Oh no, I get you. I think we are a similar age.

I was at the Reading Festival in '96 and I think offspring were playing.

There was a slightly older guy stood in the middle of the crowd shouting, you call this punk… This ain’t punk. This ain’t shit.

The kids were laughing at him.

This week in Glasgow Green Day played a gig and all I saw was middle aged men and their daughters wearing matching merch t-shirts.

I’m assuming at some point I travel back in time to '96 to try to stop this.

She may be a Puncke: for many of them, are neither Maid, Widow, nor Wife.

W. Shakespeare, Measure for Measure (1623)

Damn, you really old.

US education system.

Mate, I haven’t forgiven them for google reader.

They killed my boy.

That’s a fair question.

The arts are seen as a luxury and a frippery. They are also seen as elitist.

If you want to defund public services and remain popular, the playbook is to remove the arts first. That way you are demonstrating the order of needs.

Related to another popular post right now…so what was Bruce Dickinson’s ancestor?

It’s 1994. The Bosnian-Serbian conflict is still raging. Some cool dude from the UN peace keepers thinks it would be good to have a concert.

He contacts Bruce Dickinson and says, “wanna play a much needed gig in a warzone?”

Bruce says, “yes”.

Here’s the documentary.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt6481232/

You can’t defund social welfare programmes without defunding the arts first. To defund healthcare you have to defund the arts. To defund schools, you first have to defund the arts.

You know where this is going.

The arts are the canary and it is lying dead at the bottom of the cage.

Adore the darktable gang.

Cretins? Not sure that’s a word you want to use, pal, it’s a pretty bad slur.

Couldn’t let it be could you?

And opposing those actions is not antisemitic.

We take those two things together as truth and we are getting somewhere.

I’m gen-x and I am at the point where I don’t know if I say anything unironically any more.

(But you are spot on, slang is there, always, and it mutates as it is needed, but it isnt generational so much as sociopolitical and regional.)

Nah, its for “grizzled tanman”. You oldies just don’t get it.

That hair though.

C’mon man, it’s time to get a coverage appropriate cut or just shave it altogether.

He looks like a boiled sweet that’s been dropped on the carpet.

This is a really lovely, well composed,image. The noise/grain works really well in providing texture and the colour palette is subtle but effective.

Yeah, nice work.

Is this taken down by the river? I’d be interested to know.

I once made a music video for Sony Universal.

They paid me £4k.

They liked it a lot and asked if I would do another. I asked if the fee was the same and they said I’d be doing it for exposure.

I told them I’m capable of exposing myself.

I stuck it to them.

I’m still poor, but at least I’m not working for it.

All my heart still belongs to the canon HV20 forum. It taught me how to film, it taught me how to chat to people in an online community.

It was never about a camcorder. It was about connection.

Plus, you could search for stuff on google and the forum results would pop up. Good look with discord doing that.

Yup, needs are approx 115% of my budget, but thanks for insinuating it is me that’s being shit with maths.

(And in before the “live within your means” crowd… I was doing until my landlord doubled my rent and they started having to put anti-theft devices on packs of butter).

Hi, I’m Issac Newton, you might remember me from… The motions.