They had paper cones of chips as hors d'oeurves a few years ago and probably looked at trend reports to come to that decision.
― hatcat marnell (suzy), Thursday, 12 December 2013 13:56 (ten years ago) link
The fish finger/pea/chip tower sounds delicious tbh.
― oppet, Thursday, 12 December 2013 14:01 (ten years ago) link
i've had them, they're alright
― shillelagh law (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 12 December 2013 16:55 (ten years ago) link
everything about this storyhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-25390071
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Sunday, 15 December 2013 13:52 (ten years ago) link
Similar thing happened last year iirc. Santa's Grotto was said to be staffed by young, thin men is a good line.
― oppet, Sunday, 15 December 2013 14:04 (ten years ago) link
iirc the similar event last year had a profoundly Real England photoset to go along with it.
― Merdeyeux, Sunday, 15 December 2013 14:12 (ten years ago) link
actually I was thinking of one from a few years back, but: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/08/uk_lapland_new_forest/html/1.stm
― Merdeyeux, Sunday, 15 December 2013 14:14 (ten years ago) link
Oh yeah that's the one I was thinking of. Photo 5 is great.
― oppet, Sunday, 15 December 2013 14:17 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, guy looking sullen in a The North Face cagoule = none more Real England
― UK Cop Humour (Bananaman Begins), Sunday, 15 December 2013 15:02 (ten years ago) link
this is just the gift that keeps on giving.
original advert
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/12/15/article-2524088-1A1F698400000578-964_634x488.jpg
actual photo of the 2 reindeer on site
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/12/15/article-2524088-1A1FF85000000578-547_634x701.jpg
― piscesx, Sunday, 15 December 2013 18:28 (ten years ago) link
https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/1501417_581367835249683_754921718_o.jpg
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Friday, 20 December 2013 15:29 (ten years ago) link
Andrea's Photography
― sktsh, Sunday, 22 December 2013 20:50 (ten years ago) link
documenting grime seems to have enervated the thread. no such problems for this guy, who has got an eye for provincial peculiarities worthy of jonathan meades
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXMXcppgwbk&list=PLrcpmBjkjNUF2XcTE8FroEgn7W7ms698Y&feature=share
― ogmor, Monday, 13 January 2014 16:46 (ten years ago) link
omg thank you I love this
― soref, Monday, 13 January 2014 17:18 (ten years ago) link
The traffic light section of his website seems much too extensive to not have been created in earnest.
― Ramnaresh Samhain (ShariVari), Monday, 13 January 2014 18:56 (ten years ago) link
benobve·1,569 videos
― Merdeyeux, Monday, 13 January 2014 19:10 (ten years ago) link
oh wow thats fantastic
― max, Monday, 13 January 2014 19:50 (ten years ago) link
is the guy doing a "bit"?
It doesn't look like it.
― Ramnaresh Samhain (ShariVari), Monday, 13 January 2014 19:52 (ten years ago) link
The tube train sim on the website is very enjoyable.
― oppet, Monday, 13 January 2014 22:22 (ten years ago) link
oh my lord
― a solid one word retort congealed in the vaginal orifice you call (imago), Monday, 13 January 2014 22:33 (ten years ago) link
A REALLY. NICE. 70S. EVANS.
this guy is like a far-cheerier kindred spirit of dan wilson who had those amazing resonance fm shows and is so completely unknown by anyone else I fear I might have dreamt him entirely
― a solid one word retort congealed in the vaginal orifice you call (imago), Monday, 13 January 2014 22:35 (ten years ago) link
his videos remind me of the early first person shoot-em-up games.
― tpp, Monday, 13 January 2014 22:44 (ten years ago) link
playing his escape from shopping centre game, went into a lift, doors closed, none of the buttons worked, now everything's gone dark except for the buttons and I'm scared
― a solid one word retort congealed in the vaginal orifice you call (imago), Monday, 13 January 2014 22:56 (ten years ago) link
haha i just found that shopping centre it is fucking sinister
― woof, Monday, 13 January 2014 22:58 (ten years ago) link
*centre game
he's definitely real, all the comments are from other members of the hitherto unknown-to-me lift enthusiast community. i love that he avoids filming people, instead he inhabits an eerily quiet england of hospitals, cash converters, vandalized lamp posts, ravenous wheelie bins, hybrid buses, impoverished councils, loading bays, plastic houses, overgrown model railways, tiny new-build housing estates, ceefax, abandoned equestrian centres, wigwags, air-conditioning units, violated geocaches, greenhouses & of course, lots of lifts, all investigated with curiosity (gleefully trespassing & even getting on top of at least one lift) & a sense of decency. he's invented this minecraftesque building simulator & there are a lot of videos of him silently wandering around his creations. he's used it to make a fictional town called coalham which he has filled w/ his beloved grotty buildings &, of course, a variety of lifts.
