is a cunt
This cunting comes with a caveat; this excuse for ignorance becomes valid in relation to various obscure cultural references , such as underground psychedelic bands of the late sixties or middling footballers of the fifties; they’re generally not known for a reason. It’s quite a narrow subject of interest to the general population.
You hear this phrase quite a lot from millennials, who almost say it with pride, as if knowing about anything before their date of birth, or decade currently made fashionable (such as the eighties because of Stranger Things) is equivalent to being an old codger. You’re now a relic.
The Battle of Britain was fought with tanks, innit?
Nah, don’t matter… before my time!’
I thought this cunting would probably be better if it came from me as I’m one of the younger cunters and in the limbo between Gen X and Millennial.
I find that what near-contemporaries or those just a few years younger really mean is ‘i don’t read books/papers/journals/watch documentaries/ am generally incurious about the world’.
A lot of these people are quite well-travelled, even if they all tend to travel to the same places and far from sober and think that simply by travelling they become better people, but return just as ignorant and conceited as when they left; the delusion is just even more embedded.
May don’t seem to have picked up any more common sense, which I find odd, but then I remember that many are treading a path so well-worn and Anglophone, so cossetted by airports and hotels and top-ups from mummy and daddy, they don’t need to learn life lessons.
Also, they don’t need to know who either Charles Dickens or Darwin were because they’ve been drunk in Phuket, drunk in Bangkok, climbed on the ruins of Angkor Watt and then drunk in Sydney.
The modern quiz show is where these worldly bon vivants proudly display their ignorance;
‘Before my time, bruv!’
‘Before my time, mate!’
‘Before my time, moosh!’
Did you really need to be alive in the middle ages to know which angel led a rebellion against God in the Judeo-Christian bible?
May as well say, ‘naah, don’t believe in God, ha!’
I reiterate the point that certain pop songs, TV programmes etc. do not really merit being known about by the younger generation, and sometimes ‘before my time can be employed diplomatically.
A good example might be Watney’s Party Sevens. I only know about those from working with blokes who talked about them. I certainly wouldn’t say ‘before my time’ with pride.
By the same token, I’m not one to scoff at a late millennial/ gen Z who has never heard of Depeche Mode or The Foo Fighters, although you can bet they know about Nirvana.
I know a few contemporaries who might, but I put that down to insecurity. It isn’t important they know about pop and rock bands from the eighties and nineties, whatever I may think of them. Even within the scope of musical history they are ephemera, as are most pop acts.
Still, the pride of the ‘before my time’ crowd we see in the media and those leaving education reminds me of Orwell’s line from Nineteen Eighty Four,
‘Nothing exists except an endless present. and the party is always right’
Eh? George Orwell? Before my time, bruv.
Nominated by Cuntamus Prime.
(Just a quick note to say there will be an additional Nomination at 11am today and 11am tomorrow. Thanks – Day Admin)
You can bet that anyone under the age of 30 wearing a Nirvana T-shirt couldn’t name you a single one of their songs, apart from the “one about a spirit”.
What a splendidly-worded and eloquent cunting by the way, Cuntamus Prime.
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Nirvana was the music of outcasts at my school. it was Hard dance or the rappers.
I didn’t know who Kurt Kobain qas until 1995.
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cheers Mr Cunt Engine.
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I was in a record shop a bit ago. And there was this student hipster type in a Rolling Stones ‘Tongue’ T-Shirt, I smelled cunt, so I flushed him out. The exchange went like this…
So, you’re a Stones fan then?
Yeah. I love ’em.
Do you think they were better with Brian Jones?
Brian who? He was never in the Rolling Stones.
The cunt detector never fails.
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well written nom that CP👍
considering the human lifespan is around say 80yrs then most things would be ‘before your time’.
Doesn’t go to say you’d be ignorant of a subject.
Dinosaurs? before my time!
battle of Culloden?
before my time!
wasn’t asking if you were there.
Things happened before you were born.
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As for Nirvana that was of my time.
I was 20, had very long hair and thought it was great how it killed off that LA glam metal shite.
But the more I know about Kurt Cobain the more I’m glad he sucked that shotgun.
” I see myself as a feminist”….
just pull the trigger smackrat
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cheers Mis’.
