Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass

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Dalrymple, Theodore (2001). Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass. Ivan R. Dee. p.v. ISBN 9781566633826 . Retrieved 6 September 2010. Lily Linneker: Lady Natasha Sarah Jane Wellesley Ritchie: Oh, she sounds ni— Lily Linneker: (continuing) Obstronsky Ponsonsky Smythe Smythe Smythe Smythe Smythe Oblomov Boblomov Dob, Third Vicountess of Maldavia Eddie: Sounds great, we’ll have half a dozen! Episode 2 - Culture [ edit ] [Doing a crossword] Eddie: Err right. " Ironmonger", six letters. Oh, got it! "Harold". Richie: Harold? Eddie: Yeah, well he's an ironmonger, isn't he? Harold the Ironmonger, remember? We ate his dog! Richie: Oh right, we bloody won that bet, didn't we! Eddie: No, we didn't. That's why we had to eat his dog.

Richie and Eddie have the best seats for the annual Hammersmith riots, then try to make videos for the BBC. a b c Pearse, Meic (December 2002). "Life at the Bottom: the worldview that makes the underclass Review". Third Way. Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd. 25 (10): 27.

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See Trevor's review of Give a Man a Fish: Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution by James Ferguson for why work is no longer sufficient to base distribution of subsistence on: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... . The author notes that we no longer define poverty in terms of hunger or need. "Poverty has been redefined in industrial countries, so that anyone at the lower end of the income distribution is poor by virtue of having less than the rich. Entertainment, absorbed passively, informs them, through television and films, of a materially more abundant and more glamorous way of life and thus feeds resentment... [T]hey are deprived of any reasonable standards of comparison by which to judge their woes. They believe themselves deprived, because the only people with whom they can compare themselves are those who appear in advertisements or on television."

a b c Davies, Barbara (1 December 2004). "The Young Ones Have Grown Old. So It's Time for Rik and I to Split". Daily Mirror. Archived from the original on 29 July 2020 . Retrieved 26 September 2022. Eddie: Half past eight and aaalllsss crap! Richie: Look, I have just got to get into my kitchen! Here's a can of spray snow you make everything look Christmassy. I'll go and scrub my sprouts. Eddie: I thought you were gonna do some cooking? After an incident involving a blow-up doll named Monica and some superglue, Richie has, apparently, lost his penis.] Richie: Ah, Monica. You were the first, and you'll be the last. You took my cherry... right off! The depraved world of Richie and Eddie continues in this live show. It was recorded on 18 June 1993 at the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton. and was the penultimate performance of the UK tour. The show allowed actors Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson to shake off the bounds of BBC censorship and take the action to the next level. The tour took place after the conclusion of the second series of the TV show, and its subsequent popularity led the pair to write and film a third series before moving on to a second live tour. Mayall and Edmondson had worked together since the mid-1970s, and developed Bottom as an extension of their own relationship and their on-screen characters in The Young Ones and Filthy Rich & Catflap, their earlier BBC sitcom. In addition to the series the pair completed five stage show tours between 1993 and 2003, and adapted the sitcom into a feature-length film, Guest House Paradiso, released in 1999. A spin-off series featuring various Bottom characters, Hooligan's Island, was cancelled in 2013. Mayall's death in the following year ended plans for a revival.In March 2011, the duo made a surprise reunion when Edmondson took part in Let's Dance for Comic Relief. A pre-recorded segment ended with Mayall hurling a custard pie in Edmondson's face. Mayall appeared again, this time live on stage, to abruptly end Edmondson's performance by hitting him several times with a frying pan. In the final, Mayall returned once again to drop a ton weight upon Edmondson. In the following month, Edmondson revealed that he and Mayall had conceived an idea for a sitcom. "Rik and I have an idea for a sitcom for when we are very, very old. We want to set it in an old people's home 30 years hence. It will be like 'Bottom', but we will be hitting each other with colostomy bags!" [28] In August 2012, the BBC announced that it had commissioned a series based on the Hooligan's Island stage show, where Eddie and Richie cause havoc on a deserted tropical island, set to air in 2013. [29] [30] However, the show was scrapped just two months later. Edmondson said "it wasn't working" and wanted to pursue other projects. [31] Mayall tried to have Edmondson reconsider, but he "put his foot down and said, 'It's not going to work mate.'", and wanted to wait ten years until they were older. [32] Mayall died on 9 June 2014, putting an end to any future Bottom projects. [33] Ade dramatically repeats a line from first series episode " Contest" ("slime in this ear, slime in that ear...") generating huge applause from the crowd. Eddie: I've just had a fantastic idea. [ Drinks the rest of his pint beer.] Richie: Well? Eddie: What? Richie: What's the fantastic idea? Eddie: To drink that! I'm only joking! Why not put an ad in the lonely hearts column? Richie: Yeah! Eddie: Yeah, yeah. "Ugly virgin desperately seeks sex of any description." The legions of helpers and carers, social workers and therapists, whose incomes and careers depend crucially on the supposed incapacity of large numbers of people to fend for themselves and behave responsibly. …their entire therapeutic worldview of the patient as the passive, helpless victim of illness legitimises the very behavious from which they are there to redeem him from. … ...the idea has become entrenched that if one does not know or understand the unconscious motives for one's acts, one is not truly responsible for them.