Hooray for a spot of good news on this otherwise most dull and depressing day: there's a trailer for the Absolutely Fabulous film!
The show first aired 22 years ago, making us of the age where we was far too young and impressionable to be watching such things – not that it stopped us from sneaking the odd viewing here and there, until we were teenagers and we learned how to illegally stream from the internet, at which point we hoovered up the entire thing in one booze-heavy sitting. Here’s a few helpful and fantastically moral life lessons our impressionable young selves picked up…
Doing nothing will get you absolutely everywhere
Not saying Patsy and Eddie are the* entire* reason that the fashion and PR career pools are massively oversubscribed, but the whole waking up in a mansion at midday before stumbling into the office to drink champagne definitely struck a chord. Weirdly, post recession, there’s kind of a different ‘vibe’ when it comes to work ethics. Boresville.
Logo-branded clothes are the only way to prove you ‘get’ fashion
What the hell is the point of clothes if they don’t cost thousands of pounds, and what the hell is the point of expensive clothes if they don’t have massive logos on them to point out to even the layest of laypeople that you're a fashion genius? Also, Christian LaCroix is king. This ethos probably went some way to explaining the generation of teenagers that spent much of the early noughties walking around in an FCUK T-shirt. Thanks for that one, guys.
People who don’t drink and take drugs are total losers
Yes our parents drank, but they did it at the local pub rather than super-cool fashion parties, so what the hell was Saffy’s damn problem? She only had, like, the coolest Mum ever, and totally didn’t appreciate it. It wasn’t until we grew up, went to live in university halls and realised that living with barely functioning alcoholics was, far from being fun, something of a neverending nightmare. Turns out we’re more square than we thought after all.
**Food was so not worth being fat for
Maybe it was that the foodie revolution hadn’t started yet and shepherd’s Pie was our favourite dinner, or maybe it was something (read: everything) to do with being a teenage girl, but the immortal lines, ‘Have you eaten Pats?’ ‘Not since 1973’ were *so *relatable that we almost felt sorry for Mum as she offered round seconds on dinner. Obviously, this phase passed the second we learned how to order a kebab.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.