Open Thread – Tuesday 17 August 2021

Posted on August 17, 2021 by Adam D
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  1. egg_ says:
    August 28, 2021 at 2:38 pm

    Which Animals Could You Eat In A Fight?

     

    Give me big enough knife and fork…

     


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  2. Zipster says:
    August 28, 2021 at 2:42 pm

    <blockquote>Canola has a good amount of DHA in it. I think it has a bland slightly medicinal taste. I don’t rate it beyond shallow frying.</blockquote>

     

    Canola is deodorised and sanitised. It is somewhat oxidised from high heat treatment, which is the main problem with these vegetable oils. You can buy cold pressed canola, but you may as well just buy  cold press virgin olive oil.


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  3. srr says:
    August 28, 2021 at 2:48 pm

    🙂 Two of my favourite things –

    <strong>Dog pulls off very impressive billiard rail shot</strong>
    https://rumble.com/vlm22w-dog-shows-impressive-billiard-rail-shot.html


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  4. egg_ says:
    August 28, 2021 at 2:49 pm

    Grapeseed oil is high temp and great for BBQ and has a nice mild flavour.

    “Canola” being r@peseed oil.

     

     

     

     


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  5. Farmer Gez says:
    August 28, 2021 at 3:20 pm

    Use sunflower or just plain veg oil.  Don’t use Canola (rapeseed oil) pigs won’t eat that shit.  It is not a plant we consume, so why consume its oil?

     

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    Axl knows bugger all about canola oil.

    I wouldn’t fry with rapeseed oil either, but that’s not canola oil.

    High oleic canola oil is good for frying and high in mono-saturates. Plenty of this type canola being planted to replace palm oil.

    Palm oils fries really well, tastes great but also good for clogging up the arteries.

     

     


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  7. Farmer Gez says:
    August 28, 2021 at 3:33 pm

    BTW

    Axl – It is not a plant we consume

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    Canola is a brassica.

    Help me out here class.

    Can anyone think of brassicas we may consume?


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  8. egg_ says:
    August 28, 2021 at 3:58 pm

    Canola oil is a vegetable oil derived from a variety of rapeseed that is low in erucic acid, as opposed to colza oil. There are both edible and industrial forms produced from the seed of any of several cultivars of the plant family Brassicaceae.

     


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  10. jo says:
    August 28, 2021 at 4:06 pm

    Gez cabbage cauli broccoli and everyone’s favourite Brussels sprouts.


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  11. Runnybum says:
    August 28, 2021 at 4:15 pm

    With all of this conversation about cooking oils, which is the best oil to cook politicians in?


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  12. calli says:
    August 28, 2021 at 4:17 pm

    Rocket, turnips, cresses, spinach, mustard and horseradish, as well as radishes themselves.  Oh and bok choy and all the other boks and choys.

    The flower gives them away.


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  13. Dot says:
    August 28, 2021 at 4:19 pm

    **Canola is deodorised and sanitised. It is somewhat oxidised from high heat treatment, which is the main problem with these vegetable oils.**

     

    Deodorising removes aldehydes and ketones because it is generally done under very low pressure.

     

    If oil lasts for 1 – 2 years, it likely has tiny levels of free acid and oxidants. Oxidation is a process which is exponential.

     

    You are right about sanitation.

     

    The process also removes tocopherols which are antioxidants.

     

    This is why cold pressed oils are better.

     

    Some of it goes to customer perception. A good olive oil is not always clear. That lack of clarity can be seen as a flaw.

     

    Old Arnie before he went girlie man touted flaxseed oil. Any reports?


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  14. calli says:
    August 28, 2021 at 4:21 pm

    Boiling oil, of course!

    Could try tar too.


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  18. kaysee says:
    August 28, 2021 at 4:26 pm

    I am coming up with an error page while trying to post links. The first got through but can’t proceed. Will try to post the links, later.


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  22. custard custard says:
    August 28, 2021 at 4:33 pm

    Hi Cats,

     

    Back again after being in Cat gaol whilst the new updates were rolled out. Carry on…


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  23. johanna johanna says:
    August 28, 2021 at 4:35 pm

    Woo-hoo! I’m re-personed! Thanks, Adam.

    As for cooking oils, that scam run by ‘celebrity chefs’ like that SA woman who was always spruiking extra-virgin olive oil (which she happened to sell) for cooking is nonsense.

    For stir frying or indeed most frying, peanut oil is best. That’s what Chinese and Asian chefs use if they can.

    Good quality olive oil is best used at room temperature in dressings for salads or as a dipping sauce for bread or splashed over various dishes at the end to give a bit of oomph. As a frying medium, I’d rate it at the lower end because it doesn’t get hot enough before the flavour starts to degrade. As for using extra virgin for frying – it’s just an ostentatious display of wealth combined with ignorance – unless you happen to be selling it.


