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@JohnPhilpin My memory! And searching. It was used in a TV ad in the UK maybe ten, fifteen years back, focusing on the shapely rear end of the car. ‘I see you baby, shaking that ass’!
YouTube link. Also people complained, according to The Guardian.
Which can’t possibly be right, because it says it was 23 years ago. I remember my daughter singing along with it, and she wasn’t doing that when she was 2!
I guess maybe they revived it? Anyway, that’s what I was talking about, so I’m playing <cite>Vertigo</cite> now.
@JohnPhilpin I meant the ass-shaking one that was advertised with the Groove Armada track. Which turns out to be the Renault Megane.
@manton I hate to say this, but I found a typo! The ‘Penn Station’ chapter starts with a quote that refers to the ‘Qual d’Orsay’ in Paris. It should of course be the Quai d’Orsay.
@JohnPhilpin I see what you did there (shaking that ass). Couldn’t tell you what car it was advertising, though.
@andrewhickey.500songs.com Just trying to understand this. So the hyphenated form with the capital ‘S’ is the dog whistle version? Two questions, then: why? And who is being whistled at or to?
@manton I hope you’re able to fix the paragraph breaks in descriptions. That’s always been slightly annoying.
@mmetcalfe Mostly Lea Bridge, where we live. That’s a good analysis.
@mmetcalfe I’m not sure I do. From what my partner was hearing on the doorstep, the main reason for the swing to the Greens was, ‘Gaza’. Which, well… what the fuck has it got to do with the Mayor of Hackney? Or Hackney council?
@JohnPhilpin Right. I saw a banner on one of your recent posts saying ‘Created by a human in Scotland.’ But maybe that was a screengrab of something you were quoting? Hard to tell sometimes.
@JohnPhilpin Are you in Scotland now? Whereabouts? Weren’t you in New Zealand?
@JohnPhilpin Here’s a tweet with the basics. The X-man has broken Twitter so you can’t see the thread without the app, it seems, but the whole context is on this page, I believe. It’s from Tribunal Tweets, citizen journalists who live-tweet employment tribunals.
@ass.golf Hell, yes, it sure does.
@JohnPhilpin Absolutely! I’m not a speaker, but I know enough to know that, and have also heard it was once asked and answered in a court. That may be apocryphal, though.
Anyway, you could make an argument that it depends on the sex of the person, rather than their gender.
@mmetcalfe Oh no, that sounds very bad. Hope you’re getting the help you need.
@bugshaw.bsky.social That was fortuitous!
@JohnPhilpin @bradleyandroos According to Websters Bituminous is an adjective, meaning ‘Having the qualities of bitumen’. Which is what I understood it as. I’ve never heard of ‘bitumous’, which does sound more like a noun. But I can’t find a reference to that spelling anywhere.
@manton Ha! You know, I get mildly annoyed on the odd occasion I want to do something book-related on iOS and it’s not there. I have to go to the web. Completely forgot Epilogue is right over there!
@canion Utter bollocks, to my mind. At best it feels like an act of surrender to the machines. And it looks ugly and would be annoying to write (‘a thought am- a parenthetical thought am- and back’). And when you render your text in another typeface, what then?
It suddenly occurs to me that the whole thing is a joke.
@JohnPhilpin “Piqued”. Unless your interest has reached its highest possible level!
(Sorry, call me a pedant if you will, but I sometimes fear we’re in danger of losing words.)
@JohnPhilpin Or why not drop the silly cluttering hyphens and just use spaces?
Same for me. Been like that for a few weeks, on different networks.
@JohnPhilpin Thanks. I could, of course, have googled if myself, but I thought it was more fun to speculate.
@manton OK, thanks. Strange, because it seemed to be ok the few previous days. Sorry for disturbing your holiday.
@manton There’s something up with my blog. The post from last night is linked on the home page, but if you click through you get the ‘still being published’ message. I’ve tried a couple of full rebuilds, and there are a load of errors in the logs.
On further checking, all my posts have that message!
@andrewhickey.500songs.com That use of ‘original Alvin Stardust’: was there more than one Alvin?