I saw that Joan Collins link and I thought "that's GOT to be the daily mail" and what do you know
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 15 September 2011 09:11 (twelve years ago) link
LOL the quality of her handwriting has a lower limit, reached only as a last defense against grave indignities.
He tossed another form at me and turned away, leaving me speechless with fury and scribbling the word 'British' in the worst handwriting I could muster.
― Je55e, Friday, 16 September 2011 01:42 (twelve years ago) link
Way to go, Joan Collins, for taking all the fun out of this thread
― Yo wait a minute man, you better think about the world (dog latin), Friday, 16 September 2011 09:18 (twelve years ago) link
She's sounding increasingly like her brother Phil there.
― master musicians of jamiroquai (NickB), Friday, 16 September 2011 09:22 (twelve years ago) link
"Even the F-word is commonplace among youngsters. As a child, it was only when I saw it written on a railway carriage that I asked: ‘Mummy what does f *** mean?’ The poor darling went ballistic, hissing: ‘That is the most terrible word in the English language, if your father ever used it I would divorce him.’
vs.
"Poor Monica, she will forever be remembered as the Count of Monte Cristo... give or take a vowel."
― estela, Friday, 16 September 2011 09:40 (twelve years ago) link
escapes on a technicality
― talking heads, quiet smith (darraghmac), Friday, 16 September 2011 10:03 (twelve years ago) link
what age did you first say "fuck"?
― mark s, Friday, 16 September 2011 11:28 (twelve years ago) link
thread needs to get back on track. I remember this thread when it was all pithy comment on how bad things have gotten. Look at it now. A shambles, a disgrace. They should fly the flag at half-mast, but they have instead used to flag to decorate the table of a £600 PER WEEK flat in central london where JOBLESS IMMIGRANT LESBIANS play PLAYSTATIONS bought out of TAXPAYER'S MONEY.
― talking heads, quiet smith (darraghmac), Friday, 16 September 2011 11:39 (twelve years ago) link
Migrants and ethnics are now being paid NOT to keep-up their garden. Madness!
― Yo wait a minute man, you better think about the world (dog latin), Friday, 16 September 2011 11:43 (twelve years ago) link
Stupid fucking country full of cunts, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrgggggggggghhhh!
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Thursday, 3 November 2011 13:28 (twelve years ago) link
It's no different from when I was a kid. We used to get caught hanging round street corners licking our own balls.
― Glo-Vember (dog latin), Thursday, 3 November 2011 13:45 (twelve years ago) link
Headline: "Children behaving like animals, Barnardo's survey finds"
THIS IS NOT WHAT THE SURVEY FINDS
― ceci n'est pas un nom d'affichage (ledge), Thursday, 3 November 2011 13:50 (twelve years ago) link
I rember a time that even murderers had breeding, you had to be Lord Lucan or Dr. Crippen before your misdemeanours showed up in the society notices, why now they'll print the foul deeds of just anybody, bold as brass there on the front page. Cuntish, I call it, cuntish.
― blind pele (darraghmac), Thursday, 3 November 2011 14:02 (twelve years ago) link
STOP PRESS: HEADLINE HAS BEEN REVISED
― ceci n'est pas un nom d'affichage (ledge), Thursday, 3 November 2011 14:03 (twelve years ago) link
Barnardo's volunteer project worker Natasha Cripps, who commissioned the research, said the word "feral" indicated a complete desertion of young people.
or alternatively, that thick people use it as a synonym for "badly behaved" because they read newspapers doing the same
― We All Had Guess Papers (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 3 November 2011 14:04 (twelve years ago) link
reads like an onion article
feral
starting to behave like animals
"depressing" so many were ready to give up on children.
49% agreed children are beginning to behave like animals
'Scapegoat'
― owenf, Thursday, 3 November 2011 14:24 (twelve years ago) link
Peter Hitchins, in wondering whether maybe Thatcher wasn't all that:
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/blog/the-myth-of-margaret-thatcher/
...says this:
Meanwhile in the areas where the coalminers and steelworkers once toiled, gaunt young men who have never worked and never will work smoke marijuana or inject heroin untroubled by an emasculated police force, and their sisters have babies outside wedlock, adding to the enormous number of fatherless families dependent on state handouts for their narrow lives.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 27 February 2012 23:10 (twelve years ago) link
Time was you could kick a miner in the street.
― Lindsay NAGL (Trayce), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 00:59 (twelve years ago) link
omg
― goole, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 01:44 (twelve years ago) link
You smoking marijuana again, you gaunt young goole?
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 01:56 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah mate but 'e killed a dragon, innit. How many people do you see doing the same thing for Great Britain in Leicester or Romford Bradford these days? I'll tell you how many: none is how many. If I saw a dragon molesting a 15 year old or something, I wouldn't just stand there, I'd be like 'Oi! You filthy dragon bastard, get off 'er, she ain't even legal!'. Then I'd get a brick and I'd merk that boy right there and then. I wouldn't sit about waiting for some health and safety inspector to assess the reasonability of the situation. And that's why I'm here celebrating today.
