Adam's guide to BRITISH culture

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Ask away. Dean can go first.

I also don't know who Ross Kemp and Les Dennis are. The british Ben Stillers?

-- cousin larry bundgee: the next generation, season two (bge...), July 13th, 2005.

Gameshow host and children's entertainer LES DENNIS
http://www.ananova.com/images/entertainment/familyfortunes1PA410x309.jpg

TV hardman ROSS KEMP
http://www.hellomagazine.com/profiles/rosskemp/rosskempb.jpg

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 21 July 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

what's beef tea?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 21 July 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

TO MAKE BEEF TEA

Recipe By :
Serving Size : 1 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Penndutch Soups

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
-------- ------------ --------------------------------
1 lb Beef **
1 c Water
1 t Salt

** prime lean beef
Put beef through a food grinder using a coarse knife.
Place in top of double boiler and add the water.
Simmer over a very low flame about 3-1/2 hours. Add
salt. Strain and keep liquid in a cool place. If too
strong, it may be diluted with some boiling water to
strength desired. Source: Pennsylvania Dutch Cook
Book - Fine Old Recipes, Culinary Arts Press, 1936.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 21 July 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

Jellied EEL
http://www.me-ltd.biz/Jellied%20eel%20pieces%20pf.jpg

DEEP FRIED MARS BAR
http://fishsupper.brinkster.net/dominics/images/jpg/friedmars.jpg

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 21 July 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

so it really is... like... BEEF TEA?!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 21 July 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

yes

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 21 July 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

who is bill oddy?

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 21 July 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

i thought it was some thing where you had tea and cakes and some beef!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 21 July 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

adam do you have a CRUMPETS RECIPE?

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 21 July 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

is it good?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 21 July 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

what is a shilling?

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 21 July 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

Bill Oddie is WICKED and SAFE!

Here are some representative images:

http://www.sussexwt.org.uk/exploresussex/es_images/bill_oddie.jpg
http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/02/22/thegoodiesthen_wideweb__430x253.jpg

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 21 July 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

CRUMPETS

1 tablespoon yeast
2 teaspoons sugar
1 1/4 cups milk
1 1/4 cups water
4 cups flour
2 teaspoons salt
1/4 tsp baking soda
1 tablespoon warm water
2 teaspoon butter

Dissolve baking soda into warm water in a large bowl Add yeast, sugar, milk, water and salt to the bowl and stir.
Stir in flour then cover bowl with plastic wrap and leave overnight or in a warm place until mixture doubles and starts to bubble.
Divide dough into two equal round pieces.
Heat a teaspoon of butter in a non-stick frying pan over low heat. Add a crumpet and cook until brown on both sides.
Repeat with the second.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 21 July 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

do you like crumpets? i think they sound kinda boring

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 21 July 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

Before decimalisation in 1971, a shilling had a value of 12d (old pence), and was equal to 1/20th of a pound: there were 240 (old) pence to the pound.) Post-decimalisation, "shilling" refers to the 5p coin, which is still worth 1/20th of a pound, because there are 100 new pence in a pound.

The name shilling is believed to come from old Scandinavian skilling, meaning a division, or a mark on a stick.

xp-crumpets are good

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 21 July 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

Do people still watch this woman?

http://web.ukonline.co.uk/david.dell/trisha/trisha4.jpg

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 21 July 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

Also Caitlin, you seem like a nice bit o' crumpet.

In the 1930s, the word became British English slang for a woman regarded as an object of sexual desire. No doubt men remembered their schooldays and associated female pulchritude with something tasty. (In the 1960s the British broadcaster Joan Bakewell was infamously described, in a quote attributed to the late Frank Muir, as “the thinking man’s crumpet”.) It was earlier a slang term for the head, and also served for a while as a term of endearment (as in P G Wodehouse’s Eggs, Beans and Crumpets).

xp YES

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 21 July 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

do british people have bar mitzvahs?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 21 July 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

WOT IS A CLIFE RICHARD?

