Thread: teenagers

Originally Posted by seano87

Those round bits of flat concrete in the middle of the road are roundabouts?? Oops. Nah... its not a roundabout unless there is something resembling vegetation in the middle

Seano

I here by set you a challenge. i have found Jesmond roundabout to be rather large so i have been known at night for a laugh to drive straight through it ... i want you to get out and do this...if you get caught i don't exist!

I grew up in a small country town and was taught to respect my elders and be seen and not heard. If anything this made me timid and afraid to ask questions. I boarded during my high school years and got no life advice and was still afraid to ask questions. I left school half way thru year 11 after getting an apprenticeship at age 14 and boarded at a lodge half filled with greylands outpatients and alcho's and started getting advice. Coming from the formentioned "adults", to say I left the rails is an understatement. The fact is you've got to be put on the rails and guided. Mainly from your parents but I think also from school teachers who spend a lot of time with the kids. I lost a few mates in the early days and there parents were nowhere to be seen, even at funerals. I've got a couple of young ones now and I just hope ( I don't pray) that they will turn out allright. I've taught them to speak to adults on even terms, politely, some will out and out ignore them but the kids understand that now and move on without getting upset. As for sex and drugs and rock n roll i say if they want to do it, they will, but it's better if they do it at home instead of doing it behind your back with unknowens. Still thats down the track for me and at the moment thier just happy to jump in the old landy and belt around the bush...man I'm glad to be alive

Originally Posted by Grover-98

I here by set you a challenge. i have found Jesmond roundabout to be rather large so i have been known at night for a laugh to drive straight through it ... i want you to get out and do this...if you get caught i don't exist!

Oh dear. Well, seeing as I don't live in Newcastle, or quite as close as it to you and am rarely there at night, let alone late enough at night to not have many many people there to witness it, that is certainly one large challenge. However, if I do happen to find myself in suitable circumstances, it might just happen. I will of course have to get myself some red P-plates to adorn my vehicle, suitably covering registration details... typical P-plater I shall be Oh oh oh... do I get extra points if I do it in low range?

You are a dreadful influence on me. Bad James.

Originally Posted by seano87

Oh dear. Well, seeing as I don't live in Newcastle, or quite as close as it to you and am rarely there at night, let alone late enough at night to not have many many people there to witness it, that is certainly one large challenge. However, if I do happen to find myself in suitable circumstances, it might just happen. I will of course have to get myself some red P-plates to adorn my vehicle, suitably covering registration details... typical P-plater I shall be Oh oh oh... do I get extra points if I do it in low range?

You are a dreadful influence on me. Bad James.

Extra points can only be earned if you do it in reverse with hazards flashing and honking your horn!

Im not a bad influence i am just...inspirational

Originally Posted by Grover-98

Extra points can only be earned if you do it in reverse with hazards flashing and honking your horn!

Im not a bad influence i am just...inspirational

You'll give teenagers a bad reputation...

Inspirational? I can't really deny that one!

Originally Posted by seano87

You'll give teenagers a bad reputation...

Inspirational? I can't really deny that one!

Ah we are allowed to have some safe fun aren't we...

well its good to hear from some younger rover owners that are sensible, I am 28 now but when I was in my teens I moved out of home and lived on my own boat, this made me grow up in some areas but was detrimental in others as I started drinking and didn't stop untill early twentys, that life style of drinking is distructive and I made some poor decisions but when you hit the bottom you can only go up, I am now a mechanic in the Army and very happy. To the younger guys that have posted here thanks for being some one who gose against the constant barage of to be cool and have fun you have to get laid and be drunk, you should be proud of yourselves, you are more of a man to say no and get teased then to follow and be accepted, also said, It's a narrow road to righteousness but a wide one to destruction.

Originally Posted by seano87

There's a huge difference in having a beer in one hand, and drinking yourself into oblivion.

Unfortunately, I think its becoming more of out culture that people do drink to excess - a culture hardly helped by some of our - ahem - sporting role models, among others.

Seano

I would debate that its becoming a greater part of our culture. I'm 44 and grew up in the 80s in Orange NSW. The only difference between young people now and those of my generation is that we had to be drunk by Midnight or all the pubs shut. Today there is always a camera ready to document someone's drunken indescretions, the biggest thing we had to worry about was not hitting anything whilst driving home. I didnt usually drink to excess but by the end of the night I'd probably had about 6 - 8 stubbies or a half bottle of Jack Daniels. These days that amount of alcohol is publicised as "Binge drinking".
My dad used to tell stories of the six o clock swill when all the pubs shut at 18:00 and the race was on to drink as many schooners as possible before closing time. When he got married he had an agreement with mum that he wouldnt have any more than 7 schooners after work before he came home.

I think that we are the victims of a media keen to make bad news of anything that sells ratings and that drunk footballers having group sex makes an excellent headline. There are some things that could be changed to reduce public drunkenness such as closing pubs at midnight and charging greater licence fees for nightclubs but I don't believe that Australian culture has fundamentally changed in the last 50 (or 100 if you read Banjo Patterson) years. And none of our politicians have the ticker to change licensing laws as that just might interrupt the income stream from the licensed venues.

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