Rob Stradling

I own an original cart but have never played it for more than 5 minutes, and I can't explain myself.

As a student in the 80s I recall some doorstep missionary types being dizzily wrong-footed when I casually accepted this.

"So... you believe he existed?!"

- "Probably. Or more likely THEY did. So what?"

Uh-huh.

"Hotel" may be the more coherent (maybe even more important?) work of art; but this one just has more good tunes on it. :-)

I've got a CD single somewhere with "Well Did You Evah?" as the A and this as the B. Played it 4000 times in 1991-2, and twice since.

I've been meaning to fit a new battery since about 2017.

How it started ("Could Italy Beat England?") How it's going ("Italy beat England!")

#M6N #rugby

Us: "You know, after those last two games, I reckon we might have a sniff against the Italians..."
Italians: "Hold-a mah Moretti!"

#M6N

I'm choosing to see this entire #M6N #rugby weekend as a conspiracy to undermine Wales' "We've played against the best sides in the world" excuse.

I remember the gag that a Sea Dart missile cost more than a Pucara aircraft, so in effect the Arg airforce was shooting down British missiles with its planes...

Gag slightly spoiled by (a) Only really applies if pilot survives, innit? (b) That particular engagement never actually happened.

Just a timing issue really; we BotP kids were just a smidge too old when most of the others hit the UK. U31 in particular I remember thinking "I'd have been into this a couple of years back". :-)

Gaming in your 50s: I'll just jump into this one again... where was I? Oh yes there's a ruck behind that cottage, better search it.... cool more ammo! I should save... SAVE003: 14:03:2019<

"A ROBOT MAY NOT HARM HUMANITY, OR, BY INACTION, ALLOW HUMANITY TO COME TO HARM!" I scream at my Roomba as I trip over it for the 50th goddam time

I wonder if "YouTuber's Jaw Dislocation" is a recognised condition yet..?

Even without "Pepperland", it's got "All You Need Is Love" which is... all you need

"Rachmaninov's real name was Rachman. His friends added the rest 'cos he was shit at snooker."

Well relativity renders all space opera nonsense of course, but there's no need to keep drawing attention to it!

Are they shouting "We knew! We knew!"..?

A: Bloke with a boat in JAWS. B: Bloke in a boat with Jaws.

Fun With Prepositions
Episode 24: Movie Time!

Always take care with preposition order. Note how, in our example, A≠B.

#Jaws #JamesBond #Grammar

I only recently realized, to my weary horror, that I have now accepted and adopted the use of nouns like "message", "text" and "inbox" as verbs.

Well, I'm still holding the line on that last one, but I'm on my last box of ammo.

Sometimes it takes Picard saying "It's Klingon Christmas tomorrow, we can just about get to the nearest Klingon planet in time to celebrate it!" to shake me out of how utterly batshit most SF cosmology is...

#StarTrek #science

Agreed. I've heard enough of this "It's your fault what they voted" crap. It's time to hold adults responsible for their own choices.

"You get the government you deserve. Problem is, *I* get the government *you* deserve, too.

The only way to beat fascists is to give them everything they want.

It worked in 1938, and it's been working reliably ever since.

I'll never understand why handball didn't stay on UK telly after 2012. That shit's a riot!

After all, it's MUCH easier to swallow one little pill, than it would be to not fuck 400 guys.

I love my julienne peeler, but I wish I could work out how to avoid wasting half of the vegetable.

I can in no way explain this, but I have never seen this photograph.

It's magnificent. My kind of two-dimensional thinking.

"Life-size" mannequin of Link brandishing his shield.

A "life-size" Link mannequin, spotted in a Cardiff store 20 years ago...