@pedant

Oh Fuck me you owe me a keyboard.

You should tweet that flippin’ everywhere!

@blenkinsopthebrave

Absolutely! In fact, I be a tad envious [ahem] I didn’t put that up before.

It’s his usual arpeggio & chordal treatment but one loves the …..it’s coming ….it’s coming…..chord 1  but not yet…not yet….pedal point it a bit more….& ……da. duuuuum.

OK. I’m being very silly.  It’s terrific & I love it.

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@pedant

Man! I didn’t see your reply. Despite the ‘tick’ I’m not getting notifications from the music thread. Possibly because, I’ve been naughty & not nice so yes, a tad of a trigger but also because you know, Thane really liked him & then really despised him. The memes on the internet are pretty funny unless you’re …him. This is like He Who…[Read more]

So because of Dracula I thought of the Bernard score which @blenkinsopthebrave might like. Also because of the Quatermass Xperiment & Torture Garden.  Mmm, Torture Garden sounds like ….the name of a band…. 🙂

It’s short but has all the right “ooh, scary! Terrifying moments!!!”

@bluesqueakpip

Again, you see, I never said this. And others reading your response would assume I was ignorant of a political situation.

Me:

would it be politic to ensure everyone understands the consequences. DO busy folk read the pamphlets? Or do they listen to hyped up talk show hosts on their way to Boots? Are they Guardian readers? And…

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@blenkinsopthebrave  Me too!  @pedant

I didn’t know that. I knew about Tony Blair when was in my primary school years . The reason not because we studied any politics but because Hugh Grant took on the PM role in Love Actually. Everyone kept saying the character reminded people of Tony Blair

I didn’t know about slavery connected to politics l…[Read more]

@pedant duly followed. Incredible. Spawn now has homework. He’s busy reading novels. But with a diet of NorthS***re & docos (the latter from me) he now needs MORE. An appetite for knowledge never to be fulfilled.

The graphic seemed to indicate that Labour wasn’t followed because of Leadership but with Brexit, 2nd & further down.

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@bluesqueakpip

no, I didn’t make a mistake. I am fully aware of the electoral college having lived in the States for a while.

It was an inversion. Inversions rarely happen. Even Rutherford Hayes lost the popular vote & the electoral college vote at the same time.  All the vote tallies, as aggregates, are frequently out of whack when elections…[Read more]

I thought this would work or fit the times.

@bluesqueakpip

Just from you point of view in the comments above, I was disconcerted as to the responses. I was also  interested in how people felt about Re/Brxt : it’s a complicated mess.

If the message of the referendum is deliberately misleading, then legally, I suppose, one could find an alternate measure of more accurate reasons for…[Read more]

Crikey, it’s way past my bedtime. But, in thinking of  immigrants & how different voters felt immigration to be a cacophony, with tolerance for only “some” but not “others” I’m reminded of Marcuse -at least I think it is: the law & order are everywhere the law & order which protect the established hierarchy.

I would say voters were oppressed, if…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip

You were suggesting not all votes are equal because, by almost voting for the Lib Dems, which have anti-Brexit stance, you were attempting to unseat the unpleasant Labour candidate?

Had you done so, even though you oppose Remain, it would appear to others as ‘mildly fickle’ or worse, ‘using’ your vote for a specific reason -to…[Read more]

another qu I was too silly to ask, was “how was the referendum counted?”

here, it’s the majority of people (nationwide) in a majority of states or a “double majority.” A triple majority is if  referendum affects people directly in a specific state & where a majority is also required.

@bluesqueakpip  *”deliberate rantings by madmen” ie British Labour.

also @pedant the bracket there  lost your name.

@fatmaninabox @winston @bluesqueakpip @pedant @blenkinsopthebrave & any others I’ve left out.

On many levels, this is very bad. I had no idea proportional representation didn’t exist. I had no clue Corbyn was  Marxist, anti-Semitic, pro IRA.

@Fatmaninabox my sympathy to you, Your story emerged from a significant personal relationship which…[Read more]

@missy

I didn’t realise your husband’s condition was terminal. I’m so sorry to hear this. Do the doctors think he’ll be with you and your daughter at Christmas?

the life of sorrows, isn’t it?

@pedant

Awful. I was listening to her literally 3 days ago on Sunday night. Checking out my CDs & bits & bobs.

triffic voice.  It Must Have Been Love also rocketed them up with Christmas For The Broken Hearted.

@whisht  Ah! Yes, this one I know -not the song, though so thanks for that. I heard Kramer was jailed for dealing but ended up p…[Read more]

@cathannabel I’m so sorry to hear this. So sorry. Anything you need, we’re here….Or just for the peace of knowing someone’s there but you may not  want to talk – just at the moment.  It’s not easy to find cheerful music but I shall look.

All our love, the Syzygy family. xxx

@whisht

I DO hope you realise I was joking?   Regarding “Syd.”

Also, *PM = Prime Minister. Personally I refer to it as Little Dick. Childish I know. Still.

@whisht I had a whole post & it was eaten. By your PM, probably.

But Syd? What did I ever do to you, huh? huh?

I’m gonna give you one back. The longest Bon Jovi song I can find! Huh! That’ll do you!

Tories and right-wing Press going with increasingly ‘populist’ messages (ie bigoted/ racist/ lock-’em-up/ scary Marxist Armageddon). But even a PM…

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