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One of my favourite ever songs ever.Great duet with Mr Frank Black in top form.

 

Feel inspired to treat myself to a blast of Pixies once the rugby has finished!

 

YES @Ste D love this song. Ends my favourite film perfectly

 

Horrible news about the likely loss of Argentina's sub ARA San Juan. The German built , diesel-electric sub entered service in 1985. Since ARA San Juan went missing last Wednesday, hopes are now beginning to fade for the 44 sailors aboard her.

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Ratko Mladic gets free room and board. Nice to see.

https://www.unian.info/world/225691...ed-of-genocide-gets-life-in-prison-media.html

 

“I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here” announce the new Camp PM and Deputy.
A snip at just 500 trillion Zimbabwe dollars but very well camouflaged...

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Somebody texted in a classic to BBC Radio Five Live this morning:

“Can we shut up about the Royal Wedding now? A man on benefits is marrying a minor Hollywood celebrity – get over it!”

Whilst applauding the sentiment, she is not Hollywood and he gets a little more than Universal Credit. The BBC have already done to death the mixed ethnicity angle of the bride-to-be, including an excessive debate on Newsnight with three mixed race ladies. They should try looking in their history books as she will not be the first – mad George III’s consort Queen Charlotte was descended from an African woman.

No word on whether the text came from a man in Islington...

 

I remain single and off the demon drink; no mention of these facts on local or national news!

 

The royal wedding, you bloody bewdy. Can't wait.

 

I'm on the blower to Chilla as we speak, trying to get a double pass to the nuptials. Now if I can only find me corked hat and evening pluggers.

 

A few years back I posted on here how it annoyed me that people used the word epicentre wrongly. Its misuse is almost endemic today.

A word usage that is getting on my tits at the moment is synchronicity. I think the problem is it sounds as if it should mean something but as we know a little knowledge can be dangerous. Just the other day when Meghan Merkel was announced as Harry's future wife the BBC announcer interviewed another current American Viscountess and introduced her with the words 'with helpful synchronicity we have another american born wife....'. Trying to be clever I suppose by using an obscure word instead of the perfectly sensible and correct word coincidence.

I suppose the synchro part makes people think it means at the same time, and it does to some extent but it doesn't mean synchronicity means what they think it means. It is a much more complex word. I believe the first person to use this word was Jung. He applied it to the situation where you are told something or see something and say to yourself 'i only heard that the other day'. Being Jung he took the word a bit further though and defined Synchronicity as encountering something because you are going to encounter it in the future: which I'm sure you'll agree is a much more cooler concept.

So another word will crawl towards the dustbin of dumb misuse. Strangely enough Nick Knowles used it correctly on the radio the other day and I'm sure the Police knew what they were singing about. But the sheep are ready to be dumb.

 

Don't argue with the Devil - he's much more intelligent than us, says Pope Francis

He is certainly smarter than followers of the Roman Catholic church, an ultra-rich global corporation that advocates unrestricted procreation to billions of poor believers.

For Christ’s sake, human nature leads us into temptation you numpty just like it makes billions gullible enough to listen to a crusty old celibate.

In this case, evil is probably a Roman Catholic paedophile wearing the robes of church office.

 

Just shut your trap for once in your life, QMII, you are an atheist, just leave it at that. Don't upset people who have a Faith and happen to believe in it. The majority of them do not hurl insults like that at you.

 

It does not require an atheist to spot the head of the Roman Catholic church talking absolute tripe about the Devil being disguised as an angel. It does not require one to point out the incredible wealth that it owns whilst most of the global flock live in poverty; and the paedophilic behaviour of senior members of the organisation going unchecked.

It is alright for Roman Catholic priests to be tempted into paedophilia by Satan so long as the Roman Catholic church does nothing about cleaning up its own house but blame the Devil.

 

3rd Test in Perth - Tail did not wag for England, unfortunately.............

 

Third test on BT Sport at the moment; wee gander before visit to see my Mum in care home.

Big moment!

 

Same old story. Massive credit to Malan and Bairstiw for digging us out of a hole on day 1 but pathetic from 7-11. Smith just shown how easy he finds playing our attack on this pitch.

 

Yes, fine performances by both Malan and Bairstow. I did not put it very eloquently and should have mentioned this, but was disappointed with the tail-enders, especially Moeen's duck!