One of my current hates with language is people putting 'super' in front of every adjective. Just watched a YT video where someone said "that is super warm". Erm....is it me or this nonsense? And stopping saying 'zero' when 'no' is correct. Eg. "Zero chance of that happening." I have loads more!

The news about Brewdog makes me laugh. They're not punks. They're like The Clash - capitalist wankers using punk as a vehicle to make themselves rich.

I saw the postie's bike had no brakes. Didn't realise his bag was upside down. I've never seen one of those bags in real life. These days six pouches plus 100 bigger parcels is standard. They were lucky sods back in those days!

A reminder that there are young people in the UK who have been held in prison for up to two years without conviction for allegedly dismantling weapons of genocide. The government has been proven wrong on all accusations against them so far. Meanwhile: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The Monochrome Set - Love Goes Down The Drain. youtu.be/PmuTB0Yfh2Y?...

Next week I'm doing a rural round. It's a round where you MUST give the dogs a treat. When I did it every week there were about 150 dogs on it. You don't see them all every day but I fly through boxes of mini-Markies. Every dog I know likes them. Boring old Bonio - they'll walk off in disgust!

This is an interesting thread.

Wild Billy Childish has just been played on the radio. A man with a vast back catalogue I've barely touched and I'm not sure I feel comfortable going too deep into it for fear of what it'll do to my brain.

Subhumans - When The Bomb Drops youtu.be/TM47Jn0jrNI?...

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I was looking at an organised stargazing trip in Wales. Gorgeous pictures on the website reminding me of what the night sky actually looks like when you're not in SE England, then I remembered. It's the UK. What are the odds on getting a clear sky on the date you book anywhere in these isles?

Well, thank God and Rachel Reeves that we ditched that massive, 28bn per year investment in green, renewable energy to make the UK less reliant on global oil prices and its related shocks. It's days like today that you have to thank fiscal rules and probity!

Bought a new leccy toothbrush today. £100 reduced to £45 with Nectar. It won't charge. Look online - loads and loads of people saying the same thing for this range. Wish I'd read this before buying. It's Oral B as well. I thought they were meant to be good.

"LOOK AT ME I'M A TORTOISE, I'M SO SLOW, IT TAKES ME HALF AN HOUR JUST TO GET TO THE FRONT GATE" "Fuck off Brian"

In my head ticket pricing is back to front. Peak = more passengers for the same cost to the rail company so price per ticket should be lower. In my world the price shouldn't change based on the time you travel but hey ho.

it is actually impressive how bewilderingly shitty we've made the simple act of buying a train ticket in this country

Queues at the petrol station today. Here we go.....

world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.

It's a Nomeansno day. My geeky side is disappointed to learn their album Dance Of The Headless Bourgeoisie has more tracks on the vinyl release than the original CD version, which is what I've got. I don’t think that's ever happened to any other album I've bought. Usually the CD has more tracks.

I long for the days of simple pricing. Just tell me the total price and let me decide if I want to partake. Variable tariffs and dynamic pricing can do one.

What I don't get is what the £1 cover charge is for. It's not like they're selling food at cost and this is their profit. The article says a few restaurants now do this. None in my price range but then I only go to non-pretentious restaurants.

Today I got a letter from Reform through the post re. local elections. They slated the Tories and Labour. I'm in a Lib Dem constituency- the Tories are even losing in Surrey these days- no mention of them or the Green Party. Not sure Reform have realised we've moved on from the Tory/Labour duopoly.

I love the sound of early ska. It's so atmospheric to my ears. Try replicating this sound in a modern recording studio.

The level of dirt thrown against Zack Polanski and Hannah Spencer this week from the Gutter Press and from Labour/Reform was unbelievable. And for what crime? Just wanting to make Britain a better place to live. But in the end it did not work. Shows there is still hope in this world

Rolls-Royce are doing well. £7 - £9 billion share buy-back, first dividend since Covid yet they still want £200 million from the state to develop the Ultrafan engine. Thing is, if the government doesn't come up with the cash RR will go to Germany or the US. www.theguardian.com/business/nil...

