I was amused to learn that “Night boat” is cockney rhyming slang for the welfare cheque.
“Night Boat” → “Night boat to Cairo” → Giro
Man. For a few minutes, it was about 1989. I was wearing patent leather shoes and a houndstooth mini skirt, smoking a ridiculous thin cigarette in a parking lot in Reseda, California. Skinheads and mods were conducting parallel societies, coexisting but not interacting, just waiting to see Madness at the Chuck Landis Country Club.
Oh god. Stahp. I’ll be good, I promise!
@beschizza is the real
What?! I was a die-hard metalhead back then.
It’s been long enough; when is pop culture going to go through another wave of that level of fuck-you feyness?
Sure, it looks daft, but there was a spectacular courage to it at the time.
I dunno, i am inclined to say that’s been continuing to happen just not in mainstream pop culture.
I used to have the 45. Maybe I still do?
Do you think we can do it?
If we all chip in together?
Would all of our posts have to be in the form of a question?