How boring are those curling stones matches at the winter olympic ?

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

I loved Pot Black

Couldn't call it that these days.....

Wasn't black pot the squidgy stuff, unlike brown flatpress and red Leb, back in the day? Not talking about pwoppa charas, obv.

[Peter]

Wasn't black pot the squidgy stuff, unlike brown flatpress and red Leb, back in the day? Not talking about pwoppa charas, obv.

Yes. The bog standard, high street hash. Bloody horrible. Better than leb, though.

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

It?s a fair point. Although I had no time for Pot Black either, and I?m version that was back in early 70?s.
Low threshold, see. Attention span of a gnat. Clearly before my time.

Ok. Genuine question. It's 1980 again. The only football on telly {barring intls} in the Cup Final and the coverage of that starts at 9am.

It's the Olympics. In the whole 2 weeks, we are expected to have 5 shots at gold medals. Do you watch them all? i.e. every heat and final of the 800m and 1500m with Coe and Ovett? All 10 of Daley's events, and not just him, his major rivals when they're doing their jumping and throwing to see if DT's lead goes up or down?

I started thinking about this on that "Super Saturday" in the 2012 Games. We had a long jumper who won gold but cos it clashed with o Farah, we only saw 3 of his jumps.

I was thinking that in the '80s, if we'd have a jumper in with the shout of any medal, we'd have watched all his jumps, all his rivals' jumps, and I'd have known all their PBs and season's bests etc.

But that's cos medals were rare. But in 2012, when we came 3rd in the table with God alone knows how many, it all seemed a bit meh.

What I'm asking is if you really had this modern yoof attention span c.1980 or it's just you didn't much like Pot Black?

Could you spend a whole evening watching Eric Bristow and Jocky Wilson downing pints, chain-smoking Embassys and wobbling to the oche?

{Though far play if, while the rest of us are moaning about being the last of the Romantics, you were the original yoof with a -ve attention span. That's impressive.}

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

Yes. The bog standard, high street hash. Bloody horrible. Better than leb, though.

I actually liked flat press just cos it was easier to crumble. I also liked the way it seemed to expand as was heated and crumbled. So you thought your blim was barely a spliff but you actually had two decent ones left.

That and it not being harsh on the throat meant I didn't really care if I'd got slightly more THC per quid had I bought something else.

[Peter]

Ok. Genuine question. It's 1980 again. The only football on telly {barring intls} in the Cup Final and the coverage of that starts at 9am.

It's the Olympics. In the whole 2 weeks, we are expected to have 5 shots at gold medals. Do you watch them all? i.e. every heat and final of the 800m and 1500m with Coe and Ovett? All 10 of Daley's events, and not just him, his major rivals when they're doing their jumping and throwing to see if DT's lead goes up or down?

I started thinking about this on that "Super Saturday" in the 2012 Games. We had a long jumper who won gold but cos it clashed with o Farah, we only saw 3 of his jumps.

I was thinking that in the '80s, if we'd have a jumper in with the shout of any medal, we'd have watched all his jumps, all his rivals' jumps, and I'd have known all their PBs and season's bests etc.

But that's cos medals were rare. But in 2012, when we came 3rd in the table with God alone knows how many, it all seemed a bit meh.

What I'm asking is if you really had this modern yoof attention span c.1980 or it's just you didn't much like Pot Black?

Could you spend a whole evening watching Eric Bristow and Jocky Wilson downing pints, chain-smoking Embassys and wobbling to the oche?

{Though far play if, while the rest of us are moaning about being the last of the Romantics, you were the original yoof with a -ve attention span. That's impressive.}

Back in the 80s we watched stuff like that because there was **** all else to watch. And if you were a kid, sod all else to do once it got dark.

Until you were old enough to get in the pub, obviously

[Peter]

I actually liked flat press just cos it was easier to crumble. I also liked the way it seemed to expand as was heated and crumbled. So you thought your blim was barely a spliff but you actually had two decent ones left.

That and it not being harsh on the throat meant I didn't really care if I'd got slightly more THC per quid had I bought something else.

I never really took to cannabis in any form. Not my bag. I liked a drink, or one of the more exotic substances.

[PSRB]

I never really took to cannabis in any form. Not my bag. I liked a drink, or one of the more exotic substances.

much the same, just made me feel sick.

[Peter]

much the same, just made me feel sick.

Or knackered. Or a slow headache and a dry mouth.

8 pints and a couple of lines. Now you're talking

But that's a young man's game. I'm past it

[WES]

Or knackered. Or a slow headache and a dry mouth.

8 pints and a couple of lines. Now you're talking

But that's a young man's game. I'm past it

Oh I don't know. When I first started working in the late 80s CDs had just come out and I discovered a chap in settlements was selling the most wonderful Caribbean weed. Made you smile, giggle and everything seemed more interesting.

As I replaced my vinyl with CDs while smoking this weed it was like listening to all my favourite bands for the first time again, and they were better than ever.

Happy dayz

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

Back in the 80s we watched stuff like that because there was **** all else to watch. And if you were a kid, sod all else to do once it got dark.

Until you were old enough to get in the pub, obviously

Which is sort of my point. If there was never any sport on telly, nothing to do once it got dark, 3 channels of boredom and you suddenly got some Jock rock chuckers who might win your tribe a medal, we watched that sort of thing back then.