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Russ
23 Jun 2023
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    Russ
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    11 Oct 2025, 7:04 a.m. 11 Oct 2025, 7:04 a.m.
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    Apparently it's Take That, not Boyzone. Potato potahto.

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    Jim7
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    11 Oct 2025, 7:51 a.m. 11 Oct 2025, 7:51 a.m.
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    Just when you thought the bar couldn’t get any lower

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    tricky
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    11 Oct 2025, 7:58 a.m. 11 Oct 2025, 7:58 a.m.
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    It's levels. Like: which do you prefer - death by drowning or fire? Clearly you could have a better evening licking battery terminals.

    Not really sure which is worst (it's boyzone).

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    BrettWilliams
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    11 Oct 2025, 11:01 a.m. 11 Oct 2025, 11:01 a.m.
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    Boyzone are levels worse. Take That did have one or two decent pop tunes in the early/mid-90s.

    Ronan's lot spawned a bunch of copycat groups like Westlife featuring young men dressed in white suits, sitting and swaying on bar stools but while singing dirge rather than while pissed.

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    pantzcat
    Squad 278 posts
    11 Oct 2025, 11:43 a.m. 11 Oct 2025, 11:43 a.m.
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    @Russ has written:

    That was my thinking, but she'd have to change at Coventry at 11:30 and then it's another hour to Brum. Might be safer for her to just have a hotel in Coventry.

    May be the same issue with train time but Leamington Spa is pretty close, don't know much about the place but its got to be nicer than Cov.

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    Jeff_Albertson
    Squad 1231 posts
    11 Oct 2025, 1:16 p.m. 11 Oct 2025, 1:16 p.m.
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    Coventry Arena is on the Leamington-Nuneaton train line - 15 mins to Nuneaton in one direction, 15 to Kenilworth and 25 to Leamington in the other. I'd be looking at that, and getting the hotel booked sooner rather than later, because a lot of Take That fans will be doing the same.

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    tricky
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    11 Oct 2025, 1:39 p.m. 11 Oct 2025, 1:39 p.m.
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    As an unhelpful aside.....being sent to coventry seems to be the correct approach to someone crossing continents to watch a boy middle aged men band karaoke act.

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    Simon
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    11 Oct 2025, 3:16 p.m. 11 Oct 2025, 3:16 p.m.
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    Karaoke act is a fairer criticism of Boyzone than Take That. Barlow must have written about half of their hits. Boyzone is almost exclusively cover versions.

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    tricky
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    11 Oct 2025, 3:30 p.m. 11 Oct 2025, 3:30 p.m.
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    So just 9/10ths karaoke then?

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    Loafer
    Squad 528 posts
    11 Oct 2025, 4:18 p.m. 11 Oct 2025, 4:18 p.m.
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    I mean, if you're going to the hotel after the gig at what, 10:30 by the time you get out? Just get one in cov, surely? Not like you're going to be sight-seeing at that time of night. There's a DoubleTree Hilton right there.

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    Loafer
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    11 Oct 2025, 4:22 p.m. 11 Oct 2025, 4:22 p.m.
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    Christ, I even bored myself writing that.

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    tricky
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    11 Oct 2025, 4:29 p.m. 11 Oct 2025, 4:29 p.m.
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    I constantly forget how stupidly early gigs finish these days. They are more matinees than nights out.

    It will be boyzone for breakfast soon at this rate.

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    JimShady
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    11 Oct 2025, 4:34 p.m. 11 Oct 2025, 4:34 p.m.
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    On that, just booked tickets for Snow Patrol in Edinburgh in July next year, and they're on at 6pm!

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    Dave_Rave
    Squad 2975 posts
    11 Oct 2025, 5:50 p.m. 11 Oct 2025, 5:50 p.m.
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    Well presumably they need to finish in time to go patrolling.

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    Russ
    Squad 6399 posts
    11 Oct 2025, 5:53 p.m. 11 Oct 2025, 5:53 p.m.
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    @tricky has written:

    It's levels. Like: which do you prefer - death by drowning or fire? Clearly you could have a better evening licking battery terminals.

    Not really sure which is worst (it's boyzone).

    I asked for clarification and apparently it's two nights of Boyzone in London, one night of Take That in Coventry, and one night of Take That in Sunderland. I assume the AI prompt was something along the lines of "ChatGPT please design me the worst vacation itinerary possible".

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    JimShady
    Squad 3846 posts
    11 Oct 2025, 6:50 p.m. 11 Oct 2025, 6:50 p.m.
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    @Russ has written:
    @tricky has written:

    It's levels. Like: which do you prefer - death by drowning or fire? Clearly you could have a better evening licking battery terminals.

    Not really sure which is worst (it's boyzone).

    I asked for clarification and apparently it's two nights of Boyzone in London, one night of Take That in Coventry, and one night of Take That in Sunderland. I assume the AI prompt was something along the lines of "ChatGPT please design me the worst vacation itinerary possible".

    Sunderland and Coventry. Wow.

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