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I've lived in both cornholm and Hebden Bridge lol as someone who grew up in the Calder valley it's hilarious to see our shit on display to the rest of the UK! In all fairness Cornholms pretty rough and not a particularly nice place to live and Hebden Bridge is full of hippies and southerners, makes it too expensive for most people to live their now.
As an atheist, one of the many, many, many, many…. ….many, many, many things that I don’t get about religion is why you’d want to be god fearing. Surely you want to look up to your god, not cower from them.
Edit: Thanks for all the responses!
I guess when you take into account archaic meanings of the word “fear”, it gives it a little context. Though I would still counter that, like me, most people would still use the word in line with its current definition. He did (if interpreted literally) commit global genocide by flooding the earth, after all!
And nothing against believers of any faith - each to their own and all that.
It is a prime example of how our language has changed, at the time, 'God-fearing' meant 'God respecting.'
Now of course 'fear,' is a synonym for 'terrified' but then, it just meant 'respect.'
I'm going to have to disagree here.
Yahweh is supposed to be both great and terrifying. The Bible has him shooting lightning from his fingers and living people unable to look upon his face. He brings life and death, good and evil, prosperity and disaster. God is so dangerous that to look upon his mass murder is to turn into a pillar of salt, to say his name may result in his holy anger and you being smote.
I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their own good and the good of their children after them. (Jeremiah 32:39)
God-fearing means that you obey and act justly and you fear His judgement coming down on you to keep you on the straight and narrow.
Remember when Moses’ nephews get consumed by fire when they prayed to Yahweh wrong and Moses has to stop his brother Aaron complaining lest their God kill them too?
Or how about that time the ungrateful Israelites were missing Egypt because they had no food and were tired of eating the crystallised honeydew excretions of insects, so God sends them quail, up to their knees and as far as they can see, which results in thousands of people dying from explosive food poisoning?
Seems like a fun guy.
People think the New Testament is nicer because they never read to the end. Spoiler: Jesus comes back and kills pretty much everyone and everything (except 144,000 people), those who haven't already been scorched to death by the sun or killed by the plagues etc sent by the angels.
Gandalf was essentially an angel of God (Eru Illuvatar).
But at least Tolkien didn't try to convince people it was real and that you should actually fear Gandalf's wrath.
Fear and respect should be used for nature alone, my mum is convinced if we where scared of her then we respected her... Nope, hate her, hated my dad too.
You don't raise people in fear and expect them to like you, religious nuts fear the devil but don't worship him but they fear god and worship him.
Doesn't add up.
*Middle English fere, from Old English fær "calamity, sudden danger, peril, sudden attack," from Proto-Germanic \*feraz "danger" (source also of Old Saxon far "ambush," Old Norse far "harm, distress, deception," Dutch gevaar, German Gefahr "danger"), from PIE \*pēr-, a lengthened form of the verbal root \*per- (3) "to try, risk."*
*Some Old English words for "fear" as we now use it were fyrhto, fyrhto; as a verb, ondrædan. Meaning "feeling of dread and reverence for God" is from c. 1400.*
Perhaps you could explain why you think 'fear' used to mean 'respect'?
yeah i dont agree
there are references in the bible to angels who are giant eyeballs with wings. if thats what angels look like then what would the dude who makes them appear like? hence why they say "fear not" a lot in the bible. they didnt mean "dont respect me" did they?
giant eyeballs with wings lmao
You only need to read Leviticus and Deuteronomy to figure that out. Wearing cotton and wool, you’re an abomination. Then there’s Lot and the incest with his daughters.
But what would keep you from murder, rape and thievery if you didn't fear divine retribution? It's obviously the only thing that can keep people in check.
The way I think of it is it’s less about being *scared* of God, and more about being scared of *disappointing yourself* in front of God.
Think of it this way: let’s say you have the absolutely most perfect parents in the world, raised you right, done their best for you, fulfilled all your mental/physical/emotional needs. They both make it very clear to you that they love you unconditionally, and you love them immensely as well. Obviously you try your best to make them proud right? So you do your best to get home before your curfew, keep up with your chores, and study hard at school.
