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# I just let it bottle up inside until it all boils over and comes out in a GREAT BIG RANT


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No, me neither. I'm just worried about where my next sofa-decaf-frappuccino is coming from.
(Emetic, Fri 24 Jun 2011, 9:42, archived)
# I can't take this any more. I've had enough.
(I helped save b3ta! betpet is the fun in dysfunctional, Fri 24 Jun 2011, 9:53, archived)
# Good rant!
I'm going to post it as my facebook status!
no I'm not.
(I helped save b3ta! Zumf Ham banjo, Fri 24 Jun 2011, 9:56, archived)
# I am - well my wall anyway
I assume this is OK, Emetic?
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Fri 24 Jun 2011, 10:05, archived)
# Erm, Yes
I did
(Emetic, Sat 25 Jun 2011, 1:13, archived)
# ephemeral bullshit to
your Facebook status B3ta
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Fri 24 Jun 2011, 9:59, archived)
# fuck YES!
fuckinell - 3rd post in nearly 8 years - this has been building up! ;D
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Fri 24 Jun 2011, 10:04, archived)
# Rage building
urge to head to ipswich to kill again rising ...
(I helped save b3ta! Paul_P http://www.Paul-hub.com, Fri 24 Jun 2011, 10:11, archived)
# So it was YOU that got the club by the station shut down, eh?
(I helped save b3ta! drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Fri 24 Jun 2011, 10:16, archived)
# it was a shithole
ipswich doesn't need it
(I helped save b3ta! Paul_P http://www.Paul-hub.com, Fri 24 Jun 2011, 10:19, archived)
# It's just been bought
They're doing it up to make another club now.
(I helped save b3ta! Bela Lugosi's Dad, Fri 24 Jun 2011, 10:20, archived)
# At least there will be more light for the local whores
(I helped save b3ta! Paul_P http://www.Paul-hub.com, Fri 24 Jun 2011, 10:29, archived)
# It was in response to a friend
who had just got back from a 2 week holiday in the Maldives and then posted:

"Remember when teachers, policemen, ambulance staff, NHS staff crashed the stock market, wiped out banks, took ...billions in bonuses and paid no tax?
No, me neither.
Please copy and paste to your status for 24 hours to show your support against the government's latest attack on pensions and public sector workers"

P.S. Long time listener, third time caller.
(Emetic, Sat 25 Jun 2011, 1:15, archived)
# TL;DR
(I helped save b3ta! barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Fri 24 Jun 2011, 10:18, archived)
# ^What she said
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 24 Jun 2011, 10:41, archived)
# Struggling to see exactly where you're coming from
I agree in the most part with what you're saying about all the finance shit that Thatcher brought in but we never had the money for a mortage until later in life and then with the husband falling ill fell into arrears now having to cope with spiralling debts and faceless, heartless debt companies - maybe you could say that was our own fault for aiming higher than we should have but we could never have foreseen the sudden illness that basically halved our income - maybe you could once again blame us for not taking out adequate insurance for such an eventuality - but you know shit happens! So I see your Rant against Rant in some parts to be quite hurtful of lower income people who desperately want to break free of the poverty void but instead get thrust further back than when they started - in some respects what you are saying "You're low income - work harder, aim lower you shits and don't expect more than the Big Man will hand you as a wage packet!"
/tl;dr
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Fri 24 Jun 2011, 10:20, archived)
# I remember when
there would be more of an outcry that our manufacturing industry is now proudly proclaimed ( by Evan Davis ) to be bigger than it was thanks to us selling the most up to date ways for other countries to kill each other and its own people. Huzzah!

I also remember the 21st night of September. Love was changing the mind of pretenders, while chasing the clouds away.

I remember, too, a distant bell and stars that fell
Just like the rain out of the blue-ooh-ooh-ooh-hoo-hoo-hoo
(I helped save b3ta! unclepills, Fri 24 Jun 2011, 12:23, archived)
# Please don't think that this is aimed
at people who are below the poverty line. It's a terrible state of affairs that so many people do live in poverty. The implication is not that "it was much better when people were content to work in lower paid jobs" but rather that *there existed a time when* much of the UK workforce were in lower paid jobs which we'd generally regard as rather uninteresting and quite hard work these days. It's true that some of the UK workforce still do work in such jobs. Heck, a lot people *in the world* are still in this situation (go here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty for actual stats and stuff).

