Alex

I can’t do anything about your assumptions

Why not both?

Or doing an agony aunt column

Aye. Evo-Stik

Then all the lion-shaped crisps stood up and applauded

The last time he looked that happy Roger De Courcey had his hand up his arse

I suspected the reports about Anderson being in was clickbait for the fannies on facebook etc

It’s grim but it’s not that grim

It’s grim as fuck like. That’s what’s good about it though. No escaping together and building a log cabin in some rural idyll. Just the reality of barely surviving. If you did survive

Well at least I’ve got this place as a haven from all the noise about Trump. Oh…shit

I didn’t start until a few months back and I’m onto about episode 52. I find it very easy to just stick on and listen to almost any time anywhere

Yeah it’s just a bit of a dump iirc. Typical converted bingo hall where they haven’t done a lot. Think it was originally a cinema

I had to double check there that I wasn’t re-reading that article about Quincy Jones and all the people he’d met and worked with

He was born in Hexham iirc. Grew up all over shop as his dad was in the armed forces. NX is a bit shit like. Not that I’ve been in ages. But it’s obviously the worst venue in the country because he’ll have been to every venue in the country and not just because it’s in Newcastle.

I would think even Biden, late in the campaign, referring to them as trash would’ve motivated Trump supporters to get out there and vote. And may have even swayed undecided voters into deciding the Democrats had little to offer other than not being Trump.

Yeah, I agree with that although my point earlier ties in with Meenzer’s about the people who actually bother voting.

Don’t tempt me.

Can’t wait for the next time the in-laws come round (tomorrow) and he does his usual thing of spending hours glued to a fine selection of channels playing rolling news.

Once all the older, sort of 65+ lot, got on Facebook and Twitter and started lapping up all the conspiracy shit and Russian propaganda. It’s had a big hand in stuff like what’s just happened, what happened 8 years ago, Brexit, Johnson winning his ‘landslide’, the rise of fascism and Reform. It’s not all of them by any means or just them. But loads of that generation are completely down the rabbit hole. And they’re never coming back.

It’s G-Dogg’s 15th birthday today as it happens. Roast beef as treat for later. The loveable half blind, half deaf, little shitbag

There is definitely something to be said for trying not to worry too much about stuff you can’t control. For the sake of our own sanity as much as anything. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not remotely ok with what’s happening. But what the fuck can we actually do beyond trying to look after ourselves and the people we care about?

Interestingly (or maybe not so interesting) their current polling would see a much reduced vote share and majority. Although still pretty healthy in the latter case. FPTP might be their saviour. Not sure that’s particularly good for democracy or Labour in the longer term though. Tbf complacency doesn’t seem to be an issue. My main worry would be Reform though. As apart from anything else polling underestimated their share (and overestimated Labour’s) quite significantly last time round. Although the seat projections weren’t far off. The other problem for Labour is getting squeezed at the other end by left wing voters going for independents, Greens etc. even in seats where they just means Reform or Conservatives winning. Thanks to the likes of Owen Jones

The older of my two dogs is partially deaf. It’s been a blessing in disguise as he can only hear higher pitched noises like when you whistle. I say that because he was previously terrified of fireworks and I have little doubt it would have caused him to have a heart attack or something as he’s now 15. He would literally shake with panic for hours. Only to be set off again with even the sound of a distant firework if you could eventually get him calmed. You can get get stuff prescribed, basically Valium, which did seem to work. Problem is it needs to be taken hours in advance, you can’t give them it too often and it’s not just one night that it happens. Honestly, it’s a genuinely heartbreaking thing to witness. I get that people like them and I wouldn’t go for an all out ban. But you can get ones now that make little or no noise. I would regulate it more too and only allow organised displays.

Could genuinely see Farage as a not too distant future PM. What a fucked up world we live in. Not surprised but quite fearful of what the future might hold. Especially for my kids