where you in?
― Flaneuring Bevan (Noodle Vague), Friday, 8 May 2020 11:26 (four years ago) link
damn i meant "were"
I was queueing outside Morrisons at the time.
― Frank Bough: I Took Drugs with Vice Girls (Tom D.), Friday, 8 May 2020 11:28 (four years ago) link
ditto, it was an unreclaimed car park for years tho now it has an ugly cluster of tiny but expensive flats
a neighbour says he once encounter a tiny little old lady on the corner gazing around and he asked if he could help and she said "i grew up in the square and then one night in the war there was an air raid warning and we all went down into the shelter and there was a huge explosion nearby and when we came out again my building was gone so we moved elsewhere straight away with nothing and i haven't been back since till now"
― mark s, Friday, 8 May 2020 11:28 (four years ago) link
ditto to "near me"
One dropped just round the corner from me!
― gyac, Friday, 8 May 2020 11:35 (four years ago) link
So I'm sitting here listening to the sound of the council van drifting over from Finsbury Park: "You should be here for exercise only. If not, then please go home." *sick Autechre-style electronic blips* - Loop back to the beginning and repeatDo other parks have this crap going on? They seem to think that the pigeon-scaring noise loops under the recorded announcement will scare people away, not realising that everyone listens to music that sounds like that nowadays anyway.
― the fucking cunts treat us like Styx (Matt #2), Friday, 8 May 2020 11:42 (four years ago) link
Sounds like they are missing the mood of Sunday’s presumed directive to all go on a picnic
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Friday, 8 May 2020 11:53 (four years ago) link
Watching the Welsh govt CV briefing just now and as with Scotland's yesterday it's full of press cunts continually questioning the right of a country's leaders to make decisions to protect their people.
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Friday, 8 May 2020 11:54 (four years ago) link
I heard a R4 presenter suggest that some people might be throwing 40's themed tea parties and having a singalong to that Vera Lynn song today. I'm having dreams about leading one of them nazi flamethrower units through Middle England and raining flaming oil on this sick fucked up demented brain-worms version of nostalgia!
― calzino, Friday, 8 May 2020 12:43 (four years ago) link
Does anyone even know it past the first 4 lines? It's like Auld Lang Syne
― the fucking cunts treat us like Styx (Matt #2), Friday, 8 May 2020 12:45 (four years ago) link
a drag bar near me used to finish off the night with "We'll Meet Again" which took on a wonderfully blurry buddhist quality tbh
― Flaneuring Bevan (Noodle Vague), Friday, 8 May 2020 12:46 (four years ago) link
A 'national singalong' at 9:10 apparently, just after the queen's speech!
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 8 May 2020 12:49 (four years ago) link
When I was in primary school we did a VE Day musical that ended with everyone singing We'll Meet Again while a boy dressed as Churchill & a boy dressed as Hitler came on stage from separate wings, met in the middle & shook hands. Even as a small child it seemed a bit weird— crosby stills nash & manners (@jamiemannersRIP) May 8, 2020
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 8 May 2020 12:50 (four years ago) link
My national anthem is Treat Me Like a Pirate
― Flaneuring Bevan (Noodle Vague), Friday, 8 May 2020 12:51 (four years ago) link
any song can be good, apart from if it is appropriated by bovine middle england in a pervasive militarism sort of context!
― calzino, Friday, 8 May 2020 12:51 (four years ago) link
I'm not sure I entirely follow Tracer's post - asking for unemployed people to be given jobs is surely asking them to risk their lives if we're stuck with insufficient PPE, ventilators, etc.?
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 8 May 2020 13:10 (four years ago) link
he's saying that the focus of the opposition should be on reconstruction after the necessary safety precautions are no longer necessary
― Flaneuring Bevan (Noodle Vague), Friday, 8 May 2020 13:12 (four years ago) link
and a reconstruction that isn't an unseemly scramble back to the pre-rona shithole
― Flaneuring Bevan (Noodle Vague), Friday, 8 May 2020 13:13 (four years ago) link
Daniel, that depends with the jobs - Fruit picking is on the other end of the scale from meat packing, I understand.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 8 May 2020 15:28 (four years ago) link
We are now in that phase where the main task of the Government's morning messaging on a national crisis is to kick back against the Government's evening messaging from the previous day. https://t.co/1G7KDmj8VH— Stewart Wood (@StewartWood) May 7, 2020
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 8 May 2020 15:38 (four years ago) link
street party going on in our very middle class road, they've blocked it off with cars and there are kids playing football, social distancing be damned.
― a slice of greater pastry (ledge), Friday, 8 May 2020 15:55 (four years ago) link
and the red white and blue death held sway over all
― Flaneuring Bevan (Noodle Vague), Friday, 8 May 2020 15:58 (four years ago) link
in the passage the usual suspects are out in front of their shared houses (two households of eurostudents who dont social distance from one another and last night were playing the guitar v badly before and after the clapping)
― mark s, Friday, 8 May 2020 16:04 (four years ago) link
Bad (public) guitar playing a far worse crime than refusal to social distance.
― Frank Bough: I Took Drugs with Vice Girls (Tom D.), Friday, 8 May 2020 16:08 (four years ago) link
well yes
― Flaneuring Bevan (Noodle Vague), Friday, 8 May 2020 16:08 (four years ago) link
Celebrating VE Day by ensuring that anyone who still remembers the war will die a painful and suffocating death.
