The album version of 'Abacab' would have been perfect for Alan Partridge to listen to while driving to a track day at Snetterton on a bright and fresh Spring morning to drive a Caterham 7.

https://youtu.be/EOK1Y4GJnMc?si=sgbYkCdY3hEq04is

...But Seriously was one of the first albums by a Western artist to be officially released in communist East Germany, but because none of his music had been released there before, rather than being released with its original title, it was titled Ich bin Phil Collins (I am Phil Collins), as you can see in the artwork here.

...But Seriously was released on the 20th of November throughout the rest of the world, but the uniquely titled East German edition, Ich bin Phil Collins, was released two weeks earlier on the 6th of November.

The Berlin Wall fell three days later on the 9th of November.

Bullshit by the way, made it up and got ChatGPT to produce the amended cover.

Speaking of Phil Collins, I remember that I loved this song when it was out. Given that I was three and-a-half when it was released, it's probably one of my earliest memories in life.

https://youtu.be/e9wq5GV2uIU?si=VdEn5ei2YhTB079B

Just watched that Springsteen film from last year (Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere).

Pretty good.

I saw a comment somewhere yesterday which said that men want a good woman who will be bad for then, and women want a bad man who will be good for them.

I mean it's flippant and it's very simplistic but there is a bit of truth in it at least.

One thing it's just made me think about just now is how irrationally jealous women can be about a bloke they're with (husband, boyfriend etc.) going out of their way or going to any trouble for someone other than them, and how they can fixate on it endlessly.

I've seen it quite a bit and I've experienced it a bit now and again. Very spiteful and unpleasant trait that seems to be quite common in women.

Underrated title track from an underrated album. Nice and dark, great chorus, amazing opening riff.

https://youtu.be/xJw2KqxlLho?si=20-A6GEse3n-VpQG

Just seen that Bolton's ground, once called the Reebok Stadium, is now called the Toughsheet Community Stadium.

Crikey, if that isn't accepting your status as lower league also-rans I don't know what is.

If women were given a list of things that give men the equivalent of what they call "the ick", they would absolutely lose their minds.

I honestly don't think most of them realise that it isn't their sole prerogative, let alone realise how much can be on the list.

God bless Sky Sports. Izzy Christiansen is exactly who I want to look at and hear speaking at all times. How did they know?

The thing about NFL is this:

It's fucking gay.

People outside America who like NFL are generally regime worshipping bugmen who sycophantically venerate foreigners and positively marinate in cuckoldry and White guilt.

Someone sent me a clip earlier from some Homoland event (funny story but too convoluted and stupid to explain for now), and the backdrop featured a series of silhouettes of people in shades of green and white.

Very fetching, but I couldn't help thinking that it was begging for the inclusion of the Big Dog himself.

Just imagine it. Right in the middle, flanked by silhouettes of emasculated wagies and insufferable girlbosses. It'd be ten times better.

ChatGPT is ace. Fat tosser.

I even told ChatGPT to make sure it included the creases in his jacket so it would faithfully display what a marshmallow-clad Tonka truck the bloke is.

That top button would be able to kill an elephant at 2000 yards if it finally gave in.

Ten killed in a mass shooting at a school in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Canada. Included among the dead is the suspected attacker, who was described as "a woman in a dress", and committed suicide.

The authorities know who it was but aren't releasing details yet, for "privacy reasons".

Yeah. Sounds like another transgender murder spree to me.

Tumbler Ridge?

More like Tumblr Ridge in this case sadly.

UB40 are the cuffiest band ever.

Good guitar tone on that bit in 'One in Ten' though.

Found a picture earlier on from when I went to the 2011-12 League Cup Final.

Taken outside a pub somewhere near Wembley, Sunday the 26th of February 2012.

Obviously I've aged and I've been getting my hair permed for nigh on ten years now (mainly so it'd "naturally" be the sort of shaggy mop I was trying and failing to make it as far back as here and before, with literally about five different products and 45 minutes spent pissing around with it any time I went anywhere), but the main difference that stands out to me is how much bigger my nose looked before I started growing my beard a bit. That's only the past couple of years as well.