Whilst the 1990s saw marked new genres and practices on the fairground, buttressed by a terrific upsurge in the spectacle and amplification of pop culture on the fairground via the monopolisation of dance music
this is cock on, the experience of fairground rides pre: Happy Hardcore/2-Step/Bassline is v. hard to remember for me
― footballer of the future (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 October 2013 16:03 (ten years ago) link
i love fairground airbrush art btw, it is unique and precious
totally - I'd never looked for it on the web before, heartened to see the enthusiasm for the stuff of now rather than just the old-timey tootling wooden horse stuff (which is fine too, but I also want giant airbrush Cheryl Coles).
― woof, Thursday, 17 October 2013 16:10 (ten years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/P1000724_zpsd4f07b91.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/P1000708_zps3c5e0a52.jpg
― footballer of the future (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 October 2013 16:57 (ten years ago) link
packed fairground under apocalyptic rainclouds = otm
― HAVE YOU SEEN ME? Please don't hesitate (imago), Wednesday, October 16, 2013 11:11 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm
― cardamon, Thursday, 17 October 2013 21:51 (ten years ago) link
Did they airbrush over Mel B to make that Keith Prodg picture?
― kinder, Thursday, 17 October 2013 23:20 (ten years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-24574923
Drunk students who brought Newcastle city centre to a standstill while singing and dancing along to a cult football chant have been criticised by Northumbria Police.
Footage of dozens of people joining in a song praising brothers Yaya and Kolo Toure was posted online.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6ta37kgSBo&feature=c4-overview&list=UU902aI-4snZhxFkiWNzISwA
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Friday, 18 October 2013 00:08 (ten years ago) link
ugh
― Maggishos soyfriend. Wins. (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 18 October 2013 00:20 (ten years ago) link
Do you have an arts secret you would like to share? review@observer.co.uk
Kate JacksonSinger with the Long BlondesGo Sheffo fanzine
Go Sheffo is a fanzine about Sheffield and its potential to be the coolest city in the world. Previous editions have included last summer's 'Sheffield Is Beautiful', which featured photographs of Sheffielders enjoying a brief hot spell, while the recent 'Death' issue was about the potential for reusing disused factory works for creative spaces such as band practice rooms and artists' studios. Last year, Go started a competition called 'Cooling the Towers'. It's aim was to save these sleeping beasts from certain demolition by turning them into a symbol of what Sheffield stands for: a proud and fiercely creative city. The famous cooling towers (pictured below right) would become an Angel of the North for the Tinsley Viaduct. One suggestion was that the towers would light up as cars passed on the M1, one a tower of red lights and one a tower of white. Go Sheffo petitioned the city council with these suggested uses but met with mute response. So the secret potential of the towers may tragically never be realised.
― Maggishos soyfriend. Wins. (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 18 October 2013 00:39 (ten years ago) link
sometimes i just remember fragments of guardian articles from 2006 or whatever and have to look them up, it's like a degraded reverse clairvoyance
― Maggishos soyfriend. Wins. (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 18 October 2013 00:43 (ten years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-24624639
Hoax bomb threat bridegroom is jailed in LiverpoolA would-be bridegroom who made a hoax bomb threat to a wedding venue after realising he had failed to confirm his booking has been jailed.
A would-be bridegroom who made a hoax bomb threat to a wedding venue after realising he had failed to confirm his booking has been jailed.
― I like to think I have learnt a thing or two about music (Neil S), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 11:49 (ten years ago) link
I've found the above story oddly haunting for reasons I'm not sure I can quite explain.
― this is how a punch sounds, like ditch, like quitch (soref), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 21:17 (ten years ago) link
i feel like altho he done a bad thing 12 months was a bit of cunt's sentence on the judge's part
― such a classic irl (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 21:18 (ten years ago) link
Can totally see myself doing something like this in a similar situation, I think that's part of it. The same queasy feeling I get when I watch certain episodes of Peep Show.
― this is how a punch sounds, like ditch, like quitch (soref), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 21:22 (ten years ago) link
have a vague feeling i may be at least distantly related to that scouse dude. my mum is a scouser and has the same last name. it's not a wildly uncommon name though i.. guess.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 23 October 2013 03:45 (ten years ago) link
"You probably done the bomb scare yourself" is a key part of this tale.
