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I ruddy love Madness. I can't think of a band whose music seems more alive and vital than the Nutty Boys. They always felt like a gang of hard lads with hearts of gold. They once kicked a member out for skipping rehearsals to watch Chelsea, and after they dressed up as policeman and burst into the studio where The Clash were recording (and getting absolutely caned) shouting 'IT'S A RAID' the other band apparently wouldn't talk to them for years. This is the single that made everyone sit up and take notice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOJSM46nWwo
Their videos were usually cheap as chips but brimming over with invention, fun and jokes. Look at this. It's just people messing around and having fun. It feels like they came up with the idea after a couple of pints and then said let's put on a show right here. But while the song is catchy and funny it's also a lovely vignette of an embarrassed young lad trying to buy condoms and an eminently sensible call for safe sex.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ2X9SANsME
But they weren't just silly. Well, not always, anyway. Driving In My Car is 100% just silliness and messing about, but here they are nailing the feeling of nostalgic schooldays for naughty kids. How vibrant and alive it all sounds! These aren't melancholy balladeers tortured by lonely school days and rejection. These were the cool kids having fun and tearing round the playground and laughing till they were sick.
https://youtu.be/XJOLwy7un3U
Where the Smiths seemed above it all, archly commenting on the frustrations and disappointments of everyday life, Madness always spoke from deep in the thick of it. The protagonist of My Girl is talking about a petty argument with his girlfriend, but he isn't railing against the pointlessness of existence, he's just upset and confused and in the dog house. But the picture doesn't lack poignancy or depth, because it comes across as absolutely authentic and real and says more about real relationships than a thousand love songs about finding The One or love that will never die. He just didn't want to see the film tonight. She misunderstood, and he found it hard to communicate. Brilliant.
https://youtu.be/Pw-8AGRcyvk
And of course their masterpiece, the glorious hymn to a working class childhood that is Our House. Soaring strings, kitchen sink imagery that never patronises, only celebrates and a gorgeous whispered interlude about childhood dreamers and promises that could never be kept. It's just beautiful.
https://youtu.be/rXuvdeEC5y8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOJSM46nWwoTheir videos were usually cheap as chips but brimming over with invention, fun and jokes. Look at this. It's just people messing around and having fun. It feels like they came up with the idea after a couple of pints and then said let's put on a show right here. But while the song is catchy and funny it's also a lovely vignette of an embarrassed young lad trying to buy condoms and an eminently sensible call for safe sex.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ2X9SANsMEBut they weren't just silly. Well, not always, anyway. Driving In My Car is 100% just silliness and messing about, but here they are nailing the feeling of nostalgic schooldays for naughty kids. How vibrant and alive it all sounds! These aren't melancholy balladeers tortured by lonely school days and rejection. These were the cool kids having fun and tearing round the playground and laughing till they were sick.
https://youtu.be/XJOLwy7un3UWhere the Smiths seemed above it all, archly commenting on the frustrations and disappointments of everyday life, Madness always spoke from deep in the thick of it. The protagonist of My Girl is talking about a petty argument with his girlfriend, but he isn't railing against the pointlessness of existence, he's just upset and confused and in the dog house. But the picture doesn't lack poignancy or depth, because it comes across as absolutely authentic and real and says more about real relationships than a thousand love songs about finding The One or love that will never die. He just didn't want to see the film tonight. She misunderstood, and he found it hard to communicate. Brilliant.
https://youtu.be/Pw-8AGRcyvkAnd of course their masterpiece, the glorious hymn to a working class childhood that is Our House. Soaring strings, kitchen sink imagery that never patronises, only celebrates and a gorgeous whispered interlude about childhood dreamers and promises that could never be kept. It's just beautiful.
https://youtu.be/rXuvdeEC5y8 Bogart on
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Tradition dictates that riders do not contest the general classification (the yellow jersey) on this day, however the riders in 3rd and 4th are separated by a single second so the temptation is clearly going to be there.
Just to add extra spice, the 3rd place rider is Roman Bardet of AG2R La Mondiale, or, the highest placed French rider in a French team. The 4th placed rider is Mikel Landa, a Spaniard riding for team Sky, whose lead rider Chris Froome is in 1st.
If Sky force the issue and displace Bardet from the podium, there may actually be riots. Sky are deeply unpopular with the French public (Froome was booed by the crowd at yesterday's stadium finish) and would probably never forgive either the team or Landa personally if they did.
Sounds like I got out of France just in time
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Madness.
It was pretty ugly yesterday. The stage was a time trial starting and ending in a stadium. Riders go individually, in reverse order of standings, at one minute intervals. In a short TT being caught by the rider that started after you is generally regarded as something of a humiliation (with exceptions to do with whether you're actually competing with that rider).
Bardet went second to last, with Froome behind, and had a really bad ride. He held onto a podium place by a second but the imagery of Bardet coming down the last straight (a very long, very flat boulevard) with Froome bearing down on him did not go over well with the crowd at all.
it runs ok on my pc so that's nice
I'm... not terribly impressed with the game so far. The jankiness is to be expected. But the base gameplay is kinda... meh. I hold down the shoot magic button on some enemy while walking backwards and spamming the "munch flower" button. Eventually somebody runs out of health or I run out of mana and flowers to sustain it.
Maybe there's some other spells that are more fun. But as a base, eeeeeeeh. Not promising oodles of fun.
Nö spoilers please, I only have it since... day one...
I need you to tell me of your people
If it's like Asgard first you must gain her approval by killing her arch-enemy, and putting their head on a stick outside her home.
I would be extremely surprised if this girl has, ever in her life, made anything approaching an enemy
I know not, but in the Anglosphere it's traditional for Women to ask on a Leap Day
The younger the more common, I'd say.
... that sounds wrong.
What I'm trying to say is it seems to get more common over time.
I can't compare it to other countries, though.
Beyond the basic idler/clicker (you barely click), you need to constantly unlock trophies which gain unique bonuses by completing challenges. There are also "secret" trophies which help a lot.
After the first week or so, the game offers the Mercenaries faction, which lets you choose 12 upgrades from the 9x11 total faction bonuses (until then, you play 1 faction per run), which makes it very complicated.
It also has very time intensive periods where you spend a lot of time managing it.
and just kind of stumble around until someone literally grabs a hold of me and goes "mine"
ok hi
EDIT: but this might work poorly on a foreigner. Am I going to have to decipher hints?
I should write horoscopes.
Which arkham
Knight?
Sit down, Honk. It's not just Splatoon.
Wh-wh-whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
*cries* *screams at sky*
Well yes, he wasn't going to lose his audience over night. And certainly not with Bill Maher willing to put him on the show at the slightest opportunity.
My feelings aren't particularly mixed, they're all the same flavour of bleugh
RIP Honk