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    #21
    Originally posted by BlackenedBiker View Post
    I don't know, Mr Marleys "No Woman No Cry" seems to me to positively extol the virtues of man love. Wouldn't you say???
    No. Translated out of de Jamaican it is something like "No, woman: don't cry!" and is a hymn to the virtues of pulling yourself together and looking on the bright side.

    I can remember that Shabba Ranks interview (with Mark Lamarr I think).

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      #22
      Originally posted by Drewster View Post
      Ours was the VD Centre

      ........ Thats Vauxhall Dining ...... honest!
      I know which uni you went to!

      Knocking down the campus towers now I believe...
      If you think my attitude stinks, you should smell my fingers.

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        #23
        Originally posted by hyperD View Post
        I know which uni you went to!

        Knocking down the campus towers now I believe...
        If they gave the world an enema the tube would be shoved into the middle of Brum.... and would scrape off Aston.

        I didn't live in the 'kin 'orrible Towers...... I lived just off the town centre right next to one of the ring-road underpasses...... St Chads possibly???

        Next to the Royal Oak... 50 yds from the Gaiety (sic).... 100yds behind the Grand(?) Hotel in Cathederal Square....

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          #24
          I was in Handsworth in the student campus there - stayed in one of the houses then the block of flats. Can't remember the names. A long time ago...

          Pagoda Park was some nightclub I can remember in Brum centre... do remember a pint of mild costing 70p! Ah, student days!
          If you think my attitude stinks, you should smell my fingers.

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            #25
            Originally posted by gingerjedi View Post
            Haven’t you got one of those apps the spooks use? You know the one that miraculously fills in pixels that aren’t there revealing a hi-def picture.
            Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.

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              #26
              Originally posted by hyperD View Post
              I was in Handsworth in the student campus there - stayed in one of the houses then the block of flats. Can't remember the names. A long time ago...

              Pagoda Park was some nightclub I can remember in Brum centre... do remember a pint of mild costing 70p! Ah, student days!
              Ah yes Handsworth.... only went there a few times.

              Don't remember Pagoda Park..... Remember Samantha's (Student Night Thursday).....

              Remember "real" Baltis... down the Ladypool Road......

              What era were you? I was late 70's early 80's

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                #27
                Originally posted by hyperD View Post
                I know which uni you went to!

                Knocking down the campus towers now I believe...
                Aye, it's been transformed around there over the last few years (since the Bull Ring redevelopment). I'm still getting used to the new road system...
                Where are we going? And what’s with this hand basket?

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                  #28
                  Originally posted by voodooflux View Post
                  Aye, it's been transformed around there over the last few years (since the Bull Ring redevelopment). I'm still getting used to the new road system...
                  Ahhhhhh the Bull Ring......... I used to frequent the indoor market..... Pork Scratchings by the 1lb....... about 20p

                  Belly Pork by the ton... about a quid.....

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                    #29
                    Where the iron heart of England throbs beneath its sombre robe
                    Stands a school whose sons have made her great and famous round the globe
                    They have plucked the bays of battle
                    They have won the scholars' crown
                    Old Edwardians! Young Edwardians! Forward for the school's reknown

                    Chorus
                    Forward where the knocks are hardest
                    Some to failure, some to fame
                    Never mind the cheers or hooting
                    Keep your head and play the game

                    Here's no place for fop or idler. Those who made our city great
                    Feared no hardship, shirked no labour, smiled at death and conquered fate
                    Those who gave our school its laurels
                    Laid on us a sacred trust
                    Forward therefore live your hardest, die of service, not of rust

                    Chorus

                    Forward where the scrimmage thickens, never stop to rub your shin
                    Cowards count the kicks and ha'pence, only care to save their skin
                    Oftentimes defeat is splendid
                    Victory may still be shame
                    Luck if good, the prize is pleasant, but the glory's in the game

                    Chorus

                    Here no shaded grove secludes us, here abides no cloistered calm
                    Not the titled nor the stranger wrestle here to gain the palm
                    Round our smoke-encrusted precints
                    Labour's turbid river runs
                    Builders of this burly city, temper here their strenuous sons!

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                      #30
                      Originally posted by Drewster View Post
                      Ah yes Handsworth.... only went there a few times.

                      Don't remember Pagoda Park..... Remember Samantha's (Student Night Thursday).....

                      Remember "real" Baltis... down the Ladypool Road......

                      What era were you? I was late 70's early 80's
                      Mid to late 80's. Real baltis - yes, we suspected it was sparrows as they had enough of them flying around like bats in the evening. We used to go around the Digbeth area which was nearby I think.

                      Voodooflux - I went there about 10 years after graduating and the Bull Ring had gone and everything looked totally different - some areas had smartened up considerably IIRC...

                      The Bull Ring market - where you could buy a horse steak for under a pound and laugh at the butcher's display of "dog bits" - pig's penises for your pet.

                      And "Bee uuurr eym beee" ray-dioww
                      If you think my attitude stinks, you should smell my fingers.

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