Have people gone soft ?
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Complaining about being unable to handle trivial tasks or hardships, from a recent thread.
- Booking a country cottage for Christmas then whine it is cold, despite a £100 pile of firewood.
- Taking two hours to find the fusebox.
- Throw a refrigerator full of food away because the power was off for two hours.
- Paranoid over food poisoning, what do they think people did before refrigerators.
The school run. I'll bet 75 percent of the kids driven to my daughters school could be walked, but the little princes and princesses can't be bothered/whinge.
In fact, parenting in general. Parents (except me, obvs) are the worst snowflakes in the world. Everything and everyone is a threat to their ugly fat little child, even more so if the child has a surname for a first name.
In fact, parenting in general. Parents (except me, obvs) are the worst snowflakes in the world. Everything and everyone is a threat to their ugly fat little child, even more so if the child has a surname for a first name.
When our old boiler broker down, we were going to Disney for a week the next day. I got the electric oil filled radiator out of the garage, put it in the hallway on setting 1 of 6, left all the doors open, and within 3 hours the whole house was toasty. I turned it down to half before we left and the house was so warm on a constant 1/2 setting when we got back. When I go places if I feel it might be cold, I lob a heater in the car or a fan if I feel it will be too hot.
People would rather be indignant and be able to complain about something.
People would rather be indignant and be able to complain about something.
OpulentBob said:
The school run. I'll bet 75 percent of the kids driven to my daughters school could be walked, but the little princes and princesses can't be bothered/whinge.
In fact, parenting in general. Parents (except me, obvs) are the worst snowflakes in the world. Everything and everyone is a threat to their ugly fat little child, even more so if the child has a surname for a first name.
I'll second that, a couple of the estates near me i see every day cars belonging to people i know only live a couple of streets away and many who live within 5-10 min walkIn fact, parenting in general. Parents (except me, obvs) are the worst snowflakes in the world. Everything and everyone is a threat to their ugly fat little child, even more so if the child has a surname for a first name.
OpulentBob said:
The school run. I'll bet 75 percent of the kids driven to my daughters school could be walked, but the little princes and princesses can't be bothered/whinge.
In fact, parenting in general. Parents (except me, obvs) are the worst snowflakes in the world. Everything and everyone is a threat to their ugly fat little child, even more so if the child has a surname for a first name.
I walked home most days from secondary school in uniform. The last mile I had to walk past another school, many a time I'd be punched in the back of the head!In fact, parenting in general. Parents (except me, obvs) are the worst snowflakes in the world. Everything and everyone is a threat to their ugly fat little child, even more so if the child has a surname for a first name.
I could have caught the bus but it worked out quicker to walk due to the bus times. Years later drinking in the local town a lad approached me and said he thought I was nuts walking through their school I suspect he might have been one of those who used to have a pop?
OpulentBob said:
The school run. I'll bet 75 percent of the kids driven to my daughters school could be walked, but the little princes and princesses can't be bothered/whinge.
In fact, parenting in general. Parents (except me, obvs) are the worst snowflakes in the world. Everything and everyone is a threat to their ugly fat little child, even more so if the child has a surname for a first name.
I mate used to take their kid up the road to school. I asked why. To make sure they got there and got there on time.In fact, parenting in general. Parents (except me, obvs) are the worst snowflakes in the world. Everything and everyone is a threat to their ugly fat little child, even more so if the child has a surname for a first name.
I asked why didn't they get a grip, it seemed that getting a grip wasn't the thing to do any more as it was against the child's rights. Wtf!
Back in the seventies in rural Dorset we were snowed in with with drifts of around 10 feet deep. The weight of the snow caused the collapse of the telephone lines and other than radio we had no outgoing communication My dad, who was a TV engineer and knew what he was at, dug the telephone lines out and reconnected them
Can you imagine the Daily Mail headline horror if anyone did something so 'outrageous' and didn't wait for an engineer today ?
The system has raised a generation of people who would probably starve to death if the mains went off !
Can you imagine the Daily Mail headline horror if anyone did something so 'outrageous' and didn't wait for an engineer today ?
The system has raised a generation of people who would probably starve to death if the mains went off !
There's this woman on my road who owns a ford fusion.
One time I was cycling past her to go to the shops up the road I noticed her getting into her car along with 3 other kids. I went to the off license ot get my stuff. As I came out I noticed them coming out the corner shop and getting into her car and drove off. I cycled back home. I was behind them the entire time.
the laxy morons drove probably around 200metres and back, it would've taken them 2-3minutes tops to walk that each way. how lazy!
I live a little further away at around 1/3 of a mile so it'd take me 5min each way, but when I cycle I do it in <1min.
