Jolly Old England
Blog URL http://www.jollyoldengland.net
Located London, London United Kingdom
Tags Englishness, humour, comedy, satire, scary pubs, film reviews, London
Shoddy reviews, badly taken photos and half-baked stunts for fogeys young and old. Scary pubs infiltrated, euphemisnts coined, trends mocked.
Latest Blog Posts
- Paranormal Activity: you'll sleep with the light on for the rest of your life on Nov 19, 2009 in F_I_L_M paranormal activity review
Okay, it's not quite as bad as that but I just wanted to write one of those tabloidy quotes once in my life. If I had about 150,000 more readers it might even have got my name on the poster. But in any case, there's no doubting this film's major scar...
- Seven pics off my phone: aka the ten o'clock news from Jolly Old England... on Nov 17, 2009 in UrBAn SpeCtaTor walthamstow market
BONG!!!... "Banned meat" on sale in Sainsbury's... BONG!!!... Man feels entirely comfortable about massaging upper buttocks on Victoria Line platform... BONG!!!... ...Gordon Brown goes mad and travels round and round the Circle Line... BONG...
- How Much Fun Can You Have... Watching All 7 Police Academy Films In One Sitting? LIVE FROM WALTHAMSTOW. Pt.1 on Nov 13, 2009 in F_I_L_M
Ah, the Police Academy films... they were rubbish, weren't they? Just how rubbish they were really hit home a few months ago when I caught the end of the first one and found it too fascinatingly bad to switch off. What would it be like, I wondered, t...
- Police Academy Day. Police Academy 3: Back In Training (1986) EXPERIMENT FAILED! on Nov 13, 2009 in F_I_L_M police academy marathon
Ooh only 80 minutes this one. The producers really understood how their audiences felt; they were making them shorter. 2mins. I like the way the films always start with some "tense" sequence, like anyone cares about anything other than the...
- Police Academy Day. Police Academy 2 (1985) on Nov 13, 2009 in F_I_L_M
0mins. Laptop doesn't like the PCA2 disc so am watching on normal telly. That means no screenshots for you. What's that, you'll live without them?! 1min. Always such a thrill seeing the distinctive blue lettering of the Police Academy titles. 2mins.
- Police Academy Day. Film no.1: Police Academy (1984). on Nov 13, 2009 in F_I_L_M police academy marathon
Opening credits. Jim Cattrall's in it. My God, was she in EVERYTHING in the 80s? Look how young she looked. Okay, we have a set-up: the mayor of an undisclosed city has slackened entrance requirements for the police force. Fine. Let's get on with the...
- Local Pub That You're Scared To Go To But We're Not: no.9, The Duke of Sussex, 23 Bayliss Road, London SE1 on Nov 10, 2009 in Bayliss Road Duke of Sussex london scary pub se1 waterloo
“I’m in the Duke of Sussex,” I text to my friend Mark, who had nominated this place as a possible Scary Pub for me to investigate. His reply is immediate: “Get out.” Pah. We didn’t come here to get out. Nothing scares monty and I, althoug...
