so? It was still exciting
― Number None, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 10:54 (ten years ago) link
Accepted but not enough to gloss over the appalling state of Scottish football.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 11:00 (ten years ago) link
Get this fucking Scottish shit off this thread.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 11:07 (ten years ago) link
"Northern Britain" shurely
― Neil S, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 11:08 (ten years ago) link
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 12:07 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^^ real English
― dinosaur coach, fitness clown & scientific cowboy (onimo), Wednesday, 31 July 2013 11:42 (ten years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51czgLpJn2L._SL500_AA280_.jpg
We're Northern Uproar, we're dead real we are
― trippin' on brostep beats (NickB), Wednesday, 31 July 2013 15:45 (ten years ago) link
need the full size to appreciate the photoshop work
http://static.flavors.me/dynamic_images/background/5ea0577840074063846e95ccfe004887
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 15:55 (ten years ago) link
Funnily enough, you know, given the state of culture in the city depicted on that album sleeve, it wouldn't be so out of place if those banners on poles actually did just say 'Northern Uproar'
― cardamon, Thursday, 1 August 2013 01:15 (ten years ago) link
the famous "purple aki" (idk about this nickname) is in the news again:
Akinwale Arobieke, 52, approached well-built men in Manchester city centre, Trafford and Bolton and touched their arms or shoulders, prosecutors allege... He was jailed in 2003 for 15 charges of sexual harassment and on his release he was given a Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO). It bans him from certain activities, including feeling a person's muscles or getting them to carry out 'squats' in public
― ogmor, Thursday, 1 August 2013 12:07 (ten years ago) link
“Mr Arobieke has had, and continues to have, an interest in bodybuilding.
“His interest extends beyond that which is legitimate and manifests itself in a way that we say is criminal.”
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Thursday, 1 August 2013 12:27 (ten years ago) link
iirc he went to prison for manslaughter after someone ran away from him onto a trainline & was electrocuted
― ogmor, Thursday, 1 August 2013 13:08 (ten years ago) link
thats definitely crossing the line into transgressive bodybuilding
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Thursday, 1 August 2013 13:09 (ten years ago) link
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
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Thursday, 1 August 2013 13:14 (ten years ago) link
and an east london equivalent would probably have been killed by now
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Thursday, 1 August 2013 13:15 (ten years ago) link
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)
― ogmor, Thursday, 1 August 2013 13:37 (ten years ago) link
What is the Northern Internet
― cardamon, Thursday, 1 August 2013 21:50 (ten years ago) link
Collins died for it, doff yr caps
― clique- your heels, together (darraghmac), Thursday, 1 August 2013 21:52 (ten years ago) link
garu g
― ogmor, Thursday, 1 August 2013 22:34 (ten years ago) link
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.
― click here to start exploding (ledge), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 10:47 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/dLysS3v.png
― Inte Regina Lund eller nån, mitt namn är (ShariVari), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 11:33 (ten years ago) link
far cry from all the talk about bowling in "good areas". bizarrely/hilariously out of his public character.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 17:39 (ten years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/MC_Party.jpg
― The concept of making the Zuiderzee docile (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 9 August 2013 01:48 (ten years ago) link
lol my frontal lobe started thrashing about like a drunk thing at that photo.
― Fizzles, Friday, 9 August 2013 18:49 (ten years ago) link
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
― The concept of making the Zuiderzee docile (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 9 August 2013 18:59 (ten years ago) link
http://www.esherwalton.com/
the entire site, really.
― Merdeyeux, Friday, 9 August 2013 22:21 (ten years ago) link
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dave_sinclair_liverpool_photos/3232893730/sizes/l/in/photostream/
― fuckyeahjimmyclitheroe (Eight Model Play), Saturday, 10 August 2013 22:08 (ten years ago) link
http://www.wiganworld.co.uk/album/1/en35hy8x.jpg
― fuckyeahjimmyclitheroe (Eight Model Play), Saturday, 10 August 2013 22:15 (ten years ago) link
http://www.soultsretailview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/woolworths_bhs_hartlepool_graham_soult2.jpg
― fuckyeahjimmyclitheroe (Eight Model Play), Saturday, 10 August 2013 22:20 (ten years ago) link
http://s0.geograph.org.uk/photos/56/84/568459_2e6f08f8.jpg
― fuckyeahjimmyclitheroe (Eight Model Play), Saturday, 10 August 2013 22:30 (ten years ago) link
http://v4.sportnetwork.net/mainadmin/img/4841130867008.jpg
― fuckyeahjimmyclitheroe (Eight Model Play), Saturday, 10 August 2013 22:36 (ten years ago) link
http://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/23/01/2230182_0ea654b0.jpg
― fuckyeahjimmyclitheroe (Eight Model Play), Saturday, 10 August 2013 23:57 (ten years ago) link
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?
― kraudive, Sunday, 11 August 2013 00:03 (ten years ago) link
Loved the old Tory pics above though.
― kraudive, Sunday, 11 August 2013 00:04 (ten years ago) link
last pic looks a lot like a Manchester street i've visited
― phased squirtle tarps (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 11 August 2013 08:57 (ten years ago) link
Just found on Twitter. I think we have a winner.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BME6U7eCEAAvsf6.jpg:large
― aldi young dudes (suzy), Sunday, 11 August 2013 09:55 (ten years ago) link
Haha yeah I came here to post that. Bonus realness points for it actually being in Stoke at 5am.
― In the airplane over the .CSS (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 11 August 2013 12:41 (ten years ago) link
A useful indicator of realness is the bar named after its home postcode. Stoke has a strip club provocatively branded as ST1.
― oppet, Sunday, 11 August 2013 13:16 (ten years ago) link
what is stoke actually like irl
― The concept of making the Zuiderzee docile (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 11 August 2013 13:17 (ten years ago) link
my kwowledge of stoke = amalgamation of six or seven lil towns from, football team, high level of support for bnp
i need an editor
― The concept of making the Zuiderzee docile (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 11 August 2013 13:19 (ten years ago) link
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.
― oppet, Sunday, 11 August 2013 13:26 (ten years ago) link
so is ST1 meant to = STI?
― kinder, Sunday, 11 August 2013 13:53 (ten years ago) link
nice
― The concept of making the Zuiderzee docile (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 11 August 2013 14:03 (ten years ago) link
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.
― oppet, Sunday, 11 August 2013 14:18 (ten years ago) link
maybe they are still in the std or vd paradigms
no nightclub called vd, closest is the velvet dog in cleveland
― The concept of making the Zuiderzee docile (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 11 August 2013 14:20 (ten years ago) link
Keele is far enough from Stoke to be Not Stoke but does represent its own corner of Lucky Jimland
― phased squirtle tarps (Noodle Vague), Monday, 12 August 2013 00:46 (ten years ago) link
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.
― woof, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 10:12 (ten years ago) link
If only it was meth-making
― kinder, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 12:43 (ten years ago) link
Is there an English equivalent to DIY meth labs?
― Inte Regina Lund eller nån, mitt namn är (ShariVari), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 12:50 (ten years ago) link