Off Topic Snowflakes are as thick as treacle.

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I’ve guessed Corbyn the bastard

Don't bother putting the lottery on this week

 

[The Norton Cat]

I once read about a married man with 4 children who's wife was diagnosed with cervical cancer. Whilst undergoing treatment for that cancer the married man had an affair resulting in a child to his bit on the side. Not content with that he then left his wife during the cancer treatment for another woman, whom he also impregnated, the Police were called to his house because of a drunken row with this new fancy woman. He is still married to his wife who is seeking a divorce on the grounds of adultery. The same man has been sacked by two newspapers for writing articles containing outright lies. He was also investigated by Police for conspiring to have a man beaten up by thugs. I will not mention that man's name but will leave people to draw their own conclusions as to the character of the man.

A bounder and a cad. Unfortunately, history is littered with excellent leaders who weren't very nice people.

 

[Deletion Requested1]

A bounder and a cad. Unfortunately, history is littered with excellent leaders who weren't very nice people.

There ain't nothin like a role model

 

[rooch 3]

Don't bother putting the lottery on this week

 

[David Moyes' Stupid Face]

In my experience, every single person I've come across who has used the word "snowflake" (in that context) has also been thick as pigshit.

 

[Deletion Requested1]

In my experience, every single person I've come across who has used the word "snowflake" (in that context) has also been thick as pigshit.

I don't like to generalise but I agree with you just too much extremism but he ho

 

[David Moyes' Stupid Face]

I don't like to generalise but I agree with you just too much extremism but he ho

Fair point, I just hate these "buzzwords". I find they are overwhelmingly used by idiots trying to sound clever, in lieu of actually putting a coherent argument together.

 

[Owld Feller]

In my experience, every single person I've come across who has used the word "snowflake" (in that context) has also been thick as pigshit.

I think the term 'big girl's blouse' (BGB) is often a more fitting description.

 

[The Norton Cat]

Fair point, I just hate these "buzzwords". I find they are overwhelmingly used by idiots trying to sound clever, in lieu of actually putting a coherent argument together.

Tend to agree with this. The original context in which these terms are used are often misinterpreted (possibly deliberately) so that by the time they enter wider usage they're meaning has shifted anyway. As is the case with this Daily Star headline.

 

[haslam]

Ignoring the word 'snowflake' as it seems to have a number of definitions, the underlying point SEEMS to be the poor level of general knowledge in the 'younger generation'.

It was ever thus.

I recall that many years ago The Sunday Post sent a reporter to Trafalgar Square armed with some simple questions.
One was 'what river runs through Newcastle' .
My favourite reply was, The Seine.

Then there is this quote. ----

“The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority, they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

It's claimed to be from Socrates, who live 470 to 399 BC.

As I said, it was ever thusn but if I may I'd like to add that as well as ever present problems with youths, we shouldn't forget that miserable old sods have also been a fixture in society, forever criticising them and forgetting that once they were young.
Personally I find that the youth of today is much the same as those of my youth.
Some good, some bad, most canny enough.

It's the middle aged members of The PC Brigade that I can't stand because they SHOULD by now have more common sense.

( My Date of Birth 1943)

Love this mate, and even if we cannot be sure if it says back to Socrates what is known is that it was quoted a number of times in the 50s regarding the young people of then.

As a human being you can only ever expect to know a minuscule amount of all that is known. We're talking fractions of 1 percent here. Even things you specialise in will have areas you know nothing about. Stupid people aren't ones who don't know things they're ones with no appreciation of what they don't know. I don't think it's worse than it used to be it's just that it's much easier for stupid people to get their voices heard nowadays and people are seemingly less interested in actual facts.

 

[DH4]

There are "Stupid" people and there are "Ignorant" people. Stupid people do not have the capacity to learn, ignorant people do not want to learn or refuse to listen to facts even though they are self evident. Generally I find that people who use the term "Snowflake" fall into the latter category.

 

[Makemstine Roger]

There are "Stupid" people and there are "Ignorant" people. Stupid people do not have the capacity to learn, ignorant people do not want to learn or refuse to listen to facts even though they are self evident. Generally I find that people who use the term "Snowflake" fall into the latter category.

There are "Stupid" people and there are "Ignorant" people.and all are Corbynistas who can't see the truth,with heads so far up their arses they belive any old ****e spouted, more radicalised than a Ji..di

 

[DH4]

There are "Stupid" people and there are "Ignorant" people.and all are Corbynistas who can't see the truth,with heads so far up their arses they belive any old ****e spouted, more radicalised than a Ji..di

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I speak to people who dream of a return to the halcyon days when we were "Great Britain", and we will be "Great" again after "Brexit". None of them are aware that we are known as "Great Britain" because we live on the largest (greatest) Island of the British Isles. They actually think we are known as "Great" because we are/were great in the context of very good. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

 

[Sandy Camel]

Ignoring the word 'snowflake' as it seems to have a number of definitions, the underlying point SEEMS to be the poor level of general knowledge in the 'younger generation'.

It was ever thus.

I recall that many years ago The Sunday Post sent a reporter to Trafalgar Square armed with some simple questions.
One was 'what river runs through Newcastle' .
My favourite reply was, The Seine.

Then there is this quote. ----

“The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority, they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

It's claimed to be from Socrates, who live 470 to 399 BC.

As I said, it was ever thusn but if I may I'd like to add that as well as ever present problems with youths, we shouldn't forget that miserable old sods have also been a fixture in society, forever criticising them and forgetting that once they were young.
Personally I find that the youth of today is much the same as those of my youth.
Some good, some bad, most canny enough.

It's the middle aged members of The PC Brigade that I can't stand because they SHOULD by now have more common sense.

( My Date of Birth 1943)

Canny weird reading that quote from old Socrates there seeing as the authorities had him executed for corrupting the youth. I'm guessing he told them to tidy their rooms and give the slaves a good sweeping.