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  1. chiefdave

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    This is going to be something else that goes down like a lead ballon. How long before the backbenchers are getting it in the ear from their constituents and pressuring for yet another u-turn. At this point I'm starting to wonder if Labours policy chief is a plant from the tories or reform...
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    24 Hours in Police Custody

    the guy was so chilled, it was nuts. you would not have been in the slightest bit surprised if it had popped up at the end that they'd discovered another 50 crimes.
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    cricket 2025

    the joys of the kookaburra ball, what a shit idea
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    All-purpose tennis thread

    What a day for the Brits, our most successful day at Wimbledon ever. Huge win for Boulter, played some incredible tennis today. While Raducanu was playing there was shouting from the stands and the BBC said there was a 'disturbance', hope that's not related to her stalker. BBC have some...
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    Glastonbury 2025

    Its an absolute pain that so many tours skip the midlands now. I can just about make a weeknight gig in Brum or Wolves but any further than that and I'm looking at having to take annual leave and I don't get enough of that to use it on gigs. There must be so many people that just don't go now...
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    Glastonbury 2025

    They've announced their tour and its Manchester and London again. Unless I missed it has got to be years since they've played Brum, or any Wests Mids gig for that matter.
  7. chiefdave

    Glastonbury 2025

    There's articles in the US press now about how they're going to save live music and stop venues shutting as there's now an underground punk movement. Its a nice sentiment and hopefully true but I suspect that movement has always been there, its just getting more attention now. But as happened...
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    Glastonbury 2025

    Well obviously they're a hardcore band but I just mean their sound is more commercial than the likes of Sick of it All, Cro-Mags etc. But I'm very aware of not being that Pistols fan from the 70s hating Green Day, Rancid, Offspring etc because they've sold out and aren't real punk :ROFLMAO...
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    Israel - Palestinian Conflict

  10. chiefdave

    Glastonbury 2025

    I’m of an age where I just laugh at the kids thinking they’ve discovered a new thing 😂 Can’t decide if they’re great or a commercialised version of what I used to listen. Is quite comical the number of comments I’ve seen about people ‘living in the moment’ at their gigs and not watching...
  11. chiefdave

    Glastonbury 2025

    Would rather they got Kneecap back out than have to sit through this 😂
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    Glastonbury 2025

    They should book Alice Cooper, people online would lose their minds when he brings the guillotine out
  13. chiefdave

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    Doesn’t seem a great solution that 1 in 5 children, and rising, has to go to private school. Although the stats don’t seem to back that up. The percentage of SEND kids in public and private education seems to be roughly the same. And I’m sure the parents of non-SEND kids aren’t going to be too...
  14. chiefdave

    Glastonbury 2025

    Wonder how many people actually watched Vylans set. I would expect iPlayer wasn’t exactly creaking at the seams trying to cope with the number of viewers. At some point people might learn not to rush to social media and these things would pass by with hardly anyone noticing. Also, what did he...
  15. chiefdave

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    well yes, I'm not saying autism didn't exist. but, in my school at least, there was one or two 'unruly' children per class. Now from what stats I can find, in the TES, we're now looking at 1 in 5 kids and its rising by about 100K a year, far faster than the rise in the school age population...
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    Glastonbury 2025

    Obviously learnt nothing from Kneecap. Expect Vylan will be moving to playing larger venues now.
  17. chiefdave

    Glastonbury 2025

    You pretty much can't tour without Ticketmaster these days, especially in the US. Pearl Jam tried it years ago and found it near impossible and the situation is way worse now in terms of the Ticketmaster monopoly. They did donate millions from ticket sales to charities in the cities they played.
  18. chiefdave

    Glastonbury 2025

    this thread is like when you see a post from Rage Against the Machine and the replies are Americans saying they aren't going to listen anymore because they've suddenly gone political
  19. chiefdave

    Best TV shows or movies you can recommend

    Stalls O23, excellent view. It's not a huge theatre tbh so you'll get a good view from anywhere. Might be worth just trying for tickets on the day. It's been on a while now so I don't think many performances are total sell outs. I went Saturday afternoon and it was full but not sold out.
  20. chiefdave

    Things that annoy you

    Facebook is completely un-useable now. Entire feed filled with random shit the algorithm has decided you want to see rather than the actual things you follow. Their usage stats must be way down. Few years back I'd be checking it multiple times a day. Now it's once a day max, quick scroll, see...
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