Im about to get on my soap box - and would agree with the majority of the comments. Respect for each other. Eradicate the entitlement culture. That's a big one for me with younger people at the moment. If you do the crime spend the time. Make policing...just policing! Not a job that ties you up in paperwork. Make it that when a schoolteacher, a policeman, a neighbour, or any honest person caught you doing something wrong (and we've all been there) a kid crapped his pants at the thought of his/her parents finding out. Make it so teachers can discipline properly and more importantly appropriately. Make it so that kids aren't minimalised and sidelined if they don't want to get a degree in windsurfing just to have a degree. Make it so that kids are happy with a football, a bike, a skipping rope, a game of hide and seek - mobiles and new trainers suck. Make it so that politicians (across all parties) are responsible for these results. Make it so that young people are encouraged to be self-employed, entrepreneurs, innovators: get the tax system to encourage reward for that. Make it also that if someone does great things because they are from a wealthy background, let's applaud them too. They're not all bad. Make it that we teach people that some people who do well have taken risk, and made sacrifice - let's congratulate them and not be bitter. Make it so that kids who are talented in certain areas are developed in those areas and not vilified because they aren't good at maths or another "valuable" subject that benefits someone else - that one is personal for my daughter. Make it so that drug offences are amongst the harshest punished - drugs **** up peoples lives. There is more spent on anti tobacco and anti drink campaigns than anti drug enforcement. Get rid of the politically correct culture of quotas, sexuality, gender and nationality in the workplace - if someone is good enough then they get the job - irrespective of imposed quotas. in my company we have 13 different nationalities, an equal gender split, and don't care about the rest. They were good enough at interview and deliver well in the workplace. Get rid of the fear of offending others if your view is different - that's bullsh1t. In short - if the opportunity were there for young kids to be either thugs or to earn a decent living, most would take the decent living. There will always be the badd'uns. my point is though that if we can get the above right the percentage of those ids who make the choice to be good'uns will grow and the dikkkkkheds we need to lock up will shrink Ha'waaaay for good! And lets f****** pray for a good result against Swansea! FTM
It all comes down to a lack of respect for your fellow man/woman. I'm late 40s, but I remember being terrified of my teachers or the local copper. Not in a bad way, just in a way that I would never want to be on their wrong side. The worst punishment of all was something that I'd done getting back to my Mum. So, generally I behaved myself. If I saw an old lady struggling with her shopping, I'd offer to help. If there were no seats on the bus, I'd get up and offer mine to someone else. General respect. We've lost that in our society. Now the kids are being brought up by the same people who showed no respect 20 years ago. It's cyclical. I was in Mexico last summer and an older couple next to us (from Saltburn - my son was convinced it was Mogga ) had some health issue. The poor bloke couldn't move due to his back. I nipped up to my room to get some strong painkillers and offered them up. The woman was insistent she'd pay for them, but I refused. You help out people when you can, without need for reward or recompense. That's how I was brought up anyway, and that's how my kids are being brought up. On the flight over, there was family sitting near me - parents plugged into their phones, with airpods in. The kid playing videos on his ipad at full volume. Parents didn't give a ****. Lack of respect.
Agree with all of that Apart from this The bit in bold is naive There is a reason these quotas exists - centuries of discrimination. Even now, women are dismissed as "knowing nowt" by men in a lot of situations. My wife's car was damaged at work by some scaffolders. Initially they offered her £80 to get it fixed and refused to engage with her about insurance etc. Then I turned up and the conversation was serious and I was "mate" to them and we talked about getting quotes etc. It might be casual sexism/misogyny, maybe it's more overt, but it still exists. The same for racism, homophobia etc etc. We tell ourselves we are a more enlightened society. these days, but we aren't. Remove those quotas and workplaces will be full of white, British males and the minorities won't find work.
I've been trotting out the same line for a decade now, 'Everyone knows their rights these days, fewer and fewer know their responsibilities' ... ... all summed up by the chaviest phrase there is, "That's how I am mate, if you don't like it jog on." Arrogance without substance, a very unpleasant combination. It's like Love Island without the tits.
There was an experiment in the early part of the 20th century where a human child and a chimp were raised as siblings in the same household. The original idea of the experiment was to see if the chimp could learn to verbalise human language and become more human like, to essentially see what is the potential limit of a chimp when given all the benefits humans get. The experiment was abandoned about a year in when the child started to mimic the chimp and not the other way around. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gua_(chimpanzee)
We live in the Internet age, and gladly I was in my early 20s when it first kicked in. So I grew up with the attitude of respect the police and teachers and "I'll be seeing your Dad" if you pissed off neighbour with the ball in the street. Now, because Gen Z live on online and "influencers" are the new role models, they take their word is gospel. Same as these smart arses who film the police on their phones to try and catch them out while they're doing their jobs spouting "you can't do that, name and badge number" to then post the offercers face and name all over the Internet with no respect for possible repercussions. Probably while there's less people applying for the police because 10 year old stick phones in their faces. Society has become very self aware at a time its never been more antisocial. Look in any Caffè, restaurant etc, tables of people with their heads in their phones. The amount of 17, 18 19 year olds week end workers where I work have very very little social skills, some, not all. But they can't contain eye contact or hold a Conversation, but ask them about tiktok.... forget about it. I'm not hating on the young, everyone is a product of the times, but to get back down off my soap box, ignorance and the lack of common decency is on the decline..I. sure past generations will have always said the same
A few on here have said already what I think, everything comes down to one thing in my mind, Respect. It's something that, to my mind has gradually diminished over the years. If we ALL respect each other, in all aspects, the world would be a better place.
