[Closed] Hit the North update – Samba Band and explosives content

Have you thought about snipers in the trees Harry? With Bugsy Malone style splat guns?

Have you signed up yet? 😉

As a grand finale, piece de resistance, magnum opus and all that, can we blow up the samba band? Perhaps encourage some council employees to join in too...

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Perhaps. We have to hold a few surprises back for the big day.

Think Assault On Precinct 13 featuring Carman Miranda.

😆

Brilliant.

awesome, this is just sounding better and betterer

Signed up a while back mate. The Field of Despair sounds like it'll be greatly enlivened with some IED's 😀

If Conrad Murray had got off we would have hired him to hand out the mint balls.

Harry_the_Spider - Member

If Conrad Murray had got off we would have hired him to hand out the mint balls.

The way I felt after last years, I'd have accepted one.

Signed up, of course - 😀

I've just added Sham 69 to the 'while the brass band are having a fag break' HTN playlist.

Any requests?

Any requests?

Fields of the Nephilim?

Failing that, Firestarter 😉

Can I have some Prodigy please mate? Smack my Bitch up would do nicely, so I can duff Hora up in between laps. He loves it 🙂

Any requests?

Can we have this played at the start?

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A deployment of a special crack SSSD unit is looking increasingly likely. Thanks to Comrade Binners for his co-operation; come the Day of Reckoning, you at least Binners, will be spared.

Smack my Bitch up would do nicely, so I can duff Hora up in between laps. He loves it

Is entry for the Hora Hurting event limited, or can anyone and everyone get involved?

What about SKREWDRIVER Back with A Bang! Great song and relates to the pyrotechnic theme.

What about SKREWDRIVER Back with A Bang! Great song and relates to the pyrotechnic theme.

Thanks for your input Nick Griffin.

For our Southern guests.

Looks like I might wander up north and join the festivities. Do I bring my own explosives?

What about SKREWDRIVER Back with A Bang! Great song and relates to the pyrotechnic theme.

Hmm. As a brown person, I'd kind of prefer it if songs by a band known to have espoused far-right neo-Nazi racist ideology [i]weren't[/i] played, tbh. 😐

But in a bizarre twist, Skrewdriver once boasted one Mark Radcliffe on drums, who of course went on to host the Radio 5 programme Hit the North!

(Although this was before the band descended into nastiness, it must be pointed out)

Well I never....

blimey. For a second I actually thought someone suggested we play some neo-fascist laugh-a-minute beat combo Skrewdriver at HTN...
I must be imagining it.

😯

This one for me, ta:

I can play that on my Ukulele 😀

Blimey I only thought the music might be in line with one of the organisers use of language on their blog.

Namely, the Industrial fell blog daftest ride redux posting with the lovely use of 'gyp'. Obviously a reference to gypsy. Thanks for that one.

"The route is best described as a monster. Approximately 130 miles, 15000-ish feet of vertical ascent and several really big hills..nay, mountains to ride over. Most of the route is off-road and plenty of unrideable, ‘hike-a-bike’ sections to ensure the calves get plenty of gyp."

tthew - Member

I can play that on my Ukulele

You play that for us your uke in the pub afterwards Matthew and you shall have free beer for as long as your little heart desires. 😀

ratswithwings - Member

Blimey I only thought the music might be in line with one of the organisers use of language on their blog.

Namely, the Industrial fell blog daftest ride redux posting with the lovely use of 'gyp'. Obviously a reference to gypsy. Thanks for that one.

"The route is best described as a monster. Approximately 130 miles, 15000-ish feet of vertical ascent and several really big hills..nay, mountains to ride over. Most of the route is off-road and plenty of unrideable, ‘hike-a-bike’ sections to ensure the calves get plenty of gyp."

It's the 'Chippy Tea' thread all over again. 🙁

Nah not really it's all about HAIL THE NEW DAWN.

Blimey I only thought the music might be in line with one of the organisers use of language on their blog.

Namely, the Industrial fell blog daftest ride redux posting with the lovely use of 'gyp'. Obviously a reference to gypsy. Thanks for that one.

"The route is best described as a monster. Approximately 130 miles, 15000-ish feet of vertical ascent and several really big hills..nay, mountains to ride over. Most of the route is off-road and plenty of unrideable, ‘hike-a-bike’ sections to ensure the calves get plenty of gyp."

Source - http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-gyp2.htm

[i]Q. From Joan Wilton, Canada: My father-in-law often referred to something painful as giving me gyp. This does not seem to correlate to the other meaning of ‘cheat’. Any suggestions?

