Society is in the gutter

It’s a simple reminiscence, but one that delights me more the older I get. We adults, in a failure of imagination, have forgotten how to build forts.

proud of the smell of his own forts id say

I remember a time when a pop star had a name you could pronounce

https://i.pinimg.com/474x/83/31/87/833187df63b6f2c6027d6ff9c638233f--funny-animal-snapchats-funny-animal-pics.jpg

profligacy is in the flutter

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EIiA8keXkAAu3Uj?format=jpg&name=large

no way that little kid got jimmy @ gmail

kid seems to have wandered into the Boer War so he's screwed no matter what

lucky there's a family guy

email addresses are a thing

- Mommy i got Greece on the radio!

- Well you’d better wipe it off then!

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— Yesterday's Print (@yesterdaysprint) February 13, 2020

kids be goin' places

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.

They'll be banning the dictionary next

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

Scary!

i legit lolled at that

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

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

Eating in it 50s sounds miserable

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

eating raw fish was called poverty

none of us had ever heard of yoghurt

what did they do with pasta then??

It was harvested from trees iirc

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

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tbf there was still rationing in the UK until 1954

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

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

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

(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)

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

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

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.

Shampoo does come from Hindi iirc

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

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

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.

Sex is out. Death is in.

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

will no kids of today obsess over Nathanial Hawthorne?

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

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

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.

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

And the absolute state of heroin these days!

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

Give me back my https://content.invisioncic.com/r277599/monthly_2017_11/1928-buick-master-6-model-48-dash.jpg.4520b9806f2ae764552e8909e863c314.jpg