that year it rained forever (2008?). I was on hols in Newquay, sat in a caravan with unrelenting rain pounding its miserable shell with Don't Get Done, Get Dom on the portable tv.
― calzino, Monday, 17 September 2018 21:00 (five years ago) link
cursed island:
Spiders blamed after broken siren played creepy nursery rhymes randomly at night to UK townsfolk https://t.co/nQmhHcBL2l pic.twitter.com/jeVY6KkkeN— Boing Boing (@BoingBoing) September 17, 2018
― mark s, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 10:06 (five years ago) link
a spectre is haunting ipswich - the spectre of nursery rhymes triggered by spiders on the security cameras gazing across an empty industrial estate
― 🧛🏻♂️ F A T 🧛🏻♂️ D R A C U L A 🧛🏻♂️ (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 10:10 (five years ago) link
you'd expect such routine twattery from wasps, but not spiders :(
― calzino, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 10:16 (five years ago) link
the spiders aren't the ones who decided to fit out an industrial estate with the soundtrack from a horror movie tbf
― 🧛🏻♂️ F A T 🧛🏻♂️ D R A C U L A 🧛🏻♂️ (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 10:19 (five years ago) link
yeah, why would you do that? the only people it would not put the fear into would be actual crims i'd've thought.
― every day there's a whining choad (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 12:34 (five years ago) link
There's a Real England adjacent thing (that is def not real England itself)… the middle-aged sad/angry left/liberal white male aesthetic of now - Cold War Steve/Sleaford Mods/Drunken Bakers maybe three coordinates (must be more?). I'm pretty sympathetic to all of it but fuck the fandoms are annoying.
― woof, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 21:32 (five years ago) link
the middle-aged sad/angry left/liberal white male aesthetic of now
is that not just ILX? new borad description
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 21:45 (five years ago) link
Yeah I am aware this is some next-level narcissism of small differences. Quantum differences basically.
― woof, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 21:49 (five years ago) link
I think Sleaford Mods are very very bad, but sort of laughable - which might have been their redeeming feature for me - if I didn't find the music completely unlistenable and their channelling of Real England quite literal and wooden - but that also might be part of their appeal, and perhaps i just don't get it!
― calzino, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 23:07 (five years ago) link
Yes, I'd rather listen to Mumford & Sons tbh.
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 23:12 (five years ago) link
https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/let-it-be-hull-theatre-2051820
Police were called to Hull New Theatre tonight after a “fight” broke out in the audience during The Beatles tribute Let It Be show.It is understood a woman and a man were ejected from the audience by security after an argument just as ‘John Lennon’ began to sing Imagine.Hull Live understands at least six police officers and a police car from Humberside Police were called to the theatre in Kingston Square, Hull city centre , following the altercation and a woman and a man were taken away in a police car.
It is understood a woman and a man were ejected from the audience by security after an argument just as ‘John Lennon’ began to sing Imagine.
Hull Live understands at least six police officers and a police car from Humberside Police were called to the theatre in Kingston Square, Hull city centre , following the altercation and a woman and a man were taken away in a police car.
― Leon Carrotsky (Noodle Vague), Friday, 28 September 2018 21:08 (five years ago) link
some folk just love living for today ...arrrggh!
― calzino, Friday, 28 September 2018 21:47 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fse0wAtcZRs
― Leon Carrotsky (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 29 September 2018 11:53 (five years ago) link
i know this one... "why the long face?"
― koogs, Saturday, 29 September 2018 12:37 (five years ago) link
hmmm
Today is septidi 7 Vendémiaire in the year of the Republic CCXXVII, celebrating the carrot. pic.twitter.com/QTJuj3dPjI— Republican Calendar (@sansculotides) September 29, 2018
― mark s, Saturday, 29 September 2018 15:07 (five years ago) link
xp"And with prices like these you won't get many more!"
― nickn, Saturday, 29 September 2018 16:45 (five years ago) link
Der Rabenmeister vom Londoner Tower https://t.co/1yeR3WVVnL #Großbritannien #Empire #Rabenmeister— tagesschau (@tagesschau) October 20, 2018
― mark s, Saturday, 20 October 2018 10:50 (five years ago) link
too late to stop Ravexit you ridiculously garbed fule!
― calzino, Saturday, 20 October 2018 10:54 (five years ago) link
some weird contrasting real-Englandness today in my neck of the woods is while there is lots of casual EDL hate-speak in the air (re-Hudds Asian grooming gang) about 10 miles away from Hudds there is a Muslim festival attracting visitors from all corners of Northern/Southern hemispheres. You get some unreal sights, like imagine five thousand people crammed into a park that is barely the size of a cricket pitch!
