Off-topic discussion thread / moved as clogging other threads

[TheSmiths_1985]

I went to a grammar school.

Yeah, you went there. But that wasn't actually your school, was it?
You should've been down the local comprehensive smoking fags and drinking White Lightning between lessons.

 

[Was I ever any good]

Yes. It would be helpful.

 

[Orange Crush]

Superb… reminds me of a young lady (I think) that I used to hang around with down the public toilets. Me, Sue Perb and Ivor Hardon - we were quite the team. I don’t know for sure what ever happened to them. I heard that Sue Perb was killed by someone called Brian Eurism, but that was through the grapevine so can’t be taken as fact. A short while later, I heard a rumour that Ivor Hardon just woke up dead one day, and that was the end of him. Halcyon days.

You must know Paul Bearer, then? I used to go to school - grammar school, I'll have you know - with him and Stan Dup. Lovely fellas.

 

[Orange Crush]

Yeah, you went there. But that wasn't actually your school, was it?
You should've been down the local comprehensive smoking fags and drinking White Lightning between lessons.

I did go...despite being a grown man of 25 (oh, I loves me a Moz lyric)

 

[Was I ever any good]

25 what….. Stone

 

[Orange Crush]

25 what….. Stone

Eeh, what are you like!?

 

[Was I ever any good]

Just a bit slimmer then thee

 

[TheSmiths_1985]

reminds me of the gang i used to knock about with.
mal practice.
al truism.
jack shit.
willy eckerslike.
ann droid.
robin banks.
great days,great days.

I'm sorry, what is this, Gordon? Are you mocking my dead friends or something?

 

[TheSmiths_1985]

You must know Paul Bearer, then? I used to go to school - grammar school, I'll have you know - with him and Stan Dup. Lovely fellas.

I think I do know Stan Dup, actually? Is he in a wheelchair, by any chance? Maybe I'm thinking of a different Stan.

 

[TheSmiths_1985]

You must know Paul Bearer, then?

 

[Orange Crush]

I think I do know Stan Dup, actually? Is he in a wheelchair, by any chance? Maybe I'm thinking of a different Stan.

Yes, he used to be in a wheelchair, but his legs got better! His half brother was Neil Down. Eeh, it's a small world.

 

[BurgerButt]

Smiths fans weren't casuals. Ever. They were the weirdos with no lives.

That was just you

 

[TheSmiths_1985]

Yes, he used to be in a wheelchair, but his legs got better! His half brother was Neil Down. Eeh, it's a small world.

Never mind his half brother, what about his sister with the half-a-leg; Eileen? A right laugh, she was. Especially with a drink in her.

 

[BurgerButt]

Mr Burger...doesn't have a scooby-doo.

And you clearly can't read and process information that's as clear as day to anyone else.

Hey ho, we all know Stephen Hoffman isn't that bright, thanks for confirming

 

[Orange Crush]

Never mind his half brother, what about his sister with the half-a-leg; Eileen? A right laugh, she was. Especially with a drink in her.

Eileen? I think she married a fella called Ben Dover. I think they had a daughter called Ann.

 

[BurgerButt]

"There were Smiths fans in most schools"......mmmmm... since nobody ever goes to more than 1 or 2 senior schools.....how do you know this? The Smiths fans where I am ,were from the middle-class catchment area because I eventually hung out with them. Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon went to a school that was for a catchment area for the villages outside Colchester and to live in these areas you tended to have £££. I knew all the Smiths fans in Col around 1986.

Did you ever play football at school, did you not have mates who went to other schools? I knew lads from different towns and cities growing up.

That's right no you didn't, you were Ken Barlow.

You do know that Graham Coxon, Noel Gallagher, Richie Edwards, Nicky Wire, Alex Kaprenos, Tim Burgess. All Smiths fans growing up. Even Peodo Tom Hanks was a Smiths fan.

The Smiths weren't just spotty Norman and Kens, in the first year or two maybe, but from 85 onwards they were crossing over to a wider fanbase. Some of the lads I knew growing up, are some of the hardest bastards you could meet, they all loved the Smiths, still do and still go see Moz.

 

[TheSmiths_1985]

Eileen? I think she married a fella called Ben Dover. I think they had a daughter called Ann.

 

[Stephen Hofmann]

Did you ever play football at school, did you not have mates who went to other schools? I knew lads from different towns and cities growing up.

That's right no you didn't, you were Ken Barlow.

You do know that Graham Coxon, Noel Gallagher, Richie Edwards, Nicky Wire, Alex Kaprenos, Tim Burgess. All Smiths fans growing up. Even Peodo Tom Hanks was a Smiths fan.

The Smiths weren't just spotty Norman and Kens, in the first year or two maybe, but from 85 onwards they were crossing over to a wider fanbase. Some of the lads I knew growing up, are some of the hardest bastards you could meet, they all loved the Smiths, still do and still go see Moz.

You know that none of the people you mentioned were casuals right? Apart from Noel Gallagher. They would all have been typical book-reading, poetry loving nerds. I mentioned Coxon and Damon because they were Smiths fans. I had friends that knew them.

 

[Stephen Hofmann]

That was just you

No........it was a large majority of Smiths fans. You are denying reality.

 

[BurgerButt]

You know that none of the people you mentioned were casuals right? Apart from Noel Gallagher. They would all have been typical book-reading, poetry loving nerds. I mentioned Coxon and Damon because they were Smiths fans. I had friends that knew them.

hahaha of course, Damon was a posh boy, before his family moved, he wasn't a nerd. neither was Tim Burgess, read his book, he was into the Jam and then.... dur dur durrrrrr The Style Council, the Smiths, New Order etc.

The Manics guys were more outsiders, rather than nerds.

The only nerd i'm aware of that liked the Smiths seems to be you. Nerds in my school didn't like the Smiths, the shy types yes, maybe the odd loner, the nerds were into trying to pull down their y-fronts after they'd had another atomic wedgie.