jhr
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The Rotter\'s Club
Anybody see the first part of the adaptation of this, on the telly last night?
Very amusing for me, because it's set in the seventies, which is the decade when I was growing up, so lots of things struck a chord and they have done a masterly job of re-creating how it felt to be a teenager then. Also lots of lovely - and hilarious - period touches. Of course, it's easy to be witty about a decade where there was so much naffness, but there was also a lot of fun to be had, and it reflects this too - though it also dwelt on the IRA bombings and the anti-Irish feeling that resulted from them.
I was being very smug while we watched it, because I reckoned I'd avoided the majority of the worst '70s excesses, (or, in any event, had destroyed most of the photographic evidence) but I was deflated by SWMBO roaring with laughter at the line "It's Hatfield and the North next week - they're much more accessible", spoken at the end of a turgid-looking prog. rock gig. I couldn't see what was so funny about this and told her so. Her reply? "You actually said that, once"! Aaaaargh......... /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
Anybody see the first part of the adaptation of this, on the telly last night?
Very amusing for me, because it's set in the seventies, which is the decade when I was growing up, so lots of things struck a chord and they have done a masterly job of re-creating how it felt to be a teenager then. Also lots of lovely - and hilarious - period touches. Of course, it's easy to be witty about a decade where there was so much naffness, but there was also a lot of fun to be had, and it reflects this too - though it also dwelt on the IRA bombings and the anti-Irish feeling that resulted from them.
I was being very smug while we watched it, because I reckoned I'd avoided the majority of the worst '70s excesses, (or, in any event, had destroyed most of the photographic evidence) but I was deflated by SWMBO roaring with laughter at the line "It's Hatfield and the North next week - they're much more accessible", spoken at the end of a turgid-looking prog. rock gig. I couldn't see what was so funny about this and told her so. Her reply? "You actually said that, once"! Aaaaargh......... /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
