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Not sure if this totally fits the criteria but (IMHO of course) this song about Elvis is one of the best tribute songs ever.

I'm a bit off the pace with this at the moment, but are we on things to do with time? If so...

One advantage of lockdown has been discovering a few new bands or ones I'd never listened to much. I've got quite into these...

Indeed very sad. As well as playing for Leeds he was also manager of Barnsley during a period of intense rivalry between us (he was their manager when we pulled a crowd of just under 30,000 for a 3rd division game in 1981). Nothing but good words for him though on every HTFC forum & a general view from people who met him that off the pitch he was a thoroughly nice bloke.

The report on anti-semitism (800+ pages of it) has been leaked online. I've not seen a copy of it, but it's creating a shitstorm on the left in the party. A key finding seems to be that right-wingers & senior party officials conspired to make sure Labour lost the election as a way of getting rid. https://novaramedia.com/2020/04/12/its-going-to-be-a-long-night-how-members-of-labours-senior-management-campaigned-to-lose/ Also I think some suggestions (as I think people were saying before the election) that some of the accusations of AS were driven from outside the party or by vested interests; on top of that, a criticism that investigations of accusations (including potentially some legitimate ones) were mismanaged. It'll be interesting to see where this goes...there's definitely a mounting pressure to make it public, although I suspect most of the news agencies will have already seen it.

I've seen him & saw another article about an old girl in Sutherland doing something similar. Absolute respect to them without a doubt, but I can't help but feel worried that we now seem to think the NHS is a charity that we should be fundraising for.

My daughter loved this song as a kid (her name is very similar to the title) & ended up with a massive collection of Runrig CDs.

Loads of good versions of this song around, including Springsteen, but I reckon this is the best.

I don't think they were relegated before the game, but other results on the day meant that Utd were going down regardless. It's likely Law didn't know that at the time he scored though. There was still one game left of the season left after the derby match, so if results had gone their way, they'd have still been in it going into the last game.

😄 Anyone who can tell a bloody word anyone from t'Tarn (as they call it around there) ever says is doing well

The memory thing is interesting. I remember all sorts about my first match (Hudds v. West Ham, 1972). When I got to see footage of it years later, the goals were much as I remembered & I can picture where I was standing. But, most of my life, I’d have sworn on my life that it was a sunny day. I have a vivid memory of my first ever sight of a football ground & in that memory the sun is shining on a lush green pitch. It was a genuine shock to my system when about 30 years later I saw the footage & it was a cold, wet day & the pitch was an absolute mud bath.

A couple of things for me from Summer 1970 when I'd have been coming up for my 6th birthday. I have a loose recollection that something had happened for Huddersfield Town as I kept getting given various specials from the local paper. I didn't really understand it, but we'd won the old 2nd division title. I got given a pennant which hung on my bedroom wall for many a year & I still have it somewhere. I have similar memories of the 1970 World Cup. I remember getting loads of newspaper articles cut out & gluing them in a scrapbook & my dad telling me that Gordon Banks was the best goalie in the world. Which, being 6, became an established fact for me. I don't remember much about the tournament though as I assume I'd have been in bed when any games were being played. The first actual football match I can remember was Arsenal v Liverpool, FA Cup Final in 1971. I don't think I even watched it but spent the afternoon out on my bike arguing with my mates about who we wanted to win.

New York alone has had more confirmed cases than any other country has in total, and more deaths per 1m population than anywhere apart from San Marino. That's the state generally but I'd imagine those figures are predominantly concentrated in NYC. And more so, likely to be concentrated in the poorer parts of the city. I've not seen a stat yet, but it would be fascinating to know what proportion of deaths across the States had health insurance that covered their treatment. Trump continues to proclaim 'great success' in fighting it, but it's really hard to look at the numbers & conclude anything other than they have handled it worse than any other major country. Potentially worse than any other country full stop. Underpinned of course by their multi-tiered health system. The only thing you'd hope is that enough of the voting public are savvy enough to see that come the election (assuming that he doesn't use this as an opportunity to cancel it, which would be my prediction), but I aren't holding my breath.

I'm told that one possible explanation for the Korean numbers may be down to the quality of the testing kits they've used...early in the outbreak they were heavily reliant on a Chinese manufactured testing kit which was later shown to have an accuracy level of between 20 & 40% (WHO standards require 80%+ apparently). I don't know what that means in terms of throwing up errors, but the potential for a lot of false positive readings may be part of the explanation. http://www.asianews.it/news-en/COVID-19:-Chinese-companies-selling-defective-test-kits-abroad-49698.html

I'm involved with a couple of lung health forums which are administered by researchers & respiratory specialists. I've stuck a question up to see what their thoughts are on the likely explanation...I suspect they will come back with a 'it's too early to know for sure' but if they offer any new insight or have anything of interest to say, I'll pass it on.

Sounds like a Freudian slip to me. A quick look on Wikipedia shows some interesting mobsters born around that time, & a couple are still alive. I suppose it's quite likely that a descendant would choose 'Slasher' as their ganster nickname...let us know how the search goes

Although I've been retired about a year now, I can't get my body clock out of the routine of 30+ years. I was always a bit of an early riser anyway, but bringing up kids, school runs & work have meant I was rarely still in bed by 7. Nowadays, I'm usually up & dressed by 7/7.30 every day in spite of my best efforts.

There's zilch in there that proves anything or puts forward any even remotely plausible theory of why the Moon shines. However, credibility flies out of the window early on with the statement that the Moon is "observably not a solid body" and "largely transparent". This is actually pretty straightfoward to disprove with basic observation skills as the Moon eclipses background stars almost continously; and most evidently when it's a crescent up to half. Star charts can give you clear predictions of when this will happen, and precise times they will emerge from the eclipse.

Scotty, out of interest, if the Moon is its own light source, what do you think actually makes it shine? What is the energy source?