Blastronaut

In terms of how she's fought the dying powers that are still trying to control the music industry and somehow managed to come out on top, aye absolutely. I'm terms of her actual musical output, not so much.

@The Fish I mean no harm man. I've got four, life without a washing machine is brutal. All that chat aside and back on topic, I'm quietly optimistic that clan Blastronaut have survived the school holidays. Only two Houdini acts from the lad, and only one that involved having to collect him from a Polis riot van. He's 7. Thankfully on both occasions other parents of kids from the same Autism provision clocked him gleefully running barefoot down a main road into oncoming traffic and actually downed tools to run after him make sure he was safe while I had his (also autistic) siblings, polis and a neighbourhood search party out for him. Good quote's from the other dad of a lad on the spectrum that followed him on foot for 2 miles trying to guide him away from danger "he's got some fucking stamina" and "the sheer amount of folk rubbernecking it was sickening". I'm a fairly devout atheist, but there's some absolute angels out there that somehow manage to be in exactly the right place at exactly the right time and intuitively know how to deal with mental situations like that without judgement. Then there's the lazy miserable "I'm alright jack" cunts that come out of the woodwork weeks after the event begging for some recognition for having watched the lad run barefoot, kamikaze style into oncoming traffic that did sweet fuck all to help at the time. Current mood - feeling blessed, but it's bittersweet knowing that the overwhelming majority of folk simply don't give a fuck about anyone but themselves.

I agree she deserves zero sympathy, but she's only on remand because people were actually listening to cunts like her and acting on it and the whole world was watching. Remand isn't even the punishment, it's the same limbo pending trial, the only difference is the waiting time is in a cell. I'm just sympathising with Rentons sentiments that (unless I've misread this) are along the lines of "how's this bint on remand for a tweet yet Farage and Tommy Robinson still haven't been lifted, and how come Barry the racist headcase knife wielder down the road gets lifted every other Tuesday but never gets held on remand?".

I sort of get where Renton is coming from. Not so long ago we had a neighbour here who was frequently getting lifted for violent disorder, theft, gang related violence and general antisocial behaviour. Cunt was always back next day or the Monday. It's great that these bigoted fuckwits that are stirring up racial hatred online or participating in race riots are being held on remand until their trial. But it begs the question, if there's the stuff in place to keep some woman on remand for racial hatred tweets she made last week, how come Barry from down the road is back home on Monday after robbing and battering a Indian shopkeeper and getting lifted with a knife? The obvious answer is that very few folk outside of the street I loved would notice or care if Barry was made an example of. I haven't seen the tweet in question so I'm just going to guess she's being done for incitement. Fair fucks, she's done it to herself. Keeping her on remand until the trial though is just clogging up another cell we probably need to keep open for the actual volatile and violent cunts like Barry.

Im hoping the joiner shows up and says "Aye I could remove the doorframe, but that new washing machine should fit through there fine. Just turn it sideways"

I'm guessing the current one is narrower in depth, otherwise the obvious question is how the fuck did you get the old one in? I was just trying to help the man but he kept moving the goalposts. I've been trying to avoid resorting to just saying "you want to find a bit of backbone and a measuring tape rather than a joiner" but I suppose I've said it now.

Outside, on the washing line. Come on man, it was the first result searching "narrow 8kg washing machine". Maybe try searching "narrow 8kg washer dryer".

https://www.lg.com/uk/laundry/washing-machines/f2c509gbtn1/?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwn9y1BhC2ARIsAG5IY-6eh3SQpbyQZTpGIP0GPttfgEUUpWfuCPErBEGM5VcitF7rM38_krkaAqr3EALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds 60cm wide but only 47cm deep. Turn it sideways to get it through the door.

Sounds like a lot more work than getting a washing machine that fits through the doorframe.

I haven't seen it but I have noticed that the press coverage of the counter protests has been far less fervourous. I take it as a sign that a lot of these editors are struggling to adapt after the 5168 days of Tory rule that put them in their positions. They've either bought into or lost track of the lie they were selling. All for their own personal gain. Shower of spineless bootlicking grifters masquerading as journalists. Their problem right now is that they don't know whose boots to lick.

I wanted to say "Farage next please" but on second thought no. More of these types of arrests first please. Farage is already dying on his arse. I want to see more of him squirming and selling out his core voters in a desperate and futile attempt to save his own arse, before ultimately meeting the same fate himself. Same for that Yaxley-Lennon prick that calls himself Tommy.

