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A tangent: Has anyone here seen the bizarre Swedish-themed film Midsommar? I won’t say anything more about it as almost anything I say would be a spoiler.

We’ve wandered into asides from the main question so I’ll contribute another…

Years ago I watched all the seasons of The Midsomer Murders available at that time and was amazed that Midsomer (a fictitious county, apparently, not a village as many seem to think) was such a dangerous place to live, comparable in some ways to Murder She Wrote’s…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

I thought you said you were never in here before? I wasn’t, I replied.

Was that the barman or the Englishman or the American who asked?

An expert analysis by a musician/sound engineeer of the Show Them collaboration:

@  PopeBeanie

Well, here’s one you can watch because iot’s official. It’s their collab with Band Maid:

Like many Japanese bands, the level of musicianship they have is just insane. TW can’t compare on that level. Their forte is in their songwriting. Thus, I think the song was largely written by…[Read more]

@ Simon

I think originally a pub was an establishment run by a brewery as a way of marketing its products. So, if you went to an ABC Brewery pub, you wouldn’t have a choice of various ABC products. Was it that way and is it still that way in today’s pubs?

A couple observations on some cultural difference between the UK and the USA from comparing their mystery/detective series with American cop shows.

First, almost invariable when UK cops visit someone while gathering information, they are offered tea or tea and biscuits. Even substituting coffee for tea, that never happens in American…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:

North Korea have said they want Trump to win so that he will let them have nuclear weapons.

Wake up! a) NK doesn’t need anyone’s permission to have nuclear weapons and b) NK already possesses nuclear weapons. It is estimated that they have around 50 nuclear warheads as of January 2024, with the capability to produce more.…[Read more]

“I’m not leaving the GOP. It left me.”

A very well-recorded concert in Prague the last week or so and it includes some of the songs from the new Keep Me Fed album. Pau singing the song Sharks is a highlight and Ale takes a more prominent than usual role on the song as well.

Picking up on the previous post which centered on Paulina, it’s always a treat when she sings lead, and here she does so in their new song, Sharks, performed for the very first time in public. The video is just barely acceptable, the audio lacks much bass at all, but Pau (when you can see her) steals the show, and not just for…[Read more]

An early video showing how good they were even then. Notice how Ale plays the ridiculously intricate bass part i pa overhand, presumably because her little fingers couldn’t reach those notes or make that stretch playing underhanded.

Compare it to the original by muse from one of their live concerts and your mind will be suitably blown. Their ages…[Read more]