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
tend to take a dim view of prosecuting these subnormal types for terrorist conspiracies
yeah even associating this kind of thing with "terrorism" is a standing argument for reviewing anti-terrorism law
― landschlubber (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 21:23 (ten years ago) link
Piggins makes me glad that Facebook had not penetrated so far into Real England when I was teen psycho
― cardamon, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 22:12 (ten years ago) link
I mean I wasn't actually stock-piling weapons but people thought I was which in Real England is maybe sufficient for a Piggins
On Radio 2 today someone wrote in saying they used to think their dad's music was crap and now they listened to Radio 2 all the time and that listener received a badge
― cardamon, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 22:13 (ten years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Sheerness-on-Sea_railway_station_in_2008.jpg
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― You cannot interrupt his tea stirring because it is his holy trick (imago), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 22:54 (ten years ago) link
In July 2013 the island received some notoriety for an attack on a tour bus of Jewish boys by local youths who shouted epithets, and threw stones and eggs, telling the boys to "go back to where you came from!"[
― You cannot interrupt his tea stirring because it is his holy trick (imago), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 22:56 (ten years ago) link
ILXcursion to Sheppey, stat
i'm in
cardamon that sort of thing is fairly common, I remember one of my best mates' little brother trying to make a bomb w/ his pal in a cellar cos they were too into fight club, but iirc they were too shit at chemistry to come up w/ much. he was also an accomplished tuba player
― ogmor, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 23:17 (ten years ago) link
Our school pyromaniac is now a pro cellist.
― μ thant (seandalai), Thursday, 6 March 2014 00:48 (ten years ago) link
i tried mixing up some TNT with acid i pinched from the chemistry lab, used to do some good magnesium ribbon shows at playtime too
― landschlubber (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 6 March 2014 07:05 (ten years ago) link
and fantasising about tommy-gunning down your entire school
as others have said - weapons charges fine, but come the fuck on, this is not terrorism.
someone at my school got suspended for blowing up a tree on the cross country route.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 6 March 2014 12:17 (ten years ago) link
pro-style tip - start sentences in the middle of nowhere with "and".
Stockwell fire blamed on bird carrying lit cigarettehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-26464789
Richard Scroggs, who runs The Old Post Office Bakery in Landor Road, remarked: "It's crazy isn't it?"Smokers. What can you say? I'm glad I gave up."
"Smokers. What can you say? I'm glad I gave up."
Bonus real points for having an excellent surname.
― Angkor Waht (Neil S), Thursday, 6 March 2014 14:55 (ten years ago) link
he was also an accomplished tuba player
there's your launch system right there
― eardrum buzz aldrin (NickB), Thursday, 6 March 2014 15:02 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdxzxXVS9WU
― landschlubber (Noodle Vague), Friday, 7 March 2014 07:49 (ten years ago) link
THERE'S A FACKING PURPLE TINGE
meanwhile BBC Fucking Breakfast has just discovered Minecraft videos
it's Levellin' Friday here in the boggy field that is AngloILX
― landschlubber (Noodle Vague), Friday, 7 March 2014 07:53 (ten years ago) link
http://metro.co.uk/2014/03/06/teenager-suffers-three-heart-attacks-after-drinking-ten-jagerbombs-in-two-hours-4449369/
― Prostitute Farm Online (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 7 March 2014 11:11 (ten years ago) link
a colleague just found a pair of Maltesers knickers in a bag of old clothes, nearly fainted from the wave of realness
― Nooye's Vagge (Noodle Vague), Friday, 7 March 2014 12:23 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xit0PLxng-E
― tombola_kid_69, Tuesday, 11 March 2014 12:19 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpNvTtvzM8g
this doesn't feel so many steps from crossbows
― first rule of franco club (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 11 March 2014 12:44 (ten years ago) link
that seems v uncharitable! this veitch guy seems familiar
― ogmor, Tuesday, 11 March 2014 14:27 (ten years ago) link
misanthropic look-at-me-me-me cunt with possible ARMCHAIR PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSE REMOVED
― first rule of franco club (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 11 March 2014 15:28 (ten years ago) link
attention-seeking & into that paranoid strand of anarchism but he's interested in people & genial, even w/ the police
― ogmor, Tuesday, 11 March 2014 15:43 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD6A_Yjc_P0
― soref, Tuesday, 11 March 2014 16:04 (ten years ago) link