Voting takes place in 107 English local authorities, plus London Assembly, 11 Mayors and 37 PCCs (no elections in Scotland or NI). If you vote on the day you will need to show ID, a first for many people. Last time round (2021), Conservatives won 989 seats, Labour 973, Lib Dems 418 and Others 279. P...

I want to play with my ding a ling

Cockneyboy311 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 2:03 pm The Bamboozle quiz on teletex.

With the virtual quizmaster Bamber Boozler!

You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave

The days when people discussing a football match would discuss the actual football being played, rather than refereeing decisions, the relative wealth of the clubs, refereeing decisions, who the powers-that-be want to win, and refereeing decisions.

There are nine million bicycles in Beijing
That's a fact

Sample it! Loop it!
**** it! Eat it!
And spit it out!

Blair Witch Project , for about the third time, followed by Mandy , series 3 episode 5, Nandy . The latter was definitely more scary. I can never make my mind up about BWP. There is definitely a good concept about the reality of myths and a decent 'things that go bump in the night' film trying to b...

...and heaven knows, I'm miserable now

If there's one thing the internet is good for, it's discovering the music you wanted to buy as a youth but couldn't afford on your meagre pocket money. This was either a piss-take of Art of Noise or a marketing tool for a cheap sampler. Or possibly both, I'm not sure. Either way, it's a surprisingly...

A selection of disemvowelled English and Scottish football clubs:

rdrnns

vrtn

pswch twn

rnt

yr ntd

ldhm thltc

chls

rsnl

lds

xtr cty

dnd

ll

lgn

And the classic:

st ff 4 frfr 5

I will wait for him with unshakable faith
He'll be back

Pain in your eyes make me cruel
Make me spiteful
Tears are delightful
Welcome your nightfall
How winter kills

Hearing a tune you used to love for the first time in about 25 years, and it still sounds as good as it did back then...

Kazakhstan
Chile
Congo
Fiji
Nepal

Places that I know very little about, and which I imagine are very different to the UK.

Slave to the rhythm

Our first child is named after our favourite Orbital song. Our second is named after one of the less savoury characters in Pulp Fiction.

I have yet to meet anyone who shares either of their names.

We just haven't got a clue what to do

And turning the jangle up to 11:

Thèrese gets all the glory, but this was better