Why are people so ignorant?

How do they separate the men from the boys in the Navy?  With a crowbar.

When I was young, good manners was the norm and ill mannered people really stood out. Now the reverse is nearer the truth in many places.

And whose fault is that saddo?

It's Twitter isn't it?

What is it, a couple of hundred bytes or so, to get across your point.

Nuance? Civility? 'You might be right but have a care my good man'?

And yet look at the number of news reports quoting from this medim of lunacy, as if it were a fount of insurmountable truth, rather than a bunch of ****s yammering into the void.

All the tools created by the self proclaimed good mannered generation and poor kids get the blame If only they had brought up these kids with better values.

Really,who is this self proclaimed good mannered generation sir?

Oct 11, 2019 -- 11:23AM, saddo wrote:

When I was young, good manners was the norm and ill mannered people really stood out. Now the reverse is nearer the truth in many places.

this guy

A state of ignorance is easily achieved, thus is highly alluring to those who are unwilling to put in the effort to become informed.

Apparently, it offers a blissful life experience to those attracted to its effort free achievement.

Detraveller ,tools? Self proclaimed,didn’t see that in saddos post?

When I was young, good manners was the norm and ill mannered people really stood out. Now the reverse is nearer the truth in many places.


Sadly so!

All the tools created by the self proclaimed good mannered generation and poor kids get the blame Cry If only they had brought up these kids with better values.


I don't ashley blame the kids. I always blame the parents and in the absence of their parents I blame society. My generation, the last of the baby Boomers were the worst parents!

Society showed them that many of our people are above the law. The ones that own The Country. Now these feral kids are finding out they can operate below the law and why shouldn't they given the example of the rich and powerful! That leaves us law abiding tax payers in the middle!

Hate corrodes the container in which it is carried.

And that make people ignorant?

Lack of knowledge, shirley

Nothing to do with class or political parties.

The only thing that changed was that people were allowed to get away unacceptable behaviour. We went soft on discipline.
Which starts with a little tolerance here and a little tolerance there, till suddenly little Jimmy realises he can get away with it.

So he does and others follow until there is simply too much to cope with and then the floodgates are open.
And anyone who suggests any meaningful sanction to try and reverse the trend gets shouted down by the hand wringers. Who are the very people who let it all slip in the first place.

i blame x factor and masterchef

Very good sir

why thank you.

A very civil thread. The glaring exception being the German who is convinced his chancellor is part of a global conspiracy against the masses, but is typically happy to be dragged along with it regardless. My daughter is the epitome of good manners btw.

Most people can be well mannered when it is to their advantage.
If they see no advantage, no down side then why bother?

Things started to go downhill when Latin was removed from the compulsory school curriculum.

Quod erat demonstrandum.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3567835?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Where people really more polite when we were younger?

Or is the fact that as we get older the young tend to ignore us more

They know it all

Everybody is the same when we are young

How Young blue ??   In infant school there are Differences ,I had a Mate who was a Nutter in his teens Fighting all the time etc , I went through School years with him , and he was a Nutter when he was 5 Sadly he passed away Young 

Young children are not all the same ,Not at all , it would be sad world if they were ..

It's no good asking  them why their ignorant , they won't answer you

They will tell you that they are not ignorant before going on to point out that "you can prove anything with facts".

They look at you like they look at a pigeon and think it's a waste of time talking to you

People used to mix a lot more in the past at work in factory or office or down the pub, but as large scale factory employment and the use of pubs die out most people tend only ever to mix digitally

Very true macarony, and explains why so many can't make conversation these days. Take them off the subjects of their jobs and they've got nothing to say.

They used to come out of factories whistling tunes like in the film that Gracie fields was in .it wasnt  pretend it was real what people did whistling when they came out of work

Some very good whistlers entered talent  shows

One of whom's Mother became very famous

Are you talking of Joyce Smith billed as the the whistling wonder worker from worksop

I remember her being one of the guests on workers playtime when I listened to her on the radio when I went to my grans for diner instead of staying school dinners .I thought Vince Vince hill  was good  singing adelvice until I heard her doing her pigeon calling whistle and approx thirty pigeons flew into the mcvittee works canteen

Do Wah

I remember workers playtime....showing my age