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England, home of the sadist (NVGR)
Jim Sterling | 9:33 AM on 06.22.2008 69 comments




I wrote this rant up in my private blog, but I am so disgusted by the state of affairs in my homeland that I wanted to make it more public.

Last week one end of my road was closed off, meaning I had to take the long route to a fucking bus stop. Anyway, it was all taped by coppers and had police all over the place, and I never found out what happened. Knowing my area though, I just casually assumed it was a murder, because they are sadly common. However, it was even more fucked up than that, and I found out what actually happened right on my street at work last night.

Some 15-year old girl was assumed to have kissed the boyfriend of a 19-year old female, so what did the 19-year old do? She filled a coke bottle full of fuel and ....

*Set light to her face.*

She set light to her face, and then stood casually by as the teenage girl burned in front of her. Because she thought she kissed her boyfriend. That is the kind of shit that goes on practically on my doorstep, and this follows the murder of some kid in Lee who had his fucking throat slit. This is what England has fucking become, and I'm living in one of the most fucked up parts of it. I mean, for fuck's sake! This isn't just violence anymore, these kids have reached a level of pure sadism in their torment of themselves and others. Fire, throat slitting, people stamping on heads, that's what it's become now. Not just people being beaten up, oh no, that's simply not enough anymore. Time was, you'd get a kicking and that'd be it -- now you need to be on fire, or twitching on the floor with your skull actually caved in before these wretched, disgusting animals are satisfied.

(The girl survived, btw, but obviously has been burnt and, I imagined, disfigured for life)

I honestly can't wait to get out of this fucking nightmare hovel. It's not like America doesn't have crime problems -- of course it does -- but at least where I am going, the crime is more a matter of business -- I'd take being shot over being fucking burned alive. At least crime in America makes sense -- thief wants money, steals car. Over here, the crime is so senseless -- tire slashing strangers' cars, beating people to death out of boredom. It's gone fucking insane.

When I stayed in Mississippi, I at least saw no roving gangs of hooded teenagers with knives, and what I saw instead were actual policemen in public places where the little shits could loiter. And in fact, there wasn't any loitering, there's not even any SIDEWALKS where I am going, so there's nobody for the cunts to hang around. I can't wait, I really, really can't wait to abandon this island to the monstrosities that have laid claim to its cities and at least live where even the banks have drive-thrus and I don't have to look anybody in the eye.

Fuck England. Let it rot.



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TrailerParkJesus's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 09:57
TrailerParkJesus
Sorry Jim, there's senseless violence over here in America too.

Like one time this hobo asked me for some spare change so I jabbed him in the throat and poked his eyes out with his own fingers.
Hollie Bennett's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 09:57
Hollie Bennett
tell me about it...¬_¬
Spartacus's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 09:57
Spartacus
I've heard that while American media generally accepts any level of violence and considers any sexuality taboo, European media is the opposite. Most of the problems here (in younger people) seem to be more sex-related. At least, I don't think there have been many face-burnings or throat-slittings recently. You think there's any connection?

Regardless, that's pretty fucked up. People in the south here are generally pretty nice, if borderline retarded.

Also, rednecks.
's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 09:58
Clint
Jesus, that's like something Alex DeLarge and his gang would pull. I'm assuming, based on your post that shit like that is common place in England?
greeneggsnsam's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 10:00
greeneggsnsam
As you always say, Jim, it's the parents, and the laws. Parents blame everything but themselves, and proceed to let their kids do anything. Not only that, but authority figures aren't allowed to do anything to stop the little shits.
Aaron Mxy Yost's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 10:04
Aaron Mxy Yost
Wow, apparently it was time for a bit of the ole ultra-violence. That's seriously disturbing, poor girl. I blame video games.
Das Inchworm's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 10:06
Das Inchworm
wow pretty fuckin scary; And I live in NYC.
Joseph Leray's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 10:12
Joseph Leray
Oh hell no.

Mississippi's got it's fair share of problems, don't get me wrong, and Jackson, MS is, statistically, one of the most dangerous places in America. That being said, I've never feared for my life.
mistic's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 10:16
mistic
Yeah senseless violence and idiocy seems to be the new way to go for european youth...

