Miguel Sanchez

Eurovision 2023: UK host city will need to cancel other events to make way for contest - BBC News Fans of Elton John, Andre Rieu, Celine Dion and male strippers are going to be disappointed

So a dreadful idea, then.

Gary Lineker

"obesogenic"

I walked past a Superdry shop today that had good music playing inside.

Imagine inadvertently posting the same talking points as wastecoatwilly. I'd delete my account from the shame.

I love the sexy slither of a lady snake, oh baby.

Series 11 Episode 5: "We've just proved Gordon Brown is Stalin" cut to picture of combination of Brown and Stalin on TV I honestly don't know how this programme lasted as long as it did

This has been fixed

In the words of Percival Cox: "You're in clear need of help but god damn it I'm not gonna be the one to give it to you."

Ever noticed these wee chaps? They give Cred to-

10:30 I'm going to sound very blue tick twitter here but I am quite insistent that the world ended when Charlie Brooker stopped doing year-end wipes in 2016 and I don't recognise anything that's happened since as actual history.

Series 11 Episode 4: This is the one where they race across Japan in the new Nissan GT-R and the bullet train. There's a ~20 second bit that's cut from this when it's shown on Dave which I've just seen for probably the first time since I first watched it. Various shots of this bright red GT-R blasting through tunnels, with vein-like snow topped mountains in the distance and Believe Me Natalie by The Killers playing in the background. Some forlorn sense of reminiscence has entered my brain but merged somehow with the present, where I can appreciate how much I love the car 15 years later, even if from a distance and for reasons unrelated to the episode. It's also funny watching James and Richard try and fail to understand any of the language. And Richard complain about the food all being fish.

Week 32 update Three deaths this week, so no fucking about. Up first, Nichelle Nichols: Nichelle Nichols obituary | Star Trek | The Guardian I actually found an original series Star Trek episode on the telly the other week. It looked a bit rubbish. She wasn't there. Nichols died at 89 so she's worth 36 Base Points for @scottsdad and @weirdcal, with a Deadly Duo bonus taking that to 61 points apiece. ============ Up next was baseball commentator Vin Scully: Vin Scully, the 'voice of the Dodgers', dies at the age of 94 | Daily Mail Online Just imagine Liam Macleod doing Sportscene when he's in his 80s. Of course, for many non-Americans there's one thing they'll know the voice of Vin Scully for - being imitated in The Simpsons: Scully died at 94 so he's worth 31 Base Points for @Arch Stanton and @Savage Henry, with a Deadly Duo taking that to 56 points apiece. ============ Final death this week was Celtic player John Hughes: Legendary Celtic striker John ‘Yogi’ Hughes dies at age of 79 | Celtic | The Guardian Celtic have a fairly comprehensive profile of him on their website: John Hughes | Celtic FC Profile | celticfc.com I've done the great former footballer with a seemingly impossible statistical record obituary so many times. 188 goals in 383 appearances in all competitions. It's not a bad rate. Hughes died at 79 so he's worth 46 Base Points for @thisal with a Solo Shot taking that to 96 points. As a result, the standings look like this: 1. Bishop Briggs 586 2. Indale Winton 530 3. JustOneCornetto 431 4. chomp my root 403 5. Billy Jean King 382 6. sparky88 372 7. Ned Nederlander 371 8. Arch Stanton 358 9. Sweaty Morph 342 10. weirdcal 320 11. Moomintroll 293 12. Savage Henry 286 13. gkneil 271 14. mathematics 269 15. peasy23 259 16. Arbroathlegend36-0 255 17 The Master 244 18. psv_killie 242 19. The DA 204 20. scottsdad 199 21. Desp 188 22. pawpar 187 23. The_Craig 178 24. Florentine_Pogen 173 25. thistledo 167 26. Melanius Mullarkey 163 27. thisal 160 28. Blootoon87 151 29. gingette, microdave 150 31. buddiepaul 146 32. cdhafc1874 130 33. pub car king, Raidernation, tamthebam 122 36. nessies long lost ghost, The Naitch 113 38. senorsoupe 108 39. Miguel Sanchez 105 40. Bully Wee Villa 104 41. jimbaxters, lichtgilphead, sleazy 92 44. scorge 85 45. Lofarl, Mark Connolly 75 47. The Hologram 73 48. ThomCat 69 49. Hamish's Passenger 61 50. Fuctifano, Willie adie 57 52. Bert Raccoon, speckled tangerine, statts1976uk 39 55. ayrunitedfw, cambozpar, Karpaty Lviv, Les Cabbage 30 59. Ray Patterson 22 60. Everyone else 0 The spreadsheet has also been updated with these scores: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mup1IJllKHs0a47J8G6IXUkvShJrV28Iuc-Kkn7RKuo/edit?usp=sharing

@Newbornbairn

Series 11 Episode 2: the new Jaguar has bluetooth connectivity with your phone and yer da can't understand how to work it The News then followed up with an update from James about the Dacia Sandero being delayed, leading to this classic reaction:

Why do you like it?

Me, when I walk into work this morning and see the warehouse has been completely moved around by the new boss despite everyone telling him it's a bad idea:

Jamp isn't a word.

I'd cash out now if I were you.

Series 11 Episode 1: Jeremy has made the first reference to the show being repeated endlessly on Dave Given the amount of my life I've spent watching repeats of this on Dave, I've been struck by a few things. There's the blatant racism, homophobia and staged stupidity which I've mentioned here (but not in full) but I'm honestly amazed at how... terrible it is. I know when I'm going to stop watching and the video I'm going to post when I do, but the reasons I stopped watching and despaired at its popularity from about 2010 onwards seem much more noticeable now, and have done for quite a few series. It all looks so fake. The other thing I've noticed is how much the music is changed for the Dave repeats. I don't know if it's a licensing thing or what but just about every episode has different music in the background of various shots and it's really jarring, given how used to those versions I've been. The updated versions are often an improvement too, the Botswana special sticks out for this. It's 2008, there's an impending economic disaster and widespread outrage at petrol prices (£1.18 per litre) and these three gimps are going on about how the Toyota Prius isn't as economical as an M3 if you drive it round a racetrack at a constant speed. As much as I enjoyed this at the time I don't understand how it happened.

They've done the same for Real Betis Note the gibberish, teamed with something inherently worthless, teamed with the apparent scarcity of something which is a digital image We have a new winner for the thread

The more I read, the less I understand.