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What Are You Drinking? V2. Frosty Jacks - For The Discerning Pisshead

We used to sing that in school along with some other mill working songs!

We were slightly suspect through being 'Irish' in the eighties, but I loved all those auld songs and I still love the Lancashire landscape.
 
Lol that's why I posted it, I've some colleagues from Salford and once a few gargles go down they start singing this. I love it, know it word for word
 
Salford has the cathedral so the lads will always say Salford is a city of its own. They'll never say there from manny lol.
 
Salford is much older. Manchester was basically built for the immigrants to live in, so the shit wind blew toward their houses.

Most of the immigrants were Irish, then Italian, then Flemish. But also a massive Jewish population who basically invented the Labour movement. If you ever go to the city there's a huge part of the museum dedicated to immigrant workers.
 
I'm no stranger to manny, I go there fairly often. We always head out to Ashton to socialise, nobody knows us there so we don't have to keep looking over our shoulders lol
 
Fucking hell, that's my birthplace!

I'll never be a real Mancunian, because nobody will ever forget that I'm a 'Yonner'. Which is derived from 'yonder'. I've lived in Manchester since 1991, but I'm still a Yonner.
 
Yonner? Never heard this term. We usually set up shop in the Fairfield, they like us there! Ashton is going downhill now though, still great craic but pubs and clubs are closing down left right and centre
 
You won't hear Yonner outside of the Manchester city boundaries.

You should have seen Ashton in the eighties. Absolutely busting town with a massive M&S and Woolworths, huge indooor and outdoor markets, pubs full, tea shops full. It was mostly all you needed. Occasionally you'd have to go to Manchester (Town) but that was it. And you could look out to the hills and Hartshead Pike.
 


I'm too young to have been there in the 80s, it was banging in the mid 90s- 2010s.. I met Rowetta from the Mondays there in some club! She was doing a PA and took a moment to say hello and have a brief chat to us, she didn't have to but she did. A lovely woman all round.
 
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Probably wrong thread for this.. but enjoy 🍻
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One of the duo who wrote and sang that track, worked in the same building and same floor as me, for some time.

This is a bit like one of those awful icebreaker things you have to do in a new group at work, "tell us a random fact about yourself", but I never actually said that in that situation.

No one would have even have heard of it probably.
 
Bleaney said:
One of the duo who wrote and sang that track, worked in the same building and same floor as me, for some time.

This is a bit like one of those awful icebreaker things you have to do in a new group at work, "tell us a random fact about yourself", but I never actually said that in that situation.

No one would have even have heard of it probably.
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Brian and Michael?

That was another song we had to learn as kids. One of the only songs we were allowed to sing in a local voice rather than a more 'refined' accent.
 
Yeah. Although unfortunately I'm not sure whether it was Brian or Michael who worked there tbh :\

When that bit of gossip went round, I never thought of asking that question.

Easy access to the Wikipedia entries on everyone wasn't a thing back then.

I remembered the song from when they were on TOTP as the number one single in 1978.
 
Yeah, my sister was interested in Lowry and wanted to go to see his exhibition at The Lowry Centre in Salford Quays when she visited me. So we went, and the guide went into a lot of detail about Lowry, remarking about many things, including that apparently he was "a pervert."

The only evidence I've found for that is a few sketches of his that I've seen featuring women in kinky / fetishistic type outfits. As per the link you posted. I've not read the article yet, but I will do.

Doesn't seem anything too outrageous to me tbh from what I've seen.....Dunno if we live in a nation of prudes, or if my boundaries are a bit more 'liberal' than the norm :\

People should check out the Deviant Art website before they judge Lowry, imho.

His sketches would definitely have fitted in very well on there.

I also watched the movie about him. It was pretty good, in a slow kind of way.. The guy was a bit weird I guess, living with his mother for her entire life, and according to the film, he used to enjoy being followed by the local children so he could occasionally throw some pocket change their way. But there were no suggestions that there were any sinister motives behind that, as there probably would be these days. Where such behaviour would probably be frowned upon to say the least. It's a shame that innocent fun, is no longer allowed just to be that.
 
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Bleaney said:
Yeah, my sister was interested in Lowry and wanted to go to see his exhibition at The Lowry Centre in Salford Quays when she visited me. So we went, and the guide went into a lot of detail about Lowry, remarking about many things, including that apparently he was "a pervert."

The only evidence I've found for that is a few sketches of his that I've seen featuring women in kinky / fetishistic type outfits. As per the link you posted. I've not read the article yet, but I will do.

Doesn't seem anything too outrageous to me tbh from what I've seen.....Dunno if we live in a nation of prudes, or if my boundaries are a bit more 'liberal' than the norm :\

People should check out the Deviant Art website before they judge Lowry, imho.

His sketches would definitely have fitted in very well on there.

I also watched the movie about him. It was pretty good, in a slow kind of way.. The guy was a bit weird I guess, living with his mother for her entire life, and according to the film, he used to enjoy being followed by the local children so he could occasionally throw some pocket change their way. But there were no suggestions that there were any sinister motives behind that, as there probably would be these days. Where such behaviour would probably be frowned upon to say the least. It's a shame that innocent fun, is no longer allowed just to be that.
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I think sometimes people view things from a different time through the lens of now, forgetting that it was mostly the 'normal' people committing the actual crimes, rather than your average 'weirdo'.
 
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