To quote the Sex Pistols… schools are prisons. Armed guards, forced to be there by the state, forced to be with disruptive sometimes violent fellow inmates, require permission to do simple things like use the bathroom. Consequence free torture (bullying) of classmates. It is getting increasingly absurd.
There have been several school shootings where i read the details of what had happened to the perpetrator and hated to think yep that young person was behaving rationally when they lashed out violently because it was their only recourse in the situation they were forced to endure for years. People go on about gun control and mental heath but ignore the fact that there are a lot of children enduring conditions that would be called atrocities if they were prisoners of war.
And it’s all at the hands of foolish people who are trying to have the “best interests” of children in mind.
Five year olds forced to eat in silence for only fifteen minutes sounds like an absurd over the top young adult dystopian novel.
To be fair, the cover of the single actually does say “Sex Pistols”, the former Sex Pistols producer was sued successfully for being misleading. I was successfully mislead. There’s your weird music lore for the day.
It was a con alright, and you fell for The Great Swindle .. :)
TBH I wasn't sure if you were aware and were knowingly going with the I can't believe it's not butter of UK punk.
The oddest thing about your comment, though, was the armed guards and school shootings references following a UK band callout - The Dunblane massacre aside (which was an adult shooter back in 1996) neither feature much in UK or Commonwealth schools, for the most part they're US phenomena, if not in uniqueness then certainly in ubiquitousness and frequency.
There have been several school shootings where i read the details of what had happened to the perpetrator and hated to think yep that young person was behaving rationally when they lashed out violently because it was their only recourse in the situation they were forced to endure for years. People go on about gun control and mental heath but ignore the fact that there are a lot of children enduring conditions that would be called atrocities if they were prisoners of war.
And it’s all at the hands of foolish people who are trying to have the “best interests” of children in mind.
Five year olds forced to eat in silence for only fifteen minutes sounds like an absurd over the top young adult dystopian novel.