Lux Aeterna

Message Bookmarked
Bookmark Removed
Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (820 of them)

no, the Pankhursts were a Mancunian family

of course, the Pankhursts were the main motor for taking the women's suffrage movement away from its working class/Labour movement roots and then for cutting a deal to support the government's war propaganda in exchange for the franchise but hey

bellendery hooks (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 13 September 2015 21:37 (eight years ago) link

what would the American equivalent of Manchester be? Chicago?

sarahell, Sunday, 13 September 2015 21:40 (eight years ago) link

all of california ;)

jordan amavero (imago), Sunday, 13 September 2015 21:41 (eight years ago) link

i thought it was grim, not sunny and babelicious

mattresslessness, Sunday, 13 September 2015 21:43 (eight years ago) link

Chicago feels like a good fit in some ways - chippiness towards larger more feted metropolitan rival especially

bellendery hooks (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 13 September 2015 21:43 (eight years ago) link

xp lj -- is Manchester known for its dope food and wine?

sarahell, Sunday, 13 September 2015 21:46 (eight years ago) link

No band named Manchester or 83 Manchester chat threads on ILE sadly

mattresslessness, Sunday, 13 September 2015 21:46 (eight years ago) link

NV's right tbf

jordan amavero (imago), Sunday, 13 September 2015 21:47 (eight years ago) link

we could all create sock accounts with generic monosyllabic male first names (from Manchester) and have fake chat threads on ILE

sarahell, Sunday, 13 September 2015 21:48 (eight years ago) link

that doesn't quite equate to 'the suffragette movement began' there though, eg if one wants to be foundational 'The inaugural meeting of the Women's Franchise League (WFL) was held on 25 July 1889, at the Pankhurst home in Russell Square' so say it played a crucial role, 'had roots in' etc, it's all rather unnecessary lily gilding

Robert Kenedy Nunes do Nascimento (nakhchivan), Sunday, 13 September 2015 21:49 (eight years ago) link

Pies and Prejudice: In Search of the North
https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0091910234
Stuart Maconie - 2008 - ‎Humor
In the Gulags and the Killing Fields, in Berlin and Budapest and the rice fields of China. And if communism began in Manchester then maybe Morrissey was right ...

Robert Kenedy Nunes do Nascimento (nakhchivan), Sunday, 13 September 2015 21:49 (eight years ago) link

so it is close to Chicago's crappy kraut cuisine

sarahell, Sunday, 13 September 2015 21:51 (eight years ago) link

we could all create sock accounts with generic monosyllabic male first names (from Manchester) and have fake chat threads on ILE

― sarahell, Sunday, September 13, 2015 9:48 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

am well up for this

deejerk reactions (darraghmac), Sunday, 13 September 2015 21:52 (eight years ago) link

city state of manchester corp has always had a strong marketing dept, owen hatherley would have you believe the whole 80s scene was a scheme to drive up property prices orchestrated by tony wilson. after the mini riots they had their http://i1129.photobucket.com/albums/m516/Martinelli87/Chester.jpg~original guff out everywhere almost immediately, apparently they had it all ready to roll in the event of any threat to the brand. not to say you can't join in w yr own mythologising of manchester of course

ogmor, Sunday, 13 September 2015 21:53 (eight years ago) link

what are the Mancky equivalents of Jon, Jeff, and Josh?

sarahell, Sunday, 13 September 2015 21:54 (eight years ago) link

do rochdales finest autechre ever get cited in local pr spiel?

Robert Kenedy Nunes do Nascimento (nakhchivan), Sunday, 13 September 2015 21:54 (eight years ago) link

still recovering from watching a prog band from salford

Praying for you.

Fields of Fat Henry (Tom D.), Sunday, 13 September 2015 21:54 (eight years ago) link

I've been noticing how much Germany has contributed to terrible American culture thanks to a typically on point nakh thread.

mattresslessness, Sunday, 13 September 2015 21:55 (eight years ago) link

manchester's relationship w its peripheral towns is unusual and somewhat fractious so generally their legacies are kept distinct but bolton's blackout crew did appear in the manchester day parade one year iirc

ogmor, Sunday, 13 September 2015 21:56 (eight years ago) link

I didn't realize how many of these krauts our country suffered from until both nakh and Tom Smith from TLASILA both pointed out that German-Americans make up 15.2% of the US population

sarahell, Sunday, 13 September 2015 21:58 (eight years ago) link

I'm sure there are some good ones, but we should consider shipping a lot of them back where they came from

sarahell, Sunday, 13 September 2015 21:58 (eight years ago) link

beware the german menace

mattresslessness, Sunday, 13 September 2015 21:59 (eight years ago) link

we had it right back in the day. they've been pulling the wool over our eyes for the past 70 years imo

sarahell, Sunday, 13 September 2015 22:01 (eight years ago) link

lol ogmor
manchester's many towns in one city aspect is a lot more interesting than trying to make the cities of manchester and salford into freestanding global enterprise monolith duplex or whatever

Robert Kenedy Nunes do Nascimento (nakhchivan), Sunday, 13 September 2015 22:03 (eight years ago) link

German-Americans are 'the largest self-reported ancestry group' in the United States, and just think of all the ones who are too embarrassed to admit they're German.

