We know of British yobs, but British girl thugs as well around!!!!

code_wiz

http://uk.yahoo.com/_ylt=AnI3Sp5IyME_0uf3GeLrhoA4hJp4/SIG=14qgti7oa/EXP=1281029140/**http%3A//www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1300270/Baby-thrown-path-double-decker-bus-teenage-girl-thugs.html%3FITO=1708%26referrer=yahoo[^] We know of British blokes thugs, and now we hear about British girl thugs! No wonder we need talent from outside UK, since our British teenagers are all hopeless - they seem to be more happy to be thugs and criminals, and maybe X-factor kind of stuff, but not education or civilisation! Pathetic!!!!!!!!

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code_wiz wrote:

they seem to be more happy to be thugs and criminals, and maybe X-factor kind of stuff, but not education or civilisation! Pathetic!!!!!!!!

code_wiz wrote:

No wonder we need talent from outside UK

Yeah, some of them may even be able to write a comprehensible sentence. ;)

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code_wiz wrote:

our British teenagers are all hopeless - they seem to be more happy to be thugs and criminals

I'm a male, British teenager. According to the Daily Mail, I should have fifty children, all by different girlfriends. I should apparently have every STD known to the human race, and be actively spreading it around. I should be out drinking every night, dealing drugs to my parents and friends, and swearing at every other person as I break into their houses and take their heirlooms back to my council house which I got from my unemployment benefits. I'm not, none of my friends are, and I hope that tells you everything you need to know about the Daily Mail's view of teenagers.

code_wiz wrote:

not education or civilisation! Pathetic!

And yet for all the faults of a minority of my age group, you're the one tarring nearly a quarter of the population of the United Kingdom with the same brush. Perhaps it's time for you to re-evalute your perspective on who the pathetic ones are here.

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Christian Graus

Every generation has it's bogans, and newspapers love to highlight them and act as if that's how all of youth are behaving. The kids who are quietly going to school, maybe making a bit of noise when they let their hair down, perhaps have a bit of an attitude that is in part because they feel misjudged by the sort of news stories you're linking to, but have never hurt anyone or committed a crime, just exist under the radar, or, more probably, through the way they look and dress, just far enough above the radar for people who forget what it was like to be a teenager to shake their heads and cross the street when they see them. We had a similar media campaign recently about kids in our mall. A few times some fights broke out between different kids, but mostly the kids just sit in the mall, smoke, talk and hang out. I think the whole thing is pathetic, the kids have no-where else to go, teens are especially tribal, they just like to hang out together. They don't harm anyone. The people who say how scared they are to walk through the mall, are exposing their attitudes and nothing to do with the kids in question.

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Christian Graus

Awesome post - well worth my five.

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Pete OHanlon

code_wiz wrote:

No wonder we need talent from outside UK, since our British teenagers are all hopeless - they seem to be more happy to be thugs and criminals, and maybe X-factor kind of stuff, but not education or civilisation! Pathetic!!!!!!!!

I'm sorry, but I have to disagree with you on this one. Hell no, I'm not sorry. I'm proud. Honestly, you'd think that we were never teenagers ourselves - the hypocrisy of such a bigoted attitude boggles my mind. So what if one or two teenagers behave badly - let them be dealt with harshly by the full force of the law if they have broken the law. The vast majority of teenagers are well behaved, polite, hard working and civilised and you would do well to remember that. They have a sense of social responsibility and worry for their futures, so doesn't this make your blinkered view pathetic instead?

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Pete OHanlon

Well said. Honestly, if you'd known me as a teenager you'd have thought I'd amount to nothing with my hair, metal t-shirts and denim and leather. Sometimes people forget that they were ever teenagers themselves.

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Nish Nishant

Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

the hypocrisy of such a bigoted attitude boggles my mind

It's not so different from how every developer of Indian origin is assumed to be a doofus who uses rude ungrammatical text-speak. :)

Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

The vast majority of teenagers are well behaved, polite, hard working and civilised and you would do well to remember that.

Yeah but who wants to read that in the subway? (I assume that's the only place anyone would want to read a newspaper)

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emartinho

Great answer! :thumbsup:

Pete OHanlon

Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

It's not so different from how every developer of Indian origin is assumed to be a doofus who uses rude ungrammatical text-speak.

Well they are aren't they? Only kidding - I know several talented Indian programmers, as well as several not so talented ones. Equally, for every talented English programmer I know, I know 5 or 6 morons of the highest order. All generalisations are counter productive.

Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

who wants to read that in the subway?

I wouldn't know - I read the Telegraph myself.

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Nish Nishant

Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

All generalisations are counter productive.

5. :thumbsup:

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Christian Graus

Sounds like we looked the same :-) Yeah, I agree, I feel sorry for people who are that divorced from what it's like to be a kid or a teenager, that they act as if it never happened to them. The whole mall thing locally had me really frustrated, what do they expect kids to do after school ? Why can't they hang with their mates ? Are they part of society too, or not ?

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Christian Graus

Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

It's not so different from how every developer of Indian origin is assumed to be a doofus who uses rude ungrammatical text-speak. Smile

Well, to be fair, they are usually using it to say 'gimme codez - hw do u snd SMS from ASP.NET ?' But yeah, you're right, there is an assumption that Indian devs are inherently clueless, when it's the flow of western money that has created a huge pool of clueless devs in India.

Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

Yeah but who wants to read that in the subway? (I assume that's the only place anyone would want to read a newspaper)

Well, exactly, people forget that newspapers are created to sell advertising, not to educate or inform.

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Pete OHanlon

Well said, and it will be interesting for you to reread this thread when you're no longer a teenager just to remind yourself how lucky you were to be a rational thinking teen. Moved to where it was meant to be.

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Nish Nishant

Christian Graus wrote:

Well, to be fair, they are usually using it to say 'gimme codez - hw do u snd SMS from ASP.NET ?'

:laugh: I can't argue with that.

Regards, Nish

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Christian Graus

Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

Only kidding - I know several talented Indian programmers, as well as several not so talented ones. Equally, for every talented English programmer I know, I know 5 or 6 morons of the highest order. All generalisations are counter productive.

Yeah, it's self evident that people like Nish and Rama are as good as any Western dev, and probably better than most. It's also clear that the ones using the Quick Questions are, by definition, the subset that can't figure out how to do their own work. Starting in the CP forums, is not the same as running a job ad in Bangalore and seeing who shows up.

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AspDotNetDev · modified on Wednesday, August 4, 2010 5:14 PM

With how the threads are lined up, it looks like you are talking to yourself. Not only that, but you are giving yourself a compliment and are claiming you are a teen. Or, am I going bonkers? Perhaps it's my old age (25).

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Pete OHanlon

A mantra that I hear from several people of my own age, "why don't they do something productive? When I was their age, I didn't hang around on street corners. Why, I was actively involved in sports and the local church and rescuing kittens from trees and helping little old ladies to cross the street whether they wanted to or not." What you never hear is "why, when I was a teenager I spent most of my time trying to chat up girls and being too scared to speak to them if they looked at me, and hanging around at the park until late because we were bored and had nothing to do."

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Pete OHanlon

How bizarre. I was replying to this[^] post.

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