Some belgian examples from the last few months:
* 2 15 year old chicks go themselves pregnant so they could have their babies together ( the father is supposed to be some homeless guy they paid to screw them )
* "Gamer" ( 17, had 2 games ) shoots 3 immigrants for 'not being white'
* 2 Polish kids ( 14 and 16 ) kill a Belgian student waiting for the train to steal his iPod Nano
* 15 year old pushed a classmate in front of an arriving train 'for fun'

I've lost all faith in anybody that's more then 10 years younger then me...
Tamz's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 10:20
Tamz
Yeah this place is a shit hole full of idiots.
RonBurgandy2010's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 10:21
RonBurgandy2010
@Spartacus... I resent that. Not all of us are retarded, that's just a negative stereotype promoted by the Blue Collar guys and country music. But then again, there are my step brothers...

But about the niceness, people in the south are, from my experience as a supermarket cashier, incredibly nice. We even have what I call "nice traffic," There is almost no honking or flipping people off and everyone waits their turn, well, with the exception of said retards.
RonBurgandy2010's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 10:24
RonBurgandy2010
@Joseph -Orcist- Leray... Just don't mess with the black people or the white guys who ahng out with them (or hate them) and you should be fine. I'm not racist. Honestly.
Jim Sterling's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 10:27
Jim Sterling
"Jesus, that's like something Alex DeLarge and his gang would pull. I'm assuming, based on your post that shit like that is common place in England?"

It's pretty much how violence in England's youth goes. It's head stamping and shit now. As you may know, I work in a cab office in South East London, and the pub opposite us would have regular fights where gangs of kids would stamp on each other's heads. Sad thing is, it passed for entertainment for us.

And it is indeed the parents. Recently a goth couple had their heads stomped in by a gang of kids, and as they were being sentenced, their scumbag parents sat in the dock smirking about it. It's scumbags raising scumbags to be even bigger scumbags.

People who don't live in England and especially these parts of London have no idea what it's really like. All that polite, "jolly ol' England" bullshit? A myth, for most of the country. Only a few nice areas remain and even they're being taken over. Bexley was one of the nicest parts of the London Boroughs and that's going to shit too.

I honestly want certain families wiped out. Utterly obliterated. These scummy parents raising their kids to be psychopaths are a fucking cancer on society.
greeneggsnsam's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 10:34
greeneggsnsam
"I honestly want certain families wiped out. Utterly obliterated."

That would be a treat. By the way Jim, do you remember when the girl got stabbed in the face with scissors? That was my school.
ajaxender's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 10:35
ajaxender
Some people are just shit. A friend of a friend had a massive afro, it was pretty impressive; but not long ago, while he was drunk and probably stoned too, his completely sober flatmates lit his hair on fire.
This is in NZ, insanity is everywhere! At least we dont have many street gangs.
RonBurgandy2010's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 10:37
RonBurgandy2010
A moment of silence for the awesome afro......................
wardrox's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 10:43
wardrox
This is sadly what happens when you have a generation of more giving and dumb parenting. The world is going to shit.
psycho terror's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 10:52
psycho terror
the grass is always greener on the other side of the pond.

i have to say even though london is shit and full of cunts, there seems to be a generation of totally senseless sub humans being raised in this country. i blame drugs for real, even though i use most of em.
Jamie McGinn's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 10:56
Jamie McGinn
Man, it's times like these I'm glad I live just outside Glasgow.....

Wait a tic....
's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 10:57
Clint
@Jim Sterling
Wow. Everything I was taught about England was a complete lie then :( Is head stomping the same thing as Curb Stomping? I've seen that done once and it was fucking brutal.

And parents like that should not be allowed to have children. If they raised their kids this badly, who can imagine how awful their grandchildren will be :(
TrailerParkJesus's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 11:06
TrailerParkJesus
You work in a cab office?

...

Are you Roman?
Brahms's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 11:10
Brahms
@Awesome Mother 3 Man

Jesus, I was thinking they'd all been curb stomped.

Still, violent behavior is become more prevalent around youth all around the world- Japan is apparently having a huge problem with what they call "Delinquint behavior" by students, and I have cousins in Germany who are completely afraid to step down certain hallways after 4 PM at their school. It's not even stuff outside of the building, or down the street- it was inside the damned school, 15 minutes after the bell rang.
peeetah's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 11:17
peeetah
Heres hoping they eventually just wipe each other out.
kepler's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 11:20
kepler
The condition in the UK is terrible. I have to say, I'm generally not a paranoid person, but its always at the back of my mind whether or not I'm safe when I go within 20feet of two or more teenagers. This is because violence and verbal abuse have become so common place, I don't think anyone around here hasn't been affected by it at some point.

