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The Apocalypse Is Late, So We Started Without It

Ash600

Of dust and shadows
SF Creative
SF Supporter
#1
You know what? The world’s gone so far up its own arse it’s practically licking its own tonsils and complaining about the smell. Every damned morning feels like waking up in a Kafkaesque fever dream, except instead of existential dread, it’s just endless notifications, overpriced coffee, and some dickhead on TikTok trying to sell me a course on “manifesting abundance” while wearing a Gucci tracksuit he clearly bought on his mum's stolen credit card. Seriously, we're not just circling the drain, we've built a fucking spa resort in the U-bend and started selling timeshares to the terminally deluded.

Wars/conflicts are being shat out globally like there's no tomorrow. It's as if the planet's been taken over by a bunch of testosterone-soaked toddlers with daddy issues and nuclear arsenals.
Pick a country, spin the wheel, and boom: civil war, gang war, ethnic cleansing, governments going full jackboot, or some combo platter of human misery It’s like the UN’s running a global bingo night where every square is “mass displacement” or “children dying in rubble.”

And what are the big powers doing? Playing geopolitical dick-measuring contests. The U.S. is eyeballing China like two lads in a pub about to throw punches over who looked at whose pint wrong. In fact you've got the US more or less eyeballing any fucker that's worth exploiting for finacial gain. Iran and Israel are trading threats like it’s a bloody tennis match of annihilation. And the UK? Oh, we’re just here, waving our little flags, pretending we still matter while our military budget’s been sliced thinner than a Wetherspoons ham sandwich.

Meanwhile, the climate’s gone full Mad Max. The planet's fast becoming hotter than Satan's arsehole after a particularly violent vindaloo curry on a Saturday night. Oceans boiling, forests on fire, polar bears doing the breaststroke through melted ice caps while politicians debate whether wind turbines give them migraines. We’re one heatwave away from turning the UK into a fuckking Sahara cosplay, and the government’s response is to tell us to buy a fan and stop moaning. “Oh, just plant a tree and recycle your crisp packets.” Fuck off. That's like trying to mop up a hurricane of piss with nothing but 1-ply sheet of tissue paper.


And the economy? It’s not just broken, it’s been shanked in an alleyway and left to bleed out behind a doner kebab shop. it’s not a “crisis,” it’s a full-blown economic gangbang where the only ones getting off are utility companies, tech moguls, billionaires and hedge fund wankers who think empathy is a type of cheese.But no, let’s keep pretending it’s all fine while the government hands out “budgeting tips” like “eat less” and “don’t be poor.”

As for Governments and politics? ? Oh, fuck me sideways with a manifesto. The global political landscape? It’s not so much a chessboard as it is a toddler’s vomit-splattered bib. We’ve got despots and tyrants swanning about like Bond villains with daddy issues, sociopathic narcissists fucking the concept of democracy straight up the shitter whilst draped in flags they don’t understand, and a parade of limp, beige bellends who couldn’t govern a piss-up in a brewery if you handed them a laminated itinerary and a designated driver.

Half of these power-hungry tossers treat government like it’s a corporate away day in Marbella—get wankered, shag the interns, and maybe, just maybe, remember to sign off on a budget that doesn’t involve setting fire to the poor. They strut into parliaments and congresses like it’s their personal VIP lounge, necking taxpayer-funded cocktails while the rest of us are left dry-humping austerity and wondering if heating our homes is now considered a luxury or a fucking war crime.

And the rest? The ones who aren’t actively trying to install themselves as Supreme Leader of Bullshitistan? They’re so monumentally incompetent they make a brokem toilet look like a viable candidate. They waffle, they flounder, they apologise with all the sincerity of some kid caught drawing cocks on the wallpaper. It’s like watching a Punch and Judy show where everyone’s drunk, the puppets are on fire, and the audience is being charged £50 a head for the privilege.

So yeah, the world’s being run by a coalition of the damned : half movie villains, half limp dicked wankers, all utterly, irredeemably shite. And we’re expected to clap politely while they steer the ship into the iceberg, waving their chonkers like flags and calling it leadership.

