Did I make this up or did the grenadier guards take the name grenadier and the army decided to call any new explosive infantry "bomber"?
I only ask out of interest.
FWIW, as much as I play my face about it, this stuff doesn't actually affect my enjoyment of the show. It was just something I weirdly noticed and it's a bit like spotting Gail Platt having had her hair cut between scenes in Corrie.
call that bluff.
nits gonna nit!
Meh. This one was fine but I agree I do prefer things to be right and take pleasure in things being correctly researched and integrated.
I will give an example of getting tilted to satisfy you, though. It's a good one.
I listened this afternoon at work to yesterday morning's 6music breakfast show on my iPlayer (lots of good music and good banter. Thoroughly recommend). The presenter, Shaun Keaveney, isn't a footy fan, but commented about the Czech Republic. He started by saying he remembered a striker in Euro 96 who had long hair but couldn't recall his name.
I say to myself "Karol Poborsky and not really a striker"
Then he says "Didnt they win Euro 96? Think it was on golden goal in the final"
I mean who doesn't remember losing to Germany on pens and the Germans winning it at Wembley?!
Anyway, next he says he still can't remember the name of the Czech player. "I keep thinking of Stoichkov, but I know he's Romanian"
That's Hristo Stoichkov, who led Bulgaria to the latter stages of USA 94.
He plays a record.
I reach for my 'phone, about to text in to the show to put him right. Then I remember the show went out about 28 hours ago.
He comes back to say he's had about a thousand texts from people telling him it was Poborsky, Germany won Euro96 and Stoichkov was Bulgarian.
All sorted. Good.
So he puts on a song for the bed while he talks over the next segment of the show. The song is Carnival de Paris by Dario G (dance fans will remember this song). Now, that was the tune for the world cup in France 98!
Surely everyone remembers the song for the tournament in Euro96??!
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