"Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold" - W.B. Yeats.
"We're doomed !" - Private Frazer.
"Like scrolling through a decade's worth of Daily Mail editorials in 20 minutes" - TheLoonyFromCatford
Foxy - the quote, to have its impact, has to be quoted correctly - as do most quotes: "know the cost of everything and the value of nothing". - Oscar Wilde.
This makes for profoundly depressing reading. 40+ years of 'pop culture' has produced young people so miserable, cynical, insulting and self-righteous that they seem to instinctively - and loudly - hate everyone and everything for no particular reason other than 'whatever'...
Yes, Ryanair has clicked on to the wonderful business opportunities in eastern Europe. They plan to bring 2million to Bristol every year. Good grief, we'll have more hod-carriers and plumbers than we know what to do with....
The answer is "yes". Shame that such people have been made even semi-literate.
ReplyDeleteSad in the sense that the contributers appear to know the value of everything and the value of nothing.
ReplyDeleteIm coming round to the idea that eugenics might be an idea.
ReplyDeleteThreads like that should be quitley monitored for a while and then we would know who to have sterilised.
OK that should be "Im coming round to the idea that eugenics might be a good idea."
ReplyDeleteAnother mistake like that and they'll be after my family jewels next!
Foxy - the quote, to have its impact, has to be quoted correctly - as do most quotes: "know the cost of everything and the value of nothing". - Oscar Wilde.
ReplyDeleteThis makes for profoundly depressing reading. 40+ years of 'pop culture' has produced young people so miserable, cynical, insulting and self-righteous that they seem to instinctively - and loudly - hate everyone and everything for no particular reason other than 'whatever'...
ReplyDeleteDon't you live in Gloucestershire Laban? Did you miss this one?
ReplyDeletehttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/6686835.stm
Yes, Ryanair has clicked on to the wonderful business opportunities in eastern Europe. They plan to bring 2million to Bristol every year. Good grief, we'll have more hod-carriers and plumbers than we know what to do with....
Here we go here we go, here we go!