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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote lassassinblanc Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22 Jan 2019 at 3:38pm
Originally posted by Bob Hoskins Bob Hoskins wrote:

Originally posted by Trap junior Trap junior wrote:

Why does Irish Rail have an ad with a song with the lyrics ''I'm a big boy now''? The ad is about a woman  reminiscing about her childhood by pushing her go cart train down the hill and then it cuts to her on a train in Ireland all giddy like a kid again.

This is the what I learend today thread.

Not the Tj boob musings of the day thread 


There should be a random musings thread (not just for TJ but for everyone)
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Originally posted by Bob Hoskins Bob Hoskins wrote:

Originally posted by Trap junior Trap junior wrote:

Why does Irish Rail have an ad with a song with the lyrics ''I'm a big boy now''? The ad is about a woman  reminiscing about her childhood by pushing her go cart train down the hill and then it cuts to her on a train in Ireland all giddy like a kid again.

This is the what I learend today thread.

Not the Tj boob musings of the day thread 


Well I want to learn what's going on with that ad.  I'm very curious.
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The comedian Steve Coogan is the brother of the lead singer of The Mock Turtles - Martin Coogan (well known song “Can you dig it?”).
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What the word frit means.

Dennis Skinner used it to describe Theresa May in a speech in the house of commons a couple of months ago.I meant to look it up then but forgot.Journalist Kevin Maguire used it on the sky paper reviews tonight. 

It's Lincolnshire slang for frightened or scared. Skinner used it as the punchline to his speech in the commons and not many seemed to know what it meant as he didn't seem to get his normal reaction.The only other high profile use of it was Maggie Thatcher (a Lincolnshire woman) calling Denis Healey frit in the 1980's.
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The lids of disposable drink cups double as coasters to protect wood.
 
 
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Now that's a fine learning there Brendy Clap
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Jim Crawford was born in Chicago.
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To slow down in the rain on the M50Ermm
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To slow down in the rain on the M50Ermm
 
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Maroon 5 are American always thought they were English
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Originally posted by lassassinblanc lassassinblanc wrote:

Maroon 5 are American always thought they were English

Really?
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But they look and sound so American! Not exactly The Bravery or Interpol!
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Tbh I've never really heard them speak and the lead singer comes across as one of those pricks whod sing in an American accent despite being English

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That's more of an Irish thing, isn't it? I can't think of too many English singers that blatantly do it. Teenage Fanclub, definitely, but Scottish. They are class too, so forgiven!
Maybe I just find it less noticeable with the English accent.

We have had loads, all sh*te too!
U2
Kodaline
The Thrills
The Script
Snow Patrol(are they Irish or Scottish, because they can have them!)
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Originally posted by pre Madonna pre Madonna wrote:

That's more of an Irish thing, isn't it? I can't think of too many English singers that blatantly do it. Teenage Fanclub, definitely, but Scottish. They are class too, so forgiven!
Maybe I just find it less noticeable with the English accent.

We have had loads, all sh*te too!
U2
Kodaline
The Thrills
The Script
Snow Patrol(are they Irish or Scottish, because they can have them!)


Snow Patrol are Northern Oirish

I will say whilst I agree with all of these U2 have had some cracking songs
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Originally posted by lassassinblanc lassassinblanc wrote:

Originally posted by pre Madonna pre Madonna wrote:

That's more of an Irish thing, isn't it? I can't think of too many English singers that blatantly do it. Teenage Fanclub, definitely, but Scottish. They are class too, so forgiven!
Maybe I just find it less noticeable with the English accent.

We have had loads, all sh*te too!
U2
Kodaline
The Thrills
The Script
Snow Patrol(are they Irish or Scottish, because they can have them!)


Snow Patrol are Northern Oirish

I will say whilst I agree with all of these U2 have had some cracking songs
So they are Irish then? I have no time for them, but The Reindeer Section are great.
 
As for U2, very true, but none of them since 1987, when they realised they could pump out any old sh*te and people would buy it. 


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Neil Young is married to Daryl Hannah. Shocked
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Yeah, he started going out with her after his divorce a couple of years ago. At the time, the news caused quite a splash.
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