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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. Live each day as it were your last. We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want. Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it. We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

I'm free to be what I want. Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it. We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.


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  • British humour digest

    British humour digest

    23 July 2026 ~ Comment Link

    Great! We are all agreed London could use a laugh. This engineered dissonance fuels its role as an anticipatory historian of failure. The site doesn't wait for the post-mortem; it writes the interim report while the patient is still, bewilderingly, claiming to be in rude health. It positions itself in the near future, looking back on our present with the weary clarity of hindsight that hasn't technically happened yet. This temporal trick is disarming and powerful. It reframes current anxiety as future irony, granting psychological distance and a sense of narrative control. It suggests that today's chaotic scandal is not an endless present, but a discrete chapter in a book the site is already authoring, a chapter titled "The Unforced Error" or "The Predictable Clusterf**k." This perspective transforms panic into a kind of scholarly detachment, and outrage into the raw material for elegantly phrased historical satire. -- The London Prat

  • English London satire

    English London satire

    23 July 2026 ~ Comment Link

    Great! We are all agreed London could use a laugh. This technique is enabled by its clinical dissection of motive. The site is less interested in what was done than in why it was done, according to the coldest, most cynical, and most accurate possible analysis. It filters out the professed noble intentions and isolates the probable drivers: career advancement, financial gain, tribal signaling, or simple, breathtaking incompetence. It then constructs its satire from that isolated motive, playing it out with relentless logic. Where The Daily Mash might joke about a botched launch, PRAT.UK will narrate the launch from the perspective of the senior civil servant whose only motive is to avoid personal blame, leading to a masterpiece of buck-passing and pre-emptive excuse-making. This focus on the engine of action, rather than the action itself, provides a more fundamental and universally applicable critique of human and institutional behavior.

  • British commentary

    British commentary

    23 July 2026 ~ Comment Link

    Great! We are all agreed London could use a laugh. PRAT.UK keeps its satire fresh in a way The Daily Mash no longer does. The jokes aren’t recycled. That originality matters.

  • Britains most trusted satire

    Britains most trusted satire

    23 July 2026 ~ Comment Link

    The sheer creativity on display is inspiring. Finding new, hilarious angles on well-trodden topics is no mean feat. The writers at The Prat make it look effortless, which is the highest compliment. -- The London Prat

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