Eddie: Well, you reach under the dashboard, grab those two wires and jam them together 'til the engine fires up. A sub-theme that is mentioned is the conflict between two groups, the Indian Sikhs and the Pakistani Muslims, who "not only cannot get along with each other but also cannot adapt to secular Britain. The writing style that Dalrymple explains these in was praised by reviewers for its clear, witty prose and for going immediately to the heart of the matter that is being discussed. Also, it’s important to know that several of the essays in this book were written in the 90s, so people’s values have changed since then. It ran in 1993 and was recorded for VHS (and later DVD) release at the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton.

He keeps insisting that the whole cause is a modern culture that encourages the poor to believe they can have all the sex they want, whenever they want, with no consequences. The solutions to these problems may be obvious to some, but how bad it has to be before someone actually does something is anyone's guesss. Mayall tried to have Edmondson reconsider, but he "put his foot down and said, 'It's not going to work mate.In 1994, the Manhattan Institute started publishing the contents of these essays in the City Journal magazine. It was a strict hierarchy close hierarchy A system triangular in shape; the higher up the triangle the fewer people there are, but they have more power, wealth or responsibility. While the book’s stories blur into an endless round of squalor, violence, and every type of vice, several major themes run through the whole book, which collectively characterize the “worldview” of the underclass. He resigns himself to suicide, but not before Eddie has tricked him into signing a marriage certificate (assuming that such a bond will entitle him to the money). Mayall added that the title was deliberate to make viewers think of "bottom jokes", but that it also reflects on the show's premise of "two guys at the bottom of the heap".

This is meant to be directed against intellectuals and liberals that form the many ideas absorbed into the mentality of the underclass. Edmondson would go on to say that one of the reasons he pulled out of the project was because Mayall was "not there" during writing sessions, and struggled to work with him.

J. Simpson era, authorities in some places and times were much more lax in prosecuting domestic battery.

Eddie: Oh god, and so it goes on, day after day, year in year out, slime in this ear, slime in that ear, don't you ever yearn for change? A corollary to this is that no hierarchy of persons or values can be permitted, since everybody is aggressively and always equal (which reinforces lack of aspiration). The older women clearly all have sons whom they might even be visiting that very afternoon in the slammer. Oh, I see – you want someone homely, with cooking skills, fun to be with… and a whazzo pair of jugs?Moreover, by refusing to place the onus on the patients to improve their lot, he is likely to mislead them into supposing that he has some purely technical or pharmacological answer to their problems, thus helping to perpetuate them. Everyone, except benighted reactionary outcasts, recoils from the idea of that one thing or action is or can be better, more worthwhile, or more moral than another. Stephen Goode, writing for Insight on the News, said that the collection argued its "position brilliantly and with impressive passion. Having acquired the honeymoon tickets of newly-weds Mr and Mrs Cannonball Taffy O'Jones, the pair descend upon a luxury hotel masquerading as the honeymooners. And if, as far as he can tell in good faith, the misery of his patients derives from the way they live, he has a duty to tell them so—which often involves a more or less explicit condemnation of their way of life as completely incompatible with a satisfying existence.

His dealings with thousands of these people at close quarters gave him much of the fodder for his thesis which is, I’m sure that some will disagree, that a lot of poverty is caused by dysfunctional values, values that those in power exploit and make worse by creating a culture of victims. He seems to really miss the good old days of Victorian England when it was much easier to ignore those dirty poor people. Life for the bottom 20 to 30 per cent of the population was very hard, with many constantly on the edge of starvation.I wasn’t exactly a bleeding-heart liberal, but I acted outraged when Bill Clinton reformed the welfare system.