Alex

Absolutely destroyed

The 7 year thing on inheritance tax in general is a sliding scale btw. It’s not just you suddenly go from paying the full rate to 0% at 7 years. It’s to stop people giving away stuff just before they’re going to die purely to avoid their heirs paying inheritance tax. Re: the rage above, it’s people who can afford it being pissed off for having to pay tax. That’s it. Cry me a fucking river

The coverage in general is abysmal.

Like they’ll strike. I call bullshit. It’ll just finish them off if they cut off their source of income. What else they going to do? Threaten to stop voting Labour?

Fuck the jug-eared, checked-shirt wearing cunts.

Fo’ shizzle

Come on, don’t leave an idiot in suspense

Scotland never seem to do well when they’re fancied. That underdog mentality just suits them for whatever reason.

I can’t really listen to the smiths anymore. I like sone songs musically, because of Marr mainly, but I couldn’t take Morrissey’s lyrics seriously once I got beyond teen angst and discovered the joys of MDMA. Nowt to do with his politics or terminal misanthropy at the time. Although that obviously makes me now realise what a sad cunt he is. Also liked the point Taylor Parkes made that he never wrote a decent lyric once he stopped using his pre-fame notebooks, etc. See Bigmouth Strikes Again

I knew that. Must’ve been in some article I read ages ago. Although the spelling of ‘Jah’ obviously references Rastafarianism

Jah Wobble is a great bassist. Seems like a decent fella too. Somehow being able to put his own unique style of funky dubby baselines on tunes by artists as diverse as Bjork, Sinead O’Connor and The Orb

Tracksuit and t-shirt is nice too. Shame it’ll sell out everywhere in about half a nanosecond

The Clash were much better imo. I do like some of their stuff but I was a bit young when they were at their peak. Wella’s a funny one for me. I love the odd thing he’s done but don’t see the hype with most of his stuff. And the hardcore devotees who still consider him to be some sort of god? ‘Sheep’ nails it. It’s a bit like with the Mod movement. Some of the aesthetic is great. But the ones fully emerged in it, especially the older ones are more than a bit having breakfast in Spoons telling it like it is. The look looks fucking daft when it’s observed to the nth degree too. Especially as most of them are too old to pull it off

Look North’s one of those things you might catch some of occasionally by accident. Local news programs are largely redundant anyway but nothing more so than their day / two day old sports roundups on a Monday teatime. But they seem to watch it religiously and get constantly wound up by it

Tooj told me this was great but I forgot about it. Plus I’ve only just found out I’ve got Apple TV as a perk from my bank account. Going to give it a go. Thanks for the reminder

By the way, to be slightly serious, it’s listed on companies house but it’s a publicly owned organisation. Miliband is the person with significant interest because he’s the Secretary of State whose remit it falls under. So he’s the person who can appoint / get rid directors. It’s not a private company owned by Miliband. I would say it’s right that an elected politician has that power over something publicly owned of this scale. It was set up under legislation by the previous government, and its previous incarnation was owned by the National Grid, which is an investor owned company.

William Storey?

Take no notice of TDS, if he had his way Grainger Town would now look like Killy flats

Piss poor - The earliest known use of the adjective piss-poor is in the 1940s. OED's earliest evidence for piss-poor is from 1945, in the writing of M. Kantor.

I’m always dubious about these. My sister bought me a book about the origins of sayings years ago. And I subsequently found out a lot of them were probably bollocks. Like ‘dead ringer’ and bells in coffins. The phrase wasn’t in common usage until much later than its supposed origin. It probably referred to ‘ringers’ in horse races, with ‘dead’ in the sense of true or spot on. Back from the days when a horse would be entered in a race under a different name to fool the bookies. I suspect daylight robbery is the same. It mentions a 17th century tax but the first usage according to the OED is not until the 1800s. You can never be sure but the phrase not being found until a lot later is about as sure as you can be. I guess it was literally about a robbery being committed in broad daylight. Lots of phrases do have interesting origins though. And loads still in common usage came from Shakespeare’s work

Bellew will be wanting to ‘fight’ him in the future

I woke up at 5. Realised it was about to start so watched it. Just a pathetic, boring spectacle really.

When Tyson fought Lewis Ritchie Woodhall on the BBC commentary said that Tyson isn’t even a shadow of his former self. That was 22 years ago

They fucking hate her because of a perceived favouring of NUFC. Meanwhile Jeff Brown is a proper dyed in the wool Mackem and does anyone give a shit about him presenting the sports bit on Look North. It’s proper pathological hatred with some of them