Is It Just Me or Has the Shit Hit the Fan?: Your Hilarious New Guide to Unremitting Global Misery

by Steven Lowe, Alan McArthur

The authors of Is It Just Me or Is Everything Shit? survey the post-crash landscape—are we better people now, or just the same people with less money?   "Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' daughter Suri (with her thick dark hair and wide eyes . . . ) has been named the most 'influential' A-list toddler in a new Forbes list. The two-year-old beat Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's kids . . . " Forbes has an Influential Toddler list. Forbes has an Influential Toddler list. Forbes has, it bears repeating, an Influential Toddler list.  From bank bailouts to enviro-copouts; from Tory politicans listening to The Jam to celebrity credit crunch "victims" Grant Bovey and Anthea Turner; from BNP coppers to Christian theme parks to middle-class shoppers banging on about budget supermarkets; plus everyone banging on about The Wire. Funny, sharp, and timely, Is It Just Me or Has the Shit Hit the Fan?  asks the crucial questions of the new age, like; why are the people who screwed the world still running the world and screwing the world until we're all screwed more than we've ever been screwed before?

Genres: Nonfiction, Comedy, Humor

250 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Cecily]

Saw this 2009 book on a second-hand bookstall yesterday. I didn't buy it. The “unremitting global misery” of those happier days has morphed into many things, none of which are funny.

[Lisa · Rating 3 out of 5]

From the authors of Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Shit comes this funny and fury-filled look at the modern landscape, post-crash, filled with entries on the sort of thing that has me ranting at bewildered looking colleagues as they back away slowly.

With particular ire directed at the bastardly financial sector who got us into this fine mess and then, after heaping our plates with shit and demanding we pretend it was foie-gras, expected huge financial rewards for being shit at their jobs, this is very Brit-centric despite the cover nods to global misery and any non-Brit might find the references to expenses-funded duck ponds, Ed Balls, Peter Andre and Lidl a tad confusing.

[Al Bità · Rating 2 out of 5]

Found this remaindered, at a third of the original price, at our local bookshop: and the title gave me a smile, so I bought it...

Certainly the misery being cause by the Global Financial Meltdown deserves to be lambasted as much as possible (although I suspect it is everyone who succumbed to the uncontrolled greed stimulated by the big boys at the high end of town who needs to be castigated as well).

The trouble with this book is that it is mainly centred on the effect in Great Britain. There were so many references to Brits who resonated not one bit with me, that I was often left floundering... I would imagine the Brits would enjoy this book very much; but for anyone else... it is too parochial.

[Velvetink · Rating 2 out of 5]

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