Margaret Thatcher Day

offshorepoolie · **Joined:** Wed Oct 14, 2009 7:32 pm **Posts:** 6011

A Tory MP is bringing proposals to name August Bank Holiday " Margaret Thatcher Day" .. I feel there are far more deserving people to name a Bank Holiday after.. St. Margaret will be turning in her grave

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politic ... burka.html

born toulouse · **Posted:** Fri Jul 05, 2013 8:14 am

He should have electrodes attached to his testicles for that idea. Her old mate General Pinochet refined the technology so it shouldn't be hard to get hold of the right kit.

offshorepoolie · **Joined:** Wed Oct 14, 2009 7:32 pm **Posts:** 6011

By the looks of the rest of the proposals the next move for the tories after the election will be a pact with the Raving Monster Looney / UKiP party!

ElvisC · **Joined:** Mon Aug 15, 2011 9:55 am **Posts:** 4504

We could all stand on the cenotaph and sing "Tramp The Dirt Down". Nice to see Elvis C do that song at "Glasto" and his very dignified introduction proves that you can be critical, without being hateful. Frankly I'd have just dedicated it to the bitch and suffered the backlash.

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22670

ElvisC wrote:

We could all stand on the cenotaph and sing "Tramp The Dirt Down". Nice to see Elvis C do that song at "Glasto" and his very dignified introduction proves that you can be critical, without being hateful. Frankly I'd have just dedicated it to the bitch and suffered the backlash.

Aye, but then he is a pretentious 'lovely lovely person'. Unarguably Morrissey and Bono top the list but Costello and Billy Bragg are fighting hard for the third spot.

ElvisC · **Joined:** Mon Aug 15, 2011 9:55 am **Posts:** 4504

Bragg, followed by Weller, then Chris Martin of Coldplay. Bonos a good shout too. Last time I saw U2 the political shit inbetween the songs were longer than the actual songs. Same with Weller although he has calmed down a bit and now concentrates on re-creating the greatest hits of Traffic and The Move and claiming they are HIS songs.

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37496

I don't even know why the topics being discussed, it's never gong to happen.

Andy Dibbles Gloves · **Joined:** Tue Dec 11, 2012 3:32 pm **Posts:** 6817

Mr Irrelevant wrote:

ElvisC wrote:

We could all stand on the cenotaph and sing "Tramp The Dirt Down". Nice to see Elvis C do that song at "Glasto" and his very dignified introduction proves that you can be critical, without being hateful. Frankly I'd have just dedicated it to the bitch and suffered the backlash.

Aye, but then he is a pretentious 'lovely lovely person'. Unarguably Morrissey and Bono top the list but Costello and Billy Bragg are fighting hard for the third spot.

Rubbish. Utter fooking rubbish.

I deserve to appear in that list.

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22670

No, you're in the 'complete arseholey contrary twat' section. And, it has to be said, doing very well.

Andy Dibbles Gloves · **Joined:** Tue Dec 11, 2012 3:32 pm **Posts:** 6817

Mr Irrelevant wrote:

No, you're in the 'complete arseholey contrary twat' section. And, it has to be said, doing very well.

Ah, thankyou.

ElvisC · **Joined:** Mon Aug 15, 2011 9:55 am **Posts:** 4504

Costello isn't pretentious, hes just a genius. The angry young man has long been replaced by the beloved entertainer. You'd go a long way to see better gigs than his recent spinning songwheel shows, or his blistering "Glasto" appearance.

Andy Dibbles Gloves · **Joined:** Tue Dec 11, 2012 3:32 pm **Posts:** 6817

being political doesnt make them pretentious.

Costello is or was Political, as is Billy Bragg.

The world needs singers like them.

What it doesnt need is pretentious tree hugging ponces like Bone, Chris Martin and Ricky Martin.

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22670

Ricky Martin is gay you know.

Andy Dibbles Gloves · **Joined:** Tue Dec 11, 2012 3:32 pm **Posts:** 6817

Dont be stupid. He is surrounded by women.

poolieinnottingham · **Posted:** Fri Jul 05, 2013 3:04 pm

Nelly wrote:

Morrissey is brilliant as well as hilarious.

I'm not so sure. Some of the Smiths stuff is classic, his solo stuff less so, and if you listen to his Desert Island Discs interview he came across as an utterly self-obsessed nasty tosser.

doubledecker · **Joined:** Sat Jul 11, 2009 10:52 pm **Posts:** 497

Nelly wrote:

Morrissey is brilliant as well as hilarious.

This
Greatest songwriter this country has produced, his interviews are funny but at times slip into self parody, his music, especially with the smiths stands pretty much head and shoulders above the rest

Andy Dibbles Gloves · **Joined:** Tue Dec 11, 2012 3:32 pm **Posts:** 6817

Mmmmmmm.

Mediocre lyrics, average songs, made somewhat special by a brilliant guitarist.

Andy Dibbles Gloves · **Joined:** Tue Dec 11, 2012 3:32 pm **Posts:** 6817

Ah come on, you are better than that.

