Real England

Workers in the UK currently work the longest hours in Europe, take the shortest lunch breaks and enjoy the fewest public holidays. Childcare is expensive and difficult to find, care for older people is of inconsistent quality and financial
support during family-related leave is lower than in some other parts of Europe. The quest for higher productivity and the long hours' culture limit the effects of improved rights and can undermine equal opportunities policies.

The TUC estimates that if all the unpaid overtime worked by the average employee were put together at the start of the year, it would be until mid-February before they started to be paid. This is marked by Work Your Proper Hours Day which takes place on that date around mid-February.

we call that the american dream

Str8 justice for ur plundering ways imo

my people was the serfs not the plunderers

xp yeah i know compared to the US we are feckless workshy fops

David Cameron was today challenged by rising star Tory MPs to tackle “lazy” Britain — and bring in tough new work reforms.

The “young guns” from the new Right of the party called for a culture of “graft, risk and effort” to propel Britain into the “superleague” of nations.

They branded Britons among “the worst idlers” in the world and said the country should emulate the hard work ethic of Asia.

“Too many people in Britain, we argue, prefer a lie-in to hard work,” they said. The call for action is being made by five Tories from the “class of 2010” — Kwasi Kwarteng, Priti Patel, Dominic Raab, Chris Skidmore and Elizabeth Truss.

Their vision, laid out in a new book, Britannia Unchained — Global Growth and Prosperity, will pile pressure on the Prime Minister to step up reforms to boost Britain’s economy.

Ah yes, if only the british could be more like johnny foreign the country would be great again.

NV denying his privs btw, record shown

no, i accept that i am fortunate to belong to the master race, even in a minor capacity

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probably need a thread about work, productivity etc

Couldnt be fucked to start one, cuppa?

been thinking about this too. no f'ing ilx time recently tho due to productivity work etc.

Lazy sod

i've been trying to maintain a little more focus too tbh

how many public holidays do the rest of Europe get then?
I was in Italy recently and they had one... on a Sunday

Spain gets a ridiculous number, as do most of the Catholic countries, i think. Russia always seems to have lots too (today, for example).

9 plus the odd day or two at xmas iirc, also lol amounts of annual leave

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Idk if a gang war started by a petty criminal's mum throwing a bottle of blue WKD at another petty criminal's head is Real England or whether it goes all the way through Real England and comes out the other side.

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photo reminds me - p much all of the Gene Vincent UK Tour documentary, tho this bit (up to 32.00) was the specific bit that just occurred to me:

http://youtu.be/IuYfqJMIiyk?t=31m9s

That photo is p much the sperm donor team that resulted in project milner

love the foppish guy on the left and the preponderance of bottled beer and half pint glasses

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shouldb heiriess 2 25million says...

northwood ruislip ect has become a dangerous rough place to "live" only last sunday my 5 year old daughter was served up a large piece of glass from santa at the orchard beefeater ruislip the manager tanya thought nothing of it,a serious threat by staff To a 5 year old of the beefeater. WHAT NEXT!!!

"live"

(xxp)

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o/t but it looks like it would be fun to hang w those guys

fight is good but Argos catalogue guy is definitely the realest thing here.

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Jeans, shoe, Metro 'Police errors le Rachel kill', rainy bus window = Realest picture so far in thread.

lol i have one of those

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what lovely feet you have NV

shaving them is quite difficult

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here's some photos I took years ago during my first summer holiday home from london...pretty 'real' I think
http://autumningothenburg.blogspot.co.uk/2009/08/home-sweet-home.html

You Real England smalltowns which actually have railway stations, you don't know how good you have it. Or maybe the areas which got thoroughly Beechinged are insufficiently Real for this thread.

(Enjoyed the photos btw.)

it would be nice to think pointy men's shoes were a dispiriting vulgarity contained only to england

The street with 18 betting shops

THE MUSIC ROOM CREW

Then: You ever sit down and wonder who actually likes Muse? Or Biffy Clyro? Or John Frusciante? Well, consider that every school in the country has at least three guys who wear Fender T-shirts and spend their lunch breaks arguing about the correct way to play the "Under The Bridge" intro. And that there's, well – I dunno – a lot of schools in the UK, and you begin to understand these bands' popularity. At first, I wasn't sure they were still a "thing", but then I looked at the line-up for Reading this year and instantly realised that these young men were still ploughing their own furrow. Still got love for Flea, still not loving electronic beats.

Now: Unsurprisingly, in this troublesome economic climate, it seems most of them are still refusing to give up the snuggly world of education; still enrolled in various obscure universities (Buckinghamshire New, Anglia Ruskin, Glyndŵr) doing studies in obscure technical bullshit (RPG Design, Turf Technology, Josh Homme studies). They all grew wavy ponytails, started Reddit accounts and became the "rock" guys you see in every Wetherspoons; studded wristbands, 3/4 length pleather jackets, talking about UKIP and dragons.

They resent fashion in all its forms; every T-shirt has to refer to something else, be it a band or a Red Dwarf character. The strange thing about this particular subculture is that it doesn't seem to be something that people grow out of. We've all had our stages with different scenes, but mostly they're just fleeting obsessions with a rebel ideal. For guys like this, it seems to be more of a long-term lifestyle choice – a monastic vow of uncool.

that is c&ped from a mostly not very good article on vice.com but anyway

one night recently after missing the last train back from a suburban London town of debatable realness I ended up at the only place where drinking could be prolonged, a night at the local rock club. It was remarkable, exactly the same as it would have been in 2001 except everybody's a bit fatter and a bit balder and a lot more empty inside.

rock club people always seem reasonably affable to me except odd one with genuine booze/drugs/mental health issues

Saturday
Reading
24th August

EMINEM
Chase and Status
Foals
White Lies
Brand New
Twin Atlantic
The Blackout
Lower Than Atlantis
Mallory Knox

i only know three of those and one of them is from an ilx thread clowning a bbc sound of 201x thread

and one of the others is eminem

i think i know the same 3 as you and i only know what 1 and a half of them sound like

Mallory Knox sounds like a short lived US detective show from the 90s

rock club people always seem reasonably affable to me except odd one with genuine booze/drugs/mental health issues

the rock dudes in my old market town (7,000 people) were good guys who would seek out and stand up for the other youngish oddballs and misfits in town - as a mere badly dressed indie geek I felt honoured to tag along with this ragtag bunch of metallers + eastern Europeans + about half of the very few non-white people in town

then you go to the rock pub in the nearest 100k town (except you don't in the one I'm thinking of / living in now, because it's closed down) and the bar staff all completely blank anyone not in the exact same regulation leathers, band shirt and haircut as everyone else there. and everyone there would be white, since I brought up race in the first paragraph.

speaking of white I think I first heard of White Lies in the same month as another White Something band and now I can't remember if I used to like them or if I'm thinking of someone else