I always had a sotf spot for this song but the strings do my head in after a while.
Here's a bit more of a Ramones-y style mix with the strings just saved for the solo .
Play at 1.5x speed for 'Ramones' tempo....
(, Sun 6 Sep 2026, 22:28, Reply)
Especially when it's sped up.
(, Wed 9 Sep 2026, 17:15, Reply)
The Channel4 News theme was originally used for the music to the trailer of an 80's western movie, "Pale Rider" starring Clint Eastwood.
(, Sun 6 Sep 2026, 17:36, Reply)
Comments in that video suggest C4 News was using it 2 years before the film was released. American movie trailers have often used random pieces of music (I think Robocop used Terminator music, or vice versa).
(, Sun 6 Sep 2026, 18:33, Reply)
Was it actually used in the film, or is this one of those cases where they used a different piece of music for the trailer? Like when everyone used the Requiem for a Dream music for a while...
(, Sun 6 Sep 2026, 23:15, Reply)
from Danny Elfman's soundtrack for Planet Of The Apes (2001)
(, Mon 7 Sep 2026, 3:35, Reply)
so 'originally' is a bit wrong
(, Tue 8 Sep 2026, 10:05, Reply)
Because of course it fucking has
(, Sun 6 Sep 2026, 10:10, Reply)
but slop coded and copy-pasted into WordPress.
If I owned that Parse.ly plugin they've installed, I'd be seriously considering a Goatse update.
(, Sun 6 Sep 2026, 10:46, Reply)
or manic redactor on the epstein files
(, Sun 6 Sep 2026, 11:25, Reply)
Like Jet Set Willy but Elon has to go round the house tidying up the piles of ketamine before his housekeeper will let him go to bed.
(, Sun 6 Sep 2026, 13:28, Reply)
My daughters idea for this song
(, Sun 6 Sep 2026, 8:53, Reply)
This is a real ear worm, I'm glad it made the newsletter. Thank you for sharing, tell your Daughter it was a great idea and it's made an old man in New Zealand laugh his bum off for the morning.
(, Mon 21 Sep 2026, 21:52, Reply)
Napoleon Blownapart's latest presentation of fistic excellence.
(, Sat 5 Sep 2026, 21:50, Reply)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3WaVactj5M
Sadly I can't find a recording of Danny Mainus vs Isaac Colon (@Fight To Win, April 18 2014, split decision).
(, Sun 6 Sep 2026, 15:25, Reply)
Fucking imbeciles that don't know how to read a map vote on using an unuseable map from now on.
The real irony is of course that Africa was the one continent that, being central, was represented the most realistic of continents.
The idiots have taken over and I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
(, Sat 5 Sep 2026, 0:31, Reply)
Which has been around for decades. It's not meant for navigation.
(, Sat 5 Sep 2026, 0:53, Reply)
Why is the Northern hemisphere stretched vertically while the tropics are squashed? Why might that view of the Earth have been in favour in the past?
Non-Mercator style world maps have been a thing for a long time btw, I had one as a kid 30-odd years ago, it's nothing new. I think I understand how map projections work. Why do you think it's stupid to distort the flat map in one way but not another?
This might seem like a totally random and unconnected question, but do you think information about slavery should be absent from the visitor's information at National Trust and English Heritage properties?
(, Sat 5 Sep 2026, 1:06, Reply)
do you not agree?
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Might also help Toto see the Kilimanjaro doesn't rise ike Olympus above the Serengeti
(, Sat 5 Sep 2026, 6:31, Reply)
The mountain is hundreds of miles from the Serengeti. They probably meant Amboseli where the iconic photos of elephants with the Kilimanjaro towering in the background are taken, alongside tigers (only in Kenya)
(, Sat 5 Sep 2026, 9:42, Reply)
Ah, right, that makes sense. I've also seen people arguing that it's stupid because Mount Olympus is nowhere near the Serengeti - which is so idiotic I don't know where to begin.
