That Diane Morgan monologue was one of the darkest and most honest reflections of group anger and the nightmarish psychological anguish felt by vast swathes of the UK’s population.
Out here in San Diego. It's crazy how much online hate we have towards homeless, like it's all their fault and all their fault alone. Dont people know, just one round of layoffs, plus another family illness, they could be homeless as well.
I swear there are several points of influence for Black Mirror in this episode alone. The "mother" gadget at 17:46 that keeps tabs on everything in the house i.e. the "cookie" in the White Christmas episode which is human consciousness extracted from a person and trapped inside a gadget to quite literally keep tabs on everything in the persons house. As well as that baby advert at 21:25 almost sounding like the episode Fifteen Million Merits, where everyone is born to live in nothing but boxed rooms filled with adverts, where a girl in particular tries to go on reality TV to sing her way into a more luxurious life, only to...well...you know
Don’t beat up ambulance driver’s was actually a comical top ten what to do when drunk from Club UK porn magazine. Cannot remember the order but one of them was to ‘Get drunk and attack an ambulance crew’.
I know Doug Stanhope's schtick is primarily irony, which probably goes right over the heads of many Americans, and almost all of the ones he's parodying. But it's alarming how bereft of reason their arguments generally are, even the mildest ones, like the notion that people in the US might be reluctant to offer violence in case the other guy is armed. It only works if hardly anyone is armed, for the obvious reason that if most people who lose their shit are armed, then instead of three mass shootings every two days for the entire US (the current rate) it would be more like that rate in every big city, at a minimum. The irony is that the same people who make the argument actually WANT everyone to be armed. At the merest mention of restricting sale of arms so that people with demonstrated propensity for violent or threatening behaviour, fantasies of mass murder and such are unable to arm themselves, gun-fixated Americans man (and woman) the barricades. The notion that lethal force should be available to all only makes sense in the context of a death cult.
29:00 "America has got a fierce reputation for violence, *doesn't it*?" This Charlie person needs to get back to school. Otherwise he'll be speaking like those foreigners over there who say, "I don't got a gun."
