― velko, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:10 (4 years ago) Permalink
I stole that BB8 guide - it said "you need it and it's free", so I took it and left the Heat magazine behind at the newsagents.
― snoball, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:12 (4 years ago) Permalink
Then I mugged a pensioner, filmed 'im rolling around on the pavement, and posted it on YouTube. Then I went back to Eton.
― snoball, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:13 (4 years ago) Permalink
What a bloody waste.
― Local Garda, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:14 (4 years ago) Permalink
People knew where they stood. Sure times were hard but things were things and that was important.
― ice crӕm, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:14 (4 years ago) Permalink
People don't know who their bloody neighbours are.
― Local Garda, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:16 (4 years ago) Permalink
(xxpost) I sold his false teeth on e-b4y.
We used to have a mangle.
― snoball, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:16 (4 years ago) Permalink
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, 25 August 2008 20:17 (4 years ago) Permalink
it's time for change
― Surmounter, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:18 (4 years ago) Permalink
at least you had streets, in my day we just had caves, but we all looked out for each other
― velko, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:18 (4 years ago) Permalink
A knife. One times this kid can't remember his name brought a knife to school. We all of us just stared at it. Then we looked at the kid.
Nowadays...
― ice crӕm, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:19 (4 years ago) Permalink
Its a ruddy disgrace. You used to be able to borrow a cupful of sugar without getting a punch in the face.
― Parish Priest!, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:19 (4 years ago) Permalink
These days, "texting" is passed off as genuine communication.
― wanko ergo sum, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:19 (4 years ago) Permalink
something must be done. real action. the politicians are too busy straightening bananas with the brussels elite. REAL ACTION.
― Local Garda, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:19 (4 years ago) Permalink
I used to knew all the names of the boys at school but now when I walk past I don't know who any of them are. Society has literally been dissolved in a vat of acid
― Parish Priest!, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:21 (4 years ago) Permalink
The sky seemed different. And the birds. The birds!
― ice crӕm, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:21 (4 years ago) Permalink
i remember when you would stop in the street, on your way to the market, and find yourself in immersed in hour-long conversations. now it's just an awkward smile, a pained nod.
― Surmounter, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:21 (4 years ago) Permalink
A shiv in the guts.
― ledge, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:22 (4 years ago) Permalink
Society has gone mad with its own sense of self importance, and taken a high jump from the nearest cliff. Now its corpse lies rotting in a ditch, having been stripped for clothes and parts by Eastern European tramps.
― Local Garda, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:22 (4 years ago) Permalink
In my day there was no heart trouble but these days i suffer from heart disease, angina, and youths are literally breaking society apart with their bare hands
― Parish Priest!, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:23 (4 years ago) Permalink
Society can regularly be seen flailing around the streets late at night, looking for another party.
30 years ago society was an altar boy with a side parting. It was a great time to be alive!
― Local Garda, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:23 (4 years ago) Permalink
We would wake up in the morning. Later we would go to bed at night. I never heard anyone question it.
― ice crӕm, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:24 (4 years ago) Permalink
we used to make things in this country, now everybody's got his hand in the other guy's pocket. literally!
― goole, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:24 (4 years ago) Permalink
it used to be, you got married, you stayed married. now, who knows??
― max, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:25 (4 years ago) Permalink
gangs of thug youths are literally eating society and shitting out blocks of pure despair
― snoball, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:25 (4 years ago) Permalink
prices are rising, the celtic tiger has accidentally ingested the credit crunch. now society totters about like ronnie wood in high heels after a 3 day cocaine dinner.
― Local Garda, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:26 (4 years ago) Permalink
when i was a child, the only homosexuals i knew were arabs, and we chased them out of town with elm branches. now, i wake up every day to see homosexuals on tv, the radio, sometimes even on my back patio, engaging in unspeakable acts.
― max, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:27 (4 years ago) Permalink
you can't even be sure of your own sexuality anymore. society has become an endless freddie mercury sex tape, stuck in the broken video recorder that passes for real values nowadays.
― Local Garda, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:28 (4 years ago) Permalink
times used to be you could spend an afternoon with a young lad and not have it questioned by the papers and the young lads mother
― Parish Priest!, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:29 (4 years ago) Permalink
Kids today with their Teacake Mix and Premark - my mum made all our clothes out of used spaghetti
― snoball, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:29 (4 years ago) Permalink
We listened to the radio. I'm talking about LISTENING.