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Is there a society for people like you?
(, Sat 5 Sep 2026, 5:12, Reply)
therefore I must assume it is being misdirected from its real object. Perhaps if you identify that and address your feelings towards it, next time you won't get so angry at a fucking map.
(, Sat 5 Sep 2026, 8:03, Reply)
Lake America. The American Sea. The Straits of America. Americaland. Armenimerica. New America.
(, Sat 5 Sep 2026, 9:21, Reply)
theshovel.com.au/2026/08/27/canada-renames-lake-ontario-lake-of-hormuz-just-to-fuck-with-trump/
(, Wed 9 Sep 2026, 2:23, Reply)
Doesn’t at all look pathetic or scared.
(, Sat 5 Sep 2026, 15:46, Reply)
We could all simply solve this by two small measures.
1 - Buy a bigger sheet of paper to draw Africa to scale.
2 - Become flat earthers.
Hands up for more paper say aye
(, Sun 6 Sep 2026, 3:00, Reply)
there's more land in the northern hemisphere, stands to reason it'd be at the bottom because of the extra weight
(, Sun 6 Sep 2026, 11:31, Reply)
there are maps where the prime meridian is not in the centre, there are maps where the poles are not at the top and bottom...
(, Sun 6 Sep 2026, 17:05, Reply)
is this because of Brexit?
(, Mon 7 Sep 2026, 0:46, Reply)
as much as I appreciate your desire to be informative, have a think about poles and brexit and see if the penny drops. And the penny in this statement is idiomatic, rather than a reference to descending currency
(, Tue 8 Sep 2026, 0:33, Reply)
for Comedy Central!
(, Fri 4 Sep 2026, 11:26, Reply)
I've made a puzzle! Fill the grid with dice using the clues to work out where the pips are. Start with the 'mini' one if you find it's hurting your noggin. There is also a 'spin' mode where the dice can be rotated - it's super hard!

(, Fri 4 Sep 2026, 11:21, Reply)
A bit like Sudoku with a twist. I should probably try it and see if I like it but I don't want to spoil the moment!
(, Fri 4 Sep 2026, 16:46, Reply)
Once I figured out that you could put placeholder dots in to help figure it out it suddenly became solvable.
Buzzled is a daily play for me, but this may join it.
(, Sun 6 Sep 2026, 11:34, Reply)
Angry Dic doesn't hold back.
(, Fri 4 Sep 2026, 8:28, Reply)
Especially with
Ronseal Danish oil: £8.70
Spear & Jackson dibber: £8
Cole & Mason funnel: £6.40
Oo er missus!
(, Fri 4 Sep 2026, 9:39, Reply)
'...while his annual salary was £88,000 and Sturgeon’s £140,000. They had no mortgage on their home in pleasant Glasgow suburb Uddingston and no children or dependents to support, so every single item on the list, except maybe the motorhome and the Jaguar, was comfortably affordable.'
A combined income of £228,000 (more than that when you take into account things like speaking engagements, dividends, etc), no mortgage, no kids, and Dic here feels that a £60k car and a £140,000 motorhome might have been potentially unaffordable?
I'd love to know what the £12k 'unspecified tech purchase from Apple' was, though. That's suspiciously close to the price Apple was asking for a fully specced-out M2 Mac Pro. He certainly seems like the sort of twat that would buy an enterprise-grade workstation for checking his Gmail.
(, Fri 4 Sep 2026, 10:08, Reply)
Combined income of £228k. Take about half that for tax, so call it about £110k per year spendable. You wouldn't have to save for very long to afford them outright, assuming they weren't bought on finance.
(, Fri 4 Sep 2026, 11:26, Reply)
Of course, anyone earning that amount isn’t taking anything like all of that home. They’re maxing-out pension contributions and the like to limit the tax impact.
(, Fri 4 Sep 2026, 19:48, Reply)
The serious money is from other state actors, in obscure crypto currency and property, then owned by their partner/family.
