Nil by Mouth
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1:40:02
She took his dinner in to him once.
Me mum, in the pub...

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...and plonked it
in front of him on a tray.

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Knife and fork, salt and pepper.
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He said, "What's that?"
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She said, "It's your dinner.
I thought you might be hungry.

1:40:19
You ain't eaten for three days.
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You live in here, you might
as well fucking eat in here."

1:40:24
It's funny.
1:40:25
He didn't like that, did he?
Mugged him up in front of his mates.

1:40:29
Thought more of them cunts
than he did us. Lovely.

1:40:33
Yeah.
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She got a clump over that.
Well, she would, wouldn't she?

1:40:50
He was always pissed in there,
weren't he? You know?

1:40:53
We go in the pub to get our living.
That's where we do our business.

1:40:59
He'd be in there spunking out while
we're sitting at home without a dinar.

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And he'd promise things, you know?
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Promise to take us places,
you know? Never did.

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Never took us anywhere.
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And when he did
bother to come home...

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...he'd sit in that fucking chair,
doss off with his tray on his lap.

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And I'd just stand there looking at him.
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I'd look in his face...
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...and my mother'd go upstairs,
and I'd say:

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"Say, Mum,
ain't Daddy coming to bed?"

1:41:42
And she'd say,
"No. No, he's all right, son.

1:41:44
He'll come when he wakes up."
He's gotta wake up to go to bed.

1:41:48
Go to bed, yeah.
1:41:52
Now, I'd stand there looking at this
fucking old man, you know, my dad...

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...you know, in that chair,
that horrible fucking chair...


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