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Sorry bro. Some of us thought Juno was an overrated movie showcasing how stupid teenagers are

What about Mike Meyers?

An excellent point Slarg! Another thing we can blame on Canada:



Thanks Canada

 Fafnir wrote:
In all fairness, we did give you guys Ellen Page. That's got to count for something.

That does count...

She's fething hilarious.

 LordofHats wrote:
Sorry bro. Some of us thought Juno was an overrated movie showcasing how stupid teenagers are

Juno wasn't the only movie she was in! Inception was good! And I assume that Hard Candy would be a very enjoyable, whimsical adventure along the lines of Willy Wonka.

Inception was kind of good... But it had someone from Canada in it and in my ignorance I am forced to assume the film was just a Canadian trick to make me believe Canada was okay! Clearly all our problems are your fault!

Well, I never said that wasn't true.

You know they ration douchebaggery in Canada...

Yep, excessive douche bags are exported to the United States or fed to polar bears. That's why Canada is the politest country on Earth. Even if they do ration healthcare.

It's actually a genius system we have in place. We tell everyone in the hospital that we can't take care of them, and the ones who get angry and mean about it are tossed out on their asses. The impolite die off, and everyone else gets the healthcare they need.

 Fafnir wrote:
It's actually a genius system we have in place. We tell everyone in the hospital that we can't take care of them, and the ones who get angry and mean about it are tossed out on their asses. The impolite die off, and everyone else gets the healthcare they need.

 LordofHats wrote:

 Bromsy wrote:

 LordofHats wrote:
Athens and Sparta were in the middle of the Peloponnesian Wars.

More of a Pelopennesian Scuffle, those were.

Um lol? The battles of the late 5th century BC and early 4th radically altered the balance of power in Greece. That's not a scuffle. Maybe a scuffle by our standards but not to the city states. Athens went from being the most powerful city in Greece to being the weakest, and Sparta went from no. 2 to being no. 1 to being no. 5 at best by the end with underdogs Corinth and Thebes coming out on top. The wars were not a scuffle.

Bring back corporal punishments without retributions to the parents

Dad belt.....never forget that piece of leather
Going out to find a switch
Grounded
PS3 smashed
Nintendo smashed
Talk back to dad best be ready to fight if you don't back down (hence the doorway to adult hood is open and dad will have the father and son talk over a beer with you)
Dad seeing you lost a fight. Best go back out to kick the guy ass and pay attention when he says "there are no rules in a street fight"


Painful way to grow up but tell the truth. I'm a better man for it.

Flogging is still a legal criminal punishment in Delaware.

Old man never smashed any of my gear (cause that's a waste of money) but I definitely got a spanking when I deserved it. I do wish I had respected him more growing up, which is why I call him sir now. The shift drives him a little nuts.

Old people whining about young people.

Gawd forbid now if I touch a kid for punishment. Last marriage former step son brought home a classic "E" and "D" report card. Had no value explanation. Pretty much threw a tantrum on us because we were in his way of his PS3 game....Assassin Creed (no idea what version)....Lost my frame of mind for a second.....common sense agreed with the lost part.....went an got my 5LBS ball peenhammer and smashed the PS3 to pieces.....then to smaller pieces....and then to actual pieces I can use on base and SM with debrie's, wiring, and component and other what not.......btw it was my PS3 I was on PC games


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Old people get you where it hurts.....two month later my XBOX 360 went with the PS3

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
Old man never smashed any of my gear (cause that's a waste of money) but I definitely got a spanking when I deserved it.

I think there is value in this. But when a child deserves it, and how you go about it, is important. For example my dad probably only 'properly' spanked me maybe 10 times (I'm adding one or two assuming I forgot some), and that was early in life. After that it wasn't the threat of the punishment so much as me having equated 'spanking' with 'disappointing my parents', and I hadn't equated the two things before. So it made me rethink my actions before I made them (usually), and he didn't need to spank me again. It was a pretty good system. I'm not trying to say it was a fear based thing, me being too afraid of punishment to do anything, more I respected their wishes and knew how much they disliked having to do that, and that they really did know best, and what not which led me to think things through more and act better.

I had the hell beat out of me several times, but still less than I deserved. To make matters worse (or better), I was lucky enough to pull off all the REALLY good gak without getting caught. I shudder to think what would have happened for those times. In this day and age, the stuff I pulled off as a teen is the stuff that we mock on this very forum about kids getting tossed in jail as an adult for acts of terror because they made homemade M80s or some gak.

 Jihadin wrote:
Bring back corporal punishments without retributions to the parents

Dad belt.....never forget that piece of leather
Going out to find a switch
Grounded
PS3 smashed
Nintendo smashed
Talk back to dad best be ready to fight if you don't back down (hence the doorway to adult hood is open and dad will have the father and son talk over a beer with you)
Dad seeing you lost a fight. Best go back out to kick the guy ass and pay attention when he says "there are no rules in a street fight"


Painful way to grow up but tell the truth. I'm a better man for it.

Warning: May contain offensive language.

motyak wrote:

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
Old man never smashed any of my gear (cause that's a waste of money) but I definitely got a spanking when I deserved it.

