tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31419460.post3692982134831910326..comments2024-03-25T19:07:00.917+00:00Comments on Arthur Pewty's maggot sandwich: Erith Trade & Social Club - the end?Hughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12188628589645074377noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31419460.post-38676431047892303352013-08-28T17:36:15.638+01:002013-08-28T17:36:15.638+01:00Erith social club closed due to 30 grands worth of...Erith social club closed due to 30 grands worth of electricity debt so the brewery closed it the place is now closed and boarded up. Altough there is a broken door that you can accessAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31419460.post-74078193969391662002010-11-22T14:40:57.659+00:002010-11-22T14:40:57.659+00:00Erith trades closing down?
It's always looked ...Erith trades closing down?<br />It's always looked like it was…<br />Shame, okay only been there a couple of times ever and it's not my sort of place but it is sad when any pub or club shuts.<br />In It's A Wonderful Life with J..J..J…Jimmy Stewart they say "Everytime a bell rings an Angel gets its wings", well in the Pewtyverse everytime a pub shuts the Devil pharts in Baby Jesus's face…or something like that.<br />It maybe simplistic but when you can stay at home and buy 5 Stella Wifebeaters for a fiver and smoke indoors going to a slightly grim club or pub and pay £2.80 a pint and possibly have to stand outside most of the night means the draw of a local pales. The only thing it has left is companionship.<br />I do put part of the reason for collapse of community down to this. I often drunk in um…how can I put it, "Salt of the earth" pubs and on the whole they helped police the more wayward drinkers and youths and instilled a bit of sense in them. Now people don’t form friendships with people they probably wouldn’t have normally met and stay at home and drink more and never mix.<br />Welcome to (Super) Market Forces.<br />Call me paranoid but I do feel the "the Forces That Be" want everyone to stay at home, watch TV, play games and not interact with each other just consume, CONSUUUUME!<br />~Cough, cough~<br />#Ahem!#<br />Sorry.<br />Rant over.<br /><br />3D TV?<br />HA!<br />As I've been saying for YEARS I don’t have any interest in HD TV, I mean Eastenders in HD! Simpson's in HD! Strictly Come Dancing in HD! X Factor in HD…you kinda see my point. For me the driving force in any media is the story, the programme and sometimes the event. 3D is just the next thing we're having forced upon us by Sky, Sony etc to keep them buoyant in the financial market. Yeah 3D does have the cool factor but having played about with a 3D TV and video camera I just though about how the fact I had to wear glasses all the time. They were groovy Matrix style things but as I couldn’t wear my normal glasses I couldn’t see properly anyway. Now what, 40% of the population wear glasses? That's a complete guess but are the TV makers expecting them all to go out and buy a prescription pair of 3D glasses as well as normal ones?<br />Yeah dream on!<br />HANG ON! THAT'S IT! IT'S A CONSPRIRACT BETWEEN THE GREY'S, SPECSAVERS AND SONG!! JUST LIKE CD WAS WITH VYNAL!<br />;-)<br />Mind you I can see it working in pubs and clubs for sports events.<br />Cinema?<br />Not been that impressed to be honest. Avatar, Toy Story 3 and a couple of others have been more like "Ooooh that’s nice" rather than some sort of stunning game changing thing (i.e.: Black and white to colour, silent to talkies).<br /><br />A load of CB antennas in Abbey Wood and Thamesmead?<br />Hmmm…<br />I wonder why? Most people text or messageboard nowadays.<br /><br />So Windoze is 25?<br />Eeek!<br />I can remember when they used Start Me Up by the Stones and gave away free copies of that days Times in 1995.<br />To be honest my first experience of point and click was on at the time a brand new Apple Macintosh in 1988. It was STREETS ahead of anything else at the time. <br /><br />Ah the Chap Magazine, I only wish I had the time and money to dress in attire like that! Something between Edwardian and 1920's would be my proffered style. Classic.<br />I almost dropped my coffee when I say that the Maggot Sandwich had a video of Bristol's…then I realised what you meant.<br />HAHAHA!The ReVnoreply@blogger.com