Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
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Very few people ever trusted academia. It is worse now, people dont even trust 'experts' Until they get ill.....

I was deliberately confusing romantic with romanticism. Sorry, thought that was obvious:-) Hence the Woody Allen reference.....

Please don't confuse romantic and Romanticism. Romeo and Juliet was Romantic. It was not part of Romanticism. As I say, don't ask me when I'm...

Absolutely. A bad Don. Careless.

I believe he was born in 1890. Or thereabouts. Grandfather towards the end of the war. My dad was born 15 years after yours.

As Sollozzo says, blood is a big expense. He may have been useful with a knife but only in matters of business, and with a legitimate grievance. Old...

The French ruthlessly plagiarised the Americans, who effectively paraphrased Locke. But with considerable style and flourish. It stands today as...

Dear old Clemenza was also a harsh critic of appeasement. Values of the old world. A great man :-) Home advantage in war can be both an advantage...

Good God, I'd forgotten you're into Yank history. Strangely enough, it's not. For some reason {and ask the pwoppa experts, not me} the Yank...

Possibly :-) My grandfather used to tell me about Alex James. I wish he'd lived to see Dennis....

It was of little importance to me (I'd had a few, like) but my friends seemed quite excited. There were selfies etc. I was hanging with the...

They dont get enough credit for it. It is a majestic read :-)

Nice guys. They did a few of their own songs as well. Later that evening some woman started doing acoustic versions of Tiffany songs. Turned out...

My sister loves them. I once saw a band in the pub called Wooden Maiden, who did acoustic covers of Maiden songs. It was far, far better than it...

It just doesn't move in me. The declaration of independence is the better read. Now that is romantic :-)

My grandfather saw him play, but he would have been quite young. About 16 by the time he left. My great grandfather got shot in the arse in Basra...

Nice to finally find a group of fans who dont hate us :-)

Oh, I wouldn't expect you to. Which facet we like best is subjective. But I objectively believe we are all part of that diamond that's been built...

Fine player, David Jack. According to my great grandfather, apparently:-)

I have been chatting to their fans since they beat the Mancs this year and believe me, so do they. Seem quite chuffed that it was as close as it was...

I remember Charlie Nicholas scoring a hat trick at Grimsby in the Cup :-)

My sister has tried for years. With Coleridge, Byron, Shakespeare, Shelley, Hardy.... she's given up :-) I mean, it's alright.... but its no Dance...

Have we ever played them before? I don't remember, honestly. And have we played any other Jane Austen novels?

QED. As a Romantic, the first hint of its ending, with digital music, even though those CDs were our fave ever bands, make the hair on the back of...

Oh, come on, it's personal. We all have fave songs on an album, fave album by band X, fave band, fave artform etc. You don't have to choose...

See, I like it. I get it. I see it. And you can draw a direct line to the poetry of Oscar Wilde, Rupert Brooke, and on to Morrisey:-) But it...

They ruined Appetite for Destruction as well. And I can remember the first time I was in a record shop and saw a copy of New Mind The *******s on...

Agreed. {Dear God, you're even more of a Romantic than me. You're gonna need a really stiff drink when the digital world finally grinds ours into...

*******s - I should have used part of Danny's speech for my end of Romanticism waffle. The greatest era in the history of humanity is over etc. ...