10.4.11: THE BIG CU VOTE
Like Ireland voting on Europe, CifUnderground is asking you to return to the polls once more and deliver a fresh verdict on the fate of the recommend system. Having lived with it for a few days is the jumpiness and slow loading a price worth paying for thrill that comes from seeing your very own post recommended?
As always we ask you to vote in the style of the Roman emperors. A thumbs up to save the recommends, a thumbs down to consign them to history.
cifunderground 
You asked, you got.
Well I fucked that didn’t I. What about an edit function KT, eh? I mean, for fucks sake, 4 days and not even an edit function. What with the way you’re treating, us I’m already thinking of creating a breakway site
Moomin: always good to see someone broadening the hate.
LGF
Quite nice that. That’s minimalist is it?
Don’t know why it didn’t embed.
Sorry Spike. My Soho was the nineties not the seventies. Actually I lived very near in the late seventies, in Bloomsbury in a big squat. But most of my time in Soho then was spent buying veg in Berwick Street Market for the cafe we had in the squat, and I would not have gone to an all night cafe as I lived virtually round the corner.
Oh and comic shops. Dark They Were and Golden Eyed was in Soho.
This is interesting. I am uncovering another layer of memories as I type.
And the Marquee! I can remember going to the Marquee but have not a clue who or what I saw there.
Old age is catching up.
There’s plenty more where that came from… Unfortunately.
Rachmaninov, Piano Concerto no2, first movement. Been on Radio3 a lot lately, but what the hell, I can always use another hearing.
S’okay Moomin
I’m still working my way through All Hail Fencewalker’s Summertime offerings.
People, I’m off now, new job in the morning, early start, that sort of thing.
Been a good, lazy day, amongst good company.
I said earlier I was up for playing this and, whilst it’s going to stick out like a sore thumb among the current rash of favourites, this is by me for me – other discerning ears welcome.
And a resounding fuck you to whoever is responsible for removing the Beat Club performance from YouTube.
Bye bye everybody. Bye bye.
Jimmee
See those three words underneath each post? Read from left to right.Third one is Edit?
Guess what you can do if you click on that?
mbc I am guessing that only moderators get the third option. The rest of us just get permalink and reply.
Rotten YouTube. Cut it off, just as it was getting to the good bit.
Ooops MBC,
They don’t see that! NN.
Moomin
That was jiggly. I really am not a music snob except for what I said earlier.
lady fuckwit-saddbastard
Charming! Is this how you think that people on this thead should react to dissenting voices, fencewalkerer? if you don’t delete them, of course. You really are a sad, angry, boring nonentity.
Good luck with the blog, KT, but I’d be a bit wary about some of the control-freak mentalists you seem to have attracted.
mbc:
I don’t get ‘edit’. Just Permalink and Reply. Perhaps Jimee doesn’t either.
Sleepy, thanks for the numbers – quite impressive for a new site.
Jiggly?!
Don’t make me Barbara Streisand your arse…
If anyone wants anything editing just shout “chow” and make it clear what you’d like me to do. If I’m available I’ll assist.
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Gig
Yeah, not bad, 8 out of 10 I’d say.
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lagrande,
that’s ace!
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Moomin
I’m gonna watch it if it kills me.
‘My new realm is not yet twelve hours old, and already an Evil has entered into it.’
– Aslan in The Magician’s Nephew
Nice try Moomin but you’re gonna have to do a lot worse than that!
Okay, my bad, I apologise, I rather assumed everyone got that function. One de-recommend to me and an extra apology to Jimmee.
Lady Persephone
Nobody’s been deleted. Nobody wants to delete anything. Nobody’s going to do that unless there’s an extreme case. It’s been said several times over but you’d rather sound off in ‘fury’ like a tabloid front page than bother with facts.
As for fencewalkerer, argue it out with him. I’m off to bed.
Good luck tomorrow MBC.
Tell us how it went.
lagrandeflaneuse
But there was a lot less hopelessness and a few more opportunities around then.
I wasn’t around but then so i wouldn’t know.But from what i understand peoples expectations were different then.Maybe for people coming out of WW2 and the post war period of austerity they were more accepting especially as many of them for the first time were getting access to things that nowadays we take for granted.After all the welfare state and nhs for instance were still relatively new.Neverthelss many working class communities were still blighted by slum housing and extremely poor working conditions .And the greater opportunities you mentioned were limited to relatively few people.For most people in the 50’s were still expected to know there place and for working class people in particular life was often a daily grind.So i don’t think there was necessarily less hopelessness and more opportunity then certainly as far as most working class people were concerned.
