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 ....

 

[Badged01]

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 blame it on C&G when they started changing and re-inventing all the numbering systems of exams then splitting exams into 2 etc. All of a sudden the youth started thinking they were good & clever and standards and behaviours started rapidly falling thereafter!

 

[samillingworth]

Fully stereotypical. its always the bad things you hear about, hence why we will always think its bad. Its not

 

[pepparz]

what the hell does "reem" mean, i've also heard "do me a special" used. i think.
sorry i mean " do me a solid"

 

[D Skelton]

Reem = For a person or thing to look good. Usually used by Londoners, or of people in the Essex area. A phrase coined by Joey Essex in the TV programe The Only Way Is Essex.

Although every time I hear some d**kwad using the word to describe someone else I can't help but think of the below meaning

Ream = To annihilate the rectum of your sexual partner while performing ---- sex.

 

[pepparz]

Well I never, u live and learn

 

[Geordie Spark]

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

I can't decide if you're a very brave or very foolish man for posting that in here!

 

[Pete999]

I can't decide if you're a very brave or very foolish man for posting that in here!

Told you he's a hippy joke lol

 

[Geordie Spark]

Told you he's a hippy joke lol

my dad thought I was hippy ...... hippy bloody lazy.

Apparently it was a popular expression used in his younger days. Noah was heard to use it a lot - allegedly.

 

[telectrix]

well, he gave his sons hippy names. ham ffs, shep ( that's a dog). and japeth ( that sounds like veggie food).

 

[shanky887614]

I can't decide if you're a very brave or very foolish man for posting that in here!

Makes you walk quick in the snow i tell ya

 

[shanky887614]

Told you he's a hippy joke lol

I don't have long hair though.

Its thinning, a couple more years and tony will have more pink hair than I have on my head XD

 

[trev]

Ream = To annihilate the rectum of your sexual partner while performing ---- sex.

Well, when I was taught how to install conduit I was told we always had to ream the ends and had a special reaming tool to use.
I saw some getting chucked in the other day and the lads abusing the stuff had never heard of a reaming tool and said they thought your definition was the only one.
While I'm on, when did it become socially acceptable for big fat ugly pigs to go out in their pyjamas? Why do the fit ones never go out in skimpy things? It's only ever the ones who, if they were lying on a beach would get pushed into the water by Greenpeace

 

[D Skelton]

Well, when I was taught how to install conduit I was told we always had to ream the ends and had a special reaming tool to use.
I saw some getting chucked in the other day and the lads abusing the stuff had never heard of a reaming tool and said they thought your definition was the only one.

I call it a deburring tool. I've never heard it referred to as a reaming tool before :s

The official definition of 'to ream' is to widen something.

While I'm on, when did it become socially acceptable for big fat ugly pigs to go out in their pyjamas? Why do the fit ones never go out in skimpy things? It's only ever the ones who, if they were lying on a beach would get pushed into the water by Greenpeace

Haha, totally agree! It's the classic scummy mummy look isn't it. Pyjama bottoms, Ugg boots and a grey knitted top!

 

[trev]

Plus a small baby covered in chocolate balanced on one (enormous) hip. How do these women ever have more than one kid? I can't think of any reason to shag them once let alone go back for more

 

[shanky887614]

Called a reamer on amazon etc

 

[pepparz]

Plus a small baby covered in chocolate balanced on one (enormous) hip. How do these women ever have more than one kid? I can't think of any reason to shag them once let alone go back for more

all the kids have different fathers(cant really call them fathers though as once they've pulled out they do a runner)

 

[telectrix]

haha. once was a social worker visited a single mum with 7 kids, all boys ranging from 12 months to 10 years old. when asked the names, the mother relied: " wayne, wayne, wayne, wayne, wayne, wayne,and wayne".

"why all the same?" asked the social worker.

"when it's time for a meal or time for bed, i just shout "wayne" and they all come together" says the mother.

"how do you get them one at a time?" asks the social worker.

"easy" says the mother, " i just call them by their surname".

 

[Guest111]

I could weep when I see the youth of today,heard one lad last night going on about guns and how cool they were,bet he's never looked down the barrel of one! I have on a couple of occasions,from the wrong end and it ain't good.They all walk round with those daft pants with the arse round the knees and think they're smart,they don't want a job a lot of them,and it really winds me up when I see them rushing to the off licence to spend their giro on beer!Now I was a teenager in the early 80's and we weren't angels by any means,I was a biker back then however we'd help anyone out if they were in trouble,I stopped a few times to change peoples tyres and the like.Most of us got jobs as well and it was drummed into us that you had to work!Yes we went out on the lash at weekends,but we worked hard during the week and I can honestly say I never lost a day through a hangover,work hard play hard was a maxim we lived by and I don't remember ever ganging up on anyone,yes there were fights but it was always one on one and when it was over you shook hands and that was the end of it.A few years ago there was a bloke not far from me who was killed when he confronted a gang of drunken yobs who were making his family's life hell,even last night a young lad of about 13 wandered onto my property and when I warned him to leave he informed me that if my dog bit him it would have to be put down,incidentally he seemed surprised when I informed him that actually since he was trespassing if he got bitten then it was his own fault and my dog would not be put down.The whole country is going to hell in a handcart and something needs to be done with these wasters,I believe there should be some form of national service brought back,maybe not military but something that teaches them manners and a decent work ethic.We have lots of problems at the moment,a lack of housing being one of them,why not have a construction industry type of national service where they do 2 years learning a trade such as plumbing,electrics,joinery etc and that way they'd be learning and earning and solving a major problem at the same time.

 

[pepparz]

i agree, but until they bring back the cane and teach kids to respect elders and people in authority things will never change

 

[Guest111]

i agree, but until they bring back the cane and teach kids to respect elders and people in authority things will never change

Yes exactly,where has all this crap come from? The other day there was a kid giving a copper grief and he was giving it large about how the copper wasn't going to get his respect because the copper hadn't earned it!WTF in my day you had respect for people older than you AND for people in authority,I met quite a few of these types when I was a dog handler and one thing they learned pretty quick was that they may not have respected me but it was a damned good idea to show the dog some respect.