ever tried tesco brand pear cider? It's only £2.20 a 4-pack (so cheap it would fall foul of minimum pricing in Scotland) and its good enough for me, but my standards are quite shocking. Not saying i don't like fine ales and porters etc, but I'm almost just as happy drinking cheap piss as long as it is 5% vol as a minimum.
― calzino, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 14:47 (four years ago) link
I have been known to drink the Spar equivalent but always regret it
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 14:51 (four years ago) link
I also once bought my parents a bottle of "charlemagne" which was the same shit but in a champagne bottle
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 15:01 (four years ago) link
I drank many Blastaways as a teenager as they were £2 each at the shithole nightclub we used to go to (which Camaraderie at Arms Length will probably have also been to at some point - Images (or Images on Glass I believe was its full name)). pretty revolting and I think lead to chundering on more than one occasion
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 15:07 (four years ago) link
Never went to Images, somehow. Went to Tramps a few times which was like being trapped in a falling lift at the circus, apparently it was better than Images though.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 15:15 (four years ago) link
at the time, you had to wear a shirt, tie and shoes to get into Tramps on a Saturday - we only went on Thursdays which I think was student night (I guess technically we were students) and it was £1 a pint and you could wear jeans. Tramps was a nicer building but the atmosphere was better in Images. you could easily get into trouble at either though, aggro was never far away!
Images had a very relaxed attitude to underage drinking. You could get in by showing the bouncer your National Insurance card, issued to 15 year olds.
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 15:19 (four years ago) link
real england indeed
― the main character Cooly and his fart attack (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 15:20 (four years ago) link
This gallery of Worcester nightlife through the years is just right for this thread - https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/galleries/worcester_nightclubs/#gallery49
I would never get carded when I was 16/17 and I looked younger if anything, no way that would happen now
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 15:21 (four years ago) link
As an ignorant foreigner those pics are exactly what I imagined upon first encountering this thread's premise. That and fan-made YouTube videos designed to accompany The Lark Ascending as played by Nigel Kennedy.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 15:24 (four years ago) link
xp I had a phase at 16 where I kept getting ID'd after having no trouble at 15. then we switched pubs and problem went away
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 15:28 (four years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/feb/01/police-called-in-after-poster-tells-residents-of-flats-to-speak-english
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/feb/01/police-called-in-after-poster-tells-residents-of-flats-to-speak-english#img-2
― it's after the end of the world (Matt #2), Sunday, 2 February 2020 12:46 (four years ago) link
https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5e357514220000310023d677.jpeg
― it's after the end of the world (Matt #2), Sunday, 2 February 2020 12:48 (four years ago) link
i hope somebody finds that cunt, evicts them, then sets them on fucking fire
― GK Chessington's World of Adventure (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 2 February 2020 14:28 (four years ago) link
'the the Queens English' suggests there is more than one true Queen. Treason!
― kinder, Sunday, 2 February 2020 20:08 (four years ago) link
maybe prince Andrew is avoiding federal prosecutors in New York because he isn't fluent in Queens English?
― calzino, Sunday, 2 February 2020 20:53 (four years ago) link
lol
― (includes digression on farting) (Tom D.), Sunday, 2 February 2020 20:54 (four years ago) link
You're not welcome here if you don't sound like Joey Ramone.
― (includes digression on farting) (Tom D.), Sunday, 2 February 2020 20:56 (four years ago) link
"what was normality"
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Sunday, 2 February 2020 21:30 (four years ago) link
that bit before the Romans came over for an extended stag do
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Sunday, 2 February 2020 21:31 (four years ago) link
the real england is in new zealand
― doo rag, Sunday, 2 February 2020 21:31 (four years ago) link
> that bit before the Romans came over
the queen = boudica, obv.
― koogs, Sunday, 2 February 2020 21:46 (four years ago) link
Thread taking a darker turn
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/feb/04/wales-market-trader-from-taiwan-told-to-leave-stall-over-coronavirus-fears
“I think they assume I have gone to China but I didn’t go, and they still didn’t believe me. I don’t know if they believe me now.”
― it's after the end of the world (Matt #2), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 12:33 (four years ago) link
Real Wales tho so we’re good.
― toilet-cleaning brain surgeon (pomenitul), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 12:37 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EP7BRo9XkAEVVbw?format=jpg&name=4096x4096https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EP7BP7QXUAA-fr6?format=jpg&name=4096x4096https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EP7BQuEXsAADUro?format=jpg&name=4096x4096
local time travel shop that only sells toilet+kitchen roll with a window display featuring knitted poppies, dead man's collection of royal fine china cups, scrabble letters, mickey mouse! When the blokes mum used to own the shop it was an often very poorly stocked non-dispensing chemist that hadn't changed since the 50's - it's effectively just a monument to her.
