Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
"I never thought it would happen with me & the girl from Clapham..."
I think the UK has decent songwriting scope. You have the Scottish Highlands, London, (think Baker Street, Waterloo Sunset). Sadly Wales and Cornwall haven't been successfully mined for pop songs.
London has a lot of songs. Including one of the most beautiful songs ever written:
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
I reckon the Tori Amos version from Good Omens is particularly fine
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
"I never thought it would happen with me & the girl from Clapham..."
I think the UK has decent songwriting scope. You have the Scottish Highlands, London, (think Baker Street, Waterloo Sunset). Sadly Wales and Cornwall haven't been successfully mined for pop songs.
Wales? I think you’re forgetting this deathless tune:
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
America also has a big advantage for the road movie genre. You rarely see road movies set in the UK. You can get to the other end of the country quite easily. There's no real jeopardy about it. I remember one in which someone needed to get from London to Glasgow in 48 hours to claim an inheritance. It was very hard at any point to envisage him not doing so.
I didn't see that one but my initial thought is he or she could have just got the train. However if you were stony broke, had no vehicle of your own, and still had to do it ... ok now you might have a story.
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
America also has a big advantage for the road movie genre. You rarely see road movies set in the UK. You can get to the other end of the country quite easily. There's no real jeopardy about it. I remember one in which someone needed to get from London to Glasgow in 48 hours to claim an inheritance. It was very hard at any point to envisage him not doing so.
As it was put to me, Americans think nothing of driving five hours to pick up a taco.
There was a suggestion earlier in the thread of Susan Hall beating Sadiq Khan by 1 vote. It's a surprisingly little known fact that there isn't a mechanism for a recount across London once the certified results in each count centre have been sent to City Hall. (Back to lurking)
I have actually been to that corner in “Winslow Arizona”. It’s on the historic Route 66
Quite nondescript in reality but that’s the point of the song. Something epiphanic happening in an anonymous place
He is desired by an attractive young woman who actually slows down to take a look at him. He gets a surge of self esteem and testosterone. He goes home and writes an immortal song
The song doesn't say she's attractive. It just says "such a fine sight to see" in relation to a girl of unspecified age or appearance driving a Ford motor vehicle.
I used my bus pass as id. The amount of interest they took in it, it could have been anyone's bus pass. Although we did have a chat about bus passes and how old you had to be to get a free one (so I had to be old to get away with someone else's card, but other than that it could have had my dogs picture on it) and we chatted about my dog voting and the alarm that needed the battery changing. I was thanked for reminding them that it was an annoying beep every couple of minutes. I think that was sarcasm.
You can guess that out of the 4 of us I was the only voter for sometime*
* Just the pointless vote for a police commissioner
I have actually been to that corner in “Winslow Arizona”. It’s on the historic Route 66
Quite nondescript in reality but that’s the point of the song. Something epiphanic happening in an anonymous place
He is desired by an attractive young woman who actually slows down to take a look at him. He gets a surge of self esteem and testosterone. He goes home and writes an immortal song
That's made me wonder, what is a mortal song - one sung by William Shatner, maybe? But surely no song can survive that.
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
America also has a big advantage for the road movie genre. You rarely see road movies set in the UK. You can get to the other end of the country quite easily. There's no real jeopardy about it. I remember one in which someone needed to get from London to Glasgow in 48 hours to claim an inheritance. It was very hard at any point to envisage him not doing so.
Otoh there's the peril of London to Norwich in a day in Clockwise, perhaps the shittest movie ever made
Indeed - there was no drama, just mundane irritation. In fact the archetypal British road experience.
(Actually, there is plenty of joy in British roads. But draw a box which goes roughly Doncaster-Bedford-Colchester-Margate-Portsmouth-Crewe-Doncaster - where the majority of British road journeys take place: almost all joy and drama is outside of this box.)
I used my bus pass as id. The amount of interest they took in it, it could have been anyone's bus pass. Although we did have a chat about bus passes and how old you had to be to get a free one (so I had to be old to get away with someone else's card, but other than that it could have had my dogs picture on it) and we chatted about my dog voting and the alarm that needed the battery changing. I was thanked for reminding them that it was an annoying beep every couple of minutes. I think that was sarcasm.
You can guess that out of the 4 of us I was the only voter for sometime.
Our polling station took a good long look at my driving licence - I was beginning to think they were going to refuse me. The licence is only a year old too but I think I may have been lazy and used an older photo I had when renewing it last year.
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
America also has a big advantage for the road movie genre. You rarely see road movies set in the UK. You can get to the other end of the country quite easily. There's no real jeopardy about it. I remember one in which someone needed to get from London to Glasgow in 48 hours to claim an inheritance. It was very hard at any point to envisage him not doing so.
I didn't see that one but my initial thought is he or she could have just got the train. However if you were stony broke, had no vehicle of your own, and still had to do it ... ok now you might have a story.
There's a vaguely amusing Netflix film about a Dad undertaking a cross-Britain road trip to click-and-collect the last must-have Christmas gift in the country.
The constrained size of the country does force a certain degree of slapstick misfortune to lengthen the duration of the journey.
There was a suggestion earlier in the thread of Susan Hall beating Sadiq Khan by 1 vote. It's a surprisingly little known fact that there isn't a mechanism for a recount across London once the certified results in each count centre have been sent to City Hall. (Back to lurking)
Antenna must be way out in front on Average Likes per Post. One post a year but interesting.
I have actually been to that corner in “Winslow Arizona”. It’s on the historic Route 66
Quite nondescript in reality but that’s the point of the song. Something epiphanic happening in an anonymous place
He is desired by an attractive young woman who actually slows down to take a look at him. He gets a surge of self esteem and testosterone. He goes home and writes an immortal song
The song doesn't say she's attractive. It just says "such a fine sight to see" in relation to a girl of unspecified age or appearance driving a Ford motor vehicle.
The use of the word “girl” suggests, at least, that he wasn’t ogled by an old woman in a motabilty scooter, as the female in question has to “slow down” to look at him
If it was a quasi disabled woman of pensionable age the song would surely have gone
“There’s a crone, my Lord, in a motability scooter Slowing down EVEN MORE to take a look at me, perhaps she’s noticed my outsize hooter”
And that wouldn’t be anywhere near as good; indeed I suspect the writer wouid have struck those lines from his lyrics and then abandoned writing the whole song and probably gone into insurance as a career
I have actually been to that corner in “Winslow Arizona”. It’s on the historic Route 66
Quite nondescript in reality but that’s the point of the song. Something epiphanic happening in an anonymous place
He is desired by an attractive young woman who actually slows down to take a look at him. He gets a surge of self esteem and testosterone. He goes home and writes an immortal song
Here's one for the PB brains trust. When did they start saying 'route' to rhyme with 'pout' in the States? It rhymes it with ''root' in the Chuck Berry song. I find it really jarring when I hear it pronounced the 'pout' way. Is it a fairly recent variation or is it one of those things that's actually proper Old English, or something?
I have actually been to that corner in “Winslow Arizona”. It’s on the historic Route 66
Quite nondescript in reality but that’s the point of the song. Something epiphanic happening in an anonymous place
He is desired by an attractive young woman who actually slows down to take a look at him. He gets a surge of self esteem and testosterone. He goes home and writes an immortal song
Here's one for the PB brains trust. When did they start saying 'route' to rhyme with 'pout' in the States? It rhymes it with ''root' in the Chuck Berry song. I find it really jarring when I hear it pronounced the 'pout' way. Is it a fairly recent variation or is it one of those things that's actually proper Old English, or something?
And vee-hicle.
I made a start yesterday evening on teaching my three year old Irish niece to pronounce "butter" in the correct South London accent with silent "t"s.
I have actually been to that corner in “Winslow Arizona”. It’s on the historic Route 66
Quite nondescript in reality but that’s the point of the song. Something epiphanic happening in an anonymous place
He is desired by an attractive young woman who actually slows down to take a look at him. He gets a surge of self esteem and testosterone. He goes home and writes an immortal song
Here's one for the PB brains trust. When did they start saying 'route' to rhyme with 'pout' in the States? It rhymes it with ''root' in the Chuck Berry song. I find it really jarring when I hear it pronounced the 'pout' way. Is it a fairly recent variation or is it one of those things that's actually proper Old English, or something?
And vee-hicle.
It's not old english, as the word comes from French, which shares our ponunciation of the word.
I have actually been to that corner in “Winslow Arizona”. It’s on the historic Route 66
Quite nondescript in reality but that’s the point of the song. Something epiphanic happening in an anonymous place
He is desired by an attractive young woman who actually slows down to take a look at him. He gets a surge of self esteem and testosterone. He goes home and writes an immortal song
Here's one for the PB brains trust. When did they start saying 'route' to rhyme with 'pout' in the States? It rhymes it with ''root' in the Chuck Berry song. I find it really jarring when I hear it pronounced the 'pout' way. Is it a fairly recent variation or is it one of those things that's actually proper Old English, or something?
And vee-hicle.
Very quick look at Google Advanced Book Search gets the latter back to 1912 at least ...
