business networks amusing as well.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 11:17 (eight years ago) link
shot of the library pretty real
http://bakewelltowncouncil.gov.uk/images/headerImages/Library.jpg
― 2011’s flagrantly ceremonious rock-opera (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 11:30 (eight years ago) link
Bakewell in Bloom set me off you gits
― the lion tweets tonight (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 13:04 (eight years ago) link
Living in Bakewell is Great!
― anvil, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 13:35 (eight years ago) link
Parking >>>
― imago, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 13:37 (eight years ago) link
Love that Library pic - bet there are tons like it from council sites, could the nu-Oasis Primal Scream blah blah thread.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 14:19 (eight years ago) link
Living in BakewellLiving in Bakewell is great!
The Council tax picture cracked me up along with ' Derbyshire Dales Dirtict Council etc etc..'
― kinder, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 18:50 (eight years ago) link
Living In Bakewell killed me. Also liked the Bus Pass section showing dozens of pensioners crowding the pavement while an out of service bus looms in the background.
― I wear my Redditor loathing with pride (ShariVari), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 18:52 (eight years ago) link
oh god the bus pass photo...
― the lion tweets tonight (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 20:16 (eight years ago) link
"Maybe we should use a picture where the bus is in service?""Nah, we've only got the one set, just go with that""Look, I can photoshop a number onto that bus, take me about 5 minutes""WE'RE ON A DEADLINE SON"
― the lion tweets tonight (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 20:18 (eight years ago) link
omg the Bakewell Show starts tomorrow, i'm calling an emergency FAP
― the lion tweets tonight (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 20:19 (eight years ago) link
Pick me up a laptop from the large boy outside the pudding shop while you are there, pls.
http://www.bakewelltowncouncil.gov.uk/images/backgrounds/towncouncil.jpg
― I wear my Redditor loathing with pride (ShariVari), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 20:55 (eight years ago) link
Girls' bike
― koogs, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 21:21 (eight years ago) link
tiny umbrella on a great long pole
― feargal czukay (NickB), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 21:44 (eight years ago) link
i dunno it says "Wales" on his t-shirt
― the lion tweets tonight (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 21:45 (eight years ago) link
http://bakewelltowncouncil.gov.uk/images/backgrounds/visiting.jpg
Ladies WATCH YOUR BAGS!
― feargal czukay (NickB), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 21:47 (eight years ago) link
http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Horse-washed-Bude-Park-paddling-pool-Bransholme/story-27563900-detail/story.html
http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/images/localworld/ugc-images/276270/Article/images/27563900/10672336-large.jpg
― Neil S, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 07:59 (eight years ago) link
if they'd've clicked on the second link in the 'related links' they'd've found:
http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Oss-Wash-graffiti-new-Dead-Bod/story-27450074-detail/story.html
― koogs, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 09:11 (eight years ago) link
horses being washed in random locations/tethered at the roadside/running amok round an estate are reasonably common in Hull, which has a significant traveller community. we still get rag and bone men using horse-drawn carts. there was a pony i used to feed mints to regularly on my walk to work. also there's a section of west Hull called Gypsyville.
― the lion tweets tonight (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 09:37 (eight years ago) link
this is the OG 'oss wash
http://thehullplay.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Victoria-Pier-Horse-Wash.jpg
and this is more or less how it looks today
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/82447310.jpg
― the lion tweets tonight (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 09:39 (eight years ago) link
Selfishness of using kids paddling pool to wash horse very real, working horses however are not real. Bit suggestive of an organic connection to pre-colour tv era working class culture, the absence of which is a defining trait of Real England imo.
― 2011’s flagrantly ceremonious rock-opera (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 10:23 (eight years ago) link
'pre-colour tv era working class culture' doing a lot of work in that sentence, hope the basic idea come across.
― 2011’s flagrantly ceremonious rock-opera (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 10:25 (eight years ago) link
just bung a bit of chlorine in after the horse, scoop out anything it's left behind, job's a good'un.
i did a couple of stints as a paddling pool attendant many years ago.
― the lion tweets tonight (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 10:42 (eight years ago) link
Hull's enduring charm of course is our secession from realness
― the lion tweets tonight (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 10:44 (eight years ago) link
the water fountain on ealing common has the inscription: "This fountain and adjoining troughs were erected by local subscription in 1878 by the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association.". i can just see them driving cattle around the hanger lane gyratory system...
(the troughs are no longer there)
― koogs, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 12:16 (eight years ago) link
There's a cattle trough/drinking fountain still there in Muswell Hill, although the trough is now a flower bed.
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 13:46 (eight years ago) link
I don't know if this applies
http://chris3.500px.com/home
― chinavision!, Tuesday, 18 August 2015 15:45 (eight years ago) link
quite enjoyed this http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150723-why-britain-has-secret-ghost-trains
the station at the Cornish village I grew up in was apparently voted worst in the UK at some point in the 90s. don't remember myself or anyone I know ever using it
― Hector Ringtone (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 27 August 2015 15:33 (eight years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/08/woman-allegedly-tricked-friend-into-having-sex-pretending-to-be-man
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 15:07 (eight years ago) link
holy shit! so many questions
― feargal czukay (NickB), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 15:15 (eight years ago) link
it's the most ridiculous shit i've ever read. how did this even go to trial? like, she says it goes on for two years!
