Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted March 20, 2020 Moderators Share Posted March 20, 2020 Cool your jets, it's not your post being nominated.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted March 20, 2020 Share Posted March 20, 2020 (edited) What’s happened there then? I just see a link to that thread hence my confusion. And I got a notification as well. Edited March 20, 2020 by Loki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted March 20, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted March 20, 2020 Click on the arrow in top right and it takes you to the post in question. It says at the top who the post is from too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Ronnie Posted March 21, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted March 21, 2020 8 hours ago, Loki said: And I got a notification as well. A notification saying "X linked to a post in a thread you started" or something like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted March 21, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted March 21, 2020 I could pick all of @Chris B's posts from the latest shitting thread, really, absolutely outstanding work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted March 21, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted March 21, 2020 This one especially got me; 1 hour ago, Chris B said: I sometimes think this forum is an interesting, smart place, and then I realise we're literally spending years toilet-training one member. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Undefeated Steak Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 5 minutes ago, Lion_of_the_Midlands said: 20200321_125601.mp4Unavailable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted March 22, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted March 22, 2020 I fucking love this. HG is a good man, a great man. 11 hours ago, HarmonicGenerator said: You can skip the below post if you don’t want the full long history of Chevy Chase. But if you do, read on... Chevy Chase isn’t a place as such - ‘Chevy’ refers to the Cheviot hills, which are a gorgeous piece of Northumberland countryside and cross over the border a bit (or at least they used to) - and the ‘chase’ is the hunt. The ballad, which probably goes back to the 15th century, is a fictionalised version of the Battle Of Otterburn between Lord Percy (Warden of the Eastern March - whose job it was to secure that part of the border) and Lord Douglas (chief Scottish rivals of the Percys). In the ballad, Percy goes out for a nice hunt in the Cheviots - a Chevy Chase in fact - but crosses into Douglas territory. Douglas finds out, gathers an army, Percy won’t leave, so they have a big old battle and both the lords get killed. Their respective communities mourn all the dead of the battle, and the song ends with the moral of “if noblemen stopped fighting about stupid things like hunting a lot more of us folk would still be alive”. (In the real battle, Douglas had invaded England, conquered Newcastle and defeated Harry ‘Hotspur’ Percy - the Tottenham football team is named after him - in single combat. He fled west, Hotspur in pursuit, they fought under a full moon, Douglas was killed but the Scots won the battle.) Anyway... The ballad became very popular for a long time on the borders, and dipped in and out of cultural favour more widely. Elizabethan/Jacobean writers Spenser and Jonson were both fans. It also has the line “under the greenwood tree” which Shakespeare uses in (I think) As You Like It, I can’t prove it but I wonder if Shakespeare knew the ballad. It’s endured mainly because it was published in Thomas ‘no relation but I did work for them’ Percy’s “Reliques of Ancient English Poetry” in the 1700s which in turn influenced the likes of Wordsworth and Coleridge. It’s been played as a standard on the Northumbrian pipes ever since. The comedian comes into it because his grandma supposedly claimed descent from the Douglases. She knew the ballad, she used to sing it when he was little, and when he needed a stage name... there it was. I didn’t know about the town in Maryland, but I wonder whether it had Scottish settlers who knew the song, or people from the Borders who thought the surrounding landscape looked a bit Cheviot-y. The end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted March 29, 2020 Moderators Share Posted March 29, 2020 This is an amazing effort and deserves everyone's time to listen. Good job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 (edited) 3 hours ago, King Coconut said: This could've gone in many threads but this it where it lives. 'Kinell. Ginger Welsh on fine form. Edited March 29, 2020 by Keith Houchen Wot Chest Sed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator HarmonicGenerator Posted March 29, 2020 Awards Moderator Share Posted March 29, 2020 It’s beautiful. Seconded Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Astro Hollywood Posted March 29, 2020 Moderators Share Posted March 29, 2020 The finest thing ever posted on this place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Lion_of_the_Midlands Posted March 29, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted March 29, 2020 Absolutely magical. Should be the official song of this place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted March 29, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted March 29, 2020 Multiple cameras as well. He put more into that then a lot of BritWres feds do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted March 29, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted March 29, 2020 *Looks at the camera* ”BIT OF KWESH...” Lost it there. Brilliant. Imagine none UKFFers stumbling upon that masterpiece? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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