Lovely lay off from Trossard, inviting the shot

[Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult]

Bof. Some tabloid hack made that name up and and it sounded cool so everyone just went with it.

Like "Heavy Metal". What on earth do these terms even mean.

I think you'll find most new terms are coined by someone. And for the term to be common currency, there has to be a grain of reality behind its acceptance.

I'd suggest that the working class yoof culture/counter-culture from the '60s as a whole was Romanticism. And that the hippies, punks, and the new age traveller free rave/festy scene {which for partially personal reasons I consider both the apogee and culmination of romanticism} were far closer and more significant forms of Romantic culture than the "New Romantics."

But in terms of fashion culture, the NRs were closer, more similar, to the original C19th Romantics than the others, because of the soft, flowing, sensual glamour of the clothing.

But the Romantic aspects of individualism and emotion replacing the preceding {Enlightenment} rationality, the counter-cultures from the hippies in the '60s, through punks in the '70s, through the illegal, underground raves from the late '80s and then the travelling Teknivals of the '90s and early noughties all contained part of the essence of Romanticism until the digital world of smart phones and social media destroyed the culture that underpinned Romanticism.

And ironically, this new social media echo chamber world of tribalism based on a concept that your beliefs are purer than your opponents who deserve to be silenced, cancelled, digitally burned at the stake not just undoes Romanticism, but Enlightenment rationality and returns to the preceding era of the Wars of Religion from the Reformation of 1517 until the end of the 30 Years War in Europe {1648} and the Restoration of 1660 in GB.

The toleration that ended the wars of religion {and started the Enlightenment that led to Romanticism} has been undone and we've returned to self-appointed priest castes {be they woke or alt-right} demanding the slaughter of their enemies like Puritans or the Inquisition

[Peter]

I think you'll find most new terms are coined by someone. And for the term to be common currency, there has to be a grain of reality behind its acceptance.

I'd suggest that the working class yoof culture/counter-culture from the '60s as a whole was Romanticism. And that the hippies, punks, and the new age traveller free rave/festy scene {which for partially personal reasons I consider both the apogee and culmination of romanticism} were far closer and more significant forms of Romantic culture than the "New Romantics."

But in terms of fashion culture, the NRs were closer, more similar, to the original C19th Romantics than the others, because of the soft, flowing, sensual glamour of the clothing.

But the Romantic aspects of individualism and emotion replacing the preceding {Enlightenment} rationality, the counter-cultures from the hippies in the '60s, through punks in the '70s, through the illegal, underground raves from the late '80s and then the travelling Teknivals of the '90s and early noughties all contained part of the essence of Romanticism until the digital world of smart phones and social media destroyed the culture that underpinned Romanticism.

And ironically, this new social media echo chamber world of tribalism based on a concept that your beliefs are purer than your opponents who deserve to be silenced, cancelled, digitally burned at the stake not just undoes Romanticism, but Enlightenment rationality and returns to the preceding era of the Wars of Religion from the Reformation of 1517 until the end of the 30 Years War in Europe {1648} and the Restoration of 1660 in GB.

The toleration that ended the wars of religion {and started the Enlightenment that led to Romanticism} has been undone and we've returned to self-appointed priest castes {be they woke or alt-right} demanding the slaughter of their enemies like Puritans or the Inquisition

**** all that. Did you see the chance that Ekitike just missed? Now, if Vik had missed that.......

[redgunamo]

**** all that. Did you see the chance that Ekitike just missed? Now, if Vik had missed that.......

Indeed. Shocking miss.

[Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult]

**** all that. Did you see the chance that Ekitike just missed? Now, if Vik had missed that.......

Nah, I'd got back from Paris on the overnight coach. I don't watch other teams anyway, let alone when you haven't seen cat or glw for getting on for a month.

What happened then? So this striker that certain people here were saying was the one we should have gone for missed a sitter and gifted City points? Something like that?

[Peter]

Nah, I'd got back from Paris on the overnight coach. I don't watch other teams anyway, let alone when you haven't seen cat or glw for getting on for a month.

What happened then? So this striker that certain people here were saying was the one we should have gone for missed a sitter and gifted City points? Something like that?

Basically, yes