The Beatles

[Langdale Wolf]

That was a child's song. What you are doing there is judging AA Milne by standards you'd normally associate with Shakespeare.

Now, if you really want to dig into a f**king horrid Macca number, Mull of Kintire (sp) is the one to go for.

Ebony and Ivory makes me want to puke. I quite like Mull of Kintyre.

Oh, and The Girl is Mine is cringeworthy.

[Langdale Wolf]

OH MY GOD

i just spotified it - i feel dirty!!

It makes me laugh as it's so bad. I think the whole album is a piss-take to be fair though, the quote on the sleeve says 'Life is life - this was just a record'.

He also covers a Beatles track. After hours of ceaseless searching his old band's back catalogue, and with permission from his mate Paul who said 'sure Rings, pick a song John and I wrote. Any song. Go for it.' he chose.................Love Me Do.

Dear. God.

Vertical Man - the most comedically awful album I've heard in ages.

[Wooderson]

SHIT!! When did that happen?

Thank God for imports....

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[sifi]

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I can't help but think that the reference to the potato blight was probably in the wrong thread. Which annoyed me, because we studied it in history, A-Level. Although for the main it was with regards to Robert Peel rather than the suffering in the then colonies.

[Peevis]

I can't help but think that the reference to the potato blight was probably in the wrong thread. Which annoyed me, because we studied it in history, A-Level. Although for the main it was with regards to Robert Peel rather than the suffering in the then colonies.

Was, am and always will be proud of the chat I had with a fat Girl in Dublin about the Potato famine..

"You English bastard killed my family in the famine..."

I suggested that she didn't really look like she was short of a potato. I shuld be in the diplomatic core, I really should...

[Wooderson]

I can't help but think that the reference to the potato blight was probably in the wrong thread. Which annoyed me, because we studied it in history, A-Level. Although for the main it was with regards to Robert Peel rather than the suffering in the then colonies.

Is it common for jokes to be told about it in the UK? Tis is a serious taboo over here.

[sifi]

Was, am and always will be proud of the chat I had with a fat Girl in Dublin about the Potato famine..

"You English bastard killed my family in the famine..."

I suggested that she didn't really look like she was short of a potato. I shuld be in the diplomatic core, I really should...

Brilliant.

I might have gone "Well, to be fair I haven't done it yet. I'm going to build a time machine though, and now you've brought it up, I'll go back to Ireland in the 1840s and kill your family then. I wasn't planning on doing that, but Im going to make a point of it. So really, it's your fault. You killed your own family".

Although yours was a lot snappier.

Edited September 30, 2009 by sifimaster

[Peevis]

Is it common for jokes to be told about it in the UK? Tis is a serious taboo over here.

hehe As Alan P famously said about the Potato famine... well you will pay the price if you're a fussy eater!

[sifi]

Is it common for jokes to be told about it in the UK? Tis is a serious taboo over here.

Not really. Nobody really gives a f**k about what happened in Ireland one hundred and fifty years ago. In fact, most people don't actually give a f**k as to what's happening outside their own little circle in the last three or four months, I'd say.

I honestly don't know what the current Irish are moaning about though. You should have seen what the Brits did to the Indians. f**k me that death toll ran into like seven figures, didn't it?

Edited September 30, 2009 by sifimaster

[Langdale Wolf]

Not really. Nobody really gives a f**k about what happened in Ireland one hundred and fifty years ago. In fact, most people don't actually give a f**k as to what's happening outside their own little circle in the last three or four months, I'd say.

Except the Scots. They keep bringing shit like the Battle of Stirling up over and over again.

[Wooderson]

Not really. Nobody really gives a f**k about what happened in Ireland one hundred and fifty years ago. In fact, most people don't actually give a f**k as to what's happening outside their own little circle in the last three or four months, I'd say.

I honestly don't know what the Irish are moaning about. You should have seen what the Brits did to the Indians. f**k me that death toll ran into like seven figures, didn't it?

Fair enough.

[The Nal]

Was, am and always will be proud of the chat I had with a fat Girl in Dublin about the Potato famine..

"You English bastard killed my family in the famine..."