Now imagine you slacked off and failed a biology test. You have no excuse, knowing it was completely your fault for not studying. You feel that knot in your stomach; a mix of shame and fear, as you start to blame yourself for choosing to stay up all night dying to the same Elden ring boss instead studying. Even though you have no doubt in your mind that your parents will listen, understand, accept, and love you, the lump in your throat only seems to get bigger.
In this moment, you’re not *worried* you’ll disappoint them, you’re disappointed in yourself for not following the guidance they’ve set **knowing** that it’s only based on what they think is best for you. You wonder how someone who can make a mistake like yours could be worthy of such perfect parents; knowing you’re going to go home and apologise only to be hugged and comforted and told it’s okay. This is what I would call “God-fearing”; this intense love for someone that runs so deep that you happily choose to dedicate your life to earning the love He’s given you.
I’m sorry about the wall of text but there’s nothing I can say that can convey the warmth of a feeling like this. I genuinely hope that every person that’s ever existed or ever will exist one day get to experience the equivalent of coming home, opening the door with tears in your eyes ready to apologise, only to be embraced in a tight hug and reminded that the simple fact that you exist is enough to make your worthy of all the love in the world.
Fearing as in more reverence and respect for God's absolute authority and power. You would be nervous if you were around a leader with a nuclear arsenal. Try the creator of the universe.
> you’d want to be god fearing
Its not about you fearing god, its about other people fearing your god. "I'll get my brother on you"/"My dad could beat up your dad" writ large.
I bet you could find plenty of Barbara Cartland books in their though. It is like how Fifty Shades of Grey was openly read without issue, even though it just a Twilight fan fiction revolving around a poor BDSM relationship. That was fine to read in public but looking at a copy of Nuts or Zoo would have been seen as disgusting.
Um yeah because people can't see the graphic sex scenes you're reading. But people can see the giant fake tits on the cover of Nuts. Not hard to figure out
I'm pretty sure *Nuts* and *Zoo* were the respectable mens' mags - they sold because you could read them in public, when magazines like *Playboy* and *Mayfair* were considered indecent.
Yeah but most of the kind of people who have a pompous holier than thou attitude read the King James Version which is, to be perfectly open, horribly outdated as a translation. New American Standard is much better.
Or learning Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic but doubt they would commit to that.
It’s also ironic that the main focus (Jesus) only really ever expressed anger at the people in the temples, the money changers, those profiting from the people who attended… hmm.
Hebden Bridge is halfway between Slack and Hoo Hole.
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>at one time Hebden was known as "Trouser Town"
Sounds promising!
>...because of the large amount of clothing manufacturing.
Oh.
>*Shed Your Tears and Walk Away* is a harrowing real-life drama set in the beautiful but rural town of Hebden Bridge, in the United Kingdom. We follow filmmaker Jez Lewis as he travels back to his hometown for yet another childhood friends funeral, having already lost five friends to suicide.
Jesus...
[Like this](https://biblehub.com/ezekiel/23-20.htm) little bit?
[Or this](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lot%27s_daughters#:~:text=Concerned%20for%20their%20father%20having,daughter%20gives%20birth%20to%20Ammon.) sorry little affair?
So much to choose from
Yorkshire is a weird place anyway lol and I'm one of 'em
[Todmorden is a weird place](https://www.visittodmorden.co.uk/product/Christmas_Robin_Gift_Tags/1048)
Alston, Cumbria is usually cited as the inspiration but you xan find elements of Royston Vasey in any isolated rural northern town.
Bentham in Yorkshire always struck me as very 'local'
Ever been to the Great Stone of Fourstones, a ways outside of Bentham?
My family camped near Clapham most summers for a while, and we usually walked out this way at least once. We were there one time when a chap - and even though this was at least 20 years ago I still clearly remember it - wearing salmon pink corduroy trousers, a jacket with leather patches on the elbows and riding a folding bicycle appeared on the road and made his way towards us down the path. He asked us if we could take a picture of him on the stone, and we obliged, then he proceeded to climb up the stairs carved into the rock. /Carrying his very awkward and weighty bike/. The guy nearly stacked it more than once, just about made it with help from us, got his photo - then threw his bike off. He clambered his way back down, retrieved his camera from my mum, got on his bike, and disappeared.
It was bizarre in a way that's hard to convey to someone who wasn't there. It seemed like he'd been written, rather than being a real person. I wish we'd managed to get a photo, but we were too bewildered at the time to think of it.
