Like i said when you selectively quoted...
The old gangs lived by a code.
If you went onto their "Turf" yes you would have gotten chibbed...
I don't hide behind rose tinted glasses just seems that with the current generation almost everywhere after dark is a no go area....
How many times have we opened the paper and read so and so killed his best mate or he stabbed his own brother whilst high on drugs...
Rose tinted glasses i think not....
So kindly wipe the Brylcreem from your eyes and ponder this....
When was the last time a teenager in a burberry cap held a door open for you...
When was the last time you were given a seat on the bus by said "yoof's"
Please and thank you seem to be words of the past as parents are out there playing with their own kids and do not have the time to teach them basic manners....
Manners are not dead but the are certainly in decline...
Our Culture is evolving and whilst there are some good kids still out there they are vastly outnumbered by the scumbags...
But back to the rose tinted comment you made earlier....
This is from my own experience of living in the scheme maybe your scheme was different or maybe it was just you they did not like....
When we were kids we could roam the whole estate play with who we liked and indeed go to school in the other gangs turf...
After dark it was different. you never ventured over the "Border" you knew the unwritten boundaries and never even went near them at night...
Nostalgia no....To be a kid again maybe....To do it differently absolutley not...
No one has a square go any more it's all shout stab shoot....
Only people with black eyes these days are fall over drunks...
I have lost a few good friends to this so called Knife culture...
One stabbed in the back by a 15 year old laddie at 3 am Walking home from work because the kid fell out with his girlfriend, two through drugs and myself i was slashed what was my crime...Opening a laywers door in Anniesland early one thursday morning and it would be a laugh to do it ....well it seemed funny to the wee fuckers that did it.... so don't you dare condemn me to rose tinted glasses.
If cheese gets mouldy you throw it out...
Why buy it mouldy in the first place ?