Frankie Crisp

I’m honestly going to need about an hour to get my shit down in here.

Dusting off the Pyrex dish later so I can have a go at this. I must have sold my own data because this was the first post when I opened Instagram earlier. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4AUeDgInAF/?igsh=MXhnNmpldWFiYTMzbw== Just look at it!

A technologically inept mate asked me to sort out 2 tickets to see Stevie Nicks for him earlier, as a gift for one of his nieces. Everyone knows gigs cost a fortune for top artists and yes, Stevie Nicks is brilliant, but fucking hell.

That’d be quite the Etihad Adjustment.

You’re allowed one and one only. Your turn.

Hello! So, I floated the idea of this around awards season and enough people seemed on board for me to crack on with the first UKFF Census. The intention is to learn more about what makes up our wonderful corner of the internet; it's got the boring stuff like age, height, ethnicity plus a few more varied questions to understand our interests, habits and lifestyles. Where possible, I've used validated drop-downs to help with the consistency of the results, but in those cases there's also an 'other' option so not to restrict more obscure or rare responses. There are also plenty of free-text answer types as the drop-downs would have been too long or impossible to create. For gender, I've gone with a free-text option as I don't want anyone to feel marginalised if their identified gender isn't on the list. For questions where the response options will vary from country to country, I've also used free-text so we don't exclude Irish, Australian and Vietnamese members. I would ask that for free-text questions, you use correct spelling and avoid abbreviations, as it'll help massively when I'm putting the responses and results together. For the 'favourites', your responses don't need to be related, so you can have Tom Cruise even if you went with an Alfred Hitchcock film. It's completely anonymous (you don't need to give your name or even username), there's no IP tracking and there are no mandatory questions, so you can skip anything that's not relevant or you don't feel comfortable sharing. It's important to note that individual responses won't be shared - just the collective results - and once those have been shared, the underlying data will be digitally torched. There were originally 100+ questions but some may have been seen as intrusive and it would have turned people off given how long it would have taken to complete, so the final version should only take 5-7 minutes to complete. Again, feel free to skip anything you'd rather not share but hopefully we'll get enough responses to give us some interesting results. There'll be interactive charts and everything. So, if you fancy it, you can access the form using the below link or QR code (it's laptop and mobile friendly): UKFF Census 2024 I appreciate we might get the odd berk try to ruin it with stupid answers; I'll try to spot and ignore them but if not, hopefully the genuine responses will outweigh them enough to give us an accurate representation of those who take part. Hope enough people take part for us to look back on this in ten years when we absolutely, definitely won't still be posting on here.

Sorry, Chest. Post the goals you love the most but with obvious conditions; one each a day and you can’t post your own team otherwise this’ll just be Bacon posting Harry Kane. Any league, any era. I’ll start.

Because the world is a burning pile of pubes - and to save me from dropping Jimmy into every thread - this is one to flag lunacy and frustration as and when it happens. Dickhead behaviour, nonsensical news stories, interactions you can’t handle, ridiculous experiences; they all count. If it makes you JFC, it’s in. My latest one is trying to book a hotel in London for one night. One night. I want a bed and a good bathroom. This time last year, I was paying no more than ninety quid for a night. My first search results today? One night! Jesus fucking Christ. We could probably include the behaviour of a good chunk of the nation since The Queen snuffed it in this, but let’s start with a line in the sand. If it makes you Jimmy, add it.

Something needs to break the Chippy Tea monopoly on here. So share and rate your big, heart-attack inducing fry-ups as and when you have one. I had a delicious one the other day (Café No. 33 in Norwich), but I was uneasy about it not floating in its own fat, so it only gets a 7 from me. Bacon and sausage hidden underneath the toast. Don’t do the Partridge thing. Too easy.

I know there's a lot of love for Bruce on here - and rightly fucking so - so let's use this for album/song talk, favourites, rarities, gig memories and anything that pops into our heads. I'll probably write essays in here over the coming weeks when the chat gets going, but for now I'll kick the this off with The Springsteen Code, rather than turn Dev's thread into list-o-mania. Nebraska, Born to Run, Darkness on the Edge of Town, The River, The Ghost of Tom Joad, The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle, Devils & Dust, Born in the U.S.A., Western Stars, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J., Letter to You, The Rising, Wrecking Ball, Human Touch, High Hopes, Lucky Town, Magic, We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, Working on a Dream, Tunnel of Love The top three could be in any order on any given day, but right now Nebraska's King of the Boss (TM @HarmonicGenerator). Oh, and whilst I've had it on a loop for a few weeks, the new album is incredible. The newer stuff about loss, ageing and melancholy is some of his most poignant work but the three songs written back in '73 steal it for me, Jeff. Musically, they fit right in and would have sounded much different if they'd made the cut on the earlier albums, but the character-driven lyrics and cultural references make them sound fresh yet familiar. Janey Needs A Shooter is a masterpiece. And they knocked the whole thing together in a few days, the mad old gets. Anyway, I hereby promise to use this thread and this thread alone to post his songs, rather than clogging up the Song of the Day Thread whenever I've had a drink.

We're going to need a smaller thread. Living in the Material World (2011) Like Butch starting a thread about Wrexham shaggers or Devon about trainers, I might as well kick this off with a Beatles-related thing. Hand on heart, this is one of the best things you could ever wish to watch. Like The Beatles? Bonus. Ambivalent? No problem. Hate them? You'll still like it. Whilst the first part of this is about the group, how they rose to success and how they changed music and society for the better, the majority of the film is about George's post-Beatles life, his personal journey and how he became the kind of human being we'd all love to be*. This isn't about them as a band or their music, this is about a 15-year old joining a band, following his dreams, getting pissed off and then flourishing. Not just as a musician, but as a human being. It's a lovely touch by Scorsese to have George's lad, Dhani, read out the letters his old man sent home to the family when he was fucking about in Hamburg and around the UK during the early years. It's very sweet to know that whilst a young lad was seeing and doing all kinds, he was still considerate enough to get down to the Post Office. These aren't spoilers because it's stuff everyone's aware of, but the bits about the stabbing/Olivia twatting the intruder (who lived in the same block of flats as my Uncle Terry, FYI) are very insightful, but the best/worst part is Dhani and Olivia describing in great detail what it was like when George died. Fucking hell. I lost it in the picturehouse when I watched this the first time and have done so each time I've watched this since. It's beautiful and heartbreaking. Honestly, just watch this and as upsetting as it is, you'll end it with the biggest smile. And it's good for people to hear an actual Scouse accent, rather than the weird, forced one everyone hears on the telly. * It doesn't cover the time he was knocking off Ringo's wife, surprisingly. It's as if the rhetoric has been set in stone. Edit: there's some alright music in it.

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