Society is in the gutter

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
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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,'"

clichés

tug of love, or even worse, love tug

clichés

‘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

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

*puts hand on chest, sings national anthem*

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

the bendy yellow fruit (a banana)

This is the best one, but we all know exactly the context in which it was used.

it's important to maintain the levity of your story about a walrus who plays the saxophone

so much lol in that style guide

love how the implied addressee is a very stupid child

inelegant variation should be as knowingly laboured as possible to preserve the gaiety of the nation

the bendy yellow fruit (a banana)

This is the best one, but we all know exactly the context in which it was used.

nicky wire in a bendy yellow fruit suit?

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.

http://k-punk.org/abandon-hope-summer-is-coming/

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

supermarket check-out operatives replaced by crap robots… unexpected item in bagging area… every surface plastered with corporate graffiti and haranguing hashtags