his videos remind me of the early first person shoot-em-up games.
― tpp, Monday, 13 January 2014 22:44 (ten years ago) link
playing his escape from shopping centre game, went into a lift, doors closed, none of the buttons worked, now everything's gone dark except for the buttons and I'm scared
― a solid one word retort congealed in the vaginal orifice you call (imago), Monday, 13 January 2014 22:56 (ten years ago) link
haha i just found that shopping centre it is fucking sinister
― woof, Monday, 13 January 2014 22:58 (ten years ago) link
*centre game
he's definitely real, all the comments are from other members of the hitherto unknown-to-me lift enthusiast community. i love that he avoids filming people, instead he inhabits an eerily quiet england of hospitals, cash converters, vandalized lamp posts, ravenous wheelie bins, hybrid buses, impoverished councils, loading bays, plastic houses, overgrown model railways, tiny new-build housing estates, ceefax, abandoned equestrian centres, wigwags, air-conditioning units, violated geocaches, greenhouses & of course, lots of lifts, all investigated with curiosity (gleefully trespassing & even getting on top of at least one lift) & a sense of decency. he's invented this minecraftesque building simulator & there are a lot of videos of him silently wandering around his creations. he's used it to make a fictional town called coalham which he has filled w/ his beloved grotty buildings &, of course, a variety of lifts.
― ogmor, Monday, 13 January 2014 23:03 (ten years ago) link
1654.666 seconds, this is like how it must feel when you win wolfenstein 3D. also surprisingly terrified
― a solid one word retort congealed in the vaginal orifice you call (imago), Monday, 13 January 2014 23:25 (ten years ago) link
Fucking brilliant
― cardamon, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 04:23 (ten years ago) link
I worry he's gonna get his head kicked in by Dark Times though
Since this video, this place has very sadly closed down. This video shows how the Trafalgar center was a few months before it closed with only a third of the shops open.
Note: Even though in this video I am talking about how grotty this place is, I never wanted it to have closed down. I really like grotty places like this because they are fun! (and part of the fun is to comment on how grotty they are!). I really enjoy exploring places like this. When places like this are either closed down or cleaned up, it is a real loss. grotty places have lots of character, and finding and exploring these places is far more fun than going to some organised tourist attraction.
― cardamon, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 04:25 (ten years ago) link
Beno if you ever stumble across this thread, you're doing incredible work. please come and join us.
― secede already you Tory cowards (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 09:04 (ten years ago) link
brb just off to video a promenade down St George's Walk, Croydon
― UK Cop Humour (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 10:23 (ten years ago) link
"Skyscraperism", what a great neologism.
― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 14:28 (ten years ago) link
Ha, wait, I misread Beno. It's actually 'skyscrapersim'.
Still, skyscraperism!
― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 14:31 (ten years ago) link
Just saw this. Best thing ever. Vewy gwotty.
― An embarrassing doorman and garbage man (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 21:02 (ten years ago) link
had his voice in my head all day. important work.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 22:22 (ten years ago) link
The definitive map of the medwayhttp://i.imgur.com/5vp8nkn.png
― oppet, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 22:35 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_45s5qqKfts
was Interceptor real england?
― soref, Wednesday, 15 January 2014 09:27 (ten years ago) link
sorry, I meant to post that to this thread
The Interceptor
― soref, Wednesday, 15 January 2014 09:29 (ten years ago) link
Projected map of the Medway in 20 years time
http://www.roze.co.uk/ekmps/shops/rozepetal/images/c205f%5Bekm%5D300x300%5Bekm%5D.gif
― UK Cop Humour (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 15 January 2014 11:20 (ten years ago) link
Wales but pretty Real IMOhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-25823177
Police were called to a discount store to calm angry shoppers chasing 50p bargains in a closing down sale.The 99p Stores in Wrexham was temporarily closed after crowds of shoppers flocked to a half-price sale which was advertised until 28 January.However, many became angry and refused to leave when staff put prices back up to the full 99p price.
The 99p Stores in Wrexham was temporarily closed after crowds of shoppers flocked to a half-price sale which was advertised until 28 January.
However, many became angry and refused to leave when staff put prices back up to the full 99p price.
― Kim Wrong-un (Neil S), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 12:39 (ten years ago) link
it wld be sad if this fine thread was reduced to "rolling proles". equating poverty w/ realness is I guess a british classic but one we cld at least be self-conscious about
― ogmor, Tuesday, 21 January 2014 13:32 (ten years ago) link
not sure that was my conscious intent with posting that article, but point taken
― Kim Wrong-un (Neil S), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 13:33 (ten years ago) link
angry petty selfishnessthin-eyed silent disapprovalmonomaniacal zenophobiapost-empire post-industrial wasteland
― he had tons of money in the bank and left the toilet seat up (NotEnough), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 13:50 (ten years ago) link
xp things often get more distinctive/idiosyncratic when there's less money involved so I think it's a line the thread is always going to be wavering around
― ogmor, Tuesday, 21 January 2014 13:52 (ten years ago) link
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― Pedro Mba Obiang Avomo est un joueur de football hispano-ganéen (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 18:17 (ten years ago) link
that seems more like a late capitalism after the fall tale which might have happened in athens or budapest or buenos aires
― Pedro Mba Obiang Avomo est un joueur de football hispano-ganéen (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 18:18 (ten years ago) link
hegemonic types the world over probably like to pine for the imagined reassuring solidity of a simple life but i think british working class self-mythologized realness is as unique & particular as the industrial revolution & related biz.
