Just heard on CNN that 26 of the new intake of Dems to the House were born post Watergate.
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On Remembrance Day there used to be this big commemorative do at the Albert Hall. Military representatives of every regiment/squadron/fleet of every war would march across the floor, while their honours were read out. The whole thing was televised and took all evening. My Mum always cried while I wondered when proper TV would start again. Leading off were the oldest survivors, generally Chelsea Pensioners who'd fought the Boers. "Christ they're old," I thought "That war's ancient history." In fact they'd be the same age as WW2 vets today, a war whose shadow I was born under.
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When I was a young child much of the WW2 generation were still working. Coming up to retirement admittedly, but still clocking on in a morning. Now they're pretty much all gone. Afternoon daytime TV regularly catered for the generation before them with Chaplin and Buster Keaton silents. Feels like another world now and I'm only 37.
On the early 90's - I reckon the recession (which seems to be forgotten now but lasted for most of three years) led to a general dinginess which has visually aged that period far more than the rest of the decade.
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Originally posted by adams house cat View Post"That Seventies Show" is just that WOM.
I'm not aware of anything like that, but Friends (remastered in HD and widescreen) is a huge hit on Netflix and lots of kids who weren't alive then watch it. I suspect that, going forward, he ability to easily access high-quality video stuff from 20 years ago may undercut the market for new shows about 20 years ago.
On the other hand, we may see more shows - especially shows about teenagers and young people dating - set in the past because people actually talking to each other and meeting each other in the real world makes for better film/TV than a lot of screen shots of texts and apps. I read that that's why the makers of Landline, a pretty good indy film from 2017 set in 1995 - chose to set it then, even though there's not much else about the story that necessitates it being in 1995 or any particular year.
Likewise, That 70's Show was all about kids just hanging out and smoking weed in the basement because there was nothing else to do - not much on TV, no VCR, only rudimentary video games, etc. Dazed & Confused was just about kids driving around, because that's what kids in small towns did back then. The equivalent today would mostly be kids at home texting each other. Whether that's better or worse is debatable, but it certainly would be a much worse film.
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Originally posted by adams house cat View Post"That Seventies Show" is just that WOM.
Little known fact, but there was briefly "That '80s Show" from the same producers, which sucked wet, hairy ass. Instead of a funny ensemble cast set in the 70s, it was a collection of really shit '80s jokes with few laughs. Didn't last.
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Originally posted by WOM View PostYes, that's true. It was, also, only a little over 20 years removed, but felt like ages.
Little known fact, but there was briefly "That '80s Show" from the same producers, which sucked wet, hairy ass. Instead of a funny ensemble cast set in the 70s, it was a collection of really shit '80s jokes with few laughs. Didn't last.
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- Dec 2013
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- NW Glasgow (aka Bearsden)
- Partick Thistle, Scotland, Leeds United
- Choc Digestive (milk)
Originally posted by Bordeaux Education View PostThere is a shorter period between the Opium Wars and World War 1 and the latter and today.
Surely the Opium Wars were (in many ways) the absolute nadir of the British Empire. On the other hand, they led to the formation of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs, which was (in some respects) one of its great achievements, though virtually no-one has heard of it today...
A couple of interesting side notes:
According to Wikipedia, in 1820, China had the largest economy in the world....
After two decades of operation, the CIMC (staffed almost entirely by foreigners) collected about one third of the revenue available to the government in Beijing.
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Surely the Opium Wars were (in many ways) the absolute nadir of the British Empire. On the other hand, they led to the formation of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs, which was (in some respects) one of its great achievements, though virtually no-one has heard of it today...
I don't know, it's got stiff competition. halfway between the two opium wars, they allowed 5% of their own population die of hunger in Ireland and Scotland, in a time of plentiful food, and unprecedented wealth. China was very far away. people could see this outside their window. That wasn't that long ago. What the hell was going on in people's heads at the time.Last edited by The Awesome Berbaslug!!!; 17-11-2018, 00:02.
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Not that many really died in scotland but directly from famine during the blight. The affected areas were much closer to population centres like Glasgow/Inverness (as well as established seasonal emigration to fertile lowland areas bordering the potato dependent Highlands) and the relief was slightly less evilly doled out (Trevelyan was frustrated from his worst impulses to some extent). The Highland/Lowland enmity was also somewhat dimmed by the 1840s through sentimental Walter Scottishness and the sufferers by this point being mostly converted to Calvinism, so Scots towns and cities in the unaffected lowland areas raised a lot of cash for their “brothers” (maybe as much to stem the flood of emaciated waifs and strays into douce lowland touns).
Also the Clearances had been underway long before the famine so the crowded lands of West Cork didn’t really have a parallel in Scotland (first through the landless emigrating against their Landowners’ wishes in a Dance Called America like during the 18th cent/Napoleonic Wars, then through the forced evictions later by the bastards in the most marginal land like Sutherland etc). And the more fertile lowlands and central/southern highlands had been efficiently cleared earlier and more thoroughly than in Ireland.
The Bengal famine under evil bastard fuck Churchill must be up there with the Opium Wars and the great Famine.Last edited by Lang Spoon; 17-11-2018, 02:27.
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As much as pure racialist evil contra the Celts, the mad adherence to laissez faire and the idea of deserving poor/poverty as Just Punishment for moral failing was probably a major factor in the potato famine(s). The pointless and needless austerity under Osborne and Pig Fucker/Strong and Stable being a pale reflection of same.
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- Mar 2008
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- An oasis in the middle of Somerset
- Bath City FC; Porthcawl RFC;Wales in most things.
- Fig roll - deal with it.
Originally posted by bix80The last time England won a trophy was closer to the assassination of Franz Ferdinand than to the present date.
I quite like the accompanying fact that, in this year's World Cup, Gareth Southgate was two years older than Alf Ramsey was when he won in 1966.
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