Grim Britannia

[Mr. Tea]

Years ago when i lived in London and rented my spare room for airbnb this guy from Switzerland stayed over and he saw us going to the shops and having a laugh with the kurds who ran our local or the bus drivers etc and he was saying that that would never happen in his country.... when he went home he had been up all night smoking meth with us and - if he did catch the plane and not die somewhere on the way - I think he would be wrong to say that everyone from London was like that. But it's probably more like that than it is in Switzerland.

I remember that guy! He was a dude. I liked him.

 

[IdleRich]

I remember that guy! He was a dude. I liked him.

Jeremy I think his name was. He was half-swiss half kiwi - his dad was from NZ, told him for god's sake go and experience life outside Switzerland as soon as possible and he did.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Jeremy I think his name was. He was half-swiss half kiwi - his dad was from NZ, told him for god's sake go and experience life outside Switzerland as soon as possible and he did.

Is this the chap who I said looked a bit like a young Sly Stallone, and he contorted his face into this "WTF are you talking about?" expression that somehow instantly made him look about 3.5 times as much like Sly Stallone as his default expression did?

 

[IdleRich]

Er, I don'ot remember that but possibly.

 

[Murphy]

 

[Mr. Tea]

Well this is fucking weird.

Mystery of red paint vandalism across UK leave residents puzzled and fearful

Police try to establish if there is a link between incidents in Walthamstow and other towns around the country

www.theguardian.com

 

[version]

Just seen an article that this bloke who worked at my primary school when I was a kid got arrested for noncing. Scary to think we were hanging around this guy on a daily basis, chatting to him at lunch and thinking he was just some cool guy who worked in the kitchen.

 

[luka]

Just seen an article that this bloke who worked at my primary school when I was a kid got arrested for noncing. Scary to think we were hanging around this guy on a daily basis, chatting to him at lunch and thinking he was just some cool guy who worked in the kitchen.

Quick everyonr scan the news

 

[luka]

This is a BIG clue!

 

[version]

Fuck sake.

 

[IdleRich]

Nonce from Alderley Edge.... ok let's go

 

[okzharp]

yeah i found out recently this brilliant kid i used to work with got sent down for some madness..

Man stabbed victim in street fight and threatened people

Hinzague Hanson, 23, carried out a violent knife assault and also subjected children to a terrifying burglary.

www.kentlive.news

 

[IdleRich]

Shit

 

[Mr. Tea]

yeah i found out recently this brilliant kid i used to work with got sent down for some madness..

Man stabbed victim in street fight and threatened people

Hinzague Hanson, 23, carried out a violent knife assault and also subjected children to a terrifying burglary.

www.kentlive.news

God, how miserable.

Do you do social work of some kind, then?

 

[IdleRich]

Weird, I flicked through the channels and there is an interview with Ken Dodd and I'm really enjoying it. Obviously he was an extraordinarily ugly guy, but what strikes me is how surprisingly his accent - in this interview at least - is so modified, for the son of a miner from Liverpool, he sounds posher than me in most of what he says.

 

[IdleRich]

I am realising the depth of my prejudice... it was his teeth.. but now we got that girl from The White Lotus we all find that attractive right... right?

 

[IdleRich]

Ken Dodd



Aimee Lou Wood

 

[IdleRich]

Interviewer just asked Ken about the sexuality in his act

 

[IdleRich]

Never thought I would like Ken Dodd

 

[IdleRich]

This interview is the most honest ever... they ask ask him what he's scared of and if it was some legendary comedian they would give a facetious answer but he just gave these basic answers about not being paralysed or something... beautiful honestly