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Richie Rubin: AAAAY-Men!WE now realize what a terrific life WE had back then, `twas the age of in-no-sense.no? it all `died' in Nov.`63,when JFK was killed.no?.what a week that was! WE watched the killing of his assassin>Lee Harvey Oswald,on tv!by......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Sean O' Muileann: Do u think that bobby was scared, fighting for the cause is one thing, coming within an inch of your own life, knowing the risks and chances of being killed on active duty, but to......

in response to: Bobby Sands: An Cumann Cabhrach biography of 1981 by Marcella32

Maz, Netherne: Those yellow toilet doors just made me laugh. Maybe it is just my British sense of humour but it amused me that the mens had a knob instead of a handle ! Us Brits love......

in response to: Things Seen Prior (2) by chiamattt

zagg: That is definetely British handwriting, without a wee doubt. ...

in response to: While You Are Reading This.... by David G.

Jamie: It's the {British Beef} you wanna watch out for...

in response to: Anti-US Beef/2MB Protests by chiamattt

Jamie: You mean apart from them consistently scamming money from a gullible British public by over-billing them for services they can't and don't provide?...

in response to: Telectroscope Fun by Adam

Jamie: It seems inevitable really, which is why I'm surprised by the introduction of the abovepictured booths. I really don't remember the last time i saw someone use a payphone.. and you never see those "British"......

in response to: Chungmuro and Euljiro by chiamattt

WildBritishStyle: No. it's what I used to use to de-mist my windscreen...

in response to: Schoolgirls at Lunchtime by WildBritishStyle

Nick: I wish these "Protestants" and "Catholics" in Northern Ireland would rename themselves Oil and Water instead, as there is nothing remotely Christian about their ways. As for Unionists, I don't know what your obsession about Britain......

in response to: NYC: The Empire State Building at Sunrise by Peter

Eamonn: Holy crap, how can you hate Eddie like that, hottie? (fair few years ago, but still dishonorable). Also, it's not really the loyalists depicting themselves as a skeletal soldier. Iron Maiden are one of the......

in response to: The Waterside by Jamie

EvilGentleman: A few suggestions in order to reduce damage in future disturbances: 1 - Do **not** leave portable metal street signs with plate metal bases lying around on the streets when large events are taking place. Most......

in response to: Hockey Victory Riot by EvilGentleman

Andrew Smith: Nice photo's Jamie, On the subject of the Great British Seaside, Hunstanton in Norfolk has most of the things you would expect. A fairground and promenade [[img:27106]] [[img:27107]] A Pitch and Putt course [[img:27108]] and beach huts [[img:27109]] It did have a pier too......

in response to: The Great British Seaside by Jamie

EvilGentleman: As far as the urban legend aspect of things goes, how could we get a website like [[http://www.snopes.com]] to have a look at it, and see what they dig up? I am really curious about......

in response to: Yankee Go Home by EvilGentleman

dirana1: You have got to be kidding me. Does anyone out there know the history of the place? It was British, you at least have that much right. However, it was originally and......

in response to: Kingston Penitentiary by EvilGentleman

Born and Raised in NYC: Alright Evil I was a little harsh .... the Americans pretending to be Canadian story gets under my skin ... again I've never hear a serious case of an American pretending to be Canadian (people......

in response to: Yankee Go Home by EvilGentleman

Born and Raised in NYC: Incredibly condescending comments but coming from a Canadian I'm not surprised. Never judge the majority attitude of any given place by graffiti since the majority population are seldom represented in the sentiment expoused it's usually drawn/written......

in response to: Yankee Go Home by EvilGentleman

Aingeal: Being from the Bogside, Doire, (Derry). I've developed a strong sense of awareness, passion for all people, and the need to uphold my Irish heritage. I was saddened to read Seamus's (from the south) comments.......

in response to: Urban Street Propoganda by Jamie

Bob Salmon: A bit late, sorry, my internet connection broke down. Hi Alan You are correct with what you say about the sky lighting up. Having worked in all the areas that could light up the sky, I will endeavour......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Rob On the last of your photos, you can just about see at the edge on the left, a little opening cut under the railway that led into LSC (British Steel). I never worked at......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Joanne Amorello-minor: Cadishead and Irlam Guardian Fri Dec 3rd 1976 front page Died after overdose An Irlam man with a "tremendous amount to live for" was......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Rob Tynan: Does any one no the exact position of the "British Resturant" which was opened in 1944. It was situated near to Royles but I can not pin point exactly where it stood?...

