*I'm not making this up: I typed that as Mick Yucknall at first. Almost let it stand.
08 June 2009
Daily Chat 08/06/09
On this day in 793, Vikings raided the abbey at Lindisfarne. In 1789, the US Bill of Rights was ratified. And in 1949, George Orwell's 1984 was published. Celebrating birthdays today: Nancy Sinatra is still walkin' in those boots, Colin Baker, Bonnie Tyler, Mick Hucknall*, Nick Rhodes, Juliana Margulies, Derek Trucks and Javier Mascherano. Today is Bounty Day on Norfolk Island. (Damn, makes me want a Bounty candy bar...)
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Changed my mind. Thought about putting this in the post and decided not to. So have a link instead.
ReplyDeleteAnd while I'm doing this, I was going to link to this the other day, but I forgot to.
Montana: thanks for not putting it in the post but it's still an appalling lapse of taste. What a dreadful family they are...
ReplyDelete@MW:
ReplyDeleteMick Yucknall. Very good. We used to call him Mick Fucknall but I prefer Yucknall.
He's right there on my shit list. As are Phul Colons and many many other smug, washed up aged rockers.
Bit of a dark horse is Mick tho. Mum-friendly blue-eyed soul aside, he's actually a head honcho of Blood and Fire, a very fine reggae label. Plus he used to be in a thrash-punk band called Frantic Elevators. Even more scary that it, is that Wet Wet Wet used to be a punk band too...tru fact.
ReplyDeleteMendoza
@Mendoza:
ReplyDeleteIndeed. Still reckon he's a cock end, though.
I hear he doesn't think particularly highly of me, either.
I actually quite like Phil Collins too. My cousin was a massive Genesis fan, when I was growing up ( inc the proggy line-up with Peter Gabriel but I even like the schmaltzy later stuff as well ) and it just stuck in there I guess? Didn't really dictate my music tastes though, as when I hit my teens I became an ardent Junglist with a sideline in Detroit Techno. Always had a pathological hate of Madonna since I was about 5 years old tho..I blame my sister for playing her music endlessly.
ReplyDeleteMendoza
@Mendoza:
ReplyDeleteWhat's a "Junglist", mate?
I'm 42 years old, please bear with me...
PS Can't stand Madonna either.
Incidentally, that's an interesting article by the ever-reliable Sunny Hundal over on CiF.
ReplyDeleteSort of encapsulates my thinking on the BNP - "give 'em enough rope and they'll hang themselves".
It's a sort of urban ( christ I hate that word ) music with really fast drums in it and big honking basslines.
ReplyDeleteI do hope so, regarding the BNP
Nick Griffen is now my MEP...oh joy.
Thing was, it was only the BNP who actually campaigned up here.
I got their leaflet posted through the day and they've hired some billboards out, no one else did anything? Apart from a TV broadcast from the Socialist Labour Party..can't think of anyone else doing anything.
Libs, Green, Cons and Lab where no-where to be seen.
Mendoza
@Mendoza:
ReplyDelete"Nick Griffen is now my MEP..."
Christ almighty, that brings it home, seeing it written down in b&w like that.
They've never done anything at the local council level, indeed I'd say they've shot themselves repeatedly in the foot through general imbecility and political ham-fistedness, I see no reason why that shouldn't be replicated on the European stage, frankly.
They've let the sunlight in, now, let's see what it's shining on...
#And as for "not giving a platform to fascists" - you printed an article by Tony Blair in April.#
ReplyDeleteSomeone's skating on thin ice...!
@thauma:
ReplyDeleteGood old Jay. I think he's reached that devil-may-care point where he might as well get hanged for a sheep as a lamb...
Shit, tell me that was a nightmare.
ReplyDeleteNo, afraid not. Britain does, in fact, have two BNP MEPs.
One small consolation for those of you in the North-West or Yorkshire & Humberside, you don’t JUST have a BNP MEP, you’ve got some others too.
Consolation for those of us living in London and in the South-East (two separate regions remember, Swifty), we each have a Green MEP – go Jean and Caroline.
In fact, if you can bring yourselves to look at the figures in the two regions where the BNP was successful, you’ll see that the Greens were just behind, by about 1.3% in Yorks & Humber and only 0.3% in the NW.
So we only need a few more people to vote for the hair-shirt-wearing, raffia-basket-weaving brigade (© John Harris), and we can kick them out next time.
Hope that’s brought a little ray of sunshine to an otherwise cloudy day.
On another topic entirely; Mendoza, Swifty:
Jungle is what became (or became called) Drum and Bass, isn’t it? It used to be very popular with the "young people" round here (maybe that should be "dem yout’"), especially the ones who like to share their musical tastes with the whole neighbourhood.
As that Steve Punt used to say, “It’s got a good beat!”
Jungle is very similar to drum n bass but usually sounds slightly different, i used to go to dnb nights all the time then they became over-run with detritus.
ReplyDeleteThe Blair comment was a bit of hopeful speculation, i was surprised the premods let it through.
