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A suspected drug dealer who hid a stash of Class A drugs inside his body when he was arrested has been in custody for three weeks because he refuses to go to the toilet, police have said.

https://news.sky.com/story/police-on-poo-watch-over-drug-suspects-loo-strike-11240262

3 flags flying high in a Featherstone garden this morning. Union Jack, Confederate Flag, Leeds United flag

charming

I wouldn't underestimate the anti-abolitionist pro-Trump demographic in Wakey and wouldn't be surprised if they were Leeds fans as well.

I've now realised garden number one was Union Jack + Leeds United, and garden number two had the Confederate

Although the slim possibility that it might actually have been the flag of Novorossiya has now come to mind

There is a someone in Mirfield with a Welsh flag hoisted up on 20ft flagpole. It doesn't look weather-beaten so they obv take good care of it. "brb I forgot to raise my flag this morning"

The Elland Road hierarchy has of course attempted to simplify all this confusion by combining all these elements in a single crest

https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2018/01/leeds-united-graphic-design-dezeen-list-hero-822x463.jpgt

lol, their Football Lads Alliance/EDL inspired badge has made their commercial dept the laughing stock of the football league. They aren't quite all marching on together on this one.

It would be interesting to hear some people from regions of England explain what inspired them put up a confederate flag. Do you have strong opinions on the outcome of the American Civil war?

There was a car in the carpark at work last week with Confederate decals front and back and a little flag on the bonnet. Would love to know which halfwit it belongs to

I always assumed it was something to do with motorbikes. I remember a lad from school had a confederate flag in his back garden. The garden was always festooned with bikes and bike part, which his dad seemed to be permanently working on

Recently I stayed in an airbnb near Kendal, with a manc woman who was going on about how she had a system that beat the bookies at their own game and thats how she made her living. In the back garden there was an enormous Bob Marley flag and a trampoline

and two terrifying dogs "theyre just babies, they're excited to see you thats all"

Her son was top 3 in the world at some kind of online computer game, and may or may not now be playing it professionally (I couldn't quite tell)

"she had a system that beat the bookies at their own game"

it's a piece of piss, just don't back any losers and then you keep making profit.

I think the noughties was the peak era for BetFair DIY bookies, but the margins seem have have got much tighter for them these days. Or at least what I gleam from talking to "bookies types" I know.

My mum co-ran a bookies for most of the noughties, not a BetFair online one though. Think they sold up about 10 years ago now. She'd worked at a Coral for a few years before that. Funnily enough I've never been much of a gambler.

https://img.discogs.com/kRIonXdwAQWSu9jqF_aOpflO5cs=/fit-in/600x432/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-10091924-1491465464-3246.jpeg.jpg

It is based on the Scottish flag so that's why Boaby and the guys used it, of course...

i'm sure there are folks who love rockabilly who would claim to be blithely unaware of any racial connotations to it, at least in the UK

Dukes of Hazzard fans

xxxp

I used to work as a betting shop manager years ago, not a good job to have when you an unhealthy predilection for gambling! I still have some friends in that line of work, they are always moaning about how doomed their employer is, and the constant robberies that seem to have got much more frequent in the last year.

Was bobby gillespie's turn towards leftist politics an overcompensation for that cover lol

https://www.wigantoday.net/news/customer-left-flabbergasted-by-a-wigan-baker-s-8p-sauce-charge-1-9012638

Things don't get more real england than betting shops getting robbed because of single manning

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yes i think there are several constituencies, sometime overlapping

a: not-very-well-informed aging rockabilly completists
b: even older (and more adrift) country fans*
c: hells angels giving the finger to the MAN (as long as the MAN isn't, like, HITLER)
d: own-the-libs EDL racists
e: trolling rock nitwits like boaby g

*i was once taken (mid-80s) to "country night" in some well known place in glasgow by a friend** whose mildly countryish band i think was playing that night. the main element i recall was that in the gaps between acts, very old dudes dressed as cowboys would totter up on-stage with cap-guns to re-enact quick-draw scenes from westerns.
**to mix things up she's a communist film-maker who spends most of her year in cuba

