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Post by maddogfagin on Aug 4, 2013 8:04:06 GMT
Wow! I guess Slough is just one big industrial place. No special hotspots for fun? Unless you count the Mars bar factory. You can smell it for miles. Friend of mine worked for a very short time on a small community radio station in Slough. It was all kitted out with the latest equipment and gizmos - when they went in the next day it had all been stolen even though the premises had been alarmed. He was so hacked off that he never went back and the station organisers never started up again as they feared everything would get nicked again.
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Post by nonrabbit on Aug 4, 2013 8:46:37 GMT
Try this folks. Sir John Betjeman is a hero of mine, a poet and a lover of railways. This is his take on Slough, but with wider meanings. Nonrabbit, I knew you lived/endured Slough, but had no idea it was for nineteen years, strewth m'dear, murderers get less than that. Anyway folks, have a listen. The first few seconds shows the sculpture of the great man at St. Pancras station in London, looking up in wonder and amazement at the £800 million pounds worth of improvement to the 1868 original - cheers all.
It's a great poem and most people only read the first few lines. He was a master of description.
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Post by nonrabbit on Aug 4, 2013 8:57:27 GMT
Jim the only reason people choose to live in Slough is for work, it's just a large town, slightly cheaper to live in than London - a suburb of the Big Smoke (with no underground link) Having said that I don't know what it's like now. I moved down in 1980 and for the next nineteen years (had to get out before twenty) I had a good choice of well paid work. Locals would talk about how it changed over the years however they never suffered from unemployment so it's a double- edged sword. Having said that they demolished the heart and any building that looked as though it might have character out of the place and it became a concrete nightmare. When I told people that I lived in Slough most people would laugh or give me sympathy. Good points; I could be in Oxford St in half an hour, by train after the rush hour. Work Nice countryside...surrounding.
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Post by maddogfagin on Feb 9, 2014 13:51:28 GMT
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Post by Equus on Feb 9, 2014 14:25:11 GMT
... lol... Love it!! Equus/Michael
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Post by JTull 007 on May 16, 2014 12:05:30 GMT
LOL! This was obviously a trained stunt driver with some great pyrotechnics in key locations! If someone did this over here they would be in real trouble unless they signed a waiver. Thanks!
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Post by Equus on May 16, 2014 12:28:13 GMT
LOL! This was obviously a trained stunt driver with some great pyrotechnics in key locations! If someone did this over here they would be in real trouble unless they signed a waiver. Thanks! Some of those Japanese pranks are really horrific... and here's another one... The end of this video is the worst... from 2:14...
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Post by Tull50 on May 18, 2014 15:37:39 GMT
Not sure this is the thread indicated but seemed to me a good and funny video Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick By Spumini
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Post by Equus on May 18, 2014 15:42:49 GMT
Not sure this is the thread indicated but seemed to me a good and funny video Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick By Spumini Brilliant! It would be absolutely fabulous if he would do the rest of Thick As A Brick... Cool video, Remi...
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Post by steelmonkey on May 18, 2014 21:39:32 GMT
Impressive...the fruits of the internet seemingly unlimited....a post-modern world of creative people with time and energy.
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Post by Tull50 on May 20, 2014 20:26:06 GMT
May 18, 2014 at 5:42pm Equus said: Thank you!
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Post by Tull50 on May 20, 2014 20:28:35 GMT
Impressive...the fruits of the internet seemingly unlimited....a post-modern world of creative people with time and energy. I totally agree, this has much merit!
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Post by Tull50 on May 26, 2014 18:42:32 GMT
I'm not sure if this has been posted but ... what find one on youtube! LOL! Saturday Night Tull Fever Tony Manero / John Travolta Sat. Night Fever dances to Locomotive Breath by dvddjscottymack
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Post by JTull 007 on May 26, 2014 22:03:52 GMT
I'm not sure if this has been posted but ... what find one on youtube! LOL! Saturday Night Tull Fever www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-LQeeMJk_ETony Manero / John Travolta Sat. Night Fever dances to Locomotive Breath by dvddjscottymack Excelente Remy! Tull Chicks everywhere will like this one. I used to dance like that too.
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Post by nonrabbit on May 29, 2014 11:11:06 GMT
Three Glaswegians and a rabbit and a lot of swearing and I'm not really sure how it ends!! Hope you can understand the commentary I love how they slow down for it "cause it's wee hearts gonnae burst"
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Post by bunkerfan on Nov 10, 2014 10:45:41 GMT
When you have 2 young Grandchildren you have all the excuses to watch funny video's and this one got a few laughs.
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Post by onewhiteduck on Nov 10, 2014 10:57:41 GMT
I'm off down the pet shop - very good! Stormy Monday Blues
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Post by nonrabbit on Jan 17, 2015 11:33:23 GMT
It always cracks me up how some of the Irish kids especially some of the country ones sound like old men and women in the way they talk and describe things. Here's the latest "internet sensation" and Ruari is milking his success - good on ya Boy! What he's actually saying is; "Well the mother said we had to go we didn't have much choice in the matter. 'Oh God you wouldn't be long gettin' frostbit."
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Post by nonrabbit on May 5, 2015 9:09:40 GMT
Didn't know they had gone "local" with the Enterprise adverts. I love Rob Brydon and I love Gavin and Stacey repeats.
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Post by nonrabbit on Sept 17, 2016 15:06:10 GMT
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Post by ash on Sept 17, 2016 17:46:37 GMT
Funny but in reality they should not get away with it
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Post by JTull 007 on Sept 29, 2016 3:09:51 GMT
Jimmy Kimmel Presents The Troompa Loompas!
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Post by nonrabbit on Jan 8, 2017 9:08:51 GMT
Haha Locomotive breath?
1978 - the Rev of St Paul's and his sermon from the station.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2017 20:21:34 GMT
How many of these classics do you remember (from the 1966-67 American television season)? I recall watching about 17 of them on a regular or semi-regular basis.
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Post by JTull 007 on Jan 23, 2017 3:53:34 GMT
How many of these classics do you remember (from the 1966-67 American television season)? I recall watching about 17 of them on a regular or semi-regular basis. Amazing compilation of the coolest tv shows ever!!! I guess most of us are lucky to have been born when shows were that entertaining and done so well! Probably the most influential for me was this one. I believed this was a real place with real people.
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Post by Equus on Feb 12, 2017 10:22:22 GMT
Thinking about the Beatles, and sitting astride a twig of a bush the other day... I remembered to contemplate, that Peter Sellers made a parody of some of their songs... Very funny... I hope you enjoy them... My personal favorite is his Help parody... One step beyond... On the threshold of a dream...
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Post by nonrabbit on Nov 15, 2018 22:10:16 GMT
Saxondale aka Steve Coogan taking the p*** out of prog/Gabriel and Anderson ....watch till end. deleted scene... Pied Piper
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 17, 2020 7:29:58 GMT
This is incredibly hilarious from one of the finest actors the USA has ever produced.
Morgan Freeman Re-Enacts The Shawshank Redemption 4,665,899 views•Apr 7, 2017
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2020 1:01:58 GMT
Will Ferrell (as Ron Burgundy) plays the jazz flute
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Post by newdayyesterday on Nov 10, 2020 10:07:33 GMT
Loved to watch The Benny Hill Show on Aussie TV in the 70s .....the funniest pommie ever
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