why do i hate that artist thing that people keep posting on my facebook so much? why am i such a jerk?

also they eat the whitest diet imaginable

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If you had told me.. five years ago... that a popular thing on the internet to do would be to take pictures of printed text and then post that somewhere, I would've been skeptical.

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it's true, this person couldn't be bothered typing out arseholes so went for the easier option of saying assholes

the lowercase p in RIP is killing me

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You know you've lived a happy childhood when the first fond memory you have is of the corned beef.

xxxp I found myself on one of those local interest Facebook pages by accident. Someone was saying about how their kid had been threatened by some other kids in town.
The responses, of course, were just as you'd imagine. I'm amazed at how many people believe that society's downfall is directly attributable to children not being clipped round the ear enough. One guy even said: 'I used to get clipped round the ear and it never did me any harm'. He went quiet when I pointed out that clipping someone round the ear is, by definition, a type of harm.

THE BREAD WAS SO CRUSTY AND HOT

Food didn't come from shops! People could hit their kids and wives knew their place! Happy days indeed.

What sort of weird time did Author Unknown live in when cinemas existed but not shops?

has anybody got this guy's address? i want to let him know you can get corned beef in Asda.

That was on one of those local facebook groups as well. 172 likes and everyone going "yeah! kids today! Entitled arseholes!" and moaning about kids always being on computers (while posting on facebook).

Don't tell him about how you can still get unsliced bread or you may blow his mind xpost

The movie tickets also didn't cost any money, it would seem. I'm beginning to realize how little I know about the utopia that was life in Britain in the 1940s.

the self-clowning irony of 'selfish, disrespectful little assholes' is delicious

So I've been eating my crunchy frozen freezer chips all wrong

i am interested in how this sort of mindset comes about - the idea that young people aren't just hard to understand in their tastes and attitudes etc, but the idea that they're DEFINITELY spoiled and disrespectful; that the only way to qualm this is through emotional and physical abuse; and that life would be so much better for everyone if we went back to the 'olden days' (the olden days, according to my FB feed is any time between 1968 and 1990). Is it a type of rockism or some sort of mental thing that seeps in at a certain time in people's live, or people simply apeing the attitudes of their own parents or a kind of temporal amnesia that means people forget nearly everything about how their own childhoods really played out, or simply received information, or what?

My favourites were the people on the page who, when I pointed out that kids have always and will always beat each other up and threaten each other, said 'I would never have done that when I was a kid' and use that as evidence that society's in the gutter....

R I p Great Britain
crusty and hot

as children still smarting from their most recent authoritarian beating their only consolation was the thought of one day being an adult and meting out the same tough love

I'd say that was otm. I think a lot of the time, memes reflect more about the mindset of the individual sharing them than the world they're supposedly observing. Like the people who share really passive aggressive macros about how you shouldn't say mean things behind other people's backs always seem to be the people who invite and exhibit that kind of behaviour IRL.

So maybe, yeah either they want retribution for how they were treated when they were younger, or they were the ones who grew up as 'selfish disrespectful assholes' when they were kids and now have to make a point in protesting too much.

but a lot of the people sharing stuff like this didn't have childhoods like this. That 'I remember the comic sans of my childhood' thing paints a science fiction past that's a mix of post-war and Victorian times where women didn't work and people lapped at warm cream straight out the cupboard and children smiled and said thank you after being slapped.

Basically the conservative version of ''oh if only I'd lived in the glorious Sixties'' or whatever.

i have never actually heard anyone say that. thankfully

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share if u... I dunno, rode a bike or some shit when u were a kid

I'm trying to remember... I think that's from a Wonder Showzen bit.

The men didn't go to the wife?

I don't know about that anonymous doggerel poet, but bread was really shitty when I was growing up in the 50s and 60s.

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For facebook refuseniks, like me:

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who's gonna listen to artifacted Dr. Manhattan

"Actually"

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ugh

"we ran out of rap to ruin with stodgy white guy joekz onto the next genre"

powdered wig metal

few xps

So maybe, yeah either they want retribution for how they were treated when they were younger, or they were the ones who grew up as 'selfish disrespectful assholes' when they were kids and now have to make a point in protesting too much.

but a lot of the people sharing stuff like this didn't have childhoods like this. That 'I remember the comic sans of my childhood' thing paints a science fiction past that's a mix of post-war and Victorian times where women didn't work and people lapped at warm cream straight out the cupboard and children smiled and said thank you after being slapped.

This is the creepy thing about this - you'll see people whose childhoods took place in the 90s or early 2ks sharing this stuff

And also the sort of free-roaming 'adventure holiday', or as someone here said Swallows and Amazons, lifestyle that kids are supposed to have lived in the past ... somehow that gets equated with hitting kids in the face ... and telling girls their future is in the house ...

I see fellow members of Generation X sharing those macros. I'm always like, didn't they have to invent missing children ads on the back of milk cartons when we were kids?

Yeah, we got to ride in the front seat and didn't have to use seatbelts, whoooo. My sister's head cracked the windshield not once, but twice. She's a concierge in Vegas now.

When we were young, we didn't have mobile phones to tell us when to come in, we had standing stones and a curfew. My mother would climb onto a dirt mound with two rocks and call for us in her pre-laryngial bark as she banged them together. We cut our stegosaurus steaks with a knife. We played outside, and cave-paintings were unheard of.
Share if you drank from Lake Natron and lived to tell the tale

Share if you got dumped out on the doorstep every night by your pet sabre-toothed tiger and it never did you any harm

hah

Yeah, we got to ride in the front seat and didn't have to use seatbelts, whoooo. My sister's head cracked the windshield not once, but twice. She's a concierge in Vegas now.

Yeah, we never had to wear crash helmets on bikes, which is why I nearly knocked myself unconscious twice as a kid. Still, some hot crusty unsliced bread and a slap from my parents and I was fine.

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Then a bus runs him over

Stupid blue liberal arts family.

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"hilarious parallels between a thing and a thing that was more or less explicitly modeled on and referencing that thing"

xxp People on the internet really seem to hate the liberal arts

Yeah and I thought according to the logic that it would be unlikely for blue liberal arts woman to be telling kid to work hard