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
"I never thought it would happen with me & the girl from Clapham..."
I think the UK has decent songwriting scope. You have the Scottish Highlands, London, (think Baker Street, Waterloo Sunset). Sadly Wales and Cornwall haven't been successfully mined for pop songs.
London has a lot of songs. Including one of the most beautiful songs ever written:
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
I reckon the Tori Amos version from Good Omens is particularly fine
I went to a talk on Noel Coward this morning - came across a song of his that has to be contender for the new national anthem of England, particularly among desperate Tories: There Are Bad Times Just Around the Corner.
...There are bad times just around the corner, We can all look forward to despair, It's as clear as crystal From Bridlington to Bristol That we can't save democracy and we don't much care If the Reds and the Pinks Believe that England stinks And that world revolution is bound to spread, We'd better all learn the lyrics of the old 'Red Flag' And wait until we drop down dead.
As ever with Coward the full lyrics are very witty and the song is rather jaunty.
I have actually been to that corner in “Winslow Arizona”. It’s on the historic Route 66
Quite nondescript in reality but that’s the point of the song. Something epiphanic happening in an anonymous place
He is desired by an attractive young woman who actually slows down to take a look at him. He gets a surge of self esteem and testosterone. He goes home and writes an immortal song
The song doesn't say she's attractive. It just says "such a fine sight to see" in relation to a girl of unspecified age or appearance driving a Ford motor vehicle.
The use of the word “girl” suggests, at least, that he wasn’t ogled by an old woman in a motabilty scooter, as the female in question has to “slow down” to look at him
If it was a quasi disabled woman of pensionable age the song would surely have gone
“There’s a crone, my Lord, in a motability scooter Slowing down EVEN MORE to take a look at me, perhaps she’s noticed my outsize hooter”
And that wouldn’t be anywhere near as good; indeed I suspect the writer wouid have struck those lines from his lyrics and then abandoned writing the whole song and probably gone into insurance as a career
Depends how old the *songwriter* is, though. If he's 75, the conclusion is totally different.
I have actually been to that corner in “Winslow Arizona”. It’s on the historic Route 66
Quite nondescript in reality but that’s the point of the song. Something epiphanic happening in an anonymous place
He is desired by an attractive young woman who actually slows down to take a look at him. He gets a surge of self esteem and testosterone. He goes home and writes an immortal song
The song doesn't say she's attractive. It just says "such a fine sight to see" in relation to a girl of unspecified age or appearance driving a Ford motor vehicle.
The use of the word “girl” suggests, at least, that he wasn’t ogled by an old woman in a motabilty scooter, as the female in question has to “slow down” to look at him
If it was a quasi disabled woman of pensionable age the song would surely have gone
“There’s a crone, my Lord, in a motability scooter Slowing down EVEN MORE to take a look at me, perhaps she’s noticed my outsize hooter”
And that wouldn’t be anywhere near as good; indeed I suspect the writer wouid have struck those lines from his lyrics and then abandoned writing the whole song and probably gone into insurance as a career
Possibly right. Although the problem with those alternative words is more that they no longer fit the tune.
My serious point? The risks of projecting. Of seeing only what you want to see. Of assuming the obvious interpretation of a song's lyrics is the right one.
Eg Stay Another Day by East17. It's clearly about a guy pleading with a romantic partner not to dump him, right? NO. It's about somebody dying of a terminal disease.
Or Clair by Gilbert O'Sullivan. That's about infatuation with a girl, yes, but not in the usual hackneyed sense. He's talking about a toddler.
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
America also has a big advantage for the road movie genre. You rarely see road movies set in the UK. You can get to the other end of the country quite easily. There's no real jeopardy about it. I remember one in which someone needed to get from London to Glasgow in 48 hours to claim an inheritance. It was very hard at any point to envisage him not doing so.
I didn't see that one but my initial thought is he or she could have just got the train. However if you were stony broke, had no vehicle of your own, and still had to do it ... ok now you might have a story.
There's a vaguely amusing Netflix film about a Dad undertaking a cross-Britain road trip to click-and-collect the last must-have Christmas gift in the country.
The constrained size of the country does force a certain degree of slapstick misfortune to lengthen the duration of the journey.
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
You are misremembering.
GdN has been a shithole for as long as I've been going there although now in fact the brasseries opposite the station look rather attractive. Elsewhere people face down on the "bare sidewalk" (as opposed to...)? So what - happens all the time everywhere. One guy blotto for whatever reason and the city is falling apart is the thesis? Not 100% sure about that.
I was prepared to admit I’d got it wrong - or at least exaggerated - when I disembarked at Gare du Montparnasse
Soon as we crossed the Seine, nope, I was right. Besides the spectator agrees with me and that magazine is famously correct about everything
And I speak as the reincarnation of Napoleon and as the Jay Rayner of Place
In fact Napoleon was more a prior incarnation of me, really
Impressive the way you get away with using PB to promote yourself, your employer and the people who pay for your travel. If you want to do this you need to stop thinly-veiling your identity (which fools nobody) and perhaps it would be fairer if you made it very clear when you have a financial interest in promoting a travel destination.
I have actually been to that corner in “Winslow Arizona”. It’s on the historic Route 66
Quite nondescript in reality but that’s the point of the song. Something epiphanic happening in an anonymous place
He is desired by an attractive young woman who actually slows down to take a look at him. He gets a surge of self esteem and testosterone. He goes home and writes an immortal song
The song doesn't say she's attractive. It just says "such a fine sight to see" in relation to a girl of unspecified age or appearance driving a Ford motor vehicle.
The use of the word “girl” suggests, at least, that he wasn’t ogled by an old woman in a motabilty scooter, as the female in question has to “slow down” to look at him
If it was a quasi disabled woman of pensionable age the song would surely have gone
“There’s a crone, my Lord, in a motability scooter Slowing down EVEN MORE to take a look at me, perhaps she’s noticed my outsize hooter”
And that wouldn’t be anywhere near as good; indeed I suspect the writer wouid have struck those lines from his lyrics and then abandoned writing the whole song and probably gone into insurance as a career
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
America also has a big advantage for the road movie genre. You rarely see road movies set in the UK. You can get to the other end of the country quite easily. There's no real jeopardy about it. I remember one in which someone needed to get from London to Glasgow in 48 hours to claim an inheritance. It was very hard at any point to envisage him not doing so.
I didn't see that one but my initial thought is he or she could have just got the train. However if you were stony broke, had no vehicle of your own, and still had to do it ... ok now you might have a story.
There's a vaguely amusing Netflix film about a Dad undertaking a cross-Britain road trip to click-and-collect the last must-have Christmas gift in the country.
The constrained size of the country does force a certain degree of slapstick misfortune to lengthen the duration of the journey.
That sounds like the sort of film where "vaguely amusing" means they've pretty much pulled it off.
I have actually been to that corner in “Winslow Arizona”. It’s on the historic Route 66
Quite nondescript in reality but that’s the point of the song. Something epiphanic happening in an anonymous place
He is desired by an attractive young woman who actually slows down to take a look at him. He gets a surge of self esteem and testosterone. He goes home and writes an immortal song
Here's one for the PB brains trust. When did they start saying 'route' to rhyme with 'pout' in the States? It rhymes it with ''root' in the Chuck Berry song. I find it really jarring when I hear it pronounced the 'pout' way. Is it a fairly recent variation or is it one of those things that's actually proper Old English, or something?
And vee-hicle.
Some Americans do pronounce it as "root" even today, but they still rhyme router with pouter.
In the UK, of course, a router is "rooter" if you're talking about computer networks, but rhymes with pouter if you're talking about woodworking.
(The woodworking aspect makes me suspect that it's the 'pout' pronunciation that is the more traditional...)
It's a bit disappointing that we have to wait so long for the London results. Saturday morning someone said?
Outlying ballot boxes issues, the ones from Harold Wood take many hours to arrive for example
Do it the German way. The polling station shuts, and the last shift of the polling station does the counting on site. Usually done and dusted between 30 and 60 minutes and the results are sent in electronically (previously by phone). Only then are the ballot papers are sent to a local electoral centre, where some random checking and checking of surprising results or very close results over the next few days.
It means that there are good reliable results available very quickly even if some of the fine tuning takes a couple of days.
Pretty much every country in the world counts like this apart from the UK and Ireland AFAIK. But you don't get the drama of constituency declarations.
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
America also has a big advantage for the road movie genre. You rarely see road movies set in the UK. You can get to the other end of the country quite easily. There's no real jeopardy about it. I remember one in which someone needed to get from London to Glasgow in 48 hours to claim an inheritance. It was very hard at any point to envisage him not doing so.
As it was put to me, Americans think nothing of driving five hours to pick up a taco.
I think that was originally Bill Bryson? Who by comparison said that Londoners will barely deign to cross the river.
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
You are misremembering.
GdN has been a shithole for as long as I've been going there although now in fact the brasseries opposite the station look rather attractive. Elsewhere people face down on the "bare sidewalk" (as opposed to...)? So what - happens all the time everywhere. One guy blotto for whatever reason and the city is falling apart is the thesis? Not 100% sure about that.