I was in Tesco in Durham a few months ago I came out the shop with an empty trolly and was stopped by security my empty bags searched What they have fitted to one of the trolly wheels is an alarm that’s linked to the tills When you buy something through the tills it deactivates the alarm wheel That’s all well and good for the disconcerting shopper However it dosnt stop the real thieves that pick up and run with there haul
“Millennials are lazy and think basic tasks are beneath them.” A generation with a huge sense of entitlement, Daily Mail, 2017 “Many [young people] were so pampered nowadays that they had forgotten that there was such a thing as walking, and they made automatically for the buses… unless they did something, the future for walking was very poor indeed.” Scottish Rights of Way: More Young People Should Use Them, Falkirk Herald, 195 “They’re out-of-touch hipsters who spend too much on coffee and too little on facial hair care. Many are spoiled, entitled, or both.” A Boss’s Guide to Managing Bratty Millennials, Momzette, 2016 “Whither are the manly vigour and athletic appearance of our forefathers flown? Can these be their legitimate heirs? Surely, no; a race of effeminate, self-admiring, emaciated fribbles can never have descended in a direct line from the heroes of Potiers and Agincourt...” Letter in Town and Country magazine republished in Paris Fashion: A Cultural History, 1771 “The tragic truth is that America’s millennials are a bunch of phone-addicted, selfie-obsessed, hashtagging, snapchatting, kale-munching, twerking, lazy, whining, ill-informed, politically correct, cossetted narcissists who find absolutely everything mortally offensive and believe there are 165 ways to sexually identify.” Memo to millennials, that awful feeling you’ve got is called losing, Daily Mail, 2016 “We defy anyone who goes about with his eyes open to deny that there is, as never before, an attitude on the part of young folk which is best described as grossly thoughtless, rude, and utterly selfish.” The Conduct of Young People, Hull Daily Mail, 1925 “The prevailing narrative about members of Generation Y… is that they are a fleet of job-hoppers who think they're above the grunt work of an entry-level position; in other words, not the most desirable employees.” ‘The 40-hour weeks… I think it’s slowly killing you’, Irish Independent, 2017 “The traditional yearning for a benevolent employer who can provide a job for life also seems to be on the wane… In particular, they want to avoid ‘low-level jobs that aren’t keeping them intellectually challenged.’” Meet Generation X, Financial Times, 1995 “Is it just me, or are student competencies like basic writing skills in serious peril today?… Teachers have been reporting anecdotally that even compared to five years ago, many are seeing declines in vocabulary, grammar, writing, and analysis.” Why Can’t College Students Write Anymore?, Psychology Today, 2014 “The Chairman alluding to the problem of young people and their English said his experience was that many did not seem able to express or convey to other people what they meant. They could not put their meaning into words, and found the same difficulty when it came to writing.” Unable to Express Thoughts: Failing of Modern Young People, Gloucester Citizen, 1936 Right throughout history the older generation has always moaned about the one following them. However, life always progresses for the better, imo.
I have to say the vast majority I meet, and know, have respect and tolerance for others. I've always believed in the kindness of strangers and, as the Likely Lads once said, I like to get my retaliation in first Britain is a wonderful country and the decency of the common man is evident. Sadly those who shout loudest, find themselves superior and enjoy being offensive gain more attention than they deserve. Shame for them is that they mistake attention for respect, something they crave but would never admit. They're the kind of people who admire shouty loudmouths like Clarkson, Boris, Simon Cowell, Gordon Ramsey and Mourinho ... ... they even aspire to be like them which is quite tragic. Bob Paisley spoke quietly and was worth all of them put together and more.
I would realy like to think I can make judgements on first opinions However been in the job I was that was not always possible Nevertheless first opinions can mean a lot
We need to give kids a chance and support them as much as possible. You see kids with no parents or parents who drink, doss about and what chance have they got. They've probably experienced real trauma in their life so it's no surprise some of them turn out a mess. I guess it's about intervention and trying to break the cycle. Easier said than done but so many kids are dismissed as wasters when they've had an absolute hellish time of it. I've been blessed with loving family around me but others haven't been. Of course there are folk who are just ****s to the core
