that list has gotta be a poll shurely
― cast your vote for fully automated gay space luxury communism (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 11:32 (six years ago) link
Is Queen not going now?
― wtev, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 15:53 (six years ago) link
oxford's list is better imo
registering for an alumni account at @StAnnesCollege pic.twitter.com/L1WILd31RN— mike (@mikepqr) December 10, 2014
― đ đđ˘đ¨ (caek), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 19:50 (six years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/jul/11/local-radio-station-mansfield-hijacked-masturbation-winkers-song
It's actually called The Winkerâs Song (Misprint), get it right.
― ăăăŠăăăăŁă (Matt #2), Tuesday, 11 July 2017 11:42 (six years ago) link
By Ivor Biggun, who went on to present vegetables that looked a bit * like body parts for four years on That's Life under his "real" name Doc Cox.
* if you squinted and had really bad eyesight and a desire to find absolutely everything hilarious
― Thomas Gabriel Fischer does not endorse (aldo), Tuesday, 11 July 2017 11:59 (six years ago) link
Burger van owner prosecuted after going on anti-Islamic rant and refusing to serve a sausage sandwich
It was quickly clear the two men had opposing opinions and when Mr Gardiner produced some laminated anti-Islamic literature from beneath his sauce bottles, Mr Palmer refused to read them.
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Tuesday, 11 July 2017 16:07 (six years ago) link
wheezing with laughter at this
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jul/17/yorkshire-dales-bookseller-from-hell-quits-his-shop-hawes-steve-bloom-bloomindales
― piscesx, Monday, 17 July 2017 20:41 (six years ago) link
https://metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/ad_209056498.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&strip=all
― soref, Wednesday, 19 July 2017 03:12 (six years ago) link
"nationalism"
― calumerio, Wednesday, 19 July 2017 07:24 (six years ago) link
there is um a lot to unpack there
― he tasted like mouth (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 19 July 2017 08:59 (six years ago) link
It's from this. Apols for dm link.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 19 July 2017 09:07 (six years ago) link
what's wrong with being racy?
― over-the-counter sexual-harassment products (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 19 July 2017 10:29 (six years ago) link
This is why you never hear so much about the fifth Beatle
http://i.imgur.com/rFeZupV.jpg
― Alba, Wednesday, 19 July 2017 10:40 (six years ago) link
BNPS.co.uk
― The Adventures Of Whiteman (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 19 July 2017 10:51 (six years ago) link
Those tea-towel slogans are like an ilx poll devised by a malfunctioning AI troll-bot.
― ăăăŠăăăăŁă (Matt #2), Wednesday, 19 July 2017 12:12 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DFL4ey6XoAEvnO8.jpg
― mark s, Friday, 21 July 2017 12:38 (six years ago) link
almost too real to bear
― he tasted like mouth (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 21 July 2017 12:58 (six years ago) link
bring your kids and drink all day, to your social worker's dismay
― calzino, Friday, 21 July 2017 13:08 (six years ago) link
Iâve given up on J.D.Wetherspoonâs Sir Robert Peel pub in Bury. For years Iâve gone on Sunday afternoon for a meal and a few pints. Now Iâve moved to another pub nearby, less choice of beers, more expensive food, but with some idea what customer service means, which Wetherspoonâs seem to have lost altogether.
They need more and better-trained staff. Itâs common to stand at the bar for several minutes waiting for a staff member to appear, only for them then to serve their mates first. How do I know theyâre their mates? Because they call them by name, and serve them all before asking âWhoâs next?â Even if you walk up to an empty bar you have to wait for the bar staff to finish their chit-chat. Once, when I asked one of them if Iâd suddenly become invisible, I obviously had, as she walked the length of the bar to serve somebody who hadnât even reached it yet.
Now winterâs here the pub is bitterly cold, as it is every winter. Almost everybody sits in topcoats, and there appears to be no source of heating.
The cold also applies to the food. You can sit near the kitchen and see meals emerge only to spend five or ten minutes getting colder before someone arrives to deliver them to a table. Incidentally, the tables are cleared with the frequency of petrol price reductions, and with the same reluctance.
Still on food, Wetherspoons make much of their Steak Night, but if you order a steak dish on Sunday, youâll get an ordinary knife, completely unsuitable and unusable. If you ask for a steak knife they canât find any, even if youâre the only person eating food of any sort. Do they hire the cutlery for Tuesday nights only?
