Real England

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.

Hero <3

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3 years, money that could have been better spent elsewhere, flawed intransigent authority, probably a brexit analogy somewhere.

Anything rather interesting, but not understandable for the people here. So it is rather necessary to make sure in it.

Go on, I'm listening

nakh sock

is that john lawson of kirkless council?!

https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/kirkleeslibdems/pages/219/attachments/original/1519917089/JL_ACP_Car_Park_2_0218.jpg?1519917089

Local councillors

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 Kirklees council anti-litter campaign in the 90's was "don't be a tosser".

thinking about it, they could've actually gone with 'clear up your butts once you've finished'

bad beryl cook pastiche with anal sex hints is not well thought out imo!

just adding there isn't such a thing as good beryl cook pastiche or indeed good beryl cook!

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

but maybe we should have a thread for popular art?

wonder who would choose to die defending the reputation of jack vettriano

or that bastard that paints the multi-coloured cows

anybody but Banky, obv

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!

aw no way! love both of those

beryl cook's imagery is so conservative 50's real england it gives me a queasy feeling.

stanley spencer was awful as well, a real suburban creepazoid, but at least he imagined corpses fucking each other!

i do tend to associate beryl cook with the worst sort of country pubs tbh

wonder who would choose to die defending the reputation of jack vettriano

― the creator has a mazda van (NickB), Thursday, September 12, 2019 2:23 PM (eighteen minutes ago)

the methil michelangelo!

real suburban creepazoid are my favourite spanish football team fyi

have been going through a bit of a lowry kick recently

these paintings:

https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/the-lowry-site/uploads/2018/09/07160141/A-Landmark.jpg

https://www.arthistoryabroad.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/LOWRY-The-Sea-1963.jpg

that seascape has been my favourite Lowry since i first saw it

never seen the other one before tho!

amazing that seascape! one of those works that really turns your head about an artist

https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/45/41/1454146_30450ce9.jpg
chapel hill, lockwood now.
https://www.kirklees.gov.uk/beta/museums-galleries-history/img/huddersfield/huddersfieldLowry.png

and back then

good to see they left the railings in place

they are still required to discourage the drugged up Lockwood crazies matchstick dogs from running in front of buses!

there is a Lowry movie coming isn't there?

never mind it just looks like another awful T Sprawl project

Oh god is there?

Ha I was just about to invoke turner

since Spall played another painter, Turner (which was good) he's done some awful projects including playing David Irving, and I think this is going to be another awful one by the reviews I've just skimmed.

I was born 11 years after WW2, we still had shortages, vegetables were seasonal, we ate a lot of offal but fish was plentiful, I survived. We had a three day week of electricity I survived. We had a drought and failed crops, I survived. Yellow hammer? A walk in the park.

— Gary White (@prydwen3) September 12, 2019

Born in '58, no proper bathroom in the house, played in an old air raid shelter at the back of the house, gas lighting on the stairs leading to what would be called nowadays a flat. No supermarkets, but the high street was always busy and there were no empty unused shops. 😀

— LBG6224 (@gerry6224) September 13, 2019

'54. No bathroom, no running hot water, coal house next to the outside loo in the yard.

Comfortable now, but brought my kids up to understand that money doesn't grow on trees, to think for themselves, and that nothing in life is guaranteed.

We all voted to leave the EU.

— Jan Hoggarth (@HoggarthJan) September 13, 2019

1948, one week into NHS. Veg was seasonal, dad grew stuff on an allotment. Chicken was a luxury. Loved Spam fritters. Sunday roast lasted for thee days. What was ‘latte’ ‘Americano’? ‘Artisan’? Less choice, less complicated, healthier. Lot happier.

— Brie (@Brie0748) September 13, 2019

sovereignty is a helluva drug

Unreal North Macedonia

I was born 8 years after WW2, and although we like you had it really tough we were a lot healthier and happier than we are today, WHY? well simple because we were FREE

— razzy D.I.L.L.I.G.A.F (@razzywoman) September 13, 2019

bad news for them in the yellowhammer papers, it is stated that electric and gas supplies will be not be interrupted in a ndb... terrible news.

obviously avoid the "comedy" replies at all costs - and why would you need them when the sincere ones are as good as

I was born just after WW2 & didn’t see a banana until I was 5, I survived. Sandwiches = sugar or jam butties with Stork marg, no sweets, I survived. No central heating or double glazing until the 70s, + the 3 day week, fuel/coal shortages, power cuts due to strikes, I survived.

— Diane Boyle (@diane_boyle) September 13, 2019

I survived not seeing a banana until I was 5

doubling glazing in the 70's - fucking posh bastard!

It’s a good job double glazing won’t be necessary when the planet is on fire otherwise we’d all be fucked

big fan of the black death here, plz can we bring that back too?

lol food poverty in the UK in the post war years was nothing compared to mainland europe. I remember reading when Rossellini was filming his war trilogy they had to use wax fruit on the set because the famished German cast members were so ravenous they couldn't stop themselves.