Good morning B3-et-nam*.
1. Did you know about this? archaeology.about.com/od/medieval/qt/Dust-Veil-of-AD-536.htm
It's not one of 'my' periods, but I'd have thought I'd have heard about it nonetheless. A third of Europe dead from a 18-month-long blue dust cloud? Frost in summer in China? Nope.

2. I read two things which tickled me this morning:
a) Some mongol on 'Facebook' reckoned that Bale fellow would have made it 'even more special' if he'd have turned up at the hospital to visit those shooting victims in his Batman suit. Yes, having a unexpected black-clad figure looming over them as they regain consciousness after what they've been through would certainly be 'special' for them alright. Maybe they could make it more dramatic with some smoke bombs etc? And a Joker impersonator?
b) I read with more than a little confusion that they're having music at Olympic events to 'match' them, such as Dizzee Rascal at the basketball which I can understand, you know, coloured music etc., the other example given was Elton John at the, er, archery? Short of some truly desperate gay joke I could think of absolutely nothing to link those two. Any ideas?

So, with that in mind, let's have some more apt music/sport pairings please.

Like, 'The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner' by your favourites and mine 'Iron Maiden', for the marathon etc.

Alt: I'm down in the fucking dumps**. Cheer me up, please. Thanks in advance. In question form: what would you do to cheer me up, other than 'nothing' lol?

*Cinema
**BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE I LIVE COS I'M SKINTzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 8:21, 110 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

you're descending into self-parody
*puts on ignore*
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 8:28, Reply)

I don't know that one, is it 'Sadcore'? Sing it for me, maybe I'll recognise it.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 8:30, Reply)

It's by Slint.
Touch & Go records, 1991.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 8:40, Reply)

Can't really think of anything other than go look at something funny on youtube.
I'm getting ready for a night out.
(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 26 Jul 2012, 8:37, Reply)

I don't really hate Australians you know.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 8:41, Reply)

It's okay, I really hate you.

(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 26 Jul 2012, 8:42, Reply)

you terrible bully
STOP TROLLING ME!!!!@
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 8:44, Reply)

never, you're too shit not to bully.

(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 26 Jul 2012, 8:48, Reply)

oh man
First Swipe, now you.

The bullying continues.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 8:52, Reply)

Morning all
100m Jasmine Sullivan’s “10 seconds”
Long Jump Van Halen “Jump”
High Jump Fresh Prince “Jump on it”
Triple Jump Pointer Sisters “Jump (for my love)”
Hurdles House of pain “jump around”
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 8:48, Reply)

High Jump
Wasn't that Apache, by The Sugarhill Gang?
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 8:50, Reply)

Apache by The Sugarhill Gang?
I think not.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 8:51, Reply)

Not their finest hour, not that they had many.
8th Wonder being their crowning glory, obv.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 8:53, Reply)

I believe that is the song he's referring to, as it is the one used in Fresh Prince, is it not?

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 8:53, Reply)

Good times.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 8:54, Reply)

Pretty sure that was Chic.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 8:57, Reply)

TTJ!
Prick.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 8:59, Reply)

It was a very shit 'J'

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:05, Reply)

'AA, JUMP ON IT'

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 8:53, Reply)

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 8:54, Reply)

1) Nope, although before even reading their theories, I thought it sounded something like a volcano.
2
a) I quite like the fact that he went there of his own volition, although part of me wonders if it was a publicity stunt. The suggestion I saw that amused me greatly was one of rather than going to see the patients, dress the shooter up as the Joker, dress Bale up as Batman, and just let Bale 'beat the living shit out of him' /assaultlolz

b) I was offered tickets to the Archery by the Missus, was actually very tempted, but I couldn't get the day off work, which is a bit of a shitter. I can't think of a reason why they'd choose Elton John for it though, something about a big red ring?

Chariots of Fire for the Mens 100m, but for it to work, they'd have to run really, really slowly.
Alternatively, Yakety Sax for the Womens 800m, but they'd have to run really quickly.

