Real England

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The makers of Channel 4's Benefits Street are currently scouting out the area as a possible location for the next series.

Carol Harris, 68, who lives in Stockton, said: 'My dad's brother used to run that place. It was a respectable old pub, The White Heart.

'Selling beer that cheap will be bad for the town, it will attract the wrong crowd. It is all wrong.'

brb

things to do in newton abbot when you're dead...

and cbf'd to go to the maltings cos you've got a heavy bag.

answer: go to a terrible pub.

SOL
WKD
Smirnof Ice
2 for £5•00

only they've drawn a line joining the bowl of the five to its upright so I think it's supposed to be a six.

anyway, clearly an evening pub for the yowf of Newton Abbot, rather than a pub for traveling bourgeois wot lunch.

always hope for the platonic ideal of a market town pub - light, central, bustling, a view of the street or the market clock, perhaps with rooms available, fruit machines, tv with racing on etc. but although I think I'm basing it on *something* other than my pure imagination, I'm not sure I've ever found it as I can recall.

I was hoping the pint wd be disgusting so I cd moan about that and the ludicrously expensive cheese sandwich I ordered but actually it's quite nice.

Newnabut = Cider Bar afaik, or at least afai remember.

oh yes, I saw about that. thanks Tim. will seek out once I've finished very slowly drinking this pint. mustn't get fucked tho.

Jesus, cider drinkers. hectic cheeks, glazed eyes, gone in the head.

My people.

: )

thinking of getting into the Newton Abbot stock car racing nostalgia scene.

Not my people.

the smaller motorsports do have a lot of Real to them.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gyY-yVTFmt4/TlAQ_Z5QOSI/AAAAAAAAMQM/V617esy9-v4/s1600/_54549460_guybody1.jpg

Guy Martin, real or simulacrum?

"PROPER" according to his website.

(woof otm: thinking also scrambling, lower league speedway, English cb and container driver culture etc)

Guy seems like a nexus of realisms: road-racing, tea-quaffing, side-burning it up

The road accident that started it all: "I crashed headlong into a car"

like a comic hero/villain origin story.

the next thing I knew I woke up as...

GUY MARTIN. tea drinking, lorry fixing nexus avatar of REAL ENGLAND.

I'm going to start pronouncing his name the French way, see how that goes down with my peeps

lol.

ah yes ghee martang, un parfit gentil cunt.

I never realised till wikiing just now that scrambling = motocross. I'd assumed I never heard about scrambling nowadays because it had precipitously declined in popularity & could only be found in small fen- and moor-bound communities.

railway tavern landlord in NA playing Soulja Boy v loudly on his windows xp music player.

derby county sporcle going on in the pub too.

heroic bump, this, kiu

haven't got much to add I'm afraid, other than the man next to me on the train is gorging himself on jelly babies and red stripe. I'm not exactly going to follow suit, but might go and get a kroney from the drinks and light refreshments carriage in a bit.

as a fellow friday afternoon drinker & soulja boy enthusiast I'm really feeling this update

god i miss crucial brew

okay, not that much

http://www.buzzfeed.com/patricksmith/the-most-british-headlines-of-the-modern-age

first couple i thought "tired rubbish" but there are some very Real gems in that lot

e.g. the 'pirate' one is genuinely a 'story'

Loads more here: http://itsallkickingoff.blogspot.co.uk/ - some good candidates for Most Important Local News Story.

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/may/30/asda-wearable-flag-england-ku-klux-klan-kkk

http://www.jacoblillis.co.uk/img/photographs/england/04.jpg

http://www.jacoblillis.co.uk/england.html

the nostalgia of northerners who don't live in the north

so real

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzP1XC51kro&sns=em

1:29

oh wait 1:50

http://dougiewallace.com/601687/stags-hens-bunnies-a-blackpool-story/

fuckin classic

#21 is too real, just way too real

ok wait #24

wait

all of it

some WS UK candidates in that shit tho

all of it is amazing but if i can narrow it down to three then i go with 21, 24 and 62

special mention to 4, 65 and 67

but yeah, a work of great scholarship obv

i dunno, i feel this precariously straddles the line between high quality real england material and jeremy kyle-style gawping at the other.

draw that line tho

can nothing be enjoyed on ilx anymore

is fancy dress for 66 'muslim w/ blackface'?

figured the perceived issue with J Kyle-as-entertainment was less the 'otherness' and more the degree of misery that's being gawped at. not really seeing much misery here

#63 in my personal top three for sure