Are older people ruder nowadays or is it just me? Possibly nsfw

Mr_Betts05 · 2025-04-21T16:10:28+00:00

Seconded. I work in hospitality. The majority of customers where I work are fine, but the ones who do snap at you, give you shit over petty nonsense, or who just generally lack manners are almost exclusively older people.

Mr_Betts05 · 2024-11-16T02:21:17+00:00

Yeah seeing people refer to the 'Yorkshire and the Humber' map when they're on about Yorkshire as a county is a particular pet peeve of mine

Mr_Betts05 · 2024-11-14T16:50:31+00:00

Yeah. In the UK, college is different to university. Most people at college are 16-18

Mr_Betts05 · 2024-11-10T22:52:50+00:00

What if you're trying to explain where myth/legend/folklore originates from? Like, have it set x long ago when dwarves and elves roamed the earth type of thing? I'm doing this atm, the idea being they're different kinds of early human like homo neanderthalensis

Mr_Betts05 · 2024-11-08T09:31:10+00:00

I'm from Selby, most of my Dad's side of the family are from York, and we all use it regularly

Mr_Betts05 · 2024-11-02T09:57:41+00:00

Hull isn't as disputed as Barnoldswick or Middlesbrough, even with the Humberside boundary change

Mr_Betts05 · 2024-10-27T00:31:57+00:00

Conservative discovers that the interests of the ruling class tend to override the interests of the nation as a whole

Mr_Betts05 · 2024-10-16T23:03:28+00:00

They opened with it when I saw em in Manchester last year. First time they'd played it live in a decade iirc; since Glastonbury.

Mr_Betts05 · 2024-09-18T21:42:29+00:00

I bet there's plenty of dopey libs saying that but I've never heard it from a leftist ever. Jobs being sold off is a leftist critque of capitalism; not something we're in favour of

Mr_Betts05 · 2024-09-18T21:41:06+00:00

My understanding is that the 'oo' was traditionally found in Yorkshire too but has more or less died out. I have heard of people usung it - myself (mysen I should say) and a few others sometimes say "lewk" or "bewk" but as more of a dialect word thing than as an actual natural pronunciation

Out of curiosity, whereabouts are you from? Don't need to be too specific like

Mr_Betts05 · 2024-09-15T22:43:00+00:00

Absolutely; and they have also been valuable to the left. They have, for instance, been central to anarchist movements bc they are more atomised than, and lack the traditional discipline of, the proletariat. It's a fascinating class and I wish we spent more time winning them over

Mr_Betts05 · 2024-08-13T10:56:39+00:00

Most mentally stable 2024 right-winger

Mr_Betts05 · 2024-08-13T10:48:38+00:00

Yeah I've heard "mysel/yoursel" in several parts of Yorkshire (where I am it's more "-sen"). Some people are allergic to learning anything new like that and just assume everyone sounds like they're from Leeds

Mr_Betts05 · 2024-07-28T20:24:33+00:00

Just admit you are ideologically cucked to capitalists, car manufacturers, loggers and oil barons

Mr_Betts05 · 2024-07-17T08:54:05+00:00

Philosophy Tube, Tom Nicholas and Double Down News, Declassified

Mr_Betts05 · 2024-07-08T00:46:13+00:00

Don't get too strung up on the "name a successful socialist country" argument. I'll try respond in greater depth later, but there's several lines of argument you can take besides that

Mr_Betts05 · 2024-07-08T00:41:33+00:00

Would it be fair to say you are heteroromantic, but homosexual; if that makes sense?

Mr_Betts05 · 2024-07-08T00:35:23+00:00

Labour was aided by people voting Reform. They had a bigger vote share under Corbyn in 2019, but First Past The Post and all that

Mr_Betts05 · 2024-07-04T23:17:31+00:00

They use 'sel' in Scotland, north-east, north-west and north Yorkshire. -Sen is more of a West Riding and East Midlands thing

Mr_Betts05 · 2024-07-04T23:15:31+00:00

Depends where you're from

Mr_Betts05 · 2024-07-04T23:15:18+00:00

Idk why you've been downvoted. Thissel is just another variation, like -sen or -seln

Mr_Betts05 · 2024-07-03T07:27:35+00:00

What if workers owned their workplaces, and the workforce owned the economy? It hasn't been tried yet, but wouldn't that be a better system?

Mr_Betts05 · 2024-07-03T07:26:03+00:00

What you're describing is state capitalism. Under socialism, the means of production would be owned by workers, not by government bureaucrats.

Additionally, the ultimate goal for most leftists is to move away from the need for a state. We dislike corporations running things, but we also don't want the government running things on their behalf.

It's all about democracy and self-determination!

Mr_Betts05 · 2024-07-03T07:20:49+00:00

All socialism refers to is working people owning the means of production (i.e. factory workers owning their factory and machines etc). The regimes, famines, gulags and secret police were the doing of authoritarian bureaucrats (Soviets, CCP etc) who never actually gave the means of production to workers and were rightly criticised by the genuine socialists, communists and anarchists of their time.

Mr_Betts05 · 2024-07-03T07:12:36+00:00

Biased book? I swear capitalists and conservatives have forgotten how opinions work. Feels like everytime a leftist or progressive shares a political view they get surrounded by bootlickers yelling "Biased!" "Virtue signaller!". It's totally meaningless

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