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This...mindless abberation. Went out of the X Factor early a few years back and now he's omnipresent, it's like Kenny Everett was genetically spliced with a grand piano, had a talent enema and got given a job on every tv show in the universe.

They’re always very polite by me. ‘Would you mind if we drop off this leaflet’ type thing. And if I’m honest, I’ve been through hell this week and I said a little prayer myself a couple of times. I don’t know if the big man is there, or if he cares, but I know I needed a bit of comfort from somewhere.

My review for Blackberry Smoke's Leave a scar LIVE : I am a big fan of alt-country, Americana and roots music so despite never listening to Blackberry Smoke before I was looking forward to checking this band out. 22 songs is a lot so I wont list individual tracks and instead will try give an overview of the album. Normally I like to listen to album a good 3 or 4 times before I form a strong opinion on it but I wanted to pop my cherry here quickly and get up to speed. I'm not normally a fan of live albums as I am a picky bastard about sound and production and love the little nuances you can pick up from a good set of bins over your ears listening to a well produced and engineered album of music. However the sound produced by BS here was BIG and full and well produced. No issues there. The album kicked off with some in your face rock/southern rock call it what you like. I kept thinking Aerosmith for some reason after the first few tracks. After a few tracks the Hammond Organ and keys start coming to the fore. I am sucker for those. The band then start to knock out a few more full on country rock songs which is not normally for me. I do like alt-country (Drive by Truckers for example) but some of these were a bit too country for me. However the set then moves into its best part for me around two thirds through and the musicianship comes to the fore with a number of prolonged jams and improvisations coupled with excellent dynamics which allow all the members to showcases their talents. The four or five songs in here were class and I will be following those up on their albums later. The set then falls away a bit for me at the end. Probably due to the amount of songs and it being a long listen. Overall I enjoyed it but there did seem to be definite parts of the album that were better than others. I probably wouldn't listen again to the southern rock/country rock bits as there was nothing new there for me. However their rootsy and folky stuff was for me and I will be seeking some of their stuff out on Spotify. Finally would I listen to the whole album again? - Probably not but I will be checking out their studio stuff.

Went to see them last week. Done a couple of great covers of The Beatles Come together and Peter Green oh well. 2 hour set too. VID_20181115_210602.mp4

You have to take Charlie as the sum of his parts - while not an overwhelming singer he has an incredible stage presence and his vocal delivery is very much a part of that. Also if you see them live his guitar playing is really quite handy. I do hear the Aerosmith comparison a little -- the riff in Shakin Hands has a little Draw the Line in it. The lyrics reference it so it is probably purposeful. For those that like to watch while they listen:

https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/brexiters-told-to-try-walking-away-with-no-deal-in-everyday-life-and-see-how-that-works-for-them-20181121179706?fbclid=IwAR1uLWm474TvV6L3PEulTOThjAV59CuX8gUH4WuQ2v4M-LmJNSleDXCXOsk BREXITERS keen on leaving the EU with no deal have been told to try walking away without a deal in their personal transactions. Tory MPs, Daily Telegraph writers and ordinary Leave voters have agreed to threaten shopkeepers, train conductors and energy providers with walking away deal-free, which they are certain will be brilliant. Nathan Muir, from Birmingham, said: “The deal at Starbucks this morning was not in my interests, so I told them they needed me more than I needed them and left. Kept my money. Didn’t get a coffee though. “It was much the same story at lunchtime at Subway, and at Pret, and at Greggs. The woman there said to me ‘You’re not our only customer,’ which I felt was rude like the EU but I was too hungry to argue. “So it’s 7pm, I’m still in the city centre, I’m starving, I don’t know how I’m going to get home but I’ve still got some pocket change. If this is some kind of a metaphor then I don’t get it.” Passer-by Mary Fisher said: “Has he tried believing in himself? That’s meant to work.”

Repped for hiding Maddie for so long

I'll buy that for a dollar!

Chris, you fucking fraud.

He’s no Phily Burkhill, that’s for sure.

