Little Eye On The Provinces

[Jaded]

 

[Jaded]

Soulless bumhole

[rogerzilla]

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/23434377.swindon-customer-outraged-half-empty-costa-coffee/

One for APILN.

[Mr Larrington]

Proper compo face, that one.

[andrewc]

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/manchester-palace-theatre-bodyguard-musical-26657447


Mancs..... 

[andrewc]

A list which is growing in length.....

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/12/the-secret-lives-of-grey-squirrels-the-telly-was-off-the-wall-plates-were-smashed-furniture-was-ripped


I must pop over to Manchester & try this place…. Crispy buttermilk squirrel…


https://twitter.com/streeturchin5/status/1637141393171726340

[Jurek]

A list which is growing in length.....

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/12/the-secret-lives-of-grey-squirrels-the-telly-was-off-the-wall-plates-were-smashed-furniture-was-ripped


I must pop over to Manchester & try this place…. Crispy buttermilk squirrel…


https://twitter.com/streeturchin5/status/1637141393171726340

Stuff of nightmares.......

[rogerzilla]

Meanwhile, in not-racist Essex...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/11/essex-pub-landlady-benice-ryley-replaces-golliwog-doll-collection-that-was-seized-by-police

Ryley denied that she or her husband were racist. “I’m not a racist in any form.” She confirmed that her husband had been photographed in a T-shirt from the far-right group Britain First. She said: “I don’t think Chris is a supporter of Britain First, he was just wearing that shirt because it was convenient at the time.”

 

[PeteB99]

A list which is growing in length.....

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/12/the-secret-lives-of-grey-squirrels-the-telly-was-off-the-wall-plates-were-smashed-furniture-was-ripped


I must pop over to Manchester & try this place…. Crispy buttermilk squirrel…


https://twitter.com/streeturchin5/status/1637141393171726340

Just because you can eat something doesn't mean you should.

[Mr Larrington]

Who among us can say that they don't have a whole shelf of T-shaped shirts from far-right grifters bought by accident?

[andrewc]

Who among us can say that they don't have a whole shelf of T-shaped shirts from far-right grifters bought by accident?

Tory councillor….. hold my beer….


https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tory-politician-claims-all-white-29689753

[chrisbainbridge]

I did think why would you even own such a t-shirt.

[rogerzilla]

Stay classy, Swindon.

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/23450382.woman-spotted-urinating-swindon-town-centre-ask-crisps/#comments-anchor

The crisps make the story, really.

[Cudzoziemiec]

I did think why would you even own such a t-shirt.

"I just put it on that day at random. I don't know how it even got in my wardrobe. I think a friend gave it me. He got it from a charity shop. Nobody knew what it meant. It didn't mean anything." et cetera, and other completely plausible reasons...

I read somewhere that CAMRA are "investigating" how the.ir SW Essex branch came to recommend this pub

[andrewc]

I did think why would you even own such a t-shirt.

I read somewhere that CAMRA are "investigating" how the.ir SW Essex branch came to recommend this pub

I'm reading on another site that the local branch used to have regular meetings there.  https://swessex.camra.org.uk/diary_archive2020.html 

[rogerzilla]

"I'm only wearing this Nazi armband because it covers that virile Celtic-style tattoo I had done in the 90s, which looks shit on a 55 year old"

[matthew]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-65260212

Problems at Waterloo station, the BBC reports:

Two services per hour are running between Reading and London, while other stations including Queenstown Road and Hampton Court have no service at all.

Maybe they don't realise but two trains an hour to Reading is the full service!! Admittedly there are trains that branch off to Windsor and Weybridge on the way out of London which increases the frequency further into the smoke.

[rogerzilla]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-65260945

Golly pub loses CAMRA award eligibility.

The photo of the pub shows a couple of large England flags flying.  That would tell.me all I needed to know.

I admit we had gollies in the 70s and in no way associated them with black people*, but times have changed.


*my sister had a proper realistic African baby doll (as would be owned by a black child) brought back by an aunt from South Africa.  It was as far from appearance to a golly as you can imagine.

[T42]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-65260945

Golly pub loses CAMRA award eligibility.

Dunno why the police would seize items merely considered offensive. Sure they might cause a punch-up but so might a thick fart and they're not going to drive around with corks.

[Cudzoziemiec]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-65260945

Golly pub loses CAMRA award eligibility.

The photo of the pub shows a couple of large England flags flying.  That would tell.me all I needed to know.

I admit we had gollies in the 70s and in no way associated them with black people*, but times have changed.


*my sister had a proper realistic African baby doll (as would be owned by a black child) brought back by an aunt from South Africa.  It was as far from appearance to a golly as you can imagine.

There was a make of dolls in the 70s called Sasha dolls, made in Sweden IIRC, which were not only available in a variety of realistic skin tones and facial features, they also had realistic child proportions and even – though this had to be later removed for the UK market at least – realistically shaped child genitals. Obviously that's not what your sister had, but does show that similar-ish things were available here too way back then.

[Wowbagger]

My GD had/has a very realistic doll in baby proportions and with a dark brown skin colour.

[Cudzoziemiec]

And there's more. Jokes about lynching, allegedly.

In March 2016, in a Facebook post still online, Ryley uploaded a picture of golliwogs hanging from his bar with the comment “We have our golliwogs, yaay.” Commenting on the post his wife, Benice Ryley asked: “Are you sure this is legal. lol” The landlord replied: “They used to hang them in Mississippi years ago.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/13/essex-police-investigating-golliwog-pub-display-examine-landlord-lynching-post

[Mr Larrington]

There is still a golly on the windowsill of my bedroom at Fort Larrington but it was Professor Larrington's, not mine, and has been provisionally dated to 1960.  Dunno how it migrated into my room from hers, though her wonky-faced teddy bear has done the same.

[Jaded]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-65260945

Golly pub loses CAMRA award eligibility.

The photo of the pub shows a couple of large England flags flying.  That would tell.me all I needed to know.

I admit we had gollies in the 70s and in no way associated them with black people*, but times have changed.


*my sister had a proper realistic African baby doll (as would be owned by a black child) brought back by an aunt from South Africa.  It was as far from appearance to a golly as you can imagine.

There was a make of dolls in the 70s called Sasha dolls, made in Sweden IIRC, which were not only available in a variety of realistic skin tones and facial features, they also had realistic child proportions and even – though this had to be later removed for the UK market at least – realistically shaped child genitals. Obviously that's not what your sister had, but does show that similar-ish things were available here too way back then.

What did his sister have, and how do you know!!

[Jaded]

Stay classy, Swindon.

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/23450382.woman-spotted-urinating-swindon-town-centre-ask-crisps/#comments-anchor

The crisps make the story, really.

And urinating in her underpass...