Real England

"Fans of Woking football team found a new fuel-related way to taunt rival Chesterfield fans. As the Surrey side won 3-1 on Tuesday night, the visitors from Derbyshire were greeted with chants of “what a waste of petrol”. Dozens of non-league fixtures were postponed because of fuel shortages"

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBQne3_WYAIyT70?format=jpg&name=large

pic taken by Kev the postie on Manchester Rd, Hudds earlier.

i see the local graffiti artist "andrew" couldn't think of a catchy tag

i've been laughing at this literally all day pic.twitter.com/xxE8CBncb8

— 🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌 (@immolations) October 27, 2020

there is ALWAYS this fucking guy

I don't want to sound all Lisa Nandy, but this sort of sneering and genuine hatred among the left of, to be honest, fairly normal people, is actually really bad imo

— Owen (@goonerowen) October 28, 2020

Those are both from 2020?

no one in the kingdom hates the royal family more than this man:

https://i.imgur.com/BWYBIcM.jpg

In the same way Wormtongue hated Theoden, yep

It feels too obvious to say this but they're are feeding on Witchell, right? Dude needs some garlic.

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/half-life/images/a/a0/HL1_G-Man.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20210417043139&path-prefix=en

https://zone-skins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Ji-Man-made-himself-Botox-and-became-more-creepy-2.jpg

pic taken by Kev the postie on Manchester Rd, Hudds earlier.

That would have made a fine entry for Guess The City

pic.twitter.com/u8BgHHuweZ

— Mental UK Headlines (@MentalHeadline) October 24, 2021

faces on the second photo there are burned into my retinas right now

All Day I Dream About Shoplifting

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-59075971

Bettter..

Persistent micro pig, who escaped his enclosure to mate with sows next door, becomes father to 71 piglets https://t.co/Fu0s88qaHL

— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) October 28, 2021

Map shows the best-selling English artists by county of origin. Source: https://t.co/8H0WdzGGSn pic.twitter.com/kr81Mb2jsc

— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) November 11, 2021

On county maps it always looks like Warwickshire is fellating the West Midlands (Coventry being the glans)

Particularly if you look at them upside down

What's the county which appears to have no selling artists at all? Above Northamptonshire? Is that Rutland?

Genuinely amazed that Little Boots is on there, I had no idea.

Jethro Tull are from Blackpool surely?

My mum bought a dog from Jethro tulls drummer when we lived in Bedfordshire, that's all I know

Rutland, yes. Other than The Rutles you can take your pick from this list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:People_from_Rutland

"Sam Carter is a British guitarist, singer and songwriter, originally from the English Midlands but more recently based in Sheffield.[1] He has released four albums of mainly original material which..."

... have registered no sales at all. Not even one.

ELP's first actual show was in plymouth (they drove there in a van they bought from yes)

also fripp met greg lake *and* both giles brothers at bournemouth college: in conclusion, king crimson robbed imo

Surely Chris Rea or David Coverdale has sold more than fecking Shed Seven.

[On 1 April 1997] Rutland regained a separate lieutenancy and shrievalty, and thus also regained status as a ceremonial county. Rutland was a postal county until the Royal Mail integrated it into the Leicestershire postal county in 1974. After a lengthy campaign,[11] and despite counties no longer being required for postal purposes, [12] the Royal Mail agreed to re-create a postal county of Rutland in 2007. This was achieved in January 2008 by amending the former postal county for all of the Oakham (LE15) post town and a small part of the Market Harborough (LE16) post town.[13]

^^^more thread-relevant rabbithole imo

brb regaining a separate shrievalty

A not-inconsiderable number of people will tell you they live in Middlesex even though it doesn't actually exist nowadays, speaking of postal counties

pretty sure you mean “musicians” rather than “artists” but i’ll let it go

narrator: he did not let it go

creating a free zone with the troops loyal to the Pet Shop Boys as a staging point to invade the occupied territories of Sting and Shed 7

Today I learned that Nicola Roberts wasn't born in liverpool

And that there's a band called Spooky Tooth

reminds me i always wanted to start a band called haunted dentures

not only did spooky tooth exist, they made a record with french musique concrete pioneer pierre henri

"monsieur big-in-cumbria" as he was known in le club d'essai

(also it's henry not henri)

And contained future members of Mott the Hoople and the Only Ones.

Pierre tries his best but they are terrible.

iirc Spooky Tooth are one of those bands where I really like the name but don't actually like their music. I can't remember what they sound like, though.

https://i.pinimg.com/474x/bc/28/1a/bc281a11c8b5166b10e2c1de1cb0e5f3.jpg

"spooky tooth! spooky tooth!"

Shouty macho vocals over nondescript 70s heavy-ish rock, bit of organ, bit of lead guitar.

Yeah it's pretty tedious stuff. They don't actually use control rods at sellafield anymore, they just pump side b of spooky two into the reactor and the uranium just gets bored to death

And contained future members of Mott the Hoople and the Only Ones.

Plus Foreigner and Gary "Dream Weaver" Wright. I always get them confused with Procol Harum, you can see why. Surely their album "You Broke My Heart So ... I Busted Your Jaw" is on the Terrible 70s Album Titles thread somewhere.

procol harum are good tho wtf

Awesome map. I struggle to see how ELP are from Dorset - Greg Lake is from Poole but the other two aren't and their origin is given as Croydon on Wiki.

Replace them with actual Dorset girl PJ Harvey and the SW gets a pretty kick-arse and diverse festival line-up who are all still going: Aphex, Massive Attack, FKA Twigs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h10pd7vDytg

final boss = ian brown with nunchuks