Alt: I missed my bus this morning, and as such missed out on a bacon sandwich. Does that help at all?
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 8:49, Reply)

Archery ABC "shoot that poison arrow"
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 8:51, Reply)

Maybe a chinese man covering Alexei Sayle's 'classic'
"Arrow John Gotta New Motor"
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 8:52, Reply)

hahaha
Or a Cantonese cover of 'Hello' by Rionel Litchie.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 8:54, Reply)

THERE YOU GO!
This is better - not just a list of jumping related songs.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 8:54, Reply)

you'd have to be some kind of cunt to make such a weak effort

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:28, Reply)

You are SO RIGHT.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:36, Reply)

All Olympic events
Should have the theme tune from a Henry Kelly hosted game show played in the background.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 8:50, Reply)

Game for a laugh

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 8:52, Reply)

'Gunther, you have control of the game'

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 8:55, Reply)

TREE!

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:10, Reply)

Morning stig

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 8:55, Reply)

Do I have to start each answer on a new page and cross through all my rough work?
1) Yes, I did. My palaeoecology lecturer favoured comets as the reason. I was more of a supervolcano person.

2) a) Fucking idiots.
b)The Boxer for the Boxing. Shit song and shit sport.

Alt: There, there.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 8:55, Reply)

Morning CHCB
Supervolcanos terrify me, is this rational?
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 8:56, Reply)

Yes, its rational.
The same professor liked to remind us that should a supervolcano cause a dust cloud that stops agricultural production globally then we're all fucked.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:03, Reply)

Sounds like the life and soul of any party!

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:03, Reply)

Pfft. as long as we kill off 90% of the world's population within the first couple of months the rest of us can ride it out on tinned and frozen.

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:30, Reply)

No waffle, succinct and to the point.
Just as I'd have expected from you.


9/10
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:00, Reply)

I will be appealing this mark as I paid my money and expect the complete student experience AND 10/10.

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:01, Reply)

Oh, alright then.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:20, Reply)

Bale shouldn't have been anywhere near that hospital.
If he's not fit for Team GB at The Olympics he'd not fit to go galivanting around visting Americans.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:01, Reply)

The big eared prick.

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:02, Reply)

Aaaand we're back to the Fresh Prince again.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:04, Reply)

*room shakes*
Oh, morning Bobby
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:06, Reply)

Speaking of which, did you see the picture of Prince Charles from last week?
It's quite amusing
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:07, Reply)

/board have raped it to wiithin an inch of it's life

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:09, Reply)

Some of them have been excellent
Others, as ever, have been shit.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:10, Reply)

That is the way of the world, is it not?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:20, Reply)

This is starting to sound like a Dylan song.

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:32, Reply)

chumbawumba - tubthumping for judo
"i get knocked down"...
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:05, Reply)

Football
Pulp - Common People
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:13, Reply)

I'm not sure whether I hate that song, or just Jarvis Cocker.
Who is, without question, a monumental twat.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:14, Reply)

This is an era that spawned The Gallaghers, Damon Albarn, Tim Burgess and Richard Ashcroft. And yet it's Jarvis you hate?

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:17, Reply)

I find myself strangley drawn to Blur's new song

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:18, Reply)

I haven't heard it.
In fairness though, although I find Albarn an unbearable prick, I'm slightly impressed by his commitment and the variety of his output.

Alex James can fuck right off though.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:19, Reply)

cheesy cunt
It amuses me that Albarn is so prolific and varied in his musical stayles and Graham Coxon is so completely 1 dimensional
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:20, Reply)

I love that he did that Gangster Rap Opera about Dr Dee.

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:31, Reply)

It makes you want to strangle them?
Entirely understandable.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:31, Reply)

Don't worry, I hate them all.
But I think Cocker might be the only one I hate of them for being such a smug cunt.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:18, Reply)

I'll forgive him a lot
for the impressively seedy 'His n Hers' and for the Jackson thing at The Brits.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:20, Reply)

It's fiar to say that Pulp wrote some excellent pop songs

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:20, Reply)

I think so.
But then I'm so used to getting shit for my taste in music round here that I expected to be alone in that.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:21, Reply)

If it helps, I think I get somewhat more abuse than you about music.

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:22, Reply)

That's probably true actually.
I'd get away with mine if I hadn't admitted to having a soft spot for The Beautiful South.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:23, Reply)

If it helps, I don't hate them, I just most of their music bland and overplayed.

