Real England

the only people who go to horse racing at those places are city boys and posh boys. if you're in either position you're probably rich enough to get wasted at those drink prices, and probably also have a very high idea of your own superiority. perfect recipe for fisticuffs really.

iirc The Telegraph, etc, have a regular moral panic thing going on about the lower classes going to Ascot, dressing inappropriately, getting drunk, etc.

The Sport of Kings.

(xp) A lot of city boys are from the lower classes.

In order to lose some pounds of his massive body weight, the king came up with an ingenious idea: an all alcohol diet.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DdWpl0_WkAAof4X.jpg

it makes me shudder that fucking dirty 5 0 are confiscating sleeping bags, tents, trollies from homeless people while these type of vermin are assembling freely on the streets, seriously, some weapons-grade uranium needed to cleanse these filthy infidels.

what are the odds that posting a modified version of john betjeman's 'slough' here would get me put on a terrorism watch list

or perhaps bumped up a few spots on an existing terrorism watch list

Well-wishers C/D?

... LOL, I thought there was more to that thread than two posts. Still, it's incontrvertible that well-wishers, of any kind and for any reason, are weirdoes.

there is something pretty wrong with these people it's true, but maybe it's just like other kinds of exhibitionist fandom except in this case your idols don't actual do anything

yeah it did set me wondering how this differs, if at all, from e.g. queuing up for Wimbledon tickets or for I dunno, some hip young people's act such as Ed Sheeran. There is the toxic level of jingoism I suppose

that's not true, they leech money from the state and keep hundreds of worthless muckracking journalists in employment xp

Thing is, strip out the weirdoes and the tourists and the crowds at these royal events are never exactly impressive, despite the supposed obeisance of the GBP.

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/woman-who-killed-rat-cricket-1577947

(mainly for the pictures)

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/911/27334289907_79e5a19bb8_h.jpg

"This is what we do around here now"- is this a sedentary practice invented by Sidmouth youth or is it a new fashion that's passed me by?

I love local papers.

"Easy, Devin!"

you used to be able to kick a kid in the street

What could be more quintessentially Real England than walking down the street and having kids shout random shit at you? I was walking down the high street just now, two 14 year old lads went past me on bicycles, and as they passed one of them shouted "EURGH I WATCH GAY PORN!!!". I guess they were trying to insult me or intimidate me, but I cracked up laughing.

I was out with my son on a scooter ride the other day, and a young 'un from a gang of teenagers congregating outside the takeaway shouted: "Nice wheels, dickhead!". But I guess I am getting a bit old for playing out on scooters and took it in good humour!

Got called a paedo in Runcorn a coupke years back by a couple of kids on bikes. I was like you wish lads but they didn't hear my sparkling repartee :-(

you can't beat a bit of paedo humour, but sometimes you have to tread a bit carefully!

We're celebrating British Sandwich Week and we're starting out with something exotic. Check out this SPAM® Katsu Sandwich. The recipe can be found here https://goo.gl/B8W5n8

http://www.spam-uk.com/img/recipe/SPAM_Katsu_Sandwich.jpg

1 tablespoon okonomiyaki sauce (or just mix some Worcestershire sauce with some mayonnaise)

don't get me wrong if somebody else made this for me i'd still eat it

Spam is a thing people voluntarily eat in Japan Korea Hawaii etc. I see it on menus here in California.

i guess its no different from british people using salad cream?

cutting the crust off of white bread- extremely pussified

Almost said 'soy', but not today satan

"While this is undeniably funny, they also could have caused a very serious accident", said one Facebook user, who thanked the police for intervening

Realness is so fickle. A golf buggy is in no way Real, but at the moment of theft it begins to assume a patina of realitude. By the time it reaches the McDonalds drive-thru it is wholly made of Real.

World Cup window display at the undertakers. pic.twitter.com/k0sPojtfdo

— Ray Newman (@MrRayNewman) June 8, 2018

On his 97th birthday here's some garden art of Prince Philip and (I think) Colonel Gadaffi. pic.twitter.com/BoTIjd6dbj

— Balderdash (@notDcfcBoss) June 10, 2018

holy shit

lol it’s like happy days crossed with what’s the scariest gigantic statue

bellissimo

https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1010146669302870016/FBOi1kKS?format=jpg&name=800x419

A prestigious private girls’ school has faced strong criticism after holding an “austerity day” where students dined on baked potatoes, beans and coleslaw.

St Paul’s Girls’ School in west London was accused of being “tone deaf” after it tweeted about the charity fundraiser which saw staff and students eating “simple food” in place of the fare they are normally served.

It said money saved on dinners at the £24,000-a-year school – whose former pupils include actors Rachel Weisz and Natasha Richardson – would go towards the school’s charities.

Really fancy a baked potato now

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/Vincent_Van_Gogh_-_The_Potato_Eaters.png

Tato, beans, butter, blue cheese, feast fit for a private schoolgirl that

behold the drab potatoes of austerity

Bombay Potatoes would be at least equal or cheaper to make than jackets with beans and cheese, but that wouldn't be austerity!

Look you're not helping my supper cravings here calz

I've just killed a 250g bag of roasted monkey nuts, so moreish!

Got a total potato craving, haven't really been hungry for a week and I'm fairly hungover today but I want some full fat carbs

I did some slow-cooked pork chops in honey, garlic and onion gravy with mashed potatoes (with butter + double cream) earlier, it was pretty fucking good tbh!

Never thought of slow cooking pork chops, normally grill/fry them hot and fast. How long d'you give them?

I haven’t had carbs for like six weeks and suddenly today I’m hoofing down oxtail stew and coconut rice chased by half a bag of stroopwafels.