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If you can get your mince to be anyway near as thick as this, well done!

It's a conundrum, innit?

An actual "(p)awwwww" from your Cretan correspondent 😺

Ha! No! I believe Romford may have been founded as a sadistic form of punishment, for those who live there; a bit like Hull, only less linguistically obvious!

Givem that I've never heard of it, no, not really; though if this a typo for 'England', then yes, sometimes. Family, friends, West Ham United and *proper* beer! Also the BBC, despite - or perhaps because of - their recent, egregious decision to disallow us bloody foreign types access to BBC Sounds!

I remember you did, Mary, though not quite in that detail! My dad worked for Ford in Dagenham; small world, eh? 😉

I was born and raised there! Went to Gidea Park Primary School; sadly I *did* know there was a band of that name!

Sadly not, Cp mou; I'd have made an utter pig's ear of that, as anybody looking at the previous encarnations (1995-2025) would plainly see 😉 x

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Happy as Larry here! 'Miserable Larry' of Chania, Crete, granted, but nonetheless...

There's not a better manager to be up against than Moyes, when your team goes one-nil down, and I can say this with sad, and, quite frankly,, bitter experience!

So, thank you, David!

#Irons

When you can't get your lackie to move your ball to a preferential position, like DJT, it would appear Americans aren't very good at golf!

UFO, UFO, UFO, UFO...

#RyderCup

Europe doing really well in the foursomes, but there's absolutelyy no accounting for Trump's "tarrifs" should they continue in this terribly un-Amrican manner!

#RyderCuo

If I should die, think only this of me: That I wish to buried here! >

The wrong Bury: footballer takes 200-mile diversion after mixing up towns Non-league defender Lewis White played the final minutes of Spalding’s win at Bury St Edmunds after driving to the wrong Bury first

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Duh!

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Absolutely! Though I'm not entirely sure you didn't, with an ever-so-slightly subtle nod towards poetics licence

I prefer "Why do birds, suddenly appear, every time, that you're near...?", but yeah, I suppose a Bacharach-like musician could make something of that.

Oh, you not composing...

Sorry!

Bewildering, isn't it, Mary? The people I feel for most are the Americans! Here's hoping the race to the bottom ends there, but I suspect it won't!

Seems massively hypocritical that JD Vance would like people to be "called out" for "celebrating" the death of Charlie Kirk! Whilst I would never do such a thing, this latest abomination of the Republican Party is supposed to be all for 'freedom of speech'. Would JD describe himself as "woke", now?

Grok's more honest than Musk, it would seem!

#SmallMercies

Having called out Grok's wholly misleading comments on MusXer, I am now going to ask it to apologise to that platform's users; not that anyone will care there, and I no longer use it...

Brexiteers couldn't cope with it! Pele's called 'Cedric' known as days!

No, as know full well, they're all called 'Fred'... Or 'Kevin'... Or, those from the offshore islands, de Lima Lucas Paqueta, strangely!

ONION BAGGERY! 😎

Charlie Kirk in his own words: ‘prowling Blacks’ and ‘the great replacement strategy’ The far-right commentator didn’t pull his punches when discussing his reactionary views on current events

"I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the second amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational."

The charming world of...

Urghhh? I thought I had everything by Elvis, including the bonus demo tracks on that album; that's the first time I've heard this, though! Great stuff!

Scored three, and didn't concede! What, what, what?

No!

Innit? I'm not entirely sure I was blameless, but for me it WAS entirely ironic 😀

Strewth yeah! I saw somany band back then, but the first time for Ian and The Blocheads (at the DomInion, excuse previous spelling!), and I'd owned NB&P*) for four years, before this.

(can't write this out withour feeling it's all horribly wrong, but how we guffawed at school! Jings! The humour!)