A busy bloke is this David Vinterhttps://profile.theguardian.com/user/id/2472083?page=1
― nashwan, Friday, 3 February 2017 11:30 (seven years ago) link
tbf to the lad he claims to be over 80 and has 955 pages of comments in three years
― nashwan, Friday, 3 February 2017 11:32 (seven years ago) link
My father, missing WW1, by a week, went self employed at 19, and worked 7 days per week for 50 years, and only ever one holiday.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 3 February 2017 11:35 (seven years ago) link
So we know all about his dad and grandad, I bet he was a complete waster himself though.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Friday, 3 February 2017 11:41 (seven years ago) link
he spends all his time on CIF so that'a a given
― Neil S, Friday, 3 February 2017 11:43 (seven years ago) link
feeling like i need to up my ilx posting game tbh, no way i'm gonna be beaten by an octogenarian. i fought in the irc wars of the mid-90s ffs
― for sale: steve bannon waifu pillow (heavily soiled) (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 3 February 2017 11:47 (seven years ago) link
This is the rest of my day sorted thank you.
― nashwan, Friday, 3 February 2017 11:47 (seven years ago) link
I think his grandmother was a Star Wars droid.
You should have seen my old grandmother b1880 clear the kitchen table cover it with newspaper, skin and gut 4 rabbits, then boil them on the open stove. Somehow she and my farm labourer grandfather raised 5 children, water from a pump, bog down the yard, paraffin lamps . No free doctor, no family allowance, no radio before 1939. But he lived long enough to have his own B/W television.Yet , three children to grammar school, son a captain in WW2, and later a county cricketer and house builder.How many are considering such preperation?
― nashwan, Friday, 3 February 2017 11:49 (seven years ago) link
Do thefood parcel recipients keep expensive dogs, enjoy weekly bottles of plonk, still smoke, have weekly hairdos,?If so they are not poor, how come my farm labourer grandfather b, 1876 raised 5 grandchildren, bog down the yard, pump for water, paraffin lamps, three to grammar school, he himself was taught to read by the Methodists from age 12! And lived to be 86, always rode a bicycle. never drank, rarely smoked, and christmas was rabbit pie.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 3 February 2017 11:50 (seven years ago) link
Nature made us all very unequal and Labour has far better leaders than the urban Milliband, six months real grafting would do him good!
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 3 February 2017 11:52 (seven years ago) link
And inequality of wealth is magnified by overpopulation, until governments start to seriously tackle this problem peacefully, we may find nature has its own way of doing it! As in 1349!
these exclamation marks are doing hard work.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 3 February 2017 11:53 (seven years ago) link
Harold Macmillan did build houses, far more than Labour ever did,over 300000 two years running! Most of you are just kids, I went to school in WW2,big classes, but we did learn to be literate, and very numerate . No calculators, we did, and can still do maths in our head, long division and fractions by the chalk and talk method at primary school. And at 6 walked daily one and a half miles on my own, no one had a car, most 'dads' in the forces!
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 3 February 2017 11:55 (seven years ago) link
weekly hairdos
My father, missing WW1, by a week, went self employed at 19, and worked 7 days per week for 50 years, and only ever one haircut
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Friday, 3 February 2017 11:55 (seven years ago) link
back in them days we wished for baldness so we could keep food on the table. the hirsute were viewed as dangerously decadent and forced to drink their biannual pint of bitter at the working men's club in the toilets where we didn't have to look at them
― for sale: steve bannon waifu pillow (heavily soiled) (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 3 February 2017 12:13 (seven years ago) link
whole families bald, there was. ten to a bedroom all looking like freshly polished eggs
― for sale: steve bannon waifu pillow (heavily soiled) (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 3 February 2017 12:15 (seven years ago) link
great grandfather dead at four, worked in mine, no safety, cornish pasty for lunch, piss in a field, home five miles up again next morning. gave birth to grandad at three. men pregnant in those days! we shot a child out of our mouths and some of us still can. yes that is actually true. i was there!
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 3 February 2017 12:16 (seven years ago) link
back in the day you'd retell Monty Python sketches and there'd be no pregnant men in them
― I Am In Atlanta And Thug Is Young (imago), Friday, 3 February 2017 12:19 (seven years ago) link
btw for a crash-course in pension-aged messageboard posters I recommend joining a football forum
― I Am In Atlanta And Thug Is Young (imago), Friday, 3 February 2017 12:20 (seven years ago) link
no cars back then, and the average height was three foot six, so we used to ride dogs everywhere until they fell over dead from overwork. piles of dead dogs there were, lining the cobbled streets, and the little orphan urchins used to suck out their eyes for the protein, 'jelly e'en' we used to call them, i can still taste them now. you wouldn't get those in your newfangled spars, i'll tell you, and more's the pity
― for sale: steve bannon waifu pillow (heavily soiled) (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 3 February 2017 12:21 (seven years ago) link
between donald trump and this prick i'm really turning against exclamation marks. i mean they've always been part of this thread but it feels more sinister now.
like this right wing use of exclamation mark seems to be saying "there, i said it! the vile thing i believe everyone thinks, because i am vile and assume everyone is like me, deep down"
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 3 February 2017 12:25 (seven years ago) link
duh, he's obviously advocating for planned parenthood
― I Am In Atlanta And Thug Is Young (imago), Friday, 3 February 2017 12:27 (seven years ago) link
for men
'dark satanic mills' is it, well you don't know the half of it! the factory at the end of our street pumped out so much soot i didn't see a single colour until i was 25 and let me tell you it provided enough entertainment to last me six months it did
― for sale: steve bannon waifu pillow (heavily soiled) (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 3 February 2017 12:28 (seven years ago) link
"I had that Malthus in the back of me cab once."
