anytime someone from the UK orders a print from me I’m delighted because the addresses tend to be charming and sound completely made-up, I just suspend my disbelief and accept that I’m sending a package someplace with a name like Bristleberry House at Ditchmallow in Brambleford-on-Cotton—incredible lmaooo I bet this gets delivered to you by a badger in a little coat
I am once again posting my ever-growing collection of towns that sound like PG Wodehouse characters:
All of these areas are places you would certainly get killed in on Midsomer Murders.
I mean these are cute but I also need you to know I grew up near a place called Nasty
this post is absolutely bafling as a british person because like 85% of these names just feel so incredibly normal to me it’s so jarring to see how non-british people react to them
you can’t convince me there isn’t some dude – sorry, some bloke named Kirby Underdale who lives near that last sign. he drives a little too fast, it makes everyone nervous, and his neighbors decide to have a sign made and installed instead of talking to him about it.
Oh man, I live right near one several of these places.
The trial of the teenagers accused of killing Brianna Ghey starts today and there are details all over Twitter. It’s horrific. I read some and I desperately wish I hadn’t. I want to know but I don’t want to know.
My only hope is that once the details do become publicly known, they will horrify enough people to actually spur them into action.
Hundreds of thousands of people came out today in London to March for a Free Palestine. Hundreds of thousands of people disagreeing with the current government stance on the war. Don’t let the media fool you, people in the UK stand with Palestine.
I saw a trailer for this show, assumed it would be about lab-grown animal meat, made a mental note to watch it and then forgot to watch it. Only the next day did I learn it was a hoax documentary! And a very clever one, I think. If I’d watched it live where would the penny have dropped for me? Hopefully at the “pain is subjective” part with the blatantly evil CEO. After that things start to get so over the top it’s obvious it’s a satire but on the other hand the past few years have felt like a satire as well.
Anyway, right now in Britain the cost of living crisis is still going on, but all the newspapers seem to care about is Nigel Farage’s bank account. Maybe we should just eat him.
shout out to gary lineker for causing an absolute meltdown in both the government and the bbc <3
for context: he compared some of the rhetoric surrounding the government’s illegal migration bill to that of 1930s germany.
braverman’s response: “i think it’s unhelpful to compare our measures, which are lawful, proportionate and – indeed – compassionate, to 1930s germany.”
and you know… “lawful, proportionate, and – indeed – compassionate” is a weird way of saying “likely to be incompatible with the european convention on human rights (which braverman herself acknowledged)” and “has been criticised by every right-minded person from the archbishop of canterbury to the UN human rights council”
and i don’t understand her saying “i also think that we are on the side of the british people here”, because like… who are these british people she’s referring to?
and sunak similarly saying “it’s obviously disappointing [is it?] to see someone whose salary is funded by hard-working [shut up] british licence fee payers using that kind of rhetoric and seemingly dismissing their legitimate concerns that they have about small boats crossings and illegal migration.”
who has ‘legitimate’ concerns other than ‘christ i hope that another boat full of literal refugees doesn’t capsize in the english channel’? not me! not anyone i know! i want names!
shout out to ian wright too
in case you’re wondering, the bill also prevents illegal migrants accessing help if they end up enslaved.
Yep, the shout out should definitely include Ian Wright, Alan Shearer, and everyone else who – when the BBC dropped Lineker from MotD – basically also went ‘I’m Spartacus’ and bailed as well in solidarity
(ironically it’s a BBC News article which has summed up best why this has turned into such a clusterfuck for the BBC)
AND credit to the players also acting in solidarity too. apparently everyone disagrees with this decision apart from the BBC Chairman and the Tory cabinet
fucking hell they’ve managed to alienate the entire British footballing community in the space of 24 hours. can’t see how this could go wrong for richard sharp at all. he’s definitely not overplayed his hand here. well done guys.
I’m so glad that suspending him actually had consequences for the BBC. Screw ’em.
-Meghan and Harry baptizing their daughter with the title “Princess” which she would have had anyway seeing as she’s a granddaughter of a king?? Royalty is an opt-out system and she’s too young to opt-out. WHY is this news.
-Gary Lineker calling the government out for using Nazi-like rhetoric. There’s calls to get him fired from his job at the BBC, because now the Daily Mail believes in cancel culture all of a sudden, what a surprise.
