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
Fuck me, they actually have proper NIC electrical accreditation now, going up in the world! Charlie han't been a totally happy plumber this year. He lost a high profile Employment Tribunal and was whinging about the High Court ruling on legal reform aid the other week. It is hard out there for a millionaire Tory donor, held together by botox.
― calzino, Sunday, 30 July 2017 11:41 (six years ago) link
He also financed Gina Miller's anti-Brexit campaign, which hasn't done him any favours with his natural constituency...
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-4167438/I-live-abuse-Brexit-says-millionaire.html
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Sunday, 30 July 2017 11:51 (six years ago) link
nah, i distinctly recall being in london last year, seeing a pinlico plumbers van and being like 'oh aye that's that prick from the ilx politics thread'
― the shape of a hot willie lumpkin (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 30 July 2017 12:44 (six years ago) link
http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/iprblog/2017/08/01/im-not-english-oh-yes-you-are/
a good article (which I don't agree with) about leftist distate for englishness
― ogmor, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 14:13 (six years ago) link
^^^barnett is almost always worthwhile but yikes at calling benedict anderson ben, this will not stand
― mark s, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 14:29 (six years ago) link
Is Paul Mason anti-Brexit?
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 14:41 (six years ago) link
I think he warily accepts it
― ogmor, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 14:46 (six years ago) link
Their immediate island neighbours were recruited into what became a joint project: the British, not the English Empire.
Recruited in the 18th/19th century sense of being either bribed or press ganged.
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 15:05 (six years ago) link
AB's argt is i think* that since PM is unwilling to acknowledge he's english he MUST be anti-brexit in the sense that brexit conceives itself
(which seems to me the nub and also the flaw of the essay, which covers a lot of extremely interesting ground -- the mob he cites, benEDICT anderson and tom nairn et al -- were/are all very good in detail (hence undeluded) on the specifics of how Gt Britain had fashioned its sense of itself, w/o ever being very good on what could be done abt this
(my own gloomy opinion: nothing can be done abt it from within, we have to take the lumps the once-invaded world -- or anyway the three quarters once painted red -- hurls at us, until they tire of this and we work out what shape we've ended up)
*i need to read it again though
― mark s, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 15:13 (six years ago) link
the article almost seems to be arguing that the current world system is english british and that all other national identities were forged in reaction to it
― ogmor, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 15:35 (six years ago) link
something not unlike that was more or less the new left review's position in the 70s and 80s: that modern nationalism emerged as a counter-hegemonic activity on the colonial peripheries first (in particular the americas in the 18th century), before it fully developed in europe (in the 19th century)
^^^very over-simplified and i forget how this analysis was applied in the far east re e.g. japan in particular: benedict anderson's expertise was very tied up in his knowledge of the story of indonesia over the last 3 centuries
― mark s, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 15:54 (six years ago) link
perry anderson's newest book is abt hegemony, isn't it? the h word: the peripeteia* of hegemony
*lol this is just PA's shtick now, like rod hull and emu
― mark s, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 15:58 (six years ago) link
xp it has an instinctive appeal in explaining why englishness seems so alien to the english but it's about as anglocentric as you can get
― ogmor, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 16:07 (six years ago) link
oddly enough they began exploring this material as a way of explaining why, unlike other nations, england (real or otherwise) had never had a revolution: the exceptionalism is apparently all too transferrable
of course i think it has had THREE revolutions but you and i differ on this :)
― mark s, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 16:10 (six years ago) link
maybe one extended revolution which was ultimately not dissimilar to France's in terms of where the power went
my difficulty with any version of the phrase "healthy patriotism" makes it very hard to agree with much that Barnett says in that essay
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 16:16 (six years ago) link
The men were arrested on 26 August 2016 after a bag of weapons, including a pipe bomb, an air pistol and a meat cleaver with the word kafir (unbeliever) scratched on it, were found under the driver’s seat of Ali’s car. In Aziz’s car they found a samurai sword bought from a sex shop in Stoke for £20.
― thirst trap your hare (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 3 August 2017 11:11 (six years ago) link
"now that's a big chopper"
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 3 August 2017 11:13 (six years ago) link
who knew the people of stoke were so sexually adventurous
― the shape of a hot willie lumpkin (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 3 August 2017 11:14 (six years ago) link
when the only people you get it on with are close family you have to do something to liven it up
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 3 August 2017 11:18 (six years ago) link
also who knew samurai swords were so reasonably-priced
― the shape of a hot willie lumpkin (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 3 August 2017 11:19 (six years ago) link
Austerity Britain.
