there mayn't be a god, but karma has a sharp sense of humour sometimes
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:30 (thirteen years ago) link
thx for inspiring me to start my day with some non-alignment pact
― Roberto Spiralli, Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:30 (thirteen years ago) link
i used to have a thing about how people from hull should fuck off our philip larkin but i have recently begun to wonder if hull needs him more than cov does. yr thoughts?
― Roberto Spiralli, Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:32 (thirteen years ago) link
i think cov probly needs him a little more, i've never found it an inspirational place whereas hull wd be hull with or without big Phil Silvers. they put a statue of him up in the train station now. to be fair he did all his useful work here and he seems to have felt at home in the place whilst still feeling not at home. only Cov poem I can remember is based on the train station platform i think? could be wrong.
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Hull already has a decent claim to Douglas Dunn, Peter Didsbury, maybe Seaon O'Brien and now David Wheatley. Think Cov needs Larkin more tbh.
― Stevie T, Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:37 (thirteen years ago) link
thing is, as i say, he's obviously a Hull poet in a way that he totally isn't about Cov
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:39 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, tbh he was rid of cov as soon as he could be and never looked back.
triggered a memory of some 'celebrating coventry' bullshit that the city put on, the main element of which seemed to be putting up lots of those lampost banner things in town with pictures of famous coventrians. the highlight of the whole thing was an oversized poster with an artist's rending of sir frank whittle with one arm around pip larkin and the other pointing to the skies. i loved my city that day.
― Roberto Spiralli, Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:42 (thirteen years ago) link
ah, we sure do love us some engineering in the midlands
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:43 (thirteen years ago) link
"artist's rending of sir frank whittle" - typo would've been even better than the real thing
― Roberto Spiralli, Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:44 (thirteen years ago) link
things I remember about Cov: weird elephant-shaped gym by the bus station, some kind of car museum nearby too, heavily graffitied Specials-era train bridge on the way out of town, ring road, cathedral, couple of Tudor houses and a plaque, pubs not great tbh
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:46 (thirteen years ago) link
the train bridge out of town into earlsdon is still there and still the same as far as i'm aware, although of course there is also a shopping centre underneath it now. v entertaining graffiti, one of the main cultural achievements of the city. fragment of my childhood. elephant-shaped sports centre with olympic sized pool i have found to be the main reason that people from elsewhere have been to cov. pubs still shite.
did you actually live in cov or juss lemmy spa?
― Roberto Spiralli, Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:52 (thirteen years ago) link
neither, my first wife grew up in Leamington and lived in Cov for a couple of years after we broke up, used to travel there to see the boy on the reg
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:53 (thirteen years ago) link
you always lived in hull, noodle vague?
does grandways still exist?
― utterfilth (whatever), Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:57 (thirteen years ago) link
good thread btw
― utterfilth (whatever), Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:58 (thirteen years ago) link
nah i grew up in a small town called Rugeley in Staffordshire, my fam are almost exclusively Black Country based, i came to uni in Hull in 87 and have stayed here since.
Grandways changed back to Jacksons, or was bought out by them, and then Jacksons sold the shops to Sainsburys a few years back, kept the Jacksons brand on the shop signs until last year and now they are just shitty Sainsburys. Jacksons bakery is still going strong tho.
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 14:00 (thirteen years ago) link
y/n: lenny henry has propelled you thru a canal tunnel with his legs, the quintessential experience of black country life
― Roberto Spiralli, Saturday, 19 February 2011 14:03 (thirteen years ago) link
tragically no, i have never even been to that Banks's Bitter 19th Century Aynoch and Ayli Museum Experience thing
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 14:05 (thirteen years ago) link
oh it's Aynuk and Ayli apparent
ah. uni took me there too, in 1985. it didn't keep me there tho.
― utterfilth (whatever), Saturday, 19 February 2011 14:15 (thirteen years ago) link
my old man had his 70th birthday dinner on a barge restaurant tho, lol you can take the boy out of Darlaston but
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 14:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Have not read this thread but do tell me about the dapper young men in the first youutube.
― seminal fuiud (NickB), Sunday, 20 February 2011 00:06 (thirteen years ago) link
MEGA-GIG
lol my tragic youth
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 20 February 2011 00:07 (thirteen years ago) link
today could've gone worse tbh
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 20 February 2011 00:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Stoned guys with long fringes doing the saggy-arsed shuffle in broad daylight = A++ nostalgia, would lol again
― seminal fuiud (NickB), Sunday, 20 February 2011 00:14 (thirteen years ago) link
so much scrumpy
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 20 February 2011 00:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, I thought it was gonna be one of those government health warning films when it started. Half expected a hooded figure to appear stage left and shank one your dancers.