Fields of Fat Henry (Tom D.), Sunday, 13 September 2015 22:07 (eight years ago) link

aren't they kinda like the eyeties and are very proud of where they're from despite the fascism? isn't the problem that they're not embarrassed enough?

sarahell, Sunday, 13 September 2015 22:11 (eight years ago) link

there's plenty of radical women in manchester's history besides the pankhursts, campaigners have keenly felt the relative lack of self-mythologising in this area and so there has been a #womanchester campaign to get a statue erected in the city centre, some sort of vote has been taking place

ogmor, Sunday, 13 September 2015 22:13 (eight years ago) link

that's quite different from trying to provincialize a national movement with disparate sources via a specious local heritage industry origin myth of course

Robert Kenedy Nunes do Nascimento (nakhchivan), Sunday, 13 September 2015 22:17 (eight years ago) link

most ppl are proud of where they're from despite the fascism

deejerk reactions (darraghmac), Sunday, 13 September 2015 22:29 (eight years ago) link

i'm not

sarahell, Sunday, 13 September 2015 22:29 (eight years ago) link

would never have dreamed of categorising you in such a turgid lot as 'most ppl' tbf

deejerk reactions (darraghmac), Sunday, 13 September 2015 22:34 (eight years ago) link

sarah is a rara avis but in a metaphorical sense so are u deems

Robert Kenedy Nunes do Nascimento (nakhchivan), Sunday, 13 September 2015 22:50 (eight years ago) link

relieved dmac can speak on behalf of most people

mattresslessness, Sunday, 13 September 2015 23:20 (eight years ago) link

no need to relieve yrself over me matt

deejerk reactions (darraghmac), Sunday, 13 September 2015 23:23 (eight years ago) link

we could all create sock accounts with generic monosyllabic male first names (from Manchester) and have fake chat threads on ILE

― sarahell, Sunday, 13 September 2015 22:48 (Yesterday)

lol at this btw

Robert Kenedy Nunes do Nascimento (nakhchivan), Sunday, 13 September 2015 23:24 (eight years ago) link

every day a poster called dale posts, then without fail someone tells dale that they aren't in yorkshire, then dale posts 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Robert Kenedy Nunes do Nascimento (nakhchivan), Sunday, 13 September 2015 23:33 (eight years ago) link

We could complain about the London food trends that have finally made it to our fair city

sarahell, Monday, 14 September 2015 03:41 (eight years ago) link

Steve Speed ‏@Stevespeed2005 8 Nov 2012 Manchester, England

Why are all food critics such pretentious fucktards?? So far up their own arses they can lick their own lungs. Fuck off #masterchef

https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=pretentious%20food%20near%3Amanchester&src=typd

Robert Kenedy Nunes do Nascimento (nakhchivan), Monday, 14 September 2015 12:12 (eight years ago) link

Dave ‏@DaveJMurray Sep 8

People who describe themselves as "foodies". Get in the sea.

https://twitter.com/DaveJMurray

Robert Kenedy Nunes do Nascimento (nakhchivan), Monday, 14 September 2015 12:16 (eight years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzSSr8ZrNIo

Why aren't women married?

nakhchivan, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 20:09 (eight years ago) link

jean de voilem(e)nt

drash, Thursday, 24 September 2015 22:44 (eight years ago) link

xp dude was a dick and kinda an idiot iirc, he came across to some investigators as too undisciplined and dumb to have perpetrated the espionage

sarahell, Friday, 25 September 2015 01:29 (eight years ago) link

Infinite Cats... (cats cats cats cats cats cats...) [Started by Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate) in September 2004, last updated 1 hour ago by niels] 1 new answer

twunty fifteen (imago), Friday, 2 October 2015 12:34 (eight years ago) link

don't be a grumpy cat JPEG

fappy board (wins), Friday, 2 October 2015 12:44 (eight years ago) link

The canals, once home to dead dogs and dumped cars, now thrive.

noɪˈɣiːələx (nakhchivan), Sunday, 4 October 2015 13:14 (eight years ago) link

“yummy brummies”

Manchester has none.

drash, Sunday, 4 October 2015 15:53 (eight years ago) link

So is there going to be voting for this poll?

― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, October 6, 2015 1:12 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Amazing user name^

― mozart, Tuesday, October 6, 2015 5:04 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

twunty fifteen (imago), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 09:35 (eight years ago) link


You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.