As i said to Thomas, I missed Nirvana, mainly by being a deeply unfashionable cunt back at school, but I was the only kid in my class who got the teacher’s ‘There’s a ‘Rat in the kitchen, what am I gonna do’ reference.
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Cobain was a pussy. A whining self pitying hippy cunt. Like the Young Ones’ Neil on smack and cough syrup.
He was also a thieving cunt. The name and the ‘iconic’ Nirvana logo was nicked off the original Nirvana, the psychedelic 60s band.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca5s6yC8oiw
The cunt also stole the Killing Joke song ‘Eighties’ wholesale.
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The school I went to if you liked anything more rock than Oasis or Blur, people thought you were a wrong’un.
I had to hide my love of heavy rock music and metal like hiding copies of Mayfair under the bed.
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Peter Watkins did an awesome film about Culloden. The very definition of “never bring a sword to a gun fight”.
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Most of this before my time is down to laziness. You have the world at your fingertips, I never had the Internet growing up.
But nowadays everything is out there, but I prefer to get my information from a blogger or influencer who is 5 minutes older than me.
some of those dull cunts that no nothing about the holocaust better start studying, cause it will be coming there way in 40 or 50 years time.
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When the BLM types demand reparations for slavery I say; “Sorry Blood, before my time.”
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In the Middle Ages 80 percent of Europe’s population were peasants, 70% of the peasants were what were called bonded serfs. A bonded serf was considered part of the property owned by the lords, barons or monastery who held title to the land.
None of this is mentioned of course because it gives historical context to the world, context the removes the uniqueness from the misfortunes of African slaves and places them in a world where the vast majority of people are exploited.
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Even worse is the complete omission of the Barbary Pirates and their involvement in the the White Slave trade.
Historian Robert Davis estimates that as many as 1.25 million people from Italy, Spain, France, England, Ireland, Scotland Wales and even the Netherlands and Iceland were taken by Muslims and sold into slavery in the Levant.
This of course does not include the Slavs in the Balkans or the Circassians from the Caucasus region taken by the Turks.
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Utter madness.Bollocks.
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A lot of these Millennial/Gen Z cunts think they know all about the history of the Palestinian people and the Israeli state, or rather they don’t. When asked “what river and what sea?” many have no fucking clue. There is also a disturbing trend of ignorance in the US and probably over here too, when it comes to 9/11, an event that is still shaping geopolitics and the world in which we are living in today and that was only twenty two years ago.
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Millennial, Gen X, Gen Z, Boomer etc.
I honestly don’t know or care what any of those bollocks phrases mean.
Young cunt.
Middle aged cunt.
Old cunt.
Prehistoric cunt.
The four ages of man.
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There was a recent video showing some millenial or gen z type arseholes on a palestine march, who didn’t know what they were chanting. One of them said that she wasn’t really sure and needed to ‘get a bit more clued up’ The other, when asked about what the hamassholes did on 7th October said something like, ‘did hamas go into Israel then? I didn’t know that, I don’t think they did….’ This was just a few weeks after it happened.
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Regardless of the subject-matter, this is an articulate and grammatical nomination (I always think that the way something is said is more important than what is said (I can’t do italics)).
Any-how, completely off-topic (don’t ban me, admin – or should I say – Admin): my God it’s cold – I hope you’ve all survived. And I hate The Fairytale of New York.
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Cold? Bollocks, we’ve created global boiling. The boss of the UN says so, so it must be true.
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The Human Scum at the UN now officially call it climate change. That way they are always right.
If it gets hot…climate change
If it gets cold…climate change
If it rains…climate change
If it doesn’t rain…climate change
If the sun shines…climate change
If it gets dark…climate change
And of course 104% of all scientists agree that it’s man caused.
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I’ve always been of the opinion that the great unwashed should have to pass a basic history test before being allowed to vote, this would “perhaps” give the dopey twats a better view of what they are actually voting for (especially as the origins of political party’s don’t reflect the current versions).
“Before my time” therefore, could not be applicable at least in this area…!
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It would also be an idea if candidates for Parliament had to pass a history test.
