Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ June 16 2008, 5:12 PM BSTThe headteacher walked past me and said "ID! We all know what happened this afternoon!" as if that would've avoided it. >_<
That's f**king retarded. If people are going to be bastards they will continue to do so regardless of security.
People are horrible...
I demand that you keep us updated of whatever you hear, Robyn!
I'm afraid we're getting the society we deserve
I had my badge on, too! He just picks on me because he knows my name. He's oblivious to what's actually going on in school-and there will doubtless be an assembly in which his ravings confirm this.
People *are* horrible...
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ June 16 2008, 5:17 PM BSTI had my badge on, too! He just picks on me because he knows my name. He's oblivious to what's actually going on in school-and there will doubtless be an assembly in which his ravings confirm this.
People *are* horrible...
That just sounds like a horrific thing to happen.
Headteachers, as a rule, haven't got a clue. I get told off by mine and he doesn't even know my name...
What can we expect to happen in our schools when kids are treated to a daily diet of television glorifying extremes of violence, greed, drugs, knives, guns, selfishness, shallowness and then when they're bored with that they go on the computer and play games with all that in.
I was told much of this when I was in my teens but 30+ years on it has reached a new extreme. I hate censorship but when the moral code of our society is being ripped up quite so easily I would question where we will be in another 30 years time.
Btw, I am not a reincarnation of Mary Whitehouse 
Quote: PhQnix @ June 16 2008, 5:23 PM BSTThat just sounds like a horrific thing to happen.
Headteachers, as a rule, haven't got a clue. I get told off by mine and he doesn't even know my name...
It was awful! It doesn't seem like it actually happened yet.
And maybe you just look like a troublemaker?
Alan, I play the Grand Theft Auto (he mother of all violent games) as does my brother. I'm a year below the recommended certificate, my brother is 3 years too young. I'm not a sociopath and neither is he. I can see why games would draw out such tendencies in people but to blame society's problems with violent media is simplistic.
The current problem is wide ranging. It's the result of falling discipline in school, irresponsible parents (indirectly a product of Thatcher's generation of self interested yuppies) and a culture of posturing violence amongst the youth.
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ June 16 2008, 5:27 PM BSTAnd maybe you just look like a troublemaker?
I'm a rebel by my schools standards. I was threatened with expulsion once!
Quote: PhQnix @ June 16 2008, 5:34 PM BSTI'm a rebel by my schools standards. I was threatened with expulsion once!
Why!? The hair?
My brother was expelled at the age of 4! 
No I'm not blaming it just on one thing but they are linked. If GTA brought out the worst in everyone then we'd have already reached the point of no return. Something is very wrong when everyday we hear about old people raped and murdered in their beds, or mugged in the street. Drug addicts everywhere in huge numbers, a society filled with greed - that may well have been an offshoot from Thatcher's generation but it doesn't matter anymore. It's all of our problem and if a game where you blast peoples heads off is entertainment and the reasons for doing it are all part of the game then the line between reality and gameplay gets blurred in the heads of those without the brains you have. We have too many people who have nothing to live for other than to cause trouble for other people and I am certainly not blaming a block of people who have inherited it, but it's your world to inherit and it looks pretty, bloody bleak from where i'm standing.
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ June 16 2008, 5:37 PM BSTWhy!? The hair?
Yep! It sounds cooler if I say I was threatened with expulsion
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ June 16 2008, 5:37 PM BSTMy brother was expelled at the age of 4!
Skilful. For what?
Quote: PhQnix @ June 16 2008, 5:40 PM BSTYep! It sounds cooler if I say I was threatened with expulsion
Skilful. For what?
What a guess! 
Well, again it doesn't sound as cool when explained. I left that particular primary school because instead of giving me more work when I'd finished, they got me to listen to other children read. My mum got angry, moved me to another school, and the first school said that if they weren't good enough for me, Andy couldn't stay!
Quote: Alan C @ June 16 2008, 5:39 PM BSTNo I'm not blaming it just on one thing but they are linked. If GTA brought out the worst in everyone then we'd have already reached the point of no return. Something is very wrong when everyday we hear about old people raped and murdered in their beds, or mugged in the street.
I actually don't think it's that bad. Between the Government producing statistics which report falling crime and the media screaming about the collapse of society I think that stuff is a bad as it ever was. There is a change in the demographics of crime though, younger and younger criminals.
Quote: Alan C @ June 16 2008, 5:39 PM BSTIt's all of our problem and if a game where you blast peoples heads off is entertainment and the reasons for doing it are all part of the game then the line between reality and gameplay gets blurred in the heads of those without the brains you have.
I could give you a detailed discussion on the good parts of the game, but I think it is worrying how much people play up the violent aspect of it.
Quote: Alan C @ June 16 2008, 5:39 PM BSTWe have too many people who have nothing to live for other than to cause trouble for other people and I am certainly not blaming a block of people who have inherited it, but it's your world to inherit and it looks pretty, bloody bleak from where i'm standing.
We'll solve it. Promise
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ June 16 2008, 5:42 PM BSTWell, again it doesn't sound as cool when explained. I left that particular primary school because instead of giving me more work when I'd finished, they got me to listen to other children read. My mum got angry, moved me to another school, and the first school said that if they weren't good enough for me, Andy couldn't stay!
That sounds like something my mum would do...
Quote: PhQnix @ June 16 2008, 5:48 PM BSTWe'll solve it. Promise
New, bigger coup!? 
Quote: PhQnix @ June 16 2008, 5:48 PM BST
Well I'm glad that she did it, but today someone from that primary who now goes to the same sixth form as me, asked why I left, and I very quickly changed the subject.
Quote: PhQnix @ June 16 2008, 5:46 PM BSTI actually don't think it's that bad.
Oh really, an old lady driving her motability scooter at 2.30pm was mugged outside of our local Tesco's last week. 10 years ago there would be police everywhere trying to find the piece of shit who did it - now it's just a crime number. 2 weeks ago my mother had her purse stolen in Iceland by some young kids preying on older people. There is so much crime going on most of it never gets reported. People decide to arm themselves to protect against it and the escalation of this will take us to where they are in America - the country so revered by my fellow Britains. 
I'm done, better stop before I go out and shoot someone