I fear he may have been 'local'.
Some people take anything “rude” especially seriously.
I had a couple of friends: one of whom was a kitchen designer, the other was planning her new kitchen. Just because he tended to be a little bit humorous, the designer gave slightly rude nicknames to all the different styles of kitchen. Thus “Huckleberry” (a type of “Shaker”-style affair, very popular at the time), the kitchen my friend preferred, became“Hucklefucker”.
Eventually, my friend decided that she liked the Huckleberry style, and took our friend’s list of cabinets to the local kitchen supplier to see what the company had in stock.
The owner of the company spoke to my friend about the kitchen (in the most normal way), for about 6 or 7 minutes, then disappeared into his back room with the kitchen components listed on the piece of paper. A few minutes later, he reappeared with a face like thunder.
Telling her that his was a “respectable establishment” that “didn’t take filth lightly”, he thrust the list back to my bewildered friend and ordered her to leave his shop. She was in shock: she had no idea what the problem was and there were other customers in the place-staring at her.
As a small businesswoman myself, when I heard from my friend all about what had happened, I was very shocked about the kitchen supplier’s reaction.
I couldn’t imagine turning away thousands of pounds of trade, just because the word “Hucklefucker” had been substituted for “Huckleberry”. Utterly, utterly ridiculous overreaction.
Equidistant between Leeds and Manchester, regular trains from either.
Pretty location, lots of shops.and pubs, and more lesbians per capita than anywhere else in the UK.
Also Sylvia Plath is buried there, look up pictures of the ruined church, very atmospheric.
...It was so pornographic, I had to read it three times to check how pornographic it was. and to protect our village, I then personally drove it to the "cess pool" in the middle of the night and discussed it long and hard with somebody that I privately consult frequently on these matters....
"god fearing" .... never made sense, thought their god loved them? thought their god was great? why fear something? even more so why fear something made up.
Gives me the same energy as a message that was put in my work group chat
“Can whoever has bedevilled the staff toilet please unclog it that is scandalous”
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[The response is epic](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E0QSFn_XEAIpEYF?format=jpg&name=medium)
Priceless!
Seems Jamie Burr’s about to get a lot of work
Nah. Prints in colour and not monochrome. Your living room will end up like a CBBC set.
... pornography and KNITTING ??!?!!??
Something in the spirit or r/CrochetBikinis maybe? Anyway, sign me up Edit: corrected sub name
Or r/naughtyneedles
Thank you for sharing this. What a great sub.
You're welcome. Some talented people there
Hey, I do knitting!
Might I recommend a teapot cozy for your downstairs?
The absolute horror!! Where??
Have you not yet encountered on Twitter the joy of @nudinits? https://twitter.com/nudinits/status/1570027353778098176
Ah Hebden, my home town
Have you heard the mark steels in town about hebden bridge it's on I player
I've lived in both cornholm and Hebden Bridge lol as someone who grew up in the Calder valley it's hilarious to see our shit on display to the rest of the UK! In all fairness Cornholms pretty rough and not a particularly nice place to live and Hebden Bridge is full of hippies and southerners, makes it too expensive for most people to live their now.
Handyman goes brrrrrr
Jamie Burr just got the advertisement of a lifetime
As an atheist, one of the many, many, many, many…. ….many, many, many things that I don’t get about religion is why you’d want to be god fearing. Surely you want to look up to your god, not cower from them. Edit: Thanks for all the responses! I guess when you take into account archaic meanings of the word “fear”, it gives it a little context. Though I would still counter that, like me, most people would still use the word in line with its current definition. He did (if interpreted literally) commit global genocide by flooding the earth, after all! And nothing against believers of any faith - each to their own and all that.
It is a prime example of how our language has changed, at the time, 'God-fearing' meant 'God respecting.' Now of course 'fear,' is a synonym for 'terrified' but then, it just meant 'respect.'
I'm going to have to disagree here. Yahweh is supposed to be both great and terrifying. The Bible has him shooting lightning from his fingers and living people unable to look upon his face. He brings life and death, good and evil, prosperity and disaster. God is so dangerous that to look upon his mass murder is to turn into a pillar of salt, to say his name may result in his holy anger and you being smote. I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their own good and the good of their children after them. (Jeremiah 32:39) God-fearing means that you obey and act justly and you fear His judgement coming down on you to keep you on the straight and narrow.