Ha ha. May 1978. Sham 69 on Top Of The Pops. One of their best ditties in my humble opinion. youtu.be/2TcAjrwdgUs?...

First punk LP I ever heard was Can't Stand The Rezillos. I loved it without even knowing it was punk or indeed that punk was a thing. My brother had a copy which was odd as everything else in his collection was Classical LPs or shite like Dire Straits.

A new survey shows vast majority of Britons want nothing to do with Reform’s proposal to model UK immigration enforcement on Trump’s ICE

Just Daily Mail 'journalist' Sarah Vine comparing the UK's only Jewish leader of a political party to Adolf Hitler. #politicslive

Another Employment Tribunal claim for disability discrimination lost by Royal Mail. I've also got a case listed for the same thing - failure to make reasonable adjustments. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15587171/amp/Postman-banned-starting-work-5am-Royal-Mail-wins-13-000-payout.html

Watch: Manchester police arrest victim of fascists' racist 'lynch mob' attack A mob of dozens of far-right thugs attacked a defenceless Brown man in Manchester - and the the police arrested the victim www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

Madra Salach - The Man Who Seeks Pleasure. youtu.be/J4CSU6KPcZY?...

Just heard this on 6 music for the first time ever. The Jellies - Jive Baby on a Saturday Night. youtu.be/NV2vzfbxkQ4?...

At work today, after I attempted an impression of Charley the cat, a colleague told me that he was, erm, voiced by Kenny Everett. How come I never knew this? Cue obvious track: youtu.be/cSTBFZ-To2E?...

Happy to say my local is thriving since this fella took over a couple of months ago. Many places aren't. It was doing OK before but it's always busier than I've ever known in 15 years of coming here.

In the pub after work. It's very busy. England v Ireland on the tv. One particularly loud Irish fella is winding everyone up. He's the landlord so I suppose that's allowed!

Great tune just popped into my head. I remember watching this at the time. 10,000 Maniacs - My Mother The War live on The Tube. youtu.be/0hAEvyERuyI?...

I've decided that 4 degrees C at midnight tonight is the coldest it's gonna be for us in southern England for at least 10 months. Now that's decided, some dry weather would be good. I've grown webbed feet from trudging around in the rain for months.

I wonder how many other people Googled "how much does a curling stone cost" today. It's £750-£800 a stone for olympic grade by the way. Think I'll stick to bowls, which I still don't do but expect I will at some point.

One oddity I saw was when Heathrow was blue sky'd for over 10 hours. Handy for me as I live in that area but that's madness. Or a glitch.

In southern Lebanon, a man received a call from Israeli forces offering two choices — die alone or with his family. He chose the first

Won’t someone please think of the convicted hare killer! Do they object if burglars have their crowbars forfeited, or coursers their dogs and vehicles? Of course they don’t. Boo-hoo the hunter has lost his horn.

Bugger. Levellers gig in November in Hammersmith on the same date as Subhumans in my home town. I still haven't seen The Levellers live. Looks like I won't this year either. Unless I travel to Dublin or Glasgow during my week off work in October. Hmmm....

Of course the DWP don't treat disabled people fairly. They lost more disability discrimination claims than anyone else in the past five years. Honourable mentions to Royal Mail and Tesco who were next worst. goodjobsfirst.org/revealed-dwp...

Today I'm listening to Sweetcorn & Soft Porn by The Moggs. So rare it doesn't appear on Discogs or Youtube, and Google reveals very little more. Decent band. I saw them in Aldershot and bought the album. It appears few others did. They changed their name to The Moonies shortly after.

Royal Mail have been gaslighting the public since COVID. My office isn't as bad as some but we do have times where no letters or untracked packets get delivered for a week on some rounds. This is an improvement. In the past untracked packets have sat there for 3 weeks. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

These stories of people just following their GPS and ending up stuck astound me. This time it's an Amazon driver driving into the North Sea! I've seen their parcels dumped at addresses two miles from where they should be in the past. Amateurs! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Listening to The Mob this dreary Sunday morning. No Doves Fly Here is considered by many to be a classic of the 'anarcho punk scene' but my personal favourite of theirs is Raised In A Prison. youtu.be/YIE-S4dCKnY?...