I was prepared to admit I’d got it wrong - or at least exaggerated - when I disembarked at Gare du Montparnasse
Soon as we crossed the Seine, nope, I was right. Besides the spectator agrees with me and that magazine is famously correct about everything
And I speak as the reincarnation of Napoleon and as the Jay Rayner of Place
In fact Napoleon was more a prior incarnation of me, really
Impressive the way you get away with using PB to promote yourself, your employer and the people who pay for your travel. If you want to do this you need to stop thinly-veiling your identity (which fools nobody) and declare your financial interest when you are doing PR for Brittany for example.
1. I’ve no idea what you’re talking about
And
2. Go jump in a lake. The only moderators on here are @TSE and @rcs1000. I will take instructions from them, it’s their site. But not from you
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
You are misremembering.
GdN has been a shithole for as long as I've been going there although now in fact the brasseries opposite the station look rather attractive. Elsewhere people face down on the "bare sidewalk" (as opposed to...)? So what - happens all the time everywhere. One guy blotto for whatever reason and the city is falling apart is the thesis? Not 100% sure about that.
I was prepared to admit I’d got it wrong - or at least exaggerated - when I disembarked at Gare du Montparnasse
Soon as we crossed the Seine, nope, I was right. Besides the spectator agrees with me and that magazine is famously correct about everything
And I speak as the reincarnation of Napoleon and as the Jay Rayner of Place
In fact Napoleon was more a prior incarnation of me, really
Impressive the way you get away with using PB to promote yourself, your employer and the people who pay for your travel. If you want to do this you need to stop thinly-veiling your identity (which fools nobody) and declare your financial interest when you are doing PR for Brittany for example.
He's mentioned several times that he's on a jolly paid for by French taxpayers, in an attempt to provoke envy, and part of the reason a lot of us use pseudonyms is not so much to hide our identities from each other - there have been lots of PB get togethers - but to avoid our contributions to PB being tied to our identities with a simple Google search.
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
"I never thought it would happen with me & the girl from Clapham..."
I think the UK has decent songwriting scope. You have the Scottish Highlands, London, (think Baker Street, Waterloo Sunset). Sadly Wales and Cornwall haven't been successfully mined for pop songs.
London has a lot of songs. Including one of the most beautiful songs ever written:
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
I reckon the Tori Amos version from Good Omens is particularly fine
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
"I never thought it would happen with me & the girl from Clapham..."
I think the UK has decent songwriting scope. You have the Scottish Highlands, London, (think Baker Street, Waterloo Sunset). Sadly Wales and Cornwall haven't been successfully mined for pop songs.
London has a lot of songs. Including one of the most beautiful songs ever written:
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
I reckon the Tori Amos version from Good Omens is particularly fine
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
"I never thought it would happen with me & the girl from Clapham..."
I think the UK has decent songwriting scope. You have the Scottish Highlands, London, (think Baker Street, Waterloo Sunset). Sadly Wales and Cornwall haven't been successfully mined for pop songs.
London has a lot of songs. Including one of the most beautiful songs ever written:
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
I reckon the Tori Amos version from Good Omens is particularly fine
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
"I never thought it would happen with me & the girl from Clapham..."
I think the UK has decent songwriting scope. You have the Scottish Highlands, London, (think Baker Street, Waterloo Sunset). Sadly Wales and Cornwall haven't been successfully mined for pop songs.
London has a lot of songs. Including one of the most beautiful songs ever written:
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
I reckon the Tori Amos version from Good Omens is particularly fine
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
"I never thought it would happen with me & the girl from Clapham..."
I think the UK has decent songwriting scope. You have the Scottish Highlands, London, (think Baker Street, Waterloo Sunset). Sadly Wales and Cornwall haven't been successfully mined for pop songs.
London has a lot of songs. Including one of the most beautiful songs ever written:
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
I reckon the Tori Amos version from Good Omens is particularly fine
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
"I never thought it would happen with me & the girl from Clapham..."
I think the UK has decent songwriting scope. You have the Scottish Highlands, London, (think Baker Street, Waterloo Sunset). Sadly Wales and Cornwall haven't been successfully mined for pop songs.
London has a lot of songs. Including one of the most beautiful songs ever written:
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
I reckon the Tori Amos version from Good Omens is particularly fine
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
America also has a big advantage for the road movie genre. You rarely see road movies set in the UK. You can get to the other end of the country quite easily. There's no real jeopardy about it. I remember one in which someone needed to get from London to Glasgow in 48 hours to claim an inheritance. It was very hard at any point to envisage him not doing so.
I didn't see that one but my initial thought is he or she could have just got the train. However if you were stony broke, had no vehicle of your own, and still had to do it ... ok now you might have a story.
There's a vaguely amusing Netflix film about a Dad undertaking a cross-Britain road trip to click-and-collect the last must-have Christmas gift in the country.
The constrained size of the country does force a certain degree of slapstick misfortune to lengthen the duration of the journey.
That sounds like the sort of film where "vaguely amusing" means they've pretty much pulled it off.
I'm trying to avoid hyperbole. "Vaguely amusing" is a passing grade.
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
America also has a big advantage for the road movie genre. You rarely see road movies set in the UK. You can get to the other end of the country quite easily. There's no real jeopardy about it. I remember one in which someone needed to get from London to Glasgow in 48 hours to claim an inheritance. It was very hard at any point to envisage him not doing so.
I didn't see that one but my initial thought is he or she could have just got the train. However if you were stony broke, had no vehicle of your own, and still had to do it ... ok now you might have a story.
The scriptwriter had to jump through quite a few hoops, as far as I remember. He didn't have enough money for a train ticket, nor any means to borrow money against this inheritance he was about to come into, but he had access to an unreliable car with some petrol in it. It did make sense, but it had a feeling of being highly contrived. I think he made it, but in the end the amount of money he made from it being really quite modest for some reason, but actually what he got out of it was being reunited with his family, or something. I have a feeling the ending was actually quite well done. It had a feeling of something starring John Gordon Sinclair, even if it wasn't. There was a scene where he hitchhiked a hilariously short distance and another one involving hoovering the moors. That's all I can recall.
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
"I never thought it would happen with me & the girl from Clapham..."
I think the UK has decent songwriting scope. You have the Scottish Highlands, London, (think Baker Street, Waterloo Sunset). Sadly Wales and Cornwall haven't been successfully mined for pop songs.
London has a lot of songs. Including one of the most beautiful songs ever written:
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
I reckon the Tori Amos version from Good Omens is particularly fine
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
"I never thought it would happen with me & the girl from Clapham..."
I think the UK has decent songwriting scope. You have the Scottish Highlands, London, (think Baker Street, Waterloo Sunset). Sadly Wales and Cornwall haven't been successfully mined for pop songs.
London has a lot of songs. Including one of the most beautiful songs ever written:
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
I reckon the Tori Amos version from Good Omens is particularly fine
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
"I never thought it would happen with me & the girl from Clapham..."
I think the UK has decent songwriting scope. You have the Scottish Highlands, London, (think Baker Street, Waterloo Sunset). Sadly Wales and Cornwall haven't been successfully mined for pop songs.
London has a lot of songs. Including one of the most beautiful songs ever written:
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
I reckon the Tori Amos version from Good Omens is particularly fine
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
"I never thought it would happen with me & the girl from Clapham..."
I think the UK has decent songwriting scope. You have the Scottish Highlands, London, (think Baker Street, Waterloo Sunset). Sadly Wales and Cornwall haven't been successfully mined for pop songs.
London has a lot of songs. Including one of the most beautiful songs ever written:
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
I reckon the Tori Amos version from Good Omens is particularly fine
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
America also has a big advantage for the road movie genre. You rarely see road movies set in the UK. You can get to the other end of the country quite easily. There's no real jeopardy about it. I remember one in which someone needed to get from London to Glasgow in 48 hours to claim an inheritance. It was very hard at any point to envisage him not doing so.
As it was put to me, Americans think nothing of driving five hours to pick up a taco.
I think that was originally Bill Bryson? Who by comparison said that Londoners will barely deign to cross the river.
I grew up in South London. We only ever crossed the river: 1. For Kings Cross to visit Granny in Peterborough. 2. For Oxford Street (but no more than a couple of times a year). 3. On an organised school trip to the museums in South Kensington.
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
You are misremembering.
GdN has been a shithole for as long as I've been going there although now in fact the brasseries opposite the station look rather attractive. Elsewhere people face down on the "bare sidewalk" (as opposed to...)? So what - happens all the time everywhere. One guy blotto for whatever reason and the city is falling apart is the thesis? Not 100% sure about that.
I was prepared to admit I’d got it wrong - or at least exaggerated - when I disembarked at Gare du Montparnasse
Soon as we crossed the Seine, nope, I was right. Besides the spectator agrees with me and that magazine is famously correct about everything
And I speak as the reincarnation of Napoleon and as the Jay Rayner of Place
In fact Napoleon was more a prior incarnation of me, really
Impressive the way you get away with using PB to promote yourself, your employer and the people who pay for your travel. If you want to do this you need to stop thinly-veiling your identity (which fools nobody) and declare your financial interest when you are doing PR for Brittany for example.
