snayperskaya wrote:I'm not of the opinion that nobody could disagree with me by any stretch of the imagination!, my self-importance isn't that over-inflated I can tell you.
I honestly don't think I'm ever going to understand the tendency of some people here to call me a
troll when I'm expressing genuine disagreement with something they've said.
My comment about the state of this country was mean to be tongue in cheek
Apologies for not getting that. My post of images of people with panties on their heads (which I didn't go looking for on porn sites) was meant to be a light hearted tie in between someone repurposing underwear making skills and the fact that there are people out there repurposing actual underwear. I got told that it was a vile post, that I was a indescribably horrible nutjob, that there was something wrong with me and I should be removed.
I think you got off lightly!
but thinking about it if anything it would have nothing to do with selling industry/not funding the NHS etc etc
Kinda the point I was trying to make when I was accused of writing total b****cks.
but has more to do with the fact that in this day and age very few people, especially younger generations, accept the consequences of their own actions
The country is full of people of all ages, mostly not young, who refuse to accept the consequences of their voting choices.
It's full of people of all ages who have allowed themselves to be lulled into thinking that they never have to think about their own safety.
("it's not my fault/"it's not my job" etc)
Amongst the most egregious offenders there are the politicians we vote for (of all parties), and unelected officials, who face nothing worse than loss of their jobs, excoriation by an enquiry, and a bad write up in the pages of history books, when what they should be facing is serious time in chokey for their flawed actions. To pick an example other than the current obvious one, somewhere there is a person/people who signed to say that Grenfell Tower complied with Part B of the Building Regulations. He/she/they should end up gripping the rail, charged with gross negligence manslaughter.
competition isn't encouraged (everyone gets a prize for "taking part", everyone's a "winner")
Is that really true? To any significant extent?
, parts of Britains towns and cities have become virtual "no go" areas due to fairly "non-inclusive" ethic group that by and large doesn't integrate and whos actions are often ignored for fear of being called racist if they are called out.
Unfortunately most of the blame for that lies with racists who have for years misrepresented what racism is in order to ridicule it, deny that it actually exists and to deny that they are racist.
A similar thing has been done by the illiberals regarding the "myth" of "political correctness".
The standard of education and behaviour has, from what I can see, fallen drastically over the years, manners have by and large gone out the window and overall there is far less consideration for others.
People have been moaning about that for hundreds of years.
In Book III of Odes, circa 20 BC, Horace wrote:
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.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/522 ... everything
But can you on the one hand complain about less consideration for others and on the other complain about well-intentioned measures to not destroy young people's confidence and feelings of self worth by not branding them losers if they don't win?
The values that made Britain "Great" have declined
What values are/were those?
and if you appear to be even a little bit patriotic you get branded as a racist or bigot.
A situation not helped by the fact that the Cross of St George (oh, the irony) has been substantially hijacked by people who are indeed racists and bigots.
