Spot on. The "celebrity culture" of the last few years has a lot to answer for. Youngsters see these talent-less idiots on their TVs earning stupid money for doing **** all and decide that's the way to go.
Harsh. I think El Tel has been an inspiration to millions... [video=youtube;pEayx7QRJR8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEayx7QRJR8[/video]
Well, if all us old farts brand all kids (especially those with rich and famous parents) as lazy, feckless no hopers (except our own kids of course, who thanks to our brilliant parenting skills are the only decent human beings under 30 around) they don't have to do much to live up to our expectations, do they? There are, of course, countless examples of young people being selfless and entrepreneurial around, but that doesn't suit our jaded world view. Obviously there are lots of lazy and nasty ****s out there too, but there always have been. Personally I think its much tougher being a kid now than in my day, and anyone who struggles through the morass of cynicism and contempt ladled on them by their elders and betters gets my respect. As for young Lineker, he's clearly something of a tit. It may run in the family, I've heard hugely contrasting stories about his Dad from people who have worked with him.
This, but no newspaper would report the good that goes on because it wouldn't boost sales of their chip wrappers.
I'm assuming that you count me as one of the three? You would be correct. But only in as much as I read snippets online in much the same way as I read snippets from The Guardian, The Telegraph and one or two others, particularly local news, journals and blogs in relation to my profession and the industry in which I work, publications in fields that interest me and so forth. It is interesting how one can pick up a label and be defined by just one tenuous association, isn't it? It's the Stavros the Sheep Shagger joke made real.
Knew it. See how good I am? Uber, I have a distrust and indeed a fear of British Conservatives. In fact any Conservatives of any Country. I've always found them to be regressive, dogmatic, narrow-minded, ultra nationalistic and not infrequently racist. I think a lot of them are unhinged and actually quite dangerous. No them all of course but I can't help getting apprehensive anytime I hear them speak, whether that be on the TV, radio or online football chatrooms...
Just because certain people may read certain newspapers you judge them by that? I, like Uber, read a broad cross-section of papers/websites. The Mail actually presents a lot of good articles. Back in the 1980s my ex used to work for the then Editor Sir David English and I met him quite a few times, in conversation he said provocative writers always produced the 'spark' of a good newspaper and the Mail have quite a few of those. The political hue of a newspaper is irrelevant if the reader is intelligent enough to ignore it. Read from all spectrums and make your own mind up. I've never been Tory-inclined and never will be.So you're not THAT good Swords...
Fair comment, Stan, my intention was to express concern not contempt. As for Linaker (senior), he lives in the same road as my aunt in Esher. He always stops to say hello, but then she's a little old lady in a wheelchair, so who wouldn't...?
Lol, I'm staying out of that one, I know you and Swords often don't see eye to eye. Anyway, the way I see it and I know it's an old saying but I don't disseminate, everyone is a tosser in my eyes apart from all you fine people who support QPR!
You're perfectly described in this video [video=youtube;ul1vCdzNIoI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul1vCdzNIoI[/video]
By the same token I get apprehensive when I read somebody trot out the same old stereotypical codswallop and make sweeping generalisations about subjects they seldom seem to have a sufficient grasp of. I note you've only taken as a quote that part of my post that suits your purposes; how very you. As for your oblique way of associating me with those negative, and in one particular case wholly abhorrent, character traits, where's your evidence?
