I'm a bit of a slow starter, so it's perfect for getting me going.

Each DUP MP is worth slightly more than Ronaldo.

Give Iffy one for us!

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Jason & The Scorchers – Still Tied
Nicola Roberts – Cinderella’s Eyes
Love – Your Mind and We Belong Together
David Bowie – Queen Bitch
The Who – Glittering Girl
Joe Hisaishi – Mother (My Neighbour Totoro OST)
The Naked and Famous – Spank
Pixies – Gouge Away
The Wildhearts – Rooting for the Bad Guy
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Miles Away

"The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" is one which is obvious, but also perfect. (Except for me alarming other runners by yelling "it's all so futile!")

And LW specifically wrote that she was looking for non-pervy kinksters. Which makes it clear that she was objecting to creepyness, not kinkiness.

My running mix is entirely made up of Iron Maiden tracks. In fact, for a 10k run I just put on Powerslave, but change the order of the last two tracks so that the prog wibblyness of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is around kilometers 7 and 8 and I aim to finish in the closing bars of the title track as Brucie sings…

I heard plenty of those arguments that it was all anti-US bias when the EU (one Margarethe Vestager again, for what it's worth) was throwing out State Aid rulings which hit MNC tax-avoidance arrangements. Arguments which totally ignored the adverse rulings on EU-based companies like Atlas Copco, AB InBev, BP and Fiat.

And now I'll never be able to go to parent-teacher meetings again without this new and peculiar sex fantasy springing unbidden to my mind.

I don't think I've heard the term "Chinaman" (or woman) in use here (the UK), but "Oriental" seems generally to be considered non-perjorative (including by my wife).

Let's face it though, we only have ourselves to blame.

Entire staff seems harsh. Maybe just Randall as it's his byline on the article, and Alex on general principles.

I find this very easy to believe.

I managed to pretty much avoid the internet until the early 2000s. My life was the better for it.

icliotking (with a "c" and "l") will die unlamented though. There's always that.

Hats Off wasn't released over here, though Opal Mantra was the lead track of an EP of its own (which I don't have).

and you didn't want to wake up in ElDan's basement.

As it's hot, this week I have mostly been drinking tasty lagers. Brewdog do quite a nice one, which I've forgotten the name of, and I also quite like Singha.

Alnwick or Washington?