Society is in the gutter

In my day you had to work to impress a lady. Now they deliver it through your nose! Where's the hard work, I say? Where's the reward? Where's your tea on the table? Nasal sprays don't darn the socks, do they? They don't do the ironing.

In my day telephones were for keeping in touch with your loved ones. Nowadays you can dial up illegal pornography on the you-tube, or dial up a sex offender for ungainly sinful pleasures of the flesh, but you can't even make a telephone call! Call me old-fashioned for wanting to speak to my dear husband on the telephone! Or is that rendered illegal now? Perhaps I should be dialling up a lethal concoction of drugs and visiting a rage party instead! Heavens above.

Oh for the days when The Black & White Minstrel Show provided wholesome family entertainment. Nowadays they import real minstrels wholesale and put them on so-called 'reality' television where they say the F word. What next, real Martians hosting Sale of the Century?

that Jerry Springer, you mean?

When did it become unacceptable to own a comfortable high-set car? I can't even drive the Ford Territory through the shops at Croydon without some drug-addled hippie calling me selfish. Last week at the school, a young tearaway lass said my car was 'a menace'! And to think we worked hard to earn a safe vehicle. If all the pinko hippies got a job and purchased large sturdy automobiles, the world would be a better place.

I can't think of any group of people in history that has been persecuted as much the British motorist. Society has been consciously pushed down into the gutter and a double yellow line painted over it.

Remind me who won the Cold War again?

If they're not busy invading plucky little Georgia, they're destroying football with money or poisoning our teapots. With plutonium. And what does Brown do about it? Got it in one: sweet f.a.

Remember what they said about Wilson, that's all I have to say.

Desmond Carrington played the Black and White Minstrels on his show last week. Followed by Otis Redding. Uncanny.

Wilson? All our royalties from "Blue Monday" went into the f**king Hacienda!

You knew where you were when it used to be "Sir" and "Madam" and "Mr Smythe" and "Mrs Green" and bowing and curtseying, and now you are expected to call everyone Shaz and Myleene and you don't even know if you are addressing a man, a woman, or even one of those Polacks or coloureds throwing your first name around like a dark-skinned youth in a knife-crammed designer tracksuit regurgitating the semi-digested tatters of society into the gutter after his thirtieth alcopop of the morning on the bus to the Job Centre, too much of a wastrel even to do the jobs he has stolen from us, as the school he burnt down wrote him a note excusing him from work in favour of burgling houses to pay for crack and other made-up mental disorders

In my youth I used to have a paper round, imagine my surprise when I realised I could have whored myself out to the Lib Dems completely tax free and at hours that better suited me.

In fact Hampstead Heath is downhill from me so cycling to work would 'always' be fun!

this new board is literally a young child claiming to have been abused by a priest....

it's a bloody shambles....

20 years ago the year was 1988. now we've escalated to 2008. it's a fucking shambles.

The very fact this is my favourite thread on ILX right now is testament to society's downfall.

Society can no longer afford to heat the gutter, it's in the sewer now.

Society is in the sewer, knee deep in sewage to match the sewage in it's mind!

(this thread kicks ass, but the "Have Your Say" thread on the LHC at the BBC website beats it - the difference unfortunately is that those people are serious...)

I haven't seen a neatly starchjed and ironed pinafore in ages. Nowadays, if I did, it would probably be worn backwards. By a boy with a tattoo on his tongue.

For some reason my housemates DON'T lock the door. Considering I haven't even met both of them yet, it feels too early to be cranky about this.

No, it's okay to be angry.
Might as well enjoy being angry now, before you meet your housemates and realize they are mental defectives, then you will feel guilty for being angry. So enjoy it while you can.

yeah, that pretty much validates my theory that the absolute best advice makes you feel better despite a fairly tenuous relationship with the real world

society, it is nothing but a joke!

i fall down the well of chaos and never come out, unlike your baby jessica. i see the maggots at the bottom of the hole. they sharpen their spoons in anticipation! your despair is the dark's dessert!

your suffering is not special enough to be the main course, which of course is the dirt.

Who knew that black metal lyrics and Daily Mail rants had so much in common?

Somebody at this point has to do the "semi-literate screeds of misread occultism, race hate and misogyny...and black metal lyrics aren't much better" gag here and it might as well be me.

Loony Leftie Telford Council snivellingly backtrack on their Park Pervert Patrol Policy.

It is a disgrace. The saucy socialists should be EXTENDING the policy to allow immediate detention of ALL single adults and while we're at it ALL childless couples as well REMEMBER MADDY

These so-called single adults should be out looking for work instead of molesting children in the park.

(xpost) amazing how quickly the "Have Your Say" section of that page disintegrates into a clusterfuck of "why don't you just go and live in Nazi Germany/Stalin's Russia then?"

Only the guilty have nothing to hide.

Them and the Easter Bunny.

for all we know these days the schools are giant houses made of drugsm run by a wicked pete doherty witch,
for our youth, a gaggle of little hansel geldofs and grettel winehouses

With Gary Glitter the janitor.

A drop of snow and this so called information supersociety grinds to a halt. Lest we forget it was God who made the world. Someone somewhere is having a right old chuckle.

society is in the gutter, which is full of snow, which isn't like the snow, you had, in my day.

Where was the orange ball in Liverpool v Chelsea v snow yesterday?

orange balls, jumpers for goalposts, clacking fans, flat caps, simpler days

Society is in the gutter

Nowadays, the only children who can kick a ball in the street are the children of MPs who have claimed that ball on expenses. The rest will be lucky if they don't get sent to Afghanistan.

Do not feed the trollumnist.

"booze-fuelled urine flowing over poppies"

"Culprits have learnt to claim victim status"

"Conscience has been outsourced"

"having more children with a variety of fathers meant a rising tide of cash payments"

This guy hits the trifecta and then some

"British state rewards unmarried mothers with a level of benefits most would be unable to earn in legal employment. They are incentivised to go solo."

Good. Grief.

"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