Xela Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 40 minutes ago, sidcow said: I would also like to tackle the 80s perception of being all about greed and money. I began my working life in the 80's and I can tell you now it was like working in a hippy commune compared to the 2000's onwards. The drive for profit and ruthless cost cutting today makes the 80's look like party time. I started work in 97 and have been at my current employer since 2002. It has changed a huge amount in that timeframe! More work required from less staff and that has been going on for years. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 2 minutes ago, Xela said: Same Lets push him a bit further... He strikes me as the sort of lad that never worked out you could peel the coloured stickers off your Rubik’s cube. That took my PB down to 3 minutes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 10 minutes ago, sidcow said: Hah. No it's just been bugging me for years. It was my decade where I went from 10 years old to 20. It gets such bad criticism and in my opinion mostly unjustified. I don't go out of my way to criticise any other decade so it bugs me other people do. I do like a bit of 80's nostalgia. I love (late) 80's cars the most. Plus it was when I loved Villa the most as a kid. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted June 27, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted June 27, 2020 19 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: He strikes me as the sort of lad that never worked out you could peel the coloured stickers off your Rubik’s cube. That took my PB down to 3 minutes. Why take the stickers off when you could buy one of the cheap knock off ones with a concealed screw in the middle, just take it apart and rebuild. Hey Presto, no half peeling stickers. No kid in the 80's could survive on the mean streets without knowing how to do spots and diagonals. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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snowychap Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 (edited) 3 hours ago, chrisp65 said: ... you could peel the coloured stickers off your Rubik’s cube. That's just horrid. Like some sort of perversion. Edited June 27, 2020 by snowychap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 10 hours ago, chrisp65 said: It’s kind of risks descending in to a ‘taste’ test, which we know I’d pointless, @tonyh29 is king of the taste test and he likes Big Country so its clearly a flawed methodology. The earlier point was that Beatles and Stones and Byrds weren’t acceptable sources or inspiration, which they demonstrably were. I can quite happily cite that I was sat, head nodding, at Courtney Pine gigs and Jazz Warrior gigs in the 80’s, most people wouldn’t like it. But it was clearly new and different and not generic over produced pop. All that diy lo-fi experimentation coming out of America, proper indie self recorded self released ethos in the 80’s with people like Calvin Johnson still going today. Llwybr Llaethog started up in ‘86 / ‘87, absolutely brilliant stuff by them (about once every 10 years) and still going. Lots of sixties influence, lots of innovation, just not to everyone’s taste. Which is fine. There will be no winners here. Other than the people with actual original Llwybr Llaethog vinyl. They’re the winners. Walked to Eastbourne today with the boy and after cockles and fish and chips on the beach we found a vinyl shop in town ... they had 2 big Country vinyl records in there £1 each ... clearly nobody in Eastbourne has taste as they haven’t been snapped up the boy is the only one with a vinyl player in our house and he opted for the 12 inch single of Never Gonna give you up ( to annoy his sister ) , Rio Wakeman and 2001 space odyssey soundtrack ... not really relevant to anything but just thought I’d share the biysbweirdness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il_serpente Posted June 28, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted June 28, 2020 21 hours ago, tonyh29 said: Walked to Eastbourne today with the boy and after cockles and fish and chips on the beach we found a vinyl shop in town ... they had 2 big Country vinyl records in there £1 each ... clearly nobody in Eastbourne has taste as they haven’t been snapped up the boy is the only one with a vinyl player in our house and he opted for the 12 inch single of Never Gonna give you up ( to annoy his sister ) , Rio Wakeman and 2001 space odyssey soundtrack ... not really relevant to anything but just thought I’d share the biysbweirdness With or without gravy? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 On 27/06/2020 at 17:47, Xela said: I started work in 97 and have been at my current employer since 2002. It has changed a huge amount in that timeframe! More work required from less staff and that has been going on for years. Standard office hours have sneakily shifted from 9-5 to 8:30-5:30. Dolly Parton sounds like a right shirker these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 50 minutes ago, Wainy316 said: Standard office hours have sneakily shifted from 9-5 to 8:30-5:30. Dolly Parton sounds like a right shirker these days. When I take the boy to school in the morning we pass a bus that has “Woking 925 “ written on the front always makes me chuckle no matter how many times I see it 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterw Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 why people bother. I mean. really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam-AVFC Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 On 28/06/2020 at 00:31, tonyh29 said: Walked to Eastbourne today with the boy and after cockles and fish and chips on the beach we found a vinyl shop in town ... they had 2 big Country vinyl records in there £1 each ... clearly nobody in Eastbourne has taste as they haven’t been snapped up Clearly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choffer Posted June 29, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted June 29, 2020 (edited) On 28/06/2020 at 00:31, tonyh29 said: Walked to Eastbourne today with the boy and after cockles and fish and chips on the beach we found a vinyl shop in town ... they had 2 big Country vinyl records in there £1 each ... clearly nobody in Eastbourne has taste as they haven’t been snapped up Last time I was in Eastbourne I picked this up in a record shop for a quid. Still wondering what it sounds like. Might have to finally play it later (or I could just ask @Xann - I bet he's heard it). Edited June 29, 2020 by choffer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 12 minutes ago, choffer said: Last time I was in Eastbourne I picked this up in a record shop for a quid. Still wondering what it sounds like. Might have to finally play it later (or I could just ask @Xann - I bet he's heard it). They had this for £1 , was tempted to buy it regardless ... wonder if it’s the same shop 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 15 minutes ago, choffer said: Last time I was in Eastbourne I picked this up in a record shop for a quid. Still wondering what it sounds like. Might have to finally play it later (or I could just ask @Xann - I bet he's heard it). Aye, I like some of their stuff. On 06/03/2017 at 19:41, Xann said: Los Indios Tabajaras - 'Amapola' 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choffer Posted June 29, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted June 29, 2020 4 minutes ago, tonyh29 said: wonder if it’s the same shop The Vinyl Frontier? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tegis Posted June 29, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted June 29, 2020 1 hour ago, tonyh29 said: They had this for £1 , was tempted to buy it regardless ... wonder if it’s the same shop Now THAT, was a quality childrens program in the 70s 80s. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted June 29, 2020 Moderator Share Posted June 29, 2020 I'm wondering if VT has been invaded by a bot farm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bannedfromHandV Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 2 minutes ago, bickster said: I'm wondering if VT has been invaded by a bot farm What are they cultivating? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted June 29, 2020 Moderator Share Posted June 29, 2020 1 minute ago, bannedfromHandV said: What are they cultivating? disinformation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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