*Bob*

We're in dire need of a new box-set to binge on. If things go as they are we might have to start talking or something. Big thumbs-up for BB, Saul, Battlestar, Making a Murderer and Narcos. Got bored with House of Cards, aborted Fargo and OITNB very quickly. Not interested in jumper-wearing detective-noir (or re-makes), comedy or anything to do with superheroes. What?s left? Advice welcome - before I switch of the ?5.99/month tap.

mikeb Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Bob, odd you should post that. I was woken up this > morning at 6 by planes landing into Heathrow. No > gap in my perception. But not the four previous mornings?

All posted yesterday - 18th May: fabfor Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I've also noticed that it's much, much quieter > near Peckham Rye Park. So nice. hpsaucey Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yep - agreed! > enjoying it. rubby Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Well it's a good feeling so far but how far it > would be. Since westerley operations have been back in force since mid-afternoon on 14th May - with all the same heavy Heathrow-bound air traffic overflying us non-stop since then in all the usual places - this is yet another fine example of the gap between perception and reality when it comes to aircraft noise.

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You'll need a bigger maggot on the end of that .. rod Not done a lot of fishing I assume?

Finally - someone with their finger on the pulse. Thanks for the tip-off, Pete.

80% girls (+ some boys) hoping to cop-off with Busted 20% boys hoping to cop-off with girls who are hoping to cop-off with Busted It's all about McBusted now anyway, Jez. Get with it!

There's a certain innocence to the Busted lyric, playing as it does to an audience who - having not yet managed to get near enough to an actual pair of breasts - can only assume in the meantime that 'more must be better'. 'Thrones' is - sadly - a more cynical affair.

dearth, not death

Interestingly, the overall tit count is only 3 per episode, but this stat is skewed by a relative abundance of tits in seasons one and two, compared to a relative death in 3 and 4. The most tits were in episode 1, where 13 tits were on show. In season 3, there were a full five shows which didn't feature any tits at all. I don't have the figures for dragons.

Tits and dragons - over $10m per episode to make

Excuse.. written in haste!

Ok, so something happens to you once - in 25 years - and you want to know whether this is 'how life is'? There's the reality check. Over to Louisa, anyway - to take this thread to those special places only she knows how.

How many times has an incident like this happened to you?

You could do it like Two Face in Batman - half Farage and half Johnson and turn a different way depending on your mood. Failing that - there's always Hitler to fall back on. Guaranteed to take any Eurovision party by storm. Take a cab there and back though.

Where do YOU live, KK?! We've just had the warmest winter on record! Warm winter = moth party!

It's a peculiar thing isn't it; to believe that for all the hundreds of years something has been in existence, the bit of it that just happened to coincide with a prime bit of your life just happened to also be the very time when that place was at its best, then all downhill. A whole lot of teenagers these days are going to have to suffer their parents banging on about amazing squat parties in NWSomething. They will roll up heir eyes, just as surely as their parents did at the previous generation. Then they'll go on to do exactly the same. That's just how it works.

My friends Dad says NYC was over in 67. Dead. You were too late.

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Foxy, I think *Bob* may need a weekend away to > Bognor Regis or Lowestoft This sounds great - what time does the charabanc leave?

Other places recently pronounced 'dead' also include New York, Berlin, Sydney, Paris, Madrid, Melbourne and so on. Two millennia of continuous capital civic evolution and I just happen to be born at the when they all die. Just my luck.

HELPWEREALLGOINGTODIE Dramatic music plays, credits roll, curtains close.

Pro-Palestine-Anti-State-Of-Israel has been a leftie 'given' for as many years as I can remember, but let's be honest, Ken's lost the plot on this one. There might have been some kind of point in there (more of a historical footnote than a point I suppose) - but the attempt at making it and, worse still, trying to turn it into anything of value or worth that somehow means something in the current debate defies belief.

On the subject of pay, if you take the emotive nature of the work itself out of the equation - and look at it as a job that involves a few years of being minced through the mill for a relatively humble salary, but with high prospects of a very good long-term career and substantial income after that - it would look very appealing to a great many. It's hard to criticise people who might have to try and keep you alive one day though, so I won't. Just in case. Generally - hands up who likes having the rules changed not in your favour; the rug pulled out; less for more - in any career? Nobody! No wonder they're pissed-off.

I wouldn't take the 'just missed out' thing to heart. Telling the winning bidder they just pipped someone else to the post / telling a losing bidder they were just pipped to the post - two side of the same estate-agent-fabricated-horseshit-smeared coin.

?70 to clean an oven. ?60 for window cleaning. ?100 for scooping leaves out of gutter. Where will it end?

Prince isn't even cold yet. Have some respect. We're all in mourning.