The Reverend Ramrod Newell
@ramrodnewell.bsky.social
An IT guy who also plays music. Synth nerd and guitar hoarder. A reverend only in the same sense as Joey off of Friends, and I've lost the certificate anyway. North-East England.
How much would this image cost to use for a dental health and these days...!
1980:
Smash Hits Volume 33, page 2
Full mag --> https://archive.org/stream/smash-hits-1980-03-06#page/n1
Smash Hits Volume 33, page 2
Full mag --> https://archive.org/stream/smash-hits-1980-03-06#page/n1
November 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
How much would this image cost to use for a dental health and these days...!
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Christmas gift giving is a zero sum game. Too much tit-for-tat ends up in tat, that wastes money and fills landfills.
Time for my annual ‘no unnecessary presents’ Christmas message (courtesy @itvmlshow.bsky.social )
Time for my annual ‘no unnecessary presents’ Christmas message (courtesy @itvmlshow.bsky.social )
Martin Lewis: Time to ban unnecessary Christmas presents!
YouTube video by Martin Lewis
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Christmas gift giving is a zero sum game. Too much tit-for-tat ends up in tat, that wastes money and fills landfills.
Time for my annual ‘no unnecessary presents’ Christmas message (courtesy @itvmlshow.bsky.social )
Time for my annual ‘no unnecessary presents’ Christmas message (courtesy @itvmlshow.bsky.social )
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How by attempting to appease the forces on the right seeking to destroy them, the BBC has helped trigger a crisis that now threatens its very future
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...
The BBC’s Attempts to Appease the 'Right-Wing Coup' Against It Are Now Seeding Its Own Destruction
By attempting to appease those forces seeking to destroy them, the BBC has helped trigger a crisis that now threatens its very future, argues Adam Bienkov
bylinetimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
How by attempting to appease the forces on the right seeking to destroy them, the BBC has helped trigger a crisis that now threatens its very future
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...
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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
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November 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Oh great, so everyone's "n0nc3 name" is now just Andrew. Thanks.
October 31, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Oh great, so everyone's "n0nc3 name" is now just Andrew. Thanks.
How often do they send those threatening letters, sorry, update the electoral register in the UK? Like, how often do I legally have to review and update my information vs. how often I get threatened with a £1000 fine? Seems like multiple times a year ...
October 26, 2025 at 9:25 AM
How often do they send those threatening letters, sorry, update the electoral register in the UK? Like, how often do I legally have to review and update my information vs. how often I get threatened with a £1000 fine? Seems like multiple times a year ...
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Sheffield Wednesday file for administration - www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
Football ownership and economics are broken
Football ownership and economics are broken
Sheffield Wednesday: Championship club file for administration
Sheffield Wednesday have filed a notice to be put it into administration after it was revealed last week that His Majesty's Revenue & Customs were set to issue a winding-up petition against the club.
www.bbc.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Sheffield Wednesday file for administration - www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
Football ownership and economics are broken
Football ownership and economics are broken
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Where’s her Pulitzer already? Joanna Newsom’s 20 best songs – ranked!
Where’s her Pulitzer already? Joanna Newsom’s 20 best songs – ranked!
Ten years on from the release of her rococo masterpiece, Divers, we count down the singer-songwriter-harpist’s most beautiful and devastating tracks
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Where’s her Pulitzer already? Joanna Newsom’s 20 best songs – ranked!
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Dave Ball was not some bloke in the background of Soft Cell – he drove their startling, subversive sound
Dave Ball was not some bloke in the background of Soft Cell – he drove their startling, subversive sound
Far more than a mute foil to Marc Almond, Ball brought his love of northern soul and strange electronics to bear on some of Britain’s most uncompromising pop
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Dave Ball was not some bloke in the background of Soft Cell – he drove their startling, subversive sound
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They deployed this in only the second episode.
Alexei Sayle's Stuff (20th October 1988). "Well, we apologise for the absence of Alexei Sayle in this week's edition of Alexei Sayle's Stuff. We're attempting to right the problem, but in the meantime the programme will continue in Leslie Crowther only".
October 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
They deployed this in only the second episode.
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In one episode of the second series of Stuff, the first five minutes consisted of what appeared to be an episode of Juliet Bravo, and really the only initial clue is that Juliet Bravo was never on BBC2. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHmX...
Alexei Sayle - Juliet Bravo Cold Open - Funny Comedy Sketch Spoof Satire - Stuff S02E05
YouTube video by Steve's Comedy & Vlogs
www.youtube.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
In one episode of the second series of Stuff, the first five minutes consisted of what appeared to be an episode of Juliet Bravo, and really the only initial clue is that Juliet Bravo was never on BBC2. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHmX...
September 7, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Aaaaaaargh!!!! Just about sussed the TB-303 pattern sequencing (I've actually got the Behringer TD-3) ... But bloody hell the track mode is impossible! Couldn't even make a two-bar two-pattern loop work as I'd expected.
September 1, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Aaaaaaargh!!!! Just about sussed the TB-303 pattern sequencing (I've actually got the Behringer TD-3) ... But bloody hell the track mode is impossible! Couldn't even make a two-bar two-pattern loop work as I'd expected.
Amorim hiding from the penalties. Enough. Over.
August 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Amorim hiding from the penalties. Enough. Over.
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Burgers are better than steaks.
August 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Burgers are better than steaks.
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The BBC rolling out the red carpet and giving full, uncritical coverage to a press conference by a party with four MPs. Can’t wait for when they do the Greens. #balance
August 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The BBC rolling out the red carpet and giving full, uncritical coverage to a press conference by a party with four MPs. Can’t wait for when they do the Greens. #balance
"The Dutchman" "The Moroccan" ... Within the first few seconds of turning on BBC Match of the Day.
August 24, 2025 at 8:17 AM
"The Dutchman" "The Moroccan" ... Within the first few seconds of turning on BBC Match of the Day.
Strange times we're living in...
"... Someone's hiding in the classroom
Forging the books of history
Never mind there’s a good film showing tonight
Where they hang everybody who can read and write
Oh that could never happen here
But then again it might"
-- From "The Invisible Man", Elvis Costello
"... Someone's hiding in the classroom
Forging the books of history
Never mind there’s a good film showing tonight
Where they hang everybody who can read and write
Oh that could never happen here
But then again it might"
-- From "The Invisible Man", Elvis Costello
August 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Strange times we're living in...
"... Someone's hiding in the classroom
Forging the books of history
Never mind there’s a good film showing tonight
Where they hang everybody who can read and write
Oh that could never happen here
But then again it might"
-- From "The Invisible Man", Elvis Costello
"... Someone's hiding in the classroom
Forging the books of history
Never mind there’s a good film showing tonight
Where they hang everybody who can read and write
Oh that could never happen here
But then again it might"
-- From "The Invisible Man", Elvis Costello
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