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 21 July 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

Also mrs Adam wants us to go to a taping of THIS MAN'S show when we are in the UK. She is obsessed with his talk show on Capital Radio where people phone in and confess their personal evils.

xpdo british people have bar mitzvahs?

Want to see the video of mine?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 21 July 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

he is british elvis.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 21 July 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

http://home.graffiti.net/poisonpopcorn/pics/cliffy.gif

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 21 July 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

I think the British Elvis was actually Tommy Steele.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 21 July 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

why does the lady love Milk Tray and not "a Milk Tray"?

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 21 July 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

adam will you do a guide to CALIFORNIA culture so that we can figure out how many pseudonyms dean has these days?

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 21 July 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

adam digitize your bar mitzvah video NOW!!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 21 July 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

Because a milk tray is a piece of farm equipment.

xp-yes

xxp-It's at my parent's house!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 21 July 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

As for my barmitzvah, I think I mentioned on ILE that my parents hired an actor who posed as a comedy waiter, served pork to the rabbi, pretended to be drunk, and finally got up on stage and started singing showtunes.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 21 July 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

did he secretly serve pork to the rabbi and never tell him?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 21 July 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

ALSO: BILLY J. KRAMER WAS BRITISH ELVIS

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 21 July 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

What is clotted cream?

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 21 July 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

is pudding like sausage?

― Boring Satanic Space Jazz (sexyDancer), Thursday, 21 July 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

no
WHO?
Thick, sweet cream
NO

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 21 July 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

is pudding tasty?

― Boring Satanic Space Jazz (sexyDancer), Thursday, 21 July 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

Depends on the flavo(u)r

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 21 July 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

how about black pudding?

― Boring Satanic Space Jazz (sexyDancer), Thursday, 21 July 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

BILLY J., THAT'S WHO!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 21 July 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

caitlin is a strumpet, not a crumpet.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 21 July 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

hstencil: wrong again!

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 21 July 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

i'm definitely a crumpet

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 21 July 2005 21:37 (twenty years ago)

people who say 'totty' must be exterminated.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 21 July 2005 22:52 (twenty years ago)

les dennis looks les creepy. won't someone think of the british children?

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 21 July 2005 23:26 (twenty years ago)

is adman the british jewish elvis or was that mark bolan?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 21 July 2005 23:27 (twenty years ago)

dougal!

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Friday, 22 July 2005 00:58 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

i have an important query for adam:

what are british people's hair like?

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 02:35 (twenty years ago)

I hear it is sooty, from all the chimney-sweeping and working in coal mines.

― haitch (haitch), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 02:51 (twenty years ago)

this thread needs more les dennis

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 02:53 (twenty years ago)

WHOM ISETH BRIAN LARA?

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 02:59 (twenty years ago)

where do britishes people come from? are they born like americans or do they hatch out of eggs like birdies

― latebloomer's rectal mocha latte (latebloomer), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 03:15 (twenty years ago)

gygax!, brian lara is not a british!

― haitch (haitch), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 05:32 (twenty years ago)

haha!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

I love this thread.

I hope that's not too arrogant a thing to say about one's own thread.

Mandee-British people's hair can vary. Men's hair can be very short but also slightly longer and messy. British women's hair tends to be rather coarse. Was this your experience of the hair of New Cross, London SE14?

This British is getting his hair cut today!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

$ DEAN

http://www.birmingham-rep.co.uk/data/multimedia/images/les-dennis-web.jpg
http://www.entertainers.co.uk/images/comedians/les-dennis/Les-Dennis.jpg
http://www.wcbnet.freeserve.co.uk/images/Les_Dennis.jpg
http://www.funny.co.uk/siteimages/101.jpg
ihttp://www.teamfishcake.co.uk/lesdennis/01.jpg
http://www.garbledonline.net/tvcommentkilledsaturdaynight.jpg

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

http://hometown.aol.com/salybia/FamousTrinis/lara.jpg

Brian was born in Cantaro, Santa Cruz, Trinidad and Tobago. He is 10th in a family of 11 children. His dad Bunty Lara passed away in 1988. His mother Pearl Lara suffered from cancer and died in January 2002. He is also the father of an eight-year-old daughter called Sydney with Trinidadian model Leseal Rovedas.

