Has the UKs population gone soft?
 

Been thinking that we must now be in an era in the uk where the parents of todays kids didnt feel the wrath of the belt at school.

Has it made them all mambay pambays? Or is it for the best:shrug:

Yes, times have changed.


But a World War
would change all that.


All the Young
could go on the Front Lines.
Hell of a Shock,

Those who refuse can work
in the back rooms

Fingers crossed that there is no World War on the horizon.:fc:

I personally always stay hard

Ever the optimist, even seeing the bright side of a world war.

You’re not supposed to overuse those pills !


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personally, i don't think kids have ever had it tougher than now

Yes . 100%


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I don't know if I'd go quite that, but the "kids have never had it easier" brigade clearly don't have any children in their lives, and/or aren't aware of the toxicity of the social media world, and the effects that influencer/celeb culture can have on young'uns.

In any recent times definitely - I mean, they're not up chimneys or in factories (working class Victoria children had a pretty rough time) - but things like camera phones, social media, and just frankly the ability to ALWAYS be in contact with each other... Causes kids these days an unfathomable level of stress and anxiety. The Teens is a tough time to figure out socially and always was, but at least even in my day (15-20 years ago) you could more or less go home and clock out, take a break from it all. These days there's a social expectation of being in constant contact on snapchat/WhatsApp/etc...

Plus they have a constant awareness that they may be (are likely to be) being recorded at any time. The self-restrictions on freedom are huge. I shudder in horror at the thought of my teen antics being available to download as videos :umm2:.

Yeah absolutely agree with everything you said there. It's much different issues to other generation or eras but very bad mentally I think.

Just in regards to your last paragraph, yep, I had diaries I kept as a teen and they were so embarrassing to read back I eventually burned them, imagine if it was now, some of that stuff could be forever on line :/

The majority of kids dont want to go out to a resteraunt to eat because of the stress of ordering from a menu face to face.

That's not the fault of the kids themselves though, it's a sad consequence of the way the world is increasingly structured. When I was a kid I used to buy my video games from a little independent stall at an indoor market - it was amazing, had all the latest stuff and some really niche things too, the guy who ran it was passionate about games and would chat away about the games you were buying or make recommendations. Places like that don't exist any more and people don't even really use mainstream shops in the same way - buying online.

Even something like McDonald's... When I were a boy you'd order at the counter. These days you order on a big screen or on your phone and just collect the order number or get it straight to a table (if you go in at all).

All of these things are great in that they're convenient - but they've removed all of the "little interactions" that used to be a normal part of growing up and so people increasingly find those things - like you say, ordering at a restaurant - difficult or anxiety inducing. Interaction of any kind with strangers (offline) is becoming less and less common.

And interaction with strangers ONline, as we know, is an etiquetteless dumpster fire and not any way that humans would ever interact face to face.

Tbf I was a forum regular on a smallish forum (about the size of Tibb back when it was busier/C5 Big Bro days, I would say) from the age of 14 to 17 and I thank the baby jesus EVERY DAY that 1) I was anonymous on there and 2) it no longer exists, even in Internet archives.

The things I did and said. I would be bloody unemployable. And that's just what I remember saying! The place was essentially unmoderated, and basically was just teenagers. Oh good lord...

:laugh: TiBB is the first forum I ever joined and the only one I ever spent much time on and I was 30 when I joined here

…I’m pretty sure that similar questions are posed and things said etc in every generation…I know there are some echoes of my own parents in many things that are said now and it makes me smile…

Of course but I do think this age of internet world and social media is certainly uncharted territory and has to have a lot of knock on effects to the generation raised on it (good and bad)

Well yes that's true to an extent - a lot of the things people have to say about "the youth" these days are exactly the same things that were being said about the hippies and "rock music" back in the 60's and 70's - and those hippies and rockers were BOOMERS! :omgno:

You quite remind me of a poster on a forum I was a regular user on, whose size matches what you said, and where I was a regular poster...

Without giving anything away, was the forum ... "semi-precious stone, night visions"? The main admin was "supreme indifference, sort of" ?

It closed down when the main admin got disillusioned with the Internet, wanted to focus on art...

This is a nice video essay about the apparent "fragility" of today's yoof.

…speaking of other forums, I’m on quite a few forums and they all have great differences…but one thing that I’ve only discovered in the last little while is ‘paid forum posting…’…I didn’t realise there was such a thing, I’m sure it’s something that James might be familiar with, being a forum administrator himself….but paid for posting gives a forum a completely different/unique vibe …(…and a bit of getting used to…)…

Do you get paid to post or do you have to pay to post? I'd earn a fortune if it's the former :hehe:

…that should hopefully show and play now…

…you get paid for the post count…/…on quantity…that is a factor…but there also ‘posting assignments’ which are more specific…someone did try to explain it one time but my head wanted to burst a bit because I still didn’t completely understand…:laugh:…and sometimes things/explanations can get lost in translation also…although, the paid to posters all seem to have great English even though for many, it’s not a first language…

…one of the things that took a bit of getting used to was what we would consider old threads being bumped…I mean, not just a few bumps but daily and then the next day again and the next day again etc…and people would respond to something that was posted maybe 15 years ago…?…that’s because every post is a lil bit of a dollar, baby…