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  24. Mark A says:
    August 28, 2021 at 4:38 pm

    Try one more time


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  25. JC1 JC1 says:
    August 28, 2021 at 4:39 pm

    All good, thanks Adam.


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  27. calli says:
    August 28, 2021 at 4:41 pm

    We can tell the registered upper crust now.  You have stylish, yet understated avatars.

    All hail our new overlords!


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  29. Ruprecht says:
    August 28, 2021 at 4:43 pm

    Does anyone know what the point in registering is?


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  30. rocinante says:
    August 28, 2021 at 4:48 pm

    Test Saturday


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  31. calli says:
    August 28, 2021 at 4:50 pm

    You don’t have to fill in fields, and you look slimmer.


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  33. Mark A says:
    August 28, 2021 at 4:56 pm

    calli says:
    August 28, 2021 at 4:50 pm

    You don’t have to fill in fields, and you look slimmer.

    ==================

    and if happen to be born on the wrong day, you can’t access the blog for days


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  34. srr says:
    August 28, 2021 at 4:58 pm

    Oh good, now it’s postable where it originated –

    “srr says:

    August 28, 2021 at 3:36 pm
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    struth says:
    August 28, 2021 at 2:10 pm

    We even told you the tracking app would then be made a permit based app.

    Exactly what is happening.

    Can’t tell the difference between being traced and being permitted…………….it’s going to smack you in the face.

    =================================================

    Yeah but it’s OK; for those always boasting about breaking lockdowns all over the place, travelling where & when they will, damn the rules.

    When the police do pull them over to check their tracking & tracing permit passport, and find they’ve clocked up 10’s of thousands of dollars of fines & committed gaolable offences, well they’ll obviously know they’re Govt Pro-Jab Propaganda Agents and they’ll all laugh about what a jolly good time they have sucking in the ‘lowly classes’.

    Oh silly me, I forgot, they won’t pull them over. They’ll just scan their Rego and KNOW they’re Propaganda Agents, not to be hindered in their very important gaslighting work.”


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  35. johanna johanna says:
    August 28, 2021 at 5:00 pm

    Our steam loco fans in the West would have been there?


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  37. Bar Beach Swimmer Bar Beach Swimmer says:
    August 28, 2021 at 5:02 pm

    <i>and if happen to be born on the wrong day, you can’t access the blog for days</i>

    +1


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  39. Farmer Gez says:
    August 28, 2021 at 5:06 pm

    For stir frying or indeed most frying, peanut oil is best. That’s what Chinese and Asian chefs use if they can.
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    Peanut oil is very similar canola oil in fats. It has a higher level of saturated fats that helps the frying quality.
    Palm oil is nearly all saturated fat, that’s why it fries well.

    It’s basically a lard tree.


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  40. kaysee says:
    August 28, 2021 at 5:09 pm

    Trying again …

    ᵔᴥᵔ

    Un


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  44. Mark A says:
    August 28, 2021 at 5:12 pm

    Last night’s Lame pics.


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  47. Ruprecht Ruprecht says:
    August 28, 2021 at 5:13 pm

    Van Wrongselen in the Oz writing about Shorten aiming to take. Albanese’s job


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  48. Bar Beach Swimmer Bar Beach Swimmer says:
    August 28, 2021 at 5:13 pm

    Nick, I tried to respond to your question but the hamsters must not like someone who’s not registered.

    Take a look at the main page – Adam has put up a post.


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  49. mh says:
    August 28, 2021 at 5:14 pm

    Craig Kelly MP has tweeted a Ben Garrison cartoon from April 2020, which of course was put in the crackpot conspiracy theory box at the time.

    https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/bill_gates_pandemic-1024×765.jpg


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  50. Ruprecht Ruprecht says:
    August 28, 2021 at 5:14 pm

    Ok thanks Calli. I see it now. Not sure about the slim bit though


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  52. mh says:
    August 28, 2021 at 5:22 pm

    I’m reporting from the Suncorp NRL double header tonight.
    Masks are a bummer, but not required when you’re drinking. Only TaliDan could come up with a law where you have to be masked while drinking.


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  54. Bar Beach Swimmer Bar Beach Swimmer says:
    August 28, 2021 at 5:27 pm

    Mark,

    the stork, the illegible writing of doctors + the 4 musicians!

    thank you!


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  55. Bar Beach Swimmer Bar Beach Swimmer says:
    August 28, 2021 at 5:35 pm

    kaysee, #5; unfortunately, people don’t care. To that end, everyone in favour of such abuses of power in a “free” “democratic” country should have to watch footage of what the allied troops found when they arrived at the concentration camps in Germany, Poland etc. Or, perhaps, Schlinder’s List.

