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Post by julesd68 on Aug 24, 2020 22:00:59 GMT
It's all getting a bit nasty.
The Finnish conductor for the Last Night,
Dalia Stasevska, was reputedly advocating changes; I was looking at her Twitter feed earlier and she's getting absolutely slaughtered. Not very wise of her to get involved if what was written if correct though. Probably just as well she won't have a live audience.
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Post by jandl100 on Aug 25, 2020 3:29:40 GMT
You might want to add an extra option to the poll - Drop it for now.
I'm strongly against rewriting history, but things are over-sensitive atm.
Maybe a less fractious but still patriotic substition?
Maybe a more global kind of patriotism? Although the octopoids from Alpha Centauri might object and say it with ray guns.
Suggestions?
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Post by jandl100 on Aug 25, 2020 3:42:12 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53895000The lyrics to some last night patriotic favourites will be dropped this year according to the article. Due to the pandemic, allegedly, although other items will be sung. You can sing along at home if you wish.
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Post by julesd68 on Aug 25, 2020 17:48:41 GMT
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Post by MikeMusic on Aug 25, 2020 18:00:17 GMT
You can't keep a fat bloke down when there are vital things to sort
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Post by MartinT on Aug 25, 2020 19:39:48 GMT
I do believe, for the first time ever, I agree with Boris!
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Post by Slinger on Aug 25, 2020 19:41:31 GMT
I do believe, for the first time ever, I agree with Boris! I had that happen to me once. I ended up convincing myself that he was actually agreeing with me. It made me feel marginally better. |
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Post by julesd68 on Aug 27, 2020 15:44:06 GMT
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Post by MartinT on Aug 27, 2020 17:28:38 GMT
Well, that exposes the BBC for being the bunch of Tristrams* we know they are.
*A A Gill used to call them that, to good effect.
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Post by julesd68 on Aug 27, 2020 18:28:05 GMT
Interesting to note that Ms Stasevska's husband is the bass player for Finnish metallers Stratovarius!
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Post by julesd68 on Sept 2, 2020 13:10:53 GMT
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Post by Slinger on Sept 2, 2020 14:07:37 GMT
While I applaud the compromise (a "select" group of singers) I'm not looking forward to the blow-back from gammons, Brexiteers, and little Englanders who will be crowing about having "won" the battle against the "woke lefties," because they will perpetuate the story that it was the lyrics and not COVID-19 considerations that had caused the ban.
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Post by MartinT on Sept 3, 2020 8:37:15 GMT
because they will perpetuate the story that it was the lyrics and not COVID-19 considerations that had caused the ban. Erm, knowing the BBC's persistent and tiresome PC, are you sure some Tristram didn't decide that the lyrics are too fruity? |
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Post by Slinger on Sept 3, 2020 13:30:12 GMT
See what I mean?  |
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Post by julesd68 on Sept 3, 2020 16:45:45 GMT
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Post by MartinT on Sept 3, 2020 20:59:38 GMT
Mail readers  |
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Post by Slinger on Sept 3, 2020 21:52:26 GMT
And it's (equally) evil twin, the Express. Apparently it was the PM stepping in that saved the day.  |
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Post by julesd68 on Sept 3, 2020 23:54:02 GMT
Front page news!!
Staggering in the context of everything going on in the world right now, but it does kind of represent the unpleasant schisms in post Brexit UK society.
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Post by julesd68 on Jan 21, 2024 17:49:35 GMT
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Post by Slinger on Jan 21, 2024 18:12:47 GMT
It's not so much the lyrics I have an issue with, it's the cretins who still believe them.
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