1. I’ve no idea what you’re talking about
And
2. Go jump in a lake. The only moderators on here are @TSE and @rcs1000. I will take instructions from them, it’s their site. But not from you
And
3. Your post hasn't wound me up at all. No not one little bit. I'm completely ignoring it. Totally.
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
"I never thought it would happen with me & the girl from Clapham..."
I think the UK has decent songwriting scope. You have the Scottish Highlands, London, (think Baker Street, Waterloo Sunset). Sadly Wales and Cornwall haven't been successfully mined for pop songs.
London has a lot of songs. Including one of the most beautiful songs ever written:
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
I reckon the Tori Amos version from Good Omens is particularly fine
Unless Berkely Square was covered in thick scrub at the time, it was unlikely to be a nightingale. Probably a robin, if at night.
I have also been to Wilmslow, Arizona. Seen the aforementioned corner.
Also got to see the song sung live, in Hyde Park. Quite joyous. (Also Life's Been Good performed by Joe Walsh. Another of the Holy Songs...)
One of the most poetic things that has ever happened to me in london is this: about ten years ago I was with my then 8 year old daughter, the eldest - she was still at the age when she could see wondrous things eveywhere
Anyway we were on the edge of Hampstead Heath on one soft summer dusk and I looked up and saw Mars and Venus (or two planets anyway) shining so brightly - like a miraculous UFO - and I pointed it out and we both gazed up through the trees and at that moment a nightingale burst into song. True story. So they do occasionally appear in bosky corners of london. And of course Hampstead Heath - Keats grove - is where John Keats heard his nightingale - inspiring this poem
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness,— That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.…
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
America also has a big advantage for the road movie genre. You rarely see road movies set in the UK. You can get to the other end of the country quite easily. There's no real jeopardy about it. I remember one in which someone needed to get from London to Glasgow in 48 hours to claim an inheritance. It was very hard at any point to envisage him not doing so.
I didn't see that one but my initial thought is he or she could have just got the train. However if you were stony broke, had no vehicle of your own, and still had to do it ... ok now you might have a story.
The scriptwriter had to jump through quite a few hoops, as far as I remember. He didn't have enough money for a train ticket, nor any means to borrow money against this inheritance he was about to come into, but he had access to an unreliable car with some petrol in it. It did make sense, but it had a feeling of being highly contrived. I think he made it, but in the end the amount of money he made from it being really quite modest for some reason, but actually what he got out of it was being reunited with his family, or something. I have a feeling the ending was actually quite well done. It had a feeling of something starring John Gordon Sinclair, even if it wasn't. There was a scene where he hitchhiked a hilariously short distance and another one involving hoovering the moors. That's all I can recall.
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
You are misremembering.
GdN has been a shithole for as long as I've been going there although now in fact the brasseries opposite the station look rather attractive. Elsewhere people face down on the "bare sidewalk" (as opposed to...)? So what - happens all the time everywhere. One guy blotto for whatever reason and the city is falling apart is the thesis? Not 100% sure about that.
I was prepared to admit I’d got it wrong - or at least exaggerated - when I disembarked at Gare du Montparnasse
Soon as we crossed the Seine, nope, I was right. Besides the spectator agrees with me and that magazine is famously correct about everything
And I speak as the reincarnation of Napoleon and as the Jay Rayner of Place
In fact Napoleon was more a prior incarnation of me, really
Impressive the way you get away with using PB to promote yourself, your employer and the people who pay for your travel. If you want to do this you need to stop thinly-veiling your identity (which fools nobody) and declare your financial interest when you are doing PR for Brittany for example.
1. I’ve no idea what you’re talking about
And
2. Go jump in a lake. The only moderators on here are @TSE and @rcs1000. I will take instructions from them, it’s their site. But not from you
Likewise I can comment as I see fit. I believe you abuse their hospitality but, I agree, that is up to them not me.
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
America also has a big advantage for the road movie genre. You rarely see road movies set in the UK. You can get to the other end of the country quite easily. There's no real jeopardy about it. I remember one in which someone needed to get from London to Glasgow in 48 hours to claim an inheritance. It was very hard at any point to envisage him not doing so.
I didn't see that one but my initial thought is he or she could have just got the train. However if you were stony broke, had no vehicle of your own, and still had to do it ... ok now you might have a story.
The scriptwriter had to jump through quite a few hoops, as far as I remember. He didn't have enough money for a train ticket, nor any means to borrow money against this inheritance he was about to come into, but he had access to an unreliable car with some petrol in it. It did make sense, but it had a feeling of being highly contrived. I think he made it, but in the end the amount of money he made from it being really quite modest for some reason, but actually what he got out of it was being reunited with his family, or something. I have a feeling the ending was actually quite well done. It had a feeling of something starring John Gordon Sinclair, even if it wasn't. There was a scene where he hitchhiked a hilariously short distance and another one involving hoovering the moors. That's all I can recall.
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
"I never thought it would happen with me & the girl from Clapham..."
I think the UK has decent songwriting scope. You have the Scottish Highlands, London, (think Baker Street, Waterloo Sunset). Sadly Wales and Cornwall haven't been successfully mined for pop songs.
London has a lot of songs. Including one of the most beautiful songs ever written:
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
I reckon the Tori Amos version from Good Omens is particularly fine
There was nobody to be seen on the premises except for the polling station staff, so one could not describe it as 'brisk'.
I was asked to follow the Covid procedures and directed to leave by a different door. It seems not everyone is over that yet. Or perhaps they'd had nothing to do for the past half hour.
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
You are misremembering.
GdN has been a shithole for as long as I've been going there although now in fact the brasseries opposite the station look rather attractive. Elsewhere people face down on the "bare sidewalk" (as opposed to...)? So what - happens all the time everywhere. One guy blotto for whatever reason and the city is falling apart is the thesis? Not 100% sure about that.
I was prepared to admit I’d got it wrong - or at least exaggerated - when I disembarked at Gare du Montparnasse
Soon as we crossed the Seine, nope, I was right. Besides the spectator agrees with me and that magazine is famously correct about everything
And I speak as the reincarnation of Napoleon and as the Jay Rayner of Place
In fact Napoleon was more a prior incarnation of me, really
Impressive the way you get away with using PB to promote yourself, your employer and the people who pay for your travel. If you want to do this you need to stop thinly-veiling your identity (which fools nobody) and declare your financial interest when you are doing PR for Brittany for example.
1. I’ve no idea what you’re talking about
And
2. Go jump in a lake. The only moderators on here are @TSE and @rcs1000. I will take instructions from them, it’s their site. But not from you
And
3. Your post hasn't wound me up at all. No not one little bit. I'm completely ignoring it. Totally.
Olly has a point. Anonymity and self-promotion; you can reasonably have one or the other. Trying to have both is having a laugh.
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
You are misremembering.
GdN has been a shithole for as long as I've been going there although now in fact the brasseries opposite the station look rather attractive. Elsewhere people face down on the "bare sidewalk" (as opposed to...)? So what - happens all the time everywhere. One guy blotto for whatever reason and the city is falling apart is the thesis? Not 100% sure about that.
I was prepared to admit I’d got it wrong - or at least exaggerated - when I disembarked at Gare du Montparnasse
Soon as we crossed the Seine, nope, I was right. Besides the spectator agrees with me and that magazine is famously correct about everything
And I speak as the reincarnation of Napoleon and as the Jay Rayner of Place
In fact Napoleon was more a prior incarnation of me, really
Impressive the way you get away with using PB to promote yourself, your employer and the people who pay for your travel. If you want to do this you need to stop thinly-veiling your identity (which fools nobody) and perhaps it would be fairer if you made it very clear when you have a financial interest in promoting a travel destination.
I don't know the traffic on here, but I can't help feeling that there are more cost-effective ways of promoting your trade than making numerous below-the-line comments on a politics blog. i.e. it doesn't really feel like marketing.
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
"I never thought it would happen with me & the girl from Clapham..."
I think the UK has decent songwriting scope. You have the Scottish Highlands, London, (think Baker Street, Waterloo Sunset). Sadly Wales and Cornwall haven't been successfully mined for pop songs.
London has a lot of songs. Including one of the most beautiful songs ever written:
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
I reckon the Tori Amos version from Good Omens is particularly fine
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
"I never thought it would happen with me & the girl from Clapham..."
I think the UK has decent songwriting scope. You have the Scottish Highlands, London, (think Baker Street, Waterloo Sunset). Sadly Wales and Cornwall haven't been successfully mined for pop songs.
London has a lot of songs. Including one of the most beautiful songs ever written:
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
I reckon the Tori Amos version from Good Omens is particularly fine
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
"I never thought it would happen with me & the girl from Clapham..."
I think the UK has decent songwriting scope. You have the Scottish Highlands, London, (think Baker Street, Waterloo Sunset). Sadly Wales and Cornwall haven't been successfully mined for pop songs.
