Sputnik 1 59th anniversary.

[James McFadden]

yeah, big deal...59 tomorrow. So am I. I came into existence with the birth of the space age. I'm gonna go out in an age of banal filth-in every sense. What a life I'll have led. Please share your own stories of historical, intellectual, moral or spiritual decline...or even just a moan about how everything's shit these days. Then tell me why I absolutely must get some perspective and some...erm..historicity? What's the worst that could happen? I become a moany old twat stuck in an imaginary past? Is that really worse than trying to stay young and edgy and down with the kids?

I know what the Guardian colour supplement would say, tastefully illustrated with healthy-looking, middle-class, pseudo-oldies in designer knitwear.

I'm gonna go full Albert Steptoe just cos one thing life's taught me is: That lot are always fuckin wrong...guaranteed...even stopped clocks can be jiggled with so they're never right. That's why they have an editor.

 

[butchersapron]

You're about 29.

 

[James McFadden]

You're about 29.

LOL and you're bitter enough to be my dad. 4th Oct 1957. I've even got a little pink bit of paper issued by a liberal bourgeois democracy to prove it you, worthless piece of shite. I dare say you've got a blue one from the vet saying when you were whelped and when you back in for de-worming. Scary little ankle nipper, you.

 

[butchersapron]

LOL and you're bitter enough to be my dad. 4th Oct 1957. I've even got a little pink bit of paper issued by a liberal bourgeois democracy to prove it you worthless piece of shite. I dare say you've got a blue one from the vet saying when you were whelped and when you back in for de-worming you scary little ankle nipper, you.

Your dad often questions your paternity? I can see why, but, he may be wrong.

 

[twentythreedom]

Sputnik was awesome

 

[James McFadden]

Your dad often questions your paternity? I can see why, but, he may be wrong.

exactly what yer mam said

 

[James McFadden]

Sputnik was awesome

Indeed. Awesome. Wasn't exactly the point of the thread but you're spot on.

 

[James McFadden]

Your dad often questions your paternity? I can see why, but, he may be wrong.

Anyway...why not go with the request? You gotta try and subvert everything?...like everything? Think what that implies in the long run.

eta: don't try: "the short run"...too obvious. Get creative ya miserable fuck

 

[Hocus Eye.]

I remember being very impressed by Sputnik. I saw it as part of the whole story of the exploration of space. It was not until years later that I read about the panic it caused in America and the effect it had on their education system. Ho hum.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Zig Zig Sputnik were awesome

 

[twentythreedom]

Love Missile F111 ftw

I had that awful album they did which had hair gel adverts in the gaps between tracks

And it was Sigue Sigue not Zig Zig btw

 

[twentythreedom]

Indeed. Awesome. Wasn't exactly the point of the thread but you're spot on.

I was giving you a back-handed insult

But happy anniversary of your launch nonetheless

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Love Missile F111 ftw

I had that awful album they did which had hair gel adverts in the gaps between tracks

And it was Sigue Sigue not Zig Zig btw

As ever, I bow to your greater knowledge of mullet-musik.

 

[twentythreedom]

 

[James McFadden]

I was giving you a back-handed insult

But happy anniversary of your launch nonetheless

I'll take any kind of insult...try your forehand next time...or an overhead smash..lob even.
But I am on a half day and I'm just getting ready to nip out and get Sputniked so I'm feeling very magnanimous. However, I insist: Sputnik was awesome. I know you're not gonna bother looking it up but if you did you'd find Sputnik 1's launch was a significant historical event..as in a purely subjective sense was my birth.

 

[James McFadden]

Tell me this isn't awesome..

"And a bright star was seen in the East..."

 

[Kaka Tim]