"PROPER" according to his website.
(woof otm: thinking also scrambling, lower league speedway, English cb and container driver culture etc)
― Fizzles, Friday, 9 May 2014 14:12 (ten years ago) link
Guy seems like a nexus of realisms: road-racing, tea-quaffing, side-burning it up
― Hastings Banter (Noodle Vague), Friday, 9 May 2014 14:13 (ten years ago) link
The road accident that started it all: "I crashed headlong into a car"
like a comic hero/villain origin story.
the next thing I knew I woke up as...
GUY MARTIN. tea drinking, lorry fixing nexus avatar of REAL ENGLAND.
― Fizzles, Friday, 9 May 2014 14:33 (ten years ago) link
I'm going to start pronouncing his name the French way, see how that goes down with my peeps
― A frenzied geologist (Tom D.), Friday, 9 May 2014 14:41 (ten years ago) link
lol.
ah yes ghee martang, un parfit gentil cunt.
― Fizzles, Friday, 9 May 2014 14:49 (ten years ago) link
I never realised till wikiing just now that scrambling = motocross. I'd assumed I never heard about scrambling nowadays because it had precipitously declined in popularity & could only be found in small fen- and moor-bound communities.
― woof, Friday, 9 May 2014 15:09 (ten years ago) link
railway tavern landlord in NA playing Soulja Boy v loudly on his windows xp music player.
― Fizzles, Friday, 9 May 2014 15:25 (ten years ago) link
derby county sporcle going on in the pub too.
― Fizzles, Friday, 9 May 2014 15:29 (ten years ago) link
heroic bump, this, kiu
― verhzleyavbtreleambreb (imago), Friday, 9 May 2014 16:03 (ten years ago) link
haven't got much to add I'm afraid, other than the man next to me on the train is gorging himself on jelly babies and red stripe. I'm not exactly going to follow suit, but might go and get a kroney from the drinks and light refreshments carriage in a bit.
― Fizzles, Friday, 9 May 2014 16:33 (ten years ago) link
as a fellow friday afternoon drinker & soulja boy enthusiast I'm really feeling this update
― ogmor, Friday, 9 May 2014 17:03 (ten years ago) link
god i miss crucial brew
― Hastings Banter (Noodle Vague), Friday, 9 May 2014 17:08 (ten years ago) link
okay, not that much
― Hastings Banter (Noodle Vague), Friday, 9 May 2014 17:09 (ten years ago) link
http://www.buzzfeed.com/patricksmith/the-most-british-headlines-of-the-modern-age
― goth colouring book (anagram), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 10:07 (ten years ago) link
first couple i thought "tired rubbish" but there are some very Real gems in that lot
― Tributes as popular Lichfield cat dies (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 11:06 (ten years ago) link
e.g. the 'pirate' one is genuinely a 'story'
― Mark G, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 11:34 (ten years ago) link
Loads more here: http://itsallkickingoff.blogspot.co.uk/ - some good candidates for Most Important Local News Story.
― pick it up for ripple laser (onimo), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 12:03 (ten years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/may/30/asda-wearable-flag-england-ku-klux-klan-kkk
― bands poll (Noodle Vague), Friday, 30 May 2014 12:58 (ten years ago) link
http://www.jacoblillis.co.uk/img/photographs/england/04.jpg
http://www.jacoblillis.co.uk/england.html
― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Thursday, 12 June 2014 16:12 (nine years ago) link
the nostalgia of northerners who don't live in the north
― ogmor, Thursday, 12 June 2014 16:38 (nine years ago) link
so real
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzP1XC51kro&sns=em
― jamiesummerz, Friday, 13 June 2014 12:53 (nine years ago) link
1:29
― Kornblud (admrl), Friday, 13 June 2014 12:55 (nine years ago) link
oh wait 1:50
― Kornblud (admrl), Friday, 13 June 2014 12:56 (nine years ago) link
http://dougiewallace.com/601687/stags-hens-bunnies-a-blackpool-story/
― cardamon, Sunday, 6 July 2014 19:09 (nine years ago) link
fuckin classic
― cpt navajo (darraghmac), Sunday, 6 July 2014 23:07 (nine years ago) link
#21 is too real, just way too real
― which was retweeted by (imago), Sunday, 6 July 2014 23:16 (nine years ago) link
ok wait #24
wait
― which was retweeted by (imago), Sunday, 6 July 2014 23:17 (nine years ago) link
all of it
some WS UK candidates in that shit tho
― cpt navajo (darraghmac), Sunday, 6 July 2014 23:25 (nine years ago) link
all of it is amazing but if i can narrow it down to three then i go with 21, 24 and 62
special mention to 4, 65 and 67
but yeah, a work of great scholarship obv
― which was retweeted by (imago), Sunday, 6 July 2014 23:28 (nine years ago) link
i dunno, i feel this precariously straddles the line between high quality real england material and jeremy kyle-style gawping at the other.
