Not if it's from 50+ years ago when you were fit.Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Tue Oct 18, 2022 9:28 pm It takes a special kind of confidence to have a topless portrait of yourself on the wall.
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You think Arnie is FitCousin Jack wrote: ↑Tue Oct 18, 2022 10:31 pmNot if it's from 50+ years ago when you were fit.Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Tue Oct 18, 2022 9:28 pm It takes a special kind of confidence to have a topless portrait of yourself on the wall.
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"Be kind to past versions of yourself that didn't know what you know now."
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THE OLDEST CEREMONY
Each night a lone figure in a long red coat walks down Water Lane, the narrow cobbled street enclosed between the mighty inner and outer walls of the Tower of London. Sometimes only his lamp can be seen through the thick river mist that engulfs him when it rises up from the Thames and pours over the wall to fill Water Lane, but he is indifferent to meteorological conditions because he is resolute in his grave task.
He is the Gentleman Porter and it is his responsibility to lock up the Tower, a duty fulfilled every single night since 1280, when the Byward Tower that houses the guardroom was built. And over seven centuries of repetition without remiss – day after day, down through the ages, through the Plague, the Fire and the Blitz – this time-hallowed ritual has acquired its own cherished protocol and tradition, becoming known as ‘The Ceremony of the Keys.” It is the oldest, longest running ceremony in the world, and it continues today and it will continue when we are gone
Each night a lone figure in a long red coat walks down Water Lane, the narrow cobbled street enclosed between the mighty inner and outer walls of the Tower of London. Sometimes only his lamp can be seen through the thick river mist that engulfs him when it rises up from the Thames and pours over the wall to fill Water Lane, but he is indifferent to meteorological conditions because he is resolute in his grave task.
He is the Gentleman Porter and it is his responsibility to lock up the Tower, a duty fulfilled every single night since 1280, when the Byward Tower that houses the guardroom was built. And over seven centuries of repetition without remiss – day after day, down through the ages, through the Plague, the Fire and the Blitz – this time-hallowed ritual has acquired its own cherished protocol and tradition, becoming known as ‘The Ceremony of the Keys.” It is the oldest, longest running ceremony in the world, and it continues today and it will continue when we are gone
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Lots of videos of the cool parachute display landing on the beach.
But this is cool. Spanish flag on the chute and Canarian flag on his leg
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Who's who below if you need it...
Spoiler
Debbie Harry ( Blondie) , Viv Albertine ( The Slits), Siouxsie Sioux ( Siouxsie and the Banshees ), Chrissie Hynde ( The Pretenders ), Poly Styrene (X-Ray Spex ) and Pauline Black ( The Selecter).
Photograph by Michael Putland in London 1980.
Photograph by Michael Putland in London 1980.
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Showing my age...I can name the lot.
(Saw several of them live and The Slits were the best ).
(Saw several of them live and The Slits were the best ).
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Funny thing is that Debbie Harry was the one that I umm'd and ah'd about...don't think I've ever seen a picture of her quite so unprepared for camera.
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Now you mention it doesn't really look like her, not that that makes any sense.... I got the four corners, the other two I had to look up.Count Steer wrote: ↑Wed Oct 26, 2022 8:34 pmFunny thing is that Debbie Harry was the one that I umm'd and ah'd about...don't think I've ever seen a picture of her quite so unprepared for camera.
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I was trying to remember who The Slits were support for at Hammy Palais and found some posters for other things we went to. Some good nights Killing Joke+March Violets+Crown of Thorns+Danielle Dax....probably missed the last tube home from that one!
I have a strange idea that The Slits and Tears for Fears were actually both support for some other band. It's an unlikely mixture but the timing would be about right.
I have a strange idea that The Slits and Tears for Fears were actually both support for some other band. It's an unlikely mixture but the timing would be about right.
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I can only name one Slits song. Money and it was not ever their song
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