Meenzer

Aye. Her "A Hundred Miles Or More" compilation is a decent starting point and all.

Friend of mine came back from a trip to Cuba with a bottle of the "second best rum in the world" - I forget the name. He built it up as something incredibly special. It wasn't. But then rum isn't really my drink, so I may be something of a Palestine in that regard.

I live in a household that hears an awful lot of the Dixie Chicks, Patty Loveless, Reba McEntire, Gretchen Peters, Trisha Yearwood and so on, so if it's the girly end of the market you're after, I could recommend stuff all night. Two recent albums I'd definitely suggest you check out are "Rattlin' Bones" by Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson (even though they're Aussies - hey, who says it has to be authentic Nashville?) and "Coal" by Kathy Mattea, which - for all it's inspired by the hills of Kentucky - should strike a chord with anyone with Tyneside roots. I'll ask the better half for some more blokey recommendations at some point. Brad Paisley springs to mind, but don't quote me on that.

Thought this thread was going to be about St. Georg too.

Is it just me who thinks aces are terribly dull? I don't understand why the crowd gets so worked up about a decent ace, I mean surely there's something fundamentally flawed about a sport where you can win a point on a 40-shot rally then immediately lose the advantage just because your opponent can serve quickly. Then again, I suppose a scrappy goal from two yards out is worth the same as a Messi dribblefest.

*buzz* Repetition

He was a gym instructor and now he's a fat bastard. At what point would he have encountered the concept of mates?

Ooh, I love a good angry shag. How much do you charge?

FYP

But do you have to pay for him?

Happy Michael Jackson's Deathday!

You should have seen September 11th, the threads were at least 10 pages long

Nowt wrong with that at all and I agree with it entirely. The Jackson 5 had something about them but for me the rest of his stuff is near unlistenable. Jackson fans (I mean the hardcore ones) have always struck me as being very strange. I would predict a few mental health issues and a blip in the suicide rate after this. Btw, some class jokes in this thread, ironically one of the funniest threads in a while. One of the most interesting threads generally for a good while. Guess who/what's missing and who/what will come along to ruin it in the morning?

Fuckloads of plastic surgery? I don't know a thing about the art, but I can't imagine it's good for you.

Nowt wrong with that tbh. "I didn't care for his music" is one of the most reasonable bits of stick that'll come his way over the next few days I'm sure.

He was on while it was still unconfirmed. Didn't seem any the wiser.

Aye, BBC called it about ten minutes ago. They weren't even willing to call the 9/11 attacks "terrorism" until well after the towers collapsed, so I reckon we can safely say it's legit. I'm actually weirdly gutted, as much of a freakish creation as Jacko had become. For several years there he was pop music, just a shame about the stuff that followed, whoever's fault it was.

Fuck's sake.

Aye, nobody running it beyond one website yet, but you have to wonder...

Some of the above.

Speaking of untimely deaths, I had no idea (until now) that Steven Wells had carked it.

Wow.

R.I.P.

I'm having a Knorkator marathon today. Lovely jubbly.

"It's my time, it's my time, my moment, I'm not going to let go of iiiiiiit."