Diamond Hell

YouTube video by SFAVEVO Super Furry Animals - Ice Hockey Hair

Here's my next offering. Love Super Furry Animals?

You might have missed one of Marc Riley's favourite ever track - Ice Hockey Hair:

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I was waiting for The Fall sucker-punch, but are they their/his best work?

Paint me surprised, cos I can't do it on my own.

They're good! I've got another one, or two, but loving those!

his interview on Rest is Politics was car-crash terrible and needs to be listened to by more people. It knocked the shine right off him for me.

What bands are there out there where you would have missed their best work if you only listened to albums?

Stone Roses: Fools Gold - not on the original release of either album.

Who else do you have?

@bob-p-dj.bsky.social @mattflipflop.bsky.social @dave-daints.bsky.social

I swear I'm some sort of referral/calendar/scheduling black hole - hospital referrals disappear, Zoom meetings get double booked, tree deliveries don't get requested and there I am, waiting, like some sad old git, expecting people to do what they said they will, FFS.

My starter this evening appeared to have been served in a spaniel bowl.

It made accessing the arancini starter very, very difficult!

No, they just don't want trains and railways, unless they're COAL powered.

this is a Fiesta, but for people who want to drive in a hat

'It's going to be catastrophic': The inside story of the Challenger disaster Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after lift-off. A small team of engineers tried to prevent the tragedy.

When the engineers say, "It's not safe. Something bad will happen," it's always best to listen and err on the side of caution.

The only thing that *needs* more than E10 95RON is stuff that stands for long periods, in damp environments, or has been mapped really badly and doesn't have a knock sensor and small engines.

Everything else is just people pumping up the BS.

The ONLY reason I have it, is because it's the cheapest way to tow 3.5T safely and comfortably.

However, it was huge fun punting mine, which is quite well sorted now, over various single-track road Lake District passes, last autumn.

I live on a campsite. There is no 'commute'.

I have many views and quite a lot of experience after 2 years of ownership of a 2008 7L

They have foibles, but if those are addressed/maintained they are a f**king great vehicle IF you need that much vehicle.

Expect 25MPG locally, or 30MPG on motorway

Small SUVs are not a fashion. They are just hatchbacks for an aging population who wants to sit across into their car, not down in to it (from which they will need to get back up out of)

I live on and manage a woodland campsite and the Fiat Panda 169 4x4 was perfect, until the rear subframe rotted out.

But I also need to regularly tow 3.5t, sometimes over hundreds of miles.

I now have a V6 Touareg and I'm not sorry

Everyone should stop whanging on about how it should be possible to easily turn off driving-assistance systems and how they turn them off.

Leave them on, let your daily-driver do much of the safety work, but be ready to step in when necessary - embrace living in the near-future.

F*ck no, particularly not in small (hand-tool-sized) engines.

The 10% ethanol allows water to separate into drops, which f*cks everything.

E0 all the way on stuff like mowers and chainsaws. Gone from regular issues with fuel, to no issues.

well, he would do that, wouldn't he?

How long do you give him/Tesla before the obliviousness wears off?

YouTube video by Viva Dixie Sparklehorse ‎– Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot | Capitol Records Promo Cassette 1995

Hey, you there - have you never listened to the Sparklehorse album Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot ?

You should stop what you're doing and go listen to it and if you don't love it, throw your ears away - they're broken.

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YouTube video by HARRY HILL The Harry Hill Show - Stewart Lee

Many belly laughs from this absolute nonsense with Stewart Lee on Harry Hill's podcast thing

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I'd like details of this 'dark path' he mentions.

Like maybe where it starts and how close he thinks the current US government is to the entrance of said path.

Cockroach cars all the way!

This free one is now on its second adventure passengering job

Too many customers find us there, sadly.

Surely, it's not 'crossing the floor' when an MP moves from one opposition party? It's shuffling within the same area of the floor!

Meta:

"Hold my beer whilst I show you a video of how this app can be worse, from an account you don't follow. Also, hold my sack of poo"

Facebook in ~2008

"our products will always be free to use!"

Facebook/Meta in 2026

"fancy paying for our products, or do you want to continue using the ads-based service, which we will continue to degrade?"

Although I can't respond to the thread, I can point this person to the document where Reform say they will create concentration camps and a whole load of other fascist things. It's here:

www.reformparty.uk/view-pdf/ref...

The Legislation Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will: 1) Leave the ECHR 2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. 3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill: This Bill will: Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act." The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years: Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT) Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order. These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR. Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds. If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight. Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence Re-entry after deportation will be…

The Operational Plan We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property. Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000 Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes. This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month. Initial Voluntary Return Window A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this. The Deportation Flights The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.

It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.