Robbie - I'm sure we would have been in the same boozers in your manor sometime in the early 70's, Yep I remember who I was with that day as well, Clobber - (probably) a pair of Lee jeans with those inserts in the legs to make them flared, green flash plimsoles, a t-shirt or maybe a groovy patterned shirt from the Squire shop, Saturday September 18th 1971, 3 days after getting back from my first 'Lads' holiday in Mallorca where I met my future wife, the rest is history as they say !

"Nothing else needed to be said. It nice when you meet a fellow traveller"

It's like something from a John le Carre novel.

I am currently re-reading Smileys People

Stax- yet again you west London boys were ahead of the curve. I didn't get my Dunlop green flash until 1972/73. I have a great photo of me and my future missus both wearing green flash in about 1975/76.

Robbie, the early 70s sounds about right for me too. I can vividly remember receiving a pair of Green Flash as a birthday present in my early teens and wearing them proudly for a day out to watch cricket at Old Trafford. My heels were red raw and bleeding on my return.

Shooman, interesting article on the Beeb today regarding Australia Day: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-68014555

Yes, a lot of people have fallen for the identity politics. It is very similar to what happened to China during the cultural revolution when the communists wiped out traditional Chinese culture, re-wrote history and re-wrote China in a chinese communist party vibe; but it is not the traditional marxist values being pushed, it is the newly created cultural marxism. They also use the same tactics where public opinion is swayed with propaganda, and any opposing opinion is beaten down by the noisy minority groups. It is working, the culture of Australia is slowly being re-written. More and more laws are being introduced to restrict freedom of speech, and socialism is quickly on the rise. The ultimate aim is to destroy Australian culture and faith in Gods so we become rootless people, and the only guidance we shall receive is from the globalists who will tell us how to think and how we can live. Globalism may seem contradictory to socialism, but globalism is when the rich few dictate terms to the masses, and people in this system become a number, ie, a serf, and all small and medium businesses is destroyed through taxation and environmental restrictions. Also, you can't have citizens standing up for their faith or their values, so the state must destroy that first; only then can a form of globalist socialism thrive, and when everyone gets used to it they then murder the plutocrats (tech billionaires etc) and `useful idiots' (politicians and World Economic Forum leaders) and bring in communism. The rich think they have power, but when it is the right time the communists will come for them and blow their brains out. People don't understand history.

So, who is they? They are the communists, and when the time is right they will rise up and take control. A new leader will be born and be ruthless, and people desperate to please will back him and kill as many as needed to stay in power.

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Shooey - ‘ Flatsix...let me know what you think of this bloke. Do you like him?’

Well there is certainly something in what he has saying. Elon Musk announced yesterday that his corporation has implanted a chip into a person as part of a development program, sketchy on the detail, but very much like something from an old sci-fi movie. I think the last few years have shown us much about how populations can be influenced during times of crisis, how elections can be manipulated through social media etc. There is a weather crisis in the UK most weeks, every time it gets windy or rains a lot … its a ‘storm’.

Anyway, I’m off to pop my white jeans in the wash.

Flatsix said:

"There is a weather crisis in the UK most weeks, every time it gets windy or rains a lot … its a ‘storm’."

Shooey says:

Yes, they try that one here too. Apparently the world is coming to an end, and we are in "global boiling". Every time the wind blows, or is hot or it rains, it is an extreme weather event, and it is said to be a sign of the world coming to an end. So many  disinfo agents around these days imo...everything is a crisis. What are these people up to?

Robbie, boaters are alright, gotta do it when the mood is right.

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