So that's now all of them who've checked out before reaching their 70s.
Unsurprising, really.
So that's now all of them who've checked out before reaching their 70s.
Unsurprising, really.
67 is a decent knock though - heavy metal band membership being very much the T20 of the life expectancy stakesQuote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Yes. Surprising they all got as far as they did, really. Even Phil 'Philthy Animal' Taylor made it to 61 and he was by all accounts a lunatic.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
Thoughts and prayers are with Frimley.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
:hehe: I think Motörhead were a bit poppy for Frimmers.Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
I thought it was AWIMBs Fast Eddie
You know
That Irishman with a permanent rage
Oh, yes. The one who was convinced Britain started WWII and was a bit Holocaust deny-ey?Quote:
Originally Posted by Viva Prat Vegas
He wasn’t my biggest fan, s. :-(
That's him
The one with the skewed outlook on political events
Sort of like an aggressive version of dear Jorge
I fear he had a murderous temper on him and am glad he never actually got at you
Err .. I am assuming then that Lemmy has gone to that great wart removal clinic in the sky?Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
A Christmas or two ago Herbert
Yes. I think he was one of 2016's casualties, wasn't he?Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman
He was a provo, basically. Saw everything - up to and including World War Two - through the prism of his deep and abiding hatred of England. I don't mind a bit of Irish nationalism here and there - hell, I'll even sing a rebel song myself if sufficiently drunk - but I cannot stand the breed who think Irish patriotism simply means hating England.Quote:
Originally Posted by Viva Prat Vegas
I forget stuff these days though I won't forget David Bowie passing as I thought he was immortal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Imagine the enormous great brouhaha, kerfuffle and general to do there'll be the day McCartney takes a walk. Almost looking forward to it.
That, though, is every last Jock I ever met.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
To be honest, if the last time I saw him was anything to go by, he's started embalming himself. Mind you, he looks the type to live to a hundred. He might see me out, tbh.Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman
Yet (I assume) he supported an English football club.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Bizarre.
As Jorge (RIP) called him
Sir Thumbsaloft
:thumbup:
Worth remembering all the same that for every Sgt Peppers or Rubber Soul or Revolver there is The Frog Chorus.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
There's a bit of pantomime in most Scots' 'hatred' of England imo. However, it's certainly every Scot Nat I've ever encountered. They all start off saying it's about self-determination and all that, but scratch the surface for a few seconds and it's 'the bŕstard English' this and 'Sassenach twŕt' that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman
You know The Frog Chorus was a song for kids in a kids' film, right? And, as such, it was very good.Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
I don't think Sir Paul ever thought he was writing the Eroica Symphony when he was knocking it together, tbf.
I'll raise you Ebony and Ivory.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
and Pipes of Peace.
:hehe: Was a funny day when he was spouting his **** about this and that and having a go at both of us, yet revealed he was actually English - or at least far more English than you or meQuote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I love Jorge and miss him a great deal but his loathing of the Fabs was always puzzling to me. In '62 Britain was still in the grip of grey, post-war torpor and our voice was essentially that of the carping, nagging, middle class tones of the Pathe news men.Quote:
Originally Posted by Viva Prat Vegas
That four working class blokes from the industrial north should have initiated such seismic and global cultural change should delight a man of Jorge's persuasion. Our Empire was finished so the Mop Tops effectively replaced it with a much more far reaching empire of the mind.
To disparage the Beatles in one breath and then laud and applaud a barber shop quartet like the Beach Boys beggars belief.
Jorge was Irish so Britain and it's so called Empire was of little interest to him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman
He was of the rather silly school who think that Lennon was cool and great because he was 'edgy' and dead, while McCartney was hopelessly uncool because he wrote a great melody and was alive.Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman
:hehe: That was always very funny. He was forever threatening to move to your delightful country, but strangely seems still not to have got around to it. :rubchin:Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
And yet it was McCartney who wrote Give Ireland Back To The Irish, and Lady Madonna, an anti Catholic polemic. Fool on the Hill, a poignant study of alienation. I think McCartney was the superior writer in addition to being the superior tunesmithQuote:
Originally Posted by Burney
He was probably one of these people who change their English names to Irish ones. The sort who are actually called Bill Smith, but style themselves Liam Mac an Ghabhain* or whatever.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
*I'm sure sw will correct my spelling here. Although I find the notion of spelling in Irish a rather droll one.
Well, say what you will of Jorge, if I ever found myself in the dock accused of crimes I had not committed, I'd want as many Jorges on the jury as possible. I fear you b, and Sir C, would simply want me locked up asap so you could go for a long lunch.
The less said about 'Give Ireland Back To The Irish' the better, h. :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman
Anyway, I think trying to judge who was better is unhelpful, really. They were complementary.
I would not have expected the "an" to be there but who knows.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
You only ever really learned your own name for the oral exams.
:nono: I would take my role as juror very seriously. I'd look carefully at the evidence, weigh all the probabilities and then, when you opened your mouth and revealed your social class, I would decide you were guilty.Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman
Ditto if you were guilty as sin Herbert !
Sir C has already done jury service
Kept nodding off for 40 winks :hehe:
:snooze:
Don't forget Imagine, a disingenuous, saccharine dirge. Imagine no possessions? It's easy if you've got a garage full of Rolls Royces John.Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
What is your pretendy Irish name, sw? 'Stiofán Macliammoir', or something like that?Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
It's easy if you try H.Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman
:nod: I'd have shot him just for shítting that disingenuous turd of a song into the world.Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman
Look at how they spell Shivaun !
Siobbhan
WTF ?!
:nod: He actually acquitted some people. I'm not sure I've forgiven him yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Viva Prat Vegas
Well 'bhan' means 'woman'. As in 'bhan sidhe' or banshee, which just means 'woman spirit/ghost'. And as in the Shan Van Vocht or 'Poor Old Woman' meant to represent Ireland.Quote:
Originally Posted by Viva Prat Vegas