Making the news today....

[breffni]

2 minutes ago, Haironyourchest said:

Where the UK goes, the Rep. follows. In general. The two islands have thousands of years of shared history, shared culture - for the most part - language, legal systems etc. The Anglophone nations will always pull together when the chips are down.

Il stick with Europe thanks. Fecking west brits!?

[Mark J]

I'm a Celt, but building walls never helped anyone.

[Mick Dempsey]

4 minutes ago, Stubby said:

40 years ago I was 25 . What a hoot !

And I was 14, not going to start a Yorkshireman sketch type thing but

these days the vast majority of people in the UK have much easier lives than then, and fuller stomachs I would add. 

Edited April 13, 2018 by Mick Dempsey

[Stubby]

Just now, Mick Dempsey said:

And I was 14, not going to start a Yorkshireman sketch type thing but

these days the vast majority of people in the UK have much easier lives than then, and fuller stomachs I souls add.

True Mick , True .......

[skyhuck]

People today for the most part are utterly pathetic, they want to be spoon fed and have their arses wiped.

 

It appears the more people have the more they want.

[Mick Dempsey]

1 minute ago, skyhuck said:

People today for the most part are utterly pathetic, they want to be spoon fed and have their arses wiped.

 

It appears the more people have the more they want.

I wouldn’t go as far as that, or dismiss any generation as better or worse than the last.

 

But there is no doubt in my mind that food poverty or whatever you call it in the UK has reduced in a generation.

 

[Mull]

People today for the most part are utterly pathetic, they want to be spoon fed and have their arses wiped.
 
It appears the more people have the more they want.

Aye, probably pretty much what OUR previous generation/s said about us.

[forestboy1978]

6 minutes ago, skyhuck said:

People today for the most part are utterly pathetic, they want to be spoon fed and have their arses wiped.

 

It appears the more people have the more they want.

Not all! The few young guys who work for me now and then all know what hard work is. 

 

That said, give me and Irishman, Scotsman or a Pole any day over the "average" Englishman.

 

Dunno why.. 

[matelot]

19 minutes ago, skyhuck said:

People today for the most part are utterly pathetic, they want to be spoon fed and have their arses wiped.

I hope you're not implying arbtalk users get their kicks out of being "adult babies"?

[skyhuck]

I'm not talking about any one generation.

 

Just today I needed to put some air in a rear tyre, pulled into a filling station, someone had parked in front of the air pump, so I have to manurer at an angle in front of the parked car and begin inflating the tyre. As I'm finishing up a woman comes back to the car, not from the forecourt shop, but from up the road somewhere. She says straightaway "can you move your car, I need to go" my Mrs points out she's the one blocking us by parking there. She goes on that she needs to go, etc, etc. Many people just feel so Self-entiteled. They care nothing for others. Parents park right outside the school often on the zig zags, the can't possible walk a few hundred yards. You park outside their house and they go bonkers, thats THEIR space.

 

People look at you like your stupid if you suggest they walk a couple of miles, we are capable of walking 30 miles in a day, with a pack, but people think thats crazy.

 

People feel TV's, carpets, holidays, cars, luxury food, mobile phones etc, etc are their right, not a privilege.

 

Look at Brexit, people don't want to respect democracy, they are only interested in what THEY want.

 

Don't get me wrong, these people are not evil or wicked, for the most part their just dim and selfish.

 

There are still a lot of good people, but many of them are pretty pathetic in their lack of effort or appreciation for just how good our lives are.