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Thursday, 3 August 2017 11:23 (six years ago) link
you used to be able to kick a ball-gag in the street
― the shape of a hot willie lumpkin (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 3 August 2017 11:25 (six years ago) link
is this england? idk. who cares
update from the local: an auld lad has taken €100 bets he can fit through a bar stool pic.twitter.com/Yk1tzbXQr5— Thomas (@heytk_) August 14, 2017
― 龜, Monday, 14 August 2017 16:52 (six years ago) link
The bet is in Euros so Ireland.
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Monday, 14 August 2017 16:58 (six years ago) link
Idk where it is I'd take that bet in a heartbeat
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 14 August 2017 17:04 (six years ago) link
yeah, that's easy money right there
― for sale: clown shoes, never worn (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 14 August 2017 17:04 (six years ago) link
oh really
what a man pic.twitter.com/bOb6t9HVW9— Thomas (@heytk_) August 14, 2017
― Number None, Monday, 14 August 2017 20:02 (six years ago) link
fuck
― for sale: clown shoes, never worn (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 14 August 2017 20:05 (six years ago) link
lergend
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 14 August 2017 20:10 (six years ago) link
I don't need to look at anything else but his face to let you know that's an irishman
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Monday, 14 August 2017 20:13 (six years ago) link
LOL
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Monday, 14 August 2017 20:16 (six years ago) link
posts like that make me proud to be 2nd gen Irish debris
― calzino, Monday, 14 August 2017 20:28 (six years ago) link
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/bc/2b/2d/bc2b2d449d3924f934e61b548b496e77.jpg
― thirst trap your hare (DJ Mencap), Monday, 14 August 2017 22:17 (six years ago) link
A+
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 00:09 (six years ago) link
Ireland reliably one of england's most idiosyncratic counties
― The Adventures Of Whiteman (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 09:00 (six years ago) link
https://manchesterestatepubs.wordpress.com/
I know even the faintest whiff of northern sentimentality can cause ilxor noses to wrinkle but some of you might like this. I also see mike leigh has put a call out for 'authentic northern faces' for his peterloo film
― ogmor, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 14:09 (six years ago) link
This is doing the rounds on Twitter at the moment, from a listing on Rightmove and oh dear.
― Matt DC, Friday, 25 August 2017 14:21 (six years ago) link
"motivated seller"
― Neves Say Neves Again (Noodle Vague), Friday, 25 August 2017 14:23 (six years ago) link
on the plus side, i imagine that's knocked a chunk of the asking price
― frankfurters take on new glamour in this gleaming aspic (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 25 August 2017 14:24 (six years ago) link
I once lived in an upstairs flat above a known sex-offender. The local hoodlums used to kick their football against his door and someone daubed "sex-case" on it. I'm sure glad they knew the side door belongs to the upstairs flat!
― calzino, Friday, 25 August 2017 14:27 (six years ago) link
Rightmove have now removed the photo from the original listing, as if it hadn't occurred to anyone first time round that it might be a little offputting to prospective buyers.
― Matt DC, Friday, 25 August 2017 14:28 (six years ago) link
http://metro.co.uk/2017/09/02/lib-dem-council-candidate-sent-labour-rival-explicit-photo-of-him-dressed-as-mouse-6897641/?ito=twitter
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 4 September 2017 19:26 (six years ago) link
Great little haul here
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 00:21 (six years ago) link
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/15528032.Priest_given_community_order_for_using_dead_woman_s_disabled_badge_to_park_his_car/
This one had me at the dog's name.
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Saturday, 16 September 2017 09:56 (six years ago) link
amazing
― kinder, Saturday, 16 September 2017 10:37 (six years ago) link
The court heard he has no connection to the Church of England and regularly travels to Moldova.
There is little on earth more suspicious than a 63-year-old fake priest who regularly travels to Moldova.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Saturday, 16 September 2017 11:24 (six years ago) link
http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/gran-catapulted-wall-defective-pontins-505360
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 19:50 (six years ago) link
that sounds pretty shit and the fire alarm situation is worrying but lol @ those "damning" photos
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 22:36 (six years ago) link