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 15:18 (eight years ago) link
well i can see why it went to trial - i assume it fits the legal definition of serious sexual assault at the least, but the whole deception is just so bizarre. from the name 'kye fortune' onwards
― feargal czukay (NickB), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 15:35 (eight years ago) link
yeah i guess i mean more like - it seems hard to believe that the person could have been fooled, if they were it's obviously quite serious - it just seems really weird you'd agree to have sex with a blindfolded stranger whose face you'd never seen - i mean apparently it sounds like she's never seen his face in person. unless they met at the hotel and she didn't recognise her friend due to her wearing a "wooly hat", as reported elsewhere.
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 15:44 (eight years ago) link
it was the victim that was blindfolded i think. the perpetrator was just heavily bandaged
― feargal czukay (NickB), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 15:50 (eight years ago) link
i can't remember if i've read about another case very similar to this one or if some of the deets made the rounds a couple of years back
― outraged about summat (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 15:52 (eight years ago) link
sorry, of course. at what point tho? did she never see "his" face, like did they meet in the hotel room? cos that's pretty weird. did he have pics on the facebook profile etc?
the oddest bit is "it's not what you think"
xpost i had the exact same thought but a colleague linked to the other case, it was two teenagers or something, a different story.
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 15:52 (eight years ago) link
the mysteries of the human heart
― outraged about summat (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 15:54 (eight years ago) link
Giving evidence on Wednesday at Chester crown court, the complainant said: “Every time I met up with Kye Fortune, I either had the mask on already or he would wait outside the door and I would put it on. I was so desperate to be loved. It’s pathetic, so desperate for love, so desperate.”
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/09/woman-allegedly-tricked-into-sex-with-friend-pretending-to-be-man-lesbian-court-told
it is either terribly sad and worrying that somebody would blindfold themselves and let whoever it was have sex with them, or just unbelievable.
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Thursday, 10 September 2015 09:18 (eight years ago) link
the bit about getting engaged to someone you've never seen. the bit about watching films together still wearing a blindfold. the bit about sunbathing but the one who didn't have the scars having to swaddle up their head like a baby's arse. almost every detail is completely boggling, but the whole willing suspension of disbelief thing feels really tragic at the same time
― feargal czukay (NickB), Thursday, 10 September 2015 10:26 (eight years ago) link
it feels like one of those cases of someone caught up in the legal system who shouldn't be - i guess that's what i mean by wondering how it went to trial, like isn't this going to cause more damage for this person ultimately? i mean, i guess unless you believe she actually 100 per cent believed this kye fortune person was real - this seems impossible given the amount of time they spent together. feels like there are really severe mental problems here.
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Thursday, 10 September 2015 11:04 (eight years ago) link
There was a case similar to this a few years back, I think?
― Fields of Fat Henry (Tom D.), Thursday, 10 September 2015 11:31 (eight years ago) link
Gemma Barker case
― Fields of Fat Henry (Tom D.), Thursday, 10 September 2015 11:34 (eight years ago) link
https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xlf1/v/t1.0-9/11988713_10100737392104347_3420243885931454995_n.jpg?oh=6ec66e1c191f44207b7ecdb0e47aea25&oe=56A32C37
― Hector Ringtone (DJ Mencap), Sunday, 13 September 2015 11:30 (eight years ago) link
Arse, forgot that was yesterday.
Probably belongs on the UK festivals thread, but the afterparty featured The Beat, 3 Daft Monkeys and Nizlopi. No idea who 3 Daft Monkeys are, but pretty sure they'd be surprised to be higher on the bill than someone who had a #1 chart single.
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Sunday, 13 September 2015 11:55 (eight years ago) link
not if they've heard it
― bellendery hooks (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 13 September 2015 11:57 (eight years ago) link
I almost turned up at a Friends Of Rectory Park meeting the other day but had too much realophobia or at least a strong social phobia preventing me. I have genuine grievances to air about squandered lottery funding but have a strong irrational (or maybe rational) feeling of not belonging at such meetings. When I play it in my mind it turns into a Mike Leigh caricatures telling me to leave type situation.
― xelab, Sunday, 13 September 2015 14:46 (eight years ago) link
[multiple xps] Genesis P Orridge posted a link to a story about the Kye Fortune case on FB yesterday. there is something of the TG about the story now I think of it
― Hector Ringtone (DJ Mencap), Sunday, 13 September 2015 15:30 (eight years ago) link
xp
xelab i feel you so strong there, my fear of "those kind of people" keeps me away from all sorts of shit i'd probly like to get involved with
― bellendery hooks (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 13 September 2015 18:51 (eight years ago) link
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/prisoner-protest-live-strangeways-roof-10047129
entertaining level of detail here
― Hector Ringtone (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 16 September 2015 13:50 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwadjV4C5_o
― nameReinhard Gruhl/name (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 10:10 (eight years ago) link