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:23, Reply)

I found this
*find*
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:25, Reply)

Common people, disco 2000,Es and wizz
these are good party pop songs
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:24, Reply)

It's not fiar at all

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:22, Reply)

The Divinyls 'I touch myself'.
Whenever Victoria Pendleton is on.

I may get thrown out of the viewing room in the office, mind.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:15, Reply)

See also; Michelle Jenneke, and her warmup routine.

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:16, Reply)

is that the hurdler?

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:17, Reply)

I'll be honest, I have no idea what she does beyond her warmup

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:18, Reply)

i know what you do, dirty boy!

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:28, Reply)

Even if I did, which I don't (or haven't yet, anyway), could you blame me?

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:31, Reply)

Drown - Smashing pumpkins
Any swimming event involving Equatorial Guinea
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:17, Reply)

Moving - Supergrass for the 100m
Going Under - Evanescence for the diving
What You Waiting For - Franz Ferdinand (specifically for Usain Bolt)
I Won't Back Down - Tom Petty for the high jump
Stop It You're Killing Me - Therapy? for the Judo
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:19, Reply)

Evanescence? Really?
You sicken me.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:19, Reply)

I was trying to

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:20, Reply)

I love this heat, today seems to be sponsored by breasts
on the other hand I just saw a fat pasty pleb walking past witth his top off and a clutch of iceland bags, swings and roundabouts.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:19, Reply)

They must have been big bags

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:20, Reply)

Oh, arse.

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:21, Reply)

That's ME!

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:21, Reply)

Was he building a playground?

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:21, Reply)

, ;
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:25, Reply)

Sailing - Rod Stewart. For the sailing, obv.
Who sung "I am already fucking sick of the officious little cunts directing me around public transport days before the Games have even opened and by the way you pricks these queues are just commuters you wait until all the spectators rock up"?
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:27, Reply)

I think it was Monty

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:28, Reply)

he never had any respect for scansion

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:30, Reply)

i have bought enough food for 3 weeks, water for a month and bog roll by the fuckton
*locks doors*
*turns off lights*
*sways in corner*
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:30, Reply)

Thanks "Squeeze"

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:30, Reply)

I get this!

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:32, Reply)

I have to say I am looking forward to it.
I think it's the best thing that's happened to East London for more than a century.

But the transport is going to collapse. There is an underpass behind the Bishopsgate escalator at Liverpool St that means people don't have to queue to get on said escalator or cross the street. They have closed it, forcing people to use the escalator, CAUSING the queues. They just say it's closed "for the Olympics". Too many cretinous jobsworths let loose.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:35, Reply)

I blame aylum seekers and Tony BLIAR in equal measures.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:37, Reply)

This country is going to the dogs.
We haven't even got any asylums anymore.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:49, Reply)

We haven't even got any dogs.

The fucking gyppoes have eaten them all.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 10:32, Reply)

Is that the extended version of 'So What', by the Anti-Nowhere League?

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:31, Reply)

I believe so.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:36, Reply)

You are right to believe so.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:38, Reply)

Queen "Hammer To Fall"
for the hammer throwing?

"Run To The Hills" for the Marathon

"Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" for rhythmic gymnastics
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:34, Reply)

"Spasticus Autisticus" should be the anthem for the entire Paralympic Games.
And Ape
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:36, Reply)

haha!

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:36, Reply)

I'M SPASTICUS! !!

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:38, Reply)

*shakes fist*
bloody youngsters, no respect, with their sneakers and their computer games, never done a hards day's work...
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:38, Reply)

Did you see that two of the Munich widows
wanted a minute's silence for their Israeli husbands at the opening ceremony? Fucking cheek.

I say check their papers and get armbands on the bastards.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:56, Reply)

why now?

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 9:59, Reply)

They were killed at the Olympics

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 10:01, Reply)

well yes, but there have been one or two Olympics since then that they could have had a minute at

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 10:05, Reply)

40 years?

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 10:18, Reply)

I'm still not sure if that's quite a s stupid as the lad from the shooting in America who is suing
What a twat.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 10:00, Reply)

No surprise
in the land where people sue because their coffee is hot, their peanuts contain nuts or they slip on something their own devil spawn dropped in front of them.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 10:11, Reply)

Typical 'look at me' yids. No offence, like.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 10:31, Reply)