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Post by karma on Nov 30, 2023 16:54:03 GMT
I've created this thread to cover anything that really doesn't fit anywhere else and certainly not cricket related. Nearly called it 'Odds and Ends' In fact I've noted that many of the posts wander away from the subject matter are usually my own.
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Post by karma on Nov 30, 2023 17:22:24 GMT
I've already put an alternative Christmas Cricket post today with reference to Shane MacGowan who has died aged 65 and his composition 'Fairy Tale of New York'. I met him some years ago in Glasgow at a Queen Margaret University Union event (student union all-nighter at end of term time) He was a singer songwriter for a group called the Pogues and they were the main band on for the students.
My wife used to work for the company that did the catering at the University and we were invited to the event by her former colleagues. When I say invited I didn't realise that we would actually be serving food all night. As a vegetarian the last job I wanted was serving burgers, so that's what they got me doing. I sold hundreds in the end but it wasn't a problem though they thought it a hoot. I met Shane when he came for his burgers, he thought it a hoot too , a vegetarian serving meat. I had a bit of difficulty understanding everything he said because not only was he an alternative pseudo-Irish-punk-folk artist but liked a drink and other things too.
He was regarded by many as a genius, his writing including Fairy Tale Of New York which he recorded with Kirsty McColl another leading singer (and who tragically died some years ago after a collision with a motor boat)
Fairy Tale of New York will be played repeatedly over the Christmas period '
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Post by davemorton on Nov 30, 2023 17:35:49 GMT
You're going to struggle to go off topic on this one, Karma.
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Post by karma on Nov 30, 2023 17:46:45 GMT
You're going to struggle to go off topic on this one, Karma. How does the phrase go " Never dare a fool?"
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Post by karma on Nov 30, 2023 17:54:47 GMT
While staying clear of politics I must just mention that another death notified today was that of former Chancellor of the Exchequer Alastair Darling aged 70. I worked in financial services at the time of the 2008 financial crash and although I didn't agree with all Labour Party policies , I think the then chancellor did a magnificent job to calm the markets, basically through his calm (some said 'boring') 'matter of fact' approach.
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Post by davemorton on Nov 30, 2023 23:38:38 GMT
I have been wanting to rant at someone, and you lot will do.
Every November, on Armistice Day, someone reads out that one brilliant verse from Binyon's otherwise boring poem. AND THEY GET IT WRONG!
The first line should read, "They shall grow not old, as we who are left grow old." 'Grow not old' is subtly different to 'not grow old', and stronger. Sometimes they read that part correctly, but I always get the feeling that whoever is reading it, doesn't actually understand it.
There's the line, "Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn," in which surely the emphasis should be on them, and never is. The poet is contrasting the survivors growing old and weary, while the dead don't, in fact, or in memory.
How can this be difficult? It's not TS bloody Eliot.
End of rant.
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Post by byased on Nov 30, 2023 23:52:10 GMT
yes , politics probably best off limits, but I do agree about Alistair Darling. I attended my first board meeting as a non exec at a building society on the very day it all kicked off. An interesting start. I thought he did a good job, which I can't say about many politicians since. It must be the weather, but people seem to be dropping like flies at the moment. Terry Venables another one, a likeable rogue possibly, but someone who was ahead of his time in his football thinking. I was toying with buying his book, "they used to play on grass", but now he has died all the copies on eBay have either sold or doubled in price.
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Post by karma on Dec 1, 2023 1:34:59 GMT
I have been wanting to rant at someone, and you lot will do. Every November, on Armistice Day, someone reads out that one brilliant verse from Binyon's otherwise boring poem. AND THEY GET IT WRONG! The first line should read, "They shall grow not old, as we who are left grow old." 'Grow not old' is subtly different to 'not grow old', and stronger. Sometimes they read that part correctly, but I always get the feeling that whoever is reading it, doesn't actually understand it. There's the line, "Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn," in which surely the emphasis should be on them, and never is. The poet is contrasting the survivors growing old and weary, while the dead don't, in fact, or in memory. How can this be difficult? It's not TS bloody Eliot. End of rant. I'm not going to labour the point about 'all that glitters is not gold' then!
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Post by davemorton on Dec 1, 2023 8:40:09 GMT
Beam me up, Scotty; play it again, Sam.
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Post by newby on Dec 1, 2023 10:25:50 GMT
Politics, I love it, can we start a thread please!
Sad news about Alistair Darling, seems to have been a decent bloke and of course he led the 'better together' alliance in 2014.
I thought he managed to remain calm in 2008 because he didn't have a clue how bad it was. But that's politics for you.
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Post by slowleftarmer on Dec 1, 2023 11:12:26 GMT
surely the more notable death this week was Dean Sullivan who played Jimmy Corkhill in Brookside?
Ok perhaps not, but can i raise you with Henry Kissinger instead?
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Post by karma on Dec 1, 2023 11:25:07 GMT
Yes you can raise me with Henry Kissenger, though I never met him . And staying away from politics, he did help to shape the world, solved some problems but created others for the present generations.
(Depends what is your definition of 'staying away from politics' . I use the David Cameron definition, create a massive problem and then walk away from it humming a tune like 'I'm in the money, Greensill are really funny')
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Post by karma on Dec 1, 2023 15:35:14 GMT
Today is first of the month , I'm never sure why we're supposed to say 'White Rabbits, White Rabbits, White Rabbits, (anyone ?) ' or 'Pinch ,Punch first of the month
When i was logged on this morning, getting the second team fixtures wrong, I was also wrapping my wife's Christmas presents which includes a diary in which I've booked some trips away for us both and including some Cricket ones as well. I love doing this and my wife loves opening it on Christmas day and seeing where we're going.
As I was wrapping her presents I was trying to formulate the words to a song for my own amusement - I sang it to my wife when she got home and she laughed. Whether that's a good laugh or not, I'm not sure Still I've put it in the Christmas Cricket songs thread, its called
Christmas Wrapping
Oh and don't say , don't give up the day job, I did that years ago.
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Post by byased on Dec 1, 2023 16:12:23 GMT
for those with a dark sense of humour, google "death list 2023". It is a site that predicts the demise of 50 personalities each year, and monitors the progress as the year goes by. It is currently having some success with its predictions.
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Post by karma on Dec 1, 2023 20:59:40 GMT
Yes you can raise me with Henry Kissenger, though I never met him . And staying away from politics, he did help to shape the world, solved some problems but created others for the present generations. (Depends what is your definition of 'staying away from politics' . I use the David Cameron definition, create a massive problem and then walk away from it humming a tune like 'I'm in the money, Greensill are really funny')
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