I'm a Californian, but this seems to qualify.
http://money.aol.co.uk/2016/12/07/hilarious-response-when-angry-mum-complains-to-tesco-about-pota/?ncid=aolshare_facebook
― nickn, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 19:37 (seven years ago) link
could've sworn we had a great thread on (English?) seaside 'n coasts on here, with pix galore, but search function is failing me again.. Anyone?
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 20:12 (seven years ago) link
There's a sea arches thread, not exclusively British, though. Sea Arches (A Picture Thread)
― nickn, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 22:02 (seven years ago) link
you're thinking this excellent thread?
The British seaside: Dud or dud?
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 22:10 (seven years ago) link
Thanks guys! Think I lumped several threads together in my mind, Fizzles' seaside one and the Cornwall one.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 22:18 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbCPz2OP2ZI&t=105sfunny and entertaining local youtubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HRZdDpZSBMgrim and thouroughly depressing local youtube
― calzino, Sunday, 18 December 2016 03:17 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbCPz2OP2ZI
― calzino, Sunday, 18 December 2016 03:19 (seven years ago) link
omg Dewsbury Drifterz <3 <3 <3
― Rock Wokeman (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 18 December 2016 09:03 (seven years ago) link
http://metro.co.uk/2016/12/21/man-arrested-for-offensive-christmas-decorations-6336953/
― NickB, Thursday, 22 December 2016 10:21 (seven years ago) link
It started with this story: http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/models-carried-fashion-shoot-went-12356210 which is just kind of bizarre and maybe belongs in a Milennials thread (if we have one), but then looking elsewhere on the MEN site I found this: http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/murder-probe-after-man-dies-12357286 which deserves to be here for this quote from the policeman in charge:
what should be a happy time turned into violence
― Horizontal Superman is invulnerable (aldo), Thursday, 22 December 2016 10:29 (seven years ago) link
When asked why he didn’t dial 999, model Max Dos Santos Leite, 17 at the time, said: “We just came to the conclusion that we needed to get stuff done.“In all due respect, we only had that time on that day to get stuff done.“We didn’t have any other free time. With all due respect, it (the body) wasn’t going anywhere.”
“In all due respect, we only had that time on that day to get stuff done.
“We didn’t have any other free time. With all due respect, it (the body) wasn’t going anywhere.”
lol
― soref, Thursday, 22 December 2016 10:33 (seven years ago) link
I was talking to my mum the other night about the Huddersfield and District Temperance Union NV thing mentioned upthread and she told me about a photo she still has. My dad's sister was sporting a Pioneer badge in the photo next to my mum, the latter with a bottle of lucozade, my mum with a beer. The Pioneer badge was a catholic church badge of shite honour, where you have agreed not to imbibe alcohol until you are 25. My mum says that pious arsehole really fucking wore it with pride, to the point that it drove her to deliberately drink hard + flaunt it just to piss her off.
― calzino, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 01:51 (seven years ago) link
Doesn't get realer than a pub...http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-38384519
― 2017, how bad could it be? (snoball), Tuesday, 3 January 2017 20:38 (seven years ago) link
http://spicyengland.tumblr.com/
(via https://twitter.com/Mr_Considerate/status/817749614728216576)
― soref, Saturday, 7 January 2017 17:03 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/OUFCOfficial/status/822842648553783296
― r|t|c, Monday, 23 January 2017 09:07 (seven years ago) link
Oxford's twitter clearly updated by a Streatham Rovers fan. #Neverstopnotgivingup
― Houston John (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 23 January 2017 10:06 (seven years ago) link
@Greg_WilfordStatement from Rolf Harris' solicitor drowned out by a defrocked bishop doing a joyous Irish jig outside Southwark Crown Court.
Statement from Rolf Harris' solicitor drowned out by a defrocked bishop doing a joyous Irish jig outside Southwark Crown Court.
― Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 13:57 (seven years ago) link
He blamed a "media frenzy" for making Harris "vulnerable to people making accusations against him".
what a nightmare it must be when so many disparate people are queuing up to accuse you of very similar-sounding things
― Dick Hole Son (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 14:03 (seven years ago) link
defrocked irish-jig priest = cornelius (neil) horan ("sometimes referred to as the Grand Prix Priest")
(and not to be confused with neill horan of one direction)
― mark s, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 14:10 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/qfwlVkN.jpg
― Vlogs from other credible bands such as Shed Seven (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 15:05 (seven years ago) link
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/18/village-vigilante-informs-illegally-parked-cars-dubbed-prat/
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Sunday, 19 February 2017 13:44 (seven years ago) link
his fat nose xxx
― r|t|c, Sunday, 19 February 2017 14:06 (seven years ago) link
More seaside fest pics:
http://www.midweekherald.co.uk/polopoly_fs/1.4900237!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_630/image.jpg
I was surprised by the date of this one in particular. More here.
