is this post some sort of cross word clue? hehee I am totally confused.

I'm only struggling with the last one

Quote from: Rufus_the_dawg on April 06, 2022, 09:48:52 PM

Quote from: David L on April 05, 2022, 11:43:28 PMVapor Trails

is it still really really awful? did it remove the wax from your ears and are your ears bleeding.

Just wondering what are your thoughts on Chemtrails?

Good record, bad sound

I guess not strictly a war film as such but based on a real-life event in WWII, one of my favourite 'old' movies is The Flight Of The Phoenix.
A stellar cast including Jimmy Stewart, Ernest Borgnine, George Kennedy, Ronald Fraser and Dickie Attenborough. I thought it was just brilliant when I first saw it as a kid. Who can forget the moment when aeronautical engineer, Dorfmann admits he's only ever worked on model aircraft!
I've never got around to watching the 2004 remake. I'm sure I'd be disappointed!

Anyone mentioned The Wooden Horse yet?

Sajid Javid has launched a campaign to increase levels of vitamin D as he acknowledges that black and asian people living in the UK have much lower levels than the fair-skinned population (who are also deficient).

What a shame this was not acknowledged at the beginning of the pandemic, lives would have been saved, undoubtedly. Of course, there was no money in it

https://news.sky.com/story/vitamin-d-deficiency-health-secretary-launches-review-to-increase-intake-of-vital-nutrient-12580591

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Quote from: Nick on April 05, 2022, 05:29:13 PMForgot how much i disliked TWTWB.

I think the 3 track run VT, Earthshine and Secret Touch are amongst their 3 run classics.

Wow! That's a bold statement. I like VT but Earthshine and Secret Touch, not so much. Personally, I'd put both How It Is and Sweet Miracle above those two. Other highlights would be One Little Victory, The Stars Look Down and Out Of The Cradle.
IMHO the songwriting on here tops that of RtBs. The melodies are stronger. Big downsides though: the 'Geddy Choir' is attendant throughout, Alex's solos have gone AWOL, I find the drumming to be mostly perfunctory and it remains one of the worst examples of the audio engineer's art we've ever witnessed. Freeze is a total turkey

Quote from: Fishy on April 05, 2022, 10:14:25 PMJust listened to some Coney Hatch. They're not very good at all

I like the first album. Devil's Deck rocks hard and Hey Operator is a good enough tune for the great Aldo Nova to cover on Subject....Aldo Nova......and Andy Curran sports a nice pair of leg-warmers on the cover. What's not to like?
Canuck cranium crunchers
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Quote from: Slim on April 05, 2022, 08:38:57 PMAnd Van Der Valk's in it.

Eye Level - Simon Park Orchestra. Bought that one
(b/w Theme from Crown Court)

Toooooooooooooooooon!!

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Quote from: Fishy on April 02, 2022, 09:56:31 PMOk apart from the obvious Rivendell . Tai Shan possibly Tears.. name your other songs you,d gladly never want to listen to again.. I know some folks might have whole albums here but you get to name 5.

Far too difficult. RtBs has 5 cast-iron clunkers on it alone. Very little to bother the Ivor Novello panel on that one   

Spindrift honks to high heaven

Africa doesn't need a vaccine (sorry Bill)

https://youtu.be/ilFUz6BVoS8

Quote from: Slim on April 03, 2022, 11:32:14 AMVirtuality's a nice artefact from the early days of the Internet's presence in the consumer domain. Awful song, I agree. Yet nice to have somehow.

I vaguely remember an interview with Neil from around that time in which he made clear he was pouring scorn on the "Internet community", if I can call it that. That seems pretty short-sighted now, I must say.

The idea of a community of Internet users seems a strange thought now, almost like referring to the "television community". But there was a time in the '90s when the World Wide Web, email and so on were the reserve of academics and nerds. It was like a hobby, like amateur radio.

The Internet surely played a huge part in sustaining the career of bands like Rush, not only by allowing them to communicate easily with their consumers via their own website and music news sites, but by providing a medium for fan communities like TNMS and the old rushmessageboard.com.

Interestingly, the internet was responsible for my renewed interest in the band in 1997.
I was on a secondment in Paris and quickly had to progress to using a PC for work. Thus I had access to the web and quickly found the 'World Of Rush' website. At that point I'd not really listened to much Rush for a number of years, the music seemed so dated somehow. It was the realisation that there was a very large, active community of fans out there that got me back into the band. The tragic news of Neil's first tragedy reached me via the internet during that time too.

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Quote from: Nick on April 02, 2022, 10:11:17 PMNo they ballsed it up and need to find an alternative win position.

It would be better if there was no-win option for Russia but likely they will gain some territory.
The best indication of failure would be Putin to be replaced IMHO. Still time for that to happen but probably unlikely.
If Zelensky surrenders Donbass, Azov will not be happy, apparently they threatened his life when that was considered earlier.

Apparently it will end up a no win war with Russia and Ukraine fighting over the territory for years, this is what Putin wants.

Why?

Quote from: Nick on April 02, 2022, 10:11:17 PMNo they ballsed it up and need to find an alternative win position.

It would be better if there was no-win option for Russia but likely they will gain some territory.
The best indication of failure would be Putin to be replaced IMHO. Still time for that to happen but probably unlikely.
If Zelensky surrenders Donbass, Azov will not be happy, apparently they threatened his life when that was considered earlier.