Now I Never Knew That

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

That Magyar (as in Hungarians and as on their stamps - at least back when I collected as a lad) isn’t pronounced Mag-yar but Maw-dyar

Now after all these years of me thinking or saying The Magnificent Mag-yars … I now know.

Aside…I suspect that John Motson thought and said as I, but would have insisted that his pronunciation was how he had always said it and so how it would stay…because that was the ‘Mottie way’..(see also Ajax)

 

[IanM]

The video for Robbie Williams "Angels" was shot on Saunton Beach.

Wonder if he nipped in for a game? Mind you, don't think he was a golfer back then.

 

[Sid Rixon IV]

The video for Robbie Williams "Angels" was shot on Saunton Beach.

Wonder if he nipped in for a game? Mind you, don't think he was a golfer beck then.

Why are you talking posh?

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Why are you talking posh?

Edinburgh Morningside [Jean Brodie].. where they put their rubbish into in Blek Sex

 

[Sid Rixon IV]

Edinburgh Morningside [Jean Brodie].. where they put their rubbish into in Blek Sex

Ooh! Blek Sex!
Tell me more!

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Ooh! Blek Sex!
Tell me more!

In Morningside…or Kelvinside for that matter…sex is what you get your coal in.

(Well that was how it was way back then…)

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

The UK national nuclear strike warning system was active until 1992 - I thought it had been discontinued much earlier. I recall hearing the klaxon by Whitecraigs station on Glasgow southside being tested through the 60s and 70s - don't recall hearing later tests…at the time it was a rather scary sound.

I wonder what of the last few weeks has made me reflect on that

 

[Lucifer MorningStar]

The UK national nuclear strike warning system was active until 1992 - I thought it had been discontinued much earlier. I recall hearing the klaxon by Whitecraigs station on Glasgow southside being tested through the 60s and 70s - don't recall hearing later tests…at the time it was a rather scary sound.

I wonder what of the last few weeks has made me reflect on that

I mean without being a pessimist. No much point wondering what someone would think of it. Time you actually heard a nuclear warning sign you’d already be dead! Or if you weren’t probably be wishing you were due to the fall out and excruciating pain that would lead to inevitable death anyway.

With my previous role we were CBRN specialists, from my experience trust me if that ever happened I’d rather be gone in the first wave.