Defend The Indefensible: The Lyrics to 'I Predict A Riot'

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Opening couplet:

Oooh-ah, wathing the people get lairy
It's not very pretty I tell thee

Second verse:

I tried to get in my taxi
A man in a tracksuit attacked me
He said that he saw it before me
Wants to get things a bit gory
Girls run around with no clothes on
To borrow a pound for a condom
If it wasn't for chip fat, well they'd be frozen
They're not very sensible

Shit and evil, just shit, or just evil? I'd go for both.

― Flyboy (Flyboy), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)

I haven't heard this song, but from what you posted I'd say agreeably nasty but kind of awkward in construction. I can't imagine how you would sing all that and still come off sounding cool.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

It's mostly

la la la la--la la deeee deeeeee

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:58 (twenty years ago)

I don't see anything that wrong with them. Better than the dross Chris Martin comes up with. And I like the use of 'thee' a lot.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:58 (twenty years ago)

If you heard the song, you'd realize it doesn't.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

Post-blocked by Stevem CURSES!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

This is political correctness gone mad!

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

Blur Juniors are odious, patronising and embarrassing – the only consolation is the silly fucker will have to sing this until his bad habits get the better of him. No one under 65 uses the word 'thee' and if it's meant to be funny it isn't. I suspect it's just lazy writing. Whatever the case, fuck off, Ricky, you clueless twat.

― wtin, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

Once again though, the bit where they are yelling wooooh just before going into the chorus, and then just when you think they are going to, they carry on yelling for another few seconds...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

I am in total favour of men in tracksuits attacking the Kaiser Chiefs.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

Why would so many people get annoyed about a 'thee'?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

COS THERE FOOKIN SUTHERN FAIRIES IS WHY YA CUNT

― BOBBY DIGITAL, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

Why would so many people get annoyed about a 'thee'?

Seems very anti-Yorkshire (or is it Lancashire?) to me

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

It's not the thee that bothers me. It's the Daily Mail-crossed-with-NME vibe. Oh not, those scary men in tracksuits and the girls with no clothes on! Who are poor! It's the equivalent of the Little Book of Chavs, ie, vile.

― Flyboy (Flyboy), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

No one under 65 uses the word 'thee' and if it's meant to be funny it isn't

http://www.lumen.org.uk/evolution2004/images/synesthesia.jpg

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

It's the Daily Mail-crossed-with-NME vibe. Oh not, those scary men in tracksuits and the girls with no clothes on! Who are poor! It's the equivalent of the Little Book of Chavs, ie, vile.

What? It's essentially a re-write of Pulp's 'Mis-Shapes'. Criticising the stereotypical people who go out on the town wearing sports casual, getting drunk and fighting in the streets...it's an indie staple, and the writer usually succeeds in getting the audience to sympathise with them more than the people they're attacking. The stereotype referred to in the song is a horrible one so it's fine by me.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

I'm a fan of lyrical repetition in unusual spots, so I dig the use of "not very sensible." And, I dunno, he's describing a slightly fantastical, awful, dangerous landscape. Maybe if I lived where he did I'd think it was bollocks, 'cause I'd know the truth. But as a spooky evocation of a violence-prone landscape, I think it works fine - as well as the Clash and Jam lyrics it descends from, anyway.

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

You need to listen to Mis-shapes again. Jarvis Cocker can write. You get a sense of the frustrations of both sides – townies and 'mis-shapes'. This idea that people who don't go to university are sub-humans just blithely walking through life geting pissed, fighting and collecting tattoos is pathetic.

― wtin, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

No one under 65 uses the word 'thee'

This strikes me as an excellent reason to use it, fight the tyranny of youth. T'Chiefs are no spring chickens looking at them.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

Well don't have that idea then. (xpost)

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

This idea that people who go to university are sub-humans just blithely walking through life geting pissed, fighting and collecting tattoos is pathetic

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

What? It's essentially a re-write of Pulp's 'Mis-Shapes'.

