*smashes a bottle of Sarson's on the bar*
― seven against feebs (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 13:49 (four years ago) link
great thread to watch from the nosebleed seats
― untuned mass damper (mh), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 13:50 (four years ago) link
oh there'll be nosebleeds alright
― another no-holds-barred Tokey Wedge adventure for men (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 13:53 (four years ago) link
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.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 13:57 (four years ago) link
this is good but can we find a way to work in ronaldinho bottle openers, tipping and poptimism too
― another no-holds-barred Tokey Wedge adventure for men (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 13:59 (four years ago) link
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).
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 14:16 (four years ago) link
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]
― mark s, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 14:23 (four years ago) link
(oops i might have ital-ed the thread there)
― mark s, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 14:24 (four years ago) link
(ok i didn't)
Hot peas in vinegar >>>>>>>>>> mushy peas
― Arthur Lowe & Love (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 14:26 (four years ago) link
Good enough for Jimmy...
https://culturedarm.com/food-in-fiction-hot-peas-and-vinegar-in-two-gallants/
― Arthur Lowe & Love (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 14:28 (four years ago) link
You could do a whole Joyce cookbook and somebody probably has
― seven against feebs (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 14:31 (four years ago) link
at least the peas are hot, only poshos eat cold ones!
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 14:32 (four years ago) link
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1015047-green-pea-guacamole
― mark s, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 14:35 (four years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 15:05 (four years ago) link
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.
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 15:14 (four years ago) link
cash poor, land rich
― untuned mass damper (mh), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 15:16 (four years ago) link
also they smell like silage
― another no-holds-barred Tokey Wedge adventure for men (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 15:17 (four years ago) link
unsure if uk silage is the same, but that was true of my grandfather in these lands
― untuned mass damper (mh), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 15:18 (four years ago) link
“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”
― mark s, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 15:27 (four years ago) link
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!
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 15:40 (four years ago) link
blowing my mind that the isle of britain still has farms
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:08 (four years ago) link
surely there's no room for more than four or so
Dude "our royal family" still owns whole fucking counties
― seven against feebs (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:15 (four years ago) link
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)
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:20 (four years ago) link
Was about to say.
― Arthur Lowe & Love (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:26 (four years ago) link
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
― Arthur Lowe & Love (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:33 (four years ago) link
surprising! feels like u could be building on more of it
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:38 (four years ago) link
comedy marmalade already indicated smdh
― mark s, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:38 (four years ago) link
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
― Arthur Lowe & Love (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:41 (four years ago) link
the northern, geologically very old as fuck part of Scotland was a bit of New York that broke off continental America iirc.
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:44 (four years ago) link
Peat bog covers almost seven times as much land as all Britain's buildings.
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:45 (four years ago) link
all of it a sink for old carbon dioxide just waiting to be released and fuck the planet even harder
― another no-holds-barred Tokey Wedge adventure for men (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:48 (four years ago) link
We'll need it all for fuel after Brexit.
― Arthur Lowe & Love (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:49 (four years ago) link
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
― mark s, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:50 (four years ago) link
it us
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81CDmytEp7L.jpg
― mark s, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:51 (four years ago) link
― calzino, Tuesday, July 30, 2019 10:44 AM (seven minutes ago)
https://cdn.groovyhistory.com/content/74778/26b55cdeccc1f1d3b3706ec83bfc419c.jpg
i'm taking a wee dauner here by the way, ya cunt ye
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:53 (four years ago) link
Avalonia was a microcontinent in the Paleozoic era. Crustal fragments of this former microcontinent underlie south-west Great Britain, southern Ireland, and the eastern coast of North America. It is the source of many of the older rocks of Western Europe, Atlantic Canada, and parts of the coastal United States.
Lool, this is what I was talking about.
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:55 (four years ago) link
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:59 (four years ago) link
AVALONIA.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:02 (four years ago) link
https://media1.tenor.com/images/54905025449afb7f809a35647c2ff38d/tenor.gif
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:04 (four years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/sep/14/cornwall-and-south-devon-originally-belonged-to-europe
it literally was the british riviera, hence the abundance of tungsten and tin + identical rock types of france.
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:14 (four years ago) link
lol jim
― another no-holds-barred Tokey Wedge adventure for men (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:14 (four years ago) link
have ye all voted lads
― 2019OK plus bennu (wins), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 19:13 (four years ago) link
Checks out
― seven against feebs (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 20:00 (four years ago) link
voting is mainly for rich old ppl iirc
― Aston "Family Court" Barrett (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 20:40 (four years ago) link
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/adwAAOSwKQFbw7Tv/s-l300.jpg
― mark s, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 20:45 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
gosh these results will make for wonderful fap talk
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 00:16 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 1 August 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link