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I have been going to St Annes for about 13 years, multiple times a year. Went up yesterday to give my dog a run on the beach and have a wander round. The first time in 13 years the tide was right in, I mean right up to the promenade, zero beach available. It may be like this daily, but even normally, for me, high tide means that its only a mile away. That pissed me off, and then the return on the motorway, yes, the M6 was closed so it took us 5 hours to do an hour and half journey.

2.83 Liberal Airhead.

As much as I am a fan of her music, I am not a fan of the cult of Swift, but Taylor Swift missing from that cover is a glaring omission. 

2 minutes ago, Follyfoot said:

Will miss the Moggster 

You need to get your sights looked at then, or practice more with your weapon.

3 minutes ago, Rob182 said:

Ring doorbell subscription going up 100% in 2 years. First world problems

Very much so, but it has me considering non subscription alternatives.

So far right mouthpiece, GB News. Never one to pretend there is any balance on their screens, Jacob Rees Mogg is having a bit of a break from his programme on the channel, who is taking over and doing a Q and A, Rishi Sunak. An expanded question and answer session with the completely normal GB News viewers. Not sure if this is before or after the by elections, and if this is some pre-emptive plea to the MPs not to send letters to the 1922 committee. 

Don't want to turn it too dark, but my parents locked me in my bedroom, I left it when they let me out. I wouldn't recommend that though, perhaps just give them an ipad.

Just now, bickster said:

King of the Kerb, indie disco classic. The rest is pretty forgettable but at least whateverhername is could actually sing which puts them several rungs above the two  

Bloody hell, King of the kerb was excellent, I take it back. 

6 minutes ago, bickster said:

Oh come on, I'm no fan of Echobelly but certainly wouldn't put them in that bracket  

I didn't feel they had any songs, at all. Not as obnoxious as the other two but nothing of any note. I have their debut album and I could not think of a single song on there.

If we are talking loud back in the 90s I went with my wife to see the bands supporting Echobelly at the civic. My wife loved Kinky Machine and the band they became, Rialto and I loved Bennet. Bennet were a bit of an oddity, they were a pretty much bog standard indie band on Roadrunner records, but I loved them. Bennet made my ears bleed. **** ridiculously loud. My ears were still ringing decades later. Other than that caught a few songs of Echobelly and went for chips. Echobelly were filed in the drawer of shit that Shed 7 and Oasis occupy. 

On 07/02/2024 at 12:02, chrisp65 said:

My loudest may be more down to venue than band.

Down the murky end of Cardiff Bay when it was 90% wasteland there was a place called The New Ocean Club. Properly situated out in the foggy middle of nowhere like some Dickensian venue, the nearest neighbours would be tethered travellers’ horses.

Anyhoo, the three loudest gigs I’ve ever attended, gigs that had sound punching my chest and left me temporarily deaf, were all in that club.

Dr Feelgood

Nine Below Zero

Big Sound Authority

 

Big Sound Authority were an ok power pop band, nothing particularly special about them whatsoever. So for them to be top 3 loud, it’s completely and utterly down to the venue and its location with no neighbours. Right?

 

I still love and play BSA's hit, this house. It will get a play later on I think. 

My wife is 5 ft and half an inch, but I reckon she is 4ft 11

There is a fella in my town who was an XL Bully breeder, dreadful man anyway, runs a second hand car business that changes names and leaves former customers high and dry. Regards XL Bullys though, his wife locally was leading the call for them not to be banned, but forgot to mention that she was a breeder of them.

2 minutes ago, bickster said:

Cerberus enters the conversation

3 heads to give a nuggie to.

I love dogs, **** adore them, never met a dog I disliked. Can't say that about people. I reckon I could see the good in Cujo, Zoltan and both Terror Dogs.

15 minutes ago, Rugeley Villa said:

Been telling everyone for years I’m 5’11 which I thought I was and maybe I was. Turns out yesterday I’m 5’9 . 

I went through a similar thing. Not basically a midget like you but 5'10 instead of 5'11

The singer Mojo Nixon has died. 

1 hour ago, chrisp65 said:

Nerd alert, I genuinely enjoy brutalism. I don’t really know much about New Street Station, but was it really brutalist?

I’ve had a bit of a google out of interest, and I’m not seeing any pictures of a brutalist railway station architecture. I even looked it up on Wikipedia and it names the architects but doesn’t suggest it’s brutalist. There’s a car park and an office block, they’re not really brutalist either they’re just shitty typical build. There is a brutalist signal box, it ain’t great, but it is deliberate intended brutalism.

Brutalism is gorgeous, anyone got any pictures of New Street as brutalism? Or are we just shorthanding shitty concrete 1960’s and brutalism as the same thing?

Brutalism, reggae and beach sheds. Bloody monster. 

There is a wiki page of uk fatalities by dogs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_dog_attacks_in_the_United_Kingdom#2020–present

Quote

Fatal dog attacks in the United Kingdom are usually measured in single figures per year. An increasing number of serious dog attacks (both fatal and non-fatal) was the catalyst for the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991,[1][2] which ultimately led to four breeds being banned: Pitbull, Japanese Tosa, Dogo Argentino and Fila Brasileiro.[3] Between 2021 and 2023, around half of fatal dog attacks were caused by a single breed, the American Bully XL, and in December 2023, they were the first breed to be added to the act since 1991, making it illegal to sell, breed, abandon or have a Bully XL in public without a lead and muzzle in England and Wales.[4]

2020 to present, American XL Bullys make up a significant number, approaching half of all fatalities.

My disclaimer, I do no not think these should be banned, just relaying some data.