Snowflake Culture Infecting Our Olympic Team.

[mickd1961]

A lot of us have days when we feel really low.

Outside of this years health issues I’ve had another serious issue that’s been on my mind for almost 7 months now and still not resolved.

Some days I’ve felt utterly dismal but I just put my boots on and get on with work and life.

If you’re in your mid to late 50’s like a lot of us on here we were taught at school in the 60’s and 70’s by people who fought in WW2 and others who were children in that period.

Same when I stated work in 78, the lads who were the age I am now ( 59 ) were born around the end of WW1 and fought in WW2 and well into the 1980’s it was these people who were the gaffers at work.

It was f u c k I n g tough being handled by these people, they were as hard as nails physically and mentally but scrupulously fair I usually found and they taught great values and had huge backbone.

In realty a lot of our age group have been too easy on the kids we’ve brought into the world allied to the s h y t e spouted in the media over the last 25 years.

Anyone much below 50 years of age wouldn’t have a clue as to the way many of us were brought up and taught life skills by these giants born in the early part of the 20th century.

The “heroes” these days are that simpering, walking foetus Greta Thunberg and blokes with a beard and a f u c k I n g skirt who want a public toilet with no “gender bias” written on the door.

All this extended maternity leave for men was a sign of the way things were going to go, we’ve encouraged everyone to be too bloody soft.

It’s nauseating.

[boingy]

A lot of us have days when we feel really low.

Outside of this years health issues I’ve had another serious issue that’s been on my mind for almost 7 months now and still not resolved.

Some days I’ve felt utterly dismal but I just put my boots on and get on with work and life.

If you’re in your mid to late 50’s like a lot of us on here we were taught at school in the 60’s and 70’s by people who fought in WW2 and others who were children in that period.

Same when I stated work in 78, the lads who were the age I am now ( 59 ) were born around the end of WW1 and fought in WW2 and well into the 1980’s it was these people who were the gaffers at work.

It was f u c k I n g tough being handled by these people, they were as hard as nails physically and mentally but scrupulously fair I usually found and they taught great values and had huge backbone.

In realty a lot of our age group have been too easy on the kids we’ve brought into the world allied to the s h y t e spouted in the media over the last 25 years.

Anyone much below 50 years of age wouldn’t have a clue as to the way many of us were brought up and taught life skills by these giants born in the early part of the 20th century.

The “heroes” these days are that simpering, walking foetus Greta Thunberg and blokes with a beard and a f u c k I n g skirt who want a public toilet with no “gender bias” written on the door.

All this extended maternity leave for men was a sign of the way things were going to go, we’ve encouraged everyone to be too bloody soft.

It’s nauseating.

There's a lot of truth in this Mick. I'm 61. A sixtees child. The tough plenty of backbone approach did a lot of good except for where kids needed the opposite. As you know I am suffering now due to a schizophrenic cruel mother and a dad who was told "Don't praise kids, it will go to their heads" How I needed some attention, love and praise but no nothing. Now I can't see love if it stares me in the face. I don't know how to smile, if I try it feels like the most false thing ever. I remember going to school and if a kid had cross eyes the parents did nothing, "She'll be alright" they would say. It was a case of shut up or put up. Interestingly I have been trying to access parental records to try and understand as much as I can and the guy from social services said that we have been inundated with people from my age group doing the same thing. Took him three months to come back to me with nothing as it happened. I agree with having strong standards but only if the kids can take it. Many with stable backgrounds can and it builds an inner steel, but those who are battered as an infant need the complete opposite. They need to know and feel that someone actually cares about them.