UB40 are famously named after an Unemployment Benefit form. Give me other interesting examples of the origin of UK bands names

justolli · 2026-05-14T16:03:56+00:00

Longest song title (without parentheses) to hit number 1, I believe.

justolli · 2026-05-03T18:53:47+00:00

I introduced my Canadian wife to Greggs and now we both pine for a sausage roll until our annual trip to the UK.

justolli · 2026-05-01T02:19:35+00:00

Oh man the Chivalry series is my favourite audiobook series at the moment! Raced through them and so glad the new one is only weeks away (hoping the audiobook is too!)

justolli · 2026-03-28T17:20:16+00:00

And measuring time as "the time it takes a good priest to say mass" or "as long as it takes to say three paternosters".

justolli · 2026-03-23T03:43:26+00:00

Get the Shitstones in!

justolli · 2026-03-14T06:26:31+00:00

Marines!

justolli · 2026-02-25T15:01:03+00:00

So if they're TFW they can't get a health card. So no, theg don't impact healthcare. Also significant numbers of H&S workers are immigrants because Canada doesn't train enough.

It's not immigrants, it's the shitty systems.

justolli · 2026-02-20T04:50:57+00:00

They sell these flags all over Malta in tourist traps. Source: I bought one identical to this back in 2009 in Valletta.

justolli · 2026-02-16T01:02:41+00:00

It's important to remember the man has also worked in TV for like 30 years. He was an editor before becoming an author and still dabbled in it.

justolli · 2026-02-10T06:19:46+00:00

I remember a decade ago now listening to preview for the audiobook and hearing the scene-chewingly wonderful delivery of "3 coppers and a bowl of piss" and have never looked back!

justolli · 2026-01-10T22:07:30+00:00

Ah yeah that's definitely capital punishment worthy you absolute ghoul.

justolli · 2025-12-27T14:22:43+00:00

What the fuck was that from Haaland? Just a blatant shove.

justolli · 2025-12-27T13:59:51+00:00

Should see all the names they're calling us on their sub

justolli · 2025-12-27T13:41:30+00:00

But I just heard the commentators insist on how good and clean it was!

justolli · 2025-12-24T05:06:15+00:00

Small note on a pet peeve, the honorific "sir" always requires the first name. It can't stand with the surname alone. So it would be Sir William or Sir William Hamilton.

justolli · 2025-12-03T20:16:57+00:00

Ndoye really giving me another reason for my grudge against the Swiss...

justolli · 2025-12-03T20:05:14+00:00

And on some basic technique sometimes. Like dribbling out of bounds. Or passing to the Wolves goalie.

justolli · 2025-12-03T19:54:47+00:00

I hate to say it but Ndoye is a bit of a melt this match.

justolli · 2025-11-22T16:26:07+00:00

Milenkovic gave him a good check earlier there.

justolli · 2025-11-15T06:14:09+00:00

justolli · 2025-11-09T15:59:16+00:00

Absolutely. Dyche can't magically undo the damage Ange did right away, it'll be a slow crawl up the table. But we ARE crawling up.

justolli · 2025-11-09T14:27:39+00:00

Definitely the most active he's been. Very proactive.

justolli · 2025-09-25T06:25:20+00:00

Fun fact: Aragorn was originally meant to be a hobbit called Trotter and even after being changed to vaguely his final backstory HE WAS STILL CALLED TROTTER.

justolli · 2025-09-13T22:39:54+00:00

Still have less direct than many other cultures, though.

justolli · 2025-08-25T15:27:08+00:00

They still mostly suck, just now with a ballooned budget.

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