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Discussion in 'Charlton' started by User deleted as requested, Oct 8, 2018.

  1. The Penguin

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    It was a crude riff by a brass section repeated over and over getting louder. Doesn't really stick in my mind though.
     
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    There's been a lot of fuss lately about the 'air-brushing' of Roald Dahl's books.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64702224

    I'm not too worried about it.
    This kind of thing goes on all the time, and has done since books were invented.
    How often has the Bible been re-written, edited, translated, cleaned up, modernized...
    I should think the people who wrote most of it wouldn't recognise their own work.

    As long as the older versions of books are not removed from society as if they never existed, I don't mind more modern versions coming out.
    Parents today should be able to read classic kids' books to their children without worrying about outdated values getting in the way.
     
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    "The Piano" was IMO the best reality TV for ages. These amateur musicians playing piano at the stations would put many professionals to shame.
     
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    Haven’t watched it yet but it caught my eye !
     
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    I think it was Samuel Pepys diary which I read about (never been inclined to read it myself): Apparently it has numerous references from Pepys himself to him beating female servants (occasionally with a stick) or sexually abusing them. I have no idea whether the law would have condoned that then but it's plainly wrong seen from the present.
    So what do you do. Re write the books as in 1984 taking out all the offensive bits? I dislike the sound of the books, but that sort of Orwellian rewrite is pretty crap in my opinion. The books are 'of their time' and regarded as a fascinating insight into life in London at the time. Are we going to start covering up the nude's in the national gallery. You stick a label at the front advising the easily offended that the books contain some pretty nasty admissions from the author and let people read them. I don't know much about Roald Dahl (I've seen some stuff lately that suggests he was a bigot and racist but no quotes so no proof). I read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as a nipper and liked it. As it's for children I guess you could argue that changes wouldn't be out of place, but as a parent, my view is you may be reading the books to children. If you see something really nasty, stop reading and give them another book the next night.
     
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    I doubt Pepys intended anybody else to read his private diaries.
    Weren't they only first published in the Victorian era?

    I recall seeing somewhere that all the nude Renaissance statues in the Vatican had their (not so) private parts chiselled off a few centuries back.
    It might have been in one of those Dan Brown movies...

    "God wants crusade, God wants jihad
    God wants good, God wants bad..."

    Roger Waters
     
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    I particularly liked Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, the closest Dahl got to science fiction I guess...
    I don't recall anything in that which needs modernising though.
     
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    Maybe it would make quite a funny musical:emoticon-0159-music.
     
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    It could lead to pizza adverts and all sorts ………..
     
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    Could bring waistcoats right into fashion...
     
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    Wrexham's Hollywood owners are going to play for the Club in a 7-a-side tournament in the USA

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64752979

    Maybe Charlton could enter that tournament as well. Come on Thomas, get yer boots on!
     
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    With Ol' Yeller Teeth in goal? Hee Haar!
     
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    Annoying tag lines used by companies trying to sell you stuff :emoticon-0121-angry

    Sky Mobile "Hello possible"
    Suzuki "Good different"
    Meaningless crap.

    Started by the British Gas sell-off if I recall correctly.
    "Tell Sid they're coming round to break his front door in and fit a pre-payment meter"
     
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    I just saw on an old music show that the ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA had only one UK No.1 Single;
    Xanadu (with Olivia Newton John) in 1980.

    I don't mind that song personally, it's a lightweight tinselly tune, harmless enough.
    But the Band that brought us Mr Blue Sky and Wild West Hero among many other fantastic tunes never had a chart-topper of their own?
    Scandalous.
     
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    I remember as a nipper Sweet Talkin Woman being played prematch at the Valley back in the seventies. Surely that was ELO?
     
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    And on the musical theme, we had The Stranglers here in Barcelona last night. Obviously, the band name is a bit of a stretch now as only one or the original line up in the band, and Hugh Cornwell has been quoted as saying he could call himself The Stranglers too. Who cares! Great night!! They played stuff from across the decades, but the set was hugely skewed in favour of the old material (Somethin Better Change, Walk on By, No More Heroes etc) which is just waht most of us wanted. But we also had Golden Borown, Always the Sun and a couple off the new album.
    When we arrived, the unusual thing I noticed was the huge majority of the fans seemed to be Brits. They could have chartered flihts given how many there were.
     
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    From the sublime to the ridiculous...

    The UK's new Song for Europe <nahnah>
    Crikey it's bad. And a couple of jibbering lunatics have already compared the woman who sings it to Amy Winehouse <steam>
    Its only redeeming feature is that it's totally forgettable. Earworm potential: zero.
     
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    I've just remembered what our Eurovision song does remind me of...

    :emoticon-0159-music"Instead I wrote a song
    'Bout how you did me wrong,
    I sold my car, to we-buy-any-car
    I sold my car, to we-buy-any-car..."
     
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    I read today that Soccer AM on Sky is coming to an end.
    In its day (20 years ago) I thought it was great Saturday morning TV.
    Tim Lovejoy & Helen Chamberlain made a good team - irreverent, not politically correct (the Soccerette was cringeworthy even back then, but it was done for laughs) and always some daft nonsense going on. And a different set of fans on each episode.
    This was in the era when lads mags like Zoo and Nuts were very popular.
    And it used to be on for 4 hours, from 8am to midday.

    I haven't watched it for many years, but I understand it has been in long term decline.
    Rest in Peace Soccer AM. Fond memories from days of yore...
     
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