Do you have any weird gaming / sound memory combinations?
It was 1998. My brother got Tenchu for Christmas. He also got the Phil Collins' Greatest Hits CD. Which is why I can't play this without singing Easy Lover.
Genuinely quite surprised at the number of people coming out to say throwing a milkshake at Farage was 'assault' and must never happen to politicians. I absolutely agree politicians should not be subject to violence, but there is a long, proud history of throwing foodstuffs at people as a form of protest. Intended to humiliate and ridicule, not to injure. Pleased to see Mastodon mostly agrees. #Farage#Milkshake
@ProfLouiseL Entirely. If you’re OK with people lobbing eggs at John Prescott, you also have to be OK with people hoofing milkshakes at Poundshop Hitler.
NB: I'm not saying community service is a bad thing. Far from it. But it should never be compulsory.
I earned my Queens Scout Award from age 14-18, which involved hundreds of hours of community service. It's valuable, educational and humbling, but it shouldn't be handed out as a punishment, or used as slave labour.
If the point of #NationalService is education, make it part of schooling. Learning by doing, in the community, while at school? Sure, but we don't call that #NationalService
@onepict Yes, I am aware of that. My point is that the Tories' proposed policy is not only stupid and fashie, but also completely pointless under its own terms because "getting kids involved in their communities" is a solved problem, by things like the DofE.
@dentangle Oh sure, no issue with that. I guess I was just saying that this silly policy announcement by little Rishi is redundant even on its own terms, because of things like the DofE making the ill he's identifying an already-solved problem.
@onepict I'm probably not the best example of community contribution. A better example, and the thing that made me a fan of DofE, is my daughter who started coaching little kids' football through DofE and loved it so much she's carried on doing it ever since.
The thing about all of this is, it never seems to occur to these people to just, y'know, ask people rather than just leaping to compulsion. If you ask people to help, they often do.
(I know that's not the point of this half-baked policy announcement. it's just "red meat" for the Daily Heil and the ever-dwindling group of pensioners who read it.)
#TheMetalDogArticleList #FarOutMagazine
Henry Rollins on the "one ray of light" within 1980s rock
Ex-Black Flag frontman Henry Rollins has always been keen to voice his musical opinions, and during the late 1980s, he was a particularly big fan of Ween.
@TheMetalDog One of the things I love about metal is the respect that flows down the generations. Like, iconoclasm has its place, punk needed to happen etc etc etc, but still. The fact that Hetfield looks up to Lemmy the way that younger bands look up to him is pretty heartwarming.
I’ve been listening to Alastair Campbell’s and Rory Stewart’s in-depth interview with Kwasi Kwarteng in between calls today. If you haven’t heard it, you really should, if only as an object lesson in how people who are very clever and very knowledgeable (and Kwarteng is both) can end up doing catastrophically stupid things.