I suggested that she didn't really look like she was short of a potato. I shuld be in the diplomatic core, I really should...

[Kowalski]

Not really. Nobody really gives a f**k about what happened in Ireland one hundred and fifty years ago.

You obviously haven't been to an Old Firm game.

[Langdale Wolf]

Imagine is just amazing. Love that track.

As for the other examples - they're all on the Plastic Ono Band album aren't they?

He did a track called Isolation - can't remember if that's on the POB or Imagine album, but it's a cracking tune.

[Peevis]

Imagine is just amazing. Love that track.

Imagine no posessions..

Except me 'cos I'ma multi millionaire rock star of course.

[Langdale Wolf]

Imagine no posessions..

Except me 'cos I'ma multi millionaire rock star of course.

And.....?

Didn't Kurt Cobain say 'Rape Me'? Now I know he was a bit of a fruit loop, but I don't think he was actually saying 'Rape Me'.

You're thinking too literally, Peevis me old mate.

[sifi]

You obviously haven't been to an Old Firm game.

You know, I keep thinking Scotland has got it's independence from the UK to the extent I've stopped caring about that too.

I wish they'd just get on with it now. The English have had most of the oil anyhow.

Scotland - an old girl who has let herself go, that you've done too often and you've moved on from.

Edited September 30, 2009 by sifimaster

[Peevis]

And.....?

Didn't Kurt Cobain say 'Rape Me'? Now I know he was a bit of a fruit loop, but I don't think he was actually saying 'Rape Me'.

You're thinking too literally, Peevis me old mate.

Not sure Kurts Missus has been quoted as "that song symbolised his dream for the world..."

All I'm saying is, see the song in context.

lovely tune, nice sentiment, just don't believe that he meant it!

[Peevis]

Imagine a world where possessions aren't the be all and end all of life, which for most people, they are.

come on Peeve, it's not too difficult

Awwww...

Reinterpreted well Sir... You should be Pope!

[Wooderson]

You know, I keep thinking Scotland has got it's independence from the UK to the extent I've stopped caring about that too.

I wish they'd just get on with it now. The English have had most of the oil anyhow.

Scotland - an old girl who has let herself go, that you've done too often and you've moved on from.

Oh dear. This thread is going in the wrong direction.

[The Nal]

On a slightly different note, for those Manson Family enthusiasts out there, "Sexy Sadie" Susan Atkins died during the week. A scary and evil piece of work in her day.

Here she is during the trial, turning around and laughing at Sharon Tates family (including Roman Polanski), while the description of how Sharon Tate was killed was being read out.

Not the kind of girl you’d bring home to your mother.

Although I'd say she was a demon in the sack.

[sifi]

It is a bit sanctimonious now you think about it.

[Langdale Wolf]

On a slightly different note, for those Manson Family enthusiasts out there, "Sexy Sadie" Susan Atkins died during the week. A scary and evil piece of work in her day.

Here she is during the trial, turning around and laughing at Sharon Tates family (including Roman Polanski), while the description of how Sharon Tate was killed was being read out.

Not the kind of girl you’d bring home to your mother.

Although I'd say she was a demon in the sack.

I knew she was dying, but didn't know she'd actually died. F**king good riddance.

She kept applying for parole saying she's had an exemplary record whilst inside, but that photo just shows why she should never have been left out. Evil cow. Anyway, the song 'Sexy Sadie' is nowt to do with Susan Atkins.

Did you know that Sexy Sadie was originally going to be called Maharishi? So the line 'Maharishi - what have you done?' was something to do with him groping one of the Beatles' entourage. But Lennon changed it to 'Sexy Sadie'. Who wasn't Susan Atkins. Because the Manson murders happened nearly half a decade after The White Album was released.

EDIT: sorry, dates are wrong. The Manson murders were in 1969, a year after the White Album. Regardless, it still couldn't have been her Lennon was referring to.

Edited September 30, 2009 by Langdale Wolf

[Wooderson]

He has a thing for psychotic hippie chicks.

[sifi]

depends how cynical you choose to be really

I like to take it at face value

Imagine there's no possessions, it's easy if you try.

Well of course it is. He'd been to India ffs.