What irks you about modern society?

Influencers - when on earth did that becomes a thing for (mainly) youngsters to make millions from social media. I know it's just the next generation of marketing, but it gets on my wick. It contributes very little to society

Recruiters - aka snake oil salesmen
 
Tends to be little things that irk, like people parking in the parent/child spots without kids, taking trolleys full of shopping to the express lanes in supermarkets, when you let someone go at junction them not acknowledging you, lack of manners in general, the concentration on appearance over personality, the post truth world we live in where nothing is a fact, the need for non talented personalities, imagine if they replaced every Gemma Collins story with something educational or promoting someone or something that was making a difference in the world, the inconsistency of sausages, bad parking, people who don’t take responsibility for cleaning up after themselves or their pets, and negativity 😉

Other than that I’m quite happy with my lot....
 
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What irks you about modern society?

So - pause - What irks me about modern society is......

If it annoys you as much as me you'll understand
 
I wonder how many of us responding to this thread would be classed as the older generation now?

I wonder what irks the youngsters?
 
atypical_boro said:
I hate the way that youth are blamed for everything nowadays. As though they’ve had any part whatsoever in creating all of these messes.
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I have honestly never heard anyone blame the 'youth' for the troubles we are in today. Yes, perhaps in the 70's because the older generation fought and lived through a world war and went through austerity of the likes we can only imagine. If anything, there is more a recognition of the failures of our peers who came along later for the mess were in and their ability 'collectively' to change our country for the better.
 
WindyNook said:
Confrontation doesn't work Scoobs. Even picking it up and handing it back to them saying Excuse me I think you've dropped something can get you a mouthful of abuse.
Education and a Nationwide continuous campaign is needed. Perhaps eventually kids would start telling their parents not to drop litter
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With both my boys when they have dropped anything & they have we make them pick up any other litter close by to they soon learned. Only drawback was some of the mess in thier lunchboxes when they came home from school😬
 
The big one for me is people at events intent on recording the thing on their mobiles! Concerts and gigs being the main one, just live in the moment, there will be enough Youtube footage of the concert available without you having it permanently on your mobile which you are unlikely to watch back.

I often watch Johnny Cash's set from Glastonbury, 1994 on Youtube and it's amazing to see not one person with a phone in their hand recording it, a simpler time.
 
tripleheader said:
I have honestly never heard anyone blame the 'youth' for the troubles we are in today. Yes, perhaps in the 70's because the older generation fought and lived through a world war and went through austerity of the likes we can only imagine. If anything, there is more a recognition of the failures of our peers who came along later for the mess were in and their ability 'collectively' to change our country for the better.
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TBF there's a few comments of that ilk on this thread itself.
 
joeydiaz said:
The big one for me is people at events intent on recording the thing on their mobiles! Concerts and gigs being the main one, just live in the moment, there will be enough Youtube footage of the concert available without you having it permanently on your mobile which you are unlikely to watch back.

I often watch Johnny Cash's set from Glastonbury, 1994 on Youtube and it's amazing to see not one person with a phone in their hand recording it, a simpler time.
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I used to be guilty of that but then I thought I’m spending so much time stressing to record it when as you can say I can just enjoy it and watch highlights from YouTube. Your own recordings are normally poor quality with a lot of background and are used by people to show off That they were at a concert!
 
People driving who dont know how to drive properly, had to do a fair bit of driving over the last few years and some of the things you see is shocking. How did these people pass their test.
Car sharing with someone for a meeting a few years ago who didnt even know what a blind spot was, just casually changing lanes without properly looking. Who the **** passed these people?!
 
The death or real news programmes. Nowadays national news seems to consist of a series of biased surveys from various pressure groups dressed up as "news", which are repeated by the channels without any critical review whatsoever. Too much focus on the US and as stated earlier, bl..dy celebrities who no-one has heard of.
 
JM14 said:
People driving who dont know how to drive properly, had to do a fair bit of driving over the last few years and some of the things you see is shocking. How did these people pass their test.
Car sharing with someone for a meeting a few years ago who didnt even know what a blind spot was, just casually changing lanes without properly looking. Who the **** passed these people?!
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This!! 👌👌👌
 
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