jad n rich

Like the hoodie, easily identified by the marks and spencer teal or pink cardigan, faces disguised by a rain bonnet

busterboy

Crap at running away though....fat ankles and bowling shoes.

jad n rich

Absolute menace on those motorised mobility scooters tho

Bloody UK

BadgeIsBack

Crap weather really does not prevent kids from hanging out, if it does prevent them from exercise. But I think the UK is not so geared up for pre-teen/teen extra-curricular activity. You can actually get quite used to the Australian offerings and come to see them as normal.

Hutch mate, leaving the dives of Australia out for the time being, I agree that I find Australian youths not in the least bit threatening or with that tension or aggression.

In fact even the drunkards you see on a Sat night are often just buffoons. Kids don't seem to hang around on street corners - but they can't as Australia is not the sort of place where kids walk around in groups. There are no town centres in a manner of speaking accessible from the home for many. Kids socialise at their parents and then only congregate at malls when they get cars which is why some hoon.

I think part of it is the faster pace of life in Europe and the fact its a more confrontational society. Having said that the extreme N and S of Europe seem far more genteel in some ways. Families socialise more etc. Attitudes to alchohol.

Actually, you can't have it both ways in my opinion. Australia is more laid back in some ways but then some would complain that not enough Australian kids care enough about anything.

worzel

Hutch

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7515042.stm

MartinLuther

If such a law ever existed then it would have been frustrated (i.e. made no longer legal) by the 1536 Act that made the English and Welsh legally equal.

That is, the law of England and Wales since 1536 does not differentiate between yourself and a bunch of sheep-shaggers. However it could have been worse. The same law made the Welsh legally equal to a bunch of institutionalised homosexuals who get their kicks from hanging themselves with an orange up their bum.

rugbymatt

as a life long lover of the UK, I have to say that I have had my fill of it all not.......

framac

In regional Qld, all kids wear uniforms to school and there doesnt seem to be any ned associated clothes. My O/H has noticed that kids are allowed to be kids and not grow up too quick which is very refreshing.

worzel

Never let the facts get in the way of a good anecdote!

Centurion

We don't talk about that dark period in our history. Ignorance of such things is best.

jad n rich

See another stabbing spree in OZ this weekend this time 5 people in melbourne. No daily mail fanfare about it, just makes a run of the mill news one liner.

Guests from UK back with us, commented how "laid back' the news is about stabbings here compared to the current fanfare in the UK.

ozzieeagle

I heard about the Reservoir one, which is just up the road from me, and was fatal... 25 year old boarding house person, and he is now on the run. Didnt hear about the others though.

MartinLuther

At the end of the day it comes down to what the papers want to report. When I lived in London the person behind the counter in a Tower Bridge Rd shop was shot dead. It made the Southwark local paper but did not make it into the Evening Standard or National papers. Around the same time a man stabbed in a shop in Twickenham made it into the Evening Standard. Why? Well Bermondsey has a reputation for this sort of thing and Twickenham doesn't.

Bernieboy

Go to wembley market buy yourself a (illigal)spring loaded telescopic police baton,slap em upside the head,job done.Here in London its a case of take no ****** prisoners,dont argue with these scum,hit fast and hit hard