Society is in the gutter

It's a new kind of person comes in the shop now. They're the ones buying things. If it wasn't for them we'd be bust. Neighborhood's changed. Used to be all British people here, now look at it.

It doesn't rain enough. The only reason my garden doesn't look like a French holiday camp is thanks to the youths pissing on my lawn. You could take your dog for walks.

Thought this revival was going to be about a Daily Mail article today about the 14 year old who died at a party in West London:

But one of her teachers blamed her downward spiral on an addiction to the internet.
J@ye Williams@n, who was Isobel’s English teacher at Chiswick Community College, in west London, said: ‘She was into the kind of things that teenagers get into, but she got hooked on the worldwide web. She was part of the Myspace generation. She got caught and we are devastated.’

Not linking to the distasteful article - but people speaking to papers should keep a respectful silence.

This is what happens when you ride recklessly down the super information highway.

But in seriousness, I googled the article and, yep, it's fucked.

Fucking hell, that's my old school.

Daily Mail article is predictably grim reading.

in my day teenagers used the "word wide web" responsibly and were educated enough not to get trapped in metaphors, this is gordon brown's fault

It's a shameful indictment of today's skew-whiff standards, but we have to face the fact that social workers can and will administrate the force-feeding of drugs to children nowadays.

We had sad 'kinda lol but mostly sad'-expressions on our faces here when we heard the teacher literally say this to the BBC cameras yesterday.

It was on the 10 o'clock news btw

the social fabric has been literally rent apart and communication with one's fellows is all but impossible. each day I see teenagers and pensioners fall to blows in the streets over their inability to smoothly navigate around one another in shop entrances and on sidewalks. they're little better than the packs of wolves that swoop in to chase them off of a fresh carcass, they are.

oh god that teacher, she actually said there was "too much knowledge".

In my day it was learning timetables and capitals of the empire by rote, and THAT WAS IT. Kids nowadays learn on the internet how to drug themselves into a coma.

what happened? society used to be something you could point to and feel proud, like a boat. now you need to consult with three government clerks and a panel of so-called experts just to find out where the damn thing is, and by the time you get there it's likely closed early for Ramadan. unfathomable! they've literally gone beyond the pale!!!

what calls itself "society" today wouldn't have passed muster on the playground when I was growing up! we used to form up ranks and march all through the school grounds showing off our fathers' guns; in fact, we liberated a good deal of France that way before any of us even realized what was going on. nowadays, if teens line up at all, it's for the grand opening of some new sex shop or 'fusion' restaurant. no thank you!

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.