What about their treatment of women as second class citizens? Or human rights in general. Though there have been previous tournaments in countries with questionable human rights and attitudes to LGBT+, Argentina, South Africa, te Soviet Union, China…There are many countries we trade with, go on holiday to or buy goods from with attitudes which are different from ours on these things. Turkey doesn’t meet our lofty standards either. There are countries which have an intolerant attitude to LGBT+ but not women, some with women leaders and even some in the EU .The ones that persecute LGBT+ and treat women as second class citizens do have one common denominator though…
We did. Can’t remember it though.My dad got one that year. The only two things he ever got without paying cash was that TV and years later a mortgage. Brought up in the days of don’t buy it if you can’t afford it.There wasn’t HP then but there was some scheme where you could get one in instalments. I remember him telling me it cost 8:weeks wages for a 10 screen housed in a cabinet the size of a fridge freezer (or so it seemed) with only one channel broadcasting for a few hours. Apparently it used to shut down for a while about 6 or 7 o’clock so parents get get kids off to bed. When you look at the TVs you can buy now for a week’s wages with a multitude of channels it is amazing. Though nothing can reproduce the wonder people must have felt back then seeing moving pictures in their living room for the first time.
Same. I was mulling over it because I do like watching England during tournaments but I don’t know if I could bring myself to watch it.
Quite a few people on our council estate got one around that time and the year after Or at least the parents of kids I went to school with did as when I started school we talked about what we had seen. I remember my dad saying in 1953 that when they televised the Matthews final, the first Cup Final to have the whole game televised, that in that long street down the side of the Yacht Club in Brid where h worked there were long queues of people going in to watch the only television in the street for 10 minutes then going out and queueing again. The TV belonged to the local bookie. Say no more!
I bought my first colour TV in 1974. In instalments. Remember it clearly as the first weekend I had it Abba won the Eurovision Song Contest. My dad who still had a black and white TV gave me a lecture on what he saw as my financial profligacy. Mind you sometime later when one of my sets packed in I rented one from that shop on Chants Ave as I wanted a bigger screen and a better brand and couldn’t afford it. Shows how more affordable a lot of things are nowadays.
We had redifusion, that switch behind the telly, radi... Vesta Prawn curry. Mam used to make Yorkshire pud, soggy on the bottom, but with onions and real gravy. I want to go home
Can’t remember his name but a decent bloke. Used to have a pint with him in the Avenues now and again. Got a Mitsubishi from him as he said at the time they were the most reliable. Best set I had had up to that time.
A TV repairman whilst fixing our rental told me never to buy Bang&olufson, because the tube was exactly the same one as in a Samsung.