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Blackpool wasn’t ever popular because it was great - it was popular because it was one of the only options people could afford that was marginally better than where they lived and worked. No one who had a choice would want a swim in the cold, Atlantic-adjacent Irish Sea, then stagger out of the nut brown water onto a coarse beach to enjoy temperatures that if you’re lucky might hit 22 degrees. Then on to an evening of overpriced fish and chips, shit beer and miserable B&B owners who lock you out at 9pm.

But obviously it was never the advent of cheap flights to places with warm, crystal clear waters, incredibly cheap, great food and wine, and nice hotels with full board deals. No, it was definitely some mysterious, nebulous swarthy-looking types scaring everyone off.

A guy I know used to be a door security operative. Did all the big clubs in the north west - Liverpool, Manchester, Chester, Preston, Lancaster, Morecambe. Actually from Shelta (Irish traveller) background, as it happens.

He would not work Blackpool, nor would many other experienced door staff. As he put it, in other towns and cities, you need to know about first aid, defusing arguments, watching out for drink spiking, and all sorts of things. To work the doors in Blackpool, you need to know how to knock someone out with a fire extinguisher.

Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2024 5:03 pm
He would not work Blackpool, nor would many other experienced door staff. As he put it, in other towns and cities, you need to know about first aid, defusing arguments, watching out for drink spiking, and all sorts of things. To work the doors in Blackpool, you need to know how to knock someone out with a fire extinguisher.

Presumably before the advent of SIA licensing ?

Before and after. It's a rough town.

Samanfur wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2024 8:15 am For the record, "gypsy" is increasingly regarded as an ethnic slur, seen as erasing individual cultures, and with a lot of harmful stereotypes attached.

Romany/Romani tend to prefer to be addressed as such, as do Irish travellers.

The likes of 30p Lee don't care about that angle, but it's one reason why there's been a gradual change in language.

Apologies. I went from using it in a quote to using it myself. I'll only usse "traveller" in future.

No offence meant or taken. It was just something I felt was worth mentioning.

Even the organisation I work for still uses the term alongside Roma and traveller, and I wonder how long that'll last.

And you were right.

This week, Lee has the hump with a local councillor who can’t be arsed to respond.

Woke punctuation is for rocket-eating poofs.

Lee’s just returned from fake Britain populated by plasticine people
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/sc5ktx ... tid=WC7FNe

Hardly Nuremberg, is it?

Poor show.

What happens in the 'Dam stays in the 'Dam.

Rishi's mate here.

Lee's so happy with this brilliant idea- "I know I'll attack something that hasn't happened, and wouldn't matter if it did!"- that he doesn't notice that his breakfast is overcooked. Perhaps somebody could hand lee some hemlock. Eat this, Lee. Some university know all has said it's racist.

Strangely a university canteen would probably serve a far better English breakfast up. In fact isn’t it odd that it’s still quite universal in such an environment

A tradional full English would not include hash browns.

Rosvanian wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 7:16 am A tradional full English would not include hash browns.

But would include beans, tomatoes and toast or a fried slice. Is there such a thing as a Partial English Breakfast?

Nice that Lee has been recognised for the massive, throbbing member that he is though.

Well that image of 30p's breakfast looks like it has been fucking cremated.

If Lee Anderthal wants to expose himself to cardio-vascular peril in the culinary equivalent of a helicopter, who am I to grumble?

The facial expressions on this Sky News interviewer speak volumes:



Even the usually fairly supine BBC wasn't in the mood for him:

Is there anyone alive who’s never said “Ought to put them on an island somewhere,” after a few jars? I have and would start with Lee trying to put up his shelter in a Hebridean gale.