The 70s

[Diver]

I remember when all this was fields

[ZuiderZee]

philistine

a telly licence will cost you an arm and a leg
a bit of poetic licence will cost you nothing

so BRING me my BOW of da daddad
Bring ME my dad dada dadad
do dodoodbedo
dont know the words
do do be do be do

Bring me my bow of burning gold
Bring me my arrows of desire
Bring me my spear. Oh clouds unfold
Bring me my chariots of fire
I will not cease from metal toil
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand
'Til we have built Jerusalem
In Englands green and pleasant land

One of us may be a philistine but I hope you don't hold it against me.

[Zoiderman]

I remember Derby County, Leeds and Notts Forest won the league championship, and Chelsea, Man Utd and Spurs were all relegated.

Utd going down and losing to Southampton in the FA Cup final, a time when the FA Cup meant something: you watched the build up the whole day long, watched the match, and then went and played football until you couldn't see the ball.

First time I saw my Dad cry was when Utd got relegated, the other time was when his dog died.

[Sysman]

Aye.

Deft use of the Silver Machine in there somewhere.

Didn't notice any Floyd, though I vaguely remembered some of the other music.

Lionised dear old Arfur Scargill. Just showed what a tosser the Grocer was.

The Grocer's French did indeed grate on my ears.

It was plain he was just reading it out.

Badly.

And using English phonetics.

The thing about the Ugandan Asians made me smile. They were obviously "hard working" and managed to get themselves settled within a couple of years.

Wouldn't you expect that from an uprooted business community?

You can bet your bottom dollar that although they had lost their businesses and homes in Uganda they had been salting money away abroad for years. It's what you do in Africa.

[SupremeSpod]

The Grocer's French did indeed grate on my ears.

It was plain he was just reading it out.

Badly.

And using English phonetics.

The thing about the Ugandan Asians made me smile. They were obviously "hard working" and managed to get themselves settled within a couple of years.

Wouldn't you expect that from an uprooted business community?

You can bet your bottom dollar that although they had lost their businesses and homes in Uganda they had been salting money away abroad for years. It's what you do in Africa.

I'd rather that than the "phoney" French accent used by some news readers when they pronounce "Neeecola Sarkozeeeeeee" <--- now that does grate on the ******* ears!

[Sysman]

I'd rather that than the "phoney" French accent used by some news readers when they pronounce "Neeecola Sarkozeeeeeee" <--- now that does grate on the ******* ears!

Ah, newsreaders, don't you luv 'em? When the Iran-Iraq war was on they clearly had some kind of competition going between ITV News and the Beeb as to who could pronounce them in as posh a sounding way as they could.

Beeb announcer: Iraaaaan and Iraaaaaq
ITN announcer: Iraaaaaaaaaan and Iraaaaaaaaaaq

and so on. It sounded daft.

[SupremeSpod]

Especially when you'd seen what happened to the Kenyan Asians a couple of years earlier.

I said exactly the same to the Mrs last night.

Her question of "Why didn't they go back to India?" had me stumped though...

[Sysman]

Especially when you'd seen what happened to the Kenyan Asians a couple of years earlier.

Precisely. The parents of a lass I knew in college had lost their substantial farm in Kenya. I don't think the loss unduly interfered with their kids' private education, skiing hols etc.

[Sysman]

I said exactly the same to the Mrs last night.

Her question of "Why didn't they go back to India?" had me stumped though...

They had UK passports for one.

For seconds they had probably got used to a certain lifestyle and didn't want to go back to where they came from.

[Sysman]

Remember the "gerrrrilya" thing that one of them (Jan Leeming?) used to come out with?

Don't recall that one, but I do remember the Beeb deciding that we'd been pronouncing controversy the wrong way for years.

We'd only been pronouncing it that way in the first place 'cos that's what the Beeb had insisted on