I am shocked that a sub-culture of anti-feminism, anti-minority, anti-gay, anti middle-class, bougie liberalism hasn't arisen among kids smoking cigarettes. Nothing to do with ideas or genuine belief...just a gut reaction to how corny these people are.
I agree - you'd think the young would want to kick back against the prevailing orthodoxy, but they all they seem to want to do is turn the dial up to 11. Anthony Burgess once wrote a story (I forget which one - maybe "1985") in which rebellious youths secretly learn Latin, an activity which has been banned in schools for being inegalitarian.
Thank you Urban Dictionary. Well no, they don't look like that. The big house next door, a clone of my own, has been turned into six flats 'unsympathetically', and let out to what look like recent residents of Calais. This lot are much closer to the front of my imaginary CAUC queue than the rogue's gallery above.
But without the sort of CAUCs in the above photo and their use of open-door immigration to expand their voting base you might not be suffering from evidently unsuitable neighbours.
Hmm....perhaps you're right SG. Looking at the Urban Dictionary again, I see that Robert Kilroy Silk is considered a CAUC - so that settles it. It's Room 101 for the trio above, and afternoon-tea with my new neighbours...nurse....the screens!
What prompts these senior, influential, apparently intelligent people dress in such attire? Don't they have any sense of dignity and who appoints their advisors? They should all be sacked.
Think of the lengthy focus group consultations that poor Hattie and her team of compassionate caring advisers must have gone through in deciding whether or not to pin the poppy to the T-shirt. Do we pin - and risk alienating wimmin who regard war as a phallocratic symbol of male aggression of the sort visited on the sistas every day? Or would it make a statement of inclusivity that in a very real sense feminists and warriors alike are united against the real enemy - the Tories and their cuts? Plus we might be able to get one over on Ed and Nick. But hasn't the Guardian just made a connection between the poppy and UKIP-type nationalism?
I'd quite like to know where those T-shirts were made. They look Bangkok street market quality to me.
As it turns out, this is what exploitation looks like. According to today's Mail, the T-shirts are made in a Mauritian sweatshop by women paid less than the minimum wage. You couldn't make it up….
I am shocked that a sub-culture of anti-feminism, anti-minority, anti-gay, anti middle-class, bougie liberalism hasn't arisen among kids smoking cigarettes. Nothing to do with ideas or genuine belief...just a gut reaction to how corny these people are.
ReplyDeleteLook at these peckerwoods.
I agree - you'd think the young would want to kick back against the prevailing orthodoxy, but they all they seem to want to do is turn the dial up to 11. Anthony Burgess once wrote a story (I forget which one - maybe "1985") in which rebellious youths secretly learn Latin, an activity which has been banned in schools for being inegalitarian.
DeleteA very good giggle. Thanks for providing. Jesus, what have we done to deserve these wankers.....
ReplyDeleteWe voted for them. As P.J. O'Rourke put it in the title of his 2012 book - "Don't Vote! It Just Encourages the Bastards".
DeleteThank you Urban Dictionary. Well no, they don't look like that. The big house next door, a clone of my own, has been turned into six flats 'unsympathetically', and let out to what look like recent residents of Calais. This lot are much closer to the front of my imaginary CAUC queue than the rogue's gallery above.
ReplyDeleteBut without the sort of CAUCs in the above photo and their use of open-door immigration to expand their voting base you might not be suffering from evidently unsuitable neighbours.
DeleteHmm....perhaps you're right SG. Looking at the Urban Dictionary again, I see that Robert Kilroy Silk is considered a CAUC - so that settles it. It's Room 101 for the trio above, and afternoon-tea with my new neighbours...nurse....the screens!
ReplyDeleteWhat prompts these senior, influential, apparently intelligent people dress in such attire? Don't they have any sense of dignity and who appoints their advisors? They should all be sacked.
ReplyDeleteI believe the Duke of Edinburgh has agreed to wear one next week.
DeleteI liked Michael Deacon's suggestion that the slogan should read: "This is what a morally superior person looks like".
To be fair, all three fully qualify for the accolade even without the damn t-shirts.
ReplyDeleteThink of the lengthy focus group consultations that poor Hattie and her team of compassionate caring advisers must have gone through in deciding whether or not to pin the poppy to the T-shirt. Do we pin - and risk alienating wimmin who regard war as a phallocratic symbol of male aggression of the sort visited on the sistas every day? Or would it make a statement of inclusivity that in a very real sense feminists and warriors alike are united against the real enemy - the Tories and their cuts? Plus we might be able to get one over on Ed and Nick. But hasn't the Guardian just made a connection between the poppy and UKIP-type nationalism?
ReplyDeleteI'd quite like to know where those T-shirts were made. They look Bangkok street market quality to me.
As it turns out, this is what exploitation looks like. According to today's Mail, the T-shirts are made in a Mauritian sweatshop by women paid less than the minimum wage. You couldn't make it up….
DeleteSurely it's time Bangkok changed its name?
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