Rds1983 Posted December 31, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted December 31, 2021 How this works... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 9 hours ago, sidcow said: Subbuteo. It's just shit. Your right here. They tried so hard this year to market it to sell a few this year. It was okay in the 80s I guess, but I think if any parents bought there child Subbuteo, the kids of today wouldn't be very impressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 Honours, or more specifically why more people don't reject them. (I realise this must be a massively minority opinion) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a m ole Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 4 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said: Honours, or more specifically why more people don't reject them. (I realise this must be a massively minority opinion) Celebrities with a little title, well done. These people in desperate need of some sort of public recognition. I hate them. Tell me about the people who get paid 9k a year caring for the disabled 70 hours a week and give them an OBE. Or the people doing LGBT advocacy work for nothing instead of **** Tom Daley. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 12 minutes ago, a m ole said: Celebrities with a little title, well done. These people in desperate need of some sort of public recognition. I hate them. Tell me about the people who get paid 9k a year caring for the disabled 70 hours a week and give them an OBE. Or the people doing LGBT advocacy work for nothing instead of **** Tom Daley. Yes, this is fair, there are definitely more deserving cases. But also just kind of hate the whole idea of being validated by the state for whatever reason. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 31 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said: Honours, or more specifically why more people don't reject them. (I realise this must be a massively minority opinion) I thought Lewis Hamilton ( an I'm not a hater) was a bit of a hypocrite accepting his. Especially due to his stance on racism in the country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 6 minutes ago, foreveryoung said: I thought Lewis Hamilton ( an I'm not a hater) was a bit of a hypocrite accepting his. Especially due to his stance on racism in the country. Yeah, I wouldn't have been surprised if he'd rejected it. I don't think it's quite hypocrisy necessarily, but I'm always happier if people who speak out about issues (and anyone else for that matter) rejects these trinkets. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 10 minutes ago, foreveryoung said: I thought Lewis Hamilton ( an I'm not a hater) was a bit of a hypocrite accepting his. Especially due to his stance on racism in the country. That's what the boo the knee crowd want you to believe Have they told you about his tax status yet? Put a massive spin on it... He thinks the status aids his stance... Seriously though I don't know too much about the bloke, I know he's filthy rich, I know he drives a fast car really fast and I know he's black and British and must be one of the highest profile balck british men out there who doesn't do an indistinguishable baltimore accent - he takes the title - and then he uses it for good, seriously how many 36 year old black men are knighted? It's a huge achievement that he can do a lot of good with Not seen any news mentioned on it but is he the youngest black man to be knighted? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fruitvilla Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 1 hour ago, HanoiVillan said: Honours, or more specifically why more people don't reject them Same reason people don't reject salaries. But this is for a philosophy thread. But the thing I don't get is the rise of Halloween in the UK, the demise of Guy Fawkes , with the concomitant switch of fireworks of being not OK on 5th Nov to OK on midnight of a new year? This is based my experience of the banter here and one winter in 1986 in B14 in the last forty odd years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted January 1, 2022 Moderator Share Posted January 1, 2022 10 hours ago, fruitvilla said: But the thing I don't get is the rise of Halloween in the UK, the demise of Guy Fawkes , with the concomitant switch of fireworks of being not OK on 5th Nov to OK on midnight of a new year? Halloween was always a thing, its just more commercialised now which pushes it on and on When did Bonfire night die? It's still a night of appalling terrorism around here, we just have more nights of them now as opposed to one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted January 1, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted January 1, 2022 4 minutes ago, bickster said: Halloween was always a thing, its just much much MUCH more commercialised now FTFY. When I was a kid, we always knew when it was Halloween. What did we do about it? We maybe had a playground conversation along the lines of: "Ooh, it's Halloween, apparently witches are active tonight, don't go out alone, maybe keep the light on, eh? Spooooky!" And then promptly forget all about it. Dressing up? Parties? Special sweeties? Nah. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted January 1, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted January 1, 2022 (edited) 1 minute ago, mjmooney said: FTFY. When I was a kid, we always knew when it was Halloween. What did we do about it? We maybe had a playground conversation along the lines of: "Ooh, it's Halloween, apparently witches are active tonight, don't go out alone, maybe keep the light on, eh? Spooooky!" And then promptly forget all about it. Dressing up? Parties? Special sweeties? Nah. Apple bobbing may have occurred. An excellent pandemic activity. Edited January 1, 2022 by sidcow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 Anybody said "anal" yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted January 1, 2022 Moderator Share Posted January 1, 2022 1 minute ago, mjmooney said: FTFY. When I was a kid, we always knew when it was Halloween. What did we do about it? We maybe had a playground conversation along the lines of: "Ooh, it's Halloween, apparently witches are active tonight, don't go out alone, maybe keep the light on, eh? Spooooky!" And then promptly forget all about it. Dressing up? Parties? Special sweeties? Nah. Thats your own experience Mike, We used to go trick or treating, we carved swedes, did ducking apples all that stuff, in the early seventies as they'd done for generations in Wales. Halloween is Celtic in origin. You might not have done it in Brum but we did it every year, it's something I've grown up with Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 14 minutes ago, bickster said: Thats your own experience Mike, We used to go trick or treating, we carved swedes, did ducking apples all that stuff, in the early seventies as they'd done for generations in Wales. Halloween is Celtic in origin. You might not have done it in Brum but we did it every year, it's something I've grown up with Yes, same in 70s Telford. All of that, trick or treating especially. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted January 1, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted January 1, 2022 58 minutes ago, Seat68 said: Yes, same in 70s Telford. All of that, trick or treating especially. Definitely no trick or treating in my corner of 1960s Birmingham. I only heard about it in American films and comics. When I moved to Yorkshire in 1972, I discovered they had a thing called 'mischief night' on 4th of November, but still nothing to speak of on Halloween. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PussEKatt Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 No Haloween 100 years ago when I was growing up,which brasses me right off. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 Yep, we were definitely out trick or treating in the mid 70’s. Around here its definitely morphed in to toddlers and little kids escorted by their parents to the houses with lights and stuff indicating they are also taking part. We would then be out for a few nights dragging sum yung Guy door to door doing Penny for the Guy. Then it’s Mari Lwyd around this time of year. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted January 1, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted January 1, 2022 Yeah I would say trick or treat came in the 80's round by me, certainly after I was too old though my younger brother who is a good lad but has always had the habit of falling in with idiots made the mistake of egging and flouring a car when refused treats which happened to belong to a policeman. I do remember going to my local newsagents as a young kid and some kids a little bit older than me had a guy propped up and were asking for money. That would have been probably 77/78 something like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted January 1, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted January 1, 2022 On the Honours I see that Tony Blair has joined The Order of the Garter. I would have thought that would be more of a Tory thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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