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07 Nov 06 - 02:41 PM (#1878506) Subject: BS: 1966 and all that From: Tom Hamilton frae Saltcoats Scotland As a Scot I'm fed up with the ENGLISH going on about 1966, ok you won the world cup, however that happened forty years ago, and I'm glad that you won but but please do yourselves a favour and shut the hell up about it. I mean a bloody film out now called 'sixty six' I mean the majority of Scots are fed up to the back teeth about 1966. Mind you you never mention 1967 when Scotland became the unoffical world champions. |
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07 Nov 06 - 02:41 PM (#1878507) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: Tom Hamilton frae Saltcoats Scotland I could give a damn really |
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07 Nov 06 - 03:01 PM (#1878519) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: Bobert Who cares about football anyway??? But, ahhhhhh, guitars is a different matter and that was the year that my Martin D-18 was born!!! Now that's something to brag about... Might of fact, she's still doin' a lot of braggin' while them English soccer players who won the cup are shufflin' around nursing homes... LOL... Bobert |
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07 Nov 06 - 03:03 PM (#1878521) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: Wesley S And my D-18 was born in 1967. A good year for guitars. Any why do y'all keep calling soccer - football? |
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07 Nov 06 - 03:20 PM (#1878538) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: Rapparee 1966 was an okay year, as the '60s went. I was in college and the National Guard. I think that was the year I spent all that time at the beach. |
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07 Nov 06 - 03:30 PM (#1878547) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: Snuffy Football means soccer to 90% of the population of this planet. For any other type of football you have to specify - Rugbuy Union, Rugby League, American, Aussie Rules, Gaelic, etc. And the soccer is the only one where you aren't allowed to use your hands, just your feet. All the others should be called "handball" |
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07 Nov 06 - 03:33 PM (#1878552) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: catspaw49 That's what you do a lot of if you don't wear a cup ain't it? Spaw |
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07 Nov 06 - 04:20 PM (#1878600) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: lady penelope I was born in 1966. Nuff sed..... |
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07 Nov 06 - 04:39 PM (#1878612) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: Shields Folk Banockburn was in 1314 and the jocks never shut up about that either! |
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07 Nov 06 - 06:52 PM (#1878615) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: Leadfingers Yee Haw !! Another Race Riot !!! |
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07 Nov 06 - 08:29 PM (#1878674) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: GUEST,memyself "Football means soccer to 90% of the population of this planet." Isn't it the other way around - "Soccer means football to 90%", etc.? (And does that mean that 90%+ speak English?). (Sorry to interfere with the race riot - you can get back to it now). |
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08 Nov 06 - 02:05 AM (#1878810) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: Manitas_at_home The new film isn't about football. It's about a boy who's pissed off that the final is taking place on the day of his barmitzvah. |
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08 Nov 06 - 02:44 AM (#1878819) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: MBSLynne 1966 was a great year for me...and I don't think I was aware that there WAS a World Cup...... Believe me, a lot of us English are fed up with all the hype around football generally. Love Lynne |
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08 Nov 06 - 02:57 AM (#1878829) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: Georgiansilver We have a tradition of remembering how many people died in World Wars...why should we not have memories of something great that happened for our country.... |
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08 Nov 06 - 03:15 AM (#1878834) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: Liz the Squeak Would we be harping on about it so much if it had been a different team we beat?? LTS |
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08 Nov 06 - 03:18 AM (#1878835) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: Big Al Whittle I was 17. redoing my O levels at Exeter tech - 7th floor. I remember my birthday that year. It was january. I got some Richmond fags and smoked one or two of them in the dinner hour in a coffee bar above a record shop called The Left Bank in Paris Street, Exeter -- very bohemian. I chose Richmond cos it was a name I associated The Rolling Stones. That night there was an eagerly awaited documentary about Donovan on the box. The young Mr Leitch was shown larking round on the beach in St Ives in winter time with some beautiful women. And he was playing a tasty looking Gibson - lucky sod. Someone in Melody Maker pointed out next week that they were all posing as penniless hippies but in actual fact the young ladies were all dressed by Courege. One of the girls hitched a lift and outraged my parents by trying to scrounge some money off a lorry driver (it was in the script). Over the top of it Donovan sang Jansch's Running from home. This surprised me as I hadn't thought Donovan's guitar picking was equal to that sort of thing at that point. To be honest I was a bit pissed off, as I don't think I had figured out Running from Home at that point myself. what bliss in that bright dawn..... |
