Just when I thought AV cockwombles had bottomed out

[voice]

This.

"First polio case in U.S. in nearly a decade confirmed in unvaccinated Rockland County man - The Washington Post" www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/07/21/polio-rockland-county-unvaccinated/

Ffs, these cnuts will be having us making iron lungs before long, they really do hate kids.

[jimboky]

you can't cure stupid

[mids]

It never really occurred to me that adults could get the polio. I sort of imagined it was a childhood disease.

[voice]

There was large scale outbreaks among kids in the early part of last century, though it's been around forever, swimming pools were big superspreder places if I remember rightly, unwashed arses and kids peeing in the pool no doubt, but anyone stupid enough to be unvaxed is still very much at risk, it's only the vaccine that's kept it at bay.

Though the AV cults drive to kill as many kids as they can is obviously getting results.

We'll be building iron lungs soon enough if they succeed in their aims

[mids]

A previous boss of mine had polio as a kid. She walked with a stick when I first met her but graduated to an electric cart thing later.

[perrykneeham]

Ian Dury would be our go-to polio sufferer, I suppose.

[jimboky]

Jul 22, 2022 16:25:34 GMT voice said:

There was large scale outbreaks among kids in the early part of last century, though it's been around forever, swimming pools were big superspreder places if I remember rightly, unwashed arses and kids peeing in the pool no doubt, but anyone stupid enough to be unvaxed is still very much at risk, it's only the vaccine that's kept it at bay.

Though the AV cults drive to kill as many kids as they can is obviously getting results.

We'll be building iron lungs soon enough if they succeed in their aims

I think it was early 50's when the vaccine came out, I was born about the same time, I don't ever remember not having the scar, never knew any one who didn't,,, though there was a couple at the school that had once had polio,

[mids]

Jul 22, 2022 18:34:32 GMT perrykneeham said:

Ian Dury would be our go-to polio sufferer, I suppose.

Hit Me With Your Walking Stick.

[flatandy]

I've been trying to find a good thread for this vignette that I felt like I needed to share. I couldn't find a great one, so I've chosen the one with "Womble" in the title.

Mike Batt writes:

STEELEYE SPAN BECOME THE WOMBLES FOR A DAY

A bit from my unpublished autobiog, found on FB memories:

I was working on “All Around My Hat” with Steeleye Span, at the time the "Superwomble" single was released. In those days, to be on Top Of The Pops you had to mime, (it was technically easier for the show if you did, and in any case we Wombles had no option, - we didn’t have mouths!) - but to satisfy the Musicians’ Union you had to remake the entire record the night before your appearance, - in other words you were not allowed to mime to the record itself, but you were allowed to mime to a specially made track for the show. I could spend two pages explaining why, but trust me, that’s how it was.


So I’m in Air Studios with Steeleye Span when the message comes through that the Wombles are on Top Of The Pops the following day, with no time to go and make a bloody backing track, - I was busy with Steeleye. So I ask Steeleye if they’d mind playing the TV remake of “Superwomble", because the bloke from the Musicians’ Union was about to show up and “witness” that it was indeed being remade, and they sportingly agreed to do it. I taught them the track and we played it while the infamous Don Smith from the Musicians’ Union (known, as I have said earlier, as “Doctor Death” because of his miserable demeanour and intransigent attitude) watched from the control room.

After the session, Don asked for everybody’s name.

“Why do you want them?” I asked.

“Because the people who play the track have to be the same people who are on the show tomorrow” says Don.

This was a new one on me. But that’s what had to happen. Don left the studio and I sheepishly asked the guys if they’d wear the costumes the next day, and perform “Superwomble” on the show. Of course the whole thing would have to be a total secret – it wouldn’t have been cool for a serious band like Steeleye to be caught being the Wombles. They thought it was a fantastic idea, and so we arranged for them to meet the following evening, - the night of the show - at the Kensington Hilton Hotel, get into the costumes and be taken by blacked-out limo to the TV Centre in Wood Lane, five minutes away. We managed to get them in, do the show and then get them out again without anyone realising it had been them inside the Womble costumes.

[perrykneeham]

Brilliantly absurd and so 1970s.

[voice]

Fantastic

[happyhammerhead]

So mental but so funny.

Also, getting to be a Womble on TOTP is a memory anyone would treasure.

Although, it being the 70's, you might doubt it was real

[mids]

I'd read his book. Sounds like it would be good fun.