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I was 4 at the time of the Mexico world cup so I don't really remember it. '74 on the other hand I can still remember how mesmerised I was by it. I was so excited I painted a triptych of action pictures of the Dutch team. Only problem was I did it in Airfix enamels, one on each of the bedroom...

My first reaction in seeing that was given that Ireland is our 5th biggest export market, arguably our closest business partner and that we have huge shared ties between us, how the fuck can we have gone 7 years without our Foreign Secretary having not set foot in a country that is less than an...

???? I look nothing like her and I try and avoid red underwear.

We both know that first statement isn't true but the second one I'll accept as I have been told on more than one occasion "take that off or I'm not going out with you". I will also accept that sadly my black stetson makes me look a lot more like Garth Brooks than Eastwood or Lee Van Cleef. I...

There are a small percentage of parents for whom their child's school is problematic for a variety of reasons and they should absolutely be supported to resolve this. But would your ire and zeal not be better directed at ensuring that state provision was sufficiently well funded to avoid putting...

Yes I realised that. I have some sympathy with the 50 years out of date comment but as for the sincerity of the transmission who knows? You can definitely say by the time it hits your ears it lacks sincerity and you can often get a sense of the intent of the artist from both what they claim...

You have posited a number of possibilities here and whilst I would not wish to commit to an opinion on some of them, I feel reasonably confident in saying I think it unlikely that a visually impaired septuagenarian music legend is running around grabbing children by the ankles. Have you over...

Thomas Crown Affair

Just over an hour left to add my final one, was going to go with Lawrence of Arabia as it seems wrong we've not had any Maurice Jarre but JM's dad never starred in any of the films he scored and so I'm going for... Ryuichi Sakamoto - Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence. Edit: just read back up to see...

Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better, they just need to schtick to de plan (if we're lucky).

Both of the above.

Petulant kick out but no yellow. Reffing really is pathetic in this country.

To not derail this thread I posted some stuff in one of the politics threads that suggests the UKs problem is actually more acute than the majority of peer countries. On the album how do you rate this compared to his previous releases?

Here's the relevant graphs..in some ways it's the third one that I think is saddest as it shows the huge disconnect between our young and older populations

High praise indeed!

I was about to write if I want to listen to jazz guitar I put a 'proper' jazz guitarist on like Wes Montgomery or Jim Hall or Joe Pass at which point I realised I'd recently written something in this space that ignores Jazz guitar entirely. Doh! :-)

Yeah quite a bit. This is probably the first pick that I already had on my not very structured "must get round to listening to that soon" list. Not ready to score it yet but overall really like it, which I expected to even though it's not a facsimile of his other albums. There's a couple of...

I'll have a look if it's published free online anywhere, I read about it in a journal I was having to read for a work project (nothing to do with politics, I was supposed to reading up on metacognition in the same publication). There were a couple of universities that had conducted the research...

Foc banging on about the 80s alert... Maybe not in the US but in the UK the 80s were probably the high watermark for protest songs no doubt fueled by the then occupant of No10. There were lots of bands who were frequently political UB40, The Beat, The Specials, in fact half of Coventry, The...

I think the vast majority of people are interesting, my wife says it's just simply that I'm a nosey git.