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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
1.40 to 1.47 is the best bit of that
― Hector Ringtone (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 10:47 (eight years ago) link
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― Hector Ringtone (DJ Mencap), Friday, 2 October 2015 07:31 (eight years ago) link
Neil Brittlebank, 78, from East Ardsley in Yorkshire, who collects bricks.
― twunty fifteen (imago), Friday, 2 October 2015 08:19 (eight years ago) link
Two garganey still on Easton sluice pool medmerry
― Haino Corrida (NickB), Friday, 2 October 2015 08:54 (eight years ago) link
worst url:
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/13799873.Man_in_Tottenham_Hotspur_jacket_exposes_himself_outside_Specsavers/
― Haino Corrida (NickB), Friday, 2 October 2015 10:46 (eight years ago) link
Ah, the argus
― fappy board (wins), Friday, 2 October 2015 10:47 (eight years ago) link
people who have built their own dalek
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Friday, 2 October 2015 10:51 (eight years ago) link
https://scontent-vie1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-0/s480x480/12065662_1105148786164917_1566861672933163876_n.jpg?oh=f77c1e2747b03364a01f8b7cf96f8fee&oe=569465B3
― schlep and back trio (anagram), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 12:45 (eight years ago) link
there are probably better threads to post cutesy garbage or things that happened in other countries
― noɪˈɣiːələx (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 12:49 (eight years ago) link
tbf the Real Wales question is one I'm addressing in my writing having taken a trip there lately
the results will amaze you
― twunty fifteen (imago), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 13:16 (eight years ago) link
what five things did you learn from your trip
― noɪˈɣiːələx (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 13:22 (eight years ago) link
lol
wait and see. give you one for free though: in certain towns their newsagents have no compunction about boasting unbroken fifty-letter names
― twunty fifteen (imago), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 13:25 (eight years ago) link
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
― twunty fifteen (imago), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 13:26 (eight years ago) link
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."
― xelab, Wednesday, 7 October 2015 13:38 (eight years ago) link
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.
― xelab, Wednesday, 7 October 2015 14:01 (eight years ago) link
https://warpnet-media.s3.amazonaws.com/1bcc5b2be12cbe7948f291591c36c9a53c3830a27e896c240f8ad05d
― Haino Corrida (NickB), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 14:11 (eight years ago) link
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.
― xelab, Wednesday, 7 October 2015 14:15 (eight years ago) link
yeah, i only listened to it once and wasn't nuts about the music but that one piece was quite affecting/rage-inducing
― Haino Corrida (NickB), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 14:24 (eight years ago) link
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(
― koogs, Wednesday, 7 October 2015 16:19 (eight years ago) link
http://i1.gazettelive.co.uk/incoming/article6846515.ece/ALTERNATES/s1023/JS33831342.jpg
― strictly dream-bait fit for moon-gazing (soref), Friday, 16 October 2015 01:56 (eight years ago) link
I remember that Mike Tyson's Greatest Hits vhs being everywhere in the early 90s
― strictly dream-bait fit for moon-gazing (soref), Friday, 16 October 2015 02:04 (eight years ago) link
Hi I don't know what I'm talking about but I don't understand why west country accents have never been cool
― BRAAAAAAMETHEUS (El Tomboto), Friday, 16 October 2015 03:00 (eight years ago) link
Every time i look at my new local newspaper, something is on fire in a park.
http://i.imgur.com/6goJfg0.jpg?1
― Al Ain Delon (ShariVari), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 07:36 (eight years ago) link
nice of the arsonist to front up and admit it in that second photo
― Neil S, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 07:59 (eight years ago) link
Cllr Rupert Turpin
― Estonians from the future (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 09:47 (eight years ago) link
man's pretty forward-thinking, wall of fire would have been a big hit in our playground when evel knievel was all the rage
― Haino Corrida (NickB), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 09:58 (eight years ago) link
http://www.suffolkgazette.com/news/morris-dancers-blind-footballers-brawl/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork
Police were called after a mass brawl broke out in a pub car park between a group of morris dancers and a blind football team.
The footballers were enjoying a match on the village green at Rattlesden, near Stowmarket, using a ball with a bell in it so they could keep up with play.
But all hell broke out when the morris dancers began performing at a nearby pub.
A player kicked the ball off the pitch towards the Brewers Arms, and then mistook the morris dancers’ uniform bells for the one in the ball.
He promptly kicked one of the dancers in the shin, sending him flying over a table and crashing into a flower pot. A hanging basket then fell on his head.
More blind footballers then joined the melee, kicking out at the bells and then being surprised when they were punched by furious morris men.
The brawl was only stopped when the referee caught up and blew his whistle loudly.
― systems drinking (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 24 October 2015 17:48 (eight years ago) link
The Dangerous Comedy of Bernard Manning
I'd never heard of this guy before reading this article.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 20:41 (eight years ago) link
we did a thread bitd
Bernard Manning Has Died
― piscesx, Tuesday, 3 November 2015 21:03 (eight years ago) link
as was noted on that thread he played the opening night of the hacienda.
favourite bernard manning joke (maybe only non-offensive bernard manning joke?):
Hunchback walks into a bar."Scotch whiskey." He says to the barman."Bell's alright?""Mind your own fucking business." He says.
― you too could be called a 'Star' by the Compliance Unit (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 21:06 (eight years ago) link
The last thing I saw on him was I think a bizarre Ch4 program on him that finishes with him addressing his own real cadaver in a coffin with words something like "So now you are finally dead you fat bastard".
