YMCA appeared on Village People’s third album, Cruisin'’
Hmm.
Also, as if his intent when he wrote the lyrics has any bearing on whether it's a gay anthem. I Will Survive is a gay anthem, don't think there's anything in the lyrics that makes it explicitly gay.
I'm with KM. Looks a bit like classic 'protesting too much'. One of the joys about great songwriting, is the universality of lyrics written in one context, to apply to another. Pretty much all the best songwriters keep their mouths shut, and let the listener find their personal connection to a song. The only coherent reason to be so absolutist about a song (I mean a song for fucks sake, great writers make entire fiction novels out of their autobiographies!) is in reaction to some form of difficult personal scrutiny. Otherwise, who gives a fuck (or takes a cock)?
Slapping therapy sounds like the sort of jolly wheeze that ingo might come up with.
It was called the punch amplifier.
Anyone for Being Hit on the Head lessons?
About 75% of the pub just got the emergency alert from the government about some windy weather.
I didn't, must be on the list.
Whose government? Only asking...
I would tell you but they don't care enough about me.
Unless they are trying to scare the proletariat and leaving my class to pick up the pieces.
Don't panic, I just got the alert. I am taking the time difference personally.
Are you OK?
What about pointed sticks?
I've been signed off for 6 weeks because of the gangrene ankle, sons doing okay at school and the wife is, the wife. Thanks for asking.
As for the wind, I will report back tomorrow after we hunker down in the basement I meant to build.
Who would have thought that Russ would end up being more interesting than pus?
In Wales, no message from the government, only in the Yellow zone though. I've decided to sit here drinking beer until I run out of beer then sleep all tomorrow morning. The wife can deal with the two year old locked up in a house all morning tomorrow whilst I sleep in.
40% rise in "sewage spills" reported by Thames water. "Spills"...lol.
Not defending privatised water companies but seems likely to be correlated with heavy rainfall and it's been a particularly wet year, so doesn't seem very surprising.
Yes...I imagine if you are in that business you might reasonably think that having some more rain was a massive edge case, not worth planning for. Better to fund debt to pay investors dividends, than bother with that expensive infrastructure/core business stuff.
Quite agree. But if we have a dry winter the number of times they discharge sewers into rivers will drop - they'd still be doing a shit (ha!) job. It's basically victorian infrastructure, so no-one was doing much to improve it in the 100 years prior to privatisation either.
Correct, no substantial investment in infrastructure. We are lucky that private businesses are so agile, and that the market will provide. "£7 billion in dividends paid by Thames Water in the 32 years from 1990 to 2022"
