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2013/06/27 16:59:28
Subject: What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
Why do you think we're going to have a few million years? You think people will be around then? Evolution says no.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
2013/06/28 02:10:10
Subject: Re:What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
Well I'm just hoping the next intelligent species give us a nice statue for our efforts.
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and 40k was like McDonalds - you could get it anywhere - it wouldn't necessarily satisfy, but it was probably better than nothing.
2013/06/28 02:38:30
Subject: What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
Frazzled wrote: Why do you think we're going to have a few million years? You think people will be around then? Evolution says no.
What about evolution makes you think that Homo sapiens won't last millions of years, I'm not saying we necessarily will either but isn't the idea of evolution that it's random and unpredictable? So how do you know if we will last millions or only thousands of years?
2013/06/28 03:27:44
Subject: What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
Manchu - "But so what? The Bible also says the flood destroyed the world. You only need an allegorical boat to tackle an allegorical flood."
Shespits "Anything i see with YOLO has half naked eleventeen year olds Girls. And of course booze and drugs and more half naked elventeen yearolds Girls. O how i wish to YOLO again!"
Rubiksnoob "Next you'll say driving a stick with a Scandinavian supermodel on your lap while ripping a bong impairs your driving. And you know what, I'M NOT GOING TO STOP, YOU FILTHY COMMUNIST"
2013/06/28 03:53:07
Subject: Re:What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
Who made the computer? Apple? Toshiba? ASUS? or a knock off brand laptop? Dude we're going to Ascend!!! Except for Kronk...he be a awhile till he figures how to bring all the beers with him....Kronk we need to start researching like now....
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2013/06/28 05:26:38
Subject: Re:What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
Jihadin wrote: Who made the computer? Apple? Toshiba? ASUS? or a knock off brand laptop? Dude we're going to Ascend!!! Except for Kronk...he be a awhile till he figures how to bring all the beers with him....Kronk we need to start researching like now....
If only the human body had a semi-elastic container with which to store beer in. Better get started on creating a suitably sized one now.
i think it would be easier to find a way to keep yeast alive in the stomach ,that way all we need is water, sugar and distended stomachs, and a stupified grin on the face of everyone who has the live yeast stomach modification. I think we'll call it Kronkitis.
Manchu - "But so what? The Bible also says the flood destroyed the world. You only need an allegorical boat to tackle an allegorical flood."
Shespits "Anything i see with YOLO has half naked eleventeen year olds Girls. And of course booze and drugs and more half naked elventeen yearolds Girls. O how i wish to YOLO again!"
Rubiksnoob "Next you'll say driving a stick with a Scandinavian supermodel on your lap while ripping a bong impairs your driving. And you know what, I'M NOT GOING TO STOP, YOU FILTHY COMMUNIST"
2013/06/28 06:54:09
Subject: What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
Frazzled wrote: Why do you think we're going to have a few million years? You think people will be around then? Evolution says no.
What about evolution makes you think that Homo sapiens won't last millions of years, I'm not saying we necessarily will either but isn't the idea of evolution that it's random and unpredictable? So how do you know if we will last millions or only thousands of years?
Species flame out. Our species will flame out long before that. As the Terminator said: "its in your nature to destroy yourselves."
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
2013/06/28 12:43:59
Subject: What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
To reply to the OP after not having read the 7 pages of this thread, I think it can boil down to how Millennials have come to believe that "trying hard" should be attributed almost as much worth as actual accomplishment.
2013/06/28 13:30:31
Subject: What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
Frazzled wrote: Why do you think we're going to have a few million years? You think people will be around then? Evolution says no.
What about evolution makes you think that Homo sapiens won't last millions of years, I'm not saying we necessarily will either but isn't the idea of evolution that it's random and unpredictable? So how do you know if we will last millions or only thousands of years?
Species flame out. Our species will flame out long before that. As the Terminator said: "its in your nature to destroy yourselves."
What are you basing this on? Because we've seen so many intelligent species that colonized a planet and then flamed out, right?
2013/06/28 14:34:15
Subject: What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
You've taken biology right and understand that evolution thing right?
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
2013/06/28 14:51:57
Subject: What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
Frazzled wrote: You've taken biology right and understand that evolution thing right?
No species has ever gotten to where we are, evolution-wise. There is no model for this.
Now, we could always fail to develop interstellar travel before the sun eats us, but otherwise there isn't anything we can expect one way or the other about our future as a species. Our ability to modify ourselves and our environment makes it unlikely in the extreme that we can be eradicated by simple self-destructive behavior.
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2013/06/28 14:59:24
Subject: What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
Frazzled wrote: You've taken biology right and understand that evolution thing right?
No species has ever gotten to where we are, evolution-wise. There is no model for this.
Now, we could always fail to develop interstellar travel before the sun eats us, but otherwise there isn't anything we can expect one way or the other about our future as a species. Our ability to modify ourselves and our environment makes it unlikely in the extreme that we can be eradicated by simple self-destructive behavior.
