*THAT WAS THE YEAR THAT WAS*
Cheers, 2023, you steaming pile of sh*t. Let’s see what peanuts of joy we can pull from this particular turd...
• Prices kept rising, but arguably not quite as fast as before. Which was very fast indeed.
• The weather clearly saved up the worst for the Christmas break. Scientists can’t work out where all the extra water’s coming from.
• Muppets continued to lurch the UK from one scandal or crisis to another. That bus that was on it’s way to those uplands fell into a ravine a long time ago, despite the fact they’re still partying on it and so blinded that they haven’t noticed that they ran out of booze two years ago. Or why the floor is on the roof....
• More countries jumping on the “WAR!!” bandwagon. A big relief; can you imagine the job losses in the defense industries without them?
• Things that shouldn’t even be on the same continent as ‘normal’ are now accepted parts of everyday life, as British society relentlessly marches back to the Victorian blueprint, with numerous Tory ministers soiling themselves at the prospect. With the increasing number of derelict commercial buildings, what better use to put them to than a workhouse! (Consider that our current reliance on tens of thousands of foodbanks was unthinkable twenty years ago, yet here we are...)
• As a nice garnish to the above dishes of doom, we have a generous serving of some of the best human qualities, like bigotry, racism and xenophobia, brought to you on an ornate plate of rampant jingoism.
• In short; if 2023 had been an animal, you’d have mercifully put it down by Easter.
So, 2024, what have you got in store for us? As usual, I’ll be as positive as I can......
• After the fifth severe storm of the summer and the sad loss of Tewkesbury, York, most of Somerset and Capel Curig, many people put their Christmas trimmings up by end of August. However, most people are completely done with Christmas by November.
• Lots more lovely wars to join in with, aswell as the ones we’re already enjoying. As if we’re looking at the climate/environmental crisis and offering to help with it.
• Donald Trump is installed as King of the World. Or something.
• The Wild West returns, only this time it’s planet-wide.
• All recreational drugs are legalised in a desperate, last-ditch effort to keep the electorate so off their tits that they don’t notice things getting even worse. In a sort of “we’re not REALLY eating Auntie Mabel , are we, daddy?” kind-of way.
• The Isle of Wight declares independence.
• Three new, unelected PMs are chosen, which could include a household pet, or a plant. Or anything.
• Aliens land for a chat. But we’re so busy f***ing everything up, we don’t notice.
• Reality finally, and completely, ceases to be an issue. Which is a massive issue.
So, before we all plunge our collective face into the deep fat frier of 2024, I wish you a Happy New Year, as many of us see out ’23 in our nightmarish new PJs, holding our Windolene-in-a-wine-glass, in front of an effluent pipe of TV and eating our own bodyweight in finger food, and either (a) collapsing due to the alcohol poisoning or (b) getting to midnight and deciding which of the five TVs to focus on and watch fireworks.. (..only to find out in the morning that you were actually watching The Sound of Music).
..and no “new year, new me” bollocks, please.
I’ll still be me tomorrow.
Thank you (and well done!!) for briefly dipping your brain into my annual montage of misery.
BLWYDDYN NEWYDD DDA!!
31/12/23
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