Youth always has been demonised erm , I can remember my grand and great grand parents telling me off and more . But I listened to there wisdom and learned by it . We have an almost lawless society of all ages now but they are being taught it’s ok to be like that by not doing anything oooow don’t tell them off that’s wrong now look at them telling us what our great grand parents etc told us , “pick that up and put it in the bin ,take that back to the shop for recycle n get our deposit ,was they wrong NOPE ! everyone is saying we need more police , why huh . Greed want and dam right lack of respect for others so pick up your rubbish all those that didn’t listen and do as you are asked and the world would be a safer happier place. The media use what or who ever they can to make a story fa what ? Money .
i had forgotten about the recycling/ deposit thing. and proper milk bottles, and cheese wrapped in greaseproof paper and veg in paper bags, and taking a string bag to the shops when i was doing some errands for grandma - damn that thing stretched so much it was longer than my legs!
The spectrum thing is a very valid point. Folk who have ASD tend to have trouble showing, and indeed reading, emotion in the same way that NT folk do, thus they tend to get misunderstood, or come across not entirely as well as they would like. They also tend to see things in a more black and white way, and as such, it's easy to see how frustrating it must be that no-one appears to be doing anything. My wife has Aspergers, and let me tell you, when an Aspie gets on a mission, they never give up! Good on her for having to bottle to stand up there in the firing line. I just hope she doesn't burn herself out in the process. Apologies if that came across as patronising by the way, it wasn't meant to. I'm just a bit crap at explaining stuff..
Have to say I’m struggling to find out where “Greta Thornbird” ( well, isn’t that just comedy gold right there?) has blamed my generation for the climate “crisis” (if that’s what it genuinely is, I imagine I, like many others, are a bit confused by what the science does and doesn’t say). Yes, she’s had a right old go at world leaders, but not specifically my generation as far as I can tell. I may be wrong, if someone can point me in the right direction?
purely and simply - too many people on this planet - to take it to a perverse logic if 20 years everybody had said right no kids for 20 years the population would,ve shrunk thereby easing the problem ergo the kids protesting now have created the problem
I agree and would add, while hopefully not generalising too much - that trying to sway or co-opt someone with aspergers (obviously it's a spectrum and as such all are different) is nigh on impossible. and that's why i doubt that she has a puppeteer.
dunno but i think it is a generational thing in that years ago we thought nothing of spewing waste into the seas and rivers. in 1987 as a chemistry student i was at a talk with Tioxide UK in Immingham. They were developing an opaque paint (one coat my arse!). After the talk i asked where their waste went and the answer was an unapologetic 'we're very lucky in that we're on the banks of the humber so it goes straight into there'. they saw no problem with this, it was legal and a cheap and effective way to get rid of it. Now we wouldn't even consider that to be acceptable.
unfortunately the humber bridge is still a suicide hotspot, they used to say that it wasn't drowning that killed folk but the toxicity of the water - no idea if this was true/ or still the case.
I read from that that we can thank our parents generation for not wasting anything, only buying what was needed and getting things repaired when they broke, and instilling the same life principles on us......until we had the freedom and wealth (credit!) to choose otherwise........ Our childrens' generation are the product of our consumerist generation and are now used to getting iphones, clothes and possessions bought over the internet, food delivered to home and lifts everywhere when they do actually venture out of the house. The common denominator is OUR generation........
In my early working days, I worked in the chemicals industry for ICI and saw a very relaxed attitude to pollution of the land and waterways. Fortunately these days most of the industry has gone overseas, but the pollution is there and not here so much. One of the sites I worked at is still polluted and they have been struggling for some years to clean it up and put houses on it. Near where I live, Countryside are building new million pound homes on part of the old landfill. These contaminated sites area major issue as what do you do with dug out waste? Answer rebury some of it under roads and gardens and send the rest to another landfill site. I don't like contaminated land but there is some justice that rich London folks are buying them.
no idea if it's clean but you're right about the bodies. only this weekend i heard of a friends business partner ending his life that way