― ogmor, Tuesday, 21 January 2014 23:35 (ten years ago) link
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/policeman-ian-johnson-who-gave-6508180
Policeman who gave fugitive a lift cleared of corruption, but still faces sack15 Jan 2014 06:00A jury took less that two hours to find Pc Ian Johnson not guilty of misconduct in a public office.
http://i2.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/incoming/article6499841.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/VCP_MEN_100114IanJohnson_0_2_7225489-6499841.jpg
Pc Johnson, who remains suspended from duty, is facing a disciplinary hearing and could be sacked.The officer helped a dangerous criminal evade capture by driving him home while colleagues were still trying to trace him. He picked up a man suspected of carrying out two assaults in a pub in Hyde in Manchester , before giving him a lift home without telling colleagues, jurors were told.But the officer said he failed to arrest the burly ‘animal’ only because he was scared for his life. Pc Johnson, a father of a nine-year-old daughter with 15 years in the police, was one of the officers who responded to reports of two assaults at The Albion pub in Hyde town centre.
The officer helped a dangerous criminal evade capture by driving him home while colleagues were still trying to trace him. He picked up a man suspected of carrying out two assaults in a pub in Hyde in Manchester , before giving him a lift home without telling colleagues, jurors were told.
But the officer said he failed to arrest the burly ‘animal’ only because he was scared for his life. Pc Johnson, a father of a nine-year-old daughter with 15 years in the police, was one of the officers who responded to reports of two assaults at The Albion pub in Hyde town centre.
― cardamon, Saturday, 25 January 2014 02:34 (ten years ago) link
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/firemen-rescue-tortoise-wythenshawe-flat-6640477
― oppet, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 20:41 (ten years ago) link
http://apiln.blogspot.co.uk/
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 31 January 2014 18:27 (ten years ago) link
EXCELLENT
have always enjoyed the sad face losers pull in local news stories about losers
― regret it? nope, said it? yep (Noodle Vague), Friday, 31 January 2014 18:29 (ten years ago) link
this could also have gone in my local councillors thread
― regret it? nope, said it? yep (Noodle Vague), Friday, 31 January 2014 18:30 (ten years ago) link
that King of Ink Land King Body Art The Extreme Ink-Ite story from the local newspaper photo blog is excellent:
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/video-britains-most-tattooed-man-6657436
Body Art, a Lib Dem activist, has spent more than £25,000 covering 90 per cent of his skin in tattoos, including the whites of his eyeballs
― Fizzles, Monday, 10 February 2014 07:08 (ten years ago) link
the Lib Dem activist bit has just made me lol quite hard
now i'm struggling to contextualize it
― the undersea world of jacques kernow (Noodle Vague), Monday, 10 February 2014 07:20 (ten years ago) link
has this been posted here? russian tourist goes on a scenic tour of london:
http://translate.google.ru/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=ru&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Ffishki.net%2F1244228-drugaja-storona-londona.html&act=url
― NI, Friday, 14 February 2014 14:55 (ten years ago) link
"Inside trading of junk."
― Kim Wrong-un (Neil S), Friday, 14 February 2014 15:00 (ten years ago) link
"that such may be london"
truly it takes this man from a faraway land to show us our true selves
― woof, Friday, 14 February 2014 15:13 (ten years ago) link
Pretty sure that market is same one from grotty places video
― cardamon, Friday, 14 February 2014 15:38 (ten years ago) link
Local. Represent, as it is now all happy if he was black. But he is an ordinary Briton with his pants down.
― sktsh, Friday, 14 February 2014 16:57 (ten years ago) link
Every city has its Biryulevo
Real talk.
― an office job is as secure as a Weetabix padlock (snoball), Friday, 14 February 2014 18:28 (ten years ago) link
this evening in Manchester
https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/t1/1888761_10153815316660716_1537600903_n.jpg
― piscesx, Friday, 14 February 2014 18:57 (ten years ago) link
Racism of Russian internet commentariat slightly more clinical in flavour than their British counterparts
― cardamon, Friday, 14 February 2014 19:13 (ten years ago) link
Ha few things more real than on the day v card transactions
― cardamon, Friday, 14 February 2014 19:14 (ten years ago) link
Yes, in London there is a beautiful home, but on the whole it davolnotaki dull town
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 14 February 2014 20:50 (ten years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-26440468
Lot of real in this story, the Che Guevarra notebook with swastikas and edl stuff drawn on, the asperger's diagnosis, guy in a midlands market town obsessed with weaponry, the unfocussed anger against the 'powerful and corrupt' degenerating due to a total lack of political awareness into the usual buh buh buh 2 menny muslims and their sharia law bollocks.
― UK Cop Humour (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 17:07 (ten years ago) link
a would be school shooter using a crossbow wld be pretty english. i wonder if the english are more prone than other nationalities to getting obsessed w/ this sort of thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jsbp4w-4E68
which feels related to mb more universal shit like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjOIWVjwSBU
which has a thanatotic quality mb associated w/ ppl used to 6 hours of sunlight a day
― ogmor, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 17:19 (ten years ago) link
no fairminded english yeoman would use a crossbow for their fantasy volkist massacre when they could probably find a dozen replica agincourt longbows on amazon markeplace
― Thanks in anticipation of your opinions (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 17:27 (ten years ago) link
You guys have read We Need To Talk About Kevin, riiiight?
― baked beings on toast (suzy), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 17:29 (ten years ago) link
tend to take a dim view of prosecuting these subnormal types for terrorist conspiracies when the weapons charges alone are serious enough
the proportion of american lunatics with pathological hatreds and weapons stockpiles who actualize their fantasies is mercifully low
― Thanks in anticipation of your opinions (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 17:35 (ten years ago) link
xp no, but yeah.
longbow would unquestionably be the nationalistic choice but quite impractical, may as well use a sling
― ogmor, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 18:29 (ten years ago) link