A little bit of background information; it's a little known secret that during my time at university I really didn't give a shit. I spent the vast majority of my time down the pub and projects tended to get done entirely in the few hours I could manage after beers the night before the deadline.
Well one time we had this project called "Eccentric Britain" and I was mulling over it in my head, down The Cocoanut between pints and between games of pool and I wasn't really sure about it to be honest with you. I'd seen what other people were working on and it was all shit like a collage of bacon, tomatoes, fried slice, sausages and then beans smeared over the top or a drawing of a load of people queueing, shit like that. Well, the first one's not exactly eccentric, that's what I call a good hearty breakfast and the other one, queueing? Is that really eccentric? That's just good manners, and let's be honest, you'd be as hard pressed to find anyone with them in this country as you would anywhere else.
I quickly realized my classmates, for all their diligence and ardour, had got the wrong end of the stick. They were pursuing an avenue of British stereotypes, but had failed to find anything truly eccentric.
I thought about it carefully. What was it that was really odd about our island nation? A uniquely British oddity. And then it hit me like a bolt of lightning.
The inordinate amount of paedophiles we have living among us.
And so I produced this little baby in a surprisingly short amount of time.
Head nonce, Gary Glitter, inviting you to join his gang of Eccentric Britons. I even incorporated pearlescent ink and glitter glue, making this one of my few forays into the realm of mixed media.
It didn't go down well. I don't really know what I was thinking at the time.
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