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50 years

Its been a couple of months short of fifty years since i arrived in Britain and discovered that running down and icy pavement is unwise, its been my first memory ever since then.

E.t.a forgot i was in p&p
We need the face palm thing.
 
London Live, because......there were a few Hendrix programmes the other night, including a set by a tribute act who I thought were rather good yet I
can't remember their names for the life of me :facepalm: :(
 
hash tag said:
Well someone has to live there! ( Met old friends from St Johns last night in pub garden in Ripley).
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Ripley is nice, I like it. When I used to live in Old Woking instead of in the centre of town I used to walk through the fields to Ripley and back on a regular basis. And yes - somebody has to live in Woking, I probably deserve a medal or a certificate or something.
 
Mrs Tag, who is extremely clever and well read, while listening to a play on the radio recently declared not to know who Deryck Guyler is, despite "seeing" him in the Mousetrap. I mentioned Please Sir to her and she had never heard of that!
Turns out Please Sir is over 50 years old. I just made Mrs Tag watch an episode. Her reply, it's not very sophisticated.
en.m.wikipedia.org

Please Sir! - Wikipedia

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I am amazed I hadn't heard of it before. I was born in 1978 so it's before my time but imagine not having heard of Hillsborough.
 
Puddy_Tat said:
i'm not sure i had - have a vague recollection of an accident at ibrox being mentioned in some reference to hillsborough, but wasn't aware of the detail until the BBC ran a few things about it last week
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I had a friend who was at the match. he is a Celtic supporter, so wasn't involved in the carnage.
 
Argonia said:
I am amazed I hadn't heard of it before. I was born in 1978 so it's before my time but imagine not having heard of Hillsborough.
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I think Hillsborough was one of a number of major incidents around that time (ETA - including - kings cross fire, marchioness sinking, clapham rail crash) that changed the thinking about these things from "it's unfortunate but it's one of those things" towards a "maybe it could have been prevented if things had been done better and maybe there ought to be some accountability"

There seems to have been an official mindset during the 1939 - 45 war to try and cover up / play down any incident (bethnal green underground station, for example, and initially there was an attempt to put out that the V1 or V2 bombs had been 'gas explosions') in the interests of 'morale' and i wonder how much of that stayed in the official way of thinking for a generation or two
 
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Puddy_Tat said:
I think Hillsborough was one of a number of major incidents around that time (kings cross fire, marchioness sinking, clapham rail crash) that changed the thinking about these things from "it's unfortunate but it's one of those things" towards a "maybe it could have been prevented if things had been done better and maybe there ought to be some accountability"

There seems to have been an official mindset during the 1939 - 45 war to try and cover up / play down any incident (bethnal green underground station, for example, and initially there was an attempt to put out that the V1 or V2 bombs had been 'gas explosions') in the interests of 'morale' and i wonder how much of that stayed in the official way of thinking for a generation or two
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Piper Alpha was around that time, too.
 
krtek a houby said:
Piper Alpha was around that time, too.
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I remember my mother commenting on the the Piper Alpha event, she couldn't understand why 'trouble-shooters' were being sent in, took me a moment to realise she was thinking 'trouble-makers'. :facepalm: :D
 
i've edited mine to say 'including' - could also have mentioned the 'herald of free enterprise' and probably others that i've not immediately thought of
 
Puddy_Tat said:
i've edited mine to say 'including' - could also have mentioned the 'herald of free enterprise' and probably others that i've not immediately thought of
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I was on the 'Herald of Free Enterprise' 24 hours before it went down, we had already delayed our return from Amsterdam by a day, we had considered holding off for another day, fucking lucky we didn't. I was well stoned on that crossing, and my mate had dropped the last acid tab we had. :eek:

When that news broke on the TV, I had a serious shiver go down my spine, something I've never experienced before nor since.
 
cupid_stunt said:
I was on the 'Herald of Free Enterprise' 24 hours before it went down, we had already delayed our return from Amsterdam by a day, we had considered holding off for another day, fucking lucky we didn't. I was well stoned on that crossing, and my mate had dropped the last acid tab we had. :eek:

When that news broke on the TV, I had a serious shiver go down my spine, something I've never experienced before nor since.
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My gf was on it a few days before, she said that the doors seemed dodgy.
 
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