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There is a brisk trade in books with titles such as "Is It Just Me or Is Everything Shit?" and "Time to Emigrate?", the latter a question that growing numbers of Britons are answering affirmatively, with their feet.
The reason for this is probably to be found in the title of a recent non-fiction superseller: Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Shit?
In last year's Christmas bestseller, Is It Me or Is Everything Shit?, Steve Lowe and Alan McArthur crystallised this sea change as "Nu snobbery": the belief that "the poor are a right laugh.
This week Catherine read Is it Just Me Or Is Everything Shit? "When you get past the stupid, ugly title, this catalogue of awfulness is very funny and brilliantly observed.
"Talk to the Hand: the Utter Bloody Rudeness of Everyday Life", by Lynne Truss, bemoans the decline of deference and the awfulness of youth culture both well-worn conservative themes.But another success is the left-leaning "Is it Just Me or Is Everything Shit?".
Moaning about the world (especially with a faintly nostalgic tone) is a staple of popular non-fiction (for example, Is it Just Me or is Everything Shit?: The Encyclopedia of Modern Life), and has even spawned a set of TV series (Grumpy Old Men/Women/etc).
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Put that down to my mental illness maybe (everything shits me) but there's something about the tokenism of RUOK day that has always made my skin crawl.
anti-Brexit, anti-everything-shit-about-the-country.
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It says, "everything is shit," "you're fucked," "you're shit," and "it's going to be like this forever".
But I don't watch everything and shit, I'm a regular person, I run around and shit.
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