Fourfoot
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Memo: Do not ask “what’s your favourite 80s disaster” on a date.
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I'm old enough to remember when the BBC editing a senior political figure's speech was a completely normal thing that nobody had to resign over, let alone the DG. www.theguardian.com/media/2017/j...
BBC Trust says Laura Kuenssberg report on Corbyn was inaccurate
Regulator says report on Labour leader’s views about shoot-to-kill breached impartiality and accuracy guidelines
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:30 AM
I'm old enough to remember when the BBC editing a senior political figure's speech was a completely normal thing that nobody had to resign over, let alone the DG. www.theguardian.com/media/2017/j...
The Long Read in todays Guardian. Fuck me. I doubt I’ve cried that much reading a newspaper article in a long time.
This country….
This country….
November 11, 2025 at 9:14 AM
The Long Read in todays Guardian. Fuck me. I doubt I’ve cried that much reading a newspaper article in a long time.
This country….
This country….
#90sTop30
#MusicChallenge
Day 11 (unranked)
Genius/GZA - 4th Chamber
The best hip hop album of the nineties and it isn’t even a close race. Some of the most incredible rapping you’ve ever heard and it took me many years to realise this song doesn’t even have a chorus.
youtu.be/hrZOsYjbqVI?...
#MusicChallenge
Day 11 (unranked)
Genius/GZA - 4th Chamber
The best hip hop album of the nineties and it isn’t even a close race. Some of the most incredible rapping you’ve ever heard and it took me many years to realise this song doesn’t even have a chorus.
youtu.be/hrZOsYjbqVI?...
GZA - 4th Chamber
YouTube video by Robbie D
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 7:59 AM
#90sTop30
#MusicChallenge
Day 11 (unranked)
Genius/GZA - 4th Chamber
The best hip hop album of the nineties and it isn’t even a close race. Some of the most incredible rapping you’ve ever heard and it took me many years to realise this song doesn’t even have a chorus.
youtu.be/hrZOsYjbqVI?...
#MusicChallenge
Day 11 (unranked)
Genius/GZA - 4th Chamber
The best hip hop album of the nineties and it isn’t even a close race. Some of the most incredible rapping you’ve ever heard and it took me many years to realise this song doesn’t even have a chorus.
youtu.be/hrZOsYjbqVI?...
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Entire thread. Excellent.
It boggles my mind that people still view the cobbled together musing of mystics dated from the Bronze to the Dark Age as some kind of blueprint for living in modern times. Slavery, and patriarchy (a system not far removed from slavery) were accepted norms and government and society were /1
"The far right in America sees women as a national—as well as natural—resource..."
The premise of Atwood's Republic of Gilead.
#WeAreNotGoingBack
The premise of Atwood's Republic of Gilead.
#WeAreNotGoingBack
November 10, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Entire thread. Excellent.
End of An Era (2022)
Originally published on an old blog in 2022 and now tidied up for grammar etc.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Hopefully they will play their cover of Nantucket Sleighride by Mountain.
Admittedly it’s unlikely existing only as it does in my mind.
Admittedly it’s unlikely existing only as it does in my mind.
PSB are excited to announce “Obscure Pet Shop Boys”, a special run of five intimate shows in April
2026 at London’s Electric Ballroom. The concerts will feature a setlist of non-single album tracks, b-sides and fan favourites. Full details to be revealed here this Wednesday, 12th November.
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Hopefully they will play their cover of Nantucket Sleighride by Mountain.
Admittedly it’s unlikely existing only as it does in my mind.
Admittedly it’s unlikely existing only as it does in my mind.
I blame my lack of practical skills on food manufacturers naming everything for space and monsters when I was a kid. If there had been more Crispy Plasterers and Choco Plumbers and less Space Raiders etc i might have stood a chance. As it was I just thought there’d be robots doing all my key tasks.
November 10, 2025 at 10:48 AM
I blame my lack of practical skills on food manufacturers naming everything for space and monsters when I was a kid. If there had been more Crispy Plasterers and Choco Plumbers and less Space Raiders etc i might have stood a chance. As it was I just thought there’d be robots doing all my key tasks.
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I've just spent 2 solid days listening to metal acts that make Maiden and 'Tallica sound like The Saturdays.
It was bliss.
It was bliss.
November 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
I've just spent 2 solid days listening to metal acts that make Maiden and 'Tallica sound like The Saturdays.
It was bliss.
It was bliss.
Metal. I think of it like ginger. I don’t mind a bit of ginger in things here and there but I wouldn’t eat a whole plant.
I can hear it’s influence in lots of music I like but the idea of listening to a whole Metallica or Maiden album genuinely terrifies me.
I can hear it’s influence in lots of music I like but the idea of listening to a whole Metallica or Maiden album genuinely terrifies me.
What is your biggest musical blindspot for someone precisely your age?
For me - an elder millennial - it is that I have never knowingly listened to INCUBUS, nor could I name even one of their songs if you put a gun to my head.
For me - an elder millennial - it is that I have never knowingly listened to INCUBUS, nor could I name even one of their songs if you put a gun to my head.
November 10, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Metal. I think of it like ginger. I don’t mind a bit of ginger in things here and there but I wouldn’t eat a whole plant.
I can hear it’s influence in lots of music I like but the idea of listening to a whole Metallica or Maiden album genuinely terrifies me.
I can hear it’s influence in lots of music I like but the idea of listening to a whole Metallica or Maiden album genuinely terrifies me.
