How Sad Young Douchebags Took Over Modern Britain

[D Skelton]

I have been saying similar things for years, this guy just sums up the modern British male just about as well as anybody can!

This article is probably the best piece of writing I have read in years and this quote just sums it up!

" But while it's easy to scorn the banality – and the vanity – of the modern British douchebag, they're only products of their environment. An environment that has very little to offer them any more, other than gym memberships, intentionally ripped clothes, alcohol and creatine. The institutions that gave British men a sense of wellbeing have been ripped apart. Nobody trusts the police any more; nobody wants to join the army because no one believes in its wars; traditional industries have been decimated and the only thing to replace them are stifling, mind-numbing positions in service and retail.

Because of this, British men have tried to reimagine masculinity, in a hyper-realised, childish, desperate way. A new kind of machismo, built on fake bravado and vanity. Of course, not every young male in Britain today is an internet drug huffing pick-up artist – not even every young British douchebag is – but a significant number of them are looking up to faux-hawked, peacocking, rich maniacs like Mario Balotelli for inspiration, because they really have nowhere else to look. Their bosses hate themselves and their dads hate them."

Have a read below:

How Sad Young Douchebags Took Over Modern Britain | VICE

 

[Pete999]

I have been saying similar things for years, this guy just sums up the modern British male just about as well as anybody can!

This article is probably the best piece of writing I have read in years and this quote just sums it up!

" But while it's easy to scorn the banality – and the vanity – of the modern British douchebag, they're only products of their environment. An environment that has very little to offer them any more, other than gym memberships, intentionally ripped clothes, alcohol and creatine. The institutions that gave British men a sense of wellbeing have been ripped apart. Nobody trusts the police any more; nobody wants to join the army because no one believes in its wars; traditional industries have been decimated and the only thing to replace them are stifling, mind-numbing positions in service and retail.

Because of this, British men have tried to reimagine masculinity, in a hyper-realised, childish, desperate way. A new kind of machismo, built on fake bravado and vanity. Of course, not every young male in Britain today is an internet drug huffing pick-up artist – not even every young British douchebag is – but a significant number of them are looking up to faux-hawked, peacocking, rich maniacs like Mario Balotelli for inspiration, because they really have nowhere else to look. Their bosses hate themselves and their dads hate them."

Have a read below:

How Sad Young Douchebags Took Over Modern Britain | VICE

Sadly you are absolutely correct mate, you only have to look at the 16 17 year old male with cargo pants being held up by the hands in the pockets, manners gone out the window, I worked with a couple of 20 year old's at work last week, (a government employer) they were helping me pack some equipment, not rocket science you say, well they made such a balls up I told them to foxtrot oscar, it seems if they haven't got some sort of mobile,--- tablet stuck to their face they don't want to know. I despair at the workforce, especially ours having to put up with some preening gimp, winging on about this and that, Mario Balotelli, what about the British soccer stars? £1000s per week bloody ludicrous, for chasing a bag of wind around, oh don't talk to me about when they fall over and bash their shin, Jesus, makes you wonder what they would do if they smashed it with a 2ld lum hammer, I could go on but for everyone's sanity I wont, youngsters aren't all dipsticks there are some decent ones, rant over going to get the "Cotes du Rhone" out now and chill.

 

[Brightspark2]

Looks interesting...

Ill read it when I get back from the gym...

 

[Pete999]

Gym?don't you get enough exercise at work then? lol

 

[shanky887614]

Gym?don't you get enough exercise at work then? lol

Lol, I can't be arsed with the gym, im generally tired after work.

Why would I go and torture myself for longer in the gym.

It seems we have a lot of vain members

 

[Guest55]

a good article , clearly written by someone whom is only in his 20's himself , but has taken a good look at his peers and decided their idiots.

im so glad i was a yoof in the 80's , boundaries were really broken back then , but everyone had a great time without walking round like a meathead with naff tatts & 2 rabid staffies.

the inevitable product of modern culture.........

