Lad Culture

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A slightly retro cunting for Lad culture.

Even though we live in the age of the non-binary SJW gimp, Lad Culture was shit, wasnt it? All very top-down. It was dictated by middle-class, 30 and 40-something graduates who went straight into media and office jobs, publishing ‘lad tests’ and full page adverts for poncey shirts and fragrances in those magazines with attitude and full of git-speak. The tragedy was that they convinced working class lads to become pricks, going around town centres, arms aloft, saying ‘oi oi!’

The funniest thing was that the glamour models these magazines interviewed usually made it pretty clear that they hated these ‘Jack the Lad’ types, because if they mouth off in front of the wrong sort of bloke, someone who was ‘a bit handy’ as my older work mates say, someone who had been in a few scraps, these little wankers are the first to shit themselves. That, and they all turned into Metrosexuals in the early noughties, wanking over David Beckham and Craig David, or becoming professional northerners like Paddy McGuinness or Freddy ‘I can drink beer’ Flintoff.

It’s all a bit gaaaay. Thank fuck that shite is dead.

Nominated by Cuntamus Prime

42 thoughts on “Lad Culture”

  1. Most of them regarded Liam fucking Gallagher as the absolute peak of ‘hardness’.
    Cunts.

  2. I’ve never understood that drinking straight out of the bottle thing that so many of them seem to go for. I’ve seen rats running around over the bottles in the cellar of one pub that I used to frequent when I went down one time to change a keg for the landlord…put me right off any thought of drinking out of the bottle.

    • drinking straight out of the bottle is what I think they deem as “cool”, especially if your shirt is outside your trousers. That is very “on trend”

  3. As a teenager back in the mid 90’s I have fond memories of “reading” FHM and Loaded whilst wanking myself half to death…… Thems were such simpler times.

  4. As much as I enjoyed 90s alt-music, the lad culture was a fucking embarrassment, not least for the wank mags Loaded and FHM to name but two.Incredibly dated and the “lads” that used to frequent my office back in the day were all Britpop wannabe wankstains – trying to be hard like those Oasis mugs; and trying to be cool like Kurt Cobain, but in essence they were about as hard as a fucking blancmange, and cool as a frozen turd.

    The 90s was a great decade, for me at least, but the fashion & media bullshit was just the shitty acorns that would soon turn into the utter wank we have today!

    • Apparently there was some sort of war between Oasis and Blur in the charts.

      Nobody i went to school wih seemed to give two fucks.

      Most were into American rock, hip hop or stuff like Skunk Anansie and the Prodigy.

      Asking if you prefer Oasis or Blur was akin to saying you love M People, or Steps.

      With the girls it was Take That (1st incarnation) although the dirtier birds preferred East 17.

  5. I still have a drawer full of Ben Sherman shirts, I wonder if I was part of the “Lad culture”?

    • You were about 50 then!
      I had loads of nice shirts back then, always had money to spare, black hair n white teeth now ive got black teeth n white hair.
      I liked that period, my kids were cute n innocent, me n the missus was young, out to a gig with mates an a piss up!
      Cant fault it really!

    • Sadly the brand became associated with the chavocracy around the late 90s. The same is true of Burberry.

    • I’ve a nasty feeling that Lad Culture never really took off in rural Northumberland.

      • Worth watching this clip for its views about the EU which were far ahead of its time. And for anyone whose ‘tired’ of Brexit – Fuck off.

      • “People who are ‘tired’ of Brexit are as bad as the fuckers who want to remain”
        Bertie Blunt August. 2019

      • I’m a former UKIP member who did leaflet distribution for them during the 2015 GE and also got shit from local, leftie wamen who would chase me down the street just to smugly return the leaflet to me and say “no thank you”.

        My response was “Thanks for returning this to me, we’re a working class grass-roots movement, funded by our membership and answerable to them unlike the Labour and Tory Party”……. The look on her face was priceless.

      • Not heard the full theme tune before Dick. It’s bloody good. some things don’t date.

      • Great clip Bertie!
        Loved the Likely Lads, and remember Terrys words in that clip in particular raising a laugh!

      • Yeh, Miserable. It might not be rural Northumberland exactly but it’s pretty close. What a tv series that was. I think all the respect I have for Geordies was borne out of that series.

      • Yeah never met a geordie I didnt like!
        Went a wedding in Nottingham that was mostly Royal Navy and mostly geordies, had a great night!
        Approachable, easy going, tend not to be up theyre own arse!

      • Not heard the full theme before.
        Yeah growing apart when youve been close as young uns, or finding out youve no longer anything in common?
        Time certainly flies an before you know it…
        Take it the Likely Lads is cherished round your way Dick?

  6. Read my first Men’s mag at 16. Grew out of it at 18. It was pretentious and celebrated stupidity. I think it still exists in clusters, but ultimately fades out with age, although this isn’t a guarantee. This is largely due to extended adolescence, brought on by lack of work, the irrelevance of marriage, third wave feminism, depopulation tactics and the nanny state.

    • Ive still got a copy of the first Loaded magazine in the loft, bought because of a article on ‘withnail & I’
      Wonder if its worth owt?

      • Dunno TITS thats what im asking,
        Is it worth owt?
        First edition, 90s nostalgia etc

      • I honestly can’t say because I’m not the market, I’m only one man.

        I’ll look it up and get back to you.

  7. Nothing wrong with a bit of lad culture in my humble opinion, I feel it was just part of growing up working class. Oh the good old days hey, when you could call a spade a spade, a shirtlifter a shirtlifter, ect, ect.

    I used to find Loaded and Front fucking hilarious they had some quirky columnists, like that Razor fellah who was an imprisoned armed robber.

    On the wanking front I was more of a Penthouse and Razzle reader, cracked off many to Jo Guest. Fuck it I’m gonna Google her now, it’s been to long.

  9. I like the sig tune for “Vera.”

    Smashing scenery. Lived in Newcastle for about 4 months (2004 – 2005), would VERY happily have stayed in the area. A city that still had its own character. Great place.

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