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LittleEnus said:
_dobbo_ said:
Bloody hell, society is dead and people don't use their indicators!
On the other hand, a stranger picked up something I dropped the other day and then ran after me to give it back to me. So perhaps society lives? Unless he got in his car afterwards and didn't indicate before pulling away.
Well done, one example. Facetious prick.On the other hand, a stranger picked up something I dropped the other day and then ran after me to give it back to me. So perhaps society lives? Unless he got in his car afterwards and didn't indicate before pulling away.
I'll be a facetious prick rather than a miserable tinfoil hat wearing fantasist. Nobody uses indicators? NOBODY? And society is dead?
OK.
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_dobbo_ said:
Of course, I alone, in this whole forum (or the whole of society), could recount one example of a good deed from a stranger.
I'll be a facetious prick rather than a miserable tinfoil hat wearing fantasist. Nobody uses indicators? NOBODY? And society is dead?
OK.
It's a very small barometer of modern society. I would say for every good action, like the one you mentioned, there are about 10 bad ones.I'll be a facetious prick rather than a miserable tinfoil hat wearing fantasist. Nobody uses indicators? NOBODY? And society is dead?
OK.
;);)_dobbo_ said:
On the other hand, a stranger picked up something I dropped the other day and then ran after me to give it back to me. So perhaps society lives?
The trouble is that sort of behaviour is now seen as an exception rather than the rule, whereas 40 years ago, it was the other way around.As for the big upcoming war, yes, I do believe we are getting closer to a major worldwide 'event' again and one that will be of a duration not seen for several centuries.
I'm hoping it won't be in my lifetime, given I'm the 'wrong' side of 50, but, I have a feeling it will be.
LittleEnus said:
_dobbo_ said:
Bloody hell, society is dead and people don't use their indicators!
On the other hand, a stranger picked up something I dropped the other day and then ran after me to give it back to me. So perhaps society lives? Unless he got in his car afterwards and didn't indicate before pulling away.
Well done, one example. Facetious prick.On the other hand, a stranger picked up something I dropped the other day and then ran after me to give it back to me. So perhaps society lives? Unless he got in his car afterwards and didn't indicate before pulling away.
luckystrike said:
If you tell everyone from birth that they're a special snowflake is it surprising that they act like it when older?
If you promote the merits of self-gratification regardless of wider impact and the principle of success only being measured in relation to other people, is it surprising that people aren't compassionate?
agreedIf you promote the merits of self-gratification regardless of wider impact and the principle of success only being measured in relation to other people, is it surprising that people aren't compassionate?
and the attention they crave from that kind of upbringing is also very destructive, as much so as the complete opposite (abuse etc)
"Driving while under the influence of dithering" should carry a mandatory ban of 12 months.
Over the last few decades we have been told and have accepted that getting pissed up and subsequently going for a drive is one of the most selfish things the motorist can do. As well as a ban, points and fine you will also probably burn in the fires of hell for eternity.
In my humble opinion the latest wave of dithering, useless, completely incompetent road users who will sit in L3 of the motorway at 50mph checking emails, reading the news, eating breakfast or masturbating over Candy Crush are absolutely no different. It is a complete absence of thought for anyone or anything other than themselves. In fact if it was up to me the sentence would be a public stoning.
Over the last few decades we have been told and have accepted that getting pissed up and subsequently going for a drive is one of the most selfish things the motorist can do. As well as a ban, points and fine you will also probably burn in the fires of hell for eternity.
In my humble opinion the latest wave of dithering, useless, completely incompetent road users who will sit in L3 of the motorway at 50mph checking emails, reading the news, eating breakfast or masturbating over Candy Crush are absolutely no different. It is a complete absence of thought for anyone or anything other than themselves. In fact if it was up to me the sentence would be a public stoning.
Prizam said:
Or not as the case may be...
I simply cannot believe the single mindedness and tunnel vision people seem to have these days. Is an epidemic. It used to be older folk who would walk in to shops and then just stop dead in the middle of the isle that is too small... looking at "the shiny", completely bemused by the lights and music playing in shops.
