or bodied by a wight call
― imago, Sunday, 9 November 2014 20:17 (nine years ago) link
How come when ppl go in on nakh it's always immediately after he posts something completely innocuous and normal
dgmw croney seems on the realer end of that Spectrum and I enjoyed his or her pissy non sequitur
― individual meta dater (wins), Sunday, 9 November 2014 20:18 (nine years ago) link
"bitch-boy" isn't cool tho
maybe they think nakh is idling & will not immediately retort with something fatal
― imago, Sunday, 9 November 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
seconder, hypeman, w/e lol
i'm hype for many ilxors tbf
― imago, Sunday, 9 November 2014 20:20 (nine years ago) link
we appreciate it
― individual meta dater (wins), Sunday, 9 November 2014 20:22 (nine years ago) link
The actual reason I revived this, kebab shop display counter using decorative green bell peppers in visibly advanced state of dehydration (wrinkled to fuck) tell me bros is it Real England?
― individual meta dater (wins), Sunday, 9 November 2014 20:27 (nine years ago) link
Genuine question, I'm pretty sure I do this thread wrong and the vague sense that I'm being arctic kaiser chief kebab shop amirite niggles at me
― individual meta dater (wins), Sunday, 9 November 2014 20:28 (nine years ago) link
As does the less vague sense that Lj advocacy is a poisoned chalice but we minor posters take what we can
― individual meta dater (wins), Sunday, 9 November 2014 20:29 (nine years ago) link
insofar as Real England is both a pretence and an inadvertent sincerity, yes it quite possibly is, although elements of Real Turkey and Real Kebab impinge I'm sure
my advocacy is to be cherished tbqfh
― imago, Sunday, 9 November 2014 20:36 (nine years ago) link
when I used to prepare display counters I always used decent fruit but you had a little more leeway with sprigs of coriander, which you could use a little longer just for display. seems dubious that very half arsed attempts at freshness are distinctly english imo
― nebulous British ilxor (ogmor), Sunday, 9 November 2014 20:51 (nine years ago) link
https://twitter.com/Dazzawwfc1985/status/533571537753083904
― Merdeyeux, Saturday, 15 November 2014 14:29 (nine years ago) link
come on me babbies
― Stim McRaw (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 15 November 2014 14:33 (nine years ago) link
'tis the season: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/nov/23/winter-wonderland-designed-laurence-llewelyn-bowen-shuts-complaints
Story lets itself down with no photos of joyless muddy fields and pound shop father christmas gear, unfortunately. Lol @ Father Christmas being great showbiz mates with Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen tho.
― intelligent, expressive males within the greater metropolitan (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 24 November 2014 10:32 (nine years ago) link
otm, I was wanting the usual pics (depressed roebuck in a pen marked 'rudolph'), but happy with "the elf who is meant to be Simon Cowell is completely pointless"
― woof, Monday, 24 November 2014 10:56 (nine years ago) link
this is amazing
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 24 November 2014 11:34 (nine years ago) link
the link in the comments provides all you two crave, and then some:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/08/uk_lapland_new_forest/html/1.stm
new forest lapland looks a lot better in hindsight for some reason. had it's own ilx thread at the time iirc
― john wahey (NickB), Monday, 24 November 2014 11:39 (nine years ago) link
ahh here we go: Has anyone been to the Lapland Theme Park?
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 24 November 2014 11:42 (nine years ago) link
last post from that thread:
26 October 2011Two brothers jailed for misleading customers at a Lapland-themed park have had their convictions quashed after it emerged a juror had been texting during the trial.Victor Mears, 67, and Henry Mears, 60, both of Brighton, ran the Lapland New Forest attraction in 2008.Three Court of Appeal judges ruled their convictions under Trading Standards legislation were unsafe.
Two brothers jailed for misleading customers at a Lapland-themed park have had their convictions quashed after it emerged a juror had been texting during the trial.
Victor Mears, 67, and Henry Mears, 60, both of Brighton, ran the Lapland New Forest attraction in 2008.
Three Court of Appeal judges ruled their convictions under Trading Standards legislation were unsafe.
― john wahey (NickB), Monday, 24 November 2014 11:44 (nine years ago) link
^ a hoogstraten-esque escape from doing time - wondering if these two blundering chancers were erstwhile associates?
