I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a recession. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The pound buys a penny's work, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV's while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen violent crimes and sixty-three bike thefts, as if that's the way it's supposed to be.

We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my full susser and my TV and my park tools and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.'

Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone.

I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your moderator because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the helmet issue and Tandem-Jeremy and the politics and the crime in the street and Surf-Mat's awesomeness.

All I know is that first you've got to get mad.

[shouting] You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, Goddamnit! My life has VALUE!' So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to your laptop. Open it, and stick your head in it, and yell,

[shouting] 'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!'

I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your washing machines, open them and stick your head in and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!'

Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the grumpy roadies and the superstar brakepads and the droppable seat post crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the airing cupboard, climb inside, and yell, and say it:

[screaming at the top of lungs] "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"

10/10 to that man. He rants so hard the words are even audible before he's spoken them.

I read that with "Nimrod" by Elgar being played by the scots guards in the background. Surprisingly moving!

MrNutt, can I have some of your medication please? Or is it class A drugs you're taking?

Just lick the screen brother, just lick the screen!

I'M AS MAD AS HELL AND I AM NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!!!!

Classic film and never more timely.

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There may be another thread about it, but this is a rant of the highest quality.

Holy Hells Bells! I'm manic depressive with the luck of the damned but you Sir have major issues beyond mental illness.

hehe, why thank you sir! 😀

I've never even heard of this film but I know the quote from somewhere.

Wikipedia suggests it might be a 'High Contrast' track, has it been used elsewhere?

yep, it was used on the B Side of "Cross the line" by a band called Cuba on 4AD Records in about 2000

yeah, I don't *think* it's that... 😉

I've got a feeling that The Crystal Method may have also used it? I'm surprised the Prodigy haven't tbh

It was also used on the film Zeitgeist quite extensively.