Comment on Wireless Festival cancelled after Kanye West blocked from coming to UK

ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Plus the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Monty Python, afternoon drinking, Agatha Christie, Shakespeare, the English language, the games of cricket, football, rugby, golf, croquet, badminton, tennis, and rounders (basically baseball). David Attenborough, The BBC World Service, I’m sorry, I Haven’t a Clue, Taskmaster, The Office, afternoon tea, Kipling, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Austen, Dickens, the Brontë sisters, and George Orwell. Oh, and J. K. Rowling if you’re prepared to tolerate her shit. Heavy metal. Formal gardens. Constable and Wren, Tolkien, Chaucer, Scott, Bronte, Dahl, and Wodehouse. Blackadder, Black Books, Father Ted (a bit problematic), the King James bible, The Young Ones, The Goons, Mr Bean and Benny Hill, James Bond, Auld Lang Syne. Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Gilbert and Sullivan, the Cornetto Trilogy, Oscar Wilde, John Donne, Gin & Tonic, Dr Who, Sherlock Holmes, Black Mirror, Sapphire and Steel, Queen, Ed Sheeran, Adele, Dua Lipa, The Spice Girls (heh), Jennings and Derbyshire, Just William, Biggles, Jeeves, Wooster, Blandings, Enid Blyton’s (a bit racist) Secret Seven and Famous Five, John Wyndham, John Carpenter, Moorcock (Elric and various Eternal Champions), Alice (in/through Wonderland/Looking Glass), CS Lewis (Narnia), Iain Banks, 2000AD, Judge Dredd, Strontium Dog, Nemesis the Warlock, Commando Comics, V for Vendetta, The Adventures of Luther Arkwright, the Beano, the Dandy, Viz, Not The Nine O’Clock News, The Fast Show, Would I Lie To You, Eight Out Of Ten Cats Does Countdown, the crytic crossword, Brass Eye, The IT Crowd (also a bit problematic), Toast Of London, The Mighty Boosh, Just A Minute, QI, Mock The Week, Whose Line Is It Anyway?

  What have you got?

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  • LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.ml ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    John Carpenter?
    Also like all of those people are dead.

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    • Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      John Carpenter?

      Ah, no, indeed. I meant John Christopher. Thanks for the spot!

      Also like all of those people are dead.

      A lot of them are also fictional. Besides, death isn’t the handicap it used to be. Oh, Red Dwarf! Plus Blake’s Seven, Black Mirror, Inside Number 9, The Inbetweeners, Friday Night Dinner, Peep Show, Spaced, The Detectorists, The Thick of It, Happy Valley, Broadchurch, Luther.

      Peaky Blinders. Derry Girls.

      And Slow Horses, how could I have forgotten Slow Horses?

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Bertie and Reginald but none of the rest of P G Wodehouse? Consider my monocle popped.

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    • Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Did you not spot Blandings (which I prefer to J&W) in there?

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        it’s a long list and i skimmed

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  • ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Thank you :) I mean you have a point, The Beatles would probably be able to draw a larger crowd than Ye, if you could swing it

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    • Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I mean, all of that would make for a heck of a festival.

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      • ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Gotcha buddy, you’re down for drunk nazis and transphobes, as long as they’re white =b

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• MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Better than 95% of entertainment these days and I don’t care about morris dancing.

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  • jimmy90@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    hmm john cleese is a wanker these days. it’s not quite full kevin spacey, michael jackson but…

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  • ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Too bad 🛎️🏏

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The year after I left the troupe, st George got knocked out in the sword dance one night. Those dipshits.

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• cabhan@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  As a former Morris dancer, I would absolutely attend a festival where the headliner is a Morris side.

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  • addie@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Shrewsbury Folk Festival might be for you? Great bands, tremendous beers and ciders, splendid vibe, and Morris dancing throughout the day. A morning of dancing is just the thing to let your hangover ease off to do it all again.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    So I wasn’t thinking about it until now, but is there a good Morris supply store? Like, I kind of want to get my own bells all of a sudden.

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• ObscureOtter@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  🇬🇧 🫡

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