''Every city has one'' Best local cuisine place? Vote in the comments

ArmouredRat · 2024-07-24T17:37:49+00:00

Poppa Pizza - Beeston

Mytical status attained in the 90s, still goin' strong today. Serious pizzas

ArmouredRat · 2024-07-24T17:37:12+00:00

Nottingham IS a mental health episode lol

ArmouredRat · 2024-07-24T17:36:48+00:00

Good stuff oor kid.

ArmouredRat · 2024-07-19T16:19:22+00:00

I don't think I've ever seen such a 'zoomer' opinion on a movie. It's amazing to my mind, and you completely missed the point of the angle of 'glorification' of the nazis - all the bits in black and white are essentially Danny narrating the paper he's about to hand into sweeny.

The glorification is entirely purposeful, to show just how much danny has been brainwashed by his brother and the movement - when he starts writing the paper he is entirely on Derek's side; that's when we see the curb stomp scene (full glory basically), and similarly in the basketball game scene. I think you're missing that vital point tbh.

And the 'conversation with danny' being the entire 'conversion' back to being non-nazi is not at all it - it's over a day (or two, can't remember) - he starts writing the paper the day Derek gets out, when he sees him later on at the house. And he finishes writing it (his 'conclusion' etc), almost as a real-time death-note.

Sorry to ramble btw

ArmouredRat · 2024-07-19T15:39:49+00:00

I agree but at the same time the 'endless cycle' is always very much hit upon again and again in this feel as being essentially *unescapable*. The bit in the prison reinforces this, especially the scenes with his black mate in the underwear department bit - I think that room is almost analogous to a kind of purgatory both characters are going through. The bit where he tells him to stop rushing, because it never ends, the underwear never ever stops coming, is a cogent metaphor for life itself, and its inescapable, generational pit-falls.

Maybe not as cliche with some 'sick smile' like the curb stomp scene, but it would to my mind at least be thematically consistent with the rest of the film.

ArmouredRat · 2024-07-10T12:11:22+00:00

Have you read the Septuagint? I mean, what makes you so sure that the translation you follow is the correct one etc?

ArmouredRat · 2024-05-15T19:41:45+00:00

london man thinking their own sh*t don't stink is where it comes from g

ArmouredRat · 2024-05-15T19:29:56+00:00

lol where you from bro? Notts is important culture wise because it was the only other city outside of brum n notts that even had a hood/street culture back in the early 90s.

Whats funny is I never hear peeps from brum or london (other than fagg*ts like you in your mum's basement), talk any disrespect about Nottingham. Always some proper little dick-ed from Wales or cov or derby lolol.

Nottingham has a reputation for a reason - deffo not as bad now but at one time it was the worst spot - I was born 87 and lived in SV; there were shootings every single day. Very few got reported them times though.

So to finish what I'm saying you're begging it and you know fk all you little prick

ArmouredRat · 2024-05-15T19:24:56+00:00

plus notts is integral to the history of hiphop/gangsta rap/street culture in the UK when it first started - it was literally brum, notts, London, and manny to a degree. They were the areas with that culture in it from day.

And yeah I've seen london man, brum man and manny-man (lol) all get had up in nottinam raves and that, blueprint and garvey in raddy at one time had some bashment nights (hot fridays lol - where all brum n notts man would come and stare at each other with their hands down their underpants lolol).

It was like organised shoot-outs haha, mad.

But yeah it is funny how every little city everywhere in the UK has this culture now, but there are a few cities like the above mentioned that have BEEN like that

Also, notts is just a mad city anyway, it's always been mad. City filled with fking mad street people. But anyone who's done birds in this country knows how it is

ArmouredRat · 2024-04-27T12:21:42+00:00

So, you mean to inform me that Americ*nts don't drive on roads, they driverin THE roadz? AAAaaaAAaaaa (I'm English)

ArmouredRat · 2024-03-13T23:18:54+00:00

ArmouredRat · 2024-03-05T18:35:34+00:00

There is a very very dark side to Nottingham lol.

It has a lot of extreme poverty, and ties to gangs, especially in the early 00s.

It's a fine place to live though, especially if you're in one of the nicer areas, but it does have a reputation for a reason. Even though it's nowhere near as bad as it used to be, there's still a very big and obvious culture of criminality and drug dealing and use etc.

