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Frazzled wrote: Most any point. The consumer level of technology has never been at this level.
Wait, what? That's always been true at any point in history. It's the nature of technology and holds true for at least until the 25th millennium.
We're good, thanks.
Black, its the new black!
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-"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!
There are two girls at my work. The same age. One is a supervisor, the other is a window grunt(window being the lowest there) both started the same time. The supervisor got promoted withing here first year of being there, the other jelous.
The one girl yelled at the other saying she didnt deserve her promotion, that she works just as hard. the Supervisor said "All your generation wants is to sit around, come to work and get everything handed to you without hard work"
My point being, everyone thinks the younger generation is worse, even if they are part of your generation. I say the same thing.
Frazzled wrote: My daughter just started dating a...Californian. I blame bad parents for that. Rodney has promised to bite his face off if I will pick him up and hold him at face level, and maybe get him a tasty treat while I am at it.
"mammas...don't let your babies grow up and date Californians..."
Frazzled, Im surprised how little faith you have in your Daughter. She is trying to infiltrate and destroy California from the inside.
easysauce wrote: The problem is that everyone keeps getting distracted by hats.
He who controls the hats, controls the universe!
-"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!
Experiment 626 wrote: One of my biggest peeves with kids (and especially their idiot parents) these days, is just how massively undisciplined & obnoxiously rude they typically are. For example, I still enjoy the time I get to go for a morning walk with my mum, and we'll sit and have a drink/chat. Then along comes a gaggle of 2-4 young kids and their parents, who let the little Cretans scream their heads off, run around everywhere, and generally becomes a headache inducing distraction there's simply no way to possibly ignore.
Parents letting their kids scream and run around outside?
For shame....
My bad, I should have explained it better... We like to go for a walk, but then sit to have a drink/chat, maybe a snack inside at the little café area of the supermarket. Large, high ceiling buildings can make for some great echo chambers when kids are determined to be as huge of a menace as they possibly can be! It's even worse if we're out say, running errands at the mall and then sit down at the food court...
I don't expect total silence, but for feth's sake, there's times I want to murder some of these so-called parents who let their kids run around while you're carrying trays of hot food, or else ignore their infant/toddler who's been screaming at the top of their lungs for 10+ minutes because they're too busy texting.
Hell, the one time I was in a leg brace after having torn some ligaments in my knee, some dumb*** mother decided to let their kid play Nascar with their stroller. The kid of course couldn't see over the top of the thing, came strait at me, and I was forced to dodge (badly) out of the way. Then the stupid ***** turns around and let's into me for nearly hitting her kid!
I was sorely tempted to pick up the kid, and swing it feet first into this dumb gak's screeching face...
Remember Experiment, don't beat the kids, smack the parents.
-"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!
d-usa wrote: I can fall in both the Generation X and Millennial groups.
I must suck twice as bad as the other generations.
I'm the same way. I'm right on the edge as far as birth years go, but my upbringing and how I identify is definitely more Generation X than Millennial.
d-usa wrote: "When the Internet sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending posters that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing strawmen. They're bringing spam. They're trolls. And some, I assume, are good people."
Old people suck, young people ruin everything, everyone should go back to their respective countries, damn commies, filthy capitalists, lazy working class, good for nothing upper class, arahrgahrg the right wing, raghagahg the left wing, but worst of all.... cat people, they're the lowest of the low. I hate them, they should all be murdered violently.
Frazzled wrote: My daughter just started dating a...Californian. I blame bad parents for that. Rodney has promised to bite his face off if I will pick him up and hold him at face level, and maybe get him a tasty treat while I am at it.
"mammas...don't let your babies grow up and date Californians..."
Frazzled, Im surprised how little faith you have in your Daughter. She is trying to infiltrate and destroy California from the inside.
I wasn't aware California needed the help. A wiener-dog wielding teenager seems like it can only improve the taint of America.
Also, Red, the republican comment was amazing. Well done, good sir!!
Reality is a nice place to visit, but I'd hate to live there.
Manchu wrote:I'm a Catholic. We eat our God.
Due to work, I can usually only ship any sales or trades out on Saturday morning. Please trade/purchase with this in mind.
d-usa wrote: I can fall in both the Generation X and Millennial groups.
I must suck twice as bad as the other generations.
I'm the same way. I'm right on the edge as far as birth years go, but my upbringing and how I identify is definitely more Generation X than Millennial.
According to a google search, I'm supposed to be a Millenial... but I also identify more with the Gen X'ers
Kids are rude and selfish and lazy, and they have it too easy. They always have.
Rich families produce children who are entitled turds. Always have been.
The poor produce children who are violent thugs. As they always have.
While we’re at it, there’s too much violence on our streets, healthcare is too expensive, people aren’t saving enough for retirement, and foreigners are taking our jobs. All things that are always true.
Frazzled wrote: Why do you assume the current generation is fine? The income levels of working people are through the floor. Home ownership rates for young people is at the lowest level in decades. As I type the stock future market is down 870 points. You have middle class and wealthy people being hoodwinked into a joining a murder cult using a religion. Why one earth would you assume the current generation is fine?
It’s safe to assume the current generation is fine, because every generation turns out fine. Incomes are lower than they should be, but they still give a higher standard of living than most people lived through most modern history. The stock market is down, but the capital value is still vastly greater than it’s been through almost all modern history. Some middle class kids are joining death cults, but they joined a whole bunch of awful cults in greater numbers through the 70s.
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Elemental wrote: Because all of that has happened before, people lamented and somehow, the human race soldiered on. Does this generation have a lot of problems to cope with, like every other one before that? Of course, and many of those problems deserve to be addressed and improved. Will they represent a terminal decline in human morality and civilisation, the same accusation that's been levelled at literally every other generation? Of course not.
It’s kind amazing that we can summarise the angst about ‘kids these days’ in one of two forms; “kids these days have it too easy” and “kids these days have all new problems that we never had to deal with”
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“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something.
VorpalBunny74 wrote: Isn't anyone else just. . . quietly hopeful about the next generation? I'm optimistic.
I see some stories pop up here and there that do... I think that, from talking to other parents of an age with me and the wife, a lot of us see certain things our forebears did "wrong" and are trying to "fix" those issues so that our kids aren't screwed up the same way we were.
VorpalBunny74 wrote: Isn't anyone else just. . . quietly hopeful about the next generation? I'm optimistic.
I think the only prediction that works out over time, more or less, is that things get better, slowly. So yeah, I think the most likely thing for my kid is that she'l be a little better off, have learned some slightly better and healthier ways of seeing the world, and be a little safer from accidents and violence than my generation.
“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something.
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