Additionally, I think that the the ability to understand statistics, economics and science is required for politicians. The performance of the decision makers during Chinky Flu’ was woeful as the current inquiry is showing. I look forward to Boris’s performance next week; he will try to wriggle out of accepting responsibility by quoting a few Greek phrases.
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I wonder what the greek is for “I’m a cunt, and so is nearly everybody else in both Houses of Parliament.”?
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Why bother learning anything when it’s all on the internet anyway?
Rod Liddle wrote about this attitude in last week’s Sunday Times, referring to some of the cretinous answers he’d heard given to questions on TV quiz shows.
For example:
‘Papillon’ is French for which winged insect?
Answer: Dog
Where would you wear dentures?
Answer: On your feet.
What yellow citrus fruit is present in whisky sour?
Answer: Cherry.
Who was Prime Minister at the time of the Battle of Trafalgar?
Answer: Winston Churchill.
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Morning Geordie, morning all.
You beat me to it about Rob Liddle, was just hunting for a link.
Yes, very true and funny.
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My post disappeared
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It was before your time, HJ.
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I can completely relate!
Although to be fair not too many of mine have vanished lately. But every now and then…poof…into cyber space never to be seen again.
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cunts wearing the psychotic homophobic killer Che T shirts. Before their time, they do not even know who he was.
The Cunts.
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I wouldn’t be at all surprised if you said “Churchill” their first thought would be the car insurance bulldog. The Battle of Stamford Bridge was a football match and the Duke of Wellington invented the welly.
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If ignorance is bliss, there are a lot of people in for a life of happiness.
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My son is really into his music, he knows more about music from the the past than I do, but being a millennial he never lived it.
He actually thinks the Beatles are a better band than the Monkees, youth of today know nothing.
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At least it’s amusing to take the piss out of young dullards.
A few days ago, I told a young colleague who had asked to borrow my mechanical pencil that pencils were invented in Pennsylvania but even she wasn’t dimwitted enough to swallow my follow-up fib that trans people originally came from Transylvania.
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When you go back to work Cunt Engine, try saying that Nelson Mandela invented the half nelson during a fight in the prison canteen in 1975.
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What about the Sweet Transvestite from Transexual Transylvania?
https://youtu.be/bc80tFJpTuo?t=90
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Rocky Horror.
Yeesh.
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Shudder to think what comes from Philadelphia ?
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Spreadable cheese?
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I was always interested in history as a kid.
especially UK history.
it’s all around us.
But modern kids don’t seem to be interested?
it blew my mind as a nipper to know that the British isles had been populated by bear,wolves, mammoth,
and our ancestors hunted them.
and that the Vikings had not just raided the coastline but settled,
and large parts of England subscribed to Danelaw.
That the fields nearby had been camped on by Cromwell’s parliamentary forces heading to a battle.
I found it fascinating then.
And still do.
I don’t understand how you can’t be interested?
the land you walk on has a great story.
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It’s criminal how history is being rewritten to suit the modern narrative.
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The Dark Ages too Miserable. Its incredible that after the Romans left the British Isles a lot of their villas, towns and cities, the mosaics, art, culture and knowledge were lost or fell into disrepair for centuries. We have got a brilliant and rich history.
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We don’t appreciate what the Nĕģřôéş did for us! 😃
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They grow below knee. Easier to get stepped on.
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They impregnated the underclass.
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I tend not to use the phrase, possibly because its commonly used and reeks of ignorance.
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It was a time when your parents had a bit of hanky panky. Now you’re supposed to take it from there.
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I watch ‘Inside The Tower of London’ programme on C5 and when the Beefeaters are giving their tours they say they are regularly asked “why did they build the Tower of London underneath a flightpath?” as airliners thunder overhead.
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We know where they come from. They believe anything we say and fucked up our language during the process.
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Yeah, they could have made it more accessible by building it by the M25.
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Exemplary nom CP.
In using this phrase, a person might be expressing a form of sceptical empiricism. Once we reject rationalism as a coherent explanation of anything that actually exists, anything not directly perceived by the senses may not have happened at all. In such a case, they would simply be using the expression ‘before my time’ as a shorthand.
All of the above bollocks notwithsatnding, they are most likely ignorant cunts with no interest in their origins or the world around them and deserve to perish in Unkle T’s oven.
Good morning, everyone.
