“It’s before my time”

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“Sorry, dearie. It’s before my time”

The phrases “It was before my time” or “I wasn’t born then”.

Usually uttered by younger contestants on Television game shows.

Most of history happened before all of our times.
I wasn’t born during Roman times, but we learned about it at school. Same for the Vikings, same for the First and Second World War.
I’ll admit that I’ve forgotten a large portion of it, because it was 20+ years ago that I studied it, but I can still remember some of the events like the Battle of Jutland, the Battle of Paschendale, etc.

If you don’t know, then go and read up on it for fuck sake. Ignorance is no excuse.
They might find it a bit more interesting than (anti)social media and dross like Love Island, but I doubt it.

Nominated by Harold Steptoe

97 thoughts on ““It’s before my time””

  1. For most youngsters, history only started after 1997. Anything before that never happened, or if it did there will be a big effort to have it expunged for the usual woke virtue signalling reasons.

    • “Actual Human interaction without the use of a screen”? – Before my time.

      “Reasoned debate where all voices are heard”? – Before my time.

      “Politicians who are not greasy incompetent self serving snakes”? – Before my time.

      “A working class Man doing a dirty dangerous job and being paid enough to afford a house, decent car on the drive and a family”? – Before my time.

      “Long term stable well paid employment”? – Before my time.

      “Royals with a sense of duty and commitment”? – Before my time.

      “Policing which relies on detective work and not CCTV footage”? – Before my time.

      “Having pride in Great Britain without a little bitch with a microphone and a violent hate mob accusing you of waaycism”? – Before my time.

      “12 Year old girls going out without being targeted by an innocent and discriminated against group in the community”? – Before my time.

      “Doing something about a problem instead of filming it”? – Before my time.

      “A Country free of savage barbarous third World r*pists and child m*rderers who operate with impunity whilst authorities across the board look the other way and shut down any investigation or exposure due to “racial sensitivities” – Before my time.

      “A mainstream media which is accurate, impartial and unbiased”? – Before my time.

      “Male and Female”? – Before my time.

      “Having a different opinion”? – Before my time.

      “Not a crime to be a white Man”? – Before my time.

      “Women allowed to dress how they want and allowed to speak without a smelly Merc driving pimp and minder”? – Before my time.

      “Stupid waaycist f*scist whitey gammon types allowed an opinion”? – Before my time.

      ” No food banks and citizens living in homes instead of shipping containers”? – Before my time.

      Cunts.

      That is all.

      • That’s unusually cynical. Unfortunately, it’s also the truth. Pretty much all of these things are within my living memory and that makes it sound even worse. Modern youth have not only ever known any different, they make a point of believing it was always the way it is now and there’s no way way they are going to take time off fuckbook to look up the actuality.

      • Excellent stuff Vernon, and all of it is 100% true especially if someone dares to have an alternative opinion. I had to look this up to get it right, the quotation by the writer Evelyn Beatrice Hall (an Englishwoman – feminists and Lefties of all persuasion should note this) from her biography of Voltaire: “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”.

    • Bunch of thick cunts.
      Ok, if I went on a quiz show and they played clips of top 10 songs in the last 10 years, there would be few I could name ; but the sheer lack of any grasp of history or geography from these millenial woke snowrlake fuckwits is staggering.

      Recent case in point; some celeb fuckwit given 3 multiple choice options of quotes associated with Marie Antoinette – one being about ‘cake’ (yes, I know it isn’t actually true, but a myth attributed to her)…
      The twat got it wrong. His excuse – “I have no idea who that is – does she do a baking show?”

      Public thick cunt on quiz show ;
      Q: which country beginning with I ? 1st clue – cold
      twat : Ireland ?
      Q: No – further north
      twat: Ipswitch ?
      Q: that’s not a country. It’s also a well known store
      twat: err, is it Ikea ?
      Q: No – think food store
      twat: Tesco ?

    • This is spot on. Anybody educated after 1997 wasn’t educated, they were indoctrinated. They all think the same way about everything.

  2. Spot on Harold, this fucking enrages me. Listen you stupid cunt, you’ve gone on a quiz show. Unless you’re on Mastermind and your specialist subject is “things that I know”, “stuff which fits into my incredibly narrow existence” or “what I can see in front of me right now” there’s a good chance that you might have to answer questions about a general range of facts, or knowledge if you will.
    Fuck off you boring little cunts.

