Yes I would assume health and safety laws would stop kids using electric or petrol mowers nowadays. When i worked in a butchers as a teenager I wasn’t allowed to use the bandsaw because i was under the legal age.
But you’re right, kids don’t do odd jobs to earn money nowadays. Mind you I wouldn’t trust a kid to clean my car! 
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Sorry we seem to be picking on youth . Yes there are great kids out there , but a bit fewer and far between . My next door neighbor’s kids are great . One neighbor over and their poor kid’s parents in my opinion should never have had kids . I will not go into details , but their parenting has ill prepared them for real life . I rarely see a teen interested in any of the trades . Everybody will pay the price in the near future .
It’s true things are so different for our children. We’ve realised we can fight that and keep trying to mould our DD to be the person we think she should be, or support her in becoming the best version of herself.
She is 16, and getting a part time job is impossible. Most places want them to be 18, and the few jobs for 16-17yrs are snapped up usually by a ‘friend of a friend’ in the know.
Our DD is quiet, reserved, a bit of a loner, and in many ways lacks a desire to succeed. That’s been difficult for me on occasions as I’m sporty, outgoing, give anything a go, and always been proactive in finding a job starting with a paper round at 12yrs old.
But unlike me or her Dad, she has amazing art skills. So, we’ve always encouraged that passion. She has over the last year or so opened her own little Etsy shop (her idea) selling a few of her creations. Yes, she still needs pushing to produce and market her range, and we are still waiting for her ‘business plan’ if she wants us to invest 
but she’s happy and enjoying life her way.
Well yeah
I thought I was average
Till i was continuously rejected and told I was small i can only go off my own experiences
I’ve found a few times it can be the older generation that have the lack of respect. As you say, I’ve been judged by them plenty of times for simply sitting in a disabled bus seat, with my son. Just because you can’t see his disability, doesn’t mean its right for them to judge. I could hear the two older ladies sat behind us, slating me and my son. I do think, there is bad in every generation.
Sorry to upset you, and yes it does come across as a downer on youth, and there’s great kids too, I know i work with a lot. It was more reflecting on life skills not being passed down like they were previously.
I’m not a parent, but I do know most parents want their kids to succeed in life and do better than they did, and they must be allowed to take their own path.
That just means you had some lucky escapes from shallow people. Keep on trying and you’ll find someone decent.
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Believe it or not I am like that son. My brother is sports mad and runs every day. I have always had no interest in playing or watching it, but as a kid i too did karate and because of that beat all my class at circuit training much to their surprise. I always felt as if I was a disappointment to my late dad because as well as all the above I left the room if sport was on tv to go and read or listen to music whilst even my sister and mum were only to happy to watch sport. Like I said previously in this topic, he taught me a lot, even though we had little in common. The irony being that we had started to bond more when I was in my late 20’s when he died suddenly, leaving me with a lifetime of if’s and but’s and if only’s and things I wish I’d said.
Picking the wife up at work and a lady decieded to reverse into me while we where sat at the traffic lights …..
New bumper, headlight, trim required …. Rang the insurance 24/7 claimline … no answer just cut off after the automated choices!
I dont swear but ffs
Getting old is horrible, not me but my OHs parents. Doctors suspect his father’s cancer is back and if thats not bad enough we have just been told his mother is in kidney failure and she has refused dialysis. They have said she has between a few weeks to months left without treatment.
Just a small rant …
I find the deluge of Valentine’s ad’s and shop shelves groaning with gift idea’s quite annoying. You can’t walk into a supermarket without being made to feel like some kind of misery guts if you’re not either giving or receiving loads of gifts.
Personally I’d rather show and be shown love and appreciation throughout the year rather than on one particular day. I feel that some of people simply do Valentine’s just for show or because they’ve felt guilt tripped into it (and I know people who do get guilt tripped into it)…not generalising, its just my opinion.
Anyway, it’ll all be over soon!
