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NEW COLUMN: *Take me home, @IslandRoads* In which I weave tale around a trip to @mayflower to see #mentalist @DerrenBrown, with eternal gamble of catching the last @RedFunnelFerry #RedJet, plus added frustration of pesky road closures on #IsleOfWight. countypress.co.uk/news/25878029.…

@SaucySeventies I always do the @theBobbyCrush flick when pressing return on my laptop keyboard.

Happy Birthday to pianist and composer Bobby Crush. What an entertainer!

@crimsonavenger Nothing wrong with living in your own reality tunnel, as long as you are content. But there are many joys to be found beyond our comfort zones - if we can take that first step... 😽

Whats the age when you just give up? I’m 58 this year and don’t feel like giving up yet. I still wear the vans and listen to punk and metal and enjoy a drink. Don’t think I’m embarrassing myself to be honest.

@SaucySeventies Thanks for this. It's been my earworm since you posted it! 😺

Happy 80th Birthday to Timothy Dalton. In 1978 he was singing a love song to 83 year old Mae West in the astonishing film Sextette. Dear old Mae can barely stand up let alone sing. Stay to the end for a Keith Moon cameo!

@FishHutBlackDog @GolfPerthert @anon_opin Check out the price of my Stranglers tickets! Doesn't really count for getting into them after the fact tho.

@FishHutBlackDog @GolfPerthert @anon_opin That I'd pay to see! And I'm with you on Shelley, and The Stranglers too. Saw Pete on his solo tour at Portsmouth Poly Students Union back in the day. Look at the early doors ticket numbers - I was a MASSIVE fan of his.

There is something life affirmingly wonderful about discovering a well established cultural phenomenon years after the fact, on your own terms. That moment where you go, "actually, fucking hell, this is really bloody good, I want more". And there is more. I love it.

@anon_opin Don't forget the excessive packaging.

Supermarkets are evil. Their obsession with cheap food has broken our agricultural system, ruined our environment and fueled obesity. The food isn't even that cheap as you end up paying extra via taxes that subsidise broke farmers and fund benefits for underpaid shop workers.

@mokofil @ConfessionsPete Oh yeah. You are undoubtedly right - I wasn't paying attention. No Christophe Lambert tho! #ThereCanBeOnlyOne

@WightHot @ConfessionsPete And Michael Caine for Lazenby 😳 I assumed Ford was there for Last Crusade, and Caine for The Man Who Would Be King - but who knows? Maybe one of them is the new Bond? James Bond - The Care Home Years.

I mean, AI has its critics, but look at this truly heart-rending image I’ve just found on facebook 😂😂. I’ll take questions now

@mokofil @ConfessionsPete He's represented by <checks image> Harrison Ford. 🤷🏻

@ConfessionsPete Dalton left out in the cold. Again.

@anon_opin Wire a plug???

There should be a mandatory GCSE in Life Skills. By the time you leave school you should know how to change a car wheel, wire a plug, stop a dripping tap, how to wallpaper and paint, being able to cook simple meals from scratch, alongside financial skills like budgeting.

Every euro, dollar or pound that is spent on weapons and war is a dollar, euro or pound not spent on health, education or housing.

@M3WDD @anon_opin Did you see The Lunchbox too? Great film!

@anon_opin "In the Indian city of Mumbai and the Pakistani city of Karachi, there is a complex and efficient delivery system that regularly delivers hot lunches packed in dabbas to city office workers from their suburban homes or from a caterer."

Takeaway and delivery restaurants should use proper stainless steel containers and collect them, so they can be used again. If there was a national standard for the containers they could be returned to any restaurant, or even supermarkets, for recycling.

@anon_opin <Rick Springfield enters the chat>

No one has aged better than Billy Idol. He genuinely might be a vampire.

Be great to have a joyful programme in mould of Tomorrow's World, but called Today's World, in which we are told of all the great advances and improvements on our daily lives, so that boomers like me won't keep droning on about how much better things were before enshittification.

@anon_opin Does anyone ever get to the end credits tho?

Porn is a legitimate art form and it is a great shame that there is very little serious criticism. I'd love to read a treatise that breaks down scripts, examines casting choices, the impact of distribution technologies and so on. Come on academia, you got this.

@anon_opin They already do. Local examples: Long Orchard, Bluebell Meadows, and Oak Tree Close.

Streets in new housing developments should be legally required to be named after which bit of the local ecosystem they destroyed. 'Lost Badgers Set Avenue'. 'Exterminated Glow Worm Lane'. 'Paved Over Wildflower Meadow Esplanade'.

@anon_opin Horrible stuff, isn't it?

Toasted sourdough looks pretty but has no place on a full English breakfast. You nearly break your teeth on that crust. Standard white sliced or farmhouse wins every time.

@JoltVisceral @anon_opin That IS the system.

@anon_opin The system is rigged against ordinary hard working people who pay their taxes.

It's now obvious we shouldn't let businessmen or rich people into positions of power. Duty becomes self-enrichment. Stewardship becomes exploitation. Policy becomes insider trading.

@JimBob1067000 @thekonyjen Euphemism?

@thekonyjen Hot fudge sundae

a side dish for lasagna???? SIDE DISH? 😭

@criticalstressy @anon_opin All my voting life I've been promised jam tomorrow. Well, tomorrow is here - and I want my fucking jam.

@anon_opin We're impatient as a nation. No one wants to wait long enough to see what investment might bring. They want instant fixes and instant tax cuts. We are an impossible nation to Govern.

Thatcher using the proceeds of the North Sea oil to pay for a bunch of middle-class tax cuts, instead of investing in a sovereign wealth fund, was one of the biggest dick moves ever made, on behalf of the people of the UK.