"Never did me any harm"

I fucking hate it when people (usually older) say "never did me any harm". It’s such a pointless thing to say. It only tells you one of a possible three things. 1) The thing they are referring to didn’t do them as AN INDIVIDUAL, as ONE PERSON any harm. 2) It did do them harm but they are lying about it out of some weird sense of pride and nostalgia. 3) It did do them harm but for some reason they have not realised it.

It seems people are content with referring to their own personal experiences and how those experiences affect them as proof if something is good or bad for you.

It was the channel 4 programme ‘Never Did Me Any Harm’ which riled me up enough to write this bloody rant. The whole concept of the programme pissed me off straight away. The description on channel 4’s website is ‘Four modern families turn back the clock for two weeks so that their children can experience life as their parents did when they were young’, which isn’t necessarily irritating but the ‘never did me any harm’ mentality fucking is. The descripton of one episode is 'Peter Gunn is so concerned that freedom and the pursuit of individuality are driving his four sons apart, that he decides to take them back to his 1950s childhood for two weeks'. I mean who could blame him? Both freedom and individuality are disgusting like!

The thing is people do quite often refer to their childhood and say ‘never did me any harm’. Well that’s where you are fucking wrong because it has clearly turned you into a stupid twat. How far will these ‘never did me any harm’ bell ends take it?

“My mother took thalidomide, never did me any harm.”

Man prepairing to beat or bum young boy - you decide.

“I used to have unprotected sex, never did me any harm.”

“I’ve smoked all my life, never did me any harm.”

“I used to be suicidal, never did me any harm.”

“I used to eat nothing but shit, never did me any harm.”

“We used to beat up foreigners all the time when we were younger, never did me any harm.”

“I used to get bummed by my dad every Tuesday, never did me any harm.”

Interesting, but not very fucking helpful! Everyone is different and some things harm some people but not others. Whether something is harmful or not is an important question. So before forcing someone to experience something it is important to consider how it will affect them. And how do we do that? Well it would be a good start to look at how things affect the population rather than just plucking the information from one person, even if that one person is yourself.

So if you are the sort of person who uses the phrase ‘never did me any harm’ then fuck off! Or better still please realise why that sort of decision-making is ridiculous and join me in being angry at the other twats who still do it.