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there is a little bridge over the humber that is just amazing. goole is a strange and unforgiving place but possesses an almost eastern european beauty, it is the shipping type stuff, makes me think of warsaw. when you go over that bridge into lincolnshire, it suddenly turns into nothingness, emptyness. no, i'm wrong, goole is like calais

gareth, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I did a reading in Goole once. Upon asking directions to the Gateway theatre (stupidly, in the first pub I found, populated by some of the BIGGEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD)I got sent the wrong way and luckily noticed the bloke who'd given me directions and a group of his mates at the end of the road he'd sent me down. As I walked in the opposite direction they cried "come back!" I've never understood why, unless they honestly thought that yelling at me would change my mind, which was firmly set on the course of not receiving a beating. Not a fan of Goole.

Matt, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hello future Goolers!

N., Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Should that be Gooleites?

Matt, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Or Goolicians?

Matt, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Goolies?

electric sound of jim, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

it's a complete shit-hole.

chris, Friday, 21 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I remember as a kid in Leeds getting the 166 bus home from town. It said Goole on the front, and I thought that meant all passengers had to go to Goole. Got quite weepy-panicky about this with my mum, even though I didn't know where Goole was.

stevie mitch, Friday, 21 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Never been there, but it used to be a running joke in the "Journolists" column in the Mail on Sunday (yes, I know): "the record charts are based on returns from one shop in Goole" etc.

Is it anything like Poole, which I am familiar with?

Robin Carmody, Friday, 21 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

two months pass...
no, i think its quite different to Poole. Goole seems kind of...dutch, or as i said upthread...calais

gareth (gareth), Sunday, 15 September 2002 12:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ah, I see. FWIW Poole is no great shakes as a town, but the railway line approaching the station from the Weymouth direction is spectacular. The station also has one of those views that is completely English, inasmuch as that you can see EVERYTHING: sports stadium, town centre, tower blocks, suburban houses, main road, flyover, car park, port, the sea, and in the distance the countryside. Oddly enough a couple of years ago I was going to do a Martin Parr sort of thing in Poole because it has a *lot* of buildings, shop fronts and the like from that era that I could have photographed. It didn't happen, largely because I got too bound up in my "other activities" (ie writing).

robin carmody (robin carmody), Sunday, 15 September 2002 19:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

There's a nice seafood restaurant on the harbour, but I forget it's name.

Matt (Matt), Sunday, 15 September 2002 21:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

Poole is a pretty shitty little town, full of townies and evil squaddies. Lovely countryside around it though, particularly the Purbecks.

chris (chris), Monday, 16 September 2002 18:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

five months pass...
http://www.norfolkwindmills.com/images/vermuyden.JPG

gareth (gareth), Monday, 3 March 2003 14:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

seven months pass...
http://pod-135.dolphin-server.co.uk/~gareth/ilx/goole.jpg

charltonlido (gareth), Sunday, 26 October 2003 22:20 (twenty years ago) link

six years pass...

most underrated poster on the board?

as consistently otm as nabisco on a post-by-post basis

max, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 20:16 (fourteen years ago) link

yes and his posts are also short enough to read ; )

harbl, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 20:18 (fourteen years ago) link

goole is a strange and unforgiving poster but possesses an almost eastern european beauty

102. LJ: British. 5. (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 20:20 (fourteen years ago) link

canNOT stop smiling

thx dudes!! i do try.

xp ok what

goole, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 20:20 (fourteen years ago) link

lj you are weird

what u think i steen for to push a crawfish? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 20:20 (fourteen years ago) link

i do have a nose, but not the cheekbones sadly

goole, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 20:21 (fourteen years ago) link

yeah i cant co-sign on the eastern european beauty

max, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 20:21 (fourteen years ago) link

oh duh it's in the o.p.

goole, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 20:22 (fourteen years ago) link

i miss gareth

goole, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 20:23 (fourteen years ago) link

haha louis

max, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 20:25 (fourteen years ago) link

three months pass...

goole, did you see this?

jam master (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link

bump

jam master (jaymc), Friday, 26 March 2010 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link

haaaa ppl are gonna wonder about why this

goole, Friday, 26 March 2010 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link

u are a stripper right?

jam master (jaymc), Friday, 26 March 2010 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link

http://www.sustain-ed.org/IMAGES/dupont_paint.jpg

workin it

goole, Friday, 26 March 2010 20:42 (fourteen years ago) link

what happened. i am confused

First and Last and Safeways ™ (jjjusten), Friday, 26 March 2010 22:27 (fourteen years ago) link

ahem

jam master (jaymc), Friday, 26 March 2010 22:29 (fourteen years ago) link

dude you are amazing

First and Last and Safeways ™ (jjjusten), Friday, 26 March 2010 22:30 (fourteen years ago) link

i wrote a paper about music and strip clubs when i was in grad school. i think i sent it out to some ilxors. jaymc, as talmudic scholar of ilx history, remembered.

