People are just fucking mad, aren’t they?
Every so often you step back and look at the news and it strikes you that the whole country is made up from complete fucking lunatics.
Mothers drowing their teenage daughters in the bath, 17 year olds crashing their stolen cars into trees as a ‘tribute’ gone wrong to another young lad who died at a party after taking dodgy drugs, men having their hands chopped off in pubs by other men with swords, teachers with child porn, people being set on fire, and the list goes on and on.
Every day there’s more evidence of the sheer lunacy of the general population. Perhaps they had it right in the old days. Great big fucking asylums where the insane were shut away from everyone else. Of course we’re not dealing with just the generally mad here, we’re also dealing with the incredibly stupid and as yet stupidity has not been classed as a mental illness.
No doubt if it was there’d be children all over the country being prescribed the latest in anti-stupidity drugs, another boost for the pharmaceutical industry (”Yay, we get to sell more pills”).
And are people getting meaner too? There was a time you could wander through town, have a bit of banter with passers-by or even get into arguments which, if the worst came to the worst, would result in a bit of fisticuffs. Nowadays you’re more likely to be on the end of a good stabbing before you even finish the verbals. What’s up with people that they feel they have to carry knives and sabres and cutlasses about the place?
If it were up to me anybody found with knife on them would be sent to jail but also given a public stabbing to see how they like it. We could set up a set of stocks at the top of Grafton Street (it’d stop that cunt McSavage playing his cunting guitar) and then position them, arse in the air, before stabbing them with a very sharp knife in each buttock. Pain, public humiliation and a sore arse. That, my friends, is a deterrent. Not a few months (if that) in some prison where all their mates are anyway.
Anyway, I’m straying from the point, which is that people are getting worse, no question. We can all live with the eccentric and the curiously touched but the fucking maniacs are taking over. They are. I’m not trying to be a scaremonger here but one of these days one of them is going to get you.
We’re all fucked.
January 16th, 2008 at 9:48 am
There is no better place to observe stupidity than on public transport. Today I witnessed a man get caught between the closing doors of a Luas carriage. He wasn’t rushing to get on or anything. He just didn’t fully get into the carriage. And it wasn’t even full so he COULDN’T get on.
January 16th, 2008 at 9:52 am
the problem is, there’s too many chavs around and no corporal punishment.
Where’s batman when you need him?
January 16th, 2008 at 9:58 am
You’re damn right Twenty, but we’re putting up with the factors that contribute. Lousy HSE, lousy mental health facilities etc. Enough to make you sick.
January 16th, 2008 at 10:03 am
The more people in Finglas missing hands the better if you ask me.
January 16th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Dear Twenty, I have been reading your blog for a long time. It has dawned on me that the language you use is entirely innappropriate for a man of my standing. Indeed, children may read this blog and be upset. I urge you to remove such language from the site before it is too late.
thank you
January 16th, 2008 at 10:16 am
Oh Sid…
I think Twenty might have something to say back to you about that!
January 16th, 2008 at 10:19 am
I don’t think the problem is peculiar to Ireland, I think it is a change in the social framework, with parents taking less responsibility for their children and individuals being brought up in a “Me” culture. This I am sorry to say is a symptom of the extreme form of capitalism where some people are doing very well and other people are marginalised. People do not take any form of social responsiblity. As an example I can compare my own childhood to that of modern children. Bad behaviour was not tolerated, we were not medicated because we had some made up fucking syndrome. My parents disciplined me and I took personal responsibilty for my actions. I lived in a community in Scotland where we walked to school with other parents keeping an eye on all the children to ensure our safety and nobody balked at their social responsiblity. My mother didn’t have an enormous tank which she drove a quarter of a mile in case I got rained on. I played outdoors, I interacted with other people and learned to communicate and when I did something stupid and injured myself my parents didn’t blame others and try to sue the world.
