I know it shouldn’t surprise me any more but why is it young people seem to know nothing of the past?

Let’s take the example of sport. When I was a lad the football stars were of the calibre of Bobby Moore, Bobby Charlton, Jimmy Greaves, Denis Law, George Best.

Today’s 20-30 somethings have never heard of them. Why should they, you might ask? Well, how come I knew all about Dixie Dean, Tommy Lawton, Nat Lofthouse, Alex James, Billy Wright? There was no Google to look them up on. Instead I relied on old football annuals which had wonderful recoloured pictures of the old masters in their baggy shorts. I was interested because I was a football fan, not just a club supporter.

When dear old Greavsey died, I tried to explain to youngish fans how great a goal scorer he was. Grainy black and white video on YouTube didn’t do him justice. They was more amazed at the muddy quagmire pitches and how slow the game appeared to be.

Their conclusion was that the players of yesteryear could not compete with those of the premiership who are bigger, faster and much fitter. Although impossible to prove, I refuted this. You can only be the best in your time and I have no doubt that modern training methods allied to their immense skill would ensure that the old stars would still be great if not greater today. And a lot less arrogant.

To the uninitiated, football began in 1992 and even that seems like the dark ages to them. Too many British players around then!

I also love cricket and I rate Stokes amongst the all time greats but my knowledge goes all the way back to WG Grace, CB Fry, Herbert Sutcliffe through Boycott, Edrich, Truman, Botham, Gower et al.

With Google, it would be so easy to trace the history of the game you love but I think very few do this. Is it the social media bubble effect that stops anyone taking any interest in the past? I’ve noticed that the Sunday papers no longer feature the passing of greats like Trevor Francis, the 1st million £ footballer. Top stars earn that in a month now.

We can widen this out, nobody under 30 knows who was prime minister a decade ago let alone who was in power when they were born.

And as for what happened in WWII, forget it.

Daily Fail

Nominated by Lord Helpus.

How much of a cunt do you have to be to volunteer to be a speed grassing cunt?

Anyway, even the police have stood these jobs worth cunts down for their own safety due to speed rage issues.

To be fair driving at 20mph means your already half way to boiled piss, some old coffin dodging cunt with nothing better to do except report you for 20.5mph on his un calibrated equipment and then like as not jump out in the road doing the funky chicken like they do in front of bikers around the Landovery area in Wales is only ever going to end in tears one way or another.

leaderlive.co.uk

Nominated by Fuglyucker.

 
So you thought our hero had run out of ideas on how to screw money out of the car owner with his latest ULEZ rip off?

Dream on my friends. Now the cunt is going to steal £4 from you for going through the Blackwall and Silvertown (yet to be completed) tunnels. That’s £4 each way by the way. Of course it “ has yet to be decided “ but I’ve seen the signs, already designed, in the Evening Standard.

It’s fucking happening don’t worry about that. Best to buy a bike now before they are out of your price range.
They want you off the road…..that’s the bottom line.

Express

Nominated by Freddie the Frog, link by The Duke of Cuntshire.

.. can be a cunt.

Yes, I know there’s been several iterations of this incredibly irritating phrase on here previously, but quite frankly it is doing my head in more than ever primarily because nearly every is at it!

Some regular YouTube channels I subscribe to in particular have British presenters going into pubs, restaurants and hotels and saying “Can I get your menu please?”

Yesterday while shopping in Egremont I heard a couple of Americans in a petrol station asking the bloke behind the counter “Can we get your car wash?”

And then soon after while walking through the High Street, a chugger comes up to me and says “Can I get your signature for this petition?”

Do these fuckwits actually know the logic behind what they’re actually saying? They’re not actually “getting” anything. That’s up to someone else. So why not say the more natural “Could I have…” instead?

Utter, utter cunts, who deserve nothing more than a good slap around the chops.

Go and get that, fuckface!

Nominated by Technocunt.

… are proper cunts and need calling out.

With this in mind, all respect to GBN’s presenters, Patrick Christys and Michelle Dewbury, who yesterday started to reveal some of the fucking hypocrisy there is amongst (probably the majority of), the tree-hugging politicians and ‘celebrities’.

I want to see more of it. Every one of the toss-pot shitehawks that come into the studio to spout their ill-informed green rhetoric should immediately be asked three questions.

Do you have an electric vehicle?

Do you have solar panels on your home?

Do you have a heat pump heating your home?

If they answer ‘no’ to any of these, they should be told to shut the fuck up until they can answer ‘yes’ and stop preaching to us.

globalherald.com

Nominated by Cassandra, with a little help from C.A.

(While we’re at it the COP28 climate-change “do as we say!” junket has just started in Dubai of all places. UN COP28– Day Admin)