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Oh, Rayne, you have awakened the sleeping ranter in me.
Actually, it's never asleep, just that I keep it quiet most of the time.
I totally know where you're coming from. I look around me and despair. I think a lot of it is to do with the so-called 'good old days', but things are definitely getting worse.
One particular one you picked out there really strikes a chord with me. The stupidity - it's something I've noticed in my town much more recently. And (surprise surprise) it's most obvious within groups of young lads - all trying to be 'cool' with each other. It seems they wear stupidity like a badge - and (I assume) hide any intelligence as something to be ashamed of.
I don't have kids, but a year or so ago I was in a relationship where my girlfriend had 2 kids from a previous relationship. In truth, she had been a teenage mother and was completely unprepared for what life threw at her. She hadn't had the opportunity to stop being a child herself, and it really came across in her relationship with the kids. As a bizarre example, she wouldn't allow the word 'god' to be taken in vain, and had special words to describe parts of the body (eg 'flower' for the female genetalia) but would scream at her kids to 'Shut the f**k up you little c***ts!, and would see nothing wrong with that.
Cars - don't get me started on that one! Adverts on TV telling us that from only £25,000 you could have one of these - that it's 'not about getting from A to B but about HOW you get there' - it's a mode of transport! It's made to get you from A to B! But apparently you're less of a person if you don't have the latest car or mobile phone.
Politicians. I don't believe a word any one of them says. It is ALL about putting a spin on a hidden agenda, the whole time. It's got to the point where I wouldn't believe any politician who told me black was black, though that would never happen because none of them ever EVER give a straight answer to anything.
Health and Safety. It's no longer about looking after the wellbeing of those in question, it's now all about covering yourself against litigation. Behind the hot tap (faucet, for the US peeps) at work there is a sign which says 'DANGER - HOT WATER!' Just what exactly would our employees expect to come out of the hot tap???
As you said, there are so many more, but this is a start. And by the way, if you ever want a rant about anything, I'm always happy to be a rantee.
Finally - I watched 'An Inconvenient Truth' the other night. I defy anybody to watch that and then tell me things aren't getting worse.
*Puts head in hands and cries*
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