I almost missed that in a video where the former Chancellor of the Exchequer talks about "Institutional Credibility", the video misspells the word "credibility", which kind of sums this whole thing up
Someone I used to know bought a house he lived in up to the late 90s (I think). Bookshelves in every available space.
Rocks.
From @fortevilfruit.bsky.social
I realised afterwards I'm probably of an age where they thought I would be a loyal subject.
Maybe even further back, Don Quixote?
/ not did they use it....
A couple of years back I was vox popped in millennium sq here by two eager young Radio Leeds lads. They wanted opinions about the 'big news' of the days which turned out to be some royal nonsense. I gave them both barrels about how dumb this looked from abroad. Did not, needless to say, compute/
I think it's more than 10% racism tbf.
I'm sure people said the same thing about someone like Nye Bevan in 1945, though hardly in the same words. 'what would the likes of him know about running a health service?'
I don't know, we've had basically every other kind of grasp on politics/policy have a go at governing and it's utterly ruined this country. So maybe it's about time someone who was just kind of normal had a go?
Great book. I don't think The Life of Riley is currently in print? Also due a revival
And here a few hundred pages further on ..
There is something fascinatingly suggestive about this passage from McCormack's Ascendancy and Tradition. The notion that the Anglo-Irish layer of 19th century society would leverage an apparent marginality, irrelevance even, the better to protect its future.
Someone I know slightly is/ was in two all female tribute bands; Fallen Women and Joanne, Joanne ( say it out).
Followed by The Quorn is Dead.
*Apparently* before the double mandate was abolished and Paisley and Hume were both MEPs, Ian used to rely entirely on French teacher Hume to navigate Strasburg.
It is. Drips with righteous disgust.
2019 it turns out. So more than 'a few years'
Meat Puppets Original Line Up - Gig at Leeds Brudenell Social Club share.google/T8ogS7X1daKu...
Saw them a few years ago. Pre- COVID I think?
I know someone in Dublin who can get 5+ fucks into a short sentence. He used to work for a promoter, and Billy Connolly would ask for him specifically as promoter's rep so he could marvel at it.
I wrote an UG thesis on the chaos of the Nazi party before the war. Not a ruthless machine but a lot of idiocy and making it up as they went along. I didn't expect etc.
I was in Nashville a few years ago at a conference and someone asked me, making conversation, how I got from downtown to the conference venue. Shock when I said by bus. To a person who'd lived on Nashville for years, and had never taken one.
Sign on a gate in Gaelic No reform voters No Trump supporters No unrepentant Brexiters
In the Highlands of Scotland they put a sign out front to avoid this sort of embarrassment
He was on the bus with me earlier...
Ooh - ah, where's your RA?
Weirdly 'I don't drink' gets less interrogation in Ireland than here in England. Irish people just assume the worst and think 'there but etc' whereas English people, too polite to ask about other things, are often fascinated by this.
Ok. Thought maybe bonus points count go on forever.
Rugby heads; what's the maximum number of points a team can take from a game in the 6 nations? or is there a max? Confused of Leeds
"Chandler Cunningham-South staring into the abyss"
The Abyss turns to Mrs Abyss and says 'we get all kinds these days'
(Guardian rugby on a English tragedy)
Petition to abolish time added on.
