When Percy Pished Shelley wasn't off his tits on massive drugs
He penned this, which was cutting stuff at the time and still echoes today nearly 200 years ago after the Peterloo debacle (look it up yourselves, you lazy fuckers) .

Things haven't changed much, but there's always hope eh? And he does reference a "phantom" who might cheer us up a bit. HP, over to you then.

"An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying King;
Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow
Through public scorn,—mud from a muddy spring;
Rulers who neither see nor feel nor know,
But leechlike to their fainting country cling
Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow.
A people starved and stabbed in th' untilled field;
An army, whom liberticide and prey
Makes as a two-edged sword to all who wield;
Golden and sanguine laws which tempt and slay;
Religion Christless, Godless—a book sealed;
A senate, Time’s worst statute, unrepealed—
Are graves from which a glorious Phantom may
Burst, to illumine our tempestuous day."
( Infidel , shit and wrong, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 15:29, 6 replies)

He was just bitter
about having a middle name that sounded like someone opening a can of Bud Light.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 15:55, closed)

I couldn't really think of anything cheery to say, so I drew a cat.


( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 22:32, closed)

Works for me!

( Infidel , shit and wrong, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 22:38, closed)

I can only see the top half of your cat's boobs. :[

(s0ckpuppet logging out to reply to you if you're not careful, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 23:47, closed)

Top eighth, really, given their nipple-count.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 0:37, closed)

He was alright but he was no Pam Ayres eh

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 8 Oct 2013, 7:49, closed)