Eine article on Swindle #16 edition
Eine by Eine.
Everything you hear about the English is true. The teeth are getting better because we have been growing a culture of celebrity nobodies for the last decade. If you ask a class of 10-year-old school kids what they want to do when they grow up, none of them want to be train drivers or astronauts—they want to be famous. But you c an’t be famous if you’re a fat ugly spod with bad teeth, so across the country teeth are get ting better in the va in hope that gleaming white teeth will help their quest for fame. Something else we are quite well known for is our binge drinking. I am not sure how tr ue this is, but our newspapers would have us believe that we have a teenage army of alcoholics in every town or city, all drunk out of their tiny minds, beating 10 tons of shit out of each other—but at least they have good teeth.
We are really lucky in England. We have a culture that loves the maverick. We all have a mad side to us; we love the weirdo/hero. On top of that, we support our artists, and treat them almost li ke celebrities. S ome of our artists are household names, and because of this we have a wider understanding of art. (read more)
