Real Wales special one day only guest appearance
https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17021716_10155005323753398_3582441412335992626_n.jpg?oh=9942f450fc8450f3731a1b708d1f99b7&oe=59373067
― Vlogs from other credible bands such as Shed Seven (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 1 March 2017 08:21 (seven years ago) link
I feel like perhaps the 'bagel on head' train incident of a day or two ago could fit here.
I liked the detail mentioned in reports that "During the video, a group can be heard singing: "He's got a bagel on his head" to the tune of "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands"."
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Wednesday, 1 March 2017 11:08 (seven years ago) link
not sure if richard whiteley being a spy counts as real england or not, mb rather part of some related phenomenon
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 1 March 2017 16:05 (seven years ago) link
Tomlinson, who appeared alongside Caroline Aherne in sitcom The Royle Family, made the startling claim in an interview with The Chester Chronicle as he opened a Wetherspoons pub in the city.
This is extremely real.
― Thank you for your service, wasteman (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 1 March 2017 16:21 (seven years ago) link
none more real, nothing more English
http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/crime/2017/03/07/telford-man-who-poisoned-wifes-food-with-laxatives-is-jailed/
why do all fantasists claim to have been in the SAS?
― piscesx, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 21:17 (seven years ago) link
Blame Andy McNab.
― Return of the Flustered Bootle Native (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 21:25 (seven years ago) link
i know at least one irl but this isn't the place
― barry snappleton (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 21:30 (seven years ago) link
https://crimethroughtimecollection.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/jsn_2322.jpg?w=584https://crimethroughtimecollection.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/jsn_2332.jpg?w=584https://crimethroughtimecollection.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/jsn_2320.jpg?w=584https://crimethroughtimecollection.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/jsn_3352.jpg?w=584I bumped into Gloucestershire artist Paul Bridgman's crime through time collection whilst looking for A-level art style Weller sketches.
― calzino, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 21:25 (seven years ago) link
didn't know ILX's own Rory McGrath lived in Cromwell Street
― Pengest & Corsa (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 14 March 2017 21:26 (seven years ago) link
I noticed Rory McGrath's hands are out of proportion and unconvincing and the artist has probably realised this.
― calzino, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 21:33 (seven years ago) link
The tiny hands . . . of a murderer!
― nickn, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 21:34 (seven years ago) link
https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/1533914_10157331988995377_4149580904031315219_n.jpg?oh=5282cc3fce734b6565fb05d5160b97b6&oe=5963468F
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Monday, 20 March 2017 21:13 (seven years ago) link
Jobs too real to contemplate.
― nashwan, Monday, 20 March 2017 21:16 (seven years ago) link
poll ffs
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Monday, 20 March 2017 21:17 (seven years ago) link
cow banger
victorian england
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Monday, 20 March 2017 21:22 (seven years ago) link
no way that is real
― calzino, Monday, 20 March 2017 21:27 (seven years ago) link
why not? dicking around is not a modern invention
― mark s, Monday, 20 March 2017 21:56 (seven years ago) link
xpThere were smartasses even back then.
― nickn, Monday, 20 March 2017 21:57 (seven years ago) link
this is the oldest version of that I can find, from 2001
http://boards.fool.co.uk/any-fatuous-paupers-out-there-6424064.aspx
― soref, Monday, 20 March 2017 22:03 (seven years ago) link
http://search.findmypast.co.uk/results/world-records/1881-england-wales-and-scotland-census?occupation=%20%22fatuous%20pauper%22
0 results found for "fatuous pauper" ;_;
― soref, Monday, 20 March 2017 22:07 (seven years ago) link
1881 census info released 1981, went online 2004: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4065313.stm
― mark s, Monday, 20 March 2017 22:10 (seven years ago) link
Was this guy who vandalised the Gainsborough painting at the Nat gallery doing it for the Turnip Shepherds in a display of misplaced activism?
― calzino, Monday, 20 March 2017 22:23 (seven years ago) link
list of occupations from the first eight censuses: http://www.worldthroughthelens.com/family-history/old-occupations.php
very long, mostly dull enough to be authentic, has a snarky notes abt spurious entries in *other* lists
― mark s, Monday, 20 March 2017 22:29 (seven years ago) link
WASTEMAN
― soref, Monday, 20 March 2017 22:33 (seven years ago) link
Wow that is some list!
BANDSTER One who bound the wheat sheaves after harvest - there is a deffo a musical thread on that somewhere!
― calzino, Monday, 20 March 2017 22:35 (seven years ago) link
BATMAN
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Monday, 20 March 2017 22:36 (seven years ago) link
http://www.gunaxin.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/adam_west_as_batman__60s__by_kriegdersterne77-d51jcx0-copy.jpg
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Monday, 20 March 2017 22:37 (seven years ago) link
CRATCH MAKER. Made cratches e.g. mangers, cribs, or frames. Don't you fucking know this?