No, it's the antithesis of Pulp. (x-post) There's no compassion here whatsover, and as for an awareness of class issues... It's just about ignorant contempt.

Criticising the stereotypical people who go out on the town wearing sports casual, getting drunk and fighting in the streets...it's an indie staple

Does that make it a good thing?

and the writer usually succeeds in getting the audience to sympathise with them more than the people they're attacking.

Not in this case, surely. Where is the empathy or sympathy here for the chip-fat girls?

The stereotype referred to in the song is a horrible one so it's fine by me.

Oh well that's alright then! This is the argument that always crops up about the term 'chav': "I don't think it's a slur because I think chavs are horrible!" - obvious parallels need not be listed.

― Flyboy (Flyboy), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

I think the Kase chefs wrote the chorus about this thread debating the verses.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

Wha?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

My hunch is that the title/chorus means either a) maligned indie geezer who wears bad suits predicts a riot started by the men in tracksuits and chip-fat girls, which is scary!, or b) maligned indie geezer who wears bad suits predicts a riot started by maligned indie geezers who wear bad suits, in which they throw off the oppression of the men in tracksuits and chip-fat girls...

― Flyboy (Flyboy), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

Leodensian, anyone?

What makes me cringe is the line from 'Everyday I Love You Less And Less'- 'I can't believe that you and me once did sex'.

― Mippy (Mippy), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

Oh Jesus, I heard that song the other day and virtually every line is fucking crap

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

Is this one of those British "class" things? In the U.S., it's ok to be mean to annoying people. It's one of the reasons we fought for independence.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

I think the 'thee' is dire because it is phoney and, as someone said, lazy.

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

I'm not sure it's the antithesis of Mis-Shapes, in fact "Mis-Shapes" goes further in explicitly pointing out the singer's difference, "You could end up with a smack in the mouth / Just for standing out". What "Mis-Shapes" doesn't do is go into the prurient descriptive detail, it's the sex-fear that really leaps out at me from those lyrics.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

Tell Leonard Cohen that (xpost)

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

Mis-Shapes could apply to any misfit kid at school or work...nothing to do with higher education, more a sort of attitude and way of dressing.

I Predict A Riot, meanwhile, is about getting pissed in a crap Northern town where there is nothing for the population to do other than get pissed, shag and throw up over the streets. The kind of place where people 'live for the weekend' because there's nothing else to live for. I don't think it's anti-chav in particular....I recognise where I grew up from the lyrics, a place where *everyone* is a 'chav'.

― Mippy (Mippy), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

Including you I take it?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

OK, sweeping generalisation alert. Seriously though, anyone who didn't want to get engaged at 17 to someone two streets away left as soon as they could to seek education or non-industrial employment. And *everyone* does wear sportswear...even babies and The Old.

― Mippy (Mippy), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

non-industrial employment

Eh?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

In songs like ‘I Predict A Riot’, there is an overwhelming sense of social commentary in the lyrics. Did you set out to exploit the scenes that you witness everyday in your hometown?

Well it all just came out in the lyrics really. I used to DJ at this indie club in Leeds and would have to drive past this horrible mainstream club where everybody was pissed and police vans were packing people in. So in that case we are using social commentary but then again we’re not.

Quoted without comment.

― Flyboy (Flyboy), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

I used to DJ at this indie club in Leeds

The blood, the sweat, the tears. He's paid his dues and no mistake.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

Re Mis-Shapes: "We'll use the one thing we've got more of, that's our minds" - doesn't strike me as particularly compassionate or empathetic or respectful towards 'the other'.

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

Pah! No indie clubs where I was...just 'mainstream'. Not that I'm defending R.Wilson here.

non-industrial employment = work that didn't involve packing biscuits or medical supplies. The only jobs available were factory work, cleaning and low-grade clerical - nothing wrong with that, of course, but it's not what all of us want. And if it wasn't what you wanted, you were a 'snob'. To say nothing of the casual racism and homophobia....

