What Is Happening To Our Country?

[Weston Super Saint]

Danny Dyer just reminds me of the Wealdstone Raider 🤣

https://youtube.com/shorts/sAhEFuq62-I?si=iSKOHgfuZbKSCIMl

[Turkish]

1 hour ago, egg said:

I like films that are so crap they're actually good, of that makes sense. 

I can't take Danny Dyer seriously as a hard man though. He's just a scrawny bloke with an exaggerated accent, and walks like he's lugging rolls of carpet under his arms. 

He’s a bit of a joke but I think he plays up to it and doesn’t take himself seriously. Plenty of people will look down their nose at that sort of bloke but he’s had a pretty good career for basically playing himself on films for 25 years. The Business is a great film mind

[egg]

9 minutes ago, Turkish said:

He’s a bit of a joke but I think he plays up to it and doesn’t take himself seriously. Plenty of people will look down their nose at that sort of bloke but he’s had a pretty good career for basically playing himself on films for 25 years. The Business is a great film mind

He was on a programme on (I think) channel 4 where celebs were engaging with youngsters with neuro divergence and learning issues. He was kind, open, genuine and warm. Seems a very decent bloke, but he still doesn't convince me as a hard man. 

[Turkish]

18 hours ago, egg said:

He was on a programme on (I think) channel 4 where celebs were engaging with youngsters with neuro divergence and learning issues. He was kind, open, genuine and warm. Seems a very decent bloke, but he still doesn't convince me as a hard man. 

He isnt thats why. He's like thousands of blokes from that area, god knows i've met enough. Talk in that accent, use a bit of rhyming slang, walk like they're carrying carpets and think everyone is scared of them because they support West Ham, Millwall or because they're from a "proper manor". Blokes from Portsmouth are a diet version of the above. 

Edited 9 hours ago by Turkish

[Turkish]

I would say one of the major issues this county faces is is the lack of personal responsibility for everything which seems to have taken over.

It starts with schools and deluded parents who question the teachers when their kid gets in trouble at school. Whereas when i was a kid if i get in trouble at school i'd then also be in trouble when i got home now we constantly see parents going down to school to rant at the teachers.

It's no surprises this is translating into soft, entitled adults who blame everyone else or conditions they have for their failings. We have a generation of people with no resilience who go to pieces when faced with even the most minor bit of adversity. 

Then you see the blaming of the government for not doing enough. The most recent example of this you can see is the Joe Wicks program about the protein bar he made that is full if shit that does more harm than good. The message is the government need to do more, blah, blah, blah. Yes i do agree the food industry needs more regulation, but given that and the pharma industry seem to be working hand in hand, that unlikely to happen. However people are responsible for what they stick in their gobs, no one else, but they seem to want to shift the blame of their own greed because they hadn't been given specific instructions to the letter as to what they should be doing. I would suggest that unless you are fucking stupid most people know what's healthy and what isn't but rather than take responsibility for themselves they shift the blame that there aren't warnings on food packages, it's insane.

[tdmickey3]

13 minutes ago, Turkish said:

I would say one of the major issues this county faces is is the lack of personal responsibility for everything which seems to have taken over.

It starts with schools and deluded parents who question the teachers when their kid gets in trouble at school. Whereas when i was a kid if i get in trouble at school i'd then also be in trouble when i got home now we constantly see parents going down to school to rant at the teachers.

It's no surprises this is translating into soft, entitled adults who blame everyone else or conditions they have for their failings. We have a generation of people with no resilience who go to pieces when faced with even the most minor bit of adversity. 

Then you see the blaming of the government for not doing enough. The most recent example of this you can see is the Joe Wicks program about the protein bar he made that is full if shit that does more harm than good. The message is the government need to do more, blah, blah, blah. Yes i do agree the food industry needs more regulation, but given that and the pharma industry seem to be working hand in hand, that unlikely to happen. However people are responsible for what they stick in their gobs, no one else, but they seem to want to shift the blame of their own greed because they hadn't been given specific instructions to the letter as to what they should be doing. I would suggest that unless you are fucking stupid most people know what's healthy and what isn't but rather than take responsibility for themselves they shift the blame that there aren't warnings on food packages, it's insane.

That is a good post 

[hypochondriac]

15 minutes ago, Turkish said:

I would say one of the major issues this county faces is is the lack of personal responsibility for everything which seems to have taken over.

It starts with schools and deluded parents who question the teachers when their kid gets in trouble at school. Whereas when i was a kid if i get in trouble at school i'd then also be in trouble when i got home now we constantly see parents going down to school to rant at the teachers.

It's no surprises this is translating into soft, entitled adults who blame everyone else or conditions they have for their failings. We have a generation of people with no resilience who go to pieces when faced with even the most minor bit of adversity. 

Then you see the blaming of the government for not doing enough. The most recent example of this you can see is the Joe Wicks program about the protein bar he made that is full if shit that does more harm than good. The message is the government need to do more, blah, blah, blah. Yes i do agree the food industry needs more regulation, but given that and the pharma industry seem to be working hand in hand, that unlikely to happen. However people are responsible for what they stick in their gobs, no one else, but they seem to want to shift the blame of their own greed because they hadn't been given specific instructions to the letter as to what they should be doing. I would suggest that unless you are fucking stupid most people know what's healthy and what isn't but rather than take responsibility for themselves they shift the blame that there aren't warnings on food packages, it's insane.

That's correct but it actually starts at nursery where parents routinely take the word of a 2 year old over the adults looking after them. I don't know if it's a general distrust of authority but it's miles worse than it was even a decade ago. 

[Stripey McStripe Shirt]

A 'pumpkin patch ' has just opened down the road from me. From what I can tell a local landowner has simply dumped a load of pumpkins in a field and is charging people for the privilege of "picking" one.

What the fuckidy fuck is that all about, and why is it a thing in the UK?!

[tdmickey3]

58 minutes ago, Stripey McStripe Shirt said:

A 'pumpkin patch ' has just opened down the road from me. From what I can tell a local landowner has simply dumped a load of pumpkins in a field and is charging people for the privilege of "picking" one.

What the fuckidy fuck is that all about, and why is it a thing in the UK?!

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