On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:12:19 -0000, "Ivan"
wrote:
>Even back then I could see things beginning to go awry with the arrival of
>the new generation of "no need to call me sir" duffel coat wearing 'weirdie
>beardie' teachers with their more liberal teaching methods, not a million
>miles removed from what you describe in your second choice.
Too right! Are teachers permitted to display piercings nowadays? Seems
like almost every person under fifty has one. And if not a piercing,
then a tattoo. The old dear on the supermarket till the other day had
tattoos up both her wizened arms, and I thought, back in the 1960s it
must have seemed really revolutionary, but now she just looked a
really sad case. This will increasingly be so as the current "chav"
generation ages. I think British people set a very poor example in
their dress and manner. Either you have younger people in the
scruffiest apparel known to man, or you have rich oldies in mock fur
coats and stinking of cheap perfume to hide the body odour. None of
the elegance one typically sees on the Continent. For example, women
now routinely wear jeans or chinos, rarely a skirt or a dress, even in
the summer. It's as if British women know they have such poor legs,
they cannot possibly let anyone see. I remember the Britain of the
1960s and Carnaby Street and mini skirts. It's gone downhill since
then.
MM |