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08 Nov 06 - 03:52 AM (#1878858) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: Paul Burke 1966 wasn't a good year for me. I was 13 and being bullied at school. New hormones and neither information nor opportunity to do anything with them, thank you the De La Salle Brothers. I had grown out of Freddie and the Dreamers, but was too immature for stronger stuff. Holiday in Ireland was good, though I hadn't heard of the music then. We were there when the football was on. Bad news from the Isle of Man- the steam railway closed as British holidaymakers deserted in droves to Spain. It never fully reopened. |
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08 Nov 06 - 04:06 AM (#1878861) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: Splott Man Just because a few lazy sports journalists bring it up at any opportunity, please don't tar us all with the same brush. |
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08 Nov 06 - 05:25 AM (#1878911) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: GUEST No, I got it the right way round - when people all over the world and in almost every language speak of "football", "Fussball", "futbol", etc they mean the game of soccer - in South & Central America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australasia, just about everywhere but the USA |
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08 Nov 06 - 05:35 AM (#1878919) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: ard mhacha Guest I have stated time out of number that soccer was the term we used in Ireland to describe Association Football and we didn`t pick it up from the Yanks, I am going on 70 and that was always the way I heard it described. |
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08 Nov 06 - 06:39 AM (#1878947) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: Georgiansilver I was a Police Cadet in Exeter in 1966..attended the Tech on Tuesdays Al so we may have crossed paths at some time. |
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08 Nov 06 - 07:44 AM (#1878976) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: MBSLynne Unless Australia has changed a lot since I lived there, when they say "Football" they mean Australian rules football, which in no way resembles soccer. When they refer to soccer, they call it soccer. I was 14 for most of 1966 and thoroughly enjoying my hormones! I spent most of my free time down at Cottesloe beach or in my room listening to music...especially the Beatles. One of those times when, in memory, the sun always shone. Love Lynne |
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08 Nov 06 - 07:49 AM (#1878978) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: GUEST Okay, agreed, if you Scots stop going on about what we did to you in the far more distant past. No more "Braveheart" = no more 1966. Deal? |
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08 Nov 06 - 08:17 AM (#1878997) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: Wolfgang No one is forced to see a film about something in history that does not interest him. There are films made about events even much longer back in history. Every German football fan older than 50 still can't hear these words without crying: Er hat den Ball - verloren diesmal, gegen Schäfer. Schäfer nach innen geflankt. Kopfball - abgewehrt. Aus dem Hintergrund müsste Rahn schießen - Rahn schieß:t - Tooooor! Tooooor! Tooooor! Tooooor! 1966 gave the German language a new word: Wembley Tor (Wembley goal) Wolfgang |
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08 Nov 06 - 08:29 AM (#1879008) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: Paco Rabanne Where's this 'Scotland' place then? Is it near Norwich? |
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08 Nov 06 - 08:39 AM (#1879021) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: Becca72 1966 was 6 years before my birth and I don't watch football or soccer...sorry. |
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08 Nov 06 - 11:06 AM (#1879136) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: Tom Hamilton frae Saltcoats Scotland I don't like football either, I agree not more talk about bravheart or Bannockburn. |
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08 Nov 06 - 12:32 PM (#1879213) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: Big Al Whittle its an odd thing the football results were a sort of something we all listened to, from being tiny kids. even those of us who didn't like football. we got to hear about exotic faraway places like Huddersfield and Brechin City. a bit like the shipping forecast - german Bight and all that. What uneventful lives we must have had, to sit through that. |
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08 Nov 06 - 04:19 PM (#1879473) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: Shields Folk Forfar 5 East Fife 4 |
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08 Nov 06 - 05:03 PM (#1879516) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: lady penelope As my father would commandeer the telly whenever the footy results came on, we had no choice but to hear/see them. On a saturday that alright 'cos it usually meant that the next programme was Dr Who! I like watching local sides play or the sunday teams on Hackney marshes, but league football games tend to leave me cold. But then hype is always the quickest way to put me off something. I must say that I REALLY enjoy watching the few games a year that I see of Aussie rules football. Not so much a sport as vaguely organised carnage....... |
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08 Nov 06 - 05:10 PM (#1879521) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: Cats 1966 - after the 'cup' a certain family moved into my village and I became baby sitter to two lovely children and official dog walker to a black and white mongrel dog called Pickles. Dreadful day when some young hooligans strung him up on a fence and left him to die a few years later. |
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08 Nov 06 - 07:47 PM (#1879661) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: The Walrus To be honest, when I saw the title, I thought this thread was about the short radio series "1966 And All That" - a brief history of the 20th Century, in the style of "1066 And All That" (I found it amusing, although it did get mixer reviews) W |
