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When I was 18, a 30-year old bloke in a pub told me, "I thought you was my age?" I never had problems getting served in pubs at 16 if I was on my own and/or with someone clearly older. Not the case if I went in with other 16-year olds, especially if they were singing the line from On A Ragga Tip...

@ No, the sentiment then was anti-monarchy. Charles was seen as a retarded dimwit who'd been phone-tapped telling some horse-faced toff he wanted to be her tampon, and the queen was viewed as a fusty old bitch who'd cast poor doe-eyed Di to the gutter (and maybe paid someone to kill her) for...

I've gotta say (apart from UP THE BHOYS :love:🇮🇪) that I found this whole spectacle refreshingly tame compared to Di's mournfest - still the only time in my life I thought I'd woken up in a parallel universe and would be torn to pieces if I dissented.

Ah OK. Should say I don't have a clue about tuning myself, lol. But would go for the Dragnet version...the Peel one sounds so slow and plodding (to these dodgy ears anyway...never liked Mess of My either...)

What was the Dragnet tune?

You never get MP3s with mobile phone static on them anymore – used to be a common hazard back in the Audiogalaxy days. I’ve got a few CDs that’ve been eaten up by bronzing and glitch like crazy. Quite a few early ‘90s UK industrial releases (Skullflower, NWW, Whitehouse, Current 93, etc)...

Sounds like the head of vampire tech explaining that the usual midnight ritual (with a gallon of fresh sea cadets' blood) won't revive her this time. The death is irreversible, and QE2 is now trapped in her own cadaver. If Meghan's responsible, expect a few tit-for-tat royal deaths in the...

Yeah, the TG/blue cheese/kata masala psychedelic triangle is understated. Speaking of which, here's TG doing flu-dream death factory shoegaze in 1980.

Yeah, but I fucked up on the turbo boost.

Since early June. My first lesson was basically an hour of of me taking my foot off the clutch too quickly and stalling. Finding the biting point still feels a bit like hoodoo...am relieved to hear all that, though. On the plus side, he took me out onto a national road and into 4th gear/40mph+...

I'm learning to drive at the age of 46. Pretty much because I spent my entire life in London (bar a few years in Luton), so I could jump on the tube/a bus any time, and I had nowhere to park a car anyway. But now I'm living in the Highlands, I need to drive to get around - the buses suck (and...

Silly cunt down the road from me has his Glasgow Rangers flag at half-mast 🙂

The prophecies come true:

Dear Martin, We are deeply saddened of the passing of Her Majesty The Queen last week, and send our condolences to the Royal Family. It is an extraordinary achievement to have presided with such dignity and grace for 70 years. She was loved and admired by the people in the United Kingdom and...

Yep, protect your knuckles and wrist bones.

Nah, I never got to the fighting stage, did some sparring but spent a lot of the time on the defensive. It's like trying to put all this footwork and these moves together while constantly guarding your head, and your heart going through the roof while someone's trying to clobber you and drive...

Yeah, it is intense, but if you want to get fit it's probably one of the best ways - would sweat buckets, feel like collapsing and be on an adrenalin surge (not in a bad way) for an hour or two after. I don't know if you smoke, but if you do you might want to cut back a bit or quit, because you...

Fitting tribute

I came back to this thread to say I'd been listening to The Jam's first 1977 demo, re-released and cleaned up on a boxset and enjoyed it (I Soulseek'd it for free, natch) and realised I totally missed this comment the first time round. "Saturday's Kids" has piss-poor lyrics - "Saturday's kids...