Off Topic 'SNOWFLAKE'

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The Norton Cat said:
This is an interesting subject really. There is certainly a shift in society where people are more sensitive about things and more likely to take offence about things that they simply wouldn't have done even 15-20 years ago. Indeed, there are definitely some people who choose to take offence easily. There is also a shift that sees more people claiming that it is their 'right' to have or do certain things even if that is to the detriment of people. Another unpleasant strain you see you running through society are those people who 'tell it how it is'- no, you're just rude. As a whole, I think we have become more selfish as a society, more concerned with appearing to be successful, and more concerned with being able to do what we want to do and to hell with everybody else.
In contrast to that, we do appear to have made some good shifts. People are now more aware of mental health matters (although other aspects of modern life aren't helpful to people's mental health) and, for the most part, society has become more accepting of other people's sexualities.
However, despite many prejudices being broken down, I think we are less pleasant, more unkind, nastier society than we used to be.
There are some precious little snowflakes out there. Being nice, being kind, being considerate doesn't make you a snowflake though. It makes you a gentleman.
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Women can be nice, kind and considerate too <laugh> but otherwise spot on <ok>
 
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Ozzymac said:
Nail on head.

Was down the shops earlier today and two old biddy's were struggling to get a microwave into the back of their car so i stopped and helped them. As i was walking off i heard one of them say to the other "if only there were more gentlemen like him around nowadays".

I didn't do it for kudos, i did it because it was the right thing to do. That being said, hearing their words to each other gave me a nice warm feeling that's lasted for the rest of the day.

Simple kindness goes a long way to making life enjoyable.
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Man arrested for assisting in shop robbery claimed he'd had a nice warm feeling about it.
 
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My son was on a crash barrier going mental at the end of the Southampton away game when we won 2-1 under Keane.

A woman steward came up screaming at him to get down, he totally ignored her.

She stormed off and came back with a grinning male steward who casually said, 'Do me favour mate, jump down will you' which he immediately did.

Cue more screaming from the woman who said, 'That's sexist, you wouldn't get down for me because I'm a woman'.

'No, it's because you're a twat'.

Cue the male steward cracking up and her storming off again <laugh>
 
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My view is that society has become about being perceived as winning an argument, rather than about being moral, honest, polite or dignified. In essence, you can be as insulting, obnoxious, wrong-headed and frankly awful as you like, as long as you get a rise out of someone, somewhere.

That can then be used to say that because the other person lost their temper, no matter how valid their point, you 'won', which seems to matter more than any sense of right or wrong today.
 
Kittenmittons said:
My view is that society has become about being perceived as winning an argument, rather than about being moral, honest, polite or dignified. In essence, you can be as insulting, obnoxious, wrong-headed and frankly awful as you like, as long as you get a rise out of someone, somewhere.

That can then be used to say that because the other person lost their temper, no matter how valid their point, you 'won', which seems to matter more than any sense of right or wrong today.
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The trouble is there are people on here who tell you they are offended by what you have said when you haven’t meant to offend them and then they will go to a match and call the ref ( directly) your a blind bastard or your a f ucking ****er and never think oh! He could of had testicular cancer or one of his children are blind or even he is a bastard and they won’t think twice about that hypocritical tossers
 
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rooch 3 said:
The trouble is there are people on here who tell you they are offended by what you have said when you haven’t meant to offend them and then they will go to a match and call the ref ( directly) your a blind bastard or your a f ucking ****er and never think oh! He could of had testicular cancer or one of his children are blind or even he is a bastard and they won’t think twice about that hypocritical tossers
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We were in the Wembley Hilton the night before the League Cup final.

The ref was in so we got a white stick and some dark sunglasses to have our pictures taken with him.

He was loving it and other people were queuing up to have theirs taken.

Sure enough some daft snowflake came up and started ranting about how a real blind person might be offended.

FFS man, as Lady Diana would say ...

... "It's a minefield out there!"
 
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The Norton Cat said:
This is an interesting subject really. There is certainly a shift in society where people are more sensitive about things and more likely to take offence about things that they simply wouldn't have done even 15-20 years ago. Indeed, there are definitely some people who choose to take offence easily. There is also a shift that sees more people claiming that it is their 'right' to have or do certain things even if that is to the detriment of people. Another unpleasant strain you see you running through society are those people who 'tell it how it is'- no, you're just rude. As a whole, I think we have become more selfish as a society, more concerned with appearing to be successful, and more concerned with being able to do what we want to do and to hell with everybody else.
In contrast to that, we do appear to have made some good shifts. People are now more aware of mental health matters (although other aspects of modern life aren't helpful to people's mental health) and, for the most part, society has become more accepting of other people's sexualities.
However, despite many prejudices being broken down, I think we are less pleasant, more unkind, nastier society than we used to be.
There are some precious little snowflakes out there. Being nice, being kind, being considerate doesn't make you a snowflake though. It makes you a gentleman.
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I think social media plays a big part in the “everything’s offensive” culture because it’s so easy to tell the world that you’re offended. Not only have you got a massive audience but you’re anonymous and isolated from that audience. Different situation when it was just two or three folk talking in the pub.
 
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Sheep Farmer said:
I think social media plays a big part in the “everything’s offensive” culture because it’s so easy to tell the world that you’re offended. Not only have you got a massive audience but you’re anonymous and isolated from that audience. Different situation when it was just two or three folk talking in the pub.
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It sounds like a cliche but I think social media is the cause of a lot of problems. Facebook is apparently linked to depression.
 
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The Norton Cat said:
This is an interesting subject really. There is certainly a shift in society where people are more sensitive about things and more likely to take offence about things that they simply wouldn't have done even 15-20 years ago. Indeed, there are definitely some people who choose to take offence easily. There is also a shift that sees more people claiming that it is their 'right' to have or do certain things even if that is to the detriment of people. Another unpleasant strain you see you running through society are those people who 'tell it how it is'- no, you're just rude. As a whole, I think we have become more selfish as a society, more concerned with appearing to be successful, and more concerned with being able to do what we want to do and to hell with everybody else.
In contrast to that, we do appear to have made some good shifts. People are now more aware of mental health matters (although other aspects of modern life aren't helpful to people's mental health) and, for the most part, society has become more accepting of other people's sexualities.
However, despite many prejudices being broken down, I think we are less pleasant, more unkind, nastier society than we used to be.
There are some precious little snowflakes out there. Being nice, being kind, being considerate doesn't make you a snowflake though. It makes you a gentleman.
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There should be a facility, on here, whereby you can give someone a Gold Star rather than just a 'like'.
 
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