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09 Nov 06 - 08:21 AM (#1880062) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: JennyO 1966 was a big year for me. It was really the year I grew up in a big way. It was my first year working, the year I left home and discovered I actually could take charge of my life and do some of the things I wanted to do without my overbearing mother breathing down my neck. It was my first year of freedom. The music of that time was very significant in my life - not folk music at that stage but bands like Manfred Mann, The Kinks, The Animals, and many of the local rhythm and blues bands. To tell the truth, I was a bit of a groupie, but I learned a lot and I had a ball. In many ways it was probably just about the best year of my life and I don't regret one minute of it. I remember that period of my life with a lot of fondness. Pity I had to throw it all away the next year and marry a tyrant. It was many years later before I felt as free again. I'm starting to get there now. |
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09 Nov 06 - 10:37 AM (#1880197) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: GUEST,Penguin Egg Tom Hamilton has a point. I am bored to death about 1966. We won a game- so what! I must admit, I would like to see football banned, even if it means driving it underground. Best place for it. |
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09 Nov 06 - 03:42 PM (#1880498) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: MBSLynne I think it would be somewhat unfair to ban something which gives large numbers of people innocent enjoyment. I don't like football, but I don't have to watch it and if other people want to I see no reason why they shouldn't Love Lynne |
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09 Nov 06 - 04:34 PM (#1880544) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: Big Al Whittle Thats a sad story JennyO. Its a funny thing, when we've been dominated all our childhood, we sometimes look for that oppression in our work relationships and choice of partner - I suppose it gives a sense of reassurance - as though we're revisiting childhood with all its limitations. |
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09 Nov 06 - 04:38 PM (#1880548) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: Herga Kitty Never mind the football, 1966 was when I met the people who introduced me to my local (Herga) folk club, the Young Tradition, Watersons etc, etc..... Kitty |
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09 Nov 06 - 05:25 PM (#1880606) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: Liz the Squeak I was 2 and heavily into Andy Pandy... LTS |
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09 Nov 06 - 07:20 PM (#1880696) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: GUEST,Desdemon~D ....and you're making me feel like I've never been born... ~D |
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09 Nov 06 - 08:14 PM (#1880738) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: JennyO I think that's exactly how it is WLD, and it took me a long time to work through it, but I have, and things are pretty good now. |
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09 Nov 06 - 08:41 PM (#1880767) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: McGrath of Harlow Nothing to do with 1966, but I had to post a gloat after teh last few days: Chelsea beaten. Arsenal beaten. Manchester United beaten. Glory Days! |
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10 Nov 06 - 04:05 AM (#1880999) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: MBSLynne Yawn.... |
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10 Nov 06 - 04:33 AM (#1881009) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: The Walrus 1966, I was in junior school and just being introduced to folk music (OK, mainly 'Spinners' stuff) by a student teacher at junior school, (A Miss Maxwell IIRC). No responsibilities, no worries, all needs supplied and a cloud of (school)friends, just having fun - Happy Days. W |
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10 Nov 06 - 05:09 AM (#1881033) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: Big Al Whittle that's nice to hear JennyO. Do you gig? I'd be interested if you ever expressed any of this in your work. |
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10 Nov 06 - 05:15 AM (#1881037) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: Grab Tom, call us again when the Scottish national anthem is changed to something other than a celebration of winning a battle against the English 800 years ago. I mean, all those positive things to celebrate about Scotland - the Highlands are without a doubt the most beautiful place in the UK - and the best thing some wankers can think of for their national statement is "we're not English". Go figure. Graham. |
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10 Nov 06 - 06:11 AM (#1881071) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: Paul Burke Better than God Help the Queen. |
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10 Nov 06 - 07:46 AM (#1881132) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: McGrath of Harlow There isn't a Scottish National Anthem any more than there is an English National Anthem. |
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10 Nov 06 - 10:59 AM (#1882219) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: dwditty The best thing about 1966 is that we were less than a year away from the release of Sgt Pepper's. |
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10 Nov 06 - 05:58 PM (#1882620) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: Big Al Whittle there were other good things The Four Tops -Reach Out!, Sweet Souls Music - Arthur Conley - the Stax tour with Sama and Dave. Gerry Lockran, Johnny Handle, Bert Jansch, The young Tradition, The Three City Four, The Watersons, Noel Murphy, Hamish Imlach, Derek Brimstone, Carthy and Swarbrick - all at the top of their form and down at your local folk club. |
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10 Nov 06 - 06:04 PM (#1882630) Subject: RE: BS: 1966 and all that From: Hawker 1961 was a far better year - the year I was born! Cheers, Lucy |