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fething is the place you want to be

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Kissing,+Germany/Petting,+Deutschland/fething,+Austria/@48.0476846,10.7985367,8z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m20!4m19!1m5!1m1!1s0x479e997d0b497391:0x41e48add78be870!2m2!1d10.972609!2d48.3027069!1m5!1m1!1s0x47767df707a81f7d:0x41d25a40937aba0!2m2!1d12.8162263!2d47.9127713!1m5!1m1!1s0x4775d4854dbcba19:0x802456ee60b72a17!2m2!1d12.8633177!2d48.0673299!3e0

Its only a short drive from Kissing too.

Slough is only about 20 minutes drive away.

 LethalShade wrote:

 Tactical_Spam wrote:

 Kilkrazy wrote:
Soon Google and Apple will invent a reliable text to speech algorithm, and kids won't even have to learn how to read.

And a speech to text algorithm?

They don't read books anymore, anyway.

Statistically it's been proven that the main and by far biggest reason for children to not like reading is their parents not liking it. If children do not see their parents enjoying reading and aren't being read to, they will, by a high chance, not develop any interest in it. Which makes a lot of sense as reading isn't a thing observed among most peers.

 Sigvatr wrote:

 LethalShade wrote:

 Tactical_Spam wrote:

 Kilkrazy wrote:
Soon Google and Apple will invent a reliable text to speech algorithm, and kids won't even have to learn how to read.

And a speech to text algorithm?

They don't read books anymore, anyway.

Statistically it's been proven that the main and by far biggest reason for children to not like reading is their parents not liking it. If children do not see their parents enjoying reading and aren't being read to, they will, by a high chance, not develop any interest in it. Which makes a lot of sense as reading isn't a thing observed among most peers.

Yeah, you have a point. It could explain why I enjoy reading real books so much.

 LethalShade wrote:


Yeah, you have a point. It could explain why I enjoy reading real books so much.

It's really sad to see, really. The son of a couple we're friends of said that the last time most of his class read a book was back at elementary school (he's grade 7). The worst part is that it's those children that then get children themselves and thus will guarantee another generation with even less reading exposure. It's saddening.

Sitting in front of the fireplace, listening to wood crackling in the fire, smelling it slowly fading away, tucked in a thick, comfortable blanket while reading a good book in the Winter is amazing

 Goliath wrote:

 Verviedi wrote:
Never quite understood what was bad about being a millenial.

Something about being lazy, not having jobs and complaining all the time. Also entitled, and feeling that participation is important.

All things that they developed entirely on their own with absolutely zero influence from the generations that raised them.

Probably because we are stuck in a gakky world screwed up by the generations before us with no regard for the future of anything? And being stuck in the proverbial "Iron Cage" of being expected to work for the main motivation of profit and nothing else with the goal being study not something you love, do something you love, but to get money?
Yeah, most people would be upset in the gakky situation the previous generations left us.

 Sigvatr wrote:

 LethalShade wrote:


Yeah, you have a point. It could explain why I enjoy reading real books so much.

It's really sad to see, really. The son of a couple we're friends of said that the last time most of his class read a book was back at elementary school (he's grade 7). The worst part is that it's those children that then get children themselves and thus will guarantee another generation with even less reading exposure. It's saddening.

Sitting in front of the fireplace, listening to wood crackling in the fire, smelling it slowly fading away, tucked in a thick, comfortable blanket while reading a good book in the Winter is amazing

Honestly I used to read for fun fairly regularity (does reading on the internet count? If so I read for fun lots) but there is just too much options in the form of entertainment for me to want to read (like movies, video games, web series, dating, hanging out, art, drugs, booze, etc) plus between

school and work (full-time) I don't have a lot of free time.

Best thing about this sort of drunk posting is waking up and thinking 'I didn't make a thread last night...'.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:

 Goliath wrote:

 Verviedi wrote:
Never quite understood what was bad about being a millenial.

Something about being lazy, not having jobs and complaining all the time. Also entitled, and feeling that participation is important.

All things that they developed entirely on their own with absolutely zero influence from the generations that raised them.

Probably because we are stuck in a gakky world screwed up by the generations before us with no regard for the future of anything? And being stuck in the proverbial "Iron Cage" of being expected to work for the main motivation of profit and nothing else with the goal being study not something you love, do something you love, but to get money?
Yeah, most people would be upset in the gakky situation the previous generations left us.

Thats clueless. In previous generations, you would already be dead from cholera, paralyzed from polio, or potentially starved from a bad harvest.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:

Probably because we are stuck in a gakky world screwed up by the generations before us with no regard for the future of anything? And being stuck in the proverbial "Iron Cage" of being expected to work for the main motivation of profit and nothing else with the goal being study not something you love, do something you love, but to get money?

