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My 10-year-old son was hopelessly addicted to this for months.

Record collector here too. I can tell you exactly when I started, and it was when I saw a copy of Beggar's Banquet by the Rolling Stones for 50p in a charity shop. Didn't even have a record player at the time. Now I've got 471 records and counting and spend far too much money on the hobby.

I have to tell you that I've been compelled to listen to the Tiny Toon Adventures theme song on Spotify, because your username has been stuck in my head all evening.

I was in Ibiza with some friends (we met famous drug smuggler Howard Marks in Manumission, but that's not the point of this story). One night two of us were out in San Antonio town, and on the way back to our hotel we spotted a mannequin outside a clothes shop. It was clearly bin collection day the following day, so obviously they didn't want it any more and clearly we could, indeed we must take it back to our hotel room and put it on the balcony. So we picked it up and walked back towards the hotel. I'm in front holding it across the shoulders, my mate behind me holding the legs. We're walking past bars and everyone is laughing and cheering us (drunk British people, we'll cheer anything out of the ordinary).

Then the police turn up in a van. You hear horror stories about being taken to the police station which is miles away and having to pay hundreds in fines, so I instantly become sober. One of them opens the back of the van and says, "In, in." So we put the mannequin in. In fear and trembling I ask, "What about us?"

And he just says, "You go. Go!"

I've never run so fast in my life.

I'm a big music snob, and I'm in my forties, but Decompression Period by Papa Roach hit me really hard the first time I heard it, and it's always one I go back to. I've never had a bad breakup or anything, but it really captures the feeling for me.

I kind of assume everyone has, but if you haven't read Terry Pratchett, his books are absolutely chock-full of lore, detail and references, some of them so obscure that I haven't actually got the joke for years.

1. Kino Kingdom (film podcast by some friends of mine)
2. Talk of the Devils (Manchester United podcast)
3. The Rest is History (guess)

Oddly, I think I'd like the opportunity to do something similar, if I could pick the media in advance. The same kind of vibe as Desert Island Discs.

Peppa Pig is the worst thing that ever happened, and not just on TV. We had a short run of it with my younger son and it was an awful time. Now we get SpongeBob and/or Pokémon and it makes me so happy.

A fellow old person! I'll add Ocean Software and US Gold from the Commodore era.

I guess rock 'n' roll is king.

In the same vein, refusing to consider something that will have a small positive effect, or a partial solution, because it won't fix everything.

In the Welsh language we say the number of tens then the number. One - Un (pronounced een) Ten - Deg Eleven - Un deg un - one ten one

Three - Tri Thirty - Tri deg - three ten Thirty-one - Tri deg un - three ten one

Loughborough!

I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. "On accident", fuck me. "I could care less", too.

If my regular Apex Legends experience applies, I've got about 30 seconds to live and no hope of my teammates reviving me.

My wife's best friend was called Harriet Potter. I thought nothing of it until we were visiting New York in 2009 and the guy in the Warner Bros shop made a huge deal of it.

Terry Pratchett taught me that wind is caused by all of the trees waving about.

"We've got plenty of hearsay and conjecture. Those are kinds of evidence."