Society is in the gutter

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excellent use of the rhetorical question there, A+

"even 20 years ago an ambulance would have been called"

'would of' surely?

Lowering taxes to makes lower paid jobs more worthwhile would of helped this indolent gent get `back on his feet'

that's amazing. garda you have to get some submissions into these 'have your say' newspaper things, it's a natural forum for reports from the gutter.

struggling to accept that that isn't garda's work tbh

dunno if i could conjure up something this crazy - i can't stop thinking about it.

like it is on so many levels fascinating and horrible.

Ou sont les negligence d'autrefois

Whom shall be the one to call the ambulance? Not I.

these days no ambulance attends the gutter, occasionally a battered uber will pass driven by a rat with a gold tooth

Akeem Diko OTM. Leicester's title win was remarkable.

lol estela

lol x2!

https://twitter.com/MxJackMonroe/status/790591668256997376

Probably more annoying are his kids who are always shouting MUMMY CAN YOU HELP ME at loud volumes and kicking footballs against the face.

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As long as the UK allows a large percentage of its young men to leave school, in a half [or less ] educated state, then the country will not prosper. My Victorian grandfather valued knowledge for its own sake---[he having left a village school aged 10]. Why today have the youth made hero's of the kickers of balls rather than the builders of bridges?
Why is getting drunk regarded as fun and not an illustration of ignorance? Why are nerds, hated at school? Nerds are more likely to be the future than the ignorant and stupid!

we used to not kick a ball in the street.

My Victorian grandfather

LOL

Why today have the youth made hero's of the kickers of balls

so this fuckin' loser can neither kick a ball nor properly grasp the fundamentals of the english language eh

ripe fodder for the soylent green factories of post-brexit britain imo

Nerds are more likely to be the future than the ignorant and stupid!

ya, about that...

Why is getting drunk regarded as fun and not an illustration of ignorance?

yes, no intelligent person has ever been a big boozer.

This guy hates Churchill I suppose?

A busy bloke is this David Vinter
https://profile.theguardian.com/user/id/2472083?page=1

tbf to the lad he claims to be over 80 and has 955 pages of comments in three years

My father, missing WW1, by a week, went self employed at 19, and worked 7 days per week for 50 years, and only ever one holiday.

So we know all about his dad and grandad, I bet he was a complete waster himself though.

he spends all his time on CIF so that'a a given

tbf to the lad he claims to be over 80 and has 955 pages of comments in three years

feeling like i need to up my ilx posting game tbh, no way i'm gonna be beaten by an octogenarian. i fought in the irc wars of the mid-90s ffs

This is the rest of my day sorted thank you.

I think his grandmother was a Star Wars droid.

You should have seen my old grandmother b1880 clear the kitchen table cover it with newspaper, skin and gut 4 rabbits, then boil them on the open stove. Somehow she and my farm labourer grandfather raised 5 children, water from a pump, bog down the yard, paraffin lamps . No free doctor, no family allowance, no radio before 1939. But he lived long enough to have his own B/W television.
Yet , three children to grammar school, son a captain in WW2, and later a county cricketer and house builder.
How many are considering such preperation?

Do thefood parcel recipients keep expensive dogs, enjoy weekly bottles of plonk, still smoke, have weekly hairdos,?
If so they are not poor, how come my farm labourer grandfather b, 1876 raised 5 grandchildren, bog down the yard, pump for water, paraffin lamps, three to grammar school, he himself was taught to read by the Methodists from age 12! And lived to be 86, always rode a bicycle. never drank, rarely smoked, and christmas was rabbit pie.

Nature made us all very unequal and Labour has far better leaders than the urban Milliband, six months real grafting would do him good!

And inequality of wealth is magnified by overpopulation, until governments start to seriously tackle this problem peacefully, we may find nature has its own way of doing it! As in 1349!

these exclamation marks are doing hard work.

Harold Macmillan did build houses, far more than Labour ever did,
over 300000 two years running! Most of you are just kids, I went to school in WW2,big classes, but we did learn to be literate, and very numerate . No calculators, we did, and can still do maths in our head, long division and fractions by the chalk and talk method at primary school. And at 6 walked daily one and a half miles on my own, no one had a car, most 'dads' in the forces!

weekly hairdos

My father, missing WW1, by a week, went self employed at 19, and worked 7 days per week for 50 years, and only ever one haircut

back in them days we wished for baldness so we could keep food on the table. the hirsute were viewed as dangerously decadent and forced to drink their biannual pint of bitter at the working men's club in the toilets where we didn't have to look at them

whole families bald, there was. ten to a bedroom all looking like freshly polished eggs

great grandfather dead at four, worked in mine, no safety, cornish pasty for lunch, piss in a field, home five miles up again next morning. gave birth to grandad at three. men pregnant in those days! we shot a child out of our mouths and some of us still can. yes that is actually true. i was there!

back in the day you'd retell Monty Python sketches and there'd be no pregnant men in them

btw for a crash-course in pension-aged messageboard posters I recommend joining a football forum

no cars back then, and the average height was three foot six, so we used to ride dogs everywhere until they fell over dead from overwork. piles of dead dogs there were, lining the cobbled streets, and the little orphan urchins used to suck out their eyes for the protein, 'jelly e'en' we used to call them, i can still taste them now. you wouldn't get those in your newfangled spars, i'll tell you, and more's the pity

between donald trump and this prick i'm really turning against exclamation marks. i mean they've always been part of this thread but it feels more sinister now.

And inequality of wealth is magnified by overpopulation, until governments start to seriously tackle this problem peacefully, we may find nature has its own way of doing it! As in 1349!

like this right wing use of exclamation mark seems to be saying "there, i said it! the vile thing i believe everyone thinks, because i am vile and assume everyone is like me, deep down"

duh, he's obviously advocating for planned parenthood

for men

'dark satanic mills' is it, well you don't know the half of it! the factory at the end of our street pumped out so much soot i didn't see a single colour until i was 25 and let me tell you it provided enough entertainment to last me six months it did

"I had that Malthus in the back of me cab once."

i murdered a man a few years ago. he walked through my garden so i hit him with a spade! will i be caught? i shouldn't think so!

We can't bust heads like we used to. But we have our ways. One trick is to tell stories that don't go anywhere. Like the time I caught the ferry to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for m'shoe. So I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Gimme five bees for a quarter," you'd say. Now where were we... oh yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. I didn't have any white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...

getting drunk IS fun btw