Sorry, but no. Canada or New Zealand are the possibilities I’m currently exploring.
Considering his heirs, he would have been absolutely correct - the generations following his were objectively worse than those before.
In fact, I think everyone is reaching the exact wrong conclusion from the quote. It’s not that things never change; it’s that things are *always *changing.
Maybe it’s more of a sin wave than a steady decline?
“Binge drinking” is the latest moral panic, similar to the gin craze in the eighteenth century. Heavy drinking isn’t, despite what many would have you believe, a phenomenon unknown outside the UK. The Irish, Scandinavians and Germans are just as bad.
Here in the State’s; I feel that things have taken a turn for the worse in many obvious ways, but the one thing I, (PERSONALY), *think * may be fundamentally changing is the there seems to be more of a ‘kinship’ with each other. Maybe it’s that the playing-feld seems to be leveling a bit; Where the rich aren’t as rich, and the powerful are more varied in background. Or perhaps it’s just my own feelings of self-worth seem to be improving because of this idea that, barriers are being broken and yet we’re still all venerable. I feel empathy, even for ‘ritchies’ that have to get used to a different lifestyle, with less security, which isn’t easy. So, I don’t know if I’m projecting, or if there’s really a change.
Considering his son, he had reason to.
Nothing some Krazy Glue can’t fix.
Is there something wrong with society which seems to need to drown its sorrows with alcohol every weekend?
What’s a lollipop lady?
They are a bunch of ladies whose agenda is to stop children from doing something, not sure what. Here’s a picture of a typical lollipop lady with her protest placard outside St Paul’s Cathedral.
I believe that here in the U.S. we’d call them “crossing guards”. They’re volunteer adults that stand at intersections and roadways along popular walk-to-school routes to stop traffic for the safety of the young walkers. They often carry a hand-held stop/go sign that looks much like a lollipop.
I did. And I’ll do it again. And again and again until every street and lane in that green and pleasant and abominably cruel and tooth-rotted land is a river of blood. All of which is undeniably, of course, change for the better! 
I think their agenda is actually radically pro-abortion.
At the ripe old age of fifty five I can remember that living on a rough council estate I could leave a bycycle anywhere without a lock and chain on it and find it still there hours later.
We didn’t lock the doors of houses even when we were out,car owners left their cars unlocked,often with the keys in the ignition.
Tradesmens payments were left pinned to the front door in an envelope when they were due but my mother had to go out,they were never stolen.
Burgular alarms on private houses were almost unheard of.
Teachers were virtually never verbally abused by pupils let alone physically attacked or even raped.
If people chose to swear at police they took the consequences so it didn’t happen all that often.
People always trot out the old chestnuts,as in Biggus Dickus in two thousand B.C. made the same complaint,so as to make it appear that the perception of a sickening society today is merely the symptons of old age on the part of the speaker, rather then what actually is a real phenomonen.
Britain today is a much more dangerous place to live for the ordinary person then at any time in the Britain of the previous hundred years IMO.
A major cause of this is that children are not punished in any real sense of the word by either their parents or the education system for serious transgressions,assault,criminal damage or even to my knowledge,arson.
You see the pitiful scene of parents trying to play the part of psychiatrists by reasoning with their offspring,and trying to discover some deep underlying motive for their childs bad behaviour rather then punishing them.
Not letting a child play their video game for so many hours or grounding them is NOT a real punishment and acts as a deterrent to only the most spolit brat on this planet.
Most kids dont suffer from these denials but do in fact play the part of someone who really is hurting because as long as the parents think that its working they wont be issuing any REAL punishments.
Unfortunately these non punishments have no,or at best a very negligible effect on modifying bad behaviour.
And then the kids grow up…
Volunteers???:eek::eek::eek:There is SO much wrong with that, I can’t even begin…:smack:
Go to your room ! You are grounded, young man.
Pretty much.
In fact, by saying that society can’t get worse, you’re also saying that society can’t get better - which is one of the most depressing things I’ve ever heard.
They get paid in the U.K.? Wow. They don’t, generally, here in the U.S.
No, actually they’re draftees.
I’m pretty sure I’ve known some American crossing guards who did it as a job and were paid.