That cruise ship story is amazing. The level of detail - who knew that cruises explicitly forbidding fancy dress were a real thing? The mental image of some wee guy in a face full of clown make-up taunting a family who had their trip spoiled is never going to leave me either.
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 27 July 2019 13:48 (four years ago) link
Too rye ay!
Britannia left Bergen at 1430 on Thursday, the violence occurred 12 hours later after a black-tie evening. It followed an afternoon of ‘patriotic’ partying on deck, with large amounts of alcohol being consumed by many guests. pic.twitter.com/zQcEXGDJeg— Richard Gaisford (@richardgaisford) July 27, 2019
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 27 July 2019 13:52 (four years ago) link
the backbone of our country there!
― calzino, Saturday, 27 July 2019 13:53 (four years ago) link
shd've been "This Is What She's Like" amirite?
― Mr Jolyon Posts Next Door (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 27 July 2019 14:01 (four years ago) link
who knew that cruises explicitly forbidding fancy dress were a real thing
enjoyed some American in the replies being baffled at 'fancy dress' meaning clown costumes as opposed to suit and tie etc. can see his point tbh
― wot's the tea mum? (not beef again) (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 27 July 2019 14:52 (four years ago) link
a spectre is haunting real england
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EAj5UYgWwAAfwNR?format=jpg
― mark s, Sunday, 28 July 2019 18:21 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/oOA1xkG.png
― mark s, Sunday, 28 July 2019 18:25 (four years ago) link
gammon pennywise strikes again xp
― 2019OK plus bennu (wins), Sunday, 28 July 2019 18:26 (four years ago) link
you'll bloat too
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/aug/16/seasides-town-new-toilets-feature-high-tech-anti-sex-measures
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Saturday, 17 August 2019 02:04 (four years ago) link
speaking of seaside towns and (hyper)real england, we have commenced a short stay in sheerness. so far, love it
― imago, Monday, 26 August 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
*lunges towards the high-tech-anti-sex-measures lever*
― mark s, Monday, 26 August 2019 17:20 (four years ago) link
astonishing that the shipwreck of SS Richard Montgomery is still lying there after 75 years and apparently laden with enough ww2 explosives (1,434 tonnes of TNT) to cause a mini tsunami if she goes bang!
― calzino, Monday, 26 August 2019 17:21 (four years ago) link
Hence the high tech anti-sex measures
― I've listened to a lot of misogynic/sexist rap myself (Noodle Vague), Monday, 26 August 2019 17:31 (four years ago) link
lol
― imago, Monday, 26 August 2019 17:31 (four years ago) link
if the great wave looms we'll know someone's been up to no good
― imago, Monday, 26 August 2019 17:32 (four years ago) link
seaside town of Porthcawl is planning to install anti-sex public toilets that would spray occupants with water
surely this is just going to entice golden shower fetishists
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Monday, 26 August 2019 17:36 (four years ago) link
speaking of medway, was down in herne bay and reculver yesterday and it was lovely. lot of cunts with england flags tho. friend was in frinton at the same where her son started coughing uncontrollably after having been in the sea, which seems to have been part of this.reminded of a similar incident at birling gap a couple of years ago. felt v porton down and 60s/70s cultural defence of countryside - mixture of anti-nuclear, anti-military, rural spiritualism. penda’s fen and the last quatermass. (it was interesting watching the old spiral tribe footage in the jeremy deller doc - clearly nigel kneale was anti-traveller in Q, but he was also anti government science, which paradox located itself around the jewish main character of er Simon MacCorkindale (rada bawling at people at point blank range about the loss of knowledge) and Quatermass (John Mills) himself. both want to preserve knowledge but outside of state control. yes i’ve had a drink what of it.
― Fizzles, Monday, 26 August 2019 17:40 (four years ago) link
One of the victims was interviewed on Five Live this morning and it was a very bank holiday feeling because he went on and on with a detailed and largely irrelevant account of his family's whole day out and the host clearly thought "fuck it, I've got nothing else going on"
― I've listened to a lot of misogynic/sexist rap myself (Noodle Vague), Monday, 26 August 2019 17:49 (four years ago) link
only collective quasi-supernatural passions brought on by extreme heat here so far i'm afraid! i was rhapsodising about penda's fen recently, it is really the best thing
― imago, Monday, 26 August 2019 17:53 (four years ago) link
― calzino, Monday, 26 August 2019 17:21 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
walking along the seafront just now, could easily pick out the jutting masts of the sunken boat. amazing that it's still there above water. someone had painted an actually-really-good poem onto the beach steps about it too
― imago, Tuesday, 27 August 2019 16:22 (four years ago) link
apparently the 75th anniversary of its sinking was last week!
