This will blow your mind then.
Their song 1 in 10 was about the unemployment rate.
The album Signing Off referred to signing off the dole.
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Sounds like he’s lived his whole life in an Ivory tower
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Anybody who read Smash Hits did.
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No place like TFK to give a guy a big plate of humble pie now n then, I got it a few times 
------era no harm
The towers 
Ballymun had a bit of craic in that loopy pub one time, between being offered levis, microwaves and dodgy 50 notes twas like a scene from a modern Dickens novel, and the creme de la creme was giving a few junkies a few bob every hour to watch our 2 cars
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I worked on a building site in London in the summer of 2000
Sounds mental!!
I never worked on the sites in London but a few lads I know are over there the last few years working around north London and they were saying you finish up and get out of the area before it gets dark if you know what’s good for you
The UB40 u-boat was named after the band then
I think that was named after the oil they used on the hinges.
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“20:20 vision” was popularised by a test to see if people could read the insignia in a nearby fertiliser bag.
The inventor of the lie detector test created Wonder Woman.
And no tangle with the DHSS?
No. All under the table. Wanker builder from Roscommon. Met him drinking in a pub I was working in.
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Typical, we got creamed once but once only by a Sligo cunt, Martin Rogan, remembered the bastard as he got away from us, but lesson learned
The first European football team to wear a Nike kit was Sunderland.
The lad who played Jethro Bodine in the Beverly Hillbillies, Max Baer Jr, is the son of former World Heavyweight champion Max Baer.
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Max snr had a brother called Buddy who was a serious Heavyweight contender around the same time.
Buddy Baer was a great name for a boxer
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A great show