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Aye there’s a great many thick cunts about.
And this Global Boiling is ace,I saw a Robin as big as a tennis ball.
Splendid.
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Morning, Unkle. Yes, the prophecies of the great Blue Mink are coming true. According to the BBC the world is a “great big melting pot”. I am literally melting as I type. Beelzebub would be proud. Sssssss
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I hate to be the pne to go against our docial betters at the illustrious Beebistan but the world was only ever one big melting pot kn pre-agricultural times when humans followed game around for hunting.
You could say certain Empires were cosmopolitan but as we’ve seen, the media like to overcook it to ridiculous degrees, and outside of those Empires, populations like the Germanic tribes and Picts were not interested. Again, America is seen as a melting pot, but over how long were the igredients added?
500 years since the first Europeans landed in Central and South America,, longer if you count Viking expeditions.
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Questions need to be asked, then I’ll let you know. Just normal routine.
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I’ve tried again and my post has completely vanished. Again.
WordPress is obviously very unhappy about something I’ve wrote
I’ll have to pass I think.
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Tower Hamlets, civilization ? Before my time..!
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You mention these people as well traveled, but not particularly well read and reliant on mummy and daddy.
Sounds like students to me.
They only know what their mollycoddled, narrow minds want to know. Mostly leftist propaganda which dictates that British history is where evil originated from.
Students. Living proof that the voting age should be raised to 40.
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Very good, this nom.
I personally find it hard to have a conversation about anything in the news because they don’t watch any. They get their “knowledge” from what they are fed on social media yet this doesn’t stop them from spouting the most ridiculous conspiracy theories. For example, the missing maylasian jet liner was abducted by aliens – a YouTube video proves it. Holiday homes now have hidden bugs and cameras so that everything you do is broadcast on the dark web. Just two comments from young(ish) family members recently. Paranoid and ignorant. I’ve given up trying to counter such codswallop as they accuse ME of being brainwashed.
And, no, I don’t believe everything I watch on MSM, especially the woke and biased BBC but I try to apply some rationale to my thinking.
I remember a boy in my history class at school who, when asked what Henry 8th did next replied “I don’t know Sir, I wasn’t there.” The class roared with laughter but isn’t that where we are two decades into the 21st century?
Personally I thought Henry was OK until he got his Hampton Court. After that he was very grumpy.
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I used to take things the MSM said with a pinch of salt. Nowadays I just don’t believe anything they say. So I don’t watch the news or read newspaper. I’d rather be uninformed than misinformed.
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Now in maaaah day, we’d never have used such an expression as ‘before my time’.
Morning all.
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The use of the phrase before my time automatically marks you down as a cunt in my book.
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Related to this nom, i see that Ridley Scott has been petulant defending his pre-schoolers account of Napoleon with equally childish retorts, telling historians they wouldnt know what happened as they weren’t there.
May as well have set it on the fucking moon then, Ridley.
Fuck me, the wrong Scott brother threw himself off the Golden Gate Bridge.
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A top cunting. The lack of general knowledge with today’s kids is tragic. One dumb bint thought WW2 ended in the late 1970’s. Ask them anything about important world historical events and they haven’t got a clue, but ask them who’s fucking who on Sex Disease Island or some other vacuous shit and they’ll be spot on. What a pile of cunt.
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Won’t make any difference.
Just like with the arrival of the Premier League back in 1992. Anything before that is ignored/forgotten or simply doesn’t matter anymore because its ancient history and BMT.
So too with history generally. Millennials and Zoomers will think anything BMT is either complete fiction, fake, or needs to be rewritten/reimagined in order to be the right side of OUR history and not that of previous generations.
Adolf Hitler? Not a bad chap. Probably had some mental issues, but he had some good ideas, especially against those nasty Jews. Oh and those Brits declaring war on him in 39 probably hurt his feelings even more.
Winston Churchill? Total cunt. Racist, homophobic drunkard, xenophobe. Declares war on poor old misunderstood Germany, bombs German cities, killing million of innocent Germans. Also a racist and misogynist. What a scumbag. He must be erased from history because even though he was BMT he deserves contempt.
And so it goes…
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Osama Bin Laden.. top bloke.
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Yep,
He bought his mother flowers and that.
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