good times, all gone now
― Moyes Enthusiast (LocalGarda), Monday, 2 March 2015 12:19 (nine years ago) link
The piece it's from is not a bad read: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/27/robert-macfarlane-word-hoard-rewilding-landscape
― Rainbow DAESH (ShariVari), Monday, 2 March 2015 12:22 (nine years ago) link
the book which the piece is a plug of sorts for does sound appealing. I added it to my Amazon wishlist which is probably ironic on some level
― The Crucifixion Of Sean Bean (DJ Mencap), Monday, 2 March 2015 12:44 (nine years ago) link
coaxial leads included in this all in one tv/broadband/phone box do not reach from the wall to my tv. I remember when a coat hanger could pick up the late late show around the mweelin hills
― local eire man (darraghmac), Monday, 2 March 2015 13:32 (nine years ago) link
+1
I like the link between weirdly specific words & close observation of the surrounding world in ~bygone days~
I paid more attention to ice & snow this year than I have in a long time thanks in part to my choice of a William Vollman novel about Norse sea-exploration & its rich winter word-hoard
― bernard snowy, Monday, 2 March 2015 16:18 (nine years ago) link
*choice of = as reading material for a space of weeks in December & January
― bernard snowy, Monday, 2 March 2015 16:19 (nine years ago) link
now we have weirdly specific words about Tumblr
― kriss akabusi cleaner (seandalai), Monday, 2 March 2015 23:30 (nine years ago) link
The past 60 years and the reign of Queen Elizabeth II has seen Britain go to hell in a hand basket, the rich are much richer and poor poorer, crime is higher and personal liberties and civil rights more restricted. The nation has become boarded up, dirty, polluted, and very regionalized North South , them and us, Scotland nearly voting to leave the UK and Wales and Cornwall and Ireland dissatisfied. The reign of Queen Elizabeth II will be recorded as the dark wanton times of decline in Britain`s history.
― nakhchivan, Saturday, 11 April 2015 02:33 (nine years ago) link
a mix between The Stone Roses and Primal Scream with the swagger of Oasis
― mookieproof, Saturday, 11 April 2015 02:35 (nine years ago) link
Boo! Boo! Boo QE II, the Queen of Refuse. So bow down to her if you want, bow to her. Bow to the Queen of Slime, the Queen of Filth, the Queen of Putrescence. Boo. Boo. Rubbish. Filth. Slime. Muck. Boo. Boo. Boo.
― Giant Purple Wakerobin (Aimless), Saturday, 11 April 2015 03:03 (nine years ago) link
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/after-39-years-fighting-boffins-toffs-and-cads-daily-mail-style-guide-writer-reveals-all-including?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2015-04-16&utm_source=Press+Gazette+-+Daily
"There was a conversation a while ago between an old-timer and a trainee who had not heard of Rudolf Valentino. 'Before my time, I'm afraid,' said the trainee breezily. 'Hitler was before mine but I've still heard of him,'"
― Some guy (LocalGarda), Thursday, 16 April 2015 12:57 (nine years ago) link
clichés
tug of love, or even worse, love tug
― Some guy (LocalGarda), Thursday, 16 April 2015 12:58 (nine years ago) link
‘egg’ or ‘eggs’ as a replacement prefix for ‘ex’, often in the context of Easter, such as ‘eggcellent’ or ‘eggstraordinary’. There is not one variation that has not been used thousands of times, and they are all very tedious
― Some guy (LocalGarda), Thursday, 16 April 2015 12:59 (nine years ago) link
the flamboyant bestubbled Portuguese (Jose Mourinho)
foreign-bred rodent furballs (hamsters)
the titular sexual abstinent (Steve Carell’s character in The 40-Year-Old Virgin)
culinary under-achiever (sprouts again)
shifting follicle cover (John Travolta’s hair)
cutting-edge valise (a suitcase)
vociferous Antipodeans (rowdy Aussies)
this musical mammal of the marine world (a saxophone-playing walrus)
the luxury fizzy wine (champagne)
our cosmic sidekick (the moon)
culinary outlaw (a kebab)
the bendy yellow fruit (a banana)
the tasty bread-based snack (a sandwich)
the red leather orb (a cricket ball)
the little rectangular treasure (a rare stamp)
the befeathered visitant (a nightingale that strayed to Birkenhead)
the stringy decay fighter (dental floss)
the tentacled tipster (Paul the psychic octopus)
^^POLL
― squeak and gibber (soref), Thursday, 16 April 2015 13:10 (nine years ago) link
*puts hand on chest, sings national anthem*
― imago, Thursday, 16 April 2015 13:13 (nine years ago) link
live audience: Is there any other kind of audience? Rows of corpses? When a writer says: ‘Kylie performed in front of a live audience’, it should be: ‘Kylie performed live in front of an audience’. This holds good for recorded performances with an audience present.
what
― Some guy (LocalGarda), Thursday, 16 April 2015 13:15 (nine years ago) link
This is the best one, but we all know exactly the context in which it was used.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 16 April 2015 13:31 (nine years ago) link
it's important to maintain the levity of your story about a walrus who plays the saxophone
― pissbaby nobody in the corner (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 16 April 2015 13:42 (nine years ago) link
so much lol in that style guide
love how the implied addressee is a very stupid child
― drash, Thursday, 16 April 2015 14:39 (nine years ago) link
inelegant variation should be as knowingly laboured as possible to preserve the gaiety of the nation
― nashwan, Thursday, 16 April 2015 15:06 (nine years ago) link
nicky wire in a bendy yellow fruit suit?
― mookieproof, Thursday, 16 April 2015 22:10 (nine years ago) link
Strong "...in the gutter" / Real England flavour to the comments on this Guardian piece:
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/apr/29/manchester-trafford-park-world-first-industrial-estate-history-cities-50-buildings
Long grey rows of tenements
Playing marbles on the grates in the alleyways
The trainmen used to throw us food from the engine as they went past.