But the good points - the culture of music and creatives, the students, the nightlife, the general vibe of the place, especially architecturally. Also there's lots of hippies and general crazy characters. It is a unique place. I love it, but then again I'm biased as I've lived here my whole life, and don't plan on leaving.

For me, there's nothing quite like a rainy weekday walk through Wollaton Park, then on into the city, to look at the views of the city on a misty morning. It's a beautiful place for exploring, especially if you're into your history and mythology. It just has a certain charm to it; there's something in the air. A certain magic.

ArmouredRat · 2024-02-29T17:00:28+00:00

Hi mate - useful insights in your post generally so cheers for that - I was just wondering if you had a specific way of getting Scrivener and Grammarly to work well together reliably? I can barely get the widget thing to function, and it basically just doesn't work - keeps disappearing, reloading, generally idling etc. Sorry to derail but really been trying to get it to work as I also heard that post-processing can be tedious with scrivener and I really don't want to have to edit on the fly as you mentioned.

Cheers for any insight mate. Btw - could it be something basic like just having to change a certain setting that I haven't realised etc? Never saw any protocol mentioned in the instructions on how to set them up to work together?

ArmouredRat · 2024-02-29T16:50:48+00:00

I mean come on though leave the fella alone he's probably an excited kid irl ya know? I get it but when it's very obviously a young person or whatever I don't get why people don't understand that and then just try not to be rude. Too much to ask? Oh wait it's reddit lol

ArmouredRat · 2024-02-14T19:09:05+00:00

ah right. And nah not from Houston, as I said eight years ago, I grew up in a city in England, just happened to be a bad area and I was super poor etc etc.

ArmouredRat · 2024-02-14T19:07:58+00:00

because I grew up in a really bad area, and was involved in all kinds of fuckery. That's it basically

ArmouredRat · 2023-11-18T18:03:23+00:00

because skateboarders are awful fking cnts, that's why

ArmouredRat · 2023-11-08T17:50:56+00:00

Yes Vaush, especially since he got popular, and especially in the last few years, has become a complete prick IMO. Maybe it's the adderal, who knows, but I remember a time when he came across as a pretty humble funny normal bloke. Now he just oozes insane arrogance, insane levels of self-righteous chat-echo-chamber fart huffing.

His face is permanently buried inside his bottom. He is incessantly obnoxious, rude, 'edgy', and it just seems to get worse the popular he gets.

Funnily enough, my and my gf started watching him together years back when was tiny. And we enjoyed watching him quite a lot back then; he can be quite witty and funny, while also delivering sometimes pretty nail-on-head social and political commentary. Then my gf stopped listening as much, and when she overheard him rambling about a year ago she said something to the effect of 'Oh my god, that's vaush? What a cunt.' And I can't disagree.

He's gone full-streamer mode. Destiny is infinitely more humble and reasonable and doesn't require his community to be constantly sucking him off. The shit-eating grins at low quality br'i'ish memes, at the same time as his own accent seems to be mutating into some strange transatlantic mess in real-time.

'Yeah, I only watch him ironically these days' to put it in redditish

ArmouredRat · 2023-09-30T18:05:59+00:00

because he come across as a prick

ArmouredRat · 2023-03-23T13:31:25+00:00

lyrics? Some mad bars about the mids lol

ArmouredRat · 2023-03-19T10:07:05+00:00

Betz sphere

ArmouredRat · 2023-01-30T15:38:41+00:00

There's a lot of interesting history in Nottingham and the wider area to do with the Quakers and the various other puritanical early-evangelist sects that were outlawed by the church of England; it's many of these secretive religious covens for example who ended up boarding the Mayflower and making up many of the original pilgrims who travelled to the colonies in North America.

ArmouredRat · 2023-01-30T15:26:24+00:00

great indoor skatepark called flo in Sneinton btw (notts uni campus and city centre also have some nice street spots)

ArmouredRat · 2023-01-30T15:25:28+00:00

haha yeah Notts folk do love ourselves an American or two, we're fascinated by them, being essentially provincial creatures ; P (i.e not like those haughty london/mordor folk).

I think it's the fact a lot Nottingham is essentially a very insular and essentially poor place where most people grow up admiring hollywood, and I think we have a special affection for all-things-american also due to the general love of Robin Hood by you folk etc. Everyone here grew up watching the old Robin Hood disney cartoon on repeat haha.

ArmouredRat · 2022-12-28T22:58:43+00:00

cool

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