I'#m not surprised one of my fellow town-ers went on to be one of Selfish Cunt. If he'd stayed he would have ended up in a RATM covers band if he were lucky...

― Mippy (Mippy), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

If he'd stayed he would have ended up in a RATM covers band if he were lucky...

Roger and the Mechanics?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

Pah! No indie clubs where I was...just 'mainstream'. Not that I'm defending R.Wilson here. The chip-fat lyric is unpleasant.

I'#m not surprised one of my fellow town-ers went on to be one of Selfish Cunt. If he'd stayed he would have ended up in a RATM covers band if he were lucky...

― Mippy (Mippy), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

Maybe antithesis isn't quite right, but... 'Mis-Shapes' is about the rough deal people who are marginalised get in all sorts of ways - arguably Jarvis' first instinct is always to symapthise with the 'weird' poor, then the 'mainstream' poor - with the well-off 'weird' some distance behind, however much they then took his songs to be for them. And if you've been given a smack in the mouth or actively harassed for dressing/being different, then yeah, fair enough, be angry at the person or people who did that.

But 'I Predict A Riot' is really about people who dress like the Kaiser Chiefs (who, ten years on, have enough critical mass to have their own orthodoxy in a city as big as Leeds) doing exactly that - sneering at people for dressing/being different. And note the diminishment of what these nasty 'mainstream' people have done to the poor 'indie' types: now all that has to be endured by yer Kaiser Chief is to drive past the horrible mainstream club!

― Flyboy (Flyboy), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

"Misshapes" = being in that society.
"IPA Riot" = driving past one and seeing it out of a window.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

Maybe the Kaiser Chieves (as I feel compelled to write, see also Audio Bullies) are 'right' to sneer. In the same way that it's 'right' to sneer at bigots.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

I quite like the chip-fat lyric too, 'unpleasant' as it may be in terms of the evocation.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

"We'll use the one thing we've got more of, that's our minds" - doesn't strike me as particularly compassionate or empathetic or respectful towards 'the other'.

The delivery of that line sounds kind of futile and desperate to me

― F (Ferg), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

doesn't strike me as particularly compassionate or empathetic or respectful towards 'the other'.

nor does 'what's the point of being rich*, if you can't think what to do with it, cos you're so bleedin' think', particularly - though I do love this line too personally.

*referring to 'commoners' winning the Lottery

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

think = thick obv. (ha)

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

I dunno I get why it could be seen as distasteful, but as someone who has walked through Leeds city centre after dark I think it must be said that a great percentage of the binge drinking, abuse shouting, aggressive twunts are actually students. A lot of the worst behaved are actually middle and upper class. Saying the song is about class snobbery bestows a degree of insight that I don't think is even implied.

Thing is though it's just Menswe@r's Hollywood Girl but not as good.

― jive session (elwisty), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

Congratulations, you went to university. Have a cookie.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

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flyboy is cool

― blueski, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

He was right about shit and evil, anyway.

― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

ah jesus i HAVE contributed to this thread and it WASN'T funny

― Just got offed, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

Hey there Delilah
What's it like in New York City?
I'm a thousand miles away
But girl, tonight you look so pretty
Yes you do
Times Square can't shine as bright as you
I swear it's true

Hey there Delilah
Don't you worry about the distance
I'm right there if you get lonely
Give this song another listen
Close your eyes
Listen to my voice, it's my disguise
I'm by your side

Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
What you do to me

Hey there Delilah
I know times are getting hard
But just believe me, girl
Someday I'll pay the bills with this guitar
We'll have it good
We'll have the life we knew we would
My word is good

Hey there Delilah
I've got so much left to say
If every simple song I wrote to you
Would take your breath away
I'd write it all
Even more in love with me you'd fall
We'd have it all

Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me

A thousand miles seems pretty far
But they've got planes and trains and cars
I'd walk to you if I had no other way
Our friends would all make fun of us
and we'll just laugh along because we know
That none of them have felt this way
Delilah I can promise you
That by the time we get through
The world will never ever be the same
And you're to blame

Hey there Delilah
You be good and don't you miss me
Two more years and you'll be done with school
And I'll be making history like I do
You'll know it's all because of you
We can do whatever we want to
Hey there Delilah here's to you
This ones for you

Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
What you do to me.

