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clint eastwood is still a jam

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average should be 4.3

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SHE TURNED MY DAD OOOOOONNN

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Real talk typhoon

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I remember being on a night out in Southend when Clint Eastwood came out.



21yrs old still acting like a child and a group of us having a sing-a-long to it while walking to a club.



Happy times.



September 11th was months away and I genuinely think looking back that event along with the internet and mobile phones was the tipping point for everything going in the bin.



Sunshine in a bag indeed.

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9/11 effectively ushered in WW3 proper, a starting whistle for the general populous if you like, and this war has been a sort of ideology proxy war and not only has it harmed our souls it's just become incredibly tedious at this juncture. We've all got fatigue from it - but it's only just kicked off really :D

the world seemed much better to me when i was younger and more ignorant, too

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ye. Clint eastwood slaps.

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True, in those days you could be completely ignorant if you chose to be without the internet around - now you're bombarded and also heckled to pick sides in subtle and not so subtle ways



Before '99 I probably didn't even know who the opposition leader in the UK was. Being a country boy I honestly had zero idea about the differences between the muslim and hindu religions and then I landed in (mostly asian students) halls of residence and it was like some sort of a sectarian divide with mucho beef. Then I went out to work after Uni and 9/11 happened and that did change a lot of things, you'd had a vague threat of the IRA in London but they tended to give warnings. I was actually living in Stockwell when the Stockwell tube bomb went off.



I can safely say aged 18/19 I knew next to fack all...but it felt like you didn't really need to.

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Come on Doof I think you’re discrediting yourself there.

Neil Kinnock, John Smith?



The first Iraq war kicking off and even then it was all about ‘the oil’

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I remember Neil Kinnock but only vaguely, I can picture him and I know a little of his history. Honestly, as a country boy I don't think I read a newspaper before leaving home for university, madness.



'The first Iraq war kicking off and even then it was all about ‘the oil’'



Capitalist west vs 'the rest' - the war to try and make every country resemble Brussels...or maybe just a generic Airport duty free.



Same war still going on, heating up if anything. Although going by the Euro elections it might not be the political left who fight it from now on, but the political far right. The mainland European young 'uns have had enough apparently.

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‘ I don't think I read a newspaper before leaving home for university’



Jesus

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if you think thats bad im pretty sure 0.1% of my generation have sat down and read a physical newspaper



(not including people who do the leftover sudoku or crosswords when their dad puts the newspaper down)

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Your generation had potential but it’s been absolutely pissed on by my generation unfortunately who for the most part turned into complete wankers.

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zak - I'd say more so the generation above us, I think the tipping point of 'you on average are going to earn less than the generation before you' had passed before we went out to work.



My dad laughs at the salaries people get now. He earned more than our household income and that's with my wife being an assistant head teacher on London wages and not taking into account inflation! I was surprised to put in my salary and to find out it is in the top 15% of national incomes, so you add that in too :/



Then you had my wife's grandparents who we found out were getting more in total pension and insurance in monthly payments than both my wife and my salaries, a lot more. Insanity, both were low skilled average everyday workers, neither went to university, they just squirrelled stuff in those days. Money was sloshing about.



They were hoarders, car boot sale junkies, crazy stuff, the top floor in their house was head height tat everywhere, most of it still boxed up. The country was rich as anything then, most of the West tbh



The UK is flat broke now after Covid etc, it was heading that way anyway but that landed the death blow

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Blimey.



Respect to your missus who is a teacher but look at how the education system is. An absolute farce.

Do I wish for the actual violence our teachers handed out? No but there has to be a balance. The softly softly approach has and will pay a massive toll for mental health and what have you.



Wages are relative in a society willing to pay £3.50 for a coffee, 60 quid for a phone contract, 10 quid for a pint!!



Remember the 80s when unemployment was through the roof? Inflation was high as fuck, wages were shit.



The job centre shut!







Drugs have taken a hold on a scale we haven’t seen before and made things even more shit

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lol i was gonna train as a teacher once i left at university but looked at the pay and the culture and thought fuck that



i ended up making more as a food runner in an italian restaurant immediately post-covid cos the tips the restaurant was bringing in were fucking insane (i live in affluent part of surrey)



one of the romanian guys at the restaurant basically said that he was growing up in his small village/town that the most respected and wealthy people were the teacher, the doctor and the local shopkeeper.



i did see in the tory manifesto that they want to introduce measures to make it easier for schools to ban phones, make the kids hand them in at the beginning of the day. when i was in school smartphones were just ramping up to ubiquity, i had a brick phone for most of school but towards the end that was seen as a bit weird.



i cant imagine whats its like now with tiktok and kids filming teachers, insane

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‘Make the kids hand them in at the beginning of the day.’



How this hasn’t been a thing completely baffles me.

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The stuff my wife had to deal with as an assistant head teacher in charge of behaviour is insane.



This weekend she got a call…a girl at her school would need to be moved to a whole new area urgently. She’d been video’d having sex with a dog, extremely graphic - my wife would have seen the video by close of play Monday as it had circulated everywhere.



Behaviour is mental these days …and all captured on film and circulated now! That may seem like an extreme one off but nuts stuff happens all the time and her school is in a pretty leafy suburban area, not central London. Nowhere near the worst school out there in Greater London, just average.

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Hell of a practical biology lesson