The point is that it'd be nice if people who weren't in this situation (i.e. who are relatively well off, and I count myself in this bracket) would realise how fortunate they are and not to piss and moan about how expensive their iPhone was and how they could only afford to go skiing /once/ this year. I imagine that a little bit of humility would be welcomed by the people who actually are in poverty and whose lives the current economic climate (the cuts etc.) is making really miserable.

And please don't think I'm saying that everyone should just put up and shut up. We really need to do something about all this! The very last sentence is a call to action for people who are not truly happy with their situation to try and do something about it (and I know that this is not always possible and that you can't necessarily change the circumstances you are a victim of) instead of just proselytizing through your facebook status and either trying to guilt others into doing the same (you know the whole tear-jerking "I know only 1% of you will repost this but...") or thinking that somehow the government (or whomever) is suddenly going to log on and go: "Wow look at all the people updating their Facebook statuses - they must be really upset about something so we'd better change it." I guess my point is that moaning about something definitely_isn't_going_to_change_it so why not at least /attempt/ to do something vaguely constructive instead.

I'm not going to provide an exegesis of the whole thing because it is just a load of ephemeral bullshit I posted as my facebook status. It's a parody, and not a particularly good one as it's an example of exactly the kind of crap it purports to be ridiculing.
(Emetic, Fri 24 Jun 2011, 16:09, archived)
# As a 125% Northern Rock mortgage holder and global traveller I feel resonsible for virtually all that ^
sorry about that
(I helped save b3ta! h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Fri 24 Jun 2011, 10:29, archived)
# eeeee i remember when
you could get a huge bag of chips wrapped in newspaper and a gigantic rissole for a mere thruppence
(I helped save b3ta! cakeburglar still bored with Freebase, Fri 24 Jun 2011, 10:36, archived)
# rissoles. mmmmm
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Fri 24 Jun 2011, 10:41, archived)
# rissoles?
I don't get it.
(I helped save b3ta! drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Fri 24 Jun 2011, 10:51, archived)
# a "Ris 'Ole" is a goatse joke you don't get the reference to.
This should be what we say to the Audi Ad and similar "Rissole?"
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Fri 24 Jun 2011, 10:55, archived)
# Do they have branches of Morrisons in Spain?
(I helped save b3ta! drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Fri 24 Jun 2011, 10:59, archived)
# rissoles...for some reason
are only available in welsh chip shops
(I helped save b3ta! cakeburglar still bored with Freebase, Fri 24 Jun 2011, 11:16, archived)
# Not true we have them in South Yorkshire
also fishcakes that are not mashed potato/fish in breacrumb but 2 slices of potato with fish in the middle wrapped in batter (also available in Wales)
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Fri 24 Jun 2011, 11:18, archived)
# i'm pleased to hear this fact
rissoles need more promotion
(I helped save b3ta! cakeburglar still bored with Freebase, Fri 24 Jun 2011, 11:34, archived)
# I can haz Scraps with that? :D
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Fri 24 Jun 2011, 10:43, archived)
# *drools*
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Fri 24 Jun 2011, 10:50, archived)
# I do remember a lot of that, yep!
I also remember a time before email, a time when renewable energy was associated with beardy treehuggers, and a time when the Cold War was still in effect.

Bugger. I'm old.
(I helped save b3ta! Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Fri 24 Jun 2011, 11:05, archived)
# Yes the Cold War I remember when Threads was the most chilling film ever
and you had a real sense that this could actually happen.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Fri 24 Jun 2011, 11:18, archived)
# Do you remember
cherry blossom in the market square?
(I helped save b3ta! h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Fri 24 Jun 2011, 11:24, archived)
# Marillion!
the name was taken from Tolkien's The Silmarillion.

damn I'm old.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Fri 24 Jun 2011, 11:32, archived)
# I remember when it was all fields...
(I helped save b3ta! camp freddy well, would you look at that!, Fri 24 Jun 2011, 11:11, archived)
# fields, forms and drop-down menus
now it's all Flash, CSS5 and XHTML
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Fri 24 Jun 2011, 11:23, archived)