Oh South London…

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  • CAFCsayer
    CAFCsayer Posts: 11,009
    LargeAddick said:
    I’ve always thought it a bit puerile but each to their own. However, I’ve always found the Adams family song really cringe and I’d rather that was stopped than the one suggested.
    I'm all here for the Adams family one when we play Norwich or Palace but outside of that it's naff
  • timken
    timken Posts: 1,187
    I remember an interview with Allison Moyet (an avid southend fan and lesbian).she said it was her favorite chant.(obviously with south london changed to south essex or whatever
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 16,933
    Boom said:
    It’s not particularly a forest or south London “ditty” is it? Virtually every club in the country sings their version.
    Watford's version: "Oh, South-East Herts...".  Nah, doesn't have the the cachet the Charlton version does.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 31,538
    CAFCsayer said:
    Who doesn't love a bit of tits, fanny and the Charlton?
    A gay spanner.
  • Athletico Charlton
    Athletico Charlton Posts: 15,334
    It's not for me.  
  • 3G
    3G Posts: 792
    It's an Arsenal song, end of. 
  • MillwallFan
    MillwallFan Posts: 3,881
    We don’t just sing it, we had a flag made with it on. Blanked out a couple of letters in case anyone finds the words t*ts and f*nny offensive 😁
  • usetobunkin
    usetobunkin Posts: 2,732
    edited October 21
    Would you sing it standing next to your Mum/Sister/Wife/Daughter?
    NO me neither its childish and offensive.
  • CAFCTrev
    CAFCTrev Posts: 6,540
    killerandflash said:
    The thing I never understood about the song, is that Bermondsey is surely also in South London?
    "Ooooh the very specific part of the South London that Charlton are in............is wonderful!"

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  • aliwibble
    aliwibble Posts: 30,155
    Was it the Voice that had an article explaining how someone had convinced their kid that the offending line was actually "It's full of chips, grannies and Charlton"?  Although given the portions at the Valley, I'm not sure we could justify the first of those either. 
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,953
    timken said:
    I remember an interview with Allison Moyet (an avid southend fan and lesbian).she said it was her favorite chant.(obviously with south london changed to south essex or whatever
    That'll come as a shock to her husband... 
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,892
    usetobunkin said:
    Would you sing it standing next to your Mum/Sister/Wife/Daughter?
    NO me neither its childish and offensive.
    You find it's offensive yet quote all the lines from the Addams family song.
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 19,576
    The second biggest problem with it, is that we're not a south London club, we're a south east London club
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,892
    We're a sarf east Londahn club to be exact.
  • Er_Be_Ab_Pl_Wo_Wo_Ch
    Er_Be_Ab_Pl_Wo_Wo_Ch Posts: 2,386
    The general sentiment seems to be the song doesn't cover itself in glory, and it should have gone earlier.
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 7,671
    Er_Be_Ab_Pl_Wo_Wo_Ch said:
    The general sentiment seems to be the song doesn't cover itself in glory, and it should have gone earlier.
    Doesn’t seem to be the general sentiment on here…
  • Croydon
    Croydon Posts: 13,750
    killerandflash said:
    The thing I never understood about the song, is that Bermondsey is surely also in South London?
    Say this every fucking time people sing it. Would be up for scrapping the first bit just to be rid of this!
  • gringo
    gringo Posts: 1,687
    "Oh South London,
    Is Wonderful,
    Oh South London is Wonderful,
    Eleven Chips, Vape Shops and Potholes, Oh South London...."
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,953
    SporadicAddick said:
    Er_Be_Ab_Pl_Wo_Wo_Ch said:
    The general sentiment seems to be the song doesn't cover itself in glory, and it should have gone earlier.
    Doesn’t seem to be the general sentiment on here…
    Actually, it does. I just counted the negative and positive reactions, leaving out most of the ones that don't commit either way (like my own), there are roughly double the number of nos to yes's. 



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  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 24,938
    The song that always makes me laugh is when people sing
    Any away game 
    .....is a shithole i wanna go home. 

