Ever feel severe anxiety at the thought of touching grotty escalator handrails?
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Ticket inspectors, for instance, those low-level enforcers of our own grotty 21st-century fascism.
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How I would swan into those grotty bars to order my pints of Snakebite & Black.
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He hangs himself, and promptly wakes up alive and well in the same grotty motel.
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It links country, leafy suburbs, the opulent city, tourist delights (and traps) and grotty northern banlieues.
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This was very much in keeping with its image as naughty misfits from London's grotty underbelly.
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It became, primarily, a grotty live music venue and a place where backpackers and college students drank.
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Soon after, he reaches into his grotty codpiece, pulls out some ham and crumbles it into the audience.
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"With promotion, the transition is a bit like going from a grotty local pub to a 'Spoons," he says.
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Fashion brand Vetements made some ridiculously expensive metal logo hoodies that look like something your grotty teenage ex would wear.
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If I was too grotty to have sex in the real world, I could have sex in an imagined one.
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Cleaning out the refrigerator, while a sloggy, smelly, often grotty task, doesn't require a whole lot by way of specialty products.
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Stolarsky was in grotty black lounge shorts and a San Francisco 49ers jersey, its red-and-gold emblem laminated, not stitched.
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Politicians are crudely placed alongside light-entertainment personalities in incongruous settings: a grey seafront, a grim hotel room, a grotty social club.
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London's nightlife trademark, or at least as I knew it living there a couple of years ago, is the grotty house party.
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She had always smoked, but now she smoked too much, and kept sliding down to grotty council flats and life on benefits.
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Last weekend I saw a one-man show called "Trump Lear" in a flyspecked grotty grotto of a theater on St. Marks Place.
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With them came Manchester's creatives—including John Berry, founder of legendary record shop Eastern Bloc—presumably enticed by cheap pints and grotty magazines.
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The grotty broke-living authenticity of the early years, which were far from glossy or aspirational, are now a thing of the distant past.
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First, they turned their practice space – a "grotty" 27 square foot warehouse with wooden floors and 14-foot rafter ceilings—into a home studio.
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First, they turned their practice space—a "grotty" 900 square foot warehouse with wooden floors and 14-foot rafter ceilings—into a home studio.
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Freud's forlorn, isolated figures and grotty interiors resonate appallingly with the steep cultural and social decline fated by Brexit, if it ever takes effect.
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Then she sits in grotty motel rooms, stuffing her increasingly pale and puffy face with chips, as he's implicated in her murder by the press.
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Maybe that's why it's refreshing to see that the Ironborn, amassed for the Kingsmoot, consists of about two dozen bald dudes on a grotty hillock.
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Rooms cost half as much as in nearby hotels, the building has no disabled access and its grotty shopfronts stick out on an otherwise glamorous street.
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Saunas are frequently looked down on as sleazy, grotty, and potentially unsafe embarrassments from a time when gay men were forced to live in the shadows.
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The series opens in grotty 1971 Times Square, in the pre-Disney days of oral sex in phone booths and rats in the blue-movie theaters.
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The idea of the internet troll as a grotty men's rights activist in Milwaukee, gently marinating in his own smegma and Cheetos crumbs, make us feel safe.
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The red steel pillars of the station hurtled by, and then the grotty cavern walls of the tunnel, its bare light bulbs and heavy cables telescoping past.
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After a couple of months, I realised that not working and spending money was not going well, and I was getting kicked out of the grotty betsit.
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The Technical Side Technically, the crypto winter will consist of a lot of grotty, important work being done underneath the snowbanks: infrastructure, scaling, privacy, usability, identity, etcetera.
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As his parents' marriage crumbles and bills mount, Connor is transferred from his posh school to a grotty Catholic school where the priests look on while students brawl.
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"The hotel looked grotty and very cheap, but it was by the beach and had the 'wooden tree house' feel that we like," Lee told the Sunday Times.
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I'd gone partying with some friends and we ended up in this grotty club that was the only place that would let us in, because we were underage.
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Several wore huge, semi-rigid, one-of-a-kind ponchos, one of them ripped in the back, that looked as grotty and unfinished as any of Ruby's ceramics.
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"I knew it wouldn't last forever, but it did suddenly come to a halt," Smith agrees, suggesting they'd share the same grotty hub in a flash, given the opportunity.
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Much of the tragedy took place in the 10th and 11th arrondissements, areas usually bustling with Parisians drinking and eating on terraces, or dancing in clubs and grotty bars.