    I just tried to put up a clip from Sky news that nilk had up on her site. It was the NSW Police Commissioner saying to Laura Jayes that, subject to the Premier and the NSW Covid-19 cabinet’s decision, he would like people to have to confirm their vaccination status by showing their phones to prove that they’re allowed out.


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  56. Bar Beach Swimmer Bar Beach Swimmer says:
    August 28, 2021 at 5:37 pm

    kaysee, and on your contributions this arvo, they’re al great! thank you.


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  58. Indolent Indolent says:
    August 28, 2021 at 5:47 pm

    I’m logged in but I still can’t post a link.


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  59. johanna johanna says:
    August 28, 2021 at 5:50 pm

    From Flash-Cat:

    Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:
    August 28, 2021 at 5:20 pm

    as any fule kno.

    Nigel Molesworth!!

    Stay here, Johanna, as I doubt Nigel is much known or appreciated on the Dash-Cat.
    A spotty schoolboy with inkblots and poor spelling creates not the joy there he does here.

    While being temporarily un-personed here (now fixed) I said over there ‘as any fule kno.’

    Apparently the Neanderthals here are incapable of recognising literary references, especially high classics like Molesworth’s Diary.

    Pearls before swine.

    The good things are, we Neanderthals do not have to scroll past the travails of the nouveau riche about how incompetent their tradesmen are, their past relationships for the last 60 years, their public generosity to less fortunate relatives, and their interlecshural superiority.

    And that’s a short list.

    I suspect that one or two readers here recognise Molesworth, possibly who even who do not have university degrees, you snob.


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  60. Ruprecht Ruprecht says:
    August 28, 2021 at 5:54 pm

    Johanna, while I don’t think it’s great to have he said/she said at the Copy Cat reposted here, I’m glad Lizzie stays away from this place.


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  61. egg_ says:
    August 28, 2021 at 5:56 pm

    Birdie?

    What about the assortment of one-dimensional “female” Hi Alan! Grigsocks busily spinning the Couf, ‘chivalrous” Cattards?

    Grigs having a good larf at your expense.

     

     


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  62. egg_ says:
    August 28, 2021 at 5:57 pm

    he said/she said at the Copy Cat

    Cat fight at the NOT OK Corral?

     

     


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  63. Rabz says:
    August 28, 2021 at 5:57 pm

    Bluddee hell – it’s a Rock ‘n’ Roll Circus, I tells ya!

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwtyn-L-2gQ


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  65. Harlequin Decline says:
    August 28, 2021 at 6:00 pm

    Mark A,

    Good lame pics. Appreciated.


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  66. Top Ender says:
    August 28, 2021 at 6:02 pm

    Personally, I use GTX.

    Oils ain’t oils, you know.


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  67. egg_ says:
    August 28, 2021 at 6:02 pm

    Van Wrongselen in the Oz writing about Shorten aiming to take. Albanese’s job

    Unsurprising, given Bullsh1tten’s recent appearance on Insiders.

     


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  68. Rabz says:
    August 28, 2021 at 6:06 pm

    Oils ain’t oils, you know.

    And Goils ain’t Goils (except when they are) … 😛

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3kE0rvAJhM


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  69. Roger says:
    August 28, 2021 at 6:06 pm

    My wife just got an unsolicited text from Craig Kelly saying if elected he’ll ban unsolicited political texts.

    Politicians!


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  70. egg_ says:
    August 28, 2021 at 6:07 pm

    bill_gates_pandemic

    Garrison on the money.

     


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  71. H B Bear says:
    August 28, 2021 at 6:09 pm

    I’ve run into a spot of tech bother.  My Spotify premium account was hacked and I have been some French hacker electronica.  I think I have fixed the problem and are just running through some Steely Dan and Toto to check.  They will probably log out before I do.


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  72. egg_ says:
    August 28, 2021 at 6:10 pm

    Oils ain’t oils

    Castrol is recycled oil.

     


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  73. calli says:
    August 28, 2021 at 6:11 pm

    *shines shoes on shins, straightens tie*

    Is this the Literary Cat?

    If so, I thoroughly recommend the last whodunnit wot I read.  “Asta’s Book” by Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell in dark psychological mode).

    Well paced, evocative of the darker side of the Edwardian Afternoon, an exploration of the lies our families tell us.

    Worth a look.


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  74. Roger says:
    August 28, 2021 at 6:12 pm

    If all else fails, Bear, try Celine Dion.


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  75. calli says:
    August 28, 2021 at 6:13 pm

    Can’t buy a thrill, Bear.

