I was looking to illustrate how the ink always bled through the cheap paper they used... and lo and behold, another totally wired bear.

This reminds me of the time Muse announced their new album, Drones, by telling us "the world is run by Drones utilizing Drones to turn us all into Drones," ensuring we knew the album was about Drones by including the word Drones in every song about Drones, which was all of the songs on Drones.

I was taking issue with the word "decimated," not giving a judgment on either leader's overall performance. Obviously, having lots of members and not enough voters isn't a great strategy.

He was a crap leader in many ways. The £3 vote thing was a ridiculous own goal.

In fact, membership surged under Corbyn and has fallen by almost 200,000 under Starmer.

I'll never miss the chance to mention that in assembly at primary school, our music teacher would divide the school in half and one side would sing Amazing Grace while the other half sang Never Ever. If you were anywhere near the middle you'd obviously try to shuffle onto the All Saints side.

The nearest I can think of is 5ive's Let's Dance: "our fifth member is no longer in the band but we haven't told anyone yet."

Also, Blur appeared with a cardboard Graham and their security guy on bass at the 1996 Sanremo Festival.

Neither's a model of a bassist & one's not a video, though.

The best place to see it was meant to be in Cornwall, where I was living. My Grandma had bought champagne before my mum's 18th and then decided to save it. It didn't come out for her 21st, engagement, marriage etc but it came out for the eclipse. The wine was flat and the sky was overcast. 👍

"There’s clearly something political about it but you don't know what it is, do you, Mr Jones?"

I had the exact same thought. If Ryan wants to riff on people mixing him up with Bryan, mistakenly or otherwise, that's the laziest way to approach it.

I was put off by the Netflix Original style "let's make a perfume ad in which very clean models explain things" trailer. I don't understand why studios make everything look like that.

Sample 2025 setlist to illustrate just how well things are going:

Coincidentally, "rat tail, Parfitt, Pogs rule, pig shit" is the third verse of By the Way by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, which we'd have been really into if it was out yet.

It was still a thing when I was a kid, but this was in a very rural area, where the toughest boy in school wore a Status Quo t-shirt and another had a rat tail, in 1994. Pogs rule OK, but Ryan Giggs smells like pigs, fa la-la-la-la la-la la la la