Amazingly, this pub serves a whisky in a half-pint glass. Itâs true. When I asked for it to be changed I was told they didnât have whisky glasses, always served it that way, and nobody else complained. Really? Everybody Iâve told is frankly incredulous. Eventually, having been shown every type of glass behind the bar, I got my whisky in a wine glass, unsatisfactory, but the best they could do. This aberration also applies to the Wetherspoonâs on Piccadilly in Manchester! As with steaks, I canât understand why Wetherspoonâs boast about their whisky selection and prices, when they havenât a clue how to serve them.
I do miss the guest ales, I admit, but not enough to sit all afternoon without heating or eating or being able to finish off with a whisky in a proper glass. Until I hear things have improved I wonât be back.
Yours regretfully
Ex-customer
― he tasted like mouth (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 21 July 2017 13:12 (six years ago) link
Just discovered the Wetherspoons dress code and now I can't stop laughing pic.twitter.com/5DgXl6yEHw— Mark Wilding (@mark_wilding) June 29, 2017
― he tasted like mouth (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 21 July 2017 13:13 (six years ago) link
Incidentally, the tables are cleared with the frequency of petrol price reductions, and with the same reluctance.
nice
― brownie, Friday, 21 July 2017 13:14 (six years ago) link
The manager of one of my closest Wetherspoons being quizzed by the local newspaper.
He said: âWe have implemented a dress code. No tracksuit bottoms and no baseball caps.â
Didnât that exclude half of Chatham?
âYes,â he conceded,
My actual local Wetherspoons has large Rod Hull and Kelly Brook infographics on the walls. It's good, though.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Friday, 21 July 2017 13:20 (six years ago) link
large Rod Hull and Kelly Brook infographics on the walls
i uh i'm gonna need you to expand on that pls
― he tasted like mouth (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 21 July 2017 13:22 (six years ago) link
just regular ol' pictures of both of them would be baffling enough but infographics???
The building they converted used to be Rod Hull's mansion (not the one he fell off the roof of) and Kelly Brook is the only celebrity the area has produced in the last sixty years who isn't Billy Childish so it does kind of make sense.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Friday, 21 July 2017 13:26 (six years ago) link
this is the rod hull infographic
https://thumb1.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/80483/80483,1228166731,8/stock-photo--d-render-real-estate-concept-21377155.jpg
― mark s, Friday, 21 July 2017 13:32 (six years ago) link
lol
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Friday, 21 July 2017 13:33 (six years ago) link
sv's wetherspoon's sounds like it might be the realest in all of england
― he tasted like mouth (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 21 July 2017 13:36 (six years ago) link
Cheap beer is not a good enough reason to go to Wetherspoon pubs because Brexit Tim.
― kim jong deal (suzy), Friday, 21 July 2017 13:36 (six years ago) link
Still find it hilarious that a whole eight pages of Wetherspoons News(which usually consists entirely of comment free promotional advertorial bumph) was devoted to the virtues of leaving the EU in the run-up to the referendum, with a single grudging page given over to the remain side(in the interests of balance).
Of course knowing the political leanings of Tim Martin this not should come as too much of a surprise, but just the fact that it was that venue he chose to make them felt. It's like if you opened up a TV Quick and inexplicably found a 15 page rant about immigrants just before the crossword.
― Pheeel, Friday, 21 July 2017 13:47 (six years ago) link
Yep, there are very good reasons to avoid / boycott Wetherspoons but, tbh, living in an area where a lot of the other pubs have all natural light blocked out by giant flags of St George in the windows, it does sometimes feel like one of the more politically neutral places for minorities, art students, goths, etc to be on an evening out.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Friday, 21 July 2017 14:04 (six years ago) link
the irony being, of course, that the presence of wetherspoons has probably crushed other local pubs where those minorities, art students, goths, etc might have found a more natural home
― he tasted like mouth (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 21 July 2017 14:06 (six years ago) link
Find out where UCA Rochester students drink - there must be a non-Spoons place?
― kim jong deal (suzy), Friday, 21 July 2017 14:10 (six years ago) link
My mum was a barmaid in more than a few of the local pubs that Martin helped out of their misery in the 90's. I'd like to think she might have pulled a pint or two for Nairn when he was filming in the area. Because he did film a couple of 100 yards away from The Burns Tavern where she worked at the time. Nairn would have fucking hated Wetherspoons and Tim Martin with a visceral passion!