I'll sound a dick here even though I can appreciate that's a great faux-live performance, but anytime I hear heaven 17 or the Human League I get weird flashbacks to sobering up at Karaoke in Intermezzo at some point during a works night out a few decades ago and wishing that Renfrew St had been closer to the river Clyde.

Current events make this one more relevant than ever. I've mentioned these guys before, dunno if I mentioned that those Proud Boys pricks tried to hijack this tune for their cause, too fucking thick to realise it was an anti-fascist song. Which should have been quite obvious to them with lyrics like: "Fascist Bob needs his head kicked in, 'cause punching Nazis is not a sin. If you catch him, see it, say it, sort it. And if you pregnant by Bob...... Abort it".

What a massive shitebag. Trying to appear all statesmanlike while snivelling out lines like "James O'Brien called them Farage Riots, he's inciting violence towards me and I've had to increase my personal security" which I've taken to mean "oh shit the authorities and counter protesters haven't taken the bait. I desperately need to portray myself a victim of incitement before I get accused of incitement again". And contradicting himself with lines like "we have to realise that none of these people crossing illegally on boats will ever be granted asylum" but "they're the ones taking up all the private let's and social housing". I'm not entirely sure many of his base will have the attention span to have watched the entire 8 minutes of that, so I imagine it'll get cut up into short soundbites he'll feed to them like dog treats on TikTok or YouTube shorts. I'm sickened by a lot of the events we've seen unfold, but I'm quite reassured that it's mostly a a minority of over-emboldened dickheads that will simmer down once the football season kicks off. Most of them probably just the types of brainless thugs that were too thick to work out how to actually get to Germany this summer after having voted to leave the EU. I'm sure they'll simmer down and go back to punching walls or kicking their dogs once they see their pals land jail time and Farage and co selling them down the river.

James O'Brien earlier today said there's been a different vibe in Scotland when it comes to this level of racism and hate and I smiled to myself and remembered the old joke "are you catholic or protestant?" "I'm a 3rd generation Muslim immigrant, actually" "Aye, but are you a catholic 3rd generation Muslim immigrant or a protestant one?"

Hopefully. There's a less than 0% chance they'll find the complete frontal lobes of many "rioters" somewhere in his back passage. 100% chance they'll at least be able to cross reference some saliva traces to folk they've already lifted though.

I'll have to confess I got a good laugh at seeing he'd been nicked from a Sunderland pub at half 10 in the morning. Adds an extra-special layer to this swastika tattooed prick from Stoke's misguided worldview. I'll wager this guy doesn't even have opposable thumbs.

Don't blame you man. I was doing largely the same and trying to avoid giving it any head space. My subconscious had other ideas and suggested Laighills Park as good place to take the kids to burn off some steam this afternoon. Penny dropped pulling into the carpark by the cathedral. "Oh shit. Now I probably have to try to process these thoughts".

White person = metal health issues / Possibly involved with pedo's. Non-white person = religiously indoctrinated individual/ terrorist attack. That's how it works. I've been trying not to think about it too much (my youngest is around the same age as the youngest victim and a massive Taylor Swift fan) but was in Dunblane earlier today and couldn't not be reminded just how fucking horrendous attacks like this are. Knock-on effects for not just the victims, the survivors and their families but the overall community will outlast most of us. Whether the attacker here was Muslim or not, it's quite telling that these far right protestors aren't drawing parallels to other incidents like Dunblane. Doing that would be an admission that white British people are just as capable of commiting similarly heinous acts.

When we heard on the news it wasn't being treated as a terror related incident Mrs B and me said in unison "white British lad, then". Fascists will twist anything to further their agenda and rouse their base. Heads up though: Southport, not Stockport. Small detail that doesn't make a blind bit of difference in the grand scheme of things but my inner pendant won't let it go uncorrected.

And I thought I was a miserly bastard. You've got more than 50 kidneys but would only consider parting with one of them?

Nice! They get a lot of undeserved hate and looked down on in some circles but LP Juniors are great. At the Carcass show last year my uninitiated mate nearly had a coronary when I told him Bill played an old LPJ in B-Standard. He left the show converted.

Aye, features most off Page's trademark licks. Quite a lot of off Slash's too.

Ah bollocks, In my drunken stupor I've misread your post and thought you were suggesting MF Junior thought Oh Well was a zeppelin tune.

Love it, still probably one of my favourite riffs to play. For shits and giggles instead of mentioning Fleetwood Mac play him the recent Slash cover and try to convince him it's actually a Guns n Roses song. I'm a total sucker for any live albums that are even somewhat passable but even with that in mind, Live at the Greek is phenomenal. Fyp!