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 Hordini wrote:
The majority of millennial bashing is rooted in what Sebster referred to as the "golden age" fallacy.

I'm not saying they don't have issues, as every generation has issues that they face, but it's been massively blown out of proportion. There are plenty of hardworking, responsible, ambitious millennials, and the idea that it's all about making everybody "feel good" and providing an inflated sense of self-esteem is a crock of gak.

First off, there's nothing wrong with having a healthy amount of self-esteem. If anything, I think low self-esteem is a more common issue than an over-inflated sense of self-esteem.

Believe me, the majority of millennials are all too aware of their status, especially since so many people love to fething bring it up all the time.

Don't feel bad. Generation X got gakked on too when we came up to the big leagues

But for very different reasons

 agnosto wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
When I was in high school I wrote a poem about how angry I am, how I hate everyone in the school system and how I wish we would all die.
My teacher submitted it to a poetry compilation and had me read it outloud.
What would happen now if I did that?

I took a creative writing class in HS and wrote a short story titled "Death of a Santa Claus"; it was submitted and published in a city-wide publication.

Unfortunately, we're not living in the same time just like when I was a kid (8 or 9), I could ride my bike all around the neighborhood and now parents generally don't let their kids go out of sight. Different world, unless you graduated last year; in that case, different city/school district.

I can one up that. Talked about the end of the world and was asked to read that at my schools poetry slam, which I declined. Not because I felt embarrassed or flaterred, but because I was angry that someone else didn't get asked to, where my poem was actually quite bad compared to my friends.

Man I wrote so many screwed up stories in high school, I am surprised they didn't flag them instantly. I mean one if you followed the context clues was about a male who was basically invisible to everyone but himself, and moments later he found out he was dead all along and simply faded from existance because he wasn't important.

And then there was another where a guy held up a store and shot everyone. But then he died. And some how I made it humorous.

And no I don't do drugs or hallucinogenics, I just think out of the box for story.


And my goodness this story.

When I was a kid i wrote about master chief driving a warthog and hitting a teacher, because I hated the teacher so damn much. My teacher was so impressed they gave me an A for creativity and writing ability. And idea to think outside the box.

Now I am thinking I might of been arrested and thrown into an asylum. My goodness, they must think the Demolished Man is some sort of antisematic book by now.

 Asherian Command wrote:


I can one up that. Talked about the end of the world and was asked to read that at my schools poetry slam, which I declined. Not because I felt embarrassed or flaterred, but because I was angry that someone else didn't get asked to, where my poem was actually quite bad compared to my friends.

Man I wrote so many screwed up stories in high school, I am surprised they didn't flag them instantly. I mean one if you followed the context clues was about a male who was basically invisible to everyone but himself, and moments later he found out he was dead all along and simply faded from existance because he wasn't important.

What's funny is, my Freshman year, we had a poetry assignment... it was, for 45-50 minutes, write any poem you wanted. and turn it in. The next day, after grading the teacher offered to read for the class, anonymously, each poem, and have students guess who wrote what... Well, I wrote a poem all about a singular spot on the wall within the classroom it had been bugging me for awhile. Meanwhile, my GF at the time, wrote a very Poe-esque thing about ravens plucking the eyes out of a dead body or something, and the whole class thought that *I* wrote it . The red pen note on my poem for me from the teacher basically read: damn you, now I can't help but notice that spot, and now it annoys me as well!!

I discovered early in year 9, that I could erase parts of the pictures in my science text book with a regular eraser. I then spent most of the year modifying the cartoons with a fine-liner so that all the people were masturbating and stuff. I tried to do it tastefully so it looked like it was just printed that way. I remember one especially funny one of this guy who was supposed to have a stomach ache (something to do with acid), but he was all sweating and rubbing his stomach in the cartoon. Eventually I got busted because my friend was laughing so much.

My teacher was mortified (to put it mildly). The look of disgust on her face was priceless, but aside from that nothing happened, they didn't even make me pay for the book.

 jasper76 wrote:

 timetowaste85 wrote:
This is the dumbest thing I ever heard of (okay, I have actually heard dumber). I'm glad to be out of the school system. This is a colossal joke.

Right? I remember writing all kinds of wierd violent stuff even in middle school. My teachers always encouraged the creative aspect, while making sure I understood the clear distinction between fiction and reality.\

I would not have survived in today's school system.

Way back when your neighbors may well have had pet dinosaurs (mid 1980's), I used to run games of \the first edition of Steve Jackson's Killer ( http://www.sjgames.com/killer/ ) in my high school. A couple of the teachers knew about it and turned the other way, or flat out enjoyed hearing how it was going (we had some VERY creative kills). The school admin caught on it was going on when some copy cat group was not as discrete as my group and announced it was outlawed and they would suspend folks caught playing. I successfully ran 3 more games with zero suspensions after they started cracking down, just by being pretty picky about who was allowed to play. Very good times.

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

 Asherian Command wrote:


I can one up that. Talked about the end of the world and was asked to read that at my schools poetry slam, which I declined. Not because I felt embarrassed or flaterred, but because I was angry that someone else didn't get asked to, where my poem was actually quite bad compared to my friends.

Man I wrote so many screwed up stories in high school, I am surprised they didn't flag them instantly. I mean one if you followed the context clues was about a male who was basically invisible to everyone but himself, and moments later he found out he was dead all along and simply faded from existance because he wasn't important.

What's funny is, my Freshman year, we had a poetry assignment... it was, for 45-50 minutes, write any poem you wanted. and turn it in. The next day, after grading the teacher offered to read for the class, anonymously, each poem, and have students guess who wrote what... Well, I wrote a poem all about a singular spot on the wall within the classroom it had been bugging me for awhile. Meanwhile, my GF at the time, wrote a very Poe-esque thing about ravens plucking the eyes out of a dead body or something, and the whole class thought that *I* wrote it . The red pen note on my poem for me from the teacher basically read: damn you, now I can't help but notice that spot, and now it annoys me as well!!

Thats the best bit about writing classes. When you make your teacher notice something so dumb its brillant.

 Hordini wrote:
The majority of millennial bashing is rooted in what Sebster referred to as the "golden age" fallacy.

Yep. All the generalisations that get thrown around about millennials today used to get thrown around about Gen-Y a few years ago, and Gen-X before them.

I mean sure, millennials tend to have little idea of their real worth (either over-valuaing it as is often complained about, or under-valuing it as you point out Houdini)... but that isn't because there is something unique and extraordinary in their upbringing as opposed to all other generations that have ever existed. It's because they're kids, and they haven't had the time yet to build lives for themselves, or have their skills and resourcefulness tested in the real world.

That will change, of course, because those kids will become adults just the same as the rest of us. And then most of them will look at the next generation coming through and observe those young people are acting in immature ways. And instead of just concluding that they're kids acting like kids, they'll conclude that this new generation is somehow magically different to all generations who ever came before, and they'll give that generation it's own stupid name, and start talking about their immature behaviour as if it were permanent and forget that kids grow up, just like they always have.