Tag: British culture
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Are You Ready for Ready Brexit?
This is doing the rounds on Facebook and elsewhere but here is the original from thekrakening.com. Amazingly from 2016, and still current, although you might have to remember the old Weetabix Ready Brek commercials to get it. Are you ready for Ready Brexit, and keep your children safe from Liberal Surrender Monkeys! Awwight! (actually if…
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The Skints Are Learning To Swim
Yes another post? So soon? Posts are like buses here, you wait for one for ages and then three come at once! Had to post this because, well, it blew up on Twitter when I shared it (thanks to the band, *mwah*) and I think it’s a great tune…Deffo for the next podcast! Again, cribbed…
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UKIP if you like…
Oh it’s the gift that keeps giving, ridiculing UKIP. They started a #WhyIVotedUKIP hashtag on Twitter, and you can guess what happened next. These are some of my faves – the polls are closed (I voted Green for EU and Green/Labour btw) and it still rolls on. LULZ! #WhyImVotingUkip Because I'm worried black people will…
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John Peel’s Record Collection
It’s been floating around the blogotwitfaceosphere since Monday, but only really had a look now at the John Peel’s Record Collection site. Love the videos and photos, and small peek into his amazing collection. I hope at some point they allow access to the entire archive as a database, I’m sure some really good uses…
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The glamour of radio
Everyone thinks radio must be glamorous like this: but it’s actually closer to this: (that’s Pirate Radio Welsh style – first Plaid Cymru broadcasts 1959) with the quality of guests like this đŸ˜› So glamorous! Pics via The Passion of Former Days blog.
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John Peel’s Shed
This is one for those of you in the UK, but over Xmas (until the 28th) you have to listen to John Peel’s Shed – wonderfully touching story about the transformative effect of radio and specifically a box of records won from John Peel’s Shed in 2002. I think a lot of people have been…