It's a sad fact of life
that the underclass of society is the fastest breeding group, while many educated people choose not to have children because they're more concerned with their careers.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 18 Oct 2010, 10:15, 3 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

But there are a lot of people I know...
...who were born to "the wrong side fo the tracks" who turned out just fine. Sometimes people can break the cycle of bad parenting breeding bad citizens.

I try and repeat that as often as possible when some oxygen thief plays up on the train.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Mon 18 Oct 2010, 10:21, Reply)

Yes
It's nice when someone manages that. Sadly, the majority don't.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 18 Oct 2010, 10:25, Reply)

there was a film about that a while ago
called Idiot something. It was a good concept, although it was an annoying comedy with Dax Shepard in it.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Mon 18 Oct 2010, 10:22, Reply)

Idiocracy
I love that film
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 18 Oct 2010, 10:24, Reply)

I just found it too annoying
it made me want to punch them.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Mon 18 Oct 2010, 10:37, Reply)

chill out lampito

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 18 Oct 2010, 10:42, Reply)

But conversely
As long as they get the balance right regarding career and reproduction, the better education and more comfortable lifestyle means they will be able to be more selective about their partners, and their resulting offspring can be bought up with a better chance in life. The Morlocks, on the other hand, simply have to breed with anything that has a fanny and produce as many offspring as possible in the hope that one of their foul progeny will succeed in spite of its disadvantaged background.
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 18 Oct 2010, 10:23, Reply)

Makes you feel quite sad really

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 18 Oct 2010, 10:32, Reply)

Yep. You go to all this trouble working through a good education to fight for a good job
when you could just be happily rutting away on the floor of a council flat with some scrawny, acne-riddled young oik who didn't even have the manners to remove his Burberry hat, whilst you turn your head every so often to tell your previous offspring to shut the fuck up and keep watching the telly, or just to stub the end of another cigarette and fumble another one out of the box nearby.
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 18 Oct 2010, 11:03, Reply)