― john wahey (NickB), Monday, 24 November 2014 11:46 (nine years ago) link
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/12/08/article-1336854-0C67012C000005DC-490_634x566.jpg
― john wahey (NickB), Monday, 24 November 2014 11:52 (nine years ago) link
hell yes, threatening the prosecution
Henry Mears, of Coombe Road, Brighton, is alleged to have made comments taken as threats of violence to barrister Gary Lucie during his original trial.He is also accused of making a further comment outside the court about punching the barrister in the face.Mears, 60, appearing at Bristol Crown Court, denies contempt of court.Giving evidence, Mr Lucie said Mears told him that "mechanisms were in place to hold those responsible" for bringing the Lapland trial to court.
He is also accused of making a further comment outside the court about punching the barrister in the face.
Mears, 60, appearing at Bristol Crown Court, denies contempt of court.
Giving evidence, Mr Lucie said Mears told him that "mechanisms were in place to hold those responsible" for bringing the Lapland trial to court.
― woof, Monday, 24 November 2014 11:59 (nine years ago) link
That Graun section is incredible - befuddled middle class parents, furious dickhead anti-consumerist warriors, lone representative of the Finnish tourist board, it's got the lot.
― Matt DC, Monday, 24 November 2014 13:20 (nine years ago) link
if you take your kids to see Santa in November then fuck you is how i break it down to some extent
― what it feels like for a guelph (Noodle Vague), Monday, 24 November 2014 18:24 (nine years ago) link
Ukip side of the Mirfield/Ravensthorpe
do you mean the dewsbury side rather than the huddersfield side?
― anvil, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 18:47 (nine years ago) link
I am referring to Mirfield which is on the Huddersfield side and is mostly white apart from the London Park estate. About a decade ago I did a mutual exchange to a house in Mirfield with an Asian bloke who couldn't realistically move his family into Mirfield so they were cramped into his brothers' house until he could find an exchangee.
Praise be for the mutual exchange system because it was a dreadful area with loathsome neighbours and we exchanged the fuck back where we came from after a year. I suppose if I am honest it was my up my own arse white flight period, but what a mistake it proved to be. Every time I see Patrick Stewart on tv I always think to myself "what an archetypal Mirfield cunt".
― xelab, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 20:26 (nine years ago) link
how bad is the racial segregation in that part of the world?
― disconnected externalized and unrecognizable signifying structure (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 20:54 (nine years ago) link
I was listening to some recorded voices recently on a website and one of them was by a catholic woman living in dewsbury, talking about South Asian migration into the area, in the 1960s i think, and how the Doctor was the first person to invite her in to his house to play with his children and how that had never happened before. I shall try and find it
― anvil, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 21:13 (nine years ago) link
where were you exchanging to Mirfield from?
http://sounds.bl.uk/Accents-and-dialects/Millenium-memory-bank/021M-C0900X08524X-0400V1
― anvil, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 21:28 (nine years ago) link
From Thornhill Lees Anvil.
I don't how to describe it but you get this indescribable fucking ugly suffocating malevolence in whole white areas in Northern England. It is hard to describe to a London based poster. I have lived in Plumstead and Woolwhich before and you don't get any straight line borders there, like you you do in parts of W Yorkshire. But you also get rabid racists who absolutely love ethnic stores!
― xelab, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 22:17 (nine years ago) link
Each of the different areas of West Yorkshire feel really quite different to each other but I can never really figure out the hinterland that is North Kirklees,
― anvil, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 22:28 (nine years ago) link
I don't how to describe it but you get this indescribable fucking ugly suffocating malevolence in whole white areas in Northern England. It is hard to describe to a London based poster.
In London different ethnic groups are blown down a vast wind tunnel together, you will at some point end up colliding with, clinging on to or sharing a ledge with someone who is a different ethnicity. In the areas described here, it's more like a series of exclusive bogs
― cardamon, Thursday, 27 November 2014 01:28 (nine years ago) link
there's enough of me to go round.
― Kelly Gang Carey and the Mantels (ledge), Thursday, 27 November 2014 09:57 (nine years ago) link
I have lived in Plumstead and Woolwhich before and you don't get any straight line borders there
An estate agent referred to a house I was viewing at the top end of Plumstead Common as being in "Plumstead-Welling Borders" with the clear implication that it was more white and therefore more respectable than plain old Plumstead.
I once had a lovely time on a Plumstead bus being told lots of loud racist jokes by the only other white passenger who then got off two stops before me and left me staring at my feet and feeling lots of eyes on me.
― doesn’t matter what the content is, as long as it’s content (onimo), Friday, 28 November 2014 12:42 (nine years ago) link
The headquarters of the BNP was in Welling for several years in the early 90s, so that follows.
