Re: I despair for current/future generations
Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2025 9:08 am
Seems to me that the further away people are from "Youngsters" the more they have a problem with them.
I often get apprentices put with me, not mine but just working alongside to train em up a bit. Thing is,in my opinion they're as good if not better than the yoof of my generation.
On the piss faaar and away less so working harder at work. Less blatent racism/sexism to the odd female who feels like working on sites (that seems to come almost exclusively from late middle aged white fucking feckless people trying to deflect from just how lazy they are) and in general they've not just landed on sites because they failed at school.
Hell, many of these kids actually did OK at school and made a proper decision to take a trade, instead of the old way of getting sidelined into woodwork at school from all the academic course teachers then not having much choice.
Listen to old geezers talking about all the stuff they got upto when they were young then try to tell me modern kids are worse.
I've worked on site with at least two murderers who went to prison for it, multiple fairly high up drugrunners, an old bloke who was in a Glasgow razor gang, worked for more corrupt quantity surveyors and gaffers than I care to mention.
I get to hear a lot of blatent twatty comments aimed at female workers and other races mostly because of the way I look. I'm a twat magnet and these days not as much in the good way.
Shaved head since I was twenty years old and according to my daughter I "Look like a thug" so they seem to see me as being like minded so sidle up alongside me and start spouting their repellant bile about women on site, blacks taking over the country, and the amount of Mosques in town. For the record, I think theres only one Mosque in town and more churches than I can remember, at least ten within a mile circle.
I am not a kindred spirit to them and nor is my middle name Diplomacy.
This thread seems to have started off as a weird uncle you avoid at family gatherings thread and then gone a bit further down the rabbit hole from there.
Theres also a bit of people who complain about others being offended too easy but then the same people are being offended on others behalf anyway. Which is mildly amusing for me.
I often get apprentices put with me, not mine but just working alongside to train em up a bit. Thing is,in my opinion they're as good if not better than the yoof of my generation.
On the piss faaar and away less so working harder at work. Less blatent racism/sexism to the odd female who feels like working on sites (that seems to come almost exclusively from late middle aged white fucking feckless people trying to deflect from just how lazy they are) and in general they've not just landed on sites because they failed at school.
Hell, many of these kids actually did OK at school and made a proper decision to take a trade, instead of the old way of getting sidelined into woodwork at school from all the academic course teachers then not having much choice.
Listen to old geezers talking about all the stuff they got upto when they were young then try to tell me modern kids are worse.
I've worked on site with at least two murderers who went to prison for it, multiple fairly high up drugrunners, an old bloke who was in a Glasgow razor gang, worked for more corrupt quantity surveyors and gaffers than I care to mention.
I get to hear a lot of blatent twatty comments aimed at female workers and other races mostly because of the way I look. I'm a twat magnet and these days not as much in the good way.
Shaved head since I was twenty years old and according to my daughter I "Look like a thug" so they seem to see me as being like minded so sidle up alongside me and start spouting their repellant bile about women on site, blacks taking over the country, and the amount of Mosques in town. For the record, I think theres only one Mosque in town and more churches than I can remember, at least ten within a mile circle.
I am not a kindred spirit to them and nor is my middle name Diplomacy.
This thread seems to have started off as a weird uncle you avoid at family gatherings thread and then gone a bit further down the rabbit hole from there.
Theres also a bit of people who complain about others being offended too easy but then the same people are being offended on others behalf anyway. Which is mildly amusing for me.