Real England

therein lies the thrill

it's easy to imagine lots of hatred and murderous intent bubbling under the genteel facade of the Gardeners' Question Time studio audience

"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

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/

fuck it i managed a line and a half and my toes may never uncurl again

deary me pic.twitter.com/vyASZXZjUJ

— migra falko (@migrafalko) April 20, 2023

beautiful short film about England

#StGeorgesDay2023 Trafalgar Square. London. Be there or be square. ❤️ pic.twitter.com/jCz2YEyveS

— #DontBeABystander 🍅 (@Nikhedonia11) April 23, 2023

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?

Is it not a family thing?

it wasn't just racists that decided to become pearly kings & queens...

The reporter identified her politics accurately pic.twitter.com/P9w8od5UG4

— James (@fredfelt) April 26, 2023

the artisans at the celebrations factory have been busy:

https://i.imgur.com/3Zseh56.png

At the Saturday craft market in town, a guy walking around wearing a 'no-one knows I'm a lesbian' t-shirt.

pic.twitter.com/5O1QBodFKv

— No Context Brits (@NoContextBrits) May 5, 2023

Really good writing. Harrowing stuff, about life in this country.

https://t.co/QfswzZEBxh

— horses noise (@HINIONGE) May 9, 2023

^^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 ;_;)

Too much too familiar to finish that tonight

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

Yeah, me too.

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.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FxNXNhtXgAADtbv?format=jpg&name=small

the van-driving yeomanry classes are revolting

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

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

lazy English workmen, can't even be bothered to update the prime minister's name

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!

last line needs three exclamation marks

wishing calz's foe a very cost of vanning crisis

"But he's a hard worker" is the employment equivalent of "But they've got a good personality".

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.

I mis-read that as Labrador

that would have been good as well!

My opinion is that if someone's an arsehole, it doesn't matter how good they are at their job. Their behaviour is having a negative effect on their co-workers.

It doesn't matter what skills they have, they're a net loss and need to go. Especially if they in any sense come into contact with customers.

Obviously but if management think they're useful they turn a blind eye. Speaking from experience here as there's one particular guy where I work with who is a horrendous bully, just completely unemployable anywhere else, but because he works really hard and knows his job inside out he's allowed to get away with - despite all the anti-bullying/harrassment programmes and schemes and box ticking shite management bombard us with. The other factor is that he's a snitch and an inside man and when I worked with him he would spend an hour in the manager's office every morning telling her - whether she wanted to hear it or not - how badly everyone had done their job the day before. When we got a new overall manager I tried to gather lots of evidence on his horrible behaviour to present to her - all that happened is I got moved on and he quickly made himself indispensable to her by bypassing his line manager and going directly to her to inform on his colleagues. Thankfully I don't have to work with him anymore!

You can’t park there mate. pic.twitter.com/rv7I0XeaxH

— No Context Brits (@NoContextBrits) July 13, 2023

what the hell is going on here

gonna have to reanimate tennyson for this one

I'm guessing by the amount of fat people present it's some far right protest.

ℹ️ Due to an incident on the pitch occurring shortly after half time, tonight's match has been abandoned by the referee.#WorClub ⚪️⚫️

— Gateshead FC (@GatesheadFC) July 21, 2023

What the fuck Dunston v Gateshead #DunstonUTS pic.twitter.com/3sZGLZVh7t

— 𝘼𝙡𝙚𝙭𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧 🌹 (@AlexanderSoper) July 21, 2023

beat summary

Lmao the "incident" was two cars - one of them a fucking hearse! - driven round the pitch by armed men throwing leaflets out the windows claiming someone at the football club is a paedophile https://t.co/t2I5URi1zw

— Samplo Corvodina (@TreborRhurbarb) July 21, 2023

this is "thread completed" territory

"What the fuck is goin' on?"

I want that written on my tombstone.

I wonder if the paedo accusation is part of the larger Qbert bullshit

he also ran as a tory in local elections in 2007 and did worse than the bnp pic.twitter.com/A2S0l4CyqB

— chris (@ChrisKPH) July 21, 2023

I'm sure this Wraith character has popped up on here before, same surname as my corporeal and extremely loud next door neighbours

I'm more interested in the hearse, complete with flowers, doing donuts and then being abandoned. did they steal it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rOfJAbIJ-8

i mean i can see someone not locking a hearse because who'd steal one?

Leeds, 1980s.

Photo © Peter Mitchell. pic.twitter.com/vlwILcy7lv

— British Culture Archive (@britcultarchive) August 16, 2023