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Yes, young people's music is rubbish, yes they make too much noise, yes they're arrogant and yes they're offensive, they wear stupid clothes and they don't talk properly and they don't sit up straight and they don't respect their elders. In fact they don't do anything older people do. Because they're young. It's kind of expected of them.
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The difference is, Kieran, and I am "only" 34 not 85, these days "yoof" has a STUPID amount of disposable income and they live with their parents ever-later mostly because of this country's moronic fixation with property prices, so there are ever-increasing numbers of morons driving round in what are relatively expensive and very fast souped-up cars.
Young people ARE stupid for the most part, and they ARE arrogant and they can't drive properly. So, giving them a fast car is tantamount to a licence to kill, or at least maim. I couldn't give a monkeys if they hurt themselves, might teach them a lesson. Mowing down innocent people is a tad different. Hanging about on car parks revvving your four-cylinder losermobile because you're insecure about your status and size is different Etc. etc. etc.
I don't expect respect from such retards. I do, however, expect the law to be enforced to protect me and the rest of the community. Take their stupid cars off them if they transgress and/or put up insurance to a prohibitive level perhaps? But of course, nothing will be done. As usual.
God I am intolerant! : )
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>>these days "yoof" has a STUPID amount of disposable income
Ain't that the truth.
I used to run appalling awful cars which I bought for 2/6 and kept running at the expense of my knuckle skin. All you see these days is kids driving around in saxos and hte like that I could never have afforded. I guess its mostly credit deals, but its amazing to see.
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Or the totally clueless poverty spec boy racers buy the big spud launchers, don't bother checking for back pressure and just have a very loud and very slow car. Is a Calibra just like this in Weston. Exhaust so loud could tell he was revving it to kingdom come, but acceleration was akin to glacial drift.
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Sorry for DP, meant to add another hysterical one is the dump valve simulator. Just makes the popping banging noises. Heard one on an Astra Van a few weeks back whilst walking with the family- gave us all a good laugh.
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I suppose it is quite funny, but I do wonder about the IQs of these people.
I blame Max Power, whoever he may be!! : ) Seriously, have you ever read it? It's utter utter drivel and worringly mysogynistic too. I ain't no PC brigade, but the attitude towards woman is beyond Neanderthal; it's post-lads mag, post-ironic and is just sheer contempt towards them. Mind you, I don't have much sympathy for the girls who parade themselves in it.
Also, the tone of editorial is anti-police and encourages anti-social beahviour; advertising "cruises" and the like.... shouldn't that be er, illegal?!
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I blame Max Power, whoever he may be!! : ) Seriously, have you ever read it? It's utter utter drivel
I have to agree.
I cannot for the life of me work out why anyone would want to spend up to £30,000 on a Saxo that would end up with the whole of the back seat and the boot full of stereo?
Why not buy a really good car with an upgraded stereo (such as Bose)and still have seats and a boot. e.g a scooby doo
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Insurance is the main reason kids run 1l Corsas, Corsas etc.
I'd not like to pay the insurance on an Impreza or attract the criminal elements who fancy them.
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I wasna fu but just had plenty.
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Am guessing because the car gets uprated in pieces, ie boy racer buys shed, br starts adding bits and pieces here and there.
Wakes up one day with brain cell switched on, realised has spent the equivalent of a year old Porsche Boxster on a Saxo/ Astra/ Corsa/ Punto. Cries. Puts tarted up shed on Ebay as a show car for hugely inflated sum.
Also insurance on a Scooby is prohibitive, so instead gets 993cc Corsa- puts in 2 litre engine. Doesnt tell insurance. Gets big bill when crashes.
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In line with some of the other comments on here are a lot of you not just being petty ?
In my view the neds and their bodykitted Corsas are probably safer on the road than many other groups.
How about the bank holiday dad who never gets to use the power in his BMW (or other car) on a normal day and so will plough along the motorway, tailgating all the way to the in-laws ?
How about the people that speed going down hills and long straights but drop around 10 mph when going up a hill ?
Or the people that drive at the same speed whether in a 30 or 60 limit ?
All these people are a greater menace than some ned blowing his money on his car and not on drugs or glue !
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Freezer, you're, er, cool.
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Right, unsure what a ned is, is it a Scottish chav or something?
I concede that there are many other bad drivers on the road. However, I don't know many "bank holiday dads" or "hill menaces" or "same speed Simons" that drive endlessly round and round the same road ALL night with their happy slappy hardcore blasting out, only stopping to congregate in some Chav Mecca such as an Aldi car park or similar, where they all get out and look at each other's bodykits disturbing the entire neighbourhood till they decide to doing laps of whatever town they live in. WHY, if they are interested in cars and driving, don't they go and drive on decent roads rather than speeding round small towns annoying people? Why don't you just admit that they're stupid adolescents who desperately want to feel part of a group, rather than some sort of poor, picked-upon minority?
I'd rather they bought drugs and/or glue, frankly. It might encourage them to stay inside and shut the heck up.
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"till they decide to doing laps" should read "until they decide to go back to doing laps".
Apologies for appalling grammar! : )
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They have to go round the block;it's the only place they can "appear "to go fast-they get left behind by turbo diesels on the main road.
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: ) Indeed, jc2....
Funny story a few months back: I am walking through town with a friend when a Nova slows down going past us, full of chavs (and I use that carefully, despite my rants on thid thread I am not anti-younger people at all in general!) and one of them leans out of the window laughing and saying "ha ha where are you walking to losers" or similar (I don't speak chav). My friend's retort was: "If I had a Nova I wouldn't drive about town in it all night. I'd keep it well hidden and only go out in the deepest darkest countryside late at night. How ironic that I have a BMW M3 convertible and I'm walking...".
