Real England

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.

or it might have been they injected something into the fruit to make it inedible.. but you gets the picture.

Clearly some of my ancestors survived the black death so

Punk rockers, eh? They had it tough.

the great amphetamine famine of '79 was a toughie

i remember waking up with tb wrecked lungs and my mum told me to drink my puddle-water and eat my gravel because i'm not getting a day off school

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqmjWCk36C8

Sorry state of affairs when people born in 1958 are living the Four Yorkshire Men sketch.

Society is indeed in the gutter.

I bet most of the grim look-back bores luxuriating in their own childhood poverty here have zero sympathy with people who are already in food poverty now and reliant on foodbanks even before a ndb.

Yes, but they didn't have to choose between "The Good Old Days" and "The Mike and Bernie Winters Show" for their Saturday night entertainment.

no wonder we need a government Suicide Tsar these days.

they need to start doing a counter on how many lives she's saved!

I want to trawl their old tweets, am betting I'd find them girning about a bread shortage on day two of snow one winter. But cba

people who shit-talk on about the character building aspects of poverty haven't experienced it for so long that they don't have a fucking clue. I bet loads of them would shit their pants in despair if they had no money and no food.

^

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ0vtixnR4w

tbf i haven't seen those new fountains, might need to take a ride out tomorrow

OMG LADS I know the kid who made that video

he's a sweetheart tbf

I enjoy listening to his voice, but his tripod work needs improvement.

it's a pretty accurate picture of With

big cox and evans energy off that video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeARXMHW4Is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5j6YsgyMaY

get yer sens darn ta Dewsbury market!

This is all quite exotic tbh.

this is the british culture we must defend at all costs

A nation of anthropologists.

I believe you mean anthropophagists

i am as god made me, sir

Anthropocoprophagists iirc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMh-i31VZCE

My favourite amateur Yorkshire documentary is the Sheffield bands thing from 1985 - some clips of it on this youtube channel - http://www.youtube.com/user/quisquose00/videos

Coventry market clip is reminiscent of the Northampton song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfTT6xOcbdo

wow, love that.

just found the song on soulseek. it's on a compilation called Music for Mentalists!

Wakefield goths to thread.

Trying to make Northampton seem interesting? Talk about Herculean tasks.

Nairn made bits of old Northampton seem interesting before they demolished them. but I've been to Sixfields twice and cannot remember anything about the place at all, other than it just seems like that nothingness of fields and the odd cluster of warehouses that you whizz past for hours between Birmingham and London on the train

Northampton is the most important place in the UK

Cobblers

Biggest market square in England IIRC? I like Northampton, the little shopping arcade Nairn liked is long gone but the centre of town's still largely the same I think.

That's the problem with horrible football grounds set in remote trading estates. It makes going on away sorties a much duller experience.

Northampton also being the most normal place itw helps disguise its charms

Yeah their old ground was right in where people lived, also one of those classics that shared a side with a cricket pitch I think. I've had some great times at Sixfields but god knows it's anonymous.