Mick Dempsey
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I dunno, it was more a lack of any common cultural interests. If you cannot have a laugh together it’s pointless.
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Buckets work, but it’s not pretty. You need to take a lot of earth to avoid ‘plugging’ All in all, unsatisfactory.
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I can’t imagine what it must be like to not find ‘The life of Brian’ funny. I once dated a bird who loved Cliff Richard, I mean been to see him dozens of times. Plus, she hated Blackadder. She was fit as, gym junkie, decent looking as well. It couldn’t last.
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My wife loves it, she makes a curry every Saturday night and we sit there watch it and eat the curry. There’s worse ways of spending a Saturday night. She, like me, is becoming fed up with various aspects of it. So as the head of light entertainment at the BBC is undoubtedly a member of Arbtalk I will address this to him. 1: New presenters, Tess is a clothes horse, put her out to pasture. Ideally a bloke, comedian like Bradley Walsh, maybe Stephen Mulhern. 2: Stop forcing the same sex dancers on us, it’s not as enjoyable. Johannes for example is a flaming poof, we all know it, dances with women and is very good. Stop using this program for social engineering. Layton is a West End leading man, with a dance school! It was clear the BBC wanted him to win. 3: Less schmaltz, more laughs, less tears. 4: Bin the Halloween special. 5: Youth hostelling with Chris Eubank is a must.
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No right or wrong, but there is good and bad.
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Forgot about Dépêche Mode. Characterless, 5th former lyrics, complete drongo rock. Remember the song with the lyrics ‘people are people so why should it be, you and I should get along so awfully?’ I can think of a few reasons, writing crap songs like that for starters.
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I know the Americans do that a bit (wrap the cut ‘root’ of the mistletoe in a tape to prevent light getting to it) I’d just walk away.
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Agree, the music hasn’t aged that well.
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BBC so desperate to get a same sex couple to win it it’s a joke. Bobby pulling his dead mum out to try and win it. Hoping Ellie wins it.
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Well, in this case your tree officer is your friend. A lot of peeps on here can offer guidance, the most obvious is @daltontrees
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You should have thrown a plastic bottle of piss at them, firm but fair.
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New Wave or New Romantics?
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I’m pretty sure you were the target.
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Agreed. Re, Duran Duran. I mostly ignored them in the 80s as a they were girly favourites. A few years back I saw them on the recent reincarnation of TFI Fridays. Simon le Bon was duetting with the lead singer of Eagles of Death Metal doing ‘Rio’ I think (a week before the Bataclan thing) they both started and Jesse Hughes was crap in comparison, and I realised SLB was actually a very good singer. Subsequently I have listened to DD with new ears. Underrated if anything.
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What constitutes a spurious wood chipper blade
Mick Dempsey replied to Simon's topic in General chat
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Watching Totp on bbc4. UB40 stole a living for years as well.
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I know what you mean, couple of good songs, great hair, died at a the right time.
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Apart from ‘Imagine’ (which is so so) John Lennon as a solo artist did nothing of note. Who would actually put a JL record on? Goes down in the overrated column.
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That’s a big call.
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Even The Monkees?
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Just a bit of Friday evening fun. Give me a band or bands (ideally from the past) that in hindsight are really very poor and shouldn’t have been so popular, reasons are good as well. 3: Frankie goes to Hollywood. Totally overhyped and over produced, listening to them now makes me wonder how they got so big. In those days pure hype and radio play could keep a band current. 2: The Thompson Twins. Total rubbish, start to finish, you hardly ever hear their songs on the radio these days, you know why? Cos they are all crap ‘We Are Detectives’ one of the worst songs ever. 1: The Foo Fighters. I don’t get it, I’m not averse to a bit of post Nirvana thrash, but everything they do leaves me cold, maybe it’s because Dave Grohl is such a nice guy. What bands have you furrowing your brow, thinking HOW?
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Imagine being the instructor!
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Nothing too noteworthy, a horrible acacia to re-top over some cables and stuff and couple of oaks to dismantle. But……today is my 60th birthday! So next time some 28 year old starts moaning about how arb is destroying their body etc. Point out how to the callow youths how (after nearly thirty years) I am still a Greek god of a man, body like sculpted marble, agile, strong like lion, fearless and skilled! Anyway a good day was had, happy to be above ground and still on the job.
