The youth of today
 

I am not sure if it just me but why do the youth of today seem to have a lack of sense of humour.

I was telling a joke to the wife's son last night and he looked at me as if I had grown a second head. The wife and I thought it was funny, when he had left we realised none of the young we come into contact with laugh or tell jokes.

Please tell me I am wrong. I always thought the British had a great sense of humour.

If you'd posted it on FB he'd have thought it was hilarious.

Er, it might depend a bit on the joke Steve? On the other hand, you are after all an adult. That's a foreign land. And juvenile minds are unfathomable, deliberately.

We were explaining to our children ( they are all in there late 20s) about Love they Neighbour. I found it on You Tube and played an episode, you have never seen 4 jaws hit the floor so quickly. When we told them that was Saturday night viewing they were even more shocked.

We have to be careful about what we say in front of them as we get accused of being sexist, racist or biased. With health and safety and the lack of humour I think the future looks bad.

Also I find it odd that most youths seem to have there devices on silent most of the time, I was trying to get hold of one of my sons, I had rung him 4 times with no answer and in the end I rung his brother and he passed me across to him as they were together, ''he hadnt looked at his phone''.

I am glad I am not young, yes it would have some advantages but I am glad I am in my 50's, I can laugh, I can hang off a ladder with no ear defenders on and when my phone rings I answer it or at least ring back when I can.

It's funny how we all have different experiences.
My 19 year old son and his pals are always telling jokes and having a laugh. Some are funny, some are not. That's the thing with humour what makes one person split their sides over can cause another person to scratch their heads.
Personally I think that's a good thing

I agree with much which has been said above.

Slightly different, but down to what was acceptable and what isn't now.

Me and my wife the other evening watched E.T. the extra terrestrial.
A classic children's sci-fi film. What could possibly be wrong by today's standards in that you might ask? Well. The part where Elliot has to be collected from school and the mum leaves her 5 year old daughter at home saying "You will be OK, wont you?"

Yes, it's a film. Yes it's fantasy.
But today even film makers have to be careful not to show things like this in movies.

We live in strange times. People get offended by what you have in your sandwich let alone political views.

goodness knows what they would make of the name of the Black Labrador in the film the Battle of Britain, I understand his name has also been removed from the memorial. Should I be saying what the dogs name was, you probably know, would I be breaking a rule by adding his name?


macafee2

Exactly. What a load of cobblers as we used to be able to say. One of my favourite first books (circa 1950) was Black Beauty by Anna Sewell. The lady would by now suffer a death similar to Joan of Arc. Never mind Uncle Tom's Cabin, my second literary adventure and much enjoyed about how 'foreigners' lived.

How long before the Jolly Roger is banned for abusive calling out of revellers after a party? What would self-respecting Pirates think?

It's about time these idle activists got a life of their own and woke up.

An Elvis Costello song Olivers Army was on the radio in the week and I noticed a word had been missed out ''one more widow, one less white n****r''. Sorry I think this is crazy, when is all this craziness going to stop?

As I said I am glad I am not young.

For me, the most distressing thing about all this nonsense is not what some immature or elderly Uni bod preaches. It's more the blackmail used to threaten funding of public bodies so that they are forced to 'take a view' from a false perspective or risk an online hate torrent.

Or at best 'cancelling' for something somebody else doesn't like. The Police, teaching at all levels and Sport, and using the already overused 'mental health' bandwagon, are all victims who have to decide to pass the imposed false dogma on to their members and employees. A prime and controversial example? Taking a knee, started by US fanatics and copied everywhere. The medium that promulgates this aberration? Answers on a stamp.

I think you mean Guy Gibsons dog in The Dambusters?

Remember this. :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg-Ycc-yKqY

Kev.

My neighbour’s two children have joke books and always tell me a new joke every time I see them, they’re aged only six and eight. They also have books they use to spot items on a car journey and they’ve to tick them off.

My 2 are 17 and 22, the 22 year old is my daughter and finds some things funny that I find amusing, but I can't see the funny side of things she finds hilarious. The son is the same although he's more on my wavelength with things than the daughter is.

Yes Pete, his name was nigger, and should have been left on his headstone.

