Real England

i can't remember if i've read about another case very similar to this one or if some of the deets made the rounds a couple of years back

sorry, of course. at what point tho? did she never see "his" face, like did they meet in the hotel room? cos that's pretty weird. did he have pics on the facebook profile etc?

the oddest bit is "it's not what you think"

xpost i had the exact same thought but a colleague linked to the other case, it was two teenagers or something, a different story.

the mysteries of the human heart

Giving evidence on Wednesday at Chester crown court, the complainant said: “Every time I met up with Kye Fortune, I either had the mask on already or he would wait outside the door and I would put it on. I was so desperate to be loved. It’s pathetic, so desperate for love, so desperate.”

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/09/woman-allegedly-tricked-into-sex-with-friend-pretending-to-be-man-lesbian-court-told

it is either terribly sad and worrying that somebody would blindfold themselves and let whoever it was have sex with them, or just unbelievable.

the bit about getting engaged to someone you've never seen. the bit about watching films together still wearing a blindfold. the bit about sunbathing but the one who didn't have the scars having to swaddle up their head like a baby's arse. almost every detail is completely boggling, but the whole willing suspension of disbelief thing feels really tragic at the same time

it feels like one of those cases of someone caught up in the legal system who shouldn't be - i guess that's what i mean by wondering how it went to trial, like isn't this going to cause more damage for this person ultimately? i mean, i guess unless you believe she actually 100 per cent believed this kye fortune person was real - this seems impossible given the amount of time they spent together. feels like there are really severe mental problems here.

There was a case similar to this a few years back, I think?

Gemma Barker case

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xlf1/v/t1.0-9/11988713_10100737392104347_3420243885931454995_n.jpg?oh=6ec66e1c191f44207b7ecdb0e47aea25&oe=56A32C37

Arse, forgot that was yesterday.

Probably belongs on the UK festivals thread, but the afterparty featured The Beat, 3 Daft Monkeys and Nizlopi. No idea who 3 Daft Monkeys are, but pretty sure they'd be surprised to be higher on the bill than someone who had a #1 chart single.

not if they've heard it

I almost turned up at a Friends Of Rectory Park meeting the other day but had too much realophobia or at least a strong social phobia preventing me. I have genuine grievances to air about squandered lottery funding but have a strong irrational (or maybe rational) feeling of not belonging at such meetings. When I play it in my mind it turns into a Mike Leigh caricatures telling me to leave type situation.

[multiple xps] Genesis P Orridge posted a link to a story about the Kye Fortune case on FB yesterday. there is something of the TG about the story now I think of it

xp

xelab i feel you so strong there, my fear of "those kind of people" keeps me away from all sorts of shit i'd probly like to get involved with

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/prisoner-protest-live-strangeways-roof-10047129

entertaining level of detail here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwadjV4C5_o

1.40 to 1.47 is the best bit of that

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worst url:

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/13799873.Man_in_Tottenham_Hotspur_jacket_exposes_himself_outside_Specsavers/

Ah, the argus

people who have built their own dalek

https://scontent-vie1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-0/s480x480/12065662_1105148786164917_1566861672933163876_n.jpg?oh=f77c1e2747b03364a01f8b7cf96f8fee&oe=569465B3

there are probably better threads to post cutesy garbage or things that happened in other countries

tbf the Real Wales question is one I'm addressing in my writing having taken a trip there lately

the results will amaze you

what five things did you learn from your trip

lol

wait and see. give you one for free though: in certain towns their newsagents have no compunction about boasting unbroken fifty-letter names

that's fake-real wales, obv - in real-real wales the factories lie demolished and the bypassed high streets are resorting to cake shops #gutter

I was going to post a news link to a case of bestiality that occurred on my road a few years back. It was so wretched that I thought multiple NSFW and trigger warnings wouldn't suffice. This is one line from the story:
"The court heard that Cullen apologised to the dog owner and called the police himself."