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That as soon as there was a party, there was an after-party, and as soon as there was an after-party, there was a smoggy, grotty, unending crack on.
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One Saturday evening last October, I made my way to Bloc nightclub in east London's Hackney Wick, an area home to factories, artist's studios, the 2012 Olympic Stadium, and grotty warehouse raves.
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It's been two decades since Trainspotting arrived and captured the grotty heaven/hell duality of the 90s in its crystal clear vision, and now, two decades on, Danny Boyle's anticipated sequel approaches.
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The two bouts took a combined total of fifty-six seconds and the small portion of the world that watched the grotty early days of the UFC knew that Frye was special.
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If high-fashion goods such as designer purses, shoes and sunglasses can be counterfeited to fool fastidious consumers, it should be a piece of cake to fake something as grotty as rhino horn.
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He divorced his wife of 36 years, shed his wealth (to the alarm of his children) and fled to Israel, where he may have whiled away his final months in a grotty Jaffa flat.
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Sure, it might have got record companies to finally wake up to a few grotty upstarts doing it for themselves with glue sticks and badge makers, but nothing in the grown-up world changed.
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He still wasn't really sold on the idea, but we came to an accord: I promised not to ship him off to a grotty old folk's home if he played Final Fantasy XV with me.
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An old man waiting for treatment at a grotty clinic in the small town of Siburan—a stop on Mr Sanjan's campaign trail—says the opposition will never win if all they hand out is leaflets.
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Since the dawn of the first vacuum tube, and very much including hardcore grotty stuff like compilers and cryptography, software has been a field in which people with no formal training whatsoever have thrived and succeeded wildly.
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It is an intimate, glamorously grotty space, imbued with a close encounters of the very adult kind, and if there's one selector who's come to truly make it their own, it's everyone's favourite sleazy rider himself, DJ Harvey.
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Shot in a grotty Ontario motel, what begins with some romantic poolside downtime so stylish it looks like a fashion shoot from the 70s swiftly turns into a scene from a Dario Argento film or Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho.
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" Early episodes emphasize grotty details, like the rats in a stag-film theatre, but Times Square is also a small town: when Frankie passes a hooker on her knees in a phone booth, he calls out, "Hey, Ronnie.
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As a sweaty Jennifer in a tiny white vest devours her grotty Myspace babe, elsewhere Needy starts to see blood on the ceiling from her missionary spot under her pathetically thrusting soft rock dude, a vision of Jennifer's slaughtering.
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This is the sort of show that imagines the afterlife, in the second season finale, as a grotty karaoke bar in which Kevin Garvey (Justin Theroux) performs a shaky rendition of "Homeward Bound" while hovering between life and death.
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And this shit is true: no matter how beautiful you are, some kind of grotty emotional or physical discharge will always ooze its way out of you, which Krule has documented in one way or another on his last two albums.
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Or maybe it was the last song you heard before your parents sat you down and told you they were divorcing and your dad had to move into that grotty bedsit in Chigwell where he just cried and drank cider.
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Indeed, the original grotty blogger stereotype was largely propagated by Hollywood, which felt its control threatened by the pirates and self-appointed critics of the web and hit back by portraying the people behind computer screens as weak, friendless teenagers.
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They are badass, grotty masterpieces of witchy enchantment, made even more magically powerful by their installation, intensely bracketing Lucio Fontana's twisted "Crucifix" (277), which is in turn being gazed upon from across the room by Karel Appel's melting "Face" (21).
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Scuzz just let programmers and other grotty kids around the country play DJ. It was a unique passive discovery that held your attention; my closest point of comparison now is Spotify automatically queuing similar songs, but that hardly feels like an event.
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TROON, Scotland (Reuters) - Soren Kjeldsen again showed he is one of those golfers who thrives when the weather is grotty and wet as he ignored miserable conditions to power to a three-under 68 in the British Open second round on Friday.
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His forlorn, isolated figures and grotty interiors, which once might have felt like tamped-down versions of his friend Francis Bacon's succubi of existential despair, now resonate appallingly with the steep cultural and social decline fated by Brexit, if it ever takes effect.
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Geographical proximity and mutual friends threw them together, and nights passed in a blur of drinks at Nambuca or White Heat, a semi-legendarily grotty bar and a longstanding indie club night respectively, before the lengthy commutes back to south-westerly Twickenham and beyond.
