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Wolf Hall. The Mirror and The Light. On BBC tonight at 9pm. Mrs F and I on a very rare occasion of us both looking forward to something. Mark Rylance is a fucking amazing actor, and Damian Lewis isn’t too shabby either. At the rate that the cheeky glasses of wine are going down following our win, I might be watching it on iPlayer, but hey-ho

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Fucking great result that. 2nd half we were like a different team. Hopefully AG10’s knock on his hip isn’t anything serious.

BARNES!!!! Fucking get in!

BUJ!!!!!!!

ISAK!!!!!

I almost forgot. In a break with tradition, I’m going for a 5-0 for our lads. First four deflections off Scargill’s weetabix heed, last three OGs from the scabs as they get confused and cross their own picket lines.

Young and daft- the biggest fear wasn’t falling, it was your Mam finding out you’d done it.

One of the more unhinged activities we’d do in the Towers was girder sliding. The walkways between the blocks were supported H-section girders, and if you put your feet against the inside of one side of the H, with your body on the outside of the other side, pulling against it with your hands,,you could slide down them. The bottom arrow was the beginner level, from the lower level ( only 6 storeys), whilst the upper level was hard lad territory ( 9 storeys). I did the lower ones quite a few times, only once for hard-lad level-insane tbh. I remember some lad at our school who died doing the hard-lad level and I think they put spikes around them to make access more tricky. Incidentally, the block pictured is where I used to live, ringed in red. We’d also climb the outside of the car parks quite often, which was pretty easy tbh. Thats the best/only pic of them I could find, about 8 storeys but a piece of piss to climb.

What’s happened to Trumps copycat version- Truth Social? I’m guessing that now he and Musk are blow-buddies it’s like Leaze’s message board where he chatted to himself and Wacky?

I lived in Killy Towers until 1976 when we moved in to one of the Garths. This place was 5 minutes on a Grifter from either address There were two iirc, this full length death wish, and the junior one for nippers next to it, which was about 15ft shorter, so both were actually lethal If you look top right, you can see the “steps” that were the way up the concrete to the top - best and most scary part of it, tbh. You’re right about the murals, they were on some big walls behind the photographer’s pov here, either end of what I think we’re meant to be all weather pitches- in reality they were big gravel patches that no fucker ever played football on, but made for great stunt jump areas for aforementioned Grifters. These two slides also both ended directly on to the same gravel… forgetting about that was a mistake you only made once

Cake for second breakfast! Happy Birthday Robin!

25-60. No exceptions. Gives time to get youthful deftness out of the system, and gets rid of them before they turn mental/conservative. I’d consider a mandatory break of a few years too, if they’re a career politician, so that they get experience of actual work

Is that the one with the main lass as an Asian woman copper? Im not a fan of copper shows at the best of times, but if it’s the same one, it was fucking atrocious Mrs. F. made me watch an episode - two blokes were accused of killing/kidnapping some Asian lass. Wasn’t them. Ray solved it through sheer determination and some terrible writing. At least I think that was what happened- it was hard to follow the story because of all the “ SHE’S AN ASIAN WOMAN COPPER!” bits that were shoehorned in every 30 seconds. 8.7 my hairy arse.

Is this a peculiarity of the Blyth dialect?

That’s Thomas Turgoose, poor lad’s just put some timber on.

Social media has a large part to play, but also don’t discount decades of Tory rule and culture. When I was on the rigs, is really hit home how much of a generational divide there was in selfishness and political outlook. My generation and the lads older than me were overwhelmingly left leaning, to varying degrees. The younger lads, 40 odd and below, were almost exclusively a pack of cunts Obsessed with money and property, very much “Fuck you, I’m alright Jack!” when discussing shared workspace ( e.g.plumbers working below us - they’ll be there for 4 shifts, we’d be there for 3, they’d kick off if they were stood down in favour of us ( unless they had an old school gaffer) constantly whining about immigration and taxes. The societal selfishness has been there a long time now, it’s ingrained in so many working class lads that it’s depressing, social media has just made it easier to see.

You missed their new flag off. Dumb down the masses, increase the military, push religion ( as long as it’s white and Christian), get the brown folks out. Textbook