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Happiness Stan

@happinessstan.bsky.social
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Records (from Beatles to beard), guitars, LFC, politics & rank idiocy - useless opinions available, for comment/abuse/blocking. Will demean self for podcasts. #MDANT

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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 1h
Tried the phone option - numerous routing options later, pushed the button to eventually request to speak to an agent, at which point, “We have encountered a technical error <click>” You really CAN fool all of the people all of the time.
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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 2h
Call me slow on the uptake, but Evri don’t actually have any human agents that you can speak to, do they…?
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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The Bonnie Situation, but the issue is the coffee.
Harvey Keitel as Winston Wolf in Pulp Fiction, drinking a cup of coffee
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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Sounds like a right load of old blarney
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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Since it’s now properly Autumn and everywhere is a bit soggy & horrible, can we consider a comeback for the word, “slutch”?
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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Cue Andy Parmo and his Amanda Holden anecdote in 3, 2…
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Peter Thal Larsen @petertl.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Hard to devise a better metaphor for the past decade and a half of Premier League football than Man City winning while playing with an extra man.
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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
So if my maths are right here, that pushes City up to -82 points. Well done.
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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Enjoy life in the Premier League, lads - you won’t be seeing this again for a while.
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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I’ll bite - those were two very soft yellows. Even a stopped clock is correct twice a day.
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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The skronk factor plays against Dolphy's profile in the wider public view, here - plenty of wild stuff in Trane's back catalogue of course, but Dolphy never had a Favourite Things or Afro-Blue to draw in the curious.
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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Did a search for “my 9 albums” on here - the top results were… interesting.
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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“Top international comedian”
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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In the spirit of the day, Lidl - BBC Aldi- ITV
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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Wait until they discover What Goes On by The Beatles and The Velvet Underground…
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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
How to have a good Monday evening: I have *fixed* the broken push-pull volume pot in my Epiphone SG. (Nobody ever needs to look at the quality of my soldering work, though)
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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I would quite like to have seen the P.J. Proby / Pat Arnold version, based on this - not necessarily (Jack) good, but interesting... youtu.be/ifB1iVv0jRA?...
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AQUARIUS - LWT - 13 NOV 1970 - CATCH MY SOUL - P J PROBY SINGS "DRUNK" AND REHEARSALS
YouTube video by jimproby
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Witchy Annie 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔞 @possmom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"JK Rowling is already a billionaire and everyone already knows about Harry Potter, what's the point of boycotting?" Nobody thinks boycotting will bankrupt her. We know she's gonna die rich. We're just asking you to show a shred of solidarity with trans folk. Absolute low bar bare minimum shit.
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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
His grandad is a big fan, apparently - lovely fella by all accounts, but only does evening games.
Gary Oldman as Dracula
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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Best #Pointless cast ever.
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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is where the Eccleston story, “The Empty Child” was so good - the scene in the hospital, where Richard Wilson transformed, was genuinely unsettling.
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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Given the lack of success for that album and single, it’d have been forgivable if Arif Mardin and the band themselves simply decided, “you know what? Maybe we just weren’t meant for each other” and Main Course ends up as something entirely different. A Sliding Doors moment..,
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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’d be surprised if Barry even *remembers* Life In A Tin Can. What’s sad about the immediate pre-Main Course era (hors d’oeuvres?), is Mr Natural is really the true start of their revival & doesn’t get the props - the R&B is there, production is punchy and the title track is actually bloody good!
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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Blunt Blowin by Lil Wayne is about ex-Army Captain James, learning to play a reed instrument
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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
That’s fair - I’ve got my 1980’s stereo copy and a nice mid-60’s mono, so not particularly feeling any FOMO on this…. yet.
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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I haven’t got the new Rubber Soul (might yet do, might not) so, in the spirit of contrariness, I’m spinning this bad boy instead - besides, it has What Goes On **and** Act Naturally (Ringo’s best Beatles vocal bar none)
The Beatles’ album, “Yesterday and Today” playing on a turntable
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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Tell us about your appearance on All Things Must Pass, Phil...
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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Plus he's always got the Donald & Davey Stott interview to his credit, so that's another tick in his favour... youtu.be/O4Zot1i7bJk?...
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The Stotts Interview Sting
YouTube video by teamcream
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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Unfortunate mud placement for Miranda back there.
Father Ted with dirty window “Hitler moustache”
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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yes! #CelebrityTraitors
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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In fact, just fuck Co-Op Live for working with these crooks (& not giving a shit about accessibility)
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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In other Man City news, on account of them playing at home that day, there is no parking (accessible or otherwise) at the Co-Op Live for Suede/Manics on 31/10. Seriously - fuck Man City (& Co-Op for selling tickets to disabled people on false pretences)
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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's not even a gameplaying thing - it's just that Rajan is a Tory cock & I don't think I can bear to look at his smug face for more than one episode.
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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
First time watching & I'll say only this: Just bloody kill Rajan now & I will *PROMISE* I'm in for the rest of this. #CelebrityTraitors
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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Avalanches! Drum Machines! Barbara Windsor! And Batley Variety Club. Wonderful stuff as always although, listening again to Lonely Days this evening, I’m reminded that it has the least-synchronised handclaps in popular music…
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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Since Virginmedia appear to be having a yard sale (flogging on email accounts and their Media Store) and since I have zero appetite for paying to switch to their new partner mail provider, anyone know how to figure out an EASY way of checking all the sites/logins I want to change??
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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Can you start to use alt-text in future? Thanks.
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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Legitimate concerns"
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WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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BEATLES ABBEY ROAD
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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The closest I can get is if the UK claimed the Faroe Islands, which are roughly the same distance from Scotland as the Falklands are from South America - again, culturally completely alien to the nearest nation and long-settled, from a sovereignty point of view.
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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
AI shite aside, a good day in other respects - tickets booked for my first electric Richard Thompson show at the Phil next May. 👍
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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
To be fair to it, I could see myself using the 2-week “AI Independence” Sprint it’s just devised…
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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
On the basis of the utter shite I’m reading in my employer’s mandatory training and expected to use, I’m really fucking glad I should be retiring in the next few years. #AI #Copilot
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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I’m watching A Time To Kill on Netflix and I’d say that Kevin Spacey plays a sinister creepy piece of shit better than anyone, but then he *is* Kevin Spacey, so I’m not sure anything is being achieved here.
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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Concert For George on Sky Arts and, magnificent as the whole event is, I am again reminded why I have no place for Tom Petty in my record collection.
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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I think the human race will probably find a way to mess them up anyway. Speaking of predators, was reading the BBC story earlier on grey squirrels and loved the idea that they're too stupid to know when a pine marten is looking to attack and kill them!
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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Boom!
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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Sky Sports app version seems to think my wifi network is not in the UK - this may well be their way trying to steer me on the path to personal peace, but I'm going to waste some data on them & see how it goes...
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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Makerfield voter here: I think it bloody stinks that he hasn't spoken up (same on all the shit with the RNLI)
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Happiness Stan @happinessstan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
As I recall, I was mowing the front lawn when She Who Must Be Obeyed shouted the news through. Anyway, the lawn needed finishing, so that's what I did.
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