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Beware of animal print, or anything else that makes me feel a little too Jennifer Lawrence in American HustleI found that the combination of my bottle-blonde hair and a battered leopard-print coat pushed me beyond Elizabeth Taylor in Butterfield 8 into grotty Showgirls terrain. Sigh.
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A tough-as-old-boots, indoor hat-wearer, Maggie is incredulous when the long-estranged Ben — a wastrel with a grotty trailer and not much else — shows up with a backhoe and a scheme to weasel a share of the land he claims is rightfully his.
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This is why sex noises are actually unnecessary—let people dance to house or techno or disco or dubstep or gqom or grime and they'll probably end up fucking anyway, without needing to be coerced into it by the grotty-movie grunts emanating from the speakers.
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"First Love," with its haiku-like evocations of grotty British cityscapes, its fine ear for the ways in which love inverts itself into cruelty, its preference for scrupulous psychological detail over grandiose epic sweep, is a stellar example of this tradition, and proof of its continued vitality.
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Some bands are born for the stage, and last month, at a grotty, beloved rock pub in London, Scottish black thrash brigade Venomwolf made it clear that they're one of them—even though the whole "band" was really just founding everything-player Duncan McLaren and some helpful pals.
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The record kick-flips off the once-bulletproof line between death metal and hardcore and dives right the fuck on in, conjuring a messy, infinitely headbangable mashup of Bolt Thrower and Entombed with grotty crust, jumpy d-beat, and trace amounts of Ulsh's equally riff-obsessed other band, Power Trip.
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It was remixed for nightclubs and played across every Oceana in the country; the grotty student house parties I went to always seemed to end with "Bleeding Love" and it even earned the singer a degree of credibility from people who hated the show, who begrudgingly accepted that it was a hit.
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In fact, we've been mining the quasi-mythological set lists of Larry Levan et al for so long that increasingly we're looking to more niche sub-genres to help transform our grotty little pre-vibes at a mate's Peckham flat into something more akin to a transcendental moment beneath the mirrorball of the Paradise Garage.
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Equally, though, there's nobody better suited to headlining Reading and Leeds in front of thousands of British teens than someone who—having spent the 19753s drinking in queues outside grotty Carling Academies, and playing community centers, for mates who'd exchanged crumpled fivers for Xs on the backs of their hands—gets them so entirely.
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Yet, despite our generation's small size and overlooked status, we've nevertheless been handed the job of being America's cultural roadies, stuck with the grotty work of cleaning up a world-stage festooned with the detritus of decades of boomer indulgence, while simultaneously setting it for the triumphant arrival of the millennial headliners to come.
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Wending their way through semidarkness and a deafening din of electro, bystanders climbed the stairs of the grotty sex den and hugged the walls outside cabins furnished with plasticized mattresses as zombielike models wearing vinyl stiletto-heeled thigh boots, arm slings, trusses and bandages and cloaks printed with slogans like Dead Inside wandered past and slumped up against them.
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He found that he was good at logic, and, when it dawned on him that philosophy was something you could actually do for a living, he went on to get his Ph.D., in philosophy of mind, while living in London, with a couple of people who sold the Socialist Worker , in a grotty flat on the Isle of Dogs.
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You might recall that they're the lovable imps behind treating the minimum wage as a loose framework, not a legal requirement, dipping in to wages for staff training and uniforms, top bantz rape joke pub quizzes and installing two-way 'spy mirrors' in the ladies toilets of Glasgow venue The Shimmy Club, where men—yep, plural—paid around 800 quid to watch women washing their hands, all from the comfort of a grotty, tiny booth.
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A lot of sweeping and mopping of the floor of a grotty > old movie house near Worcester, Massachusetts. Also the tenderest > drama—funny, heartbreaking, sly, and unblinking—now playing at a theater > near you. ... It's uncanny; rarely has so much feeling been mined from so > little content. Something's lost in the process, of course: brevity.
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Also, for the first time since Celebrity Big Brother 6, there were two bedrooms. The first bedroom, known as Rose Cottage, was luxurious while the second bedroom, referred to as Thorn Cottage, was grotty and rundown in comparison. The bathroom was mostly pink and featured the decor of a salon, with windows looking out towards the garden.
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Dave Wain, writing for British horror magazine Scream, gave Grave Halloween 1.5 stars out of five, calling the film "a real let-down". Guy Adams, reviewing the film for the British Fantasy Society, said the film was "nothing special but, in an increasingly dense forest of grotty cinematic deadwood, there is enough life in it to be worth your time".