― Matt DC, Friday, 8 May 2020 16:10 (four years ago) link
I've seen ripped young middle class lads from the posh side of town doing what looked like a mini kickboxing tournaments in the park and a guy was coaching group of children at the tennis club in the last few days. No bbq's or fools with tribal tattoos - no five oh it seems!
― calzino, Friday, 8 May 2020 16:11 (four years ago) link
I should have added ..white ripped young middle class lads!
― calzino, Friday, 8 May 2020 16:17 (four years ago) link
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Friday, 8 May 2020 16:25 (four years ago) link
I imagine he'll fuck it up, but getting to put the boot into Boris on the front cover of the Telegraph on the 75th anniversary of VE day is something all the same.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 8 May 2020 16:37 (four years ago) link
street parties today in front of middle class houses, beer circles on the kerb among polish dudes - literally no difference from a similar bank holiday weekend from any other year. masks only once you start approaching big shops.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 8 May 2020 16:41 (four years ago) link
The May Day Spike should ensure that Blighty puts clear air between us and the silver medal pretenders in the Coronalympics 2020. Hooray!
― the fucking cunts treat us like Styx (Matt #2), Friday, 8 May 2020 17:00 (four years ago) link
"scones were served at 1940's themed tea parties"
I'm pouring one out for the Red Army tonight, fuck Britain
― calzino, Friday, 8 May 2020 17:06 (four years ago) link
otm comrade
― Flaneuring Bevan (Noodle Vague), Friday, 8 May 2020 17:19 (four years ago) link
Lol
Italy's death toll from the coronavirus passes 30,000, the highest in the EU https://t.co/kSuKiy61BA— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) May 8, 2020
― gyac, Friday, 8 May 2020 17:41 (four years ago) link
it's almost as if
ok i'll stop
― Flaneuring Bevan (Noodle Vague), Friday, 8 May 2020 17:42 (four years ago) link
It’s good to know that the disdain for gaudy celebrations in the height of this pandemic is *checks notes*antisemitic?
Boom! D’Ancona out of nowhere to claim the 2020 VE Day Pretending Not To Understand Things You Do Understand Hack Challenge! This lesser known journeyman has been seen as a dull plodder but he’s feigning moronic ignorance with the very worst in the business today, sensational! pic.twitter.com/V073DeeYVB— Flying_Rodent (@flying_rodent) May 8, 2020
― gyac, Friday, 8 May 2020 17:43 (four years ago) link
scared because in a just, post-rona world what role is there for a D'Ancona?
― Flaneuring Bevan (Noodle Vague), Friday, 8 May 2020 17:45 (four years ago) link
Good thing we left the eu or we’d have got a real showing up there
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Friday, 8 May 2020 17:45 (four years ago) link
"scones were served at 1940's themed tea parties"I'm pouring one out for the Red Army tonight, fuck Britain
― Fizzles, Friday, 8 May 2020 17:48 (four years ago) link
That Matthew D'Ancona tweet reminded me of this, which I'm sure wasn't the intention.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f_DPrSEOEo
― Frank Bough: I Took Drugs with Vice Girls (Tom D.), Friday, 8 May 2020 17:57 (four years ago) link
Is the disdain for gaudy VE Day celebrations more antisemitic than... Winston Churchill?
― santa clause four (suzy), Friday, 8 May 2020 18:27 (four years ago) link
Yep Tooze and Egerton have been a good antidote to the widespread manure getting sprayed everywhere today
― calzino, Friday, 8 May 2020 18:29 (four years ago) link
Tooze is the grandson of soviet spy Arthur Wynn after all!
― calzino, Friday, 8 May 2020 18:32 (four years ago) link
real england update: someone on the street whatsapp group was 'shocked and horrified at the disregard for social distancing, it's like living on a sink estate', and an ambulance couldn't get through. someone said this was ridiculous, 'the local mp and the police said it was ok to block the road and the ambulance driver said it was ok', someone else said 'the hysteria for every living person to stay at home is ridiculous'.
― a slice of greater pastry (ledge), Friday, 8 May 2020 22:02 (four years ago) link
you'd think Starmer with his oh so w/c factory boss dad who was obv a bit of a labour party history geek might have an inkling that it traditionally wasn't a party that protected the interests of minority groups like wealthy landlords. That was the job of the other party.
― calzino, Saturday, 9 May 2020 08:38 (four years ago) link
Looking after the interests of all those millions of exploited worker ants might not win you plaudits from the UK media but that is supposed to be your job, cunt!
― calzino, Saturday, 9 May 2020 08:41 (four years ago) link
absolutely pathetic policy, protecting landlords from sustaining even the briefest hits to the income, at a time when almost every other industry is in freefall, at the expense of the rentier class, who are expect to pick up the debt or bankrupt themselves https://t.co/nAKQJEG1Ww pic.twitter.com/gaPz51rh9H— tristandross (@tristandross) May 9, 2020
― calzino, Saturday, 9 May 2020 08:42 (four years ago) link
radical landlord policies are needed during a crisis like this, not as radical as I'd like but protecting their wealth like nothing is happening here and putting the financial burden of c-19 on renters is a right wing tory policy.
― calzino, Saturday, 9 May 2020 08:46 (four years ago) link