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
he was holding a tray of drinks to offer their guests
― Brexterminate all the brutes (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 23 April 2017 13:24 (seven years ago) link
best one:
https://twitter.com/bubsyboy555/status/855506470498074624
― soref, Sunday, 23 April 2017 13:30 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C-HXt5zXoAAuOwp.jpg
― mark s, Sunday, 23 April 2017 22:22 (seven years ago) link
"I am willing to fight a champion put up by the DVLA if they want to accept my challenge – but they must remember it is a fight to the death.
"The victor speaks in the name of God and justice so it is a reasonable enough way of sorting the matter out.
"I know I am in the right so I do not have anything to worry about. I am reasonably fit and not afraid of taking anyone on in a fight."
Traditionally fights under the trial by combat law used to be settled by combatants wielding swords, lances or staves with iron heads.
Former seaman Mr Humphreys said he was unsure which party would have the right to decide on the weapons used if the DVLA accepted his challenge.
But he added that he was prepared to fight with Japanese samurai swords, razor sharp Ghurka knives or even heavy blacksmith hammers.
― r|t|c, Monday, 24 April 2017 06:20 (seven years ago) link
Two years ago Grimsby fans threw dozens of beach balls and blow up footballs onto the pitch at Barnet when both teams were in the Conference.One fan was later found guilty of assaulting a football steward with an inflatable shark.The display was part of a protest after a fan was ejected from the ground at Forest Green Rovers for failing to hand over an inflatable football.
One fan was later found guilty of assaulting a football steward with an inflatable shark.
The display was part of a protest after a fan was ejected from the ground at Forest Green Rovers for failing to hand over an inflatable football.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39694197
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 24 April 2017 17:18 (seven years ago) link
this has been doing the rounds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdUoZJvdipA
― del esdichado (NickB), Monday, 24 April 2017 20:15 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/DreamboatSlim/status/855920932359208960
― 龜, Monday, 24 April 2017 20:39 (seven years ago) link
http://www.merciatouristboard.org.uk/
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 10:28 (seven years ago) link
ohmygod it's 2003
― Brexectile dysfunction (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 12:31 (seven years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/5J3xdJG.jpg
― 龜, Thursday, 27 April 2017 16:23 (seven years ago) link
lol
― imago, Thursday, 27 April 2017 16:38 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/YNOCIbA.png
― mookieproof, Thursday, 27 April 2017 16:55 (seven years ago) link
pothole bday cake <3
― On Some Faraday Beach (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 27 April 2017 16:57 (seven years ago) link
which one is gus tho?
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 27 April 2017 18:06 (seven years ago) link
never mind that, how long has Jamie Oliver been a bishop?
― Brexectile dysfunction (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 27 April 2017 18:12 (seven years ago) link
that's dog latin, silly
― mookieproof, Thursday, 27 April 2017 18:19 (seven years ago) link
Relegated Port Vale have received an offer from a Burslem-based IT company to buy the League One club.
Following owner Norman Smurthwaite's decision to stand down as chairman, Synectics Solutions have made an offer of £1.25m, reports BBC Radio Stoke.
Synectics Solutions is owned by Kevin and Carol Shanahan, from Stafford.
― r|t|c, Friday, 5 May 2017 13:41 (seven years ago) link
LOCK, STOCK & TWO SMOKING BARRELS1st & 2nd June
Watch some of Guy Ritchie's greatest work in our perfectly preserved 1930s council chamber. To top it off, we'll also be collaborating with Joe and Kim of iconic F. Cooke who will be serving up pie and mash straight to your seat. We're aiming to offer a real East end experience, so you can expect all the liquor and jellied eels too!
TICKETS ARE £30 PER PERSONAND INCLUDE:
— East end arrival cocktail by our resident cocktail bar, Peg + Patriot— Meat or Veggie pie with mash (liquor on the side)— A seat to our screening in our 1930s Council Chamber— Takeaway MAST x Town Hall Hotel chocolate bar
― Luna Schlosser, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 12:27 (seven years ago) link
^ Fake England, surely?
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 13:29 (seven years ago) link
nothing more real england than a fake england tbf
― Drive Your Lover Wild In Bed By Cosplaying As Jeff Lynne (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 13:31 (seven years ago) link
right, the careful and therefore in some sense fake curation of englishness for an audience who are english yet feel detached from it, both there and itt is surely the essence of real englishness
― ogmor, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 13:41 (seven years ago) link
liquor is so grim. but then I was a fake Londoner
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 13:41 (seven years ago) link