Real England

here i was hoping he had a bunch of slack rhymes

he once unplugged a bandit in York to make toast and when the barmaid complained he said “don’t worry I’m pat tested”

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ff2rC3tXECImeWZ?format=jpg&name=900x900

🤣🤣🤣

irl lol

https://twitter.com/danstapleton89/status/1588892087503949824

uh?

Locked account?

You’re unable to view this Tweet because this account owner limits who can view their Tweets.

Or maybe Twitter's just broken for some unknown reason...

ah they must've gone private as they were getting a bit of abuse from the show-some-respect fannies. nevermind, it wasn't that funny anyway

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/128758691

https://i.imgur.com/I6Zr49m.jpg

The property was previously owned by Ed Prynn, Arch Druid of Cornwall, the stones have been visited by many interested parties over the years. Seven Sisters is also renowned for its "Hall of Fame". Mr Prynn fixed slate placards to the wall in tribute to people who had a strong influence in his life.

500k

i have previously thought that a menhir in the garden would be cool

i am reconsidering

maybe bad photos but they look really cheap and rubbish

Loving this pic of Blackburn fans arriving in Burnley today by @dchesterton pic.twitter.com/fUeFc0D3LA

— Mark Leech (@Len_Scap) November 13, 2022

It’s Wells Carnival tonight!

Kicking off proceedings is Mr Blobby in an armoured vehicle, of course. pic.twitter.com/C1UBzHVsS9

— Charlie Taylor (@CharlieTaylor4) November 18, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEL8HFQTMf8

The comments on that vid are fucking incredible

yes those are some Real England comments man.

My wife sings barbershop and the other day she had a charity concert at Milton Keynes. It was at a venue inaugurated by John Dankworth and Cleo Laine, and in the other room there was a Barron Knights concerts going on.

Rightly or wrongly, I thought of this thread.

for a split second I read the video title as 'Wimpy Goth Weekend' to truly unite #RealEngland

"They are all vaccinated and Liberals" is my fave so far

Looks more like a steampunk weekend to me.

amazing comments

burn the lot. scum

and

Most of them are posers I'm not a goth used to be a punk rocker grown up now.

current favorites.

ex-punk rocker otm tbh

Just scared the kids by showing them the window of the only shop in Hull I’m too scared to go into. Extremist’s paradise Grannie’s Parlour. pic.twitter.com/e8GEGCqEnT

— Dave Lee (@davelee1968) November 26, 2022

That used to be a really beautiful shop to have a look in, don't remember the Nazi stuff back in the day

i did buy my dad an old Roy Rogers comic from there for his birthday once

the infamous "Roy Rogers endorses the Third Reich" issue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_bIaF7P9WA

Ye gods, I can't watch the whole thing

Kind of hard to overestimate how popular Michael Barrymore was at the time, like Ant & Dec put together times ten.

Lol i saw barrymore's name and knew what the video was gonna be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEykU-Gs478

you can't beat a bit of amusing Fast Show character style verisimilitude! I felt like making a wisecrack the other day when a driver skidded on the ice and smashed into this total dickhead's car around the corner from my house, but I'd probably be in hospital rn if I had.

nepo babies map:
https://www.docdroid.net/3H4LflE/a-fairly-comprehensive-map-v2-pdf

bcz i am a twat i have already spotted stuff i think is missing from this

this has had the blue tick journos frothing at the mouth in predictable but funny ways

I have also spotted missing nepos, particularly one person who is friends with a few UK ilxors.

the stand-out in-laws-growling-across-the-marmalade moment in all that is ferdie mount and pankaj mishra i think lol

it omits alex cockburn's marriage into the royal-adjacent aristocracy (to emma tennant) tho i guess as both are dead and his daughter daisy is not really "in media" this is forgiveable

basically i know way too much abt the cockburns

eg alex's sister sarah wrote whodunnits and smoked a pipe

I could imagine loads of of them initially starting off in life with the intention to determinedly go their own way and then after not getting anywhere, saying fuck it and leaning back on family connections and failing upwards. I can't imagine any young person enthusiastically going straight from HE into whatever job mummy/daddy/uncle can fastrack them into, instantly making them the most hated brats wherever they are working, with lack of dues paying experience etc..

This is the piece that followed on from NYer piece and started that discourse here.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/3adgnk/american-nepo-babies-have-nothing-on-the-british

alexander theodore (alex) callinicos is a member of the central committee of the SWP (uk wing) and also its international secretary (i.e. he runs it lol)

His mum, the honorable ædgyth lyon-dalberg-acton, was daughter of the 2nd lord acton, son of the 19th-century english historian john emerich edward dalberg-acton, 1st baron acton, 13th marquess of groppoli, aka lord acton of "absolute power corrupts absolutely" fame -- legend has it that alex thus has an entry in the almanach de saxe-gotha tho i do not own a copy or access and have never been able to confirm this

also the actons are a landed shropshire family which is like the almanach de saxe-gotha but very rustic

A chocolate thief is facing jail after admitting he stole almost 200,000 Cadbury Creme Eggs in a heist worth more than £31,000.

Joby Pool, 32, dubbed “the Easter bunny” by police, used a stolen lorry cab to make off with chocolate after breaking into a Telford industrial unit with a metal grinder on Saturday.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/14/man-facing-jail-over-theft-of-almost-200000-cadbury-creme-eggs

two years in jail for stealing some creme eggs. bit grim.

author of the story deserves three years imo

no you see it's funny because the man stole cheap chocolates and now he's going to jail for a long time and the journalist will never need to meet him or even think about him again.