xp yup there u have it

goole, Friday, 26 March 2010 22:32 (fourteen years ago) link

i'm hoping geoff details having anal sex with the strippers

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, May 6, 2005 10:21 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 26 March 2010 22:32 (fourteen years ago) link

uh oh you're having a fantasy

First and Last and Safeways ™ (jjjusten), Friday, 26 March 2010 22:33 (fourteen years ago) link

Yeah, I don't know what that's about!

jam master (jaymc), Friday, 26 March 2010 22:34 (fourteen years ago) link

it's about a butt

velko, Friday, 26 March 2010 22:39 (fourteen years ago) link

jam master (butt)

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 26 March 2010 22:40 (fourteen years ago) link

there's a woman from goole sat next to me on PKR

not_goodwin, Friday, 26 March 2010 22:56 (fourteen years ago) link

I mentioned the bridge, she knows it.

not_goodwin, Friday, 26 March 2010 23:28 (fourteen years ago) link

everybody's looking for graffiti bridge

And guess what? I think Pitchfork is going to give it a BM. (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 26 March 2010 23:33 (fourteen years ago) link

one year passes...

goole can i just say you are the best

one of the smartest dudes on board who avoids chatty bullshit and makes the most critical zings look effortless

also i am fascinated by the world of strip club djs and would love to read your paper if given the chance

gr8080, Thursday, 7 April 2011 18:13 (thirteen years ago) link

I love Goole.

also i am fascinated by the world of strip club djs and would love to read your paper if given the chance

What paper is this?

ENBB, Thursday, 7 April 2011 18:14 (thirteen years ago) link

read up thread

gr8080, Thursday, 7 April 2011 18:15 (thirteen years ago) link

goole--more like "goode," good poster that is

ban drake (the rapper) (max), Thursday, 7 April 2011 18:16 (thirteen years ago) link

haha oh jesus

thanks gr80! i think you are super great too, and always secretly worried that you were way too cool for me. like if i took 3d photos of my own life it would look pretty weak tbh.

as far as the strip club thing goes, i'll try to dig it up, but my time in grad school in retrospect was kind of a mistake and i don't have a lot of that crap at hand. but i guess i can search thru gmail can't i! let me see what's up.

i once brought up this particular paper/project in a job interview. whoops!

goole, Thursday, 7 April 2011 18:18 (thirteen years ago) link

ok found it. who wants this thing?

goole, Thursday, 7 April 2011 18:22 (thirteen years ago) link

me!

ENBB, Thursday, 7 April 2011 18:27 (thirteen years ago) link

I fondly remember our fascination w/ the ravings of nu-spengler

*fistbump*

sorry ozzy but your dope is in another castle (Edward III), Thursday, 7 April 2011 18:31 (thirteen years ago) link

i know, that guy is amazing! that was fun

ok, my ilxmail is linked to my gmail so just send me something if you want this paper! it'll take me a bit, i'm leaving work soon.

goole, Thursday, 7 April 2011 18:38 (thirteen years ago) link

prestige level 10 poster

vampire weeknd (cozen), Thursday, 7 April 2011 19:04 (thirteen years ago) link

goole is great. lots of times i think super smart and cool but uncontroversial posters like goole get overlooked.

A+ dude!

Bleeqwot the Chef (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 7 April 2011 19:07 (thirteen years ago) link

goole have you ever considered "having a blog"? you would be good at it, and it would give me one less reason to read ilx

ban drake (the rapper) (max), Thursday, 7 April 2011 19:08 (thirteen years ago) link

max just zinged all of us get him

sorry ozzy but your dope is in another castle (Edward III), Thursday, 7 April 2011 19:09 (thirteen years ago) link

nobody gets our max

the salmon of procrastination (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 April 2011 19:11 (thirteen years ago) link

i have thought of having a blog and think i do have a tumblr login that i made at some point. i dunno if i have the dedication? i think i just like being able to riff off people line-by-line rather than in a blog way, i dunno

goole, Thursday, 7 April 2011 19:20 (thirteen years ago) link

birds of a feather

40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 7 April 2011 19:26 (thirteen years ago) link

what a terrible poster and awful man

speaking of which lets get drinks soon yo

broke my o_O face o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 7 April 2011 19:28 (thirteen years ago) link

goole, i like that guy. big fan of that guy.

call all destroyer, Thursday, 7 April 2011 19:29 (thirteen years ago) link

Cosine.

Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Thursday, 7 April 2011 19:31 (thirteen years ago) link

three years pass...

http://i.imgur.com/pjSSCZx.png?1

no love deb weep (nakhchivan), Monday, 16 February 2015 17:03 (nine years ago) link

goole, you are a prince, have a grand natal anniv.

touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 February 2015 17:10 (nine years ago) link

aw, you guys

goole, Monday, 16 February 2015 17:38 (nine years ago) link

i should probably check facebook huh

goole, Monday, 16 February 2015 17:38 (nine years ago) link

easily one of the best east riding of yorkshire posters along with nv

no love deb weep (nakhchivan), Monday, 16 February 2015 17:56 (nine years ago) link

grim up north eh

goole, Monday, 16 February 2015 18:08 (nine years ago) link

goole is far better in many respects than Goole

english fatuus (Noodle Vague), Monday, 16 February 2015 20:26 (nine years ago) link

oh is that Goole?

local eire man (darraghmac), Monday, 16 February 2015 21:34 (nine years ago) link

NV idk if we've ever 'interacted' on here directly, but you are great.

thanks all, was a nice bd

goole, Tuesday, 17 February 2015 17:14 (nine years ago) link

late but hbd!!!

difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 17 February 2015 17:15 (nine years ago) link

three weeks pass...