From an early age, Lara showed precocious talent. His father Bunty and one of his older sisters were first to recognize young Brian's exceptional batting talents and enrolled him in the local Harvard Coaching Clinic only at the age of six for weekly coaching sessions on Sundays. As a result, Lara had a very early education in proper batting techniques.

Lara's first school was St. Josephs Roman Catholic primary. Then he went to San Juan secondary, but played no cricket there. A year later, fourteen years old, he moved on to Fatima College. He moved in with his fellow Trinidadian test player Michael Carew in Woodbrook, Port-of-Spain (a 20 minute drive from Santa Cruz). Michael's dad Joey Carew was very instrumental in his cricketing & personal career development. Michael got Lara his first job at the Agostura Bitters in Marketing department. Lara played in Trinidad and Tobago junior soccer and table tennis sides, but cricket was always the path to recognition in Trinidad in those times. Lara wanted to emulate his idols: Greenidge, Richards and the left-handed Roy Fredericks.

Lara began his cricket career while at school in Fatima College. When he was 14, he played in the under-16 and First Divisions of national schoolboys' cricket. He amassed 745 runs in the schoolboys' league that year at an astounding average of 126.16 per innings. Immediately afterwards he was selected for the Trinidad national under-16 team. When he was 15 years old, he played in his first West Indian under 19 youth tournament. In 1984, Lara represented West Indies in Under-19 Test Cricket. 1987 was a breakthrough year for Lara, when he broke the West Indies youth batting record. In January, 1988, Lara made his first-class debut for Trinidad and Tobago in the Red Stripe Cup against Barbados. The Bajan attack contained Joel Garner and Malcolm Marshall. Lara batted nearly a full day and made 92. Later in the same year, he captained the West Indies team in Australia for the Bicentennial Youth World Cup. His innings of 182 as captain of the West Indies under 23 XI against the 1988-89 Indians elevated Lara's reputation even further. He was selected for the Port-of-Spain Test of that season. He did not play, however, and at the same time suffered the personal setback of the death of his father. In 1989, he captained West Indies B Team in Zimbabwe and scored 145 for the West Indies 'B' team in Zimbabwe, a side that included several players with Test experience. In 1990, at the age of 20, Lara became Trinidad and Tobago's youngest ever captain and won the one-day Geddes Grant Shield. It was also in 1990 that he made his Test debut for West Indies against Pakistan, scoring 44 & 6.

Lara loves carnivals, Chinese & Italian foods, and is known to be a practical jokester.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

I don't really know anything about cricket though, my second sports are GOLF and ICE HOCKEY.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

i like cricket, if only because they take lunch breaks.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

Do you play, Lauren?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

Adam's Guide to BRITISH (colony) Culture

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

The only colony I have visited is Belize.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

I'm colonizing California as we speak, though.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

i play lunch breaks, yes.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

You are colon-izing California.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

My colon is broken!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

EAT ONE VEGETABLE

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

I'm an inveterate consumer of vegetables.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

wow Trollville, what a fucking great come back from someone bearing the name of Tu-Pac Shakur, you fucking ass clown either learn some disses or stop using that name, id murder you im frestyle, not to mention PAC would have you killed, fucking American. Stop trying to be gangster and just be what you were born to be, consumerist shit not worth the cum on your mom's knickers. fucking basterd, the next emerican i meet will have to answer for alot, like all the racism they have dealt out over the years. Oh yea, by the way I am white, and I still fucking hate you, its colour not color you lazy fucks, man no wonder the whole world wants you to fucking die, you are lazy, fat as fuck, and arrogant as ever, God FUCKING bless the UNITED STATES of EMBARRASMENT. God bless. AND go fuck yourself too, "might" I add. Canada rocks.