I say this and I'm not exactly old, in fact I'm 20, which says a lot about how fast there seems to have been a degeneration in society. I also don't live in an area which is regarded as violent or particularly troublesome, and if the problem is as bad as it is where I live, I dread to think what it is like in areas that have got their reputation for being particularly "rough".

Also, the whole Shannon Matthews thing happened about 3 miles from where I live. Now if her parents aren't a perfect example of widespread degenerative parenting, I don't know who is.
eternalplayer2345's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 11:28
eternalplayer2345
Man, the media over here makes you think we are the worst some times, but head stoppings, being burned alive over kissiing Holy shit!Sadly, every country has the sadists and the depraved but I guess it's but to have them spread farther out in America then have them on one island.
MrSadistic's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 11:49
MrSadistic
Not as bad as the roving gang of Tom Brokaws.
RonBurgandy2010's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 11:53
RonBurgandy2010
LOL @ MRSADISTIC (ironic name given the subject matter of this post)
RonBurgandy2010's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 11:54
RonBurgandy2010
unfortunate may be a better term. I could never quite grasp the true meaning of "ironic".
niacin's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 12:10
niacin
I've lived in Dundee and Glasgow for pretty much most of my life and while yes there are a bunch of little shits it's the 40 year olds that always end up breaking my nose cause I took their table.
People in Britain like to talk about this as if it's a new phenomenon but violence has been a part of our daily lives for centuries, kids are the easy target for politicians to attack.

Sorry to sound like such a liberal nutjob but fixing this culture of violence can not be accomplished by having more police on the streets. It's ingrained so deeply in our society now that there are no quick fixes.
That won't stop the government trying though, curfews, constant surveillance, DNA testing of non-offenders, imprisonment without charge, encouragement of mob-law all these and even worse tactics will be used to fight this 'asbo war'.

You know what leaving probably is the best option.
grassr00ts's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 12:12
grassr00ts
jim, i see where your coming from, and having just spent 3 weeks in london doing a study abroad from the states, it was disturbing to get the afternoon paper each day while getting on the tube and reading of yet another stabbing, i believe i heard something like 15 deaths of young people due to knife crime. But i don't think this is england alone, violent crime is becoming more and more sick. I think this is a very complicated problem and can't just be blamed on videogames music etc. but many sources have led to this.

my biggest complaint with the UK? all your rubbish (trash) thats left all over the streets THROW YOUR SHIT IN THE TRASH CAN

also great public transport system!
Maurice Tan's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 12:14
Maurice Tan
Didn't you ship out these youths to do it in India and Africa a century ago? :)
Sharpless's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 12:47
Sharpless
It's the end times, Jim. Watch out for winged bears.
Spartacus's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 12:49
Spartacus
Well, not everyone in the south is stupid. That came out wrong. But generally, I think there is more stupidity than in, say, New York.
007's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 12:52
007
I've lived in NYC, Chicago, AND Jersey City. And the place where you live sounds worse than the first two combined. Not Jersey City, though. That place is just fucked up.
Demios's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 12:53
Demios
On the few occasion when i hear about or observe this behavior all i can say is fuck the world. Namely the human race.

Anyone else feel that way sometimes?
4knuckleshuffle's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 13:02
4knuckleshuffle
I have a bit of advice: A cull of the stupid thugs. That's all that needs to be done.
RonBurgandy2010's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 13:36
RonBurgandy2010
@Spartacus... A hell of a lot nicer though.

People can be stupider in the south, and I think the reason for that is all the family businesses. Some industries and businesses (riverboat pilot immediately comes to mind) are only open to people with blood connections. You can be an expert at your job without ever stepping into a school. Since the odds are that you will work for the family business, education is just not that important to you.
Projectexodus's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 14:18
Projectexodus
Reminds me of a British movie I watched recently, where this one guy got beaten up by a bunch of thugs in London. Eventually after he gets out of the hospital, one thing led to the other, and he joined a bunch of guys and formed a gang who hunts for street cancer and pedophiles, beating them up with bats, and sometimes, killing them!
It was an intensely satisfying movie to watch I tell you! Just too bad I forgot the title...
Topher Cantler's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 14:31
Topher Cantler
You sure you're not in Baltimore? Sounds like a plain ol' Saturday afternoon in my town.
Big Z's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 15:34
Big Z
Head stomping? Faces set on fire? Rampant knife crime? Really? You never hear about shit like this in the States. Whether that's because our news media simply doesn't cover it or because it actually doesn't happen I couldn't tell you, but there it is. That's some really twisted shit, Jim. All I can say is watch your back and stay safe.
Ian Roberts's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 16:51
Ian Roberts
"She filled a coke bottle full of fuel"

Jesus that must have set her back a few quid.

