Society is in the gutter

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I stole that BB8 guide - it said "you need it and it's free", so I took it and left the Heat magazine behind at the newsagents.

snoball, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:12 (fifteen years ago) link

Then I mugged a pensioner, filmed 'im rolling around on the pavement, and posted it on YouTube. Then I went back to Eton.

snoball, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:13 (fifteen years ago) link

What a bloody waste.

Local Garda, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:14 (fifteen years ago) link

People knew where they stood. Sure times were hard but things were things and that was important.

ice crӕm, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:14 (fifteen years ago) link

People don't know who their bloody neighbours are.

Local Garda, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:16 (fifteen years ago) link

(xxpost) I sold his false teeth on e-b4y.

We used to have a mangle.

snoball, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:16 (fifteen years ago) link

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, 25 August 2008 20:17 (fifteen years ago) link

it's time for change

Surmounter, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:18 (fifteen years ago) link

at least you had streets, in my day we just had caves, but we all looked out for each other

velko, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:18 (fifteen years ago) link

A knife. One times this kid can't remember his name brought a knife to school. We all of us just stared at it. Then we looked at the kid.

Nowadays...

ice crӕm, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:19 (fifteen years ago) link

Its a ruddy disgrace. You used to be able to borrow a cupful of sugar without getting a punch in the face.

Parish Priest!, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:19 (fifteen years ago) link

These days, "texting" is passed off as genuine communication.

wanko ergo sum, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:19 (fifteen years ago) link

something must be done. real action. the politicians are too busy straightening bananas with the brussels elite. REAL ACTION.

Local Garda, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:19 (fifteen years ago) link

I used to knew all the names of the boys at school but now when I walk past I don't know who any of them are. Society has literally been dissolved in a vat of acid

Parish Priest!, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:21 (fifteen years ago) link

The sky seemed different. And the birds. The birds!

ice crӕm, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:21 (fifteen years ago) link

i remember when you would stop in the street, on your way to the market, and find yourself in immersed in hour-long conversations. now it's just an awkward smile, a pained nod.

Surmounter, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:21 (fifteen years ago) link

A shiv in the guts.

ledge, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:22 (fifteen years ago) link

Society has gone mad with its own sense of self importance, and taken a high jump from the nearest cliff. Now its corpse lies rotting in a ditch, having been stripped for clothes and parts by Eastern European tramps.

Local Garda, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:22 (fifteen years ago) link

In my day there was no heart trouble but these days i suffer from heart disease, angina, and youths are literally breaking society apart with their bare hands

Parish Priest!, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:23 (fifteen years ago) link

Society can regularly be seen flailing around the streets late at night, looking for another party.

30 years ago society was an altar boy with a side parting. It was a great time to be alive!

Local Garda, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:23 (fifteen years ago) link

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

ice crӕm, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:24 (fifteen years ago) link

we used to make things in this country, now everybody's got his hand in the other guy's pocket. literally!

goole, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:24 (fifteen years ago) link

it used to be, you got married, you stayed married. now, who knows??

max, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:25 (fifteen years ago) link

gangs of thug youths are literally eating society and shitting out blocks of pure despair

snoball, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:25 (fifteen years ago) link

prices are rising, the celtic tiger has accidentally ingested the credit crunch. now society totters about like ronnie wood in high heels after a 3 day cocaine dinner.

Local Garda, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:26 (fifteen years ago) link

when i was a child, the only homosexuals i knew were arabs, and we chased them out of town with elm branches. now, i wake up every day to see homosexuals on tv, the radio, sometimes even on my back patio, engaging in unspeakable acts.

max, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:27 (fifteen years ago) link

you can't even be sure of your own sexuality anymore. society has become an endless freddie mercury sex tape, stuck in the broken video recorder that passes for real values nowadays.

Local Garda, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:28 (fifteen years ago) link

times used to be you could spend an afternoon with a young lad and not have it questioned by the papers and the young lads mother

Parish Priest!, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:29 (fifteen years ago) link

Kids today with their Teacake Mix and Premark - my mum made all our clothes out of used spaghetti

snoball, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:29 (fifteen years ago) link

We listened to the radio. I'm talking about LISTENING.

ice crӕm, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:29 (fifteen years ago) link

every night we'd gather around the radio to listen to the weekly wrestling matches between roosevelt and churchill

max, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:30 (fifteen years ago) link

what is with all of the child rape nowadays? this used to be illegal, now it's practically demanded of you. it's literally on youtube and on the chat rooms every day.

goole, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:30 (fifteen years ago) link

if you'd told me a child was being abused 30 years ago, I wouldn't have believed you!

x-post you're right, LISTENING. people LISTENED. they LISTENED.

Local Garda, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:31 (fifteen years ago) link

whatever happened to courting? cotillions? gowns? these days society's lost in a haze of match dot toms and katies, swimming in a sea of cars that swerve all over the road.

