People Who Complain about "Kids Nowdays" and Other Generations Yet Hypocritical - Page 2

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Posted: 4/29/2011 6:55:10 AM EDT

[#1]

Quoted:
Just for grins, let's do a little GD experiment to see if we can demonstrate how moral values have gotten looser over time.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mP2bjjd5WTY/TDj_qpExq1I/AAAAAAAABp0/uIVvSdxC8HI/s1600/1920s%2520Swimsuit.jpg

OK, now someone post pics of women wearing bathing suits commonly seen on today's beaches...

ETA: Hint for those who don't get it––go read the CoC before you take me up on this.

You're going to need to show how skimpier beachwear correlates with a decline in moral values before your 'point' has any meaning. You sound like an Imam. "Oh Allah, you can see her ankles!"

Posted: 4/29/2011 6:59:36 AM EDT

[#2]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Just for grins, let's do a little GD experiment to see if we can demonstrate how moral values have gotten looser over time.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mP2bjjd5WTY/TDj_qpExq1I/AAAAAAAABp0/uIVvSdxC8HI/s1600/1920s%2520Swimsuit.jpg

OK, now someone post pics of women wearing bathing suits commonly seen on today's beaches...

ETA: Hint for those who don't get it––go read the CoC before you take me up on this.

You're going to need to show how skimpier beachwear correlates with a decline in moral values before your 'point' has any meaning. You sound like an Imam. "Oh Allah, you can see her ankles!"

Oh, for cryin' in the sink. An imam, seriously? If you don't see that we've gotten more relaxed about what is considered taboo, you just aren't looking.

Posted: 4/29/2011 7:00:18 AM EDT

[#3]

I've no doubt that I have what would be consider a "Nerf" life by previous generations of my family.

And the truth is, the shit "kids" do today... is the shit I did, and, at 42, still do. (The internet, video games, etc)

The only "these kids today" observation I've made, is that younger people do seem a lot less mature.

In the firehouse, I worked with some guys in their early 20's who acted like they were still in HS.

Of course, I guess it's entirely possible that, as I've matured, young people have just started to appear less mature in comparison.

Posted: 4/29/2011 7:03:19 AM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
I've no doubt that I have what would be consider a "Nerf" life by previous generations of my family.

And the truth is, the shit "kids" do today... is the shit I did, and, at 42, still do. (The internet, video games, etc)

The only "these kids today" observation I've made, is that younger people do seem a lot less mature.

In the firehouse, I worked with some guys in their early 20's who acted like they were still in HS.

Of course, I guess it's entirely possible that, as I've matured, young people have just started to appear less mature in comparison.

I think that has a lot to do with it. Perspective is everything, I think. When I was college age (measured in decades ago and not years, sadly), I was definitely one of "those damned kids". Today, I get to gripe about kids and my lawn.

Posted: 4/29/2011 7:03:28 AM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:

"P-p-people try to put us down just because we g-g-get around."

The guy who wrote that is now older than my parents.

And still performing. (Gotta hand it to Roger, he seems in pretty decent shape for a guy his age.)

Posted: 4/29/2011 7:06:54 AM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
"P-p-people try to put us down just because we g-g-get around."

The guy who wrote that is now older than my parents.

QFT

some people forget about the hippies

Posted: 4/29/2011 7:22:04 AM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Just for grins, let's do a little GD experiment to see if we can demonstrate how moral values have gotten looser over time.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mP2bjjd5WTY/TDj_qpExq1I/AAAAAAAABp0/uIVvSdxC8HI/s1600/1920s%2520Swimsuit.jpg

OK, now someone post pics of women wearing bathing suits commonly seen on today's beaches...

ETA: Hint for those who don't get it––go read the CoC before you take me up on this.

You're going to need to show how skimpier beachwear correlates with a decline in moral values before your 'point' has any meaning. You sound like an Imam. "Oh Allah, you can see her ankles!"

I see cameltoe

Posted: 4/29/2011 7:46:53 AM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Older generations have always compkained about the up and coming generation, but I seriously think the youngsters these days FU'd.

Yep.

I been working since I was 13, never been in jail, never more that a two week stretch not working unless I was on disability, had a new truck at 19, that I paid for in full and drove for 13yrs.

Most of the people I grew up with were/are this way.

My Nephew and his buddies are constantly in trouble, doing Heroin, popping pills, cant hold a job, DUI's out the ass, wrecking cars, hittin their wimmin and have all the sexually transmitted diseases short of Aids, but there is plenty of time to catch that.