London has a lot of songs. Including one of the most beautiful songs ever written:
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
I reckon the Tori Amos version from Good Omens is particularly fine
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
You are misremembering.
GdN has been a shithole for as long as I've been going there although now in fact the brasseries opposite the station look rather attractive. Elsewhere people face down on the "bare sidewalk" (as opposed to...)? So what - happens all the time everywhere. One guy blotto for whatever reason and the city is falling apart is the thesis? Not 100% sure about that.
I was prepared to admit I’d got it wrong - or at least exaggerated - when I disembarked at Gare du Montparnasse
Soon as we crossed the Seine, nope, I was right. Besides the spectator agrees with me and that magazine is famously correct about everything
And I speak as the reincarnation of Napoleon and as the Jay Rayner of Place
In fact Napoleon was more a prior incarnation of me, really
Impressive the way you get away with using PB to promote yourself, your employer and the people who pay for your travel. If you want to do this you need to stop thinly-veiling your identity (which fools nobody) and declare your financial interest when you are doing PR for Brittany for example.
1. I’ve no idea what you’re talking about
And
2. Go jump in a lake. The only moderators on here are @TSE and @rcs1000. I will take instructions from them, it’s their site. But not from you
And
3. Your post hasn't wound me up at all. No not one little bit. I'm completely ignoring it. Totally.
Olly has a point. Anonymity and self-promotion; you can reasonably have one or the other. Trying to have both is having a laugh.
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
You are misremembering.
GdN has been a shithole for as long as I've been going there although now in fact the brasseries opposite the station look rather attractive. Elsewhere people face down on the "bare sidewalk" (as opposed to...)? So what - happens all the time everywhere. One guy blotto for whatever reason and the city is falling apart is the thesis? Not 100% sure about that.
I was prepared to admit I’d got it wrong - or at least exaggerated - when I disembarked at Gare du Montparnasse
Soon as we crossed the Seine, nope, I was right. Besides the spectator agrees with me and that magazine is famously correct about everything
And I speak as the reincarnation of Napoleon and as the Jay Rayner of Place
In fact Napoleon was more a prior incarnation of me, really
Impressive the way you get away with using PB to promote yourself, your employer and the people who pay for your travel. If you want to do this you need to stop thinly-veiling your identity (which fools nobody) and declare your financial interest when you are doing PR for Brittany for example.
1. I’ve no idea what you’re talking about
And
2. Go jump in a lake. The only moderators on here are @TSE and @rcs1000. I will take instructions from them, it’s their site. But not from you
Likewise I can comment as I see fit. I believe you abuse their hospitality but, I agree, that is up to them not me.
Then we are of one mind, and there is no need for foul discord
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
"I never thought it would happen with me & the girl from Clapham..."
I think the UK has decent songwriting scope. You have the Scottish Highlands, London, (think Baker Street, Waterloo Sunset). Sadly Wales and Cornwall haven't been successfully mined for pop songs.
London has a lot of songs. Including one of the most beautiful songs ever written:
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
I reckon the Tori Amos version from Good Omens is particularly fine
There was nobody to be seen on the premises except for the polling station staff, so one could not describe it as 'brisk'.
I was asked to follow the Covid procedures and directed to leave by a different door. It seems not everyone is over that yet. Or perhaps they'd had nothing to do for the past half hour.
I was going to vote for Kim McGuinness but her twitter feed was full of her arse licking Jamie Oliver for likes and retweets over his demands for so called junk food advertising bans, while ignoring voters questions.
She will probably win anyway. But if she cannot be bothered with electors while she is running for office what will she be like in office. Screw her.
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
"I never thought it would happen with me & the girl from Clapham..."
I think the UK has decent songwriting scope. You have the Scottish Highlands, London, (think Baker Street, Waterloo Sunset). Sadly Wales and Cornwall haven't been successfully mined for pop songs.
London has a lot of songs. Including one of the most beautiful songs ever written:
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
I reckon the Tori Amos version from Good Omens is particularly fine
There was nobody to be seen on the premises except for the polling station staff, so one could not describe it as 'brisk'.
I was asked to follow the Covid procedures and directed to leave by a different door. It seems not everyone is over that yet. Or perhaps they'd had nothing to do for the past half hour.
I was going to vote for Kim McGuinness but her twitter feed was full of her arse licking Jamie Oliver for likes and retweets over his demands for so called junk food advertising bans, while ignoring voters questions.
She will probably win anyway. But if she cannot be bothered with electors while she is running for office what will she be like in office. Screw her.
This is the latest PPB from a "lifelong Labour voter" telling us yet again why he won't be voting Labour.
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
"I never thought it would happen with me & the girl from Clapham..."
I think the UK has decent songwriting scope. You have the Scottish Highlands, London, (think Baker Street, Waterloo Sunset). Sadly Wales and Cornwall haven't been successfully mined for pop songs.
London has a lot of songs. Including one of the most beautiful songs ever written:
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
I reckon the Tori Amos version from Good Omens is particularly fine
And how long do they think Republicans will "leave it to the states" to decide on the question ?
Visual on public attitudes about abortion across all 50 states. @PRRIpoll : "nearly two-thirds (64%) of residents in battleground states (Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin) say that abortion should be legal in all or most cases." https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1786033705477341641
The one advantage to Paris being a windswept, violent grey toilet - as described in that exceptional spectator article - is that returning to london via Eurostar now feels like a relief rather than a potential disappointment
The one advantage to Paris being a windswept, violent grey toilet - as described in that exceptional spectator article - is that returning to london via Eurostar now feels like a relief rather than a potential disappointment
Did you head to Versailles ?
Should provide a magnificent backdrop to the dancing horses in the Olympics.
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
"I never thought it would happen with me & the girl from Clapham..."
I think the UK has decent songwriting scope. You have the Scottish Highlands, London, (think Baker Street, Waterloo Sunset). Sadly Wales and Cornwall haven't been successfully mined for pop songs.
London has a lot of songs. Including one of the most beautiful songs ever written:
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
I reckon the Tori Amos version from Good Omens is particularly fine
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
You are misremembering.
GdN has been a shithole for as long as I've been going there although now in fact the brasseries opposite the station look rather attractive. Elsewhere people face down on the "bare sidewalk" (as opposed to...)? So what - happens all the time everywhere. One guy blotto for whatever reason and the city is falling apart is the thesis? Not 100% sure about that.
I was prepared to admit I’d got it wrong - or at least exaggerated - when I disembarked at Gare du Montparnasse
Soon as we crossed the Seine, nope, I was right. Besides the spectator agrees with me and that magazine is famously correct about everything
And I speak as the reincarnation of Napoleon and as the Jay Rayner of Place
In fact Napoleon was more a prior incarnation of me, really
Impressive the way you get away with using PB to promote yourself, your employer and the people who pay for your travel. If you want to do this you need to stop thinly-veiling your identity (which fools nobody) and perhaps it would be fairer if you made it very clear when you have a financial interest in promoting a travel destination.
I don't know the traffic on here, but I can't help feeling that there are more cost-effective ways of promoting your trade than making numerous below-the-line comments on a politics blog. i.e. it doesn't really feel like marketing.
Actually he very generously provides something of a service, for the majority of us who have no interest in subscribing to the publication, but have an occasional fleeting interest in what it's currently obsessing over.
There was nobody to be seen on the premises except for the polling station staff, so one could not describe it as 'brisk'.
I was asked to follow the Covid procedures and directed to leave by a different door. It seems not everyone is over that yet. Or perhaps they'd had nothing to do for the past half hour.
I was going to vote for Kim McGuinness but her twitter feed was full of her arse licking Jamie Oliver for likes and retweets over his demands for so called junk food advertising bans, while ignoring voters questions.
She will probably win anyway. But if she cannot be bothered with electors while she is running for office what will she be like in office. Screw her.
As Andy Burnham somehow seems to have worked out, regional mayoral jobs are not terribly party political and are mostly about cheerleading rather than virtue signalling.
More H'Angus the Monkeys required I think.
Turnout hovering around 20% here is my guess. It was 26% in 2022.
I have actually been to that corner in “Winslow Arizona”. It’s on the historic Route 66
Quite nondescript in reality but that’s the point of the song. Something epiphanic happening in an anonymous place
He is desired by an attractive young woman who actually slows down to take a look at him. He gets a surge of self esteem and testosterone. He goes home and writes an immortal song
The song doesn't say she's attractive. It just says "such a fine sight to see" in relation to a girl of unspecified age or appearance driving a Ford motor vehicle.
The use of the word “girl” suggests, at least, that he wasn’t ogled by an old woman in a motabilty scooter, as the female in question has to “slow down” to look at him
If it was a quasi disabled woman of pensionable age the song would surely have gone
“There’s a crone, my Lord, in a motability scooter Slowing down EVEN MORE to take a look at me, perhaps she’s noticed my outsize hooter”
And that wouldn’t be anywhere near as good; indeed I suspect the writer wouid have struck those lines from his lyrics and then abandoned writing the whole song and probably gone into insurance as a career
Possibly right. Although the problem with those alternative words is more that they no longer fit the tune.
