I speak for large swathes of the Great British Antisocial Public who just want to be left alone.
“I speak for large swathes of the Great British Antisocial Public who just want to be left alone.”
— Grace Dent · Antisocial
The World Motivation
I speak for large swathes of the Great British Antisocial Public who just want to be left alone.
“I speak for large swathes of the Great British Antisocial Public who just want to be left alone.”
— Grace Dent · Antisocial
I speak for large swathes of the Great British Antisocial Public who just want to be left alone.
In 2017, I did the Christmas big shop on 23 December. Six people, eating for four days, done in under 55 minutes, with two trolleys, in an almost-closing Sainsbury's in Penrith.
If God wanted me to be a size eight, would he have made Birds Eye Potato Waffles so waffly versatile? Or toastable in the toaster?
Eighties vegetarians were a lonely, much maligned breed, exposed to frozen pub-lunch veggie lasagnes, prototype soy milk that floated on tea like a tanker spillage, and the pain of buying almost all edible items via postal order from Holland & Barrett.
Girls are being left out of the conversation when it comes to technology, led to think of tech as insular and antisocial without ever being given a chance to correct those perceptions.
I was really bored, pretty antisocial, and not much of a joiner, and people thought that was a problem. I hated high school. In a way, it was good... I think, for a writer, it's good to be comfortable with being on the outside.
It's a circus life, the movies. It's a lot of travelling, a lot of antisocial hours; there's a lot of it that's about escaping from life.
In the last 15 years, only 500,000 jobs have been created per year. So from a long time ago, every year 700,000 Mexicans have only three routes to take: migration, the informal economy and the path to antisocial behavior.
I love our perfectly imperfect Dent Christmas. We've honed how this day works for decades, so why spoil a winning formula?