Free speech is Real America iirc.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 16:31 (four years ago) link
does this mean Toby Young has or hasn't been offered another quango? I can't tell these days.
― calzino, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 16:38 (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 days ago) bookmarkflaglink
The cynic in me thinks the majority of people raising money for charity are attention-hungry but this fella takes the cake yes
― or something, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 17:04 (four years ago) link
he seems fucking horrible, but I'm very Catholic when it comes to irl partial nudity that isn't in a swimming pool context and perhaps I'm being unfair!
― calzino, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 17:11 (four years ago) link
This is John Manley from Netherton who used a digger to smash up a brand new Travelodge on Edge Lane because he'd not been paid his wages... he's been jailed today for five years and four months #CapitalReports pic.twitter.com/q9akHkIaZE— CapitalLivNews (@CapitalLivNews) February 26, 2020
5 years? gtfo he only trashed a hotel ffs.
― calzino, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 15:19 (four years ago) link
That London Resort thing really is amazing. Swanscombe is weapons-grade Real England, a perfect place for it. Played cricket there a few years ago and found the locals to be racked with ressentiment and listless aggression to an almost tragic degree. Tales told of how they almost started a fight against our 3rd XI while blatantly attempting to cheat their way to victory and racially abusing our Asian players. When I was there they had us 3 or 4 down for nothing, I walked out to steady the ship and got a full toss which I chipped meatily off my legs for what I assumed was a boundary. They'd hidden a 13 year-old fat kid, one of the other player's sons, at short fine leg, where he was clearly expected to not do any fielding. Of course he fucking held the catch. They are a mutant breed out there
― imago, Thursday, 27 February 2020 16:21 (four years ago) link
(xp) Ridiculous sentence.
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Thursday, 27 February 2020 16:25 (four years ago) link
he was sleeping on friends floors, skint and christmas was approaching and his wages were unpaid .. of course the property of some poxy global hotel chain is more important than a human life.
― calzino, Thursday, 27 February 2020 16:29 (four years ago) link
What is the crime of trashing a Travelodge against the crime of opening one?
― covfefe-19 will do you no harm (Matt #2), Thursday, 27 February 2020 16:41 (four years ago) link
the only real crime is violence against private property iirc
― Generous Grant for Stepladder Creamery (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 27 February 2020 16:43 (four years ago) link
(warming to Swanscombe now)
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 27 February 2020 16:53 (four years ago) link
Look who's thrown their balaclava into the ring for London mayor - it's DrillMinister, a radical moderate, doing radical things with a moderate message, reaching out to everyone.
― ogmor, Friday, 28 February 2020 11:43 (four years ago) link
People are just trying to find their way through this maze we call London life and I think we need a mayor that kind of resembles what people recognise as a Londoner as opposed to somebody dictating to them what a Londoner is.
― ogmor, Friday, 28 February 2020 11:45 (four years ago) link
"Any person that doesn't have love for the Queen - what money are you using?"
― calzino, Friday, 28 February 2020 11:51 (four years ago) link
(xp)
Mullins is the son of a factory worker father and a bartender and cleaner mother.[2] When he was born, they "lived in a couple of rooms in Camden", before moving to the Rockingham Estate in London's Elephant and Castle, where he grew up, and left school at 15 with no qualifications.[2][3]
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Friday, 28 February 2020 13:11 (four years ago) link
It gets better, his real first name is Sidney!
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Friday, 28 February 2020 13:12 (four years ago) link
at least when the DrillMaster get's a bit too pompous or starts talking about himself in the third person in an ominous tone you can say oh do shut up, Sydney.
― calzino, Friday, 28 February 2020 13:26 (four years ago) link
... Mullins' real first name is Sidney not DrillMaster!
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Friday, 28 February 2020 13:28 (four years ago) link
Drill Minister. I mean!
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Friday, 28 February 2020 13:29 (four years ago) link
oh yes my mistake, can't be getting masters mixed up with ministers!
― calzino, Friday, 28 February 2020 13:31 (four years ago) link
Footage from the #UK: A cop chasing someone ends up getting stuck on a fence. 😂#ACAB pic.twitter.com/7JIaOKiPN8— th1an1 (@th1an1) February 28, 2020
― calzino, Friday, 28 February 2020 15:18 (four years ago) link
Got to be fake surely?
Don’t interrupt me for a while, I really need to concentrate on this. pic.twitter.com/5ojwzZkJ2F— Charlotte (@RoylePin) February 29, 2020
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 29 February 2020 13:20 (four years ago) link
the daily sport is not known for its quality factual reporting
― Generous Grant for Stepladder Creamery (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 29 February 2020 13:25 (four years ago) link
https://i2-prod.bristolpost.co.uk/incoming/article3899577.ece/ALTERNATES/s810/0_Untitled-design-2.jpg
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/abuse-threats-made-greta-thunberg-3897936
this FB profile lineup of the wall of gammon genre is a visually arresting piece of work from the Bristol Post. The "Be KiND" man was advocating throwing a milkshake at an autistic teenager.
― calzino, Monday, 2 March 2020 08:13 (four years ago) link
nice to see a local paper on the side of good for once
― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Monday, 2 March 2020 08:56 (four years ago) link
this caused me to check out the shropshire star but it has its hands full currently (also wellies):
Footfall down after floods https://t.co/pJ3Ox7JxRT pic.twitter.com/UDtlPvO3Dt— SHROPSHIRE (@DailySHROPSHIRE) February 28, 2020
― mark s, Monday, 2 March 2020 11:09 (four years ago) link
it's coming home:
Knife Angel on way to #Telford https://t.co/eZXOcrS7D0 pic.twitter.com/LDzPfpujhF— SHROPSHIRE (@DailySHROPSHIRE) February 28, 2020
― mark s, Monday, 2 March 2020 11:11 (four years ago) link
― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Monday, March 2, 2020 8:56 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
bristol (and stroud!) are oases of libcuck valour in the benighted west iirc
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Monday, 2 March 2020 11:25 (four years ago) link
Just hipster mythologizing I'm sure, and miraculous if that infected the actual gutter of the gutter press
― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Monday, 2 March 2020 11:28 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ESIxra7XsAAtynL?format=jpg
― mark s, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 13:17 (four years ago) link
so much for keep calm and carry on and England can take it!