My serious point? The risks of projecting. Of seeing only what you want to see. Of assuming the obvious interpretation of a song's lyrics is the right one.
Eg Stay Another Day by East17. It's clearly about a guy pleading with a romantic partner not to dump him, right? NO. It's about somebody dying of a terminal disease.
Or Clair by Gilbert O'Sullivan. That's about infatuation with a girl, yes, but not in the usual hackneyed sense. He's talking about a toddler.
100 years ago, Abide With Me was adopted as the FA Cup Final hymn but rather than football, it is about dying from TB.
52% don't want refugees from Islamic countries; 54% fear Germans becoming a minority; 57% say certain homeland areas no longer feel like Germany; 58% say migrants not integrated; 75% say migration overwhelms schools.
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
"I never thought it would happen with me & the girl from Clapham..."
I think the UK has decent songwriting scope. You have the Scottish Highlands, London, (think Baker Street, Waterloo Sunset). Sadly Wales and Cornwall haven't been successfully mined for pop songs.
London has a lot of songs. Including one of the most beautiful songs ever written:
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
I reckon the Tori Amos version from Good Omens is particularly fine
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
"I never thought it would happen with me & the girl from Clapham..."
I think the UK has decent songwriting scope. You have the Scottish Highlands, London, (think Baker Street, Waterloo Sunset). Sadly Wales and Cornwall haven't been successfully mined for pop songs.
London has a lot of songs. Including one of the most beautiful songs ever written:
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
I reckon the Tori Amos version from Good Omens is particularly fine
I mean The Clash have about a million songs about London including, er, London Calling and also Guns of Brixton, London's Burning, White Man in Hammersmith Palais, etc.
Virtually their entire oeuvre is an homage to London.
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
You are misremembering.
GdN has been a shithole for as long as I've been going there although now in fact the brasseries opposite the station look rather attractive. Elsewhere people face down on the "bare sidewalk" (as opposed to...)? So what - happens all the time everywhere. One guy blotto for whatever reason and the city is falling apart is the thesis? Not 100% sure about that.
I was prepared to admit I’d got it wrong - or at least exaggerated - when I disembarked at Gare du Montparnasse
Soon as we crossed the Seine, nope, I was right. Besides the spectator agrees with me and that magazine is famously correct about everything
And I speak as the reincarnation of Napoleon and as the Jay Rayner of Place
In fact Napoleon was more a prior incarnation of me, really
Impressive the way you get away with using PB to promote yourself, your employer and the people who pay for your travel. If you want to do this you need to stop thinly-veiling your identity (which fools nobody) and declare your financial interest when you are doing PR for Brittany for example.
He's mentioned several times that he's on a jolly paid for by French taxpayers, in an attempt to provoke envy, and part of the reason a lot of us use pseudonyms is not so much to hide our identities from each other - there have been lots of PB get togethers - but to avoid our contributions to PB being tied to our identities with a simple Google search.
If he wants 'envy', then frankly he's failing. A healthy amount of LOLing and boredom, yes. But envy? No; at least from this direction.
I wouldn't swap my lifestyle for Leon's for a million pounds. If he's happy doing what he's doing; cool. But his constant LOOK AT MEEEEEE!!!! posting on here sorta indicates he's not that happy.
What Leon is good at doing is sparking debate, for good or ill. Except when it's the same boring topics that he obsesses on, despite having zero knowledge about them...
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
You are misremembering.
GdN has been a shithole for as long as I've been going there although now in fact the brasseries opposite the station look rather attractive. Elsewhere people face down on the "bare sidewalk" (as opposed to...)? So what - happens all the time everywhere. One guy blotto for whatever reason and the city is falling apart is the thesis? Not 100% sure about that.
I was prepared to admit I’d got it wrong - or at least exaggerated - when I disembarked at Gare du Montparnasse
Soon as we crossed the Seine, nope, I was right. Besides the spectator agrees with me and that magazine is famously correct about everything
And I speak as the reincarnation of Napoleon and as the Jay Rayner of Place
In fact Napoleon was more a prior incarnation of me, really
Impressive the way you get away with using PB to promote yourself, your employer and the people who pay for your travel. If you want to do this you need to stop thinly-veiling your identity (which fools nobody) and perhaps it would be fairer if you made it very clear when you have a financial interest in promoting a travel destination.
I don't know the traffic on here, but I can't help feeling that there are more cost-effective ways of promoting your trade than making numerous below-the-line comments on a politics blog. i.e. it doesn't really feel like marketing.
I didn't suggest that it was effective, I was merely criticising what I believe he uses the site for.
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
"I never thought it would happen with me & the girl from Clapham..."
I think the UK has decent songwriting scope. You have the Scottish Highlands, London, (think Baker Street, Waterloo Sunset). Sadly Wales and Cornwall haven't been successfully mined for pop songs.
London has a lot of songs. Including one of the most beautiful songs ever written:
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
I reckon the Tori Amos version from Good Omens is particularly fine
The one advantage to Paris being a windswept, violent grey toilet - as described in that exceptional spectator article - is that returning to london via Eurostar now feels like a relief rather than a potential disappointment
Did you head to Versailles ?
Should provide a magnificent backdrop to the dancing horses in the Olympics.
I never want to go back to Versailles because i don’t want to taint a memory because the last and only time I was there as an adult was in the early 1990s and it was a cold rainy winter afternoon and I took Ecstasy with a friend and wowwwwww I remember thinking Even the Sun King didn’t experience this and it was amazing amazing all the lights and the rain and the car lights and the rain and the endless beautiful palace and the light and the rain and the lights and the rain and the lights reflected in the rain and the cars the cars all their yellow lights all reflected in the rain the rain and the cold dark rains of beautiful Versailles and I was young and the rain
There was nobody to be seen on the premises except for the polling station staff, so one could not describe it as 'brisk'.
I was asked to follow the Covid procedures and directed to leave by a different door. It seems not everyone is over that yet. Or perhaps they'd had nothing to do for the past half hour.
I was going to vote for Kim McGuinness but her twitter feed was full of her arse licking Jamie Oliver for likes and retweets over his demands for so called junk food advertising bans, while ignoring voters questions.
She will probably win anyway. But if she cannot be bothered with electors while she is running for office what will she be like in office. Screw her.
As Andy Burnham somehow seems to have worked out, regional mayoral jobs are not terribly party political and are mostly about cheerleading rather than virtue signalling.
More H'Angus the Monkeys required I think.
Turnout hovering around 20% here is my guess. It was 26% in 2022.
Ken Livingstone beat him to it. So-called Red Ken made London safe for property developers to forever change the skyline.
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
"I never thought it would happen with me & the girl from Clapham..."
I think the UK has decent songwriting scope. You have the Scottish Highlands, London, (think Baker Street, Waterloo Sunset). Sadly Wales and Cornwall haven't been successfully mined for pop songs.
London has a lot of songs. Including one of the most beautiful songs ever written:
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
I reckon the Tori Amos version from Good Omens is particularly fine
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
You are misremembering.
GdN has been a shithole for as long as I've been going there although now in fact the brasseries opposite the station look rather attractive. Elsewhere people face down on the "bare sidewalk" (as opposed to...)? So what - happens all the time everywhere. One guy blotto for whatever reason and the city is falling apart is the thesis? Not 100% sure about that.
I was prepared to admit I’d got it wrong - or at least exaggerated - when I disembarked at Gare du Montparnasse
Soon as we crossed the Seine, nope, I was right. Besides the spectator agrees with me and that magazine is famously correct about everything
And I speak as the reincarnation of Napoleon and as the Jay Rayner of Place
In fact Napoleon was more a prior incarnation of me, really
Impressive the way you get away with using PB to promote yourself, your employer and the people who pay for your travel. If you want to do this you need to stop thinly-veiling your identity (which fools nobody) and declare your financial interest when you are doing PR for Brittany for example.
1. I’ve no idea what you’re talking about
And
2. Go jump in a lake. The only moderators on here are @TSE and @rcs1000. I will take instructions from them, it’s their site. But not from you
And
3. Your post hasn't wound me up at all. No not one little bit. I'm completely ignoring it. Totally.
Olly has a point. Anonymity and self-promotion; you can reasonably have one or the other. Trying to have both is having a laugh.
Completely agree. Sean wants to have his cake and eat it. Anonymity is fine, alternatively so is promoting his articles. Do both and you have to expect to be doxxed.
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
"I never thought it would happen with me & the girl from Clapham..."
I think the UK has decent songwriting scope. You have the Scottish Highlands, London, (think Baker Street, Waterloo Sunset). Sadly Wales and Cornwall haven't been successfully mined for pop songs.
London has a lot of songs. Including one of the most beautiful songs ever written:
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
I reckon the Tori Amos version from Good Omens is particularly fine
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
"I never thought it would happen with me & the girl from Clapham..."
I think the UK has decent songwriting scope. You have the Scottish Highlands, London, (think Baker Street, Waterloo Sunset). Sadly Wales and Cornwall haven't been successfully mined for pop songs.
