Ozempic anyone? Not only can you be skinny but you can prevent a heart attack. Uncanny coincidence, just as heart issues on the increase. What side-effects? 

In three of the four quarters of 2023, the Danish company delivered the sharpest revenue increase among biopharma's top 25 companies ranked by market capitalization. For the full year, Novo delivered a 31% increase in sales, reaching 232 billion Danish kroner ($33.7 billion).

Just received the renewal notice for home insurance - increased by 44% 

Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush - What's Next

Here is a wonderful little story

A young cashier told an older woman that she should bring her grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.

The  woman apologized, "We didn't have this green thing back in my day."

The young clerk said, "Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."

She gave him a firm stare and a hard grin and said "Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles, and beer bottles. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over. They were recycled.
Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags,  which we reused for numerous things. We walked upstairs because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower  machine every time we had to go two blocks.

Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power did dry our clothes back in our day. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.

Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room.  The TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief, not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us.

When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded-up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.

Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.

We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades with a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.

Back then, people took a bus and kids rode their bikes instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles in space to find the nearest burger joint.

But the current generation  laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing."

The cashier stood there still and quiet as the old lady found her wallet to pay. Then lady turned to leave but stepped back and turned toward the cashier.  She said "You have a world of knowledge in that little device in your hand. Pity you just use it to gossip, take pictures, and waste time. It would do you good to search a bit of history before you embarrass yourself like this again.

Forward this to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smart-ass young person.

Quote from: Matt2112 on May 11, 2024, 02:45:06 AMTOTP 1996 on BBC Four x 2

The first one of these was actually rather annoying, as it was presented by Alan Davies, who to this day I've never found particularly clever or funny.  And, frankly, he comes across as a proper irritating bell3end in this - instead of disarmingly linking the performing acts with a professional presenter's patter, with the odd amusing bon mot, here he basically tries to cram in "edgy", pseudo-intellectual piss-takes of the performers and the programme, as if it is all beneath his towering wit.

It's tiresome, tedious and back-fires spectacularly - unsurprisingly, this was his first and last show.

Compare this with Lulu, who presents the following show (which also features one of my favourite bands, The Saw Doctors) - infectiously vivacious, bigging up every band she introduces and beaming throughout; in other words, showing a damn sight more taste, class and judgement than Davies.

As for the music: the usual combination of some songs that - rightly or wrongly - became established classics, some deeper cuts that deserved to be established classics and plenty of utter bilge that should never have been heard by any human ears in the first place.

Marvellous.

Gary Davies (?)

No doubt a drop in the ocean for £fizer:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13397133/Pfizer-agrees-settle-10-000-lawsuits-accusing-pharma-giant-hiding-cancer-risks-heartburn-drug-Zantac.html

World snooker final. Kyren Wilson vs Jak Jones. Jones finished the first session 7-1 down but managed to hang on to eventually lose 18-14. Loads of errors but very dramatic. Great entertainment!

Quote from: Matt2112 on May 06, 2024, 01:46:31 AMBBC News reports that Madonna has performed a gig in Rio de Janeiro, apparently attended by over 1 million people, describing her as "The Queen of Pop".

Nah. That's Lady Gaga nowadays isn't it?

Besides, the gig was free, which the ever-vigilantly accurate BBC somehow forgot to mention.

Queen of pop? Suzi Q 

Quote from: Matt2112 on May 05, 2024, 06:44:39 PMPleasant today, mostly sunny spells.  Nice May Day weekend weather.

Started nice and sunny, reminded us of summer. Normal service resumed at 5:30pm. More rain.

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Quote from: David L on May 01, 2024, 11:17:33 PMIf you choose not to decide
You cannot have made a choice

Sure it's not:

If you still choose not to decide
You cannot have made a choice?

That's what my inner sleeve liner says.

Yes, well spotted. That's two lines Geddy sings 'incorrectly' 

I always thought it was

If you choose not to decide
You still have made a choice

It is 

Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on May 02, 2024, 09:43:29 PM

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Quote from: Matt2112 on May 02, 2024, 06:21:56 PMBBC News reporting on urang utans' apparent ability to self-medicate by saying "it shows how closely humans are related to the great apes".

Er...humans ARE great apes. 🤦🏻�♂️

more annoying was the "news" that kate had taken a picture of her daughter.. nobody fucking cares love...

And nobody gives a fuck that there are 2 female headliners at Glastonbury this year. Not News. Why end your One o'clock bulletin with it?

DEI.......innit

Quote from: Matt2112 on May 02, 2024, 06:21:56 PMBBC News reporting on urang utans' apparent ability to self-medicate by saying "it shows how closely humans are related to the great apes".

Er...humans ARE great apes. 🤦🏻�♂️

Did they not find any urang utrans?  

Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on May 02, 2024, 03:04:03 PM

Quote from: David L on May 01, 2024, 11:17:33 PMIf you choose not to decide
You cannot have made a choice

Sure it's not:

If you still choose not to decide
You cannot have made a choice?

That's what my inner sleeve liner says.

Yes, well spotted. That's two lines Geddy sings 'incorrectly' 

Rush - Permanent Waves

Played this after watching a YouTube video about the album and it revealed an interesting fact about the LP that I didn't know. For a time after the album was released, Neil became aware of fans criticising Geddy for his live performances of Freewill. They were accusing him of singing the wrong lyrics. Neil dismissed them, amused that they could ever think that the band would make such a mistake with their own music. It turns out that, in the US, the liner with the lyrics on were printed with an incorrect line for the song.
My interest piqued, I decided to play the LP and check my copy. Sure enough, the misprint is there on my UK first pressing too:

If you choose not to decide
You cannot have made a choice

I would think that in terms of rarity value it is of little or no significance, unlike the unredacted "Dewey defeats Truman" front covers out there. Interesting nevertheless.

Quote from: pxr5 on May 01, 2024, 08:20:27 PMI've just picked this up for a couple of quid from ebay. I'm really looking forward to this one:

One For The Record - The Authorised Biography of Galahad by Andrew Wild

https://www.amazon.co.uk/One-Record-Authorised-Biography-Galahad/dp/0957007701

'One for the Record', the official, authorised biography of Galahad, charts the first quarter century of the Dorset-based band's existence: the highs and the lows, the challenges and the achievements, the numerous line-up changes (Yes have nothing on Galahad!)  including six keyboard players and eight bassists, the occasional madness on the road, the writing, recording, rehearsing and gigging.'

They are playing at the 'Prog for Peart' festival at The Northcourt in Abingdon in July (just down the road from me)