Lord Duckhunter

Desperate to get out of France 😂😂😂

I’ve just watched the penalty shootout 😂😂😂😂

I’d imagine If you don’t like golf, you’d be pretty annoyed if Nick Faldo was analysing Ben Stokes poor shot at Lords. Especially, when there’s literally thousands of cricketers better qualified to do so.

It’s either the same sport, or it isn’t. Either way it’s nonsense. Dave from The Dog & Duck wouldn’t get far as co commentator & John McEnroe wouldn’t be employed as a Rugby league expert. They only get the gig because they’re chicks, an incredibly patronising and sexist reason.

Bowen was a bit of a cock. Don’t want to start a thread about random meetings with tv stars, but when I was younger I met a few TV “stars”. My old man was chairman of a charity (in the days when it was voluntary and you didn’t get paid). Sir Dickie Attenborough was the patron, or similar, and he used to arrange for TV celebs to do fund raising bits. As chairman, my old man would pick them up from hotel (they were normally in panto or summer season) or train station and take them around. He’d bring them home sometimes and mum would feed them or give them cup of tea. Bernard Breslaw the carry on bloke was one I remember being really nice, but one event shines out and I can still remember it like yesterday. Fiona Richmond. They had pub of the year, an award to the pub that raised the most money. My old man had to pick her up, and take her to this ale house. Being a dutifully son in his early teens, I thought I better help my old man deliver the radiant Miss Richmond to the pub 😂. She spent ages flirting with the locals before partaking in another fund raising activity. She stripped down to a bikini and felt tip was used to divide her body into squares with numbers on. The squares were sold (rather quickly) and the corresponding numbers placed in bucket. The winning number was then drawn and the holder of that ticket got to kiss her on the winning square. I somehow don’t think the charity commission would approve nowadays, but it made a lot of money and I’m yet to see anyone as excited about kissing someone’s arm as the winner was. If memory serves, it even made the local papers as a positive story. Nowadays the landlord would probably be banged up, my old man charged with immoral behaviour and Fiona in therapy claiming “me too” moment.

Was the breakfast in Romney Marsh by any chance?

I don’t know about us being safe, Saints attacking and looking likely scoring would probably be the cause of someone going into cardiac arrest. If BBD actually scores, we could face litigation left right and centre. Hundreds could need treatment….

No, it was Bowen who was singing with the band. There were 3 of us stood at the bar, when Bowen came over my mate said “that was great Jim, super smashing lovely”, Bowen told him to fuck off and called him a cunt. The club owner was a guy I used to play football with, he said to my mate “ignore him, he’s a bloody nuisance with his singing”. Evidently, he wanted to get up and sing every time he was in there….

I was with my mate when he got called a cunt by Jim Bowen, and before anyone says it’s off topic, he’d just got up to sing a number with the house band…..

The great session musician Herbie Flowers wrote and played on “Grandad” for Clive Dunn. His second most famous bass line after “Walk on the wild side” 😂😂

I once bought a paint brush off a bloke who had met Ray Dorset….He hadn’t painted with it, but I still use it…..

Top 10 Albums

I’m starting a thread “random times you’ve bumped into a bore”.

You miserable sod 😂😂. Ernie was a great song, some great novelty records around my childhood. My mum reckons I went round the house singing The Singing postman’s “Hev Yew Gotta Loight, Boy?" Love Bonzos, “I'm the Urban Spaceman”, probably my fav, but Ernie is a close second…

First album I owned was The Beatles 1962-66 (red) album. Before that I’d just played around with my mum & Aunties records. Parents got me that for Xmas. First single I bought myself with my paper round money was “how does it feel” by Slade. First LP bought was either “Wings at the Speed of Sound” or “Venus and Mars”, can’t quite remember which, but I had them both around the same time… Last piece of vinyl I ever bought was around ‘87 and I wish I could remember what it was. I know it was then because I moved abroad that year and when I came home in ‘91 it was all CD’s….Strange to think I don’t own a thing now, just a subscription to Apple Music.

Sung properly some of the musics very good.

Hoisted with her own petard, springs to mind. It was her who designed a fiscal lock' law to ensure any government budget decisions can no longer bypass scrutiny by the Office for Budget Responsibility. She constantly criticised Tories who made the very point you’re making. She’s so far out of her depth it’s embarrassing, and to think we’ve got 4 more years of this clown show, god knows where we’ll be by then. Weak, weak, weak. Starmer and her need to be moved on…

Why would it annoy me, it’s a great song. I’ve got Carole Kings demo on my CK play list. The TV show was shite, but the music great. Great writers & The Wrecking Crew, what’s not to like. The Rutles were close to my top 10 anyway, Neil Innes was brilliant, and Eric Idols piss take of McCartney was genius imo…

In office but not in power…

Unusual choice. Funnily enough I nearly had the track that fades into Sun King as one of mine. “You never give me your money”, but went Golden Slumbers instead, mainly because it literally led to The End…. Interesting that 3 people picked different Beatles tracks from the same album and imo it’s not even their best one…

The Weight-The Band Maybe I’m amazed-Paul McCartney Say you love me-Fleetwod Mac Golden Slumbers/Carry that weight/ The End-The Beatles Drive my Car-The Beatles Rock & Roll-Led Zeppelin Pretty Vacant-Sex Pistols How does it feel-Slade Suite:Judy Blue eyes-Crosby Stills and Nash Shotgun Willie-Willie Nelson

Has Soggy called him Pascal Robinson-Foster yet?

There’s an argument to be had as to who deserves PIP & I’m sure we’d be at different ends of that debate. But the fundamental principles of a welfare state is that it should be based on need, not timing. It’s quite shocking that a labour government is undermining that principle and that hundreds of labour MP’s will vote it through. For what end, to satisfy the OBR & for political purposes. As shameful and immoral as anything Boris ever did.

I wonder what Starmers defenders will say about the welfare bill they’re proposing tonight. The one that treats people with the same disability differently based on when they were diagnosed. By definition, it’ll end up accepting people need help with day to day living, but then deny them that help. God, imagine if Tories proposed this, yet the usual suspects will still be trotting out the usual lines. Their caring principles shown up for what they really are. Movable…