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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". link |
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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! |
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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 |
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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. |
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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? |
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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. |
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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. |
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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! |