― imago, Tuesday, 27 August 2019 18:44 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/AcFbljB.jpg
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 20:40 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Y7p5Qx7.jpg
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 20:45 (four years ago) link
real england but in wales (an occasional series):
Anglesey man denies killing retired lecturer with crossbow https://t.co/84AAB1Pgg0— The Guardian (@guardian) September 5, 2019
― mark s, Thursday, 5 September 2019 11:26 (four years ago) link
He certainly has the look of a man who kills retired lecturers with a crossbow
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 5 September 2019 11:29 (four years ago) link
Comedian Dave Allen did indeed visit Meltham in the 1970s – to interview Herbert Thorpe, the Prophet of Meltham, for a TV series about eccentrics.Clive Settle, of Radio Leeds who used to live in Meltham, recalled that his mum had met Dave Allen in the village.The anecdote cropped up during a radio discussion about Britain’s finest comedians. But Clive didn’t know why Dave was there.Several readers were quick to tell me.The comedian made two documentary series in the 1970s: In Search of the Great Eccentric and Eccentrics At Play.Matt Shaw said: “I used to live next door to Herbert Thorpe in Millmoor Road and, although I was only four at the time, my mum and myself met Mr Allen while he was enjoying a cigarette.”Herbert got his name and reputation from the Biblical quotes he painted onto the side of his house and fence.Herbert’s grandson, Mark Schofield, director of Schofield and Sons, of Linthwaite, says: “Herbert had a long-running planning dispute regarding a big fence that he erected around his fields and between his and the houses of his neighbours. The fence was painted black and he covered it, over a long period, with quotes from the scriptures, generally in the vein of ‘An eye for an eye’ – no namby pamby stuff.“He hated ‘wrong uns’ and idleness. When he was in his 70s, with a big white beard and ramrod straight back, he walked up to Wessenden Head twice a day.“Dave did a series on people who were eccentrics and granddad, who was known in the media as the Prophet of Meltham, was featured. Broadcasters from around the world came to film him.“My dad, Carl, of J B Schofields scrapyard, sold him the wood for the fence and thought it was all hilarious, particularly as he agreed with a lot of his sentiments regarding workers and shirkers.”Herbert, who died in 1978, was a very forceful character, says Mark.“As kids, if we kicked our football into his field we went in like special forces to recover it without being seen.”
Clive Settle, of Radio Leeds who used to live in Meltham, recalled that his mum had met Dave Allen in the village.
The anecdote cropped up during a radio discussion about Britain’s finest comedians. But Clive didn’t know why Dave was there.
Several readers were quick to tell me.
The comedian made two documentary series in the 1970s: In Search of the Great Eccentric and Eccentrics At Play.
Matt Shaw said: “I used to live next door to Herbert Thorpe in Millmoor Road and, although I was only four at the time, my mum and myself met Mr Allen while he was enjoying a cigarette.”
Herbert got his name and reputation from the Biblical quotes he painted onto the side of his house and fence.
Herbert’s grandson, Mark Schofield, director of Schofield and Sons, of Linthwaite, says: “Herbert had a long-running planning dispute regarding a big fence that he erected around his fields and between his and the houses of his neighbours. The fence was painted black and he covered it, over a long period, with quotes from the scriptures, generally in the vein of ‘An eye for an eye’ – no namby pamby stuff.
“He hated ‘wrong uns’ and idleness. When he was in his 70s, with a big white beard and ramrod straight back, he walked up to Wessenden Head twice a day.
“Dave did a series on people who were eccentrics and granddad, who was known in the media as the Prophet of Meltham, was featured. Broadcasters from around the world came to film him.
“My dad, Carl, of J B Schofields scrapyard, sold him the wood for the fence and thought it was all hilarious, particularly as he agreed with a lot of his sentiments regarding workers and shirkers.”
