No other bad things heard, as religions go that is an astonishing record.

The Quaker community in Birmingham (Originally centered in Cadbury and Bournville near the factory) has mostly faded away i think, leaving a legacy of a covenant or something like on parts of that area, meaning there were no pubs or offies over that way. May have changed since left but was faff

I'm still a bit devastated I lost my ability to annoy Lisa McGee and Shaun Keaveny when I abandoned Twitter (Hardly Chuck D tho). And my chat with Paddie Considine about Guided By Voices.

I really do miss before when it was just a hell site. Those were the days.

Stand down Apple, your phones are annoying and I know you would perish as a company if you had to tolerate an 'unnecessary' visible cable.

I respond well to praise

Kneecap

Various algorithms still try and sell me cars and related products and I only had 4 lessons over 30 years ago. The algorithm never forgets

Genuinely thought it was going to be a Specsavers ad or something similar until the logo appeared

Dunelm were the one but it has been a while since I needed bedsheets

I am speaking of grassroots level shows as that is what I know. Bigger shows are just as vulnerable to making a big loss as grassroots ones, the costs are just scaled up.

I suspect the cost to profit ratio has become much narrower, the number of viable (potentially profitable) shows in Ireland relative to the cost of a flight/ferry here is pretty low. If you don't know if events will sell you could lose a lot of money. Risk aversion likely plays a big part of it.

I see, it vanished online but the papers picked it up. Obviously I did not see any newspapers. Appreciate you clarifying and sharing.

I was starting to think I had imagined reading that.

Is this in reference to the shell casings thing? That was very briefly mentioned over here on BBC news pages when there was little in the way of facts to report after the shooting, source being cited as WSJ, and had disappeared when I got up the next day. I haven't heard it mentioned since in UK.