Society is in the gutter

I know quite a few people from the forest of Dean who might dispute that but it's possible they in fact were the sum of yob culture in the area at the time

Dark at ten to four in London today.

Ten to four.

The sitcoms now are all about two dads this and that. When I was a kid, we had family values shows, like Full House, and My Two Dads.

Dark at ten to four in London today.

Ten to four.

It's going to get worse before it gets better early next year. This isn't something new, it's been happening for quite a few million years, so don't be too alarmed.

definitely darker, earlier this year. and each year.

holy shit i looked that up and it...it checks out

holy shit

what else...what else have we been wrong about?

get me a turtle lads im pure shook

Passengers on bus scowling at person playing music on smartphone.

It used to be that you could bring a transistor radio onto the bus, switch it on and everyone would cheerily sing along to Vanity Fare.

I blame the miners.

They’re playing a Simply Red record on Radio 2 right now which rips off “I Can’t Go For That” by Hall and Oates.

It used to be you had proper, original songs being played on Pete Murray’s Open House like “Say No Go.”

It’s all Neil Armstrong’s fault.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/13/golden-globes-2014-blah-frock-parade

Now, you hardly ever see a teenage goth. Even the ones hanging out around in Camden Lock, amid a sea of Che Guevara T-shirts, seem to lack commitment. All the men in east London look like they're on the run from an Edwardian circus; the women are walking thigh gaps. Manchester is full of Noel Gallagher haircuts; Liverpool is orange.

When I lived in Paris eight years ago, rock band the Libertines seemed like the most exciting thing in music, and every French teenager wanted to move to London. Eurostar ads emphasised the UK's counter-cultural draw. What would attract them now, when every song is a sample, all films are remakes, and, as Stewart Lee has said, all the comedians are Russells?

the Libertines seemed like the most exciting thing in music the Libertines seemed like the most exciting thing in music the Libertines seemed like the most exciting thing in music the Libertines seemed like the most exciting thing in music the Libertines seemed like the most exciting thing in music the Libertines seemed like the most exciting thing in music the Libertines seemed like the most exciting thing in music the Libertines seemed like the most exciting thing in music the Libertines seemed like the most exciting thing in musicthe Libertines seemed like the most exciting thing in music the Libertines seemed like the most exciting thing in music the Libertines seemed like the most exciting thing in music the Libertines seemed like the most exciting thing in music the Libertines seemed like the most exciting thing in musicthe Libertines seemed like the most exciting thing in music the Libertines seemed like the most exciting thing in musicthe Libertines seemed like the most exciting thing in musicthe Libertines seemed like the most exciting thing in musicthe Libertines seemed like the most exciting thing in music

I can never tell to what extent she's taking the piss

the women are walking thigh gaps.

?!? wtf

30 years ago a child would be a goth on the street

The next generation is going to grow up to be sooo messed up. Imagine - a three year old, socially stunted by its iPad, never seeing other children because all it wants to do is laze around poking a screen. There's GOT to be another way, like moving to a commune or something...

Used to be we could get nostalgic about proper decades, like the '70s. Now it's all Sum-41 this and Libertines that...

What would attract them now, when every song is a sample, all films are remakes, and, as Stewart Lee has said, all the comedians are Russells?

serious answer- the same old shit. Constant source of lols the bone on European yoot have for lame ass british pop culture.

Benny Hill

No film remakes in 2006, or samples in music, or Russells in comedy, no sir.

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as Stewart Lee has said
as Stewart Lee has said
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30 years ago there were proper pop groups like the Police singing about Cilla and Charybdis. Blind Date, proper clean family entertainment there.

thirty years ago they transliterated "cilla" "scylla" even

That's lack of proper education in Newcastle comprehensives. It's all Billy Fury's fault.

https://twitter.com/Jade__Chandler/status/571713895615897600

the entire oxford junior dictionary is now just the word knife over and over, written in the shape of a knife, the book itself is also a knife

the junior dictionary should just be bigger

they should start pushing the full dictionary on the kids, disguised as a junior dictionary

soon they'll want more and more words, and they'll start having to make up their own

my thoughts exactly - why the fuck is there even a junior dictionary? as if words are so purely functional.

presumably this is just a relic of the days when people cared about a child looking up "fuck" or "rape" or whatever - a rite of passage for all.

now they're out there doing it. society.

'i know this is just press release bullshit but o temora o mores'

tempora

under pressure, OUP sent out a press release for shit hacks to cherrypick.

what's strange is that "chatroom" has been added. i feel genuine nostalgia for the chatroom. i met the only significant love of my life in yahoo indie 1.

my eyes aren't watering. it's the smoke.

Been a while since I heard happyslap

good times, all gone now

The piece it's from is not a bad read: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/27/robert-macfarlane-word-hoard-rewilding-landscape

the book which the piece is a plug of sorts for does sound appealing. I added it to my Amazon wishlist which is probably ironic on some level

coaxial leads included in this all in one tv/broadband/phone box do not reach from the wall to my tv. I remember when a coat hanger could pick up the late late show around the mweelin hills

+1

I like the link between weirdly specific words & close observation of the surrounding world in ~bygone days~

I paid more attention to ice & snow this year than I have in a long time thanks in part to my choice of a William Vollman novel about Norse sea-exploration & its rich winter word-hoard

*choice of = as reading material for a space of weeks in December & January

now we have weirdly specific words about Tumblr

The past 60 years and the reign of Queen Elizabeth II has seen Britain go to hell in a hand basket, the rich are much richer and poor poorer, crime is higher and personal liberties and civil rights more restricted. The nation has become boarded up, dirty, polluted, and very regionalized North South , them and us, Scotland nearly voting to leave the UK and Wales and Cornwall and Ireland dissatisfied. The reign of Queen Elizabeth II will be recorded as the dark wanton times of decline in Britain`s history.

a mix between The Stone Roses and Primal Scream with the swagger of Oasis

Boo! Boo! Boo QE II, the Queen of Refuse. So bow down to her if you want, bow to her. Bow to the Queen of Slime, the Queen of Filth, the Queen of Putrescence. Boo. Boo. Rubbish. Filth. Slime. Muck. Boo. Boo. Boo.

http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/after-39-years-fighting-boffins-toffs-and-cads-daily-mail-style-guide-writer-reveals-all-including?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2015-04-16&utm_source=Press+Gazette+-+Daily

"There was a conversation a while ago between an old-timer and a trainee who had not heard of Rudolf Valentino. 'Before my time, I'm afraid,' said the trainee breezily. 'Hitler was before mine but I've still heard of him,'"