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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-25140358

Supt Carl Edwards said: "Firstly, I'd like to stress that it isn't against the law to dress up as a clown.

"Nobody has been assaulted and it appears that the people involved are waiting for a passer-by to be startled by their appearance and run away, and then the clown runs after them for a short distance."

it is important to gain a perspective on these incidents

Interested to see clown loitering perhaps starting to go viral after the Northampton occurrences. Anticipating the growth of a new subculture.

subculture shd die off pretty quick the first time one of these dorks startles somebody with a low tolerance for being startled

http://www.lynnnews.co.uk/webimage/1.5700506.1385117655!/image/3181243510.jpg_gen/derivatives/articleImgDeriv_628px/3181243510.jpg

many uk subcultures quite able to cope and even thrive while getting whaled on by yobs a lot tbf

good point, sir

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BbR4QIhCYAAcR0d.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BbPe3WgCUAEYlLu.jpg

I must say I have a lot of love for the kind of institutional stairwell pictured in that last shot. Prefer them to be unsullied by Space Raiders / M&Ms / unspecified slop obv.

I particularly love when pubs which have been decorated as traditional pubs on the ground floor of 60s / 70s developments but the wood-pannelled door marked "toilets" opens to a stairwell / corridor in this precise style, St Bride's Tavern off New Bridge Street being a particularly good example.

unspecified slop looks like blood to me, no doubt spilled in a Space Raiders vs M&Ms beef

Maybe more Real Britannia than specifically England but Iceland's attempts at hors d'oeuvres made me thing of this thread.

http://www.iceland.co.uk/_assets/images/cache/autoxauto/4769.jpg

Yes, that is a fish finger with a single chip embedded in mushy peas.

Also their attempts to help us navigate the minefield that is choosing wine for a party:

http://groceries.iceland.co.uk/medias/sys_master/h43/he7/8823802789918.jpg

That Iceland stuff makes me think that a PR agency has persuaded them to chase some 'ironic hipster food' buzz.

They had paper cones of chips as hors d'oeurves a few years ago and probably looked at trend reports to come to that decision.

The fish finger/pea/chip tower sounds delicious tbh.

i've had them, they're alright

everything about this story
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-25390071

Similar thing happened last year iirc. Santa's Grotto was said to be staffed by young, thin men is a good line.

iirc the similar event last year had a profoundly Real England photoset to go along with it.

actually I was thinking of one from a few years back, but: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/08/uk_lapland_new_forest/html/1.stm

Oh yeah that's the one I was thinking of. Photo 5 is great.

Yeah, guy looking sullen in a The North Face cagoule = none more Real England

this is just the gift that keeps on giving.

original advert

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/12/15/article-2524088-1A1F698400000578-964_634x488.jpg

actual photo of the 2 reindeer on site

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/12/15/article-2524088-1A1FF85000000578-547_634x701.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/1501417_581367835249683_754921718_o.jpg

Andrea's Photography

documenting grime seems to have enervated the thread. no such problems for this guy, who has got an eye for provincial peculiarities worthy of jonathan meades

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXMXcppgwbk&list=PLrcpmBjkjNUF2XcTE8FroEgn7W7ms698Y&feature=share

omg thank you I love this

The traffic light section of his website seems much too extensive to not have been created in earnest.

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oh wow thats fantastic

is the guy doing a "bit"?

It doesn't look like it.

The tube train sim on the website is very enjoyable.

oh my lord

A REALLY. NICE. 70S. EVANS.

this guy is like a far-cheerier kindred spirit of dan wilson who had those amazing resonance fm shows and is so completely unknown by anyone else I fear I might have dreamt him entirely

his videos remind me of the early first person shoot-em-up games.

playing his escape from shopping centre game, went into a lift, doors closed, none of the buttons worked, now everything's gone dark except for the buttons and I'm scared

haha i just found that shopping centre it is fucking sinister

*centre game

he's definitely real, all the comments are from other members of the hitherto unknown-to-me lift enthusiast community. i love that he avoids filming people, instead he inhabits an eerily quiet england of hospitals, cash converters, vandalized lamp posts, ravenous wheelie bins, hybrid buses, impoverished councils, loading bays, plastic houses, overgrown model railways, tiny new-build housing estates, ceefax, abandoned equestrian centres, wigwags, air-conditioning units, violated geocaches, greenhouses & of course, lots of lifts, all investigated with curiosity (gleefully trespassing & even getting on top of at least one lift) & a sense of decency. he's invented this minecraftesque building simulator & there are a lot of videos of him silently wandering around his creations. he's used it to make a fictional town called coalham which he has filled w/ his beloved grotty buildings &, of course, a variety of lifts.

1654.666 seconds, this is like how it must feel when you win wolfenstein 3D. also surprisingly terrified

Fucking brilliant

I worry he's gonna get his head kicked in by Dark Times though

Since this video, this place has very sadly closed down. This video shows how the Trafalgar center was a few months before it closed with only a third of the shops open.

Note: Even though in this video I am talking about how grotty this place is, I never wanted it to have closed down. I really like grotty places like this because they are fun! (and part of the fun is to comment on how grotty they are!). I really enjoy exploring places like this. When places like this are either closed down or cleaned up, it is a real loss. grotty places have lots of character, and finding and exploring these places is far more fun than going to some organised tourist attraction.

Beno if you ever stumble across this thread, you're doing incredible work. please come and join us.

brb just off to video a promenade down St George's Walk, Croydon

"Skyscraperism", what a great neologism.

Ha, wait, I misread Beno. It's actually 'skyscrapersim'.

Still, skyscraperism!