Monday, 22 April 2013

Did they know something back then?


I left my heart in Papworth General

Half Man Half Biscuit. Should that be Half Man, Half Biscuit? Imagine the world outlook of Karl Pilkington set to music. Imagine a Birkenhead Ian Dury, without his art school background, steeped in Tranmere Rovers, and 1970’s and 1980’s Jobcentre queues, collaborating with Pilkington to turn that world view into lyrics. Add a deep and profound knowledge of rubbish television and high street retail outlets, spoonfuls of scepticism and a large pinch of surrealism.

Down at Stoke Mandeville I bumped into Mr IQ
I said
“Hey albino this is not 1972 so stub out your King
Edward and get that small boy off your knee
And melt down your rings and things and get
Yourself off the TV”

Jim could you fix it for me to come down and
Suck out your kidneys?...

1985 that was recorded. D’you think they knew something?

There’s a song on their CSI Ambleside album called…


…National Shite Day

We should have one of those. Celebrating years of useless, lazy, shiny-arsed clockwatchers and jobsworths making millions of lives miserable.

Actually, we need to have one of those a week, or we’ll fall behind. Can I nominate the student loan retards as this week’s star performers, please?

K and MM have seven or eight years at university between them. Guess how many times the student loan monkey performance has been dreadful, shambolic, and well on the woeful side of even-if-I-were-carrying-out-deliberate-sabotage-I’d-be-doing-better-than-you-are. Yep. Theirs is a 100% record.


Southeastern Trains Travelsick Blues

Closed the road off to play about with the level crossing. Again. Privatised railway companies. Taking the ‘F’ out of shift work on a mainline near you.


I was lost for words…

…honest, I was, when a workmate (born, raised, schooled, lived all his life in a sleepy seaside town) described a nearby market town as ‘backward’.

I guess it’s like the hillbillies who know someone who can read and write looking down on those that don’t.

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