Are there many brits on able2know?

This used to be a nice site. Why did the Brits have to come along and spoil the party?

I can tolerate the Aussies, to a certain degree, but the Brits and their obsession with the queen gets to be a bit tiring.

I DON'T GIVE A RAT'S ASS ABOUT THE QUEEN!!!!

There. I've said it.

YEAH!!!





uh.. what were we saying again?

gus wrote



join the club

x

I speak mainly of Lord Ellpus, Dorothy, and the way he thinks the queen's royal scat has the odor of roses.

Does he??? Oh dear Lordy.

Ellpus wrote:



Get ready to have your head kicked in!

I've told you before about having a go at the Mancs...

I AM BRITISH! Just in case anybody on here didn't know. And another thing... I don't consider ANYONE from London to be PROPER British!

To qualify, you have to come from Manchester or Liverpool.

And we have the BEST music in the North West, without even name checking The Beatles (oh, and The BeeGees)

Manchester Music Alphabetical Listing:

Adamson, Stuart (Big Country)
Allcock, Martin (or Maartin)
Annie Haslam
Badly Drawn Boy (Damon Gough)
Barlow, Gary (Take That)
Barclay James Harvest
Big Country
Big Flame
Blue Orchids
Buzzcocks
Chairmen of the Bored
Chameleons
Charlatans, The
Coleman, Mick
Cooper Clarke, John
Crispy Ambulance
Dakotas, The
Damon Gough (Badly Drawn Boy)
Davy Jones (The Monkees)
Delmonte, The Man From
Denver, Karl
Distractions
Don Estelle
Drones
Dub Sex
Durutti Column
Easterhouse
808 State
Electronic
Elkie Brooks
Ewan MacColl
Factory Records
Fall, The
Fame, Georgie
Fields, Gracie
Formby, George
Foxx, John (Ultravox)
Freddie & the Dreamers
Gerrard, Ben
Graham Nash
Gray, David
Gretton, Rob
Haçienda Club, The
Happy Mondays, The
Harper, Roy
Hermans Hermits
High
Hollies, The
Inspiral Carpets
James
John Peel
Josef Locke
Joy Division
Kym Marsh
Lynott, Phil (Thin Lizzy)
Ludus
Magazine
Magic Lanterns, The
Matchstalk Men, The
Mayall, John
Mike & the Mechanics
Mindbenders, The
Morrissey
New Order
Northside
Oasis
Parrott, Kevin
Peter Noone
Purple Gang, The
Renaissance
Rick Astley
Sad Café
Shayne Ward
Silent Partners
Simon Webbe
Simply Red
Smiths, The
Stansfield, Lisa
St Louis Union
Stone Roses
Suzanne Shaw
Take That / Robbie Williams
Thin Lizzie (Phil Lynott)
Tractor
10cc
Ultravox
Wayne Fontana & the Mindbenders
Wilson, Anthony
Young, Paul


About Manchester Music
Manchester and the surrounding districts and townships have produced many popular and world famous bands, musicians and singers of popular music throughout the 20th and well into the 21st Century.

Since the earliest days of music recording, such celebrities as George Formby and Gracie Fields entertained radio and cinema audiences with their songs which were designed specifically for light entertainment audiences.

Though their music was somewhat naive by contemporary standards, their comedic musical talents and catchy lyrics inspired a whole generation.

In the post-war era, and with the importation of Rock & Roll music from America, Manchester has produced its fair share of rock music groups - amongst them Barclay James Harvest, 10CC, Herman's Hermits, The Hollies, and Freddie & The Dreamers.

By the mid-1970s, at the height of the Punk Revolution, and later in the post-Punk era of the 1980s, much of popular youth music culture was inspired by the young bands and groups which came from Manchester.

This so-called "Madchester" music was different from what had gone before. It was direct, raw, and streetwise. It spoke of familiar, everyday, and often banal themes, which reflected the modes of ordinary urban existence.

Most of this "post-punk" music was considered subversive and brutal, and (initially at least) tended to be rejected by the major recording companies and broadcasting authorities.

This music thrived in the alternative clubland (Boardwalk, Haçienda, etc) of Manchester, could only get published by smaller independent record labels, and was therefore more in the hands of its creators than its marketers.

The List above represents the major music to come out of Manchester and its surrounding boroughs.


Love from smorgs

x

How can anyone from London not be proper british?

And I dont think Sean Ryder is anything to be proud of.

Don't antagonise her, MG.....she's pedalling as fast as she can as it is!

That poor generator must be busting a gut....

Gus wrote:



When are you Americans going to learn how to spell properly?

Only The Royals think their **** don't stink.

x

Ive no idea what that meant.

If I shouldnt antagonise people then I dont expect to be prevoked.

Prevoked? Is that one stage before being provoked?

Are you prevoking me!!!!!???

Do you want to be prevoked?

Is that ollowed?

Its not a kwestchon ov bing ollowed or not.Just, r U?

People, people......

<Ellpus adopts an air of British superiority>

What are we doing here?

Are we all not from the same sceptred Isle? Are we all not of the same blood that once allowed those Americans to join in, right at the end of WW2, and then let them take all the credit?

Let's all make a pact, here and now, to bury any hatchets that the Northern tribes may have with those that are slightly more civilised in the South, and forge a strong alliance, to overrun A2K, and bring order to this little part of cyberspace.

Deal?

Deal?

Right after Im told why people from London arnt British?
And im not from London so dont know why Im getting rattled.

I suppose what has annoyed me in the past is my northern friends slagging off the south, and yet they are the ones that moved down here!!!
If they dont like it they can waddle off back up north!!And take their deep fried mars bars with them!

matgirl wrote:



HOW VERY DARE YOU!!!!

Ah, the beautiful South... where everyone of any merit lives...ah, the historical buildings, the expence of the place, the unfriendly people, the lack of humour, the lack of decent chippies, where the majority of government funding for the Arts goes, where you can't get a decent meal...

Everyone knows - The North IS WHERE IT'S AT!

And you can stick your Nobu's and your Ivy's - we have got Harry Ramsdens, black pudding, Eccles cakes, proper curry, proper Chinese...

I have had a deep fried mars bar (once for a bet) I found it quite palatable...

Never had eel pie and mash though...euwwwwwwwww!

<Ellpus goes and gets the jello, and starts erecting the wrestling ring>

Jello?!!!!

The yank-pandering bastard!

Ahem... just this:

Tom Kilburn and Freddie Williams invented the Williams-Kilburn Tube and the first modern electronic computer in the world, the Manchester Mark 1.

I totally agree with the Nobu and the Ivy statement, and i dont think Id ever dream of having jellied eels!!

WE'Ve got a lack or humour!
I love Stan Boardman, he's great, altogether now ...Geeeermens.
Wasnt it Billy Connolly who said the terrorists that were holding that 60 year old guy hostage last year to 'I wish they'd just get on with it' re cutting his head off!

We have Ricky Gervais and thingy Merchant, who have probably the highest record of selling their comedy DVD's etc.