Society is in the gutter

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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.

Aimless, Friday, 12 September 2008 00:56 (fifteen years ago) link

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.

I know, right?, Friday, 12 September 2008 01:27 (fifteen years ago) link

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.

ian, Friday, 12 September 2008 01:32 (fifteen years ago) link

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

I know, right?, Friday, 12 September 2008 01:43 (fifteen years ago) link

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!

Vas Djifrens, Friday, 12 September 2008 01:57 (fifteen years ago) link

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

Vas Djifrens, Friday, 12 September 2008 01:59 (fifteen years ago) link

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

snoball, Friday, 12 September 2008 11:30 (fifteen years ago) link

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.

Rhythm of Cutlery (Noodle Vague), Friday, 12 September 2008 11:34 (fifteen years ago) link

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

Marcello Carlin, Friday, 12 September 2008 11:38 (fifteen years ago) link

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

Rhythm of Cutlery (Noodle Vague), Friday, 12 September 2008 11:41 (fifteen years ago) link

(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?"

snoball, Friday, 12 September 2008 13:32 (fifteen years ago) link

Only the guilty have nothing to hide.

Marcello Carlin, Friday, 12 September 2008 13:39 (fifteen years ago) link

Them and the Easter Bunny.

Hilarious Scrip Kiddie (Noodle Vague), Friday, 12 September 2008 13:40 (fifteen years ago) link

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

Local Garda, Friday, 12 September 2008 16:45 (fifteen years ago) link

With Gary Glitter the janitor.

Neil S, Friday, 12 September 2008 16:51 (fifteen years ago) link

four months pass...

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.

Local Garda, Monday, 2 February 2009 14:30 (fifteen years ago) link

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

Redknapp out (darraghmac), Monday, 2 February 2009 14:36 (fifteen years ago) link

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

chord simple (j.o.n.a), Monday, 2 February 2009 14:39 (fifteen years ago) link

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

Redknapp out (darraghmac), Monday, 2 February 2009 14:43 (fifteen years ago) link

nine months pass...

Society is in the gutter

Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Friday, 6 November 2009 14:26 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Friday, 6 November 2009 14:33 (fourteen years ago) link

Do not feed the trollumnist.

Persian Pickle (Masonic Boom), Friday, 6 November 2009 14:45 (fourteen years ago) link

"booze-fuelled urine flowing over poppies"

Tracer Hand, Friday, 6 November 2009 14:46 (fourteen years ago) link

"Culprits have learnt to claim victim status"

Tracer Hand, Friday, 6 November 2009 14:47 (fourteen years ago) link

"Conscience has been outsourced"

Tracer Hand, Friday, 6 November 2009 14:47 (fourteen years ago) link

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

Tracer Hand, Friday, 6 November 2009 14:48 (fourteen years ago) link

This guy hits the trifecta and then some

Tracer Hand, Friday, 6 November 2009 14:49 (fourteen years ago) link

"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.

Zoe Espera, Friday, 6 November 2009 14:53 (fourteen years ago) link

"after 12 years of his New Labour project, the respect to which Mr Blair referred is in the sewer."

Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Friday, 6 November 2009 14:55 (fourteen years ago) link

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 (fourteen years ago) link

imo this thread is jhosheas finest moment

Bobby Wo (max), Friday, 6 November 2009 14:58 (fourteen years ago) link

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

modescalator (blueski), Friday, 6 November 2009 15:03 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

banned of bros. (darraghmac), Friday, 6 November 2009 15:07 (fourteen years ago) link

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

PC Thug (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 6 November 2009 17:10 (fourteen years ago) link

one month passes...

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

Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Monday, 7 December 2009 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link

in the past forty-odd years

That would include the 18 years when the country was governed by the Conservatives?

HUH? not appropriate (snoball), Monday, 7 December 2009 17:06 (fourteen years ago) link

ha. reminds me - the mail has a classic feature today about how you used to be able to kick a ball in the street;

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1233767/Not-Xbox-sight-The-TV-series-gloriously-evokes-children-played-days-Nanny-State-killjoys.html

joe, Monday, 7 December 2009 17:12 (fourteen years ago) link

that article... where to start...

dog latin, Monday, 7 December 2009 17:27 (fourteen years ago) link

this thread is all-time ILX top 20

102. LJ: British. 5. (acoleuthic), Monday, 7 December 2009 17:30 (fourteen years ago) link

Yep, you don't get threads like this anymore.

dog latin, Monday, 7 December 2009 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link

wilful gangs of internet thieves have literally stolen these threads and joyridden them at pensioners

102. LJ: British. 5. (acoleuthic), Monday, 7 December 2009 17:34 (fourteen years ago) link

Time was you could laugh at a Parish Priest! Nowadays all the parish priests have been flung into jail. God doesn't mean anything to these people.

102. LJ: British. 5. (acoleuthic), Monday, 7 December 2009 17:37 (fourteen years ago) link

The erosion of children's outdoor play started with the increase in road traffic from the late 1950s onwards.

So not liberal do-gooding 'elf and safety fascists then?

Ned Trifle II, Monday, 7 December 2009 18:18 (fourteen years ago) link

Meanwhile, BBC News blames curtain-twitching, paedo-scaping fearmongers for the lack of balls being kicked in the street.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8399749.stm

dog latin, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 10:44 (fourteen years ago) link

The only balls being kicked in the street these days are those contained in the scrotal sacs of decent hard-working men and women by New Labour Nanny State Benefit Scroungers high on cheap supermarket cider

ILX Blob 59 (Tom D.), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 10:52 (fourteen years ago) link

It's a shambles how Britons are being denied the right to kick a ball in the street. That said, I bet if there were a ball to kick, it would be the immigrants getting first dibs while good honest working Brits would have to fill out a form.

dog latin, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 11:05 (fourteen years ago) link

there was a time when a man could order a food in a place and be assured of proper health and decency. now you are liable only to receive a hummus, which consists of little but mashed expectations and inexpensive cow seasonings. there was a time when a decent man could not look upon a hummus without weeping.

a dimension that can only be accessed through self-immolation (contenderizer), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 11:09 (fourteen years ago) link

i have seen kids kicking a ball in the street a couple of times this year. this is fancy london tho.

mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 11:20 (fourteen years ago) link

if you look closer, its not a ball, but the still-beating heart of john bull, and the kids, are actually muslims

max, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 11:31 (fourteen years ago) link

there was a time when your local bun man and bootblack were not liable to have opinions that interfered with the chores they were contracted to perform. what opinions they had were almost certain to be of a cheerful sort suitable to their labors.

a dimension that can only be accessed through self-immolation (contenderizer), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 11:33 (fourteen years ago) link


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