And through all this, there's social media. The digital cesspit. The algorithmic arsehole flapping its tits in the wind chasing clicks. At times it's like giving a megaphone to every village twat, conspiracy nut, and rage-addicted keyboard cock-spangler. Misinformation spreads faster than chlamydia at a stag do. Everyone’s either shouting, selling snake oil, or filming themselves crying for likes. It's turning people into dopamine-addled zombies who think a blue tick means moral authority. It’s not a platform—it’s a psychological warfare simulator disguised as a cat video delivery system.

And so here we are, standing knee-deep in the rancid froth of civilisation’s own self-inflicted enema. It’s all gone to bollocks. Not just your garden-variety cock-up, no. This is a clusterfuck of epic proportions, the kind that makes the Trojan War look like a minor HR dispute. A tsunami of piss, surging forth from the golden urinals of greed, incompetence, intolerance, and willful ignorance. Every drop soaked in the smug stench of unchecked power and the kind of delusion that makes flat-earthers look like Nobel laureates. We’re not being governed, we’re being gaslit by a travelling circus of lobotomised nob-lords , each one convinced they’re the protagonist in a heroic biopic while the rest of us are just trying to survive the montage.
And the worst part? They think this is normal. They think this is fine. They think leadership is just a matter of volume, vodka, and violently ignoring consequences.
So yes, it's bollocks. Monumental, flaming bollocks. And we’re all just trying not to drown in the splashback.

Welcome to planet Earth : the shitshow that just keeps on shitting
 

LumberJack

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SF Supporter
#2
They waffle, they flounder, they apologise with all the sincerity of some kid caught drawing cocks on the wallpaper.
I agree with all of the above. The quoted part made me laugh out loud, too. I was so that kid - as were all of my peers at the time who had just started feeling the effect of testosterone flooding our systems. I have, luckily, matured from that state, but I am not the least offended when someone does it in a clever way, e.g., drawing one on a map on their run tracking app by taking a specific route. :D
 

LumberJack

Huggy Bear 🐻
SF Supporter
#3
Regarding the environmental stuff, also - I agree it's total bullshit. They are telling us to be responsible while they test nuclear warheads on the ocean floor. I do think ordinary people can have a significant combined effect, but when corporations and gov'ts behave the way they are now, it's more than canceled out.
 

Rhidia

Well-Known Member
#4
I agree with all of the above, but I have to add something. I don't think the Apocalypse is late, I think we are headed into it with all the crazies in government around the world now. Plus, we have already effectively ruined the environment, as you say, while nobody who actually could does anything. Does nobody think that's a serious problem?

The one's who think only what they believe matters? Who run things? They are living as they love to while the rest of us just do what we can day to day.
 

Ash600

Of dust and shadows
SF Creative
SF Supporter
#5
I agree with all of the above, but I have to add something. I don't think the Apocalypse is late, I think we are headed into it with all the crazies in government around the world now. Plus, we have already effectively ruined the environment, as you say, while nobody who actually could does anything. Does nobody think that's a serious problem?

The one's who think only what they believe matters? Who run things? They are living as they love to while the rest of us just do what we can day to day.
So true that. Those in charge completely detached from what's actually happening. Living in echo chambers being told by yes men that their shite smell of roses.

What's that phrase, "Rome burns whilst Nero fiddles"? Except it's not Rome but the whole damn planet and not just one person but a multitude of leaders. Each fucker going full throttle on themselves like they're powering the apocalypse by tossing off alone.
 

Rhidia

Well-Known Member
#6
So true that. Those in charge completely detached from what's actually happening. Living in echo chambers being told by yes men that their shite smell of roses.