    I remember sitting in warm sunshine at Wycombe watching the Red Kites flying overhead surrounded by beautiful views and  people were singing Wycombes a shithole i wanna go home. 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 73,534
    blackpool72 said:
    The song that always makes me laugh is when people sing
    Any away game 
    .....is a shithole i wanna go home. 

    I remember sitting in warm sunshine at Wycombe watching the Red Kites flying overhead surrounded by beautiful views and  people were singing Wycombes a shithole i wanna go home. 
    I look forward to singing that song when we are away in Monaco. 
  • EugenesAxe
    EugenesAxe Posts: 5,713
    MillwallFan said:
    We don’t just sing it, we had a flag made with it on. Blanked out a couple of letters in case anyone finds the words t*ts and f*nny offensive 😁
    Why is Miiiiiiiiiii using a flag that has a Charlton connection?
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,990
    killerandflash said:
    blackpool72 said:
    The song that always makes me laugh is when people sing
    Any away game 
    .....is a shithole i wanna go home. 

    I remember sitting in warm sunshine at Wycombe watching the Red Kites flying overhead surrounded by beautiful views and  people were singing Wycombes a shithole i wanna go home. 
    I look forward to singing that song when we are away in Monaco. 
    Or Como - first ground I've been to with a Yacht club across the road.
  • CAFCTrev
    CAFCTrev Posts: 6,540
    blackpool72 said:
    The song that always makes me laugh is when people sing
    Any away game 
    .....is a shithole i wanna go home. 

    I remember sitting in warm sunshine at Wycombe watching the Red Kites flying overhead surrounded by beautiful views and  people were singing Wycombes a shithole i wanna go home. 
    "Leamington Spa is a shithole, I wanna go home" 

    .....when you live in Plumstead. 
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 59,450
    To help all the tourists in the East Stand feel integrated, I’ve been singing about the many kilometres I’ve travelled 
  • MillwallFan
    MillwallFan Posts: 3,881
    EugenesAxe said:
    MillwallFan said:
    We don’t just sing it, we had a flag made with it on. Blanked out a couple of letters in case anyone finds the words t*ts and f*nny offensive 😁
    Why is Miiiiiiiiiii using a flag that has a Charlton connection?
    Leaving out Rodney’s middle name (the only Charlton connection I’ve ever heard on OFaH), Peckham is a Millwall area with us being the closest league club to it. So there. 
  • EugenesAxe
    EugenesAxe Posts: 5,713
    MillwallFan said:
    EugenesAxe said:
    MillwallFan said:
    We don’t just sing it, we had a flag made with it on. Blanked out a couple of letters in case anyone finds the words t*ts and f*nny offensive 😁
    Why is Miiiiiiiiiii using a flag that has a Charlton connection?
    Leaving out Rodney’s middle name (the only Charlton connection I’ve ever heard on OFaH), Peckham is a Millwall area with us being the closest league club to it. So there. 
    In the words of Del boy "Stone me even a Millwall fan could work that out"
  • Guardy
    Guardy Posts: 142
    Some people are not happy unless they can find offence in something.
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 7,671
    Algarveaddick said:
    SporadicAddick said:
    Er_Be_Ab_Pl_Wo_Wo_Ch said:
    The general sentiment seems to be the song doesn't cover itself in glory, and it should have gone earlier.
    Doesn’t seem to be the general sentiment on here…
    Actually, it does. I just counted the negative and positive reactions, leaving out most of the ones that don't commit either way (like my own), there are roughly double the number of nos to yes's. 


    “General sentiment” is defined as “an overall collective feeling”. This thread, and the stats, don’t seem to me to meet that threshold, particularly if those that don’t commit either way (the majority?) are clearly not fussed one way or the other.

    Personally, the only thing that bothers me about it is that it’s another generic song that doesn’t differentiate us in any way, unlike Goodbye Horse and, to an extent, Valley Floyd Road. I’d really like to see Yippee I A (sp.) make a decent comeback. No one else used it like us at the time and it would be unique now.

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