Society is in the gutter

"after 12 years of his New Labour project, the respect to which Mr Blair referred is in the sewer."

It's only funny until you get to "When Labour forced through its disastrous policy of mass immigration, what respect did it show to the millions of indigenous working-class voters whose communities would come under serious strain as a result? Did anyone explain the true consequences, rather than just the bogus benefits?" and then it's like WTF.

imo this thread is jhosheas finest moment

No quibbles there, except that after 12 years of his New Labour project, the respect to which Mr Blair referred is in the sewer.

Has Randall even been to Fratton Park Sewers this season

xp no kidding- this in particular:

One time I found a dead dog in the street. There was a boy, not much older than me, crying. I asked is this your dog. He just looked at me. Later we fought in the war together.

― ice crӕm, 25 August 2008 21:16 (1 year ago) Bookmark

i mean, i'd read that book.

It's only funny until you get to "When Labour forced through its disastrous policy of mass immigration, what respect did it show to the millions of indigenous working-class voters whose communities would come under serious strain as a result? Did anyone explain the true consequences, rather than just the bogus benefits?" and then it's like WTF.

― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Friday, 6 November 2009 14:57 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Randall has form for this type of crap.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3642192/Labour-treats-Britain-with-criminal-contempt.html

May I congratulate the liberal intelligentsia for the direction they have taken this country in the past forty-odd years. Society? Hardly, or not as I understand the word anyway. This is monitored anarchy! Law and Order has been made redundant. It's all 'Rights' before retribution. Send in the social worker.
Many years ago, we opened doors for women, offered our seats etc, said 'please' and 'thank-you'. Today it's all old hat. We try and murder pregnant school girls! But for Mr Hall, they would have succeeded. A ray of hope.
Would you rather live in my world, or what we have clearly got today?
I have the telephone number of our local Funeral director written down, for when it's needed. The saddest thing is that I won't be sad to leave. 21st century Britain? I hope you enjoy it.

- Michael, Longfield, Kent UK, 05/12/2009 15:05

in the past forty-odd years

That would include the 18 years when the country was governed by the Conservatives?

ha. reminds me - the mail has a classic feature today about how you used to be able to kick a ball in the street;

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1233767/Not-Xbox-sight-The-TV-series-gloriously-evokes-children-played-days-Nanny-State-killjoys.html

that article... where to start...

this thread is all-time ILX top 20

Yep, you don't get threads like this anymore.

wilful gangs of internet thieves have literally stolen these threads and joyridden them at pensioners

Time was you could laugh at a Parish Priest! Nowadays all the parish priests have been flung into jail. God doesn't mean anything to these people.

The erosion of children's outdoor play started with the increase in road traffic from the late 1950s onwards.

So not liberal do-gooding 'elf and safety fascists then?

Meanwhile, BBC News blames curtain-twitching, paedo-scaping fearmongers for the lack of balls being kicked in the street.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8399749.stm

The only balls being kicked in the street these days are those contained in the scrotal sacs of decent hard-working men and women by New Labour Nanny State Benefit Scroungers high on cheap supermarket cider

It's a shambles how Britons are being denied the right to kick a ball in the street. That said, I bet if there were a ball to kick, it would be the immigrants getting first dibs while good honest working Brits would have to fill out a form.

there was a time when a man could order a food in a place and be assured of proper health and decency. now you are liable only to receive a hummus, which consists of little but mashed expectations and inexpensive cow seasonings. there was a time when a decent man could not look upon a hummus without weeping.

i have seen kids kicking a ball in the street a couple of times this year. this is fancy london tho.

if you look closer, its not a ball, but the still-beating heart of john bull, and the kids, are actually muslims

there was a time when your local bun man and bootblack were not liable to have opinions that interfered with the chores they were contracted to perform. what opinions they had were almost certain to be of a cheerful sort suitable to their labors.

there was a time when the balls that unmolested children kicked in the street were made only of india rubber. india rubber. and it meant something.

suitable to their labors

Education education education was Blair's mantra as he stood on the doorstep of No. 10 and yet, after 50 years of Labour government, we are a nation of under-educated feral thugs, who grunt an incomprehensible argot learned from the latest "rap" 45, in between "downloading" pornography to our mobile phones and "happy slapping" old age pensioners dozing fitfully at bus stops while waiting to board crime-ridden bendy buses to take them to their lives of terror on sink council estates

Quite incorrect, Thomas, quite incorrect. In my day, times was you didn't need twenty years of liberal bias training to do a decent day's work. Overeducation is what's going on, and not enough birch for my liking.

To be fair, I can see why the Education Secretary would be against kicking Balls in the street.

Though most of the House of Commons (both sides of the House) would be very much in favour

so long as it were someone else's balls. where they're concerned, it's always someone else's balls.

Overeducation is what's going on, and not enough birch for my liking.

The problem is these so-called liberals and their sneers and innuendo have blackened the very idea of a Christian Brother innocently caning the bare buttocks of young boys so's to inculcate the correct Latin verb endings. What sordid minds these people must have.

And anyway universities are all David Beckham Studies and Robson Green Fellowships and urinating on war memorials, open to all comers and full of Moslems preaching anti-Western propaganda

They've besmirched the great tradition of the Robson Green Fellowship if you ask me.

The standards required to obtain a "degree" today are on a par with the minimum that we would be expected to know when I matriculated from Primary School and narrowly failed the Eleven Plus. I knew boys in Secondary Modern who knew more about Deleuze and Guattari's concept of rhizomes than these youths swanning around their PhD courses and disinterring war heroes in order to quite literally kick their balls around in the street.

eh that's actually true, can we get a mod edit?

Used to be a parent could kick a child in the street...

an ilxor could organise a fap for their birthday and then turn up for it.

Finns coming over here, ignoring our FAPs

hello ken!

Society can't even consign itself to the dustbin anymore without first having to undergo the rigmarole of sorting itself into plastics, cans and newspaper.

We didn't have plastics when I was a lad. Everything was made out of wood. Even the trees.

Even the clothes pegs

even the erect penii

(Hi DL! How's it going?)

ken c - not bad - working in london now for the forseeable future, so should be able to make the next fap you organise.

ha i might not turn up to it myself though

whereabouts you work/live?

still live in hitchin. currently working in old street, but gonna be switching to kings x soon.

Remember when people were able to spell The King's Cross without resorting to the gutter vernacular of the mobile telephone.

Let's put the Great back into Great Britain and the, errrrrr, Cross back into King's Cross

gr8 britain

anyway, a job used to be for life. for life. now people don't even know where they work any more. politicians, for example, seem to think they're wet nurses these days, while the rest of us gather up what few rags and tassels are left of society to sew pete doherty a new tourniquet.

xpost it's gr8 bri10 get wiv da tymez yo

xposts

Time was, this thread fulfilled a valuable service by concerning itself with our society and the gutter it has fallen into. Now it's just the liberal intelligentsia getting all chummy with each other.