  4. Irritates the fuck out of me.

    ‘The Beatles were before my time’.

    Yeah, so was White Fucking Christmas but I’ll bet you can sing along with it.

    Excellent cunting.

    • The Beatles were before my time, I was 3 when they split up. Of course I know all about them as they have been rammed down our throats ever since.

      They did some good music but they are still overrated. Times do change but it’s smart to live in the present with some attention paid to the past and some paid to the future.

      Nostalgia is fine but when I hear people say the Ramones are one of the best bands ever I do wonder if some old cunts should take off their rose tinted glasses and turn their hearing aids on.

    • Not for much longer, as its apparently racist and therefore must be banned for the benefit of our children and our children’s children and our …….

  5. There was a Teacher on The Chase. Knew absolutely fuck all. Embarrassing it was. Bradley to make it seem better kept saying-‘that was before your time’. I think The Beast was frankly appalled.

    • Ditto ‘Celebrity’ Mastermind. Even though the definition has been stretched to breaking point, the ignorance of these cunts on that show is frequently stupendous.

      Time after time I know more about their own specialist subject than they do. And as for the General Knowledge round…… fuck me that’s embarrassing. It’s also 30s shorter than the mainstream version to spare their blushes.

      PASS!

    • I’ve yet to see a teacher on a quiz show who knew much more than his own name and some, and I do mean some, of the subject s/he teaches, otherwise unaware of any single thing on the planet.

      • You missed me on Mastermind Moggs! Just failed to reach the final with my speciality round of ‘serial killers.’

  7. A read an article in the local online paper a couple of years ago about kids not knowing anything. Apparently a couple of school children were asked why they felt it wasn’t important to go to school and learn things.

    The response was quite interesting “Why bother, when everything you need to know is just a Google search away!”

    And another kid said “Old people bang on about learning things, but I bet they use a calculator to work out sums rather than doing it long hand! Why do they do that for then?”

    I guess they have a point because I always use a calculator, and I always have YouTube to figure out how to fix things, or Wikipedia to find out about things.

    It’s the convenience that makes us lazy I suppose

    • Sometimes I still use my noggin for calculations and have been known to even use algebra .Years ago showing yer workings out were just as important as the right answer.

    • I work with a few younger crewmates, and, as we’re doing quizes on the telly and radio they always ask how I can answer so many questions.

      ‘Education, son, education outside of a mobile ‘phone’.

    • Not sure the calculator argument stands up. Before the calculator was the slide rule – just as much an artificial aid – and if you didn’t mind the low precision, it saved you having to dig out the log tables (or calculate the square of the sine of an angle by hand from first principles). Nowadays we have Matlab, and if anyone before whose time I was educated can tell me how that works, I’d be very grateful.
      What is important is knowing the basics, otherwise the garbage in-garbage out effect is as powerful for a calculator/computer as any other way of getting an answer. If kids aren’t getting the essential foundations of knowledge, they’re fucked, and I don’t think that’s their fault.

      • PS @Admin:
        If you use my latest nom, you may re-title it “It’s After My Time”, if you wish…

      • Kids? Education?

        If they know about our saviour Stormzy, LGBT and how to fend off a knife attack I think they have got it covered – for anything else just ask Magic Grandpa or Arsebook.

        “I can tell you all about diversity, not stringing a sentence together, who proper needs that skill, init bruv”?

    • My problem with asking the internet a question is that it’ll give you 10 answers, most of them contradictory. Anything medical will tell you everything from imminent terminal cancer to you’ve shit yourself.

      • Top tip never google your health problems, I did ,
        I think one of the possibility’s offered on the night sweats was Aids, and googling pictures of a diagnosed condition is not the best of ideas either.
        Ignorance is bliss.

      • Aye. The last option you’ll find for night sweats is “Turn the fucking heating down”, and an accompanying pic of Grenfell Towers.

      • Too many cunts Googling health problems and then calling us. Get pissy when we tell them they don’t have the symptoms.

        Time wasting cunts.

