Andrew Phillips, Baron Phillips of Sudbury
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― soref, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 18:14 (ten years ago) link
It's from 2003. I only just found out that hansard is available on line and searchable.
― soref, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 18:15 (ten years ago) link
I know quite a few people from the forest of Dean who might dispute that but it's possible they in fact were the sum of yob culture in the area at the time
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 19:21 (ten years ago) link
Dark at ten to four in London today.
Ten to four.
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Monday, 2 December 2013 15:58 (ten years ago) link
The sitcoms now are all about two dads this and that. When I was a kid, we had family values shows, like Full House, and My Two Dads.
― i wish i had a skateboard i could skate away on (Hurting 2), Monday, 2 December 2013 16:00 (ten years ago) link
It's going to get worse before it gets better early next year. This isn't something new, it's been happening for quite a few million years, so don't be too alarmed.
― not_goodwin, Monday, 2 December 2013 16:32 (ten years ago) link
definitely darker, earlier this year. and each year.
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Monday, 2 December 2013 22:22 (ten years ago) link
holy shit i looked that up and it...it checks out
holy shit
what else...what else have we been wrong about?
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Monday, 2 December 2013 23:43 (ten years ago) link
get me a turtle lads im pure shook
― mind totally brown (darraghmac), Monday, 2 December 2013 23:46 (ten years ago) link
Passengers on bus scowling at person playing music on smartphone.
It used to be that you could bring a transistor radio onto the bus, switch it on and everyone would cheerily sing along to Vanity Fare.
I blame the miners.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 09:42 (ten years ago) link
They’re playing a Simply Red record on Radio 2 right now which rips off “I Can’t Go For That” by Hall and Oates.
It used to be you had proper, original songs being played on Pete Murray’s Open House like “Say No Go.”
It’s all Neil Armstrong’s fault.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 09:47 (ten years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/13/golden-globes-2014-blah-frock-parade
Now, you hardly ever see a teenage goth. Even the ones hanging out around in Camden Lock, amid a sea of Che Guevara T-shirts, seem to lack commitment. All the men in east London look like they're on the run from an Edwardian circus; the women are walking thigh gaps. Manchester is full of Noel Gallagher haircuts; Liverpool is orange.
― soref, Monday, 13 January 2014 21:02 (ten years ago) link
When I lived in Paris eight years ago, rock band the Libertines seemed like the most exciting thing in music, and every French teenager wanted to move to London. Eurostar ads emphasised the UK's counter-cultural draw. What would attract them now, when every song is a sample, all films are remakes, and, as Stewart Lee has said, all the comedians are Russells?
― soref, Monday, 13 January 2014 21:03 (ten years ago) link
the Libertines seemed like the most exciting thing in music the Libertines seemed like the most exciting thing in music the Libertines seemed like the most exciting thing in music the Libertines seemed like the most exciting thing in music the Libertines seemed like the most exciting thing in music the Libertines seemed like the most exciting thing in music the Libertines seemed like the most exciting thing in music the Libertines seemed like the most exciting thing in music the Libertines seemed like the most exciting thing in musicthe Libertines seemed like the most exciting thing in music the Libertines seemed like the most exciting thing in music the Libertines seemed like the most exciting thing in music the Libertines seemed like the most exciting thing in music the Libertines seemed like the most exciting thing in musicthe Libertines seemed like the most exciting thing in music the Libertines seemed like the most exciting thing in musicthe Libertines seemed like the most exciting thing in musicthe Libertines seemed like the most exciting thing in musicthe Libertines seemed like the most exciting thing in music
― marcos, Monday, 13 January 2014 21:19 (ten years ago) link
I can never tell to what extent she's taking the piss
― soref, Monday, 13 January 2014 21:20 (ten years ago) link
the women are walking thigh gaps.
?!? wtf
― ilx snitch (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 13 January 2014 21:32 (ten years ago) link
30 years ago a child would be a goth on the street
― 1staethyr, Monday, 13 January 2014 21:34 (ten years ago) link
The next generation is going to grow up to be sooo messed up. Imagine - a three year old, socially stunted by its iPad, never seeing other children because all it wants to do is laze around poking a screen. There's GOT to be another way, like moving to a commune or something...
― An embarrassing doorman and garbage man (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 12:54 (ten years ago) link
Used to be we could get nostalgic about proper decades, like the '70s. Now it's all Sum-41 this and Libertines that...
― An embarrassing doorman and garbage man (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 12:56 (ten years ago) link
What would attract them now, when every song is a sample, all films are remakes, and, as Stewart Lee has said, all the comedians are Russells?
serious answer- the same old shit. Constant source of lols the bone on European yoot have for lame ass british pop culture.
― UK Cop Humour (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 13:02 (ten years ago) link
Benny Hill
― An embarrassing doorman and garbage man (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 13:29 (ten years ago) link
No film remakes in 2006, or samples in music, or Russells in comedy, no sir.
