The Musings Of An Opinionated Sod [Help Me Grow!]

I had to look at your last word in the above comment for about 5 minutes before I understood what you meant. I know you love to swear, but can you make it a bit easier for us to understand. And for the record, that ‘Tucker’ guy was in ‘The Bill’ too. Though to be fair, UK “actors” end up doing the rounds on every regular soap, because there’s not enough work to go round.

Funny how he did end up having a longer career than other Grange Hill lumaries, like “Just Say No” Zammo.

A psychologist would say it’s because it connects people of a certain age to a happy time in their life. I’d say that’s bollocks … it’s because he looks so old and rough it makes people of that era think they’ve not aged too badly in comparison and feel better about themselves.

Like people who watch Jerry Springer.

Or read this blog.

The Tube. Great reminder there Rohan …

Three in particular stand out.

Motorhead were on and my Dad walked in while I was watching it. After a particularly lingering shot on Lemmy’s mole-ridden face, my father declared/asked: “WHAT. IS. THAT.”

Another time, when Guns ‘n’ Roses were on, my Dad walked in again. For some reason I pointed out that the guitarist was called Slash and he came from Stoke-on-Trent, a place quite near us. I still remember him looking at me and asking, with some justifiable distain:
“Why would you name yourself after a long streak of piss?”

And finally I remember ‘Then Jericho’ making their television debut. I don’t know why I remember them, because I never liked them, but I do. Maybe it’s because the song they played had some loud guitars on it and I had just started learning how to play. Who knows. I also remember the band ‘King’ making their ‘The Tube’ debut, but that’s almost entirely due to the fact I loved Queen and thought they’d be novel to check out.

Thanks for that moment of reminiscing, you might not have liked it, but I did.

The off-licence … we had one up the road. It was like a peak into the future because the only thing separating that from the pub was a wall. A wall with a great big door sized hole in it. A great big door sized hole that let you smell, hear and taste the lights & sounds of adulthood and boy did it sound exciting.