― ogmor, Monday, 13 January 2014 23:03 (ten years ago) link
1654.666 seconds, this is like how it must feel when you win wolfenstein 3D. also surprisingly terrified
― a solid one word retort congealed in the vaginal orifice you call (imago), Monday, 13 January 2014 23:25 (ten years ago) link
Fucking brilliant
― cardamon, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 04:23 (ten years ago) link
I worry he's gonna get his head kicked in by Dark Times though
Since this video, this place has very sadly closed down. This video shows how the Trafalgar center was a few months before it closed with only a third of the shops open.
Note: Even though in this video I am talking about how grotty this place is, I never wanted it to have closed down. I really like grotty places like this because they are fun! (and part of the fun is to comment on how grotty they are!). I really enjoy exploring places like this. When places like this are either closed down or cleaned up, it is a real loss. grotty places have lots of character, and finding and exploring these places is far more fun than going to some organised tourist attraction.
― cardamon, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 04:25 (ten years ago) link
Beno if you ever stumble across this thread, you're doing incredible work. please come and join us.
― secede already you Tory cowards (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 09:04 (ten years ago) link
brb just off to video a promenade down St George's Walk, Croydon
― UK Cop Humour (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 10:23 (ten years ago) link
"Skyscraperism", what a great neologism.
― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 14:28 (ten years ago) link
Ha, wait, I misread Beno. It's actually 'skyscrapersim'.
Still, skyscraperism!
― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 14:31 (ten years ago) link
Just saw this. Best thing ever. Vewy gwotty.
― An embarrassing doorman and garbage man (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 21:02 (ten years ago) link
had his voice in my head all day. important work.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 22:22 (ten years ago) link
The definitive map of the medwayhttp://i.imgur.com/5vp8nkn.png
― oppet, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 22:35 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_45s5qqKfts
was Interceptor real england?
― soref, Wednesday, 15 January 2014 09:27 (ten years ago) link
sorry, I meant to post that to this thread
The Interceptor
― soref, Wednesday, 15 January 2014 09:29 (ten years ago) link
Projected map of the Medway in 20 years time
http://www.roze.co.uk/ekmps/shops/rozepetal/images/c205f%5Bekm%5D300x300%5Bekm%5D.gif
― UK Cop Humour (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 15 January 2014 11:20 (ten years ago) link
Wales but pretty Real IMOhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-25823177
Police were called to a discount store to calm angry shoppers chasing 50p bargains in a closing down sale.The 99p Stores in Wrexham was temporarily closed after crowds of shoppers flocked to a half-price sale which was advertised until 28 January.However, many became angry and refused to leave when staff put prices back up to the full 99p price.
The 99p Stores in Wrexham was temporarily closed after crowds of shoppers flocked to a half-price sale which was advertised until 28 January.
However, many became angry and refused to leave when staff put prices back up to the full 99p price.
― Kim Wrong-un (Neil S), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 12:39 (ten years ago) link
it wld be sad if this fine thread was reduced to "rolling proles". equating poverty w/ realness is I guess a british classic but one we cld at least be self-conscious about
― ogmor, Tuesday, 21 January 2014 13:32 (ten years ago) link
not sure that was my conscious intent with posting that article, but point taken
― Kim Wrong-un (Neil S), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 13:33 (ten years ago) link
angry petty selfishnessthin-eyed silent disapprovalmonomaniacal zenophobiapost-empire post-industrial wasteland
― he had tons of money in the bank and left the toilet seat up (NotEnough), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 13:50 (ten years ago) link
xp things often get more distinctive/idiosyncratic when there's less money involved so I think it's a line the thread is always going to be wavering around
― ogmor, Tuesday, 21 January 2014 13:52 (ten years ago) link
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― Pedro Mba Obiang Avomo est un joueur de football hispano-ganéen (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 18:17 (ten years ago) link
that seems more like a late capitalism after the fall tale which might have happened in athens or budapest or buenos aires
― Pedro Mba Obiang Avomo est un joueur de football hispano-ganéen (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 18:18 (ten years ago) link
hegemonic types the world over probably like to pine for the imagined reassuring solidity of a simple life but i think british working class self-mythologized realness is as unique & particular as the industrial revolution & related biz.
― ogmor, Tuesday, 21 January 2014 23:35 (ten years ago) link