sauromatian wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:But I agree with you, a cry & a cuddle is what the world needs sometimes, though I'm not sure how far an online group can provide it.

mbassoc2003 wrote:I don't think chav is a culture. I was referring specifically to the gang and knife culture endemic within specific communities in English) cities.

Up here in Scotland it's mostly junkies feeding habits. We are not as ethnically diverse as England, and don't have the gang/knife crime problems to the scale that English cities do. The problem up in Scotland is our own homegrown addicted and their feral kids. We feed the problem and allow it to breed because we are trying to be the best in the world at creating junkies. But the US is putting up a good fight, and making it perfectly (de facto) legal to shoplift up to $900 a time is a genius move (CA?). Not even our Socialist Party entertained such a notion, and they are full on Marxist in their aspirations. But the pandemic has really destroyed most of our junkies' traditional income streams (burglaries, blowjobs, begging and mugging), so they are desperate. Some are even resorting to stealing dogs and selling them on Gumtree (because they don't have the brains to crawl under a car and cut off its catalytic convertor.)

Because most people are home a lot more now, they have had to cut back on home break-ins. So now the man (almost always) walks up to an old lady or a mother with a child who is walking their pet pooch, punches her really hard in the face a couple of times, grabs the lead and makes off with the dog. The little old lady can't make chase, and often can't even describe her assailant. The mother is stuck between trying to protect her dog and trying to protect her child, no contest, and the dog is a nice quick £50 earner, and people are just walking around parks dragging these £50 notes around on strings, and wondering why the weak are having them stolen. Some have even twigged on that whilst the dog is an easy £50 pay out, the toddler is a £1000 pay out if you are willing to fight the mother and can source a buyer. And lets face it, those types are desperate too. Here in the UK we don't allow our women to carry or discharge pepper spray because your average SJW in the UK believes that hurting those who want to assault/abuse women and children is wrong, and what they really should be doing is offering them a cuddle and asking them if they want to talk it through with someone.

In our cities we now have open gang warfare with machetes in public parks and supermarket carparks in broad daylight. I don't think most people in the UK understand what happens when mass unemployment, supply line disruption, and inflation come together. It's like watching a train wreck happen in slow motion. You know what is going to happen. You know what the forces at work are. You know what the actors are going to do, and how they are going to play the victim and pretend they didn't see the train coming. You can read the playbook of the narrators telling everyone on the train that everything is going to be fine, that the train is on a different track, and there is going to be no crash. You can see the first class carriage has decoupled and the gap between cattle class and first class is widening, and you can see the fear and the anger in cattle class, and watch the fighting amongst the inadequate alphas beginning to break out.

Yet, not one in a thousand will choose to act differently.

With these sorts of things, I think it is better to be a spectator than a bit part actor.[/b]

sauromatian wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread: Basically, but what about your needs? I can't reach out & hug you online, so it's up to your local population of chavs to be there for you. That's what 'chav' means, doesn't it?

mbassoc2003 wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:the thrill seeking side of pushing a knife into another person’s body,

mbassoc2003 wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:... I can smell troll. Or is it weed? It’s so hard to tell them apart online.

mbassoc2003 wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:I think the equivalent in Scotland would be ‘Ned’ and that I don’t think they exist either.

mbassoc2003 wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:Sorry. I don’t understand the cryptic claptrap. Elucidate.