I hate to say it and am probably going to get a barrage of abuse for saying it too but this country has well and truly gone to the dogs.
I parked my car up yesterday to find this morning that some pikey has stolen my wing mirrors. I mean it's a set of wing mirrors it's not the financial implications it's the sheer annoyance and waste of my time to get them replaced.
Over the past 10 years I have noticed a rapid deterioration in peoples behaviour and attitude.
It seems to me that 90% of people have no concept of how their behaviour impacts on others. Just go out to your local town centre/covent garden on a friday/saturday for some people watching you will see exactly what I mean.
We seem to have developed a society that's are to worried about their own rights but not concerned at all about the responsiblities that come with those rights and ride roughshod over everybody.
Something that spoke volumes was a discussion I had with an aquaintance of mine that works at Gatwick Airport. He actually told me that in his opinion and the opinion of the employees at the airport the worst behaved passengers were as follows:
1. Passengers from African Flights (Nigeria etc etc)
2. ENGLISH PEOPLE COMING FROM CANARIES, ALGARVE etc etc
Apparently the English throw each other on the luggage conveyer, smoke in the non smoking airport, abuse fellow passengers and airport staff. Apparently the behaviour is appauling.
In contrast some ofthe best behaved passengers are apparently from Eastern Europe and the Nordic countries. Smart, Well Behaved and polite and have a better grasp of English that the tatooed and ear ringed oiks coming off the Spain Planes !
Anyways, just my rant about the deterioation of British Society. Thank God I am packing my bags and buggering off soon.
The UK is a very diverse land. From deprived towns & cities to affluent historic towns and cities, to the Outer Hebrides, Orkneys, Shetlands, Highlands of Scotland, lowlands of England, Lake Distrcit, Snowdonia, Jurassic coasts of Dorset, devon & cornwall, marshlands of Norfolk, surrounded by magnificant coasts, with different communities & opportunities existing along the way etc.
When some people think of the UK, i think a lot just picture eg. binge drinking yobs in a town centre on a weekend, without actually thinking about what a big place it actually is, and the infinate number of opportunities & possibilities that exist.
Some people never leave their town/village/county. How many of you can actually say that you've travelled to anything like each and every corner of the UK to experience a lot more of what it has to offer?
Have you ever been skiing, mountaineering or birds of prey watching in the Scottish Highlands?
Surfing, bodyboarding,scuba diving, deepsea fishing or sea kayaking in cornwall/South Wales/the Highlands?
etc. etc.
There are many positives to be found though.