    The soundtrack of my yoof.  Still have it, but only disk, not vinyl.


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  77. Ruprecht Ruprecht says:
    August 28, 2021 at 6:14 pm

    Bear, Steely Dan will release two live cds soon


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  78. johanna johanna says:
    August 28, 2021 at 6:15 pm

    As a tribute to Adam’s recent work on the Dash Cat – No Static at All:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV3zWSawJiw

    Mind you, no doubt there is still a bit of static, but it’s a great song.  🙂

     

     


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  79. Roger says:
    August 28, 2021 at 6:15 pm

    The QLD government has banned state high school “league tables” to prevent parents choosing a school for their children based on its academic results.

    The teachers’ union is ecstatic.


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  81. politichix says:
    August 28, 2021 at 6:27 pm

    Rice bran oil has highest heat point so best for cooking.

    Swanky high end cold pressed olive oil for drizzle etc


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  82. H B Bear says:
    August 28, 2021 at 6:28 pm

    I do listen to a bit of Steely Dan and Toto but only ironically.


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  84. egg_ says:
    August 28, 2021 at 6:29 pm

    Does Rosie le Poulet take her jab advice from Scotty-Cam-the-Blockhead on Chanel no. Nein?

     


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  85. CrazyOldRanga says:
    August 28, 2021 at 6:30 pm

    Avocado oil is the mutts nuts.


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  86. johanna johanna says:
    August 28, 2021 at 6:31 pm

    Thanks for Them clip, Rabz. Never saw it before. So much for bands 50 years later who claimed to have invented ‘thrash’.

    Van is a classic Irish ham artist, but supercharged with talent. For me, it’s ‘when the foghorn whistle blows’ – and note that a foghorn is not a whistle, but into the mystic we go, gloriously:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syIUmrSJWAU

     

     


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  87. Rabz says:
    August 28, 2021 at 6:32 pm

    Bluddee hell – goil, you know that it would be untrue, I tells ya … 🙃

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq8k-ZbsXDI


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  88. Top Ender Top Ender says:
    August 28, 2021 at 6:35 pm

    Speaking of sound, HB, have added a second subwoofer to the home system.

    Sound like a V12 now instead of a V8.

    Testing with Queen’s Radio Ga-ga, and Ray Parker’s The Other Woman.


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  90. Steve trickler says:
    August 28, 2021 at 6:36 pm

    It certainly feels Australia is being run by Hydra types at the moment. We are in their “Framework” 2:15

    Welcome to The Framework – Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 4×15


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  91. Roger says:
    August 28, 2021 at 6:40 pm

    I listen to the Rolling Stones ironically.

    How else can you listen to middle class English white boys singing the blues?


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  92. custard custard says:
    August 28, 2021 at 6:41 pm

    So the Cat 2.0 has no Montifa, Grigory or the Vietnam 🇻🇳 f-wit?

    This is very good news.


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  93. custard custard says:
    August 28, 2021 at 6:42 pm

    I’ve lost my avatar somewhere…


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  94. Rabz says:
    August 28, 2021 at 6:49 pm

    “middle class English white boys singing the blues”

    Err, Rog, trying to pay tribute to a dead middle class English white boy who loved the bleus* …

    Meanwhile, here’s a black man pretending not to be white, if that’s any consolation …

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vo-rF5Wx6s

    *Deliberate …


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  95. H B Bear says:
    August 28, 2021 at 6:52 pm

    Just a hop, skip and a jump from the plantation to the council house.


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  96. johanna johanna says:
    August 28, 2021 at 6:54 pm

    Roger says:
    August 28, 2021 at 6:40 pm

    I listen to the Rolling Stones ironically.

    How else can you listen to middle class English white boys singing the blues?

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    Good topic for discussion.

    I loved the Stones in their early days, bopped around to ‘hey, hey, you get offa mah cloud’ and ‘Satisfaction’ made a spot in my brain that won’t go till the brain does.

    Still thrill to ‘Mona’.

    But I used to love you, and it’s all over now.


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  97. Rabz says:
    August 28, 2021 at 6:56 pm

    Not quite dead (apart from two of them) middle class English white boys pretending not to be black …

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3h–K5928M

    Is it ‘coz I’s black, I asks ya?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaZbrqE1CF4

     


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  98. Rabz says:
    August 28, 2021 at 6:59 pm

    Bluddee hell – Fatty Trump and Ali G – conversin’

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US2CVK3qaL0


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  99. Roger says:
    August 28, 2021 at 6:59 pm

    Go for it, Rabz.

    Charlie kept up a solid backbeat and could also swing it, but he learned it all from black musicians who are seldom remembered nowadays, which I think he’d have been the first to acknowledge.

     

     


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