# Pointless Topics

**URL:** <https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/pointless-topics/82>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [March 5, 2019, 1:24pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/pointless-topics/82 "2019-03-05T13:24:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![KeithBeef](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/user_avatar/ukskateforum.co.uk/keithbeef/32/31559_2.png) [@KeithBeef](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/KeithBeef)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 7:13pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/pointless-topics/82/3732 "2020-08-20T19:13:21Z")

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Was he looking in your bedroom window?

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**Author:** ![Snurp](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@Snurp](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Snurp)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 7:15pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/pointless-topics/82/3733 "2020-08-20T19:15:52Z")

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Yeah on the 2nd floor

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**Author:** ![tbk11](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/user_avatar/ukskateforum.co.uk/tbk11/32/33_2.png) [@tbk11](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/tbk11)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 9:11pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/pointless-topics/82/3734 "2020-08-20T21:11:36Z")

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holy shit man YOU’RE Ben Cundall???

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**Author:** ![tbk11](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/user_avatar/ukskateforum.co.uk/tbk11/32/33_2.png) [@tbk11](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/tbk11)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 9:12pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/pointless-topics/82/3735 "2020-08-20T21:12:13Z")

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such a lovely soundtrack, still listen to it loads

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**Author:** ![Les\_Zeppelin](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/user_avatar/ukskateforum.co.uk/les_zeppelin/32/26016_2.png) [@Les\_Zeppelin](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Les_Zeppelin)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 9:34pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/pointless-topics/82/3736 "2020-08-20T21:34:26Z")

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I used to listen to the darjeeling soundtrack all the time. Haven’t listened to it in years.

Tyyyyypewriter tip tip tip tip top

Cheers for the reminder 👍

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**Author:** ![nedertron](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/user_avatar/ukskateforum.co.uk/nedertron/32/28914_2.png) [@nedertron](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/nedertron)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2020, 5:22pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/pointless-topics/82/3737 "2020-08-21T17:22:27Z")

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Used the horn twice today. Felt good.

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**Author:** ![tbk11](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/user_avatar/ukskateforum.co.uk/tbk11/32/33_2.png) [@tbk11](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/tbk11)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2020, 6:18pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/pointless-topics/82/3738 "2020-08-21T18:18:32Z")

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absolutely sensational

had where do you go to my lovely as first dance at my wedding an all

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**Author:** ![ciaran](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/user_avatar/ukskateforum.co.uk/ciaran/32/42_2.png) [@ciaran](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/ciaran)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2020, 10:00pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/pointless-topics/82/3739 "2020-08-21T22:00:49Z")

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Got an insect sting on the lip as I cycled home this evening. It means I have to drink red wine out of my son’s sports water bottle while looking like Pete Burns.

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**Author:** ![buildafire](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/user_avatar/ukskateforum.co.uk/buildafire/32/34_2.png) [@buildafire](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/buildafire)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2020, 10:25pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/pointless-topics/82/3740 "2020-08-21T22:25:57Z")

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Look at the absolute state of the Transworld site:

 ![image](https://uksf-media.lon1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/original/2X/1/17638c30aafddf448991fc1f1dcc17a45590fd6d.jpeg)

You can’t close the watch ad.

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**Author:** ![BvS](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/user_avatar/ukskateforum.co.uk/bvs/32/394_2.png) [@BvS](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/BvS)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2020, 12:07am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/pointless-topics/82/3741 "2020-08-22T00:07:19Z")

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When did they lose the skateboarding dot com domain? Didn’t they used to have that?

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**Author:** ![deegwaad](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@deegwaad](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/deegwaad)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2020, 8:16am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/pointless-topics/82/3742 "2020-08-22T08:16:31Z")

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> [@ciaran](#):
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> Got an insect sting on the lip as I cycled home this evening. It means I have to drink red wine out of my son’s sports water bottle while looking like Pete Burns.

This happened to me 2 weeks ago. Excruciatingly painful. It quadrupled in size in the space of five minutes and for a bit I was worried I was going into anaphylactic shock as I haven’t been stung since I was a kid. I had no idea where I was either due to being on hols in Devon and was pretty much in the middle of nowhere. Kind of ruined what was an incredible bike ride up till that point.

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**Author:** ![judithpriest](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/user_avatar/ukskateforum.co.uk/judithpriest/32/37_2.png) [@judithpriest](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/judithpriest)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2020, 11:12am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/pointless-topics/82/3743 "2020-08-22T11:12:44Z")

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Missus suggested going to the cinema as the weather is shit.  
Never had an issue with shops or going out at all but had this massive fear and anxiety at the mere suggestion of sitting amongst people in the dark with no ventilation.  
Empire strikes back is on too.  
Shame.

