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28 Mar 2025, 4:14 pm

Oh that's an interesting twist

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28 Mar 2025, 4:36 pm

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I went to Barnsley in the late 1970s to interview Arthur Scargill. True story.

What did you think to him? I've heard he was a good egg. I saw him once. He was at my workplace waiting to see the consultant about getting his daughter into medical school, and he was sitting on this bench chatting with a load of patients. They all shut up when they saw me walking past. I got the impression they'd been saying left-wing things, and thought I might be an establishment snitch. I wish I'd had the time to sit with them and set them straight. I was very hard left in those days.

I used to be quite impressed with some of the things he said on the telly. He was dead right about the coal board having a hit list of mines they were going to close. Everybody said at the time that there were no such plans and that he was making it up. A few years later, some time after the miners' strike, I saw him being briefly interviewed, but he seemed to have lost his mojo, and was just robotically cranking out bits of dogma.

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28 Mar 2025, 5:50 pm

Cuddles the Monkey was better than Orville. Sweep was much better than Sooty. Kevin the Gerbil was better than Roland Rat.

I suppose when it comes to puppets I'm just a sidekick kind of guy.

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29 Mar 2025, 1:36 am

Expect much trouble but I hope it can wait...

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29 Mar 2025, 4:21 am

If Sweep was the dog then I agree and I couldn't stand Sue
She was an absolute buzz kill

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29 Mar 2025, 8:58 am

I am on campus today for my shift. Same for tomorrow.

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29 Mar 2025, 9:34 am

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If Sweep was the dog then I agree and I couldn't stand Sue
She was an absolute buzz kill

I quite liked Ramsbottom once I got over the shock of the zingy new characters. They're always trying to update perfectly good stuff, and it usually makes it worse.

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29 Mar 2025, 11:13 am

It went all pc kids TV in the 90s imo
I had to still watching

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29 Mar 2025, 11:25 am

Yep. Kids' telly was better when it wasn't cool. Don't get me started about Rocket Robin Hood.

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29 Mar 2025, 11:36 am

ToughDiamond wrote:

DeepHour wrote:

I went to Barnsley in the late 1970s to interview Arthur Scargill. True story.

Hmmm.....Yes, I was still a student back then, and didn't prepare very well for the interview. Luckily, Scargill was one of those people who just kept on talking without one having to intervene much. He talked about himself a fair bit and seemed a bit of an egotist, which I suppose a lot of people in his sort of position are. The way things were going at the time, with Thatcher newly elected as PM and Scargill destined for the NUM presidency, it ought to have been fairly obvious that we were heading for a showdown in the 1980s, but I didn't have the foresight to tackle that one.

A few years ago Scargill set up his own political party (The Socialist Labour Party?), which I think is well to the Left in economic matters, but has no truck with modern left-wing identity politics. I have a feeling that King Arthur, a bit like George Galloway, is something of an old-fashioned Social Conservative in some ways.

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29 Mar 2025, 11:40 am

I made an emergency trip for a Mother's Day card since I left it to the last minute to get one and had forgotten about it earlier on in the week when I should have got one then.

I feel a bit annoyed with myself as my Mum is amazing and she should be a priority for this sort of event.

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29 Mar 2025, 11:41 am

We don't bother with it in our house

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29 Mar 2025, 11:42 am

babybird wrote:

We don't bother with it in our house

Too commercial for you, bb?

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