about the americans facilitating vast drug deals to raise money for black ops, well who knew! They were apparently true. Anyway, years after that, this bloke is back around, is buddies with local groups like Super Furry Animals and Catatonia. Whether you can ever 'condone' drug smuggling, or going in to partnership with a tory Lord to run a brothel, that's a whole debate right there. But this guy clearly lived a very interesting life, mixing with lots of people on both sides of the good / bad divide. I've been to a talk come power point presentation he gave and it was entertaining and fascinating. I haven't read the book. It's a complex world, where people castigate the PM for vague tax set ups in his previous life, but celebrate the life of a convicted cannabis smuggler. But hey, we're complex people, we can handle it.

Log on to your account, somewhere in the pull down menu you'll be able to query your service / ask about faults and they'll do the equivalent of a switch it off switch it on again ping test.

Howard Marks

So it looks like two americans might be about to take a controlling interest in Swansea City for £100 million. The Supporters' Trust will retain their 21% stake in the club. The buyers are Stephen Kaplan, NBA Memphis Grizzlies and Jason Levien, of MLS DC United. If only there had been some way we could have networked with americans interested in sports teams. I guess we had nobody here with those sorts of connections. Nobody that wasn't incompetent and disinterested anyway.