Real England

iirc he went to prison for manslaughter after someone ran away from him onto a trainline & was electrocuted

thats definitely crossing the line into transgressive bodybuilding

theres something very northern or provincial about him, he seems to have a criminal and folkloric reputation over a large metropolitan area

yet i just cant imagine there being a lol purple aki equivalent in north london, he would simply be demonized but without any of the meta stuff

and an east london equivalent would probably have been killed by now

he is a living bit of folklore; i first heard about him in a pub & the way the story was told I didn't really expect it to be real, felt v strange to see it confirmed. photoshopping him into pics has become a bit of a meme in certain corners of the Northern Internet (tm)

What is the Northern Internet

Collins died for it, doff yr caps

garu g

He proceeded to the promenade above the club and relieved himself on the bouncers who chased after him until he was cornered in a nearby pizza parlour, where he was heard shouting "Help! Help!" Securing him in an arm-lock, they hauled him back to the club and called police, the reports concluded.

http://i.imgur.com/dLysS3v.png

He proceeded to the promenade above the club and relieved himself on the bouncers who chased after him until he was cornered in a nearby pizza parlour, where he was heard shouting "Help! Help!" Securing him in an arm-lock, they hauled him back to the club and called police, the reports concluded.

far cry from all the talk about bowling in "good areas". bizarrely/hilariously out of his public character.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/MC_Party.jpg

lol my frontal lobe started thrashing about like a drunk thing at that photo.

there are some other choice photos by the same contributor on wikipedia scattered around various monday club related articles

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WACL_Delegates.jpg

alas i'm not sure how to get a complete list

http://www.esherwalton.com/

the entire site, really.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dave_sinclair_liverpool_photos/3232893730/sizes/l/in/photostream/

http://www.wiganworld.co.uk/album/1/en35hy8x.jpg

http://www.soultsretailview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/woolworths_bhs_hartlepool_graham_soult2.jpg

http://s0.geograph.org.uk/photos/56/84/568459_2e6f08f8.jpg

http://v4.sportnetwork.net/mainadmin/img/4841130867008.jpg

http://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/23/01/2230182_0ea654b0.jpg

Oh come on. That last one isn't Real England. It just isn't representative of the country. I know this thread has its tongue firmly in its cheek, but no. Too far. It is Liverpool, I guess? Derby?

Loved the old Tory pics above though.

last pic looks a lot like a Manchester street i've visited

Just found on Twitter. I think we have a winner.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BME6U7eCEAAvsf6.jpg:large

Haha yeah I came here to post that. Bonus realness points for it actually being in Stoke at 5am.

A useful indicator of realness is the bar named after its home postcode. Stoke has a strip club provocatively branded as ST1.

what is stoke actually like irl

my kwowledge of stoke = amalgamation of six or seven lil towns from, football team, high level of support for bnp

i need an editor

I haven't really spent enough time there to say. I was sick in the Wetherspoons while eating breakfast though. I think it is so ~nothing~ it eludes any real interpretation. The city university is Keele, full of nondescript 60s modernism. There's nothing to say about any of it.

so is ST1 meant to = STI?

nice

oh yeah keele

a girl who went there was talking to me about her time at university and eventually i realized i had absolutely no idea where keele was

Keele is a university and an M6 service station and nothing else. It's weird.

The thing with ST1/STI is that surely it can't be deliberate, but then how could nobody have noticed during the early branding stages.

maybe they are still in the std or vd paradigms

no nightclub called vd, closest is the velvet dog in cleveland

Keele is far enough from Stoke to be Not Stoke but does represent its own corner of Lucky Jimland

Private eye fitted GPS tracker to off-sick call centre worker mum's car

Almost immediately, the fire service employed a private investigator to spy on her after her bosses suspected that she was working full time running a business from her hobby of balloon making.

If only it was meth-making

Is there an English equivalent to DIY meth labs?

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/818727/thumbs/o-GREAT-BRITISH-BAKE-OFF-570.jpg?7

^you may have a point, there...

the realest suburban house would be one recently reclaimed by an absentee buy-to-let landlord after a vietnamese grow-op has fled, nothing but soiled carpets, walls hacked apart to bypass the mains and a damp ganja smell that will never disappear

― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Thursday, 18 October 2012 00:35 (9 months ago)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BR817dNCIAETdVm.jpg

You can find us located in coach F, towards the centre part of the train

the trafford centre is hyperreal england, a £1.65 bn "people's palace" in the parish of eccles, the last & greatest out of town shopping centre in the country

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3731/9319946011_0b55a9fa72_o.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7303/9322739992_eff177736c_o.jpg

opulence largely down to one john whittaker, a billionaire & bruce forsyth lookalike who has sold up & gone to live in the isle of man. it's full of gold leaf, marble floors & murals depicting the manchester ship canal (who used to own the land) as well as various members of his family wearing laurels in front of roman villas &c. the exterior is covered w/ gold griffins that have a faintly 3rd reich vibe. in barton square, they quietly pipe in stirring music so that you are put in an appropriate mind to appreciate the grandeur. it has the busiest cinema in the uk, an enormous ship-styled food-court w/ a sky that changes from day to night, & what is apparently the largest chandelier in the world:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7421/9322739256_619fcd0257_z.jpg http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3770/9322739716_b04953217e_z.jpg

had a semi-transcendent feeling hanging out there for a day this summer, mb due to codeine, but there is something exotic about its 90s optimism & generosity. despite it's ornamentation it feels socially unpretentious, it's not somewhere ppl go to be seen. its filled w/ bathos & foreign ppl taking photos. i don't think mancunians appreciate it. i harbour hopes of it being dug up hundreds of years hence by very excited, clueless archaeologists.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7399/9319945995_3c02447a15_z.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7331/9322739784_69ef1d712e_z.jpg

*peoples', ugh

Thank you for "Cinema Laserquest/New Orleans"

on a Sunday evening when the Trafford Centre closes the nearby M60 routinely slows to a crawl as the mass of shoppers hits the road

I didn't appreciate it when I lived in manc but I feel quite fond of it now