Old Gold Posted January 27, 2014 Report Share Posted January 27, 2014 I hate it when I get a bus home from the office and there's loads of office workers on it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon Moon Posted January 27, 2014 Report Share Posted January 27, 2014 You's really don't understand, they are bloody awful like apes escaped from the zoo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted January 27, 2014 Report Share Posted January 27, 2014 Yeah!! You guys don't understand. You didn't go to school. You've never been on a bus with young children. The fuck do any of you know?! I got you on this one, YA. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HateEvent Posted January 28, 2014 Report Share Posted January 28, 2014 Snapping my ankle at Strikers would be my current pet hate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Easy Wishes Posted January 28, 2014 Report Share Posted January 28, 2014 An actual snap? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted January 28, 2014 Report Share Posted January 28, 2014 Snapping my ankle at Strikers would be my current pet hate. I've seen the picture. Pukeatronic. It's what the papers would call a "horror leg break." Larsson-esque. Defo out for the season.Was it a tackle or did you do it yourself attempting mad skills? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HateEvent Posted January 28, 2014 Report Share Posted January 28, 2014 An actual snap? Sadly yep Adam. I have a pic of it which I could spoiler tag.Was pretty badly dislocated as well as broken on the outside and damaged ligaments on the inside. May also be a fracture on the inside too, but they can't tell until I get operated on (need pinned and plated). Not looking forward to it anyway!Ryan - I was running to the ball head on with someone else. Ball was at my right foot but the angle I was approaching was slightly to the left. I leaned to my right to poke the ball to the right but my momentum kept me going left over my left leg which had jammed into the ground. Made a few cracks on the way down so I didn't look at it at all until seeing the pics on FB after it had been relocated. I really wish I took the morphine! It's been sore as fuck! Took an hour for the ambulance to arrive and still waiting for surgery. At least it wasn't my hand/wrist though - I don't play guitar with my feet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Easy Wishes Posted January 28, 2014 Report Share Posted January 28, 2014 Yeah, post a picture if you wish! Sounds horrible. I've seen a couple of bad injuries on these synthetic pitches, mostly people rolling their ankles. Hope it doesn't take too long to heal! Will be at Strikers tonight, so happy to keep a look out for any bits of bone you may want returned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ca_gere Posted January 28, 2014 Report Share Posted January 28, 2014 FUCK! that's horrible. I feel your pain. I did something similar a few months ago. Albeit less protrusion. It didn't take too long to heal to the point I was walking again but it still hurts now and again. I felt absolutely useless for a while but on the bright side I caught up on a lot of reading/watching/doing sit-down stuff I meant to get round to. Hope you have a speedy recovery. My pet hate for the day: This weird shift in parenting i've noticed lately when it comes to subway etiquette. Parents with kids seem to expect people to get up and offer their kid a seat. I'm talking like 6-7 year olds, perfectly capable of standing. In my day, my mum would tell me to stand and shut up. And, I was perfectly happy to. Nowadays the kids moan if they don't get a seat so they can play their game on the parent's iPhone. I've offered to give my seat to a few people lately, expecting the mum to want the seat only for her little gnaff of a kid to swoop in and take it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladstone Posted January 28, 2014 Report Share Posted January 28, 2014 FUCK! that's horrible. I feel your pain. I did something similar a few months ago. Albeit less protrusion. It didn't take too long to heal to the point I was walking again but it still hurts now and again. I felt absolutely useless for a while but on the bright side I caught up on a lot of reading/watching/doing sit-down stuff I meant to get round to. Hope you have a speedy recovery.My pet hate for the day: This weird shift in parenting i've noticed lately when it comes to subway etiquette. Parents with kids seem to expect people to get up and offer their kid a seat. I'm talking like 6-7 year olds, perfectly capable of standing. In my day, my mum would tell me to stand and shut up. And, I was perfectly happy to. Nowadays the kids moan if they don't get a seat so they can play their game on the parent's iPhone. I've offered to give my seat to a few people lately, expecting the mum to want the seat only for her little gnaff of a kid to swoop in and take it.I DESPAIR I tell you. Kids get it their own way far too much these days. I sound like my fucking Granda but I don't care. There's been a monumental shift in my lifetime from kids having to do what they're told without it being brutal (as in getting beaten up by parents/teachers) to kids just running amok with parents who could not give one fuck. And parents who think their kids can do no wrong. That fucks me off a lot. I got a real insight into how a lot of parents are when I did kids' football coaching and my wife being a primary school teacher. If I ever catch myself siding with my daughter when she's got in trouble for something I will punch myself in the face.My mum or dad's response to me if I went home from school and complained about getting an unjust punishment or something was to get in more trouble from them because I must have been misbehaving if the teacher was dishing out punishments or detentions or whatever. It was so UNFAIR at the time but I can now see that to make a teacher's job possible they need the support of the parents otherwise it's a fucking nightmare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ca_gere Posted January 28, 2014 Report Share Posted January 28, 2014 I'm sure it was just as bad when I were a lad and it's just my grandpa-ness creeping in but it does seem like kids are a lot more whiny these days and parents less stern. The kid this morning didn't even acknowledge there was anyone around him, just sat down and whipped out the phone. I'm not keen