{"id":546,"date":"2006-09-10T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-10T20:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2006\/09\/the-uk-hectic-dangerous-and-filthy\/"},"modified":"2006-09-10T20:47:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-10T20:47:00","slug":"the-uk-hectic-dangerous-and-filthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2006\/09\/the-uk-hectic-dangerous-and-filthy\/","title":{"rendered":"The UK: Hectic, Dangerous and Filthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/blogpix\/highbury_junked.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kick Out Worms Three Times A Year&#8221; says this red metal shitbox provided by Islington Council for park users who are exercising their dogs&#8217; bowels on the picnic\/barbie\/football\/snogging\/toddlers&#8217;-play-area that is Highbury Fields. At the end of a hot busy weekend, even the most obedient athletic dogs will have a hard time jumping high enough to let one go with any precision into this particularly full shitbox. <\/p>\n<p><i>GGF<\/i> is telling me that for every criticism I make, I must also find praise, in order to avoid falling victim to obsessively negative thinking. She doesn&#8217;t realise what she is taking on here, and the possibility that she is undermining my livelihood has not yet occurred to her, but the game amuses us both, and so I play it. <\/p>\n<p>Thus, in tandem with today&#8217;s observation that the British people are generally Hectic, Dangerous and Filthy, I find further that they put more energy into partying, freaking out and generally getting off their trolleys than any other nation on Earth, with the exception of the Caribbean nations and Latin America.<\/p>\n<p>Have Britain, Trinidad or Brazil ever been seen at the same London park at the same time? I cannot help but wonder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Kick Out Worms Three Times A Year&#8221; says this red metal shitbox provided by Islington Council for park users who are exercising their dogs&#8217; bowels on the picnic\/barbie\/football\/snogging\/toddlers&#8217;-play-area that is Highbury Fields. At the end of a hot busy weekend, even the most obedient athletic dogs will have a hard time jumping high enough to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[780],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky-original","tag-funky-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}