  8. Nice nom Harold this phrase makes my piss boil like a Guinness fart in the bath.What it actually means is I’m as thick as fuck and don’t have basic general knowledge.
    THICK CUNTS

  9. Slavery was before my time (and every other living person) but every woke cunt never stops banging on about!!

    What is part of our time are the grooming gangs, but we aren’t going be allowed to see the report on the scale and backgrounds of the perpetrators…. I wonder why!

  10. One of my lads came down the stairs the other morning talking to himself.

    He said, “This is an eight bed, four reception property.”

    A little later he was at it again.
    “Six of the bedrooms are en-suite and there are two family bathrooms.”

    After lunch I heard him again.
    “Underfloor heating throughout the ground floor and a further cloak room and bootroom.

    Later in the evening I heard him again.
    “So in summary, a beautiful property set in twenty two acres worth around five million pounds.”

    As he was going upstairs to bed that night I pulled him to one side and said, “Can’t you spend your time a little more constructively, rather than just lying about the house all day”….

  11. The days when I could walk into town on a day off work, without an 8-strong gang of EE dooshkas attempting to jostle me off the path into the road every 20 yards, shouting at the top of their voices, drinking Tilske at midday, gobbing all over and not working – nah, before my time mate.

    On a serious note I’m starting to worry my posts could be construed as a bit racist – I hope that’s not the case???

    • I suspect you mean xenophobic, so not remotely racist. Hope that puts your worried mind at rest Cuntan.

  12. Any young Labour Party candidates standing for election in twenty years time when they next might stand a chance of getting in can say “Its before my time” when discussing Compo and his band of commie clowns trip into the political wilderness.

    • Compo is an escapee from the dustbin of history circa 1970s/’80s, so before most people’s time.

  13. Remember when you could say you were a proud Englishman, men were men and women were women, vegans were marginalized weirdos, Prince Harry had a pair of balls and Extinction Rebellion sounded like a computer game? Before my time.

  14. You’d think these young cunts on quiz shows would be embarrassed at how little they know but they wear it almost like a badge of honour.
    Ah! Still. Nostalgia is not what it used to be.

    • The amount of young cunts who start a sentence “So I …” and are at university paying £9000 a year but don’t know what they want to do with their degree. Percy would put them to shame Blunty on Pointless after telling ‘Xander’ to fuck off.

      • Not really their fault they one, Teflon Tony decider kids at Uni was better than kids in dole queues. Universities have invented new degree courses to suck them in and enable the funding of the elite courses and of course pay the faculty heads up to 500k a year. The don’t teach kids critical thinking, probably because the first thing many of them would draw from it being, university is a scam.

      • Yes, fucking Blair again. 50% of school leavers to get degrees (target now achieved) and never ask if the degree or the student is any more use than balls on a cow….but…

        Just today (Times, print or paywall) we have Euan Blair, spawn of Tone, announcing that universities are broken and we need more apprentices (true)! Coincidentally, though, Euan runs an apprentice placement agency (Cherie funded it to start with and it needed more cash last year. Much more cash), and he still hopes to interpose his wallet between government handouts and employers too tight and stupid to invest in apprentices unaided. Like cunt father, like cunt son. Or, of the shitty crow, the shitty egg.

      • Blair’s family all have CUNTITUDE as part of their DNA, from both Miranda Blair and the vile, ugly money grabbing Cherie; therefore it is very potent indeed. When all Universities were true places of learning, Harold Wilson established The Open University, to provide able, hard working, individuals who had missed out on higher education the opportunity to gain a very acceptable degree. Charles Linton, the Cottager, fucked the whole system with his interference in and destruction of U.K Universites. Additionally, political correctness enabled Lammy, Abbott, her whelp and their like to be token “students” at formerly respectable Universities. Further escalating Blair to super-Stella CUNT status.

      • We’re currently trying to get on the chase LL after being turned down by Pointless at the audition.
        Percy told ‘Xander’ to “ fuck off you slapheaded cunt and then proceeded to tell the audience that Xander only had a third class degree from Cambridge ( this was true but nobody would believe him).