With the current state of everything in England, not just with chav culture, something has got to give sooner or later and it's not going to be pretty when it does.
CALkulon's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 17:22
CALkulon
Mass generalisation ftw!

As bad as this country has become, one incident, however bad it is, does not mean that everyone is out to burns others' faces off.

You think America doesn't have senseless crime? What about all these school shootings we see on the news? The total morons on World's Greatest Police Chases? (or whatever the hell its called now)

Unfortunately there's been too much love to the kidz [sic] in the UK for too long now, some of them need a good kicking to rectify their issues, not a bloody hug. They now know they can take the piss when it comes to committing crime.

I know he's not a kid, but just watch the case of the Plymouth keeper, he'll be a prime example of how retarded the judicial system is here. I bet you he'll get done for the 2 counts of causing death by reckless driving aswell as the charge of driving without insurance, and he'll serve under 4 years in jail. When he should be serving 2 counts of manslaughter, and 20 years.

Rant over before my brain explodes. Watch your back Jim. But as fucked up as the country is, we're not all out to kill you ;-)
Jim Sterling's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 18:07
Jim Sterling
"As bad as this country has become, one incident, however bad it is, does not mean that everyone is out to burns others' faces off."

No, not everyone, but an inordinate amount of children have become violent sadists now. I live with this shit on my doorstep. I was the only person at my old place not to be mugged, and if that girl had died, that'd be the third local murder I can recall of the past few months.

I know society has always been shit, but it's the sheer sadistic quality that the kids bring now that disgusts me. Like I said, in the "good" old days, you'd get a swift kicking off the pikies. Now it's throat slitting and head stamping, and as more stupid parents are allowed to raise stupid kids, it's never going to get better.

Sorry, but if you raise a child and won't take responsibility for it, you should be sterilized without trial.
Samit Sarkar's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 18:13
Samit Sarkar
That’s awful, Jim. But as psycho terror said, “the grass is always greener on the other side.” America is full of scumbag parents raising scumbag kids, and there’s plenty of senseless crime here. I stopped watching the local NYC news years ago because it was all terror alerts interspersed with teen pregnancies and people getting stabbed/shot/robbed/run over/killed by drunk drivers/etc.
Murumasa123's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 18:48
Murumasa123
Jim we're just catching up to America... soon you'll become old and blame the newest media. Shits always been bad, really it has, whether its from poor food, risk of war or lack of civil, people in the 1600s, 1900s all over the place murdered each other.
Sure its shit that theres all this black on black violence (not being racist it sickens me but thats what most of the cases are) or white poor on white poor violence with a few innocents caught up, nothing is different that years ago. Were just seeing it more with news, internet and other sources. Relax we all all go through a stage of thinking the world is shit and you have to be careful it doesn't persist.

You could become a bitter old man Jim.
Jim Sterling's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 19:20
Jim Sterling
"You could become a bitter old man Jim."

I'm already a bitter YOUNG man, so I don't think "could" is part of the equation.
TheRookieMonster's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 19:36
TheRookieMonster
Reminds me of where I used to live in New Jersey..I think it was barely a week before we decided to get the fuck out of Dodge that someone on my block actually had their house Molotov Cocktail'd. Someone actually went to the effort to make a petro bomb and just chuck it right in an open window...a fucking Wartime Era explosive that isn't usually seen outside of like GTA aside from maybe a third world country.

Protip on how to keep yourself not dead: If you know you're going to be walking through a dark alleyway, keep your monocle on. The type of people that would mug/rape you don't really know what those are and the meantime in which they'd just stand there in amazement of your "half glasses" would make for a great opportunity to escape.

Trust me on that...it works 60 percent of the time all the time.
MechaMonkey's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 20:34
MechaMonkey
While we do of course have plenty of folks who were conceived when the lifeguard at the gene pool was on break, I can't say I've heard of too many places where things are quite as bad as your particular locale. Murders and other violence, sure, but at least there were motives behind those crimes.

Where in America are you headed to when you move?
smurfee mcgee's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 20:57
smurfee mcgee
lol how did you go to Mississippi and not get into something?
Brian Szabelski's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 22:50
Brian Szabelski
Jim, come to Detroit. I will show you what it is like to stare death in the face... by dropping you off in a random neighborhood at 3 a.m. with $100 in your pocket.

It makes Dawn of the Dead look like Care Bears and shit.
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