Massively overrated and or underrated - Page 8

**bawjaws** · January 10th, 2018, 04:26 PM

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Originally Posted by ellias

The original boy wonder "Wunderkkind" of Hollywood Irving Thalberg who was first the Universal defacto production manager and then head producer at MGM in the 30s before he died at an early age abhorred awards programs..

so AMPAS created the Irving Thalberg Award... the bastards

**pierrelm** · January 10th, 2018, 04:47 PM

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Originally Posted by teaktop

Real Ale
The Premier League

1. Real ale - infinitely preferable to the witch's widdle known as 'Lager'
2. The Premier League - most certainly. I'm lucky enough to have grown up watching football from the mid 1960's onwards. Ground facilities have improved. Sort of. You used to get a decent pie, a bottle of beer or an unclassifable scalding hot drink which could have been tea or coffee, which is why Bovril became the terrace drink of choice.

But in the old days, players remained with teams, you used to 'walk up' to the local ground, there'd be characters on the terraces, from mad old grans with players names sewn all over their scarves, to blokes with foghorn voices shouting out family secrets about the refs. But clubs were OUR clubs.

Jack Charlton, England World Cup winner and centre half with my beloved Leeds once saw me on Kings X station after a defeat at Highbury, and made a point of coming over to say hello to me and my Dad, and apologise that 'they hadn't won for us'. Imagine that happening now? Me neither.

The PL has buggered up football, taking it away from the traditional working class roots, moving fixtures around at will, even the f'ing FA Cup Final doesn't kick off at 3 o'clock anymore.

And the wages? If ever something indicated just how wrong this brand-loyalty, armchair expert consumer travesty has become, then £100k+ a week not being enough for some players says it all. Don't mention loyalty. They think it's a store card name.

The sooner the rug gets pulled out from beneath them and it crashes to the ground, the better. Premier fucking League.

**wimbo77** · January 10th, 2018, 07:56 PM

Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

**bloke57** · January 10th, 2018, 08:33 PM

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Originally Posted by wimbo77

Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

You realise this means war!

No, honestly - I do get it. Musically it's not their best and it needed at least one more strong song (Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever having been already culled).

But for those of us of a certain age, the time it came out is etched on our memories. It was unlike anything that went before - in spirit, design and scope - and right at the limits of four track recording. That's what I love it for.

**Roubignol** · January 10th, 2018, 08:36 PM

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Originally Posted by pierrelm

2. The Premier League - most certainly. I'm lucky enough to have grown up watching football from the mid 1960's onwards. Ground facilities have improved. Sort of. Yo..... the ground, the better. Premier fucking League.

The amounts of money that transit through all the major professional sports in general are an insult to the human intelligence.

And now we have almost every week "an unbelievable event".

Too many events kill the events.

**wimbo77** · January 10th, 2018, 08:54 PM

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Originally Posted by bloke57

No, honestly - I do get it. Musically it's not their best and it needed at least one more strong song (Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever having been already culled).

I liked the cover version Candy Flip did of Strawberry Fields Forever in the 90's.

**tamsmith** · January 10th, 2018, 09:27 PM

Gary Lineker. And his crisps are not great either.

**LadyLuck** · January 10th, 2018, 09:53 PM

Tom Petty. Granted, he could squeeze more out of three chords than most of his peers but then again - it was three chords. Free Fallin'. Ugh. It was so boring Howie refused to play on the track.

BTW, Richards was a genius. Jagger was lucky to have ever met Richards.

**pierrelm** · January 11th, 2018, 04:49 AM

The Grateful Dead Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz (buy the tee shirt by all means but the music?)

**AmateurEmale** · January 11th, 2018, 12:45 PM

"Tom Brady is just a model who plays football... I hope he gets hit so bad, he about dies."

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January 10th, 2018, 09:27 PM	#77
tamsmith Veteran Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Coming close to the Slippery Slope. Posts: 7,800 Thanks: 77,915 Thanked 280,413 Times in 9,078 Posts	Gary Lineker. And his crisps are not great either.

January 10th, 2018, 09:53 PM	#78
LadyLuck Vintage Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: USA Posts: 1,057 Thanks: 136 Thanked 10,477 Times in 1,247 Posts	Tom Petty. Granted, he could squeeze more out of three chords than most of his peers but then again - it was three chords. Free Fallin'. Ugh. It was so boring Howie refused to play on the track. BTW, Richards was a genius. Jagger was lucky to have ever met Richards.

January 11th, 2018, 04:49 AM	#79
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AmateurEmale Vintage Member Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: The 513 Posts: 1,825 Thanks: 16,644 Thanked 15,794 Times in 1,755 Posts	"Tom Brady is just a model who plays football... I hope he gets hit so bad, he about dies."