Is it me?

It's certainly not just you FC...Those clips are cringeworthy and an absolute disgrace ... i think a few lessons in self respect are in order...

 

I think its because we're getting on a bit, and have forgotten some of the states we got ourselves into in our own yoof

But yes, I agree. My pet hate is women coming out in public in the pyjamas. I mean come on, if you're not checking out a strange noise in the middle of the night, or letting your drunken offspring in at 3AM, you should make the effort to put some clothes on before coming out.

And chavs. What on earth makes them think it is cool to be a walking Adidas advert with your tracky bottoms stuffed into your "3 pairs for a fiver" sports socks?

 

Don't think it's just you FC but also don't think things like this were 'newsworthy' a few years back. There have always been 'chavs' (though we just thought of them as 'common as muck') it was just never thought worthy of putting in a newspaper. I guess that though we benefit from social media, like being on GC, the downside is the cult of the reality celeb and the easy availability and distribution of pics like yours above.

As for the Red Road flats They had to go, but not sure why as part of the opening ceremony

 

Maybe it represented beginning afresh?

 

When I heard about the flats being demolished as part of the opening ceremony of the Common Wealth games I did check the date, to make sure it wasn't April 1st.

As to the orse rasing, that's what happens when you let the rif raf in, I'm sure it wont be like that at Ascot.

 

I think that's supposed to be the message. Just seems strange as part of a sporting event

 

I once fell asleep in the middle of the dance floor while a rave was at its climax in 'Phase 3' (dunno if you were into the 90s rave scene, but raves were often '3 phase' or '4 phase', with phase 1 being fairly easy going, 2 warming things up a bit, then air horns and sirens would herald the arrival of phase 3 which was really just noise at 180bpm or more, with the optional phase 4 being an ambient wind down). I didn't care that people might fall/stamp on me, I was just tired and decided it was as good a place as any to have a rest. My mate woke me up by kicking me in the ribs, which annoyed me, because I was enjoying a nice sound sleep

 

I don't know the area in question, or the people that live there, but just hazarding a guess, maybe its lots of lazy and unhealthy people, and the symbolism is about clearing out the unpleasant past to make way for a fresh, sporty, healthy, righteous future?

 

They will probably replace the "flats" with "apartments", kind of poky little places with people living in attic rooms on top of other people.
Might only be three or four high, but still "flats".

 

Don't know I'd call them lazy and unhealthy. The flats were supposed to be the answer to slum clearances - even though many people preferred their so-called slums and didn't want to be stuck at the top of the highest flats in Europe, they missed the community of the tenements. Anyway I haven't lived near there for many years so can't comment on who were living there towards the end. It was the housing that was unhealthy, rather than the people I'd say.

 

That's usually the way.

 

We've got the full box set of Still Game, FC. Its brilliant. Wife and I have no problems with Scottish accents, as she is half Scottish anyway, which is incredibly funny when round her grannies and she sometimes accidentally drops into a broad Scottish accent, and I've mixed with people from north of the border for much of my life, and even nearly married one Scottish Susan before she decided to get on the other bus