https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbD4WBqPg4
Not sure where else to put this!
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Monday, 27 February 2023 10:21 (one year ago) link
👍 Best #MatchOfTheDay episode in years.⚽️ Had all the goals in 🤫No ‘expert’ analysis🍺 And finished quicker than usual so I could make the pub for last orders. What’s not to like 🤷♂️ pic.twitter.com/Ky35Dexmd0— Scott Benton MP 🇬🇧🏴 🍊 (@ScottBentonMP) March 11, 2023
― LaMDA barry-stanners (||||||||), Sunday, 12 March 2023 11:17 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1578092708329029644/unK7LoRx_400x400.jpg
this looks like an AI generated picture that was created from a dataset of photos of all the 2019 tory new intake (plus a few Apprentice contestants)
― soref, Sunday, 12 March 2023 11:36 (one year ago) link
tbf he's used to watching football live for nothing
n July 2021, it was reported by The Guardian that Benton was one of nine MPs from different political parties who had accepted tickets to high-profile sporting events as hospitality from betting and gambling companies. He received tickets to Royal Ascot, two Euro 2020 football games and Wimbledon.[
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Sunday, 12 March 2023 11:47 (one year ago) link
Some choice replies to that tweet.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Sunday, 12 March 2023 11:50 (one year ago) link
"like all normal lads i wait for Match of the Day to finish before i decide to go to the pub on a Saturday night"
― satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 12 March 2023 11:56 (one year ago) link
Got to the pub for his usual turnip stout
― nashwan, Sunday, 12 March 2023 15:35 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1prYNQpO7w
Hadersfild
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Friday, 7 April 2023 19:25 (one year ago) link
a Serbian film called Huddersfield, that's a strange one.
― calzino, Friday, 7 April 2023 19:36 (one year ago) link
We’ve had to stop people fighting and urinating in their seats’: the ugly new side of theatre audiences
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 10 April 2023 20:54 (one year ago) link
You wouldn't have seen that kind of behaviour at Shakespeare's Globe in Elizabethan times.
― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 17:24 (one year ago) link
Where else could this happen but Grays
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/11/essex-pub-landlady-benice-ryley-replaces-golliwog-doll-collection-that-was-seized-by-police
Ryley denied that she or her husband were racist. “I’m not a racist in any form.” She confirmed that her husband had been photographed in a T-shirt from the far-right group Britain First. She said: “I don’t think Chris is a supporter of Britain First, he was just wearing that shirt because it was convenient at the time.”
― hellboy falling through the bar (Matt #2), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 21:14 (one year ago) link
I read the whole article and literally lolled when I got to those lines.
― ledge, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 21:20 (one year ago) link
Tony Daly, who manages a nearby charity shop, said the dolls made his “blood boil” and said he was shocked they had been on display in such a diverse area.
I think that chazza is the one I had a nose around in on a recent and ill-advised sojourn to the fine hamlet of Grays! The guy working there was chatting with some customers about Michael Jackson, the gist of the conversation being that MJ must be innocent of everything he was ever accused of. Not sure how they came to that conclusion tbh. Can't be certain it was him either so I might be maligning the fellow. The books, by the way, were arranged on the shelves by spine colour, it was very odd.
― hellboy falling through the bar (Matt #2), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 22:24 (one year ago) link
The books, by the way, were arranged on the shelves by spine colour
Charity shop down the road from me does the same - completely useless unless you're looking for Penguin lol
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 22:40 (one year ago) link
Read about the allotment lady and allotment wars.
Re the food bank allotment lady whose garden got salted - Mum told me there was a survey in The Times of which 5% of people admitted (ADMITTED) to sabotaging other plots. British gardening is a cutthroat and horrible culture— the sloop johnbie (@fireh9lly) April 12, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 13 April 2023 13:07 (one year ago) link
Only 5%?
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 April 2023 13:15 (one year ago) link
friend of mine once wanted to piss on Stanley Gene's cabbages but only because fuck Rovers tbh
― zing me with your best zhot (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 13 April 2023 14:44 (one year ago) link
wouldn't want to get doing that, especially by Stanley Gene
― calzino, Thursday, 13 April 2023 14:49 (one year ago) link
caught
― calzino, Thursday, 13 April 2023 14:50 (one year ago) link
therein lies the thrill
― contrapuntal aversion (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 13 April 2023 14:52 (one year ago) link
it's easy to imagine lots of hatred and murderous intent bubbling under the genteel facade of the Gardeners' Question Time studio audience
― calzino, Thursday, 13 April 2023 15:19 (one year ago) link
"Yea milord, verily shall thy subjects quaff deeply of the Pepsi Max Cherry on thy crowning day; huzzah!" pic.twitter.com/8HE0i9fKeZ— Tina Kover (@tinakover) April 13, 2023
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Friday, 14 April 2023 10:15 (one year ago) link
This’ll get the young ‘uns fired up. https://www.northnorfolknews.co.uk/news/national/23455417.council-official-t-dawg-makes-rap-video-photo-id-reminder-voters/
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 14 April 2023 20:00 (one year ago) link
fuck it i managed a line and a half and my toes may never uncurl again
― contrapuntal aversion (Noodle Vague), Friday, 14 April 2023 20:45 (one year ago) link
deary me pic.twitter.com/vyASZXZjUJ— migra falko (@migrafalko) April 20, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 20 April 2023 10:36 (one year ago) link
beautiful short film about England
#StGeorgesDay2023 Trafalgar Square. London. Be there or be square. ❤️ pic.twitter.com/jCz2YEyveS— #DontBeABystander 🍅 (@Nikhedonia11) April 23, 2023
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 23 April 2023 21:03 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FuZ-TLnXgAAVHe3?format=jpg&name=medium
how/why does one become a pearly king or queen? I know they do charity stuff. Is there a particular demographic?
