East London

[jackieguaccamo]

Getting thirsty.

 

[hackneyfox]

?

 

[sixthswan]

They've had a major water leak in Cockney land.

 

[hackneyfox]

Happened last night in woodland near Hackney Marshes (bit wet underfoot for any upcoming illegal raves), seems we were the only area that didn't get cut off. Good thing or, unlike the hipsters*, I'd have been on my third bottle of wine.
*What a lazy piece of journalism, so any pensioner that had no water supply and bought some bottled water is now a 'hipster'?
Perhaps 'hipreplacementster' would be more fitting and fuck knows what San Pellegrino has to do with it.

East London: Supermarket shelves cleared as engineers find burst pipe

Supermarkets' bottled water aisles were stripped bare in East London overnight because of a 'large burst water pipe'. The water is expected to return throughout this morning.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[sixthswan]

We had a water pipe burst in Leicester recently. Flooded parts of the Fosse Park extension and wiped the supply out from a few houses. We just got on with it...

 

[DagenhamFox]

First I’ve heard of it.

 

[sixthswan]

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/local-news/live-updates-burst-water-pipe-4493974

 

[Walthamstowfox]

Leytonstone & Newham, not exactly Hipster central.

 

[Outfoxed]

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/local-news/live-updates-burst-water-pipe-4493974

Is there anything the Mercury don't "live update" these days?

They did it for the opening of a Lidl not long back.

The demise of that paper is sad to see.

 

[sixthswan]

There is still a team of journalists based in Leicester. They do need to up their game.

 

[mac]

Team of journalists? You sure?

 

[Outfoxed]

There is still a team of journalists based in Leicester. They do need to up their game.

If you go on the website most of the articles are littered with spelling and grammar mistakes, most headlines are along the lines of "This is why such and such road was closed today" and don't get me started on the clickbait and adverts.

I know they need to make money from adverts but it used to be such a good read back in the day.

 

[mac]

If you go on the website most of the articles are littered with spelling and grammar mistakes, most headlines are along the lines of "This is why such and such road was closed today" and don't get me started on the clickbait and adverts.

I know they need to make money from adverts but it used to be such a good read back in the day.

Most stories are national templates which these ‘news’ channels use and just change bits to make it look local.

 

[sixthswan]

I think there are 60 journalist retained by the Mockery, with the printing done in some shite hole of a city elsewhere.

 

[Outfoxed]

There’s a story on the website now about a yorkshire pudding that looks like children’s tv character morph.

 

[sixthswan]

I need to see that.