― xelab, Tuesday, 3 November 2015 21:22 (eight years ago) link
I have half a thought about bernard manning that i can't flesh out into anything but that goes something like this:
manning, hugely reviled during his lifetime for his racism, sexism, homophobia etc., juxtaposed with contemporaneous "right-on" 80s alternative comedians and their chiefly observational material.
manning really has no direct comedic descendants - working man's club comedy based on old-fashioned joke construction and chiefly targeting some "other" is no longer mainstream, but the progenitors of 80s alternative comedy are everywhere, stand-up now at its height of popularity in Britain, chiefly recognizable as stemming from 80s alternative comedy.
current stand-up often based on "edgy" offensive jokes, but laden with irony, and usually coming from a university educated comedian who it is assumed is liberal enough to not actually be racist/virulently sexist etc as material might suggest. unlike manning who is a racist pleb moron.
some comedians covering transgressive matieral are even lauded for being progressive. frankie boyle's articles on politics in the guardian, well regarded by plenty on the left on british social media, or for an american example amy schumer lauded for her feminist comedy. The former does rape jokes, the latter race jokes.
un-ironic, earnest racist manning remains to be rehabilitated.
― you too could be called a 'Star' by the Compliance Unit (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 21:53 (eight years ago) link
lack of sophistication is the crime.
― you too could be called a 'Star' by the Compliance Unit (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 21:54 (eight years ago) link
frankie boyle's articles are shite
― kinder, Tuesday, 3 November 2015 21:56 (eight years ago) link
there are lots of un-ironic/earnest racist comedy twitter accounts that don't seem to be giving out a 'university educated ostensibly liberal' vibe, idk if these would count as Bernard's comedic descendants
― soref, Tuesday, 3 November 2015 22:10 (eight years ago) link
or clarkson?
― soref, Tuesday, 3 November 2015 22:12 (eight years ago) link
Not really feeling those thoughts on Manning. His act was not un-ironic and not earnest (which is one way he excused his bigotry). The "alternative" comedy of the 80s (which I don't see as being observational - more satirical, physical and insult comedy btw) didn't so much oppose him or his ilk, but rather the huge swath of light entertainment that was around at the time, and Manning was barely part of that, because he was not for family viewing & wasn't shown much in Scotland or Ireland. The Young Ones mocked every genre of mainstream tv show that was around at the time - family sitcoms, youth programming, imported US shows, quiz shows, kids stuff etc.
He remains to be rehabilitated because to most people his jokes were embarrassingly moronic and bigoted and were never funny.
The one-liner style of stand-up seems just as popular as ever but they just don't do racist and sexist material.
― everything, Tuesday, 3 November 2015 22:25 (eight years ago) link
thx 4 new display name
― un-ironic, earnest racist manning remains to be rehabilitated (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 22:48 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/psmith/status/663272029446127616
― John Dope Assos (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 8 November 2015 18:47 (eight years ago) link
http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/4610/production/_86863971_pants1.jpghttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-34919381
― barbarian radge (NotEnough), Wednesday, 25 November 2015 19:09 (eight years ago) link
Oh, Tiverton.
― Tim, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 19:19 (eight years ago) link
tivvy rascals
― kinder, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 20:49 (eight years ago) link
local Sharon Fowkes dubbed them "better than nothing".
OTM let's hope they stay on
― nashwan, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 21:16 (eight years ago) link
I was getting a taxi on Friday evening and the Asian taxi driver was angrily ranting about "David Cameron letting these foreign bastards into the country". There is some frightful shit going on though. There has been an allegedly Polish gang of criminals who have been exclusively doing home-invasion robberies on Asian families and specifically targeting elderly victims. One of them got spotted in Ravensthorpe and when a 150 strong lynch mob pursued him, he locked himself in a Subway toilet.
http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/man-hid-subway-toilet-escape-10515182
Mr David Cameron, who runs the Subway store, said two of his female staff were in the shop at the time. They were shocked but unhurt.Another man said: “We want people to know what is happening. Asian families have lots of gold and these robbers come round at 7pm when elderly people or women are home alone and smash their way in.“It’s happened in Savile Town and Batley but we are not going to take it in Ravensthorpe.“We are just normal people. We do our day job and come home. People are trying to rob us and we are not going to take it anymore.“It’s like gang warfare. We are not in America with these wannabe gangsters.
Another man said: “We want people to know what is happening. Asian families have lots of gold and these robbers come round at 7pm when elderly people or women are home alone and smash their way in.
“It’s happened in Savile Town and Batley but we are not going to take it in Ravensthorpe.
“We are just normal people. We do our day job and come home. People are trying to rob us and we are not going to take it anymore.
“It’s like gang warfare. We are not in America with these wannabe gangsters.
― xelab, Saturday, 28 November 2015 21:12 (eight years ago) link
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/resources/images/4539459.jpg?type=article-full
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/14134930._Verging_on_racism____controversial_Christmas_banner_asks_Santa_for_Arabic_lessons/?ref=trn
Mr Miller, who has been a taxi driver for 40 years and is a member of UKIP, rejects any suggestion of racism,
― Agents, show the general out. (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 11 December 2015 10:54 (eight years ago) link
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/resources/images/4539439/
― Agents, show the general out. (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 11 December 2015 10:55 (eight years ago) link
if mr miller wants to leave the eu, well that's fine with me
― ghosted monk: new gaz in the 'combs (NickB), Friday, 11 December 2015 11:01 (eight years ago) link