― Tim, Wednesday, 22 February 2017 09:51 (seven years ago) link
reminds me of this, don't know if i've shared it here before
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLj9a4P_lAg
found it a couple of years ago doing a search on an old employer of my dad/grandad's
― Treesh-Hurt (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 22 February 2017 16:31 (seven years ago) link
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Sunday, 19 February 2017 13:44 (six days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Rottingdean, home of the Coppers.
http://www.topicrecords.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/FLED-30971.jpeg
Probably a few fat noses in there.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 25 February 2017 22:42 (seven years ago) link
uh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9s3gQTHDmA
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Tuesday, 28 February 2017 21:48 (seven years ago) link
Real Wales special one day only guest appearance
https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17021716_10155005323753398_3582441412335992626_n.jpg?oh=9942f450fc8450f3731a1b708d1f99b7&oe=59373067
― Vlogs from other credible bands such as Shed Seven (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 1 March 2017 08:21 (seven years ago) link
I feel like perhaps the 'bagel on head' train incident of a day or two ago could fit here.
I liked the detail mentioned in reports that "During the video, a group can be heard singing: "He's got a bagel on his head" to the tune of "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands"."
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Wednesday, 1 March 2017 11:08 (seven years ago) link
not sure if richard whiteley being a spy counts as real england or not, mb rather part of some related phenomenon
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 1 March 2017 16:05 (seven years ago) link
Tomlinson, who appeared alongside Caroline Aherne in sitcom The Royle Family, made the startling claim in an interview with The Chester Chronicle as he opened a Wetherspoons pub in the city.
This is extremely real.
― Thank you for your service, wasteman (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 1 March 2017 16:21 (seven years ago) link
none more real, nothing more English
http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/crime/2017/03/07/telford-man-who-poisoned-wifes-food-with-laxatives-is-jailed/
why do all fantasists claim to have been in the SAS?
― piscesx, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 21:17 (seven years ago) link
Blame Andy McNab.
― Return of the Flustered Bootle Native (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 21:25 (seven years ago) link
i know at least one irl but this isn't the place
― barry snappleton (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 21:30 (seven years ago) link
https://crimethroughtimecollection.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/jsn_2322.jpg?w=584https://crimethroughtimecollection.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/jsn_2332.jpg?w=584https://crimethroughtimecollection.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/jsn_2320.jpg?w=584https://crimethroughtimecollection.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/jsn_3352.jpg?w=584I bumped into Gloucestershire artist Paul Bridgman's crime through time collection whilst looking for A-level art style Weller sketches.
― calzino, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 21:25 (seven years ago) link
didn't know ILX's own Rory McGrath lived in Cromwell Street
― Pengest & Corsa (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 14 March 2017 21:26 (seven years ago) link
I noticed Rory McGrath's hands are out of proportion and unconvincing and the artist has probably realised this.
― calzino, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 21:33 (seven years ago) link
The tiny hands . . . of a murderer!
― nickn, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 21:34 (seven years ago) link
https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/1533914_10157331988995377_4149580904031315219_n.jpg?oh=5282cc3fce734b6565fb05d5160b97b6&oe=5963468F
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Monday, 20 March 2017 21:13 (seven years ago) link
Jobs too real to contemplate.
― nashwan, Monday, 20 March 2017 21:16 (seven years ago) link
poll ffs
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Monday, 20 March 2017 21:17 (seven years ago) link
cow banger
victorian england
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Monday, 20 March 2017 21:22 (seven years ago) link
no way that is real
― calzino, Monday, 20 March 2017 21:27 (seven years ago) link
why not? dicking around is not a modern invention
― mark s, Monday, 20 March 2017 21:56 (seven years ago) link
xpThere were smartasses even back then.
― nickn, Monday, 20 March 2017 21:57 (seven years ago) link
this is the oldest version of that I can find, from 2001
http://boards.fool.co.uk/any-fatuous-paupers-out-there-6424064.aspx
― soref, Monday, 20 March 2017 22:03 (seven years ago) link
http://search.findmypast.co.uk/results/world-records/1881-england-wales-and-scotland-census?occupation=%20%22fatuous%20pauper%22
0 results found for "fatuous pauper" ;_;
― soref, Monday, 20 March 2017 22:07 (seven years ago) link
1881 census info released 1981, went online 2004: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4065313.stm
― mark s, Monday, 20 March 2017 22:10 (seven years ago) link
Was this guy who vandalised the Gainsborough painting at the Nat gallery doing it for the Turnip Shepherds in a display of misplaced activism?
― calzino, Monday, 20 March 2017 22:23 (seven years ago) link
list of occupations from the first eight censuses: http://www.worldthroughthelens.com/family-history/old-occupations.php
very long, mostly dull enough to be authentic, has a snarky notes abt spurious entries in *other* lists
― mark s, Monday, 20 March 2017 22:29 (seven years ago) link
WASTEMAN
― soref, Monday, 20 March 2017 22:33 (seven years ago) link