Real England

Oh yes they are omg!

They are boiled eggs yeah, normally packaged differently as part of a packed lunch. Tbh you could make a batch of egg mayo with them, maybe cater a small gathering oops

Lol why I did I think there would shelled eggs in a bag? I don't rule anything out these days! Christ imagine the smell when you open it.

Relevant

https://youtu.be/9pRxJXlePmY

I only fuck with freshly boiled balls of corruption. That shit is for degen pub landlords to put in their pickle jar and unfit for human consumption.

I love an egg but sports science bros have put me off a bit

If you were to chop them up into a rice stir fry or a curry you probably couldn't tell the difference between them and fresh ones. But it would be the knowing that would make me feel queasy.

Nah they'd be lovely, put hairs on your chest

12 egg heart attack might finish you tho

Either that or a constipated/egg bound stroke the next day whilst straining on the lavatory!

You eat that whole bag you're not passing solids for a week, pro tip for if music festivals ever come back

Lool!

Those egg bags are being described as Real England here and elsewhere but they are pretty much the most NYC corner store things I’ve ever seen. The only difference is in New York they’d have them at the till for impulse purchase, not on a shelf.

in a large glass jar.

Do you have to buy the whole jar or can you just get one scooped out and plonked in a packet of crisps?

To be fair, and this might be a false memory, it’s so log ago, but I do remember hearing someone order “two chip butties, a pickled egg and a can of Fanta” in a chip shop at the bottom of greystones road once.

my local chippy has a jar of pickled eggs, but they are just for show!

such peacocks!

pretentious bastards!

tbh the proprietor is a former British army master chef who used to be Prince Andrew's personal cook, but he doesn't like to talk about it as much as when he opened the shop now. He does special meal deals for kids called "Alfies" which makes me lol for god knows what reason, but when you hear someone calling the order: "and two Alfies as well please Paul" in a broad Yorkshire accent it makes me giddy and want to lol!

Not one mention of the eggs looking like they are on a normal shelf and not in a fridge

I assumed it was a refrigerated shelf, wtf!

It's a hard pass from me. pic.twitter.com/tNU1xDFop7

— Sir Edward (@sir_dward) September 17, 2020

Lol well played

I think it is good ugly-shaming Brendan because it forces him as a bullshit-persona rugged-individualist libertarian into an awkward corner where he doesn't know to respond without his whole universe unwinding. But there is too much of it going about on social media right now imo. Loads of good and terrible people aren't classically handsome or might be struggling with their weight, or have a bent broken big nose or receding hairlines (it me!). Indiscriminate appearance shaming from lefty twitter seems to be on the rise and i don't think it is healthy imo.

I'm mainly sensitive to this because I used to get stopped for police line-ups that consisted of 30+ year old blokes when I was 19!

My husband has just walked the 226-mile Thames Path from source to mouth. And what’s at the end? This. pic.twitter.com/iwaspNTXEz

— isolatie katie (@pipterino) September 20, 2020

Durham University has withdrawn a student’s place after an investigation into “utterly abhorrent” comments on social media.

It launched the inquiry after it came to light that wealthy prospective freshers supposedly planned to hold a competition to have sex with the poorest student they could find. Other comments discussed drugs and concerns about being accused of rape. One wrote that he would “sleep with a different bird every night just for a bed”.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/sep/23/durham-university-withdraws-freshers-place-over-abhorrent-online-posts

Nonce ant

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was listening to Mobeen Azhar's Hometown doc on 5live earlier and my ears pricked up when Mr Sparkles was mentioned. If ever there will be heritage tourism in Dewsbury this legendary heroin traffickers' carwash is almost as iconic as the police station building where both Peter Sutcliffe and Craig Meehan were arrested! He used to also have a laundering shop round the corner from my house called Mountain Stores, locally known as the "inconvenience store" because all it had for sale was ciggies, a few stacks of mars bars and cans of warm carling black label.

it’s a good doc. there’s an iPlayer version as well.

I told my stepdad to shut up when he said Birkby (where he has lived for over 50 years and where Mobeen is also from) is getting more like Moss Side these days, but he might have had a point! I used to wander through Birkby every morning (an electrical company I worked for had their premises on the industrial estate off Blacker Road) and still think of it as quite a relatively posh area, with its tidy Victorian terraced houses with very high ceilings and there are some parts of it you probably wouldn't get much change out of half a million if you were buying a house. But it has changed a lot in the last decade, no doubt. Will have to catch the i-player version of this.

There is a weird combo of money and grinding poverty pocketed around your ends ime

that's definitely true where I live. It can be a two minute walk from classic sink estate to leafy suburbia and the area was marked out as a "property hotspot" on the Times website according to a IPSOS mori guy who turned up on my doorstep. And even on the sink estate there are little patches of affluence, well privately owned council houses with burglar alarms, cctv , fancy cladding and five expensive looking cars parked outside!

and then there are those living in grinding poverty and paying double social-rent to landlord scum.

Yeah last time I was in Dewsbury I think I saw an inordinate amount of flash cars

there is a drug dealer who lives around the corner from me who hasn't made the same mistake as Mr Sparkles, as in building a gaudy million quid mansion in a white + posh part of Mirfield! He has two very quiet laundering businesses, a sun tan parlour just two doors away from Mr Sparkles old store and a Fast Food joint and he lives in a modest two bed ex-council semi and has I luv NHS rainbow banner in the window.

Mobeen also mentions the half mile on Ravensthorpe Rd where there are least 28 fast food businesses clustered together in one small area, it's quite amusing really - some of them got mentioned for getting a zero star hygiene rating when the local rag was shaming bad takeaways a couple of years back.

oops should a bit more careful what I post on here, there could be narcs about!

There's run down mini shopping arcades on the estates in Hull that are 90 percent takeaways but tbf they're probably all doing legit business too

yeah some of them might even be half decent, but for example where you get one in the most useless location, like off the main road near a cluster of pensioner bungalows and he doesn't put up any signs up to promote the place. It seems almost blatant that he doesn't want to encourage too much trade!

there are nearby quite a few established take-aways, that are accessible and have regular customers, this dude is trying his best not to compete with them.

lol @ calz grassing up his whole home town

got to make some money somehow and I'm too soft to be a drug dealer!

there's gotta be money to be made narcing out illegal rona parties nowadays

I'd rat out the local dealer just because he's a mean spirited twat. When he ordered a skip in front of his tanning salon and filled it with old household bits and bobs + furniture and stuff some poor sod must have been helping themselves to some of it and he replied with a nasty message: "Stop going through my skip - you're on cctv!!!!"

Is it strictly speaking illegal to steal things from a skip, if they were going to be disposed of anyway? One for the legal eagles there.

I’m not sure how it is on the statute book, but under English common law, the magna carts and going back to the law of the forest; if you put a skip outside it is fair game for anyone to throw anything in or take anything out.

i thought i remembered hearing on R4 or reading somewhere that strictly it's not legal? by the same lights that it isn't legal to rifle thru somebody's bins? but i'm not a lawyer and i prefer Ed's Freemen on the Skip interpretation

taking stuff out of someone else's skip is at worst harmless, putting stuff into someone else's skip is disgusting savagery.