A. Gyp is a moderately common expression, mainly in the UK, but also in Commonwealth countries, though my gut feeling is that it’s now mostly used by older people. It appears in fixed phrases that refer to some part of the body being painful, as in this example from the London Evening Standard in August 2003: “I turned my ankle in the game and it’s still giving me gyp.”
[b]The other meaning you give has no connection [/b]— it’s a derogatory term that is usually said to derive from the word gypsy. The sense of pain seems to be connected with a northern English dialect word, variously spelled gip or jip, that only ever appeared in the form “to give somebody or something jip”. It could mean to give a person or an object a sound thrashing (one example is of a man giving a carpet a beating), or generally to treat roughly or to cause pain.[/i]

ratswithwings - Member

Nah not really it's all about HAIL THE NEW DAWN.

She is looking lovely, isn't she?

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Looks like a get out clause to me.

Rusty, you can have her with your chippy tea though I personally thought Dawn has always looked fine.

Looks like a get out clause to me.

What does?

Dictionary definition.

gyp n. only in [b]giving a person gyp[/b] [i]colloq[/i]. severely punish or hurt him. [orig. uncert.]

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You've got him bang to rights there.

I disagree - Orig. uncert.

Terribly sorry for bothering, I better go!!!

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You can apologise any time you like for accusing us of racism BTW.

WT....

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Even I'm not getting involved in this...

When I wrote that I was referring to 'pain, suffering, etc' rather than travellers or gypsies.
how would my calves get plenty of gypsies?

what a pillock. first the Skrewdriver suggestion and now this.

What on earth is going on here then?

A dickhead appeared from far right.

Has he entered a team?

Should be easy to spot:
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If he has he's getting a refund.

Bloody hell read the postings. Why would I be from the far right and complaining about references to the use of the word 'gyp'.

Travellers are not the same as Gypsies. Travellers are Irish. Gypsies came here from India 500 years ago.

'Giving you Gyp' is used as an expression by non-gypsies to refer to trouble, pain, hassle etc. It's in direct reference to whenever Gypsies are around there's always trouble/hassle etc and therefore used as an expression to refer to pain, trouble etc. e.g. 'oh my tooth is giving my gyp'

Being 'Gypped' is used by non-gypsies to refer to having been conned. "I've been gypped." Similar to above but obviously in relation to the stereotypes of Gypsies being con artists etc.

Many Gypsy words have been taken into the English language.

Gadgie - in the north of England.
Pal - all over the UK.
And I guess the latest word used is chav.

Romany words have fallen into local slang or as you put it, colloquialism. Hence, NE people claiming gadjie as local slang while it is descended from Romany. I've had many NE people claim it is their local slang word.

It goes the same with Gyp. I've had a few friends use the word infront of me and knowing full well I'm Romany but did not realise 'Gyp' referred to Gypsies/Romanies. And they were using it as a reference to pain. And guess what, they were from the south, the midlands, and the north so bang goes the theory of it being local northern slang.

If you can stand there and say truthfully that you weren't using it in cultural reference to Gypsies then fair enough I'll be happy to say you weren't being directly racist and that you were using it without the knowledge of the cultural baggage associated with its use. Just because its claimed a word is of local use, it doesnt mean its the case.

We used to use the word Jew in reference to people being tight with their money. Only later when I found out what a Jew actually was did I stop using it in reference to money.

If you can stand there and say truthfully that you weren't using it in cultural reference to Gypsies then fair enough I'll be happy to say you weren't being directly racist and that you were using it without the knowledge of the cultural baggage associated with its use.

pardon....and you are?

Can we get this thread back on track?

Ooh, a samba band at Hit the North. That sounds great. I'll be there!

Next!

...and explosives*. Don't forget the explosives. 😀

*Subject to a skip full of paperwork.

Wow! You are actually going to blow up a skipful of paperwork?! Brilliant.

Either that or burn a cross. 😉

Oh God, I never knew you were crossist too!
Anyroad, did anything ever come of the, er, historical Scandinavians?

Oh Gawd... We'll be accused of being Celtists. 🙄

Out of interest which company are providing the pyrotechnics? (I take it your meaning fireworks)

Theatrical effects. Smoke and flashes etc. Not sure who it is yet as it is our caterer’s contact.

Our caterers BTW. http://www.giddy-kipper.co.uk/index.html They do the [url= http://www.polocini.com/ ]Polocini[/url] road events too.

Paid my 17 quid today so will be heading south to hit the north!

🙂

Who's a cellist?

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I am going to ask a stupid question but how many of the top 10 (from the last event) were cyclo cross as opposed to MTB's.

Waves frantically........I was on a cx (in 11th but I made a gentlemans pact with 10th place not to race the last lap as we was too tired 😀 )

Most of the top 10 were CX but I put that down to the riders being skinny race types not lardy MTBists.

Twinkleydave was 3rd on a MTB IIRC.

Cheers HTS - my entry on its way

Any news on any Fat Bike podium contenders yet?

Can we get this thread back on track?

Ooh, a samba band at Hit the North. That sounds great. I'll be there!

Next!

Heh! Chipps the Peace Negotiator. 😀

Myself and WCA are coming. Bullheart will be doing something more important, like picking up some railway sleepers or whatever... 🙄