The headline that screamed at me from the inside of one of the Sunday papers was a work of pure genius. It was one of them moments in life when because of a publication I was well informed, I knew what was going on around me and such knowledgeable and intelligent reporting, made me feel I was ahead of the game.
The headline? ‘Teenage Delinquency Is On The Rise’……………No shit?
Seriously, if anyone walks around anywhere that is populated by people, it would be clear even to the blind that not only is delinquency on the rise, it is at all time record highs and it doesn’t necessarily apply to teenagers either. Only on Saturday did I have the misfortune to visit my local town centre a little later than I normally do and be subjected to sights of these knuckle dragging, gormless, rude, arrogant, stupid, thick, hoodie-clad numpties with their hands down the front of their ‘trackies’……….and that was just the girls.
I’ve written time and time again about my personal experience of just how stupid these things - I can’t describe them as people, that would be unfair to people – can be. The time one interrupted what was clearly a business meeting – four men in business suits, hard hats and high visibility jackets looking at a hole – asking if any of us had a light. Or the scrote who spent most of the time he was haggling with someone at a mobile phone kiosk with his hand working away at his rear end in such a manner that by the time he had finished, the queue that had formed walked away in utter disgust. Or maybe the little shit who I saw emptying his bladder against the front wall of my house. At first he denied it was him…even though I had chased him and his little todger was still hanging out, said it was against his rights for me to order him to clean it up and only seemed to understand when I told him that either he would use his hoodie to clean the piss off my wall, or he could use it to hold against what was left of his nose, when I splattered it all over his face.
Another fine example of just what we are up against is from a good friend of mine who manages a small electrical component distribution depot in Manchester. He needed a couple of general operatives and being the kind of person who believed in giving someone a chance, he went through the job centre and agreed to interview everyone they sent. He blocked out 2 days for interviewing 15 people, only 6 showed up and of them, not one had even attempted to get dressed smartly, he was regularly referred to as mate, pal, dude and bruv. The main questions were about how many holidays and sick days they were entitled to and one didn’t even know what a fork lift truck was. He was offering a chance for two people to earn above average wages, good conditions, progression opportunities and above everything else, employment, yet of those who could be bothered showing up, not one came close to the kind of person he was looking for. The job centre rejected his claims that the standard wasn’t good enough and claimed he was discriminating. Overall, his attempts to recruit locally, give someone a chance and be a good employer, ended up with a succession of pointless meetings with job centre staff that didn’t seem to understand that he wasn’t likely to take someone on who turns up for an interview in a hoodie, spent most of the interview sending and receiving texts and then tried to cadge a cigarette off him and wasting days seeing what he frankly called ‘ a bunch of useless lazy scrotes who don’t want to work.
This is the reality of the levels of delinquency in this country and unless I misread it and the levels are going to get worse than this……maybe the writer should get out a little more, ask the right people questions and open his eyes.
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Aw naaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Did you really have to go into such detail about the bloke and the phone box???? Grooooss! Then again amongst the hoodie tribe hygene does seem to be optional so you have a point ;O)
Im sure half the people you mentioned will only have applied for the job in the first place to get the job centre off their backs for another week, cos a similar thing happened to a friend of mine. He was interviewing for a receptionist, and out of god knows how many interviews he was supposed to do, only two people turned up. One of those had so many piercings (not that I have anything against piercings) that she was obviously unsuitable to be the face of the company.
Oh and the ones in your mates interviews werent all sending texts. Some were updating Facebook statuses. IN INTERVIEW. SUCKS. WONDER IF I CAN BUM A FAG OFF THE BLOKE. ANYONE GOIN TO THE PUB ILL BE THERE BY MID MORNING.
Mind you if you use the phrase ‘the youth of today’ I will have to have strong words ;O)
More hugs Daf xxx
You’re right, they probably were updating their facebook or twitter. I actually saw a professional footballer once going to a solicitors office. He was with an advisor who did all his talking whilst the footballer – Matthew Etherington, plays for Stoke – constantly played with his phone. I had a thought, so i found a twitter account of his…
Just arrived at briefs
Bit boring but agent sorting things out
Looks like I’ll get off with it
It’ll cost a bit though
It’s cold in Manchester today
It was feckin sad! Whilst a £60k a week footballer is OK, doing it a job interview is just typically rude of ‘todays youth’……….still having words?????
