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It’ll mostly be music, LUFC and (left leaning) politics. Live and let live, be kind to others and all that decent stuff. Just move on up towards your destination Though you may find from time to time complications

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Did I miss something - has Paul McCartney joined the heavenly choir, has Ray Davies gone to meet his maker, has Kate Bush shuffled off this mortal coil? List, endless, on I could go.

08.10.2025 16:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Datelines Diamonds scene

Datelines Diamonds scene

4 October 1965 - The Small Faces begin shooting Dateline Diamonds at Pinewood Studios. The film was initially titled Diamonds for Danger. www.makingtime.co.uk/rfr/diamonds...

04.10.2025 19:49 — 👍 17    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Just got home and having reflected on that performance there’s a lot to be positive about. We are though going to lose a lot of games this season and people just have to keep their heads when we go toe to toe with a team like Spurs and they just edge it.

04.10.2025 18:37 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Leeds United warming up

Leeds United warming up

Looking good! #lufc

04.10.2025 11:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes, exactly and there’s more Spursyness than Leedsyness going on at the moment, just…

04.10.2025 08:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Photo of a full English breakfast in my hotel this morning ahead of watching the mighty Leeds United demolish the soft southern b******ds from Tottingham Hotspurs

Photo of a full English breakfast in my hotel this morning ahead of watching the mighty Leeds United demolish the soft southern b******ds from Tottingham Hotspurs

Pre-match breakfast of champions (well, mid-table warriors) at M1 J40. I have a good feeling - reckon this weather will mess with them more than us. C’mon Leeds!

04.10.2025 08:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just re-reading a novel written in 1961, that I know I first read in my teens (a bloody long time ago) from which I’m maybe remembering very occasional moments from. But there’s no way I properly understood or appreciated it back then.

04.10.2025 08:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Please distribute as widely as possible.

03.10.2025 08:57 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Probably not, all a bit misguided and pointless. They have been spectacularly successful in alienating a large number of us and I guess they’ve probably lost far more than they’ve gained.

30.09.2025 14:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Interesting. There has been a very emotional, visceral response of some Labour voters to the party’s actions to capture Reform votes which I think has partly led to the Green migration. I believe these could be retrieved but at the cost of the captured mythical Reform votes. But worth it?

30.09.2025 08:32 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

But between 79 & 92 I went to countless away games in London & anywhere south of London. Every London ground was exactly the same as described in the article in terms of the right wing activity. Upton Park was truly grotesque. I might be wrong but it’s unlikely ER was very different.

30.09.2025 06:56 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Not apolitical, but as a group they probably have a very narrow sense of the underlying ideologies. The thing about the article that is questionable is the ‘notorious’ statement. However, although I went to my first Leeds game in 79 I didn’t get to ER for the 1st time until 92

30.09.2025 06:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Team Europe trolling Trump after winning The Ryder Cup 🤣💀

29.09.2025 02:42 — 👍 2763    🔁 695    💬 112    📌 125

Well, exactly

28.09.2025 13:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sorry, a little off topic, but has anyone read the ‘match report‘ in the Observer this morning? I’m not sure what to make of it yet - remarkable in more ways than one. #lufc

28.09.2025 09:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 4    📌 0

Do you know what though, I am now pretty optimistic about next weekend (yeah, I know) given how Tottingham Hotspurs struggled against Wolves last night. Already starting to feel a little tingly about being back at ER next weekend. No, you fuck off. I couldn’t think of a better word.

28.09.2025 09:11 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The Raveonettes - Bang! - video
YouTube video by SuperFloyd35 The Raveonettes - Bang! - video

For no other reason than I’ve just been reminded of The Raveonettes, and this is an almost perfect record.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KT8...

26.09.2025 20:07 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Davros from Dr Who

Davros from Dr Who

It’s what a ‘supreme friendship’ with a paedophile will do to you

24.09.2025 16:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Van with very inappropriate slogan on the side in Berlin side-street

Van with very inappropriate slogan on the side in Berlin side-street

Saw one of your suppliers in Berlin a couple of weeks ago

24.09.2025 16:45 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes, ridiculous. Just waiting for the UK and every other country in the world to tell their people just to ignore this unhinged orange lunatic…….

23.09.2025 06:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump will reportedly link Tylenol to autism - but many experts are sceptical Some studies have suggested an association between the two, but experts say there is no causal relationship.

The #BBC: ‘many experts are sceptical’. You utter knobheads - the rest of the world recognises that Trump is an unhinged lunatic and knows that what he’s saying is pure insanity. #autism

www.bbc.com/news/article...

22.09.2025 17:56 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks

22.09.2025 14:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes indeed, they are monsters. And I hope the UK and every other country in the world is going to be whiplash fast in reassuring their populations what a load of old tosh this is and to ignore it.

22.09.2025 12:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Autumn Almanac - The Kinks

22.09.2025 12:32 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Ginger cat guarding two Vespas on Paxos

Ginger cat guarding two Vespas on Paxos

I don’t care if you’re wearing a very nice madras shirt from John Simons, or that those shorts are quite nicely tailored and with the Converse shoes it’s quite a good Ivy League look, you‘re still not cool enough - now piss off away from my vespas.
#mods #vespa #paxos

22.09.2025 06:34 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Leeds are winning 3-1 away at half time and I’m watching the game from our villa in Paxos.  The photo is of the view over Gaios with a can of Mythos in the foreground…..which will soften the blow when we loose 4-3 🤣

Leeds are winning 3-1 away at half time and I’m watching the game from our villa in Paxos. The photo is of the view over Gaios with a can of Mythos in the foreground…..which will soften the blow when we loose 4-3 🤣

These rare, fleeting moments that life occasionally sends are to be cherished #lufc

20.09.2025 15:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Well I’ll go to the foot of our stairs!

20.09.2025 14:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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1. Just so we’re clear, this is the clip that got Jimmy Kimmel’s show shelved by ABC.

If I’m missing any other clips please let me know.

18.09.2025 02:08 — 👍 6581    🔁 2453    💬 218    📌 267
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I possibly shouldn't have laughed. But I laughed very hard.

Posted by Tarquin 🇺🇦 on Twitter. #GoCharlie

17.09.2025 21:53 — 👍 507    🔁 208    💬 19    📌 32

I think the most appropriate US acronym to describe the US right now is FUBAR. It’s completely FUBARed all the way to fuck & back again. And the speed of the FUBARing is astonishing as is the gutlessness of all the institutions that could offer any resistance.

18.09.2025 05:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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