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It's pronounced Slaaaaawwwwwwn-Yeh.

Levi-ooooh-sa.

What's a placebo poster prog?

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Despite this summer being utterly shite so far I managed to get a sunburned face yesterday by sitting in the garden talking bollocks with a mate for 4 hours yesterday.
The day before I put on sunscreen and got rained on.

I'm hoping to go for a picnic with loads of friends on Saturday - use some sunscreen on Friday, eh?

About time we had a Satanus statue (assuming it isn't Old One Eye or Golgotha).

First time I've ever seen this thread (and I am a member of goodreads).

Does this mean there's a Bradley GN in the works? (Go on, you know you want to...)

No plans for one, sorry - he was just the next 'B' on the list...

Time for a floppy then...

Oh, and don't hold back on next week's subject - I think I detected that you quite like Brass Sun :-)

The real 1978 action was over in StarLord! Although I share your love for the Visible Man and the later stories for MACH 1.

I don't know if it was a specific editorial decision, but putting Dredd on the Moon definitely amped-up the Sci-Fi elements of a strip that was perhaps in danger of being a bit too earth-bound, especially for some of the artists.

You might have a point there - could have been for balance, and not just for Dredd but for the whole comic.

In the first prog we had one story set in the distant past, one almost in the present (M.A.C.H.1 was set in the eighties), one in the near future (1999), one a century after that, another nearly a century after that (Dan Dare).  The strips themselves featured future war, space, aliens and robots / cyborgs.  One year later, what was the mix in the comic?

We actually stayed at the Angel which is now a Wetherspoons. The photo was taken in the courtyard garden of the Rusty Shears Tearoom on Silver Street. Nice wee place with lots of cakes. Think they did booze too but we stuck to afternoon tea. Classy!

Funny hearing about places you're familiar with from your chlidhood being taken over by more modern chains.  I would have first gone to the Angel in the late eighties during the folk week, and more recently during the Goth weekend.

I know the building, as I went there when it was a restaurant ten years ago.  I don't suppose you noticed if Sherlock's was still on Flowergate?  A vaguely steampunk themed coffee shop which I found out about as they were putting up the sign (at about eleven o'clock at night, which was a bit unusual).

Never liked peas and mushy peas are just like peas cubed.

This blog may need a new camera person! Look at this effort :



You can barely see the grub! This was a nice curried lamb pasty in a filo pastry parcel with poppy seeds all over it. The place in Whitby was nice but a bit too quirky for my tastes with its mismatched china and £6 pasties!

I've spent many holidays in Whitby (two a year for a decade, plus a few more in the eighties) and can barely think of any pubs with beer gardens - which one is it?  The Angel, between the swing bridge and the railway station?

We'll be there!

I was amazed to discover the good droid in question knew exactly who I was as soon as he saw me - I suppose I must have posted more selfies here than I realised.

You mean that's not you on your avatar? 

No, the person in his avatar... is... the.. Leurgh!

They made a tabletop RPG based on the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon series?  How delightfully novel!

Actually, they did do one - an RPG based on a cartoon inspired by the original D&D RPG.

Pay through your nose (30k) for a university degree; go into a job market where you'll be challenged to say the least; no step on to the housing ladder and if you throw your arms up, no free movement to go somewhere else in ther hope of making a life. God help you if you're Young. Z

aren't those first 3 already true before brexit?

May have misread it, but I think the point was that the first three are the current situation but what's changed is that their will be no escape for pastures new to try to make the best of a bad situation.

Is there anybody with spares who's due to be at a Southern Contingent meeting in the near future?

To be a real Johnson Shelter, it has to have no roof or walls: someone has simply to have opened a sewer and climbed in.

If you're in Northern Ireland and can get to Belfast, there's an impromptu march - and not the eventful kind one might expect at this time of year - outside Stormont at 10:45 tomorrow morning, with speakers from the major parties and the SDLP addressing public concerns.

And if you're in London there's a small scale gathering on Highbury Fields, next to Highbury Corner tube station.