God the original of that is depressing.I once had a moment of clarity when really drunk - suddenly realised what we were all like. It was enough to drive me to drink.
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Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob,
Wed 2 Mar 2011, 12:40,
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It looks familiar from history @ school.Something to do with Gin dependency in olde worlde tymes?
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Airman Gabber Living life like a 70's BBC presenter,
Wed 2 Mar 2011, 12:44,
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Yes - it's called Gin Alley or Gin Street or similarIt's documenting the drunkenness of the poor so publically deplored by the gentlefolk of the Victorian(?) era. I think it's based on the fact that - I think (basically facts, education, and all that jazz are as Kryptonite to this little brain) - at one point gin was actually cheaper than water - certainly it was abused as such. It's a deliberately satirical grotesque, but very near the knuckle and quite disturbing - like I said - depressing, even.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob,
Wed 2 Mar 2011, 12:47,
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It may have been cleaner too.Lovely lovely gin. Wonder whether they had it with tonic and a bit of lemon.
( Airman Gabber Living life like a 70's BBC presenter,
Wed 2 Mar 2011, 12:52,
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It probably was - drinking ale was certainly prescribed to prevent the spread of cholera.G&T I understand (I assure you I'm neither an alcoholic or historian) to have been invented when the mass travel to India resulted in significant amounts of scurvy, and tonic water was given to travellers for the quinine in it.
In typicially British fashion, what with tonic water being - well - fucking horrible, some bright spark suggested slipping a slug of gin into it, and the rest, as they say, is a Michael Jackson compilation.
(In typicially British fashion, what with tonic water being - well - fucking horrible, some bright spark suggested slipping a slug of gin into it, and the rest, as they say, is a Michael Jackson compilation.
Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob,
Wed 2 Mar 2011, 12:57,
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You're nearly theretonic water was prescribed for its quinine content which fights malaria
scurvy is why we're called limeys
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emvee cruor deo cruoris,
Wed 2 Mar 2011, 13:33,
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Malaria, scurvy - what's a couple of DEATHS matter when expanding an empire?!/protest song
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob,
Wed 2 Mar 2011, 13:36,
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Gin Lane.It was the second part of William Hogarth's artistic swipe at 18th C London, the first part being Beer Street.
( Captain Howdy,
Wed 2 Mar 2011, 12:56,
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Yeah.That's what I said.
You racist.
(You racist.
Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob,
Wed 2 Mar 2011, 12:57,
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As I say, facts, reasoned debates - these are not of my world.I - like everyone else - prefer to hold opinions on things about which I know little.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob,
Wed 2 Mar 2011, 13:58,
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A less well-known but equally impressive image of Hogarth's is Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism
If only for the wabbits leaping from Mary Toft's fanny.
(If only for the wabbits leaping from Mary Toft's fanny.
Pew Pew Pew! Lasers! wannabe Gong Farmer,
Wed 2 Mar 2011, 23:21,
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Golly!Surprised and entertained, thankyou :-)
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Purple Martin is board sigless,
Thu 3 Mar 2011, 0:08,
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