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Ernie Shackleton said:
This.

Given that an official World Cup ambassador has recently declared that homosexuality is a damage of the mind, for ****s sake, then claiming all are welcome is an obvious lie.

This World Cup should never have been awarded to Qater, should have been moved on numerous occasions over the past 10 years and is shaping up to be somewhat of a damp squib.


Hopefully it'll pass fairly quickly then we can all get back to having our hopes and dreams crushed by the concept which is playing out from the back.
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What about their treatment of women as second class citizens? Or human rights in general. Though there have been previous tournaments in countries with questionable human rights and attitudes to LGBT+, Argentina, South Africa, te Soviet Union, China…There are many countries we trade with, go on holiday to or buy goods from with attitudes which are different from ours on these things. Turkey doesn’t meet our lofty standards either.
There are countries which have an intolerant attitude to LGBT+ but not women, some with women leaders and even some in the EU .The ones that persecute LGBT+ and treat women as second class citizens do have one common denominator though…
 
Sumatran_Tiger said:
...and you didn't have a telly ;)
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We did. Can’t remember it though.My dad got one that year. The only two things he ever got without paying cash was that TV and years later a mortgage. Brought up in the days of don’t buy it if you can’t afford it.There wasn’t HP then but there was some scheme where you could get one in instalments. I remember him telling me it cost 8:weeks wages for a 10 screen housed in a cabinet the size of a fridge freezer (or so it seemed) with only one channel broadcasting for a few hours. Apparently it used to shut down for a while about 6 or 7 o’clock so parents get get kids off to bed.<laugh>

When you look at the TVs you can buy now for a week’s wages with a multitude of channels it is amazing. Though nothing can reproduce the wonder people must have felt back then seeing moving pictures in their living room for the first time.
 
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Cityzen said:
We did. Can’t remember it though.My dad got one that year. The only two things he ever got without paying cash was that TV and years later a mortgage. Brought up in the days of don’t buy it if you can’t afford it.There wasn’t HP then but there was some scheme where you could get one in instalments. I remember him telling me it cost 8:weeks wages for a 10 screen housed in a cabinet the size of a fridge freezer (or so it seemed) with only one channel broadcasting for a few hours. Apparently it used to shut down for a while about 6 or 7 o’clock so parents get get kids off to bed.<laugh>

When you look at the TVs you can buy now for a week’s wages with a multitude of channels it is amazing. Though nothing can reproduce the wonder people must have felt back then seeing moving pictures in their living room for the first time.
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YOU WERE LUCKY!
 
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rovertiger said:
I'm not even going to watch the games out of respect for those poor buggers who died building everything.
I'll look for England's scores on here and that's it.
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Same. I was mulling over it because I do like watching England during tournaments but I don’t know if I could bring myself to watch it.
 
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Kempton said:
YOU WERE LUCKY!
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Quite a few people on our council estate got one around that time and the year after Or at least the parents of kids I went to school with did as when I started school we talked about what we had seen.
I remember my dad saying in 1953 that when they televised the Matthews final, the first Cup Final to have the whole game televised, that in that long street down the side of the Yacht Club in Brid where h worked there were long queues of people going in to watch the only television in the street for 10 minutes then going out and queueing again. The TV belonged to the local bookie. Say no more!
 
Cityzen said:
Quite a few people on our council estate got one around that time and the year after Or at least the parents of kids I went to school with did as when I started school we talked about what we had seen.
I remember my dad saying in 1953 that when they televised the Matthews final, the first Cup Final to have the whole game televised, that in that long street down the side of the Yacht Club in Brid where h worked there were long queues of people going in to watch the only television in the street for 10 minutes then going out and queueing again. The TV belonged to the local bookie. Say no more!
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LUXURY :cheesy:
 
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originallambrettaman said:
Until the 90’s, it was rare for anyone to buy a TV, generally they were rented.
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I bought my first colour TV in 1974. In instalments. Remember it clearly as the first weekend I had it Abba won the Eurovision Song Contest. My dad who still had a black and white TV gave me a lecture on what he saw as my financial profligacy. Mind you sometime later when one of my sets packed in I rented one from that shop on Chants Ave as I wanted a bigger screen and a better brand and couldn’t afford it.<laugh>

Shows how more affordable a lot of things are nowadays.
 
Cityzen said:
I bought my first colour TV in 1974. In instalments. Remember it clearly as the first weekend I had it Abba won the Eurovision Song Contest. My dad who still had a black and white TV gave me a lecture on what he saw as my financial profligacy. Mind you sometime later when one of my sets packed in I rented one from that shop on Chants Ave as I wanted a bigger screen and a better brand and couldn’t afford it.<laugh>

Shows how more affordable a lot of things are nowadays.
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I can't remember the name of the Chants shop I'm thinking of, but did it have BANG&OLUFSON?
 
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originallambrettaman said:
It did indeed, in a previous life, I used to work there as a TV repair man.
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Can’t remember his name but a decent bloke. Used to have a pint with him in the Avenues now and again. Got a Mitsubishi from him as he said at the time they were the most reliable. Best set I had had up to that time.
 
Cityzen said:
Can’t remember his name but a decent bloke. Used to have a pint with him in the Avenues now and again. Got a Mitsubishi from him as he said at the time they were the most reliable. Best set I had had up to that time.
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How many miles to the gallon?
 
A TV repairman whilst fixing our rental told me never to buy Bang&olufson, because the tube was exactly the same one as in a Samsung.
 
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