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let's keep the music
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hurry up sean we're coming
if that's the size of your overnight bag
i'd hate to see the size of your
suitcase
you never know what could happen when
we're over there oh i hope something
happens
are you only going to belong for a
couple of days oh do you know how
stylish the french are
yes especially dominique well i couldn't
make up my mind what to wear tonight
so you thought you'd carry your wardrobe
there's just a few
things now desmond you know what you
have to do do what do i got to do yes no
number one remember shawn at cousin
gracie's in dorset
i leave all the food in the fridge come
on hurry up boys and girls
cool blimey i wouldn't have thought part
it would be such sweet saw at your age i
would be glad to see the backs of each
other for a couple of days
what shut up hold on i've done some on a
favor and all i do is catch ya
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now desmond i'll go through it again the
food is in the fridge where everything
is labeled
right breakfast lunch dinner
everything all you have to do is pop it
in the microwave
sure you don't use that thing well it's
time you learned
don't push your luck you otherwise
you'll stay here with your father
yes behave yourself anyway that
microwave don't even look like a proper
cooker
it looked like a tv in which of us push
things
it's pretty simple this all you do you
switch it on you plug it in
you pop it in no you plug it in and you
switch it on
same difference you see that you can't
even agree to disagree if these young
minds can operate it
or you expect an old dog like me to
operate because
this old dog has learned that this new
trick wasn't difficult
so she left the instruction manual on
the table upstairs
so this solder can learn it too all
right
oh listen will you miss me oh i don't
know you ain't gone yet
gosh don't get up to anything
mwah listen listen
when you see that dominic you telling
the principal i'm still waiting yeah
don't worry
i'll put in a good word for you bye
enjoy yourself
desperate damn rules tonight you gonna
rail
why are you hungry it's funny how you
could miss things
well i mean like surely being your
skinny mac nutrient tyson whatever
i didn't mean it that way it's just that
we didn't have any this morning that's
why you're hungry
yeah we'll i'll pop out a shot some
sandwiches in a minute how's that
sandwiches you call that food
there's just two slices of bread with
something cold in between
i want something hot and filling food
did somebody mention food
why i'm hungry you know two teas on
toast please shell
yes pleasure listen
my wifey hairdresser is not here if you
want tea and toast there's a cough down
the road
oh yeah she got to boulon today we're
gonna have to ask for
restaurants next monday but what have we
got for now desmond pogba you've been
feeding your face all morning
look man my stomach is still playing
bungalow drums
maybe you have worms worms they must
have been in that party i had last night
well if i feed them they might go back
to the garden
well pope by if you feel ill i better
come to you tonight and carry macho
instead
no never felt better man let's fill the
beans where are you going tonight yes
please do tell
me i was almost invited so i'd like to
know there's no way special
just a little uh piano bar in stretch oh
what you mean well there's lots of um
we mean i'm a married man
anybody know how to operate a microwave
yes i do we'll have one at home
step this way there's food enough
upstairs to feed the five thousand
uh tony when you finish with that
customer lock up his lunch time
you know i mean you show me what is
michael listen who's the boss of this
shop
my son or me you know i'll be up in a
minute good
redfish rice and peas boy i am so hungry
i could eat the label
she got it aki
and there's one
how about you i thought you said you
could operate this thing yeah i thought
you said we africans understand
sophisticated technology
yes but this one is more complicated
don't paradise one i'll sort it out in
no time and look i ain't got time for
that let me go out and get some pop grub
don't talk about grub man another one
living in my stomach
be patient you two just give me a minute
i've almost cracked it
matthew that is a microwave not a safe
you know wicked probably dragged you by
the place some hard tunes
not all black people speak like that
tony
i'd like to go to this exquisite public
house where there's a marvellous jukebox
that plays some harder tunes
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yeah man they sure don't make choose
live that's an animal
they played back then but today's music
is a lot of electro synthesized pop
yeah in one year next i mean
take a look at scratch music you know
scratching records together
there is no need to play an instrument
just add a backbeat
preferably handclaps and robert is your
fella
that's not music that's plagiarism
that's right
thank you thank you and uh what lecture