Maybe it's because you didn't insult female genitalia this time.
ReplyDeleteFirst High Secretary and Grand Poo-Bah Lord Mandelson thinks the reason Labour did so badly in the council and Euro elections was because of:
ReplyDeletea) the MPs' expenses scandal; and
b) in-fighting in Labour's ranks.
So that's alright then.
What a bleedin' shambles. I almost feel sorry for our great leader and the photo of his bitten fingernails makes me feel queasy.
ReplyDeleteBut ALAN SUGAR- What the FUCK???
Mandleson's bad enough...
We're certainly living in interesting times...
Meanwhile, and as usual, Frank Field's gone on the warpath against Gordy.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.frankfield.co.uk/
It's an eye-watering bit of political invective.
Sugar made the vast majority of his wealth through property speculation, not white goods.
ReplyDeleteAnd now the property bubble has burst, the only thing he seems useful for, is a firm conviction that a telephone cum video phone, is at the forefront of home communications. Or absolutely f**k all in laymens terms.
Mendoza
Interesting info about Sugar as property speculator- I had no idea...
ReplyDeleteWell, I guess it had to happen...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PO5Gh3QGFI
Pretty sharp work, all things considered. And very funny too.
Thanks, Swifty- that was a good laugh, just what I needed...
ReplyDeleteI've often wondered about Sugar's 'company', I sometimes have a vision of the winning apprentice finding themselves, at five in the morning, sorting newspapers in a corner shop.
ReplyDelete@colinthestoat:
ReplyDeleteWell, Sugar's main "company" Amstrad, the one with which he will forever be most closely associated by his adoring public, is now wholly owned by BSkyB.
Amscreen, Amsair, Amsprop and Viglen are what's left.
Good luck to wotserface who won the Apprentice - she'll be needing it at Amscreen...
Colin - probably nothing that fancy, just tea monkeys i suspect, and out the door after the years contract is up.
ReplyDeleteI liked the young woman who looked like an Easter Island statue, she scrubbed up a treat afterwards too.
ReplyDeleteOh kizbot - they've just opened up a thread just for you!
ReplyDelete@thauma:
ReplyDeleteI noticed that. It's obviously a small cake. Biscuits are predominantly *crunchy*.
Excellent photo here of Nick Griffin looking like a satanist laughing as children are turned into sausages:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/elections/article6455983.ece
Seems rather biscuity to me. But I can't be arsed getting into a row about it.
ReplyDeleteCor blimey, Fencewalker, he really does like he's just showered in the blood of 400 virgins, doesn't he?
ReplyDeleteMaybe the eschatologists have a point...
Looks like it was taken by Vincent Price
ReplyDeleteApologies for last comment, uncalled for.
ReplyDeleteNick Griffin looking like a satanist? I think his fellow MP is scarier. The more we see of these chaps the better, it should destroy them.
Gotta love Cif - always ahead of the curve. The biscuit/cake thing is sooo old now. Myself, I strongly feel that zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
ReplyDeleteYep, there's not much left to say that hasn't been said on WDYWTTA is there?
ReplyDeletefencewalker, or indeed on many other threads going back at least a year - just ask eg, dotterel, kiz, jay etc. l
ReplyDeleteMnyeh. It's like Teacher doing a lesson on something cool...it'll kill it.
ReplyDeleteI said this on one of her threads once, but does anyone thing Agnes Poirer's photo looks exactly like Samantha from Bewitched?
ReplyDelete(the 60s sitcom, not the dreadful band, which had an asterisk, as I recall)
On the Jaffa thread, JessicaReed,
ReplyDelete"JayReilly (because I want to have a live argument with him)."
I tried to post a response saying simply, "I've heard some euphemisms in my time but this takes the biscuit..."
And the mods have clearly decided that was too horrific to allow through the net. Baffling.
Hahahahah!
ReplyDeleteHow dumb is that, Jay?
'I tried to post a response saying simply, "I've heard some euphemisms in my time but this takes the biscuit..."
ReplyDeleteAnd the mods have clearly decided that was too horrific to allow through the net. Baffling.'
Not at all baffling, Jay. The definition of 'take the biscuit' is 'to be particularly bad, objectionable, or egregious.'
Under the new Cif rules this can clearly be 'loosely' construed as personal abuse. I got deleted for less. Shame on you.
"Under the new Cif rules this can clearly be 'loosely' construed as personal abuse. I got deleted for less. Shame on you."
ReplyDeleteYou're right, scherf, i've been insensitive to your plight and i apologise.
Nice comment to Macshane too, very cheeky.
Hmm. There's been a new offering from Polly for over an hour and it's still not open for comment. S'pose they've decided it's not worth it anymore?
ReplyDeletePerhaps you should have said "take the cake"?
ReplyDeleteToynbee has a note at the bottom saying "Comments on this article are temporarily turned off" so I guess they will open it in the morning.
ReplyDeleteThat's new, then, anonymous. Last time I looked it didn't say a thing about comments.
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