Town centre image Options

[Bloggo]

I don't go into the town very often but today I did and was shocked at the image that I was confronted with.
There were teenage girls with practically all of their chest exposed or skirts up around their bums.
There are teenage lads scruffily dressed in track suit bottoms and football shirts loitering about with nothing to do. Can't even be bothered to get dressed properly.
Scruffy teenage mums, smoking and pushing dirty children in pushchairs.
Foul language freely being used without a care for anyone around them who may be offended by it.
There is clearly a lack of self respect displayed and little respect for others. The image of Newbury town centre I saw today is worrying as it will probably get worse before it gets better.
Hopefully I can avoid going back into town for some time.

[Gumbo]

I don't go into the town very often but today I did and was shocked at the image that I was confronted with.
There were teenage girls with practically all of their chest exposed or skirts up around their bums.
There are teenage lads scruffily dressed in track suit bottoms and football shirts loitering about with nothing to do. Can't even be bothered to get dressed properly.
Scruffy teenage mums, smoking and pushing dirty children in pushchairs.
Foul language freely being used without a care for anyone around them who may be offended by it.
There is clearly a lack of self respect displayed and little respect for others. The image of Newbury town centre I saw today is worrying as it will probably get worse before it gets better.
Hopefully I can avoid going back into town for some time.

Welcome to 21st Century Britain........where have you been?

[Bloggo]

Welcome to 21st Century Britain........where have you been?

Yes, I know, but isn't it awful and depressing the way in which these people present themselves and the standards they are setting for their own kids.
How far does it go before it changes?

[Gumbo]

Yes, I know, but isn't it awful and depressing the way in which these people present themselves and the standards they are setting for their own kids.
How far does it go before it changes?

You also need to worry that their ranks are increasing!

[Darren]

Don't worry, Darwinian theories will kick in eventually and they'll spontaneously combust due to static discharge from their shell suits

[GMR]

This is a common occurrence in towns up and down the country. When I was in town today three teenage girls were pushing prams, smoking, swearing like **** and were also pregnant. Of course being in that situation will help them get a flat or house and move away from their parents.

[TallDarkAndHands...]

What you have is a career choice and the current government recognise this is a fact.
When a young woman reaches the ages of 15/16 (sometimes earlier) they have a choice to make.
Fire out a few kids and get a free house and benefits or face a lifetime of hard work and commitment to a job in order to try and scrimp and save enough together for a deposit to buy a house that they will then spend the next 25 years trying to pay off.

A lot of the less 'bright' or educated woman feel that they only have one option. And we the taxpayers are the fools for allowing the government and these individuals to get away with it.

Still - We have an unelected leader and a mostly unelected cabinet.

Makes Iran look positively democratic.

[Biker1]

Yes, I know, but isn't it awful and depressing the way in which these people present themselves and the standards they are setting for their own kids.
How far does it go before it changes?

Don't get me started!!!

[GMR]

Makes Iran look positively democratic.

Not only that but you can also shoot into the crowd if they get above themselves. Maybe Brown could bring that idea to this country....

[lordtup]

I don't go into the town very often but today I did and was shocked at the image that I was confronted with.
There were teenage girls with practically all of their chest exposed or skirts up around their bums.
There are teenage lads scruffily dressed in track suit bottoms and football shirts loitering about with nothing to do. Can't even be bothered to get dressed properly.
Scruffy teenage mums, smoking and pushing dirty children in pushchairs.
Foul language freely being used without a care for anyone around them who may be offended by it.
There is clearly a lack of self respect displayed and little respect for others. The image of Newbury town centre I saw today is worrying as it will probably get worse before it gets better.
Hopefully I can avoid going back into town for some time.

Reasonably happy about the female attire (tut tut) but yet again another example of the moral decline that has enveloped our society.Any change must come from the top (Westminster)with the will of the people,so start lobbying,no demanding,that the streets are cleaned up because to do nothing is no longer an option

[Guest_Bill1_*]

Are they bovvered?

[Iommi]

...There are teenage lads scruffily dressed in track suit bottoms and football shirts loitering about with nothing to do. Can't even be bothered to get dressed properly...

Yesterday, someone had the bright idea to give them microphones!

This is a by product of making the area more pedestrian friendly, you provide an area for all walks of life and not just the meek.

[Biker1]

Reasonably happy about the female attire (tut tut)

Not too sure about that.

It exposes their ta'ooos and piercin's dunnit??

[Instigator]

Slightly off-topic,

I'm not sure if its me getting older and noticing it more, or if it's just got worse in recent years.

The worst case I can think of that I've seen is a young junkie looking lass trying to buy her other half's Stella with her milk tokens!! the best bit was her being genuinely offended when staff told her it was for milk / vegetables and the such like...

I admit I'm no angel, but the tirade that came out of her mouth would of made a sailor blush!!

[GMR]

Slightly off-topic,

I'm not sure if its me getting older and noticing it more, or if it's just got worse in recent years.

The worst case I can think of that I've seen is a young junkie looking lass trying to buy her other half's Stella with her milk tokens!! the best bit was her being genuinely offended when staff told her it was for milk / vegetables and the such like...

I admit I'm no angel, but the tirade that came out of her mouth would of made a sailor blush!!

Sadly that seems the norm; I've seen that happen quite a few times; drunks/ junkies abusing staff and shoppers.

[Bloggo]

Slightly off-topic,

I'm not sure if its me getting older and noticing it more, or if it's just got worse in recent years.

The worst case I can think of that I've seen is a young junkie looking lass trying to buy her other half's Stella with her milk tokens!! the best bit was her being genuinely offended when staff told her it was for milk / vegetables and the such like...

I admit I'm no angel, but the tirade that came out of her mouth would of made a sailor blush!!

Isn't it amazing how ignorant these morons are. Where do they come from? Is someone bussing them in?

[GMR]

Isn't it amazing how ignorant these morons are. Where do they come from? Is someone bussing them in?

I think it is the other way around; we bus them out if we get too many all at once

[Biker1]

Isn't it amazing how ignorant these morons are. Where do they come from? Is someone bussing them in?

Actually they come by train - that way they don't have to pay a fare!

[Instigator]

Isn't it amazing how ignorant these morons are. Where do they come from? Is someone bussing them in?

If so, then I guess the busses accept the milk tokens!

[TallDarkAndHands...]

I wish we had rain like we had today every day.

No sign of the swearing single mum brigade or the drunks / junkies abusing people and swearing at anyone who crosses their path.

We could in effect 'wash the streets clean'