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Records/cassettes being brought today. I can understand collections from a time when they were ubiquitous, but now? YouTube, Spotify and many other services exist giving you every song you want, as you like it, at the click of a button and have done for some time. Spending £15 because something 'sou...

Chris Hare during a recent debate on 're-' words
'Using a diaresis is the linguistic equivalent of having to knit pants out of spaghetti because you intentionally set fire to your underwear drawer.'

Best-of-9 round robin will all the bots...What could possibly go wrong?

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(Thank Andy SC for this mayhem )

But I pronounce water as wartah. Do you use the glottal stop? My ex wife comes from the Midlands and I liked the way she pronounced tooth and bus. Roundabouts shall forever be 'islands'. Also, people don't use the word 'gambol' enough :) One quirk of mine; when talking at speed, the 'tt' sound in w...

Roughly half-a-stone upwards. Have been walking a lot more, but that has been far outweighed (no pun intended) by me being slumped behind my laptop, playing Apto, steadily reducing my household's supply of biscuits.

Couldn't find a thread for things like this so started a new one. Yesterday I was introduced to a new musical genre that goes by the name of 'bardcore', or sometimes 'tavernwave'. This is an absolute banger. The concept was introduced to me as a sort of funny meme thing but I think it's genuinely b...

Not so useful at the moment, but when the time comes to make train journeys again, Real Time Trains (https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/ also comes in a paid app on mobile) lets you know which platform your train is going from before they announce it (for most major stations, they don't tell you strai...

Manual gearboxes (for your average car-lorries and other vehicles are a different story, I know). Automatic is far easier to deal with, not having to fuck about with the clutch and it makes roundabouts much simpler to navigate. About the only thing the US has got right is the demise of 'stickshift.'...

I got bored, so to you stop from climbing the walls whilst Apto is down and the pubs stay shut, here's some conundrums for you to have a go at. Post the answers in small/hard-to-see fonts or PM me the answers-will post them soon for you to mark. Enjoy! 01-AILTHRONE 02-BODWASHER 03-BETRIVIAL 04-IONET...

Courtesy of an industrial-strength bout of OCD in my early teens (that has since fucked off), I wound up suffering with the wonderfully named hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia-or 'fear of 666', which led to a general dislike of the number 6. If the same product cost £6.99 or £8.99, I'd buy the more expe...

Whilst writing a Bible study on the Gospel of Matthew, you note down to mention 'the fraternal rotalines among the disciples.'

Meanwhile, Specsavers are innovating in an era of social distancing. With the branches closed, they are having you do a 30-mile round trip to see if your prescription needs adjusting.

One thing that I should have mentioned is widespread face-mask usage. Some countries in the Far East already saw regular public face mask usage courtesy of previous outbreaks (China had SARS in 2002, South Korea had MERS in 2015) whereas those doing so in the West would garner weird looks. It defini...

As we steadily emerge blinking from our grottoes after numerous weeks of recreational curve-flattening, what we knew has gone and a brave new world now will rise. Along with far more people working from home, aversion to handshakes and hearts skipping beats every time someone in the near vicinity co...

In please-here is to hoping

Hang on, I'm confused. Is there an issue with salt grinders in general? The use of the word "mechanical" somehow puts me on edge and makes me think you might be talking about a particularly special kind of salt grinder. Because yes, freshly ground rock salt is an entirely different thing to powdere...

Fountain pens. I have dysgraphia (linked to dyspraxia) meaning my writing is a cursive, looking like a black spider memo scrawled by someone mid-seizure and my hand cramps up after half-a-page. I use cheap fountain pens because I find you don't have to press as hard, which lets me write longer and ...

Paul Erdunast is seen here lamenting the downfall of West London's nightlife-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZukiRrYROA

Colin Doyle (ex-Birmingham City GK) once booted a ball into the back of my head whilst warming up for a match.