the irony being, of course, that the presence of wetherspoons has probably crushed other local pubs where those minorities, art students, goths, etc might have found a more natural home
― he tasted like mouth (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 21 July 2017 14:06 (six years ago) link
Find out where UCA Rochester students drink - there must be a non-Spoons place?
― kim jong deal (suzy), Friday, 21 July 2017 14:10 (six years ago) link
My mum was a barmaid in more than a few of the local pubs that Martin helped out of their misery in the 90's. I'd like to think she might have pulled a pint or two for Nairn when he was filming in the area. Because he did film a couple of 100 yards away from The Burns Tavern where she worked at the time. Nairn would have fucking hated Wetherspoons and Tim Martin with a visceral passion!
― calzino, Friday, 21 July 2017 14:17 (six years ago) link
Seriously , the south of the UK is incredible. Men who voted Brexit trying citizen arrest 11 year olds. Amazing pic.twitter.com/nhAZlYIpTL— Dale (@DaleRobertsDR) July 23, 2017
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 23 July 2017 19:41 (six years ago) link
ah middle England, god's own country
― In Search of the Turricle's Navel (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 23 July 2017 21:04 (six years ago) link
i'm having this one before anybody else gets any ideas
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 23 July 2017 21:05 (six years ago) link
anyone exhibiting my man's puffed up sense of entitlement and acting like such a prick wouldn't last very long where I live. Some people act like they have never been in a police cell before!
I was having a conversation with my brother about this after his posho old neighbour tried to attack him. They were have a border dispute and I probably made the situation worse by putting up a big wooden fence + padlocked gate over the disputed border for him. People on council estates tend to have a better sense of the possible dire consequences of escalating situations and an aversion to getting the police involved for every argument, or ending up in cells. Well, this is my flimsy homegrown theory, and is subject to being completely wrong sometimes.
― calzino, Sunday, 23 July 2017 22:08 (six years ago) link
I think your guess that he doesn't live on a council estate is accurate, what do you reckon?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/24/get-ready-die-video-shows-tv-producer-shocking-road-rage-incident/
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Monday, 24 July 2017 11:33 (six years ago) link
lol! beautiful.
― calzino, Monday, 24 July 2017 11:39 (six years ago) link
Not only are BBC employees overpaid, they're dangerous.
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Monday, 24 July 2017 11:40 (six years ago) link
the fergus beeley GiS page is fun:
2 days ago: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DFRgxXwXcAAaC1k.jpg
14 hrs ago: http://i3.bristolpost.co.uk/incoming/article231739.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200/Fergus-Beeley.jpg
― mark s, Monday, 24 July 2017 11:44 (six years ago) link
state-subsidized cocaine is a helluva drug
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Monday, 24 July 2017 11:46 (six years ago) link
i think it's time we faced the truth: men in mustard trousers and pink shirts have ruined this country
― he tasted like mouth (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 24 July 2017 11:50 (six years ago) link
3. (2) Add: 3. (2) (ii)
Gsw. 1985 Michael Munro The Patter 10: beelin Absolutely furious: 'Mind the aul man dizny get ye — he's beelin the night.' Also used to describe a spot, boil, etc., that is full of pus wm.Sc. 1985 Liz Lochhead Tartuffe 19: Ah'm fair beelin'At no bein' able to say whit Ah'm feelin'.Gsw. 1987 Peter Mason C'mon Geeze Yer Patter! 51: Ma mither wis beelin when the auld man came hame paralitic. My mother was very angry when my father came home drunk.Gsw. 1988 Scotsman 28 Feb 12: "Ats right hen, so it is, nae wunner the Embra foaks is aw beelin"
wm.Sc. 1985 Liz Lochhead Tartuffe 19: Ah'm fair beelin'At no bein' able to say whit Ah'm feelin'.
Gsw. 1987 Peter Mason C'mon Geeze Yer Patter! 51: Ma mither wis beelin when the auld man came hame paralitic. My mother was very angry when my father came home drunk.
Gsw. 1988 Scotsman 28 Feb 12: "Ats right hen, so it is, nae wunner the Embra foaks is aw beelin"
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Monday, 24 July 2017 11:50 (six years ago) link
how did the telegraph manage to avoid putting an estimate of the value of fergus beeley's house in that piece tom posted? shockingly lax journalism there
― he tasted like mouth (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 24 July 2017 11:53 (six years ago) link
info coded into the distance from said house that david somerset duke of beaufort kennels three of his packs of hounds
there's an app you can download
― mark s, Monday, 24 July 2017 11:58 (six years ago) link
If i had a cat I would call her Liz Lochhead Tartuffe
― Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Monday, 24 July 2017 20:26 (six years ago) link
Weird editing on this advert, the way the camera lingers on James Whale a few nanoseconds too long at the end of each of his scenes makes it slightly disturbing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZyNUDAEE6Y
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Sunday, 30 July 2017 11:04 (six years ago) link
... put this on here because I believe this is where Pimlico Plumbers made their grand entrance on ILX.
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Sunday, 30 July 2017 11:06 (six years ago) link
Fuck me, they actually have proper NIC electrical accreditation now, going up in the world! Charlie han't been a totally happy plumber this year. He lost a high profile Employment Tribunal and was whinging about the High Court ruling on legal reform aid the other week. It is hard out there for a millionaire Tory donor, held together by botox.
― calzino, Sunday, 30 July 2017 11:41 (six years ago) link
He also financed Gina Miller's anti-Brexit campaign, which hasn't done him any favours with his natural constituency...
