clarkete

Ghosts was lovely, very funny and they're great at mixing a little melancholy in with the humour, as did the Motherland special.

Crikey that is bleak, not even any icing on the cake from being in a pub car park

Oh I thought she was, great and I'm by no means a fan.

You lightweights 😉 We stayed until Monday morning /afternoon in CV East and it was dry as I drove out. By contrast 9 years earlier I was wet for several days and once it was clear the Sunday would offer no improvement I couldn't face it.

Mystery

Yeah, we had queues but nothing that bad and we only had thirty miles to come, plus our journey out was pretty smooth. My comment was pretty literal - not many I'm aware of left that year, as compared to say 2007 which was damp and miserable but maybe less muddy

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But erm...most people did manage didn't they?

"Of the new Conservative administration, Hoyle said: “I’m sure they’re gonna do a great job.” Pressed on whether a government that introduced austerity would do anything to mitigate the issue of food poverty, he said that the nation had to have faith that “the right people” had been voted in. He declined to state who he had voted for, but clarified that he had voted, and that it was important to do so." https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/dec/20/ladbaby-i-love-sausage-rolls-christmas-no-1-charity-food-banks And the scum reported on their wealth... https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/20851831/inside-secret-life-ladbaby/

Dripping with irony... "Piers Morgan’s Twitter account abuses queen and Ed Sheeran in apparent hack" https://amp.theguardian.com/media/2022/dec/27/piers-morgan-twitter-account-hacked-say-reports

So the years with more than one announcement by now were the more recent ones 🤔

Your work are a bunch of tea leaves

Hey I didn't mean to encourage you to do homework on a bank holiday 😊

Those had quite often had a bit activity than we've had thus far though? https://theglastonburythingy.weebly.com/the-thingy.html

He he, this couple of reviews from Rotten Tomatoes are very accurate "To call this the best blockbuster of 2022 is only partially accurate; it’s really several of the best blockbusters, plural, you’re apt to catch this year." "The movie is such an irresistible and intoxicating celebration of cinematic excess that even after 187 minutes (including intermission or, as the title card announces, InteRRRval), you are left exhilarated, not exhausted."

Aye, it's an incredible spectacle indeed.

Cor this thread is running on fumes now. Recycling names who've been ruled out or were never a possibility. We really need some news 👍

Guitars

Think it was April this year. Don't know if it will be later this year as the first sale was later. Some discussion here of a third party place

Apart

Funny how different their tone was when Dacre was away being lined up by the Tories for the ofcom job,reporting on actual significant sums. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8959889/The-18bn-coronavirus-PPE-fiasco.html

Merry Christmas all. Apropos of nothing, Huey just mentioned twenty years... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Strummer

Life

Your anecdotal experience doesn't support your claim that it's "no doubt normal", as that doesn't stand up to any scrutiny. "The report is the seventh international comparison of countries' health systems by the Commonwealth Fund since 2004, and the United States has ranked last in every edition" "Among contributors to the poor showing by the U.S. is that half (50%) of lower-income adults and 27% of higher-income adults say costs keep them from getting needed health care" "In the United Kingdom, only 12% with lower incomes and 7% with higher incomes said costs kept them from care." "Several factors contributed to the U.S. ranking at the bottom of the outcomes category. Among them are that the United States has the highest infant mortality rate (5.7 deaths per 1,000 live births) and lowest life expectancy (living on average 23.1 years after age 60) compared with the other countries surveyed. The U.S. rate of preventable mortality (177 deaths per 100,000 population) is more than double that of the best-performing country, Switzerland" https://www.webmd.com/health-insurance/news/20210804/us-health-system-ranks-last-among-11-high-income-countries I'll tell you my own anecdotal experience. I met someone not far from the Golden Gate Bridge a few years ago. She was celebrating the fact that she'd just finished paying for the cancer treatment for her late partner...after fifteen years. Having lost relatives myself to cancer and finding it difficult to deal with on an emotional level I couldn't imagine having to deal with financial issues as well - it's a shit system and too many people fall through their net.