      • I very nearly got on the chase, down to the last six people at the last audition. But alas, I wasn’t an 83 years old man that want to take up hand gliding. Word to the wise, wear something a bit outlandish and tell them you’ll do something crazy if you won any money…

  15. An anthem for this cunting, courtesy of Half Man, Half Biscuit.

    ‘Knobheads on Quizshows’

    What possessed you to apply?
    Did your friends with good advice implode?
    We should hang you up in chains
    Let you rot beside the ill-paved road

    Born too late for the First World War
    Siege of Troy was long before my time
    Naseby, Jutland, Agincourt
    Characters perhaps from pantomime

    Authors, sport, landlocked states
    Capitals of Europe and their size
    Breeds of dog, famous dates
    Kind of hoping these things don’t arise

    I don’t watch films in black and white
    The trees and flowers and birds have passed me by
    I’ll just guess and hope I’m right
    The first man into space was Captain Bligh

    Good luck back in work
    They’ll’ve heard you were on
    Have you got the file for Mr Out In Round One?
    Harken, a cuckoo! Or is it a wren?
    Don’t ever darken our doorstep again

  16. We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

    Carl Sagan.

    So Google it you you stupid lazy fucking cunts. In a world where you can access almost infinite amounts of scientific, historical and practical knowledge, I am constantly amazed at how many thick as pigshit youngsters are out there (and often wilfully so), and encouraged by the likes of Radio 1, where being a vacuous moronic cunt is the bar.

    • Having worked in IT for 21 years now ,I’ve seen technical staff go from being self taught and knowing their shit to being useless without an internet connection, the same has been said in the medical field believe it or not.

      Same thing could be said about many things, my old man could build a shed out of a pile of wood, slaughter, butcher his own meat and all sorts of practical shit. He was functionally illiterate! Cunts can’t even wire a plug these days.

      If the electricity goes off for a few days we are fucked, it’s great having access to knowledge but it’s no replacement for experience and knowledge.

      • Last year, I was shocked to learn the millenial cunts I was working with had never heard of the SAS raid on the Iranian embassy. Even more shocking if you knew where I was working at the time. Useless millenial cunts.

      • Some American millennials don’t know the year 9-11 happened. It’s sobering to realise how actual events soon fade into history and how easily history is rewritten to suit agendas.

  17. I was in a bar about a year ago, and there are framed pictures of legendary rock acts all over the walls… I overheard some students yapping their usual irritating social media obsessed crap, when one of them pointed at the picture of John Lennon… Who’s that? said one of the idiots. And another replied in all seriousness, ‘Is it Harry Potter?’. Not unlike the thick as fuck Ed Sheercunt clone: who looked totally nonplussed when I asked if hr could sing any Donovan….

    Millennials, eh? Yeah, them cunts….

  18. The football started in 1992 mob get on my knackers and all…
    Why is Alan Fucking Shearer seen as the yardstick for goal scoring?
    What about greats like Jimmy Greaves, Dixie Dean, and Denis Law?
    Yet all we hear is the fucking Premier League and all that crap… So much has been airbrushed out of history by cunts like the BBC and other media mongs… Forest won two European Cups (Champions League, my arse), Villa also won it, but you’d never know that now… The current LFC side (although undeniably good) will be the ‘greatest ever; in the eyes of today’s media and online clowns, when they don’t really come near to their classic sides of the 70s and 80s…. And as for Man Citeh? It’s like scores of relegations, the Wighead Swales Circus, the Forward With Franny (aka Lee Won Pen) fiasco, and 35 years winning fuck all never happened… Amazing what a dictator sugar daddy and Sky TV can do, eh?…

    • Cloughie, Shanks, the Doc, Atkinson. Nothing ‘special’ about those fuckers. A winger, Robertson, who looked like a barman. Rushie – a head on a stick. Law, the inspiration for Rod Stewart’s haircut. Frannie Lee, who could fall over in a slight breeze. Characters all.
      I know, I am sounding like Ron Manager but those were the fucking days.

      • It’s fair to say this is a great current Liverpool team and a Champions League trophy is a great start but any cunt who starts saying it’s the greatest team ever can fuck off.
        When this side wins and dominates over a long period like that great side of the 80s then we may be able to compare…until then go fuck yourselves.

      • I agree completely Black and White. Unfortunately
        because the game has changed so much, I don’t think we’ll ever see any team dominating an era, as in the past.

      • Probably not Bertie, so many big money cunt teams around.
        If we keep this squad together, with some of the youth we have coming through and if we keep Klopp for at least another 5 years we can become a great team.
        YNWA.

      • Clough. Now there’s a fucking legend. Probably the greatest manager ever, certainly the greatest that England never had.

