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Of librarian stock. La-di-f**kin-da. Music Forest Lens Hallam Stuff and That.
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Oh. A cross-reference with Hansard suggests it was the second episode. Having read the synopsis, I can only apologise to said colleagues. They were stuck there until well after midnight and I made them watch The Gush, which wasn't nearly the worst of it.
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Astonishing stuff in so many different ways.
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Sort of snooker - The Lovely Eggs, Baulk Cushion
Sort of Pop - Lawnmower Deth, Spook Perv Happenings In The Snooker Hall (Ray Reardon, Ray Reardon, we are all doomed.)
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Yobs were the ones who remarked on my Nomeansno t-shirt when I walked past earlier.
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Dartz and Yobs at Big Hands. Started just as I got here. Still going. Top punky stuff.
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It's why you see a lot of it. It's not just how people have been taught to write, it also affects how people read. Which is why you can be a professional writer churning this stuff out.
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Of course,the mechanisation of writing (whether using AI or not) has been enabled by the previous mechanisation of reading. For a long while now a lot of things people write (exams, job applications...) have largely been rated in an atomised way, looking for words rather than reading content.
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I see a lot of this sort of thing, cobbling together buzzword and cliché to cover a lack of content. But my particular bugbear at the moment is the use of 'leverage' as a verb.
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They did look a bit more like long goldfish poos at one point.
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Latvia was proper good.
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...but the idea that Sid's yen for acting and music, the chance to do something different (not better...) and reject your allocated destiny is something that working people would value enough to prompt a full strike in wartime (even if it was about enlisting to fight) is quite something.
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...he went to Burma, but as part if the education corps, as that's where the army felt he belonged. They tried to persuade him to stay on and study after the war, but the factories were where he felt he belonged so that was his choice...
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...but the article partly reproduced hits home. Born to be a miner and in the end he accepted that, and I don't accept that as a lesser choice. Same for my grandad (one of the brothers-in-law in the article) who worked in the textile factories, and so was allowed to enlist...
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I was always sceptical about Who Do You Think You Are? reactions, but have been dwelling on this a bit. I'm not so far removed and did meet Sid a few times. He was a white-haired spit of the lad in the newspaper article. None of this came up, of course, just bland family chat...
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Tonight it's "steeped in history". There's the rugby I suppose, but even then...
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Which also inspired a Leeds band in their merch thatfuckingtank.bandcamp.com/merch/t-shir...
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Missed the session, but I work round the corner. When I nipped out at lunch I was met by a stunned-looking Zhao steaming away from the Crucible, with a load of venue staff trying to keep up. Then a trudging gaggle of middle-aged blokes shaking their heads and muttering about going down for yellows.
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Yamal is even slide tackling like Kenny Burns now.
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Putting on A303: Highway To The Sun as a fill-in is a great move though.
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"Haeccine res est?"
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They come and nest every year in the fields round us, along with lapwing. Makes a stroll out even more of a pleasure.
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Let's just remember the worst sending off ever. 1:23 in. youtu.be/umDKOQhyflw?...
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The Alarm - Declaration. Nice.