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Category: THE CHILDREN!! THE CHILDREN!!!! News and Politics
'I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.'
Leo Tolstoy
With Mrs Giovanni now working form home, I'm reading all the tabloid papers daily...
Yes boss, my current media monitoring is taking on a decidedly populist angle as opposed to the rather stuffy pubs I've been previously reading in the local library....
Of course, if you really want to know what's going on in the world, the only papers and magazines to read are the likes of The Financial Times and The Economist..
Yes boss, there's more proper news on one page of either of these pubs than in The Sun and Star combined...
But if you want to know anything about popular culture, it's the tabloids every time...
In all honesty, I don't have too much time for papers that sit in between either of these extremes - papers like The Guardian or The Independent or The Times
The Independent is pure suicide newsprint.
Every fucking day their front page announces some kind of a WORLD WILL END TOMORROW UNLESS!!!! (INSERT CAUSE OF THE DAY HERE) front page...
The news contained therein then always reads like the out takes of a depressed persons world journal..
Meanwhile, The Guardian is full of the worst kind of left middle comfy wing ranting and The Times is just a vehicle for conservatism..
Sure, the tabloids are full of mindless infuriating jingoistic crap, but they do at least have some connection with the (un)reality of day to day living...
This said, one thing I'm already tired of in the tabloids - the Mail in particular, is the Middle Class recession moaning.
Yes boss, this recession is being dubbed the 'Bourgeoise Recession' and the reason for this is because it's anticipated the white collar workers are gonna take the biggest numerical hits..
And these folk have no idea about how to go down quietly
No boss, in todays Daily Mail, there's a double page sob story about a bankers family WHO ARE SO SKINT THEY'RE FORCED TO WONDER IF THEY'RE GONNA BE ABLE TO AFFORD THE £8000 A YEAR FOR EACH OF THEIR LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS PRIVATE SCHOOL FEES!!!
What?!?!? YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO SEND HENRIETTA TO THE COMMON SCHOOL?!?!? WITH THE DIRTY PEOPLE??????
'I have to think about every penny - I have stopped shopping at Tesco and started going to Morrisons BECAUSE IT'S CHEAPER.'
SAY IT ISN'T SO!!!!!
'I'd taken a law degree and then moved into private equity, and I assumed that my education and hard work ethic would mean I could always provide for my wife and children.'
TIMES ARE HARD!!!
'It is the having nothing to do which is most dispiriting..'
NO!!!!
'On the morning before I was sacked, I had been planning to get up at 5am to take a train to London to meet an important client and wouldn't have been home until 9pm. Overnight, all that disappears.'
COUNT YOURSELF LUCKY!!!!!
YOU'VE GOT SAVINGS!!!
YOU'LL SEE YOUR CHILDREN!!!!
YOU CAN MOW THE LAWN DAILY RATHER THAN PAYING THE GARDENER - HE MIGHT EVEN STOP BANGING YOUR WIFE !!!!!!
AND BESIDES, YOU CAN READ ALL OF THE DAILY MAIL, RATHER THAN JUST LOOKING AT THE PICTURES AND TUTTING AT THE IMMIGRANTS!!!!
JESUS.....!!!
The only real problem I can see in the western world with this here financial crisis is gonna be a little slimming down - and given how fat, stupid and arrogant we've become, that's no bad thing - and most likely lead to greater efficiency in the future...
Meanwhile, all over the rest of the world, people'll starve because the big traders are ramming down prices on cash crops to get us westerners SPENDING AGAIN!!!!, so we'll once again have enough money to patronise them with aid......
It's a hard, hard life...
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