The Culture Cup Final Round!

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OK folks so we have finally reached the end of this year’s Culture Cup.  Thank the lord for that.  The last round is a spectacular extravaganza with double points on offer.  With the league table pretty congested at the top, this final effort will crown the first ever Cultural Champion of 606v2.  The question that will separate the men from the boys is Who do you think has made the biggest contribution to the history of British culture?  There are some obvious nominations and some that are very clever.  One or two strange ones as well.  Special thanks to compelling and rich for putting his persons achievements in brackets when he PM'd me.........how thick do you think I am, c&r!  

Before we move on to that, what happened in round 10 and ‘Best song with an emotion or emotional response in the title’…..

The big winner in this round was jbeadle whose pick of Johnny Cash and Hurt helped him pick up his first ever full points haul and moves him effortlessly away from the foot of the table.  Good work, beadle, good work.  There were a few dissenting voices suggesting that the song should have been banned along with Joy Division and Oasis, but those shouts were too late and beadle reaps the rewards.  Dolphins controversial pick was obviously not enough to deter two voters and picked him up some points which is more than can be said for Galted and ChequeredJersey who both failed to convince a single human being to vote for them.  Also without a vote is my father, Julius, but it is no real surprise when you see his song choice.  Tobacco chewing, female line dancers are a definite niche market.  Jeff lost a point to his arch rival, superfly, and it will take the final round to establish who is the better person between them.  It is like choosing between herpes and chlamydia, but there you go.  Hero and compelling and rich continue to be entangled lovers and both finished joint second this round.  Their fight to cultural death will be taken to the very end.  The biggest travesty is that Whitney Houston managed to get any votes, let along more than The Stone Roses, INXS, Nirvana and Radiohead.  I have genuinely lost faith in humanity.  I can only think she got a couple of votes simply for being dead.  Here is the updated league table:

Hero (FEAR): (10) 91
compelling and rich (You've Lost That Loving Feeling): (10) 88
seanmichaels (Motorcycle Emptiness): (7) 81        
Azzy (Friday I'M In Love): (9) 80                
TopHat (I Will Always Love You): (7) 73      
Adam (Crazy): (6) 70  
onlytreblewinners (Happy Birthday): (6) 65
Galted (Psycho Killer): (0) 62      
bhb (Every Day I Love You Less And Less): (8) 62              
Jeff (Ten Story Love Song): (5) 59              
The Womble (Never Tear Us Apart): (5) 57        
Dolphin (R*pe Me): (6) 57        
The Boss (Still In Love With You): (5) 56        
superflyweight (Paranoid Android): (6) 54        
jbeadlesbigrighthand (Hurt): (12) 52      
Union (Don't Fear The Reaper): (7) 51    
JuliusHMarx (You Made This Love A Teardrop): (0) 44      
ChequeredJersey (Feeling Good): (0) 39

So please see the poll for the last round and take your time as it is worth double points.  Again, there will be no vote cancelling and only one pick is allowed.

We have a guest contributor this round with rick_dagless taking the place of Azzy who cried off like the big girls blouse he is, so can we all welcome rick into the fold and don’t bully him for being a newcomer.  It's ain't big and it ain't clever.  Bit like seanmichaels, in fact.

I will leave this up for a few days and then work out who is the Cultural Champion when the votes dry up.

Remember, IT IS OPEN FOR THE WHOLE FORUM TO VOTE!

I couldn't quite bring myself to vote for an inventor instead of an artist. Just my personal preference, even if the artist owes the distribution of his work to an inventor.

Union Cane wrote:I didn't realise that this was the 'most important invention in the history of the world' round...

I would have voted for Thomas Crapper had that been the case.

Rowley wrote:

Union Cane wrote:I didn't realise that this was the 'most important invention in the history of the world' round...

I would have voted for Thomas Crapper had that been the case.

Bog standard line from Rowley.

I don't really want to go to Japan but I really want to dump in one of those hightech bogs. Are there any over here?

seanmichaels wrote:I don't really want to go to Japan but I really want to dump in one of those hightech bogs. Are there any over here?

yes!! ive been on one, at a disabled persons house. i say disabled she was just blatantly too fat to wipe her own arse. but the toilet had the squirting water then a dryer. its the future!!

JuliusHMarx wrote:

Rowley wrote:

Union Cane wrote:I didn't realise that this was the 'most important invention in the history of the world' round...

I would have voted for Thomas Crapper had that been the case.

Bog standard line from Rowley.

