Random musings and general banter.

[Duke of Cheese]

Between the Wars - Billy Bragg.

 

[Muttley]

Iron Maiden have loads of songs that are a great history lesson. Here are a few.
Aces High (Battle of Britain)
Run for the Hills (American Indian Wars)
The Trooper (Charge of the Light Brigade)
Alexander the Great (Tribute to Alexander III of Macedon)
Paschendale (Battle of same name from WW1)
The Longest Day (Account of D-Day Landings)

I've never listened to Iron Maiden before. I've got Spotify which is great as you can try out stuff you've never heard before.

 

[historymystery]

Dr Simon Barr is the surgeon's name (see below).
So the story goes that Pedro was lying in his hospital bed barely conscious after his 'medical procedure' and Simon Barr comes up to him and says: "What are you doing to your skin Peter?" Pedro says to him: "Nothing really, just a bit of moisturiser and regular collagen." To which Simon Barr allegedly says:" Well you know what Peter, that collagen you're taking has really worked. You've got the skin of a 10 year old."

See, I missed some of the bits that he came out with afterwards....I think I'd only just picked my chin up off the floor! The bit I did see, where he named the surgeon, was excruciating enough....it was a monologue that brought tears (of laughter) to my eyes, all about how he'd noticed an improvement in the appearance of his skin and fingernails. OK, the collagen may be working wonders, or Pete may have a picture in the attic that's ageing rapidly while he stays looking young, who knows, but I thought naming the surgeon was a bit odd and OTT.

 

[Gooner1963]

Minging feet minging beard minging teeth god's gift to women my ****

 

[Xennial]

Here are a few more history based songs.
Don McClean - American Pie (The cultural and political decline of the US in the 1960s)
The Kinks - Mr. Churchill Says (Struggle of World War II on the people of Great Britain)
Curved Air - Marie Antoinette
Neil Young - Cortez The Killer (Hernando Cortez, the Spaniard who conquered Mexico)
No Irish need apply-The wakes (Irish Immigration to Britain in the 1950s)
All for you Sophia-Franz Ferdinand (Start of WW)
Ebola Gay-Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (Dropping the a bomb)
Draft Dodger Rag- Phil Ochs (Vietnam war)
Paul Hardcastle - 19 (Vietnam war)
English Curse- Frank Turner (Death of William II)
Scorpions - Winds of Change (Cold war coming to an end)

 

[Muttley]

I take it back, there are a lot of songs that give you a history lesson!

 

[HughTwo]

Switched over to see Of-the-Masons sticking his feet in a tacky looking bath.

They really should flog a beard bath - give that monstrosity on his chin a good wash

 

[Muttley]

Switched over to see Of-the-Masons sticking his feet in a tacky looking bath.

They really should flog a beard bath - give that monstrosity on his chin a good wash

Maybe one day they'll sell razors, they will need someone to demo it...

 

[HughTwo]

Maybe one day they'll sell razors, they will need someone to demo it...

They try to flog a very dodgy looking electric razor - you have to assume it wouldn't cut candy floss, let along that matted mess on Mason.

 

[HughTwo]

Torchy now flogging 12 scented humidifier pots for £19.99 - lot of guff about copper pipes "sweating".

Wasn't Dirty Peter knocking them out 9 for a tenner recently?
Maybe that was a price to clear .
Can't afford zinc pants? Stick one of these down your drawers

 

[Duke of Cheese]

Oh Morgan, what a desperate creature you are.

 

[Samki]

Sorry I’ve let this take over

Don’t apologise jazzy - you are in mental anguish and distress. I hope you get the help and support you truly need

 

[Duke of Cheese]

Mason has the most unpleasant, yellow looking feet and thin ankles. What, with that Edwardian older gentleman’s birds’ nest of a beard, and those Wednesday legs feet sat in that bowl, it looked like an artistic depiction of a workhouse scene from the early 1900s. Also, that woman with him appeared none too pleased when he put her on the spot and pressured her to take her boots off and stick her plates in the water. God knows how long that water had been hanging about for, too. Probably the same water that was thrown on Chef Mark’s electrical aberration by Chef Joe and then burnt the whole place down.

 

[Duke of Cheese]

See, I missed some of the bits that he came out with afterwards....I think I'd only just picked my chin up off the floor! The bit I did see, where he named the surgeon, was excruciating enough....it was a monologue that brought tears (of laughter) to my eyes, all about how he'd noticed an improvement in the appearance of his skin and fingernails. OK, the collagen may be working wonders, or Pete may have a picture in the attic that's ageing rapidly while he stays looking young, who knows, but I thought naming the surgeon was a bit odd and OTT.

He is incredibly ODD….It is almost like the archetypal bad liar gives too much information to bolster up their fanciful story into truth. The interesting thing is with him, when you watch him regularly, you notice the contradictions and discrepancies in the various analogies he presents to you. Really, he should keep a video check on all his past performances to make sure on each show he is singing from the same previous hymn sheet. That said, that would be too much like preparation, and too much like hard work.

 

[Duke of Cheese]

Has somebody removed the beauty lady’s body improving huge RRPs paraphernalia? She seems just to be selling foot spas and shampoo nowadays?

 

[OutOut]

Natalia before she looked like a Bo-Selecta character.

 

[galesgal57]

Has somebody removed the beauty lady’s body improving huge RRPs paraphernalia? She seems just to be selling foot spas and shampoo nowadays?

Opatra has gone to TJC only, pity she didn't go with it.

 

[Duke of Cheese]

What an ignominious come down for her. Maybe she should try for a stale ham role at QVC?

 

[Hammy60]

Opatra has gone to TJC only, pity she didn't go with it.

Strange when it's the same company and both channels sell a lot of the same tat, oops mean luxury products, and IW was supposed to be the home of beauty, maybe sales of Opatra are/were better on the TJC's main tat channel.

 

[Ostrichkeeper]

Anyone remember “The luck of the Irish” on a John Lennon with Plastic Ono album? Have a look at that, interesting and historical. The early seventies I think.