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After browsing the latest Boo Poll on protest music I've decided to ask what's everyone's favourite examples of this type of music? Any less "obvious" examples? off the top of my head... Shipbuilding - Elvis Costello Ohio - CSN&Y For What it's worth - Buffalo Springfield (Public Enemy's "update" a couple of years back - "He got game" was also pretty good) Killing in the name of - RATM This land is your land - Woody Guthrie Masters of War - Bob Dylan Ball of confusion (That's what the world is today) - The Temptations Fear of a black planet - Public Enemy

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"BARUMP-PUMP TISH! Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week. While you're here try our excellent sea food menu. Anyway, I love my wife - I take her everywhere ...but she still finds her way home. My wife said she wanted to go somewhere different for her holidays ...I said how about the kitchen. My wife is a bad cook, but not as bad as her mother - I wouldn't say her stew was bad but every time she makes it the local pygmy tribe come round to dip their spears in. Honestly though, my mother in law is a very special lady, she looks like a fairytale ...Grimm!" Everyone's a comedian

In a not unrelated question - why the hell does Aberdeen have white Fire engines rather than the more traditional red?

Not heard that one before but if its true then perhaps Rod, Jane and Freddy ended up getting their twangers out and starring in some of John Leslie's "adult" films 8) FWIW I know that Geoffrey ended up as a manager for B&Q

Just recieved this link from a friend which shows an episode of classic children's tv prog "Rainbow" that I don't ever recall seeing. o_O http://www.kontraband.com/show/show.asp?sf=y&id=1159 What the hell were they all smoking that day?

Looks like it. Only some are more shite than others.8)

Hoobastank Hootie and the Blowfish Live The Dave Mathews Band ...and you will know us by the trail of our dead ...or whatever the fuck they're called !!! (surely one of the wankiest names ever) The Beatles Alice in Chains The Farm M-People Girls Aloud Crispy ambulance The Pet Shop Boys

Joined March 2004 as I was looking around for some like minded people to start a band with. Being A) an old fart and B) a recent import into Aberdeen (and therefore not really up on "the scene") it seemed like a good place to start. So far have managed to find a fellow guitarist and a singer through this site ...and discovered that I know more than a few of the people lurking behind the avatars!

Cheers for the tip! Claimed! Matt - that sucks that you paid 15 but you should know by now that if you wait long enough stuff like this always tumbles in price.

1. Radiohead at the AEC 2. Gomez at the Forum 3. Electric 6 at the Music Hall

http://www.nationallampoon.com/nl/08_features/deadparents/deadparents.asp My fave was the Sant Claus one - "and then it got a lot like Clockwork Orange" A tad sick but also funny... http://www.nationallampoon.com/nl/08_features/dickinjane/dickinjane.asp http://www.nationallampoon.com/nl/08_features/hear/things.asp Yes, I have too much time on my hands:up:

"Tribute" albums lick balls. FACT. I've got nothing against a good cover version but invariably whenever some bright spark at a record company decides it will be great to get a bunch of bands together and do a whole album the reslults are pretty rank. Think I'll stick to the original.

I think ideas like this one have been kicking around for a long time - seem to remember something similar in Robert Henlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" which was published in 1966.

Might be ace ...might be total pish. Does seem to be a little late in ariving - the time when the Simpsons was the apotheosis of global entertainment has long passed... but even saying that, on a good day it is still head and shoulders above a lot of the other dross out there. Perhaps the movie would be as good a place as any to bring the whole thing to a slam-bang climax and go out on a high note rather than dribble on for another few years with further diminishing returns.

Yeah, if you want to put it like that. The answer is still yes though. The entire curriculum is skewed towards the English speaking, white British experience. While this is understandable up to a point - we do after all live in a country that is predominantly white and British. However, this does completey disadvantage anyone who falls outside that definition. While I would love to provide multicultural resources for all pupils its not really practical (I'm not equipped to do multi-lingual teaching) so some pupils will always miss out.

Straight answer from someone who knows - yes there is a cultural bias. So called "good schools" will have better staff retention rates (i.e. less teachers off on stress leave or quitting 'cos they can't stand it any more) less disruption caused by pupils from socially disadvantaged backgrounds, better resources and so forth. They have supportive parents who generally spend money on private tutors rather than smack which can't hurt. This divide is reinforced by the parents who can afford it moving their kids to the "better" schools to ensure they get the quality of education they expect for their Council Tax money. Also, the "good schools" find it remarkably easier to kick out supposedly problem pupils who then get sent to the "bad" schools because no-one else will take them and the pupil is able to excercise their "right" to an education - the same goes for pupils who have significant emotional, behavioural or learning difficulties. Thanks to the Exectutive's policy of "Social inclusion" these kids are dumped into the comprehensive system where they can't cope and then proceed to fuck up the chances of all the other "normal" kids by disrupting lessons. Anyone who happened to glance at the Scotman's rundown on the top schools in Scotland last week should be able to see this pretty easily. Look who came top in Aberdeen for exam passes at SG and Higher - was it Northfield, St Machar and Torry et al? Was it fuck.