And surely your own voice is always good when you're on your own? Especially if you turn the music up loud enough. I still enjoy the feeling of singing along, even when I've got no idea what sort of noise I'm making.
]]>(I'm betting on colorectal because of course he was in for an enlarged prostate, and the standard prostate check is still the finger-up-arse one. And on a good survival chance because His Kingliness has a medical clinic in his house and presumably gets rather more than just a once-annual general checkup.)
]]>Neither are exactly surprising in a man of his age.
]]>The Queen Mother, I assume from the dates.
]]>The Old Bat? Sorry, but that didn't cross the pond.
Speaking of crossing the pond ... there's an "American" expression I was wondering if it's familiar in the U.K. or if y'all have an equivalent expression.
"The Eagle flies on Friday", i.e. Friday is the day a lot of lower level workers get paid (especially construction workers).
It's in the lyrics of an old blues song Stormy Monday and I was listening to an old British Invasion band's version (Them featuring Van Morrison).
It's a fairly common expression here in the U.S., but I was wondering if it would be generally understood over there?
I had to go out of town Tuesday this week and on the way home today I went through an area that had NOTHING BUT [EXPLETIVE!! DELETED!!] Xtian radio, so I spent a long portion of the day listening to mp3 files ...
Also, (and I know there's nothing y'all can do about it), but I wasn't able to sign in from my laptop (probably a combination of the "wrong" browser & OS [win7]).
I know I had the correct username & password, but if anyone was wondering what had happened to me, now you know. 😏
]]>4-page article by Cory Doctorow in today's "FT" colour-comic, on the subject of the Enshittification of the Internet, especially "social media".
Go out & buy a copy!
The cover article on the hangman who came to believe that Capital Punishment was ineffective is probably worth reading as well.
Posting this on all three threads, for reasons which should be obvious, I hope.
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