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grumpyoldgitto Traditional Art•The Irritating Gentleman, 1874 - Berthold Woltze (1829 - 1896)English2·2 years agoExactly. Most of us have encountered that person at some point in our lives.
You may have a point. That chicken definitely looks underage.
grumpyoldgitOPto Classic Rock: A Journey Through Timeless Music•The Stranglers - Golden Brown (1981)2·2 years agoWell, that’s pretty much what the song was about.
grumpyoldgitto Classic Rock: A Journey Through Timeless Music•Peter, Paul and Mary - Puff, the Magic Dragon (1963)7·2 years agoOh dear! This brings back memories of listening to Ed “Stewpot” Stewart’s radio show on a Saturday morning when I was a kid. I’m not nostalgic enough to actually play the vid though.
grumpyoldgitto Classic Rock: A Journey Through Timeless Music•Hawkwind - Silver machine (1972)3·2 years agoDocumentary evidence that the 1970s were more fun than the 21st century.
grumpyoldgitto Classic Rock: A Journey Through Timeless Music•Pixies - Monkey Gone To Heaven (1989)3·2 years agoLove this! One of the best gigs I’ve ever been to was Pixies at the Brixton Academy, some time in the early '90s. Epic evening.
grumpyoldgitto Classic Rock: A Journey Through Timeless Music•Blue Oyster Cult - Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll (1972)3·2 years agoLots of good choices from their first album. Then Came The Last Days Of May is my favourite.
grumpyoldgitto Formula 1•[GLOBO] RBR ultimatum: If Perez doesn't finish the WDC in #2, Ricciardo gets the seat in 2024.31·2 years agoRBR have a history of failing drivers, Perez is only the latest. Just look a how Albon has developed as a driver since he was kicked out and replaced by Perez.
They have a real problem on their hands next year as the performance gap between the top teams closes. If things stay as they are right now, all of their top three rivals (Mercedes, Ferrari, McLaren) have a really solid driver line-up.
grumpyoldgitOPto Lovecraft Mythos - Cosmic Horror•BBC Radio 4 - The Lovecraft InvestigationsEnglish4·2 years agoThey are respectful to the original plots and very cleverly done. Quite dark as well, they’re not playing it for laughs.
I think FOM have got themselves in a difficult position because they wanted a night race for the spectacle (so much more important than the racing). But doing it on the western side of America makes it tricky time-wise for their biggest audience. The ultra-late racing is probably a compromise that’ll please no one.
Difford and Tilbrook are great songwriters.
grumpyoldgitOPto Classic Rock: A Journey Through Timeless Music•Tom Waits - Burma Shave (1977)3·2 years agoWell, If you asked me what my favourite Waits album was I’d probably say Swordfishtrombones or Rain Dogs. But somehow, late at night when a few whiskies have been drunk, it seems to be the '70s albums that end up on the turntable.
grumpyoldgitto Formula 1•Marko: "Perez must comply now, we must stop this negative spiral"2·2 years agoExactly! Perez is probably done as a RBR driver, but shit like this is hardly going to help matters.
grumpyoldgitto Formula 1•[Martin Brundle] It’s races like Qatar and very rainy days which make F1 drivers look the heroes and athletes they are.9·2 years agoThat’s very much the old school macho mindset that was prevalent in F1 when Brundle was driving.
I don’t think many of the current drivers buy into that.
grumpyoldgitto Formula 1•Marko: "Perez must comply now, we must stop this negative spiral"23·2 years agoI can’t imagine anything more likely to encourage a driver than being publicly bad-mouthed by Marko.
I mean, it’s never failed to work before has it?
grumpyoldgitto Formula 1•Marko: "Perez must comply now, we must stop this negative spiral"3·2 years agoNorris would be a significant upgrade but he’s not currently available and I can’t see McLaren letting him go without a fight.
Never was a great fan of Murray Walker TBH. The combo of Murray and James Hunt was classic though. Murray would spout a load of bollocks and James, sounding half-pissed (which he probably was), would put him right.
grumpyoldgitto Formula 1•McLaren | New World Record Holders! 1.80s, the fastest ever Formula 1 pit-stop!15·2 years agoThey’re half a second behind one of the Red Bulls. The other one seems to have given up. If McLaren can regularly put two drivers on the podium then RBR have a problem next year.
grumpyoldgitOPto Traditional Art•A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery - Joseph Wright of Derby (1734 - 1797)English6·2 years agoLighting was Wright’s speciality. The Alchemist is pretty epic too.
Well, my memory says so. So does Wikipedia.