[Misc] The race to the bottom has been won - do you just get onboard with?

[Birdie Boy]

A woman in the road leading into our cul-de-sac has a drive way but insists on parking on the road in the same spot right outside her house. Even if there is a car opposite thus making it very difficult for an ambulance or fire engine or any larger car she still does it.

I live in a cul-de-sac and parking is tight as not everyone has a car port in the front garden but everyone has a shared drive. My next door neighbour and next one down will not park 1 inch over their shared drive even though their drive is never ever used. Strange...

 

[Mo Gosfield]

There have always been unpleasant selfish oafish twats around, but the perception is that these behaviours are becoming more common-place.

The self-centred years of Thatcherism, the decline in our manufacturing base and the growth of the service/financial sector, offering get rich quick employment to thousands, started to tilt the balance away from national interest to self-interest. The...." I'm alright Jack, sod the rest of you " attitude. This permeated through all walks of life and created a whole strata of people more interested in their perceived rights than any social responsibility.
Parental guidance has wavered slightly. Children are given most of what they ask for and not corrected enough. I see families walking down the street, children discarding rubbish and not being corrected. Fast food is discarded everywhere, feet from waste bins. Language has become lazy. Everyone seems to have mental issues and want people to feel sorry for them.
Behaviour on the roads has dramatically declined. Many young adults carry weapons for self-protection. We dont police our streets anymore. Shoplifting is out of control. We are not being led strongly enough.

 

[Justice]

You laugh but actually this is it isn't it. How have we gone from a mostly together, where we looked out for each other kind of society, to a "fu** you" culture? That's what we have now. What can we do about it?

My son passed out on the P&R bus towards the Amex one evening game in the championship so a while ago now, he was lying on the floor out cold and I’m telling you now not one person came to my aid. If it were the other way around and some other fella was struggling to get his son back to his feet I would have been there to help no question. I lost a lot of faith in humanity that day.
I looked at the useless idiots around me and it was heads down staring into phones rather than help a stranger in need, quite a surreal moment.

 

[Flounce]

My son passed out on the P&R bus towards the Amex one evening game in the championship so a while ago now, he was lying on the floor out cold and I’m telling you now not one person came to my aid. If it were the other way around and some other fella was struggling to get his son back to his feet I would have been there to help no question. I lost a lot of faith in humanity that day.
I looked around at the useless idiots around me and it was heads down staring into phones rather than help a stranger in need, quite a surreal moment.

That is unforgiveable

 

[portlock seagull]

My son passed out on the P&R bus towards the Amex one evening game in the championship so a while ago now, he was lying on the floor out cold and I’m telling you now not one person came to my aid. If it were the other way around and some other fella was struggling to get his son back to his feet I would have been there to help no question. I lost a lot of faith in humanity that day.
I looked at the useless idiots around me and it was heads down staring into phones rather than help a stranger in need, quite a surreal moment.

That is unforgivable in my book too. I genuinely can’t accept anyone not helping someone else in distress. It’s just something I was brought up to do, not just by my parents but by the society and school I grew up in. Genuinely shocked but not surprised. No wonder you’ve lost faith in, I would to

 

[Wozza]

Eg

Start parking on verges, destroying what was once green and pleasant and blocking wheel and pushchairs? (“Their problem, not mine”)

Just abandon my car in road or forecourt to get a coffee, causing huge tailbacks / not allowing people to get throw or round - I mean, I put the hazard lights on whilst I went to get it so you can hardly accuse me of lacking consideration!

Throw litter on ground - someone else will pick it up for me / I pay my council tax (honest!)

Park in disabled spaces without a blue badge - after all, “I’m only going to be half an hour”

Not pay for any public transport, just use and if I get stopped I’ll just assault whoever as they’ve no right to physically stop me

Shoplift from supermarkets because the owners “can afford it”

Do whatever I want, wherever because I have my rights and responsibilities are for losers

Order stuff and claim it’s damaged / didn’t arrive so I get to keep

Go on holiday with my ill gotten gains

Basically lie and cheat at everything to get ahead and in the pursuit of money knowing I can then buy my way out of any situation and screw everyone else who’s life I’ve devastated?

…Just some of the now rampant everyday occurrences I’m observing on a scale like never before. It’s everywhere, and seemingly everyone.