The park around the corner had a stuffed crocodile that we used to jump on and then run away scared.
Fogs so thick that we got lost going home from school despite it being just across the street.
The name of the local sweet shop was Coopers.
Esp. enjoy the contribution of Sperrin, always eager to jump in and correct people on the faulty detail of their memories of 1950s childhoods:
"there were no tenements" etc.
― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Thursday, 30 April 2015 07:58 (nine years ago) link
http://k-punk.org/abandon-hope-summer-is-coming/
― bureau belfast model (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 12:23 (nine years ago) link
beyond self-parody
It’s Ed Sheeran and Rudimental rather than Rufige Kru.
guess he slept on that Goldie remix of the real red Ed
― nashwan, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 12:27 (nine years ago) link
supermarket check-out operatives replaced by crap robots… unexpected item in bagging area… every surface plastered with corporate graffiti and haranguing hashtags
― bureau belfast model (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 12:31 (nine years ago) link
Everything seen through a downer haze… “Mostly you self-medicate” … comfort eating and bitter drinking …. What’s your poison?
an ellipsis between every four or five words... no full sentences... ground control to major tom... mcdonalds... that go compare ad... #bringbackourgirls ... tracksuits... smaller chocolate bars
― bureau belfast model (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 12:33 (nine years ago) link
walk out of the house... "you can always go... downtown" - figure of speech... figure of eight... figure of fun... britain's got... talent put on an old vinyl - val doonigan... toilet still works... for now ... mcluhan ... microwave curry... please sir can i have some more
― bureau belfast model (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 12:40 (nine years ago) link
i actually hadn't even read this bit before i wrote those:
Time for one more, Nigel?
Time, gentlemen, please ….
There is no time … Time is on your side (yes it is) …
― bureau belfast model (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 12:43 (nine years ago) link
this is how it's done
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG_RvGqG9VI
― an absolute feast of hardcore fanboy LOLs surrounding (imago), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 13:11 (nine years ago) link
also there's a new pre-new album out
― an absolute feast of hardcore fanboy LOLs surrounding (imago), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 13:12 (nine years ago) link
Time out...time waits for no mandate...timestretch...what the time dred?...how does my dog smell the time? dreadful!
― nashwan, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 13:18 (nine years ago) link
Just reading these in the 'Fitter, Happier' voice.
UKIP leaflets in a litter bin at Manningtree station, Essex, on Wednesday
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 13:25 (nine years ago) link
At least in the pre-internet days when you were in youthful idiocy stage, on speed talking absolute nonsense or writing bad poetry there was no permanent record to come back and haunt you.
― xelab, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 14:32 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/mlgq4gF.jpg
― tayto fan (Michael B), Thursday, 21 May 2015 17:52 (nine years ago) link
lol i was just thinking about this thread. some classic quotes imo.
― surm, Thursday, 21 May 2015 18:36 (nine years ago) link
McWilliams is the perfect nothing fuckwith to bookend the Celtic tiger.
― thoughts you made second posts about (darraghmac), Thursday, 21 May 2015 18:38 (nine years ago) link
He did alright for himself in its aftermath
― tayto fan (Michael B), Thursday, 21 May 2015 19:32 (nine years ago) link
yeah but I mean consider the validity of the measure
― thoughts you made second posts about (darraghmac), Thursday, 21 May 2015 20:22 (nine years ago) link
Society may be in the gutter but it used to be in the sewer
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 21 May 2015 20:24 (nine years ago) link
Anyway, we're missing the point. What are we to do with this nationwide infestation of Bebo clones and boy-racers??
― tayto fan (Michael B), Thursday, 21 May 2015 20:30 (nine years ago) link
everywhere i look a 9-yr old has an ipad now. i don't even have an ipad. what's wrong with this picture.
― surm, Monday, 25 May 2015 04:02 (nine years ago) link
cyber children roam the streets, roided up on data
― bureau belfast model (LocalGarda), Monday, 25 May 2015 11:40 (nine years ago) link
smothered in their data cocoon, they forget the use of speech and mindmeld with their robot brethren through the furious click-clacking of computer keys
― tayto fan (Michael B), Monday, 25 May 2015 12:17 (nine years ago) link
this generation has long ago "swiped left" on morals and values
― bureau belfast model (LocalGarda), Monday, 25 May 2015 12:35 (nine years ago) link
gleefully dismantling society "piece by piece"? there's an "app" for that
― bureau belfast model (LocalGarda), Monday, 25 May 2015 12:36 (nine years ago) link
we "liked" things in my day too. we "liked" them. oh we "liked" them alright.
― bureau belfast model (LocalGarda), Monday, 25 May 2015 12:39 (nine years ago) link
you used to have to type a number on your smartphone, now you just pull a nasty face at a pensioner and it'll speed dial your whole gang
― an absolute feast of hardcore fanboy LOLs surrounding (imago), Monday, 25 May 2015 12:40 (nine years ago) link
i stuck my penis in the headphone jack of my smartphone the other day - not a policeman in sight. i did it again. nothing. i called them to tell them i'd done it - not their problem, not me guv.
― bureau belfast model (LocalGarda), Monday, 25 May 2015 12:46 (nine years ago) link
i can't figure out how to snap a chat for the life of me. i got one the other day and nearly had a seizure. when i was a kid, we could chat without the wonders of visual editing technology.
― surm, Monday, 25 May 2015 16:15 (nine years ago) link
I remember when a Yorkie could barely fit in your hand. 'Tis all downsizing and up-pricing these days....
― tayto fan (Michael B), Thursday, 28 May 2015 14:06 (nine years ago) link