Real England

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just sighted my first old-school horse and cart "real" scrapper in ages, huge rigger boots on as well - scrapper to the core this dude was.

still come round regular round here, there's an area of Hull called Gipsyville from back in ye olden days

I guess what they say is true, England *is* turning into Romania.

xp

Anglia, pământ românesc.

some tatters used to leave their pony tied out on a grass verge not far from my house, used to feed him Polos on the way to work in the morning

I wonder how much the Rona has decimated the industrial metals markets, in the noughties all the huge Chinese infrastructure spending was pushing copper to be the new gold. I can remember when copper was that cheap if a cable drum was broken people would throw it in the skip and grab another!

got a birthday card in the post from the UK, one of those ones that is either the innocent smoothies aesthetic applied to drinking or an alcoholism joke (never clear which). a uniquely british form of humour afaict.

Did it have the word "cheeky" in it

I only deal with appropriately respectful alcoholics ftr!

Baboons at Knowsley Safari Park have been found carrying weapons, it has been claimed.

Keepers at the safari park, in Merseyside, said they suspect visitors have been giving the animals knives, screwdrivers and even a chainsaw "for a laugh", The Mirror reports.

I had no idea that such flawless gammon specimens were even possible:

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/edward-leigh-on-calais-and-migrants-1-6790211

perfidious albion keeps delivering

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— good90s (@good90s) September 23, 2019

Let's ask the HERO'S WIDOW if Utd should play in the Cup.

it's so staggering you think it has to be a fake but i'm guessing it's not a fake

crying out for a poll of the interviewees

At that point THE FILM STAR had played 500 football matches and acted in 1 film.

even Barry Norman getting in there! I can remember that mirror cover it's 100% real and my late father-in-law saying it's a bloody disgrace, best cup competition in the world etc...

hi Lisa Potts sorry you were severely injured during a terrifying machete attack what do you think about United pulling out of the FA Cup tho?

Yep, I remember it at the time. I wonder how many of their phones Morgan was hacking.

as a lottery winner, i think it's a bleedin' disgrace

yeah I think questions need to be asked wtf you'd be asking the widow of a headmaster that got stabbed to death outside his school to comment an FA cup controversy, it's bizarre really.

they were obv all on a lot of different drugs back then.

that page represents some kind of moment in the tabloids's imperial era, a moments where all of the stylistic tics and voice of the people shtick curdle into this gross, decadent, debauched rongness that later generations can only look back on and gasp/gag

how many people looked that over and didn't think twice about whether victims of horrible violence were celebrities who should be approached and front-paged for their views on a football competition?

the worst thing was they were good victims, not bad victims.

Just paraphrasing Brass Eye, not being a sicko ftr!

despite watching Brass Eye a couple of years before that cover and seeing myself as someone who was aware of how terrible the UK press was. I remember thinking it was quite "normal" at the time, or at least just more being annoyed that it was more Man Utd bullshit rather than the absolutely horrid practises of the UK tabloids utilised in it.

well i meant the people at the Mirror who had sight of it before publication but you're probably right calz, at the time, in a different context, it was probably less jaw-droppingly bad. but that's because it was standard operating procedure for the time i guess

Wait, do you lot not find out what Lottery Winner Mark Gardiner thinks about something before you form an opinion?

he picked the numbers, now you pick his brains!

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nowadays i just watch any BBC news show and within 10 minutes they'll have asked the audience to let us know what they think, so i get as many totally unqualified opinions about complicated subjects as i need

"We've got Ron on the line, he's a retired butcher from Heckmondwicke and he's going to tell us what he thinks about the government's strategy on housing"

The decline of the ‘tragic mum / wife / dad’ as a unifying hero figure for the press is kind of interesting.

i guess a few Karen Matthewses put the kibosh on that eventually

at least she put Dewsbury on the map, for some reason we still don't have a tourist information office.

lol ITV filmed that drama about her entirely in Halifax

I think that's part of it but there's a lot going on. People like Frances Lawrence and Paul Betts (though wildly different) were tapped for quotes on all sorts of things for years in a way that sort of positioned them as an avatar for the reader - the normal, sensible person who just happened to have been elevated to prominence by tragedy, which i guess you don't need as much when the readers can speak for themselves. You also had situations like the McCanns where Paper B, C and D got annoyed they were too close to Paper A and worked out there was just as much mileage in hating them as sympathising.

The capacity for a single horrific thing to capture the news cycle / public imagination for weeks at a time has probably diminished too.

The decline of the ‘tragic mum / wife / dad’ as a unifying hero figure for the press is kind of interesting.

― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 17:45 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

i guess a few Karen Matthewses put the kibosh on that eventually

― no ifs, no buts, no scampo nation (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 17:47 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Between her and the McCannses and the noughties rise in the popularity of crime fiction, all tragic/grieving relatives are treated with a dose of sceptical side eye these days.

what is the Scottish govt's stance on teachers wearing masks?

oh shit wrong thread

there was briefly some interaction between the McCannses industrial military complex and team Karen Matthews, would love to hear the gritty Dewsbury-noir dialogue that went on there that caused the conference to break down!

And the prize for the weirdest thing I’ve seen today goes to... pic.twitter.com/9b1vhmbna6

— Henry (@henweb) August 18, 2020

It's like something Alan Partridge would be saying in one of those daydream sequences in 'I'm Alan Partridge'.

Who doesn't already sing it like that tho

Maguire had been photographed and filmed throughout the day and evening, enjoying the company of his teammates Marcus Rashford and Brandon Williams, as well as the snooker player Judd Trump, and mixing with other tourists, appearing to drink alcohol on occasions.

thought this revive was going to be about the ugly bald sheep farmer/ex-tory/ukip candidate/putative baby killer/tesco briber trial!

lol briber, blackmailer I meant obv.

only heard little bits of the story on the radio, guessing this lad is not the sharpest knife in the drawer

from what I can gather he went flying in with the fists on some cop and then tried to bribe them at the cop shop, lol good job he's white!