Blue Saturday

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i grew up amongst huntin shootin fishin folk too

Radio 3 has been surprisingly decent this morning as long as you tune out the gushing presenter banter god i have got to check my choice of adjectives this morning

On My Own was my nomination! :) it'll be pretty high up my ballot, I love it. When I was younger I even put it as my favourite song of the decade in a self-indulgent ILM poll. I didn't know it had a video though!

gyac also a sleeper agent in deepest Tory Kent, they'll change their tune when the roads clog (maybe)

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very important off cut missing from the wall of gammon here.

I love On My Own and I kind of love Ulrich Schnauss in general but whenever a Schnauss tune pops up on random I always go "oh it's Happy Cycling by Boards of Canada, oh no it's Ulrich Schnauss, oh it's not even the Ulrich Schnauss tune I thought it was"

saw him twice, once in a nice chill venue with comfy seats and perfect lighting for zoning out to drifty electronic noises and it was brilliant, so I eagerly bought tickets the next time round to see him in the art museum basement thinking that that would also be a nice chill space and it was a horrible place with too many people, nowhere to sit, pillars obscuring the stage and heavy stink of sweat and the soundguy's vape

(said chill perfect venue has also ripped out all its seats and reverted to being just another dark sweaty pub back room, which is too bad as a friend wants to go there this week - the first gig I've ventured out for in ages, if I actually go)

haven't dared look at the poll as I don't have time to think about it properly and also feel bad about how few tracks I can think of from the past decade due to being a) old b) scatterbrained and only ever remembering things I've heard in the past 2 days

imo if you're pressed for time, do a single pass through the spreadsheets and only c&p anything you really, truly love. it's hard though and obviously i'm being a bit blasé. we could do with your vote though!!

I usually apply (b) as a positive feature to polling on the grounds that if I can't remember it it's not worth it

have never seen schnauss live alas. really i've not seen much electronic music live. idk how it works can it be good idk idk they have to have mad visuals right?

glasses are the weirdest things to lose on a bender, you'd think

I have lost countless pairs of glasses while drunk. I have no idea how that happens, can only assume I've passed out on a night bus and someone just nicks them for a laugh, because I can't see why I would take them off and leave them somewhere myself

On My Own was my nomination! :) it'll be pretty high up my ballot, I love it. When I was younger I even put it as my favourite song of the decade in a self-indulgent ILM poll. I didn't know it had a video though!

gyac also a sleeper agent in deepest Tory Kent, they'll change their tune when the roads clog (maybe)

tbf unless my gammon chums are correct Hull is as Labour af

Taking my glasses off is second nature to me :/

i stand corrected (although isn't Greg Clarke MP from around there?)

tbf i think Kent is certainly quaking under the strain, when I went to Sheerness recently there were several Labour signs visible

As a sometimes glasses wearer I can say this has never happened to me, only cos I can’t see beyond the tip of my nose if I take them off ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I’ve left them in work a few times though which is always horrendous

gyac's russophilia has also been noted and it will have been speculated whether she and her spouse met in moscow

i am extremely blind (up to -10) and would never lose my glasses. usually i wear contact lenses when i go out socially though

Gotta feeling in the past I've dropped glasses while falling over or puking

I did a spectacular face plant at 6 in the morning in McDonald's the other week and popped a lens out of my glasses, got found by a helpful pitying stranger after 5 minutes of searching

I only really need them for TV or movies tbf but I can't enjoy either without them

tt is another 'no glasses unless at cinema' denizen, but we usually sit front row anyway so sometimes there's no need

gyac's russophilia has also been noted and it will have been speculated whether she and her spouse met in moscow

my stupidest glasses move was trying to superglue a silicon nose pad back onto them whilst quite drunk. You get superglue on them lens they are finished!

Rene Russo

i left glasses on the jacks at the Oliver StJohn Gogarty during a twelve pubs spree in 2014 and when I went back the next year some cunt had swiped them

God you can't trust nobody

also, birdwatching is impossible with glasses because glasses + binoculars = nonsense

i've just volunteered to be the london bird club's spotter for my two local parks, so i'll be wearing contacts a lot more. adding a morning ramble to my schedule might be a fillip for my otherwise-stagnant creative life and a generally good thing for the *soul* etc etc

ilx birdwatching club anyone

maybe not so much a russophile as a pivovarovaphile, sorry to generalise

i left glasses on the jacks at the Oliver StJohn Gogarty during a twelve pubs spree in 2014 and when I went back the next year some cunt had swiped them

