Society is in the gutter

reads like an onion article

feral

starting to behave like animals

"depressing" so many were ready to give up on children.

49% agreed children are beginning to behave like animals

'Scapegoat'

Peter Hitchins, in wondering whether maybe Thatcher wasn't all that:

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/blog/the-myth-of-margaret-thatcher/

...says this:

Meanwhile in the areas where the coalminers and steelworkers once toiled, gaunt young men who have never worked and never will work smoke marijuana or inject heroin untroubled by an emasculated police force, and their sisters have babies outside wedlock, adding to the enormous number of fatherless families dependent on state handouts for their narrow lives.

Time was you could kick a miner in the street.

omg

You smoking marijuana again, you gaunt young goole?

Yeah mate but 'e killed a dragon, innit. How many people do you see doing the same thing for Great Britain in Leicester or Romford Bradford these days? I'll tell you how many: none is how many. If I saw a dragon molesting a 15 year old or something, I wouldn't just stand there, I'd be like 'Oi! You filthy dragon bastard, get off 'er, she ain't even legal!'. Then I'd get a brick and I'd merk that boy right there and then. I wouldn't sit about waiting for some health and safety inspector to assess the reasonability of the situation. And that's why I'm here celebrating today.

just passed some children kicking a ball on the street

a passing car ran over the ball, making a big pop

society is in the gutter

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, August 25, 2008 3:17 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

every single one of garda's initial posts in this thread is amazing but i think of this one sometimes

i'll bet the remnants of that ball have been thrown in a bin, and are now dripping with discarded beans and tin can juice

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??

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!

These days it's adults who wear braces on their teeth, and it's mostly the adolescents who are in iron lungs

The only reason people go to church anymore is if they are looking to score drugs from members of the clergy

this thread really takes me back

The only reason these celebrities go to drug rehab is to advance their careers!

Kids aren't anorexic because of body dysmorphia anymore. These days they just starve themselves to get "high" and to get attention on twitter

It used to be "Sir" and "Mam." Now it's just "motherfucker this" and "motherfucker that".

That's not music, it's just shouting.

The only time people eat nuts nowadays is in the saloon while they're getting soused

Saw a young man dressed in a skirt over the weekend. Is it Halloween already??

You go to church and they pepper the sermons with foul language so that they can stay "hip" and attract new congregants

The greeters at Walmart try to sell me dope as I'm leaving the store!

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.

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

We only had Three Loko when I was a kid.

this is really the best

We would wake up in the morning. Later we would go to bed at night. I never heard anyone question it.

― ice crӕm, Monday, August 25, 2008 4:24 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post 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!

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

We only had Three Loko when I was a kid.

All the Loko being drunk nowadays is premade store-bought swill. What's the point, even??

in loko parentis

I remember when you could kick Vicodin in the street.

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

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...

time was you could doff your hat to a young lady without being brutally shanked. No more, no more.

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.

Remember when horseradish mustard was a condiment, and not just something to smear all over your boobs during your daughter's wedding reception?

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.

Remember when gals used to throw their panties towards pop singers onstage? Now it's just paternity suit paperwork and day-old bagels

Nowadays "Choose Your Own Adventure" books all take place either in brothels or fast food joints. Disgusting...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONDccArUA54&feature=share

nowadays most things are certain to be a knife.

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

Can't even call someone a biggot anymore...

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.

Internet's gone to hell ever since Woman's Day magazine ran that insert offering a free AOL trial period

"There is no such thing as society" - Margaret Thatcher

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

just saw a child kick a ball on the street

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.