― calzino, Monday, 20 March 2017 22:47 (seven years ago) link
had to look up the oldest profession in the world
FANCY MAN A pimp. An agent for prostitutes who collects part of their earnings for services rendered. FANCY WOMAN A prostitute. Offering sexual favours for money GAMESTER Gambler or prostitute PIMP An agent for prostitutes who collects part of their earnings PROSTITUTE A person (usually a woman) offering sexual favours for money
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Monday, 20 March 2017 22:53 (seven years ago) link
I used to work with a Dry Stone Waller occasionally, in periods when the sparky work was drying up. This particular one I worked with had lots of guns and liked shooting foxes dead and taking pictures of their corpses so the NT would throw him a fiver per husk or whatever. He was tea-total but had a ruddy complexion from the amount of red meat he ate. He definitely makes me think of of old-Real-England.
― calzino, Monday, 20 March 2017 22:55 (seven years ago) link
classic calz
― Pengest & Corsa (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 07:16 (seven years ago) link
https://s29.postimg.org/k96me3uqf/Kent.jpg
I've not been to Sheppey yet but it looks pretty real.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Monday, 10 April 2017 11:48 (seven years ago) link
Been loads but only to the nature reserve in its south side, not braved the towns yet
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Monday, 10 April 2017 12:15 (seven years ago) link
sadly the fun came to an abrupt halt
― why labour 'foot problems' since 2015? (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 10 April 2017 13:21 (seven years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-39568458
'Naughty girl'Adverts seen by BBC South East included one posted by a Maidstone man asking for a woman to move in and pretend to be his girlfriend, another publicising a double room available in Rochester in exchange for "services" and one in Brighton targeting younger men.One advert posted by a London landlord asked for a "naughty girl" to move in.Landlords who posted the adverts were clear how the arrangement would work.One said: "I was thinking once a week, something like that, I'm happy as long as there's sex involved."Another said: "You agree sort of like a couple of times a week, pop into my room sort of thing, but as far as the apartment's concerned, it's like completely as if we're flatmates. It's all the bills, the rent, free."
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Friday, 14 April 2017 19:16 (seven years ago) link
N.B. not posted for lols - lock up these landlords pronto - but for there being something very 'Real England' about the way they express themselves:
One landlord, who spoke to BBC South East on condition of anonymity, defended the deals as a "friend with benefits" arrangement.He said: "You can argue that high rent charged by landlords is taking advantage too. There's no compulsion for them to do this. Everyone goes into it with their eyes wide open."I am the last type of person who'd like to take advantage. Both sides have something the other person wants. I see it as a win-win situation."
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Friday, 14 April 2017 19:18 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/toadsanime/status/855760304285896704
― Alba, Saturday, 22 April 2017 14:03 (seven years ago) link
superb
― ogmor, Saturday, 22 April 2017 14:26 (seven years ago) link
had to share that beauty
― Brexterminate all the brutes (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 22 April 2017 14:27 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/tom_watson/status/856023747911983104
― r|t|c, Sunday, 23 April 2017 10:37 (seven years ago) link
BritainEngland's Got Centrists
― Brexterminate all the brutes (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 23 April 2017 10:48 (seven years ago) link
"St. George was born circa 280 in Cappadocia, an area that is now part of Turkey."
― calzino, Sunday, 23 April 2017 10:54 (seven years ago) link
people keep quoting that but nobody points out that dragons aren't real
― Brexterminate all the brutes (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 23 April 2017 11:19 (seven years ago) link
Back then weren't saints a bit ten a penny anyway? All you had to do was get executed for being a christian god-botherer, and there was plenty of that going on.
― calzino, Sunday, 23 April 2017 11:22 (seven years ago) link
yeah, most of them were probably dicks, the Roman governors tended to do anything with their power not to execute people just for being into weird religions
― Brexterminate all the brutes (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 23 April 2017 11:52 (seven years ago) link
what St George's day needs is a well-branded national beer, something that instantly conjures up connotations of Englishness in the same way that Guinness has attached itself to Ireland.
suggest Stella.
― Brexterminate all the brutes (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 23 April 2017 11:54 (seven years ago) link
meanwhile, it's the 375th anniversary of Hull telling Charles I to do one
https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/18056630_1441284965932707_1529920356464001856_n.jpg?oh=f9e0b2f3dd2b5b2df560825adbf7824d&oe=598B00A8
― Brexterminate all the brutes (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 23 April 2017 11:58 (seven years ago) link
Patron fucking saints, I ask you. Two centuries after the French Revolution.
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Sunday, 23 April 2017 11:59 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/liam__whu/status/855441195270631424
― On Some Faraday Beach (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 23 April 2017 13:11 (seven years ago) link
Lad on the far right, what's he up to?
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Sunday, 23 April 2017 13:17 (seven years ago) link