Real England

I'll have you know I made a gorgeous braised beef/pork ragu for dinner, with some real cheap Tesco wine from the box.

ilx needs a Cooking With Calzino thread so that the expertise of our finest gourmand can be shared

Mark Rylance: always ask "what would the Bard say"

I recently let the RSC know that I feel I must resign as I do not wish to be associated with BP any more than I would with an arms dealer, a tobacco salesman or anyone who wilfully destroys the lives of others alive or unborn. Nor, I believe, would William Shakespeare

Real Wales, "Swansea bench branded 'stupidest in Mumbles'"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-48689203

while luvvie protest often leaves me cold, i’ve got a soft spot for rylance. obv a really good actor, he’s also a soft, softly spoken, old mystic and walks his jack russells round brockwell park wearing parti-coloured clothes and an odd felt hat, likes arthur machen. the sort of real england i can get behind. probably has as good an internal feeling for shakespeare as anyone, despite a laughably bad 12th Night i saw him direct once, so i’m backing him on this.

if only more of england was as real as rylance tbh

some tory muppet on the radio last night was saying it was a hypocritical move by him because he is an AS apologist by dint of publicly stick up for corbyn recently. Which even if true someone could easily be both an AS apologist and be an environmentalist at the same time without any hypocrisy.

anyway fuck 'em, he might do some absolute garbage movies but he's a class actor and seems like a class act.

more Real Wales (linked from the previous)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-47705634

"A distinctive 1930s ice cream kiosk which was painstakingly repaired after a car crashed into it 10 years ago has been granted listed building status."

Sweet but I'm not sure we want to open the potential can of worms that is Real Wales.

. probably has as good an internal feeling for shakespeare as anyone

except on the authorship question.

https://i.imgur.com/44Y3ljn.png?1

/. probably has as good an internal feeling for shakespeare as anyone/

except on the authorship question.

Real Wales is by definition indistiguishable from Real England imo

Urine-infused witch cake should be broken in half, spread with treacly ointment and worn, 1 piece on the heart, 1 on the back. #norfolk1616

— Witch Court Reporter (@witchcourt) June 22, 2019

otm

"Wearing what I wear, it makes you feel 10 feet high"

Meet the young tailor who dresses like a Regency gentleman, every day

[Tap to expand] https://t.co/6zKCBy5nES pic.twitter.com/6TpnKPV5YP

— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) June 26, 2019

tap to expand

respect tbh

no confidence like private school confidence eh. and to think he'd have been one of the bullied ones

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/masked-man-cons-villagers-fete-17247192

but yeah tbf he's broken in a good direction xp

his bullies should have tried harder

that's the problem with this entitled silver-spoon tormentors, they're just not willing to put in the graft

omg the byline in that Daily Record one, the repetition of 'locals' haha

Today in Medway metaphors for Brexit

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/news/dreams-shattered-after-unicorn-event-cancelled-207382/

i'm sure Zack MacLeod Pinsent is a pleasant young man, whoever made that a news item can die in an acid bath tho

Unicorn Dream event organiser Darren Rocket

darren... rocket

can't decide whether that is great or abysmal, but it is certainly Real

New flag. Waiting on the pole coming to fit on to the outside of the house 👍🏻🇬🇧 pic.twitter.com/Yp3aqtZLoN

— Derek 🇬🇧🇬🇧 (@Meteormadness) June 25, 2019

https://purepng.com/public/uploads/large/thumbs-up-mv6.png
https://greatbritishmag.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/UK-flag-Union-Jack-featured.jpg

going to keep off Twitter until the temptation to ask Derek whether he's a racist cunt subsides

some wag is asking him under what circumstances would he be prepared to surrender.

i'm sure Zack MacLeod Pinsent is a pleasant young man, whoever made that a news item can die in an acid bath tho

There's a young(ish) guy who comes into my place of work who dresses in absolutely immaculate 30s/40s clobber, no matter the weather outside. Got the hairstyle to go with it.

(xp) Derek is "Scottish, living in Ulster . No surrender" btw. So wrong thread.

Couldn't find the real United kingdom thread today :p

united kingdom is made up

This one would probably suffice: Rolling Ayrshire/Lanarkshire Thread 2011

otm

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-josAFXkAEy2J3.jpg

wow

pick only one

pic.twitter.com/FkOaChsE3L

— Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives (@darren_cullen) March 13, 2018

'Exotic' bird turns out to be a gull covered in curry or turmeric https://t.co/ekQZ9kE7Dk pic.twitter.com/7MYnZoVX62

— BUCKINGHAMSHIRE (@DailyBUCKS) July 1, 2019

origin of the spices

vg, almost nickb-level there

Lol

holy shit

at the pun but also

daily bucks should coat their heraldic swan in turmeric as a tribute

On July 21st, 2009 I decided to write out the names of everyone mentioned in the day's edition of Huddersfield Examiner and it's a good job I did because in amongst all the celebs and murder victims, local man Jim Fennell got a mention for finding a 20p piece with no date on it. pic.twitter.com/ju2PHy2xi8

— Kevin Boniface (@MrKevinBoniface) July 9, 2019

only a couple of weeks till the 10th anniversary of Jim Fennell Day.

the only good news story

THAT NEWS STORY IN FULL

JIM Fennell of Holmebridge has found one of those 20p pieces that has no date.

You know, the ones that are supposed to be worth cash.

"I just found one in my change," he says. "I feel like Charlie Bucket in Willy Wonka with his golden ticket.

"What do you think I should do? Cash it in for £50 prize or should I be like Clint Eastwood and hold out for a Few Dollars More?"

Fifty quid seems good to me.

Now, let’s have another look at my change.