on this trend you see of just sticking a phone in front of a kid's face to keep them occupied. In an odd way I actually think it's important to learn how to do nothing. Like being content to just stand idly for a while is a good skill to develop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladstone Posted January 28, 2014 Report Share Posted January 28, 2014 Ask your Mum how it's changed since we were kids at Mintlaw Academy I'm sure she'll back it up. My other mate who's mum was also a teacher there was absolutely desperate to retire by the time it came round a couple of years ago.I'm not saying I wasn't a little shit at times (because I definitely was) and that there weren't kids who were a nightmare (because there definitely were) but the teachers definitely had far more 'control'.I've said for years that a bit of national service would probably help. Or something like that. The problem is we're about 4th generation or so since it was abolished and the respect for authority has gradually diminished to the point where the kids who used to have no respect for authority are now the parents and even the grandparents. Things like parents public ally criticising teachers on Facebook due to the amount of homework their kids get (for example). Kids are all on Facebook - they see that sort of behaviour and instantly lose any respect for that teacher because the grown ups they look up to are slating the teacher etc etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ca_gere Posted January 28, 2014 Report Share Posted January 28, 2014 I think my mum mentally checked out years ago. It sounds like there's less of a connection between teachers and students nowadays. Maybe that's just because she's getting older too though. She says it's nuts the things she has to deal with nowadays with social media and smartphones. Cyber bullying and dodgy pictures being circulated and whatnot. Kids are also so desensitized to porn and gore too which makes for a different mentality. Also any older male who exhibits signs of being friendly is automatically a peado. I'm sure it's not all bad, but yeah I think she defintely feels less connected with the younger generation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Gold Posted January 28, 2014 Report Share Posted January 28, 2014 I've said for years that a bit of national service would probably help. Oh fuck off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladstone Posted January 28, 2014 Report Share Posted January 28, 2014 Oh fuck off.Because opinions that differ from yours are unacceptable, presumably. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Gold Posted January 28, 2014 Report Share Posted January 28, 2014 Sell it to me: why should parents be forced to hand their kids over to the military (who of course are across the board great folks), regardless of their political opinion and regardless of how good a job they did at raising them to be responsible free thinking young people? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TR!ΔNGL€ T€€TH Posted January 28, 2014 Report Share Posted January 28, 2014 Gladstone, what typeof solicitor/legal person are you? Are you like a pet lawyer or something, as I find it pretty scary that someone with such a "distinct" view on the world could possibly effect peoples' lives in anything more than a superficial way. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladstone Posted January 28, 2014 Report Share Posted January 28, 2014 (edited) I said 'or something similar' as well which wasn't picked up on not was the rest of the post.It's more about discipline and a respect for authority - I think something like national service would help with this. I haven't given a huge amount of thought but perhaps what I mean is 'military training' or something. People (not just kids) expect things handed on a plate and don't want to have to work for things and earn them for themselves.By 'people' I don't mean all people on the entire planet or in the country. Just an awful lot of people.Jan - I'm an oil and gas lawyer which I'm sure will be met with 'that explains a lot' or whatever. But yeah, knock yourself out.Like I said - the majority of my post was to do with how kids and their parents can be a nightmare these days (more so than say 20 years ago) rather than offering up a definite solution but why let that get in the way of a good internet argument? Edited January 28, 2014 by Gladstone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Gold Posted January 28, 2014 Report Share Posted January 28, 2014 That looked like a copy of the Daily Express just threw up. If it makes you feel any better, the worst behaved kids are probably getting thrashed harder and more psychologically damaged by their parents behind closed doors than any military cunt could ever inflict on them without getting put in jail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigsby Posted January 28, 2014 Report Share Posted January 28, 2014 Out of interest Gladstone, are you a parent? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alkaline Posted January 28, 2014 Report Share Posted January 28, 2014 If I ever catch myself siding with my daughter when she's got in trouble for something I will punch myself in the face. Out of interest Gladstone, are you a parent? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladstone Posted January 28, 2014 Report Share Posted January 28, 2014 Sorry - I was bathing my daughter and putting her off to bed... That somehow makes my views more relevant or something.I'll just leave it there - it was a flippant comment I got drawn into defending. Let's get back to pet hates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
girl anachronism Posted January 28, 2014 Report Share Posted January 28, 2014 (edited) Sorry - I was bathing my daughter and putting her off to the army...Fixed! ;-)(I jest) Edited January 28, 2014 by girl anachronism Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted January 28, 2014 Report Share Posted January 28, 2014 I didn't realise you'd spawned Calum. This is what happens when you remove yourself from all the Social Networks. You lose touch with your mates, and spend all the time you'd normally spend on Facebook making babies like they did in the olden days. I'm far too busy tweeting and Vibering to have sex. Congrats and all that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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