― calzino, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 16:36 (four years ago) link
needs more golliwogs
― GK Chessington's World of Adventure (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 16:38 (four years ago) link
Really relieved that Blitz is kitchen roll, because you’d probably rub your arsehole redder than Cromblyn judging purely by the packaging.
― hyds (gyac), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 16:40 (four years ago) link
the bog roll is called Area Bombing iirc
― GK Chessington's World of Adventure (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 16:42 (four years ago) link
He couldn't get away with golliwogs in Thornhill Lees, his shop would get burnt to the ground! But that would probably be a talking point with him.
― calzino, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 16:47 (four years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/feb/07/liam-gallagher-son-ringo-starr-grandson-in-court-over-tesco-affray-charge
― toilet-cleaning brain surgeon (pomenitul), Friday, 7 February 2020 13:16 (four years ago) link
(Gallagher) arrived at Highbury Corner magistrates court in London accompanied by his uncle, Liam Howlett of the Prodigy..
lol wtf!
― calzino, Friday, 7 February 2020 13:19 (four years ago) link
"tesco affray" is a good phrase
(howlett is married to a different appleton sister)
― mark s, Friday, 7 February 2020 13:20 (four years ago) link
Liam's boy looks like... Damon Albarn!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 7 February 2020 13:23 (four years ago) link
omg he does
― kinder, Friday, 7 February 2020 18:14 (four years ago) link
jfc will you listen to this pair of wallies
BA 777 Touch & Go from todays #StormCiara show. 👏 pic.twitter.com/sn3MOJ1BuG— BIG JET TV (@BigJetTVLIVE) February 9, 2020
― it's after the end of the world (Matt #2), Sunday, 9 February 2020 19:05 (four years ago) link
can i get Big Jet TV on Freeview?
― Todd Phillips, party auteur (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 9 February 2020 19:51 (four years ago) link
no
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Sunday, 9 February 2020 21:42 (four years ago) link
Seen this on FB and couldn’t share it so had to screen shot it and post it here!!! 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/4ZYfbyXupW— J A D E ♡ (@JadeStamate) February 11, 2020
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 21:27 (four years ago) link
(not only a comment on the current weather, but also a future summary of this coming year of Brexit)
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 21:28 (four years ago) link
Walking on an incline through saturated impossibly slippery mud is something I've almost mastered, but I took a bad fall a couple of weeks back. My Real England moment today was walking past two very dodgy looking lads, one of them with an air rifle with with a telescopic sight on it and he says to me as I'm nervously looking at his gun: "you want to watch that path it is very slippy mate" ..
― calzino, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 21:37 (four years ago) link
Thoughtful young chap.
― High profile Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 21:42 (four years ago) link
“do you have the New York Times?”“ah no. we just have English papers here, Sir.”“and the Irish Independent.”“ah yes. only UK papers.”not enough ellipses in the world to convey my reaction to that
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 15 February 2020 07:26 (four years ago) link
Eric Bristow MBE Graffiti #Sheffield 2020 https://t.co/NXsZIjHzb8 pic.twitter.com/lIUtgBdcvr— BLTP (@Gargarin) February 18, 2020
― calzino, Tuesday, 18 February 2020 18:53 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYyxdmHogLU
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Thursday, 20 February 2020 17:26 (four years ago) link
Tune
― babby bitter (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 20 February 2020 17:52 (four years ago) link
What you see is what you get here. Nothing fake. Great to see a man proud of his town and where he comes from. Vote Nandy,
― ogmor, Thursday, 20 February 2020 22:16 (four years ago) link
Lyrics written by John Dawson, Mike Baker, Matt Wilson, Dave Hardy, Bernie Belsham, Jamie Terrell, Simon Juniper.
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Thursday, 20 February 2020 22:20 (four years ago) link
Romford gone to the dogs.
― calzino, Thursday, 20 February 2020 22:32 (four years ago) link
"River Rom" eh? (googles)... "Romford is first recorded in 1177 as Romfort, which is formed from Old English 'rūm' and 'ford' and means "the wide or spacious ford".[12] The naming of the River Rom is a local 'back-formation' from the name of the town; and the river is elsewhere known as the Beam."
― Paperbag raita (ledge), Friday, 21 February 2020 10:12 (four years ago) link
My stepmother is from Romford/Upminster, however despite this I still quite like the song.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 21 February 2020 10:37 (four years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/feb/20/speedo-mick-charity-walker-nears-end-uk-trek-just-trunks
because he is raising money for charity would it be churlish of me to think this lad is an attention-hungry tit?
― babby bitter (Noodle Vague), Friday, 21 February 2020 18:02 (four years ago) link