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Saughton Park in Edinburgh has been repeatedly vandalised since it was refurbished, bins and play equipment set on fire and a couple of months ago windows on the botanical gardens were smashed. The pork was previously rundown and has been restored in recent years. The historic bandstand was taken into storage in the 80s after being extensively vandalised. I’ve had to move broken glass, discarded cans and on one occasion a knife from the kids play park when I’ve been there with my son. Litter is endemic in less salubrious parts of Edinburgh. In our old house I used to take my boy to Hailes Quarry park and it was frequently strewn with rubbish. 

I’m sure there are a myriad of reasons behind this.  The idea of taking violent redress is appealing on a base level.  I often wonder why people do these things or more pertinently why some people don’t do them.

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Saughton Park in Edinburgh has been repeatedly vandalised since it was refurbished, bins and play equipment set on fire and a couple of months ago windows on the botanical gardens were smashed. The pork was previously rundown and has been restored in recent years. The historic bandstand was taken into storage in the 80s after being extensively vandalised. I’ve had to move broken glass, discarded cans and on one occasion a knife from the kids play park when I’ve been there with my son. Litter is endemic in less salubrious parts of Edinburgh. In our old house I used to take my boy to Hailes Quarry park and it was frequently strewn with rubbish. 
I’m sure there are a myriad of reasons behind this.  The idea of taking violent redress is appealing on a base level.  I often wonder why people do these things or more pertinently why some people don’t do them.
When I was younger the parks were definitely the neds place to be on a friday/Saturday night but police done nothing about it because they'd rather know where all the wee wankers were than scatter them about the streets.
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13 hours ago, D.A.F.C said:

Bunch of neds set fire to memorial benches in a local park and previously a kids playpark was destroyed. Hundreds of thousands pounds worth of damage. 

My controversial opinion would be give the local boxing or martial arts club money to kick the absolute shit out of them or anyone else who doesn't know right from wrong. Basically vigilante gangs dishing out justice until kids know the stuff that their parents didn't teach them.

Everyone needs a kicking at one point in their life, well certainly males.  Its important for every male to get battered at least once as they're growing up, teaches them respect in a way that no words could. At the very least a good wrap in the puss at the right age for everyone would improve society a lot, just so folk know there's a line you don't cross.

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1 minute ago, Carnoustie Young Guvnor said:

Everyone needs a kicking at one point in their life, well certainly males.  Its important for every male to get battered at least once as they're growing up, teaches them respect in a way that no words could. At the very least a good wrap in the puss at the right age for everyone would improve society a lot, just so folk know there's a line you don't cross.

Doesn't always work. Supposedly Michael Gove took multiple kickings around Aberdeen as a youngster and we're all now suffering the consequences.

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1 minute ago, Dons_1988 said:

Doesn't always work. Supposedly Michael Gove took multiple kickings around Aberdeen as a youngster and we're all now suffering the consequences.

On the contrary, he obviously needed a couple more

I think with him its a clear case of he is taking his anger at his biological parents out on the rest of us, that's why he's such a stuck up misanthrope.

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9 hours ago, ICTChris said:

Saughton Park in Edinburgh has been repeatedly vandalised since it was refurbished, bins and play equipment set on fire and a couple of months ago windows on the botanical gardens were smashed. The pork was previously rundown and has been restored in recent years. The historic bandstand was taken into storage in the 80s after being extensively vandalised. I’ve had to move broken glass, discarded cans and on one occasion a knife from the kids play park when I’ve been there with my son. Litter is endemic in less salubrious parts of Edinburgh. In our old house I used to take my boy to Hailes Quarry park and it was frequently strewn with rubbish. 

I’m sure there are a myriad of reasons behind this.  The idea of taking violent redress is appealing on a base level.  I often wonder why people do these things or more pertinently why some people don’t do them.

Me and my mates weren't really neds being lower middle class boys but we got up to the odd bit of daftness.

Thing is, smashing up a play park would have been seen as "Shan" in the unwritten moral code we had. So that's why we didn't do it.

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I once smashed up the windows of a portakabin in my youth then hid in the bushes when while  the police threatened to set an alsation on me. I'm not proud of this but it does go to show it takes minimal effort to evade the long arm of the law.

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The Netflix docuseries format is tedious as f**k. They take pretty much any subject and stretch it out to at least four times the length the material can support.

Seriously, they could make a series about Liz Hurley's first porn shoot and you'd nod off before any skin was shown.

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17 minutes ago, BFTD said:

The Netflix docuseries format is tedious as f**k. They take pretty much any subject and stretch it out to at least four times the length the material can support.

Seriously, they could make a series about Liz Hurley's first porn shoot and you'd nod off before any skin was shown.

Netflix is quite bad in general and relies more on everyone having it and hence being the watercooler service rather than actually offering generally great programming. Lost count of the amount of must see shite I've been recommended aff there.

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3 minutes ago, NotThePars said:

Netflix is quite bad in general and relies more on everyone having it and hence being the watercooler service rather than actually offering generally great programming. Lost count of the amount of must see shite I've been recommended aff there.

I re-subscribed recently so the wean could watch Always Sunny, which seems to be quite hard/expensive to get on DVD. I've been disappointed to discover that their selection is, if anything, worse than when I cancelled.

The quality of these services is likely to get worse too. In America, I see some of them have started charging extra for things that people actually want to see.

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1 minute ago, 19QOS19 said:

Netflix is great you couple of curmudgeons.

It certainly seems to inspire Apple-like loyalty from some of its users.

It's as good as its content; I rarely find anything I'm interested in, and if I'm after something specific, there's a 99% chance they won't have it. YMMV.

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7 minutes ago, BFTD said:

I re-subscribed recently so the wean could watch Always Sunny, which seems to be quite hard/expensive to get on DVD. I've been disappointed to discover that their selection is, if anything, worse than when I cancelled.

The quality of these services is likely to get worse too. In America, I see some of them have started charging extra for things that people actually want to see.

Amazon do this here too

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Just now, Todd_is_God said:

Amazon do this here too

Aye, with new films and suchlike - I was meaning that they've started putting old TV shows into separate tiers that you need to pay extra for. So they'll likely all end up moving to a model where you pay the basic fee for shite nobody wants, an extra tenner to be able to see Frasier for a month, an extra fiver for David Fincher's films, etc.

Amazon are shite too, but still better than when they started - brilliant for awful VHS rips of black & white films, or amateur films made in somebody's shed  :lol:

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