And the sound lad who did the GoFundMe for a new window is going to donate any excess to charity.
Nation's sweetheart and all round sound lad Robbie Williams is in a bit of a paranormal pickle.
His solicitor was at pains to guarantee the court that George is a sound lad, citing charity work in Singapore and Kenya, though I'm not sure how the citizens of the latter would feel about him turning up at Nairobi airport in black face.
Knowing that I wasn't going to have to try and sleep on a stiff camp bed, woken by the sounds of lads bragging to themselves about their own sexual prowess, at any point this summer, I tried to replicate the Ibizan experience in my own home.
They are a proper sound bunch of lads, eager to get to the Olympics and looking to me as a world champion to inspire them".
The Pompey Lads sounds, as possibly intended, like a "crew" of football hooligans.
And "Chi-ka" is the sound of Skate Lad, a k a Hector, who excels in skate-boarding.
In recent years, marketers seeking to reach the elusive demographic known as "men" have invented plenty of new archetypes, ranging from the insightful to the downright daft, some of which even make the flimsy but enduring typologies of the metrosexual and the lad sound plausible.
An upmarket lads' mag may sound like a contradiction in terms, but former IPC executive Mike Soutar, the one-time FHM editor who oversaw the launch of Nuts in 2004, is hoping that a more sophisticated take on the genre will be a critical and commercial success.
From the opening "Elephant Song" which, in title and sound, echoes the Stone Roses, lad-rock signifiers abound and their entire social-realist lexicon is borrowed from the Specials, the Clash and New Model Army.
