We're doooooooomed, I tell you.
Last week, I was listening to a group of 'youngsters' at work, trying to decide if Devon was in Cornwall. Eventually they decided it wasn't, because it was a county on its own.
Then one of them knowledgeably intoned "anyway, Cornwall's in Norfolk, so it can't be."

Later in the week, I heard a couple of teenagers when I was out shopping, describing something as 'perfection'. They then had a heated discussion about the adjective to describe perfection. They eventually settled on 'perfectionary'.

Is the future of our great nation royally fucked? Tell us tales of head-desk stupidity you've heard recently.

Alt: talk about food if you want. You probably will anyway, you fat bastard.

AltAlt: Scoff and mock, like you're too cool to join in a conversation because you're better than the rest of us.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 13 Nov 2013, 11:50, 103 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

I'm SHIT at Geography.
Be it our own country or others.
I kind of know where things are...

The future generation will be a band of street dancing wannabe slags, so yes. Unless everything in the future is call centre based (he types, from a call centre).

Until recently, I thought Jermaine Stewart was a woman.
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 11:55, Reply)

The thing is, when you point out how ignorant they are,
they just laugh and shrug.
It's like people think ignorance is a GOOD thing.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 13 Nov 2013, 11:58, Reply)

More than likely, they just don't care.
They don't see where it will get them in life.

I think you have to choose a vocation in life too early.
I had no idea what I wanted to be at 18.

Had I chose my paths again in hindsight I would have chased a career in law.
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:08, Reply)

This is the thing that really fucks me off
Happy to be stupid, I am pretty sure its a vocal minority but still.
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:16, Reply)

On a side note, my boxers are really tight today, so it's a good job Im never breeding

( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 11:55, Reply)

Gay man in overly tight pants shocker :)

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:16, Reply)

and Im not even Spinning Around

( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:18, Reply)

Oh, and what got deleted?

( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 11:55, Reply)

I heard someone making the leap that if a couple of teenagers were ignorant of the geography of the UK and some others struggled with grammar that a nation with a population of over 60 million would be in trouble.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 11:59, Reply)

That was your AltAlt answer, right?

( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:01, Reply)

I'm building up to that.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:01, Reply)

Its all now, now, now with her, isn't it?

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:18, Reply)

The majority of teenagers/uni leavers seem to think the country owes them something, rather than having to actually work for stuff
This riles me. My step-daughter was recently made redundant and instead of just getting any job to pay her rent, she made herself skint so as not to lower herself into part time bar/cafe work (both of which she has previously done)

Alt:
I have left-over pizza \o/
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:03, Reply)

Was she applying for other jobs that might actually have a future rather than working in a bar?

(Bazongaloid, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:05, Reply)

Yes, but part time work would have paid her bills in the mean time
Beggars/Choosers and all that
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:07, Reply)

So she should have spent her time trying to get part time work with no future
and restricted her ability to get a full time job with prospects?
(Bazongaloid, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:12, Reply)

Yeah, as she was spending 8 hours a day applying for jobs
obviously
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:17, Reply)

They're the instant generation.
If they want something, they want it now, and with minimal effort to themselves.

/old lady moan
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:11, Reply)

+ daily mail reader

(Bazongaloid, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:12, Reply)

You hand wringers would let them run wild.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:39, Reply)

Only in rough areas like Lewisham

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:47, Reply)

Get fucking shot if you act out in Lewisham.
Say what you like about the gangs but they keep order. And only kill other negroes. Which is ideal.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:48, Reply)

Wilful ignorance makes me apoplectic.
I swear I'm going to have some sort of aneurism before much longer.

Second on the list is somebody who'd say "Apoplectic? Why can't you just say angry? Why do you have to show off with long words?"
( Kroney, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:27, Reply)

Is that the capital of Turkey?

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:29, Reply)

I thought it was that church

( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:30, Reply)

It is because you are sesquipedalian

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 13:13, Reply)

I don't mind youngsters being wrong,
Generally they're happy to be corrected, or at least adults feel it's OK to confront their idiocy. I'm more worried about the old boy in the managers chair that is either too stubborn to listen or everyone is too scared to speak to him about his idiocy.

Alt: no.

Altalt. I just wanted to mention that it appears the company I work for print all their emails and store them in archives. Seems a bit wasteful.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:31, Reply)

You work for Nakers?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:33, Reply)

Looks like it.
I was reading the handbook and info and stuff, and it said all correspondence to clients to be printed and filed.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:33, Reply)

So, apart from the fact you are working for idiots, how is the new job?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:35, Reply)

Good.
I'm in a engine factory in Daventry, it's pretty cool. I thought I'd be stuck in boring offices, but in fact it's quite cool.
It's not the most exciting work, but it'll do.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:49, Reply)

The only exciting, worthwhile work that exists is rory's job.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:50, Reply)

What does he do?

