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
tbf i haven't seen those new fountains, might need to take a ride out tomorrow
― Fox Pithole Britain (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 September 2019 11:25 (four years ago) link
OMG LADS I know the kid who made that video
he's a sweetheart tbf
― Fox Pithole Britain (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 September 2019 11:26 (four years ago) link
I enjoy listening to his voice, but his tripod work needs improvement.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 20 September 2019 11:31 (four years ago) link
it's a pretty accurate picture of With
― Fox Pithole Britain (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 September 2019 11:37 (four years ago) link
big cox and evans energy off that video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeARXMHW4Is
― Is it true the star Beetle Juice is going to explode in 2012 (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 20 September 2019 11:39 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5j6YsgyMaY
get yer sens darn ta Dewsbury market!
― calzino, Friday, 20 September 2019 11:41 (four years ago) link
This is all quite exotic tbh.
― pomenitul, Friday, 20 September 2019 11:43 (four years ago) link
this is the british culture we must defend at all costs
― Is it true the star Beetle Juice is going to explode in 2012 (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 20 September 2019 11:44 (four years ago) link
A nation of anthropologists.
― pomenitul, Friday, 20 September 2019 11:46 (four years ago) link
I believe you mean anthropophagists
― Fox Pithole Britain (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 September 2019 11:52 (four years ago) link
i am as god made me, sir
― Is it true the star Beetle Juice is going to explode in 2012 (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 20 September 2019 11:54 (four years ago) link
Anthropocoprophagists iirc.
― pomenitul, Friday, 20 September 2019 11:54 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMh-i31VZCE
― What a ridiculous clusterfuck of totally uncool jokers (jed_), Friday, 20 September 2019 11:58 (four years ago) link
My favourite amateur Yorkshire documentary is the Sheffield bands thing from 1985 - some clips of it on this youtube channel - http://www.youtube.com/user/quisquose00/videos
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 20 September 2019 12:00 (four years ago) link
Coventry market clip is reminiscent of the Northampton song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfTT6xOcbdo
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 20 September 2019 12:02 (four years ago) link
wow, love that.
― What a ridiculous clusterfuck of totally uncool jokers (jed_), Friday, 20 September 2019 12:15 (four years ago) link
just found the song on soulseek. it's on a compilation called Music for Mentalists!
― What a ridiculous clusterfuck of totally uncool jokers (jed_), Friday, 20 September 2019 12:17 (four years ago) link
Wakefield goths to thread.
― coup de twat (suzy), Friday, 20 September 2019 12:17 (four years ago) link
Trying to make Northampton seem interesting? Talk about Herculean tasks.
― Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Friday, 20 September 2019 12:20 (four years ago) link
Nairn made bits of old Northampton seem interesting before they demolished them. but I've been to Sixfields twice and cannot remember anything about the place at all, other than it just seems like that nothingness of fields and the odd cluster of warehouses that you whizz past for hours between Birmingham and London on the train
― calzino, Friday, 20 September 2019 12:31 (four years ago) link
Northampton is the most important place in the UK
― ogmor, Friday, 20 September 2019 12:37 (four years ago) link
Cobblers
― calzino, Friday, 20 September 2019 12:38 (four years ago) link
Biggest market square in England IIRC? I like Northampton, the little shopping arcade Nairn liked is long gone but the centre of town's still largely the same I think.
― Tim, Friday, 20 September 2019 12:42 (four years ago) link
That's the problem with horrible football grounds set in remote trading estates. It makes going on away sorties a much duller experience.
― calzino, Friday, 20 September 2019 12:45 (four years ago) link
Northampton also being the most normal place itw helps disguise its charms
― ogmor, Friday, 20 September 2019 12:50 (four years ago) link
Yeah their old ground was right in where people lived, also one of those classics that shared a side with a cricket pitch I think. I've had some great times at Sixfields but god knows it's anonymous.
― Tim, Friday, 20 September 2019 12:52 (four years ago) link
non-negligeable sinkhole count, google informs me
― mark s, Friday, 20 September 2019 12:52 (four years ago) link
itt: ogmor unmasked as alan moore
― Is it true the star Beetle Juice is going to explode in 2012 (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 20 September 2019 13:05 (four years ago) link