Cumbriansaint72 Posted December 31, 2020 Report Share Posted December 31, 2020 Got top of the pops on, forgot how bad it was. Only difference this year is there isn't a random studio audience dancing about to some other bloody song. To go with a crap year there has been some crap songs too🤣🤣🤣 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stlucifer Posted December 31, 2020 Report Share Posted December 31, 2020 (edited) I guess the young ones who bought/downloaded the tracks would think the music you like in the same bracket as you do their choice. TOTP is of a different generation which, I would think, is why they only put it on the screen once a year. Edited December 31, 2020 by stlucifer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rabuddies Posted December 31, 2020 Report Share Posted December 31, 2020 When I was young the music played on the Christmas / New Year TOTP was mostly rubbish too. Popular music is and always has been crap. It's made by the music industry, not musicians, and it's made to make money from those who spend their pocket money on the latest thing. In the 60's it was aimed principally at young girls. It's not so sexist these days. From the mid 60's I got in to alternative music and lots of people in school at at youth clubs thought it was crap 'cos you couldn't dance to it. Witin a few years I think most of the males of my generation were listening to non-pop stuff. Ironically I can now listen to, and like, the stuff my dad listened to - Sinatra, Big Ella, Bobby Darin and others of the swing generation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faraway saint Posted December 31, 2020 Report Share Posted December 31, 2020 17 minutes ago, rabuddies said: When I was young the music played on the Christmas / New Year TOTP was mostly rubbish too. Popular music is and always has been crap. It's made by the music industry, not musicians, and it's made to make money from those who spend their pocket money on the latest thing. In the 60's it was aimed principally at young girls. It's not so sexist these days. From the mid 60's I got in to alternative music and lots of people in school at at youth clubs thought it was crap 'cos you couldn't dance to it. Witin a few years I think most of the males of my generation were listening to non-pop stuff. Ironically I can now listen to, and like, the stuff my dad listened to - Sinatra, Big Ella, Bobby Darin and others of the swing generation. A massive sweeping statement and is wrong. Music is very subjective, and, thank god, is so varied it can mean so much to so many people. Popular music brings so much to so many. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookie Monster Posted December 31, 2020 Report Share Posted December 31, 2020 OMG how journalism has deteriorated. [emoji57]The young lad isn't dead, contrary to their post. [emoji3061] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALBIONSAINT Posted December 31, 2020 Report Share Posted December 31, 2020 Journalism and daily record, does not compute! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oaksoft Posted January 1, 2021 Report Share Posted January 1, 2021 (edited) 16 hours ago, Cumbriansaint72 said: Got top of the pops on, forgot how bad it was. Only difference this year is there isn't a random studio audience dancing about to some other bloody song. To go with a crap year there has been some crap songs too🤣🤣🤣 It always was a dreadful programme but I didn't see that until I watched it again as an older person. Same with Starsky and Hutch, the Professionals and a host of other "brilliant" shows. 😀 The miming thing on TOTP eventually killed it for me. Edited January 1, 2021 by oaksoft Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slarti Posted January 1, 2021 Report Share Posted January 1, 2021 It always was a dreadful programme but I didn't see that until I watched it again as an older person. Same with Starsky and Hutch, the Professionals and a host of other "brilliant" shows. [emoji3] The miming thing on TOTP eventually killed it for me.They stopped the miming long before the show ended. I think it was music stations, like MTV, that were really its death. Either that, or ditching Legs & Co. [emoji174]In general, most "auld stuff" is probably best left in the memory, rather than actually going back to look at it, it's usually disappointing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slarti Posted May 5, 2022 Report Share Posted May 5, 2022 Journalism and daily record, does not compute! Not just the record:The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) have said there are approximately 17 non-native species of land flatworms in Britain - four of which are native.We apparently have 4 native non-native species of land flatworms in Britain. Is proofreading a thing of the past? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antrin Posted May 6, 2022 Report Share Posted May 6, 2022 Don’t blame the fine and accurate RHS. Blame the journo who mis-lifted the story. https://www.rhs.org.uk/biodiversity/non-native-flatworms Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antrin Posted May 6, 2022 Report Share Posted May 6, 2022 Fyi… Btw…. I found a giant, plump 5” version of the chap, below, in my weed basin yesterday a.m. Didnae kill it - popped it back in dense grass. It does a good job. Leopard slug. ”a carnivore known to pursue other slugs at a top speed of 15 centimetres (6 in) per minute.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slarti Posted May 6, 2022 Report Share Posted May 6, 2022 Don’t blame the fine and accurate RHS. Blame the journo who mis-lifted the story. https://www.rhs.org.uk/biodiversity/non-native-flatworms I was blaming the journey, sorry if that wasn't clear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antrin Posted May 6, 2022 Report Share Posted May 6, 2022 It was clear. I may have read about it in The Grauniad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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