David Burden

I didn't get where I am today by knowing what I'm doing.

[CHOWER @chowermusic]

I went to Tommy Robinson’s ‘Unite the Kingdom’ march on Saturday 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Here’s how it went down

[Love Classical Music and Movies 🎺🎻💖🎥🎬 @AlexTran677026]

Many films have great endings. But The Last of the Mohicans is the kind of movie where the final scene almost surpasses the entire film itself.
The last 15 minutes are pure cinema: music, silence, mountains, sacrifice, and tragedy unfolding with barely any dialogue. The “Promentory” score pushes every emotion to its limit.

It feels like more than just the end of a few characters — it feels like the end of an entire world.

A beautiful, heartbreaking, and haunting ending that stays with you long after the movie is over.

[Mark Hammond @MarkHam80780803]

“I’ll be all over the Farage £5 million donor story as soon as I’ve finished investigating allegations that Starmer owes a mate 22p for a Mars bar he bought him in 1987.”

[Simon Harris @SimonHarrisMBD]

Not a lot of people know this about Nigel Farage, and he doesn’t like to shout about it, but many years ago he spotted a young boy crying on Clacton Seafront. He asked him why he was so upset, and it was because his mum had given him a pound to go and buy a 99 but just as he approached the ice cream kiosk, a seagull had swooped down and stolen it from him before flying off towards the amusements.

Without a single moment’s hesitation, Nigel gave the boy another pound to get a 99, and then he bought ice creams for every single child on the seafront that day. Inspired by his kindness, the child hugged him and promised that he would never forget his act of generosity.

That little boy grew up to be Whitney Houston.

[Paul Rees. ex Rucksack. @HannahIamthest1]

Things I have learned from the movies"

Having watched hundreds of movies, they have taught me many things that I would like to share with you today:

1. If being chased through town, you can usually take cover in a passing St Patrick's Day parade - at any time of the year.

2. All beds have special L-shaped top sheets that reach up to armpit level on a woman but only waist level on the man lying beside her.

3. All grocery shopping bags contain at least one stick of French bread.

4. Once applied, lipstick will never rub off - even while scuba diving.

5. The ventilation system of any building is a perfect hiding place. No one will ever think of looking for you in there and you can travel to any other part of the building without difficulty.

6. Should you wish to pass yourself off as a German officer, it will not be necessary to speak the language. A German accent will do.

7. The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window of any building in Paris.

8. A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds.

9. When paying for a taxi, never look at your wallet as you take out a note - just grab one at random and hand it over. It will always be the exact fare.

10. If you lose a hand, it will cause the stump of your arm to grow by 15cm.

11. Mothers routinely cook eggs, bacon and waffles for their family every morning, even though the husband and children never have time to eat them.

12. Cars and trucks that crash will almost always burst into flames.

13. A single match will be sufficient to light up a room the size of a football stadium.

14. Medieval peasants had perfect teeth.

15. All single women have a cat.

16. Any person waking from a nightmare will sit bolt upright and pant.

17. One man shooting at 20 men has a better chance of killing them all than 20 men firing at one.

18. Creepy music coming from a graveyard should always be closely investigated.

19. Most people keep a scrapbook of newspaper cuttings - especially if any of their family or friends has died in a strange boating accident.

20. It does not matter if you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involving martial arts - your enemies will wait patiently to attack you one by one by dancing around in a threatening manner until you have knocked out their predecessor.

21. During a very emotional confrontation, instead of facing the person you are speaking to, it is customary to stand behind them and talk to their back.

22. When you turn out the light to go to bed, everything in your room will still be clearly visible, just slightly bluish.

23. Dogs always know who's bad and will naturally bark at them.

24. When they are alone, all foreigners prefer to speak English to each other.

25. Rather than wasting bullets, megalomaniacs prefer to kill their arch-enemies using complicated machinery involving fuses, pulley systems, deadly gases, lasers and man eating sharks that will allow their captives at least 20 minutes to escape.

