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Ugh, I never thought I would say this about anyone but jesus h christ, whiney should be drowned like a Welsh Village, and never brought back up.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/cy/c/ca/Cofiwch_Tryweryn.jpg

Thanks for explaining, I'm feeling proper stupid now. Heh.

Sheaths of ClammyCloth (Fotherington Thomas), Friday, 30 December 2011 20:36 (twelve years ago) link

the 'drowning' = 'fucking' meme never lodged in me. i am hopeless at ilx memery

Aimless, Friday, 30 December 2011 20:37 (twelve years ago) link

Here is a Welsh village they didn't quite manage to drown.

http://static.laterooms.com/hotelphotos/laterooms/73592/gallery/lake-vyrnwy-classic-hotel-llanwddyn-nr-oswestry_030320091941214173.jpg

Whiney, tied to a bag of menhirs, thrown off this tower, would be too good for him.

(p.s. I may have a substantial amount of single malt Jura whisky in me at this point, so I should probably get off th'internet before getting even stupider.)

Sheaths of ClammyCloth (Fotherington Thomas), Friday, 30 December 2011 20:39 (twelve years ago) link

Haha, wait, so the whole drowning thing became a meme simply because of ambiguous grammar? Excellent work, guys.

Illia Rump (emil.y), Friday, 30 December 2011 20:39 (twelve years ago) link

haha no I think in the actual post he is quite explicit about wanting to drown them

nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Friday, 30 December 2011 20:40 (twelve years ago) link

no, emily's right.

By "insulted" I mean "engaged in amateur rock criticism." (step hen faps), Friday, 30 December 2011 20:42 (twelve years ago) link

FT has reached the Jurassic tipsying point?

Aimless, Friday, 30 December 2011 20:43 (twelve years ago) link

Drowned villages on the Jurassic Coast in Devon, no less!

http://www.southwestcoastpath.org.uk/img/gammonheadlg.jpg

(I am trying to find the Cornish drowned village in Mounts Bay but it is not happening yet. Stupid whisky.)

Sheaths of ClammyCloth (Fotherington Thomas), Friday, 30 December 2011 20:46 (twelve years ago) link

This is the Welsh drowned village proper:

http://fantasticjournal.blogspot.com/2009/09/village-of-damned.html

Sheaths of ClammyCloth (Fotherington Thomas), Friday, 30 December 2011 20:47 (twelve years ago) link

that photo is awes

Hongro4AS (nakhchivan), Friday, 30 December 2011 20:54 (twelve years ago) link

Fotherington Thomas, you are very very annoying and I assure you I mean that literally and with absolutely no subtext

some dude (Mr. Stevenson #2), Friday, 30 December 2011 20:56 (twelve years ago) link

Some day I will get out to the Scillies, they do look amazing.

Sheaths of ClammyCloth (Fotherington Thomas), Friday, 30 December 2011 20:58 (twelve years ago) link

This one, Ladybower, is an amazing drowned village:

http://kreuzberged.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/ladybower-reservoir-with-the-chruch-spire-visible.jpg

NOT LEAST BECAUSE IT FEATURES THIS AMAZING PLUGHOLE

http://s0.geograph.org.uk/photos/01/75/017566_cc1d9ab2.jpg

^^^^^that is one of the coolest looking things I have ever seen

Sheaths of ClammyCloth (Fotherington Thomas), Friday, 30 December 2011 21:01 (twelve years ago) link

oh man, someone hates windsurfers more than me

los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Friday, 30 December 2011 21:05 (twelve years ago) link

yeah there was a n01se thread with a bunch of those iirc

Carnitas, Friday, 30 December 2011 21:07 (twelve years ago) link

I think there have been a couple of threads about it because I was never ~allowed~ on N01z3 and I know I had a long conversation with Sinkah about Lyonesse and the lost villages/lands between Cornwall and the Scillies. But it's entirely possible there was a Noise thread as well? There were some p cool threads about ruined Soviet monuments and the like.

