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  1. Great video. The Public House was a way for pitmen could clear their throat from the pit dust. In the days of the spit buckets, I can remember my grandfather spat on the fire, mixture of coal dust and alcohol. Yes, quite true that alcohol was their main recreation, and the women and home was their hardship really. The men would spend all day in the boozer and give the women a little to buy food and rent, very much a Catholic trait of the man being the head of the household. I'm not saying anything negative with Catholics. George Owel picked up on this in his publication Road To Wigan Pier. A lot of working classes didn't appreciate George Owel and was considered antisocial. This may have been his middle class background and didn't trust him in that respect within the actual working classes. George Orwell found the worst places, in the doss house. It would be a great shame for a man in those times to loose his job, and not be able to support is family, they had a benevolent fund among themselves, and their community was very close... so they'd take care of each other in that respect. The doss house was when noone else would take them in. So, for some reason they'd been outcasts from their community.
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  2. I think that he has been brave to 'come out' in those currcumstance. It is disgusting the abuse that is homophobia abuse, and even harder when its on a character. Yes, they don't like the backlash. Glad there are people like this that have the same perception ❤ great work
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