Real England

Emily Thornberry up to her old tricks?

fuming @ nakhchivan's response, insist on his immediate resignation

https://twitter.com/garwboy/status/592708985054191616

I missed the word "aided" in that Tom Jones headline and read it as "My secret affair with Tom Jones - by his own son"

graffitiing of one's own abode will always remind me of this place:

https://c1.staticflickr.com/7/6026/5919342273_c7c91b8cb5_b.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9RcsCbErdg

GuildfordGhost = best youtube channel

^thank you for that; great for many reasons. reels on that channel!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0elsNDRqLtQ

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/33403146/cumbria-couple-have-a-one-in-a-minion-themed-wedding

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/08EE/production/_84068220_jill_martell.jpg

tempted to start a Kim Kardashian style thread about minions because I don't understand what they are and they are everywhere

don't know where to put bakewell's peculiar council website
http://bakewelltowncouncil.gov.uk/33/pages/council-tax
http://bakewelltowncouncil.gov.uk/8/pages/working-in-bakewell

keep on laughing at the working in bakewell one. for a full ten minutes now on and off.

business networks amusing as well.

shot of the library pretty real

http://bakewelltowncouncil.gov.uk/images/headerImages/Library.jpg

Bakewell in Bloom set me off you gits

Living in Bakewell is Great!

Parking >>>

Love that Library pic - bet there are tons like it from council sites, could the nu-Oasis Primal Scream blah blah thread.

Living in Bakewell
Living in Bakewell is great!

The Council tax picture cracked me up along with ' Derbyshire Dales Dirtict Council etc etc..'

Living In Bakewell killed me. Also liked the Bus Pass section showing dozens of pensioners crowding the pavement while an out of service bus looms in the background.

oh god the bus pass photo...

"Maybe we should use a picture where the bus is in service?"
"Nah, we've only got the one set, just go with that"
"Look, I can photoshop a number onto that bus, take me about 5 minutes"
"WE'RE ON A DEADLINE SON"

omg the Bakewell Show starts tomorrow, i'm calling an emergency FAP

Pick me up a laptop from the large boy outside the pudding shop while you are there, pls.

http://www.bakewelltowncouncil.gov.uk/images/backgrounds/towncouncil.jpg

Girls' bike

tiny umbrella on a great long pole

i dunno it says "Wales" on his t-shirt

http://bakewelltowncouncil.gov.uk/images/backgrounds/visiting.jpg

Ladies WATCH YOUR BAGS!

http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Horse-washed-Bude-Park-paddling-pool-Bransholme/story-27563900-detail/story.html

http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/images/localworld/ugc-images/276270/Article/images/27563900/10672336-large.jpg

if they'd've clicked on the second link in the 'related links' they'd've found:

http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Oss-Wash-graffiti-new-Dead-Bod/story-27450074-detail/story.html

horses being washed in random locations/tethered at the roadside/running amok round an estate are reasonably common in Hull, which has a significant traveller community. we still get rag and bone men using horse-drawn carts. there was a pony i used to feed mints to regularly on my walk to work. also there's a section of west Hull called Gypsyville.

this is the OG 'oss wash

http://thehullplay.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Victoria-Pier-Horse-Wash.jpg

and this is more or less how it looks today

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/82447310.jpg

Selfishness of using kids paddling pool to wash horse very real, working horses however are not real. Bit suggestive of an organic connection to pre-colour tv era working class culture, the absence of which is a defining trait of Real England imo.

'pre-colour tv era working class culture' doing a lot of work in that sentence, hope the basic idea come across.

just bung a bit of chlorine in after the horse, scoop out anything it's left behind, job's a good'un.

i did a couple of stints as a paddling pool attendant many years ago.

Hull's enduring charm of course is our secession from realness

the water fountain on ealing common has the inscription: "This fountain and adjoining troughs were erected by local subscription in 1878 by the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association.". i can just see them driving cattle around the hanger lane gyratory system...

(the troughs are no longer there)

There's a cattle trough/drinking fountain still there in Muswell Hill, although the trough is now a flower bed.

I don't know if this applies

http://chris3.500px.com/home

quite enjoyed this http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150723-why-britain-has-secret-ghost-trains

the station at the Cornish village I grew up in was apparently voted worst in the UK at some point in the 90s. don't remember myself or anyone I know ever using it

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/08/woman-allegedly-tricked-friend-into-having-sex-pretending-to-be-man

holy shit! so many questions

it's the most ridiculous shit i've ever read. how did this even go to trial? like, she says it goes on for two years!

well i can see why it went to trial - i assume it fits the legal definition of serious sexual assault at the least, but the whole deception is just so bizarre. from the name 'kye fortune' onwards

yeah i guess i mean more like - it seems hard to believe that the person could have been fooled, if they were it's obviously quite serious - it just seems really weird you'd agree to have sex with a blindfolded stranger whose face you'd never seen - i mean apparently it sounds like she's never seen his face in person. unless they met at the hotel and she didn't recognise her friend due to her wearing a "wooly hat", as reported elsewhere.

it was the victim that was blindfolded i think. the perpetrator was just heavily bandaged

i can't remember if i've read about another case very similar to this one or if some of the deets made the rounds a couple of years back

sorry, of course. at what point tho? did she never see "his" face, like did they meet in the hotel room? cos that's pretty weird. did he have pics on the facebook profile etc?

the oddest bit is "it's not what you think"

xpost i had the exact same thought but a colleague linked to the other case, it was two teenagers or something, a different story.

the mysteries of the human heart

Giving evidence on Wednesday at Chester crown court, the complainant said: “Every time I met up with Kye Fortune, I either had the mask on already or he would wait outside the door and I would put it on. I was so desperate to be loved. It’s pathetic, so desperate for love, so desperate.”

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/09/woman-allegedly-tricked-into-sex-with-friend-pretending-to-be-man-lesbian-court-told

it is either terribly sad and worrying that somebody would blindfold themselves and let whoever it was have sex with them, or just unbelievable.