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Their version of Dear Prudence is also excellent.

[The version they did on Letterman was fucking awesome](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxawVMQ02dc&list=RDMxawVMQ02dc&start_radio=1)

They feel like totally different songs to me.

I love how your attempt to insult me is so inaccurate. Like, what the fuck has that series got to do with what I said? You do know that idolising the guy from Peaky Blinders is way closer to the kind of people we're talking about than humanities graduates, right? The fact that you chose English Literature as a 'throwaway example' like it might as well be philosophy or history just shows how ignorant you are. Can you not discern between these completely different fields? Is stuff where you write prose so indistinguishable? I get my hands dirty for a living now, but I have never once regretted spending years learning about literature. I'm not bitter at all; you're just a cunt.

Yeah, I know it was an assumption. That was the point. But the assumption wasn't that you were one of these people. Maybe you'd have seen that if you'd worked on your reading comprehension. Thanks for your life story, but I wasn't the one weirdly projecting onto people who went to university to better themselves through education rather than to make more money. For what it's worth, people with English degrees are pretty employable, given that they're usually quite literate, but please content yourself with this little Daily Mail fantasy about people in the humanities being envious of people who can afford fake teeth.

>They’re essentially a caricature to enable people with mediocre English Literature degrees and little earning prospects of their own to feel better about their own situation. Still salty we didn't get to go university are we?

I know what you meant; I'm saying he wasn't wrong because it's both.

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Aa hurricane is a tropical storm or a wind that measures a 12 on the Beaufort Scale. https://preview.redd.it/fd8z3f73pimg1.png?width=843&format=png&auto=webp&s=9a4f27bc3a690c8524a9d17a06d2e7e60d5f98cc

I said ZZ Top in school a lot but they never corrected me.

They used to hang people like you.

Incidentally, a spoonful of Marmite is good for a hangover. The salt and B vitamins really help.

I reckon the price is artificially set around the real stuff's inflated price. Which is double having a laugh because all this yeast extract stuff are made from by products from beer production.

I accept no substitute but to tell you the truth I just go to Home Bargains once in a while and get some for less money. Tesco are taking the piss on some stuff.

250g of Marmite is three quid in Tesco, and their own brand is two fifty for 225g. How much Marmite are you eating?

I think everyone should experience Heinz tomoato soup with buttered bread once.

You have incredibly popular artists like Taylor Swift, but because of the death of monoculture nobody's ever going to have the cultural reach of the Beatles or Bowie or Michael Jackson again. Taylor Swift may sell millions of records but I couldn't tell you the name of a single song by her. Compared to the Spice Girls, who I was practically force fed in the 90s due to there only being four TV channels and a handful of radio stations that played pop music, she might as well not exist aside from the odd headline I scroll past about her and her boyfriend. There's so much and so many ways to access music now that I don't have to listen to anything I don't want to unless it's background noise in a shop or pub that I can tune out anyway. If this was the 90s I'd have to see her on TV all the time because there wasn't all that much to watch and practically everyone watched stuff like Top of the Pops. When the Sex Pistols swore on TV some guy kicked his television in and it was all over the newspapers. Aside from that seeming very tame now, the only time I see a newspaper is when I walk past them in a shop and the Bill Grundy show would be something only a slim section of people watched, and half of them would be watching it after it was broadcast anyway. Beatlemania could only have happened due to the evolution of media in the 60s and due to that media having evolved further it can't really happen again. It wasn't just that they sold loads of records and fans adored them, it was a phenomenon that everyone had an opinion about due to its cultural reach.

Tall, good-looking, fond of snus, good garage rock bands. All the Swedes I knew used to wear a weird black uniform when I was young person going to gigs.

As an institution. Not as individual establishments. Do you see the difference? I didn't say it was perfect, and not all pubs were segregated, and literally everywhere was full of smoke. I could still argue it was better then despite those things because at least people could afford to go there. You didn't have to go if you were a time traveller bent on judging the past by the standards of the present, but at least you could go there.

The institution of the British pub.

I think we're more influenced by the US than the rest of Europe in that respect. In addition to hip hop culture we also have a football casual culture that venerates perceived high end sportswear. In the 80s you could only buy stuff like Sergio Taccini on the continent so wearing it emphasised your support for the team and got you cred for owning something hard to obtain. Combine those things with the fact that it gives you licence to dress comfortably and you have our current situation.