― Matt DC, Friday, 28 November 2014 13:31 (nine years ago) link
I lived in Plumstead for 5 godforesaken years and there was an incredible amount of yobbishness, twattery and general awfulness but no real examples of racism as far as I remember. The kids there are generally unbelievable arseholes but black and white they are all arseholes together. The old white guys and the white "gangsters" in the pubs got on with their black peers okay, I guess.
Welling saw some EDL activity in the nights of the 2011 riots and of course, Stephen Lawrence was killed not so far away.
So happy to be out of there.
― kraudive, Friday, 28 November 2014 19:20 (nine years ago) link
woolwich is awesome u jerks lol
― imago, Friday, 28 November 2014 19:24 (nine years ago) link
mind u the church across the road from me recently erected flagpoles for both union jack and COSG, p real
http://I.imgur.com/blow13a.jpg
― imago, Friday, 28 November 2014 19:29 (nine years ago) link
http://imgur.com/bLOW13A.jpg
― imago, Friday, 28 November 2014 19:30 (nine years ago) link
I never met much trouble during my spells in Plumstead and Woolwich. I once got frogmarched out of a BNP type pub that I guess didn't like the look of my suspiciously dusky complexion or something. I can recall some rampaging arseholes vandalising cars and chucking a brick through my landlord's shop window on Conway Rd the night England went out in Euro '96.
I remember when we had been living there about a year we decided that we were starved of nature and went on the local "Greenbelt Walk" that wasn't very green at all. The Woolwich foot tunnel is beautiful, got some nice memories of walking through there to get to work during a scorcher of a summer and there was some kind of art installation all the way through the tunnel.
― xelab, Friday, 28 November 2014 20:20 (nine years ago) link
never taken that tunnel! can't resist a free ferry tbqff
― imago, Friday, 28 November 2014 23:03 (nine years ago) link
The Vicar Of DibleyBBC1, 12 January 2002, 2100-2140
The Complaint
A viewer complained about a racist remark, referring to“the local Chinky”.
The Broadcaster’s Statement
The BBC said that the use of the term “Chinky” mightnormally be expected to relate to its alleged derogatoryapplication to a person of Chinese origin but thatwas far from being the way it was used in thisprogramme. A character was describing where he hadobtained a Christening spoon for his new Goddaughter -from the local Chinese restaurant. Both the usage and theact were typical of this plain-speaking and earthysupporting character. The broadcaster went on to saythat the term was used with a commercial rather thanpersonal connotation
The Commission’s Finding
A Standards Panel watched the programme. It tookthe view that the context in which the term “Chinky”was used robbed it of any potential racist connotation.The complaint was not upheld.
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/archive/bsc/pdfs/bulletin/bulletin56.pdf
― نكبة (nakhchivan), Friday, 28 November 2014 23:53 (nine years ago) link
" Both the usage and theact were typical of this plain-speaking and earthysupporting character"
Oh so this isn't a sit-com, it is actually a serious character study type drama like The Sopranos.
― xelab, Saturday, 29 November 2014 01:12 (nine years ago) link
(from this website: http://fields.eca.ac.uk/gis/)
― Angel Brain (soref), Tuesday,
missed this before, just having a look now.
I used to go out with a girl that lived on the 23rd floor of this one
http://fields.eca.ac.uk/gis/?cat=150
http://fields.eca.ac.uk/gis/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/l-13.jpghttp://fields.eca.ac.uk/gis/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/l-14.jpg
― anvil, Saturday, 29 November 2014 20:05 (nine years ago) link
boo
I think arguably the Cottingly towers actually looked better before the massive 90's resurfacing/repaint job.
I was working in Sheffield about 5 years ago while the Park Hill flats were being renovated. They stripped the building down to it's concrete basic structure and slotted in these plumbed and wired prefab apartments in a lego like fashion.
before https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQW7X4X9aObjhe3L0QHOkRB2Xbci8-k7jZAuVdWXPbFHg3mFNB4Bgafterhttps://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRyH9oUJwVXX8Y5TgfRfXE6G2858TlozJT5iwHuAdCJJzlMWUwr
― xelab, Saturday, 29 November 2014 22:27 (nine years ago) link
https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSxEhicOxQ-1liuee3v9ojnw6rao_EnBYearPg9jhsMeSPeT6MIphase one
― xelab, Saturday, 29 November 2014 22:38 (nine years ago) link
Cottingley reminds me a little of the John Walsh and Fred Wigg Towers:http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3945/15752437892_c05af991a8_c.jpg
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 29 November 2014 23:23 (nine years ago) link
tyson fury and the moors murders are both featured articles on the russian wikipedia
― نكبة (nakhchivan), Sunday, 30 November 2014 02:42 (nine years ago) link