Real England

Single origin ketchup, aged for 18 months in used sherry casks

Son #1 asked today if you could make wine from coca cola, I reckon the preservatives would stop it fermenting no matter how much yeast you get in there, someone's probably had a go though. (a brief look at youtube reveals yes, someone has)

my son drinks Frank's hot sauce/Encona/whatever tabasco/scirocco variant is there, straight from the bottle and frequently drains the whole bottle. It is his wine.

the thing I don't like about that vid is that it is intrusive and sneering, just leave the guy alone.

fair

Princess Anne, 73, suffered concussion and minor injuries, thought to possibly have been caused by being either headbutted or kicked by a horse on her estate at Gatcombe Park in Gloucestershire on Sunday.

from a very old popbitch, technically Real Scotland but Charles & Camilla are Enlish so it counts.

Big Brother's Pete Bennett may be Britain's most famous Tourettes sufferer now, but in 1989 this accolade went to Scottish teenager John Davidson, star of ground-breaking BBC documentary, John's Not Mad.

A few weeks after the film was screened,
John was given an award by Prince Charles, for his bravery about publicising his illness. Before the ceremony John's friends helpfully recited the phrase "Big eared cnut" over and over to him in the hope he would say it.

John was determined he wouldn't show himself up but when he stepped up to receive his award from the Prince nerves got the better of him, and he couldn't stop himself from shouting out

... "Bad Horsey!"

John was talking about that incident in a program called Tourettes De France. He was also calling him "parasite" and yelled "Camilla's a shit ride".

the Jay Slater saga has been the Realest

ppl are portraying him as a machete wielding thug, if that actually was the case he would have got more than community service. His dad looks a wrong un, something unsavory about him. Or maybe his only crime was being in some crap baggy band in the 90's!

The whole gang apparently never had to spend a night behind bars.. weird stuff

I have to admit I'm a little bit hooked on Twitter for this, only thing I use the app for anymore

also the judge reprimanded them for larking about in court and not seeming to take the charges seriously - it was a curious case!

Yeah the victim went to “look for his sister”, and Jay Slater and his mates were all there waiting with fuckin medieval implements and chased him and cut his head open. Would like to understand what actually went on there

I mean apart from that

some phone footage has emerged of him looking absolutely shitfaced and staggering about on the dancefloor and falling over shortly before his disappearance. Which would be fine in England, but you go wandering off the beaten track in that state in a hot humid place, then you could be fucked.

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I feel like there must be some context in that case that you don't get from the reportage on it, there must be some reason the judge didn't convict at least some of them to custodial time in a YOI

Possibly because the whole country's so underfunded the borstals YOIs have begged them not to send any more of the little fuckers?

it could have been a Covid thing as well

class snobbery, check. randoms throwing money at a murky crowdfunder, check. aspersions cast on the efficiency of foreign police, check. people who've watched too much true crime shit, that's a big check.

it was bad enough when UK media did the "incompetent johnny foreigner police" thing on behalf of the transparently guilty af inficidal McCann grift project.

In this case, just as in Greece last month, it's stupid English ppl going missing in hot conditions and rugged terrain that is difficult to search. obv Brit search dogs can cope with sweltering heat much better than those useless foreign ones.

I'm assuming Michael Mosley wasn't boozed up and on drugs but who knows for sure?

transparently guilty af inficidal McCann grift project

I know people who obsessively believe this kind of tripe, experts one and all so I hear

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no, but he ventured out during an extreme, unprecedented heatwave into a remote place, which is something the locals are clever enough to avoid doing. Hence there was nobody there to assist him.

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when my kid went missing I just called the police, it never occurred to me to hire a PR adviser. But I'm just lowborn riff raff!

Just typical that one (1) English person goes missing and it's top of the news for a week when just about anyone could just list dozens of more consequential things off the top of their head.

uh how litigious are the mccanns btw?