wonder who would choose to die defending the reputation of jack vettriano
― the creator has a mazda van (NickB), Thursday, 12 September 2019 21:23 (four years ago) link
or that bastard that paints the multi-coloured cows
― the creator has a mazda van (NickB), Thursday, 12 September 2019 21:24 (four years ago) link
anybody but Banky, obv
― a wagon to the curious (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 12 September 2019 21:26 (four years ago) link
I hate stanley spencer and henri rousseau as well just for the case that I'm not a sexist bastard and just despise crudely stylised figurative painting done with a lack of talent and ugly ass colours!
― calzino, Thursday, 12 September 2019 21:28 (four years ago) link
aw no way! love both of those
― the creator has a mazda van (NickB), Thursday, 12 September 2019 21:31 (four years ago) link
beryl cook's imagery is so conservative 50's real england it gives me a queasy feeling.
― calzino, Thursday, 12 September 2019 21:39 (four years ago) link
stanley spencer was awful as well, a real suburban creepazoid, but at least he imagined corpses fucking each other!
― calzino, Thursday, 12 September 2019 21:40 (four years ago) link
i do tend to associate beryl cook with the worst sort of country pubs tbh
― the creator has a mazda van (NickB), Thursday, 12 September 2019 21:43 (four years ago) link
― the creator has a mazda van (NickB), Thursday, September 12, 2019 2:23 PM (eighteen minutes ago)
the methil michelangelo!
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 12 September 2019 21:44 (four years ago) link
real suburban creepazoid are my favourite spanish football team fyi
― the creator has a mazda van (NickB), Thursday, 12 September 2019 21:45 (four years ago) link
have been going through a bit of a lowry kick recently
― the creator has a mazda van (NickB), Thursday, 12 September 2019 21:46 (four years ago) link
these paintings:
https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/the-lowry-site/uploads/2018/09/07160141/A-Landmark.jpg
https://www.arthistoryabroad.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/LOWRY-The-Sea-1963.jpg
that seascape has been my favourite Lowry since i first saw it
― a wagon to the curious (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 12 September 2019 21:49 (four years ago) link
never seen the other one before tho!
amazing that seascape! one of those works that really turns your head about an artist
― the creator has a mazda van (NickB), Thursday, 12 September 2019 21:50 (four years ago) link
https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/45/41/1454146_30450ce9.jpgchapel hill, lockwood now.https://www.kirklees.gov.uk/beta/museums-galleries-history/img/huddersfield/huddersfieldLowry.png
and back then
― calzino, Thursday, 12 September 2019 21:59 (four years ago) link
good to see they left the railings in place
― the creator has a mazda van (NickB), Thursday, 12 September 2019 22:03 (four years ago) link
they are still required to discourage the drugged up Lockwood crazies matchstick dogs from running in front of buses!
― calzino, Thursday, 12 September 2019 22:12 (four years ago) link
there is a Lowry movie coming isn't there?
― calzino, Thursday, 12 September 2019 22:16 (four years ago) link
never mind it just looks like another awful T Sprawl project
― calzino, Thursday, 12 September 2019 22:20 (four years ago) link
Oh god is there?
― the creator has a mazda van (NickB), Thursday, 12 September 2019 22:21 (four years ago) link
Ha I was just about to invoke turner
― the creator has a mazda van (NickB), Thursday, 12 September 2019 22:22 (four years ago) link
since Spall played another painter, Turner (which was good) he's done some awful projects including playing David Irving, and I think this is going to be another awful one by the reviews I've just skimmed.
― calzino, Thursday, 12 September 2019 22:25 (four years ago) link
I was born 11 years after WW2, we still had shortages, vegetables were seasonal, we ate a lot of offal but fish was plentiful, I survived. We had a three day week of electricity I survived. We had a drought and failed crops, I survived. Yellow hammer? A walk in the park.— Gary White (@prydwen3) September 12, 2019
Born in '58, no proper bathroom in the house, played in an old air raid shelter at the back of the house, gas lighting on the stairs leading to what would be called nowadays a flat. No supermarkets, but the high street was always busy and there were no empty unused shops. 😀— LBG6224 (@gerry6224) September 13, 2019
'54. No bathroom, no running hot water, coal house next to the outside loo in the yard.Comfortable now, but brought my kids up to understand that money doesn't grow on trees, to think for themselves, and that nothing in life is guaranteed.We all voted to leave the EU.— Jan Hoggarth (@HoggarthJan) September 13, 2019
1948, one week into NHS. Veg was seasonal, dad grew stuff on an allotment. Chicken was a luxury. Loved Spam fritters. Sunday roast lasted for thee days. What was ‘latte’ ‘Americano’? ‘Artisan’? Less choice, less complicated, healthier. Lot happier.— Brie (@Brie0748) September 13, 2019
― ban golf (jed_), Friday, 13 September 2019 12:29 (four years ago) link
sovereignty is a helluva drug
― don’t bore us, get to the aeon of horus (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 13 September 2019 12:31 (four years ago) link
Unreal North Macedonia
― nashwan, Friday, 13 September 2019 12:32 (four years ago) link
I was born 8 years after WW2, and although we like you had it really tough we were a lot healthier and happier than we are today, WHY? well simple because we were FREE— razzy D.I.L.L.I.G.A.F (@razzywoman) September 13, 2019
― ban golf (jed_), Friday, 13 September 2019 12:34 (four years ago) link
bad news for them in the yellowhammer papers, it is stated that electric and gas supplies will be not be interrupted in a ndb... terrible news.