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

ban pre-'07 LJ

― Just got offed, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

right wing: the working classes are nasty and violent

left wing: the working classes are nasty and violent and cool and exciting

― max r, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

^^^The kinda poster this thread opened the doors for

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

i don't agree with either of those strawmen views articulated by strawmen i just made up.

― max r, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

i think max r is a strawman designed by a LZBC member to promote anger and intolerance towards newbies.

― Just got offed, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

Louis I love you so I'm posting this to thwart the inevitable zing you've just set yrself up for.

― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

Im from the streets of
I couldnt be a chief
Got girls on my case so
I couldnt be a chief
If its arms we can meet cos
I couldnt be a chief
I put u in ur place cos
I couldnt be a chief

― max r, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

my back is got, cheers bro!

if the zing's funny, to be fair, i don't honestly mind these days.

― Just got offed, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

You tossed a dude off

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 21:56 (eighteen years ago)

what's wrong with that, eh?

― max r, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 22:10 (eighteen years ago)

http://canali.libero.it/affaritaliani/upload/pi/0003/pippoinzaghiap.jpg

― Just got offed, Thursday, 18 October 2007 00:08 (eighteen years ago)

Bump for nu-ILX era

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 18 October 2007 08:08 (eighteen years ago)

Dunno about the lyrics, but it's a great song nevertheless.

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 18 October 2007 08:13 (eighteen years ago)

There we go.

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 18 October 2007 08:19 (eighteen years ago)

It's a really good song. I thought the album was a bit patchy. Not sure what everyone is talking about really here, the lyrics are just a bit cheeky and funny. A lot better than just "Ruby, Ruby, Ruby!"

― Free Peace Sweet!, Thursday, 18 October 2007 08:21 (eighteen years ago)

^^^The kinda poster this thread opened the doors for

-- Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 16:40 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 18 October 2007 08:22 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, isn't it awful how those who hate recent bands writing great melodic songs meet with opposition on ILM these days? Wasn't it so much better back in 2001 when everyone agreed that melodic music should be buried forever and white males with guitars should never again be allowed to make music?

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 18 October 2007 08:35 (eighteen years ago)

Shut the fuck up, I listened to a Hefner album within the last month.

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 18 October 2007 08:36 (eighteen years ago)

And I put some Toto tracks on my iPod.

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 18 October 2007 08:36 (eighteen years ago)

I guess Toto are old enough for you to accept then. It's the idea of a band formed after the mid 80s and writing traditional songs that you cannot accept.

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 18 October 2007 09:12 (eighteen years ago)

Exterminate! Exterminate!

― Tom D., Thursday, 18 October 2007 10:18 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radioassets/photos/2007/2/16/15119_2.jpg

― max r, Thursday, 18 October 2007 10:21 (eighteen years ago)

How 'traditional' can a song written after the mid-80s be?

― DJ Mencap, Thursday, 18 October 2007 10:26 (eighteen years ago)

A lot better than just "Ruby, Ruby, Ruby!"

Is that a song about getting a post-pub curry after predicting the afformentioned riot?

― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 18 October 2007 13:09 (eighteen years ago)

Sarfahl was, I believe, the first to ask why a Yorkshire band would be using Cockney slang in a song.

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 18 October 2007 13:12 (eighteen years ago)

How 'traditional' can a song written after the mid-80s be?

geir plse define "traditional music"

-- Thomas, Thursday, October 18, 2007 12:42 PM (1 hour ago)

Folk music. Music made by non-professional musicians. All things "ethnic".