I couldn't think of anything worse, I hate almost everyone, everything annoys me so it should be ideal but I'd just be bored, and miss the pub.

Ok Angry, in that case you can have Rees-Mogg, I'll have Kylie.

It's all a load of old twat, but each to their own, whatever gets you through the night.

I just listened to the Richard Ashcroft album Natural Rebel from start to finish and I can't remember ever been as bored in my life. One of the worst, trite albums I've ever listened to. I know his solo stuff is generally guff but this latest output is well produced rubbish.

That would be an ecumenical matter.

I'm hearing that there's a secret chord, that Virgil played and it pleased the Lord.

VVD can play the E chord on ukulele with his toes.

The Neg system became null and void when Nick Leeson stopped posting/Negging.

Hopefully they still want mignolet

Glenn Murray would win the European Golden Boot if he played in Germany, obviously.

Blackberry Smoke's: Leave a scar - LIVE I never heard of them before and I was definitely very interested when the first riff played out in the first track. First thing that struck me is the band are excellent and very tight. The production is very good too for a Live album, really captures the energy of the band. Then it went downhill when I heard the singer. I'm not a huge fan of Southern rock to be honest and the Southern singing style. I just picture inbreeds with confederacy flags, bottles of moonshine, snogging their cousins. My own prejudices admittedly. I don't like the singers voice and I don't like the lyrics/song themes on some of the tracks. Not my bag but the band are brilliant. I know for a fact that I would enjoy this band if I went to a gig but I wouldn't listen to them at home. Highlights: "Up the road" - great guitar solo in this track at the end. "Up in smoke" - bass line is excellent. "Crimson Moon" - great riff. 9/10 for the band. 6/10 for the songs/singer.

No wonder they didn’t give her the presents before she came round yours. Feared you’d take them off her and make her fight your lad to the death for them back.

No, I bloody wouldn’t. I just thought it was definitely strange as fuck that they didn’t give her presents before school and agreed to send her round to a virtual strangers house though. Anyhoo, why would I need to go round there when I know you’ll be keeping a close eye on things from now on?

10 months today you miserable fucks. if you’ve not seen this before or want to know more, please see the link below. https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/dan-jones40

I'll keep that under consideration. We're not yet ready to retire, so in the meantime perhaps you could rake up all the leaves to prevent any forest fires.

They could make a serial out of that

Man on left: "Hello?" Man on right: "Thy mother!"

Wife at the time was a nurse and we decided to try it for three years in 2001; the wages are triple up North because of the isolation. Nurses were in high demand, and I took univeristy courses through correspondance ( internet back then up north was limited to dial up- one page of the TLW would take 15 minutes to load- a long time to just someone calling Sander Westerveld a cunt) We liked it and stayed bar a couple years when her father became terminally ill with cancer and spent a year or so in ottawa looking after him.

Harsh on Jermill and Jermoll Charlo that.

Need to put some cash towards this. Excuse my tardiness. I’ll get to it.

I miss @Tony Moanero‘s carpet-neggings.

Code negs inbound.... Frode Myrhol‏ @fmyrhol FollowingFollowing @fmyrhol More So tickets sorted, but not a single ticket availible on the Kop even if it shows a lot of seats are supposed to be availible. Whats the point @LFC ? #lfc #lfctickets 10:24 AM - 21 Nov 2018 Damien‏ @DamienSP84 50s50 seconds ago More Replying to @fmyrhol @LFC Yeah but you need about 784 for just you Code so maybe they just don't fancy accommodating that mate? You are a logistical nightmare

Jermell Charlo is going to be busy

You’re right, It does sound very bad. I think I may have another mission, Anubis

Nunn was a great fighter, and was widely ranked higher than both Benn and Eubank at the time. But it was James Tony that was the guy at Super middleweight at the time. Neither wanted anything to do with him and he beats both comfortably. That wasn't Eubank either imo. Chris Eubank retired in 1991. He was never the same after Watson 2