Sheaths of ClammyCloth (Fotherington Thomas), Friday, 30 December 2011 21:10 (twelve years ago) link

what is going on there? (the plughole) - that is amazingly weird!

also - there are way too many threads about whiney and whiney-related memes as it is.

sarahel, Friday, 30 December 2011 21:10 (twelve years ago) link

It's an overflow for the Ladybower reservoir - when it's not rlly full, it looks like this:

http://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/36/65/1366582_26ce3a83.jpg

Lost villages >>>>>>>>>>> yet another of the 40,000 dumb whiney beefs

Someone's fucked with the colour balance to make it look even more like the portal to another dimension here:

http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/gallery/data/500/LadyBower2.jpg

Sheaths of ClammyCloth (Fotherington Thomas), Friday, 30 December 2011 21:14 (twelve years ago) link

wales isnt a country

tumblr wights (є(٥_ ٥)э), Friday, 30 December 2011 21:15 (twelve years ago) link

speaking of portals to other dimensions and Wales -- Torchwood is kinda awesomely campy.

sarahel, Friday, 30 December 2011 21:16 (twelve years ago) link

I still haven't seen more than the first series of Torchwood but if there were anywhere there were gonna be a portal to another dimension in Britain, it would be Wales or Cornwall. It's odd, I half understand Welsh now that I've been studying Cornish, it's just spelled all silly.

Now I'm gonna have to drag out that Reigns concept album about the lost/drowned village - Styne Vallis - I was *gutted* when I found out it wasn't real.

Sheaths of ClammyCloth (Fotherington Thomas), Friday, 30 December 2011 21:20 (twelve years ago) link

http://annoyzview.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/the-lost-land-of-lyonesse.jpg

^^^^^^^LYONESSE, also featuring the added bonus of a) sea arch and b) LIGHTHOUSE

Just in case anyone wondered why I spend so much time in Cornwall. Which none of you were, I'm just drunk and want to look at pictures of drowned lands. I should get back to work and finish this damned drawing of St Michaels Mount instead of googling pictures of it.

Sheaths of ClammyCloth (Fotherington Thomas), Friday, 30 December 2011 21:24 (twelve years ago) link

i think it gets less visually "annoying" as the seasons progress, unfortunately.

sarahel, Friday, 30 December 2011 21:25 (twelve years ago) link

there is one whiney related meme that deserves life beyond death beyond life

Hongro4AS (nakhchivan), Friday, 30 December 2011 21:26 (twelve years ago) link

speaking of which, john barrowman has a very attractive posterior

sarahel, Friday, 30 December 2011 21:27 (twelve years ago) link

None of the men on that show are the slightest bit attractive, it's so disappointing. However, Gwen, jaysus ker-ist, she made me doubt my heterosexuality - which I think is all part of Russell T Davies' cunning plan, right? Well, Gwen's gay agenda certainly worked on me, just... wow. I think it was the Welsh accent.

Sheaths of ClammyCloth (Fotherington Thomas), Friday, 30 December 2011 21:29 (twelve years ago) link

also a doe-eyed, raven-haired big bottom bird just got divorced from one of british light entertainment's most ardent defenders of camp 'newsy wewsies' style music hall vernacular

Hongro4AS (nakhchivan), Friday, 30 December 2011 21:31 (twelve years ago) link

BORING. Going back to my painting if no one has any more drowned villages or Welsh / Cornish weirdness.

Sheaths of ClammyCloth (Fotherington Thomas), Friday, 30 December 2011 21:33 (twelve years ago) link

ty

Hongro4AS (nakhchivan), Friday, 30 December 2011 21:34 (twelve years ago) link

in a semiotics4u vein, i wonder if some of the consternation directed at today's song is cuz zooey d seems to have a lower voice than ljg levitt

Hongro4AS (nakhchivan), Friday, 30 December 2011 21:36 (twelve years ago) link

Trying to paint this - again with the lighthouses. I could see no less than 2 lighthouses where I was staying. It was lighthouses and rainbows all week long, why on earth did I come back?

http://s0.geograph.org.uk/photos/03/04/030473_91943084.jpg

Sheaths of ClammyCloth (Fotherington Thomas), Friday, 30 December 2011 21:38 (twelve years ago) link

also - there are way too many threads about whiney and whiney-related memes as it is.

― sarahel, Friday, December 30, 2011 4:10 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark

how many of them did you start

nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Friday, 30 December 2011 21:42 (twelve years ago) link

that's not a contradiction -- there are too many, yet not enough

Hongro4AS (nakhchivan), Friday, 30 December 2011 21:48 (twelve years ago) link

Less blah blah blah, more ridiculous paintings of LIGHTHOUSES

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7163/6603092849_df8f0c5770_o.jpg

This is exceptionally lovely and smooth Single Malt, I might add. (Though next time I think I'll try the peated version.) There is apparently now Cornish Whisky (!!!!!!) but it's stupidly expensive.