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In 1964, Pan Books published a novelisation of the film by author John Burke, described as "based on the original screenplay by Alun Owen". The book was priced at two shillings and sixpence and contained an 8-page section of photographs from the film. It is the first book in the English language to have the word 'grotty' in it.
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There are three quads: the Front Quad (15th century), the Chapel Quad (1608–1631) and The Grove (19th century), as well as a number of irregular spaces. Unlike many other colleges, all of the architecture of the college proper is stone and there is no modern accommodation annexe. To quote the Lincoln College Freshers' Handbook, "Unlike most colleges, we have no grotty sixties annexe to spoil all the pretty bits".Freshers' Handbook 2008, p.
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In December 2010, Beam wrote an article in the Globe about Liverpool Football Club's supporters, criticizing them for continuing to mourn the deaths of 96 supporters during the Hillsborough disaster, which he called a "riot." He also referred to the city as "doggy" and "grotty." The Globe later issued a correction to the online version of the article, acknowledging that the disaster was not a riot, and that the official investigation blamed poor crowd control and inadequate stadium design.
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William Melbury and his younger sister Susan live with their mother (divorced - their father left and doesn't keep in contact or send any support) in grotty rented digs in post-war London. His mother inherits a cottage from her second cousin; but only if she lives in it for five years. Cousin Fay disliked week-enders and wanted Beckfoot Cottage to be lived in. So they move from the south of England to the cottage in Bannermere, Upper Bannerdale.
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She is bored of her humdrum surroundings and dreams of bettering herself. When Tom is released, Joy goes back to him after he promises to move her from her small grotty flat to a modern well-furnished house. However, one evening, after Tom has slapped her several times, she goes out and, when she returns, she finds Tom watching the TV and Johnny missing. After a frantic search, she finds him alone on a demolition site where he has gone to play.
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He later entered into a relationship with landscape historian Teresa Hall, who survived him on his death. He lived in what he called "a rather grotty '60s bungalow" in Somerset. The reporter Steve Eggington visited Aston's home in 2008, where he noted that it was filled with "a labyrinth of books and maps, seemingly with different projects at different stages in each room." Aston commented that throughout his life he suffered from poor health; he was afflicted with aspergillosis from the early 1980s, and was also asthmatic.
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He also aimed to change the club's name to London-Luton Football Club so as to link the club with a local airport. Upon meeting midfielder Kevin Nicholls he informed the player that he planned to install a one-armed bandit with a £25,000 payout in the dressing room. He allegedly told investors Luton were "a grotty little club". He also raised the possibility of Luton merging with Wimbledon, a club located over 40 miles away, in order to secure a position in the league above.
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Joe Leydon of Variety wrote that it will likely be remembered more for the billboard controversy than its plot, but it still generates "modest suspense after a predictable but effective plot twist". Mark Kermode described the film as a 'Grotty, nasty, sleazy, infantile piece of dung' Elisha Cuthbert's performance was nominated for both a Teen Choice Award and a Razzie Award for Worst Actress. It also earned Razzie nominations for Worst Director and Worst Excuse for a Horror Movie but lost both to I Know Who Killed Me.
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Following the 1997 "Hooligan's Island" tour, Mayall and Edmondson wrote a spin-off movie together, which Edmondson directed. Entitled Guest House Paradiso, it was released in December 1999. When released on DVD it was advertised as the "Bottom movie"; this had been denied in an interview on UK breakfast show The Big Breakfast the week prior to its British cinema release. Nevertheless, despite the characters being given new surnames ('Richard Twat' - which he insists is pronounced 'Thwaite' - and 'Eddie Elizabeth Ndingobamba'), they are effectively the same characters, running a grotty remote guest house next to a nuclear power plant.
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There have been several claims made over decades that (at least) some parts of the lyrics to the song were written by Bon Scott. Silver Smith, late former girlfriend of Bon Scott, interviewed by Jesse Fink for his biography of Scott, Bon: The Last Highway, said: 'I know for sure that [the song] was written at [my flat in] Gloucester Road [in Kensington, London] back in ’76. "She told me to come but I was already there" – he wrote that in a letter to somebody, one of his grotty mates, just after we got together, actually. He always kept notebooks and added and subtracted to them and so on.
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With only two GCEs and a criminal record, Del took it upon himself to give Rodney a job as an assistant market trader (or "Financial Advisor") and sidekick knowing that he was unlikely to get a decent job anywhere else. Although being a partner may have sounded impressive on the outside, Rodney's main duty was keeping an eye out for the police while Del would be illegally flogging his goods on Peckham market. In the early episodes, Rodney was troubled by this, and also by the fact that he had a very poor job and lived in a very grotty flat. He was worried that he would never find independence, which he really did long for.