What's that phrase, "Rome burns whilst Nero fiddles"? Except it's not Rome but the whole damn planet and not just one person but a multitude of leaders. Each fucker going full throttle on themselves like they're powering the apocalypse by tossing off alone.
Oh, I honestly believe we've already lost the race I'm afraid. Technology was supposed to solve all our problems, instead it's made things worse as the people who pull the purse strings control everything and only care about the end result as it makes them richer. There are people living underground, under bridges and on streets with no more than the clothes on their backs in a world where we've put people on the moon and can cross the entire world in hours. It's every kind of wrong.
 

BlackSheep 007

Well-Known Member
#7
All that was said is absolutely true. It is too late to turn around - but we refuse to see it. Most people just think everything will continue as always. it will not. I realize that not only politics, nature etc. has changed, but people themselves have become so materialistic, brutal, selfish - there is no more limit to it.... It is just SAD!!
 

SillyOldBear

Teddy Bears Rule! 🐻
Staff Alumni
#8
All that was said is absolutely true. It is too late to turn around - but we refuse to see it. Most people just think everything will continue as always. it will not. I realize that not only politics, nature etc. has changed, but people themselves have become so materialistic, brutal, selfish - there is no more limit to it.... It is just SAD!!
Makes me so very glad that I am old and will not be around much longer.
 

Rhidia

Well-Known Member
#10
Oh, if the world keeps going barking mad over nothing actually worthwhile? We may not need to be old to not see it go ALL kinds of wrong...
 

Taylor M

Well-Known Member
#11
You know what? The world’s gone so far up its own arse it’s practically licking its own tonsils and complaining about the smell. Every damned morning feels like waking up in a Kafkaesque fever dream, except instead of existential dread, it’s just endless notifications, overpriced coffee, and some dickhead on TikTok trying to sell me a course on “manifesting abundance” while wearing a Gucci tracksuit he clearly bought on his mum's stolen credit card. Seriously, we're not just circling the drain, we've built a fucking spa resort in the U-bend and started selling timeshares to the terminally deluded.

Wars/conflicts are being shat out globally like there's no tomorrow. It's as if the planet's been taken over by a bunch of testosterone-soaked toddlers with daddy issues and nuclear arsenals.
Pick a country, spin the wheel, and boom: civil war, gang war, ethnic cleansing, governments going full jackboot, or some combo platter of human misery It’s like the UN’s running a global bingo night where every square is “mass displacement” or “children dying in rubble.”

And what are the big powers doing? Playing geopolitical dick-measuring contests. The U.S. is eyeballing China like two lads in a pub about to throw punches over who looked at whose pint wrong. In fact you've got the US more or less eyeballing any fucker that's worth exploiting for finacial gain. Iran and Israel are trading threats like it’s a bloody tennis match of annihilation. And the UK? Oh, we’re just here, waving our little flags, pretending we still matter while our military budget’s been sliced thinner than a Wetherspoons ham sandwich.

Meanwhile, the climate’s gone full Mad Max. The planet's fast becoming hotter than Satan's arsehole after a particularly violent vindaloo curry on a Saturday night. Oceans boiling, forests on fire, polar bears doing the breaststroke through melted ice caps while politicians debate whether wind turbines give them migraines. We’re one heatwave away from turning the UK into a fuckking Sahara cosplay, and the government’s response is to tell us to buy a fan and stop moaning. “Oh, just plant a tree and recycle your crisp packets.” Fuck off. That's like trying to mop up a hurricane of piss with nothing but 1-ply sheet of tissue paper.


And the economy? It’s not just broken, it’s been shanked in an alleyway and left to bleed out behind a doner kebab shop. it’s not a “crisis,” it’s a full-blown economic gangbang where the only ones getting off are utility companies, tech moguls, billionaires and hedge fund wankers who think empathy is a type of cheese.But no, let’s keep pretending it’s all fine while the government hands out “budgeting tips” like “eat less” and “don’t be poor.”

As for Governments and politics? ? Oh, fuck me sideways with a manifesto. The global political landscape? It’s not so much a chessboard as it is a toddler’s vomit-splattered bib. We’ve got despots and tyrants swanning about like Bond villains with daddy issues, sociopathic narcissists fucking the concept of democracy straight up the shitter whilst draped in flags they don’t understand, and a parade of limp, beige bellends who couldn’t govern a piss-up in a brewery if you handed them a laminated itinerary and a designated driver.