― calzino, Friday, 13 September 2019 12:37 (four years ago) link
obviously avoid the "comedy" replies at all costs - and why would you need them when the sincere ones are as good as
I was born just after WW2 & didn’t see a banana until I was 5, I survived. Sandwiches = sugar or jam butties with Stork marg, no sweets, I survived. No central heating or double glazing until the 70s, + the 3 day week, fuel/coal shortages, power cuts due to strikes, I survived.— Diane Boyle (@diane_boyle) September 13, 2019
― ban golf (jed_), Friday, 13 September 2019 12:40 (four years ago) link
I survived not seeing a banana until I was 5
― ban golf (jed_), Friday, 13 September 2019 12:41 (four years ago) link
doubling glazing in the 70's - fucking posh bastard!
― calzino, Friday, 13 September 2019 12:44 (four years ago) link
It’s a good job double glazing won’t be necessary when the planet is on fire otherwise we’d all be fucked
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 13 September 2019 12:45 (four years ago) link
big fan of the black death here, plz can we bring that back too?
― the creator has a mazda van (NickB), Friday, 13 September 2019 12:47 (four years ago) link
lol food poverty in the UK in the post war years was nothing compared to mainland europe. I remember reading when Rossellini was filming his war trilogy they had to use wax fruit on the set because the famished German cast members were so ravenous they couldn't stop themselves.
― calzino, Friday, 13 September 2019 12:56 (four years ago) link
or it might have been they injected something into the fruit to make it inedible.. but you gets the picture.
― calzino, Friday, 13 September 2019 12:58 (four years ago) link
Clearly some of my ancestors survived the black death so
― a wagon to the curious (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 September 2019 13:23 (four years ago) link
Punk rockers, eh? They had it tough.
― The Inner Mounting Phlegm (Tom D.), Friday, 13 September 2019 13:29 (four years ago) link
the great amphetamine famine of '79 was a toughie
― calzino, Friday, 13 September 2019 13:30 (four years ago) link
i remember waking up with tb wrecked lungs and my mum told me to drink my puddle-water and eat my gravel because i'm not getting a day off school
― calzino, Friday, 13 September 2019 13:32 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqmjWCk36C8
― ban golf (jed_), Friday, 13 September 2019 13:33 (four years ago) link
Sorry state of affairs when people born in 1958 are living the Four Yorkshire Men sketch.
― The Inner Mounting Phlegm (Tom D.), Friday, 13 September 2019 13:33 (four years ago) link
Society is indeed in the gutter.
― The Inner Mounting Phlegm (Tom D.), Friday, 13 September 2019 13:34 (four years ago) link
I bet most of the grim look-back bores luxuriating in their own childhood poverty here have zero sympathy with people who are already in food poverty now and reliant on foodbanks even before a ndb.
― calzino, Friday, 13 September 2019 13:40 (four years ago) link
Yes, but they didn't have to choose between "The Good Old Days" and "The Mike and Bernie Winters Show" for their Saturday night entertainment.
― The Inner Mounting Phlegm (Tom D.), Friday, 13 September 2019 13:42 (four years ago) link
no wonder we need a government Suicide Tsar these days.
― calzino, Friday, 13 September 2019 13:43 (four years ago) link
they need to start doing a counter on how many lives she's saved!
― calzino, Friday, 13 September 2019 13:44 (four years ago) link
I want to trawl their old tweets, am betting I'd find them girning about a bread shortage on day two of snow one winter. But cba
― stet, Friday, 13 September 2019 14:27 (four years ago) link
people who shit-talk on about the character building aspects of poverty haven't experienced it for so long that they don't have a fucking clue. I bet loads of them would shit their pants in despair if they had no money and no food.
― calzino, Friday, 13 September 2019 14:34 (four years ago) link
^
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 13 September 2019 14:50 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ0vtixnR4w
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 20 September 2019 11:15 (four years ago) link