Because now it means immigrant neighbourhoods more explicitly, and we cannot call that out now. That's why it's a bygone time. The writing was on the wall. And we just laughed "ahah how can it be so bad!!" well now here it is.
I wrote a book called “Crap Towns”. It seemed funny at the time
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This is, unfortunately, the world that we live in right now. There are stand-up comedians who privately admit it’s almost impossible to do their jobs any more because of the faux outrage.
But there are other stand-up comedians who don't have that problem and are wildly successful. I wonder what the difference is?
Different types of comedy I guess.
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#323I grew up in the "rust belt", just north of Flint, Michigan. A GM town at the time. I loved it as a kid. But it was many would consider a "crap town".
Even though it was already declining (economically replaced with healthcare, a fucking sign) it had nature and woods.
That was magical.
Anyways, I'd like to talk about bat guano.
I'd love to have a local nature conservancy or non-profit do a kids educational showing. Wouldn't that be fun? Just a deep dive into how much you can still learn, whether you're old or young. That even with limits, we can still inspire joy through gross natural things.
Kids love gross shit.
There are so many models you could experiment with. Traveling nature discovery labs... Art-train things. Robotic teleprescence to let kids take apart their own guano pile...
I'm obviously not comparing UK towns or my home town to bat shit.
I suppose there are so many liability issues around bat handling that's just a job in itself. Believe me when I say I can't work with my brother who does similar work. Those liability concerns will save lives, but I'd like my own story. Maybe somebody I love in the future can have their own story too.
Sorry for "crapping" in the thread.
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> No one has been deported for their opinions, yet You probably thought I was talking about El Salvador. I wasn't. Is it not deportations when multiple university students have stripped of their visas without notice, by order of "Little Marco" and forced to leave the country? > How would you react to 10 million tourists moving to your country, buying up all the food from your grocery stores, drinking and driving, ste…
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> No one has been deported for their opinions, yet You probably thought I was talking about El Salvador. I wasn't. Is it not deportations when multiple university students have stripped of their visas without notice, by order of "Little Marco" and forced to leave the country? > How would you react to 10 million tourists moving to your country, buying up all the food from your grocery stores, drinking and driving, ste…
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#328Loved the fact that this post didn't go where I expected it to (or at least, didn't remain there). That a book like this probably wouldn't be published today, or would be less popular today, is a point that has been made many times by many people, about many different books, TV shows, jokes, etc. But the author actually moves on from there; the observation is that even in his own opinion , the same joke isn't funny t…
and yet there is a whole youtube channel successfully doing the same
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#329Loved the fact that this post didn't go where I expected it to (or at least, didn't remain there). That a book like this probably wouldn't be published today, or would be less popular today, is a point that has been made many times by many people, about many different books, TV shows, jokes, etc. But the author actually moves on from there; the observation is that even in his own opinion , the same joke isn't funny t…
Often when someone, especially a comedian, complains about “political correctness”, what they actually mean is: nobody is laughing at the same joke I told 20 years ago Sensibilities change. The sense of what is and isn’t punching down changes. Even the appetite for punching down changes. People who whine about “PC” always pretend like it’s the death of comedy or speech or whatever, and yet… there are younger people b…
comedians no longer complain about that, contemporary comedy is merely repeating the commonly accepted societal mantrae, and laughing at and trivialising opposition or criticism to or of it.
Wit, satire, and criticism are still funny, but aren't permissible.
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#330> "I mean: incredibly, governments and local councils didn’t read my work and decide to mend their ways. The UK did not get better. Instead we got more than a decade of Tory austerity, Brexit, and all the accompanying neglect and bad feeling." This bit made me laugh. I read the original book when it came out and it was funny and - in some ways - true. I was born and bought up in the town ranked #4 in the original lis…
> I was born and _bought_ up in the town ranked #4 in the original list (Hythe)
Blimey, it must have been horribly dreadful there if people were selling and buying children