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Some of CND's opponents claimed that CND was a communist or Soviet-dominated organisation, a charge its supporters denied. In 1981, the Foreign Affairs Research Institute, which shared an office with the CPS, was said by Sanity, the CND newspaper, to have published a booklet claiming that Russian money was being used by CND. Lord Chalfont claimed that the Soviet Union was giving the European peace movement £100 million a year, to which Bruce Kent responded, "If they were, it was certainly not getting to our grotty little office in Finsbury Park." In the 1980s, the Federation of Conservative Students (FCS) claimed that one of CND's elected officers, Dan Smith, was a communist.
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Jazz Monroe of Drowned in Sound called the material "virtuosic and exquisite" while describing the lyrical content as "romantic but unglamorous … [and the band] take their time to reflect love's ambiguity". Monroe summarized: "While a gentler, more complex thing, [Warpaint] leans hard on atmosphere and collapses, elegantly". The Quietus writer Mof Gimmers referred to Warpaint as "a record spun with a rich synthetic ambience, resulting in a curious mixture of the pleasant and uneasy" and said that the songs "exude an intense, intoxicated arousal, with lip-fattening blood rushes, grotty cinematic witching-hour horniness and David Lynchian daydream fucks" in his positive review. AllMusic writer Heather Phares wrote that there was a "undeniably darker cast" to the album's songs in contrast to the band's previous releases.
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The two of them argue a lot, and they rarely live in one place for long, as the mother gets behind with the rent and is either evicted or elects to run away from her debts. As they move into a grotty new flat after having done a flit, a young black sailor called Jimmy (Paul Danquah) sees Jo struggling with her suitcases and gives her some help. Mum brings a new man home after a night in the pub but her love life is curtailed because she has to share a bed with Jo. A while later Jo badly grazes her knee in a fall as she is walking home from school. Limping along, she goes past the Manchester Ship Canal, where Jimmy happens to be coming off his ship.
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Life seems bleak for Richie and Eddie, until it seemingly improves with the arrival of the "Nice family", headed by Mr Nice (Simon Pegg), and the famous Italian actress Gina Carbonara (Hélène Mahieu). The Nice family are staying as it is the cheapest hotel in the country, and Gina's decision to stay in the grotty house is primarily down to her need to seek safety from her ill-tempered fiancé Gino Bolognese (Vincent Cassel). Without the chef, the duo are forced to cook meals for the guests; luckily, however, Richie comes across some fish which fell off a military lorry, heading away from the nearby nuclear power station. Unknown to both him and Eddie, the fish had been contaminated by a radiation leak due to the power station's poor maintenance and equally poor safety regulations.
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He was a Tory and a self-important know-it-all with upper- class aspirations, who often dissociated himself from the other two, especially Compo, as he considered himself superior to them. Because of his sophisticated interests and insistence on table manners, Compo liked to refer to him as a "poof" (in turn, Cyril would often use insults such as "grotty little herbert" to Compo). Cyril would often reprimand Compo whenever he addressed him by his given name, as he preferred the "more rounded tone of Mr. Blamire" and would say that Compo had to touch his "tatty cap" whenever he did so.Series 1, Episode 0 – pilot Out of all of the third men, Blamire tolerated Compo's antics the least (though sometimes when he got caught up in them he would join in, such as backchatting Miss Probert on one occasion).
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While the relentless realisation of their film-ready stylings may not be to everyone's tastes, the fact they're here at all in the first place is a cause worth celebrating in itself." The Guardians Caroline Sullivan commented that "though the duo now incorporate spasms of grotty, Nine Inch Nailsy guitar [...], Exile is still defined by its synth-pop froideur", noting that Hurts have "a gift for striding, anthemic choruses that turn even the most overwrought songs into unshakeable earworms." Chris Saunders of musicOMH complimented Hurts for "making stadium sized pop music with a darker underbelly, without forcing it, in the same black vein as Depeche Mode", while remarking, "Exile isn't a bad album, and Hurts do what they do well [...] Yet Exile is found wanting when they try too much to be the stadium band rather than allowing the drama to play out." Tom Hocknell of BBC Music opined that, although Exile "occasionally takes itself so seriously that it's hard not to smirk", the album "genuinely builds upon its predecessor" and "reinforces the feeling in modern pop that no other group sounds quite as hurt as Hurts.
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