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Oldest sister and I stayed with my mum last week. The NHS has given my mum an alert button on a lanyard, so if she falls and does herself a mischief, she can click it and get an instant emergency call-out (she’s already taken a tumble twice this year). She won’t wear it, though, so we had to nag...

State fairs sound cool. Deep-fried butter, bacon on a stick and blasting cans off fences with a shotgun to win a 7ft teddy bear for Mary Lou.

That sped-up version is ace. And yeah, one of thee iconic punk covers. A mere £2k for the original on Discogs.

My favourite anti-gun* tune (* sort of)

Do surface-to-air missiles count? I've got £5 on "Armalite Rifle" by Go4 before Page 3

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@william_kent Think Barkey liked guns a bit

One from my dad's hometown: 'NO JUSTICE' Man at war with neighbour insists 'threatening to kick someone up the a**e' doesn't make him a 'major criminal'...

London, no? I mean, OK, Epping, but... Great overlooked choices.

Findus shat all over their legacy by messing up Crispy Pancakes.

I like a few of the songs on "Subterranean Jungle", but I'm weird like that. It's a good job everyone's forgotten that Dee Dee 'rap' song from the late '80s... They might have done the same trick over and over again, but I'm more baffled by The Stranglers - how do you go from the songs on Black...

Think to really trash your legacy you’d have to release something so monstrously bad or cringeworthy that it retroactively poisons the old material and makes it unlistenable. Is there anyone who’s screwed up so badly musically that they’ve wiped the memories of ‘the good stuff’ too, and sullied...

Padraig (the original) - when he accused the mods of sniffing glue :)

We’re on an optional “go in once a week if you need to” basis. Helps that the new bossman lives near Wales, and that somebody else in the company has been talking about moving abroad, where the supermarket shelves are paved with lemongrass. I went in one day in August for a few hours (purely so...