{"id":1423,"date":"2007-02-22T14:25:38","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T18:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=1423"},"modified":"2007-02-22T14:25:38","modified_gmt":"2007-02-22T18:25:38","slug":"hey-yobs-stop-hating-your-lousy-selves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=1423","title":{"rendered":"Hey Yobs, Stop Hating Your Lousy Selves!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some uncivilized brute trod on the hem of Madame Wizened Irrelevancy, Lady Zillionaire of England-Not-Britain, Joan Collins' dress, and she's not happy about it. No, not she's not happy at all. In fact, she thinks it's a symptom of something much much larger - no less than the destruction of English society from within! <\/p>\n<ul>We've become the 'Whatcha lookin' at?' culture. Why do young people consider it cool to be arrogant, swaggering and rude? Why do so many people in England seem so cynical and self-centred?<\/p>\n<p>I witnessed young, drunken yobs roaming the streets kicking cars, screaming insults, pushing people and even pushchairs out of their way, attacking each other viciously and then turning on the police when they tried to maintain order.<\/p>\n<p>THE WHOLE scene evoked the image of hordes of inebriated Vikings sacking devastated towns. Even during the day, feral mobs roamed the cities with absolute disregard for anyone else's property or well-being. Traditional virtues of male chivalry and female propriety were very far from view.<\/ul>\n<p>And so, after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drudgereportarchives.com\/data\/2005\/08\/04\/20050804_003400_flash3.htm\">wasting 500 words<\/a> to tell England how uncivil, disrespectful, and brutish it is, she concludes:<\/p>\n<ul>It's frightful how being told that you are no good makes you hate yourself, and hate others. And it's frightful how quickly a whole country of self-loathers can be bred.<\/ul>\n<p>Yeah, you bunch of no-good, drunken, rampaging, horse-faced cynics, stop telling yourselves you're no good! And stay the fuck off Joan's dress! Where is your civility ??<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/w7Bbi1MChII\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/w7Bbi1MChII\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some uncivilized brute trod on the hem of Madame Wizened Irrelevancy, Lady Zillionaire of England-Not-Britain, Joan Collins' dress, and she's not happy about it. No, not she's not happy at all. In fact, she thinks it's a symptom of something much much larger - no less than the destruction of English society from within! We've [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}