My people.
― Tim, Friday, 9 May 2014 13:24 (twelve years ago)
: )
― Fizzles, Friday, 9 May 2014 13:26 (twelve years ago)
thinking of getting into the Newton Abbot stock car racing nostalgia scene.
― Fizzles, Friday, 9 May 2014 13:28 (twelve years ago)
Not my people.
― Tim, Friday, 9 May 2014 13:34 (twelve years ago)
the smaller motorsports do have a lot of Real to them.
― woof, Friday, 9 May 2014 13:34 (twelve years ago)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gyY-yVTFmt4/TlAQ_Z5QOSI/AAAAAAAAMQM/V617esy9-v4/s1600/_54549460_guybody1.jpg
Guy Martin, real or simulacrum?
― Hastings Banter (Noodle Vague), Friday, 9 May 2014 14:05 (twelve years ago)
"PROPER" according to his website.
(woof otm: thinking also scrambling, lower league speedway, English cb and container driver culture etc)
― Fizzles, Friday, 9 May 2014 14:12 (twelve years ago)
Guy seems like a nexus of realisms: road-racing, tea-quaffing, side-burning it up
― Hastings Banter (Noodle Vague), Friday, 9 May 2014 14:13 (twelve years ago)
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.
― Fizzles, Friday, 9 May 2014 14:33 (twelve years ago)
I'm going to start pronouncing his name the French way, see how that goes down with my peeps
― A frenzied geologist (Tom D.), Friday, 9 May 2014 14:41 (twelve years ago)
lol.
ah yes ghee martang, un parfit gentil cunt.
― Fizzles, Friday, 9 May 2014 14:49 (twelve years ago)
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.
― woof, Friday, 9 May 2014 15:09 (twelve years ago)
railway tavern landlord in NA playing Soulja Boy v loudly on his windows xp music player.
― Fizzles, Friday, 9 May 2014 15:25 (twelve years ago)
derby county sporcle going on in the pub too.
― Fizzles, Friday, 9 May 2014 15:29 (twelve years ago)
heroic bump, this, kiu
― verhzleyavbtreleambreb (imago), Friday, 9 May 2014 16:03 (twelve years ago)
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.
― Fizzles, Friday, 9 May 2014 16:33 (twelve years ago)
as a fellow friday afternoon drinker & soulja boy enthusiast I'm really feeling this update
― ogmor, Friday, 9 May 2014 17:03 (twelve years ago)
god i miss crucial brew
― Hastings Banter (Noodle Vague), Friday, 9 May 2014 17:08 (twelve years ago)
okay, not that much
― Hastings Banter (Noodle Vague), Friday, 9 May 2014 17:09 (twelve years ago)
http://www.buzzfeed.com/patricksmith/the-most-british-headlines-of-the-modern-age
― goth colouring book (anagram), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 10:07 (twelve years ago)
first couple i thought "tired rubbish" but there are some very Real gems in that lot
― Tributes as popular Lichfield cat dies (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 11:06 (twelve years ago)
e.g. the 'pirate' one is genuinely a 'story'
― Mark G, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 11:34 (twelve years ago)
Loads more here: http://itsallkickingoff.blogspot.co.uk/ - some good candidates for Most Important Local News Story.
― pick it up for ripple laser (onimo), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 12:03 (twelve years ago)
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/may/30/asda-wearable-flag-england-ku-klux-klan-kkk
― bands poll (Noodle Vague), Friday, 30 May 2014 12:58 (twelve years ago)
http://www.jacoblillis.co.uk/img/photographs/england/04.jpg
http://www.jacoblillis.co.uk/england.html
― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Thursday, 12 June 2014 16:12 (twelve years ago)
the nostalgia of northerners who don't live in the north
― ogmor, Thursday, 12 June 2014 16:38 (twelve years ago)
so real
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzP1XC51kro&sns=em
― jamiesummerz, Friday, 13 June 2014 12:53 (twelve years ago)
1:29
― Kornblud (admrl), Friday, 13 June 2014 12:55 (twelve years ago)
oh wait 1:50
― Kornblud (admrl), Friday, 13 June 2014 12:56 (twelve years ago)
http://dougiewallace.com/601687/stags-hens-bunnies-a-blackpool-story/
― cardamon, Sunday, 6 July 2014 19:09 (eleven years ago)
fuckin classic
― cpt navajo (darraghmac), Sunday, 6 July 2014 23:07 (eleven years ago)
#21 is too real, just way too real
― which was retweeted by (imago), Sunday, 6 July 2014 23:16 (eleven years ago)
ok wait #24
wait
― which was retweeted by (imago), Sunday, 6 July 2014 23:17 (eleven years ago)
all of it
some WS UK candidates in that shit tho
― cpt navajo (darraghmac), Sunday, 6 July 2014 23:25 (eleven years ago)
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
― which was retweeted by (imago), Sunday, 6 July 2014 23:28 (eleven years ago)
i dunno, i feel this precariously straddles the line between high quality real england material and jeremy kyle-style gawping at the other.
― Merdeyeux, Sunday, 6 July 2014 23:38 (eleven years ago)
draw that line tho
― cpt navajo (darraghmac), Sunday, 6 July 2014 23:59 (eleven years ago)
can nothing be enjoyed on ilx anymore
― online hardman, Monday, 7 July 2014 09:15 (eleven years ago)
is fancy dress for 66 'muslim w/ blackface'?
― woof, Monday, 7 July 2014 09:35 (eleven years ago)
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
― Kiss Screaming Seagull Her Seagull Her (DJ Mencap), Monday, 7 July 2014 10:17 (eleven years ago)
#63 in my personal top three for sure
― Kiss Screaming Seagull Her Seagull Her (DJ Mencap), Monday, 7 July 2014 10:19 (eleven years ago)
we need a thread in otherness and we need it ringfenced
― cpt navajo (darraghmac), Monday, 7 July 2014 10:23 (eleven years ago)
describing this shit as 'other' is the problem, Merdy - we've ALL been one of these people, once
― which was retweeted by (imago), Monday, 7 July 2014 10:31 (eleven years ago)
yes. once. that's right.
― Daphnis Celesta, Monday, 7 July 2014 10:34 (eleven years ago)
*cough*
ha
― cpt navajo (darraghmac), Monday, 7 July 2014 10:38 (eleven years ago)
you'd look well in a tutu imo
pictures convey that nice mix of joy, threat, next-day regret and doing yrself irreparable damage that constitutes the great British night out
― Daphnis Celesta, Monday, 7 July 2014 10:39 (eleven years ago)
the event night out tbf
― cpt navajo (darraghmac), Monday, 7 July 2014 10:41 (eleven years ago)
surprisingly similar to any other weekend ime
― Daphnis Celesta, Monday, 7 July 2014 10:43 (eleven years ago)