― calzino, Friday, 21 July 2017 14:17 (six years ago) link
Seriously , the south of the UK is incredible. Men who voted Brexit trying citizen arrest 11 year olds. Amazing pic.twitter.com/nhAZlYIpTL— Dale (@DaleRobertsDR) July 23, 2017
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 23 July 2017 19:41 (six years ago) link
ah middle England, god's own country
― In Search of the Turricle's Navel (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 23 July 2017 21:04 (six years ago) link
i'm having this one before anybody else gets any ideas
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 23 July 2017 21:05 (six years ago) link
anyone exhibiting my man's puffed up sense of entitlement and acting like such a prick wouldn't last very long where I live. Some people act like they have never been in a police cell before!
I was having a conversation with my brother about this after his posho old neighbour tried to attack him. They were have a border dispute and I probably made the situation worse by putting up a big wooden fence + padlocked gate over the disputed border for him. People on council estates tend to have a better sense of the possible dire consequences of escalating situations and an aversion to getting the police involved for every argument, or ending up in cells. Well, this is my flimsy homegrown theory, and is subject to being completely wrong sometimes.
― calzino, Sunday, 23 July 2017 22:08 (six years ago) link
I think your guess that he doesn't live on a council estate is accurate, what do you reckon?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/24/get-ready-die-video-shows-tv-producer-shocking-road-rage-incident/
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Monday, 24 July 2017 11:33 (six years ago) link
lol! beautiful.
― calzino, Monday, 24 July 2017 11:39 (six years ago) link
Not only are BBC employees overpaid, they're dangerous.
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Monday, 24 July 2017 11:40 (six years ago) link
the fergus beeley GiS page is fun:
2 days ago: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DFRgxXwXcAAaC1k.jpg
14 hrs ago: http://i3.bristolpost.co.uk/incoming/article231739.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200/Fergus-Beeley.jpg
― mark s, Monday, 24 July 2017 11:44 (six years ago) link
state-subsidized cocaine is a helluva drug
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Monday, 24 July 2017 11:46 (six years ago) link
i think it's time we faced the truth: men in mustard trousers and pink shirts have ruined this country
― he tasted like mouth (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 24 July 2017 11:50 (six years ago) link
3. (2) Add: 3. (2) (ii)
Gsw. 1985 Michael Munro The Patter 10: beelin Absolutely furious: 'Mind the aul man dizny get ye â he's beelin the night.' Also used to describe a spot, boil, etc., that is full of pus wm.Sc. 1985 Liz Lochhead Tartuffe 19: Ah'm fair beelin'At no bein' able to say whit Ah'm feelin'.Gsw. 1987 Peter Mason C'mon Geeze Yer Patter! 51: Ma mither wis beelin when the auld man came hame paralitic. My mother was very angry when my father came home drunk.Gsw. 1988 Scotsman 28 Feb 12: "Ats right hen, so it is, nae wunner the Embra foaks is aw beelin"
wm.Sc. 1985 Liz Lochhead Tartuffe 19: Ah'm fair beelin'At no bein' able to say whit Ah'm feelin'.
Gsw. 1987 Peter Mason C'mon Geeze Yer Patter! 51: Ma mither wis beelin when the auld man came hame paralitic. My mother was very angry when my father came home drunk.
Gsw. 1988 Scotsman 28 Feb 12: "Ats right hen, so it is, nae wunner the Embra foaks is aw beelin"
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Monday, 24 July 2017 11:50 (six years ago) link
how did the telegraph manage to avoid putting an estimate of the value of fergus beeley's house in that piece tom posted? shockingly lax journalism there
― he tasted like mouth (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 24 July 2017 11:53 (six years ago) link
info coded into the distance from said house that david somerset duke of beaufort kennels three of his packs of hounds
there's an app you can download
― mark s, Monday, 24 July 2017 11:58 (six years ago) link
If i had a cat I would call her Liz Lochhead Tartuffe
― Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Monday, 24 July 2017 20:26 (six years ago) link
Weird editing on this advert, the way the camera lingers on James Whale a few nanoseconds too long at the end of each of his scenes makes it slightly disturbing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZyNUDAEE6Y
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Sunday, 30 July 2017 11:04 (six years ago) link
... put this on here because I believe this is where Pimlico Plumbers made their grand entrance on ILX.
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Sunday, 30 July 2017 11:06 (six years ago) link