Real England

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.

'pre-colour tv era working class culture' doing a lot of work in that sentence, hope the basic idea come across.

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.

Hull's enduring charm of course is our secession from realness

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)

There's a cattle trough/drinking fountain still there in Muswell Hill, although the trough is now a flower bed.

I don't know if this applies

http://chris3.500px.com/home

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

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/08/woman-allegedly-tricked-friend-into-having-sex-pretending-to-be-man

holy shit! so many questions

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!

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

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.

it was the victim that was blindfolded i think. the perpetrator was just heavily bandaged

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

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.

the mysteries of the human heart

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.

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

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.

There was a case similar to this a few years back, I think?

Gemma Barker case

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xlf1/v/t1.0-9/11988713_10100737392104347_3420243885931454995_n.jpg?oh=6ec66e1c191f44207b7ecdb0e47aea25&oe=56A32C37

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.

not if they've heard it

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.

[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

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

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/prisoner-protest-live-strangeways-roof-10047129

entertaining level of detail here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwadjV4C5_o

1.40 to 1.47 is the best bit of that

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worst url:

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/13799873.Man_in_Tottenham_Hotspur_jacket_exposes_himself_outside_Specsavers/

Ah, the argus

people who have built their own dalek

https://scontent-vie1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-0/s480x480/12065662_1105148786164917_1566861672933163876_n.jpg?oh=f77c1e2747b03364a01f8b7cf96f8fee&oe=569465B3

there are probably better threads to post cutesy garbage or things that happened in other countries

tbf the Real Wales question is one I'm addressing in my writing having taken a trip there lately

the results will amaze you

what five things did you learn from your trip

lol

wait and see. give you one for free though: in certain towns their newsagents have no compunction about boasting unbroken fifty-letter names

that's fake-real wales, obv - in real-real wales the factories lie demolished and the bypassed high streets are resorting to cake shops #gutter

I was going to post a news link to a case of bestiality that occurred on my road a few years back. It was so wretched that I thought multiple NSFW and trigger warnings wouldn't suffice. This is one line from the story:
"The court heard that Cullen apologised to the dog owner and called the police himself."

When you have a nodding acquaintance with someone who you walk past on a regular basis and find out they have committed a crime like this, there is a lot of wtf'ness. It occurred about 6 doors away so was quite a hot topic of conversation at the time, probably a little bit too unpalatable for even this thread. Apologies if it made you vomit.

https://warpnet-media.s3.amazonaws.com/1bcc5b2be12cbe7948f291591c36c9a53c3830a27e896c240f8ad05d

Not quite my bag but that album has a very strong Huddersfield theme running through it. My partner likes it though, she sent me a youtube link of the track that samples the Kirklees website about cuts and it was quite sad.

yeah, i only listened to it once and wasn't nuts about the music but that one piece was quite affecting/rage-inducing

the murder in the news last week was in a road i used to deliver newspapers on. my dad used to work with the woman's younger brother. 8(

http://i1.gazettelive.co.uk/incoming/article6846515.ece/ALTERNATES/s1023/JS33831342.jpg