Real England

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.

so is ST1 meant to = STI?

nice

oh yeah keele

a girl who went there was talking to me about her time at university and eventually i realized i had absolutely no idea where keele was

Keele is a university and an M6 service station and nothing else. It's weird.

The thing with ST1/STI is that surely it can't be deliberate, but then how could nobody have noticed during the early branding stages.

maybe they are still in the std or vd paradigms

no nightclub called vd, closest is the velvet dog in cleveland

Keele is far enough from Stoke to be Not Stoke but does represent its own corner of Lucky Jimland

Private eye fitted GPS tracker to off-sick call centre worker mum's car

Almost immediately, the fire service employed a private investigator to spy on her after her bosses suspected that she was working full time running a business from her hobby of balloon making.

If only it was meth-making

Is there an English equivalent to DIY meth labs?

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/818727/thumbs/o-GREAT-BRITISH-BAKE-OFF-570.jpg?7

^you may have a point, there...

the realest suburban house would be one recently reclaimed by an absentee buy-to-let landlord after a vietnamese grow-op has fled, nothing but soiled carpets, walls hacked apart to bypass the mains and a damp ganja smell that will never disappear

― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Thursday, 18 October 2012 00:35 (9 months ago)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BR817dNCIAETdVm.jpg

You can find us located in coach F, towards the centre part of the train

the trafford centre is hyperreal england, a £1.65 bn "people's palace" in the parish of eccles, the last & greatest out of town shopping centre in the country

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3731/9319946011_0b55a9fa72_o.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7303/9322739992_eff177736c_o.jpg

opulence largely down to one john whittaker, a billionaire & bruce forsyth lookalike who has sold up & gone to live in the isle of man. it's full of gold leaf, marble floors & murals depicting the manchester ship canal (who used to own the land) as well as various members of his family wearing laurels in front of roman villas &c. the exterior is covered w/ gold griffins that have a faintly 3rd reich vibe. in barton square, they quietly pipe in stirring music so that you are put in an appropriate mind to appreciate the grandeur. it has the busiest cinema in the uk, an enormous ship-styled food-court w/ a sky that changes from day to night, & what is apparently the largest chandelier in the world:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7421/9322739256_619fcd0257_z.jpg http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3770/9322739716_b04953217e_z.jpg

had a semi-transcendent feeling hanging out there for a day this summer, mb due to codeine, but there is something exotic about its 90s optimism & generosity. despite it's ornamentation it feels socially unpretentious, it's not somewhere ppl go to be seen. its filled w/ bathos & foreign ppl taking photos. i don't think mancunians appreciate it. i harbour hopes of it being dug up hundreds of years hence by very excited, clueless archaeologists.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7399/9319945995_3c02447a15_z.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7331/9322739784_69ef1d712e_z.jpg

*peoples', ugh

Thank you for "Cinema Laserquest/New Orleans"

on a Sunday evening when the Trafford Centre closes the nearby M60 routinely slows to a crawl as the mass of shoppers hits the road

I didn't appreciate it when I lived in manc but I feel quite fond of it now

Nigel Farage was a couple of seats in front of me on a London-bound train on Wednesday. I can exclusively reveal he was reading a Thatcher biography, but I couldn't tell which one.

http://www.executedtoday.com/images/Countess_Dracula.jpg ?

ogmor otm

although I think people do go there to be seen, but on the whole people just go there

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EACHHRI?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=B00EACHHRI&linkCode=xm2&tag=musidelmund-20

?

Lakeman i am ambivalent about but calling yr folk group shit like "The Full English" makes me think he's more bad guy than good

If it's a Photoshop, it's pretty seamless

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BU6h6tjCMAE9F05.jpg

The plaque is real but Roger Bucklesby isn't.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/tomphillips/the-roger-bucklesby-bench-plaque-is-real-sort-of

The Jonathan Ross Show
SERIES 5 - EPISODE 2
ABOUT THIS PROGRAMME
2/10. Chef Gordon Ramsay talks about his latest projects, Chelsea and England midfielder Frank Lampard discusses life on and off the pitch, and Julie Walters provides a preview of her forthcoming film roles, which include One Chance, based on the story of the first Britain's Got Talent winner, Paul Potts. QPR manager Harry Redknapp is also on the sofa, and rapper Dizzee Rascal chats and performs.

lol

2/10

wonder what dizzee's up to

http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/resources/images/2680155.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/p206x206/1376616_10152285892728146_1555114901_n.jpg

"UKIP 4 ENGLAND" overwritten with "BNP 4 ENGLAND".

The owner of a Staffordshire Bull Terrier that ripped the head off another dog has admitted that the animal was dangerously out of control at the time.

David Savage, 44, threw the body of Elvis, a Pomeranian, under a car, after the attack, a court heard, as a four-year-old girl looked on.

David Savage, who has a previous conviction in 2006 for having a dog out of control, pleaded guilty to owning a dog dangerously out of control in a public place at Halton Magistrates’ Court, Cheshire, today.

The dog, which is called George, bulled through a gate at a property belonging to Margaret Antell when it snatched Elvis in its jaws, tearing the pet’s head off in the attack last month.

pomeranians are some fucking awful shit but this is not a thing that should happen to them

maybe belongs in Cheshire thread

http://imgz.ermiao.com/2013/08/article-0-1B18EF38000005DC-26_638x651-280x285.jpg

yap! yap! yap! yapyap! yap! feed me! yap! fuck off! yap!

o elvis, your microdominant ways met their end in the teeth of an underfed & abused biting machine

There were lots of photos of Elvis on this woman's twitter feed after this was first reported in the summer, she protects her tweets now, though.

obviously no lenient words for the owner

punishment for being such a fucking awful human should probably be being tied up in a cell with own dog (untied). if still alive after 12 hours then freed. good test of human-dog relations, command-giving etc