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This is ace. Can be easily adapted to fit on here. "I don't like to speak badly of people. I have grown up thinking and being told that if you cannot say something nice about someone, you should not say anything at all. But I must break that rule in this case because I hate @ForeverBlue92 very...

RIP Bozo

Found one of those old BBC sound effect LP’s at my local second hand store the other day. This one was Insect Noises Vol.1, but when I tried to play it all that came out of the speakers was a loud buzzing noise. Turns out I’d put the Bee side on by mistake. :hayee:

Post in thread 'Messymascot's faith in humanity and ginger safe haven' https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/messymascots-faith-in-humanity-and-ginger-safe-haven.113432/post-10326725 @Methuselah 😞

The river part is an all time great Simpsons scene :lol:

“What's the bravest thing you ever did?” He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. “Getting up this morning”, he said Still one of the hardest lines ever written 😮‍💨

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How come you have to sign for it? Is it a rare edition? Just had a look and it seems to be relatively easy to pick up a copy for yourself (added it to my TBR list :) )

https://pen.org/magic-tree-house-author-calvin-and-hobbes-among-hundreds-of-tennessee-book-bans/ Magic Tree House author Mary Pope Osborne, children’s poet Shel Silverstein and Calvin and Hobbes cartoonist Bill Watterson have joined Judy Blume, Sarah J. Maas, Eric Carle and Kurt Vonnegut on a...

If you cook it properly and use the right amount of water you shouldn’t need to drain it :coffee:

As for one book I would recommend: ‘48 by James Herbert. I love all different types of books, from classics to non fiction, horror to historical fiction and everything in between, but this is one I keep coming back to as it was my favourite book as a teenager. It’s a post-apocalyptic thriller...

Read ‘The Name of the Rose’ recently. Was amazed by just how many other stories this has influenced. Dunno if you bother with computer games or not, if you do, then check out ‘Pentiment’ which is loosely based on The Name of the Rose, it’s great. I still prefer ‘Foucaults Pendulum’ as far as Eco...

Interested to know if this is actually any good. I've always avoided it as it comes across a cheap misery porn judging by the comments I've heard so far.

Looks like they have absolutely embraced the cheese factor here. As they should :lol:

https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/the-people%E2%80%99s-arena.122066/

Aside from the obligatory Shakespeare, we had Day of the Triffids, Of Mice And Men and Great Expectations. A fairly decent selection. Then they threw us a complete curve ball for the final GCSE course work and based it on Nadine Gordimer’s ‘The Train From Rhodesia’ which, if you are familiar...