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2 hours ago, bickster said:

His history speaks for itself, he is not now nor ever has been unbiased

Even when he was having a pop at Johnson, that was only because they hated each other when Robinson was Chairman of the Oxford Uni Tories (which also puts him as a contemporary of Osborne and Cameron)

Chris Mason has been a big improvement on Robinson. 

19 minutes ago, sidcow said:

Eh? THE Laura K who does nothing more than kowtow to The Tories? Strange behaviour. 

Even she can see the writing on the wall. 

Next instalment in the series "John Shepard's drum kits" for @veloman. Deployed last night for a gig with his new band "The Rhythm Section" - a bass/drums/organ trio doing (mostly instrumental) soul/jazz. Damn good they were, too. 

I cannot conceive of not reading. 

30 minutes ago, one_ian_taylor said:

Ever manage to sneak anything in there? Massive blue SOTC on a blue background?

And did they realise you were a DVB? 

Bruce Rioch. But that was before cameras were invented. 

6 minutes ago, tonyh29 said:

TBH I don’t know they did that .. I usually get a Frappuccino to go from them but really / never drink in 

Well, maybe they've stopped it, I never go there anymore. But when I was working, they had a branch over the local Waterstones, which was my go-to lunchtime hideaway (when not in the pub). The free top-up information was in fairly small print at the bottom of their wall menu, so they obviously didn't want it widely known. Saw me through several books though. 

EDIT: I think it was only on the basic filter coffee, not all those fancy frappamocca things. 

52 minutes ago, theboyangel said:

Really enjoyed 3 Body Problem and liked the way the first season ended.

Don't know much about the source material but clearly there's plenty left in the tank for a couple more seasons, which I'm sure will get commissioned. 

Only thing is, I can see it being a long wait. 

Same with Shogun. 

2 minutes ago, villa89 said:

Now one caveat is that I'm 20 years in the same job, like most of the people I know. At that point I guess everyone loses their motivation. 

Is it literally the same job, though? 

I did 30 years in I.T. (28 of them for the same employer), but the world changed so much in that time, that - even with the same nominal job title - my role kept changing, so it never really got boring. The only real downside was dickhead bosses. 

18 minutes ago, tonyh29 said:

With exactly that in mind , there was a business proposal that one of the coffee shop chains  were investigating a few years back whereby if you “drink in” the coffee would be free and you paid an hourly charge for the table 

nothing seems to have come of it so I guess the one coffee for 8 hours plan is still the sound one 

Do Starbucks (yeah, yeah, I know) still do that 'unlimited top-ups' thing? 

Always used to beat me why anyone would pay for the big expensive mug, when they could just buy the small cheap one, and keep getting it refilled. 

48 minutes ago, rjw63 said:

Yeah I certainly won’t watch this tripe, hated two-tone anyway but I said to the missus that the turd who wrote it will try to shoehorn in as many small queef references as possible. Looks like I was right.

Well I couldn't get through the first episode of Peaky Blinders, and I ruled this new thing out after seeing the trailers. 

Nobody claiming football (Villa or otherwise)? 

Yeah, I could give up crisps forever, no problem. But biscuits, no. Staple diet. 

I think I might be able to live entirely on biscuits. 

I used to play Quizup a lot, and got to be #1 in the UK on Bob Dylan. At one point I played an American bloke who was #1 in the world, and beat him. I offered him a replay and he declined. 

But really I'm a quiz generalist - jack of all trades and master of none. Strong on music (except modern shit), art, literature and history. Weak on maths, science and technology. 

30 minutes ago, bickster said:

Or Roderick

Most people seem to think Rod Stewart's name is Rodney. I went to see The Faces supported by Long John Baldry in the 70s, and the teenybopper girls annoyingly chanted "Rod-nee! Rod-nee!" all through Baldry's set. 

His name is Roderick. 

EDIT: Bicks beat me to it. 

When we had both a pond and a cat (both sadly now gone), rescuing frogs was a daily job for me. The cat used to bring them into the house. She never killed them, she just liked to watch them hopping around the kitchen, until she got bored and wandered off elsewhere. At which point I would take them back to the pond. 

4 minutes ago, sidcow said:

**** me. You lot live in Spain or something? 

It's been an incredibly mild winter in W. Yorkshire. But bloody wet. 

1 minute ago, dAVe80 said:

Some serious issues for social services to sort out here. All of you subjected to having to go to the temple of doom for a quid, remember, it's not your fault. 

They should at least be entitled to compensation, especially with such blatant overpricing. 

I don't own an air fryer. 

1 minute ago, sidcow said:

I've heard a few people say this but I can't remember many recent Winters where I've had to defrost the car so much in the morning. 

Worst for that in years I reckon. 

Haven't had to do that more than once or twice this winter. Then again I don't very often have to get up early. 

10 minutes ago, tonyh29 said:

I binged "Messiah" the other week

I genuinely thought I was in the classical music thread for a moment there. 

12 minutes ago, bickster said:

You can't judge Wragg differently to other victims because he's a Tory MP

Maybe I shouldn't, but I can, and I do. 

18 minutes ago, bickster said:

I'm not sure that tweets gives the correct impression of what went on in this instance. Essentially Wragg is a victim of a crime in this instance (there are other victims too). 

I'm really not sure this is an event that should be levelled against the Tories or this government. 

Yes, he's the victim of a crime. So what did he do? Go to the police? No. He dropped several of his colleagues in the shit. **** ing weasel.