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More 15 year old boys have smartphones than live with father

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  • #32
    darkpagandeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,461 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    hatrickpatrick wrote: »
    Title should have specified that we were talking about the UK. No offence intended, but socially the UK seems f*cked, and has been for a long time.

    Development of nanny state, Children knowing their rights No discipline in school little to no respect for adults. Has to be something pretty recent say last 30 ish years. As they have had large housing estates way before that and jobless parents. Seems to be getting worse and worse over the years. Gang culture crime. I mean if you grow up with no consequences for your actions what way do you think people will turn out.


  • #33
    oldyouth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,754 ✭✭✭oldyouth


    hatrickpatrick wrote: »
    However, living happily with one parent is surely better than living miserably with two?

    That is why I said what I said :rolleyes:


  • #34
    NegativeCreep
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    Nodin wrote: »
    Me.

    I doubt you're 15 though


  • #35
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    NegativeCreep wrote: »
    I doubt you're 15 though


    Not in many a year, it has to be said.


  • #36
    cloud493
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    You can get a basic smartphone for nothing these days. Well not literally nothing, but dead cheap.


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  • #37
    darkpagandeath
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    What's the point in this statistic anyway ? Are they trying to say not to buy a smart phone and use the cash to buy a farther ?


  • #38
    Arthur Beesley
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    darkpagandeath wrote: »
    100% of that demographic wear footwear on a regular basis. Or consume food, or bathe.

    Not so sure about bathe. They are teenagers.


  • #39
    mickydoomsux
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,287 ✭✭✭mickydoomsux


    darkpagandeath wrote: »
    Development of nanny state, Children knowing their rights No discipline in school little to no respect for adults. Has to be something pretty recent say last 30 ish years. As they have had large housing estates way before that and jobless parents. Seems to be getting worse and worse over the years. Gang culture crime. I mean if you grow up with no consequences for your actions what way do you think people will turn out.

    And we, like morons, base everything on "the English model".


  • #40
    Arthur Beesley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Arthur Beesley


    mickydoomsux wrote: »
    And we, like morons, base everything on "the English model".

    No doubt someone will champion the Swedish or Norwegian model.


  • #41
    AlanS181824
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    I don't see this of relevance to Ireland considering this is for the UK.

    But alas interesting nonetheless!


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  • #42
    darkpagandeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,461 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    mickydoomsux wrote: »
    And we, like morons, base everything on "the English model".

    True but i wonder how many of them over their have like 150 previous convictions and so on :P The justice system is way worse here i think.


  • #43
    mickydoomsux
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,287 ✭✭✭mickydoomsux


    Arthur Beesley wrote: »
    No doubt someone will champion the Swedish or Norwegian model.

    Yeah, let's copy some other countries ideas completely despite the fact that the rest of our social models, taxation system and economy are completely different to theirs.

    We'd **** ourselves if we came up with an original concept that doesn't involve "throw money at de vulnerable!"


  • #44
    Nodin
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    mickydoomsux wrote: »
    Yeah, let's copy some other countries ideas completely despite the fact that the rest of our social models, taxation system and economy are completely different to theirs.

    We'd **** ourselves if we came up with an original concept that doesn't involve "throw money at de vulnerable!"


    So complain about copying the brits, complain about not copying the brits. Ye little ray of sunshine ye.


  • #45
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,798 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    oldyouth wrote: »
    That is why I said what I said :rolleyes:

    Sorry should have made clear I wasn't arguing with your own post, just with the prevailing "we can't stand each other anymore but stay together for the sake of the kids" argument which seems pervasive today. I'd actually go so far as to say that true "irresponsibility" is staying together in a scenario in which doing so subjects your kids to a constant air of hostility and grumpiness at home.


  • #46
    Peregrine
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    If true, that really is a shocking statistic. I would have thought that a lot more than 62% have smartphones.


  • #47
    Maphisto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,014 ✭✭✭Maphisto


    darkpagandeath wrote: »
    What's the point in this statistic anyway ? Are they trying to say not to buy a smart phone and use the cash to buy a farther ?

    Or maybe Dad will stay if you're not always fecking about with the phone :pac:


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