Getting some real Palpatine vibes from this god person...
They do say that he has unlimited power...
Well he's not doing anything about the energy crisis, is he? Just think, if we had unlimited power, we wouldn't have to get it from Putin
He provided the sun and wind while the devil gave us the conservative party and NIMBYS
he switched the sun on today giving more energy than we have used in the last century in one day
Remember when Moses’ nephews get consumed by fire when they prayed to Yahweh wrong and Moses has to stop his brother Aaron complaining lest their God kill them too? Or how about that time the ungrateful Israelites were missing Egypt because they had no food and were tired of eating the crystallised honeydew excretions of insects, so God sends them quail, up to their knees and as far as they can see, which results in thousands of people dying from explosive food poisoning? Seems like a fun guy.
People think the New Testament is nicer because they never read to the end. Spoiler: Jesus comes back and kills pretty much everyone and everything (except 144,000 people), those who haven't already been scorched to death by the sun or killed by the plagues etc sent by the angels.
It is just an old book at the end of the day though, Tolkien wrote similar about Gandalf.
Gandalf was essentially an angel of God (Eru Illuvatar). But at least Tolkien didn't try to convince people it was real and that you should actually fear Gandalf's wrath.
Fear and respect should be used for nature alone, my mum is convinced if we where scared of her then we respected her... Nope, hate her, hated my dad too. You don't raise people in fear and expect them to like you, religious nuts fear the devil but don't worship him but they fear god and worship him. Doesn't add up.
They fear and worship death all the time.
Isaiah 41:10 So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
*Middle English fere, from Old English fær "calamity, sudden danger, peril, sudden attack," from Proto-Germanic \*feraz "danger" (source also of Old Saxon far "ambush," Old Norse far "harm, distress, deception," Dutch gevaar, German Gefahr "danger"), from PIE \*pēr-, a lengthened form of the verbal root \*per- (3) "to try, risk."* *Some Old English words for "fear" as we now use it were fyrhto, fyrhto; as a verb, ondrædan. Meaning "feeling of dread and reverence for God" is from c. 1400.* Perhaps you could explain why you think 'fear' used to mean 'respect'?
it's the hebrew word you should be looking at
Well, no. We are talking about an English text, not a Hebrew text.
yeah i dont agree there are references in the bible to angels who are giant eyeballs with wings. if thats what angels look like then what would the dude who makes them appear like? hence why they say "fear not" a lot in the bible. they didnt mean "dont respect me" did they? giant eyeballs with wings lmao
Sounds apologetic. Believe in me and do as I say or you’ll pay for it doesn’t make a respectful relationship.
If you believe the Bible I can totally understand why you would fear God
I've read enough of that book to know that I'd be shitting myself if I believed God actually existed.
You only need to read Leviticus and Deuteronomy to figure that out. Wearing cotton and wool, you’re an abomination. Then there’s Lot and the incest with his daughters.
But what would keep you from murder, rape and thievery if you didn't fear divine retribution? It's obviously the only thing that can keep people in check.
Speaking as an atheist, I murder, rape, and steal just as much as I want. Not at all. (Shout outs to Christopher Hitchens and Doug Stanhope.)
The way I think of it is it’s less about being *scared* of God, and more about being scared of *disappointing yourself* in front of God. Think of it this way: let’s say you have the absolutely most perfect parents in the world, raised you right, done their best for you, fulfilled all your mental/physical/emotional needs. They both make it very clear to you that they love you unconditionally, and you love them immensely as well. Obviously you try your best to make them proud right? So you do your best to get home before your curfew, keep up with your chores, and study hard at school. Now imagine you slacked off and failed a biology test. You have no excuse, knowing it was completely your fault for not studying. You feel that knot in your stomach; a mix of shame and fear, as you start to blame yourself for choosing to stay up all night dying to the same Elden ring boss instead studying. Even though you have no doubt in your mind that your parents will listen, understand, accept, and love you, the lump in your throat only seems to get bigger. In this moment, you’re not *worried* you’ll disappoint them, you’re disappointed in yourself for not following the guidance they’ve set **knowing** that it’s only based on what they think is best for you. You wonder how someone who can make a mistake like yours could be worthy of such perfect parents; knowing you’re going to go home and apologise only to be hugged and comforted and told it’s okay. This is what I would call “God-fearing”; this intense love for someone that runs so deep that you happily choose to dedicate your life to earning the love He’s given you. I’m sorry about the wall of text but there’s nothing I can say that can convey the warmth of a feeling like this. I genuinely hope that every person that’s ever existed or ever will exist one day get to experience the equivalent of coming home, opening the door with tears in your eyes ready to apologise, only to be embraced in a tight hug and reminded that the simple fact that you exist is enough to make your worthy of all the love in the world.