Sheaths of ClammyCloth (Fotherington Thomas), Friday, 30 December 2011 23:07 (twelve years ago) link

Super picture! Nice glowering skies and yet the sunshine is not too far off.

los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Friday, 30 December 2011 23:14 (twelve years ago) link

Thankee! The weather was so strange when I drew that - there was bright sun in Newlyn, but it was pissing with rain over the Mount, but there were dark clouds blowing overhead from Land's End almost above my head, but the sun was so low it was shining almost perpendicular in the gap between the two storm clouds.

Aaaaaaah, it's just such lovely lovely beautiful light that just does such amazing things I can never adequately express how much I love that country. KERNOW BYS VYKEN etc etc

Sheaths of ClammyCloth (Fotherington Thomas), Friday, 30 December 2011 23:19 (twelve years ago) link

(I was out on the Northern pier in this kind of bus shelter for boats, rather than on the mainland, which is why it looks like the Mount is in a weird place compared to the actual photo)

Sheaths of ClammyCloth (Fotherington Thomas), Friday, 30 December 2011 23:20 (twelve years ago) link

I have this poster up on my office wall

http://lemonodor.com/images/clui-immersed-remains-s.jpg

Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 31 December 2011 01:09 (twelve years ago) link

(it's from this exhibition: http://www.clui.org/newsletter/spring-2005/immersed-remains-towns-submerged-america )

Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 31 December 2011 01:09 (twelve years ago) link

What a great exhibition/site! I love the name Neversink for a drowned village, don't care if the etymology is different, it's still wonderful.

There was a submerged town near where my Dad used to live in California, and when we visited, the reservoir was so low that we could see bits of it sticking out and the roads going in, but I can't for the life of me remember where it is. (And my Dad's photography website is so poorly organised that I can never find any photos I'm looking for - jeez, either code some keywords or get one Flickr, Dad.)

Sheaths of ClammyCloth (Fotherington Thomas), Saturday, 31 December 2011 10:35 (twelve years ago) link

There is apparently now Cornish Whisky (!!!!!!) but it's stupidly expensive.

yeah my dad mentioned this at Christmas, also he brought us some Cornish red wine which is like 17% and sort of pleasant but not in a way comparable to a real red wine

Extreme Lifestyle, Saturday, 31 December 2011 11:33 (twelve years ago) link

Eh, I dunno, Cornish wine is pretty canonical, they were certainly producing wine during the Roman occupation but then again, I think the climate was even milder then. I had drunk Cornish wine, but it was at a restaurant, I recall it being fairly nice, actually.

The idea of introducing (or reintroducing as the case may be- yes, yes, whisky was brought to Cornwall from Ireland by St Piran when he surfed over on a millstone, introducing both Catholicism and surfing to the counry at the same time) Dowr Toemm into Cornwall just strikes me as a supremely bad idea because the Cornish after Methodism made them give up drinking = inventing steam engines, amazing mine technology, building fantastical feats of engineering, sticking Wheals atop impossible chasms, etc. etc. while the Cornish plus Whisky = fish fights and brawling with the English.

But that's going to degenerate into another argument about ~racist stereotypes of "The Celts"~ with Tom D and Darraghmac.

Anyway, Cornish ZOIDER and Cornish mead is where it's at in terms of Cornish bouze gourmandising. Also ridiculous Skinners Ales of which I have never had a bad one.

None of this has anything to do with drowned villages but the unique combination of BOUZE and racist stereotypes of the British Isles is always a popular diversion on ILX. I should just give up and make an "I miss Cornwall so badly" thread and be done with it.

Dowr Toemm (Fotherington Thomas), Saturday, 31 December 2011 12:52 (twelve years ago) link

also he brought us some Cornish red wine which is like 17% and sort of pleasant but not in a way comparable to a real red wine

― Extreme Lifestyle, Saturday, December 31, 2011 11:33 AM (5 hours ago)

if it's over ~15.5% then it's fortified like port or madeira etc

Hongro4AS (nakhchivan), Saturday, 31 December 2011 17:07 (twelve years ago) link

good point - was labelled as a red wine tho so *shrug*

I am drinking a http://www.onlinebeerfestival.co.uk/acatalog/cornish_knocker.jpg atm, it is pretty decent and upholds their grand tradition of stupid labels for clowning aesthetes

Extreme Lifestyle, Saturday, 31 December 2011 17:21 (twelve years ago) link

Aye, that one is good indeed, but if you can find a http://www.skinnersbrewery.com/uploaded_images/ginger_tosser_clip.png <-- that is absolutely my favourite of them, bcuz I love a honeyed ale.

Dowr Toemm (Fotherington Thomas), Saturday, 31 December 2011 19:49 (twelve years ago) link


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