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:52, Reply)

Internet bully.
It's quite well paid, apparently.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:53, Reply)

Trots bogs.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:54, Reply)

Alright stunno,

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:57, Reply)

How do, Winders.
How is the mighty Daventry treating you? I had to look it up on a map! Nevermind young people not knowing where shit is!

Is the bloke you are shadowing OK?
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 13:01, Reply)

All *email* correspondence?
Oh dear.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:38, Reply)

Alt: Someone brought round some homemade cake earlier.
The cunts had only put fucking marzipan under the icing.
What is wrong with these people? #brokenbritain
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:39, Reply)

Marzipan is Satan's smegma.

( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:42, Reply)

Agreed.
Does anyone like that horrible stuff?
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:50, Reply)

Yeah.
Some BITCH here put SULTANAS in a curry she had made. The CUNT.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:43, Reply)

I bet the Sultan wasn't too happy, either.

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:45, Reply)

Tit.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:47, Reply)

How's your boyfriend bearing up, Stunned?
Tell him we miss him :'(
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:48, Reply)

He's on the window ledge.
He said you should all fuck off and die and welcomes any hatecrime mail in reply. Texts or gazzes, he said, it's all the same to him.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:51, Reply)

Will you break in and nick his records for me after he jumps?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:52, Reply)

No problem.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:55, Reply)

Cheers love.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:56, Reply)

I hate that. And apple.
What is wrong with these cunts?
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:49, Reply)

And coconut.
FUCKING DOSS CUNTS.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:50, Reply)

Now hang on, coconut is fine.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:50, Reply)

Calm down, vegesavile.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:51, Reply)

Coconut milk is A-OK depending on the type of cuisine

( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 13:03, Reply)

Not in a MAN'S curry.
There are only six types of acceptable BRITISH curry:

Curry i.e. Meat Curry
Dhansak
Bhuna
Tikka Massala
Madras
Vindaloo.

The rest is fusion shite.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 13:08, Reply)

^ Gay

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 13:09, Reply)

No, hold on, the other one
MACHO!
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 13:10, Reply)

Its gotta be

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 14:10, Reply)

What, no biryani?

( Slippery Mick ‏, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 13:49, Reply)

Yes it's covered by curry
because the curry is a vegetable curry. The biryani is the rice.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 13:55, Reply)

You massive currywrong

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 14:00, Reply)

Tikka Masala?!?!
Oh, SOOOOO manly.
Also, MADE WITH CREAM

Now fuck the fuck off.

Thai and Malaysian curries use coconut cream and certain ones are hotter than YM after her daily visit to Nandos
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 14:08, Reply)

It's BRITISH though. So it's in.
Thai and Malaysian are all fusion curries and such are ghee(y).
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 14:16, Reply)

Tasty, so they must be.
Say what you want about gays but we choose your furnishings, clothes, music and movies.

Oh, and what food you eat, beer you drink.

Lovely.

Who run the world? (Gays)
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 14:20, Reply)

You don't choose my fucking music.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 14:27, Reply)

I was more on about society in general
Not displaced Yurt dwellers.
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 14:31, Reply)

Dhansak is a fusion dish and not very British.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 14:26, Reply)

Tough.
If you don't like it, have dopiaza but you lose a lentil dish.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 14:40, Reply)

Vindaloo is a Portuguese/Goan fusion dish and all
Although admittedly not in the form you mean in your British list
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 14:51, Reply)

alt: Roast lamb bap from the hogroast place
fantastic.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 13:29, Reply)

Self made pate rolls with Sainers fake wotsits.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 13:30, Reply)

WE USED TO HAVE A RIGHT LAUGH ON HERE.
I have a report to write and I cannot be arsed but it's got to be done by 5pm.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 13:30, Reply)

get down the stunned cave for a beer or two to help 'focus'

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 13:35, Reply)

I get a bit verbose when I've done that.
I reckon a beer at 5pm or home to give the Mrs an angry shag. with shouting.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 13:37, Reply)

HATE FUCK THAT HO!

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 13:44, Reply)

TOO RIGHT!

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 13:49, Reply)

Can you let us know what you decide?
I need to know when to wipe myself on the curtains and leave.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 13:51, Reply)

*bokes*

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 13:54, Reply)

Where did it all go wrong, Stuns?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 13:50, Reply)

Everyone fucked off

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 13:52, Reply)

What are they all doing instead? Working?
Is there a secret board?
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 13:53, Reply)

Working, one suspects

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 13:57, Reply)

Boo :(

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 13:58, Reply)

GONE NORTH

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 13:58, Reply)

I've checked around
They haven't
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 14:08, Reply)

WGERE THE FUCK ARE THEY THEN.
WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO FOR B4SHES?
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 14:17, Reply)

I keep replying too late thanks to work :(
Just FYI, I questioned your manliness because you put TIKKA MASALA in your manly curry list.

LOLZ
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 14:18, Reply)

Oh, I see you've replied.
As you were
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Wed 13 Nov 2013, 14:19, Reply)