Boys from the Blackstuff - Yosser's Desperate

[jezebel892]

Bernard Hill played the Captain in the film 'Titanic'. Acting is such a gift. Wish I had it. This is such a sad scene of a man on the edge, the priest is so kind and sympathetic. Then, a little humour comes into the scene when he says 'Call me Dan', and Yosser says 'I'm desperate Dan'.

[Minidodds1979]

I agree, things go round in cycles, this is the result of post-labour Britain, we are all screwed

[vimana19]

"Call me Dan." "I'm Desperate Dan..." Wham, wham, wham, wham, wham....!! Yosser should've been called laconic Hughes.

[denboy]

Classic



[Seano71]

You'd wanna be desperate to go visit those self righteous ass bandits

[BradBrassman]

Nobody plays desperate like Bernard Hill. Thats why he's still one of our best character actors.

[ivymercer]

powerful stufff

[makemeateeshirt]

one of the funniest lines eva ...albeit fae a liverpudlian...i'm deseperate.......dan

[waiting4Oct]

@makemeateeshirt Except Bernard Hill is a Manc and doesn't hide his Manc accent at all.

[makemeateeshirt]

one of the funniest lines eva ...albeit fae a liverpudlian

[anya933]

This scene would melt the coldest of hearts. Very sad.

[chairmanmeow1973]

Classic telly from when the beeb had some balls...

[hawksrl]

lol im desperate dan

[24nov67]

this brings back a lot of memories from the 80's and the extent to which the thatcherite junta of the time decimated this once great nation.

[Punorss]

She did an amazing hatchet job on my home town. It went from a happy working place to a shit hole full of crime and dispair almost over night! Well done Maggie you rank old cow!

[24nov67]

she wasn't interested in anything north of london, but northern england and scotland really felt the force of her anti working class policies. So anybody thinking of voting conservative at the next election be warned, take it from someone who was there in the eighties that under david cameron this country will go back to the bad old days of the 1980's.

[POSE555]

@24nov67 Dark days ? Do you mean dockers pushing for a 32hr week and a job for life?

[24nov67]

@POSE555 if you took the time to read what i posted i said bad days not dark days and nor do i remember people striking for a 32hour week they were striking to protect their jobs from the policies of this savage old bastard and her ultra right wing extremist goverment, and while we're on the subject of work eveybody's entitled to a job it's a basic human right come the day of the revolution cunts like you will be the first against the wall.

[liamevans]

@24nov67 She is a hideous ghoulish bitch with much blood, destruction and death on her hands. I remember the appalled reactions of Lancashire miners who were collecting in Dublin in November '84 the day after the iRA bomb in Brighton. They were outraged at the IRA, not because of what they did, but because they missed! No word of a lie.

[24nov67]

@liamevans Well said my friend, i hear she has alzheimers disease that's at an advanced stage? pity really because she'll have no recollection of the misery and pain she inflicted upon millions of decent people the lengh and bridth of this once great country of ours.

[cliffjohnford]

@24nov67 You may not like it, but she did what she thought was right, just like when she gave the order to sink the Belgrano. If we had more politicians with a spine. We might not now be the lapdog of the US and whatever imbecile is dictating their foreign policy. And to use as Alzeimhers as a joke is shameless

[24nov67]

@cliffjohnford she wasn't a lapdog of the us you're having a laugh? what about her and reagan? and what about the american nuclear missiles that were dumped all over britain? do you honestly think for a minute that america had our interests at heart? no my misguided friend the reason for an american arsenal of nuclear weapons in britain was that if the us and ussr had come to blows during the cold war then russia would have targeted us first because of the american nuclear weapons already here.

[mrbridger99]

@24nov67 yes its history repeating itself; when you get older you see what goes around comes around!

[ludwigvonsteampole1]

@catherine869 You talk in riddles which make no sense. We are all commodities to be conditioned. The ruling Banking - Industrial elite have controlled the system for the past 250 years. We are sold the illusion of wealth and prosperity, self gratitude and importance, when i reality we are all prostitutes to our industrialist masters.They use every tool in there power, Psychology, Economics to extract every last drop of wealth from the unwashed massed, whilst providing the illusion of freedom.

[hokuula]

@catherine869 Sorry but what you are saying has no evidence to back it up at all. When Thatcher took office in 1979, unemployment was 1.1 million. By 1982 it was over 3 million and it remained above 3million until 1987. In British history there has never been as big a jump in the numbers claiming unemployment benefits as happenened under Thatcher. Her policies destroyed industry and communities and left behind major structural unemployment problems that still remain nearly 30 years on.

[drwhatson]

@24nov67 You're absolutely right of course - it already has! :-(

[ImEuanAndIGotsSkeelz]

@24nov67 but not old enough or clever enough to remember what labour did in the 70's, thatcher was the inevitable result of that not just some lady who came along and made things rubbish for fun.

[tich302001]

I was at school when this was on and wasn't allowed to watch because when it was on it was after my bedtime. But I do remember the gis a job I can do that scene.

[dooky1967]

i pissin me sides here! watched this has a kid, remember fondly re-enacting on the playground! top quality, still laughin now!

[sikboyuk]

3:48 is all we need to see.

LMAO!!

[ninjaassasin1983]

im desperate dan hahaha

[ninjaassasin1983]

very sad but funny at the same time