it’s a good doc. there’s an iPlayer version as well.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 27 September 2020 07:26 (three years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Sunday, 27 September 2020 11:19 (three years ago) link
There is a weird combo of money and grinding poverty pocketed around your ends ime
― Mille scampeaux (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 27 September 2020 11:21 (three years ago) link
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!
― calzino, Sunday, 27 September 2020 11:31 (three years ago) link
and then there are those living in grinding poverty and paying double social-rent to landlord scum.
― calzino, Sunday, 27 September 2020 11:36 (three years ago) link
Yeah last time I was in Dewsbury I think I saw an inordinate amount of flash cars
― Mille scampeaux (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 27 September 2020 11:36 (three years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Sunday, 27 September 2020 11:46 (three years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Sunday, 27 September 2020 11:57 (three years ago) link
oops should a bit more careful what I post on here, there could be narcs about!
― calzino, Sunday, 27 September 2020 12:01 (three years ago) link
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
― Mille scampeaux (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 27 September 2020 12:04 (three years ago) link
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!
― calzino, Sunday, 27 September 2020 12:12 (three years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Sunday, 27 September 2020 12:15 (three years ago) link
lol @ calz grassing up his whole home town
― The Wealth Dad $ |_/ (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 28 September 2020 10:49 (three years ago) link
got to make some money somehow and I'm too soft to be a drug dealer!
― calzino, Monday, 28 September 2020 10:56 (three years ago) link
there's gotta be money to be made narcing out illegal rona parties nowadays
― Mille scampeaux (Noodle Vague), Monday, 28 September 2020 11:01 (three years ago) link
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!!!!"
― calzino, Monday, 28 September 2020 11:08 (three years ago) link
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.
― your response will be deleted unread (Matt #2), Monday, 28 September 2020 12:11 (three years ago) link
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.
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Monday, 28 September 2020 12:14 (three years ago) link
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
― Mille scampeaux (Noodle Vague), Monday, 28 September 2020 12:18 (three years ago) link
taking stuff out of someone else's skip is at worst harmless, putting stuff into someone else's skip is disgusting savagery.
― neith moon (ledge), Monday, 28 September 2020 13:02 (three years ago) link
where else am I supposed to dump the bodies smart guy?
― Mille scampeaux (Noodle Vague), Monday, 28 September 2020 13:14 (three years ago) link
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!
― calzino, Monday, 28 September 2020 14:20 (three years ago) link
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
― 好 now 烧烤 (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 08:05 (three years ago) link
lonely guy just thinking baout things
― Monte Scampino (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 10:28 (three years ago) link
guy in background with mask pulled down touching his face is also very real england tbh
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 17:57 (three years ago) link
I thought I would brighten up the day it’s raining outside cheers pic.twitter.com/QkJJKbP2Oj— gerald stratford (@geraldstratfor3) September 30, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 18:34 (three years ago) link
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!
― calzino, Wednesday, 30 September 2020 19:54 (three years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EjLVskHWAAosm_E?format=jpg&name=medium
― calzino, Wednesday, 30 September 2020 19:58 (three years ago) link
The carrot you see in the tub photo is the one in today’s tweet cheers— gerald stratford (@geraldstratfor3) September 30, 2020
― calzino, Wednesday, 30 September 2020 20:43 (three years ago) link
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
― seumas milm (gyac), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 17:35 (three years ago) link
"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
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 6 October 2020 17:38 (three years ago) link
Ffs Alphie I have that shit muted on twitter
― seumas milm (gyac), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 17:40 (three years ago) link
I made a comment under a thread that retweeted that video that got me 21 likes and I'm proud of myself.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 6 October 2020 17:47 (three years ago) link
Is that the most likes you ever got? Pffft.
― seumas milm (gyac), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 18:03 (three years ago) link
I take what I can get
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 6 October 2020 18:09 (three years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Tuesday, 6 October 2020 18:26 (three years ago) link
https://t.co/G89xFvEvWh— The News, Portsmouth (@portsmouthnews) October 14, 2020
― Ilxor in the streets, Scampo in the sheets (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 08:31 (three years ago) link
‘I did the second one sober… it was horrible’
― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 08:53 (three years ago) link
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.
― Ilxor in the streets, Scampo in the sheets (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 09:26 (three years ago) link
^ Real (England) Talk
― The Wealth Dad $ |_/ (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 10:00 (three years ago) link
the wigan chippy video that has amused Americans this last week or so
― here comes the hotstamper (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 20:27 (three years ago) link
could really go a roll and pie rn tbh
― here comes the hotstamper (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 20:28 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/5IHsEjy.png
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 23 October 2020 12:26 (three years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ElXSuAJX0AA7x8v?format=jpg&name=900x900
― calzino, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 23:29 (three years ago) link
Lol
― Politically homely (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 04:57 (three years ago) link
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!
― calzino, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 08:38 (three years ago) link
Those are Earl Brutus lyrics I swear
― imago, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 08:55 (three years ago) link
actual extract from john lanchester's capital
― mark s, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 12:56 (three years ago) link
>> I have to return some videotapes. The Hangover 2, absolute classic haha
― kinder, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 13:35 (three years ago) link
I have been laughing at this all day. pic.twitter.com/faK89utkui— Daniel Howdon (@danielhowdon) October 28, 2020
Inevitable
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 14:06 (three years ago) link