(, Fri 4 Sep 2026, 17:28, Reply)
".... and the fucker's still out there, on the telly, cunt's face bein filled wi guiness and champagne and oysters and FIVE MILLION FUC'N QUID THE CUNT AND AAAM IN HEEER FOR A COFFEE MACHINE AND WINNIEBEGOOO..."
.."aye, Pete, ye've said. Nae need t'bang on..."
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Honest question: do you chew them or swallow them as fast as you can?
(, Mon 7 Sep 2026, 7:55, Reply)
You see how much better than the English we are, with their nasty xenophobic right-wing reactionary Farages and Lowes.
(, Sun 6 Sep 2026, 10:00, Reply)
or Jura coffee machines are shit and keep breaking...
(, Sun 6 Sep 2026, 17:07, Reply)
This is the first time I've felt genuinely gleeful in a long time.
(, Thu 3 Sep 2026, 21:13, Reply)
Then it will be fake news, followed by "stop picking on us!".
(, Thu 3 Sep 2026, 22:10, Reply)
You missed out "everyone else is doing it" while providing no evidence to back that up.
(, Thu 3 Sep 2026, 22:19, Reply)
Sounds like an appeal to conformity.
(, Fri 4 Sep 2026, 1:32, Reply)
"They're all at it!", they say.
Fine, then let's punish them all... and that includes you.
(, Fri 4 Sep 2026, 4:38, Reply)
It's almost as though they planned to make the broadcast a special surprise on the eve of Reform's party conference.
C4, please accept a woo, a yay, and dare I say it even a hooplah. Well done.
(, Fri 4 Sep 2026, 4:47, Reply)
He's popping a little bit of a homer Simpson muggins in the preview.
picture
I wonder if he studied Art at Dulwich College.
(, Thu 3 Sep 2026, 23:54, Reply)
theres been nothing in any of his previous behaviour to suggest that he's a corrupt cunt who uses nationalism and grievance to conceal a venal self-interested political movement
(, Fri 4 Sep 2026, 2:42, Reply)
they've earned it.
(, Fri 4 Sep 2026, 9:40, Reply)
Live rock band error gags.
(, Thu 3 Sep 2026, 21:10, Reply)
I seen the world of the pub and I had this vague memory of this. It must of been on at stupid o'clock when it first aired. let us know below what happened to it.
(, Wed 2 Sep 2026, 20:27, Reply)
open.spotify.com/episode/5wZ1giF10EBOW7OOagbNbc
(, Wed 2 Sep 2026, 22:08, Reply)
Big fan of the actor Kevin Eldon and also Serafinowicz...not as great as I'd hoped but, full series link:
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8u911NVTJAMbVYXbbPoEDRyBTJMFLNgw
(, Thu 3 Sep 2026, 10:16, Reply)
I blame the overlords loving the office and trigger happy. Causing it to go under the radar demanding 'Has it got Ricky in it?' and 'pranks on the public?'. Cringe pranks, few years later Noel Edmonds walks back in the room.
(, Thu 3 Sep 2026, 11:35, Reply)
Widen the circle of your friends.
Facebook link.
(, Wed 2 Sep 2026, 19:11, Reply)
We are doing our only live show of the year soon! Woohoo! It's going to be a 7 Seconds Of Love ska set, but with a break in the iddle for some less hectic Rathergood songs like We Like The Moon and The Wrong Bananas. It is going to be SUPER FUN! I'm also thinking I'll give away a free rathergood toy to anyone who comes dressed as a rathergood character or wears a soup hat. If you are a b3ta person (which you obviously are or you wouldn't be reading this) I'll give you a free toy too if you come and say hello. YAY!

(, Wed 2 Sep 2026, 18:25, Reply)
It was several years later before I discovered Gojira et al...
(, Wed 2 Sep 2026, 23:05, Reply)
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