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Ric Blackshaw

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Happy birthday Helene. Have a goodun!

02.03.2026 16:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Surely there can only be one cul haw haw ha haw he hu haw haw De Sac?

27.02.2026 16:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I live in Levenshulme. It’s been an absolute shit show. Everyone just wants it to go away frankly. It’s so close that tactical voting isn’t really possible. Allowing for margin of error there’s no conclusion to draw that means your picking the right tactical vote option.

25.02.2026 11:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Way of All Flesh (1997) Adam Curtis, Henrietta Lacks, Cancer
The Way of All Flesh (1997) Adam Curtis, Henrietta Lacks, Cancer YouTube video by Vegetative streaming

The whole story is so amazing, weird and disturbing at the same time. I first Learned about it here youtu.be/GK4nwUvDyUE?...

25.02.2026 00:25 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

When will these twats realise that a human brain is not analogous to a computer that you program. AI is just a cheap party trick compared to the human mind.

21.02.2026 20:28 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I know. That golden period before the Beatles came and ruined everything.

21.02.2026 00:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Of course if it was it would be by Gary Black Leather or summat.

21.02.2026 00:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s ok. Sounds like like summat out of Larry
Parne’s stable.

21.02.2026 00:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

I do sometimes think that all the good ambient records are already made and we don’t really need anymore.

15.02.2026 13:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In the 80’s jangly guitars while wearing anoraks indie era it was compulsory for every band to have at least one song about rain. Creation had it in their contracts!

15.02.2026 11:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is actually a thing in Venice apparently. I’ve got a mate from there who has a restaurant that occasionally has it on the menu. Its not really for adults, It’s a treat for kids.

15.02.2026 00:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Because he didn’t really write about Kings or Princes or Lovers. He wrote about the human condition. He was probably the first to do so.

05.02.2026 21:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yes but to be fair he was ver ver drunk at the time

05.02.2026 20:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That’s the thing about Shakespeare. No matter what the situation. There’s always a speech or quote.

05.02.2026 19:13 👍 21 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Never really got the hate for these guys.. Dim star was a banger!

04.02.2026 22:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Probably none actually because bulbs don’t get hot anymore..

03.02.2026 20:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How many people do you think have singed their hair while posing under one of these for instagram?

03.02.2026 20:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Acid Brass was a good thing. This not such a good thing.

03.02.2026 20:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I think they’re doing pretty well. Waiting lists coming down, loads of green energy projects, public services getting more money, return of sure start in all but name..

23.01.2026 18:36 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Someone’s gotta take the blame I guess..

22.01.2026 17:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Pink Flag - Wire

20.01.2026 19:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Whoosh!

20.01.2026 19:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That’s one way of ruining a fella’s weekend.

18.01.2026 17:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

One for the ages.

28.12.2025 00:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Manchester in the 1970’s might sue!

16.12.2025 17:47 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

Helluva a way to find out your blokes got VD!

16.12.2025 17:43 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Never trust a hippie!

06.12.2025 14:13 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I love the noise! And they do hand out earplugs.

28.11.2025 19:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Those are side lace winklepickers beloved of the teddy boys and later the mods.. I’m not sure what that fellas wearing on the og post but it ain’t these..

26.11.2025 12:22 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Such a lovely fella! First time I met him was in the Kush in Heaton Moor about 1am. “Nadeem, vindaloo, arse burning hot!”

20.11.2025 18:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0