Grim Britannia

[Murphy]

Had Bluey down as a City-head euphemism

Cashing a giro came before anything, priorities ! Worst - worse than actual employment - was if they clanged thru the letterbox on a Saturday morning, leaving you with a time critical few hours buried in amongst nerve-shredding comedowns to cash the fuckers

 

[william_kent]

Had Bluey down as a City-head euphemism

Cashing a giro came before anything, priorities ! Worst - worse than actual employment - was if they clanged thru the letterbox on a Saturday morning, leaving you with a time critical few hours buried in amongst nerve-shredding comedowns to cash the fuckers

obviously I body swerved a corpse because giro came first

 

[william_kent]

I'm only in employment because it became too hard work doing all the stupid fucking "back to work' nonsense that was demanded of me, signing on every other day, pointless interviews, stupid courses, it wore me down

they broke me

 

[william_kent]

and I used to pronounce that I was at the cutting edge of the 'leisure generation"

I was before my time

 

[Murphy]

If Hulme was constructed now, I mean it couldn’t happen twice, an unrepeatable development

Picturing mutterings and Daily Meal style headlines screaming about housing migrants in its skylines, other garbage-faced trash piling in with Brits having first dibs and Le Corbusier’s AI teeing off about homes as machines for living

Interesting characters from a brief window spent around Hulme, add parties which ran for a week and THE best e’s anywhere, what else are you gonna do in your late teens/early 20’s

 

[Murphy]

and I used to pronounce that I was at the cutting edge of the 'leisure generation"

I was before my time

they admin you into an accidental life

 

[william_kent]

If Hulme was constructed now, I mean it couldn’t happen twice, an unrepeatable development

Picturing mutterings and Daily Meal style headlines screaming about housing migrants in its skylines, other garbage-faced trash piling in with Brits having first dibs and Le Corbusier’s AI teeing off about homes as machines for living

Interesting characters from a brief window spent around Hulme, add parties which ran for a week and THE best e’s anywhere, what else are you gonna do n your late teens/early 20’s

I pity the youth of today who don't have the opportunity of free housing and limitless drugs

no room for "personal growth"

 

[Murphy]

The British are coming, the British are coming

 

[Mr. Tea]

Life-size Captain Tom statue set to be put up for auction starting at 99p after owner fails to sell it for £29,000

A life-size statue of Captain Tom will be put up for auction if a buyer does not come forward.

www.lbc.co.uk

The only possible reaction to this is " "

 

[...]

AI scan shows Henry VIII as he would look today 'Like a taxi driver'

The realistic AI image depicts a middle-aged Henry VIII in the modern day, replacing his extravagant attire for a more casual striped shirt, and losing the hat in the process.

www.express.co.uk

 

[other_life]

he works security at a bank

 

[shakahislop]

i like this guy. this section has been subtitled 'the economy will get worse forever' on a podcast called 'britains economy is getting worse'. there's something grim britania about the lad. something going on on the affective level. i don't get where fact and fiction split anymore with things like this. probably a good dude. it's like watching a cartoon though he's that close to an archetype come to life

 

[Mr. Tea]

he works security at a bank

He'd glass you after eight pints of Stella and some pub gak.

 

[Corpsey]

Me, @luka and @craner ?

 

[...]

Me, @luka and @craner ?

Seems about right

 

[Mr. Tea]

Me, @luka and @craner ?

I wouldn't say you were 'swarthy', exactly, but 'hobbit-like' is quite apt.

 

[...]

Colin Firth's shirt from Pride And Prejudice sells for more than double auction estimate

Firth became an overnight sex symbol after playing Mr Darcy in the 1995 BBC adaptation of Jane Austen's classic - with the famous "lake scene" showing the character emerging from the water still making fans swoon almost 30 years later.

news.sky.com

 

[mixed_biscuits]

 

[DLaurent]

This makes me chuckle, the missing letters on an estate in Walsall that made news for being rough.

 

[Mr. Tea]

@Slothrop Important Cambridge news:

'Hideous' Prince Philip statue in Cambridge is to be hauled down

Residents have described the 13ft bronze artwork, which was erected without planning permission, as ‘hideous’ and ‘scary’

www.standard.co.uk