Well that told me, didn’t it?
I think this story needs to be seen in context of time and place – in that particular environment, people ripped each other off all the time. We may have been cunts for taking his money, but we were all cunts. It was that kind of world. If that offends some people’s rather fluffy sensibilities, then so be it. I wouldn’t do something like that today, as I’m not the same person. But I find some of this a little sanctimonious to be honest. And do I think that we were all dead cool because we took drugs? Err no, not really. Any ‘coolness’ that anyone may have possessed (and I certainly don’t include myself here) was in spite of rather than because of any drug taking. For the record, a lot of people I knew did get into smack later on. It was definitely not cool, it was very ugly and highly destructive. It completely ruined the lives of several of our number, as it did throughout Merseyside in the 80s. In fact one guy I knew pretty well from those days, who was a talented artist and pretty good musician, died fairly recently as a result of long term drug abuse. Do you get it now?

Pity, I quite like this site, but I didn’t realise quite how incestuous and cliquey it can be. Still, you live and learn. Bye then.
(jellyknees, Sat 26 Dec 2009, 14:09, Reply)