― ice crӕm, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:29 (4 years ago) Permalink
every night we'd gather around the radio to listen to the weekly wrestling matches between roosevelt and churchill
― max, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:30 (4 years ago) Permalink
what is with all of the child rape nowadays? this used to be illegal, now it's practically demanded of you. it's literally on youtube and on the chat rooms every day.
― goole, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:30 (4 years ago) Permalink
if you'd told me a child was being abused 30 years ago, I wouldn't have believed you!
x-post you're right, LISTENING. people LISTENED. they LISTENED.
― Local Garda, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:31 (4 years ago) Permalink
whatever happened to courting? cotillions? gowns? these days society's lost in a haze of match dot toms and katies, swimming in a sea of cars that swerve all over the road.
― Surmounter, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:31 (4 years ago) Permalink
All this million channel cable TV and internet and your wireless phone from that disgusting bloke who is that older woman's toyboy in them adverts, when I was a lad we didn't even have TV. My old man used to put an empty cereal box on his head and pretend it was a TV set, and then read from the papers our chips were wrapped in.
― snoball, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:32 (4 years ago) Permalink
when i was younger, there was no such thing as irony, and if there was, no decent person had ever heard of it. now--its irony in the shower, irony for breakfast, irony in your afternoon nap. irony has literally kidnapped everything good and decent and tied it to a chair and literally beaten it.
― max, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:33 (4 years ago) Permalink
There were no steroids in baseball. I'm talking about in the days before Jackie Robinson.
― wanko ergo sum, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:33 (4 years ago) Permalink
My sister I looked out for her. And my brother too. My father he was a good man.
Now I don't even remember their names.
― ice crӕm, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:33 (4 years ago) Permalink
What passes for entertainment now would literally kill a man from The Past. He would see entertainment, and then melt into a small pile of ash. Society has been fed to godless, homosexual sharks.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:33 (4 years ago) Permalink
society isn't even in the gutter anymore since the hogs and spivs of the EU ruled our gutters illegal and took them away
the gutter is too good for them
― Parish Priest!, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:34 (4 years ago) Permalink
I used to have to murder tramps so that I could steal their empty gin bottles to get the deposit back from the off license. Now when people stab up a tramp they don't even bother to nick his shoes to sell to the mad shoe collecting man down the street.
― snoball, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:34 (4 years ago) Permalink
miscegenation!
― max, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:35 (4 years ago) Permalink
One time when I was four or five, I don't know, I saw a house burn down. It was our neighbors house. Point is he, him and his family, he was our NEIGHBOR.
― ice crӕm, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:35 (4 years ago) Permalink
There used to be white dog shit on the pavements, now it's brown, and I'll tell you why! The EU communists have taken away our white dog shit and replaced it with brown!
― snoball, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:37 (4 years ago) Permalink
and now who would it be? it could literally be anyone. he might be burning a house down right now and laughing. laughing! he may as well be laughing at society itself.
i might as well laugh at society, join in with them! when good men burn down houses and laugh at society its time for a war
― Parish Priest!, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:37 (4 years ago) Permalink
nowadays if angelina jolie is in the gutter, society gets in too. if she climbs out of the gutter, it stands up and dusts itself off. it used to be there were consistent ideas, about culture, art, thought. now we just dig our graves alongside the spectres of society's future, and leave the past to the likes of Rita Hayworth.
― Surmounter, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:38 (4 years ago) Permalink
it used to be that a man like Mickey Rooney was a handsome darling to man and woman alike, now it's all eleven foot spaniards who spend all day riding an excercize machine, bulging testicles on every billboard, it's an affront to every woman who leaves her home.
― goole, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:38 (4 years ago) Permalink
time was that satanists were round up and had it beaten out of them. now they sit in brussels laughing at society as they parcel it up and throw it in the sea
― Parish Priest!, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:38 (4 years ago) Permalink
(PP! & LG are kind of killing us here guys)
― goole, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:39 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (7 months ago) Permalink
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 (7 months ago) Permalink
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 (7 months ago) Permalink
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 (7 months ago) Permalink
this thread really takes me back
― michael bolton's reckless daughter (Hurting 2), Monday, 15 October 2012 18:49 (7 months ago) Permalink
The only reason these celebrities go to drug rehab is to advance their careers!