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

EvilGentleman: Probably the guy in the Honda stopped to count his change, and the guy in the Nissan impatiently tried to pass, pissing off the Honda guy, who raced to keep his spot in line, and......

in response to: Tight Squeeze by jack

Bob Salmon: Re the Bobs Ferry Accident: As remembered by Bob Salmon, an Inquest Witness. On the morning in question, I was awoken by a neighbour in Lytherton Avenue Cadishead, saying that she thought there was a gas leak......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

polish worker: i love the mural art but i cantunderstand why the loyalist art is so much better than the republican art.since we arrived from poland nearly four years ago we have lived in a loyalist area......

in response to: Cuban Solidarity Mural by Jamie

Danny: What happened at Holy Cross is Northern Irish hatred and sectarianism at its finest. Protestants target Catholic children with pipe bombs and urine, the police do nothing to arrest them, and the British media reports......

in response to: Black and White by norniron

February 6, 1958 United players killed in air disaster: The Munich air disaster took place on February 6, 1958, when the British European Airways Flight 609 crashed on its third attempt to take off from a slush-covered runway at the Munich-Riem airport in Germany.......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

karlo: P.S The first one is at the corner of Beechmount ave,and the Falls road in west Belfast. If you look closely,you'll see that the name of the street is 'R.P.G avenue'. ( For those who don't know,R.P.G stands......

in response to: Graffiti in Belfast by barry

karlo: I appreciate your views BBH,but i have to disagree. You should read as much as you can about the hunger strikes,or better still,take a trip to Ireland and talk to the families,friends or people who where......

in response to: Graffiti in Belfast by barry

CartLegger: Yeah, man. I love my in-laws. I could post lots of the places they've gotten me into, from hotels to restaurants to b'way shows. Wise of you to marry in such a direction. And fun!......

in response to: Montauk Manor by little ukraine

Jamie: Yeah, well obviously i can't condone trespassing on British Rail property. It ##is## dangerous. Don't do it kids. But this particular stretch of track has very wide 'sidings' if that's the right term. Gravelled areas......

in response to: followup graffiti hunt by Jamie

colavitos ghost: this proves it; public housing--american or otherwise--just pretty much sucks. i've never been to glasgow, london, or any other british city for that matter, but from what i've read and seen in these photos, it seems......

in response to: Glasgow Schemes4 by kobie

CartLegger: The British get away with so much, and it all comes down to quaintness. I mean, how friggin quaint! ...

in response to: Mr & Mrs Chimneystack by kathy archbold

Jamie: Thanks. Glad you enjoyed them. There's something quite quite creey about the british seaside....

in response to: Is This What the End Will Look Like? by Jamie

EvilGentleman: I sure wish I was allowed to sign some of these, but although I am the son of a former British subject and Ward of the Queen (Canadian Indians were only given Canadian citizenship in......

in response to: Police State Coming to a Country Near You Soon by elaine

Gaynor Miller: Just found this site on my lunch and spent the whole hour and more just looking and remembering it was great!I can't belive a little place like Irlam and Cadishead has got this many beautiful......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

.nanotech.: [[img:18457]] [[img:18458]] [[img:18459]] [[img:18462]] [[img:18463]] [[img:18464]] [[img:18465]] [[img:18466]] [[img:18467]] [[img:18468]] [[img:18469]] [[img:18470]] [[img:18471]] * The Queen of England has reportedly been buying up property in Colorado under a proxy. * There is a lot of "secret society" symbology at the airport,......

in response to: Airport Scenes 1 by aer suzuki

Jon Dominguez: "... and take back what used 2 b ours we should not be the minorities anymore we got black and brown teaming up we both are minorities we both have struggling histories we should take......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

seamus: Hey, am from the south and can honestly say that few people want that boggey dull cornor of ireland in the rpublic. Imagine this people, 600,000 disaffected catholics in the north almost bankrupted the......

in response to: Urban Street Propoganda by Jamie

DAVE: [[img:17868]] Tar and other coal products and eventually some chemical wagons were moved from the Cadishead British Rail sidings by locomotives from the Manchester Ship Canal Company and the Sentinel was used to shunt wagons form......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

jack: yeah, peter is from brooklyn, like me, and we are uncivilized, according to british standards, because as a nation we had lost that victorian elegence and charm. when we broke away from our mother......

