• BarqsHasBite@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    “People can’t get jobs. People will never buy a house. They can’t buy nice things. Everything is fucked even if you’re not on drugs,” he says.

    “It [the book] almost becomes some kind of inspiring clarion call: let’s do fucking drugs, man. We’re fucked anyway. Let’s just go for it.”

    Well, that’s depressing.

    • Bernie Ecclestoned@sh.itjust.works
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      People can’t get jobs? In the middle of a labour squeeze?

      In mainland Europe people aren’t obsessed with buying a house, renting isn’t seen as lower class. Are they fucked?

      They can’t buy nice things? Materialism is so last century

      This article is a puff piece to promote his musical. Fuck off Welsh, you wrote one good book, okay two if you include Marabou Stork Nightmares, and have grifted off it ever since. Profiting from poverty porn.

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      That’s how I feel about smoking cigars.

      Everything, including the soil and rain water, is fucking polluted to shit so you’re deluded if you think you can avoid cancer by not smoking. I was very influenced by that 90’s anti-smoking Truth campaign for a long time but I don’t give a shit anymore. At this point, just enjoy whatever you can when you can.

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          I didn’t say it was good for you. I said I didn’t care.

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        “Apple seeds have fucking arsenic, I’ll just drink it from the bottle then.”

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        1 year ago

        Even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.

        How much can you know about yourself, if you’ve never been in a fight?