Nick Evans

13th, as Lizzie Yarnold won 2?

Would have been really good in the first act of The Greatest Showman

In fairness, we thought they were making a start with the big earthquake but they’ve done precious little since

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Sometimes songs get remixed into bangers while you’re in the middle of the shortlisting process (but to confirm the vote is for the 2010 original)

Groove Armada, Paper Romance (2010, 🇬🇧)

NKC ❌ (3 - possibly, Saint Saviour is on it but not clear she has a credit)

It’s still not as funny as Asterix

Yes! This will be back

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Sometimes bangers are everywhere for 10 minutes then just disappear off the face of the earth

Petite Meller, Baby Love (2015, 🇫🇷/🇮🇱)

Do the people who complain most about immigration actually notice the immigration rate?

Or do they simply look at the number of non-white people around and if that rises as a proportion of the population, they see immigration as rising?

That seems to be what Ratcliffe and Farage have done

My son’s go to karaoke number, apparently (he’s not let us hear)

Ooh, new to me and liked. Thanks for posting it!

He’s counting Wiggins and Froome in the “coming here” column too

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Sometimes bangers are even in English. And sometimes the lyrics matter too

Killer Mike, Reagan (2012, 🇺🇸)

The puppets are amazing, aren’t they? Really enjoyed this at the Barbican

Unless the govt takes the view that all of the examples listed in the motion are only in scope if they relate to Mandelson’s appointment, which is a reading available to them

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Continuing with the bangers (mostly) not in English

MACO, We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (Japanese version) (2013, 🇯🇵)

Single? ❌ (3)

Typos in graffiti - these indicate how things were actually pronounced - clues from shared features of Spanish, French, Romanian etc, rhymes in poetry, loan words from neighbours

Church Latin’s sounds have apparently evolved in a similar way to Italian’s, so it sounds too closer to the latter

Dammit, you switched off the edit function so I couldn’t go back and do my comments in Not In English too

Have we been here before, though? The kids were all singing along with Despacito and Gangnam Style in the 10s

A banger not in English? She has loads

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So pleased to see this one pop up yesterday

Video is a work of art

Fucked Up, Queen of Hearts (2011, 🇨🇦)

Yeah, Wellington’s 2nd ministry was deliberately only a couple of weeks while Peel returned from Italy. It’s not much longer than Raab’s stint while Johnson was hospitalised with Covid

The Greens appear to have breached the copyright in your words too. Limited quotes can be fair dealing, but not if they harm you by misrepresenting your position

I think bogs are a kind of moor. Moors are grassy/mossy upland areas - not cultivated, not wooded, pretty bare

Bogs are wetter versions of moors

Ironically, I think the lower slopes of the Mournes have moors

YouTube video by Francis Walter Murphy - A Fifth of Beethoven

Think it’s been done

The guy’s wearing a suit and tie, what more could they want?

YouTube video by S4C Miwsig Lloyd & Dom James – Pwy Sy'n Galw?

I mistook that for Lloyd & Dom James’s Pwy Sy’n Galw

Rap in Welsh is one thing; Welsh in a Kaaiiirdiff accent is something else

Good to see this!

I dunno. Mandelson started out as a ‘Minister Without Portfolio’. If anything, not having his portfolio seemed to make him yearn to be more important

It’s a real pain when I don’t pay attention properly!

Doh, another one from my 2000s shortlist! Really do have to check the release dates more closely