in response to: Timeless Grace by Guy McLaren

Scott: Just moved to Bushwick 2 years ago, very white, and a supposed part of this so-called "gentrification." I, and the other "white people" that live in my building all moved here for two reasons.......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

once republican: we all know what happened in the past...where has it gotten us? everybody has an opinion on why different conflicts started, if we keep bringing up the past and blaming the other side, we will......

in response to: Black and White by norniron

Micah: Quay is an alternative (British) spelling of key, like Key Largo, key lime pie. Origin late Middle English key, from Old French kay, of Celtic origin. The change of spelling in the late......

in response to: Quay to the City by jeeff

EvilGentleman: Macedonia has always extended beyond what is currently called Greece, so I do not see how Greece alone is permitted the usage of the name. It is obvious the Greek people are most closely connected......

in response to: Θεσσαλονίκη by zagg

The Healing Leaf: Hey, Ulsterman and Republican! Yo! Interested in what my Canadian government did to our First nations people 100-150 years ago? Exactly what the British did to ALL the original Irish 400 years ago, and beyond!......

in response to: snapshots on a refrigerator by manda

nameless: Fuck England, because of their narrow minded and hypocritical mentality...fuck the British administration and its NHS medical system...it is fucked up!...

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

Susannah: Yes - those British are awfully naughty. ...

in response to: Montreal Scavenger Hunt by CE

EvilGentleman: Susannah: I find it quite funny that both your cowboy and my mountie are British Sirhcbre: I will get around to it when I have both free time and **no rain**. I think the regional headquarters......

in response to: Montreal Scavenger Hunt by CE

Susannah: A mounty! A mounty! - How could I forget a Mounty - do they have those in Montreal, or only in the British parts of Canada (please pardon my ignorance)?...

in response to: Montreal Scavenger Hunt by CE

Rí Niall: rite this is bollocks, i read most of this n its a pile of shite. the only places that are dangerous 2 outsiders is the rundown estates, mainly places lyk ballymacash(loyalist) or turflodge(republican), simply bcos......

in response to: Urban Street Propoganda by Jamie

Joseph Sassone: I was 15 years old when Bobby Sands died and remember it rather well. The other 9 men who gave their lives for the cause are sadly overshadowed somewhat by Bobby but someone had to......

in response to: Bobby Sands: An Cumann Cabhrach biography of 1981 by Marcella32

joey: sept. 2006. cody's books on telegraph is closed. gone. . . now a halloween store has moved in. footnote: Hal·low·een October 31, celebrated in the United States, Canada, and the British Isles by children going door to......

in response to: elephants in berkeley by jyk

OGLACH: MP Bobby Sands grave has been spat on! He never Died So we could Give up our right to irish independence ! Certain political groups gave it up! look it up! He never died so......

in response to: Bobby Sands: An Cumann Cabhrach biography of 1981 by Marcella32

Karlo: Volunteer Im not trying to convince you of my views,i am merely trying to reach an understanding with you as a human being. If i were standing next to you,i would offer you my sincere condolences and......

in response to: Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill by norniron

Vince Browne: Gus, never mind the tears,couldn't wait to get away.Vince By the way Gus why no picture of British Legion?? Don't you like us???...

in response to: Barnoldswick by Gus Brennan

Karlo: Well observer,i have to be honest and say they are not all tattooed thugs. There are assholes and hardmen where-ever you go,but regrettably,the macho thug image certainly is synomonus with Loyalism. There are however,huge efforts on the......

in response to: Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill by norniron

Disgusted: Myself personly, i am DISGUSTED with the whole protestant/catholic british/irish issue. I myself am a protestant and i love Ireland to me its the best country in the world. I consider myself an irish man (that......

in response to: Black and White by norniron

Moore: Thats a funny picture, but i do somewhat agree with it being that im Irish and would like the british out of Ireland....

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

Maria Latore: PS England is a great country and I love your culture, okay? We speak your language and Americans don't hate anybody, aside from pigs like Osama Bin Laden and Sadam Hussein. So what if we're......

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

Maria Latore: British people who complain about America need to get something through their heads. First, Britain was the original mega-power who everyone hated. Just because we kicked your ass in the revolutionary war and because......