― dell (del), Monday, 15 October 2012 18:50 (7 months ago) Permalink
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 (7 months ago) Permalink
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 (7 months ago) Permalink
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 (7 months ago) Permalink
Saw a young man dressed in a skirt over the weekend. Is it Halloween already??
― dell (del), Monday, 15 October 2012 19:00 (7 months ago) Permalink
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 (7 months ago) Permalink
The greeters at Walmart try to sell me dope as I'm leaving the store!
― dell (del), Monday, 15 October 2012 19:02 (7 months ago) Permalink
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 (7 months ago) Permalink
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 (7 months ago) Permalink
We only had Three Loko when I was a kid.
― a great poke for Jet Set Willy (snoball), Monday, 15 October 2012 19:10 (7 months ago) Permalink
this is really the best
― ice crӕm, Monday, August 25, 2008 4:24 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― johnny crunch, Monday, 15 October 2012 19:10 (7 months ago) Permalink
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 (7 months ago) Permalink
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 (7 months ago) Permalink
All the Loko being drunk nowadays is premade store-bought swill. What's the point, even??
― dell (del), Monday, 15 October 2012 19:14 (7 months ago) Permalink
in loko parentis
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 15 October 2012 19:15 (7 months ago) Permalink
I remember when you could kick Vicodin in the street.
― a great poke for Jet Set Willy (snoball), Monday, 15 October 2012 19:15 (7 months ago) Permalink
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 (7 months ago) Permalink
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 (7 months ago) Permalink
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 (7 months ago) Permalink
When I grew up we thought filth was just something in the front garden. Now if you watch the telly, you have to wipe your shoes after.
― Aimless, Monday, 15 October 2012 19:26 (7 months ago) Permalink
Remember when horseradish mustard was a condiment, and not just something to smear all over your boobs during your daughter's wedding reception?
― dell (del), Monday, 15 October 2012 19:33 (7 months ago) Permalink
People used to flash their lighters at rock concerts. It was a wonderful, ecstatically communal moment. Now they're too busy peeing on each other.
― dell (del), Monday, 15 October 2012 19:34 (7 months ago) Permalink
Remember when gals used to throw their panties towards pop singers onstage? Now it's just paternity suit paperwork and day-old bagels
― dell (del), Monday, 15 October 2012 19:38 (7 months ago) Permalink
Nowadays "Choose Your Own Adventure" books all take place either in brothels or fast food joints. Disgusting...
― dell (del), Monday, 15 October 2012 19:39 (7 months ago) Permalink
― Fetchboy, Monday, 15 October 2012 20:20 (7 months ago) Permalink
nowadays most things are certain to be a knife.
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Monday, 15 October 2012 23:31 (7 months ago) Permalink
snoball bringing the a game itt today
don't wanna harsh dude's buzz after saying that, but all these years i thought his whole schtick was he only had a b game
― the oft-posited third fisherman (darraghmac), Monday, 15 October 2012 23:33 (7 months ago) Permalink
Can't even call someone a biggot anymore...
― where is el airoporto? (dog latin), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 01:34 (7 months ago) Permalink
time was you could use the letter g whenever you wanted, before the bureaucrats in brussels told us what to do with our very own british letters.
― Perfect Chicken Forever (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 01:43 (7 months ago) Permalink
Internet's gone to hell ever since Woman's Day magazine ran that insert offering a free AOL trial period
― dell (del), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 01:50 (7 months ago) Permalink
"There is no such thing as society" - Margaret Thatcher
― Iago Galdston, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 02:18 (7 months ago) Permalink
In my youth being part of a gang was akin to Enid Blyton's Famous Five. Nowadays being part of a gang means taking part in violence and the only entry requirement is to be lacking in brain cells.
- JoJo , Swansea, United Kingdom, 28/10/2012 20:09
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Sunday, 28 October 2012 20:23 (6 months ago) Permalink
just saw a child kick a ball on the street
― call all destroyer, Friday, 5 April 2013 19:50 (1 month ago) Permalink
I am becoming the old baldy, beetroot-faced meany type character who shouts "SHUT THE FUCKING GATE THIS TIME" at these kids when they keep kicking the ball into my garden. I never thought that would be my destiny when I used to read the Beano as a kid and buzz at adult authority figures getting their greenhouses smashed up.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Friday, 5 April 2013 22:27 (1 month ago) Permalink