In today's Daily Mail, Leo McKinstry attacks the strike by local government workers, taking particular issue with the union's evocation of the spirit of the 1926 General Strike. "Eighty years ago" he writes " the working class were facing real physical hardship. The coal miners...were battling against savage wage cuts and longer hours."The Mail is of course correct to take a sympathetic view of the 1926 strikers. A shame that...
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SUPPORT NEIL NUNESSo Radio 4 has hired a continuity announcer with a Jamaican accent and Middle Britain - or parts of it - is not too happy. Listeners with names like Christopher Robins and Timmy Wren have been visiting the BBC's site to say things like "The tones, modulation and pronunciation are just very uncomfortable for Radio 4," and "His voice was American-ish but grating, difficult to understand and not at all pleasant...
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THE DANGERS OF MISSPEAKING"An American radio station has sacked a talkshow host who used a racial slur to describe the US secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice." according to Media Guardian (registration required).Really? Well, not quite, as the story goes on to make clear. In fact the presenter was commenting favourably on Rice's stated desire to one day run the NFL when he said this:"She's got the patent resumé of somebody that...
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CALL OFF THE SEARCH....Shave 'em dry by Lucille Bogan recorded around 1934"I got nipples on my titties, big as the end of my thumb,I got somethin' between my legs'll make a dead man come,Oh daddy, baby won't you shave 'em dry?Aside: Now, draw it out!Want you to grind me baby, grind me until I cry.(Roland: Uh, huh.)Say I fucked all night, and all the night before baby,And I feel just like I wanna, fuck some more,Oh great God daddy,(Roland:...
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OLD FUCKI may have found a contender for the title of Earliest Recorded Fuck. And it's really quite old. More soon, once I've investigated......
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JESUS SHITTING CHRIST!Because I work in the London office of a Big American Internet Company, one of things I am required to worry about is whether or not we can swear on the site.This is an issue that comes into focus at this time of the year because of the imminence of Big Brother. Quite apart from the rumour that one of the candidates on the shortlist is a sufferer from Tourette’s syndrome (though this is a story that I recall...
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FUCK!The first televised 'fuck' is a celebrated moment in social and cultural history (November 13 1965, Kenneth Tynan, "I doubt if there are any rational people to whom the word "fuck" would be particularly diabolical, revolting or totally forbidden.")Was there an equivalent taboo-shattering moment in rock music? Obviously pop 'fucks' are ten a penny these days. Radio stations hardly bother to bleep them out. But who was first?...
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