Real England

in some well known place in glasgow

Probably The Grand Ole Opry.

glasgow: where real england just got realer

(yes jed, that sounds right)

"Things don't get more real england than betting shops getting robbed because of single manning"

Back in the 90's the independent bookie chain I worked for didn't even have safes on the premises. The boss referred to us as "pigeons" and we'd fly off* on a morning with a float of anything between £500 - £2000 on our person and then return with whatever the shop had made or lost that day to the head office. I can think loads of *hilarious* stories from them days, but you'd probably think I was making them up. Stories of robbery with shotguns, knives, coshes and one samurai sword!

The samurai sword story involves a disgruntled former employee who tried to lay siege to the head office with a samurai sword, with the intent of murder and robbery. After his prison sentence he became a children's entertainer. I'm honestly not making this up.

used to be a shop up east Hull that sold samurai swords and other psychosis-enabling hardware, i believe ya.

lol I just looked up the samurai sword guy and he won the local Circle of Magicians Trick of the year award 2017!

Coming third was xxxxx xxxx, as a character called Chavracadabra, whose card trick went deliberately wrong.

^^^this person's existence and project has made my day

yes i think there are several constituencies, sometime overlapping

a: not-very-well-informed aging rockabilly completists
b: even older (and more adrift) country fans*
c: hells angels giving the finger to the MAN (as long as the MAN isn't, like, HITLER)
d: own-the-libs EDL racists
e: trolling rock nitwits like boaby g

― mark s, Monday, 12 February 2018 10:51 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

f: Cork GAA Supporters

What's der story dere

https://www.quora.com/Ireland-How-come-Cork-sports-teams-use-the-Confederate-flag

omg that Leeds crest was real

glasgow's grand ole opry still had confederate flags in its decor not too long ago (by which i mean, in the last decade, i think...). i've never quite understood the love of ersatz country in the west of scotland, but maybe it's strengthened by a special bond built on transatlantic racism

UPDATE: seemingly they not only still have confederate flags, they do some strange ceremony involving one

https://allmyfriendsarejpegs.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/r0026236.jpg?w=1000&h=662

They end each dance with a ceremonial folding up of the confederate battle flag while playing Elvis's American Trilogy with everyone in a big circle with hands on hearts etc, then the gunfighters mark s mentioned blast a salute.

Used to go there a lot when I lived in Kinning Park. It's a great place.

I've even been part of the flag ceremony a few times. The exact way of folding the flag is entrusted to only the upper echelon. If you talk or laugh or don't show respect you get bawled out. They have a sacred cowboy hat they place it in at the end.

It's in a extremely working-class, economically depressed neighbourhood (somewhat improved recently I hear) and the clientele were poor, working class people of my parents generation. Drinks were dirt cheap and the music involved a lot of Tammy Wynette, Lena Martel and Neil Diamond. There is no thought given to what that flag represents other than that idealised America of the 50s- John Wayne, Brenda Lee and that kind of thing.

let em know they can look it up online now

It's a short walk to Ibrox. They have their own flags for showing they hate people.

Someone should put Glasgow Grand Ole Opry confederate flag wankers in touch with some Cork GAA fans, could probably put a stop to it at both ends

It's a short walk to Ibrox. They have their own flags for showing they hate people.

Indeed, Grand Ole Opry lagging some way behind in the bigotry and hatred stakes.

It's in a extremely working-class, economically depressed neighbourhood (somewhat improved recently I hear) and the clientele were poor, working class people

It's the words you don't say rly

http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/bolton/15989143.We_tried_to_talk_to_Oxfam_staff_about_the_Haiti_prostitutes_scandal___but_were_met_with_a_wall_of_silence/?ref=rss

should really start a 'shit that looks like a Viz article but isn't' thread one of these days

lol quiet news day

the use of the confederate flag outside the us is a weird but interesting discovery for me

i know it gets used by german neo nazi groups as a surrogate for the (banned) swastika

UK is largely as described above, basically older Americana lovers who have no clue about the connotations

e.g. Bobby Gillespie

Aye

Today I learned that there is a Japanese punk band called "English people"* who have a number about kebabs. https://t.co/UrTLKC9vcB

— Bethan Hutton (@yabunonaka1) February 18, 2018

I didn't know there was a Japanese band called イギリス人. One of their songs is "Sympathy for the Kebab", which is a fair title to capture the soul of my country. https://t.co/92qCCuB3rc

— Mulboyne (@Mulboyne) February 18, 2018

Scotland Girl >>> English People

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YDLfj7u4LQ

english people is like a pop punk horslips

where is the love for HORSLIPS

maybe within 20 years the fetishisation of unhealthy peasant food from poor 2nd-world England will be looked down upon by Japanese polite society as some politically incorrect, inverted orientalism!

how are kebabs unhealthy? no other fast food involves as much salad!

I had a very unhealthy but delicious Mexicano pizza a local fast food outlet yesterday. When I see that kebab meat eternally sizzling away, I'm more troubled by the hygiene rating * they lost than the **** they received!

There is a hilarious scene in The Other Side of Hope where a hapless seafood restaurateur tries to re-brand the place as a Sushi Bar and a huge party of Japanese tourists turn up.

on the first night! yes it is hilar

sort of surprised i haven't heard of white people doing artisanal pop-up gourmet kebabs for £9.50 each. surely this has happened

dude:
https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/restaurants/gastro-babs-london-s-new-wave-of-posh-gourmet-kebabs-a3096141.html

GASTRO BABS

The Typhoid Mary of dysentry.

urge to kebab rising

You guys haven’t heard about FANNY, which is opening on Stoke-fucking-Newington High Street? Couple posh tosspots decided they could do ‘healthy’ kebabs in N16 and were duly rinsed by @Mangal2 and a cast of thousands.

Chuckle Brother Paul tweeted that he had got three pieces of chicken and chips at Leicester Forest Services

For those who contacted the Police about KFC being out of chicken ... please STOP. Their website says the Prestwich store is now open if you want to follow the four police cars through the drive thru ..

— GMP Whitefield (@GMPWhitefield) February 20, 2018

This is one of the greatest videos to have ever graced the tl pic.twitter.com/Tb6oeNnU4l

— Jay (@jayandreas_) February 28, 2018

amazing

learning not to swear at five o is a rites of passage thing, although some idiots don't learn their lesson after the first time!

you guys would have loved my high school

all that's missing is a donk on it