One time I was cycling past her to go to the shops up the road I noticed her getting into her car along with 3 other kids. I went to the off license ot get my stuff. As I came out I noticed them coming out the corner shop and getting into her car and drove off. I cycled back home. I was behind them the entire time.
the laxy morons drove probably around 200metres and back, it would've taken them 2-3minutes tops to walk that each way. how lazy!
I live a little further away at around 1/3 of a mile so it'd take me 5min each way, but when I cycle I do it in <1min.
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hstewie said:
hstewie said: I don't see it so much as going soft as the internet lets you ask stuff you may not previously have asked.
It breeds extreme laziness though, look at how many people ask the stupidest of questions on here repeatedly because they can't be arsed to lift a finger to help themselves.'Sexual harassment'.
There was a woman reported by BBC news recently who was working in a restaurant serving a group of men. She spilt wine on his hand apparently and he suggested she lick it off.
tttish thing to say by a pissed up bloke who thought he was being witty/flirty but completely missed the mark? Yup.
Sexual harassment? Don't be ridiculous.
There was a woman reported by BBC news recently who was working in a restaurant serving a group of men. She spilt wine on his hand apparently and he suggested she lick it off.
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ttish thing to say by a pissed up bloke who thought he was being witty/flirty but completely missed the mark? Yup.Sexual harassment? Don't be ridiculous.
Calling the RAC/AA to change tyres wtf.
Takes me about 5 mins as long as the boot isn't full of stuff lol
I see modern cars don't even do spares and just expect you to call out the breakdown guys.
My girlfriend hit a kerb and blew a tyre. We came to a halt and she wondered what to do.
A few minutes later I had changed it by the roadside.
She thought I was some kind of F1 pit crew.
I see it all around me. People can't do the most basic things to their cars or homes anymore.
Takes me about 5 mins as long as the boot isn't full of stuff lol
I see modern cars don't even do spares and just expect you to call out the breakdown guys.
My girlfriend hit a kerb and blew a tyre. We came to a halt and she wondered what to do.
A few minutes later I had changed it by the roadside.
She thought I was some kind of F1 pit crew.
I see it all around me. People can't do the most basic things to their cars or homes anymore.
Our young men have grown slothful. There is not a single honorable occupation for which they will toil night and day. They sing and dance and grow effeminate and curl their hair and learn womanish tricks of speech; they are as languid as women and deck themselves out with unbecoming ornaments. Without strength, without energy, they add nothing during life to the gifts with which they were born — then they complain of their lot.
100 AD
Whither are the manly vigor 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...
1771 AD
The free access which many young people have to romances, novels, and plays has poisoned the mind and corrupted the morals of many a promising youth; and prevented others from improving their minds in useful knowledge. Parents take care to feed their children with wholesome diet; and yet how unconcerned about the provision for the mind, whether they are furnished with salutary food, or with trash, chaff, or poison?
1790 AD
Lax habits and low moral standards, are becoming unconsciously appropriated by the plastic minds of American youth. Let them do what they may; divorce scandals, hotel episodes, free love, all are passed over and condoned by the young...
1926 AD
A pernicious excitement to learn and play chess has spread all over the country, and numerous clubs for practicing this game have been formed in cities and villages...chess is a mere amusement of a very inferior character, which robs the mind of valuable time that might be devoted to nobler acquirements, while it affords no benefit whatever to the body.
1859 AD
Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We, their sons, are more worthless than they; so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.
20 BC
Our Earth is degenerate in these later days; there are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end; bribery and corruption are common; children no longer obey their parents; every man wants to write a book and the end of the world is evidently approaching.
2800 BC
100 AD
Whither are the manly vigor 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...
1771 AD
The free access which many young people have to romances, novels, and plays has poisoned the mind and corrupted the morals of many a promising youth; and prevented others from improving their minds in useful knowledge. Parents take care to feed their children with wholesome diet; and yet how unconcerned about the provision for the mind, whether they are furnished with salutary food, or with trash, chaff, or poison?
1790 AD
Lax habits and low moral standards, are becoming unconsciously appropriated by the plastic minds of American youth. Let them do what they may; divorce scandals, hotel episodes, free love, all are passed over and condoned by the young...
1926 AD
A pernicious excitement to learn and play chess has spread all over the country, and numerous clubs for practicing this game have been formed in cities and villages...chess is a mere amusement of a very inferior character, which robs the mind of valuable time that might be devoted to nobler acquirements, while it affords no benefit whatever to the body.
1859 AD
Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We, their sons, are more worthless than they; so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.
20 BC
Our Earth is degenerate in these later days; there are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end; bribery and corruption are common; children no longer obey their parents; every man wants to write a book and the end of the world is evidently approaching.
2800 BC
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