When you have a nodding acquaintance with someone who you walk past on a regular basis and find out they have committed a crime like this, there is a lot of wtf'ness. It occurred about 6 doors away so was quite a hot topic of conversation at the time, probably a little bit too unpalatable for even this thread. Apologies if it made you vomit.

https://warpnet-media.s3.amazonaws.com/1bcc5b2be12cbe7948f291591c36c9a53c3830a27e896c240f8ad05d

Not quite my bag but that album has a very strong Huddersfield theme running through it. My partner likes it though, she sent me a youtube link of the track that samples the Kirklees website about cuts and it was quite sad.

yeah, i only listened to it once and wasn't nuts about the music but that one piece was quite affecting/rage-inducing

the murder in the news last week was in a road i used to deliver newspapers on. my dad used to work with the woman's younger brother. 8(

http://i1.gazettelive.co.uk/incoming/article6846515.ece/ALTERNATES/s1023/JS33831342.jpg

I remember that Mike Tyson's Greatest Hits vhs being everywhere in the early 90s

Hi I don't know what I'm talking about but I don't understand why west country accents have never been cool

Every time i look at my new local newspaper, something is on fire in a park.

http://i.imgur.com/6goJfg0.jpg?1

nice of the arsonist to front up and admit it in that second photo

Cllr Rupert Turpin

man's pretty forward-thinking, wall of fire would have been a big hit in our playground when evel knievel was all the rage

http://www.suffolkgazette.com/news/morris-dancers-blind-footballers-brawl/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork

Police were called after a mass brawl broke out in a pub car park between a group of morris dancers and a blind football team.

The footballers were enjoying a match on the village green at Rattlesden, near Stowmarket, using a ball with a bell in it so they could keep up with play.

But all hell broke out when the morris dancers began performing at a nearby pub.

A player kicked the ball off the pitch towards the Brewers Arms, and then mistook the morris dancers’ uniform bells for the one in the ball.

He promptly kicked one of the dancers in the shin, sending him flying over a table and crashing into a flower pot. A hanging basket then fell on his head.

More blind footballers then joined the melee, kicking out at the bells and then being surprised when they were punched by furious morris men.

The brawl was only stopped when the referee caught up and blew his whistle loudly.

The Dangerous Comedy of Bernard Manning

I'd never heard of this guy before reading this article.

we did a thread bitd

Bernard Manning Has Died

as was noted on that thread he played the opening night of the hacienda.

favourite bernard manning joke (maybe only non-offensive bernard manning joke?):

Hunchback walks into a bar.
"Scotch whiskey." He says to the barman.
"Bell's alright?"
"Mind your own fucking business." He says.

The last thing I saw on him was I think a bizarre Ch4 program on him that finishes with him addressing his own real cadaver in a coffin with words something like "So now you are finally dead you fat bastard".

I have half a thought about bernard manning that i can't flesh out into anything but that goes something like this:

manning, hugely reviled during his lifetime for his racism, sexism, homophobia etc., juxtaposed with contemporaneous "right-on" 80s alternative comedians and their chiefly observational material.

manning really has no direct comedic descendants - working man's club comedy based on old-fashioned joke construction and chiefly targeting some "other" is no longer mainstream, but the progenitors of 80s alternative comedy are everywhere, stand-up now at its height of popularity in Britain, chiefly recognizable as stemming from 80s alternative comedy.

current stand-up often based on "edgy" offensive jokes, but laden with irony, and usually coming from a university educated comedian who it is assumed is liberal enough to not actually be racist/virulently sexist etc as material might suggest. unlike manning who is a racist pleb moron.

some comedians covering transgressive matieral are even lauded for being progressive. frankie boyle's articles on politics in the guardian, well regarded by plenty on the left on british social media, or for an american example amy schumer lauded for her feminist comedy. The former does rape jokes, the latter race jokes.

un-ironic, earnest racist manning remains to be rehabilitated.

lack of sophistication is the crime.

frankie boyle's articles are shite