Regarding free speech and the right to insult, I believe that this man sums it up very well.



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On the day after the EU referendum, BBC interviewed two young women. They were upset about the result, citing that it was their future that really mattered and that it would be the end of student exchange schemes, hardly a hot topic during the campaign. They then launched a blistering attack on older voters, accusing them of not caring for todays youth, in effect saying that the elder generations futures were behind them, but conveniently ignoring the fact that about 80% of the over 65's took the trouble to vote, while only about a third of the 18-25 age group could be bothered to drag themselves away from social media, get off their fat backsides and turn up at the polling stations. I think its fair to assume that this low turnout figure was, in truth, because they couldn't vote on their phones.

Had the same percentage of 18-25's, who were considered far more likely to be remainers, bothered to vote, the outcome of the referendum could well have been different. So, young people, before you make derogatory, ageist comments, get you own house in in order first.

I watched a programme on telly, can't honestly remember what it was but the presenter was talking to a tour guide in Ukraine. He asked about the Russian influence, the tour guide's reply was that you can't rip a page out of history. Some seem to think you can, especially if they feel uncomfortable with it.

People now want to avoid that fact, but it is true that was the dog's name.
The digging up of the grave to change the headstone will not change that.

Personally, I feel that that attempt to change history is very sad.
The dog was not only Guy Gibson's but was a mascot for the squadron and held with great affection.

Many didn't return from that raid, as is true with many other conflicts.
They sacrificed their lives for freedom.

Now our freedom of speech, which is of paramount importance, is constantly undermined.

Now people are in fear of saying anything slightly wrong.
Is this controlled heavy censorship that these boys gave their blood for?

Not forgetting John Lennon's 'Woman is the Ni**er of the World'.

Considering how much schooling they have lost in the last year, I wonder how many students who thought it was cool to bunk off on Fridays and attend climate change protests, proudly proclaiming that they could easily make up what they were missing, now think it was such a good idea.

Much of the inexorable change of permitted terms for long-held subjects is coming from university in-house pressure groups.

Not necessarily the elders and profs, but the newer generations of students and their ‘leaders’. The huge influx of students, usually on the more anti-everything cruise, in recent years has opened the door for the protestors to gain a captured audience. Those that object, get cancelled.

Then, because there is now a huge financial advantage in attracting even more susceptible minds, the faculties fall in line on the grounds of pseudo intellectual expansion. What a load of gobbledegook, it’s now about money so anything goes.

LOL I'm lost for words. :eek::D:p: https://imgur.com/a/mAQI909

Just watch any adverts on TV,then come back and tell me who the Ethnic Minority is

We were in Ikea a couple of weeks ago in Milton Keynes, it was quite busy and there was a lot of people talking to each other, my Wife and I were the only two people speaking English out of more than a dozen people in earshot. I know when I have driven in some parts of the country it is noticeable that there is a higher than I am used too ethnic majority but I am starting to feel like I am not living in England.

I have never considered myself racist in any form but when I feel like the minority in my own country it does make you think.

I've noticed that too. Advertisers are terrified of a Facebook frenzy or Twitter tirade, plus threats of a product boycott, if their ads only contain white faces.

It too makes me feel like a member of an ethnic minority, even though I live in an area with only a tiny percentage of non white residents.

Sky Sports presenters and Pundits are even worse:eek:

Noticed that too in the sports bulletins on their news channel. I don't subscribe to Sky, though I do confess to streaming their cricket coverage, which I am doing as I type this. .

Considering that Sky Sports has been hijacked by the black lives matter rabble, I wouldn't have a subscription to it given.

Wow, I wonder what they think of the 20's generation. Yeah, those oldies that went through the depression years as kids, fought in WW2 as teenagers and re-built the countries infrastructure whilst being rationed.

Student exchange? Hardly in the same league is it?

Kev

Don't forget that it was permissible to have a Golliwog doll and collect the paper type one's from Robertson's jam! I fear I'll be long gone before what we consider allowable is allowed again!

Kev

In years gone by you used to have a metal tab riveted to the inner wing of your car that gave useful information like the firing order, spark plug gap, points gap & tappet clearance gap etc. Nowadays it says Don't drink the battery acid :eek: