ukilxors arent u posh?

Peas, if this advert is to be believed... which it isn't...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qT39e68G48

when I look at a piece o' dog shit it reminds me of me fatha! ee by gum

I see barley, caulies, cabbages, rapeseed ... and erm other stuff as well, but I only see peas in the supermarket - where we have to queue for them because of shortages. Ah those rarefied green gems are always worth waiting 3 hours for.

mmm peas and gammon.

Mushy or gtfo

let's not litigate this again, it nearly tore the board apart the last time

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I love my mushy peas quite unhealthy i.e. with a few spoons of sugar, a baby handful of salt and a decent sized lump of butter melted in them.

(example, a man eating peas with the idea that they will improve his virility shoves them straight up his urethra)

"how do you like your mushy peas in the morning, baby?"

is probably one of the most underrated chat-up lines ever.

see how I subtly code-shifted the conversation, I'm just disguises all the way down is my answer to the poll

let's not litigate this again, it nearly tore the board apart the last time

― another no-holds-barred Tokey Wedge adventure for men (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 13:13 (twenty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

no do let's

it might tear the board apart this time

actually yeah you're right

fuck mushy peas and anyone who likes them

*smashes a bottle of Sarson's on the bar*

great thread to watch from the nosebleed seats

oh there'll be nosebleeds alright

saw a pea signal in the sky summoning me.. I'm ready to fight this war again and again.

MUSHY PEAS ALL THE WAY, ALL THE TIME.

this is good but can we find a way to work in ronaldinho bottle openers, tipping and poptimism too

A lot of what mark s is describing regarding "my granny grew up in a shed" sounds like upper-middle-class to me, IE not posh - none of Monty Python afaik were proper posh, posh is the citadel which no-one enters and no-one leaves. Which is one of the reasons why the difference of the reactions to Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle are fascinating (in very small doses).

posh is the citadel which no-one enters and no-one leaves:

Catherine Elizabeth Middleton was born at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading on 9 January 1982 into an upper-middle-class family.[13][14][15][16][17]

(oops i might have ital-ed the thread there)

(ok i didn't)

Hot peas in vinegar >>>>>>>>>> mushy peas

Good enough for Jimmy...

https://culturedarm.com/food-in-fiction-hot-peas-and-vinegar-in-two-gallants/

You could do a whole Joyce cookbook and somebody probably has

at least the peas are hot, only poshos eat cold ones!

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1015047-green-pea-guacamole

when I think of Gammon I suppose if they came from generations of farming, their ancestors might have felt their noses put out of joint by the rise in status and rights and importance of the urban working classes (that's all gone now) - especially in the days when allegedly farmers were dirt poor and not recipients of huge subsidies for every time they say "this moi land" or batter a badger to death. Hence why they are such bloated, angry, tory kulak bastardos who are loyal to landed gentry only. I occasionally walk past this farmer and the murderous contempt in his eyes and complete lack of civility when I say alright to him just encourages me to wang the odd empty can into his field.

farmers have a different relationship to human society than do others ime.

an inch or less behind their greedy, resentful pig eyes is the ingrained knowledge that slaughter is an option in any disagreement.

some dark belief system that plugs easily into that wicker man, brutal-be-nature certainty that we're just another animal.

and the land, that thing about the land.

cash poor, land rich

also they smell like silage

unsure if uk silage is the same, but that was true of my grandfather in these lands

“The creatures outside looked from ilxor to farmer, and from farmer to ilxor, and from ilxor to farmer again; but already it was impossible to say which was which”

I don't think you can be cash poor and land rich with the current system of EU subsidies over here and it will be interesting to see if our current gov will match the generosity of that current system (well not really cos obv they won't!). But these bloody minded fuckers want brexit first (even though it could destroy their business), then thermonuclear war on Iran 2nd.. tbf some of the farmers i hear on Farming Today are quite rational and realistic about brexit and the damage it could do to them - they must be neophyte fucking townies!

blowing my mind that the isle of britain still has farms

surely there's no room for more than four or so

Dude "our royal family" still owns whole fucking counties

the highlands are the most sparsely populated area of western europe iirc (most of the land isn't that good for farming mind you, and what is has been plundered for fucking deerstalking)

Was about to say.

This was a good article from a couple of years back. Most land in the UK is farmland, and the only nation of the UK where that isn't the case is Scotland.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41901294

surprising! feels like u could be building on more of it

comedy marmalade already indicated smdh

This was the one I actually wanted to post but the other one has a nice big green map on it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41901297

the northern, geologically very old as fuck part of Scotland was a bit of New York that broke off continental America iirc.

Peat bog covers almost seven times as much land as all Britain's buildings.

all of it a sink for old carbon dioxide just waiting to be released and fuck the planet even harder

We'll need it all for fuel after Brexit.

this lrb essay (sub only sadly) by james meek is v good on farmers and brexit and the sheer tangle of thinking it involved: https://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n12/james-meek/how-to-grow-a-weetabix

i am also rereading a much earlier essay (2001) by ilx-punchbag andrew o'hagan abt farming in the UK (it was published as a little booklet and i gave it to me mum as a present, as this was a topic that greatly interested her) (she lived in rural shropshire, which is very full of farming)

anyway the reread is slow bcz it is VERY ANNOYINGLY WRITTEN, which lol i don't think i noticed before (sorry mum): aoh's status as a punchbag is WELL EARNED

it us

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the northern, geologically very old as fuck part of Scotland was a bit of New York that broke off continental America iirc.

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