― seminal fuiud (NickB), Sunday, 20 February 2011 00:32 (thirteen years ago) link
that's a rly good set of records
― fuck you jan stepek you kurwa (nakhchivan), Sunday, 20 February 2011 00:54 (thirteen years ago) link
good hangover music. alarming thing is I have no memory whatsoever past about 8.30 last night and either I didn't spend that much or I mugged somebody at some point
― The Nigiri Ya Love to Hate (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 20 February 2011 00:56 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean I lose chunks of time after a bender now I'm approaching dotage but man this is totally erased from the record with not even a peep of remembering
― The Nigiri Ya Love to Hate (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 20 February 2011 00:57 (thirteen years ago) link
nah i grew up in a small town called Rugeley in Staffordshire
omg is this something I knew and forgot, or never knew!? Cos guess where I spent te 3-4 weeks I visited England in 1998? Haha.
― Trayce, Sunday, 20 February 2011 05:32 (thirteen years ago) link
(so if you know a guy called R0b P0rt3r I am going to die laughing)
― Trayce, Sunday, 20 February 2011 05:33 (thirteen years ago) link
nah I've told you before and you've forgotten! and I don't know the guy afaik, but then I was long gone by '98, except for visiting mom and dad. never see anybody I knew when I go back there. am cool with that tbh
― The Nigiri Ya Love to Hate (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 20 February 2011 08:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Hah don't blame you tbh
― Trayce, Sunday, 20 February 2011 09:03 (thirteen years ago) link
how'd all this work out btw
― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Monday, 21 February 2011 14:24 (thirteen years ago) link
stayed pretty sober Saturday in the end so things were quite placid really, didn't go out, no harm no foul. the stuff in my head and my heart well it comes and it goes
― Nulty By Nature (Noodle Vague), Monday, 21 February 2011 16:39 (thirteen years ago) link
interesting thread
― fuck you jan stepek you kurwa (nakhchivan), Monday, 21 February 2011 16:42 (thirteen years ago) link
the thread of disquiet
― Jefferson Mansplain (DG), Monday, 21 February 2011 16:47 (thirteen years ago) link
there's a lot of those
how is rugely anyway? i was going kinda wtf at trayce's idea (in the miserable american cities thread) that the british midlands could be worse than american ghettos, but i've never spent 3-4 weeks in rugely
― fuck you jan stepek you kurwa (nakhchivan), Monday, 21 February 2011 16:51 (thirteen years ago) link
/rugeley/
sometimes it's good to let that stream of consciousness flow downhill.
Rugeley is small and ugly and stultifying but is surrounded by Cannock Chase and other prettiness which makes up for it.
― Nulty By Nature (Noodle Vague), Monday, 21 February 2011 16:52 (thirteen years ago) link
My first love was from Chasetown. That sounds recognisable.
― portrait of velleity (woof), Monday, 21 February 2011 17:01 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah from what I know of Chasetown it's true
― Nulty By Nature (Noodle Vague), Monday, 21 February 2011 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
+ i salute this thread, wish i'd been around ilx on saturday, was trapped with can't-take-it horror thoughts on cosy-away-trip to devon. No, dorset.
― portrait of velleity (woof), Monday, 21 February 2011 17:04 (thirteen years ago) link
we didnt end up buying any body lotion, but went on a four hour drive thru connemara after that. No complaints. Should have taken camera prob.
― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Monday, 21 February 2011 17:24 (thirteen years ago) link
been trying to work a scooby rooby roo joke around rugeley but fuckin mondays yknow
― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Monday, 21 February 2011 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
when yr most famous son is a 19th century poisoner you know you've gotta be a great place
― Nulty By Nature (Noodle Vague), Monday, 21 February 2011 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
was that a ref to ye or us?
― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Monday, 21 February 2011 17:34 (thirteen years ago) link
wait our dudes wasnt a poisoner carry on
― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Monday, 21 February 2011 17:35 (thirteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Palmer_%28murderer%29
as played by
http://image.dealoz.co.uk/image/uk/277/99277.jpg
― Nulty By Nature (Noodle Vague), Monday, 21 February 2011 17:41 (thirteen years ago) link