You are so cruel Julius, can't resist any opportunity to take a dump on something I say.

compelling and rich wrote:yes!! ive been on one, at a disabled persons house. i say disabled she was just blatantly too fat to wipe her own arse. but the toilet had the squirting water then a dryer. its the future!!

The speed-dating night went well then?

Union Cane wrote:

compelling and rich wrote:yes!! ive been on one, at a disabled persons house. i say disabled she was just blatantly too fat to wipe her own arse. but the toilet had the squirting water then a dryer. its the future!!

The speed-dating night went well then?

   

good riposte, especially for you union

unfortunately the story isn't that funny, i was only 14. but the memory still lives strong

I'll be on to explain why Tallis has shaped all subsequent music in a bit. I voted Shakespeare as I can't vote for my own choice, but Tallis is to music what Shakespeare is to Literature and then some except that as music has evolved more than literature over 500 years people have forgotten him. That evolution has only occurred because of the great composers like Tallis

ChequeredJersey wrote:I'll be on to explain why Tallis has shaped all subsequent music in a bit. I voted Shakespeare as I can't vote for my own choice, but Tallis is to music what Shakespeare is to Literature and then some except that as music has evolved more than literature over 500 years people have forgotten him. That evolution has only occurred because of the great composers like Tallis

So this guy is responsible for Bieber? No vote from me.

Shakespeare is responsible for Twilight...

By that reckoning Charlemagne is responsible for everything, wish I'd chosen him now instead of trying to pick someone who fitted the given criteria.

berner lee is responsible for easy accessible porn

Who did you pick union, you do seem very bitter at the minute. Was far easier in the music competition when your pick was easily idenitifiable and so we could chuck you a sympathy vote here and there.

Rowley wrote:Who did you pick union, you do seem very bitter at the minute. Was far easier in the music competition when your pick was easily idenitifiable and so we could chuck you a sympathy vote here and there.

Not telling, as I don't want sympathy votes. I'm a bit disillusioned with life at the moment, mainly due to not getting many votes on here.

compelling and rich wrote:berner lee is responsible for easy accessible porn

Maybe it was just my local area but in my youth (ie pre-the interweb) there always seemed to be a ready supply of material available on roadside verges and in ditches. Not in the best condition, some of it, but fully useable all the same.

Union Cane wrote:

Rowley wrote:Who did you pick union, you do seem very bitter at the minute. Was far easier in the music competition when your pick was easily idenitifiable and so we could chuck you a sympathy vote here and there.

Not telling, as I don't want sympathy votes. I'm a bit disillusioned with life at the moment, mainly due to not getting many votes on here.

Fair enough, got to say though mate Jeremy Kyle was always going to be a risky pick.

When you think of British Culture, I always think of some 18th century printer and the designer of the Clifton suspension bridge.

Union Cane wrote:

compelling and rich wrote:berner lee is responsible for easy accessible porn

Maybe it was just my local area but in my youth (ie pre-the interweb) there always seemed to be a ready supply of material available on roadside verges and in ditches. Not in the best condition, some of it, but fully useable all the same.

i grew up in a all female house so easily accessible porn was not possible, storage also became a problem. best i got was a bit of euro rash and red shoe diaries

Rowley wrote:Who did you pick union, you do seem very bitter at the minute. Was far easier in the music competition when your pick was easily idenitifiable and so we could chuck you a sympathy vote here and there.

 
Simon Cranny - happy hardcore DJ and sex offender although Union wouldn't explain which one was his contribution..

compelling and rich wrote:

Union Cane wrote:

compelling and rich wrote:berner lee is responsible for easy accessible porn

Maybe it was just my local area but in my youth (ie pre-the interweb) there always seemed to be a ready supply of material available on roadside verges and in ditches. Not in the best condition, some of it, but fully useable all the same.

i grew up in a all female house so easily accessible porn was not possible,

well...... depends which way you look at it i guess.

ChequeredJersey wrote:Shakespeare is responsible for Twilight...

Tallis is responsible for Twilight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJQyGbv0oZ8

compelling and rich wrote:

Union Cane wrote:

compelling and rich wrote:berner lee is responsible for easy accessible porn

Maybe it was just my local area but in my youth (ie pre-the interweb) there always seemed to be a ready supply of material available on roadside verges and in ditches. Not in the best condition, some of it, but fully useable all the same.

i grew up in a all female house so easily accessible porn was not possible, storage also became a problem. best i got was a bit of euro rash and red shoe diaries

I got a euro rash last time I went to Holland.

seanmichaels wrote:

compelling and rich wrote:

Union Cane wrote:

compelling and rich wrote:berner lee is responsible for easy accessible porn

Maybe it was just my local area but in my youth (ie pre-the interweb) there always seemed to be a ready supply of material available on roadside verges and in ditches. Not in the best condition, some of it, but fully useable all the same.

i grew up in a all female house so easily accessible porn was not possible,  

well...... depends which way you look at it i guess.

