"I'm like a skittle. If I get knocked down I get back up again."

saps · 2016-09-15T10:59:18.304Z

Shakin' Stevens: 'I'm like a skittle. If I get knocked down I get back up again'

Back with a dark, socially consious album, the 80s chart-topper recalls family histories, bust-ups with TV presenters and why he had to freeze his own body

What nonsense have you said/heard recently?

colon_closed_bracket · 2016-09-15T11:00:46.911Z

That’s more like Chumbawamba

ttf · 2016-09-15T11:01:57.010Z

That’s more a weeble

saps · 2016-09-15T11:02:20.970Z

exactly!

chadders · 2016-09-15T11:02:34.839Z

…through mechanical assistance

crisps · 2016-09-15T11:03:37.700Z

Maybe his house has got a big metal claw that comes down from the ceiling and pops him up the right way again.

anon29812515 · 2016-09-15T11:04:12.847Z

I’ve never seen him attack Madeley before.

saps · 2016-09-15T11:06:40.114Z

He’s a popstar. I wouldn’t put it past him.

AQOS · 2016-09-15T11:06:56.949Z

You ain’t never gonna keep me down! (because an automated mechanism will pick me back up)

licky_kicky · 2016-09-15T11:07:34.929Z

You’re thinking of pins, as it ten pin bowling. Skittles are usually picked up by a person and placed back in position (although I’m sure someone will point out that there are mechanical skittle alleys). God I bore myself sometimes.

crisps · 2016-09-15T11:08:34.077Z

I’d put nothing past Stevens, if you know what I mean.

saps · 2016-09-15T11:08:38.899Z

I’m with you here, l_k. Well done for pointing out what most of us were thinking but didn’t dare say.

foppyish · 2016-09-15T11:16:44.402Z

in a meeting: “yes, but you can’t get the bottom floor without getting the top floor on board too”

That’s hardly the worst case of something you hear in meetings and I know this is well moker saying this, but honestly anytime I hear something like that, I can’t believe I’m in hearing it, it really gets me down.

grievoustim · 2016-09-15T11:27:24.504Z

crisps:

Maybe his house has got a big metal claw that comes down from the ceiling and pops him up the right way again.

I don’t know, his house is pretty old

colon_closed_bracket · 2016-09-15T11:35:41.137Z

I guess he should be called Unshaken Stevens

breakfast_t_england · 2016-09-15T11:36:45.332Z

i’ve found these sorts of phrases have been seeping into my vocabulary due to constant exposure. i end up saying them and instantly think less of myself. really not good.