• 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.

    • ikiru@lemmy.ml
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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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          1 year ago

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

      • pazukaza@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        “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?