did you get that from matthew
is today's multimedia society a question
of style over content
oh god i've got an essay for you well
michael forgive desmond for closing the
shop today
you surely can have a deal off i can
have a day off yeah but michael's paying
me to be with you today
so you hid me in chair what do you think
you're doing
nothing i'm sitting here having an
intelligent conversation with my friends
about style
over content and if you had as much
style and indeed content as my learned
gentleman yeah
you may join us dressed up quite dressed
up
uh same again please and um a pint of
lager
for my son dad it's saturday our busiest
day and here you are
there are 52 saturdays in every year and
if one goes missing it ain't going to
make much difference so just relax
and stop thinking about that god you
call money for a while
you're a young man and if you carry on
like this you're going to walk yourself
to an early grave
which will deprive me of one of the few
pleasures i have left
what's that hearing you say nice things
about me on my deathbed
i worry about you you know you really
enjoy
confrontation don't you especially with
you
now that's what i call music
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what's wrong the landlords throw me out
i went to visit a friend and when i
came back he changed all the locks and
he threw all my clothes out onto the
street
he can't do that it's against the law
nah not anymore it isn't
haven't you got anywhere you can stay no
why did he kick you out what kind of a
question is that look i just want to get
to the bottom of the situation
the situation is very simple the man
flings you out punchy bottom
why these are ruthless times we're
living in let's do it to them before
they do it to you
i was reading a piece and then you have
no friends to turn to
not really you see i don't come from
around here i'm from wales
well um i've got a spare room you could
use for the night
dad you don't know what you're letting
yourself in for
once she's in you'll never get her out
well the landlord didn't have that
problem
that is a problem if a man can't extend
a helping hand to a fellow woman
what is this world coming to i mean look
at him
what's your name helen
do you know how to use a microwave
yes i'll step this way helen
i thought you said you could operate it
yes i can but this one's
more complicated why don't you let me do
it i know how
i bought the same one of lee lee no
wonder we can operate it
oh you sending me sir aren't we
since i've always come to london then
huh ironic isn't it
i came to london to work in a hotel in
the west end
i'd only been there a few weeks when
they introduced a new shift system
couldn't do it because of the baby then
i began to fall a few weeks behind with
the rent
yeah how many weights 26.
get a job know my benefit when to feed
jimmy
oh dear what's wrong
i haven't got any baby food and you
haven't got any money
right yes uh sunny couple of pounds
i get my child benefit tomorrow i'll
give her the money no that's all right
i'll give it to you what's this all
right
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nice baby
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i knew i shouldn't have trusted her with
that money well maybe something happened
to her look what did i tell you about
people like that once you let them in
you'd never get rid of them well it
certainly doesn't apply in her case do
you think i love to call you for this
i'll come and give her some time yeah i
mean there could be all sorts of reasons
time i'm already late for my piano bar
what are we going to do with the baby if
she doesn't come back
she will come back she doesn't look like
the kind of woman that would abandon her
baby
father she's been gone three hours the
shop is only down the road yeah look she
might have bumped into the landlord he
had a change of art and she
would be done i think i'll call the
police
i know that small number two
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listen to these men look it's perfectly
natural the babies had a crack okay
um go in the bathroom and bring me a
flannel lefty let's open cleaner
and um while you watch it go downstairs
and bring me a hand toy all right
cling film is this any good
hello there's one it's me hi charlie how
are you darling
i called the house this afternoon and he
just rang and rang and there was no
answer
yes uh well that was because we were so
busy i had to take the phone off the pub
oh no
is everything all right yes yes did you
start
out the microwave oh yes this is funny i
made such a fuss about it it is easy
once you get the hang of it
yes
what's that noise
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too hot well microwave food can be like
that sometimes
oh desmond i wish you could be here it
is
so romantic
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um i'll see you tomorrow you're trying
to get rid of me
no um where are you oh we're in this
lovely restaurant with dominique the
restaurant there
i got the nappies um charlie and gloria