Surmounter, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:31 (fifteen years ago) link

All this million channel cable TV and internet and your wireless phone from that disgusting bloke who is that older woman's toyboy in them adverts, when I was a lad we didn't even have TV. My old man used to put an empty cereal box on his head and pretend it was a TV set, and then read from the papers our chips were wrapped in.

snoball, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:32 (fifteen years ago) link

when i was younger, there was no such thing as irony, and if there was, no decent person had ever heard of it. now--its irony in the shower, irony for breakfast, irony in your afternoon nap. irony has literally kidnapped everything good and decent and tied it to a chair and literally beaten it.

max, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:33 (fifteen years ago) link

There were no steroids in baseball. I'm talking about in the days before Jackie Robinson.

wanko ergo sum, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:33 (fifteen years ago) link

My sister I looked out for her. And my brother too. My father he was a good man.

Now I don't even remember their names.

ice crӕm, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:33 (fifteen years ago) link

What passes for entertainment now would literally kill a man from The Past. He would see entertainment, and then melt into a small pile of ash. Society has been fed to godless, homosexual sharks.

call all destroyer, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:33 (fifteen years ago) link

society isn't even in the gutter anymore since the hogs and spivs of the EU ruled our gutters illegal and took them away

the gutter is too good for them

Parish Priest!, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:34 (fifteen years ago) link

I used to have to murder tramps so that I could steal their empty gin bottles to get the deposit back from the off license. Now when people stab up a tramp they don't even bother to nick his shoes to sell to the mad shoe collecting man down the street.

snoball, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:34 (fifteen years ago) link

miscegenation!

max, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:35 (fifteen years ago) link

One time when I was four or five, I don't know, I saw a house burn down. It was our neighbors house. Point is he, him and his family, he was our NEIGHBOR.

ice crӕm, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:35 (fifteen years ago) link

There used to be white dog shit on the pavements, now it's brown, and I'll tell you why! The EU communists have taken away our white dog shit and replaced it with brown!

snoball, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:37 (fifteen years ago) link

and now who would it be? it could literally be anyone. he might be burning a house down right now and laughing. laughing! he may as well be laughing at society itself.

i might as well laugh at society, join in with them! when good men burn down houses and laugh at society its time for a war

Parish Priest!, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:37 (fifteen years ago) link

nowadays if angelina jolie is in the gutter, society gets in too. if she climbs out of the gutter, it stands up and dusts itself off. it used to be there were consistent ideas, about culture, art, thought. now we just dig our graves alongside the spectres of society's future, and leave the past to the likes of Rita Hayworth.

Surmounter, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:38 (fifteen years ago) link

it used to be that a man like Mickey Rooney was a handsome darling to man and woman alike, now it's all eleven foot spaniards who spend all day riding an excercize machine, bulging testicles on every billboard, it's an affront to every woman who leaves her home.

goole, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:38 (fifteen years ago) link

time was that satanists were round up and had it beaten out of them. now they sit in brussels laughing at society as they parcel it up and throw it in the sea

Parish Priest!, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:38 (fifteen years ago) link

(PP! & LG are kind of killing us here guys)

goole, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:39 (fifteen years ago) link

email addresses are a thing

doorstep jetski (dog latin), Monday, 4 November 2019 14:43 (four years ago) link

- Mommy i got Greece on the radio!

- Well you’d better wipe it off then!

Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 4 November 2019 15:00 (four years ago) link

one year passes...

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Fetchboy, Sunday, 14 February 2021 23:07 (three years ago) link

kids be goin' places

mookieproof, Sunday, 14 February 2021 23:09 (three years ago) link

My favorite version of this: nearly 20 years ago I was given the New Yorker Book of Food and Drink (whatever the title), which contained a bunch of stories from the magazine about food in chronological order of appearance. I swear every 10 years there was another story by a classic NYer writer about the death of French cuisine and that the current version was but a pale reflection of the classic cuisine of 20 years ago.

Rocky Thee Stallion (PBKR), Monday, 15 February 2021 00:04 (three years ago) link

two weeks pass...

They'll be banning the dictionary next

Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 14:23 (three years ago) link

We’ve been handing out bibles for almost 40 years. For the first time in my life I’m asking myself this question - I wonder how long it will be before this book is cancelled? I know it may seem like a silly thought but it’s really not. It’s just a matter of time. Frightening! pic.twitter.com/ikiDaHfDq5

— MichaelSweet Stryper (@michaelhsweet) March 2, 2021

peace, man, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 14:52 (three years ago) link

Scary!

Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 22:27 (three years ago) link

i legit lolled at that

it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 22:50 (three years ago) link

seven months pass...

https://i.imgur.com/3HrJ2EE.png

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 28 October 2021 21:55 (two years ago) link

Yes and you could kick a ball in the street, I know

gin and catatonic (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 28 October 2021 21:59 (two years ago) link

Eating in it 50s sounds miserable

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 28 October 2021 22:03 (two years ago) link

Assuming this is the UK, was there really no outdoor cooking? No BBQ?

Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 28 October 2021 22:09 (two years ago) link

eating raw fish was called poverty

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 28 October 2021 22:20 (two years ago) link

none of us had ever heard of yoghurt

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 28 October 2021 22:20 (two years ago) link

what did they do with pasta then??

Tracer Hand, Thursday, 28 October 2021 22:38 (two years ago) link

It was harvested from trees iirc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti-tree_hoax?wprov=sfla1

gin and catatonic (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 28 October 2021 23:17 (two years ago) link

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peace, man, Thursday, 28 October 2021 23:58 (two years ago) link

tbf there was still rationing in the UK until 1954

Des Weerelds Dool-om-berg ont-doold op Dool-in-bergh (Tom D.), Friday, 29 October 2021 07:05 (two years ago) link

Also the first Indian restaurant in the UK opened in 1810!

Des Weerelds Dool-om-berg ont-doold op Dool-in-bergh (Tom D.), Friday, 29 October 2021 07:07 (two years ago) link

I've got a guidebook to Soho from the 50s which describes pizza as a round welsh rarebit.

fetter, Friday, 29 October 2021 08:06 (two years ago) link

Also the first Indian restaurant in the UK opened in 1810!

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Not only that but it was the world's first Indian restaurant

Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Friday, 29 October 2021 08:40 (two years ago) link

(i might be wrong about that, but I'm sure I read it somewhere that for whatever reason it was counted as the first actual Indian restuarant, but that's hard to believe)

Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Friday, 29 October 2021 08:41 (two years ago) link

Youd have thought idk some lad in delhi mightve considered the concept but it seems not

fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Friday, 29 October 2021 08:46 (two years ago) link

you would, but maybe indoor dining in the restaurant style as opposed to home cooking / street food just wasnt a thing? I dunno, I'm going off hearsay

Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Friday, 29 October 2021 08:50 (two years ago) link

So the guy who opened the first Indian restaurant (in the UK, definitely; in the West, probably; in the world, possibly) also introduced shampoo and shampooing to Europe... probably.

Des Weerelds Dool-om-berg ont-doold op Dool-in-bergh (Tom D.), Friday, 29 October 2021 08:52 (two years ago) link

Shampoo does come from Hindi iirc

maybe these baps are legends (Noodle Vague), Friday, 29 October 2021 08:56 (two years ago) link

Back in the 50s they just used carbolic soap and water

ignore the blue line (or something), Friday, 29 October 2021 09:19 (two years ago) link

Imagining the disgustingness of the English in a pre-shampoo era

Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Monday, 1 November 2021 22:42 (two years ago) link

eleven months pass...

Death cult this, death cult that, everything is a death cult these days. Where oh where are the sex cults of our youth? You point me out an honest sex cult today and I’ll eat my hat. Except the “P. C. Brigade" won’t allow us our hats any longer, oh no. The last time I dared wear a hat a pack of feral Youths broke into my foyer, stole the hat right off my head, and stabbed it with knife crime. I could hear them sneering as they ran off down the road, tossing the tattered shreds of my hat into the gutter, onto the rotted-out urine-soaked husk of Society.

I am what they call a (cat), Thursday, 20 October 2022 09:59 (one year ago) link

Sex is out. Death is in.

treeship., Thursday, 20 October 2022 11:46 (one year ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY6TpHBRAcs

peace, man, Thursday, 20 October 2022 11:51 (one year ago) link

will no kids of today obsess over Nathanial Hawthorne?

| (Latham Green), Thursday, 20 October 2022 20:03 (one year ago) link

We never had chicken of the sea. Chicken were strictly a land animal.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 20 October 2022 20:16 (one year ago) link

what about NXIVM, they seemed like a good old fashioned authoritarian, abusive sex cult

Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 20 October 2022 21:02 (one year ago) link

Used to be you could kick a child in the street. Where are all the children now? Indoors, staring slack jawed at their “Nintendos” and impregnating one another out of wedlock.

I am what they call a (cat), Thursday, 20 October 2022 22:17 (one year ago) link

Unwed teenage mothers are literally booty dancing on the corpse of society while their babies do heroin with the “hip” new vicar.

I am what they call a (cat), Thursday, 20 October 2022 22:20 (one year ago) link

And the absolute state of heroin these days!

I am what they call a (cat), Thursday, 20 October 2022 22:20 (one year ago) link

Car dashboards used to be solid steel, meant to last.. now they're made out of Nerf! Gimme a break

Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 20 October 2022 22:23 (one year ago) link


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