What happened on 15th April 2023
On Saturday, the Guardian correspondent tried to find out why children in the UK don't play out anymore.
It could be related to video games, or smartphones with messengers. But the things turned to be around the police warnings and neighbours' threats.
According to comments, I wasn't alone in my misunderstanding.
""Back in my day we used to play out all day and all we had to do was make sure we were back by tea time. Shame how today's kids just sit at home on their video games and their instatoktube accounts."
"Ugghh kids playing and being happy is so annoying, make it go away."
There really are some utterly stupid and pathetic people about."
Some allege that "the article covers a spread of people from parents who are level headed with kids who are considerate of others and who should be able to play all day in peace, to those that may feel like the world revolves around them."
The problem of many anti-child biased people was noticed, either.
Another Saturday issue was raised by the Guardian, as well. It was about one in six young adults live in poor housing in damp, draughty and cramped living conditions, UK study shows.
Commenters agree that the numbers have been much darker than it runs in the article.
"From personal experience, I’m surprised it’s only one in six. The condition of some houses I lived in during my twenties felt positively unsafe."
"In the south east it's probably 5 in 6." - "And that's a wealthy part of the country."
Although there is a part of blame on young people themselves:
"From personal experience, I think my flatmates and I contributed to the terrible state of our accommodation by having parties every weekend and doing no washing up until every single item had been used. Drinking tea out of the gravy boat was normally the indicator that it was time for a clean up."
"Both are true. People who move out of their parents place tend to not know all the details of how to actually maintain a property, without a doubt.
But there is also an element of low quality housing. Before I moved to the UK, I never ever had any problems with mold. I knew how to air out the place, prevent excess condensation during showers / cooking etc., and keep a reasonable cleaning routine. I've had mold problems in most of my UK bathrooms, because people in the UK seem to think you can just paint your bathroom with the same paint you use in your living room. I've had pictures mold from the back because my landlords didn't seem to worry about the rising damp in their property, and so on. Pretty much all my problems with housing in the UK are down to causal factors that no degree of tenant behaviour would be able to correct..."
On Saturday, the Grand National occurred to be at risk as Animal Rising protesters said they'll try to stop race from going ahead.
It comes after Animal Rising activists said they were planning to scale fences and storm the track, with up to 300 protesters planning to attend. Others plan to block traffic by performing a slow march along the main access route outside Aintree Racecourse.
Readers supported the activists. The news found so much response that moderators had to delete some most inappropriate comments.
"I wouldn't mind as much if the rider got whipped the same amount of times after the race as the horse did. It could be the after race spectacle."
"When a horse gets injured and they decide to murder it they should make people watch instead of doing it behind a screen." - "Shoot the riders if they fall off and break a bone also?"
"The irony being if the protesters got what they wanted and horse racing was banned overnight hundreds of horses would be euthanised…"
And that really is a double-edged sword and one of the saddest issues of this week.
Comments
Post a Comment