Everywhere has **** areas, nowhere is perfect.

Some things have improved though.Treatment of minorities and Rights of consumers are two of them.

The biggest change is the growing inequality and the growth of a "poor" culture amongst those at the bottom.There is a totally separate way of life emerging for them.Cash-converters,cash for cheques,employment agencies,crap cars(uninsured probably) and dependancy on benefits.
Totally different to the 2 holiday per year,him a 320 her a new beetle,2 kids,after school activities and buy a house to let when they go to uni.

Agreed some of it is class orientated but I see all walks of life at it. How much money you have/earn is imo not entirely relevant. People just genreally seem arseholey (arseholey - weird word??). Age, colour, wealth kind of irrelevent. Everyone just generally becoming more, err....arseholey.

Education needs to be sorted imo first off. The education standards in this country aren't great unless it's private/grammar. The political correctness schools have to adhere to is an absolute joke.

The lack of the ability for schools to discipline encourages a total lack of respect. Pupils don't have to worry about being punished because they're not allowed to be, they get away with murder in school and this becomes "normal" later in life. No respect for any authority, for others or for others property.

Senior AP has hit the nail on the head re gossips etc. This country has become a nation of gossips. Magazines such as heat etc are the biggest sellers - pure gossip 5hite. Nothing of actual interest or importance. People seem to love talking behind others backs - spreading rumours, butting into business which doesn't concern them one bit, rather than concentrate on their own lifes. Gossip becomes their life, it's pathetic. Some people on here are the biggest, most vindictive gossips I've ever had the misfortune to meet. Luckily I can move on, they're still stuck in their own little self destructive worlds, unhappy unless they're making others unhappy :rolleyes:

Also, the average british person is very arrogant and ignorant in their expectations. If expecations aren't met, the majority never do anything about it, they just sit and whinge. Gives them something else to gossip about - nothing improves bar the quantity of gossip. It's the british way of life.

Your comments are proper Bo!! .....selecta.

Nice one Craig. ;)

Results of the actual poll say it all. I was a member of the "England is the best country in the world, everywhere else is a ****hole/developing country".....then I actually saw alot of the world and my opiniojns have reversed.

There are worse.....but there are alot better!!

Jim Davidson has emigrated to Dubai. Someonme said "why, there's nothing there". In which he replied (with a sigh) "comments like that are the reason I am leaving".

People assume Dubai is a dump. Wrong.

Funny that, when I started to read your post I thought exactly the same thing.

You're right - SN is one of the worst examples of this - just look at the Blunkett having an affair thread. Several posters on there are sitting in judgement all with their own snidy little agenda when in reality it's none of their business.

Looks like things are beginning to improve after all.

Granted he *was* a bit of a nob but he seems to have mellowed a lot.

He's gone to live somewhere nice, respect to that.

Not sure about gossips,but we do seem to be living our lives "through" other people rather than ourselves.

People love gossiping about others. TV like Big Brother doesn't help. Its considered "cool" to be a c.u.n.t.

I would agree Nice is not the greatest of places. The French have a saying "France begins at the Pyrenees", which is a reference to the huge immigrant problem that they themselves face. It is not just an English problem.

Incidently, if the Internet had existed 50 years ago, I wonder how many of our Fathers and Grandfathers would have started similar threads? Quite a few I reckon. Things have certainly changed, but I don't believe that we are unique in thinking this.

Chris

We're getting alot worse alot quicker.

The world generally by definition is not improving but England (due to massive over population amongst other things) is in a bigger, faster decline.

Possibly, but over time important areas like education should improve, not decline, including its environment which leads to education of standards and responsibilities.

Any figures to back this up?

....which leads to little scrotes everywhere.

The Les Battersby element is rife the country over - most people simply don't see it. We, however do.

Not sure what you're asking for but our population is over 60 million.

Figures showing Britain in a faster 'decline' compared to the rest of the world. How did you measure this?

With the other 90% of people on this thread......eyes.

Ahh, I thought you were using facts and objectiveness in your argument.. apologies.

You can't use facts and stats to quantify this argument.

Apology accepted.

:rolleyes:

Very objective comment. Argument? A question has been asked, where's the argument? :rolleyes:

Proof above that education standards have slipped ;)

Err, why? An argument can be a position in a debate or a point of view held by an individual or part of someone's reasoning process. Why does that prove that education standards have slipped?

Forgive me for asking, but who or what is Les Battersby?

Cheek, tongue, in.

lol. Sorry, he is a character on Coronation Street.

http://bbhilda.topcities.com/LesBattersby_338x374.jpg

As said above, tongue in cheek, hence the smiley :p

Thanks - never watch it (don't do soap operas), but I can imagine what you mean.

tiggers.

When someone says that Britains standards are declining and that they are declining at a faster rate than the rest of the world, I would have thought they would have some evidence that backs this massive claim. I have neither said I agree or disagree with the statement, but I wouldn't say something like that without at least one bit of evidence.

Eyes, lol.

Ears as well.