Tuesday 11 October 2022
ye cracke and tories
Ye Cracke (a pub in Liverpool) certainly doesn't like Tories. If l lived closer, it would be my regular.
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Monday 10 October 2022
me and the parrot celebrating
Me and the parrot celebrating after the Manchester United win last night.
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Sunday 9 October 2022
on john lennon's birthday
On what would have been John Lennon's Birthday, some photographs of him in Almeria, Spain, in 1966.
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Saturday 8 October 2022
Elliott Smith - Between The Bars
Drink up baby, stay up all night
With the things you could do
You won't but you might
The potential you'll be that you'll never see
The promises you'll only make
Drink up with me now
And forget all about the pressure of days
Do what I say and I'll make you okay
And drive them away
The images stuck in your head
People you've been before
That you don't want around anymore
That push and shove and won't bend to your will
I'll keep them still
Drink up baby, look at the stars
I'll kiss you again, between the bars
Where I'm seeing you there with your hands in the air
Waiting to finally be caught
Drink up one more time, and I'll make you mine
Keep you apart, deep in my heart
Separate from the rest, where I like you the best
And keep the things you forgot
People you've been before
That you don't want around anymore
That push and shove and won't bend to your will
I'll keep them still
hmmm... could be a song in this
Paul McCartney reading Ian Fleming's 'Live and Let Die' book in 1965. We all know what happened a few years later.
Friday 7 October 2022
happy faces 'so you play in a band'
Danny, a sort of relative of mine put this up on Facebook the other day and it made me laugh out loud, as l think the faces featured, along with the sentiment, are excellent.
Who says the youngsters nowadays have no sense of humour? Not me, that's for sure.
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the not so great nhs privatisation drive
The Conservative government been planning the privatisation of the NHS for a while, but once again, l'm just putting this information out there. It's only a matter of time if they somehow manage to stay in power.
sauces mix up
OK. As a great fan of both of these sauces (normally), this is doing my head in. It just feels wrong! There's enough things messed up in the world at the moment without having to deal with this. Sort it out FFS.
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rod stewart's train set
I've put photographs of Rod Stewart's train set before, but l saw these ones the other day so thought l'd repost. as l'm still amazed by it. The money, time and effort put into making something like this just blows my mind (maaaan). Very, very impressive.
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cd shelving
I was on a music site the over day and people were putting up photographs of their shelving. I know it's a niche specialist market, but l love it, and its good to know that l'm not the only mad idiotic collector out there in this crazy, crazy world.
Photographs of mine may follow (if l get around to it).
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Thursday 6 October 2022
worth repeating - the financial times speaks sense
For a change, l actually stand 100% behind an article in The Financial Times. If only there was more of this kind of honest reporting in the red top papers.
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l have a dream - rewritten by suella braverman
It's not exactly up there with Martin Luther King Jr's dream, but at least we don't have to try and guess how evil Home Secretary (for the time being) Suella Braverman is, as she just puts it all out there for everyone to see. To belive she would be allowed anywhere near her position in any previous law abiding government is insane (and I'm not including Boris').
The original dream speech is here. I think you'd agree there is a bit of a difference.
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the tory's wreck my pie eating
There's many reasons to hate The Conservatives, but being the cause of my local (and favourite) pork pie firm's collapse is bang out of order!!!!! Sunlit uplands my arse.
Never vote Tory!
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Wednesday 5 October 2022
l'm a mastermind champion!
Out of curiosity, l was looking online for Rolling Stones or Beatles questions that had been on the BBC series Mastermind, to see how many l cold answer without studying. Not a lot of success, but l found a Mastermind quiz on their website, so did that instead. Had a couple of guesses (Harry Potter for one), but pleased with the score. Looks like the drink and drugs abuse hasn't taken it's toll yet!
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Tuesday 4 October 2022
Monday 3 October 2022
unfortunate headlines and latest tory crap
Today's newspaper headlines, released the day after Liz Truss announced on TV that there was no going back on the 45p tax cut for the rich.
Of course Kwasi Kwarteng then went on TV this morning and announced a U Turn on it (although they are still cutting public services).
As for the think piece further down, it was in yesterdays Financial Times, which normally supports the Conservatives 100%. This demonstrates how far the Tories have fallen in their estimation.
They really are in trouble.
Never vote Tory.
one way to finish work
Call me an old cynic, but l don't believe this guy spent all that money in one weekend, but whatever he did spend, that's one hell of a way to finish at your job. My employers had better be on their guard.
Sunday 2 October 2022
jh lynch's tina
As found in many working class homes back in the day, including mine. A framed print of 'Tina', by JH Lynch. Now becoming collectable.
There's some more here.
george best at fulham
Obviously l know that George Best played for many clubs after leaving Manchester United, but looking at this old profile, it still seems strange not seeing him in a Manchester United shirt, and still messes with my tiny brained head.
erling haaland is a monster
After helping to ruin my day today, Erling Haaland leaps to the top of the table for the Premierships fasted three hat-tricks. He's a great player, but at the wrong club in Manchester.
parody versus reality
A parody article by Marina Hyde, compared to today's statement by Jake Berry, the chair of the Conservative Party.
Never vote Tory.
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michael fabricant does something good
After Dom Hauschild (who writes for The Times) stated that he had witnessed Michael Fabricant being assaulted on his way in to todays Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham, Fabricant put up this message to call it out as wrong. It's not often (never so far) l have much time for Fabricant, but well done to him for this, for which he has garnered some respect from me, and hopefully many more.
Seeing a Conservative MP doing the right thing. I'm amazed. The original tweet is below.
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liz truss' british gas update
As the Prime Minister (for now) Liz Truss continues her rounds of TV car crash interviews, British Gas feel the need to take out full page adverts to dispel the misinformation she has been sprouting about help with bills and price caps. What a time to be alive.
Never vote Tory
Adriano Celentano Prisencolinensinainciusol 1972
Released in 1972 with nonsense English / American lyrics to show Italians would buy anything western sounding as long as it communicated enough with them. It was a hit, but more importantly, speaking as an Englishman, it's just a great catchy song. There's loads of songs where the lyrics are uninterpretable, but that doesn't matter if the tune and feel of the song are good enough. Bob Dylan's spent half of his career doing the same, and l love his output.
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Saturday 1 October 2022
the telegraph's undiscovered beatles photograph, and real undiscovered beatles photographs
From The Telegraph. The only problem with the article is that the colour photograph of The Beatles (supposedly unearthed after six decades) has been in the public domain for years. Very shoddy reporting and fact checking from the Tory loving rag (who also repeated the untrue 'Ringo not the best drummer in The Beatles' slur).
If you really want to see newly discovered Beatles photographs, look further below, taken in July 1961 at The Cavern after they had just returned from Hamburg, and when they were looking pretty skinny (in their leather trousers). Probably due to their diet of speed and fags. Discovered by Mark Lewisholm.
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