Yep, same as it ever was.

Ok, I've been working since I was 15, never been in jail, never more than a month not working, I bought a used car at 18 on my own and a new car at 22, both of which I still drive, and will have both paid off in full by May. I've never done drugs, never had a DUI, never wrecked a car, never hit a woman, and I've never had an STD.

I'm only 23. It's pretty easy to see downward trends when your sample group is one.

Posted: 4/29/2011 8:04:58 AM EDT

[#9]

I'm 20 and I can't believe how stupid my own generation is. That's why all of my friends are 10 years older than me I guess. And just when I think it can't get much worse than my generation I see a 13 year old girl walking with her mom yelling her about why she cant get a new white iPhone to replace her old iPhone 4 she just got last week.

Maybe something is wrong with me but I've had the same job since the day I turned 18, it's not much but it's something. I go to school full time but I've never been arrested or done much where I should be arrested.

I dated a girl recently who was 17 (about to turn 18) all she did was talk about how stupid her parents where , her parents who paid for everything she owned and everything she wanted to do.

Posted: 4/29/2011 8:05:17 AM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
There's a major difference between the attitudes of people my age (23) and people graduating high school. Fucking. Huge.

ETA: Not a maturity thing either.

Yes it is. The entire reason you say is because you're not mature yet. A human's brain doesn't stop major development till age 25.

Posted: 4/29/2011 8:10:29 AM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
pull your pants up dummy, I can see shitstains on your drawers

Posted: 4/29/2011 8:12:34 AM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
But What do you think? Are today's problems caused from poor adult leadership who are not out taking their grand kids fishing and hunting, becuase Gramps is typing about his new 1911 on Arfcom?

The main problem I see is that with each generation, we get further & further away from the ideals our forefathers envisioned.
You can't really understand what life was like before you were alive to experience it. So with every new generation, 'normal' changes.
That's my main frustration with the youth of today - though I don't blame them in the least (my generation is equally at fault, as well as every other preceding it)...

They think having the police kick down their neighbor's door is normal.
They think having .gov sticking their nose in every aspect of the citizenry's life is normal.
They think the continued errosion of our freedom & liberty is normal.

Posted: 4/29/2011 8:18:39 AM EDT

[#13]

I don't live in mom's basement but I do believe that kids today are different that kids I grew up with.

Nowadays parents are more concerned about driving a BMW and vacationing at the lake rather than raising their children. People use to be proud of their kids, not their cars. They'd bragged about boy's and girl's accomplishments rather than vacation plans. Mothers and fathers (!) use to raise children and spend time with them.

A 19-year-old man pleaded not guilty Wednesday to all charges related to the gang rape of an 11-year-old girl in a park bathroom last month.

Sykes was the only adult charged in the March 10 incident at Victoriano Park. Police said an older girl lured the victim to the park, where Sykes and six other boys were waiting.

Of the juveniles, prosecutors are seeking to try four of the boys as adults. Dominique Dupree Hull, 15, Phillip Alexander Butler, 16, and two brothers, Javonte Marquise Dixon and Johntae Maurice Dixon, both 17, are all charged as juveniles with rape, sodomy, oral copulation and lewd acts with a child under 14, all to benefit the gang.

An 11-year-old girl gang raped last month in a park was developmentally disabled, with the mental capacity of a 5-year-old, newly released court documents reveal.

A police search warrant obtained Friday also showed that at least part of the attack by a man and six boys was videotaped on a cell phone and that the victim had been lured to the park from a nearby middle school.

Stuff like that didn't happen in the suburbs when I was a kid.

Posted: 4/29/2011 8:21:51 AM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:

Quoted:
But What do you think? Are today's problems caused from poor adult leadership who are not out taking their grand kids fishing and hunting, becuase Gramps is typing about his new 1911 on Arfcom?

The main problem I see is that with each generation, we get further & further away from the ideals our forefathers envisioned.
You can't really understand what life was like before you were alive to experience it. So with every new generation, 'normal' changes.
That's my main frustration with the youth of today - though I don't blame them in the least (my generation is equally at fault, as well as every other preceding it)...

They think having the police kick down their neighbor's door is normal.
They think having .gov sticking their nose in every aspect of the citizenry's life is normal.
They think the continued errosion of our freedom & liberty is normal.

Amen.

In my 1979 Law 101 course it was illegal to set up random checkpoints on the streets to check for sober drivers, kick in doors without knocking, to seize property without due process, to get a wiretap without a court order, to feel up a 12 year old girl or boy's genitals in public before they flew ....

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