― calzino, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 13:20 (four years ago) link
England regrets to inform you that for the foreseeable future it will not be taking it
― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 13:51 (four years ago) link
you'd think they could turn up with respirators and some medieval plague doctor cosplay gear on. I thought they were into that kind of shit!
― calzino, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 14:07 (four years ago) link
https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/18277936.one-worlds-biggest-greggs-opening-cornmarket/
“Customers have been trying to get in here all day but we have had to tell them to come back."
some serious competition for the Inspector Morse Lewis Endeavour tours arrives in oxford.
― calzino, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 09:36 (four years ago) link
“My girlfriend prefers Pret but that’s a bit too healthy for me.”
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 09:58 (four years ago) link
Are there Greggs' in other countries? I am intrigued.
― ShariVari, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 10:07 (four years ago) link
A Telegraph interview with the CEO suggests not, as foreigners simply don't appreciate a good sausage roll.
― ShariVari, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 10:08 (four years ago) link
I'm more interested in the regional equivalents. The game in NW London appears to be run by Wenzel's, and in E London, Percy Ingle have their little empire. All threatened if not currently overwhelmed by Greggs. Presumably they in turn have caught many of the little independent fish years ago
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 10:11 (four years ago) link
Greggs have been in Scotland for years but only seems to have become a thing in England, outwith the North, relatively recently.
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 10:16 (four years ago) link
And then there's Posh Greggs aka Gail's, but my attempts to be pescetarian mean I'm giving them and their sole reason for attendance (the sausage roll) a swerve atm
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 10:17 (four years ago) link
I think Greggs might work in Belgium. I have vague memories of Meades saying there are vile Anglophile tendencies for English junk food there whilst mockingly eating a cone of chips or something.
― calzino, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 10:18 (four years ago) link
In Real Kernow news: Greggs tried, and failed, in Cornwall https://www.theguardian.com/business/shortcuts/2020/jan/15/give-us-real-pasties-why-greggs-is-leaving-cornwall
Greggs has been forced to close its only branch in Cornwall after a backlash from Cornish residents over the selling of pasties.The bakery chain opened its first store in the county in September 2018 with an outlet at a service station in Saltash but said it will now shut following a "thorough review".It means Greggs will return to no longer having a presence in Cornwall despite having around 1,500 branches across the country.The announcement was celebrated by residents who claimed the decision marked a vindication for the traditional Cornish pasty. Some opponents had branded Greggs as "junk" and warned the chain was never likely to survive long-term in the county.
Greggs has been forced to close its only branch in Cornwall after a backlash from Cornish residents over the selling of pasties.
The bakery chain opened its first store in the county in September 2018 with an outlet at a service station in Saltash but said it will now shut following a "thorough review".
It means Greggs will return to no longer having a presence in Cornwall despite having around 1,500 branches across the country.
The announcement was celebrated by residents who claimed the decision marked a vindication for the traditional Cornish pasty.
Some opponents had branded Greggs as "junk" and warned the chain was never likely to survive long-term in the county.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 10:18 (four years ago) link
will massively Leave voting Cornwall's Cornish pasties losing their EU PGI status mean Greggs can start labelling their Beef + Veg rolls as such again? Fucking liberty eh?
― calzino, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 10:24 (four years ago) link
Benji's was all over central London ten years ago, don't know what happened there. I can imagine a Greggs in Gibraltar.
― fetter, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 10:25 (four years ago) link
Benjis was DISGUSTING. Very cheap, pappy bread and scant filling in the sandwiches.
― santa clause four (suzy), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 10:32 (four years ago) link
something opening in Oxford that isn't an identikit tourist tat shop churning out union flag mugs and Harry Potter shite? surely not!
I wonder if the various pasty firms with names like The Real Cornish Pasty Co. operate in Cornwall. none of them sell Cornish Fairings or I'd visit them more often - but then I'm not Cornish and I only wanted a tin to take to my Dad, who's from Devon, which is obv v much the wrong side of the Tamar for understanding Real Cornishness
anyway this thread has been v helpful as I didn't know Gail's did sausage rolls. how did this pass me by? for some reason I thought it was all gluten-free cakes and stuff, one of which appeared in our work one time and was moderately tasty until it went mouldy within 24 hours, which was a bit offputting (it was kept in a tin but probably should have been in the fridge overnight but the box didn't mention that)
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 12:01 (four years ago) link
Always had an antipathy towards greggs as they seemed to be running sayers out of liverpool. In sayers the pastries were always warm, in fact the traditional pasty filling was akin to molten lava. Just read that sayers are making a return to liverpool city centre so that's good news, alas I'm now in scotland where greggs have a total monopoly
― or something, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 12:10 (four years ago) link
I've always had an antipathy towards Greggs because of the muck they serve up as food!
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 12:23 (four years ago) link
I have been told my homemade sausage rolls (made with a combo of sausage meat and wild rice-based stuffing) are better than the Gail’s ones :-)
― santa clause four (suzy), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 12:23 (four years ago) link
I don't mind Greggs for the odd steak bake or tuna sandwich, cheap and shit is how I roll!
― calzino, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 12:27 (four years ago) link