Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Don't get me wrong, I like the idea of get > togethers and street parties, it's the effort to > harp back to 1977 and recreate everything that was > dismissed as naff years ago. 1977 was the Queen's Silver Jubilee year and in itself was a naff throwback to when England celebrated Empire Day with street parties. As a teenager in '77 I hated all that crap and didn't go to any. Instead, you'd probably have found me and most of my age group speeding off our tits in the pub grumbling "bollocks to the jubilee" and playing the Sex Pistols' God Save The Queen at full volume to piss off the flag waving knobs.