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# Evolution is so yesterday.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Howdy, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 12:37, archived)
# This is a personal favourite of mine.
I'll click again.
(I helped save b3ta! Whato_Jeeves Did your surgery require a vaginal mesh patch?, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 12:37, archived)
# God the original of that is depressing.
I once had a moment of clarity when really drunk - suddenly realised what we were all like. It was enough to drive me to drink.
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 12:40, archived)
# It looks familiar from history @ school.
Something to do with Gin dependency in olde worlde tymes?
(I helped save b3ta! Airman Gabber Living life like a 70's BBC presenter, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 12:44, archived)
# Yes - it's called Gin Alley or Gin Street or similar
It's documenting the drunkenness of the poor so publically deplored by the gentlefolk of the Victorian(?) era. I think it's based on the fact that - I think (basically facts, education, and all that jazz are as Kryptonite to this little brain) - at one point gin was actually cheaper than water - certainly it was abused as such. It's a deliberately satirical grotesque, but very near the knuckle and quite disturbing - like I said - depressing, even.
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 12:47, archived)
# It may have been cleaner too.
Lovely lovely gin. Wonder whether they had it with tonic and a bit of lemon.
(I helped save b3ta! Airman Gabber Living life like a 70's BBC presenter, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 12:52, archived)
# It probably was - drinking ale was certainly prescribed to prevent the spread of cholera.
G&T I understand (I assure you I'm neither an alcoholic or historian) to have been invented when the mass travel to India resulted in significant amounts of scurvy, and tonic water was given to travellers for the quinine in it.

In typicially British fashion, what with tonic water being - well - fucking horrible, some bright spark suggested slipping a slug of gin into it, and the rest, as they say, is a Michael Jackson compilation.
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 12:57, archived)
# You're nearly there
tonic water was prescribed for its quinine content which fights malaria

scurvy is why we're called limeys
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 13:33, archived)
# Malaria, scurvy - what's a couple of DEATHS matter when expanding an empire?!
/protest song
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 13:36, archived)
# Gin Lane.
It was the second part of William Hogarth's artistic swipe at 18th C London, the first part being Beer Street.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Howdy, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 12:56, archived)
# Yeah.
That's what I said.

You racist.
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 12:57, archived)
# And it was Georgian, not Victorian
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 13:40, archived)
# As I say, facts, reasoned debates - these are not of my world.
I - like everyone else - prefer to hold opinions on things about which I know little.
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 13:58, archived)
# A less well-known but equally impressive image of Hogarth's is
Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism

If only for the wabbits leaping from Mary Toft's fanny.
(I helped save b3ta! Pew Pew Pew! Lasers! wannabe Gong Farmer, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 23:21, archived)
# Golly!
Surprised and entertained, thankyou :-)
(I helped save b3ta! Purple Martin is board sigless, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 0:08, archived)
# Hahahaha! :D
(I helped save b3ta! drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 12:47, archived)
# Ace
stuff!
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 13:01, archived)
# Wonderful
Very well done
(I helped save b3ta! spazzcaptain Misses Valin @, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 13:26, archived)
# You have been to High Wycombe then.
(I helped save b3ta! Wobbly Bloke Hello, did I miss anything on, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 14:13, archived)
# it's not funny because it's true
and I mean that as a compliment.
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 21:53, archived)
# Why've people got Apple laptops, ipads and ipods?
You don't work for microsoft do you? ;)

(edit: clicks btw, still very good)
(I helped save b3ta! Ysol ab abl blap, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 22:21, archived)
# Y E S
(I helped save b3ta! vladimir, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 22:22, archived)
# This was great first time...
...and by golly it still is. Superb work and great
detail Cap'n, I *click* again I do! :)
(I helped save b3ta! Ninj, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 22:23, archived)
# One of the best things on b3ta, ever.
ever.:D
(I helped save b3ta! Fresh Water Mole loves his baby boy more and more every day, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 1:21, archived)
# Cheers, guys.
Much appreciated.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Howdy, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 9:53, archived)
#
Is big version? Is there?

(I love this. Look at me, posting for the first time in *bonk* years I love it so much.)
(mildlydiverting, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 10:23, archived)
# make the Lidls a Wetherspoons and...
you can have all the clicks you like

here one to get you started
(I helped save b3ta! bigmeuprudeboy is using powerpoint or paint...have MERCY, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 10:34, archived)
# Posters!
Do this as an A3 print, you'd sell a fair number...
(I helped save b3ta! uncle bastard is twanging a dan moi, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 17:34, archived)
# Wot e said
(I helped save b3ta! Duncan Disorderly, Sat 5 Mar 2011, 12:32, archived)