Aaand, In Other News...

[Sly Boots]

Maybe it's an age thing? I was in my mid-teens during their heyday and was massively into not only them but the buzz around them... the Oasis v Blur culture war was meaningful, dammit!

Musically I'd still put Definitely Maybe and What's The Story Morning Glory as two of the best albums out there, although I think the quality fell off a cliff thereafter. But when they were good, they were very very good.

But even then, I wouldn't have paid £150 for a ticket, let alone £6,000

[Maturin]

Their first two albums are stonewall classics, and that's not just a fan thing, plenty of music critics/publications over the years have put those 2 records right up there with the best. They really were absolutely huge in the 90s, on the back of some great music.

Noel had used up most of his best stuff on those first 2 albums and associated b-sides though, so it was slim pickings afterwards.

Having said all that, I wouldn't pay £150 to see them now. Liam's voice is going to seriously struggle and it isn't going to be the same. Back then they were a touring band doing their thing, now it's just an arrangement to make a shitload of money.

[Wrathbone]

Maybe it's an age thing? I was in my mid-teens during their heyday and was massively into not only them but the buzz around them... the Oasis v Blur culture war was meaningful, dammit!

I was just starting secondary school when they became huge, but I was very much Team Blur over Oasis, and even then I wasn't particularly fussed about Blur.

Give me Aqua any day over them.

[eny]

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk ... e-29909559

[eny]

https://x.com/Channing_TV/status/1833987397001904223

[eny]

Russel Brand is now known as John The Griftist





There are a million things wrong with this pic, another one being this shallow bay is literally 20m from his frigging garden gate, I know, because I used to fish for chub on the bank opposite from there.

[Medicine Man]

The last thing he’ll be catching is a chub cutting about in those pants in frigid late September water.

[eny]

One more stamp in his book and Cult Commune will be a reality!

[Animalmother]

I amazed there's still anyone who doesn't think he's a bellend. Edwin is starting to look like Joseph Seed from Far Cry 5

[Wrathbone]

https://www.today.com/news/hurricane-mi ... rcna174445

Two day before, Castor had a blunt message for residents choosing to stay in evacuation areas on CNN: "You're going to die."

Despite this, an alarming number of people in the evacuation zones seem to have decided to stay. I get that the roads are heaving and it’s not going to be pleasant wherever the evacuees end up, but would you not make every possible effort to get as far away from the direct path of the storm as you can? The reasoning I’ve seen from clips of people who won’t leave range from believing they’ll be safe because they live above the expected flood height (hint: they won’t be remotely safe) to simply insisting that they’re a survivor so they’ll be fine, as though the unimaginable force of a category 5 - possibly a new category of 6 - hurricane is going to respect that. These people are probably going to die.

Tomorrow morning is going to be a distressing sight with a lot of preventable deaths.

[Sly Boots]

Apparently it's just been downgraded to category 3 as it reached Tampa, so hopefully won't be as bad as feared.

[Wrathbone]

Category 2 now - still bad, but it could have been so much worse.

[Raid]

They think they have it bad! In Lancashire today we're facing wind speeds of mach 25! That's faster than a spacecraft on re-entry!

I did wonder why I was surrounded by a field of red hot plasma because of the wind friction on my way to work this morning. I knew I should have taken my ablative heat-shield umbrella.

[Wrathbone]

Of course the plus side of a nightmarish, incandescent vortex of sonic booms is that there's 0% chance of precipitation.

[Raid]

If my clothes and skin and eyeballs hadn't been flayed from my body, I'd probably appreciate the rare sunshine. Of course it's possible that's just the clouds igniting.