Jim not knowing a font, isn't that one of the signs of the apocalypse.
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Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 29 October, 2009, 08:15:40 PMQuote from: Mike Gloady on 29 October, 2009, 08:12:40 PM
Don't give up mate - the more of us there are, the better the whole thing will be.
Plus, don't forget that you always the very worst judge of your own work. All you can ever see is what's wrong with it ... that's the beauty of getting a bunch of other dweebs on the internet to vote on it! I still can't believe that I won last month's when there were at least six other entries that I thought I'd finish behind if I was lucky!
Cheers
Jim
Quote from: Dandontdare on 29 October, 2009, 11:36:44 AMDandontdare I think of myself as working class and although I am working at the moment I have spent time on the dole a few times.I also try to treat everybody as equals, but there are some who just don't give a fuck about anybody or anything. I think that Noisybast explains it all lot better than I ever couldQuote from: flip-r mk2 on 28 October, 2009, 11:53:37 PM
The fucking Jeremy Kyle show and it's new underclass of British society, that spend all there fucking time rutting and producing even more subhuman scum.
Whoa, calm down Adolf! The people who like to parade their dysfunction on shows like JK are fair game, but you seem to have a rather Victorian attitude towards the whole lower classes. Do you hate everyone who doesn't have a job? What criteria do you use to differentiate between people who don't have much money and live in crappy areas and those who are "subhuman scum"?
Quote from: Noisybast on 29 October, 2009, 02:36:20 PMI apologize if I caused you offence and hope you don't hold it against me.
To be honest, I'm with Filip on this one. There *is* a new underclass of Epsilon Semi-Morons who believe they're entitled to take what they want without giving anything back to society. They don't follow the rules of society, and they reproduce at an alarming rate.
Nothing wrong with being working class - I count myself, my family and the majority of my friends among them. I work for a living (modest though it may be), ergo I am working class.
For one reason or another, working class people sometimes find themselves out of work. At this point they look for another job which, granted, can sometimes take a while. I'm cool with that. Been there myself.
Sometimes, an individual may be unable to start looking for work for any number of valid reasons (disability, etc). Again, that's a-OK with me.
Now, your average Epsilon doesn't have a job. Never has, never will. The Epsilon has no intention of ever seriously applying for a job. Why work for a living when you can just squeeze out another poor sod to join the ever-swelling ranks of hooded scumbags and the government will just give you a home and some cash. Might not be much, but it's enough for fags and booze, right?
And it's an exponential thing. If the parents don't encourage their kids to do well, to develop and learn, if they feed them on a diet that consists solely of takeaways and Coke, if the only way they interact with them is to shout "Shut up, you little bastard - I'm trying to watch the telly" through a cloud of cigarette smoke, what are the chances of the child growing up to become a productive member of society?
Oh, and before anyone hits the Hitler button, I'm not suggesting any solution to the problem, final or otherwise. I'm just agreeing with Filip's assertion that there is a problem.
Anyway - apologies for further derailing the thread with that little polemic. I don't understand the appeal of, er, Soap Operas. Will that do for now?
Quote from: Gavin_Leahy on 23 October, 2009, 11:40:56 PMQuote from: House of Usher on 23 October, 2009, 11:38:09 PM
EWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!
I'd like to second that remark.
