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Some of my favourite "patter" (songs with very fast word enunciation) songs that aren't from musicals include:

Subterranean Homesick Blues - Bob Dylan

It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) - R.E.M.

We Didn't Start the Fire - Billy Joel

Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na) - My Chemical Romance

Chop Suey - System of a Down

Hardware Store, Bob, Jerry Springer and That's Your Horoscope For Today - all by Weird Al Yankovic

It's not often a band or artist keeps a take with a false start on a final cut of an album.

The only time I've encountered it is on "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream" on the album Bringing It All Back Home where Dylan starts singing and then everyone in the studio erupts into laughter (including producer Tom Wilson) as the backing band missed their cue. Then you hear Wilson say "Okay, Take 2" and the song restarts with the full band with no further restarts.

Are there any other neat examples of tracks with false starts kept in like this?

I was listening to Blonde on Blonde again yesterday, and I noticed that he flubbed the lyrics twice on Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again. The first time is during verse 4, where he sings "when I s- he built a fire on Main Street", and the second time is during verse 6, when he sings "Then I whispered -said- not even you can hide".

He also flubs the words in Hurricane when he sings "remember that murder that ju-happened in a bar" which seemingly throws Ronee Blakley off on the next line as she sings "Remember you saw you saw the getaway car".

Are there any other studio recording tracks where you've noticed Bob accidentally flubbing the words and instantly correcting himself like this?

I just went to Spoons for food for the first time in about 4 months and I've noticed they don't have veggie burgers on the menu anymore.

What gives? I thought veggie burgers were popular at Spoons and they've had them on the menu for years.

I went to Canada's Wonderland yesterday on an incredibly busy day and I have to say, despite the hatred Cedar Fair/Six Flags gets from North Americans, the operations today were a hundred times better than any UK park in the middle of summer.

-All rollercoasters were open, and most had multiple trains running, meaning the longest queue we had all day was 75 mins for Leviathan.

-The park is open from 10am to 10pm every day although many rides close after 8pm.

-Free, reliable WiFi covering the whole park

-The food was reasonably priced and had a good selection.

-The only breakdown was Sledgehammer of the 20 rides we did today, and that's notoriously unreliable because it's the only one of its kind ever made.

-Only one ride had an upsell.

-The ride staff were all friendly and polite.

Contrast this with my last visit to Thorpe Park during fright nights which was chaos as multiple rides broke down, we had to queue or over 2 hours multiple times, some of the staff were less than polite and everything was so inefficient.

The UK parks need to seriously get their acts together and fast!

I'm at Canada's Wonderland in Toronto right now and they have a rollercoaster called "Behemoth" and naturally my RW nerd brain automatically thinks of the robot every time I see that word. There's also a coaster called "Leviathan" which also made me think of the robot from Mech Mania.

It got me thinking that a lot of rollercoaster names also seem to make good robot names, like Oblivion and Nemesis at Alton Towers, Stealth and The Swarm at Thorpe Park and Griffon at Busch Gardens Williamsburg.

What robots also share the name of a rollercoaster?

I'm going on holiday abroad for 18 days on Wednesday and will be bringing my laptop with me so I can play my Steam games via cloud through GeForce Now. The Sims 4 doesn't work with this and the only cloud service I've found so far that lets you stream The Sims 4 from your PC in another country is Shadow PC but that costs $40 a month which is too much for just one game while I'm away for 18 days.

Are there other cheaper options available for cloud streaming The Sims 4 or is that the only option?

I'm about to embark on my second long haul flight since 2016 this week, and it got me remembering the extremely mixed dining experiences I've had on long haul flights over the years.

The worst by far was United Airlines Los Angeles to London Heathrow in 2011, the vegetarian option was a monstrosity of something that resembled polystyrene beads with a greenish brown "curry" that had a large slice of a soggy citrus fruit inside. It was vile and nothing has come to matching that in 15 years!

When I say paired songs I mean songs on albums that segue directly into one another and sound like one continuous song.

Some of my favourites include "Brain Stew" and "Jaded" and "Holiday" into "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" by Green Day

Also "An Cat Dubh" and "Into The Heart" by U2

Every U2 album up to No Line on the Horizon (which I imagine will get a deluxe edition in 2029) has had a deluxe edition except Rattle & Hum, Zooropa and Pop. R&H I kind of get because it was more of a soundtrack album but I don't understand why Zooropa and Pop were both skipped for 20th Anniversary deluxe editions.

Does anyone know why these albums haven't had Deluxe Editions?

I'm a big fan of songs in unusual time signatures and there's something "bouncy" about songs in 12/8 time. Some of my favourite songs in this time signature include:

"Trip Through Your Wires" and "Acrobat" by U2

"Just Like a Woman" and "Chimes of Freedom" by Bob Dylan

"Sing For The Submarine" and "Hallelujah" by R.E.M.

What are your favourite songs in this time signature?

I've seen several questions asked on other Reddit subs and other platforms asking along the lines of, "If your child committed murder, would you hand them in?" Answers tend to vary, but the people who say they wouldn't, even if it meant the victim's family wouldn't get justice, blow my mind. As much as you may love your child, surely seeing them suffer the consequences of their horrific actions would be better?

I want to flip the question and ask if you were the parent of a child who was murdered, how would you feel if the person who murdered them's parent and/or partner knew they did it but consciously didn't hand them in?

So I bought a second-hand Four Element Hydra drysuit from someone on Facebook Marketplace last year, who claimed it was only a year old, had only been used for training during that period, and had also been fully pressure-tested for £350.

The first few times I used it, I had a small leak in the right arm. I initially thought it was due to a leaky wrist, so I bought some extra latex bioseals, but I still had a leak only in the right arm. I only used it a few times last year, as I only dive in the UK between May and October, and I bought the suit in late July.

I have since had it pressure-tested again and fitted with a new neck seal, but it's now leaking even worse in the right arm, and it appears the zip is leaking. This is now going to cost me probably another £200 or so, and I could easily buy another suit for a few hundred pounds more, but I would have to get rid of the old suit at a significant loss because of the faulty zip.

Has anyone here had any success with buying drysuits second-hand for under £500 (or whatever that is in your currency), or is buying them at that price a red flag that something is wrong with them?

I'm in multiple band social media groups and I get really annoyed when people who see bands play multiple times over multiple tours complain about a band "doing the same setlist over and over" when they see them live - as if most fans of bands are fortunate enough to be able to see a band multiple times on the same tour. So many fans would kill to see their favourite bands live even once and wouldn't care about the setlist.

To me it just comes across as being ungrateful and spoilt - these bands don't have to tour and they need to cater to the casual fans and the fact that most people in the audience will be seeing them live for the first time and will want to see the popular songs and big-hitters being played live. In any case it isn't going to be possible to please everyone.

Then once that band/artist stops touring they'll then say they "wish they'd get back together and tour again" 🙄

Does anyone else get annoyed by this?