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**Author:** ![ciaran](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/user_avatar/ukskateforum.co.uk/ciaran/32/42_2.png) [@ciaran](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/ciaran)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2020, 7:59pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/pointless-topics/82/3744 "2020-08-22T19:59:54Z")

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Mine wasn’t sore, but didn’t see what it was either. Guessing it was a bee or wasp. Got some anti-histamines earlier which has helped, and wearing a mask meant I felt less like Rocky Dennis and more like the Winter Soldier, heheh.

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**Author:** ![BvS](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/user_avatar/ukskateforum.co.uk/bvs/32/394_2.png) [@BvS](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/BvS)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 12:34pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/pointless-topics/82/3745 "2020-08-25T12:34:13Z")

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Just noticed Every You Every Me by Placebo has 80 million plays on Spotify (yes I’m listening to Placebo).

I wonder how much of that song’s popularity is down to skateboarders?

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**Author:** ![voodoo](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/user_avatar/ukskateforum.co.uk/voodoo/32/24279_2.png) [@voodoo](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/voodoo)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 12:44pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/pointless-topics/82/3746 "2020-08-25T12:44:20Z")

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Nah, they were pretty big on their own. I remember being at parties and non alternative types playing their music. Had a lot of songs in the charts, which was the only way a lot of people would get new music from back then.They’d be on Buzzcocks, T4 and mainstream media, ect a lot.

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**Author:** ![ciaran](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/user_avatar/ukskateforum.co.uk/ciaran/32/42_2.png) [@ciaran](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/ciaran)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 12:45pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/pointless-topics/82/3747 "2020-08-25T12:45:38Z")

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Sorry definitely turned many skaters, myself included, back to David Bowie. As I recall at the time, he was largely overlooked by a lot of people in their mid 20s - his output in the 90s was nowhere near as famous or celebrated as what he’d done up to the late 90s, which probably had a lot to do with it.

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**Author:** ![BvS](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/user_avatar/ukskateforum.co.uk/bvs/32/394_2.png) [@BvS](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/BvS)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 12:58pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/pointless-topics/82/3748 "2020-08-25T12:58:48Z")

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Oh definitely. I remember my dad being surprised when I asked him as a 13 year old if I could listen to his Bowie records because I’d heard him in a skateboarding video. Probably the reason I became a Bowie fan as an adult

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**Author:** ![BvS](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/user_avatar/ukskateforum.co.uk/bvs/32/394_2.png) [@BvS](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/BvS)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 1:02pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/pointless-topics/82/3749 "2020-08-25T13:02:45Z")

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Yeah makes sense, they got a lot of MTV2 play late 90s/early 00’s. I was quite into their early 00’s albums to be fair. I just wonder if they’re aware of their place in skate video folklore

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**Author:** ![hugo](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/user_avatar/ukskateforum.co.uk/hugo/32/789_2.png) [@hugo](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/hugo)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 1:16pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/pointless-topics/82/3750 "2020-08-25T13:16:56Z")

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Weird you say that Ciaran. Bowie is one of the artists I didn’t get into because of skate videos.

Bands I liked through skating were ones such as Built to Spill, Pixies, Dino JR, Sonic Youth etc because a kid growing up outside a big city in the 90’s would struggle to be introduced to these bands any other way.

Other music i would have liked may have been through more mainstream influences or my dad who introduced me to the Doors and Pink Floyd etc.

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**Author:** ![ciaran](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/user_avatar/ukskateforum.co.uk/ciaran/32/42_2.png) [@ciaran](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/ciaran)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 1:34pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/pointless-topics/82/3751 "2020-08-25T13:34:27Z")

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Yep, I know what you mean. Skate videos got me more into those alt rock/punk bands than i would have, and that’s coming from somebody who was on a steady diet of techno from 1993 onwards.

Personally speaking, I saw Bowie loads on TOTP and MTV through the 80s and assorted classic hits shows on MTV and local radio here in the 90s. It seemed he wasn’t really relevant by the early 00s, certainly to the same extent that he would have been up till his death. Retro wasn’t that big of a thing at that point and it seemed that cultural scenes were still moving forwards without trying to rebuild/remix everything what had gone on before. I definitely saw him an archive/legacy act whom I’d known mainly for Labyrinth, Ashes to Ashes (never liked it) and various Tom Penny edits - but again, I was a total music fascist up until I left uni. I’d definitely say though that Sorry was a huge help in reinvigorating that generation’s appreciation for Bowie - and skating was definitely the first step for many to pass on the word.

And yeah, my parents were fully into the blandest bullshit possible, James Galway, John Denver and Andre Reiu, so zero help there, heh.

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