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god save the queen.
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something on tv earlier reminded me ...when i was a kid the telly actualy finnished and went blank every night.
at the end would be ...the national anthem.
everyone in the house would stand up!
can you imagine that?
when i became a teenage hippy we refused to stand ...you can't imagine what rebels we felt!
how times have changed.
at the end would be ...the national anthem.
everyone in the house would stand up!
can you imagine that?
when i became a teenage hippy we refused to stand ...you can't imagine what rebels we felt!
how times have changed.
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"go to bed spotty!"
And will continue to. When I'm your age I'll be saying similar things probably! Or maybe this is the peak and the whole thing will be reversed? :chin:
The stories we will tell our children eh! This generation will have a very different future, you can see it changing now! How different it is going to be eh? We'll talk of Petrol Cars, Jet Planes, and the sorts. How we all went out drinknig and got high, and of Ideologies in Politics! Tanks and Guns! Coal Powerplants!
It's going to be odd when all this goes away.
On the TV note... why does BBC2 have that awful screech on Cefax at night? Is it so drunks can notice that the TV is on, and to wake them up when they doze off?
"....the fascist regiem...."
That was a good song.
We have the pledge of allegiance every Friday in school ("I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America...."), you can stand if you choose or just sit. Hardly anyone ever stands. Good thing too, the stupid thing is unpatriotic, honestly who pledges allegiance to a flag?
Obviously it's nothing of the sort, but it's something i'd associate more with a middle eastern dictatorship than a free country.
Still, i do love our national anthem, though i'd like England to have their own..perhaps Jerusalem. I love that bloody song / poem.
and God Save the Queen is a pretty catchy tune.
Also I remember when there was no breakfast tv, it used to come on at about 9 a.m. and after a brief news bulletin the only thing on, on weekdays, was schools programmes until midday. There were kids programmes on at lunchtime for half an hour and an hour and a half in the afternoon, that was it. If you were off school sick you had to watch schools programmes and the stuff your mum watched in the afternoon, like The Sullivans and Crown Court.
TV on Sundays consisted of religious programmes, farming programmes and a black and white film.
I remember when I was young we'd approach random strangers and while a friend filmed it on his video mobile I'd slap the shit out of him. Sometimes beating him to death. Happy slapping we called it. Oh, what days! We thought we were such rebels...
we had taps that hot and cold water xcame from ...huge shops with food from all over the world but alas ...we couldn't sustain it ...now we have nothing ...
Doubt it...we'll have found a new energy source by then and things will relatively be the same, only more technologized and more authoritarian/or if not that, people more willing to be controlled!
"Urban poverty is one of the biggest stories happening on the planet," Bendiksen says, "but it gets ignored because it happens slowly, inexorably. Life as it's lived in Kibera will soon be the most normal way to live on earth."
Gareth McLean
Saturday April 1, 2006
it is of course more comfortable to ignore all the signs.
to have faith and hope in your god can be very comforting.
but if your god is science and technology ...i fear you will be let down badly.