― calzino, Saturday, 20 October 2018 11:15 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dp81vuEW4AEjgrQ.jpg
― calzino, Sunday, 21 October 2018 10:21 (five years ago) link
der rabenmeister giving me unheimlich vibes
― nxd, Monday, 22 October 2018 09:35 (five years ago) link
(x-post to FASTER YOU FUCKERS - The ILX Work & Productivity Thread)
#OnThisDay 1973: Staff at a Gateshead factory had their own DJ - "The incredible Del Perry; nice mover, sharp dresser" pic.twitter.com/15GO2Fcuha— BBC Archive (@BBCArchive) October 29, 2018
― soref, Monday, 29 October 2018 18:31 (five years ago) link
everything about this feels straight out of a Denim/Go-Kart Mozart album, especially the combination of Bowie pin-up/Gateshead clothing factory
― soref, Monday, 29 October 2018 18:38 (five years ago) link
del looks kinda crepey to me but that is beautiful nonetheless
― Herb Achelors (NickB), Monday, 29 October 2018 18:44 (five years ago) link
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/gemma-collins-comes-face-face-13508080
Gemma describes her new friend as “engaging and charming”, and credits Corbyn with being a man of his word because he prefers a trusty red bike to a car.
“At his age now - I’m not saying he’s old, old - the fact that he’s out there riding a bicycle and he doesn’t have a car... a lot of people say they’ve got beliefs. But he actually backs what he says.”
Most importantly, Gemma approves of his NHS support.
“Do you know why I love Jeremy? He wants to end hospital car parking charges.
“I’m not being funny, but someone’s died - a member of your family - and you’ve gotta put three quid in the meter?
"It’s just not the time. Your mum has a heart attack, yet you’ve got to rustle around in your bag for £5? It’s not the one.”
― brokenshire (jed_), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 16:10 (five years ago) link
RIP Ton-Up Ron
Devon man, 102, dies after being stuck on roof for three days http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-46083703
― Alba, Sunday, 4 November 2018 07:49 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dq8fUMJX4AAhtYb.jpg
somewhere in the burbs, I can't work out where from the tweet.
― piscesx, Monday, 5 November 2018 15:25 (five years ago) link
South Woodham Ferrers in Essex AIUI.
― Tim, Monday, 5 November 2018 15:40 (five years ago) link
I thought I was unshockable but I've just watched (part of) some video footage of a group of people burning an effigy of Grenfell Tower at a bonfire gathering and, it turns out, that I am still shockable.
― brokenshire (jed_), Monday, 5 November 2018 16:12 (five years ago) link
^ that
― stet, Monday, 5 November 2018 17:48 (five years ago) link
what's fucking right with these people
― calzino, Monday, 5 November 2018 17:52 (five years ago) link
Where was this done? Lewes?
― suzy, Monday, 5 November 2018 17:55 (five years ago) link
Nobody knows.
It would be a bit much even for Lewes.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Monday, 5 November 2018 17:57 (five years ago) link
The accents were a bit of giveaway?Anyway, the halfwits have handed themselves in (or at least some of them have).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46106224
― Ned Trifle X, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 13:36 (five years ago) link
In a nice bit of Real England gallantry seldom seen in these PC days, I note the men have handed themselves in, presumably to save the blushes of the delicate English Rose who seemed to take such delight in the whole affair.
― Ned Trifle X, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 13:40 (five years ago) link
“The police investigation of the Grenfell bonfire video is more chilling and disgusting than the video itself. That people are being arrested for things they said in their back garden suggests Britain is morphing into a police state”, says Brendan O’Neillhttps://t.co/IRJFDMhtPj— spiked (@spikedonline) November 6, 2018
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 19:37 (five years ago) link
Is it now a crime to be a twat
oh ffs, Tatchell was doing his thing earlier as well. Just fucking zip it arseholes.
― calzino, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 19:39 (five years ago) link
there are still survivors from that block walking about in a permanent PTSD daze ffs.
― calzino, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 19:42 (five years ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 19:43 (five years ago) link
Brendan O'Neill doing a citizen's arrest on himself!
― calzino, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 19:45 (five years ago) link
people are being arrested for things they said in their back garden and then posted on the internet which seems an important distinction
― i want donald duck to scream into my dick (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 19:48 (five years ago) link
yep and effectively becoming a publisher of racist hate material. Any fucker can be racist in their garden and won't get swooped on by the PC Gestapo.
― calzino, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 19:53 (five years ago) link
I'd imagine a largely unseen aspect of Real England is vast swathes of gardens with people making racist comments in them.
― calzino, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 19:57 (five years ago) link
Yeah the garden is what makes this story england to me
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 20:04 (five years ago) link
Brendan obviously undermines himself by framing this in the most twattish way possible, but isn't there a legitimate left/liberal case for being concerned about what the limits of what the police can to prosecute under the Public Order Act? e.g.more of this kind of stuff: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/nov/12/teenager-arrested-burning-poppy-facebook
― soref, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 20:10 (five years ago) link
Tatchell saying because the section 4a public order offence was weaponised against him in the 80's he will be implacably against it used in any other context is a bad argument imo. But that is my opinion and I'm sometimes a kneejerk on these type of matters when they involve "twats"!
― calzino, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 20:12 (five years ago) link
I guess the point is that it isn't you, me or Tatchell who'll get to decide in what cases these laws are and aren't applied, so it becomes a question of how much you think you're likely to trust the judgement of the people who will decide?
I'd forgotten about that guy on the skateboard mentioned at the end of the Guardian article. can't seem to find any record of whether or not he was convicted in the end
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/11/11/article-2231431-15F895E9000005DC-522_634x523.jpg
― soref, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 20:19 (five years ago) link
Pleaded guilty, fined £65. https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/remembrance-day-gatecrasher-sorry-29001361.html
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 20:23 (five years ago) link