Adolescence (series)

Bazlar · Saturday at 1:33 AM

Rita_Poon said:

Thought the thread was about Adolescence. I pointed out some of the things she was right about. I didn't agree with everything she said in her whole life. People need to remember aswell some of those views on Homosexuallity were from absolute decades ago.To a time when a hell of a lot of people felt completely different about the subject. Wrongly I know but true

Rita_Poon · Saturday at 1:48 AM

Molly Russell: Meta and Pinterest make secret charity donation

Meta and Pinterest have agreed to donate to a charity set up in the name of schoolgirl Molly Russell.

www.bbc.co.uk

magicjuan · Saturday at 10:51 AM

Don't think I'll watch it, seen too much discussed to go in with a clear mind. The subject is never balanced, the whole Tate thing about lost boys is solely an agenda to make money, mostly because it never balances with the rise in violence by and amongst young girls, so isn't truly seen as generational.
It is true that economics, outlook and lack of hope from opportunity are the driving factor in all this.

Milk · Saturday at 10:56 AM

Think it’s been over praised.

Having sad that, it must be hell being a teen and trying to navigate through SM and the expectation of what is and isn’t acceptable

Shevin Keedy · Saturday at 11:41 AM

Milk said:
Think it’s been over praised.

Having sad that, it must be hell being a teen and trying to navigate through SM and the expectation of what is and isn’t acceptable

It's always hell being a teen, 'twas ever thus. But you have to balance that with it's always joyful being a teen, greatest years of one's life, 'twas ever thus.

Rita_Poon · Saturday at 11:56 AM

Remember this guy, played 'Stringer Bell'.

Well, here he is in January 2024

Idris Elba launches new campaign to tackle knife crime

English actor Idris Elba has launched a new campaign called "Don’t Stop Your Future," calling on increased government urgency to tackle knife crime in the U.K.

abcnews.go.com

He'd been raising the issue of knife crime for some years previous before it made it to parliament square. Tied to deprivation, absentee parents, post code gang culture. Hundreds of lives taken.

TV makes a show about some kid and suddenly it's straight to parliament and the media run with it on every channel and headline.

How did one campaign not catch fire where a tv show eventually did?

Milk · Saturday at 12:06 PM

Shevin Keedy said:
It's always hell being a teen, 'twas ever thus. But you have to balance that with it's always joyful being a teen, greatest years of one's life, 'twas ever thus.

Was a teen in the 70s … you knew where the line was when the wandering hand was grabbed and forcefully returned
Now they expect access all areas

COYBL25 · Saturday at 12:08 PM

Rita_Poon said:
Remember this guy, played 'Stringer Bell'.

Well, here he is in January 2024

Idris Elba launches new campaign to tackle knife crime

English actor Idris Elba has launched a new campaign called "Don’t Stop Your Future," calling on increased government urgency to tackle knife crime in the U.K.

abcnews.go.com

He'd been raising the issue of knife crime for some years previous before it made it to parliament square. Tied to deprivation, absentee parents, post code gang culture. Hundreds of lives taken.

TV makes a show about some kid and suddenly it's straight to parliament and the media run with it on every channel and headline.

How did one campaign not catch fire where a tv show eventually did?

Because an accessible tv series is more appealing to the masses, than Idris doing documentaries about kids killing themselves, post watershed during the week on the likes of the BBC and C4 ?

Rita_Poon · Saturday at 12:14 PM

COYBL25 said:
Because an accessible tv series is more appealing to the masses, than Idris doing documentaries about kids killing themselves, post watershed during the week on the likes of the BBC and C4 ?

I think middle england could engage with the recent tv show more easily for some reason.

dublinbluenose · Saturday at 12:17 PM

Rita_Poon said:
Remember this guy, played 'Stringer Bell'.

Well, here he is in January 2024

Idris Elba launches new campaign to tackle knife crime

English actor Idris Elba has launched a new campaign called "Don’t Stop Your Future," calling on increased government urgency to tackle knife crime in the U.K.

abcnews.go.com

He'd been raising the issue of knife crime for some years previous before it made it to parliament square. Tied to deprivation, absentee parents, post code gang culture. Hundreds of lives taken.

TV makes a show about some kid and suddenly it's straight to parliament and the media run with it on every channel and headline.

How did one campaign not catch fire where a tv show eventually did?

It's one of the reasons why art is so powerful. You can look at a protest or listen to a campaign but until you can walk in someone's shoes, it's difficult to have empathy.

One of the reasons dictatorships hate art is because of this, because it teaches empathy. If you can see others being abused by the state, if you can see it happening to you, you're more likely to stand up for those being abused.

BullensRoad · Saturday at 9:34 PM

Shevin Keedy said:
It's always hell being a teen, 'twas ever thus. But you have to balance that with it's always joyful being a teen, greatest years of one's life, 'twas ever thus.

Strongly disagree. I think being a teen now has your life all over the internet and social media.

You have role models now like the Kardashians and even that Sabrina carpenter who's made her image as a stripper on stage.

You get lads in Liverpool getting bullied on social media if you don't have the latest 110's or brag about shagging birds or smoking weed.

It's head banging stuff to think life as a teen is the same now which this series has highlighted - and one of the major points was Stephen Grahams dad, acting like the tough dad not accepting it until it was too late.

BullensRoad · Sunday at 2:17 AM

I'm pretty sure a lot of the super bloos are part of the problem.

Jemma birks, hans tours, the brick posting their none scousers aren't welcome whilst posting images of that bonk who got done multiple times here and once abroad for drug dealing, whilst always carrying a knife.

Yet they're one of that 1878 thing.

Shevin Keedy · Sunday at 1:39 PM

BullensRoad said:
Strongly disagree. I think being a teen now has your life all over the internet and social media.

You have role models now like the Kardashians and even that Sabrina carpenter who's made her image as a stripper on stage.

You get lads in Liverpool getting bullied on social media if you don't have the latest 110's or brag about shagging birds or smoking weed.

It's head banging stuff to think life as a teen is the same now which this series has highlighted - and one of the major points was Stephen Grahams dad, acting like the tough dad not accepting it until it was too late.

Of course it is, being a bully or being bullied, looking up to role models that adults would say are unsuitable, it's all socioendemic to teen life, it's merely the landscape that changes.

Tipp blue · Sunday at 1:59 PM

The internet while being very useful can also be very damaging, even simple messaging apps can lead to horrific bullying, with the best will in the world parents will struggle to keep it in check.. I have a 9 year old who's been asking for a phone (not happening) obviously a time will come when he will get one but I'd like to keep him away from it for as long as possible. Anything else that causes as much harm to young people would have been regulated by government when it became obvious that there was an issue so why don't they regulate, you cant smoke or drink alcohol until 18 because it does harm well so do phones and access to the internet.. I wouldn't be entirely opposed to government issuing advice that smart phones shouldn't be used by people under 16 the current advice is under 11.