Disappointing sight last night

[Racefan_uk]

This will probably be pointless to most, but I came across quite a sad and sorry sight last night and thought I'd share.

I haven't been out for a while so picked a mate up to go and see his brothers band play. Parked up, walking through the local pedestrian section of the high street to get some cash and there were (what I thought) two girls on a flat plynth. One was flat on her back, smashed out of her tree with a large half-drunk bottle of something alongside.

The other girl was trying to rouse her from her drunken 'slumber'. Nothing particularly amazing about this I know, apart from the other girl was shouting 'Mum, Mum, wake up!' to her. Not drunken young girls on half a bottle of cider, but a mother who was completely wasted while her (what looked like) mid-teenage daughter tried to wake her up in the middle of a city centre at 9pm on a Friday night...

I'm slowly starting to dispair of the state of the UK. Is it really heading down a slippery slope?

[anonymous-user]

You sure there wasn't something wrong with her?

[captainmatt]

I've noticed a progressive slide into the st recently as well. Never noticed anything as bad as that though, that is bloody shocking!

[Racefan_uk]

Symbolica said:

You sure there wasn't something wrong with her?

Yes, there was something wrong with her, she was pissed out of her head.

[ShiggyBiggs]

I see people out gettin wasted with their parents all the time. I know of whole familys that go down the local 'spoons nearly every day and get totally smashed out of their faces.

[h4muf]

Any port in a storm

[TonyRPH]

Racefan_uk said:

I'm slowly starting to dispair of the state of the UK. Is it really heading down a slippery slope?

Certainly seems to be the case.

We were woken up at 3:45 a.m. by two young lads (16 - 18) and a girl (same age) walking past our house, talking loudly. All three were drunk.

Then about 15 minutes later, three adults passed by in much the same state.

And I live in quite a good area - but sadly a thoroughfare for the ermm.. less privileged shall we say..

[Dunclane]

A couple of Christmas's ago a friend and I were walking from my flat to a bar, we saw a 20ish year old girl pass out then piss herself! Went and found a PCSO who was next to useless! Pretty sad sight indeed

[Eric Mc]

Life was so much better in the "Old Days"

[Blib]

Blimey, Eric, you were two minutes ahead of me.

Nothing new OP. It was ever thus.

"Drunk for a penny. Dead drunk for twopence."



Note the pawnbrokers.

[Eric Mc]

PHers thinking alike.

[Manks]

I returned from a relatively poor area of Italy last night, a place where I found most people, however poor, to be quite decent and civilised.

En route home in the UK I stopped at a Tesco store and it was packed to the rafters with chav scum. It was all hoodies, aggressive posturing and Staffy Terriers.

Unless I have been looking in the wrong places I have not seen any other country with as big a problem with chavvy behaviour.

Manks

[TonyRPH]

Manks said:

I returned from a relatively poor area of Italy last night, a place where I found most people, however poor, to be quite decent and civilised.

En route home in the UK I stopped at a Tesco store and it was packed to the rafters with chav scum. It was all hoodies, aggressive posturing and Staffy Terriers.

Unless I have been looking in the wrong places I have not seen any other country with as big a problem with chavvy behaviour.

Manks

Interesting you should say this..

When my late wife and I moved here from South Africa in '96, we were both quite taken aback at the anti social behaviour displayed by people ages 12 to 16+.

This trend seems to have continued (and worsened) over the years.

I lived in the UK when I was a teenager back in the mid 70's and don't remember such behaviour (and neither being part of such behaviour).

[Racefan_uk]

Blib said:

Nothing new OP. It was ever thus.

"Drunk for a penny. Dead drunk for twopence." Note the pawnbrokers.

Yeah, I sort of know you're right. And a lot of it could just be because I haven't been out in town for quite some time. And when I used to when I was younger then the site of someone passed out and messing themselves in the street wasn't anything to moan about. But the thing that got me was that it was this woman's daughter that was the responsible one. My thinking is that it ought to have been the other way around, I wouldn't have batted an eyelid then!

I just thought it more than a little bit sad more than anything else. Both for the young girl and as a situation in general.

[the_lone_wolf]

I got wasted with my parents a couple of months ago, even brought my little sister along...

Although it was in the Heathrow BA club lounge on several bottles of a rather fine South African Klein Zalze

...

[jbudgie]

TonyRPH said:

Manks said:

I returned from a relatively poor area of Italy last night, a place where I found most people, however poor, to be quite decent and civilised.

En route home in the UK I stopped at a Tesco store and it was packed to the rafters with chav scum. It was all hoodies, aggressive posturing and Staffy Terriers.

Unless I have been looking in the wrong places I have not seen any other country with as big a problem with chavvy behaviour.

Manks

Interesting you should say this..

When my late wife and I moved here from South Africa in '96, we were both quite taken aback at the anti social behaviour displayed by people ages 12 to 16+.

This trend seems to have continued (and worsened) over the years.

I lived in the UK when I was a teenager back in the mid 70's and don't remember such behaviour (and neither being part of such behaviour).

It is very strange, you dont seem to see this anywhere else but the UK.

Any ideas why this is --?

[clarksonisawilly]

Pissed up mother and daughter. Oh. Yes.

[AndrewW-G]

jbudgie said:

TonyRPH said:

Manks said:

I returned from a relatively poor area of Italy last night, a place where I found most people, however poor, to be quite decent and civilised.

En route home in the UK I stopped at a Tesco store and it was packed to the rafters with chav scum. It was all hoodies, aggressive posturing and Staffy Terriers.

Unless I have been looking in the wrong places I have not seen any other country with as big a problem with chavvy behaviour.

Manks

Interesting you should say this..

When my late wife and I moved here from South Africa in '96, we were both quite taken aback at the anti social behaviour displayed by people ages 12 to 16+.

This trend seems to have continued (and worsened) over the years.

I lived in the UK when I was a teenager back in the mid 70's and don't remember such behaviour (and neither being part of such behaviour).

It is very strange, you dont seem to see this anywhere else but the UK.

Any ideas why this is --?

A complete lack of discipline, the parents simply don’t care about bringing their children up to be decent human beings.

like many others on here, I can remember when growing up, being punished for bad behaviour, not only by parents, but also school staff and was of course terrified of getting in trouble with the Police.

The reason you don’t get this as much in other countries is because their governments didn’t listen to the bleeding heart liberals and understood that sometimes a clout round the ear is far far more likely to sort out a trouble maker, than the promise of a couple of weeks away swimming with dolphins.

[Randy Winkman]

TonyRPH said:

And I live in quite a good area - but sadly a thoroughfare for the ermm.. less privileged shall we say..

At least the more privileged have the decency to get wasted in private.

[carreauchompeur]

clarksonisawilly said:

Pissed up mother and daughter. Oh. Yes.

Giggidy.