“Hey Sam, I drew something for you…”
“Oh that’s lovely, I shall treasure it!”
“Here’s another one!”
“Lovely also, and I love you too.”
… a few minutes pass …
“Drew you somet else…”
“Oo, lemme see! … Ah.”
This is my hand, on Sunday the 3rd of July.
Whinjury sustained playing for the Low Percentage Villains @ Fishbowl 2011; I foolishly forewent suncream, substituting it with sweatbands and tubigrip. I am stripy now.
More ultimate-related feature, comment and sunburn yet to come!
You probably can’t tell, but there’s a samba band practicing behind that door. (Taken with Instagram at Holy Trinity Church, Salford)
These little guys don’t look happy. (Taken with Instagram at Bury, Gtr. Manchester)
I went for a job interview in this building a week ago. That is a bar & grill on the ground floor.
My god, it’s full of petrols. (Taken with instagram)
Via the Guardian:
Iceland’s existing constitution dates back to when it gained independence from Denmark in 1944. It simply took the Danish constitution and made a few minor adjustments, such as substituting the word “president” for “king”.
In creating the new document, the council has been posting draft clauses on its website every week since the project launched in April. The public can comment underneath or join a discussion on the council’s Facebook page.
The council also has a Twitter account, a YouTube page where interviews with its members are regularly posted, and a Flickr account containing pictures of the 25 members at work, all intended to maximise interaction with citizens.
Meetings of the council are open to the public and streamed live on to the website and Facebook page. The latter has more than 1,300 likes in a country of 320,000 people.
Cool idea but that shit would never work here*.
*here is not necessarily where I am.
(Source: futurejournalismproject)
My input to this product is minimal. However, I am derived from the man who designed the font, Tempus Sans. It makes me happy to see it put to good use.
(Source: cafepress.co.uk)
Llama, chimney stack. (Taken with Instagram at Pendle)
For this instructional, your reader will need:
- x1 copy of the a tabloid newspaper, preferably the Mail / access to their website
- x1 mind unfamiliar with diversity and the world beyond their front door
Note: this method must be used in frequency over a long period of time, unless your reader is somewhat carte blanche. A certain amount of creativity will be required to ensure the template fits every case of inspired xenophobia.
Step 1
Insert a link to ‘similar’ story within an article titled, for example; ‘Invasion of the boozy brides’. Opinion pieces like this are useful for guiding a reader towards issues that warrant their attention, such as statistically irrelevant crimes linked to minority groups. This also helps foster or maintain a Declining Society worldview; that things were much better Before and everyone should just stop this progress nonsense at once.
Teenage girl ‘raped’ at My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding horse fair
Your target will be drawn to this link, already interested in and reading about issues such as the intensity / debauchery of contemporary hen nights, which were never such a problem Before.
Seeing the title of popular BBC3 programme My Big fat Gypsy Wedding paired with the words ‘girl’ and ‘rape’ will make salient your reader’s anxiety over otherness.
- Remember, it isn’t important that the legal definition of the victim is actually ‘adult female’. It is important that your reader forms a picture of a raped young girl.
Step 2
Begin your article by stating the time and location of the incident in explicit terms:
walking with a friend to get a taxi to Penrith on the eastbound slip road of the A66 at the Appleby turn-off.
This will ensure that a significant number of female readers in Appleby-In-Westmorland feel uneasy about the prospect of travelling on that road themselves. Why, they will wonder..? Well because that girl got raped near the horse fair didn’t she, on the eastbound slip road of the A66 at the Abbleby turn-off, right? Location information may also be employed after Step 4, at the Top of the Stairs.
Step 3
Include a description of the alleged perpetrator, if you are lucky it will be vague enough to represent just about anyone in your target minority group.
Police say they are seeking to speak to one member of the group in particular, who is described as white, 18 to 19-years-old, of medium build, with brown gelled hair. He was wearing a grey Adidas track suit with distinctive green neon stripes on both the top and bottoms.
A description will ensure that when your reader happens across members of this minority group, they will remember to check whether any happen to be that rapist they read about. Of course since many men have brown hair and are aged 18 to 19-years-old, this particular description will arouse a really healthy amount of racist suspicion. It does not matter that the man will likely change his clothes at some point, the idea that green and grey Adidas tracksuits are sometimes worn by alleged rapists should be enough to make sure your reader suspects everyone from joggers to shop-window mannequins.
Step 4
Fill out your article with large pictures of people on horses and a list of other bad things that have happened at the fair:
a fight took place in the Market Field are of Appleby Fair. A man from Manchester suffered lower back injuried and was taken to Cumberland Infirmary Carlisle for treatment.
One 14-year-old boy was injured on Saturday after falling from the back of a van that was travelling from the Appleby to the A66.
Top of the Stairs
Your target has now seen rape, injury, tracksuit wearing, disturbance of the peace and - most importantly - living as a traveller, all contained within the established shell of the Declining Society. When next your target feels the need to idly complain, they may draw on your source material and their friends may become your readers!
In the time your target takes to find and read your next article, he / she will hopefully have internalised the concepts you have grouped together for them, making them much more receptive to your further influence.
+ Author’s note: the Daily Mail website appends a ‘read more here’ URL when you copy text from their articles. Wankers.