Andy Dibbles Gloves · **Joined:** Tue Dec 11, 2012 3:32 pm **Posts:** 6817

John keats? You are mistaken I am Adg. The one. The only. Legende round These parts

TalbotAvenger · **Posted:** Fri Jul 05, 2013 7:41 pm

Nelly wrote:

Morrissey is brilliant as well as hilarious.

He is a big gay racialist

TalbotAvenger · **Posted:** Fri Jul 05, 2013 7:42 pm

MadJohn wrote:

Andy Dibbles Gloves wrote:

Mmmmmmm.

Mediocre lyrics, average songs, made somewhat special by a brilliant guitarist.

I see your point, though I never thought that Mick Jones was all that.

Mick Jones out of Foreigner is better

TalbotAvenger · **Posted:** Fri Jul 05, 2013 7:45 pm

Andy Dibbles Gloves wrote:

being political doesnt make them pretentious.

Costello is or was Political, as is Billy Bragg.

The world needs singers like them.

What it doesnt need is pretentious tree hugging ponces like Bone, Chris Martin and Ricky Martin.

A lot of them are hypocrites though

John Lennon for example, oooh woman are great, I love 'em me, while he fucks his nanny and slaps various others around

Sting, oh the rainforest, turn your fridge off and don't use any leccy, but I'm off to America, on the Concorde, then in my Jaguar, with its welcome to the board big engine and bits of tree and cow

The pair of canoots

ElvisC · **Joined:** Mon Aug 15, 2011 9:55 am **Posts:** 4504

I refer the above poster to the lyrics of Mr Costellos 1991 minor hit "The Other Side Of Summer"...

"Was it a millionaire, who said Imagine No Possessions, was it a public schoolboy who said We Don't Need No Lessons?"

clever bloke, I always thought Imagine was a crock of shit and as for Another Brick In The Wall...well...

Andy Dibbles Gloves · **Joined:** Tue Dec 11, 2012 3:32 pm **Posts:** 6817

Cant argue with that or talbots. Post.

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37496

I'll stick with Harry Nilsson.

BillinghamPoolie · **Posted:** Fri Jul 05, 2013 11:45 pm

Without You is a great song, but I can't see them naming August Bank Holiday Monday after him!

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37496

BillinghamPoolie wrote:

Without You is a great song, but I can't see them naming August Bank Holiday Monday after him!

Oh, I don't want a Bank Holiday named after, I just like listening to Harry..... but to be honest, I never was a fan of 'Without You'.... but that's the fun of personal choice.

BillinghamPoolie · **Posted:** Sat Jul 06, 2013 10:55 am

Snowy wrote:

BillinghamPoolie wrote:

Without You is a great song, but I can't see them naming August Bank Holiday Monday after him!

Oh, I don't want a Bank Holiday named after, I just like listening to Harry..... but to be honest, I never was a fan of 'Without You'.... but that's the fun of personal choice.

Strange that you don't like 'Without You' with your choice of avatar......

First 5 minutes.....

ElvisC · **Joined:** Mon Aug 15, 2011 9:55 am **Posts:** 4504

"Without You" by Harry Nillson was a cover version, it was originally by Badfinger and written by Pete Ham and Tom Evans of the Welsh band.

BillinghamPoolie · **Posted:** Sat Jul 06, 2013 11:51 am

ElvisC wrote:

"Without You" by Harry Nillson was a cover version, it was originally by Badfinger and written by Pete Ham and Tom Evans of the Welsh band.

Both had early deaths by suicide, with Pete Ham joining a list of musicians that didn't live beyond 27, very sad.

Fatty eats roadkill · **Posted:** Sat Jul 06, 2013 1:15 pm

Peter Bone ended up speaking for only 9 seconds due to delaying tactics. Still 9 seconds too long. Oh well at least he had his short spell in the sun.

Spender · **Posted:** Sat Jul 06, 2013 6:43 pm

Billy Bragg gets really bad press. I've met the bloke countless times and he gets sucked into this political juggling. He's not keen on doing what he was doing in his 20's in his 50's but he such an open bloke he'll talk and then he gets paraphrased. He knows his records sold because of his youthful politics and admits it's the price of getting lucky. Don't run away with the idea that he's still bright red though.

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37496

Spender wrote:

Billy Bragg gets really bad press. I've met the bloke countless times and he gets sucked into this political juggling. He's not keen on doing what he was doing in his 20's in his 50's but he such an open bloke he'll talk and then he gets paraphrased. He knows his records sold because of his youthful politics and admits it's the price of getting lucky. Don't run away with the idea that he's still bright red though.

Saw him getting interviewed at his place surrounded by his collection of model buses. Funny but some things you just don't associate with certain people, from angry young man to undercover modeller.

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Sat Jul 06, 2013 8:32 pm

ElvisC wrote:

"Without You" by Harry Nillson was a cover version, it was originally by Badfinger and written by Pete Ham and Tom Evans of the Welsh band.

I just can't connect with that song any more since some horrible wailing woman murdered it.
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