London has a lot of songs. Including one of the most beautiful songs ever written:
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
I reckon the Tori Amos version from Good Omens is particularly fine
London also has Waterloo Sunset, which I would contend is also one of the most beautiful songs ever written.
I have a thing about songs written on the vague theme of 'home', even if it's not my own home. See also:
Local Hero Country Road Oblong of Dreams Wichita Lineman
Any others?
Big River by Jimmy Nail (Newcastle)
Two Fingers by Jake Bugg (Nottingham)
Sheffield Sex City by Pulp (er, Sheffield).
California by Joni Mitchell (California)
Or if you want to broaden your horizons Et jitt kei Wood by Cat Ballou (Cologne)
Locals say that Cologne is the city that has the most songs about it in the world. No idea if it's true, but I don't know anywhere else where even immigrants who don't speak the dialect know at least the choruses of dozens of songs about the place.
Grown men cry every time they sing along to:
"Su simmer all he hinjekumme, mir sprechen hück all dieselve Sproch. Mir han dodurch su vill jewonne. Mir sin wie mer sin, mir Jecke am Rhing. Dat es jet ,wo mer stolz drop sin" by Bläck Fööss
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
"I never thought it would happen with me & the girl from Clapham..."
I think the UK has decent songwriting scope. You have the Scottish Highlands, London, (think Baker Street, Waterloo Sunset). Sadly Wales and Cornwall haven't been successfully mined for pop songs.
London has a lot of songs. Including one of the most beautiful songs ever written:
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
I reckon the Tori Amos version from Good Omens is particularly fine
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
"I never thought it would happen with me & the girl from Clapham..."
I think the UK has decent songwriting scope. You have the Scottish Highlands, London, (think Baker Street, Waterloo Sunset). Sadly Wales and Cornwall haven't been successfully mined for pop songs.
London has a lot of songs. Including one of the most beautiful songs ever written:
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
I reckon the Tori Amos version from Good Omens is particularly fine
The one advantage to Paris being a windswept, violent grey toilet - as described in that exceptional spectator article - is that returning to london via Eurostar now feels like a relief rather than a potential disappointment
The fact that you disembark on the correct side of London to catch a train to the north must come as a reassurance.
Gone are the days of being dumped unceremoniously amongst the evils and depravations of Waterloo.
We voted at our village primary school. A couple in front of us an another couple came in behind so voting was steady, I guess.
The school is not closed this time though and one class of 8 year olds was being shown democracy in action - watching respectfully from the side while we voted, the teachers explaining what was happening.
Quite uplifting actually and hopefully will cause a few of them to engage as they grow up.
Interesting….BBC reporting this, though notably their Social Affairs editor and not the LGBT+ Identity editor they had cover Cass:
A 15-year-old child was prescribed dangerous levels of hormones by an unregulated online clinic without speaking to a doctor, a court ruling has revealed.
Now 16, the teenager, known as J, was born female but identifies as a boy and has an autism diagnosis.
J got a prescription for testosterone and puberty blockers from Singapore-registered GenderGP in late 2022.
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
"I never thought it would happen with me & the girl from Clapham..."
I think the UK has decent songwriting scope. You have the Scottish Highlands, London, (think Baker Street, Waterloo Sunset). Sadly Wales and Cornwall haven't been successfully mined for pop songs.
London has a lot of songs. Including one of the most beautiful songs ever written:
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
I reckon the Tori Amos version from Good Omens is particularly fine
London also has Waterloo Sunset, which I would contend is also one of the most beautiful songs ever written.
I have a thing about songs written on the vague theme of 'home', even if it's not my own home. See also:
Local Hero Country Road Oblong of Dreams Wichita Lineman
Any others?
Big River by Jimmy Nail (Newcastle)
Two Fingers by Jake Bugg (Nottingham)
Sheffield Sex City by Pulp (er, Sheffield).
California by Joni Mitchell (California)
Or if you want to broaden your horizons Et jitt kei Wood by Cat Ballou (Cologne)
Locals say that Cologne is the city that has the most songs about it in the world. No idea if it's true, but I don't know anywhere else where even immigrants who don't speak the dialect know at least the choruses of dozens of songs about the place.
Grown men cry every time they sing along to:
"Su simmer all he hinjekumme, mir sprechen hück all dieselve Sproch. Mir han dodurch su vill jewonne. Mir sin wie mer sin, mir Jecke am Rhing. Dat es jet ,wo mer stolz drop sin" by Bläck Fööss
The best German pop song about a place is Bochum by Herbert Grönemeyer
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
"I never thought it would happen with me & the girl from Clapham..."
I think the UK has decent songwriting scope. You have the Scottish Highlands, London, (think Baker Street, Waterloo Sunset). Sadly Wales and Cornwall haven't been successfully mined for pop songs.
London has a lot of songs. Including one of the most beautiful songs ever written:
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
I reckon the Tori Amos version from Good Omens is particularly fine
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
"I never thought it would happen with me & the girl from Clapham..."
I think the UK has decent songwriting scope. You have the Scottish Highlands, London, (think Baker Street, Waterloo Sunset). Sadly Wales and Cornwall haven't been successfully mined for pop songs.
London has a lot of songs. Including one of the most beautiful songs ever written:
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
I reckon the Tori Amos version from Good Omens is particularly fine
London also has Waterloo Sunset, which I would contend is also one of the most beautiful songs ever written.
I have a thing about songs written on the vague theme of 'home', even if it's not my own home. See also:
Local Hero Country Road Oblong of Dreams Wichita Lineman
Any others?
Big River by Jimmy Nail (Newcastle)
Two Fingers by Jake Bugg (Nottingham)
Sheffield Sex City by Pulp (er, Sheffield).
California by Joni Mitchell (California)
Or if you want to broaden your horizons Et jitt kei Wood by Cat Ballou (Cologne)
Locals say that Cologne is the city that has the most songs about it in the world. No idea if it's true, but I don't know anywhere else where even immigrants who don't speak the dialect know at least the choruses of dozens of songs about the place.
Grown men cry every time they sing along to:
"Su simmer all he hinjekumme, mir sprechen hück all dieselve Sproch. Mir han dodurch su vill jewonne. Mir sin wie mer sin, mir Jecke am Rhing. Dat es jet ,wo mer stolz drop sin" by Bläck Fööss
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
"I never thought it would happen with me & the girl from Clapham..."
I think the UK has decent songwriting scope. You have the Scottish Highlands, London, (think Baker Street, Waterloo Sunset). Sadly Wales and Cornwall haven't been successfully mined for pop songs.
London has a lot of songs. Including one of the most beautiful songs ever written:
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
I reckon the Tori Amos version from Good Omens is particularly fine
London also has Waterloo Sunset, which I would contend is also one of the most beautiful songs ever written.
I have a thing about songs written on the vague theme of 'home', even if it's not my own home. See also:
Local Hero Country Road Oblong of Dreams Wichita Lineman
Any others?
Big River by Jimmy Nail (Newcastle)
Two Fingers by Jake Bugg (Nottingham)
Sheffield Sex City by Pulp (er, Sheffield).
California by Joni Mitchell (California)
Or if you want to broaden your horizons Et jitt kei Wood by Cat Ballou (Cologne)
Locals say that Cologne is the city that has the most songs about it in the world. No idea if it's true, but I don't know anywhere else where even immigrants who don't speak the dialect know at least the choruses of dozens of songs about the place.
Grown men cry every time they sing along to:
"Su simmer all he hinjekumme, mir sprechen hück all dieselve Sproch. Mir han dodurch su vill jewonne. Mir sin wie mer sin, mir Jecke am Rhing. Dat es jet ,wo mer stolz drop sin" by Bläck Fööss
Cologne is quite an ugly town (“sorry about that” - the RAF) with a noble cathedral
I’m finding it hard to believe it has the “most songs written about it” of any city in the world
I would guess at New York, with london and Paris not far behind
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
"I never thought it would happen with me & the girl from Clapham..."
I think the UK has decent songwriting scope. You have the Scottish Highlands, London, (think Baker Street, Waterloo Sunset). Sadly Wales and Cornwall haven't been successfully mined for pop songs.
London has a lot of songs. Including one of the most beautiful songs ever written:
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
I reckon the Tori Amos version from Good Omens is particularly fine
Further thoughts on Paris. It really depends where you go. The left bank is generally much better. The 6th and 7th look fine. Even around Gare Montparnasse it looks civilised
It’s as soon as you cross the Seine and it’s anywhere in and around the 1st and 2nd, and of course, the Gare du Nord
I’m about 300m from the Opera and I just saw a guy lying flat out on the bare sidewalk, face down, apparently comatose. Fentanyl or Tranq I presume
You just didn’t see shit like that 20 years ago. Maybe even 5 years ago
It’s particularly noticeable in Paris BECAUSE it was once so pristine - and always beautiful. Now she’s like a model that got beaten up and lost three teeth and potentially an eye
I don't think it would be fent. Even our govt has the good sense to be monitoring the sewage for it and I am sure if the french found it the press would be full of omg le fent en Europe stories
Excellent piece on what the us drug problem looks like in phoenix Arizona (doubly sad because phoenix Arizona features in the most feel good song ever written)
That's more of a feel-melancholy song imo. Also a good example of how the vastness and diversity of America gives them such a songwriting advantage.