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-4167438/I-live-abuse-Brexit-says-millionaire.html
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Sunday, 30 July 2017 11:51 (six years ago) link
nah, i distinctly recall being in london last year, seeing a pinlico plumbers van and being like 'oh aye that's that prick from the ilx politics thread'
― the shape of a hot willie lumpkin (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 30 July 2017 12:44 (six years ago) link
http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/iprblog/2017/08/01/im-not-english-oh-yes-you-are/
a good article (which I don't agree with) about leftist distate for englishness
― ogmor, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 14:13 (six years ago) link
^^^barnett is almost always worthwhile but yikes at calling benedict anderson ben, this will not stand
― mark s, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 14:29 (six years ago) link
Is Paul Mason anti-Brexit?
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 14:41 (six years ago) link
I think he warily accepts it
― ogmor, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 14:46 (six years ago) link
Their immediate island neighbours were recruited into what became a joint project: the British, not the English Empire.
Recruited in the 18th/19th century sense of being either bribed or press ganged.
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 15:05 (six years ago) link
AB's argt is i think* that since PM is unwilling to acknowledge he's english he MUST be anti-brexit in the sense that brexit conceives itself
(which seems to me the nub and also the flaw of the essay, which covers a lot of extremely interesting ground -- the mob he cites, benEDICT anderson and tom nairn et al -- were/are all very good in detail (hence undeluded) on the specifics of how Gt Britain had fashioned its sense of itself, w/o ever being very good on what could be done abt this
(my own gloomy opinion: nothing can be done abt it from within, we have to take the lumps the once-invaded world -- or anyway the three quarters once painted red -- hurls at us, until they tire of this and we work out what shape we've ended up)
*i need to read it again though
― mark s, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 15:13 (six years ago) link
the article almost seems to be arguing that the current world system is english british and that all other national identities were forged in reaction to it
― ogmor, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 15:35 (six years ago) link
something not unlike that was more or less the new left review's position in the 70s and 80s: that modern nationalism emerged as a counter-hegemonic activity on the colonial peripheries first (in particular the americas in the 18th century), before it fully developed in europe (in the 19th century)
^^^very over-simplified and i forget how this analysis was applied in the far east re e.g. japan in particular: benedict anderson's expertise was very tied up in his knowledge of the story of indonesia over the last 3 centuries
― mark s, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 15:54 (six years ago) link
perry anderson's newest book is abt hegemony, isn't it? the h word: the peripeteia* of hegemony
*lol this is just PA's shtick now, like rod hull and emu
― mark s, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 15:58 (six years ago) link
xp it has an instinctive appeal in explaining why englishness seems so alien to the english but it's about as anglocentric as you can get
― ogmor, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 16:07 (six years ago) link
oddly enough they began exploring this material as a way of explaining why, unlike other nations, england (real or otherwise) had never had a revolution: the exceptionalism is apparently all too transferrable
of course i think it has had THREE revolutions but you and i differ on this :)
― mark s, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 16:10 (six years ago) link
maybe one extended revolution which was ultimately not dissimilar to France's in terms of where the power went
my difficulty with any version of the phrase "healthy patriotism" makes it very hard to agree with much that Barnett says in that essay
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 16:16 (six years ago) link
The men were arrested on 26 August 2016 after a bag of weapons, including a pipe bomb, an air pistol and a meat cleaver with the word kafir (unbeliever) scratched on it, were found under the driver’s seat of Ali’s car. In Aziz’s car they found a samurai sword bought from a sex shop in Stoke for £20.
― thirst trap your hare (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 3 August 2017 11:11 (six years ago) link
"now that's a big chopper"
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 3 August 2017 11:13 (six years ago) link
who knew the people of stoke were so sexually adventurous
― the shape of a hot willie lumpkin (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 3 August 2017 11:14 (six years ago) link
when the only people you get it on with are close family you have to do something to liven it up
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 3 August 2017 11:18 (six years ago) link
also who knew samurai swords were so reasonably-priced
― the shape of a hot willie lumpkin (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 3 August 2017 11:19 (six years ago) link
Austerity Britain.
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Thursday, 3 August 2017 11:23 (six years ago) link
you used to be able to kick a ball-gag in the street
― the shape of a hot willie lumpkin (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 3 August 2017 11:25 (six years ago) link
is this england? idk. who cares
update from the local: an auld lad has taken €100 bets he can fit through a bar stool pic.twitter.com/Yk1tzbXQr5— Thomas (@heytk_) August 14, 2017
― 龜, Monday, 14 August 2017 16:52 (six years ago) link
The bet is in Euros so Ireland.
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Monday, 14 August 2017 16:58 (six years ago) link
Idk where it is I'd take that bet in a heartbeat
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 14 August 2017 17:04 (six years ago) link
yeah, that's easy money right there
― for sale: clown shoes, never worn (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 14 August 2017 17:04 (six years ago) link
oh really
what a man pic.twitter.com/bOb6t9HVW9— Thomas (@heytk_) August 14, 2017
― Number None, Monday, 14 August 2017 20:02 (six years ago) link
fuck
― for sale: clown shoes, never worn (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 14 August 2017 20:05 (six years ago) link
lergend
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 14 August 2017 20:10 (six years ago) link
I don't need to look at anything else but his face to let you know that's an irishman
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Monday, 14 August 2017 20:13 (six years ago) link
LOL
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Monday, 14 August 2017 20:16 (six years ago) link