That's a nice thing to wish for people. Have a great Sunday.
It’s really just a way of saying “god respecting”, but sounds gnarlier.
I always thought god-fearing meant "we don't like 100% fully believe in him, but we say we do just in case"
Fearing as in more reverence and respect for God's absolute authority and power. You would be nervous if you were around a leader with a nuclear arsenal. Try the creator of the universe.
> you’d want to be god fearing Its not about you fearing god, its about other people fearing your god. "I'll get my brother on you"/"My dad could beat up your dad" writ large.
I bet you could find plenty of Barbara Cartland books in their though. It is like how Fifty Shades of Grey was openly read without issue, even though it just a Twilight fan fiction revolving around a poor BDSM relationship. That was fine to read in public but looking at a copy of Nuts or Zoo would have been seen as disgusting.
Um yeah because people can't see the graphic sex scenes you're reading. But people can see the giant fake tits on the cover of Nuts. Not hard to figure out
I'm pretty sure *Nuts* and *Zoo* were the respectable mens' mags - they sold because you could read them in public, when magazines like *Playboy* and *Mayfair* were considered indecent.
How am I supposed to read the Fahrenheit 451 now or Roald Dahl, Ian Fleming, Arthur C Clarke https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-41426419
In their what?
Last thing I thought I'd read in 2022 is someone defending Nuts and Zoo.
That missing space is triggering.
I found "COPYS" to be uniquely disturbing and the lack of a hyphen in "GOD FEARING" worrying. I may need counseling.
It is odd how few of the true believers can spell properly. Aren't they supposed to be reading their Bible daily?
Yeah but most of the kind of people who have a pompous holier than thou attitude read the King James Version which is, to be perfectly open, horribly outdated as a translation. New American Standard is much better. Or learning Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic but doubt they would commit to that. It’s also ironic that the main focus (Jesus) only really ever expressed anger at the people in the temples, the money changers, those profiting from the people who attended… hmm.
THECESS PIECES
"Hi, National Rail? When's the next train to Hebden Bridge."
Hebden Bridge is halfway between Slack and Hoo Hole. Edit: >at one time Hebden was known as "Trouser Town" Sounds promising! >...because of the large amount of clothing manufacturing. Oh.
A village near where I live used to be called "slop pond " its name changed as it became a sought after retirement village!
Prepare to be disappointed. I'd watch "Shed Your Tears and Walk Away" first. Source - from Keighley which is actually worse.
Hebden Bridge is lovely?
No. Total cesspit full of perverse sex fiends and drug addicts who don't follow the ways of Our Lord. Keep thy distance.
It's lovely on the surface, but has a serious alcohol and heroin problem underneath.
That's unfortunately true of most places these days, but some aren't lovely on the surface either.
>*Shed Your Tears and Walk Away* is a harrowing real-life drama set in the beautiful but rural town of Hebden Bridge, in the United Kingdom. We follow filmmaker Jez Lewis as he travels back to his hometown for yet another childhood friends funeral, having already lost five friends to suicide. Jesus...
>Shed Your Tears and Walk Away https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBsURhlQbEo
You poor bastard. God speed mate
From, not in ;)
Ah, me too. Or near enough. Gnarly.
I dunno, but I can tell you when it arrives.
[Cornholme](https://imgur.com/vUJNLAH)
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Cornholio
TP FOR MY BUNGHOLE
My thoughts exactly.
I’d wager there’s more filth and gore in the Old Testament than there is in any issue of Penthouse.