I think there is value in this. But when a child deserves it, and how you go about it, is important. For example my dad probably only 'properly' spanked me maybe 10 times (I'm adding one or two assuming I forgot some), and that was early in life. After that it wasn't the threat of the punishment so much as me having equated 'spanking' with 'disappointing my parents', and I hadn't equated the two things before. So it made me rethink my actions before I made them (usually), and he didn't need to spank me again. It was a pretty good system. I'm not trying to say it was a fear based thing, me being too afraid of punishment to do anything, more I respected their wishes and knew how much they disliked having to do that, and that they really did know best, and what not which led me to think things through more and act better.

This.
Well, I didn't get hit much, maybe again 10 times or so, but I've only actually been caught doing something bad and deserved it maybe half those times. The other half were due to a short-tempered scottish stepfather with depression. Still, it did put me in line- again, not because of the actual punishment, more the knowledge of that punishment being my parent's disappointment. The undeserving ones kind of ruined that effect at the time though, because some of the times I did deserve it I blamed it on my stepfather rather than myself. Still, though I was an immensely annoying child who didn't really know when to shut up, I didn't really do a whole lot other than that (apart from aforementioned hitting/not getting caught).

 Fafnir wrote:

 killykavekommando wrote:
Being a teen in the new 'dreaded generation,' I can definitely say that music plays a huge part in the behavior of the youth. Although you could definitely argue that each generation since the 1920's had its own music that preached about defiance and change, this past decade has been filled with some of the most mindless lyrics and writing styles. Essentially, musical pop culture has morphed from an 'be yourself' attitude to a 'conform to the pseudo-independence' set of ideals in which teens and children are convinced that by buying OBEY hats and t-shirts they are unique and cool.

It's cute how you're so absurdly wrong.


On an unrelated note, I think one thing that could have something to do with the state of discontent in today's youth is just how much older generations kind of screwed us over. I've no illusions that I will ever own any land, or receive a pension of any kind. My greatest hope in life is that I can find employment that can last me until the day I die. The rest of my generation and I will be inheritors to a broken and dying world that is continually exploited for the sake of financial gain. Your generation may be lucky enough to die before you see the greater effects, but going forward, my generation will have to clean up your mess.

You can complain about my generation all you want, but at some point, you have to take responsibility for creating this monster.

Cry me a river kid. Emo nonsense. We survived world wars, the Cold War, ducking under desks waiting for the bomb, multiple recessions, and the time before transistors, much less the internet. You don't know what screwed is. In the words of the Immortal Bard; Get a job Hippy!




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 Jihadin wrote:
Gawd forbid now if I touch a kid for punishment. Last marriage former step son brought home a classic "E" and "D" report card. Had no value explanation. Pretty much threw a tantrum on us because we were in his way of his PS3 game....Assassin Creed (no idea what version)....Lost my frame of mind for a second.....common sense agreed with the lost part.....went an got my 5LBS ball peenhammer and smashed the PS3 to pieces.....then to smaller pieces....and then to actual pieces I can use on base and SM with debrie's, wiring, and component and other what not.......btw it was my PS3 I was on PC games


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Old people get you where it hurts.....two month later my XBOX 360 went with the PS3

See that was your error. You don't smash the PS3, you confiscate the PS3 and play all the games. They really really hate that.

I think the ris ein Douchbaggery is directly porportional to the aging of the population.

The natural reaction to dealing with old, cranky people is to be a douchebag. Therefore, we can blame Baby Boomers for douchebaggery.

 Easy E wrote:
I think the ris ein Douchbaggery is directly porportional to the aging of the population.

The natural reaction to dealing with old, cranky people is to be a douchebag. Therefore, we can blame Baby Boomers for douchebaggery.

When I see old, cranky people I ignore them, like I would any other cranky person I didn't know.
Plus, old people are no more cranky than younger people- the old cranky ones were once middle-aged cranky people, who were once young cranky people, and the same with happy people.

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Reason for douchebaggery? People.

Specifically, all the people.

 Ifepy wrote:

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Spoiler:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=93OdU7bxPWg

That was painful. It was like the emo version of Millionaires Club (or whatever they're called) but set to dance music based on NES game soundtracks

 Frazzled wrote:


Cry me a river kid. Emo nonsense. We survived world wars, the Cold War, ducking under desks waiting for the bomb, multiple recessions, and the time before transistors, much less the internet. You don't know what screwed is. In the words of the Immortal Bard; Get a job Hippy!

Seeing as you survived the actual Stone Age, all that was just an average Tuesday for ya, Fraz.

Humans forget bad things before they forget good things. This is why the "good old days" exist at all. Anyone who tells you things were better when we had live nukes pointed at each other and blacks couldn't vote is an idiot.

 Platuan4th wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:


Cry me a river kid. Emo nonsense. We survived world wars, the Cold War, ducking under desks waiting for the bomb, multiple recessions, and the time before transistors, much less the internet. You don't know what screwed is. In the words of the Immortal Bard; Get a job Hippy!

Seeing as you survived the actual Stone Age, all that was just an average Tuesday for ya, Fraz.

True that.

In about ten years we're all screwed anyway. Financial collapse of America.....Zombie apocalypse.....EU breaking up...I'm moving to Thailand...