Real England

"er... partially" is my favorite part of that

not sure which part of real england that was filmed, but bic is a verb in sheffield fwiw

Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore - Mark Leckey (poll)

https://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/191547091/YOURS2.JPG?auto=format&fit=max&h=1000&w=1000

from fake England, but understood "bics" immediately

joker otm tbh

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i know it's scotland but this feels like the right thread

In a laver: seaweed shuts nuclear reactor again in bad weather

EDF’s Torness plant east of Edinburgh has previously been taken offline due to jellyfish

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/mar/05/seaweed-shuts-nuclear-reactor-edf-torness-plant

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you wouldn't think it to look at her

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my new favourite hobby is watching old clips from airline of people not being able to get on their flights . a personal favourite : mouse woman pic.twitter.com/TQwtmMAd4F

— Tom Walker (@tomwaIker) March 25, 2018

I know someone who was on this show, missed his flight and made up a complete lie, about missing his brother's wedding or something, to get on another flight. He doesn't even have a brother.

cannot watch shows about pigs or airport pigs, they make me v rationally angry

was up north this weekend. was told about a babbys yed. seems real english.

"In Wigan you can still go to the chippy with your own Pyrex dish and ask for: “A babbys yed – leave t’elmet on – chips an’ pea wet.” The translation of this puzzling indigenous language: “A baby’s head [steak pudding], with the tinfoil still on with chips and pea wet.” As to the aforementioned steak pudding it is so named due to the gentle dip in the top of the suet which bears a striking resemblance to the depressed fontanel of a new-born infant whose skull plates have yet to move into position."

mmm baby brains nomnomnom

"pea wet" universally understood and needs no translation i guess?

Haha I clearly remember the first time I went to a chip shop with my friend (also from Wigan) and heard him ask for a baby's head (fwiw he deffo didn't pronounce it "babby's yed") - I couldn't believe what I was hearing.

https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/fury-after-morrisons-wouldnt-sell-14533827

it just feels More and More like this countrys changing

' “There’s more to this,” he said. “Morrisons have got their own agenda. '

THIS is Real England April 2018. All conspiracy theories and desperate hopelessness.

Yeah '..agenda' is the new 'narrative'.

In fact 'They've got their own agenda' is to the late 2010s what 'It's political correctness gone mad' was to the mid-1990s.

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Ketchup for Surrey? Guess they never asked anyone in Woking.

I feel I will never fully grasp Real Englishness cos I can't for the life of me understand the appeal of chips and gravy.

If I'm having sausages and chips I'll make some instant onion gravy. I can't get down with curry sauce.

just think of it as shitty poutine

chip shop curry sauce is the greatest thing though

I'm not a chip snob, but feel strongly that something as simple as onion gravy should be made with caramelised onions, butter, wine, beef stock, flour etc, not that fucking instant shite!

Your chips'd go cold

being a top class masterchef is all about timing.

I once saw a Chippy Chinese style Curry sauce youtube masterclass. You basically just deepfry a load of onions, apples, garlic, ginger and then add industrial amounts of oil, flour, msg, madras curry powder to the filtered out gack. The process was so repulsive it put me off having it, until the next time I had it and loved it of course!

Sometimes chippy curry sauce overdoes the sweetness for me but when it's on song it's the best, noe let us talk of this no more cos my local chippy doesn't open on a sunday

curry sauce is just spicy gravy

not that fucking instant shite!

Bisto Onion Gravy is pretty good.

Although Bisto Chicken Gravy with chicken and chips is even better.

I know that probably makes me sound unsophisticated but we can't all be M. White.

lmao

curry sauce is just spicy gravy

fair enough i guess but that's like saying wine is just boozey grape juice

I was wondering 'do Bisto make an instant curry sauce?' and of course they do because Real England:
http://www.bisto.co.uk/our-range/sauce-mixes/chip-shop-curry

I didn't mean it in a judgemental way snoball, peace to all and whatever gravy you like. But there ain't nothing sophis' about making it yourself ffs!

Cooking with wine is pretty sophis where I come from. Although keep in mind that up until the late 80s 'curry' in this area meant minced beef with a bit of curry powder and sultanas. Maybe put a bit of turmeric in with the rice to be fancy.

packets of readymix curry sauce were an 80s classic if you love sweet yellow gunk

the thing about that Chinese "curry and chips" style sauce is that it's obviously really fucken basic but the difference between a great one and a crap one is so huge

“The process was so repulsive it put me off having it, until the next time I had it and loved it of course!”

This reads like a viz letter and therefore belongs on this thread too

Land of Hope and Glory! Happy St George's Day folks, from a very proud Englishman #StGeorgesDay pic.twitter.com/Qi0odnYwZq

— Yorkshire Prose (@YorkshireProse) April 23, 2018

not putting work headphones on for that

sometimes pride is a v strange concept

posted without irony on the Town football messageboard, St George's day thread, which also doubles as a racist Diane Abbott meme repository.

"Ah man's just ah man in my England"

About that, you twat.

John Loughrey (pictured left) is part of a group that have been camped outside the hospital for 15 days: 'I’m so pleased it’s #StGeorgesDay. St George himself would be very pleased if the baby’s born today' https://t.co/4IUoOuFbKB #royalbaby pic.twitter.com/80PiZYuDon

— HuffPost UK (@HuffPostUK) April 23, 2018