Cut 'n pasting articles from paid websites

Boasting about buying fake shirts

Using firesticks

Passing on season tickets

Football fans are THE WORST.

 

[Behind Enemy Lines]

My son passed out on the P&R bus towards the Amex one evening game in the championship so a while ago now, he was lying on the floor out cold and I’m telling you now not one person came to my aid. If it were the other way around and some other fella was struggling to get his son back to his feet I would have been there to help no question. I lost a lot of faith in humanity that day.
I looked at the useless idiots around me and it was heads down staring into phones rather than help a stranger in need, quite a surreal moment.

How awful. What have we become?

 

[Chicken Run]

On the point about delivery drivers meaning more people on the road due to people working at home. Isn’t it the other way? If there is one van delivering to 20 people who are at home then that is one van vs 20 different cars going about their business.

Extremely naive of you to think that that those 20 bods who now work from home pop out to the supermarket, drop their weekly amazon returns to the collection point, head to the gym etc etc

Before people went to work and stayed at work till they finished

 

[Chicken Run]

How awful. What have we become?

We are a country where the largest by population generation are Millennials who by majority are the children of Boomers, what a horrible combination, is it any wonder we’re f***ed

 

[Notters]

Almost exactly what I expected to happen when Johnson and his chums decided they could publicly ignore the law.

And it's the thin end of the wedge. Racism and homophobia becoming 'acceptable' again now.

 

[Bakero]

This thread's a depressing read. Is it really that bad over there?

 

[ozzygull]

People parking their car in Motorcycle bays get my goat, we only get a small portion of the car park, but some selfish *unt will park in it.

 

[Chicken Run]

This thread's a depressing read. Is it really that bad over there?

Yep don’t come back and spread the word, one way of dealing with it is to relocate around 20 million people

 

[BN9 BHA]

This thread's a depressing read. Is it really that bad over there?

Yes, I seem to be agreeing with many of the posts

 

[Bry Nylon]

People parking their car in Motorcycle bays get my goat

Why are you leaving your goat in a motorcycle bay?

 

[Mr Phil]

Why are you leaving your goat in a motorcycle bay?

just another selfish action to add to the list

 

[Berty23]

Almost exactly what I expected to happen when Johnson and his chums decided they could publicly ignore the law.

And it's the thin end of the wedge. Racism and homophobia becoming 'acceptable' again now.

This is grim, but true. It has become acceptable, or even encouraged, to call anyone who stands up for people to be woke. As if the bad person is the one who doesn’t think racism is okay.

Generally it is dressed as “I just say it as it is”

I also hate free speech warriors who don’t actually mean free speech, they mean free to agree with me but anyone who disagrees is wrong and controlled by mainstream media.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

My son passed out on the P&R bus towards the Amex one evening game in the championship so a while ago now, he was lying on the floor out cold and I’m telling you now not one person came to my aid. If it were the other way around and some other fella was struggling to get his son back to his feet I would have been there to help no question. I lost a lot of faith in humanity that day.
I looked at the useless idiots around me and it was heads down staring into phones rather than help a stranger in need, quite a surreal moment.

Sorry to hear about your lad. Hope he’s okay.

A guy collapsed on a bus I was on a few years ago in London. A group of people helped him and stayed with him until the medics arrived. He was a street drinker type but no one seemed to judge him. It does happen.

 

[Notters]

This is grim, but true. It has become acceptable, or even encouraged, to call anyone who stands up for people to be woke. As if the bad person is the one who doesn’t think racism is okay.

Generally it is dressed as “I just say it as it is”

I also hate free speech warriors who don’t actually mean free speech, they mean free to agree with me but anyone who disagrees is wrong and controlled by mainstream media.

The BBC has a lot to answer for here. Yes they need to be balanced, but always giving equal weight to everyone in every argument is crazy.

Brexit is the perfect example, for every economist (out of thousands they could choose from) who said it was a bad idea, they'd have to put up the one who thought it was a good idea to speak against them.

 

[Han Solo]

Old people moaning about the "ways of today" based on selective nostalgic memories of how they felt things used to be is a timeless concept.

As usual the answer is: if people are weird and bad today, its your fault because you raised them and built the society of today.