Celebrity Mags

[The Last Word]

In themselves, they're probably best treated as vacuous escapism - a taste of the other side for those that want it. And the fawning over any Royal, especially from the true glossies such as Hello, tells you that despite the shreiking headlines the overall mentality of these things is largely stuck in the past.

It's their influence on the daily papers over the last decade or so that's probably where the real problems lie.

[Officer Dibble]

?We will have to take your word for that, you seem to be the main market for such publications.?

My thoroughness knows no bounds.




Officer Dibble

[Officer Dibble]

?It's their influence on the daily papers over the last decade or so that's probably where the real problems lie.?

Indeed. In fact it seems like many, if not all, tabloids have become nothing more than extensions of these shitty celeb mags. I happened to pick up a copy of ?The Daily Star? a week or two ago ? and I was gob smacked. It was never a serious newspaper but it seemed that all the day?s ?news? stories were banal tittle-tattle about some insipid celebrity slappa or chavy git. In fact there was no real news in it, none at all. Back in the day, when I used to get my hands dirty for a living, we would buy both the Star and the Current Bun to read on our lunch break, and as far as I can recall, there was at least some real news in it back then (early 80?s). Which inevitability meant that we would discuss the real issues of the day as they were presented to us. Now, workers in similar circumstances will probably have to sit round and say ?Ere, Dave. Looks like that silly tart, Jordan, was out on the razz again last night? ?Yeah, they're all at it, Daz? It says here that minger out of the Liverpool girl group, Atomic Slappa, has just had a ten grand tattoo on her thruppenny bits.? ?Fuckin? silly cow.? ?Yeah, to right, mate.?




Officer Dibble

[stripeysydney]

You ought to be careful, Dibbsie ol' son, on that last thread I spotted a typing mistake. I thought I'd warn you before Wazzocks does, and I know he just 'luurves' you.
How are doing, anyway you old reactionary man about town, been kicking any Gypo's in lately?

[Officer Dibble]

"How are doing, anyway you old reactionary man about town, been kicking any Gypo's in lately?"

Wayhey, Sydney, old son!

Re Gypos: No, afraid I haven?t. None of us are getting any younger and I fear my Pikey punching days are receding into the distance. Nowadays, if there's any chav chinning in the offing, I reckon it might be prudent to franchise that out to some suitably moody geezers.



Officer Dibble

[jj]

Nice one.
In Dibsyworld, it's still the late 80s, Greed is Good, ponytails are
de rigueur and Morality is a word he hasn't yet learnt to spell.

I love him deeply, as I do all dinosaurs. Honestly, the National Trust should
give him a preservation grant.

[stripeysydney]

Ha, you forgot just one more thing: Ford Escort XR3 with Mag alloy wheels, colour preferably white, go faster stripes and last but by no means least, furry dice.

[jj]

Bang on, me old son :- ))