I think this is true but it's also true that more educated working class people existed because of reading groups and a culture of self-improvement through education. Being educated nowadays is seen as a means to social mobility but it hasn't always been that way. When I went to university the people I grew up with stopped seeing me as a member of their class. The way it's gone is if you're educated you cease to be working class almost by definition. Since education has been reframed as a means to make money rather than a good in and of itself we've seen a culture of anti-intellectualism develop. If a politician had got up and said that people are tired of experts even thirty years ago he'd have been laughed off the stage. Half of people think too many people go to university, and it's hard to not think when you ask cui bono that it benefits the people who rule over us to have a population that can't think critically. This is more pronounced in America but we're seeing the right saying universities are indoctrinating young people with woke politics and such bullshit here already. I know lots of people who treat their ignorance like it's a good thing.

I think this is true but it's also true that more educated working class people existed because of reading groups and a culture of self-improvement through education. Being educated nowadays is seen as a means to social mobility but it hasn't always been that way. When I went to university the people I grew up with stopped seeing me as a member of their class. The way it's gone is if you're educated you cease to be working class almost by definition. Since education has been reframed as a means to make money rather than a good in and of itself we've seen a culture of anti-intellectualism develop. If a politician had got up and said that people are tired of experts even thirty years ago he'd have been laughed off the stage. Half of people think too many people go to university, and it's hard to not think when you ask cui bono that it benefits the people who rule over us to have a population that can't think critically. This is more pronounced in America but we're seeing the right saying universities are indoctrinating young people with woke politics and such bullshit here already. I know lots of people who treat their ignorance like it's a good thing.

Yeah, they're cult acts, but most music geeks know who they are.

Nah, they're nonsense lyrics.

Life Without Buildings.

Shame they don't care about the ethical implications of supporting a disgusting hatemonger.

Shotguns and rifles aren't uncommon. I think I've only seen anything smaller when carried by police.

My VPN dropped out and Reddit wanted age verification to see my own comments.

Better that than being a pious dickhead.

I would say that he is of medium size.

I didn't pay mine for years because of the BBC's obvious political bias (photoshopping Jeremy Corbyn so he looked like he was wearing an ushanka while depicting Rishi Sunak as Superman for example) and never watched it afterwards. I live somewhere that's required to have a licence now so it's moot but I still don't watch it. The licence is supposed to make the BBC impartial because it liberates it from reliance on advertisers but successive governments have just used it to bend the BBC to their will. Channel 4 is also publicly owned (though they've tried to sell it off a couple of times) and it's far less biased. The model for the BBC is broken and they need root and branch reform because it's a joke at the moment, its treatment of the genocide being perpetrated by the State of Israel being the latest example of its absurd bias.

Yeah this is all true but I've nevertheless known plenty of people who speak like that and aren't putting it on. It's really common among middle class people in the south.

It's fake in that it's not really indigenous to anywhere but people do have that as their normal accent. Do you think they're all putting it on?

Britol Uni used to have a rule that you couldn't apply there if you'd applied to Oxbridge, which I guess was to do with that perception. Exeter on the other hand ...

Yeah Stokes Croft was always poi and boho vibes in the day and getting mugged by crack addicts come sundown when I lived there.

How's their reporting on Palestine?

On no, not the commies.

Unfortunately it's become skunked.

We call them corner shops for starters.

Because other people you know want to see it.

A year later their footage was found and then edited to make it into a horror movie.

Grand Theft Auto, Supertramp, and Idris Elba as Stringer Bell.

Gotta have a football association before you can association football it.

Hey Alfie I wrote a song about how all you do is sit in your room and smoke weed. Alright, I'll just go and be in Game of Thrones then. She got nepoed by her dad and all.

I love how her singing voice is so pure and then when she speaks she sounds like a docker.

They are the archetypal baked bean and we eat more beans than anyone.

The young people I know either don't because they think it's a waste of time or can't because they're too young and then don't because they've been told they're not worth anything and therefore think it's a waste of time. It's a vicious circle.

Same reason the minimum wage is lower for them. They can give them less so they do.

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