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| Hoof Hearted 15 Oct 16 11.44am | |
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Originally posted by doi209
Hilary's Everest news reached London on 2 June 1953. You must have heard it on the radio as a very young (unborn ) boy. I said it happened in my lifetime, but I didn't remember it... obviously because I was a foetus/egg/sperm at the time!
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 mezzer  Main Stand, Block F, Row 20 seat 1... 15 Oct 16 11.52am |
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Originally posted by Mr_Gristle
Aaaargh yes. Good thread. I vaguely remember thinking that we were all going to go up in Mushroom Clouds from about 1980 for a good few years, (Whoops Apocalypse and Spitting Image on telly) but apart from that: Ski Sunday theme tune, nicked from Innsbruck Winter Olympics coverage as I recall. If Innsbruck was '76, I was only 7. Downhill skiing looked AMAZING! The drought of '76 and standpipes. Silver Jubilee street parties and mugs, '77 Star Wars. Battle of the Planets hitting children's hour somewhen in the late 70's / early 80s. Seriously. Street Sounds Electro albums, early 80's and doing windmills on spread-out cardboard boxes in the playground. Miners' Strike, '84 Gauntlet hitting arcades. '85? Chernobyl disaster '86 Herald of Free Enterprise sinking with open doors '87 Hungerford massacre '87 Serious, proper House club culture and first drug use ' 88 and ongoing dance club madness for about 5 years. Ceaucescu execution and Berlin Wall '89 Foot & Mouth and having to drive through disinfectant 2001 Anything more recent is probably in line with everyone else, apart from the sudden spike in aggressive media manipulation of opinion over the last couple of years and the State doing for David Kelly because he blew the whistle on the whole blag of the Iraq WMD bollox.
Edited by Mr_Gristle (14 Oct 2016 9.28pm) There's a reunion every year for Zeebrugge survivors in Folkestone. Starts at 7.30. Doors open 7.00.
Living down here does have some advantages. At least you can see them cry. |
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| Midlands Eagle 15 Oct 16 1.13pm |
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Originally posted by mezzer
There's a reunion every year for Zeebrugge survivors in Folkestone. Starts at 7.30. Doors open 7.00. Have you got any good jokes about the people that died at Hillsborough?
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Kermit8  Hevon 15 Oct 16 1.39pm |
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Originally posted by Midlands Eagle
Have you got any good jokes about the people that died at Hillsborough?
Big chest and massive boobs |
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| matt_himself Matataland 15 Oct 16 4.42pm |
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Originally posted by Kermit8
And you criticise me and others for a 'lack of compassion'...
"That was fun and to round off the day, I am off to steal a charity collection box and then desecrate a place of worship.” - Smokey, The Selhurst Arms, 26/02/02 |
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| Midlands Eagle 15 Oct 16 5.15pm |
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Originally posted by Kermit8
Kermit, I really thought that you had more class
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