― Merdeyeux, Sunday, 6 July 2014 23:38 (nine years ago) link
draw that line tho
― cpt navajo (darraghmac), Sunday, 6 July 2014 23:59 (nine years ago) link
can nothing be enjoyed on ilx anymore
― online hardman, Monday, 7 July 2014 09:15 (nine years ago) link
is fancy dress for 66 'muslim w/ blackface'?
― woof, Monday, 7 July 2014 09:35 (nine years ago) link
figured the perceived issue with J Kyle-as-entertainment was less the 'otherness' and more the degree of misery that's being gawped at. not really seeing much misery here
― Kiss Screaming Seagull Her Seagull Her (DJ Mencap), Monday, 7 July 2014 10:17 (nine years ago) link
#63 in my personal top three for sure
― Kiss Screaming Seagull Her Seagull Her (DJ Mencap), Monday, 7 July 2014 10:19 (nine years ago) link
we need a thread in otherness and we need it ringfenced
― cpt navajo (darraghmac), Monday, 7 July 2014 10:23 (nine years ago) link
describing this shit as 'other' is the problem, Merdy - we've ALL been one of these people, once
― which was retweeted by (imago), Monday, 7 July 2014 10:31 (nine years ago) link
yes. once. that's right.
― Daphnis Celesta, Monday, 7 July 2014 10:34 (nine years ago) link
*cough*
ha
― cpt navajo (darraghmac), Monday, 7 July 2014 10:38 (nine years ago) link
you'd look well in a tutu imo
pictures convey that nice mix of joy, threat, next-day regret and doing yrself irreparable damage that constitutes the great British night out
― Daphnis Celesta, Monday, 7 July 2014 10:39 (nine years ago) link
the event night out tbf
― cpt navajo (darraghmac), Monday, 7 July 2014 10:41 (nine years ago) link
surprisingly similar to any other weekend ime
― Daphnis Celesta, Monday, 7 July 2014 10:43 (nine years ago) link
I feel like I'm out of touch with something in that I don't know anyone who dresses up in themed costumes to do nights out - it looks liberating
― cardamon, Monday, 7 July 2014 21:49 (nine years ago) link
ya i mean i think there's a strikingly and endearingly chaotic camaraderie and stuff to a lot of them, maybe most of them, but i dunno that i or that many of the people viewing these have ever been e.g. that guy with his kecks doon tae his ankles in the middle of an empty dancefloor.
i should get back in touch with all of my schoolfriends so i'll have the opportunity to go on this kind of bender, not gonna happen rarefied academic/weirdo circles i move in.
― Merdeyeux, Monday, 7 July 2014 22:03 (nine years ago) link
poll
― cpt navajo (darraghmac), Monday, 7 July 2014 22:28 (nine years ago) link
Generally, high street binge drinking culture seems to have this thick benign vibe going on at the centre of each little group - thick like honey or concrete. In the calm at the eye of the storm, they could do each other no ill, best mates forever, and if you look closely a reminder that people don't have to be especially intelligent or friendly to be, again, benign, at peace. Big rough violent people, giving each other piggy backs, or doing that tiger-paw petting thing, towselling each other's hair and saying 'Ah, you fucker, haha'.
On the other hand, when the edge of one group collides with another ...
― cardamon, Monday, 7 July 2014 23:33 (nine years ago) link
could also be read as self-loathing & anxiety manifested as the desire to be subsumed into the collective blur of laughs
― ogmor, Monday, 7 July 2014 23:56 (nine years ago) link
projection of intent or emotion onto lumpen drunkenness is almost entirely wasted (WASTED LOL) IMO/e
― cpt navajo (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 00:00 (nine years ago) link