Through a hole in the bathroom wall wouldn't have been a bad idea.

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Union Cane wrote:

compelling and rich wrote:berner lee is responsible for easy accessible porn

best i got was a bit of euro rash and red shoe diaries

Was that on weekends away to Amsterdam? A bit of ointment and you'll be fine.

JuliusHMarx wrote:

compelling and rich wrote:

Union Cane wrote:

compelling and rich wrote:berner lee is responsible for easy accessible porn

Maybe it was just my local area but in my youth (ie pre-the interweb) there always seemed to be a ready supply of material available on roadside verges and in ditches. Not in the best condition, some of it, but fully useable all the same.

i grew up in a all female house so easily accessible porn was not possible, storage also became a problem. best i got was a bit of euro rash and red shoe diaries

I got a euro rash last time I went to Holland.

Great minds!

ChequeredJersey wrote:Shakespeare is responsible for Twilight...

I have read the first Twilight book, was every bit as bad as you would imagine it to be.

The votes are really slow in this round. There is normally a flood of votes and then it slows down. This round has started with a whimper.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:The votes are really slow in this round.  There is normally a flood of votes and then it slows down.  This round has started with a whimper.

That's because the outstanding feature of British culture is apathy.

JuliusHMarz wrote:That's because the outstanding feature of British culture is apathy.

i would intelligently rebutt this comment but I can't be bothered...

rick_dagless wrote:

JuliusHMarz wrote:That's because the outstanding feature of British culture is apathy.

i would intelligently rebutt this comment but I can't be bothered...

We stopped taking this seriously after "intelligently".

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

rick_dagless wrote:

JuliusHMarz wrote:That's because the outstanding feature of British culture is apathy.

i would intelligently rebutt this comment but I can't be bothered...

We stopped taking this seriously after "intelligently".

I stopped taking it seriously after "butt"

I've read Twilight too, just to validate my opinion of its awfulness. My opinion was correct, it doesn't just sound awful, it is awful. Just like One Direction

I went out with the girls at work and they were talking about it. I started slagging it off and they said you can't slag it as you haven't read it, because I was drunk I agreed, a day of my life I am never getting back.

Adam D wrote:When you think of British Culture, I always think of some 18th century printer and the designer of the Clifton suspension bridge.

15th century you ninny. I bet you think of the works that otherwise wouldn't have been mass produced but for the genius of Gutenberg. Brunel is a stupid pick though, I'll give you that.

superflyweight wrote:Brunel is a stupid pick though, I'll give you that.  

There is hell coming your way now, super.

Surely Jeremy Kyle has detracted from British culture, not contributed to it?

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

superflyweight wrote:Brunel is a stupid pick though, I'll give you that.  

There is hell coming your way now, super.

Having spent plenty of time on a board frequented by Truss and D4, I'm fairly comfortable that I can cope, Tina. Unless it's one of the Nadal or Federer fans that picked Brunel. I'm not arguing with them. I might be Scottish, but I don't have a death wish.

superflyweight wrote:Unless it's one of the Nadal or Federer fans that picked Brunel.

It's someone worse than that.

Does he wear hi-tec and eat impossibly spicy wraps while contemplating countries that start with the letter "U"?

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

superflyweight wrote:Unless it's one of the Nadal or Federer fans that picked Brunel.

It's someone worse than that.

He is lucky I don't still have a green badge and now need Hampo's permission to do pretty much everything round here now.

Did you lose it because of the man bag?

superflyweight wrote:Did you lose it because of the man bag?  

It's complicated, personally I suspect the illuminati have had something to do with it. Can't really say much more other than I have onetwo looking into things for me.

I had to log in specially to vote for my own so that I'd have at least one vote, which happens to be one more than I received in the previous round.

Philistines.

Christopher Wren for me; you could see his work from my flat all the way across the City and north/east London. Timeless.

I'm an Engineer so had to vote for Isambard Kingdom Brunel

I sh@gged my sister and she gave birth to mutant twins so I had to vote for Jeremy Kyle.

I was responsible for the mass extermination of an entire race, so I voted for Hitler.

I watch a lot of porn on the internet so I voted for Tim Berners-Lee.

Surprised no-one nominated the French for this round