Bang
Bang
And Bang
“Charming! Is this how you think that people on this thead should react to dissenting voices, fencewalkerer? if you don’t delete them, of course. You really are a sad, angry, boring nonentity.”
Dissent? You were just being a dickless little troll; that’s what counts as ‘sad, boring nonentity’ in most people’s book. Don’t try and dress it up as something grander. Now tell us to get back to work, and then fuck off.
I’m gonna do it Moomin. I’m gonna.
Sleeps
If you mean by that that you’re gonna edit out St Winifreds, do it!
Switching off now.
If you can listen to the whole of St Winifreds school choir… I mean… I can’t offer you any prizes here….
I don’t know Paul. There was certainly a lot more repression. If you did not happen to fit into your section of society the fifties must have been not much fun.
Certainly my dad felt very constrained by the expectations of the class and place he was born into and fought very hard to escape. But I was too young in the fifties to remember much about them.
But in the sixties and early seventies there was definitely more feeling of possibility. If anything probably too much. At least for feckless types like me. I really thought I could do whatever I wanted and that freed me from any feeling that I had to try very hard. Which was quite different to my dad’s experience.
But not trying very hard meant I didn’t finish my degree and fucked about for those years that driven people build a career.
Anyway, we don’t get to choose our era’s, do we? So we can indulge in a bit of nostalgia or whatiffery, I reckon. It doesn’t make a jot of difference.
Tybo,
Interesting. I’ll take up 50’s and 60’s London with you another time.
Night all.
I’m off too. Back to work tommorrow. Night folks.
Okay Moomin,
The first 2 were fine but I’ve seen the 3rd so many times and hands up, didn’t go there.
Sally Lindsay who played a barmaid in Coronation St was in the choir, she was then the voice of “Piella Bakewell, former star of the Bake-O-Lite bread commercials”.
How’s about this as a reposte?
@KillingTime Please vote here.
Okay. ‘x’.
BTW Kevin Ayers stole my shirt.
Amon Duul II. Good grief, that’s a name I haven’t heard in more than thirty-five years.
Vandals!
Good god Sleepy….
This is one of those games where no one wins isn’t it?!
Here, rinse your ears out with something pretty…
They’re better than I remembered, unless that wasn’t very representative of their stuff.
Yep Moomin,
No-one’s gonna win but it’s bin bin bin bin bin fun trying.
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Today is officially our most hits day! Woohooo!
I hope new folks comment and not just lurk. Not that there’s anything wrong with lurking but I’d like to hear from others. Does anyone ever see bornblue? He was like a really eager teeny footy fan (came from the sports pages, (Sharky? MyHero?)) with a good sense of humour and friendly. I’d like to see my first friend on CiF StanleyBalds too.
lagrandeflaneuse
I had their live in London album. Must have been around 1976. No. Change that. 1973. I just googled it. It does seem like a very long time ago.
Here’s one from the greatest progressive band Argentina has ever produced.
Amon Duul II, that is. Not Mishima (about who I know little and care less), and certainly not Clive bloody Dunn.
Say what you like about Klingons, they’re direct.
“Clive bloody Dunn.”
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How can you be so disparaging to the guy who gave us the catchphrase “they don’t like it up ’em” and “don’t panic”?
“Say what you like about Klingons, they’re direct.”
and they don’t try to assimilate.
x
It’s Philip Glass actually…
mbc, no need to apologise, I just hope you didn’t think I was really having a go at kt for not having an edit function..
Anyway, the cassini programme was brilliant. Compared to NASA you’ve got to feel sorry for the british scientists – totally underfunded. Even the fax machines didn’t work.
Moomin
Dare I? After your ear-cleanser worked so well?
Yes I dare.
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Nice one jimmee!
Clive Dunn acting – comic genius
Clive Dunn on record – cringe.
The best prog rock band in Argentina – isn’t that a bit like being the best vegetarian restaurant in Argentina? i.e. not necessarily very good, but there again, not much competition.
He looks like he’s had a particularly good glass of tlhIngan Hol with his qagh there, and someone’s told him the joke about Kahless and the veqlargh (I won’t spoil it, but it turns out his house was a petaQ and they were all killed, lawks). Happy days.