 

[Badged01]

..... a meathead with naff tatts & 2 rabid staffies.........

So its no just in Wales we have tatts and staffy culture!

 

[Pete999]

No mate they are everywhere especially in Nton

 

[telectrix]

So its no just in Wales we have tatts and staffy culture!

no, in wales you have taffs and naffy culture. :rofl::rofl::rofl:

 

[Dcf]

Never a truer word spoken about superficial fuds like the described.
last time I was at the football there was 4 lads about 23-24 in front of me.
Tight chinos ,joey Essex hair, a light coating of creosote crap tribal tattoos and shirts unbuttoned to the navel.......and no socks!!
don Johnson might have got away being sock less in the 80s in Miami vice just.
it is not a look for Scotland. All these muppets watch townie and all that Pish and think that's what life is all about.
though if I had no visible job and swan about in a range rover ,going to parties all day ,sniffing round women the colour of a bit of teak rather than electrical work I would n all.
reem!

 

[shanky887614]

Never a truer word spoken about superficial fuds like the described.
last time I was at the football there was 4 lads about 23-24 in front of me.
Tight chinos ,joey Essex hair, a light coating of creosote crap tribal tattoos and shirts unbuttoned to the navel.......and no socks!!
don Johnson might have got away being sock less in the 80s in Miami vice just.
it is not a look for Scotland. All these muppets watch townie and all that Pish and think that's what life is all about.
though if I had no visible job and swan about in a range rover ,going to parties all day ,sniffing round women the colour of a bit of teak rather than electrical work I would n all.
reem!

I don't wear socks at home cause I walk around in sandels, rain or shine

 

[timo1]

Really? I guess everyone forgot about the 80's with new romantics, blokes wearing eyeliner and womans blouses then. The youths of the 60's were really polite and lovely, except when they were smashing up seaside towns fighting other groups who would rather ride a motor bike than a scooter lol.

 

[shanky887614]

Really? I guess everyone forgot about the 80's with new romantics, blokes wearing eyeliner and womans blouses then. The youths of the 60's were really polite and lovely, except when they were smashing up seaside towns fighting other groups who would rather ride a motor bike than a scooter lol.

He only liked the 80's cause he misses his eye liner XD

men wore more makeup then than woman apparently

 

[vernam616]

On the whole, in one word... Stereotypical

The writing and the way its put together is fantastic, however the content is pure stereotyping at its greatest

 

[Silly Sausage]

This article is probably the best piece of writing I have read in years

Have you ever tried reading any decent novels recently?!?!
Book shops are full of them!

 

[Pete999]

I don't wear socks at home cause I walk around in sandels, rain or shine

You hippy Shanky

 

[Badged01]

No mate they are everywhere especially in Nton

Good to hear, thought we were starting a fad up the valleys in Wales!

 

[Pete999]

So its no just in Wales we have tatts and staffy culture!

Oh yeah I forgot that ilk of male dominance bunch of ----pots, as you drive into the area I live in, you pass through what can only be described as down town Basra, Union Jacks, football banners everywhere tea towels for curtains, girls in black leggings with Essex face lift hair styles, please end this thread I'll get into trouble going on about the decline in standards of people's behavior. It really makes me wonder what will happen to this country. I'm going now

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So its no just in Wales we have tatts and staffy culture!

Oh yeah I forgot that ilk of male dominance bunch of ----pots, as you drive into the area I live in, you pass through what can only be described as down town Basra, Union Jacks, football banners everywhere tea towels for curtains, girls in black leggings with Essex face lift hair styles, please end this thread I'll get into trouble going on about the decline in standards of people's behavior. It really makes me wonder what will happen to this country. I'm going now

 

[Badged01]

....... blokes wearing eyeliner and womans blouses then......

Don't be thinking what was considered acceptable male behaviour in Yorkshire was the norm throughout the country in the 80's!

 

[Badged01]

.... they were smashing up seaside towns fighting other groups who would rather ride a motor bike than a scooter

And that was shandy drinking southerners down Lundan way ....