what's eating people?

[Art 1]

Originally Posted by enjoythemusic

Visit Florida or somewhere where there's really good weather. You might find you see a lot more smiles. So what's wrong with the UK anyway? Is it the high inflation? Is it the high taxes? Is it the high theft rate? Is it the weird politicians self serving? And maybe there's something else,

I don't know.

Perhaps it's time for you to move :)

I'm visiting Alaska right now and there are many happy people :)

I disagree. I’ve been living in Florida and running a business there for decades. I find most people there especially younger adults to rude, cold and socially awkward. In general dealing with people there over the phone or front desk types is not pleasant.

In Canada where I’m sitting now, the weather is crappy. I’ve been here much of the spring but go back and forth to Florida. The people here are very pleasant. The workers especially in the lower paid jobs are WAY WAY nicer and much more compitant. I find so many people in Florida rude and distent and that’s my home state! Lol

[daveathall]

Originally Posted by Zakalwe

I pulled off my party piece of farting in time to La Bamba at a work do the other day.

I was labelled a disgusting degenerate with not even una poca de gracia.

It’s political correctness gone mad I tell thee.

Do you take bookings? Grandma has a 95th next year and performances of real talent and good taste are hard to find.

[piratfisk]

Originally Posted by Art 1

I disagree. I’ve been living in Florida and running a business there for decades. I find most people there especially younger adults to rude, cold and socially awkward. In general dealing with people there over the phone or front desk types is not pleasant.

In Canada where I’m sitting now, the weather is crappy. I’ve been here much of the spring but go back and forth to Florida. The people here are very pleasant. The workers especially in the lower paid jobs are WAY WAY nicer and much more compitant. I find so many people in Florida rude and distent and that’s my home state! Lol

Do you think it's a money thing (FL vs Canada)? Millennials in Canada might be less worried about "impending doom" finances (student loans, home purchases, medical expenses, etc) where much is paid by the government? This is not an affront, just a possible hypothesis.

My most recent experience in Florida was in Mayport/Jacksonville where a stranger at a taco bar asked me if I knew that people "go skiing" in Jacksonville & told me he could help me get skis, all while touching his nose. I politely declined

[SearChart]

I say hello (or good morning, afternoon, evening) to everyone I see during a run. Always nice to see people smile when a youngster greets them, gotta share the happiness.

[timedate]

i gesticulated to this kid who was going to be late for his school bus the other day to get a move on as it had just arrived, because of me he made the bus............not the slightest acknowledgement though, see things like it all the time, maybe parents dident bother too much, also see a lot of young people who cant eat properly with a knife and fork, also eating with the mouth open, these were all a big deal when i was a kid and rightly so.

[Blansky]

Originally Posted by timedate

i gesticulated to this kid who was going to be late for his school bus the other day to get a move on as it had just arrived, because of me he made the bus............not the slightest acknowledgement though, see things like it all the time, maybe parents dident bother too much, also see a lot of young people who cant eat properly with a knife and fork, also eating with the mouth open, these were all a big deal when i was a kid and rightly so.

You're basically talking about Manners 101.

I still see lots of people with great manners and empathy but I agree that some people definitely missed that course. Perhaps it was the combination of 2 working parents instead of 1, and the fact that kids are basically babysat now by computers/video games etc and actually spend very little time with a adult.

[Art 1]

Originally Posted by piratfisk

Do you think it's a money thing (FL vs Canada)? Millennials in Canada might be less worried about "impending doom" finances (student loans, home purchases, medical expenses, etc) where much is paid by the government? This is not an affront, just a possible hypothesis.

My most recent experience in Florida was in Mayport/Jacksonville where a stranger at a taco bar asked me if I knew that people "go skiing" in Jacksonville & told me he could help me get skis, all while touching his nose. I politely declined

You know it could very well be. I can see the difference for sure and it could be that. I am covered under the Canadian health system. In the US I use a travel policy that is available to folks covered under the system for $250 a year with no co pay or deductible. The average Canadian has no idea what Americans go through for health care. Florida is full of very poor people and lots of poverty. I just don't see poor people or overly stressed people in Canada, its just something I have noticed.

[piratfisk]

Originally Posted by Art 1

You know it could very well be. I can see the difference for sure and it could be that. I am covered under the Canadian health system. In the US I use a travel policy that is available to folks covered under the system for $250 a year with no co pay or deductible. The average Canadian has no idea what Americans go through for health care. Florida is full of very poor people and lots of poverty. I just don't see poor people or overly stressed people in Canada, its just something I have noticed.

That $250/yr policy will be worth its weight in gold, should you ever need to use it (knock on wood!). I'm thankful to be completely covered through work & my wife is covered through her employer. Neither of us have any student loan debt. We are not "rich" by other's standards, but I often need to "re-realize" that we are better off than billions of humans on this planet. I'm going off topic now, but some of my peers that are not in my position seem to have other dispositions which my induce the OP's mentioned "coldness." That, or they're too busy with their noses in their phones.

[BBL]

See this all the time, everywhere, as well as here on the 'best' forum, TRF, unfortunately, IMHO...

I feel so lucky and blessed to have had the awesome parents and upbringing I had!

