Real England

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Durham University has withdrawn a student’s place after an investigation into “utterly abhorrent” comments on social media.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

where else am I supposed to dump the bodies smart guy?

if someone is freeing up extra space in your skip you should be glad. I was pissed off when I'd thrown out a big chunky 32" old-fashioned cathode ray tv and paid the council's refuge dept online for them to collect it. Some knave took it before they could, no doubt removed whatever tiny parts of it had copper windings etc and any scrap value and dumped the rest of out on local greenbelt. Although at least then it then became the problem of some millionaire tory wankers who are responsible for removing any flytipping dumped next to their unadopted private road, so there was a happy ending after all!

Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey sits in a cafe in Westminster shortly before delivering his keynote speech online to his party's annual conference.

📷Stefan Rousseau/PA Images - contact us at https://t.co/mWFngz6oQA#LibDems pic.twitter.com/pOuFMh7ZwI

— PA Images (@PAImages) September 28, 2020

lonely guy just thinking baout things

guy in background with mask pulled down touching his face is also very real england tbh

I thought I would brighten up the day it’s raining outside cheers pic.twitter.com/QkJJKbP2Oj

— gerald stratford (@geraldstratfor3) September 30, 2020

he's cracked twitter with his Fred Dibnah style provincial rube persona has that lad, every time he posts a pic of some giant celery he's grown with the comment: take a look at these badboys!! He gains a thousand more young followers!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EjLVskHWAAosm_E?format=jpg&name=medium

The carrot you see in the tub photo is the one in today’s tweet cheers

— gerald stratford (@geraldstratfor3) September 30, 2020

This could go in lots of other threads, but some inspirational work here:

we’re living in 2020 the shop near my new work that sells pic n mix frozen potato products is living in 2050 pic.twitter.com/X5hmApKWg8

— daisy (@daiseaaa) October 6, 2020

"Oh f**k. I'm having a three-course Wigan meal."

Wigan Kebab. Smack barm. Pey wet. Babby's yed. 7,000 calories of pure Northern delight, and one very full man. pic.twitter.com/U7IHpWFNVr

— JOE (@JOE_co_uk) November 5, 2019

Ffs Alphie I have that shit muted on twitter

I made a comment under a thread that retweeted that video that got me 21 likes and I'm proud of myself.

Is that the most likes you ever got? Pffft.

I take what I can get

my greatest success was a comment I made about fraser nelson that michael rosen agreed with and added some more to much more eloquently and earned me about 9 likes for mine and 72 proxy likes for his response.

https://t.co/G89xFvEvWh

— The News, Portsmouth (@portsmouthnews) October 14, 2020

‘I did the second one sober… it was horrible’

The most Real England about this is that he seemingly had no problem at all agreeing to this photo shoot. Often it's not the news, it's the willingness of people to back up the news with photos like this that's the most Real England for me.

^ Real (England) Talk

the wigan chippy video that has amused Americans this last week or so

could really go a roll and pie rn tbh

https://i.imgur.com/5IHsEjy.png

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ElXSuAJX0AA7x8v?format=jpg&name=900x900

Lol

apparently this is a storyboard of my life type thing people do on instagram. Jamie Oliver's cracking 30 minute meals, Bradders, Smithster. This is quite a rich internal life here!