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Folk music/sectarian controversy in BB4

10 Jul 03 - 06:22 AM (#980403)
Subject: Folk music/sectarian controversy in BB4
From: GUEST

Sad that I know this, but there is a big row going on about Cameron from Big Brother (UK) whistling "the sash".

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10 Jul 03 - 11:56 AM (#980632)
Subject: RE: Folk music/sectarian controversy in BB4
From: Big Tim

You really would need to have seen the episode to comment: depends on context, etc. Maybe he did it as a joke, like Craig Brown, allegedly, leaving "Follow, Follow", or similar, on his answerphone. Maybe not!

Personally, I only watched BB once, for two minutes, and that was enough to ensure that I never watched it again. Would liked to have seen the Cameron whistling incident tho!


10 Jul 03 - 06:38 PM (#980886)
Subject: RE: Folk music/sectarian controversy in BB4
From: McGrath of Harlow

How'd they know he wasn't whistling "The Scottish Breakaway"? With the chorus:

Nae Liz the yin, nae Lilibeth the twa
Nae Liz has ever been
We'll mak' oor land republican
When the Scottish breakaway


10 Jul 03 - 06:39 PM (#980887)
Subject: RE: Folk music/sectarian controversy in BB4
From: McGrath of Harlow

Which of course uses the same tune.


11 Jul 03 - 03:13 AM (#981080)
Subject: RE: Folk music/sectarian controversy in BB4
From: Keith A of Hertford

Would there be any controversy if a republican tune had been whistled?


11 Jul 03 - 05:51 AM (#981130)
Subject: RE: Folk music/sectarian controversy in BB4
From: McGrath of Harlow

I'd have thought those words from the Scottish song sung to the same tune are rather emphatically republican.


11 Jul 03 - 10:39 AM (#981259)
Subject: RE: Folk music/sectarian controversy in BB4
From: Big Tim

I think it's fair to say there would have been a similar "outcry", from the mirror image of the opposing rival camp, if he had whistled a well known (Irish) republican tune.


11 Jul 03 - 12:09 PM (#981314)
Subject: RE: Folk music/sectarian controversy in BB4
From: Clinton Hammond

Wait... this is about the TV show Big Brother?

Man... it's a BS thread if I've ever seen one!