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| 61. Author: jake89 Date: Tue 15th Apr 2025. 23:25 Was that a result of the two (at least) young people who ended up taking their own lives, Buffy? These kids are thankfully in the minority but the disruption they cause is incredible. It doesn`t help when grown adults sit on Facebook giving it all "it`s just boys being boys". It also doesn`t help, as I mentioned before, that the idiot running Fife Jammers promotes it all. Reply |
| 62. Author: TAFKA_Super_Petrie Date: Wed 16th Apr 2025. 10:16 This is maybe a generalisation but i get the feel everything we did (speaking as someone in their 40s) seems to have been accelerated 2-3 years earlier down the line with this generation. We did have bams, wrong uns and all the rest but where as you`d maybe hear about folk dabbling with a bit of weed or drinking at 15 it`s now a fair bit younger. Even in terms of my daughter growing up and being aware of things, girls seems to be actively conscious of things like beauty products and makeup a lot earlier than when i was younger and thus looking a lot older from an early age (dance classes endorsing spray tans, eye lashes and full faces of makeup to U10`s doesn`t help but that`s another story). I think the fact there is pretty much unfiltered access to content online - avdertising included - on tap 24/7 that has made this shift. Kids are much more aware of things we weren`t and to a point desensitized to a lot of things long before they have the maturity or emotional intelligence to properly deal with it. I remember someone at high school getting the Jolly Rodger Anarchist Cookbook and it was huge deal. Nowadays i bet none of the stuff in that would barely even raise an eyebrow from that age group. ---------------------------------------------------------------  [b]"People always talk about Ronaldinho and magic, but I didn't see him today. I saw Henrik Larsson; that's where the magic was."[/b] Reply |
| 63. Author: Alter Ego Date: Wed 16th Apr 2025. 11:11 Social Media is the biggest problem Imo. Looking at all these stupid videos on Tiktok thinking thats how normal folk live their lives. I am so glad when I was in my teens we only had the black brick nokias and you had to go out and meet your mates. Sure enough our group were drinking/smoking at 15/16 but never caused any bother starting fires or fighting etc. Just had good banter. I suppose the rules for drinking were shall we say more relaxed where you could get into Jiggies/life and the ballroom with a fake ID but you just stuck with your mates and had a laugh. I just don`t get the teens nowadays as there is no respect and I`m not saying all but the way they talk to adults is an eye opener sometimes. If I talked to my parents that way I got a fly swat rattled of my leg but just the glare from my old maw would have been enough most of the time to shut up! Its different now but its getting worse. Mon the Pars! Reply |
| 64. Author: jake89 Date: Wed 16th Apr 2025. 16:55 The issue with social media is why I generally avoid it - it`s fake. Children and even some adults are being conned into thinking they need to buy certain things and go certain places to be "successful". You rarely see an influencer posting how utterly crap a day they`ve had (unless it`s followed by "so I booked a spa weekend"). It`s fake, fake, fake. Everything is an "experience" now. People can`t just go and do things. They try and make everything into something big then probably feel a bit disappointed afterwards, but don`t share that bit. Every experience is "amazing" even when it`s something bang average like going to a fast food place for a burger. Reply |
| 65. Author: Playup_Pompey Date: Thu 17th Apr 2025. 09:18 "Everything is an "experience" now. People can`t just go and do things. They try and make everything into something big then probably feel a bit disappointed afterwards, but don`t share that bit. Every experience is "amazing" even when it`s something bang average like going to a fast food place for a burger." and its that way in the hope that they get paid for endorsing the places they are going or have been given free entry etc in order to get favourable online media afterwards etc.  Reply |
| 66. Author: jake89 Date: Thu 17th Apr 2025. 12:12 Playup_Pompey, Thu 17 Apr 09:18 In a way it`s no different to kids at school determining what is cool/not cool (I`m sure every generation had some ridiculous trends!) but on a bigger scale. There`s also the issue of bullying and promoting the daft things you`re up to for attention. I just missed all that nonsense so there wasn`t much in the way of recording and sharing things. Reply |
| 67. Author: buffy Date: Thu 17th Apr 2025. 13:18 jake89, Tue 15 Apr 23:25 Yes. Focus on Support: The changes emphasize providing support and resources to young offenders, helping them to change their behavior and avoid future involvement in the justice system. ”Buffy’s Buns are the finest in Fife”, J. Spence 2019” Reply |
| 68. Author: Alter Ego Date: Thu 17th Apr 2025. 21:42 Agree with Buffy…you put say 16-18 year olds in with 18-25 year olds in jail and all they learn is how to break the law better and get away with it. Mon the Pars! Reply |
| 69. Author: red-star-par Date: Fri 18th Apr 2025. 00:30 Alter Ego, Thu 17 Apr 21:42 Put them in Peterhead prison then, being in with the nonces might be a deterrent to them Reply |
| 70. Author: Andrew283 Date: Fri 18th Apr 2025. 09:30 red-star-par, Fri 18 Apr 00:30 Ahh yes, let`s joke about child rape... Weirdo Reply |
| 71. Author: buffy Date: Fri 18th Apr 2025. 10:39 Alter Ego, Thu 17 Apr 21:42 That’s not what I said. I was stating facts in re to no under-18 facilities in YOIs. ”Buffy’s Buns are the finest in Fife”, J. Spence 2019” Reply |
| 72. Author: Back_oh_the_net Date: Fri 18th Apr 2025. 21:50 I’m 37 we lit fires when we were 15-16 but it was never malicious fire raising we lit them up the woods on a Friday night and sat round them with our bevy and we were always savy enough to never let it get out of control and always had a means of putting it out but with these wee gits they seem hell bent on destroying everything in said fires path But until there is actually a proper deterrent to stop them for doing it then it will keep happening Reply |
| 73. Author: jake89 Date: Sat 19th Apr 2025. 14:37 Same. We`d make wee fires up the woods but they`d be made from wood gathered around the place rather than from ripping branches off trees or from melting bins. We weren`t running around screaming or causing people bother as we`d pick areas well away from paths. I think the key difference now is mobility and social media. We didn`t really have the ability to film and share our escapades and I`m sure many were exaggerated on a Monday morning in school. We also stuck to the area we lived in as we weren`t bussing it around Fife or beyond. Furthest we`d go would be a bus to Edinburgh for the day. I`m not necessarily saying so away with free bus passes but this does seem to be a factor in the increase in antisocial behaviour. Saying that, the main factor seems to simply be disinterested parents. Some kids will be notorious regardless of how they`ve been raised but so many kids nowadays have zero consciousness of the impact of their behaviour. I`m all for "let them be" but when you`ve got nonsense like 4 kids being hospitalised in Kinghorn and 8 hour stake-outs for a kid on a school roof it feels like this goes beyond childhood antics. Reply |
| 74. Author: Andrew283 Date: Sat 19th Apr 2025. 22:28 Parents definitely play a huge factor. Many nowadays are beyond lazy. Entertaining their kid involves sitting them in front of an ipad... Reply |
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