26. Having a job of any kind will make all fathers forget their son's eighth birthday.

27. All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large red readouts so you know exactly when they're going to go off.

28. It is always possible to park directly outside the building you are visiting.

29. A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from duty.

30. If you decide to start dancing in the street, everyone you bump into will know all the steps.

[David Burden @david_burden]

@elonmusk

[Shooter McGavin @ShooterMcGavin]

Underrated Movie Villain:

Peter McCallister

- Let’s his brother call Kevin a jerk without any repercussions. Zero backbone.
- Forgot to close the garage. Car batteries are dead for sure.
- When flight landed, couldn’t have cared less about forgetting Kevin. Just wanted to get to hotel and relax
- Calls losing kids a “family tradition” in front of the police and laughs about it
- Gets mad at Kevin for room service bill. Sorry your kid didn’t want to die from starvation.
- Questionable Mob ties and where his money comes from

[David Burden @david_burden]

@AskPayPal Tried calling the helpline a number of times now but every time I’m eventually told to just “wait until PayPal updates its systems”. I have been unable to log in for 3 months. There is clearly a technical issue with my login. Please advise tx

[David Burden @david_burden]

@AskPayPal I have been unable to reset my password and cannot get past this screen - I have no other options. Please advise

[Shiiine On @ShiiineOn_]

This week in 1989

A turning point , a sea change, musical folklore was created and ingrained in a generation.

7 days in the Stone Roses

Headline a sold out Alexandra Palace

Invited to play on BBC prestigious arts show The Late Show

Appear on Top of the Pops

Remember it?

[Tim Burgess @Tim_Burgess]

The Merch Market Souvenir Ticket Generator

They don’t make real tickets anymore so we thought we’d help out if you collect them - any show from the past, present or future

Totally FREE get stuck right in here…

https://t.co/T8LQWYSsX3

[PJ Harvey @PJHarveyUK]

PJ Harvey's fifth studio album 'Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea' was released on this day in 2000.

The artwork was photographed by Maria Mochnacz, with design by Mochnacz and Rob Crane. This contact sheet is from the album cover photo shoot.

https://t.co/LId1MyhVQS

[Top10Nathan @Top10Nathan]

I'm playing A Moon Shaped Pool for the first time in far too long.

Having listened to over 600 new-to-me albums since the start of last year, it's all too easy to forget my old favourites.

This sounds every bit as good as I remember; if it's Radiohead's swansong, it's perfect.

[David Burden @david_burden]

@NoContextBrits Beans 🤮

[Claire 💙 @clairebubblepop]

I keep hearing “we want our country back”. Yeah we all do. How’s about being able to buy a home on one wage? Or wages even being liveable? What about same day GP appointments? Or ambulances arriving within minutes? Clean rivers and beaches? I could go on and on. But I’ll tell one thing… it’s not migrants who’ve taken these possibilities away… it’s capitalist greed. Have you noticed we don’t own anything anymore? Almost everything is subscription… films, music, software for your phone or PC. Tell me how this is anything to do with migrants? Look to the people with the power, not to the people with NONE.

[David Burden @david_burden]

@LozzaFox

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place"

"Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with European Union countries and we could return people"

"But that's to Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson and the Conservatives, we tore up those agreements when we left the European Union, and now we have this problem"

"I hope when he's on your program you'll ask him to apologise"

"What Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson did is have a magnet of people, more and more people coming to the UK, because we can't return them"

"So again I ask you please, that Nigel Farage is exposed for his failures and contributions to the small boats crisis"

- Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats

[Radiohead Club @RadioheadClub]

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[Emma 💛💙🇩🇰🇬🇧🇪🇺 @MonkEmma]

The desperation by those on the Right to smear Angela Rayner is wearing thin🙄

And no - don’t bother replying UNTIL you’ve read the thread!

I’ve trawled through multiple versions of this “story” in the Telegraph and Daily Mail to try and piece together what’s going on!

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