Now everyone is always glued to there bloody phones, hobbling about like a drunk roomba, bumping in to things too afraid to look away from the shiny screen for fear that they might miss a new cat video. The same people that go to some kind of event, and then proceed to watch the air show / concert / race through there 4" phone screen. Why would you do that?
The same idiots whilst on the way to said event will stop at traffic lights, whip out there phone. Update Facebook - "Stopped at traffic lights, YOLO".
Today, on the motorway whilst filtering i could see in the distance two cars in L2 and L3, stopped holding up traffic with the windows down.
I thought, this could be interesting. Looks like some kind of incident and they are having a colorful language competition through the windows before pulling to the hard shoulder to sort it out.
Oh no, nothing like that. They had both stopped for a chat. On the motorway. In rush hour. Blocking L2 & L3. Completely oblivious to the complete and utter carnage they were causing behind them. People were beeping, trying to squeeze round them. But both women were smiling at each other, gassing away. They looked a little put out when i came filtering past between them and interrupted there conversation.
I live near several schools, and this kind of blinkered self righteous behavior is ripe with the school run mums. Between 8-9 and 3 - 4pm it is absolute carnage outside my house. (Very quiet the rest of the time thankfully). I often sit and watch them slowly crash in to each other. Usually at least one of them is looking down at their lap as they saunter across the road, on the wrong side, and in to the front of another mum.
And once they have crashed. what happens? Both cars stay exactly where they were, blocking the road whilst the mummy's get out... Already on their phones. and just amble around in circles looking lost wondering what to do next.
Has the whole f
king world lost the ability to see / feel and THINK about things outside of their 1 foot WiFi bubble?
(I am a 30 something IT manager techno geek, not an old man.)
Well, if you choose to live in America, you have to put up with the American way of doing things.I simply cannot believe the single mindedness and tunnel vision people seem to have these days. Is an epidemic. It used to be older folk who would walk in to shops and then just stop dead in the middle of the isle that is too small... looking at "the shiny", completely bemused by the lights and music playing in shops.
Now everyone is always glued to there bloody phones, hobbling about like a drunk roomba, bumping in to things too afraid to look away from the shiny screen for fear that they might miss a new cat video. The same people that go to some kind of event, and then proceed to watch the air show / concert / race through there 4" phone screen. Why would you do that?
The same idiots whilst on the way to said event will stop at traffic lights, whip out there phone. Update Facebook - "Stopped at traffic lights, YOLO".
Today, on the motorway whilst filtering i could see in the distance two cars in L2 and L3, stopped holding up traffic with the windows down.
I thought, this could be interesting. Looks like some kind of incident and they are having a colorful language competition through the windows before pulling to the hard shoulder to sort it out.
Oh no, nothing like that. They had both stopped for a chat. On the motorway. In rush hour. Blocking L2 & L3. Completely oblivious to the complete and utter carnage they were causing behind them. People were beeping, trying to squeeze round them. But both women were smiling at each other, gassing away. They looked a little put out when i came filtering past between them and interrupted there conversation.
I live near several schools, and this kind of blinkered self righteous behavior is ripe with the school run mums. Between 8-9 and 3 - 4pm it is absolute carnage outside my house. (Very quiet the rest of the time thankfully). I often sit and watch them slowly crash in to each other. Usually at least one of them is looking down at their lap as they saunter across the road, on the wrong side, and in to the front of another mum.
And once they have crashed. what happens? Both cars stay exactly where they were, blocking the road whilst the mummy's get out... Already on their phones. and just amble around in circles looking lost wondering what to do next.
Has the whole f
king world lost the ability to see / feel and THINK about things outside of their 1 foot WiFi bubble?(I am a 30 something IT manager techno geek, not an old man.)
RVVUNM said:
Only last week I was telling my wife how a whole family dropped their suit cases to have a chat right in the main exit to Birmingham airport. I told them "what a great place to stop" only to be tutted as if I was mad. FFS.
Did you say Birmingham?Par for the course up there, old thing.
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