Grim Britannia

[boxedjoy]

I'm not fit and healthy enough to be a convincing athleisure wearer and have never set foot in a Sports Direct so I couldn't comment.

 

[IdleRich]

I remember I said to my flatmate one time "Where did you get those new trainers?" (or whatever it was) and he said "You know that massive place on Oxford Street, I think it's called... Sale?" - it's not called sale but that's the most visible word all over it.

 

[shiels]

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[IdleRich]

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This is fantastic! I have heard people talking about Handsworth Parish Council but I didn't know what they were on.

 

[IdleRich]

On about sorry.

 

[catalog]

Classic stuff, can we get the chairman on here. And Jackie weaver too.

 

[shiels]

The goblin vice chair guy is hilarious. The whispered “fuck off” at the start too

 

[luka]

comedy is banned on this forum no comedy please.

 

[shiels]

At 5.49 the vice chair goes full satanic goblin. Speaking in tongues

 

[shiels]

comedy is banned on this forum no comedy please.

It’s not comedy it’s Englishness summed up beautifully. Will be studied for years to come, pandemic brexit Britain. The fragmentation and disintegration of the UK

 

[catalog]

Time capsule.

 

[shiels]

@Corpsey you live in that parish don’t you? Just up the road from you. Can you explain your parishioners to the rest of us. What’s the inside story?

 

[Corpsey]

they're northerners aren't they?

I'm sure you get people exactly like that where i live though

 

[IdleRich]

It's not comedy but i wasn't sure for a sec

 

[Murphy]

Perfidious Albion

 

[Mr. Tea]

That is the Sports Direct model isn't it?

Loads of retailers do this. Furniture shops with their "50% off" Boxing Day sales and supermarket wines spring to mind.

 

[woops]

opticians too - there is no set price listt in the industry so they get away with prising them double then charging half that

 

[luka]

 

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Just to keep everybody in the loop, @woops is really digging my vintage Vogue pix from earlier in the thread.

 

[luka]

more ice queens and cruel mothers?