Near Miss of the Day 261: Burning rubber as oncoming driver forced to slam brakes on

biker phil wrote:

BehindTheBikesheds wrote:

Legs_Eleven_Worcester wrote:

srchar wrote:

burtthebike wrote:

the culture of selfishness ushered in by Maggie T

I'm a child of the eighties and find today's world far more selfish than anything that existed back then.

I'm a child of the early sixties, and society today is appalling. 

I'm a child of the 70s, there are aspects of today's society that are truly shocking and stomach churning, however we are now far more aware of what happens, in every minute detail. Much of the wrong/bad stuff happening in days gone by would be hidden away, no-one knew, children lived in fear of being beaten by parents if they said anything even if they thought they had someone to actually speak to.

There was a shit load of stuff that was happening back then that we find absolutely abhorrent now and that went on far much more than it does now.

And pertaining to road safety, despite mulitple times fewer motor vehicles and multiple times fewer miles driven, the adults of your and my childhood were killing and maiming on the roads at a rate multiple times MORE than they are nowadays. A lot of these people were cyclists and yet they killed a fuck ton of people on bikes. 

There were a damn sight more people who couldn't/wouldn't drive to the conditions, their and their machines ability than there is now, it only felt like it was better because there were vastly fewer motors and going slower and still they managed to wipe out people in horrendous numbers. Go back to the 1950s and there were 8000 road deaths one year, whilst 1800 is still massively unacceptable, let's not look with rose tinted spectacles at the actions of those in the past, all eras have their problems.

 

In my humble opinion, the main reasons we have the egocentric society today is down to social media and selfish, sloppy parenting, not Margaret Thatcher. Kids are brought up by selfish parents, the sort who drive their kids 500 yards to school in their Chelsea tractors, and park on the zig zag lines, the sort who tell their kids they can be anything they want to be, the sort who let their kids be little shits and they can do no wrong. People on social media can spew shit and can hide behind the keyboard. I am a child of the sixties and weep for the current generation, these little fuckwits will be looking after us in our old age. Our modern society is appalling, embarrassing, and disgraceful. Modern people think the world owes them a living. Driving standards are shit, just look at the dickheads on near miss of the day, every day. The lack of traffic police is in my opinion the biggest reason for the shit standards of driving these days. When I passed my test in the early eighties, you feared the traffic police, the motorcycle cops were hated. Yet the standard of driving was way better, if you went through a red light, or drove erratically, or didn't use your indicators, you were stopped, given a bollocking and then given a ticket. When do you see a traffic officer now? This is why we have an epidemic of shit driving, me me me culture, driving with eyes on the phone in the lap, blatently going through red lights, close passes, etc etc etc. God give me strength! Aaarghhh! We are totally fucked.

The reason we have so few police today is that the baby boomer generation completely and selfishly shafted the country time and again, with self centred economic policies, ensuring that they were protected and their children and grandchildren will have to pay economically, environmentally and socially for their behaviour.

If the young are to blaim how come so many of the angry drivers we see are middle aged gammons who think they own the road? Your stereotyping it just idiot, and blind to reality.

John Smith wrote:

biker phil wrote:

BehindTheBikesheds wrote:

Legs_Eleven_Worcester wrote:

srchar wrote:

burtthebike wrote:

the culture of selfishness ushered in by Maggie T

I'm a child of the eighties and find today's world far more selfish than anything that existed back then.

I'm a child of the early sixties, and society today is appalling. 

I'm a child of the 70s, there are aspects of today's society that are truly shocking and stomach churning, however we are now far more aware of what happens, in every minute detail. Much of the wrong/bad stuff happening in days gone by would be hidden away, no-one knew, children lived in fear of being beaten by parents if they said anything even if they thought they had someone to actually speak to.

There was a shit load of stuff that was happening back then that we find absolutely abhorrent now and that went on far much more than it does now.

And pertaining to road safety, despite mulitple times fewer motor vehicles and multiple times fewer miles driven, the adults of your and my childhood were killing and maiming on the roads at a rate multiple times MORE than they are nowadays. A lot of these people were cyclists and yet they killed a fuck ton of people on bikes. 

There were a damn sight more people who couldn't/wouldn't drive to the conditions, their and their machines ability than there is now, it only felt like it was better because there were vastly fewer motors and going slower and still they managed to wipe out people in horrendous numbers. Go back to the 1950s and there were 8000 road deaths one year, whilst 1800 is still massively unacceptable, let's not look with rose tinted spectacles at the actions of those in the past, all eras have their problems.

 

In my humble opinion, the main reasons we have the egocentric society today is down to social media and selfish, sloppy parenting, not Margaret Thatcher. Kids are brought up by selfish parents, the sort who drive their kids 500 yards to school in their Chelsea tractors, and park on the zig zag lines, the sort who tell their kids they can be anything they want to be, the sort who let their kids be little shits and they can do no wrong. People on social media can spew shit and can hide behind the keyboard. I am a child of the sixties and weep for the current generation, these little fuckwits will be looking after us in our old age. Our modern society is appalling, embarrassing, and disgraceful. Modern people think the world owes them a living. Driving standards are shit, just look at the dickheads on near miss of the day, every day. The lack of traffic police is in my opinion the biggest reason for the shit standards of driving these days. When I passed my test in the early eighties, you feared the traffic police, the motorcycle cops were hated. Yet the standard of driving was way better, if you went through a red light, or drove erratically, or didn't use your indicators, you were stopped, given a bollocking and then given a ticket. When do you see a traffic officer now? This is why we have an epidemic of shit driving, me me me culture, driving with eyes on the phone in the lap, blatently going through red lights, close passes, etc etc etc. God give me strength! Aaarghhh! We are totally fucked.

 

The reason we have so few police today is that the baby boomer generation completely and selfishly shafted the country time and again, with self centred economic policies, ensuring that they were protected and their children and grandchildren will have to pay economically, environmentally and socially for their behaviour.

 

If the young are to blaim how come so many of the angry drivers we see are middle aged gammons who think they own the road? Your stereotyping it just idiot, and blind to reality.

You've missed my point completely, the parents of the young are to blaim(sic) for the egocentric society. Jesus, these Millenials will be running the country in a few years, God help us. Anyone with half a brain can see that we are a selfish, me, me, me society. The reason we have so few police officers is not because of the baby boomers, but a very small number of selfish individuals who screwed this country. Get your head out of the sand and open your eyes. The evidence of this rotten society is all around you.

burtthebike wrote:

"What's wrong with these people?"

Fifty years of being told that they are kings of the road and that cyclists are of no account, reinforced by a legal system which values your life at zero.  Coupled with the culture of selfishness ushered in by Maggie T.

Maggie's fault? Really?

A little more imagination and you could have crowbarred Brexit in there.

FrankH wrote:

Maggie's fault? Really?

A little more imagination and you could have crowbarred Brexit in there.

I was working on getting Failing Grayling in first, but Brexit was going to be next.

FrankH wrote:

burtthebike wrote:

"What's wrong with these people?"

Fifty years of being told that they are kings of the road and that cyclists are of no account, reinforced by a legal system which values your life at zero.  Coupled with the culture of selfishness ushered in by Maggie T.

Maggie's fault? Really?

A little more imagination and you could have crowbarred Brexit in there.

I'm comfortable with Thatcher promoting selfishness, her and that Sid, there is a link..

No connection with Brexit.