Real England

The fish finger/pea/chip tower sounds delicious tbh.

i've had them, they're alright

everything about this story
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-25390071

Similar thing happened last year iirc. Santa's Grotto was said to be staffed by young, thin men is a good line.

iirc the similar event last year had a profoundly Real England photoset to go along with it.

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

Oh yeah that's the one I was thinking of. Photo 5 is great.

Yeah, guy looking sullen in a The North Face cagoule = none more Real England

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

https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/1501417_581367835249683_754921718_o.jpg

Andrea's Photography

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

omg thank you I love this

The traffic light section of his website seems much too extensive to not have been created in earnest.

benobve·1,569 videos

oh wow thats fantastic

is the guy doing a "bit"?

It doesn't look like it.

The tube train sim on the website is very enjoyable.

oh my lord

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

his videos remind me of the early first person shoot-em-up games.

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

haha i just found that shopping centre it is fucking sinister

*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.

1654.666 seconds, this is like how it must feel when you win wolfenstein 3D. also surprisingly terrified

Fucking brilliant

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.

Beno if you ever stumble across this thread, you're doing incredible work. please come and join us.

brb just off to video a promenade down St George's Walk, Croydon

"Skyscraperism", what a great neologism.

Ha, wait, I misread Beno. It's actually 'skyscrapersim'.

Still, skyscraperism!

Just saw this. Best thing ever. Vewy gwotty.

had his voice in my head all day. important work.

The definitive map of the medway
http://i.imgur.com/5vp8nkn.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_45s5qqKfts

was Interceptor real england?

sorry, I meant to post that to this thread

The Interceptor

Projected map of the Medway in 20 years time

http://www.roze.co.uk/ekmps/shops/rozepetal/images/c205f%5Bekm%5D300x300%5Bekm%5D.gif

Wales but pretty Real IMO
http://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.

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

not sure that was my conscious intent with posting that article, but point taken

angry petty selfishness
thin-eyed silent disapproval
monomaniacal zenophobia
post-empire post-industrial wasteland

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

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 (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that seems more like a late capitalism after the fall tale which might have happened in athens or budapest or buenos aires

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.

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/policeman-ian-johnson-who-gave-6508180

Policeman who gave fugitive a lift cleared of corruption, but still faces sack
15 Jan 2014 06:00
A jury took less that two hours to find Pc Ian Johnson not guilty of misconduct in a public office.

http://i2.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/incoming/article6499841.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/VCP_MEN_100114IanJohnson_0_2_7225489-6499841.jpg

Pc Johnson, who remains suspended from duty, is facing a disciplinary hearing and could be sacked.

The officer helped a dangerous criminal evade capture by driving him home while colleagues were still trying to trace him. He picked up a man suspected of carrying out two assaults in a pub in Hyde in Manchester , before giving him a lift home without telling colleagues, jurors were told.

But the officer said he failed to arrest the burly ‘animal’ only because he was scared for his life. Pc Johnson, a father of a nine-year-old daughter with 15 years in the police, was one of the officers who responded to reports of two assaults at The Albion pub in Hyde town centre.