-- Silas Althor (stoner_boy_1...), August 23rd, 2005.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

I believe that this person is from New Zealand.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

I have never heard of beef tea.

Also, Cricket takes tea breaks as well as hourly drinks breaks.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

Footballers drink pints at half time.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

I'm surprised that gygax's love of Malkmus hasn't imspired him to follow LUTON TOWN.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

They are doing okay.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

Brian was born in Cantaro, Santa Cruz, Trinidad and Tobago.

Interesting.

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

He was born in the neighborhood of Cantaro, which is in the town of Santa Cruz, which is on the islands of Trinidad & Tobago.

Does that make more sense now?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

Adam, I didn't have much experience with hair in New Cross, SE14. The few heads I had the opportunity to run my hands around were not unlike American crops.

Interesting, though.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

it is!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 03:26 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

scarlet pimpernel

― terry lennox. (gareth), Friday, 16 September 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/25/41262574_cb3989bfe2.jpg

― terry lennox. (gareth), Sunday, 25 September 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

adam can you explain this thread to me?

THE BAND WHO MAKE BABYSHAMBLES LOOK LIKE JAMES BLUNT

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

also can you explain dom passatino?

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

Both the Babyshambles and James Blunt are developments that have occurred since I left the UK, so Gareth is probably the best to answer this. I agree that all this sort of music (both the Blunt type and the Babyshambles type) seems utterly bizarre and dislikeable when you are outside Britain, but it makes a weird sort of sense when you are there.

As for Dom, I really don't know...bloody provincials.

(Hi Dom!)

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

babyshambles i have never heard. it is nme music, is it not?

james blunt i have never heard. it is bridget jones music, is it not?

passantino i have met once. he lives in leeds now, does he not?

― terry lennox. (gareth), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

"terry lennox" is correct on the first 2 at least. I don't know where dom passatino lives. He is inexplicable, anyway.

(both the Blunt type and the Babyshambles type) seems utterly bizarre and dislikeable when you are outside Britain, but it makes a weird sort of sense when you are there.

I'm inside britain. both james blunt and babyshambles are just flat out dislikeable shit.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

i dunno anything about them. i havent watched television since 2002

― terry lennox. (gareth), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

i saw a poster once though. well, i see it every day, its on holloway road, and it advertises a james blunt record.

i saw el hadji diouf score a goal once and, blunt, let me tell you, you are no dioufy

― terry lennox. (gareth), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

Actually, james blunt, you know that weird octave pitch jump that dolores from the cranberries used to do when she was singing, and it was like scrotum clenchingly annoying after you'd heard it 3 times? Well james blunt is like someone trying to copy al stewart's singing style, plus he wants to do that dolores cranberry thing as well. His records are fucking horrible, and ALL OVER THE RADIO over here.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

What happened to Hadji?

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

I haven't watched tv since 2000, i think, except for when i see it when i'm waiting in the chinese takeaway. Once I was in there, and james blunt was on the telly doing that "you're beautiful" thing. I thought he looked a bit like that tit from bright eyes' older brother.

babyshambles is just a stupid soap opera. The music is irrelevant (and shit)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

who is hadji?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

i never listen to radio either.

i read dissensus once, it said that there were loads of grime stations in london, but when i turn them on they are either playing 50 cent, 187 lockdown or gat decor. perhaps if i moved out of inner london i would hear more of this urban music?

― terry lennox. (gareth), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

by 'urban', i mean 'grime', not 'dioufy', '50', or 'james blunt' and his 'poster'

― terry lennox. (gareth), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

Watford

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

britain is shit isnt it?

― terry lennox. (gareth), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

not at all.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

I'd like to live there 2-3 months out of every year. The "good months".