― Alba, Wednesday, 23 October 2013 23:02 (ten years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DartfordPriory4878.JPG
― Snipers as a breed tend to be supercilious (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 24 October 2013 02:25 (ten years ago) link
not so much as the picture as the series of decisions that led to that person uploading that photograph to wikipedia and then annotating it on the dartford wikipedia page
Basingstoke is peculiar. you exit the station and, well they've basically taken a load of high street shopping conglomerations (debenhams + sundry satellite stores, next + etc) that previously had formed mini-malls and covered the *all* over, so the second you enter Basingstoke it's totally a huge covered mall that you have to walk through to get to the "Top End of the Town", which is old market-town Basingstoke and more pleasant in some respects but full of shit shops and an excellent looking local museum.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 24 October 2013 20:31 (ten years ago) link
that's barely coherent I recognise. the Mary Poppin, yes, bakers is incredibly expensive bad and slow.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 24 October 2013 20:32 (ten years ago) link
my only experience of Basingstoke has been passing thru on a National Express coach i think. didn't look like i'd want to get off and look around.
― nemo me chimpune lacessit (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 24 October 2013 20:34 (ten years ago) link
those towns where they have typical high street chain shops cafes etc in 18th century buildings with low ceilings are quite real
― Snipers as a breed tend to be supercilious (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 24 October 2013 20:36 (ten years ago) link
hi Chester
― nemo me chimpune lacessit (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 24 October 2013 20:36 (ten years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T6fEp02s6ac/TjB-BU64lLI/AAAAAAAAFIA/2QXazx8Evzw/s1600/Oxford-Pizza-Express.jpg
― Snipers as a breed tend to be supercilious (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 24 October 2013 20:43 (ten years ago) link
Oxford's a city of real/not real contrasts.
― he had tons of money in the bank and left the toilet seat up (NotEnough), Thursday, 24 October 2013 20:49 (ten years ago) link
i went to sixth form in basingstoke, it's a desperately awful place to be a teenager. nothing at all to do there and unless you're going to that cock-awful shopping center it's totally impossible to get to anywhere else in the town without a car. went back two years ago on a cold and shitty day for my mate's funeral, twelve quid for a taxi to the crematorium and an earful of racist drivel from the cabbie. lots of big shiny new buildings there and still fuck all to do
― gotta lol geir (NickB), Thursday, 24 October 2013 20:57 (ten years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Northallerton_Pizza_Express.JPG
― Snipers as a breed tend to be supercilious (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 24 October 2013 20:58 (ten years ago) link
has any youth culture oriented media outlet ever done a 'least bad provincial town / suburb to be a teenager in' listicle
― Snipers as a breed tend to be supercilious (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 24 October 2013 20:59 (ten years ago) link
Pizza Express seem to specialise in this shit. Leamington Spa is another "tawdry shops in neo-Classical buildings" classic as i remember
― nemo me chimpune lacessit (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 24 October 2013 21:00 (ten years ago) link
i know i'm biased but brighton ftw xp
― gotta lol geir (NickB), Thursday, 24 October 2013 21:01 (ten years ago) link
Oxford's a city of real/not real contrasts.― he had tons of money in the bank and left the toilet seat up (NotEnough), Thursday, October 24, 2013 8:49 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― he had tons of money in the bank and left the toilet seat up (NotEnough), Thursday, October 24, 2013 8:49 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Cambridge has a "reality checkpoint" but it overstates the case imo.
― Luigi Nono le petit robot, actually, saves Christmas (seandalai), Thursday, 24 October 2013 22:57 (ten years ago) link
irreal england
http://www.blokesandbirdschicago.com/about/
― Paraoxonases in Inflammation, Infection, and Toxicology (nakhchivan), Monday, 28 October 2013 21:34 (ten years ago) link
This place claims to be British, so we'll use a Brit term to describe it: It's a bit shit.
Feels like a rant worthy morning, so lets do that. I feel like the creator of this place was once told about GB, a few words and phrases, and maybe a brief overview of the food, then 10 years later he recounted what he could and tried to base a restaurant upon it. Words and phrases are strewn about the menu with no regard for meaning or context, and it ends up making the customer feel like a jackass when ordering.
Cocktails: Seriously, why do restaurants feel the need to name their cocktails this way? You know what I wanted? Something with bourbon. You know what I had to order of their cocktail menu? "Mind the Bollocks". Now, I realize that this is probably in reference to the Sex Pistols (edgy...), although when it comes to it, drinks are like, one word phrases. So I have to order a "bollocks." Barkeep, please give me a "testicles" on the rock. That being said, it wasn't very good. Too sweet. Their entire cocktail menu appeared uninspired, and named like something from a themed restaurant like a Hard Rock Cafe.