I see 'remotely' and 'off grid' as two distinct ideas. It's much more feasible and affordable to be 'off grid' now, even in the middle of suburbia. Not even 'off grid' but 'more energy self sufficient' providing 3/4 of your energy with a Solar system, not only saves money, but can provide an income, when you export power to the grid. (My electricity retailer buys units at wholesale rates, and credits the account of those generating) It also provides a more robust energy system, by decentralising the national grid. Finally, power companies are up for it. Here in New Zealand, an investment of NZ$20,000 puts a household in a very strong position. Even our bank is offering 'energy self sufficiency mortgage tops ups', and the bank chucks in a $2000 grant on top of that. As for living remotely, I enjoyed that lifestyle in my 30s, but now in my 60s, i enjoy my little suburban paradise.

My daughter said earlier that the girl told her she got a new tablet and a Barbie doll when she got home. So it looks like they did buy her presents after all. Still, the way it played out and the idea of not spending any time with my kids celebrating their birthdays and palming them off onto someone else doesn’t sit right with me. Who knows, maybe they’re not the complete monsters we’ve all built them up to be? Especially Champ. She’d have someone round there now examining their computer hard drives and everything if she could. It’s definitely strange as fuck that they didn’t give her presents before school and agreed to send her round to a virtual strangers house though. But kudos to them for buying a tablet. They can be mightily effective if you want to completely ignore a child for hours on end.

@ Red Dawn, once again you can give our Spotify playlist a follow, all of the AOWs so far (with the exceptions of The Mummies and Cat Power's albums) are on there. The Spotify streams are of far better quality than the YouTube ones I find. Also, for brevity's sake I've only included one song from each AOW selected (plus all of the current AOW), but if you know how to navigate Spotify then you'll know how easy it is to navigate to the album from that individual song. Hope that makes sense ?

It's a brilliant article that, Hades, thanks. Now a whole generation has passed through the Premier League-only era, I think it is lost. It was up to my generation to stop it - we actually did know better, unlike the young people who have known nothing else. We didn't. Shame.

We watched him for at least a full season at Ajax and then decided he wasn't good enough. Still freaks my nut out to this day. Our Eredivisie scouts are wank.

But, but , but they all walk the game? Bring back the ferries from Llandudno to the Pier Head.

Personally I am quite a fan of electricity

Aye, the decorated Albanian National hero.

Couple of years ago the micro sd on my phone corrupted, and it had a load of photos and videos of my kids as toddlers that I hadn't backed up. Thing is, I was looking at the photos as it happened, and it was fucking horrible watching them disappear one by one in front of my eyes! Took it to a data recovery shop and he did it for about half that. Still alot of money, but like I said, there were no other copies. He recovered everything (including some "exotic" pics of the missus I that I'd deleted) and put it on a cd. Lesson learned, I back everything up now. And he's now probably got a load of images to see him through the long winter evenings.

Me;Dave paid you off din't he ?? Simon: yes, quite a LOT of money. Me; you wasted most of it Simon- I didn't waste it. Me;- Tell them what you spent it on. Simon; I released my own movie, if that's a waste. Me- It didn't even get in the top 100 imdb! Simon: Good. Didn't want it to. Next? Me; How much did it cost? Simon: ''Cost'' is a bit misleading because I paid for everything. Studio time, pasties, PR costs. Me:- Roughly, how much did you spend? - Simon Roughly? £42,000. But that's all outgoings. That's not taking into account the money I made from the dvds sold. Me; - How much did you make? - Simon; I had my own label, ''clear and Squeasant danger productions''. Um, I was taking the lion's share, so I made a clear £1 profit for every DVD sold. Me; How many DVDs did you sell? Simon; - overall.......150. me;- That was mainly to Turdseye and family.

If you bet £20 I'll give you 5 free spins on the 'FSG are not shit' thread.

Last Christmas is easily the best Christmas song.You can (ironically) shove the Pogues up your hoop.

Cliff Richard looked cool as fuck for a bit in the late 70s.