words fail me...the youth of today !!

Fascinating info about sugar, LillyBeth. I had a sweet tooth as a child - and now am wondering what harm that did... apart from to my teeth. :eek:

Anyway, good luck with your exam tomorrow!
 
The response to this thread has restored my faith in human nature as when I posted it a few days ago on Latest News there were just 2 responses. Just two people cared. I couldn't believe the apathy.
 
I firmly believe that the majority of people are "good" we never hear of all the kind and decent acts done on a daily basis but we tend to hear mainly the negatives.
There needs to be a much firmer tact taken with the minority who's behaviour have the majority living in various levels of fear.
 
Marydoll said:
I firmly believe that the majority of people are "good" we never hear of all the kind and decent acts done on a daily basis but we tend to hear mainly the negatives.
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There is a segment in the Radio 4 programme Saturday Live where "listeners say thank you" which I sometimes catch. It lovely to hear about the random good deeds that strangers do, in contrast to all the negative stuff you get elsewhere.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01ybdtz
 
My parents subscribe to The Week magazine and there's a section at the front entitled "it wasn't all bad" which has three or so stories that are heart warming and remind you why the majority of people are good, and that's the bit I head straight to! That and the pretty and expensive houses in the estate agent section haha.

Thank you fburton :)
 
POLLDARK said:
The response to this thread has restored my faith in human nature as when I posted it a few days ago on Latest News there were just 2 responses. Just two people cared. I couldn't believe the apathy.
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I'm not sure it was apathy, Latest News seems to be one of the lesser used "rooms" on the forum.
 
POLLDARK said:
The response to this thread has restored my faith in human nature as when I posted it a few days ago on Latest News there were just 2 responses. Just two people cared. I couldn't believe the apathy.
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Or perhaps people just didn't see it. My definition of apathy is not how many responses I get to a post/thread on a rather specific internet forum . . . it's how people actually live their lives/behave towards each other and, in my 48 years' experience, most people are kind, caring, socially involved and from being apathetic.

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Very worrying behaviour and why were they on a private path leading to a farm?

A few years back, a friend was hacking round the streets near the yard when a youth on a moped persistently revved and tried to touch the horse with his front wheel. The horse spooked and threw my friend over someone's garden wall. She was stepped on by the horse who followed her over (small wall), broke her hand and was unconscious for a while. I just cannot imagine what makes a kid decide to do this sort of thing. :(
 
I think a lot of teenagers these days are lacking respect.

They have been educated in an environment where teachers have had any power at all taken away from them - children understand this at an early age and some of them will push to the extreme knowing that there isn't really an awful lot that can be done about it - in a lot of respects they are 'above the law' and they know it.

I was attacked a few years ago while out riding by a group of mid teenaged yobs - I was trotting along a quiet road through a local housing estate when out of a gap rushed half a dozen youths throwing bottles and stones - one of the stones hit me in the face and there were bottles smashing on the floor all around me - the little darlings were also purposley throwing bottles so that they would smash on the ground in front of me - I can only assume they were hoping my horse would stand on them.

Luckily my horse stayed calm, I managed to spin her around to avoid the glass and go in the opposite direction to find that 2 of them had jumped into the road behind me and were shouting and waving their arms - this didn't bother horse so I rode her straight at them and gave one of them a nice swipe around the face with my schooling whip as I went past. I then got back to the stables and called the police - guess what, they didn't want to know.
 
madlady said:
I think a lot of teenagers these days are lacking respect.
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It is not a new concept "these days" of some children lacking respect - horrific child crimes such as the James Bulger murder have been going on for years - sure teachers aren't allowed to beat children into submission any more but I'm not sure that is such a bad thing? You get awful people of all ages.
 
FionaM12 said:
Probably forever, in fact. :) Do people imagine that such things didn't happen in, for example, Victorian Britain?
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Of course not - before computer games, drumstick lollies and the abolition of beating children at school there was no issue with crime...
 
I have read this previously! :(

Hope she is ok :(
And i think the kids should be punished with community service shoveling horse poo then they might learn something!
Or stone them!
 
LillyBeth said:
In fairness, I went to a fairly awful secondary school in Hampshire :P but turned out alright, but my Mum is amazing!
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My mum was amazing too. Everyone should have an amazing mum.
I will bet any amount that these kids were not given attention for being good when they were little.
 
My best wishes go out to this Lady, her family, friends and horse.

If these young Gentlemen are caught and deemed responsible for their actions, I believe us horsey folk could really help them with their rehabilitation.

Please, if anyone can help, kindly take them to your yard, pop them in a stable with a suitable horse and tell them 'try throwing stones at this one?!......yeah, didn't think so...'

I hope they are caught and severely penalised. This Lady is fighting for her life due to deliberate aggression. NO excuse for that.
 
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