bigmoog wrote:billythefish wrote:epsilon75 wrote:If i came into any sort of decent money
i would be gone mate,and i mean every word of that.
I'd be the same TBH - the UK belongs to the tabloid media now... the lowest common denominator.
I left ENgerlanD years ago
A "why is england so shabby" thread is required.
It really saddens me how, from an increasingly metropocentric point of view we don't have pride in our national identity. It's a very complex area to get in to but we seem to be ashamed of promoting englishness from a curious hybrid of the older reticence for self-promotion with a modern political strain of thought that with all people being equal it's evil to promote yourself.
I blame TV myself. I can't think of a good reason for anyone under 16 to know what a TV is let alone to be familiar with the at best trivial at worst spitefull nasty sh1t that generates advertising revenue and prostrates itself before it's audience to increase said revenue. And tabloids must compete at that level. I'd be glad to see Maddy joined safe to her parents but the continued, detailed, speculative reporting on her disappearance has IMHO been nothing short of vile voyeurism.
There's good here, a great deal, but we've lost our way IMHO
....actually I tend to agree