Half of these power-hungry tossers treat government like it’s a corporate away day in Marbella—get wankered, shag the interns, and maybe, just maybe, remember to sign off on a budget that doesn’t involve setting fire to the poor. They strut into parliaments and congresses like it’s their personal VIP lounge, necking taxpayer-funded cocktails while the rest of us are left dry-humping austerity and wondering if heating our homes is now considered a luxury or a fucking war crime.

And the rest? The ones who aren’t actively trying to install themselves as Supreme Leader of Bullshitistan? They’re so monumentally incompetent they make a brokem toilet look like a viable candidate. They waffle, they flounder, they apologise with all the sincerity of some kid caught drawing cocks on the wallpaper. It’s like watching a Punch and Judy show where everyone’s drunk, the puppets are on fire, and the audience is being charged £50 a head for the privilege.

So yeah, the world’s being run by a coalition of the damned : half movie villains, half limp dicked wankers, all utterly, irredeemably shite. And we’re expected to clap politely while they steer the ship into the iceberg, waving their chonkers like flags and calling it leadership.

And through all this, there's social media. The digital cesspit. The algorithmic arsehole flapping its tits in the wind chasing clicks. At times it's like giving a megaphone to every village twat, conspiracy nut, and rage-addicted keyboard cock-spangler. Misinformation spreads faster than chlamydia at a stag do. Everyone’s either shouting, selling snake oil, or filming themselves crying for likes. It's turning people into dopamine-addled zombies who think a blue tick means moral authority. It’s not a platform—it’s a psychological warfare simulator disguised as a cat video delivery system.

And so here we are, standing knee-deep in the rancid froth of civilisation’s own self-inflicted enema. It’s all gone to bollocks. Not just your garden-variety cock-up, no. This is a clusterfuck of epic proportions, the kind that makes the Trojan War look like a minor HR dispute. A tsunami of piss, surging forth from the golden urinals of greed, incompetence, intolerance, and willful ignorance. Every drop soaked in the smug stench of unchecked power and the kind of delusion that makes flat-earthers look like Nobel laureates. We’re not being governed, we’re being gaslit by a travelling circus of lobotomised nob-lords , each one convinced they’re the protagonist in a heroic biopic while the rest of us are just trying to survive the montage.
And the worst part? They think this is normal. They think this is fine. They think leadership is just a matter of volume, vodka, and violently ignoring consequences.
So yes, it's bollocks. Monumental, flaming bollocks. And we’re all just trying not to drown in the splashback.

Welcome to planet Earth : the shitshow that just keeps on shitting
I must admit I've belly laughed several times whilst reading your post.
Don't get me wrong, not because I find the gravity or seriousness of the posts subject matter funny. It's stomach churning how the world is diving head first into the 7th circle of hell before our very eyes.
But by your no hold barred and comedic disecction of humanity's fall into madness.
Going by your language and references in the post, I'm guessing your from the UK.
And your post really reminds me of one of comedian Frankie Boyles monologues. Except better!
 

Ash600

Of dust and shadows
SF Creative
SF Supporter
#12
I must admit I've belly laughed several times whilst reading your post.
Don't get me wrong, not because I find the gravity or seriousness of the posts subject matter funny. It's stomach churning how the world is diving head first into the 7th circle of hell before our very eyes.
But by your no hold barred and comedic disecction of humanity's fall into madness.
Going by your language and references in the post, I'm guessing your from the UK.
And your post really reminds me of one of comedian Frankie Boyles monologues. Except better!
Cheers man, appreciate the nod. Glad you liked it and that it made you laugh. I figured that if the world's falling apart, then we might as well roast the bastard properly on the way down.

Ah Frankie Boyle.... now there's a fella who knows how to go off on one. And yes, I'm from the Uk.

Stay safe or whatever the fuck we're supposed to be doing now.
 

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