There is, at least to these eyes and ears, a clear spiritual connection between this and fellow Nov 10er Sesame Street .
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 AM
There is, at least to these eyes and ears, a clear spiritual connection between this and fellow Nov 10er Sesame Street .
#90sTop30
#MusicChallenge
Day 10 (unranked)
The Fall - Blood Outta Stone
The Fall at their most melodic, a garage pop anthem that any other band would have made a single, not put out as a B-side.
Only MES would start a pop song with the prophetic word “Unfortunately”?
youtu.be/4mZu1LCuRkE?...
#MusicChallenge
Day 10 (unranked)
The Fall - Blood Outta Stone
The Fall at their most melodic, a garage pop anthem that any other band would have made a single, not put out as a B-side.
Only MES would start a pop song with the prophetic word “Unfortunately”?
youtu.be/4mZu1LCuRkE?...
The Fall - Blood Outta Stone
YouTube video by jri666
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 8:24 AM
#90sTop30
#MusicChallenge
Day 10 (unranked)
The Fall - Blood Outta Stone
The Fall at their most melodic, a garage pop anthem that any other band would have made a single, not put out as a B-side.
Only MES would start a pop song with the prophetic word “Unfortunately”?
youtu.be/4mZu1LCuRkE?...
#MusicChallenge
Day 10 (unranked)
The Fall - Blood Outta Stone
The Fall at their most melodic, a garage pop anthem that any other band would have made a single, not put out as a B-side.
Only MES would start a pop song with the prophetic word “Unfortunately”?
youtu.be/4mZu1LCuRkE?...
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I don't know what a Twirl would be but Anthea Redfearn used to do it to Bruce Forsyth all the time.
#OneForTheKidsThere
#OneForTheKidsThere
November 9, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I don't know what a Twirl would be but Anthea Redfearn used to do it to Bruce Forsyth all the time.
#OneForTheKidsThere
#OneForTheKidsThere
Really enjoyed Del Toro’s Frankenstein myself. #unsolicitedopinion
November 9, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Really enjoyed Del Toro’s Frankenstein myself. #unsolicitedopinion
Ending the weekend with a Double Decker. I wish it was a sexual euphemism but it’s just a bar of chocolate.
What would a sex double decker be? Probably something unhygienic.
What would a sex double decker be? Probably something unhygienic.
November 9, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Ending the weekend with a Double Decker. I wish it was a sexual euphemism but it’s just a bar of chocolate.
What would a sex double decker be? Probably something unhygienic.
What would a sex double decker be? Probably something unhygienic.
Got the back at work tomorrow after being on holiday blues….
November 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Got the back at work tomorrow after being on holiday blues….
Just stuck my hat in the ring for Director General. I’ve watched a lot of telly and I can still remember the phone number for Swap Shop.
November 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Just stuck my hat in the ring for Director General. I’ve watched a lot of telly and I can still remember the phone number for Swap Shop.
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I hurdygurdy myself today.
November 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I hurdygurdy myself today.
The two that immediately spring to mine for very different reasons are The Ballad of Wallis Island and Aftersun
November 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The two that immediately spring to mine for very different reasons are The Ballad of Wallis Island and Aftersun
What have I become, my Swedish friend?
November 9, 2025 at 1:48 PM
What have I become, my Swedish friend?
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At the rounding up of the bill, we will remember them.
November 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
At the rounding up of the bill, we will remember them.
Going to rewatch first 2 episodes of Plur1bus later. Already feels like an important show. Invasion of the Bodysnatchers meets The Good Place. But way better.
November 9, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Going to rewatch first 2 episodes of Plur1bus later. Already feels like an important show. Invasion of the Bodysnatchers meets The Good Place. But way better.
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Dolce et decorum est pro tempus interruptus
November 9, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Dolce et decorum est pro tempus interruptus
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In his twenties, my (cheeky, wisecracking) brother lived next door to his former headmaster and his wife, who had a surprising number of children. What cemented this as a sitcom setup in my mind were the occasional visits from the mother's cousin, who was Liam Neeson.
And they say there are no new sitcom ideas
What a world
November 9, 2025 at 11:08 AM
In his twenties, my (cheeky, wisecracking) brother lived next door to his former headmaster and his wife, who had a surprising number of children. What cemented this as a sitcom setup in my mind were the occasional visits from the mother's cousin, who was Liam Neeson.
Had to leave Tesco in a rush.
If you have to tell people every 5 minutes that there’s going to be a 2 minute silence at 11, I don’t know, it feels more like brand protection than keenly observed remembrance. Mutely pausing in the bread aisle just feels weird.
Not that you can blame Tesco mind
If you have to tell people every 5 minutes that there’s going to be a 2 minute silence at 11, I don’t know, it feels more like brand protection than keenly observed remembrance. Mutely pausing in the bread aisle just feels weird.
Not that you can blame Tesco mind
November 9, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Had to leave Tesco in a rush.
If you have to tell people every 5 minutes that there’s going to be a 2 minute silence at 11, I don’t know, it feels more like brand protection than keenly observed remembrance. Mutely pausing in the bread aisle just feels weird.
Not that you can blame Tesco mind
If you have to tell people every 5 minutes that there’s going to be a 2 minute silence at 11, I don’t know, it feels more like brand protection than keenly observed remembrance. Mutely pausing in the bread aisle just feels weird.
Not that you can blame Tesco mind