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OCC: Bring Me the Horizon's Top 20 Biggest Songs
Quite surprised by just how much That's The Spirit dominates but it makes sense given that songs from Amo have only had two years to build up streams.
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Next Week's Big Album Battle
Is there a minimum length for an album to qualify for the charts these days? Bring Me The Horizon are releasing a new EP / mini-album that, if eligible, should easily make the top 10.
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2020 United States Presidential Election Thread
The impact of a VP pick on their home state often isn't that big anyway. What is important is that if Biden wins, Harris will leave the Senate and her seat will be up for grabs - either in a special election or by appointment by the Governor. A lot of the other picks like Warren and Baldwin represent states that either have a Republican governor or would be vulnerable in a special election under a Democratic president - with how close the Senate is likely to be in November, picking a VP from California means this won't be an issue.
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Mercury Prize 2020
Slightly odd looking shortlist. 2019's was great, the best I remember in ages. Definitely a shame for Rina Sawayama not making it. Suspected The 1975 wouldn't - 'A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships' probably deserved to win it but it's been recognised by nearly everyone that 'Notes on a Conditional Form' is a drop off in quality and probably a bit too messy for the Mercury.
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Run The Jewels - RTJ4
Two listens in and it's really damn good. Not sure how it will stack up compared to their others (some of the hooks aren't as sticky as those on RTJ3 in particular) but it's a lot of fun and "walking in the snow" and "JU$T" in particular are incendiary.
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OCC: Bring Me the Horizon's Best Selling Singles
Massive recency bias - really shows how different the audience must be more that nothing from before Sempiternal can make it in there even though their older fans would view them as 'classics'. I thought It Never Ends might sneak into the top 10.
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Man, 78, arrested over fatal stabbing of suspected burglar
Property is not as valuable as life. This is not a difficult concept.
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Trump, Russians and Corruption
The Dems look like they may struggle to win control of the Senate in the midterms as the map is stacked against them this year, but that's almost irrelevant in terms of impeachment as for a conviction you need two thirds of the Senate to vote in favour anyway. If the Dems can win back the House in November (which I think is more likely than not, despite the gerrymandering) then they'll be able to file articles of impeachment and even if the Senate votes it down, if the evidence is damning enough then Trump would be up against it in 2020. Assuming there's no criminal charges before then. Of course, he could fire Mueller this week and then all bets would be off: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration...ntial-interview
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OPINION POLLS 2017
Partly self interest, partly a cultural distrust of the rest of Europe.
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Trump, Russians and Corruption
One more and you're warned.
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Trump, Russians and Corruption
We already have a Trump thread and it took approximately 0.5 seconds for this one to get derailed talking about Br*xit. I'm going to merge them, but please try and stay on topic.
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General Whining
How long did it take you to find that?
- An alternate PM?
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An alternate PM?
The idea of Richard Littlejohn being a good alternative PM.
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An alternate PM?
So what did you base your suggestion on?