Media Shitstorms -- A Thread For Sharing Memories

I note with disinterest that the Archbishop of Canterbury has not been sacked for saying, I dunno, something about the Islams.

This one always makes me laugh:

"Sorted for E's & Wizz" is a controversial single from Sheffield band Pulp. Taken from the number one album Different Class, it was released as a double-A sided single with "Mis-shapes", and reached number two in the U.K. charts. It was Pulp's second successive number two hit in the summer of 1995.

The single caused controversy because it describes a teenager going to a rave "somewhere in a field in Hampshire" and contains references to drugs. "E's and Wizz" refers to Ecstasy and Speed, and "getting sorted" means obtaining drugs before attending an event, in particular ingesting them before entering. In addition, the single's CD sleeve contained instructions on how to make a paper wallet to hold drugs. The Daily Mirror newspaper ran a front-page story with the headline "Ban This Sick Stunt" around the time of its release.

However, the song expresses the negative side of "getting sorted" - it refers to a "hollow feeling" that "grows and grows" and includes the line "'Nice one!' 'Geezer!' That's as far as the conversation went." The song's chorus describes the difference between the highs during the rave itself and the feeling the next morning:

"In the middle of the night It feels alright But then tomorrow morning Oh, then you come down"

The last line of the song is the ominous warning: "What if you never come down?"

OH NOES: http://www.acrylicafternoons.com/sorted.html

that was it! well caught.

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I remember just before Bill Clinton's presidency ended, he did some political moves that drew a lot of critique, but I can't remember what exactly he did. I think it was related to domestic politics... Can anyone refresh my memory?

We had a "ban Gazza from getting his hair cut lest he influence people to look silly" furore up here when hundreds of wee kids were getting their hair bleached in honour of their hero. Oh noes! Kids have silly haircuts! Stop the presses!

There was something similar with Posh Spice and facial piercings... thing it got knocked off the front pages by that 9/11 thing tho.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton_pardons_controversy (xxpost)

Oh aye, she had a fake nosering, whatever next? Not like being a role model for anorexia and really weird spherical boobs like she is now, eh? xpost

(the gazza thing predated Beckham's corn-rows etc by years, and they aren't doing anything now to suggest children stop looking like Derek Riordan, surely the worst hairstyle role model ever. The Gazza thing was purely bleaching of hair, which made the whole stushie about it totally ludicrous)

Did they ever find that kid? That little blonde one? Or is it all about the little dark haired one now?

And is it me, or are we having a little rash of serial killer sentancings at the moment? I can't really seem to keep track of which one the tabloid headlines are being outraged about at which time.

If by little blonde one you mean Madeleine McCann, no they haven't. I think they've finally run out of "the parents did it, no they didn't, yes they did" etc angles to run with for now, so are no doubt delighted that they have another one to concentrate on just now instead.

Remember there was a spate of people being mistaken for Maxine Carr? That's stopped happening now.

Remember the Reverend Chris Brain and the Nine O'Clock Service, when religious figures just dealt drugs rather than fuck kids?

Let's give Brain his due, he banged 40 parishioners, poss inc a ginger I went to school with.

What was the last world-eating plague that was going to kill us all? Was it SARS or bird flu?

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NEW hospital SUPERBUG resistant to all that try to stop it I believe.

The government just bought some USB sticks. No more CD-burning for them!

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