Herbert, who died in 1978, was a very forceful character, says Mark.
“As kids, if we kicked our football into his field we went in like special forces to recover it without being seen.”
― calzino, Friday, 6 September 2019 23:07 (four years ago) link
I wish I'd took a photo. I was just holding my dog to let a huge bulldozer tractor drive past and politely waved only to see two children in the cabin driving this potential weapon of mass destruction. I swear they can't have been any older than 8 years old. More like Real Ireland round this way today.
― calzino, Sunday, 8 September 2019 12:59 (four years ago) link
I will execute every last motherfucking one od you. I know where to buy wine get tae fuck die die
― Joe Proroguin' (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 8 September 2019 14:18 (four years ago) link
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-49641063
A man spent £30,000 of his savings on a failed legal battle "for justice" over a £100 speeding fine.Richard Keedwell, 71, said a "seriously flawed" legal system meant fighting the fine had taken nearly three years and used up his sons' inheritance money.
Richard Keedwell, 71, said a "seriously flawed" legal system meant fighting the fine had taken nearly three years and used up his sons' inheritance money.
― ban golf (jed_), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 17:43 (four years ago) link
Hero <3
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 18:08 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/RKbs6sp.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/RKbs6sp.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/RKbs6sp.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/RKbs6sp.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/RKbs6sp.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/RKbs6sp.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/RKbs6sp.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/RKbs6sp.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/RKbs6sp.png
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 18:09 (four years ago) link
3 years, money that could have been better spent elsewhere, flawed intransigent authority, probably a brexit analogy somewhere.
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 06:18 (four years ago) link
Anything rather interesting, but not understandable for the people here. So it is rather necessary to make sure in it.
― John Lawson, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 13:09 (four years ago) link
Go on, I'm listening
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 13:12 (four years ago) link
nakh sock
― imago, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 13:15 (four years ago) link
is that john lawson of kirkless council?!
― ogmor, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 13:20 (four years ago) link
https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/kirkleeslibdems/pages/219/attachments/original/1519917089/JL_ACP_Car_Park_2_0218.jpg?1519917089
Local councillors
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 13:28 (four years ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/WHHm8z5/BF4-D8923-DCCC-4-AD6-9255-2-A92-D562-CEC8.jpg
Is that a common Yorkshire phrase or are they just super into anal in Filey?
― the creator has a mazda van (NickB), Thursday, 12 September 2019 20:58 (four years ago) link
the Kirklees council anti-litter campaign in the 90's was "don't be a tosser".
― calzino, Thursday, 12 September 2019 21:04 (four years ago) link
thinking about it, they could've actually gone with 'clear up your butts once you've finished'
― the creator has a mazda van (NickB), Thursday, 12 September 2019 21:06 (four years ago) link
bad beryl cook pastiche with anal sex hints is not well thought out imo!
― calzino, Thursday, 12 September 2019 21:07 (four years ago) link
just adding there isn't such a thing as good beryl cook pastiche or indeed good beryl cook!
― calzino, Thursday, 12 September 2019 21:12 (four years ago) link
can't say i'm a big fan or anything but i don't mind her work, celebrating sexually liberated women and fuller figures is good obv
― the creator has a mazda van (NickB), Thursday, 12 September 2019 21:20 (four years ago) link
but maybe we should have a thread for popular art?
― the creator has a mazda van (NickB), Thursday, 12 September 2019 21:22 (four years ago) link
wonder who would choose to die defending the reputation of jack vettriano
― the creator has a mazda van (NickB), Thursday, 12 September 2019 21:23 (four years ago) link
or that bastard that paints the multi-coloured cows
― the creator has a mazda van (NickB), Thursday, 12 September 2019 21:24 (four years ago) link
anybody but Banky, obv
― a wagon to the curious (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 12 September 2019 21:26 (four years ago) link
I hate stanley spencer and henri rousseau as well just for the case that I'm not a sexist bastard and just despise crudely stylised figurative painting done with a lack of talent and ugly ass colours!
― calzino, Thursday, 12 September 2019 21:28 (four years ago) link
aw no way! love both of those
― the creator has a mazda van (NickB), Thursday, 12 September 2019 21:31 (four years ago) link