It's Official

I could if you send it to me. I can't open it remotely.

 

sweller says...

It could have been taken 50 years earlier.

 

sweller wrote:

YGM

 

Done. Thanks.

 

Opened it now. Still shit though innit?

 

Oh. Maybe I should redouble my efforts to find the originals.

 

This is it:
http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/438928/index.html

If I can find the DVD I have of it (I think I lent it to a friend) I'll
see if I can make a copy of it for you.

 

Oh no I haven't!

 

Champ says...

Just to clarify things - I didn't mean that Sweller looked old now or in
some way out-dated in the pic, it's just the ambience portrayed by the
photo gives it that 'old' feel.

 

Champ says...

19 years ago you were probably trying to find a new pair of blue and red
Frank Thomas paddock boots, and Sweller was off to get his hobnail boots
reheeled.....or was that last week?

 

Mick's still got his beard; the fucking hippy.
http://www.sweller.dynalias.org/images/mgr-050823.jpg

....and a boat now he's retired.

 

I've had DM shoes (and very nice they were too but didn't last as long
as my shoes usually do) but like you, never the DM boots. For similar
reasons.

Indeed.

I did (however) used to have a pair of proper hobnail boots. And for
the life of me I can't remember why..

Phil

 

re sent to

swelleratmztechdotfsnetdotcodotuk

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Champ says...

You're *that* type. I remember buying a blue and red Yamaha paddock
jacket at the Ally Pally show and thinking it looked really cool.

I wouldn't have thought he was allowed in the cab of a steam loco
wearing something as modern as DMs.

DMs, jeans and a Harrington or black MA-1 jacket was 2-stroke hooligan
uniform when I was a lad. When I bought my first 4-stroke I bought a
leather jacket, it kind of said I'd grown up.

 

I've never been really known for long hair. However I dealt with the
skin stigma by assimilating it; which is one way of saying "it bothered
others more than it bothered me".

I still wear Docs with my suits but I'm quite heavy on footwear and can
destroy a pair in less than six months, even when they were made in
Northampton.

I had a pair once but skittered about in them as they're not very good on
wet, oily steel or stone. Having said that the rubber soled RAF flying
boots I used to wear were fucking lethal on oily metal.

 

Phil Launchbury says...

My mum bought me a pair of hobnail boots from an army surplus store to
wear to school, because I used to destroy shoes in very short order
riding motorbikes across the fields in my lunch hour. When I wore them
to scouts the leaders kicked me out because they wrecked the newly laid
highly polished floor of the scout hut. I joined the army cadets
instead.

 

<snip>

Let not forget that fuel over here is more realistically priced, given the
environmental cost of it, discouraging over-consumption and encouraging
smaller/more efficient engines.

Some quick bag of a cigarette packet calcs shows that the US equivalent
price of what we pay for our fuel would be something in the region of
$7.75/gallon. It's currently around $2.50, having brushed $3 a little while
back.

When I saw Rory Bremner on tour last year he had an American guy with him
talking about how his friends back home were complaining that petrol had got
to $2.50 a gallon. He told them, "I have friends in England that would kick
a nun to death for $2.50 a gallon"

 

The sparks and the clackety-clack as you walk through the pedestrian
precinct.

 

And the ability to do impressive slides in the local shopping
centre[1].

Phil.

[1] Well - I was 14 at the time..

 

You a bit light on yer loafers, then? ;-)