Food: The menu was nice and short, although I might argue TOO short. The curry, albeit tasty (and also stupidly named,) would be unrecognizable as a curry to any Brit. It felt that they had filled out the menu with standard bar food but put "English" or "the Queen's" or something in front of it. Buckingham Baked Mac N' Cheese? Marleybone Mozz & Toms? Posh on Beck? Come off it.
― Paraoxonases in Inflammation, Infection, and Toxicology (nakhchivan), Monday, 28 October 2013 21:37 (ten years ago) link
"Amish chicken""Fancy curry""Queen's Oreo ice cream"amazing
― kinder, Monday, 28 October 2013 21:44 (ten years ago) link
The thought of an 'English' theme pub serving 'brunch' is enough to make me choke on my bowl of shreddies.
― oppet, Monday, 28 October 2013 21:47 (ten years ago) link
Butcher & Squeeze
artisan cheese, serrano ham, dried & fresh fruit, water crackers & quince's membrillo
― Paraoxonases in Inflammation, Infection, and Toxicology (nakhchivan), Monday, 28 October 2013 21:48 (ten years ago) link
http://www.wsc.co.uk/forum-index/27-football/852607-mascots-observing-minutes-silences
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Monday, 11 November 2013 17:24 (ten years ago) link
Pompey v Norwich Sept 1997 - minute's silence for Lady Di - our mascot = over-sized mobile phone bowing its headset.
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Monday, 11 November 2013 17:30 (ten years ago) link
not to take the shine off the excellent WSC thread but the practice strikes me as spiritually American
― too much Michu, not enough meta (DJ Mencap), Monday, 11 November 2013 18:50 (ten years ago) link
the difference with america is that hieratic kitsch is naturalized, every nfl game has the national anthem and military pageantry alongside the cheerleaders and pyrotechnics, in this country the popular commemorative tendency is more a sort of uneasy solemnity enforced via bashfulness
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Monday, 11 November 2013 18:58 (ten years ago) link
none more real and England-y than this
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/10794642.Katie_Price_refuses_to_come_out_of_back_room_at_Bolton_supermarket_as_perfume_launch_flops/
Fewer than 30 people queued to meet Katie Price at her fragrance signing in Bolton - and she responded by ordering out photographers and refusing to come out of a back room. The short queue gathered at Tesco Extra in Horwich near Bolton yesterday morning, where the Former Patcham High pupil was due to appear at 11am.. The strong-smelling, musky scent comes in a lipstick-red bottle, which the former Page 3 model said she designed to represent her "flirty yet innocent" side.One punter said it smelled just like Brut.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 13:48 (ten years ago) link
http://www.real-whitby.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Real-whitby-logo.jpg
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Friday, 15 November 2013 09:59 (ten years ago) link
that site appears to feature a whole section devoted to the annual Goth weekend, which could be none more England
― a strident purist when it comes to band-related shirts (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 November 2013 11:15 (ten years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/user/benheels/videos?sort=dd&view=0&shelf_id=1
― r|t|c, Saturday, 16 November 2013 09:52 (ten years ago) link
realness
― a strident purist when it comes to band-related shirts (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 16 November 2013 10:22 (ten years ago) link
yeah, have to cop a late pass cos the tremendous 'mans on road' there is attracting hipster kisses now but really it's all high grade material as they say
― r|t|c, Saturday, 16 November 2013 10:27 (ten years ago) link
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/premier-inn-guest-stripped-naked-2786577
― In times of osterity, these Eton-educated poshboys (Bananaman Begins), Saturday, 16 November 2013 10:56 (ten years ago) link
that version doesn't have the realest bit of the story
The court was told Small had travelled from Sheffield to make a deal on a used car.
― a strident purist when it comes to band-related shirts (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 16 November 2013 11:18 (ten years ago) link
demeanour, accent etc of mans on road bruh reminds a little of ex newsnight now channel 4 news economics maven paul mason, could be his son or nephew or something
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Saturday, 16 November 2013 12:36 (ten years ago) link
obviously the ben heels youtube channel is my favourite thing in the thread
― ogmor, Saturday, 16 November 2013 13:40 (ten years ago) link