Kids these days

[stephen202]

Hi guys,

I have seen a lot of people saying kids today are chavs and things like that.
I seem to be lucky then because people in my area are all kind well mannered kids. I mean they all say hi or hey when they seem me. All very polite. Am I the only one. Is today's generation that bad?

The other Steve

 

[fitzsteve]

It all depends where you go, some areas if you go there groups of loud mouth youths can be very abusive and intimidating, especially densely populated estates.

Where I live is a very middle class area and indeed the community reflect that.

Sadly although many are blind to it this country has a big rich/poor divided. I grew up on a rough council estate and I saw this first hand.

I've worked very hard since leaving school but it could have been very different if I continued to mix with the wrong crowd as so almost ended up when I was in my early teens. They where out steeling motor bikes and smashing windows. Lucky I had my computers to keep me busy!

It's strange how things turn out, we had the same opportunities yet the outcome can be very different.

What these chavs need is something to do, to stop the boredom that causes the trouble they get into...

Anyway, I don't want to get too political, this is a retro computing forum after all.

Maybe free Amiga's is the answer?
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[stephen202]

It all depends where you go, some areas if you go there groups of loud mouth youths can be very abusive and intimidating, especially densely populated estates.

Where I live is a very middle class area and indeed the community reflect that.

Sadly although many are blind to it this country has a big rich/poor divided. I grew up on a rough council estate and I saw this first hand.

I've worked very hard since leaving school but it could have been very different if I continued to mix with the wrong crowd as so almost ended up when I was in my early teens. They where out steeling motor bikes and smashing windows. Lucky I had my computers to keep me busy!

It's strange how things turn out, we had the same opportunities yet the outcome can be very different.

What these chavs need is something to do, to stop the boredom that causes the trouble they get into...

Anyway, I don't want to get too political, this is a retro computing forum after all.

Maybe free Amiga's is the answer?
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.5; en-gb; HTC_DesireHD Build/GRJ90) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1

Hey

You were lucky then. Good point this is a retro computing forum I think your story is the story of many. They just need something to do

 

[rkauer]

[FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif]"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers."










Socrates, 450 B.C.[/FONT]

 

[Paul_s]

I feel sorry for kids who grow up on 3D games going round shooting things for nothing... in my day it was all about collecting fruit and harps on Bubble Bobble....

 

[greyhound]

There's still good kids out there. the paperboy who does our road is friendly lad, i always chat to him when i'm walking the 'hounds. He even posted us a Christmas card and we don't even have the paper delivered.....

Maybe he's the exception to the rule, but for the sake of society, i'd like to think not.

 

[AndyLandy]

It's always the bad ones who get all the press. I'm optimistic enough to believe that most people, kids or otherwise, are decent human beings with the best of intentions. It's just a small minority who are a plague on society, but they're the one we read about in the papers and watch on the news.