LOGICAL RESULT OF CAPITALISM AS A GOAL INSTEAD OF CAPITALISM AS A TOOL

aaahh love some volkist code phrases with my coffee in the morning

goole, Thursday, 12 March 2015 15:50 (nine years ago) link

eleven months pass...

hbd mr goole

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 04:13 (eight years ago) link

does goole still post?

Agent Zero (Treeship), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 04:38 (eight years ago) link

sure!

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 04:40 (eight years ago) link

I think he died rip goole

a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 05:43 (eight years ago) link

goole and i traded camille paglia insights just the other day

happy birthday goole, rip!

denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 05:46 (eight years ago) link

read that as camille paglia insults and it sounded like good times. she is good at insults

Agent Zero (Treeship), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 05:47 (eight years ago) link

and at being insulted

Agent Zero (Treeship), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 05:47 (eight years ago) link

rip goole

Agent Zero (Treeship), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 05:47 (eight years ago) link

He died, it's sad, he was a birthday

a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 05:48 (eight years ago) link

that's just the waaaave

Agent Zero (Treeship), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 05:51 (eight years ago) link

i didn't even see this!

thankig u :)

goole, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 15:25 (eight years ago) link

where is gareth

akm, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 17:56 (eight years ago) link

in our hearts

its subtle brume (DJP), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 18:11 (eight years ago) link

with guns

anatol_merklich, Sunday, 21 February 2016 12:34 (eight years ago) link

goolelicious

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 21 February 2016 13:05 (eight years ago) link

three months pass...

how do you rate the alt right / d4rk 3nl1ght3nm3nt compared to late 20th century paleoconservatism?

nakhchivan, Friday, 3 June 2016 13:59 (seven years ago) link

what do you mean by "rate"

in terms of the ppl i'm familiar with from each there's a huge amt of crossover

goole, Friday, 3 June 2016 16:11 (seven years ago) link

for example, which do you find more sinister

nakhchivan, Friday, 3 June 2016 16:14 (seven years ago) link

i really don't know. here's my uninformed take:

the paleocons have a strain of quietism that keeps them in a box (though, yeah, tim mcveigh did kill 150+ ppl). they're paranoid and self-separated from american politics but still defined by them, if that makes sense. reverent of the constitution, etc

here's a good read on how the crazies and industry work hand-in-glove: http://harpers.org/archive/2015/02/the-great-republican-land-heist

the new scene kids i'm more afraid of just because they're young. they'll be with us for a long while. they're a fertile idea generator, and i'm fearful of their ability to normalize hierarchy and brutality for more respectable actors -- which orgs like Mercatus and ppl like Glenn Reynolds are doing -- to say nothing at all of the trump phenomenon. they're less specifically american (even anti-american), more concerned with 'civilization'

really tho i see these two sets of people more in continuity than anything

goole, Friday, 3 June 2016 16:48 (seven years ago) link

game of thrones nerds tbh

that's a good summary
the divide is generational but the continuity has been there via t4k1m4g regulars et al

nakhchivan, Friday, 3 June 2016 17:03 (seven years ago) link

two years pass...

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/george-packer-pax-americana-richard-holbrooke/586042/

now don't tell me you're not here for this goole, a 4 bajillion word george packer article about how richard holbrooke was 'our man'

The talking and eating and drinking went on for eight hours. Milošević drank steadily, getting buzzed and then sobering up several times, while Holbrooke lifted his glass of Scotch or slivovic to his lips and barely sipped. He didn’t stick to talking points—he had no real talking points—but let the conversation run its meandering course while looking for openings. Milošević digressed about Serbian wine, the Ottoman empire, World War II, his banking days in New York, the economic future of Serbia. Holbrooke let him go on, enjoying the parley, and then always brought them back to the war.

So a connection formed, with the tense familiarity of two card-playing rogues. Once, in the middle of an endless session, Holbrooke phoned his friend Leslie Gelb in New York. “Hey, man. I’m here in Slobo’s office. I told him you were a Cuban-cigar smoker too, and I asked him if he’d give you some. He said he’d send you a box, but I wouldn’t believe him, because he lies all the time. Don’t you lie all the time, Slobo?”

Milošević was even more direct, sprinkling fuck all over his so-so English, needling Holbrooke: “Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke. Why do you have all those names?” Or: “Why is your collar always up? You’re a politician—all you politicians have something like that. With Tudjman it’s his hair; with you it’s your collar.”

j., Wednesday, 10 April 2019 14:24 (five years ago) link


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