By the time I get to Crawley she'll be ... well whatever she'll be doing it doesn't work at all, does it.
America also has a big advantage for the road movie genre. You rarely see road movies set in the UK. You can get to the other end of the country quite easily. There's no real jeopardy about it. I remember one in which someone needed to get from London to Glasgow in 48 hours to claim an inheritance. It was very hard at any point to envisage him not doing so.
As it was put to me, Americans think nothing of driving five hours to pick up a taco.
I think that was originally Bill Bryson? Who by comparison said that Londoners will barely deign to cross the river.
Well, you wouldn’t go South of the river after dark, would you! Essex and proud!
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A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
I reckon the Tori Amos version from Good Omens is particularly fine
https://youtu.be/Q3VchDN_vN8?si=9ej6H9-I65-CQNIZ
https://youtu.be/Eijc2tGe-zM
You can guess that out of the 4 of us I was the only voter for sometime*
* Just the pointless vote for a police commissioner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co2ZVdVM26E
(Actually, there is plenty of joy in British roads. But draw a box which goes roughly Doncaster-Bedford-Colchester-Margate-Portsmouth-Crewe-Doncaster - where the majority of British road journeys take place: almost all joy and drama is outside of this box.)
The constrained size of the country does force a certain degree of slapstick misfortune to lengthen the duration of the journey.
If it was a quasi disabled woman of pensionable age the song would surely have gone
“There’s a crone, my Lord, in a motability scooter
Slowing down EVEN MORE to take a look at me, perhaps she’s noticed my outsize hooter”
And that wouldn’t be anywhere near as good; indeed I suspect the writer wouid have struck those lines from his lyrics and then abandoned writing the whole song and probably gone into insurance as a career
And vee-hicle.
A youthful Sting has a cameo.
I really enjoy the great open road and the sense of frontier in the US. In the UK, it’s only the Scottish Highlands that give a sense of that.
...There are bad times just around the corner,
We can all look forward to despair,
It's as clear as crystal
From Bridlington to Bristol
That we can't save democracy and we don't much care
If the Reds and the Pinks
Believe that England stinks
And that world revolution is bound to spread,
We'd better all learn the lyrics of the old 'Red Flag'
And wait until we drop down dead.
As ever with Coward the full lyrics are very witty and the song is rather jaunty.
My serious point? The risks of projecting. Of seeing only what you want to see. Of assuming the obvious interpretation of a song's lyrics is the right one.
Eg Stay Another Day by East17. It's clearly about a guy pleading with a romantic partner not to dump him, right? NO. It's about somebody dying of a terminal disease.
Or Clair by Gilbert O'Sullivan. That's about infatuation with a girl, yes, but not in the usual hackneyed sense. He's talking about a toddler.
Very funny it was too.
In the UK, of course, a router is "rooter" if you're talking about computer networks, but rhymes with pouter if you're talking about woodworking.
(The woodworking aspect makes me suspect that it's the 'pout' pronunciation that is the more traditional...)
And
2. Go jump in a lake. The only moderators on here are @TSE and @rcs1000. I will take instructions from them, it’s their site. But not from you
I have also been to Wilmslow, Arizona. Seen the aforementioned corner.
Also got to see the song sung live, in Hyde Park. Quite joyous. (Also Life's Been Good performed by Joe Walsh. Another of the Holy Songs...)
I have a thing about songs written on the vague theme of 'home', even if it's not my own home. See also:
Local Hero
Country Road
Oblong of Dreams
Wichita Lineman
Any others?
I think he made it, but in the end the amount of money he made from it being really quite modest for some reason, but actually what he got out of it was being reunited with his family, or something. I have a feeling the ending was actually quite well done. It had a feeling of something starring John Gordon Sinclair, even if it wasn't. There was a scene where he hitchhiked a hilariously short distance and another one involving hoovering the moors.
That's all I can recall.
Two Fingers by Jake Bugg (Nottingham)
Sheffield Sex City by Pulp (er, Sheffield).
1. For Kings Cross to visit Granny in Peterborough.
2. For Oxford Street (but no more than a couple of times a year).
3. On an organised school trip to the museums in South Kensington.
3. Your post hasn't wound me up at all. No not one little bit. I'm completely ignoring it. Totally.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045808/
(edit)
Also a young Peter Capaldi in Soft Top Hard Shoulder.
Anyway we were on the edge of Hampstead Heath on one soft summer dusk and I looked up and saw Mars and Venus (or two planets anyway) shining so brightly - like a miraculous UFO - and I pointed it out and we both gazed up through the trees and at that moment a nightingale burst into song. True story. So they do occasionally appear in bosky corners of london. And of course Hampstead Heath - Keats grove - is where John Keats heard his nightingale - inspiring this poem
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:
'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot,
But being too happy in thine happiness,—
That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees
In some melodious plot
Of beechen green, and shadows numberless,
Singest of summer in full-throated ease.…
There was nobody to be seen on the premises except for the polling station staff, so one could not describe it as 'brisk'.
I was asked to follow the Covid procedures and directed to leave by a different door. It seems not everyone is over that yet. Or perhaps they'd had nothing to do for the past half hour.
i.e. it doesn't really feel like marketing.
She will probably win anyway. But if she cannot be bothered with electors while she is running for office what will she be like in office. Screw her.
Apparently "it's a girl my Lord in a" Datsun pickup didn't scan as well as " it's a girl my Lord in a flatbed Ford".
Funny old world.
Weirdly obsessed.
Visual on public attitudes about abortion across all 50 states.
@PRRIpoll : "nearly two-thirds (64%) of residents in battleground states (Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin) say that abortion should be legal in all or most cases."
https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1786033705477341641
63% in Florida.
Full details here:
https://www.prri.org/research/abortion-views-in-all-50-states-findings-from-prris-2023-american-values-atlas/
Should provide a magnificent backdrop to the dancing horses in the Olympics.
I forgot “Locke”. Excellent film.
More H'Angus the Monkeys required I think.
Turnout hovering around 20% here is my guess. It was 26% in 2022.
New German migration poll:
52% don't want refugees from Islamic countries;
54% fear Germans becoming a minority;
57% say certain homeland areas no longer feel like Germany;
58% say migrants not integrated;
75% say migration overwhelms schools.
https://youtu.be/DHEOF_rcND8?si=ByQURN_JXpk1vRns
Virtually their entire oeuvre is an homage to London.
I wouldn't swap my lifestyle for Leon's for a million pounds. If he's happy doing what he's doing; cool. But his constant LOOK AT MEEEEEE!!!! posting on here sorta indicates he's not that happy.
What Leon is good at doing is sparking debate, for good or ill. Except when it's the same boring topics that he obsesses on, despite having zero knowledge about them...
Is this what election purdah looks like on PB?
Meanwhile, Goodwill City celebrates Edinburgh as the Aids capital of the World...
Made all the more sorrowful as you know he is actually heading up to Teesside.
Or if you want to broaden your horizons
Et jitt kei Wood by Cat Ballou (Cologne)
Locals say that Cologne is the city that has the most songs about it in the world. No idea if it's true, but I don't know anywhere else where even immigrants who don't speak the dialect know at least the choruses of dozens of songs about the place.
Grown men cry every time they sing along to:
"Su simmer all he hinjekumme,
mir sprechen hück all dieselve Sproch.
Mir han dodurch su vill jewonne.
Mir sin wie mer sin, mir Jecke am Rhing.
Dat es jet ,wo mer stolz drop sin" by Bläck Fööss
The night we met
There was magic abroad in the air
There were angels dining at the Ritz
And a nightingale sang in Berkeley Square.
Etc etc. it's a trope, a flight of fancy, a counterfactual.
Gone are the days of being dumped unceremoniously amongst the evils and depravations of Waterloo.
The school is not closed this time though and one class of 8 year olds was being shown democracy in action - watching respectfully from the side while we voted, the teachers explaining what was happening.
Quite uplifting actually and hopefully will cause a few of them to engage as they grow up.
Sunshine on Leith – Hibernian FC
Banks of the Royal Blue Mersey – Everton FC
Blaydon Races – Newcastle United FC
The Angel (North London Forever) – Arsenal FC
In 2021 Khan received 40.0% of the vote and Labour received 38.1% in the London Assembly list. So Khan was +1.9 on his party.
Wonder what that will look like this time?
A 15-year-old child was prescribed dangerous levels of hormones by an unregulated online clinic without speaking to a doctor, a court ruling has revealed.
Now 16, the teenager, known as J, was born female but identifies as a boy and has an autism diagnosis.
J got a prescription for testosterone and puberty blockers from Singapore-registered GenderGP in late 2022.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68944273
I’m finding it hard to believe it has the “most songs written about it” of any city in the world
I would guess at New York, with london and Paris not far behind
Just a question about a singer, who was a great guest star in Columbo too.
TRUSS
Essex and proud!
I'm admittedly nervous.