I have the same feelings, if you can’t show it everyday what’s the point to 14th February. It doesn’t wipe the slate clean. I also don’t get the partner who says they are done but then asks what are you getting me???
I don’t mind it, or Halloween, Easter, Christmas etc it’s the over commercialisation aspect of them all. Ultimately it’s not what you spend or what grand gestures you make, it’s the small, thoughtful things the other 364 days that matter.
@wildflower…i do get what you are saying im so many respect.
I’ve always bought my wife flowers and a card on Valentines day.
I view it like Mothers day ( you appreciate your mother every day or at least you should). Your partner should be regarded in similar way.
Just a way to make a loved one feel extra special and an excuse to have another bit of sexy fun , as if that was required.
Maybe im just a soppy romantic 
Since this keeps coming up, it makes me absolutely furious and I don’t want to ruin other peoples threads I’ll post this here and then leave the topic alone.
My argument is that in 2026 in a secular country, circumcision should be a medical procedure performed by a qualified, experienced professional only with the consent of the organs owner who is made fully aware of what they are about to lose. If an 18+ adult wishes it done for their own reasons then that should be permitted in law.
However a procedure performed on a child without its consent, for any reason other than something that negatively impacts their immediate health, should be considered, treated and prosecuted as child abuse or grievous bodily harm under Offences Against the Person Act 1861 Section 20 ( Malicious Wounding ).
Medieval myths, superstition and organised dogma should be no defence.
Neither fashion, fads, tradition or peer pressure.
Female opinions are as irrelevent as male opinions about womens bodies when it comes to a clinical decision.
Likewise a mothers opinion on some concept of the aesthetic.
The inner skin of the foreskin contains approx the same number of never endings as the clitoris, many of which are wholly unique. Its is the most sensitive part of the male genitalia and as such to remove it could be said to be akin to removing the clitoral glans - it doesn’t entirely prevent sex or orgasm, but the sensation and experience is greatly lessened. That many people who have been cut at birth can never realise this is absolutely not the point. They have been recklessly denied the opportunity.
As it is, circumcision of minors is rarely done by an experienced, specialist surgeon. Usually left to less experienced, less concientious and in some obscene circumstances, unqualified religious ‘leaders’. Its bad enough to be removing the foreskin but its also apparently very common for non specialists to take pride in removing everything .. ie. the frenulum as well. I can’t express how disgusting this is.
If women were in danger of having their most sensitive parts of their Vulva ritually removed at birth for no reason other than someone elses pleasure or beliefs I think there would be a law against it. Oh, yes there is .. The Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 . Yes I understand thats meant to cover much more extreme and barbaric acts but it also includes female circumcision ( specifically removal of the clitoral hood which is a close enough equivalence for demonstration ).
I’m aware my neurodivergency means I tend toward black and white thinking and have an intense need for justice, and my circumcision in my 40’s means I know exactly what is lost, but I’m curious as to whether I’m in a minority. You can select multiple options.
How many other people are bored to death of threesomes ? I myself have a harder time getting hard . The excitement seems to be fading . I guess I should mention my threesome includes me , myself and I . I just wish I could get the wife to play with me for a few minutes week vs her phone . Imagine , I am bored after several decades of self pleasure . Only thing keeping me going is being horny most of the time , I use my creativity and imagination as much as I can . There I feel better , venting .
It’s a shame @Oldman
Have you tried suggesting a phone free evening in bed? I’m sure if she can handle her phone all the time she can handle you. We all need love and intimacy it’s a basic human need. Just to be touched and hugged means so so much. It costs nothing but means the world 
Sending you virtual hugs and don’t forget it’s ok to vent…
Tried everything I can think of . I know I am not as sexy - hot - muscular as I was 45 years ago , but for an old guy not terrible . I am working on a custom toy holder so I hopefully can massage my prostrate inside and outside at the same time . Looking forward to testing . I try and entertain myself . If it works I will make a video for my wife to see my eyes roll back in my head , lol .