When as a teenager and it was fasionable( and stupid) to carry around offensive weapons my father found out and battered me to ensure i didn’t do anything like that again. As I began to smoke, drink, get high and shag ugly birds I fully understood the consequences of my actions and ensured that my own moral code was adhered to.
January 16th, 2008 at 10:24 am
i like Neil McSavage!!
January 16th, 2008 at 10:25 am
Dear Mr Major,
I fully agree and can offer some hope for your society. If your young come round to our testing centre we can set them on the path of the good.
Look at my mate John Travolta, one minute he is cavorting around taking heroin and shooting people next he is starring in fine films like Battlefield Earth. I know your lot are Catholic but my own wife has been converted to the successful path of my Church.
PS. Please forgive me for my accent in Far and Away.
January 16th, 2008 at 10:26 am
“We can all live with the eccentric and the curiously touched”
I think that’s the nicest thing you’ve ever said. ‘The curiously touched.’
January 16th, 2008 at 10:26 am
Sid, furious anger will reign/rain , whatever, down on you!!!Duck!
January 16th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Oi, Tom Cruise – you freak!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz0ks5CSsx4
January 16th, 2008 at 10:34 am
I think I have joined the demented as both Twenty AND Puerile Pish appear to be making perfect sense…..
January 16th, 2008 at 10:48 am
Stab us in the arse if you want to. You’ll only make us angry. We won’t cry, we’ll start wearing trousers with no seat in them, showing off our scars like badges of achievement.
And as you admit yourself, one of these days we’re going to get you
January 16th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Mr Woo Woo,
Don’t fuck with mt Thetans
January 16th, 2008 at 11:21 am
Tom Cruise used to be soooo popular down this way…….until he did the dirty on our Nic………..the little fucker…………..Thetans me arse…….
January 16th, 2008 at 11:29 am
Puerile Pish for President of the World!
January 16th, 2008 at 11:42 am
Ah’ dear TWENTY that’s the feckin beauty of this list where we can emit our otherwise violent behaviour in a safe and unharmful way ;-) and Sid Trotter you won’t read any more bad language here, than wot you would hear in a school playground you cunt.
January 16th, 2008 at 11:47 am
So talking about mad people I heard this morning that John Waters has agreed to have a face to face debate on Newstalk about Blogging and Bloggers.
What I’m wondering is how is he going to have a face to face debate with a blogger if he insists that they leave his presence and more importantly, Twenty have you considered putting yourself forward as the Bloggers representative?
January 16th, 2008 at 11:49 am
If people would only revert to wearing jumpers and jeans. They have a calming effect.
January 16th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
I fear none of you, I have righteousness, steadfastness and pomposity on my side.
January 16th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
You are an outrageous man Sid Trotter and only with the use of a few chosen fucks will there be any improvement in demeanour!
January 16th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
But why do you keep saying I cunt, when I know full well I can
January 16th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
If people would only revert to wearing jumpers and jeans. They have a calming effect.
The mere sight of a diamond design jumper sends me immediately into a murderous rage. ASk Joe O’Reilly.
January 16th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
It’s true ya know – it’s all going to hell in a floral handbasket, it’s disgusting.
But I can offer a possible reason for you not being able to talk to anyone when walking around in town… Everyone is fecking foreign aren’t they!? And when they do want to talk to you it’s to scab money outta ya.
January 16th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Ah’ good man Trotter Sid at last your getting the Horse and Cart of it now just a bit more practising and you’ll be over the jumps in no time. Ain’t he doin well Twenty ;-) ?
January 16th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Jumper and jeans, the smell of dope on a warm summer’s evening, UB40 playing from the ghetto blaster, ah those were the days…
January 16th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
… fivespot of leb, sketch the guards…
January 16th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
What I’m wondering is how is he going to have a face to face debate with a blogger if he insists that they leave his presence and more importantly, Twenty have you considered putting yourself forward as the Bloggers representative?
Face to face, hah. As if any blogger would be up that early in the morning.
Anyway, Newstalk know where the bloggers are.
