Real England

fiver says he's an Arsenal fan

Overheard on the train

Whats your new business

its retro skiwear....with a modern twist

maybe this could go here from another thread

"John isn't from round here, he's from down South somewhere but had also spent the 22 years based in Corsica.

He got a £450,000 pay out from the Army because he got blown up in Uganda and wasn't expected to live. He has 4 years left until he can officially retire, but his now a chef, in something army related

He told me had done a number of extractions, some in Iran and one in this country. He was tortured in Iran in 1995. He recently did some work in Syria. He showed me a bullet wound in his leg, i couldnt quite tell what was going on with his hand

We were on the bus to Haworth, he said, when he first came to the area he spent 6 months in Haworth. He said no one had lived there for 6 months, and there was a rat. the rat wasnt frightened so he was able to kill it with a brick. He told his landlord and the landlord told him to buy some traps. Over the next couple of weeks he caught 14 or 15 rats and put them in the freezer. When the landlord came he took them out and wrapped them up and gave them to his landlord as a moving-in present

He spent some time in the brecon beacons where the army do some exercises, and during a training exercise 6 people died from hypothermia and it got into the newspapers

― anvil, Wednesday, February 11, 2015 1:01 PM (1 month ago)"

http://i.imgur.com/iDuCDoL.jpg

photographs Alan Clark will have masturbated ferociously over

Thread idea?

Thatcher just about to look round and realise that Fiat in the background is coming right for her

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoA-YOMaBaM

The little-used "Go Dutch" 1970s cycleway project of Stevenage.

http://www.roadswerenotbuiltforcars.com/stevenage/

"“they use their cars as shopping baskets; or use them as overcoats.”

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8116/8905781094_7db9752973_c.jpg

a few threads this cd've gone into

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n08/james-meek/why-are-you-still-here

http://i.imgur.com/RqF9m95.jpg

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/11008542_1101938169821262_3086074597231008187_n.jpg?oh=717c00a2a575e1836dbea04c9ae16171&oe=55CA3E39

Of course the UKIP hotline is an 0800 number.

there must be some total bloody bellends living in that house

Emily Thornberry up to her old tricks?

fuming @ nakhchivan's response, insist on his immediate resignation

https://twitter.com/garwboy/status/592708985054191616

I missed the word "aided" in that Tom Jones headline and read it as "My secret affair with Tom Jones - by his own son"

graffitiing of one's own abode will always remind me of this place:

https://c1.staticflickr.com/7/6026/5919342273_c7c91b8cb5_b.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9RcsCbErdg

GuildfordGhost = best youtube channel

^thank you for that; great for many reasons. reels on that channel!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0elsNDRqLtQ

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/33403146/cumbria-couple-have-a-one-in-a-minion-themed-wedding

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/08EE/production/_84068220_jill_martell.jpg

tempted to start a Kim Kardashian style thread about minions because I don't understand what they are and they are everywhere

don't know where to put bakewell's peculiar council website
http://bakewelltowncouncil.gov.uk/33/pages/council-tax
http://bakewelltowncouncil.gov.uk/8/pages/working-in-bakewell

keep on laughing at the working in bakewell one. for a full ten minutes now on and off.

business networks amusing as well.

shot of the library pretty real

http://bakewelltowncouncil.gov.uk/images/headerImages/Library.jpg

Bakewell in Bloom set me off you gits

Living in Bakewell is Great!

Parking >>>

Love that Library pic - bet there are tons like it from council sites, could the nu-Oasis Primal Scream blah blah thread.

Living in Bakewell
Living in Bakewell is great!

The Council tax picture cracked me up along with ' Derbyshire Dales Dirtict Council etc etc..'

Living In Bakewell killed me. Also liked the Bus Pass section showing dozens of pensioners crowding the pavement while an out of service bus looms in the background.

oh god the bus pass photo...

"Maybe we should use a picture where the bus is in service?"
"Nah, we've only got the one set, just go with that"
"Look, I can photoshop a number onto that bus, take me about 5 minutes"
"WE'RE ON A DEADLINE SON"

omg the Bakewell Show starts tomorrow, i'm calling an emergency FAP

Pick me up a laptop from the large boy outside the pudding shop while you are there, pls.

http://www.bakewelltowncouncil.gov.uk/images/backgrounds/towncouncil.jpg

Girls' bike

tiny umbrella on a great long pole

i dunno it says "Wales" on his t-shirt

http://bakewelltowncouncil.gov.uk/images/backgrounds/visiting.jpg

Ladies WATCH YOUR BAGS!

http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Horse-washed-Bude-Park-paddling-pool-Bransholme/story-27563900-detail/story.html

http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/images/localworld/ugc-images/276270/Article/images/27563900/10672336-large.jpg

if they'd've clicked on the second link in the 'related links' they'd've found:

http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Oss-Wash-graffiti-new-Dead-Bod/story-27450074-detail/story.html

horses being washed in random locations/tethered at the roadside/running amok round an estate are reasonably common in Hull, which has a significant traveller community. we still get rag and bone men using horse-drawn carts. there was a pony i used to feed mints to regularly on my walk to work. also there's a section of west Hull called Gypsyville.

this is the OG 'oss wash

http://thehullplay.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Victoria-Pier-Horse-Wash.jpg

and this is more or less how it looks today

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/82447310.jpg

Selfishness of using kids paddling pool to wash horse very real, working horses however are not real. Bit suggestive of an organic connection to pre-colour tv era working class culture, the absence of which is a defining trait of Real England imo.

'pre-colour tv era working class culture' doing a lot of work in that sentence, hope the basic idea come across.

just bung a bit of chlorine in after the horse, scoop out anything it's left behind, job's a good'un.

i did a couple of stints as a paddling pool attendant many years ago.

Hull's enduring charm of course is our secession from realness

the water fountain on ealing common has the inscription: "This fountain and adjoining troughs were erected by local subscription in 1878 by the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association.". i can just see them driving cattle around the hanger lane gyratory system...

(the troughs are no longer there)