Real England

"Modern dilemmas". Perhaps a case for Not InstaGram.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/feb/21/new-household-rules-ditch-toilet-brush-wash-much-more?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

posted elsewhere, belongs here, found while rereading "the lore and language of schoolchildren by iona and peter opie":

for 200 yrs (until the 1950s) 25 July was called GROTTO DAY and londoners ate oysters and the children built little shrines with the shells and asked passersby "penny for the grotto"

it was then taken over by the Macmillan government and became the National Grotto

hahaha what??

xpost

it reads like the kind of entry you put in a dictionary so you know when yr work is being plagiarised

more info here:
https://lostcookbook.wordpress.com/2013/08/04/oyster-day/

mitcham the last to give up their grottos

https://www.reelstreets.com/wp-content/uploads/Films/black_panther/blapa017.jpg
was watching the real england (banned at the time) true crime classic The Black Panther the other night and that Dudley Zoo that was mentioned on the politics thread t'other day showed up in it.

Was it worth while watching that? This really makes me go want to see it.

Definitely worth watching, some really clunky acting but its a classic. The camera just loves that terrible architecture and town planning of 70's Kidderminster that you almost expect Ian Nairn to walk into shot!

It's a great film - Donald Sumpter is tremendous in it.

yes when I said clunky acting i didn't mean his fine performance.

it's almost got a comic dimension to it - his deadly serious fastidious planning, the bottle of ammonia taped to his torch etc.. but when it comes to the job he's an absolutely hopeless bungling idiot time after time!

Found it on the t0rrents, thanks guys!

from life magazine, 1957 (obit of linguist and polymath c.k.ogden):
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D0Se2y7WsAAakTa.png

LET 👏 ME 👏 DRINK 👏 THE 👏 MUMMY’S 👏 UNDERWEAR 👏 JUICE 👏

Peak Englishness has been reached.

pic.twitter.com/tdM4VUN1wM

— Gary Lee Wadsworth (@Donny_Jpeg) March 2, 2019

WATCH THIS! Wayne Hussey in conversation with John Robb 'Wayne talks about the Mission and going to school with JK Rowling and how she may have based the Harry Potter character on him...! ' https://t.co/5Y1Pl7Xx1g https://t.co/5Y1Pl7Xx1g @mission_archive

— membranes (@membranes1) March 8, 2019

lol! but also tempered with memories of "there's two ppl I thought were complete dish cloths in my teenage years".

dish cloth is rhyming slang for goth?

what's rhyming slang for grebo?

it's also a variation of blood-clarts! Remember the time Fields of Neph got busted for possessing self-raising flour?

the mcdougalls homepride men of darkwave

https://i.imgur.com/wmPLVCz.jpg?1

x-posts to marks - love 'the lore and language of children'.

looooool that’s the UK for ya pic.twitter.com/JCnWdTMJ0v

— scarface (@scarz99) March 12, 2019

Enraged man bashed seagull to death in front of kids after it knocked chips out of his hands https://t.co/h2DOjF9qwi

— Raw Story (@RawStory) March 13, 2019

guy was Welsh but it happened in England so allowed on this thread I think

then he bites seagull's head off and throws it spinning into the sky as it segues into a spaceship..

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D1oYj0WXgAAhcnI.jpg

kiiiiiiiiiiiiiiss

what's the update on these irrepressible josh merchants?

They appeared in several episodes of the 2018 season of Benidorm, playing a pair of financial fraud investigation officers tailing transvestite hotel employee Les (Tim Healy).

https://i.imgur.com/c0HPLDU.png

same tbh

Hale and Pace continued their charity work with a 1992 stint as spokespersons for the National Egg Awareness Campaign.

great days, long gone now of course

au contraire - http://www.poultrynews.co.uk/business-politics/marketing/tom-daley-signed-up-to-promote-eggs-in-2019.html

eggs are cancelled

imagine spending a million quid to raise awareness of... eggs

not even the klf had that kind of vision

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CtSstpkWYAQWAp2.jpg

yeah i dunno if sausagemakers should be encouraging consumers to think about the origins of their food tbh

sausages are the unborn children of SHAI HULUD

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/8c/a0/89/8ca08961a22deacba690a262b79a88a6.jpg

(this picture oddly like the last one i posted)

one of my partners 40's/50's era great uncles was a maverick pisshead who ran an unsuccessful butchers business in Dewsbury and was an anti-egg crusader who went into rants about "balls of corruption" when customers asked: where are the eggs? But apparently it was letting customers run up huge tabs and forgetting about it after he'd had a skinful was what run his business to the ground!

"balls of corruption" feels like the edgy slogan world egg day needs in our dark-yearning times tbh

Rejected Temptations song title.

Unexploded WW2 bomb at Chris Grayling's 'no-deal Brexit lorry park' airport - peak Britain reached

— Ross Kempsell (@rosskempsell) March 14, 2019

The most perfect thing to ever happen in Leicester @bt_uk pic.twitter.com/QlSvwITMKh

— Clippy from Tekken (@weikiemon) March 15, 2019

cursed images: let's get together and pin down the aesthetic!

Chip shop curry sauce flavoured Cheddar cheese is a thing apparently. https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/chip-shop-curry-cheddar-cheese-home-bargains-1-3202350

http://www.windyridgecheese.co.uk/cheddar-cheese-chip-shop-curry

When I opened the seagull killer story it came with an ad featuring blue passports.