Real England

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!

Those are Earl Brutus lyrics I swear

actual extract from john lanchester's capital

>> I have to return some videotapes. The Hangover 2, absolute classic haha

I have been laughing at this all day. pic.twitter.com/faK89utkui

— Daniel Howdon (@danielhowdon) October 28, 2020

Inevitable

lol what is that

last night I got back from the bar & tried to describe a particular British man-type me & my friend identified pic.twitter.com/D7LDkInsK5

— hannah proctor (@hhnnccnnll) November 19, 2016

Posted in 2016 and left-ish, 30-something Twitter has never recovered.

oh
thanks!

1 skeleton in a German uniform = 1 respect pic.twitter.com/rFcwYRuz1u

— Scott (@scottwilks) November 6, 2020