I shouldn’t really tar all the kids with one brush, I know we are only talking about a minority but you just can’t help getting the feeling that the minority grows and grows and with the state of the economy, cut backs and their ability to get away with just about anything, why on earth would they even want to work!!
Overall looking round though, above everything else it just saddens me. So many sacrifices for freedom, liberty and prosperity over the years……and what has the country become?
ON that lovely thought, have a good day
Pete X
Slight aside cos I just read that back to myself. Is it statuses? Or statusii or maybe its like sheep and just many status? Oh dear I think Id better go top up my vino ;O)
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Hiya budski!
First of all, you read the News Of The World? lol Whatever floats your boat mate. I’m assuming you picke dit up somewhere and didn’t actually pay for it? lol
Nah, seriously though, it’s a slow news day at the ‘NoW’, it has to be for them to state the obvious and publish on a story that’s already been murdered by the other tabloids.
Convo at NoW HQ:
Man 1: “We need a good story, no one cares about Egypt and the guy that killed that Girl is in the nick now. Government’s quiet and we can’t say owt anyway because we’re in trouble with them as it is!”
Man 2: “I know! We’ll do a story on hoody delinquents! Everybody hates them!”
Man 1: “You’re a genius! Ya well worth the £100,000 a year!”
Man 2: “Ah well, you know… I actually got the idea from this guy who blogs named Pete Judge! Been nicking his stuff for the last year and half!”
Man 1: “You pay him for it?”
Man 2: “Nah!”
Both men: “LOL!”
Obviously doesn’t go like that, but you get the drift.
Have to say, I’m suprised you threatend that scally scum bag. Did he mop up his piss with his hoody? Did he talk about knowing his rights and how he knows Mr. Hardman of the neighbourhood? They usualy do, the little cuntbags!
As for the job applicants, LOL! Um, they wern’t from Salford were they? Sounds like them to a T! My sister goes to interviews dressed nicely, takes her CV etc, and they don’t want to know. The JC don’t either, they only like to threaten her while the scallies sit outside swigging cans waiting to come in and bullshit.
Nothing will change in the country while the people sit on their arses not bothered, especially the cunts in middle England, the whole country doesn’t live in the country and home counties! We do need help from others. But with Politicians being detached from the reality of the streets and the Judges too (over 90% of the Judicary are private schooled) then we’re stuck with the situation we have. How depressing!
Take soon matey and hope you’re OK.
I didn’t see it in the NoTW as it happens, I buy three on a Sunday and that definitely isn’t one of them. I boycotted that rag and the scum after Hillsbrough. I might be a Man U fan but some of the stories they wrote about Liverpool fans were disgusting and in a lot of cases, total fucking lies!!
They probably stole it from me as you say!
Anyhoo,my sister was made redundant in November and she is going through a similar situation. No money because she got a small payout and threats of JC that she wont get anything even though she is smart, very capable and very willing to work but like your sister, sees all the skank outside swigging cans, smoking joints until it is there turn to sign on and she has seen it herself, they get no questions, no interrogation, no hassle. Sign here please, thank you, have a nice day!
Very much the point I was trying to make. On the rise? The journalist – title used very loosely – must have taken a wrong turn somewhere and seen another side to the country he rarely sees from his 4 bed detached mock tudor 2 bathroomed pile in middle England. Wanker.
Trying not to let it get me down though. Be grateful for what little I have
Pete
Aha…I’m catching up now, it is early after all.
News of the World is the title of the blog…….nah, it’s just a coincidence, all my blog titles are songs by The Jam chosen at random. I believe they use this song as the theme tune for ‘Mock the week’…Never seen it but I heard it’s good.
Pure coincidence mate
Now, you see how I got the wrong idea? I wondered why your blog titles were out of step with the rest of the blog. I thought you had some kind of random generating title tool I didn’t know of?
You know, it really gets me how they don’t kick the scrotes off the dole! The staff give the good people a hard time and they let these scumbags get away with it! It’s madness!
Mock The Week is a good show, not been the same since Franky Boyle left though.
Anyway, enjoy what’s left the evening budski and take care!
You can’t kick the scrotes off the dole!!
Surely it would be against their yuman rites not to get any free money for doing fuck all?
I suppose it is a random title generating tool – a list of Jam song titles…close my eyes, stab my pen, viola!