Don’t Sup With a FUP
2nd July 2015
John Derbyshire, Patron Saint of Dyspepsia, offers some advice for the perplexed.
Here’s this week’s precept:
Avoid fucked-up people.
Most citizens of a functioning society live in a bourgeois style. They obey the law, keep regular hours, and brush their teeth. They get as much education as they can tolerate, acquire a marketable skill, work, marry, raise kids, and keep their debts under control.
The people I’m advising you to avoid, the fucked-up people—hereinafter FUPs—are the others. You’ve met them, or will: the drunks and moochers, the losers and dropouts, the profligates and unemployables. They will at best waste your time, at worst drag you down (?) into fucked-uppery.
Amen to that.