"It's not just the slapping you or beating you on the feet, it's the way they wake you in the middle of the night in that shitty room where you've tried so hard to sleep," the prisoner said above the noise of fellow inmates and their relatives.
They can't use shitty hotel room soap or look cool in leather jackets.
Once you add in the shitty motel room you have to live in, with a complete stranger for a whole summer, you end up with a super bizarre experience that's largely unenjoyable.
We're the generation who were told to believe that opportunities were endless before the crushing weight of fiscal reality hit them square in the face and left them scrambling for service jobs and box rooms in shitty parts of shitty cities. Latham's music seems, to me at least, to arise as a direct response to a social climate many of us have been thrust into without our consent.
Jones spent much of her career performing in what she calls "shitty chitlin-circuit-ass rooms, where you're just hoping the promoter pays you".
The public is only going to be persuaded that climate change is a reality when a dramatic event turns their living rooms into shitty swimming pools.
Despite the shitty, tiny TV our rooms in dorms came with, we managed to play through quite a few games together, lights off, all our friends sitting in the dark eating Skittles and drinking soda.
Despite the shitty, tiny TV our rooms in halls came with, we managed to play through quite a few games together, lights off, all our friends sitting in the dark eating Skittles and drinking Irn-Bru.
The inconvenient truth is that the biggest factor in persuading the public about the reality of climate change is when a dramatic event turns their living rooms into shitty swimming pools, with only a quarter of Britons denying that the recent floods were linked to climate change.
At 19, in a shitty Sunshine Coast hotel room, it's easy to confuse a 39-year-old penis for something more.
