Real England

even though the Torygraph piece is just a half-arsed copy and paste platitudes job I think he sincerely does relate to the queen because he too knows the pain of being accused of shielding a nonce.

genuinely terrifying

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/sKc1gHwI3D

— Roger Mellie (@RogerMellie67) June 2, 2022

That's has to be Belfast or Glasgow, not England.

Apparently Glasgow, but they so seem very keen to be part of England.

I think it's a Rangers' fans bar in Glasgow innit?

it's The Bristol in the east end of Glasgow - notorious before this as a real hotbed of violence and sectarianism, no surprises they've fully leaned into this

troll decor

hate bunting

shitbunting

Apparently Glasgow, but they so seem very keen to be part of England.

No, they're very keen to be part of the UK, big difference.

They think lol

Regardless of their loyalties, it looks like a miserable, soul-destroying dump to get for a pint

it's The Bristol in the east end of Glasgow

i was horrified to discover there are 3 jubilee events happening in Glasgow this weekend. The Church Of Scotland have organised a street party in Possil and there are two others at undisclosed locations - they are patently trying to keep it on the lowdown but it's fairly obvious where they will be. i hope to stealthily take down at least one UJ flag before the end of the weekend. FTQ, 4 ever!

They think lol

It's the only way to make the concept of the UK work after all.

As well as living close to the above-mentioned Bristol Bar and its delightful neighbour The Loudon Tavern, I also regularly run through Bridgeton, where there's a pub called The Windsor Bar and lots of very dispiriting street decorations at the best of times, let alone right now. The heavies were out in force putting up flags on lampposts last night up and down the main roads in these parts. I have to try and disguise my look of incredulous disgust while running by. We're braced for some kind of nonsense around here over the weekend, sadly.

A walk around a couple of areas of Edinburgh yesterday revealed no bunting whatsoever, although apparently there's a big screen in Princes Street Gardens for royalists to view the festivities on while among their own kind. Fucked if I'm going anywhere near to find out how busy it is though.

Very few flags or bullshit around our walk today (London) from Denmark Hill through the edges of Brixton, even into the posh parts of Stockwell, Little Portugal going into Nine Elms and then on into Pimlico. We unfortunately decided to walk onto Charing Cross to get back SE. There were some crowds around the latter coming on into 6pm but not too bad.

It was ALL very quiet of royalists until we got to the Traf. Sq. Nobody here cares.

I haven't seen a single flag in my area. I've avoided watching anything about this on TV but could it be that it hasn't lived up to the hype?

some arsehole has hoisted a flag to a lamppost around the corner, but they could only get high enough with their B+Q stepladder or their stack of milk crates or whatever they used that it is well below half mast at best and looks a bit ridiculous considering she's not officially dead yet! I'm disappointed to hear the Ouzelwell estate is hosting a jubilee party tomorrow. It used to be hardcore when I lived there - I once saw a drunk guy almost get shot dead by a WYP armed response unit from the kitchen window of my flat for pointing a broken unloaded air pistol at a kid! Now it's gone terminally middle class it seems.

Nothing is going to to this.

So a hologram of the queen drove through London in a golden carriage today. And people waved at it. They waved at a hologram. pic.twitter.com/hxRFzFp2N7

— Barry Malone (@malonebarry) June 5, 2022

The weekend's real jubilee event

Multiple INJURIES after 2022 Jubilee Cheese Rolling Contest in the UK. The annual event returned to Gloucestershire after a 2 year hiatus to celebrate the Jubilee #Jubilee #JubileeWeekend #cheeserolling #platinumjubilee @MailOnlineVideo @SunVideo pic.twitter.com/AU1pO9y2Nf

— Urban Pictures (@Urban_Pictures) June 5, 2022

Yikes! pic.twitter.com/KJUJ5ch6hC

— Mukhtar (@The_onlyMukhtar) June 5, 2022

look at how he’s moving his body, it’s like the ghost of the pharoahs is tickling his balls

Arrests after Jubilee party descends into 20-person brawl https://t.co/o8fAPITPIy

— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) June 5, 2022

Well they would invite Harry and Meghan to the same party as Kate and Wills.

Monsters of Royal

A walk around a couple of areas of Edinburgh yesterday revealed no bunting whatsoever, although apparently there's a big screen in Princes Street Gardens for royalists to view the festivities on while among their own kind.

There's some bunting on the Union Canal but it turns out it's just left over from its 200th anniversary a few weeks ago.

I did see a bit of bunting etc in a few Glasgow charity shops, but that was about it. No sign of a single street party.

I'm sure they had some out in Lanarkshire and Ayrshire.

copyright subsists in Del Boy as a literary work under English law

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhRaaU9-Jg4

the Binley Mega Chippy song has been stuck in my head all week

it seems a bit expensive for one lot of fish & chips, but then again he did get beans, curry sauce, gravy and mushy peas!

my local chippy is much cheaper and the proprietor, Paul is a certified master chef and was once presented with the Best Chips Award by Keith Chegwin (beating off some stiff competition no doubt) and he used to be the personal chef of Prince Andrew, but doesn't like to talk about it so much now!

the last time I went last month I got 1 fish & chips, 2 portions of chips (in much more generous proportions than seen in the vid), 2 large cups of curry sauce, 2 large cups of mushy peas and two portions of collops and I still had a fiver in my change from a 20 spot. I'd just simply refuse to pay London prices in Coventry!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS93y0-YEhc

Subtitles for the Scottish guy. Nice.

Let's hope Limmy never sees this.

Rainy fascism island had a good run.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/wet-wipe-island-has-changed-course-of-thames-d2nqt9hwd

Andrew Gwynne, Labour MP for Denton and Reddish in Greater Manchester, said that wet wipe pollution was turning riverbanks into “a horrific scene from a Nightmare Before Christmas”, a reference to the Tim Burton’s dark fantasy film about a Halloween world populated by mummies, skeletons and monsters.

My heads gone. The most British fella I've ever seen pic.twitter.com/daBLfxzaNC

— Samuel Parry (@WelshSocialism) July 19, 2022

lol!

I love how he goes from aggressive threatening talk to clown totally shitting out

"Real" England

I think that probably is real, actually.

if it's fake then he is now my favourite actor

sometimes fake is realer than real

I was with it up until the pratfall

British heat wave. pic.twitter.com/672dk6azig

— GRITCULT (@GRITCULT) July 18, 2022

A worthwhile meander around the mumsnet forums tonight pic.twitter.com/ybZEPouk1c

— Kate Hewson (@katejhewson) August 8, 2022

i need to know how this story ends + pictures of nonplussed cats sitting at a little table with tiny dishes of shrew ice cream