and their restaurant
fight uh tell them not to hug the pate
listen do you want to have a word with
gloria all right hello dad
oh having a nice time wish we were only
joking bye
i better go now look after yourself
bye bye sir
i'm getting too old for this does she
suspect anything
nah everything's cool
hello ma'am ah
what a pleasant surprise i'm in the bath
pop fantasy dead
up to no good
mother he's a grown man and grown men
always get up to no good
yes of course i will
yeah goodbye mother i'll speak to you
tomorrow
look at him not a cure in the world
hmm just think we all like that once
even you when you're gonna make me one
of them huh who
i'm serious i feel incomplete
i want to be a grandfather soon look i
can't afford to have children yet
why do you always have to reduce things
down to money
yeah i mean look at him he's priceless
you can never afford to have kids you
have them out of love
and whether you like it or not me and
your mother had you out of love
in those days you were living in a tiny
one bedroom flat in east dull it's not a
million miles away from yelling and
young jimmy
could barely afford to pay the rent much
less feed you
but at least we had each other if we'd
waited to afford you we would be sitting
at this bed tonight wondering what the
hell are we gonna do with this baby
sold tomorrow
well of course i miss my wife and
children but there are certain things
one has to sacrifice in order to secure
the future
but there are those degrees you've got
matthew you should have enough
qualifications to go back to the gambia
by now
it's not as easy as that it's a complex
issue that would take a long time to
explain
well we've got all night
it's to do with the present educational
structure i come from a long line of
intellectuals
at the back of it in my family we
believe that even if a man is going to
be a road sweeper you mean you're
getting all these degrees to be a rude
sweeper
even if a man is going to be a road
sweeper he mustn't be denied a
university education oh your africans
are so
long-winded right all right
yeah poor palmy you must miss your wife
and kids
nah sometimes
all right i admit it it was my fault i
mean she caught me in bed with another
woman
you know i asked forgiveness and she
said she'd never forgive me and true to
her word she never has
but the worst thing is that my kids
haven't forgiven me i mean i
wouldn't mind but then they weren't
there when she caught me
i thought they showed some respect or at
least some pity but nah
just like their mother nothing well how
did you expect them to love you
when you give by your own admission you
were never around much
you were always aware playing jigs
but i don't know what you're talking
about because you're not a wrong a lot
yourself ah
but we africans are quite different from
you messengers
my children have to love me
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all right all right i'm coming
all right all right i only got two pairs
of legs
you yes me can i have my baby back
please
you want your baby back how can you call
him your baby
i mean what happened to and why did you
and where did you
and what is how look streets in a woman
i'm really sorry i didn't mean to do
what i did can i come in
when the landlord threw me out i didn't
know what to do
when you came along it was like a a
miracle
i had nowhere to go when you offered me
a place to stay you didn't even take my
offer
i know i'm really sorry do you know what
it's like being a single mom
of course not oh i didn't mean that
i wanted today to myself i haven't had a
day to myself since jimmy was born
you looked like people who could take
care of him for a while i wasn't going
to do anything
i was gonna go to the shops and i was
gonna come straight back
lo and behold i bumped into the
child-minded used to look after jimmy
when i was working
i went back to her place i told her me
problems
and you know what what i had the first
good night's sleep since jimmy was born
it might sound selfish but it's oh well
anyway
she has a spare room and she's offered
it to me rent-free until i get a job
i always thought the big cities had
little time for somebody like me
but you can be wrong thanks for your
support
oh
it should change
um
it's for jimmy
it's okay girls carry on cleaning
that apron hello hello darling
well charlie
hey did you have a nice time oh yes yes
but it's good to be back home
all right lee anywhere anywhere how can
we thank you
papa voice
oh what's that mean it's french for i
didn't get you anything greedy
that's not even a message from dominique
oh yeah i said was there a little loving
message she wanted to send lee
the prince of peckham and she said um
yeah ooh
watch out watch her
and what did you bring me darling oh
just moi
oh well that's just what i wanted
well now did you have a nice quiet time
oh yes yes
made lots of money in the shop yesterday
yeah that yes yes yeah
did you get up to anything now
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so
do
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uh
you