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coolyo294 wrote:HAH! A victory for my generation. You old people can suck it.

HEY! HIGH FIVE!

coolyo294 wrote:HAH! A victory for my generation. You old people can suck it.

They kind of have to stick to all those hard candies, now that they have dentures and all.

I hate my generation, they can all go zog off. The kids seem all right but their music taste is terrible. Its either about drugs, hookers, and money or Fridays, nap time, and unicorns.

Ultrafool wrote:I hate my generation, they can all go zog off. The kids seem all right but their music taste is terrible. Its either about drugs, hookers, and money or Fridays, nap time, and unicorns.

Uhhh. My school has an army of people who like alternative, hard rock, and other good music. WE all hate that other s

Asherian Command wrote:

Ultrafool wrote:I hate my generation, they can all go zog off. The kids seem all right but their music taste is terrible. Its either about drugs, hookers, and money or Fridays, nap time, and unicorns.

Uhhh. My school has an army of people who like alternative, hard rock, and other good music. WE all hate that other s

Ugh, I can't stand alternative rock.

@Asherian Command- well you're a lucky one Mister. I hate my school and teenagers, now I understand where my grandfather is coming from. Old man lives of the land and provides for himself, that is man I respect 100%, hell I even respect adults who have to put up with teens and their hooplah.

So teenagers aren't getting knocked up as much as we'd like?

Heaven forbid.

Emperors Faithful wrote:So teenagers aren't getting knocked up as much as we'd like?

Heaven forbid.

...Hard to get knocked up if you never get off of facebook or some video game and actually go interact with people..

FITZZ wrote:

Emperors Faithful wrote:So teenagers aren't getting knocked up as much as we'd like?

Heaven forbid.

...Hard to get knocked up if you never get off of dakka or some video game and actually go interact with people..

Though it's never hurt my chances. /masculinechestbeat


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FITZZ wrote:

Emperors Faithful wrote:So teenagers aren't getting knocked up as much as we'd like?

Heaven forbid.

...Hard to get knocked up if you never get off of facebook or some video game and actually go interact with people..

Plus if you hit up with a stranger you didn't have to worry about AIDS either.

So wait, kids aren't smoking, drinking, driving under age or knockin' each other up anymore? And they're getting fatter. That sounds pretty lame to me. Reminds me of this.

Fat kids don't get in trouble.

It requires too much effort.

If eating 3500 calories a day while playing WoW Mods all day were illegal this would be the most troubled generation of all time.

biccat wrote:

RustyKnight wrote:

biccat wrote:Our youth now love luxury.

Who doesn't? Why is this a bad thing?

I'll let you figure this one out on your own.

I'm confused as well. Luxuries are luxuries because they are relatively rare, and in demand. They wouldn't be luxuries if they weren't coveted.

It's pretty much the same argument about traveling by plane vs. traveling by car. Generally people are a lot more afraid of flying than driving a car, which makes no sense since cars have by an order of magnitudes higher body-count than planes in accidents. Like how the news sensationalizes planes to the degree that they're all an aileron failure waiting to happen, the media focuses on the stories of teens going on school rampages and gang fights when the future prospects of kids these days have never been better.

dogma wrote:

biccat wrote:

RustyKnight wrote:

biccat wrote:Our youth now love luxury.

Who doesn't? Why is this a bad thing?

I'll let you figure this one out on your own.

I'm confused as well. Luxuries are luxuries because they are relatively rare, and in demand. They wouldn't be luxuries if they weren't coveted.

It was a quote that was (probably falsely) attributed to Socrates.

Monster Rain wrote:

micahaphone wrote:A true occurrence that saddens me greatly. 98% of a high school's population will complain about having to go to school and not being able to wait for when they get their "freedom",

It's also moronic when you consider that the "freedom" they refer to is either more school or a job and bills.

You must know an odd bunch of kids, I think. Well, either that, or me and my friends are freakishly unusual in this respect... probably the latter, come to think of it. Either way, Britain's a different kettle of fish, really - I've heard your American schools are somewhat of a different situation.

