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a lot of skinheads from what I have gathered. But if you study skinhead history, the original skinheads were NOT RACIST and they originate in England. It was a working class protest type thing. Ritchie Edwards is a client of mine and I am working on watty from the exploited.
PUNK was BORN in England. The Damned, CRASS, trendier bands like the CLASH, Conflict, GBH, EXPLOITED
OI was also born in England, so I would venture to say england has a ton of great rock bands and a bad ass music scene
AHH, a fellow punk! For sure it was born in London, but it was a continuation from Iggy pop, new York dolls, Richard hell etc - just another example of how US and UK cultures have bounced off each other.
Yeah we still have a small skinhead scene in UK which I grew up around - and as you say it's non-racist and non-political for the most part. In the 80s far right groups did infiltrate the skinhead scene but by the 90s they'd moved onto football hooligans (and now internet nerds make up the majority of the UK far right from what I know) leaving the original skins to re-establish around a love of scooters, reggae, ska and mod-revival bands. Oi is pretty dead in the UK now, couple of bands around but nothing much to note. Punk & ska scene is booming right now though. Lots of exciting bands.
Have you seen Only Fools and Horses? That's probably the best classic comedy series ever made.
It's one of the most beautifully written pieces of TV history. A mix of slapstick, ire, sarcasm and wordplay makes up the humour, but then also able to sensitivily handle very serious subjects (grandpa's death, Cassandra miscarriage) and yet still inject humour. Incredible. I'm not sure how well it would translate to American tastes because the humour often relies on a knowledge of UK life. But I think for Americans in terms of cultural impact Only Fools is our version of the Simpsons - not in the style or the humour, but in how it's engrained and even influenced our collective consciousness.
When I was a young lad, I enjoyed watching the Benny Hill Show.
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You know I was pleasantly surprised over the last few years to find benny hill references appearing in American sitcoms (big bang, Simpsons, 2 and a half Men) - I had no idea you guys had gotten into that. Benny lived a few roads over from where I live now.
So what is the fascination with Brits doing mostly low dosed Test cycles?
Also, it seems there's to be some popularity of throwing in 70mg Tren Hex as well. Is this for a nutrient partitioning effect?
Eurgh. I think it's a mix of everyone trying to reinvent the wheel to make themselves relevant and the fact that a large majority of UK coaches (who are "no names" who run coaching via Facebook or similar. I'm sure the big name coaches all have more tailored approaches for each client) copy Justin Harris, who in turn copies Victor Black. So if you read the online forums yeah it appears a lot of low test, high primo and small traces of NPP or tren. Reality in gyms though with the people who aren't "terminally online" is still a solid test base with deca or EQ. Anadrol and Dbol remain popular.
As for the knife crime - yeah it's a problem in certain parts of London, Manchester, Birmingham - any big city really. But only in small parts. Generally the UK is pretty safe. Its similar to there being areas in Detroit, LA, New York etc that are pretty dicey - not a reflection of the city as a whole.