Real England

ah right

dunno man, i'd go with extraordinarily crass meself

Xp weirdly its their way of launching their online paywall. cool that jt made it. cld say wayne bridge is more real but is be kidding myself. mb that "got a new name for a snake" song cld go in the time capsule as the definitive document

this is so full of awful gold:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/5042756/At-dawn-of-Sun-where-The-Sun-stands-on-issues-vital-to-us-readers-and-Britain.html

" The Tories are trying hard to dig us out of the economic mire.

But that didn’t stop us giving them a kicking when they tried to tax working people’s pasties."

The version in the Scottish Sun is the same but different - I don't know if they have their own editor but it looks like they were sent the English piece and asked to give it a lick of tartan paint.

http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/sun_says/1460642/The-Scottish-Sun-Says.html

Interesting that the English version doesn't say "And we certainly hold no truck with the swivel-eyed fanaticism of Nigel Farage and his UKIP crew."

the question "who the fuck do they think they are kidding?" springs to mind

Scottish Sun also seemingly blithely unaware of the renewable energy industry/sector in Scotland and how it is (A) a big thing and (B) pretty broadly supported.

fracking is the new green

As for Ireland, the north gets the wraparound

Hmm...

Witness the sheer excitement created by Celtic’s heroics against the cream of Europe last season

Lol 15% possession in the Barca win and got spanked 5-0 by Juve after surviving the group stage.

so? It was still exciting

Accepted but not enough to gloss over the appalling state of Scottish football.

Get this fucking Scottish shit off this thread.

"Northern Britain" shurely

Get this fucking Scottish shit off this thread.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 12:07 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^ real English

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51czgLpJn2L._SL500_AA280_.jpg

We're Northern Uproar, we're dead real we are

need the full size to appreciate the photoshop work

http://static.flavors.me/dynamic_images/background/5ea0577840074063846e95ccfe004887

Funnily enough, you know, given the state of culture in the city depicted on that album sleeve, it wouldn't be so out of place if those banners on poles actually did just say 'Northern Uproar'

the famous "purple aki" (idk about this nickname) is in the news again:

Akinwale Arobieke, 52, approached well-built men in Manchester city centre, Trafford and Bolton and touched their arms or shoulders, prosecutors allege... He was jailed in 2003 for 15 charges of sexual harassment and on his release he was given a Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO). It bans him from certain activities, including feeling a person's muscles or getting them to carry out 'squats' in public

“Mr Arobieke has had, and continues to have, an interest in bodybuilding.

“His interest extends beyond that which is legitimate and manifests itself in a way that we say is criminal.”

iirc he went to prison for manslaughter after someone ran away from him onto a trainline & was electrocuted

thats definitely crossing the line into transgressive bodybuilding

theres something very northern or provincial about him, he seems to have a criminal and folkloric reputation over a large metropolitan area

yet i just cant imagine there being a lol purple aki equivalent in north london, he would simply be demonized but without any of the meta stuff

and an east london equivalent would probably have been killed by now

he is a living bit of folklore; i first heard about him in a pub & the way the story was told I didn't really expect it to be real, felt v strange to see it confirmed. photoshopping him into pics has become a bit of a meme in certain corners of the Northern Internet (tm)

What is the Northern Internet

Collins died for it, doff yr caps

garu g

He proceeded to the promenade above the club and relieved himself on the bouncers who chased after him until he was cornered in a nearby pizza parlour, where he was heard shouting "Help! Help!" Securing him in an arm-lock, they hauled him back to the club and called police, the reports concluded.

http://i.imgur.com/dLysS3v.png

He proceeded to the promenade above the club and relieved himself on the bouncers who chased after him until he was cornered in a nearby pizza parlour, where he was heard shouting "Help! Help!" Securing him in an arm-lock, they hauled him back to the club and called police, the reports concluded.

far cry from all the talk about bowling in "good areas". bizarrely/hilariously out of his public character.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/MC_Party.jpg

lol my frontal lobe started thrashing about like a drunk thing at that photo.

there are some other choice photos by the same contributor on wikipedia scattered around various monday club related articles

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WACL_Delegates.jpg

alas i'm not sure how to get a complete list

http://www.esherwalton.com/

the entire site, really.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dave_sinclair_liverpool_photos/3232893730/sizes/l/in/photostream/

http://www.wiganworld.co.uk/album/1/en35hy8x.jpg

http://www.soultsretailview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/woolworths_bhs_hartlepool_graham_soult2.jpg

http://s0.geograph.org.uk/photos/56/84/568459_2e6f08f8.jpg

http://v4.sportnetwork.net/mainadmin/img/4841130867008.jpg

http://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/23/01/2230182_0ea654b0.jpg

Oh come on. That last one isn't Real England. It just isn't representative of the country. I know this thread has its tongue firmly in its cheek, but no. Too far. It is Liverpool, I guess? Derby?

Loved the old Tory pics above though.

last pic looks a lot like a Manchester street i've visited

Just found on Twitter. I think we have a winner.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BME6U7eCEAAvsf6.jpg:large

Haha yeah I came here to post that. Bonus realness points for it actually being in Stoke at 5am.

A useful indicator of realness is the bar named after its home postcode. Stoke has a strip club provocatively branded as ST1.

what is stoke actually like irl

my kwowledge of stoke = amalgamation of six or seven lil towns from, football team, high level of support for bnp

i need an editor

I haven't really spent enough time there to say. I was sick in the Wetherspoons while eating breakfast though. I think it is so ~nothing~ it eludes any real interpretation. The city university is Keele, full of nondescript 60s modernism. There's nothing to say about any of it.