Joined: Nov 23 2009 Posts: 12749 Location: The Hamptons of East Yorkshire
JerryChicken wrote: Those were very interesting times to be a teenager...
As the man himself sang, ''there's Nazis in the bathroom, just below the stairs............strange days indeed.''
It was a natural progression for me to to be stood in a field, with several thousand others, outside a coking plant in 1984 at the age of eighteen, on a balmy summers day.
WIZEB wrote:As the man himself sang, ''there's Nazis in the bathroom, just below the stairs............strange days indeed.''
It was a natural progression for me to to be stood in a field, with several thousand others, outside a coking plant in 1984 at the age of eighteen, on a balmy summers day.
Really ?
I was on my eight year sabbatical in the North East at that time, newly married into a family where my wife had one brother down t'pit and one in the Metropolitan Police Her mother was from a century-long lineage of pit-wives, she worked in their local pit canteen until it closed in the sixties and yet her eldest son could do no wrong, even though he was one of the ones using his police dog against her comrades...
The company I worked for had a staunch Thatcher-ite at its head, one of Bentons posh-Geordie-Tories, I'd love to meet him again just to tell him how much petrol I put in my Miner brother-in-law's car on our company petrol card so that he could travel up and down the A1 on picket duty during that year
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Joined: Nov 23 2009 Posts: 12749 Location: The Hamptons of East Yorkshire
JerryChicken wrote:Really ?
I was on my eight year sabbatical in the North East at that time, newly married into a family where my wife had one brother down t'pit and one in the Metropolitan Police Her mother was from a century-long lineage of pit-wives, she worked in their local pit canteen until it closed in the sixties and yet her eldest son could do no wrong, even though he was one of the ones using his police dog against her comrades...
The company I worked for had a staunch Thatcher-ite at its head, one of Bentons posh-Geordie-Tories, I'd love to meet him again just to tell him how much petrol I put in my Miner brother-in-law's car on our company petrol card so that he could travel up and down the A1 on picket duty during that year
Yep. And here I am on my 47th b'day thinking about it. There's nothing wrong with being politically motivated early doors. Especially when you know you were on the right side. Should that be the left-side?
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JerryChicken wrote:Today in history ?
Dec 8th 1980 : John Lennon is shot dead.
In slightly less celebrity obsessed times, an era when it was possible for a small handful of fans to hang around outside their home and wait for autographs and for the "celebs" to often be happy to sign and pose for photos whilst gaining no other publicity benefit (do they only ever pose for photos at cinema previews and award shows these days ?), it all changed with a deranged fan at a time in his life when he was apparently making a return to mainstream popular music with the release of Double Fantasy after years in the wilderness as a pop recluse - who knows if that album would have been successful without his death or if he would have got the airplay that he did post Dec 8th 1980...
Anyway, Yoko is still a bit of a wierdo, has anyone ever been to one of her art installations ?
Remember it well, was home on leave from the navy. It was one of those deaths were you genuinely ask 'why', the bloke lived his life for peace and non-violence.
'when my life is over, the thing which will have given me greatest pride is that I was first to plunge into the sea, swimming freely underwater without any connection to the terrestrial world'
If you haven't then I have read it for you so you don't have to bother and if anyone ever asks you what you thought of it just reply "Bag of shoite", the only thing it made me want to do is to go and find another book to read, anything, even a Jeffrey Archer would have done.
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Joined: Nov 23 2009 Posts: 12749 Location: The Hamptons of East Yorkshire
JerryChicken wrote:Have you ever read that book ?
If you haven't then I have read it for you so you don't have to bother and if anyone ever asks you what you thought of it just reply "Bag of shoite", the only thing it made me want to do is to go and find another book to read, anything, even a Jeffrey Archer would have done.
Read it a couple of times, and enjoyed it. Fook off with your Jeffrey Archer.
We can go anywhere you want.
Holden Caulfield was partly responsible for Lennon's death. Kate Middleton was partly responsible for Jacintha Saldanha's death.
Jeffrey Archer once wrote in one of his books that the hero had been to Leeds University during the 1960s and in one of the chapters this hero spends a nice Saturday afternoon with his girlfriend rowing on the River Aire.
Thats the point at which I threw the book on the back of the fire.
It convinced me that Archer wrote his books according to a very simple computer program in which all you had to do was change the names and locations with the only research needed being that the city must have a river running through it.
Rowing on the River Aire in the 1960s - ask any resident of Cas what the River Aire looked like in the 1960s by the time it had reached them
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