I originally called the thread Snowflake generation, but it seems some saw it as racist. Wikipedia lists the term as derogatory. So I changed the title of the thread. But some keep going on about race etc when it s not about that.
No; nobody considered 'snowflake' to be at all 'racist'. I introduced the term 'gammon', in a silly tongue in cheek post. One poster decided to consider 'gammon' a racist term. They made some fair arguments, but I, and others, argued that it isn't. Certainly not in it's original context.
https://www.newstatesman.com/politi...-charles-dickens-invented-concept-gammon-1838
Each generation likes to think of itself as 'the' righteous generation; all those before and after, are wrong. I actually think the thread title is
more offensive to younger people, now. 'More timid'? As for how 'tough' people are; much is said by older generations, about how 'soft' younger people are. I think this has been said pretty much throughout history tbh. you hear older folk banging on like the Four Yorkshiremen; 'ee, in my day, we had to fight a war before breakfast, then work 24 hours down't pit'. Etc, etc, etc...
Just read through this whole thread and to be honest I haven’t got a clue whats It’s about , age,race,colour ,religion it’s all in there . At 74 I grew up in the east end of London just after the war , my playgrounds were bombed out buildings , we wiped our arses on either slippery izal toilet paper or on the news of the world or evening standard . And had to go down three flights of stairs to the only khazi in the house , it was a nice area my dad kept a weapon in every room just in case ,a old cut down broomstick wrapped with leadsheet in one room ,a few heavy duty socks filled with lead in another and the inevitable double barrelled 410 shotgun in another .. it was the time when the local coppers patrolled the streets day and night on the beat and I was often told to F off to my own manor growing up . We had the first t.v in our turning and all my mum and dads friends and family came to see it it was in a massive cabinet with a 12inch black and white screen .
But we were a happy breed in them days ,we had fights and brawls but no one got seriously hurt let alone killed . We had discipline in the home and school and I still remember the cane that brought us back to reality . ..
kids today in all honesty aint got a clue
What 'aint (they) got a clue' about? I grew up on a rough council estate in the East End, it wasn't a 'nice area'. That same area today sees stabbings, violence, domestic abuse, rape, human trafficking, rampant drug addiction and all sorts of assorted criminal activity. I think you haven't a clue about what kids endure today. You're no 'harder' than them, cos you had to go down 3 flights of stairs to the toilet. And that's what it's about; as people age, they feel their 'power' slipping away. So they try to imagine themselves as having been 'tough'. My mum still bangs on about rationing ffs. Forgets the 60 odd intervening years, many of which she spent in relative lower middle class comfort. If there were a war today, and young people had to go and fight, no choice, we'd not suffer any worse than in any other era. Humans have tremendous resilience; I've met people who've fled actual wars, famine, persecution and torture. s*** is still going on. Young people are as tough as they ever have been. And this younger lot; they'll have to be tougher than any of us, if our society continues along it's slide into decay.
Give 'em a break; they'll be wiping your arse for you, one day. Hopefully though, it won't be with Izal Medicated...