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

jamie: nachos and quesadilla's, just like a real british pub...

in response to: Rudyard\'s British Pub by groovehouse

jamie: i hate to add to this argument but didn't the 'americans' pretty much eraicate the native population of their country back in the day? And the english didn't clear the Gaelic speakers out of their......

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

jamie: there's that, and the fact that flying the british/english national flags is generally discouraged due to it synonomity(?) with white supremacy/racist bigotry thanks to the likes of fascist organisations like the [[wiki:British National Party]]....

in response to: Cromwellian B\'stards! by Lawrence

Andrew: I think it goes back to the times when the 'country' had various power blocks (robber barons) and local flags were seen to encourage that, so all flag-flying was banned unless offically sanctioned by a......

in response to: Cromwellian B\'stards! by Lawrence

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Oh, Evil G, that's pretty much the content of many of our conversations, usually thanks to red wine. The reason I've never done hallucinogens/psychadelics (even through 5 years of art school) is because my Mum......

in response to: Mr Pendlebury Takes a Trip by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

Kato: I've allowed my master to respond. I would love the book, he's one of my heroes but don't send the funny stamps. Pendlebury was a chief archaeologist researching Knossos and other important sites on Crete.......

in response to: Mr Pendlebury Takes a Trip by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

EvilGentleman: Since most of Northern Ireland seems to be broken up into Catholic and Protestant areas, why not just let the Protestant areas remain as British enclaves, while the rest of Northern Ireland merges with the......

in response to: Northern Ireland is the most intrguing of places by Jamie

anon (88-111-72-44.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com): I think britain should turn against america and prepare for war,we definatly have a better army than them all though it numbers less it is proven because they are always blowing eachother up and the......

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

Jamie: i've just sat and read this entire thread end to end and i have to say, i think there are a lot of sticks being firmly grasped by the wrong ends. Northern Ireland is a......

in response to: Urban Street Propoganda by Jamie

Ken- Boston, Massachusetts: Very good points Lawrence. Of course, I would never claim that "we kicked your asses and claimed independence. Obviously we won the war, but it is a far cry from kicking your asses.......

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

tangent: Well said ken. I am british, and i think you're right in your assumption that most british peoples see americans as ignorant, arrogant and xenophobic. But i don't think this is a curiously british attitude.......

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

Ken- Boston, Massachusetts: The comments I have read here don't surprise me, but they also disturb me. I was born and raised in Boston (where the first shots were fired at the British). I hold a......

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

Jamie: **Biff:** essentially it was a secretive MOD ##(British Ministry of Defence)## testing facility used to test military equipment and god knows what else. ##[[http://www.mod.uk]] is a good place to not find any information about this......

in response to: MoD Aquila (Part Two) by Simon Cornwell

I.T.U.C.: RUM: "a spirit, distilled from fermented sugar cane juice; an intoxicating liquor". And here’s the rub, made from sugar cane grown by African slaves in the West Indies during the late 18th Century. Produced to......

in response to: Yuppy Scum by CE

elaine: links for twitchers and other nature lovers - it being spring here, there are many baby things to see, and obligingly many webcams to see them with. peregrine falcon family in a quarry here [[http://www.plym-peregrines.co.uk/]]......

in response to: Fledgling Greenfinches by elaine

EvilGentleman: I kind of feel it looks a bit like England, but since these buildings were built by the British, I guess it was natural that they would look that way. Perhaps one of our British......

in response to: The Other Yonge Street by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: The first letters of Canadian postal codes denote the province or territory (or portion thereof) that the address is within, much like North American telephone area codes. The codes are: A - Newfoundland and Labrador B -......

in response to: Postal Codes by Peter

Fionnừala R: Hello, I am from Portadown, Co. Armagh and I have to say that most of the people on dis do nah no wat dey r talkin bit! yas are all talkin aload o crap. I......

in response to: Urban Street Propoganda by Jamie

jeeff: elicar - how about the reservations up north where people continue to be stuck without clean drinking water and reliable infrastructure? how about the saskatoon police (to name only one notorious department)? the amount......

in response to: Cheap Sex $60 by Elicar

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Fabulous! Another group of slightly odd and totally marvelous pictures from the magical Hool. The first shot is so surreal. And I've noticed that a lot of the ladies wear headscarves in Canada. British ladies......