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Monday, 23 April 2012 12:54 (twelve years ago) link
just passed some children kicking a ball on the street
a passing car ran over the ball, making a big pop
― mookieproof, Friday, 8 June 2012 19:34 (eleven years ago) link
society is in the gutter
― catbus otm (gbx), Friday, 8 June 2012 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
You could put one foot in front of the other repeatedly to get to a location of your choice. These days you can't walk down the bloody street.
― Local Garda, Monday, August 25, 2008 3:17 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
every single one of garda's initial posts in this thread is amazing but i think of this one sometimes
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 8 June 2012 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
i'll bet the remnants of that ball have been thrown in a bin, and are now dripping with discarded beans and tin can juice
― mookieproof, Friday, 8 June 2012 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
Nowadays the only occasion when people tuck in their shirts is when they want to show off the fancy decal on the pocket of their jeans. What is happening to this world??
― dell (del), Monday, 15 October 2012 18:41 (eleven years ago) link
You go into a department store and the security guards are too busy selling illegal drugs to the other employees to be bothered catching thieves!
― dell (del), Monday, 15 October 2012 18:45 (eleven years ago) link
These days it's adults who wear braces on their teeth, and it's mostly the adolescents who are in iron lungs
― dell (del), Monday, 15 October 2012 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
The only reason people go to church anymore is if they are looking to score drugs from members of the clergy
― dell (del), Monday, 15 October 2012 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
this thread really takes me back
― michael bolton's reckless daughter (Hurting 2), Monday, 15 October 2012 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
The only reason these celebrities go to drug rehab is to advance their careers!
― dell (del), Monday, 15 October 2012 18:50 (eleven years ago) link
Kids aren't anorexic because of body dysmorphia anymore. These days they just starve themselves to get "high" and to get attention on twitter
― dell (del), Monday, 15 October 2012 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
It used to be "Sir" and "Mam." Now it's just "motherfucker this" and "motherfucker that".
― michael bolton's reckless daughter (Hurting 2), Monday, 15 October 2012 18:53 (eleven years ago) link
That's not music, it's just shouting.
The only time people eat nuts nowadays is in the saloon while they're getting soused
― dell (del), Monday, 15 October 2012 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
Saw a young man dressed in a skirt over the weekend. Is it Halloween already??
― dell (del), Monday, 15 October 2012 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
You go to church and they pepper the sermons with foul language so that they can stay "hip" and attract new congregants
― dell (del), Monday, 15 October 2012 19:01 (eleven years ago) link
The greeters at Walmart try to sell me dope as I'm leaving the store!
― dell (del), Monday, 15 October 2012 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
Families don't even sit down and have nice conversations at the dinner table anymore. They're too busy tweeting each other pornography and washing down their mashed potatoes with Four Loko.
― dell (del), Monday, 15 October 2012 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
These days you go to a wedding and the groom is still getting a lap dance from some hussy right up until he slips the ring onto the bride's finger
― dell (del), Monday, 15 October 2012 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
We only had Three Loko when I was a kid.
― a great poke for Jet Set Willy (snoball), Monday, 15 October 2012 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
this is really the best
We would wake up in the morning. Later we would go to bed at night. I never heard anyone question it.
― ice crӕm, Monday, August 25, 2008 4:24 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― johnny crunch, Monday, 15 October 2012 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
When I was a child my mother would have cut off her arm for me. Nowadays, a child would be lucky to get a mother's fingernail paring, and it all laquered up with with nail polish!
― Aimless, Monday, 15 October 2012 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
Strippers used to say "Thank you very much, Sir" when you placed a dollar in their garter. Now they just give you a dirty look, as though it's your fault their Vicodin hasn't kicked in yet
― dell (del), Monday, 15 October 2012 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
All the Loko being drunk nowadays is premade store-bought swill. What's the point, even??
― dell (del), Monday, 15 October 2012 19:14 (eleven years ago) link
in loko parentis
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 15 October 2012 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
I remember when you could kick Vicodin in the street.
― a great poke for Jet Set Willy (snoball), Monday, 15 October 2012 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
Used to be the TV preachers would spend their money on nice houses and fancy cars. Now they just blow it all on dirt grade heroin and firewalking seminars
― dell (del), Monday, 15 October 2012 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
Used to be a dealer would give you the first couple bags free. He'd chat with you, ask after your family. Now they're all just in it for the money...
― dell (del), Monday, 15 October 2012 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
time was you could doff your hat to a young lady without being brutally shanked. No more, no more.
― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Monday, 15 October 2012 19:23 (eleven years ago) link