-- Geir Hongro, Thursday, October 18, 2007 12:56 PM (1 hour ago)

― Thomas, Thursday, 18 October 2007 13:37 (eighteen years ago)

That last one sounds like a place you buy Christmas presents in a mad panic on Dec 23

― DJ Mencap, Thursday, 18 October 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

bit like "But is is Melodic" in Reading town centre?

― Mark G, Thursday, 18 October 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

Or "Norwegian Douchebag" just off Tottenham Court Road

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 18 October 2007 14:20 (eighteen years ago)

"Isn't it good, Norwegian Prude"

― Tom D., Thursday, 18 October 2007 14:22 (eighteen years ago)

Or "Norwegian Douchebag" just off Tottenham Court Road

HUGE REDUCTIONS

― blueski, Thursday, 18 October 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

100% OFF

― blueski, Thursday, 18 October 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

Cheap international calls, money transfers

oh wait

― DJ Mencap, Thursday, 18 October 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...

Man, this song gets better every time I hear it

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 20 December 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

lol jk

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 20 December 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

where's that jpg of you performing it at karaoke?

― blueski, Thursday, 20 December 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/74876696.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=17A4AD9FDB9CF193395A77F763DF9CD726B6EB1ABA60EC90284831B75F48EF45

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 20 December 2007 15:04 (eighteen years ago)

I've lost weight since then, obv

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 20 December 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

four months pass...

http://www.little-mountain.com/oilandgasmuseum/Media/WhereItAllBegan.jpg

― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 18 May 2008 12:59 (seventeen years ago)

What if you dont care what bands look like and never pay attention to lyrics? Are you still allowed to like this song?

― billstevejim, Sunday, 18 May 2008 20:19 (seventeen years ago)

Dom, you might be the only poster ever to repeatedly creep-revive themself.

― Matt DC, Sunday, 18 May 2008 23:48 (seventeen years ago)

by default.

― Mark G, Monday, 19 May 2008 09:49 (seventeen years ago)

Dom, you might be the only poster ever to repeatedly creep-revive themself.

-- Matt DC, Monday, 19 May 2008 00:48 (12 hours ago) Bookmark Link

I'm just paying tribute to the original LBZC thread. I bet you're the kind of guy who hassles WWII memorial services.

― Dom Passantino, Monday, 19 May 2008 12:46 (seventeen years ago)

two months pass...

Much of the indie scene has become "very boring", with record labels pushing bands playing "indie by numbers", the Kaiser Chiefs have said.

Singer Ricky Wilson said some bands "didn't seem to be enjoying themselves" and were "going through the motions".

He told the BBC that the band - one of Britain's biggest indie groups - had made their third album "weird and fresh and radical" in response.

The album, Off With Their Heads, is released in the UK on 13 October.

Their new single, Never Miss A Beat, will come out a week before.

"Indie bands are big, so a lot of record companies are pushing indie bands and going 'we've got one and they dress in vests'," Wilson said. "That indie by numbers is boring."

Songwriter and drummer Nick Hodgson added: "It's very, very boring."

Wilson continued: "We're not going to point fingers or name names, but we've noticed that [other bands] didn't seem to be enjoying themselves on their new records, they seemed to be going through the motions."

― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 10:29 (seventeen years ago)

Grant Connor: Okay boys, this bear's gonna make a dash for freedom. Unless we take him down.
Cletus: Yeah, *all* the way down.
Grant Connor: What you said didn't really add much
Cletus: I know. I just wanted to belong.
Grant Connor: Well, we all feel that way sometimes.

― DJ Mencap, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 10:45 (seventeen years ago)

I like how the best gimmick they could come up was to "dress in vests", exactly like a certain Leeds-based band with a podgy frontman.

― Neil S, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 11:08 (seventeen years ago)

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