I was an op on a Dalnet channel.

The "-enta" form is far from new in Spanish. "Asistenta" (housemaid) has been standard for many decades, and Clarín published *La regenta* in 1886. The gender markers (or non-markers) that are new include the bizarre "x" of "Latinxs", the ampersand of "l@s alumn@s", and the "a" of "jueza".

Ignore DMs. I wasn't paying attention (again).

Even Coppola's "flawed" (i.e. a bit crap in parts) efforts - Tucker, Cotton Club, Dracula... - are better than most other working directors' best films. Everything's relative.

Absolute banger indeed. People forget the Beatles, the Stones, the Kinks and the Who didn't exist in a vacuum. Other now-forgotten bands like this crew, the Tremeloes, the Move, Love Affair, and Dave Dee & co. also created (or at least fronted) lots of superbly crafted pop in the mid-'60s.

I'm also fond of a variant: "anyone who uses the word 'deliver' without owning a Ford Transit is etc., etc."

A few years ago I bought a Sweet boxset at a chazza for a pittance mostly for the kitsch laughs, but when I played it I was stunned. What a guitar tone! Respect.

Tammy, my absolute No. 1 "live gig I wasn't expecting to be all that but turned out to be breathtakingly fantastic".

The first attempt to assassinate Trump was an ear miss.

I'm sure. I've never heard of most of them. Chappell Roan sounds like a minor character in a Star Wars spinoff.