Politically Correct or Incorrect Bullshit Of The Day

[bowlinggreen]

Originally Posted by chris chunt

This is the generation who weren't allowed out to play outside for fear there might be a kiddy fiddler lurking nearby who have now become young adults .

They actually have "play dates" now, where parents set up a time for their kid to play with another "approved" kid.

Very sad.

Just running around at random with the neighborhood gang of kids seems to have become a thing of the past. I'd feel deprived if I was as sheltered and cosseted as some of the younger generation has been.

We used to run wild and get up to all sorts of shit. Rock fights, BB gun fights, fishing expeditions on bikes miles away from home, daytime campouts with hotdogs filched from the kitchen and cooked over illicit trashwood campfires, scavenging the local dump, exploring crumbling houses and barns on abandoned farmsteads, etc. What fun.

Of course, there were downsides, like getting dogbit and being made to eat gravel by the 16 year old bully who lived up the road.

Overall, though, I would never trade any of that for a sheltered indoor childhood.

[brk549]

And it's gone so far they don't even know which restroom to go in.

[Staffsyeoman]

I...I... I'm so traumatised by your comments that I DEMAND the immediate creation of a forum safe space where no one is allowed to say anything unpleasant.

Nah. Just kidding. I was born in the 60s so remember measles epidemics, the three day week, playing cricket in the park (without being covered in armour) until you couldn't see the ball, strikes...

[bloke57]

I'd really hate to be a kid these days - wouldn't you?

I too am from a time when you'd make yourself a couple of wonky sandwiches, say "bye mum" and go out on your bike. We'd go miles, tracking the course of a brook or just mucking about. As long as you were home by tea time, no one worried about you.

Yep! We did get into fights but you learned from those too! I only lost one tooth.

By age 12, my pals and I were going around London and surrounding countryside on Red or Green Rover tickets (All day bus tickets for those abroad) - getting to know where everything was and finding your way home again. Never expected my dad to drive me anywhere - he was busy at work.

But the shock I find is that today's kids do somehow manage to become self-reliant. It happens suddenly when they get to about 16/17. Must be the power of the internet or something because they do get there eventually.

On the other hand I find they have no DIY skills whatsoever and could never mend a bike or build a go-kart. My nephews can't even put up a shelf - no idea what a rawl plug is.

[chris chunt]

The young woman I used to live next door to got her dad round to fix a puncture on her car for her .
Nothing wrong with that as such I suppose .
A young lady isn't going to change a wheel when help is a phone call away .

My shock came when her 20 something boyfriend turned out to be in the house with her .
The useless twat that he was .

I would feel like my manlyhood was being threatened in a situation like that .
I wouldn't be happy she overlooked me and called her dad in the first place .

[Greenman]

I am old enough to remember when snowflake was an insult hurled at Eddie Booth by his black neighbour as well as white honky which I never really got in sitcom of the 70's Love Thy Neighbour, so I am surprised to see it used in this context nowadays. Who first coined it?

[lothian]

I can remember when the '' snowflake generation '' were just being born . The media at the time were in a full blown '' think of the children !!! '' moral panic . pedo's were everywhere , any accident involving a child was headline news with the result that schools started adopting ridiculous activity bans and safety measures . Discipline was tantamount to child abuse . And , just to help matters , people were increasingly targeted by big business to buy all the latest ' stuff ' for their offspring or risk being branded bad parents . Celebrities such as Madonna paraded their sprogs as mini-me's or lifestyle accessories . Add the soaring divorce rate into the mix and it's little wonder many have grow up unable to deal with the uncomfortable realities of life .

[ultimatewarlord]

Originally Posted by vannax

Facebook Locks Out Jordan Peterson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jggUq7SD0Mk


Not sure who Dr Jordan Peterson is?

Well, here he is eating a leftist/feminist for breakfast on live TV:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcjxSThD54

Interesting about being locked out by faceache. Wasn't it Ben Shapiro who reported a threat of violence made against him on twitter, a violation that has seen conservative users banned. Nothing at all was done about it.

[Nightjar]

Crikey Moses!

The amount that certain people whine and chunter on about so-called liberal 'snowflakes'...

It's like a bleedin' whiteout whichever way you look.

Everyone's a sodding snowflake these days.

For every 'virtue signaller' there're two or three knee-jerk, reactionary blowhards.

I blame the Internet.


And the parents.

[scoundrel]

When I see (and I have seen) kids and young adults very openly displaying and using really expensive things such as iPhones in public late at night and in decidedly unsafe places I feel pity for such innocence.