Gorskar.da.Lost wrote:

Monster Rain wrote:

micahaphone wrote:A true occurrence that saddens me greatly. 98% of a high school's population will complain about having to go to school and not being able to wait for when they get their "freedom",

It's also moronic when you consider that the "freedom" they refer to is either more school or a job and bills.

You must know an odd bunch of kids, I think. Well, either that, or me and my friends are freakishly unusual in this respect... probably the latter, come to think of it. Either way, Britain's a different kettle of fish, really - I've heard your American schools are somewhat of a different situation.

99% of the people I knew when I went to school were exactly like micahphone described.

Gorskar, would you perhaps enlighten us on what a british school is like?

micahaphone wrote:Gorskar, would you perhaps enlighten us on what a british school is like?

Teaching wise it's pretty much the same as the states.

Primary school is ages 5 to 11 and secondary is 11 to 16.

Years 1 to 9 (ages 6 to 14) are general education while years 10 and 11 keep the core subjects (English, maths and science) and you choose a few courses to take at GCSE level.

micahaphone wrote:Gorskar, would you perhaps enlighten us on what a british school is like?

Odd, I think is as close as I can come to it. There's no real stereotypes, other than Comprehensives are perceived, somewhat unfairly, as "chavvy," and Grammar schools are "middle-class." There's the typical "man I hate school" crap, but to be honest kids have been saying that since time immemorial - the Beano comic got great mileage out of this joke for a hell of a long time.

Sounds very similar to the school system here in the states. By "no stereotypes", do you mean that the terms "nerd", "jock", "tool", "geek", "stoner", "ganster", ect don't get tossed around?

micahaphone wrote:Sounds very similar to the school system here in the states. By "no stereotypes", do you mean that the terms "nerd", "jock", "tool", "geek", "stoner", "ganster", ect don't get tossed around?

They do, there aren't obvious cliques though.

Well, they do, but they're less pronounced. Actually, I'd argue inadvertent homophobia is a bigger issue in British schools, really, but that's opening one hell of a kettle of fish.

I don't see obvious cliques over here, save two:
-the "tools/ d-bags", or guys in striped polo shirts and designer jeans who party every weekend and know that they'll get whatever they want with daddy's money. (I can't wait for them to get to college/real world and see how much the family name counts for out there)
- Crazy stoner/creepers who claim to be nerds or counterculture, but just wear dark clothes, large coats, hats that would normally be classy in the 1920s but look to small for their head, long hair, lack of hygene, ect and don't get good grades or do anything to show care over their future.

micahaphone wrote:I don't see obvious cliques over here, save two:
-the "tools/ d-bags", or guys in striped polo shirts and designer jeans who party every weekend and know that they'll get whatever they want with daddy's money. (I can't wait for them to get to college/real world and see how much the family name counts for out there)
- Crazy stoner/creepers who claim to be nerds or counterculture, but just wear dark clothes, large coats, hats that would normally be classy in the 1920s but look to small for their head, long hair, lack of hygene, ect and don't get good grades or do anything to show care over their future.

Okay, that last sounds pretty disgusting. Eh, what the hell, they're both irritating. We have them over here too, they're just more varied in their appearances/general irritation factor.

Yay for variety!

And you commented about a hotbed of homophobia over in the UK ( I'm NOT trying to argue for/against gay marriage or whatnot, just comparing cultures). I thought that EU was supposed to be more tolerant than the US?

I wouldn't say it was out-and-out homophobia, as much as it was childish scorn of "odd" things. You know, "Are you gay?" "Ugh, you're gay" - that sort of thing. Nothing huge, but it is annoying, especially when it's 16+ year olds who should know better.
It's like being in a room with a bunch of Eli Roths.

Gorskar.da.Lost wrote:I wouldn't say it was out-and-out homophobia, as much as it was childish scorn of "odd" things. You know, "Are you gay?" "Ugh, you're gay" - that sort of thing. Nothing huge, but it is annoying, especially when it's 16+ year olds who should know better.
It's like being in a room with a bunch of Eli Roths.

16+?
I thought we were talking about school here.

6th form counts, in my opinion. At least, the mental ages do.