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Strange questions that sometimes need answering (or not asking in the first place really).

Also why are fireworks allowed up to midnight on Bonfire night? If the cut off was 9pm then you've still got about 2.5 hours of night to set off fireworks without keeping everyone awake.
I think they should be illegal on every day other than bonfire night and midnight, and that on those days there should be a cut off at like 10pm on bonfire night at half past midnight on new years eve. Private displays should be limited to quieter and smaller fireworks while big displays should be controlled and only permitted a certain distance from residential properties.
 
I agree but would probably add Chinese New Year and Diwali (which also currently get the extended 1am curfew).
 
Boo. Fireworks are fun, traditions around the world going back centuries shouldn't be discarded because dome people are mildly inconvenienced. Has this place been invaded by the Ropers?
 
Boo. Fireworks are fun, traditions around the world going back centuries shouldn't be discarded because dome people are mildly inconvenienced. Has this place been invaded by the Ropers?
Couldn't agree more, but we have quiet fireworks for family celebrations.
And it isn't just people around Greenwich who complain you know...
 
Have you ever seen your neighbors bringing in shopping or in the supermarket?
Weird when you see them and you're working in one. You're more yourself at home but have a persona when you're at work. Been waiting to work so close to home for years and it's really strange now I do. Especially when people you've had, err, relations with in your younger years with some of the ladies that come in. I often think to myself "I've seen you completely naked". I wonder if they think the same thing? One of them works in a Costa by me, gives me this rather strange smirk when I go in there especially with the kids in toe. Never says anything or acknowledges me, just this awkward look.
 
...and just when you thought it couldn't get any shitter (actually not **** though, really, probably, I don't know. Leave me alone!).

It's LL Cool J - (Ladies Love Cool James).


From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqEksaLoZYQ&list=RDEMyJCnZg7THvPtGzyhvqG12g&index=1


Is this actually his very best though? I mean. It's a VERY strong beat, some lovely bits of synth and the bass comes in nice and smoothly but strongly after a while. Add the sexy lyrics in there too. Do we have a winner? I bet you'd get respect if you were cruising around with this blasting out of your windows these days eh, you bad boys?
 
I'm back, and more irrelevant than ever.

I have to say though. I do wonder why this 10cc song 'Dreadlock Holiday' hasn't been cancelled? I mean, I don't think it should be, and it's a good track. But things get wrecked for a lot less these days.

Look at the evidence. Blatant stereotyping of Jamaican/West Indian people going on here. Firstly, the singer goes on about being surrounded by some 'brothers' and them demanding his silver chain in a robbery. Then, it's time for more stereotypical fun. The guy's having a drink and then is approached by a 'dark voice' that asks if he wants something 'harder'and 'my harvest is the best' (obviously meaning boodah/drugs).

Great song and video though. Glad that the saddo's havn't caught up with it.


From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUNTk5xsxk4
 
It went out of the charts, and most peoples minds, about half a century ago sir...
Most people under thirty have never heard of it, or them.
You are showing your age again sir...
Now, back to the Black and White Minstrels on the Good Old Days.
 
Just been googling, according to mumsnet, and half a dozen other sites, yes!
Probably, using 21st century standards.
Didn't realise it was still on the Radio 2 playlist!
 
Just been googling, according to mumsnet, and half a dozen other sites, yes!
Probably, using 21st century standards.
Didn't realise it was still on the Radio 2 playlist!
Yep. It's on the Tesco radio playlist that they play in strores nationwide too. Just surprises me that they aren't sharp enough to clock these lyrics when they'll easily go after potentially lesser pathetic things. They're just stupid. Otherwise, they'd have dropped it already. They just havn't listened to the lyrics.
 
It went out of the charts, and most peoples minds, about half a century ago sir...
Most people under thirty have never heard of it, or them.
You are showing your age again sir...
Now, back to the Black and White Minstrels on the Good Old Days.
I'm 18 and I've heard it before, couldn't think of the name mind.
 
Dreadlock Holiday. That's classic supermarket music that is. Other hits from Now That's What I Call Food Shopping include:

Boy Meets Girl - Waiting for a Star to Fall, Kim Wilde - I won't change the way that I feel, Freda Payne - Band of Gold and Sister Sledge - He's the greatest dancer.

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That's classic supermarket music that is. Other hits from Now That's What I Call Food Shopping include:

Boy Meets Girl - Waiting for a Star to Fall, Kim Wilde - I won't change the way that I feel, Freda Payne - Band of Gold and Sister Sledge - He's the greatest dancer.

Singing along as we worked behind the Safeway food counters with the lyrics inappropriately amended as loud as we dared, praying the punters never noticed or didn't quite believe what they had heard, was always such fun.

I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight by Cutting Crew and I Won't Let The Sun Go Down On Me by Nick Curshaw were always risky favourites.
 
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