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Lack of decorum  on Chiswick High Road

Standards seem to be dropping in W4…as in many parts of London…take this weekend….I saw 3 teenage girls casually dropping litter…when asked  politely by a member of the public to pick it up they just sniggered and walked away leaving their mess behind…then today I witnessed a man kicking and punching a bus as he held his can of beer with one hand and his genitals with another…then a  group of lads spotting all over the payment…is it just me, or are British behavioural standards slipping?

Emma Elizabeth ● 9d18 Comments

The lack of decorum was propagated and promulgated by cyclists riding on the pavements and having no respect for zebra crossings and traffic lights. It’s all gone to pieces since they started breaking the law with impunity.

Steve Taylor ● 1d

I didn't stop to ask her Mark but if it was a dirty protest against the all-powerful cycle lobby then she was getting in there nice and early.

Paul Campbell ● 1d

You do seem to have some strange watching habits, Humpty.

Richard Greenhough ● 1d

Caught short or a protest about the, then, unplanned C9.

Mark Frost ● 2d

20 years ago I watched an elderly woman defecate on the High Road next to the Wheelers stand outside the Windmill pub.

Paul Campbell ● 2d

When i moved from gritty Clapham South to leafy Chiswick in the the late eighties on one of my first saturday shopping trips down TGT and chatting with the original Greengroceers  , our gentle chat was disturbed by three chaps going at each other with hammers on the opposite of the road. After five minutes or so of huffing and puffing  one got in his car and drove off and the other two wandered up top the high road holding their bloody heads. Chiswick has always had the opportunity to slip-up on the decorum stakes., Having said that the ratio of (barely) human vermin thats around now compared to 30 years ago ...

Tim Garfoot ● 2d

The worst behaviour I see on the High Road is not from young people. They have far better manners than their elders.

Paul Campbell ● 2d

Quite right. Parents are getting more and more lazy and nonplussed about how their children behave. And litter is everywhere because the youth just expect the Council to clean up after them. Unfortunately Hounslow Council is one of the worst for dealing with litter, overflowing bins and prosecutions. They need to take some lessons from a well run Borough like Richmond.

Steve Taylor ● 3d

Parent(s). Too lazy to teach the importance of respect to others and the environment in which they live.

Juliet Hogg ● 3d

I moved to Chiswick about 13 years ago from Hackney, E5. Believe me when I say "you ain't see nothing".

Alexander Allan ● 3d

Absolutely agree that the standards of behaviour of older people has deteriorated while that of younger people has got better. My main worry about the younger generation is that you don't see as many of them out and about as you used to.

Felicity Caborn ● 5d

I tend not to blithely condemn younger people just because they are young. Most young people that I meet are great.There has been a significant decline in standards on this forum from opinionated people who dismiss others out of hand by calling them wallies, morons etc. All thrown in with homophobia (Sir Queer), mysogyny (fine beast) and anti-Semitism. You know who you are.

Stewart Jones ● 6d

Writers during the Roman Republic were bemoaning the decline in standards of the younger generation and older people haven't stopped doing this since.My own observation is that the young are far better behaved than they used to be two or three decades ago, mainly because alcohol seems to play a less important part in their social lives. There hasn't been a time in the last forty years in which any sensible person would have considered leaving a property in Chiswick unlocked and unattended even for a short time.

Jeremy Parkinson ● 6d

Oh do jog on.. preferably away from the forum dear..

Anna Kirkpatrick ● 7d

“ and run to the local shop and back - I havent been able to do that for quite a few years now”Best you join a gym and get your stamina back - otherwise just accept your old age gracefully.

Steve Taylor ● 7d

When I moved to Chiswick I could leave my pet in the back garden, my back door wide open and run to the local shop and back - I havent been able to do that for quite a few years now and I dont think Chiswick will ever see those days again, its gone downhill like everywhere else now.

Anna Kirkpatrick ● 7d

*spitting

Emma Elizabeth ● 9d

No it’s not just you.

Steve Taylor ● 9d