kip

pun-ctuation

good points, the inter class rivalry in particular. i think it’s a reasonable guess that the term lost its more specific original sense when it escaped containment and got into the mouths of littlejohn et al but just saying middle class was reductive. sun/mirror hacks would have been in on the action too

i read about chav being derived from charva but never heard it said personally - i’m from the south though

re hooligans there’s definite similarities but chavs lack the same kind of rallying point so were more dispersed. maybe some chavs got promoted to casuals

i don’t know much about usa subcultures either but it might be somewhat similar to guidos? i’m not sure how well they are known for antisocial behaviour. the closest international comparison i can think of is russian gopniks

there is a grain of truth in this. chav culture certainly existed and still exists in the south of england but they came in around 2000-2010 or so for much greater demonisation than their northern (scally) or scottish (ned) counterparts, likely due to UK media being concentrated in the south

the great chav danger was blown wildly out of proportion and i’ve no doubt the term expanded beyond the original sense of a sort of tracksuit/burberry clad antisocial petty criminal youth to include just about any working class kid in the minds of home counties handbag clutchers

so to say they never existed is false, and to say they never caused anyone any bother is false. but the middle class media confected version of them never existed in any great proportion either

I’ll confirm this, my english mother in her 70s who happily uses swears of all strengths up to and including fuck used to screw her face up in a scowl if you dropped a cunt in conversation, but now doesn’t bat an eye

only games from ‘digital data sharing publishers’ are included, and it’s dollar sales not units

https://bsky.app/profile/matpiscatella.bsky.social/post/3m3sjk463ck2v

first you see anthropomorphic cartoon animals and find them appealing, then the internet shits in your brain and makes you want to fuck them. after that you start pretending to be one. if somebody intervenes at this point or your remaining sense of shame kicks in you may be able to recover, otherwise your condition will deteriorate until you are found dead under a bodily fluid sodden pile of threadbare animal toys with holes cut in the crotches

If I have to ask, it’s lame

i don’t understand jokes and that’s your fault

yes that’s his main problem. his blazer has two buttons and he’s done them both up

times like this i can hardly blame the simulation theorists, if this was a novel you’d throw it at the cat

this pushed me on to the green bandwagon, signed up today

I know nationalising water right now would cost hundreds of billions

a hundred billion or so is the government’s own line. other more believable opinions suggest this is bollocks

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jun/09/water-companies-public-ownership-could-cost-close-to-zero-says-common-wealth-thinktank

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/06/27/how-much-would-it-really-cost-to-nationalise-water

https://weownit.org.uk/news/government-100-billion-water-nationalisation

neil hopper

what is the opposite of nominative determinism

A purply pinky pallette is often used for cosmic horror. I don’t know if this is because of magenta ‘not existing’ or if it’s just a coincidence but it’s a good choice anyway

https://leatriceeiseman.com/magenta/

This is a good take although I still prefer the sinister ending of the film over the redemptive one in the book. Later editions include a foreword by Burgess lamenting the omission of the 21st chapter in part because he wrote three acts of seven chapters for the symmetry of it and the symbolism of 21 being the age of majority

it’s not weird but it’s also not weird if he isn’t into it. amongst my own friend group there’s some with siblings or cousins who come along to the pub etc but there’s also others who keep their friends compartmentalised, who keep in touch with school friends, work friends, family members, whatever groups entirely seperately

so ask, you have nothing to lose, but don’t take it personally if he doesn’t like the idea