Jon

My costume today is going to be the feeling of "I have said the right answer to this ten times, why is nobody listening to me" made into clothes

Like it's not exactly end of year list bait, you know? And it's great that it's striking a chord with women who are hearing something familiar in it, I reckon that's more important than the opinion of some fella who listens to a ton of albums once

I think the people (mostly men, let's be honest) talking about whether Lily Allen's album is any good or not are missing the point. That's not a record made with a view to getting anybody's approval. She wrote that stuff because it was necessary to

That's fair, and I suppose the cheaper sausages in jars full of brine live in those jars for a reason

I liked the idea but thought they'd made the wrong sausage choice

Don't think I've had the best Christmas sandwich of this year yet. RIP the Sainsburys TTD club, replaced with a cheaper version that isn't close to being as good

The first guys to have face transplants solely because they live so long that the faces just stop functioning and need replacing. It doesn't sound fun

I imagine it to be like, just ageing at the same rate forever. Imagine the medical bills

It's lazy too. Where you want to get to is having something so smart that it just naturally appeals to adults too without having to wink at them at the expense of the kids who are supposed to be the audience?

Used to hate it when I was a kid watching something for kids and my dad would be going "ho ho ho ho" at a joke I didn't get

Boring opinion: stuff for kids should only be aimed at kids and there should be nothing in there for adults. Your child doesn't need to watch J Mascis reading a story any more than you need to watch Peppa Pig fronting Dinosaur Jr (no you don't)

Sooty & Co (28th October 1996). Sooty and the gang round off their Spanish holiday by going clubbing.

Then the badgers could teach the hedgehogs, etc. The final level is pheasants. I don't know who teaches the pheasants

Just saw a fox look both ways for traffic before crossing the road. They're finally learning

A "Beijing 6K4 bile duct"

Something manufactured by Nobsound

AliExpress is trying to sell me hi-fi stuff and I think something's getting lost in translation

The next time Wrexham play Chester you imagine it will be a bit of a one-sided encounter

Don't encourage them!

TV talking about Wrexham v Cardiff in the Carabao like I'm about to watch a fucking El Clasico

Only a few more days until the pub Halloween decorations come down and you can go to the bar without getting fake cobweb on you, and go to the toilet without being momentarily confused by some tape on the door with DO NOT ENTER written on it

Although all that said, when somebody's schofielding you just read the signs don't you? They'll tell you that you're nuts, "I'm just expressing this one thing that doesn't tell you about my wider views on this topic, leave me alone" but you know they're bullshitting

And the second one isn't some kind of cowardly act or allowing people to fuck with your right to voice an opinion or whatever. It's just what people do every day - you don't say whatever you like to whoever whenever, you compromise a bit depending on who's listening, it's not exactly difficult

Cos it came up again, thinking about how this idea of music being an unforgiving world where you get "cancelled" for saying the wrong thing etc is bollocks? Lots of people come away just fine in the long run by having a half decent response and/or compromising with their audience by shutting up

I know this sounds mad, but when you're at a game where the attendance is genuinely 34 there is a point where you start asking yourself if you're doing the right thing with your life, and that's where the port helps you out

Another good one if you're in a relaxed lower non league football ground is just a bottle of soju, or so I hear

Top tip: the best football ground drink is port miniatures. Portable, tasty, good when it's getting cold out, enough to keep you going without really adding significantly to your intake that day, you can easily empty them into a bottle of Coke

Also I got this three times. I can only think of one regularly produced publication focused on equine topics

I get this yeah, and I also often get about ten in a row where the subject is carrots or onions

They must have made up flumps too? No animal should be called a flump

Gary Barlow of football

I had this scary thought the other day when looking at the Championship results - what if Frank Lampard actually knows what he's doing? I don't know if football is ready for a "Frank Lampard is good at management" storyline