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Whats up with kids today?

#61
Jazz Ad said:
Welcome to the 21st century.
Caveman days are over, you don't get respected anymore by beating on teenagers.
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No harm in trying. When I was growing up (late 70's - mid 80's) you had a healthy respect (if not fear) of your elders.

Kids today could use some "my old man is gonna beat my a$$ over this!" Honestly, I'd tell the kids once to get off my car. Then I'd grab one of them and remove him. No kid is going to pull that on me and get away with it.
 
#64
Bassic Playing said:
Some people are just at the low end of the gene pool, regardless of age.
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This.

Some people are just asshats, whether they're young or old. Some people are asshats when they're young and then finally grow up and become decent citizens of the human race. Some never do and remain asshats for the rest of their lives. Except instead of sitting on people's cars, they're the people who treat waitstaff at restaurants like dirt and flame people in YouTube comments sections.
 
#65
Strat-Mangler said:
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If kids/teens weren't so cuddled by the law, attitudes like these would be much more rare. =
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No one is cuddled by the law.

Two stories:

My grandfather told me about how in the past (this was New Year's and I asked him about his old New Year's days) you could drive drunk down the road, plow into a ditch, and not get in trouble. Your neighbors would help you get home and pull you out. Now, my grandpa's quote, "they (your neighbors) call the cops on you!"

Not saying that's a bad thing, just creating the dichotomy between "the days of yore" and today.

Second, I was thinking listening to a Beach Boys song about drag racing. If people drag-raced today they'd get misdemeanors, if not something worse. Probably suspended license, $500 fine, etc.

50 years ago, the cops would have stopped it but they would have just slapped them in the head and sent them home.


That being said, what's wrong with the youth today..you ask?

Their parents. Gen X overwhelmingly sucked at teaching Gen. Y anything.

Sorry. Being 26, I can tell you my parents taught me next to nothing. I learned how to eat healthy food, hygiene, how to dress, how to talk, pretty much everything on my own.
 
#68
street racing is alive and well in america, its just done in more discreet locations instead of main street. That being said, I in no way whatsoever endorse this type of thing. There are plenty of dragstrips available for "run whatcha brung" drags. Unfortunatly not as many racetracks exist today as when I was a youth. Still, if your gonna race, go to a track and race under supervised and safe conditions, thats right, Im talkin to you kids.
 
#69
matante said:
This should have ended the thread. One can find many examples in ANCIENT texts of people complaining about the "youth of today."
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C'mon, part of the TB experience is engaging in pseudo-sociology (while ironically ignorning real sociology and totally ignoring what Durkheim and Giddens said about structure and agency when people's answer to someone being unhappy with their job is "you don't have to work there") and making sweeping generations about cohorts of people and how society is on a fast track lapsarian road to H-E-Double Hockey Sticks due to the kids of today not bending over and kissing everyone's ass who is more than three months their elder, while Eric Perry advocates a heart for an eye and a brain for a tooth sense of justice over somebody committing a major social wrong like not telling a bathroom attendant that they're out of toilet paper after using the last swatch.

Amirite or amirite? :D
 
#70
LiquidMidnight said:
C'mon, part of the TB experience is engaging in pseudo-sociology (while ironically ignorning real sociology and totally ignoring what Durkheim and Giddens said about structure and agency when people's answer to someone being unhappy with their job is "you don't have to work there") and making sweeping generations about cohorts of people and how society is on a fast track lapsarian road to H-E-Double Hockey Sticks due to the kids of today not bending over and kissing everyone's ass who is more than three months their elder, while Eric Perry advocates a heart for an eye and a brain for a tooth sense of justice over somebody committing a major social wrong like not telling a bathroom attendant that they're out of toilet paper after using the last swatch.

Amirite or amirite? :D
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You forgot the part about how young people should solve their emotional problems by banging everyone in sight. :D
 
#72
MadMan118 said:
Today I was headed out of Best Buy (another story all its own). And I noticed a couple kids sitting on MY car. Yeah just, there, smoking no less. I promptly told them to get off my car. Kid looks at me he must have been 16-17. And he has the stones to say "make me". I really wanted to smack the smug look off his face, but I took the legal high road and decided to give a friend of mine - now a county sherrifs deputy - a call and he was more than happy to come over from down the road and tell both young hoodlums to vacate or he'd take both of them back home to their fathers (small town).
Seriously though when I was that age and I'm not saying I'm all that old, but 15-20 years ago if I'd of tried that id be laying out in a parking lot with a black eye. I dunno, maybe im just getting old
"Get offa my lawn!"
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The more I observe smug morons in my society, the less I find any solution involving "talking it out" in any realm of feasible effect.
 
#75
Kids in my day were taller, too, and the summer's were hotter... Much hotter than these ones that these educated-types are getting all flustered over. And that reminds me, when is James coming to fix the air conditioner? I would ask the handy man, you see, but he's rather busy, you see, and it would be nice to see James. Perhaps he could bring that lovely friend of his... Rachel? Yes, Rachel. She's a lovely girl, isn't she. Anyway, where was I... That's right, we were playing on the monkey bars down at the park one summer. It was very hot, you see, because the summers were hotter then, you see. Would you like a drink? It's hot in here, I'm sorry, James needs to come and fix my air conditioner. And anyway, we noticed that we could all reach the monkey bars. Easy. This was 1923 and Michael was.. But nowadays, the kids, they can't seem to reach the monkey bars. It's the parents, you see, and the drugs. Yes, the drugs. Stumps their growth.
 
#77
I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. “Give me five bees for a quarter,” you'd say.

Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...
 
#78
michael_atw said:
Sorry. Being 26, I can tell you my parents taught me next to nothing. I learned how to eat healthy food, hygiene, how to dress, how to talk, pretty much everything on my own.
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My daughters, age 24 and 25, would tell a completely different story.

I'm sorry for the shortcomings of your parents in that regard. Hopefully they were very helpful and supportive in other ways.
 
#79
I bet every parent thinks that they are doing / did a good job raising their kids.

"when I get old enough to have children, I'm not going to raise them like like my parents raised me........ I'm gonna be a "cool" parent".
 

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