#646

when me and my mum were on the coach back up north and it passed through Moss Side and Hulme, I was pretty startled because growing up in Plymouth (8-15), there were scarcely any non-white people, like anywhere

I’m sure it’s less monocultural now, but I bet the Rainy Fascist Island vibes aren’t so confined to older generations as they are in other cities

#647

i met lady di when i was a kid cause she came to town to visit a hospice and i’m polite so the school asked if i’d give her some flowers but i’m shy too so i said no. i think i just said hi to her in a line instead. it’s on youtube.

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#648

I only know one person who joined the forces from my twenty years in Plymouth*, and tbf he went awol after three weeks and ran off to Belgium with a Wren. Having lived there as well, I’d say Portsmouth is where you need to go for true flagshagging patriotic dipshitery.

*with reference to the earlier post, I did once get called a cunt in the Dolphin though.

#649

i reckon school thought i would remind her of her son too cause i’ve got that sort of look.

also think i was a bit confused between her and madonna

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#650

Weird - it seemed to be literally half my year group at school.

#651

Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont

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#652

Portsmouth is definitely like that, it amazes me that it lets Southsea exist at all because it’s actually pretty rad, but it’s surrounded by this vast teratoma of flag-humping shit (sorry Pompeiians but it’s true and you knows it)

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#653

thinking about it, I’m pretty sure none of my brother’s mates did either. Maybe North-Western Plymouth is some sort of rebel place.

#654

I almost met Prince Phillip, I was catering at London Zoo and he was due to open the new gorilla enclosure, but he had us all leave the premises before he arrived (the caterers, not the gorillas afaik)

(early Human League lyrics needed work, etc)

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#655

My brother in law is a) from Pompey, and b) in the army. We don’t talk about politics.

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#656

and this guy should know!!

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#657

Where was this? I also met her at a hospice (st Gemma’s, Leeds)

#658

this was in cornwall. must have been on tour

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#659

It’s funny because we very nearly moved to Southsea and it is really nice, but I always remember going to the cinema in Portsmouth and on the way in via the M27 you have to drive past the naval dockyards with all the subs just floating about, which is just normal there. Weird place. I played at Victorious Festival (ha! what a name) about eight years ago and it’s just so Pompey for artist registration to be accessed through an MOD facility.

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#660

I hope it happens but I feel doubtful, even in places like America and Australia, indigenous people are being treated like shit, so countries where the colonisers have left seem even less likely to get justice

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#661

I mean, I’d hesitate to use the word “mates” about a lot of the people in mind. Plymstock seemed rife with it though. Thinking about it my brother didn’t seem to know so many so maybe it was just a statistical quirk of my year group. Either way - flags… yuck.

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#662

Fun fact: The bank in Stockholm that was raided, with the hostage stand off that lead to the captor sympathy psychology that coined the term ’Stockholm Syndrome’ is now the ACNE Studios clothing brand flagship store …and was where I bought the suit that I got married in

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#663

Most problematic - Dark Man X or Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark?

#664

Oh I think I saw that show at the Edinburgh fringe a few years ago

Was pretty good

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#665

princess anne came to my school once. didn’t actually see her, think she was only there for about 5 minutes
they had to reserve a special toilet that only she could use that day