Antisocial, societal issues thread

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I've said this in an above post, but Britain has a huge drinking problem and culture and has done for years. Like McTallShort said, it's not as obvious as it once was due to people now staying home and drinking as it's cheaper, but it's still there. Like an addict though, they don't see it as an issue and dismiss the thought.

Yes, and I don't think we'll change that culture it's so embedded. I've read that fewer young people are drinking but I don't know how widespread that really is. I can only tell of my own experience and none of my family are drinkers.

I was always amazed by my English friends/work colleagues who can drink like it was water and keep going. I guess it's a genetic thing. But for me it was a part of growing up and fitting in. Not that I was ever a big drinker and thankfully can now moderate.

It’s 20 years since the UK hit ‘peak booze’. The hangover is still with us

A devil-may-care culture led to the UK’s highest drinking rates. Are we now paying the price for years of excess?

www.theguardian.com

 

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Yes, and I don't think we'll change that culture it's so embedded. I've read that fewer young people are drinking but I don't know how widespread that really is. I can only tell of my own experience and none of my family are drinkers.

I was always amazed by my English friends/work colleagues who can drink like it was water and keep going. I guess it's a genetic thing. But for me it was a part of growing up and fitting in. Not that I was ever a big drinker and thankfully can now moderate.

It’s 20 years since the UK hit ‘peak booze’. The hangover is still with us

A devil-may-care culture led to the UK’s highest drinking rates. Are we now paying the price for years of excess?

www.theguardian.com

I tend to stay away from the drinkers. They're typically not nice people tbh and incredibly narcissistic.

 

[Saintjay]

Rugby clubs and drinking will never catch on. You'd never see boat races, left handed drinking, yards of ale, pints of top shelf, iron man races, half time hip flasks etc at any rugby club I've ever been in.

 

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String of killings have put spotlight on adequacy of mental health care in UK

Hainault attack may be latest incident linked to mental ill-health, at a time when NHS services are struggling

www.theguardian.com

 

[Saintjay]

I agree with the Mets stance but certainly hasn't helped the NHS demand on service.

Met wins battle with NHS over not attending mental health calls

Exclusive: Sir Mark Rowley’s drive to free up police time has won out after weeks of tense talks

www.google.com

 

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Hainault sword attack: boy attended same school as victim of Nottingham stabbing

Daniel Anjorin attended Bancroft’s school in Woodford Green, where Grace O’Malley-Kumar, who died in 2023 attack, was a pupil

www.theguardian.com

What are the chances of that?

 

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Police investigate Laurence Fox ‘upskirting’ tweet

Post featured compromising image of the broadcaster Narinder Kaur, who said she was left ‘incredibly upset’

www.theguardian.com

Could the man sink any lower?

 

[Yulia]

"Upskirting"? I've never heard about this thing before. If I understood the article correctly, someone has been photographed without clothes but she didn't know about it?

 

[Welsh Exile]

"Upskirting"? I've never heard about this thing before. If I understood the article correctly, someone has been photographed without clothes but she didn't know about it?

No, it's taking a sneaky picture up some woman's skirt without their consent. It's pretty gross.

 

[Yulia]

No, it's taking a sneaky picture up some woman's skirt without their consent. It's pretty gross.

Like at school really can't believe someone is stupid enough to do it in adult age

 

[ncurd]

Like at school really can't believe someone is stupid enough to do it in adult age

Until recently it wasn't illegal in the UK

But Fox is odious.

 

[ncurd]

Should say for those who don't know it was just an oddity of the law. Technically in a public space you could take a photo or anyone without their permission.

Vouyer laws required the person to be in a private space or place they'd expect privacy.
Sexual Assault laws required physicality.

So yeah whilst highly despicable you couldn't actually be prosecuted.

 

[Yulia]

@ncurd you shocked me. If that's not a harassment,than at least a hooliganism
Just out of curiosity: and if the person is in a swimming suit and in a hotel, can it be considered as harassment/sexual assault/hooligan behaviour and be punished if someone takes photos of such a person without her/his permission?

 

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Man to be charged with racial harassment of Ugo Monye

A man is to be charged with racially aggravated harassment of former England international Ugo Monye

www.theguardian.com

Very sad to see Ugo subjected to this. Similar experience at a tube station when I was racially abused by a black man and others gawped and didn't say or do anything.

 

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More people turning away from news, Reuters Institute report says

News avoidance is now at record high levels, the Reuters Institute's 2024 Digital News Report says.

www.bbc.co.uk

Not surprising really. Hence why a lot of them will turn to social media and listen to those closest to them for their news and in turn misinformation more easily spread.

 

[ncurd]

More people turning away from news, Reuters Institute report says

News avoidance is now at record high levels, the Reuters Institute's 2024 Digital News Report says.

www.bbc.co.uk

Not surprising really. Hence why a lot of them will turn to social media and listen to those closest to them for their news and in turn misinformation more easily spread.

Literally my biggest fears are people's media literacy the sheer amount of people who believe anything on social media without doing a modicum of research is outstanding. I've lost track the amount of times I've heard the in-law family say theyve seen XYZ on social media and believe it with no scrutiny.

Like last week when it was posted in political thread that Sunak said sorry D-Day had overrun, as it was an unverified twitter account I didn't know of and not a reputable news source. I immediately hunted it down and tried to verify it. My confirmation bias wanted it to be true but I'm always very careful on that kind of thing.

 

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The issue today is we are bombarded by news 24/7 and the reality of it is that a lot of it is not going to be nice. But putting a positive spin on it or wrapping it up into something nice doesn't work/ not reporting it is a dereliction of media's duty. People either switch off from it or just show interest when it chimes with what they want to believe/suits their world view.

 

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[Vieux Talonneur]

Litter. There's no excuse for it.

Plus dog owners who don't clear up after their mutts. It's gross and gives the majority of us who do a bad name.

Words fail me when you see the number of people completely lacking this kind of basic social awareness. But they don't half react if called out on it.

 

[Which Tyler]

Worse are the idiots who pick up the poo, but then hang it from a tree for absolutely no reason