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...
― An embarrassing doorman and garbage man (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 12:54 (ten years ago) link
Used to be we could get nostalgic about proper decades, like the '70s. Now it's all Sum-41 this and Libertines that...
― An embarrassing doorman and garbage man (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 12:56 (ten years ago) link
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.
― UK Cop Humour (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 13:02 (ten years ago) link
Benny Hill
― An embarrassing doorman and garbage man (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 13:29 (ten years ago) link
No film remakes in 2006, or samples in music, or Russells in comedy, no sir.
― UK Cop Humour (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 14:29 (ten years ago) link
http://drawception.com/pub/panels/2012/4-20/5aXpg294Bf-2.png
― UK Cop Humour (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 14:32 (ten years ago) link
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― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:26 (ten years ago) link
30 years ago there were proper pop groups like the Police singing about Cilla and Charybdis. Blind Date, proper clean family entertainment there.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:36 (ten years ago) link
thirty years ago they transliterated "cilla" "scylla" even
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:40 (ten years ago) link
That's lack of proper education in Newcastle comprehensives. It's all Billy Fury's fault.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:44 (ten years ago) link
https://twitter.com/Jade__Chandler/status/571713895615897600
― The Crucifixion Of Sean Bean (DJ Mencap), Monday, 2 March 2015 11:39 (nine years ago) link
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
― Moyes Enthusiast (LocalGarda), Monday, 2 March 2015 11:46 (nine years ago) link
the junior dictionary should just be bigger
― vacuum head tree disease (imago), Monday, 2 March 2015 11:51 (nine years ago) link
they should start pushing the full dictionary on the kids, disguised as a junior dictionary
― vacuum head tree disease (imago), Monday, 2 March 2015 11:52 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Moyes Enthusiast (LocalGarda), Monday, 2 March 2015 11:53 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Moyes Enthusiast (LocalGarda), Monday, 2 March 2015 11:54 (nine years ago) link
now they're out there doing it. society.
― local eire man (darraghmac), Monday, 2 March 2015 12:00 (nine years ago) link
'i know this is just press release bullshit but o temora o mores'
― A MOOC, what's a MOOC? (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 2 March 2015 12:07 (nine years ago) link
tempora
under pressure, OUP sent out a press release for shit hacks to cherrypick.
― A MOOC, what's a MOOC? (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 2 March 2015 12:11 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Moyes Enthusiast (LocalGarda), Monday, 2 March 2015 12:14 (nine years ago) link
my eyes aren't watering. it's the smoke.
Been a while since I heard happyslap
― A MOOC, what's a MOOC? (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 2 March 2015 12:16 (nine years ago) link
good times, all gone now
― Moyes Enthusiast (LocalGarda), Monday, 2 March 2015 12:19 (nine years ago) link
The piece it's from is not a bad read: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/27/robert-macfarlane-word-hoard-rewilding-landscape
― Rainbow DAESH (ShariVari), Monday, 2 March 2015 12:22 (nine years ago) link
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
― The Crucifixion Of Sean Bean (DJ Mencap), Monday, 2 March 2015 12:44 (nine years ago) link
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
― local eire man (darraghmac), Monday, 2 March 2015 13:32 (nine years ago) link
+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
― bernard snowy, Monday, 2 March 2015 16:18 (nine years ago) link
*choice of = as reading material for a space of weeks in December & January
― bernard snowy, Monday, 2 March 2015 16:19 (nine years ago) link
now we have weirdly specific words about Tumblr
― kriss akabusi cleaner (seandalai), Monday, 2 March 2015 23:30 (nine years ago) link
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.