― UK Cop Humour (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 14:29 (ten years ago) link
http://drawception.com/pub/panels/2012/4-20/5aXpg294Bf-2.png
― UK Cop Humour (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 14:32 (ten years ago) link
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― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:26 (ten years ago) link
30 years ago there were proper pop groups like the Police singing about Cilla and Charybdis. Blind Date, proper clean family entertainment there.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:36 (ten years ago) link
thirty years ago they transliterated "cilla" "scylla" even
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:40 (ten years ago) link
That's lack of proper education in Newcastle comprehensives. It's all Billy Fury's fault.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:44 (ten years ago) link
https://twitter.com/Jade__Chandler/status/571713895615897600
― The Crucifixion Of Sean Bean (DJ Mencap), Monday, 2 March 2015 11:39 (nine years ago) link
the entire oxford junior dictionary is now just the word knife over and over, written in the shape of a knife, the book itself is also a knife
― Moyes Enthusiast (LocalGarda), Monday, 2 March 2015 11:46 (nine years ago) link
the junior dictionary should just be bigger
― vacuum head tree disease (imago), Monday, 2 March 2015 11:51 (nine years ago) link
they should start pushing the full dictionary on the kids, disguised as a junior dictionary
― vacuum head tree disease (imago), Monday, 2 March 2015 11:52 (nine years ago) link
soon they'll want more and more words, and they'll start having to make up their own
my thoughts exactly - why the fuck is there even a junior dictionary? as if words are so purely functional.
― Moyes Enthusiast (LocalGarda), Monday, 2 March 2015 11:53 (nine years ago) link
presumably this is just a relic of the days when people cared about a child looking up "fuck" or "rape" or whatever - a rite of passage for all.
― Moyes Enthusiast (LocalGarda), Monday, 2 March 2015 11:54 (nine years ago) link
now they're out there doing it. society.
― local eire man (darraghmac), Monday, 2 March 2015 12:00 (nine years ago) link
'i know this is just press release bullshit but o temora o mores'
― A MOOC, what's a MOOC? (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 2 March 2015 12:07 (nine years ago) link
tempora
under pressure, OUP sent out a press release for shit hacks to cherrypick.
― A MOOC, what's a MOOC? (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 2 March 2015 12:11 (nine years ago) link
what's strange is that "chatroom" has been added. i feel genuine nostalgia for the chatroom. i met the only significant love of my life in yahoo indie 1.
― Moyes Enthusiast (LocalGarda), Monday, 2 March 2015 12:14 (nine years ago) link
my eyes aren't watering. it's the smoke.
Been a while since I heard happyslap
― A MOOC, what's a MOOC? (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 2 March 2015 12:16 (nine years ago) link
good times, all gone now
― Moyes Enthusiast (LocalGarda), Monday, 2 March 2015 12:19 (nine years ago) link
The piece it's from is not a bad read: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/27/robert-macfarlane-word-hoard-rewilding-landscape
― Rainbow DAESH (ShariVari), Monday, 2 March 2015 12:22 (nine years ago) link
the book which the piece is a plug of sorts for does sound appealing. I added it to my Amazon wishlist which is probably ironic on some level
― The Crucifixion Of Sean Bean (DJ Mencap), Monday, 2 March 2015 12:44 (nine years ago) link
coaxial leads included in this all in one tv/broadband/phone box do not reach from the wall to my tv. I remember when a coat hanger could pick up the late late show around the mweelin hills
― local eire man (darraghmac), Monday, 2 March 2015 13:32 (nine years ago) link
+1
I like the link between weirdly specific words & close observation of the surrounding world in ~bygone days~
I paid more attention to ice & snow this year than I have in a long time thanks in part to my choice of a William Vollman novel about Norse sea-exploration & its rich winter word-hoard
― bernard snowy, Monday, 2 March 2015 16:18 (nine years ago) link
*choice of = as reading material for a space of weeks in December & January
― bernard snowy, Monday, 2 March 2015 16:19 (nine years ago) link
now we have weirdly specific words about Tumblr
― kriss akabusi cleaner (seandalai), Monday, 2 March 2015 23:30 (nine years ago) link
The past 60 years and the reign of Queen Elizabeth II has seen Britain go to hell in a hand basket, the rich are much richer and poor poorer, crime is higher and personal liberties and civil rights more restricted. The nation has become boarded up, dirty, polluted, and very regionalized North South , them and us, Scotland nearly voting to leave the UK and Wales and Cornwall and Ireland dissatisfied. The reign of Queen Elizabeth II will be recorded as the dark wanton times of decline in Britain`s history.
― nakhchivan, Saturday, 11 April 2015 02:33 (nine years ago) link
a mix between The Stone Roses and Primal Scream with the swagger of Oasis
― mookieproof, Saturday, 11 April 2015 02:35 (nine years ago) link