I KNOW kids will be kids etc. etc. etc. but by jiminy it's fun to have a pop back at them. The only issue I take with the "we were all young once" argument is that I didn't drive round my local town in a stupid car that I spent a ridiculous amount of money on to make it louder and more tasteless. Not ALL young folk do it! It's just a minority bunch of cheesy, tasteless, soulless halfwits and I think the more people laugh at them, maybe some of them will realise how stupid they look, and what a pointless lifestyle sitting on a car park "showing off" to 14 year old girls is.....
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">I KNOW kids will be kids etc. etc.<" etc etc
Well done young people, keep it up!! Which is perhaps part of the problem. I can fondly recall some extraordinarily loud motorbikes created by me sometime in the last century. Serval expansion chambers, K & Ns plus gross overporting = a wonderful cacophony. I quite fancy a nice TZ500 for those early Sunday morning start-ups. No, I'm far too old now.
Ban the noisy exhausts, they are a disgrace.
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Good points well put stevied. As for strict limits being put on these youngsters... at the moment it only takes 6 points to lose your licence if you've had it less than two years, and 3 points actually sends your insurnace up by about 1000 smackers.
But my point is that kids will be kids. And as correct as you all are when you say that these youngsters are a danger, people used to say it about kids with capris, and before that mods on mopeds, and before that it was kids riding horses. They do it becasue they're kids, and you shout at them because you're an adult. It's the way of the world. The more you rant about it the more you're doing what every "only 35"-year old has ever done.
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I agree with you Kieran, with the one exception..... let me be "only" 34 rather than 35 till next month!!! : ) March 20th, if anyone wants to send me good wishes....
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I think we need to teach these chavs about engine compression and how these loud exhausts can actually slow your car down :p:
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Why? Really does make me laugh when I see budget boy making lots of noise and barely moving. Besides- could be seen as a sort of intelligence test for them, working out why their very loud car has suddenly all the go of a snail on prozac.
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You are all being a bit harsh except mr freezer. What is wrong with a bit of innocent customising, which is what you are all talking about? Tastes differ. Personally I don't like Mercedes two-seaters, but they are often very good cars. What's so contemptible about a ponced-up Corsa with whumpa-whumpa-whumpa sound system? As freezer points out, it keeps them out of mischief and they often drive well and carefully.
I know we are all snobs in our different ways but we shouldn't be so shameless about it.
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Depends on where you live I guess- live within earshot of a busy road out of a seaside resort, and get them coming round the estate I live on. I'm not being a snob- just don't like having to listen to them racing each other between the roundabouts.
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There have always been people who like to run noisy cars and seem oblivious to the fact that others might just find the noise annoying. Around here we have a boy racer who has a sports car (not naming the type as it's quite unusual) but it makes a horrible rasping 4-cylinder noise and he ALWAYS revs it to the red line in all gears.
We also have loads of bikers and mopedists who've tampered with their exhausts to make them noisier.
There is also a very noisy 6-cylinder car I often hear roaring around but haven't eyeballed yet - it sounds suspiciously like a race-tuned Aston Martin DB4, 5 or 6.
Some noisy cars are more annoying than others but since that it is purely subjective whether a screaming 4-cylinder superbike or a thundering big V8 car is most annoying I think action should be taken to enforce proper silencing on all noisy vehicles.
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I can understand that the noise from the exhausts can be frustrating but can you not see the bigger picture ?
For every one person with a loud exhaust and customised car there are ten people with no interests in life wanting to burgle your house or smash a bus shelter and so on.
Loud exhausts are a small price to pay !
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I can understand that the noise from the exhausts can be frustrating but can you not see the bigger picture ? For every one person with a loud exhaust and customised car there are ten people with no interests in life wanting to burgle your house or smash a bus shelter and so on. Loud exhausts are a small price to pay !
The logic is impeccable.
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"Loud exhausts are a small price to pay !"
So we are all meant to be happy because whilst these irritating kids are keeping us awake into the small hours they're not burgling our houses. Is that what living in an English town or city has come to?
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Is that what living in anEnglish town or city has come to?
Yes it is, your Grace.
I have to say that all you people who live in peaceful backwaters in the provinces are extraordinarily intolerant.
Of course I may just be getting deaf with age but I must say that the odd boom-box exhaust is barely noticeable round here.
I must say though that yesterday driving quietly along in traffic I couldn't tell whether the whumpa-whumpa-whumpa, very loud indeed, came from the car behind or the car in front. You wouldn't have given either of them a second glance and I never did work out which one it was.
It wasn't me anyway, or at least I don't think it was.
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On the plus side if they have fitted a noisy exhaust it does mean they probably own the car and they are not driving around in a nice quiet stolen car.
We have a local loud exhausted car, and yes, despite my above comments it is annoying. Not anymore though, yesterday it aquired a DVLA wheel clamp. I'm laughing, now as he thought it was funny when my car wasn't running the other week.
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Wouldn't it be nice to live in a place where your house wasn't burgled AND you didn't have morons screeching round car parks?
Lud, I sympathise with your thinking we're all curtain twitchers, I try my hardest not to be, but the fact remains that one of the reasons I don't live in the big smoke is because it's quieter. So, I do NOT want people screeching round car parks late at night, playing their happy hardcore at full whack and beeping their horns to prove to everyone that they're alive.
Contrary to how I may come across, I am a fun-loving, free-wheeling drinking smoking gambling type of guy..... I just don't feel the urge to inflict my noise and vices on those who aren't interested. Always been like that, it's a lesson these muppets could do with learning.
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