That Primal Scream cover is based on a William Eggleston photo called 'Troubled Waters', so I think that's why Gillespie and pals used it (they'd also used an Eggleston photo on the cover of their previous EP):

https://img.discogs.com/OZmUfhzOKOVn2kWew9iPJFuF-Xk=/fit-in/600x586/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-111103-1209343334.jpeg.jpg

ward f riding unexpectedly in there to salvage BG's aesthetic honour

Eggleston's pics used on cover of Big Star's 'Radio City', so suspect Gillespie was trying to pay homage to them and their inspirations, rather than celebrate the confederacy.

take this shite to ILM ffs!

in some well known place in glasgow

Probably The Grand Ole Opry.

glasgow: where real england just got realer

(yes jed, that sounds right)

"Things don't get more real england than betting shops getting robbed because of single manning"

Back in the 90's the independent bookie chain I worked for didn't even have safes on the premises. The boss referred to us as "pigeons" and we'd fly off* on a morning with a float of anything between £500 - £2000 on our person and then return with whatever the shop had made or lost that day to the head office. I can think loads of *hilarious* stories from them days, but you'd probably think I was making them up. Stories of robbery with shotguns, knives, coshes and one samurai sword!

The samurai sword story involves a disgruntled former employee who tried to lay siege to the head office with a samurai sword, with the intent of murder and robbery. After his prison sentence he became a children's entertainer. I'm honestly not making this up.

used to be a shop up east Hull that sold samurai swords and other psychosis-enabling hardware, i believe ya.

lol I just looked up the samurai sword guy and he won the local Circle of Magicians Trick of the year award 2017!

Coming third was xxxxx xxxx, as a character called Chavracadabra, whose card trick went deliberately wrong.

^^^this person's existence and project has made my day

yes i think there are several constituencies, sometime overlapping

a: not-very-well-informed aging rockabilly completists
b: even older (and more adrift) country fans*
c: hells angels giving the finger to the MAN (as long as the MAN isn't, like, HITLER)
d: own-the-libs EDL racists
e: trolling rock nitwits like boaby g

― mark s, Monday, 12 February 2018 10:51 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

f: Cork GAA Supporters

What's der story dere

https://www.quora.com/Ireland-How-come-Cork-sports-teams-use-the-Confederate-flag

omg that Leeds crest was real

glasgow's grand ole opry still had confederate flags in its decor not too long ago (by which i mean, in the last decade, i think...). i've never quite understood the love of ersatz country in the west of scotland, but maybe it's strengthened by a special bond built on transatlantic racism

UPDATE: seemingly they not only still have confederate flags, they do some strange ceremony involving one

https://allmyfriendsarejpegs.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/r0026236.jpg?w=1000&h=662

They end each dance with a ceremonial folding up of the confederate battle flag while playing Elvis's American Trilogy with everyone in a big circle with hands on hearts etc, then the gunfighters mark s mentioned blast a salute.

Used to go there a lot when I lived in Kinning Park. It's a great place.

I've even been part of the flag ceremony a few times. The exact way of folding the flag is entrusted to only the upper echelon. If you talk or laugh or don't show respect you get bawled out. They have a sacred cowboy hat they place it in at the end.

It's in a extremely working-class, economically depressed neighbourhood (somewhat improved recently I hear) and the clientele were poor, working class people of my parents generation. Drinks were dirt cheap and the music involved a lot of Tammy Wynette, Lena Martel and Neil Diamond. There is no thought given to what that flag represents other than that idealised America of the 50s- John Wayne, Brenda Lee and that kind of thing.

let em know they can look it up online now

It's a short walk to Ibrox. They have their own flags for showing they hate people.

Someone should put Glasgow Grand Ole Opry confederate flag wankers in touch with some Cork GAA fans, could probably put a stop to it at both ends

It's a short walk to Ibrox. They have their own flags for showing they hate people.

Indeed, Grand Ole Opry lagging some way behind in the bigotry and hatred stakes.