Thread: Have you ever caned it

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

For the benefit of Septics, the sheer awfulness of most of urban northern England and its Midlands is exemplified by the opening scenes of that video.

Essentially, it is perhaps on par with, say, Pittsburgh but extends over entire conurbations including the dreariest suburban estates imaginable, permanently shrouded in leaden grey skies., populated by ugly misshapen creatures scarcely able to string a sentence together and uniformed in grubby, tasteless tracksuits.

You're such a pretentious snob.

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

For the benefit of Septics, the sheer awfulness of most of urban northern England and its Midlands is exemplified by the opening scenes of that video.

Essentially, it is perhaps on par with, say, Pittsburgh but extends over entire conurbations including the dreariest suburban estates imaginable, permanently shrouded in leaden grey skies., populated by ugly misshapen creatures scarcely able to string a sentence together and uniformed in grubby, tasteless tracksuits.

You're just jealous of that Blue Ford Granada, a car you could only dream of owning back in the day instead of your bright orange Austin Allegro.

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

For the benefit of Septics, the sheer awfulness of most of urban northern England and its Midlands is exemplified by the opening scenes of that video.

Essentially, it is perhaps on par with, say, Pittsburgh

Thanks for the context that is all I needed to hear.

My grandfather who raced sprint and Indy cars in the early 60s used to call it "giving it the beans". This song personifies getting down and dirty on a two lane twisty back road to me...

That would be called "Raging it" not "Caning it" over here.

To rag it = ride hard, rag it to fvck.
To cane it = To get onit like a car bonnet.

Originally Posted by Joe 90

That would be called "Raging it" not "Caning it" over here.

You English are hard to understand...

Originally Posted by Joe 90

That would be called "Raging it" not "Caning it" over here.

I only know one way and that is "raging it"

If you rag it, surely it should be 'ragging it', not "raging it".

Unless you're angry as fuck, I suppose. Rage, raging.

Cheers Nev, yes it is indeed ragging it.

I must have posted that same fucking song about 6 times on here when I've been smashed.

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

For the benefit of Septics, the sheer awfulness of most of urban northern England and its Midlands is exemplified by the opening scenes of that video.

Essentially, it is perhaps on par with, say, Pittsburgh but extends over entire conurbations including the dreariest suburban estates imaginable, permanently shrouded in leaden grey skies., populated by ugly misshapen creatures scarcely able to string a sentence together and uniformed in grubby, tasteless tracksuits.

But it beats being a tinker, no?

Originally Posted by Joe 90

You're just jealous of that Blue Ford Granada, a car you could only dream of owning back in the day instead of your bright orange Austin Allegro.

One of my earliest drives was a Ford Corsair, whitewall tyres, bench front seat and a handbrake coming out of the dash. In the end after a hefty pull the fucking thing actually did come out the dash.

Originally Posted by Cujo

You're such a pretentious snob.

Pretentious, moi?

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

extends over entire conurbations including the dreariest suburban estates imaginable, permanently shrouded in leaden grey skies., populated by ugly misshapen creatures scarcely able to string a sentence together and uniformed in grubby, tasteless tracksuits.

The worst destination I had on my calendar while working in IT was the annual exhibition at the NEC in Birmingham . . . It's exactly as SA describes, but he left out the ring of Pakistani and Indian misery surrounding these creatures.
We had InterOp in Las Vegas, Tokyo andothers, Cebit in Hanover etc... and then there was Birmingham - if the incredibly nasty accent doesn't get you then the dental horror of these subhumans will.

Always hated it with a passion and tried to fob off attendance to others - usually people from HQ in the US who were enamoured by the embellished description of Buckingham Palace and Big Ben being just around the corner.

When it comes to dreary the UK's mid to north has it down pat.

Originally Posted by panama hat

The worst destination I had on my calendar while working in IT was the annual exhibition at the NEC in Birmingham . . . It's exactly as SA describes, but he left out the ring of Pakistani and Indian misery surrounding these creatures.
We had InterOp in Las Vegas, Tokyo andothers, Cebit in Hanover etc... and then there was Birmingham - if the incredibly nasty accent doesn't get you then the dental horror of these subhumans will.

Always hated it with a passion and tried to fob off attendance to others - usually people from HQ in the US who were enamoured by the embellished description of Buckingham Palace and Big Ben being just around the corner.

When it comes to dreary the UK's mid to north has it down pat.

I was in Birmingham meeting a mate during the summer and Brum has come on leaps and bounds over the last few years. Like most of the city centres in the midlands/north - Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Newcastle etc - it's had a lot of money pumped into it and is a decent place to live while you've also got the accent to laugh at. Ain't that right, Cy/Dil?

The smaller northern mill towns - hence the title of the song, Kingdom of Rust - are pretty desperate places at the best of times though, and they're not helped by the seemingly perennial leaden skies either. Grim, but you're pretty much guaranteed a good curry.

Originally Posted by hallelujah

I was in Birmingham meeting a mate during the summer and Brum has come on leaps and bounds over the last few years. Like most of the city centres in the midlands/north - Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Newcastle etc - it's had a lot of money pumped into it and is a decent place to live

To be fair the last time I was there was 15 years ago . . . nasty . . . really horrid. On the other side of the English coin we opened a satellite office, for a large project, in Royal Tunbridge Wells and stayed at several nice hotels/Spas for the three months.

Far more pleasant than the grim north - better accents as well . . . women just as ugly as elsewhere in the UK.

Originally Posted by panama hat

women just as ugly as elsewhere in the UK.

how dare you say that about the roses of England...


oh hang on, wrong login.

Where I come from, caning it means consuming copious amounts of cocaine.