Gawd! 'e don' 'alf goo on...we've 'eard all before, and I still say play the bloody music and stop rabbiting on about in dusty archives, digital or otherwise.

D''ave any other tunes in your repetoire?

"The point is the 54 definition worked; it needed some tweaking, but it was a valid description of what happened within a given community."

the whole statement is in the past tense...suggestive?