People- Whats changed

[jack123]

Enjoy my friend.

Thanks, not a great start. I returned from the shop with a box of beer, and was greeted with ‘ WHAT you Getting more ******* beer for? Hmm I suppose that’s a negative of staying in and trying to have a cheap day, leaves yourself open to the missis having a go, where as could be paying fiver a pint in a beer garden, but no nagging. Once this first can goes down, I’m going to ask her has she any requests. I know she likes erasure, may start belting that out, to get back in her good books.

 

[Cooperman]

Thanks, not a great start. I returned from the shop with a box of beer, and was greeted with ‘ WHAT you Getting more ******* beer for? Hmm I suppose that’s a negative of staying in and trying to have a cheap day, leaves yourself open to the missis having a go, where as could be paying fiver a pint in a beer garden, but no nagging. Once this first can goes down, I’m going to ask her has she any requests. I know she likes erasure, may start belting that out, to get back in her good books.

She needs to have A Little Respect.

 

[jack123]

She needs to have A Little Respect.

I like it.

 

[jack123]

Yeah it’s a generational thing now I think, most of the apprentices in work don’t bother going out every weekend, most are into the gym now. Massive positive for the NHS in years to come.

That’s a great thing, if I had a chance to do my younger days again, I would choose the gym, rather than being completely blotto from the age of 17-30. You can make so many bad decisions under the influence of alcohol, it’s unbelievable. No doubt there are many people in prison scratching their heads, wondering how the hell they ended up there.

Be a good idea if the money the supermarkets in Wales started funding youngsters for free in the gym with the extra money they get from mppu, at least that would be an actual positive thing.

 

[jack123]

Anyway all went well in the end, went a bit cloudy so go back inside watched Fernandez skying his penalty, then nodded off and woke just as the match was ending. Ten quid spent and not a bad day. I do enjoy that mind, just your own company, sitting in the garden, and just picking your favourite sounds. It is bliss.

 

[rockinj]

That’s an excellent point amd one I’ve made myself in a different way. It’s now acceptable, mainstream, to couch concerns about immigration and other things, including integration, in overtly racist language. I’d suggest most of these people always held these views but now they feel able to express them. Whether anyone likes it or not, the rot started with the Brexit referendum and it’s only got worse from there.

The reality is they’ve always been there but ‘dormant’

That’s why you can’t pin a Brexit/trump supporter down on anything. They have their own facts but they’re tricking their own mind into believing that the reason they vote for these people or ideas is because of “sovereignty” or “‘maga” which is just a coded way of saying:

Lads. I’ll make the rich richer, I’ll be corrupt to the core and laugh in your face.

But I’ll keep beer duty down, talk tough on stuff but have no solutions but more fundamentally I’ll give you permission to be racist and other people.

The latter is the most fundamental and this is why us wet farts in the centre can’t in because we can never provide an answer for their feelings.

They love the concept of Brexit/maga etc because it’s not defined. It’s a beautifully opaque vision of nothingness that gives them a wonderful ability to do what they enjoy.

 

[Michu78]

Internet, phones, social media, smoking ban, 2008 crash, gym, Covid, bad politics, cost of living etc

We all know alcohol is bad vs going to the gym, but I was glad to live through the 90's where the pubs and nightclubs were bouncing, use to love the weekends and live for those moments. I would never swap those years for lifting Iron in the gym. When I am at work now, I see kids in their twenties walking around like empty vessels with no purpose in life, nobody going out on weekends, but I bet their bench press stats are good.

I do worry about the mental health of this generation and including my own kids, I was a lot happier kid growing up than my own children(covid played huge part) and within a space of 30-40 years we have seen huge changes to society.

 

[Jack2jack]

I just watched it. I think it’s quite simple; the various restrictions of Covid caused huge disruption to lifecycle habits, and these were habits that we didn’t necessarily appreciate at the time. For example, the Friday afternoon pint with work mates or shopping routines with wife/husband. When restrictions lifted the regular rhythm of life didn’t always fall back into place, habits had changed. Not just socially, I found the same experience in the working environment.

Good post Coops. I wad talking to a colleague in work today, and asked him his opinion, Covid was a game changer, and he was of the opinion that some folk are more insular, less willing to communicate. Our work setting has change beyond recognition, it was coming anyway, I realise that, is it a good thing, I'm still not convinced. I dont want to generalize, However, peoples habits have changed.