piracy is a moral duty but so is buying old physical media from charity shops for buttons

joani reid blocked me after she searched the replies of my pal QTing her to find me slagging her off. very funny.

and NHS HR just isn’t very good

so I guess I’m saying it’s complicated and there will be lots of contrasts to see in the photos but they might be more complicated than first meets the eye. I should get a copy and have a look too

one of the many incomprehensible things about the british class system is how neatly and expensively you’re meant to dress at different levels of wealth. some of the poshest old money people I’ve ever met had holes in their clothes because they had no need to show off that they were rich

starmer’s britain (complimentary for once)

so it’s probably a different sort of middle class “iykyk” affluence, I think the mum is possibly wearing a rohan shirt too

certainly not cheap, anyway, a pair of their trousers now cost about £100 (130 USD)

they would have been relatively expensive at the time I think, rohan stuff has always been relatively dear

I think (!) they’re rohan bags – hiking/outdoor trousers, basically

Martin Parr was so good at color, too. Look at these people. Conservative “Midsummer Madness” Party, Bath, Avon, 1986–1989:

fear not, me old man’s got a spare one of those as well

a few years ago I got rid of my (tbf somewhat broken) teenage stereo system thinking I’d be streaming stuff forever. I’ve just rebuilt a hifi out of hand-me-downs from my old man and will be listening to vinyl again before the end of the week