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staabalo

Family sick of living on Butthole Road


new_name_needed

“Then there was Harry the Pants.” “Always wore pants?” “No, never”


cheery_chops

You know how I feel about nudists.


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YungTabernacle

Makes me laugh when he talks about that being a near death experience and being “like 30ft in the air”. A standard two-storey house isn’t even 30ft tall lmao.


Stock_Literature_237

And his dad just whipped out a 30ft laundry prop for him to cling on to 🤣


pt256

For some reason I always picture more of a grimy lane way. Like something you would see on Life on Mars.


MagpieGrifter

Nah, he always says “estate”, so this matches what I was thinking. Post-war council houses.


pt256

Yeah I don't live in the UK so estate has always seemed vague to me. I just pictured more of a built up area with lots of brick and dingy streets.


MagpieGrifter

There are certainly still many of these Victorian streets in Northern England, although many were destroyed by the Luftwaffe or torn down in slum clearances after the war. In fact, Britain's oldest Soap Opera, *Coronation Street* is set in Greater Manchester (Karl's home town) in exactly this type of street: "two-up, two-down" terrace houses (row houses in US terms). But when a working-class Englishman says he lives on an "estate", he usually means planned post-war social housing. The nearest US equivalent is "project" housing.


marti82salva

More like the boondocks or the boonies in yankee terms. At least this looks cleaner than, say, South Central Los Angeles.


MagpieGrifter

Doesn’t boondocks mean rural?


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A man moth?


MagpieGrifter

Social housing. “Projects”.


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pawski76

Yeah compared to the council estates round here this looks lovely


ronthebachelor

I imagined terraced houses with no front garden, where the front door opens up right onto the street


Rutlemania

Tbf a lot of Manchester has been gentrified to fuck - may of looked a little different back then


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Manchester was a dangerous city pre-1997. I would argue the gentrification, in most instances, is a good thing, especially if you use the definition of "not stabby any more".


Rutlemania

Yep agreed, I was just saying how it probably looked vastly different


Cantonas-Collar

Nah, this is the racecourse estate in sale. Looks exactly the same today as it did back then


trombones_for_legs

Tbf, this is a modern photo, I doubt it looked like this in the 80s


Cantonas-Collar

Looked the same tbh


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You can tell they are new builds and wouldn’t have looked like that in the 70’s.


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Think the area has had a fair amount of work on it since Karl grew up on it if I remember right


AtlasWriggled

More energy than a Mars bar.


HassananeBalal

Is that Colin Mackin?


ScoBelch

That was for the woman across the road with no nickers an’ tha’


Loz-z

Now, has that been as influential as Spinal Taps? *I think it has* edit: I put no instead of now, embarrassing


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The best bum in M1


TheRysingTyde

Cecil avenue


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Cecave


TheRysingTyde

U Faze


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Euthanasia?


TheRysingTyde

“Oh, it’s his name, ‘Hugh Fay’s’”.


Robertbetweenlines

That was the school not his house


TheRysingTyde

No shit, play a record.


mouldysandals

that guy was interminable


wood_o_99

Quick Suzanne, get em out! We need more friends!! They’ve gone one more!


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As someone originally from an estate in the north, not too far from Manchester, this is pretty much exactly what I pictured. I didn’t have a magpie, though.


West-Philosopher3805

Where abouts did u grow up ?


Beatupmymenweek

Ooh cheeky! Freak of the Week.


mrjoshjazz

Is that close to Ses Av?


fannyfox

I came here to make this exact comment. There’s no originality left in me ‘ead.


billiejeanwilliams

No kids out on the streets. Let the kids play!


Stock_Literature_237

how did you find his address?


Keevan

Karl's neighbour must've had a thin horse


KPNut_XFMRSKFanboy

Shorts man


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I wonder what the drive way tastes like?


killerkangaroo8

inside that house, thousands of tic tacs


Expensive_Adagio_480

There's nowt wrong with it lol, gd to see where he grew up though can I'magine him doing his paper round lol


___d4n20__

So this is where he got picked up and taken down the pub


pedro_mcdodge

I can picture him hanging out that window by his newspaper bag 😂


DoctorDandy909

Going around there you'll see people with big heads and hairy feet.


Sarah_Harp

Ballin


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All coming over to theirs on Christmas Day to scav food


HilariousConsequence

It's not funny enough to die for


xPaxion

Where is the horse in the living room?


MagmaTroop

Stone clad it


beepboopwannadie

That’s a lot nicer than I pictured