January 16th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Over there the insane run around stabbing each other, and beating each other up. Over here, when they’re not competing to get on the Darwin Awards, they run for President. It’s funny until they actually win.
We are fucked.
January 16th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
I dont mean like a golf jumper. Thats just fucking ridiculous. Im talking a good chunky knit and a pair of Levis. Its the sportswear thats the cause of all the mentalness.
January 16th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Oh right Ibanez you mean the sorta gear that the ancient Beatniks used to wear along with the yellow socks and leather sandals plus a big reefer? Yeah they were really chilled out ……
January 16th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
The sky’s falling…
January 16th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
And just hours after woo woo posted this:
“Oi, Tom Cruise – you freak!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz0ks5CSsx4”
RTE comes up with this:
http://www.rte.ie/arts/2008/0116/cruiset.html?rss
Coincidence? I think not :D
January 16th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
people have always been fucking mad, it’s just we didn’t know about it. now thanks to the dispassionately objective and completely non sensationalist efforts of the indo and tv3, we can fully appreciate how fucked we are and be properly fearful, cowed and submissive. hooray for the news.
January 16th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
If you take time to listen you will find that being a scientologists allows us to deal with most situations and help sort things out. We are very much like superheroes only with some fucked up beliefs, no actual superpowers and a great publicity department.
So, in fact we are nothing like superheroes ,just members of a bizarre cult, although I would be happy to fly across to Ireland and sort out the issues that have been discussed on this blog.
Whilst I am here I would like to apologise to Puerile Pish for fucking up Katie Holmes whom he used to fancy until she became a blank eyed zombie.
January 16th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
People are getting that way because of their fucking egos.
Everyone thinks that they are God, or at least Jesus Christ, if you disagree with them or if they don’t get their way then it’s blasphmey, punishable by torture and death.
They think that their needs outweigh everyone elses, government (and everyone else) should wait on them hand-and-foot – me, I, the allmighty.
Fucking cunts.
January 16th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
I blame the news. Stupid fuckers have always been around. Since ancient times. But in the old days it took a while before the news got around the world and back.
It takes you half a day to get from the city centre to Finglas by foot. You wouldn’t care if people where chopping other peoples hands of with swords over there. Now you go: “oh, that’s terrible it’s happening right here in Dublin.” Heck, back then it probably happened on a daily basis.
January 17th, 2008 at 12:50 am
Sometimes, the fucker just needs a good stabbin. Or would you prefer I pull my pistol and explode his head? Nope, loud, noisy, and causes earaches. A nice quiet stabbin gets their attention, settles them down, and sends them off to hospital, and thus, out of your face.
January 17th, 2008 at 2:22 am
Come and have a go, if you think you’re hard enough. I’ve seen you pulling your pistol, underneath your dirty mac at the bus stop.
Nothing happened.
January 17th, 2008 at 2:47 am
Strange, Twenty, that you should condemn irrational, senseless violence today, and only yesterday you were extolling the virtues of Cadbury’s Creme Eggs.
That has got to be the most gratuitously violent TV ad campaign for an overpriced piece of confectionery, ever!
January 18th, 2008 at 12:42 am
Oy, Skanker, fuck off…you’re not fit to drink my enema water.
January 18th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Mad bastard stabs doctors in Limerick. They’re coming to get us alright. Fucking cunts. I’m going to barricade the door and shoot anyone that tries to come in. The mad bastards aren’t going to stab me. Oh no. Got to go now, or so the voices tell me
January 19th, 2008 at 12:55 am
we agree that the world is a sick, sick place and that some are really, really sick jay whitlow was telling me a couple of stories about his experiences with the very sickest but the important thing is to remember how crazy we all are.
eric y
January 19th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Of course, most of the trouble is started by parents of kids who are out of control because they haven’t got a bloody clue how to discipline them so they cry ADHD and give them drugs to ‘control’ it. Then they throw up their hands in despair when the same kids turn to street drugs for their kicks when they get older.