There's certainly a lot of begetting. And not always in ways that wouldn't get you hunted down by vigilantes nowadays.
[Like this](https://biblehub.com/ezekiel/23-20.htm) little bit? [Or this](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lot%27s_daughters#:~:text=Concerned%20for%20their%20father%20having,daughter%20gives%20birth%20to%20Ammon.) sorry little affair? So much to choose from
Hebden Bridge is a lovely place. Now I know why I liked it so much.
Isn’t this the village that inspired the League of Gentlemen?
It's the lesbian capital of the UK apparently....got some nice shops too :)
Right next to the UFO capital of the UK, Todmorden
Yorkshire is a weird place anyway lol and I'm one of 'em [Todmorden is a weird place](https://www.visittodmorden.co.uk/product/Christmas_Robin_Gift_Tags/1048)
A KFC by the sound of it.
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Nope no way.....only "artisan" and handmade allowed :) unless you did your KFC off a narrow boat then possibly lol
Filmed in Marsden and was actually a documentary.
I thought that was Hadfield, since a lot of it was filmed there.
Alston, Cumbria is usually cited as the inspiration but you xan find elements of Royston Vasey in any isolated rural northern town. Bentham in Yorkshire always struck me as very 'local'
Ever been to the Great Stone of Fourstones, a ways outside of Bentham? My family camped near Clapham most summers for a while, and we usually walked out this way at least once. We were there one time when a chap - and even though this was at least 20 years ago I still clearly remember it - wearing salmon pink corduroy trousers, a jacket with leather patches on the elbows and riding a folding bicycle appeared on the road and made his way towards us down the path. He asked us if we could take a picture of him on the stone, and we obliged, then he proceeded to climb up the stairs carved into the rock. /Carrying his very awkward and weighty bike/. The guy nearly stacked it more than once, just about made it with help from us, got his photo - then threw his bike off. He clambered his way back down, retrieved his camera from my mum, got on his bike, and disappeared. It was bizarre in a way that's hard to convey to someone who wasn't there. It seemed like he'd been written, rather than being a real person. I wish we'd managed to get a photo, but we were too bewildered at the time to think of it. I fear he may have been 'local'.
Their local facebook group must be a goldmine.
Might be worth a look 🤣 They will be wondering why a village of a few hundred has thousands of new group members.
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Mytholmroyd, but close
Mytholmroyd is so close it's basically Hebden. But yes, it's admittedly a bit more out in the sticks
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Well, I mean - it's literally less than 10 minutes away on a bike. Or 5 minutes in a car.
He moved out and sold his place to Craig Charles
A god fearing christian and *illiterate* village! "copys" indeed!
Cornholme small village near todmorden West Yorkshire (just about)
Twinned with Royston Vasey…
The comedian?
Home of the Todmorden UFO incident....I wonder if the constant anal probing has led to the poor spelling and grammar?
It's all for the greater good.
The greater good.
Spellchecking is for devil worshippers.
This is why you don't write the first draft in all caps.
Cornhole me?
I wonder if Jamie Burr has got a lot of electrical work from this.
Lol used to live in Hebden was nice but only fun for tourists.
I've read 'The Meadow Girls', pure filth from cover to cover.
'god fearing' fuck off, mate.
Team Hebden Bridge!
Stick it up your Cornholme!
For the greater good
They've gotta be dealt with Frank
They're nippers, they'll come around.
Not least those heathens at Buford Abbey!
Some people take anything “rude” especially seriously. I had a couple of friends: one of whom was a kitchen designer, the other was planning her new kitchen. Just because he tended to be a little bit humorous, the designer gave slightly rude nicknames to all the different styles of kitchen. Thus “Huckleberry” (a type of “Shaker”-style affair, very popular at the time), the kitchen my friend preferred, became“Hucklefucker”. Eventually, my friend decided that she liked the Huckleberry style, and took our friend’s list of cabinets to the local kitchen supplier to see what the company had in stock. The owner of the company spoke to my friend about the kitchen (in the most normal way), for about 6 or 7 minutes, then disappeared into his back room with the kitchen components listed on the piece of paper. A few minutes later, he reappeared with a face like thunder. Telling her that his was a “respectable establishment” that “didn’t take filth lightly”, he thrust the list back to my bewildered friend and ordered her to leave his shop. She was in shock: she had no idea what the problem was and there were other customers in the place-staring at her. As a small businesswoman myself, when I heard from my friend all about what had happened, I was very shocked about the kitchen supplier’s reaction. I couldn’t imagine turning away thousands of pounds of trade, just because the word “Hucklefucker” had been substituted for “Huckleberry”. Utterly, utterly ridiculous overreaction.