― nakhchivan, Saturday, 11 April 2015 02:33 (nine years ago) link
a mix between The Stone Roses and Primal Scream with the swagger of Oasis
― mookieproof, Saturday, 11 April 2015 02:35 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Giant Purple Wakerobin (Aimless), Saturday, 11 April 2015 03:03 (nine years ago) link
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,'"
― Some guy (LocalGarda), Thursday, 16 April 2015 12:57 (nine years ago) link
clichés
tug of love, or even worse, love tug
― Some guy (LocalGarda), Thursday, 16 April 2015 12:58 (nine years ago) link
‘egg’ or ‘eggs’ as a replacement prefix for ‘ex’, often in the context of Easter, such as ‘eggcellent’ or ‘eggstraordinary’. There is not one variation that has not been used thousands of times, and they are all very tedious
― Some guy (LocalGarda), Thursday, 16 April 2015 12:59 (nine years ago) link
the flamboyant bestubbled Portuguese (Jose Mourinho)
foreign-bred rodent furballs (hamsters)
the titular sexual abstinent (Steve Carell’s character in The 40-Year-Old Virgin)
culinary under-achiever (sprouts again)
shifting follicle cover (John Travolta’s hair)
cutting-edge valise (a suitcase)
vociferous Antipodeans (rowdy Aussies)
this musical mammal of the marine world (a saxophone-playing walrus)
the luxury fizzy wine (champagne)
our cosmic sidekick (the moon)
culinary outlaw (a kebab)
the bendy yellow fruit (a banana)
the tasty bread-based snack (a sandwich)
the red leather orb (a cricket ball)
the little rectangular treasure (a rare stamp)
the befeathered visitant (a nightingale that strayed to Birkenhead)
the stringy decay fighter (dental floss)
the tentacled tipster (Paul the psychic octopus)
^^POLL
― squeak and gibber (soref), Thursday, 16 April 2015 13:10 (nine years ago) link
*puts hand on chest, sings national anthem*
― imago, Thursday, 16 April 2015 13:13 (nine years ago) link
live audience: Is there any other kind of audience? Rows of corpses? When a writer says: ‘Kylie performed in front of a live audience’, it should be: ‘Kylie performed live in front of an audience’. This holds good for recorded performances with an audience present.
what
― Some guy (LocalGarda), Thursday, 16 April 2015 13:15 (nine years ago) link
This is the best one, but we all know exactly the context in which it was used.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 16 April 2015 13:31 (nine years ago) link
it's important to maintain the levity of your story about a walrus who plays the saxophone
― pissbaby nobody in the corner (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 16 April 2015 13:42 (nine years ago) link
so much lol in that style guide
love how the implied addressee is a very stupid child
― drash, Thursday, 16 April 2015 14:39 (nine years ago) link
inelegant variation should be as knowingly laboured as possible to preserve the gaiety of the nation
― nashwan, Thursday, 16 April 2015 15:06 (nine years ago) link
nicky wire in a bendy yellow fruit suit?
― mookieproof, Thursday, 16 April 2015 22:10 (nine years ago) link
Strong "...in the gutter" / Real England flavour to the comments on this Guardian piece:
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/apr/29/manchester-trafford-park-world-first-industrial-estate-history-cities-50-buildings
Long grey rows of tenements
Playing marbles on the grates in the alleyways
The trainmen used to throw us food from the engine as they went past.
The park around the corner had a stuffed crocodile that we used to jump on and then run away scared.
Fogs so thick that we got lost going home from school despite it being just across the street.
The name of the local sweet shop was Coopers.
Esp. enjoy the contribution of Sperrin, always eager to jump in and correct people on the faulty detail of their memories of 1950s childhoods:
"there were no tenements" etc.
― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Thursday, 30 April 2015 07:58 (eight years ago) link
http://k-punk.org/abandon-hope-summer-is-coming/
― bureau belfast model (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 12:23 (eight years ago) link
beyond self-parody
It’s Ed Sheeran and Rudimental rather than Rufige Kru.
guess he slept on that Goldie remix of the real red Ed
― nashwan, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 12:27 (eight years ago) link
supermarket check-out operatives replaced by crap robots… unexpected item in bagging area… every surface plastered with corporate graffiti and haranguing hashtags
― bureau belfast model (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 12:31 (eight years ago) link
Everything seen through a downer haze… “Mostly you self-medicate” … comfort eating and bitter drinking …. What’s your poison?
an ellipsis between every four or five words... no full sentences... ground control to major tom... mcdonalds... that go compare ad... #bringbackourgirls ... tracksuits... smaller chocolate bars
― bureau belfast model (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 12:33 (eight years ago) link