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scene64 wrote:

Right, I think this calls for a verbal straightener. I like a laugh, but the trouble is we’re not laughing at the same things. I’m sick of answering bilge on here about ‘immigrants ruining our country’, usually posted by people who can’t even spell in their own ‘queen’s English’. (Not referring to the Remembrance Day parade – I would have gone along but had to be elsewhere.)
It’s usually the same simpletons who think Bruce Foxton’s sh1t shoe range or Jam T-shirts should be treated with the utmost seriousness and respect.
Along with a few others I’m intelligent and articulate enough to challenge the ‘male, pale and stale’ mentality that pervades what’s left of the mod scene. And some people just can’t stand an outspoken female. I'm perfectly happy, thanks, I just don’t have time to suffer fools gladly – I’m busy with my photography, journalism, going to gigs (not just revival bands), meeting friends with similar interests, and whatever else I fancy. There’s very little on the forums that’s funny, interesting, creative, contemporary or forward-looking. One of the only worthwhile threads recently (about Phil Spector) was virtually ignored in favour of the usual self-promotion and wanging on about the old days. I couldn’t even ask how to de-register on here without someone I’ve never heard of having a go – what is this, the bloody Jehovah’s Witnesses? So I’m better off out of it. Although I will be forfeiting my long-held ambition to have my death notice appear in the Waffle section.
 

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