{"id":670,"date":"2006-05-27T13:20:51","date_gmt":"2006-05-27T12:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2006\/05\/27\/beeb_news_confrontation_culture"},"modified":"2025-10-10T21:11:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T20:11:12","slug":"beeb_news_confrontation_culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/05\/27\/beeb_news_confrontation_culture","title":{"rendered":"Beeb News: Confrontation Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC has a &quot;Magazine&quot; feature on <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/magazine\/5012300.stm\">Confrontation Culture<\/a> &#8211; the apparently peculiarly British phenomenon of public shouting matches:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIt&#39;s an everyday scene. I&#39;m in a supermarket and without explanation or apparent provocation, there&#39;s suddenly shouting. A woman and a man, both adults, are bawling at each other.<br \/>\nThe insults begin at the extreme end of the verbal spectrum and then get worse. It&#39;s hand-on-the-hip, finger-wagging abuse taken to the level of performance art.<br \/>\nThis is the Jerry Springer Show live from the cooked-meat counter.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They take comments from the public, and two separate postings link the observation that those responsible are middle-aged women and the recent survey showing that teenagers today are better behaved than those of the 1980s (i.e. these middle-aged women <em>were<\/em> those teenagers in the 1980s).  I remember being expected as a shop worker in the early 1990s to arbitrate between two women, both well old enough to be my mother, over who was there first; but then, those women definitely weren&#39;t teenagers in the 1980s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC has a &quot;Magazine&quot; feature on Confrontation Culture &#8211; the apparently peculiarly British phenomenon of public shouting matches: It&#39;s an everyday scene. I&#39;m in a supermarket and without explanation or apparent provocation, there&#39;s&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-aO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42438,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions\/42438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}