Sure they have. They didn't make it to the moon but everything else. To think mankind in its present form will be around in millions of years is misplaced. We'll be gone, either as a species or we'll have somehow been able to find a better place, ala the season finally in Season IV of B5. if it is physically possible, we'll be able to find it in 500 years, if we wodon't wipe each other out first. If so make that 5,500 years.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
2013/06/28 14:59:53
Subject: Re:What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
It really got rolling when kids started getting trophies for "Participation." Really? When I was a kid, being mocked by your peers when you failed was just a fact of life.
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2013/06/28 15:03:26
Subject: What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
Frazzled has a point.
We're all gonna die eventually so what's the point in doing anything?
I mean we may as well just kill everyone now since everyone now is gonna be dead in about 100 years or thereabouts.
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2013/06/28 15:43:00
Subject: What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
Actually my point was that thinking you need NASA to spirit us away because the sun is going to die sometime in the future is stupid.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
2013/06/28 15:45:45
Subject: What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
Yeah so we shouldn't have anything to do with space or exploration at all despite the benefits it could bring us?
Dakka Bingo! By Ouze "You are the best at flying things"-Kanluwen
"Further proof that Purple is a fething brilliant super villain " -KingCracker
"Purp.. Im pretty sure I have a gun than can reach you...."-Nicorex
"That's not really an apocalypse. That's just Europe."-Grakmar
"almost as good as winning free cake at the tea drinking contest for an Englishman." -Reds8n
Seal up your lips and give no words but mum.
Equip, Reload. Do violence.
Watch for Gerry.
2013/06/28 15:45:54
Subject: What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
Homo Erectus existed for 1.5 million years and they didn't have modern medicine, space travel and the ability to create artificial livable environments.
Interstellar travel and colonization would basically mean going infinite as a species and being impossible to eradicate until the universe is destroyed and the probability that we develop interstellar travel in the next million years seems pretty high considering what we've done with the last 5 thousand.
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2013/06/28 15:48:50
Subject: What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
I'm betting zombies. Bring it zombie hordes. Daddy has a chainsaw with your name on it. See right there where it says "to whom it may concern."
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
2013/06/28 15:54:06
Subject: What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
The centre of a massive brood chamber, heaving and pulsating.
I'm sure the last generation was as bad as this one, and the generation before that complained about how bad that generation was and how theirs was so much better.
It's just that now that we have the internet, that complaining is more accessible.
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2013/06/28 22:10:28
Subject: Re:What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
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2013/06/28 22:28:43
Subject: Re:What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
FoWPlayerDeathOfUS.TDs wrote: My perception of the world is different, mostly because I am in all of the honors classes. I will tell you three of my experiences in 1) classes that didn't have an alternative higher level track and 2) with one student who is in one of my classes getting C's and in no other honors curriculum except HA social studies(which isn't very demanding at all) and 3)another irritating, very vocal, very uninformed(nicely put, as well as a horrible combination)
1) So, its class E. Most students enter class E about 3 minutes before the bell rings. Student A always "cleverly" taps my shoulder on the right while he/ she walks to his/ her seat on the left. I always respond by " hey ______" to which his/ her crush(B) on the right side always giggles at. (his/ her crush is also in a relationship w/ a different person) The teacher, lets call him/her Mr. Smith, tells everyone to be quiet after the bell rings. It takes 30 seconds, after which another student walks in, and takes his/her place in the front row, after french kissing his/ her partner for about 3 or 4 minutes right outside the class door. The typical day consists of Mr. Smith attempting to get everyones attention for his easier than average curriculum. I know that about 4 people sleep a day in Mr Smiths class. The typical spectrum of grades for a test is A A A A A B D D F F F. I don't know how B gets A's, considering student B and student A have conversations across the room each day(they have picked up the skill of reading lips) Mr. Smith is visibly frustrated most days. While practicing for a class next year, he sometimes talks about his frustration with this class, and according to a friend, also brought up the fact that another low level class was doing extremely poorly. He puts alot of thought into his lessons, and its a shame nobody cares enough to play attention( well, about 21/2 of the class, with about 1/4 the class paying attention on and off)
Although I am not in honors(I might have been able to, IDK) I can say this, just because someone doesn't pay attention doesn't mean they don't know. In my math classes I rarely paid attention(You try paying attention for 2 hr and 45 minute class) but i was able to do the work and get A's on quite a bit of the tests. I'm not naturally gifted in math but i read ahead He may also know how to work the teacher to get good grades. That is what I do aswell, I knew my german teacher loved students who look like they are serious, reading the book before class/test or going to the optional cafe class where we just talk about german. Life isnt always about knowing the facts, it is about learning how to work people and the system.
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2013/06/29 01:14:34
Subject: Re:What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?