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

Not if you moved up here. It's still trance and whatever that stuff is that sounds like msx fm from grand theft auto, and i think it will be forever. I kind of strongly suspect that grime is and was basically a local scene.

I listen to the radio when i'm driving to and from work, but not otherwise.

Is roll deep "grime"? I haven't a fucking clue, to be honest.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

august 1965, june 1992 and december 1989?

― terry lennox. (gareth), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

they are grime, but their album isn't.

xp if you say so

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

Britain is total shit, yes. Apart from the countryside in some places, I suppose. If we didn't have as kid, I'd emigrate now if I could.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

Everything that I thought was shit about Britain - newspapers, London Transport, rain, genteel tv detectives, golf, King's Cross, sportswear - I love now.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

Countryside is good.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

Shit:
newspapers
golf
King's Cross
sportswear

Not shit:
London Transport
rain

Don't know
genteel tv detectives.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

golf is great

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

British golf, I mean. Golf "British-style". American golf is for Republicans.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

whats wrong with kings cross?

brit tv detectives are not as good as american tv detectives (esp in the golden age, 68-78)

― terry lennox. (gareth), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

It doesn't really do it for me, I'm afraid, Adam.

I passed through King's Cross earlier this year, when I was going to the new Brompton bike launch. All the buildings look like they're about to fall down (an exaggeration, I know, but it is a bit grotty)

Here is a video clip of the arctic monkeys, btw, for those of you who read that babyshambles thread or that nme thread or what the fuck ever:

http://www.k-i-l-l.tv/dancefloor_wmv.WMV

Apparently this band just "stormed britain". I don't get it.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

they stormed the pages of the guardian you mean

― terry lennox. (gareth), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

I don't know, probably? I don't read the guardian anymore, I just buy a week's worth of issues every saturday, and give them to my wife to read.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

Artic Monkeys are to The Libertines as Jet were to The Strokes.

I've just left Leeds anyway (apart from inevitable resists), and am currently looking for residence in our nation's capital.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 06:17 (twenty years ago)

As for Dom, I really don't know...bloody provincials.

Northampton is an county administrative centre, how can we be provincial? Just like... Bedford.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 06:25 (twenty years ago)

why are english people so ugly

what is wrong with them

― webber (webber), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 06:30 (twenty years ago)

dom passantino explanation:

articulated monkey

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 10:51 (twenty years ago)

i saw el hadji diouf score a goal once

and once only LOLOLLOLLOLL

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

Dom is a good sport.

I don't like Kings Cross, apart from the King motif of the station building itself, and the Scala.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

Hi Dom!

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

i've watched television with terry lennox, well after the 2002 claim above.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

http://www.queencheetah.com/Thundercats/9_11_lionO.jpg

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

do you mean that time you watched big brother? i may have glanced in the direction of your television, but i'm not entirely sure that constitutes watching it

and, any assertions of mine, should be taken as guidelines, rather than hard and fast rules.

― terry lennox. (gareth), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

it's okay that you lie. As long as you do it well

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

there were several times. i was actually thinking of the time that you decided blink 182 were your new favorite band.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

that was a wonderful time.

― terry lennox. (gareth), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

i might come visit at xmas time.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

bbbbut why would you do that?

Oh right...A Britishes girl likes you.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

duh.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

daerest adam,

britishes pop star pete doherty has composed a theme song for his football club, "queens park rangers".

"My song is a ska number. It goes like this: I'll be, I'll be there / And just before I hit the bar / With the ghost of Rodney Marsh in his pre-smug pundit days / Before he sold Rangers down the Swanee / With Gerry Francis's offshore money / It's a toss-up between Mick Jones / And a consortium from the Middle Eastern equivalent of Barrett Homes / I'll be, I'll be there / With blue and white ticker tape in my hair / Up the Rs / Up the Rs / Up the Rs / What a life on Mars."

my question to you: could this be improved if a guest verse from john barnes were added?

