There was an interesting piece on the radio this morning about various recent murders and assaults.
Most of the in studio panel were of the opinion that the world is getting scarier and worse, and the only person pointing out that things have always been like this was me.

Do you people really believe that things are worse today than they were in previous generations?
( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:09, archived)

Things are certainly worse today
my head is fucking POUNDING
( broadsword, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:11, archived)

Wait till you get over here.
We'll show you what a proper hangover is like.
( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:12, archived)

I fear for my nipples

( broadsword, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:17, archived)

Nah, things were much worse before I came along.

( my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:11, archived)

ong l over my gran's false teeth.
( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:13, archived)

I feel better for it, at least.

( my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:14, archived)

I think stabbings have got a bad reputation these days
I remember family christmasses with all sorts of harmless stabbing japes
( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:12, archived)

worse, yes

( mongychops, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:12, archived)

WRONG!
Move back three spaces and miss a turn.
( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:13, archived)

awww, man, i was nearly winning
MUUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
( mongychops, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:15, archived)

I think teens have access to scarier weapons such as guns
Knives have always been about, and I think drug addiction is worse, I know its always been about but different people are doing it nowadays because it seems more readily available.

I think on a global scale terrorism is scarier than it used to be, but that's down to new technologies I think.
( Mrs Sp@m, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:13, archived)

So it's worse to get shot than mutilated and beaten to death?

( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:14, archived)

well no, with fighting you have a chance to defend yourself or run away
you can do neither with a gun.
( Mrs Sp@m, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:15, archived)

I refute this.
*refutes*
( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:17, archived)

I don't think it's any more readily available than it ever was. We just hear far more about it. It's not difficult to keep away from that sort of thing either.

( Malchick, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:17, archived)

From global terrorism?
Have you some other globe you visit?
( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:19, archived)

I meant the drugs and knife crime.

( Malchick, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:21, archived)

I'll refute this also.
There's no evidence that violent crime is on the increase in western Europe, and while there has been a move from the abuse of alcohol towards other substances it hasn't made much of a difference to the overall levels of substance abuse.
( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:23, archived)

I believe crime rates are continuing to fall, broadly, in the UK.
But that doesn't sell newspapers, so it's not interesting.
( my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:25, archived)

over how long a period here, and are you just using percentages of the population?
scrub that, i'm bored
( mongychops, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:26, archived)

That's what I said.

( Malchick, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:28, archived)

I can't remember seeing heroin/coke addled folks walking about when I was younger
I maybe didn't pay as much attention as I do now. Back in the days before even I was born I think I remember reading that drug addiction was prevalent in the middle and upper classes
( Mrs Sp@m, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:20, archived)

Note the fact that I say *I think*
I have no research or facts to back this up
( Mrs Sp@m, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:22, archived)

Yeah, it's cool :) I'd be very surprised if things really were getting worse though.
Though I'm from The North (like you), where perhaps we don't have so much of a problem as they do in London...my London-based housemates were very amused that I was so shocked that they'd all been mugged multiple times.
( Malchick, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:30, archived)

THE NORTH ROCKS!

( Mrs Sp@m, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:31, archived)

globally alot more cocaine and heroin is produced and consumed, as a dealer i'm glad about that but with the price so low it is hard work

( mongychops, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:21, archived)

Well, opium's been in use for millenia.
As have many other natural drugs. Most commonly used drugs really aren't that harmful.
( my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:20, archived)

You are correct in that bad people have always done bad things.
However, we now have generation or two of people who have little concept, never mind understanding or respect, for the consequences of their actions due to years of coddling from paranoid parents and media that tell us we are all doomed. The next rulers of this country will and others will literally not know how to cross a road without their mums.
(bogus official shove it up your cunt, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:20, archived)

Or in other words;
WAAAAAH I'M OLD.
( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:21, archived)

Without the WAAAAAH bit

(bogus official shove it up your cunt, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:23, archived)

And better placed commas

(bogus official shove it up your cunt, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:23, archived)

And commas were better when you were young.

( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:24, archived)

Stronger and sleaker
Made of coal and iron
(bogus official shove it up your cunt, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:26, archived)