        I had the honour of meeting him at Burton Albion about 3 months before he croaked. I’d like to say it was a pleasure but to be honest the poor old cunt looked buggered (rather like Phil The Greek does now) and didn’t really seem to have a clue what was going on.

  19. The pig ignorance of millenials explains a lot. They have never listened to good music, read books or seen great films. Hence the bland shit that passes for ‘music’ and the appalling juvenile films.
    And without books you have no sense of wonder.

    • Yeah but who needs that old stuff eh?
      We know everything about mental health and also about how everything could be free like Jeremy and yuni taught me if only old cunts would stop voting for boring parties yeAh?

  20. I sometimes wish I was born in older times and I think I was born too late.
    I am very knowledgeable about history and people were celebrated back then for real achievements.
    Although I am a great man today I would have been a greater back then…I don’t have limits on my ambition and glory unlike some and have what it takes and the bollocks to take risks for greatness.
    One my heroes is Sir Henry Morgan and another is Blackbeard.
    Men who came from nothing and achieved greatness and infamy.
    Go fuck yourselves.

    • We need exceptions to prove the rule B&WC. I’m sure we all appreciate your greatness.

      Perhaps that’s the reason for the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square.

      • I am sure when in later years some sort of recognition will come my way SV from the Royals…if they are still around then that is.

  21. I admit to having said this a few times, but usually in reference to TV programmes or pop music that was never that good, rather than important events.

  22. Great cunting!
    I was born in 1974,but I’ve always taken an interest in events, music, films, and TV shows from before then, as most people would, presumably. So it absolutely shocks me when some soy-guzzling millennial twat appears on a quiz show and has never heard of John Wayne, hasn’t a clue who starred in King Creole and Viva Las Vegas,what group recorded Stairway To Heaven, and can’t tell us the answer to “what sitcom starred Harry H. Corbett?”
    The “it’s before my time” or “I wasn’t born until 1994” excuses are lame, I’ve never understood that. What they’re actually saying is “I’m a bit of a thicko and a dullard and I’ve no interest in learning about popular culture from an era before mine”.
    Dopey cunts.

  23. Very astute cunting.

    It always amazes me some of the thick cunts that appear on quiz/general knowledge shows. Most of them don’t know even very basic things that we ALL learn at school, such as historical events, Prime Ministers, English Lit (predominantly Shakespeare, that every fucker under the sun has to study at school) and just very general knowledge that lurks in most people’s brains from being educated.

    My 78-year-old Mum doesn’t miss a thing when watching these shows, usually ‘Pointless’: “What the hell is she doing on this? She knows fuck all”.

    When I was at university I had a framed photo of John Lennon on my dorm room wall. I was a ‘mature student’ when I went to uni……about 25 years old as opposed to the mostly 19-year-olds on my course. I will never forget the day that one of them came into my room for a cuppa and asked me:

    “Is that your Dad?”

    I mean really. John Lennon? The Beatles? Doesn’t ring a bell?
    For the sake of fuck.

  24. I quite like to use “It’s before my time”. Most things aren’t, but it gets me out of a conversation that I have no interest in. Ditto “It is what it is”. Mostly used at work when people are moaning or when I can’t be arsed to think. I wouldn’t use either of these on a quiz show but they are handy tools for those of us who are starting to hate talking to twats.

    • “It is what it is” annoys me when spouted by others about their bad decisions that waste my TIME and cost me MONEY. Fucking cunts grrrrrrrrrr

  25. If something takes my interest, I will look for more information on it, from as many sources as possible, to get a better understanding of it. Even if I don’t like the conclusion, at least I understand it. With the idiots of today, a headline or a fucking tweet is enough, and off they go, like they are a world authority on the matter. Add the ever present confirmation bias, where they will look into a topic, but only the bits that back up their opinions or beliefs. They are even worse than the dullards.
    I love being proved wrong, as I am such a pessimist, when I am wrong, the world is a better place.

  26. BM. Not your glucose. ( Before Mobiles )
    BYT (Before You Tube )
    and so on…vacuous retarded fuckwits

  27. Before I clicked on the link to this nomination, I thought it was about people not wanting to die.

    “Please, Dog, I’m not ready yet. There’s still so much I want to do. At least let me kiss the norks of Salma Hayek before I go.”

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