Women's Football World Cup

[Cudzoziemiec]

So what happens if she was off her line: are Spain going to ask for a replay?

[Peter]

No, just Gibraltar, as Wow suggested!

[Jaded]

And FIFA have since taken to X (formerly Twitter) to confirm that Earps was, in fact, on her line before she cancelled out Hermoso's effort.

A post read: "As with all penalties, the Video Assistant Referee checked Spain's penalty for encroachment by the goalkeeper and determined that Mary Earps' back foot was in line with the goal line."

[Peter]

I see your Russian linesman and raise you Mandy Rice Davies!

Not that it matters.

[Wowbagger]

Mandy Rice Davies

You are showing your age now...

[Peter]

The remark was aimed at Jaded (who can take it!) and he raised the Azerbaijani linesman who was only 3 years earlier than MRD.  Any road up, I'm proud of my age - I'm twice as old as my Dad got to and more than 3 times older than my grandfather managed.  And it's all down to not using Ian Botham's magic Revitive booster!! 

[liam_whippet]

They do say that if you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there - but in my case I was ver' ver' young ...

Anyway, wasn't MRD [whom I don't remember] 3 years *before* the World Cup [which I do]?

[citoyen]

I don't remember the 60s but that's because I literally wasn't there.

[Wowbagger]

I remember getting very fed up that the World Cup Final had gone to extra time because I really wanted to go to the beach.

[Peter]

They do say that if you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there - but in my case I was ver' ver' young ...

Anyway, wasn't MRD [whom I don't remember] 3 years *before* the World Cup [which I do]?

Yes, sorry, Liam, that is what I actually knew and meant - but didn't write!

[Cudzoziemiec]

I don't remember the 60s but that's because I literally wasn't there.

I think "the 60s" has become a bit of a cliche, like Monty Python and everything in the past being in a Yorkshire accent. Or even "the war". Not many people still alive now were actually there, and there have been many similar events since, but they somehow remain as iconic/ironic reference points.

[Peter]

I don't remember the 60s but that's because I literally wasn't there.

I think "the 60s" has become a bit of a cliche, like Monty Python and everything in the past being in a Yorkshire accent. Or even "the war". Not many people still alive now were actually there, and there have been many similar events since, but they somehow remain as iconic/ironic reference points.

You only have to be 60 or over to have been in the 60s.  That's a huge percentage of the population, I think.

[Cudzoziemiec]

You're right actually, almost a quarter of the population is 60 and over.
https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/uk-population-by-ethnicity/demographics/age-groups/latest

2021 Census data shows that:

29.1% of all people in England and Wales (17.3 million) were under 25 years old
20.2% (12.0 million) were aged 25 to 39 years
26.3% (15.6 million) were aged 40 to 59 years
24.4% (14.5 million) were aged 60 years and over

I thought I'd seen a figure of 10% recently, but maybe that was over 70 or some higher age. Of course that's in the UK, worldwide it will be much lower – but they won't know anything about Monty Python either (and might have different references for the 1960s too).

[Wowbagger]

I don't remember the 60s but that's because I literally wasn't there.

I think "the 60s" has become a bit of a cliche, like Monty Python and everything in the past being in a Yorkshire accent. Or even "the war". Not many people still alive now were actually there, and there have been many similar events since, but they somehow remain as iconic/ironic reference points.

Where were you when you first witnessed The Parrot Sketch?

[Cudzoziemiec]

I don't remember the 60s but that's because I literally wasn't there.

I think "the 60s" has become a bit of a cliche, like Monty Python and everything in the past being in a Yorkshire accent. Or even "the war". Not many people still alive now were actually there, and there have been many similar events since, but they somehow remain as iconic/ironic reference points.

Where were you when you first witnessed The Parrot Sketch?

Probably sitting in a scruffy PSO house with other scruffy PSOs, everything smelling of badly washed clothes, cheap lager and takeaways. It's possible some of us might even have had Yorkshire accents. But it would have been in colour, because it wasn't the past back then.

[Wowbagger]

Now you've got me wondering: was the parrot sketch originally in colour?

BBC2 was the first channel to have colour. It was launchd (IIRC) in 1964, very close to the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth. But it wasn't in colour at the start.

MPFC started in (I believe) 1969, and I think the Parrot Sketch was in the first series. But it was late on a Sunday night on BBC1. We didn't have BBC2 because our telly was too old.

I'm pretty sure we got our first colour television in 1972, for the Olympics.

So I probably first saw it in B & W.

[Mr Larrington]

BBC2 didn’t start broadcasting in colour until Wmbldn* in July 1967, so chances are that anyone who claimed to have watched the 1966 World Cup Final in colour was either:

• ABROAD, or
• lying

* pronunciation used by Harry Commentator in the carpentry box

[Wowbagger]

When did colour infect the other channels?

[Mr Larrington]

When did colour infect the other channels?

Let me just Google that for you…

[…]

15 November 1969.

[citoyen]

I’m just about old enough that my earliest memories of TV were b&w - but we got our first colour telly before I was five years old, I’m sure (so mid/late 70s).

I remember having a discussion with a school friend when I was about 7-8 - he insisted that b&w was better than colour but even at that age I knew he was just repeating the argument his cheapskate parents used to justify not replacing their set.

Of course, everyone rented their telly in those days. I don’t think we actually owned a telly until the late 80s.

Try telling that to the kids these days…

[rogerzilla]

You only have to be 60 or over to have been in the 60s.  That's a huge percentage of the population, I think.

Hey! I was in the 60s, and I'm 54!

[Peter]

Yes, but you weren't conscious at age zero!

[Wowbagger]

We didn't rent our telly.

[Salvatore]

BBC2 didn’t start broadcasting in colour until Wmbldn* in July 1967, so chances are that anyone who claimed to have watched the 1966 World Cup Final in colour was either:

• ABROAD, or
• lying

Or watched the newsreel version a few days later at the pictures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0aK2IgORGA

[Wowbagger]

I watched that and half expected Boris Johnson to be up there presenting the cup.