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Friday, 3 February 2017 12:31 (seven years ago) link
i murdered a man a few years ago. he walked through my garden so i hit him with a spade! will i be caught? i shouldn't think so!
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 3 February 2017 12:35 (seven years ago) link
We can't bust heads like we used to. But we have our ways. One trick is to tell stories that don't go anywhere. Like the time I caught the ferry to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for m'shoe. So I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Gimme five bees for a quarter," you'd say. Now where were we... oh yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. I didn't have any white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...
― Neil S, Friday, 3 February 2017 12:35 (seven years ago) link
getting drunk IS fun btw
― Oh the pacmanity (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 3 February 2017 14:03 (seven years ago) link
tbh he does have a point, drunkards like Churchill and other famous drunks never looked like they were having fun. the secret is drinking while not having fun, it seems.
― mh 😏, Friday, 3 February 2017 14:32 (seven years ago) link
tbf churchill wasn't exactly blessed with the kind of countenance that allowed for traditionally-agreed-upon expressions of 'fun'
― for sale: steve bannon waifu pillow (heavily soiled) (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 3 February 2017 15:12 (seven years ago) link
― for sale: steve bannon waifu pillow (heavily soiled) (bizarro gazzara), Friday, February 3, 2017 7:21 AM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
biggest irl lol of the year so far, thank you for this
― Wimmels, Sunday, 5 February 2017 17:08 (seven years ago) link
If Labour wants to win back its Brexit-voting heartlands, it needs to help resurrect the 'working class identity'When my dad spoke to me about his childhood, he’d talk of working men’s clubs as major social institutions. Twice a year, the club would organise trips to Blackpool or Skegness. They’d book out two carriages on the local train, and the children would get pop and crisps on the way there and a stick of rock on the way back
Joe Todd 2 hours ago 54 commentshttp://www.independent.co.uk/voices/labour-brexit-jeremy-corbyn-heartlands-trade-unions-working-class-identity-a7589391.html
― nashwan, Monday, 20 February 2017 14:16 (seven years ago) link
we'd go to blackpool every year. october of course, for the illuminations. stroll on the promenade, peruse a ribald postcard or two. chips on the pier and then to the abc for a few chuckles at the antics of our pakistani friends, and paddies. now my grandson goes with the other emos, in february as if that made a lick of sense. he tells me it's "ironic". brought me back a stick of rock with the word "non-binary" through it.
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 20 February 2017 14:52 (seven years ago) link
the train would leave one station, arriving at various stations along the way, where it would stop to let passengers alight. it wasn't a perfect system, but it worked better than today's.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Monday, 20 February 2017 15:15 (seven years ago) link
i've actually been on one of those Blackpool trips, i'm not sure if it was the first time i'd travelled by train but it was v exciting as a kid. not sure if it built much of a sense of community because as far as i remember our fam sat in our own compartment and i don't remember actually mingling with anybody else on the trip
― Treesh-Hurt (Noodle Vague), Monday, 20 February 2017 15:45 (seven years ago) link
i bought a bootleg copy of zooropa on the beach in blackpool
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Monday, 20 February 2017 15:55 (seven years ago) link
real england
― for sale: steve bannon waifu pillow (heavily soiled) (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 20 February 2017 15:57 (seven years ago) link
Was reminiscing with my dad recently about a family trip to Blackpool where for the whole 6 hour round trip and more or less the whole time there I listened to the 2nd manics album on repeat, presumably on my Sony sports walkman. Peak teenager for me. Inspired by my dad having bought himself the greatest hits CD which idk I'm sure that says something.
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 20 February 2017 16:21 (seven years ago) link
european civilization has been in stasis since socrates had to defend his life in front of the athenian 'parliament'. meanwhile, donald trump golfs every weekend
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 26 April 2017 23:11 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Beautiful
― virginity simple (darraghmac), Thursday, 27 April 2017 00:36 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/MENnewsdesk/status/857356846520311808
nult is that you
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 10:28 (seven years ago) link
i read a piece about spice in the MEN recently and it was very much this thread type stuff, but on the other hand i had never heard of "spice" so it was sort of surprising or shocking. really seems a big growing story, all these people getting spiced out of their minds.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 10:38 (seven years ago) link
Quoting for posterity Amid a sea of filth, a cardboard box in the shape of a person that hints at a tragic way of life and death
― your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 11:15 (seven years ago) link
If Gaspar Noe did christmas cards...
― calzino, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 11:22 (seven years ago) link
That human beings can be living in such conditions may seem obscene in a first world country
always like the "in a first world country" qualifier, like in a developing country obviously squalor is no big deal
― The Real Remoaner (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 12:06 (seven years ago) link
well yeah tbh.
― virginity simple (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 12:08 (seven years ago) link
I would suggest the fact of there being more of it is not the same as it being nbd
― The Real Remoaner (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 12:11 (seven years ago) link
its not the more of it its the 'could be worse, could be better' comparators
these days kids in the first world are spoilt when i were a lad we had one mobile phone between us and twere only for business now venezuelans are on twitter all day instead of making my trainers
― virginity simple (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 12:25 (seven years ago) link
I think if you stop the sentence at obscene you take nothing away from its intent and perhaps look a wee bit less of a douche
― The Real Remoaner (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 12:27 (seven years ago) link
we can all agree
― virginity simple (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 12:42 (seven years ago) link
maybe a desperate attempt to wring a tiny drop of empathy out of ppl
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 13:18 (seven years ago) link
Movie Based on a Tweet Is Actually Happening
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 22 May 2017 23:08 (seven years ago) link