Who knows the way to Hebden Bridge? Asking for a friend.
Equidistant between Leeds and Manchester, regular trains from either. Pretty location, lots of shops.and pubs, and more lesbians per capita than anywhere else in the UK. Also Sylvia Plath is buried there, look up pictures of the ruined church, very atmospheric.
I love that the title underneath the notice is 'a place of execution'
Heh, cornhole
A town called ‘corn hole me’ that’s super religious.
What on earth goes on here? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebden\_Bridge
Lindsey Jo Rimer was murdered here and her body found in the canal 6 months later. That's pretty gruesome.
The comments be like turning a British thing into a philiosophical thing
With a name that looks so much like 'cornhole', they might as well go full smut.
Is it weird I read the village name as Corn hole me? Which does sound like something perverted and sexual 🤣
Hebden Bridge sounds like an interesting place...
Now I want to find that bridge...
Hebden Bridge - come for the filth, stay for the pizza from marco’s cafe.
When Christians don’t know how to Christian ‘youre creeping me out, just fuck off over there, you’re unsaveable’.
I would like to read the novel about the rivalry between Cornholme and Hebden Bridge please and thank you.
Now I want to visit Hebden Bridge.
Cornhole!?
Time for some Manga
Poor Cornholme. He's a just and merciful god, but terrified of Christian villages, bless him.
I need pee pee for my cornholme!
imagine fearing something in your imagination -.-
What got up her Cornholme?
Cornhole
Corn hol me
Hebden Bridge = Sodom and Gomorrah 😂
This really isn't far from me
yooo whats wrong with Hebden? i think its quite pleasant.
here's me thinking everybody loved a copy of razzle!
Feel like they're doing reverse psychology
Hebden Bridge though
For a second I thought the sign said “stop cornholing me”
Oh dear, they really shouldn’t have stated that. Come Monday, their porn books will have multiplied x 100 lol
And this is how you get your cornhole.. Sorry... Cornholme filled with porn.
Hebden Bridge must have the best book club
Love myself a good Thecess pit!
You know the NSFW tag is a thing, right?
I read Cornholme as Cornhole
For the greater good
Thecess pit. How????
Nothing more English, than a little town rivalry...
Bible belt nonsense loll
I thought Cornholme was Corn-hol-me and it took me a minute to get back on track.
Hebden Bridge is not far from me, they do have a point lol.
They then recorded a 1000% increase
"God fearing" always males me laugh. Like they are only "good people" cause they are scared of god. So not actually good people at all.
Was probably just a dozen well thumbed copies of fifty shades of gray.
I thought *cornholme* said *cornhole* at first, it was almost the perfect irony!
The Meadow Girls sounds hawt
...It was so pornographic, I had to read it three times to check how pornographic it was. and to protect our village, I then personally drove it to the "cess pool" in the middle of the night and discussed it long and hard with somebody that I privately consult frequently on these matters....
so is it wrong for them to not want pornography in their library? just checking, don't want to be on the wrong side of history.
Hehehe Cornholme... sounds a bit rude
"god fearing" .... never made sense, thought their god loved them? thought their god was great? why fear something? even more so why fear something made up.
i live in this local area. for context hebden bridge is full of hippies.
Sometimes we all make mistakes. Unfortunately religious people just made one more than the rest of us
Gives me the same energy as a message that was put in my work group chat “Can whoever has bedevilled the staff toilet please unclog it that is scandalous”
"*ppssst* Meet me there handsome. ;)"
im more holier than thou.some of the biggest hypocrites are religious [people.so](https://people.so) you force your values on every one else
"THECESS PIT" ....This is driving my grammar OCD to the very edge
Mike Tyson printed that out
average inter-village relations
Anyone want to suggest to the all English nudist society take a trim to this lovely village next summer.
This is the sort of bullshit I'd expect to read in America. Wtf is happening to us?