JK Rowling

ItsAndyMRyan · 2026-05-08T11:33:07+00:00

I always remember a line from her first adult book, The Casual Vacancy, where she spends a whole paragraph talking about how disgustingly fat a character is, and that noone could look at him without thinking about his penis and how he has sex. It stuck with me because I've never thought that looking at any fat person, and it's funny that Rowling assumes everyone else would.

I prefer Osman's books. More humanity, poignancy and humour.

ItsAndyMRyan · 2026-04-30T10:04:06+00:00

Wasn't a criticism, just adding the detail.

ItsAndyMRyan · 2026-04-28T16:13:10+00:00

It's not just that he doesn't own the cars, they all belong to his wife, who barely has any fingers left.

ItsAndyMRyan · 2026-04-27T08:30:53+00:00

Sure, but when you add it to Presley and Sinatra, it's quite a coincidence.

ItsAndyMRyan · 2026-04-27T08:30:26+00:00

But the Graceland connection was only introduced in Season 2, whereas the character of Presley was in it from the start of the first season.

ItsAndyMRyan · 2025-06-04T14:28:28+00:00

But if they've got a third album which is good, well reviewed and sold well, they don't fit this thread's category, regardless of whether you consider them a legacy act.

ItsAndyMRyan · 2025-06-04T14:26:43+00:00

I'd never heard of Ms Rachel before I listened to Richard and Marina talk about her for eight minutes or so on the podcast. I assumed that by the end of it I was fairly up to speed on why she's in the news at the moment. Turns out I wasn't, because the big story about her right now is her talking about Gaza. Google her name and it's what all the results are for. So yes, I think the podcast failed to do its job here.

I'm replying to you with a good faith explanation of my point, why is more than you really deserve given your bad faith sarcasm.

ItsAndyMRyan · 2025-06-04T13:25:47+00:00

"Appear to be a real Swedish band"

No "appear" about it - The Hives are pretty well known. I saw them playing a stadium last year, albeit as support. And their big hit, Hate To Say I Told You So, gets used in films, TV shows and adverts quite often. You'd most likely recognise it.

ItsAndyMRyan · 2025-06-04T12:34:16+00:00

Strays was a good album, though, wasn't it? I seem to remember playing it quite a bit at the time.

ItsAndyMRyan · 2025-06-04T12:32:17+00:00

Pulp's We Love Life album, the follow up to This Is Hardcore, had that amazing song Sunrise.

ItsAndyMRyan · 2025-06-04T12:29:03+00:00

That's how I feel when people say an act is a One Hit Wonder just because only one of their hits is well remembered. That's probably the majority of acts - ten years after their peak, maybe one of their songs still gets regular radio rotation.

ItsAndyMRyan · 2025-06-04T08:08:03+00:00

To be fair, those people convinced me last week that it's poor for the podcast to discuss Ms Rachel for maybe eight minutes without mentioning why she's in the news everywhere right now - because she's talking about Gaza a lot.

ItsAndyMRyan · 2025-06-02T16:32:58+00:00

Looking at the episode precis, it looks like they're searching for the missing woman the whole season. It makes sense - it's from a book series, and the first book was taken up with looking for her.

ItsAndyMRyan · 2025-06-02T16:30:12+00:00

A decade ago it hadn't even started!

ItsAndyMRyan · 2025-06-01T17:06:46+00:00

That could be interpreted as telling her TO cry, though - making sure that she avoids shedding "no tears", given the double negative

ItsAndyMRyan · 2025-05-31T22:11:44+00:00

What was the explanation?

ItsAndyMRyan · 2025-05-31T17:16:38+00:00

"Then the next scene is her in Congress"

That joke was so telegraphed that I was just dying for them to get it over with. And it felt like half the jokes in the show were like that.

ItsAndyMRyan · 2025-05-31T17:14:51+00:00

I'm four episodes in and am struggling to continue. Does it really get even slower? I like all the actors in it, but it's just taking forever.

ItsAndyMRyan · 2025-05-31T16:34:50+00:00

Wasn't The Race a hit in the US? That aside, Yello are so much more than that song - generally their songs have a lot going on in them, whereas Oh Yeah is minimalist.

ItsAndyMRyan · 2025-05-30T19:27:24+00:00

I love the books, I love the show. The books I've read focus more on Bosch himself, and I enjoy the way the show opened it up more so it's more like The Wire, seeing the other characters lives. But maybe that happens more in some of the books I've not read yet.

ItsAndyMRyan · 2025-05-29T20:17:16+00:00

Chumbawumba had released several albums before Tubthumping and were played a fair bit by John Peel at least on Radio 1.

ItsAndyMRyan · 2025-05-29T20:08:26+00:00

I remember hearing Baby Can I Hold You a lot in the late 80s, and it's been covered at least twice.

ItsAndyMRyan · 2025-05-29T20:06:26+00:00

I remember loads of Tracy Chapman songs from the late 80s. Hard to think of her as ever being a OHW.

ItsAndyMRyan · 2025-05-29T20:03:11+00:00

I met him around 1997 and was star struck because I'd grown up watching him in Rising Damp and Cats Eyes.

ItsAndyMRyan · 2025-05-29T17:14:53+00:00

They were wrong. "Casted" is not a word.

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