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I can remember that but the other day I had to wait hours before sending a Teams message to a pretty high profile and visible boss because I couldn't remember her fucking name

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I think the bands were the Bluetones, Shed Seven, Reef, and the Animalhouse. Mate queued up to meet Mark Morriss, I'd have joined him to give the guy a smack if I'd known to

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Man just stood there and waved awkwardly. The drummer in Simply Red

A reply earlier reminded me of the time, 2000 or so, when me and a couple of friends went to a gig in London Arena that existed because it was being filmed for Japanese TV. There was a bit where a special guest came on stage between bands and he was introduced to us as "the drummer in Simply Red"

I'm still not over the Elderberry Wine remix, astonishing stuff

If I have one "you don't realise this now but" message for kids then it's kind of that, you remember so vividly how you met your best pal, and the shit you're getting up to with them now, and you might cherish this stuff when you're getting old

Headliners apparently Harry Styles, Sam Fender, Billie Eilish? Styles has a couple of good tunes imo

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I need to get back on the farm man, I need to see Lekiddo - Lord of the Lobsters! again

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Did you go to Glastonbury once relatively recently, think it was shit, and have no intention of trying for a ticket this year? If so then maybe you can be helpful to me and DM me your registration number, more queues I can enter the better

I suppose you could argue that an AI bible isn't going to be any less full of bollocks than the real one

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Summarise this PDF copy of the Bible into a two-pager that captures all the key points and dates

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Genesis but this time it's got a load of em-dashes and there's a handy bulleted list of what was created on what day

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I suppose you could just get a LLM to generate you a kind of Bible 2 and build a religion around that

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I was also going to suggest Gail of Gail's fame but that's not a real person, there is no Gail, so my idea hasn't got off to a great start

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I was thinking, they should get people whose names are on famous businesses to be on Celebrity Whatever on TV. Robert Dyas is dead so probably not the ideal example but somebody like that, Robert Dyas is more famous than 90% of the bums on these programmes no?

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Some serious bangers in this crop

I do my best with the accent but it's not great

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You know when you hear an advert on TV so often that you can recite bits of it without knowing what they're trying to sell you? "No more fat cat brokers clawing your gains"

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I haven't heard any of these and I know this record slaps

The Oakham in any of these festival things slaps, I find. One day this pub will start getting in Green Devil regularly and then I'm buggered basically

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In here I've gone for a Broadside that is apparently the proper version but casked, looks like it's a festival one they've put on too early. It's not blue although I am generally team blue

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"Come on now Holden, sort yourself out lad eh"

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Does Pob does that thing where he gobs on the camera lens and then writes his name? You fucking bet he does

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They cannot strike back because one of them was a minor member of Five and one of them is Pob

Idea for film that I'm realising is a bad one as I'm typing it out: J and Silent Pob. J out of Five can talk, Pob definitely can't, they're both very much "weed instead of job as personality" guys

So basically anybody who gets up on Sunday morning thinking they're fine because they're on a Google sheet with fifty other people and it's all been worked out, it hasn't

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It's still possible to fuck with, you can have numbers that aren't yours (not necessarily with the knowledge of the owner) and enter the queue a load of times, because the number you enter the queue with doesn't actually make you the lead booker? Unless they fix that before Sunday

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Glastonbury changing the rules of the ticket scramble today to one registration number = one place in the queue has thrown a lot of people. Syndicates in the bin

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He doesn't even fall upwards, he is carried upwards

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If there were people out there who thought he was good then I'd think "fine, somebody seems to like him", but I'm not sure there are? There's no reason for him

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"Oh good, Amol Rajan is on this programme I like watching, that's great news, I really like and respect him" - surely nobody

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I haven't really given either version of Traitors much attention before, but if Amol Rajan is humiliating himself on there then I might give it a go later for the entertainment

I suppose Sugababes have also got the old band back together after a load of lineup changes

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Every now and again you seem to break into a vaguely Orbison-like croon but it doesn't last

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I find excuses not to attend those things, but whenever I do make myself go they're anywhere near as bad as I decided they were going to be? So well done for giving it a shot (and congrats on the spoon)

Your original post reminded me of Elvana, the Elvis-fronted Nirvana where the guy doesn't even sound or look much like Elvis

I hope something huge and terrible happens that means their 2026 reviews are out of date and/or disrespectful and have to be binned

My current gripe is a bit of shared path that's closed to cyclists because they're digging it up and redoing it. You'd be forgiven for thinking it was closed to pedestrians given the number of people on bicycles (and mopeds) speeding towards me while giving me a look

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I'm not sure why I felt the need to confess that but it's there now

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If you want to be mean about somebody's food preferences then I'm happy to be your lightning rod. The other day I air fried four slices of black pudding and then ate them with my hands, bully me instead of those other guys

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Sneering at people's food photos is the worst, right? For all sorts of reasons, often overlapping ones, and also the basic thing that you just shouldn't piss on people's chips by telling them that the thing they like or are proud of is actually crap. But fuck me, you don't half see some horrors