I can tell it's time for an eye test because my glasses have started falling off my face if I look down/bend over. the lenses still seem about right but new frames that don't do that would be lovely

(you can tighten them but once they're a couple of years old my fat head forces them loose again within a day or two)

the numbers claim I'm only a bit shortsighted but astigmatic as hell so it's all the same really, can't see much of use without them on

re 00s poll, NV partly otm about needing to remember something for it to be worth voting for, but on the other hand recency bias will see me deciding that whatever noise I heard two minutes ago was the jam of the decade while forgetting all the things I actually love. BUT I will look through the noms and try to get something together and howl in anguish when I remember some classics I should have nominated

birdwatching club anyone

wagtails are amongst my favourites! we get a few pied wagtails dotted around london, and along some of the rivers you see grey wagtails now and then. cheerful presences all. there's a pair of collared doves in my local park who sit on the tennis court fences in the early morning. alas no ravens

not sure how we found this out (might have been a mistype into google) but the urdu for collared dove is 'ghuggi' and we call them that, it is very fitting

ilx birdwatching club anyone

― imago, Tuesday, October 8, 2019 1:12 PM (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

DOUBLE YES! Still waiting for you to trod the Wadden Sea and spot migrating and breeding birds

Withers was born in Karachi, British India (now the largest city in Pakistan) to Edgar Withers, a captain in the Royal Navy, and a Dutch-German mother, Zitette.[3] She was fondly given the name "Googie" (Little Pigeon) at a young age by her Indian ayah (nanny)

a visit to your neck of the woods is definitely on the cards, lbi! perhaps next year some time...

I can barely tell most birds apart but I like to see them and collared doves make me especially happy

and wagtails, for some reason there were loads of pied wagtails in the street where I grew up and I hardly see them where I am now, despite not being that far away or very different terrain-wise (nominally more urban but still mostly low-rise residential with gardens and some grassland)

great Googie Withers fact!

all googie withers facts are great

shall i recount the twelve pubs itineraries of yesteryear

i shall not

tho the last one we did, pre everyone having kids, was limited to D7 and was a huge improvement

Nice LJ, we'll go mudflat hiking.

Googie Withers was great in Hotel du Lac.

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is that deems' pub crawl or an ilx birdwatch

xps, mostly to self: love to see coots too, common on this bit of river when I started here and now I hardly see them, alas

the tree by my flat was often home to young wood pigeons and one year some young collared doves, but now I see mainly street pigeons/rock doves in the area and daydream of tracking the ebb & flow of these things, which stretches of river are Greylag territory and which Canada geese

(there is a mixed greylag/Canada family here, don't think it's a crossbreed but I guess just a couple of goslings that ended up following the wrong family one day when two big clans of geese were sprawled out and squabbling across a grassy bank somewhere; that makes me happy too)

is that deems' pub crawl or an ilx birdwatch

(calz is eddie marsan obv)

shall i recount the twelve pubs itineraries of yesteryear

i shall not

tho the last one we did, pre everyone having kids, was limited to D7 and was a huge improvement

xps, mostly to self: love to see coots too, common on this bit of river when I started here and now I hardly see them, alas

the tree by my flat was often home to young wood pigeons and one year some young collared doves, but now I see mainly street pigeons/rock doves in the area and daydream of tracking the ebb & flow of these things, which stretches of river are Greylag territory and which Canada geese

(there is a mixed greylag/Canada family here, don't think it's a crossbreed but I guess just a couple of goslings that ended up following the wrong family one day when two big clans of geese were sprawled out and squabbling across a grassy bank somewhere; that makes me happy too)

blackheath which i am passing through right now by bus is covered in warring clans of geese, i will enumerate as we go:

shooters hill end - nothing

urgh there are loads of teens necking behind me this is putting me off my goose watching stride ffs

princess of wales pub - three different flocks of canada geese and a smattering of egyptian geese

at this point I received a phone call cancelling my lesson so I got out in central Blackheath and haven't seen if all the greylags are on the western side of the heath, you'll have to trust me that there usually are some

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Who tf says “necking” in this day & age? Fped.

ok I'm at a loose end so I'll do some walking

hare & billet pond - a pair of egyptian geese, moving their necks around a lot, wish there was a verb for this

fwiw the best thing about coots is how radge they get, and when they get very low in the water as they prepare an attack

There used to be loads of pied wagtails I assume they're another victim of ecosystem fuckery