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Another one about Kurt Cobain

This one at least narrows it down to the dead one...

That's a load of balls...

Days of Wine and Roses

Always admired his honesty the last time I saw him play live, ca. 2005 when The Quality of Mercy came out: "I know you're all here for the hits, but it's taken me nine years to make this new record, so we're f**king well going to play it!" He also had a big soft spot for the Netherlands, as it...

Best phone number I know belonged to a girl I once knew (or more accurately, to her parents): Puddletown 500 Straight out of Trumpton... And that's as 'recently' as the 1980s

I do like a good western. So many greats to choose from Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid High Noon The Searchers Dead Man Unforgiven The Outlaw Josey Wales Once Upon a Time in the West The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Cat Ballou The Good the Bad and the Ugly Soldier Blue High Plains Drifter...

Sonic Youth R.E.M. Low I'm surprising even myself that I cannot find room for the Ramones in my top three...

I think that's mainly wishful thinking/straw clutching on the part of the Tories, and the article makes it out to be worse than it actually is. I'm one of the 2.2 million (or 3 million, depending on your source) UK citizens who've lived long-term overseas but got our right to vote in the UK back...

F.U.N.E.X? S.... V.F.X. F.U.N.E.M? S.... V.F.M. (One for the oldies perhaps...)

I went to COP 6 back in 2000. The general consensus back then - among the non-politician and non-political-lobbyist attendees at any rate - was that it was all hot air, and too little too late. 23 years on and the hot air just keeps getting hotter, and it just keeps getting too later, and...

The second of three times that I saw them was at the Brixton Academy on St Patrick's Day 1987. Somehow on that day all the stars briefly aligned: just the right amount of Guinness in the crowd for us to be up for it and adoring; just the right amount of whisk(e)y in Shane for him to be able to...

RIP to a true great. Also holds the unusual (not unique though - hello Mark E Smith) accolade of being both one of the best AND one of the worst live performers I've ever seen

Sorry to disappoint. The Dutch just love their acronyms and abbreviations: GL = Groen Links = Green Left PvdA = Partij van de Arbeid = Labour Party D66 = Democrats 66 - the 66 is just the year in which they were founded...

The significant difference is that their nutjob has now taken over (or will have as soon as he's inaugurated), and can start implementing his nutjob policies with abandon. Our nutjob must now enter into months of delicate coalition negotiations that may never succeed, and even if they do they...

We could descend into Dutch vis puns. That would quickly have other fish pun threads paling into insignificance

Remember that this is also a country where, around this time of year, the streets fill with people in blackface handing out sweets to children, and (while the debate is at least now raging, which it wasn't until a few years ago), a very significant portion of the population will still swear...

Not out of the question. George Weah got to be president of Liberia...

A lot of people here would vociferously agree with you on that, but at the same time they will spew anti-Islamic nonsense without thinking about it, they believe innocently, and not see the connection...