― BUCK BUCK, nice shot (haitch), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 02:41 (twenty years ago)

What is John Barnes doing these days?

Answer to your question: probably.

I like QPR, they're alright.

I've heard about two songs that feature Pete Doherty. I'm blissfilly ignorant of his work.

― knife (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

John Bar-ness, of making the crowd go bananas fame, currently is part of Five's football pundit line-up.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

Adam,

do you know of Baby Blue? my friend is taking pix of her for some magazine soon. i listened and she was kinda weak grime/uk hip hop. i can't tell if i think she's cute or not.

― jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

I know her solely for her work on "London (Fuck New York)" but I saw she has a mixtape out.

I don't know what she looks like.

― knife (nordicskilla), Thursday, 27 October 2005 00:06 (twenty years ago)

http://www.babyblueonline.com/

― jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 27 October 2005 01:41 (twenty years ago)

http://www.babyblueonline.com/gallery1.htm

― knife (nordicskilla), Thursday, 27 October 2005 01:54 (twenty years ago)

she looks really good here
http://www.babyblueonline.com/gallery3.htm

but not so good here
http://www.babyblueonline.com/gallery4.htm

― jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 27 October 2005 01:58 (twenty years ago)

it's the shoes

― knife (nordicskilla), Thursday, 27 October 2005 02:02 (twenty years ago)

I wasn't so hot on the song in the video :(

Also, I'd hit it~!

― jdubz (ex machina), Thursday, 27 October 2005 02:04 (twenty years ago)

yeah, the song in the video sux

― jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 27 October 2005 02:08 (twenty years ago)

adam,

are they ever going to make another series of NY:LON?

NY:LON fan,
Mandee

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 27 October 2005 03:39 (twenty years ago)

what's NY:LON?

― knife (nordicskilla), Thursday, 27 October 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH NYLON

UGH

― jdubz (ex machina), Thursday, 27 October 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/z/zzbritishhustlethesou_101b.jpg

― F.R.I.E.N.D. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 October 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

how is that cd?

― jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 28 October 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

great

― F.R.I.E.N.D. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 October 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

actually, I mean good.

― F.R.I.E.N.D. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 October 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

http://www.bangface.com/texts/text_alerts_big.jpg

― terry lennox. (gareth), Friday, 4 November 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1862074631.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

is this the robinson you once were?

― terry lennox. (gareth), Saturday, 24 December 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

PHONED GOT BANGED

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Saturday, 24 December 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

or is it this?

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00092ZE5K.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― calderdale in the 70s (gareth), Saturday, 24 December 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...

I clicked on the link to the other message board on the 'Marcello Carlin threatened with violence' thread and it turned out that the threat was, "I will chin you."

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 8 July 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.bangface.com/raves/bf32/bangchat5.jpg

― XD (eman), Saturday, 8 July 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

who will guide us on britsh culture now ;______;

― hella somethin' Gwen Stefani pantwork (haitch), Sunday, 9 July 2006 05:03 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/05/15/britain.lollipops.noise.bars/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

― (jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Friday, 15 May 2009 23:04 (sixteen years ago)

LOLlipops obv

― Dim Cardassian (latebloomer), Saturday, 16 May 2009 03:07 (sixteen years ago)

front gardens across the land to be littered with lollipop sticks :(

― sorry for british (country matters), Saturday, 16 May 2009 03:10 (sixteen years ago)

This was introduced years ago in a couple of pubs up here. Lasted about a week, if that.

― Skip "Ex" Spence (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 16 May 2009 09:25 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHxwOU_yCuM

― it's time for the fish in the perculator (Steve Shasta), Friday, 29 April 2011 15:08 (fourteen years ago)

love how Gareth's DIOUFY fixation was already in full swing five and a half years ago

― puppetry of the pulis (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 30 April 2011 13:50 (fourteen years ago)

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