Society is in the gutter

society literally could not be any worse if you took a hammer to it — but good luck finding one that doesn't fall apart in your hand on the walk home!

dying

everything worthy of the name "society" breathed its last sometime in the 1980s. they've kept it alive on a machine ever since, so that friends and relatives might still enjoy the simple pleasures of holding hands and stroking hair. but now they're going to unplug it, because someone thinks that money would be better spent funding sex-change operations for vicious stray mutts who are, they tell us, only lashing out at the world because they're "confused". well they're not the only ones!!!

wish i hadn't search out that teacher article in the mail now. led me to the story of the goalkeeper who got punched

club owners say "he will be banned from the club until further notice"

How about for fucking life? the prick.

btw, the goalkeeper won't be banned obv

Someone on my Facebook linked to that teacher article saying that the first thing they thought of when they heard about it was Summer Heights High's Mr G, which strikes me as a grimly accurate observation

Society is my friend
He makes me lie down
In a cool blood bath

Drinking.

..now a rich man's sport.

a poor man's coke.

HI PETER

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/peteroborne/100095686/david-cameron-is-in-the-sewer-because-of-his-news-international-friends/

Top comment:

"I'm not a Conservative. I loathe Tory scum. So I'm biased.

However I respect the Telegraph for NOT being News International and having higher standards of journalism.

This reminds me why.

I genuinely hope everyone working for News International; and their moronic readership; chokes on their own vomit and dies tonight. So we have plenty of space to bring in lots of decent hard working immigrants to replace the vile parasitic scum."

"Yours, Nick Clegg"

LOL

Old man yells at litter.

I was just about to agree with him about Oxford Road and then i got to this: No one has ever told them that to eat or drink in the street is a degraded thing to do; and if they were told it would only make it more attractive to them, for what more sincere expression of sympathy for those who suffer from bad behaviour is there than imitation of it?

http://www.technovelgy.com/graphics/content10/t-herman-zweibel.jpg

Theo Dalrymple, earlier today

woops

http://www.technovelgy.com/graphics/content10/t-herman-zweibel.jpg

A fair proportion of the students carried a plastic bottle, complete with something uncommonly like a dummy's teat, as if global warming had transformed the road into the Sahara Desert.

Think he's seeing mirages here- wtf at the "dummy's teat" bit?

those self-closing sucky tops on sports bottles, i don't like them much either

i am liking this "real men only drink when they're sat down" shtick tho

Umberto Eco said somewhere that people who chew gum are disgusting savages. Obviously he's not close friends with Alex Ferguson.

I hate chewing gum with a fierce passion.

Shit Dalrymple's written a whole book about this.

I'd guess he's probably not a fan of other modern innovations e.g. the iPod, the internet, female suffrage

A whole book! Better not be rubbish...

I'm feeling very good about society of late and feel that maybe it really is out of the gutter and perhaps we over-reacted a little when we thought it was there, things aren't so bad!

I don't like violent youths, however I respect their right to express themselves. Society is literally looking more positive than ever.

I recently said hello to a man.

A knife was not brandished.

I sometimes think the problem is with me and not society, i got home early from work yesterday and the knifes were all in the drawer where they should be, perhaps i was a little harsh on the EU regulations regarding that after all!

I'm not in favour of everything the EU does, however they must work very hard, who would begrudge them a small amount of praise for their efforts??

and the little woman was playing the steve o'sullivan 12"s in the garden for our neighbours. she hadn't put them on ebay at all! bless her little cotton socks. and i learned, just because our neighbours are socialists doesn't stop them enjoying a good tune

Old men will have shards of society hurled at them, that's a given. Why when I was young we did the same. It's up to us to pick them up afterwards and say "back to the chair old friend".

I have to say it got me in such a good mood i went and cleared the whole back garden and found a load of balls. umbro, gola, mitre, kappa and a really pretty french looking one! I uploaded them all onto rapidshare and then put the link on lots of 3rd world forums so the children of malawi will be able to kick them all around once they download them.

At this rate I'm starting to think more children than ever may soon kick a ball in the street. It's a bloody miracle.

Though those that choose not to are learning valuable skills on their home consoles and computers.

I'm going to upload them a copy of our street but our internet connection doesn't seem to be up to it. I know Virgin Media have been working hard on this though, it must be difficult working under that much pressure and angry calls from people. the little woman says we should upload it in the middle of the night, so as not to hog the bandwidth that our neighbours might need

I saw on televisions some of the young lads ripping up society into shreds. boys will be boys!

but who is to say that other young lads won't pick up those shards and make new forms of society that are more interesting and equitable than what went before. Sometimes things are for the best, its just not immediately apparent!

20 years ago you knew where you were. It was frequently stifling however, what about those who were marginalised by what was at the time a more narrow society? For example men who dress up as women or people who aren't white. Those lads certainly would disagree if I was to claim things are at their worst now.

The postman is gay and good luck to him.

in 1975 i was jailed for murdering a swan. it wouldn't happen today! yet some might argue that's a positive thing. i certainly could see their point of view.

http://www.castlebar.ie/board/2009/jul09/181545.htm

Society still teetering perilously close to the gutter in some towns

downtown calcutta has improved seriously over the years.

50 years ago the little woman was a teddy boy, ah she looked fine in those days, but it didn't last long - another genre came along and it was all forgotten but now when the little woman is playing a set i feel like all those boundaries have melted into air and she can move between genres with the grace of a jellyfish, with its magical combination of structure and seeming randomness and its ability to live in shallow waters or deep waters

i told her yesterday that the most recent of her sets i heard was kind of like a metaphor for the potential of society itself, fluid and with momentum, i said "this is what we could make society into!"

2/3 years ago i used to lament the state of this country, indeed i'd tell anyone who'd listen that society was in the gutter. however i may have been harsh, the met office can't be expected to predict all the weather and previous predictions were largely correct in that they involved sun, rain, and clouds. on reflection i must concede that the weather is a law unto itself and is our real "enemy" here.

however if the weather was sitting here now i'd be tempted to let bygones be bygones and enjoy a large cake.

not the best out there today. no complaints here mind you.

Imagine what we could achieve in society if everyone just stopped being dicks.

A very negative view.

A man I worked with was struck by a bus in 2007. Perhaps that may change your perspective.

15 hours ago I was tired and a little cranky and i admit i was a bit off with the little woman when i couldn't find Top Shelf Dubs (one of Steve's best imo and a highlight of the mosaic back catalogue), but today i feel as grand as as basking monitor lizard in a luxury zoo, its amazing what a good nights sleep will do, put things in perspective for me. sometimes i think we all need a bit of a sleep each night

one mans dick is another mans lab technician - sometimes you have to see another persons point of view!

I was also struck by a bus in 2007, how beautiful it was.

Of course, todays buses are not as pretty but they get more people on them and are faster and more plentiful.

That's another way to be struck.

^ Henry Blofeld