in response to: April 13 2006 Toronto by hool

anon (host81-156-19-52.range81-156.btcentralplus.com): have a look at the british hospital germany is also in shape of a swatstika...

in response to: Quite Possibly the Worst Layout for a Hospital, Ever by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

Grange: I m a paramedic , so I can tell you some of the rates . In Ont . its 45 $ from a residence or public place . This is collected by the hospital which......

in response to: A Very Expensive Locksmith by groovehouse

jack: peter i love that neighborhood. i miss all the stores within a few walking blocks. out here you have to drive to a mall. but i love anerican fried chicken, much better......

in response to: American Fried Chicken by Peter

Harold Jordan: eh boo boyz-you talk like retarded british girl. Stay up Hell....

in response to: Hell Graffiti by Peter

EvilGentleman: Having lived through a different type of troubles, I know how hard it can be to deal with the legacies of colonialism. My ancestors fought the French for the British (and won!), they fought the......

in response to: Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill by norniron

Biff: The American commander Zebulon Pike {of Pike's Peak fame} ordered the town to be burnt for the unexpected resistance they had encountered. Alexander Wood and his band of teenage insurgents halted the Yankee advance at......

in response to: Local Hero by Biff

Jamie: heh peter, sounds much like irish chinese take-aways. or at least the ones where i used to live in {northern ireland} whos mainstay are chips, french fried onions and {curry fried rice} which is a......

in response to: Building Slice by Peter

EvilGentleman: Like, all that I know eh, is that you there Britishers sure seem to have yerselves a funny way of spicken' at each other, eh? Not 'tall like us 'nucks here who is spicken' de......

in response to: Falling in Love Across The West Midlands by a disturbed young man

RICHARD: HE WAS A HERO AND A SOILDER ANGAINTS OUR FIGHT WITH THE BRITISH GOVERMENT AND BY HIS DEATH THANK-FULLY AND THE OTHER NINE WHO DIED WE WILL HAVE A UNITED IRELAND FOR IT IS MENT......

in response to: Bobby Sands: An Cumann Cabhrach biography of 1981 by Marcella32

elaine: i know. although, on the other hand, it is a beautiful beautiful word. meaning pocket or hiding place, etymologically. superceded, historically, by vagina, which is also rather lovely, being as it is the sheath for a......

in response to: Passing Airliner Triggers Wonder in Arctic by EvilGentleman

Chris: billy i dont believe u have ever been to the UK judging from ur... review of it. I have met many cool americans that apreciate there only allie on the planet and are nice......

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

Billy: Having lived in both the USA and England, let me tell you a few things. Both countries electoral systems are fucked! None has real proportional representation. And in terms of laws probably both have an equal......

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

jonnybadboy: i am proud to be british proud of my monarchy who are still to this day the rulers of the british empire upon which if noone has noticed is huge if it wasn't for the......

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

Jamie: What an excellent piece of writing. It put me in mind both of the opening monologue of the movie trainspotting, and also blur's parklife. There's also i hint of chuck palahniuk somewhere in there i......

in response to: Will You Be Waiting for Me in the Star Alley? by an impossible child

jack: look at the cars, there on the wrong side of the street, but then again the british like things their way much like the americans....

in response to: Old Bank by danielle

Jamie: John i agree with you 100 per cent, an do so as a british person of english origin. And true, Northern Ireland is not the most extreme place on earth, but it's certainly the most......

in response to: Northern Ireland is the most intrguing of places by Jamie

John: Dia daoibh Northern Ireland is just the most extreme part of Ireland/UK that most of you bozos have been able to experience. Go visit Kosovo. Go visit the Middle East. I doubt if any of you......

in response to: Northern Ireland is the most intrguing of places by Jamie

Wee Mackey...D.Coy..2nd Batt: most of the taigs i know want to be british.. Yet some say they want a united Ireland... As long as we have our Super UFF we will mantain our civil libertys and serve......

in response to: Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill by norniron

stephen: iam from the republic i think it is time for a united ireland it makes scence both econmic and social.It doesnt seem the british government give a toss about northern Ireland or the peopel including......

in response to: The Bogside by norniron

jack: i wish i had been raised in england. i love the british accent, so much better than my brooklynese. you can say something disgusting and with a british accent it sounds like a......

in response to: Cat\'s Brave Battle with the Snow. by Catherine Penfold-Waxman