― he thinks it's chinese money (soref), Sunday, 23 April 2023 21:19 (one year ago) link
Is it not a family thing?
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Sunday, 23 April 2023 22:19 (one year ago) link
it wasn't just racists that decided to become pearly kings & queens...
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 24 April 2023 06:49 (one year ago) link
The reporter identified her politics accurately pic.twitter.com/P9w8od5UG4— James (@fredfelt) April 26, 2023
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 16:11 (one year ago) link
the artisans at the celebrations factory have been busy:
https://i.imgur.com/3Zseh56.png
― mark s, Thursday, 27 April 2023 12:01 (one year ago) link
At the Saturday craft market in town, a guy walking around wearing a 'no-one knows I'm a lesbian' t-shirt.
― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Saturday, 29 April 2023 12:35 (one year ago) link
pic.twitter.com/5O1QBodFKv— No Context Brits (@NoContextBrits) May 5, 2023
― mark s, Friday, 5 May 2023 19:54 (one year ago) link
Really good writing. Harrowing stuff, about life in this country.
https://t.co/QfswzZEBxh— horses noise (@HINIONGE) May 9, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 20:30 (one year ago) link
^^brutal read, and matches my different-but-same experiences in getting any help from UK care services(also the appearance of an IRL old friend halfway thru the story knocked the stuffing out of me ;_;)
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 9 May 2023 21:40 (one year ago) link
Too much too familiar to finish that tonight
― contrapuntal aversion (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 9 May 2023 22:08 (one year ago) link
Aw man, I know that guy (the writer of the article), was Twitter pals back when I was on it, briefly knew him IRL too, fuck
― imago, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 22:13 (one year ago) link
Yeah, me too.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 00:07 (one year ago) link
it makes me sadly think about old friends who have either died or disappeared off my radar in the last decade. Some of them might be struggling on elsewhere, some of them I'm almost certain they must be dead by now.
― calzino, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 07:00 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FxNXNhtXgAADtbv?format=jpg&name=small
the van-driving yeomanry classes are revolting
― calzino, Sunday, 28 May 2023 10:52 (eleven months ago) link
that van doesn't look like a van should, way too clean and neat and with all sorts of 'stylish' bodywork features. certainly a luxury van
― imago, Sunday, 28 May 2023 10:56 (eleven months ago) link
as a posho, I know a posh van when I see one, you can tell from the handshake. probably thinks of Pimlico Plumbers as common
― imago, Sunday, 28 May 2023 10:57 (eleven months ago) link
lazy English workmen, can't even be bothered to update the prime minister's name
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 28 May 2023 11:00 (eleven months ago) link
I used to work with the guy that owns it, he's probably one of the most objectionable people I've ever met in my life. I gave my notice at the company and told them it's bad enough living around the corner from this a-hole, I don't want to see him every day at work as well. The boss agreed that he's a colossal arsehole and very hard to deal with on a daily basis, but he's also a very productive one and never takes days off!
― calzino, Sunday, 28 May 2023 11:01 (eleven months ago) link
last line needs three exclamation marks
― mark s, Sunday, 28 May 2023 11:04 (eleven months ago) link
wishing calz's foe a very cost of vanning crisis
― imago, Sunday, 28 May 2023 11:06 (eleven months ago) link
"But he's a hard worker" is the employment equivalent of "But they've got a good personality".
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Sunday, 28 May 2023 11:20 (eleven months ago) link
yep, behind nearly every workplace arsehole is an enabler
I've talked to 3 other people who previously worked with him and they were all in agreement that working with him was way too stressful and his unacceptably awful behaviour is enabled by a management clique who think he's a "character". One of them told me he got walled by a 19 yr old Labourer after running his mouth and was so humiliated he never returned to that site. Heh! I'd have loved to have been a fly on the wall.
― calzino, Sunday, 28 May 2023 11:51 (eleven months ago) link
I mis-read that as Labrador
― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Sunday, 28 May 2023 13:08 (eleven months ago) link