[Art 1]

Originally Posted by BBL

See this all the time, everywhere , as well as here on the 'best' forum, TRF, unfortunately, IMHO...

I feel so lucky and blessed to have had the awesome parents and upbringing I had!

I feel the same. I’m very lucky to still have both my parents alive and healthy enough, in the 80’s.

[timedate]

if ever any of us (myself and brothers) walked into a room when there were visitors in our house, and we failed to show civility, we were rebuked on the spot, in front of the guest, it sharpened you up.

i love the old ways that made polite people, i am seeing so many mothers glued to their phone ignoring their baby in the pram, what will the baby be like when older?

[Star Ferry]

Everyone totally rocks now

Me: "I lived in Asia for three years"
Snowflake: "I did a 2 week southeast asia trip so I know about Asia too. Sad how the continent is so poor. "
Me:

[CamSLC]

Lol

"Whats eating people"

...complains about people...

[Burlington]

Maybe it’s time to move out the uk as it seems to give you so much displeasure, which is a terrible pity as it really is a wonderful place.

[timedate]

Originally Posted by Burlington

Maybe it’s time to move out the uk as it seems to give you so much displeasure, which is a terrible pity as it really is a wonderful place.

funny

[filsgreen]

Originally Posted by Burlington

Maybe it’s time to move out the uk as it seems to give you so much displeasure, which is a terrible pity as it really is a wonderful place.

Come on mate, we all bitch about where we live. Live and let live.

[daveathall]

Truthfully? I love the place I live. People are so friendly.

[AK797]

Originally Posted by Moggo

Kind of see logic in this, the boundaries of social interaction have moved so much. So easy to offend people or be seen as a danger/inappropriate etc

Example, bloke on his own smiles at a child, seen as very dodgy, smiles at woman a perv etc


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I know my kill rate has gone way down these last few years, if everyone took Bas's suggestion mine and Bateman's lives would be so much easier.

[filsgreen]

Originally Posted by daveathall

Truthfully? I love the place I live. People are so friendly.

You may do, Dave, but a pound to a pinch of salt, youve bitched about it. Its what the English do. 😁

[timepieceluvr]

People just won’t stay off the lawn....


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[timedate]

just listening to an article on five live about this woman who is campaigning to get i-phone ownership to have a legal age limit of 16 as she thinks she is seeing the damage that they are doing to the young.

Is this what is eating people.

[LandWatch]

Originally Posted by timedate

just listening to an article on five live about this woman who is campaigning to get i-phone ownership to have a legal age limit of 16 as she thinks she is seeing the damage that they are doing to the young.

Is this what is eating people.

I don’t think the answer to everything is to ban it! What happened to personal or parental responsibility? Our kids got smartphones from about age 14, but were/ still are not allowed to keep them in their rooms overnight. All laptops, phones etc are left overnight in a cabinet on the landing. Neither are consumed by social media and both use their phones to make life more convenient.

[BBL]

Originally Posted by HighlandWatch

I don’t think the answer to everything is to ban it! What happened to personal or parental responsibility? Our kids got smartphones from about age 14, but were/ still are not allowed to keep them in their rooms overnight. All laptops, phones etc are left overnight in a cabinet on the landing. Neither are consumed by social media and both use their phones to make life more convenient.

[Zakalwe]

When I was growing up the moral panic was about kids watching too much TV and playing video games. According to the professional miserablists amongst the older generations, every generation of younger people has been more idle, feckless and degenerate than the last. No doubt Millenials will eventually start bemoaning the behaviour of their kids’ generation. Yet the world keeps turning.

[Rock]

'Parental Responsibility' left the building a long time ago.
I have a friend who WAS a child psychologist. She departed the field because she concluded after 20 years of practise that the problem was the parents and you couldn't change that.
Forget the parents, a lot of them are idiots.

[timedate]

Originally Posted by HighlandWatch

I don’t think the answer to everything is to ban it! What happened to personal or parental responsibility? Our kids got smartphones from about age 14, but were/ still are not allowed to keep them in their rooms overnight. All laptops, phones etc are left overnight in a cabinet on the landing. Neither are consumed by social media and both use their phones to make life more convenient.

she dident want to ban them, just a legal age limit, like booze,

she argued that the developing brain is being damaged by them.

she found it incredible that you are 2 clicks away from the most graphic porn imaginable, she said, that porno mags were better regulated back in the day with the top shelf stigma, i agree with her.

[timedate]

Originally Posted by Rock

'Parental Responsibility' left the building a long time ago.
I have a friend who WAS a child psychologist. She departed the field because she concluded after 20 years of practise that the problem was the parents and you couldn't change that.
Forget the parents, a lot of them are idiots.

yes, i can understand this, so many parents act like children.

[LandWatch]

Originally Posted by Rock

'Parental Responsibility' left the building a long time ago.
I have a friend who WAS a child psychologist. She departed the field because she concluded after 20 years of practise that the problem was the parents and you couldn't change that.
Forget the parents, a lot of them are idiots.

Presumably a psychologist is, by definition, dealing with problem families? I don’t dispute there will always be a minority of feckless parents who are unable to exercise parental responsibility. However, if this becomes the norm, it won’t bode well for the human race!!

[zama]

Mega rich are getting richer everyone else including middle class are screwed, social revolution ready to happen again