Ehm, that's just wrong. You can study whatever you like and nooone's gonna stop you from doing so. If you study stuff like Theatre, Fine Arts or Gender studies, however, you need to be aware that this isn't going to earn you money and thus be happy with a low-end standard of living. You are not useful to anyone with such a degree, so why would anyone pay you?

Mr Gradgrind's ethos is alive and well, I find.

 Sigvatr wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:

Probably because we are stuck in a gakky world screwed up by the generations before us with no regard for the future of anything? And being stuck in the proverbial "Iron Cage" of being expected to work for the main motivation of profit and nothing else with the goal being study not something you love, do something you love, but to get money?

Ehm, that's just wrong. You can study whatever you like and nooone's gonna stop you from doing so. If you study stuff like Theatre, Fine Arts or Gender studies, however, you need to be aware that this isn't going to earn you money and thus be happy with a low-end standard of living. You are not useful to anyone with such a degree, so why would anyone pay you?

That is the problem that so many today face.

I'm getting a degree in History. I fully acknowledge that it's never going to make me rich. My most likely best case, I'll end up a Professor in some community college. I'm also 31 and 14 years into my military career though. I will retire from my first career at 37, and have a pension before I take the job that I "love". I prepared myself to do something I wanted to do.

Kids today need to get over the entitlement mentality that just because they go to college and get a degree, they are owed a good living. My wife has her Bachelors, and she's unemployed. Do we bitch about how unfair the world is? Hell no. She got a degree that doesn't offer a lot of job opportunities now. Sucks, cause its a lot of student loan money I have to pay back, but such is life.

You kids need to get lessons like this through your head. Pursue what you want, but be prepared for the consequences of it. A trade certificate most times will be worth more then many Bachelor degrees out there today.

Thats the point, this isnt about entitlement, its about my generation being screwed over by the previous one. We are the ones paying more for education, despite more worthless degrees, because previous ones kinda defaulted on all their loans, causing Student loans to become unforgivable. It also the generation that told use lie after lie about how education and college is the only way to succeed. Then previous generations screwed up the housing market, the job market and made unions less powerful.
This isnt about entitlement, its about my generation being forced to deal with the shortsightedness of the previous ones in every conceivable way.

Yeah, the insane focus on college is too much. I disagree about Unions being less powerful, they're way way too powerful as it is.

 Grey Templar wrote:
Yeah, the insane focus on college is too much. I disagree about Unions being less powerful, they're way way too powerful as it is.

Except if you look, strong unions tend to correlate with a healthy middle class.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Thats the point, this isnt about entitlement, its about my generation being screwed over by the previous one. We are the ones paying more for education, despite more worthless degrees, because previous ones kinda defaulted on all their loans, causing Student loans to become unforgivable. It also the generation that told use lie after lie about how education and college is the only way to succeed. Then previous generations screwed up the housing market, the job market and made unions less powerful.
This isnt about entitlement, its about my generation being forced to deal with the shortsightedness of the previous ones in every conceivable way.

You're so right, you poor little one who will not be able to afford a Tesla with your Gender studies degree. Screw those mean, mean generations before you that fought in wars to ensure international peace, rebuilt cities with their bare hands and built the very foundation of the societies we live in nowadays, allowing for all people to live a safe and good life.

You're just selfish and extremely self-driven. That's the problem. You are not entitled to anything. NOTHING. You take everything around you as granted and focus on the negative parts to vent and project. If people really want to know what their degree / college is worth, they can just look it up on the internet. Literally. The info is /right there/. Less whining about stuff, more self-education.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:

 Grey Templar wrote:
Yeah, the insane focus on college is too much. I disagree about Unions being less powerful, they're way way too powerful as it is.

Except if you look, strong unions tend to correlate with a healthy middle class.

Unions are good, but only to a point. They're way past the point of being a healthy thing and need to be toned back.

 Sigvatr wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Thats the point, this isnt about entitlement, its about my generation being screwed over by the previous one. We are the ones paying more for education, despite more worthless degrees, because previous ones kinda defaulted on all their loans, causing Student loans to become unforgivable. It also the generation that told use lie after lie about how education and college is the only way to succeed. Then previous generations screwed up the housing market, the job market and made unions less powerful.
This isnt about entitlement, its about my generation being forced to deal with the shortsightedness of the previous ones in every conceivable way.

You're so right, you poor little one who will not be able to afford a Tesla with your Gender studies degree. Screw those mean, mean generations before you that fought in wars to ensure international peace, rebuilt cities with their bare hands and built the very foundation of the societies we live in nowadays, allowing for all people to live a safe and good life.
.

This isnt about being able to afford a Tesla, but good making a cute little diversionary tactic. Its about being able to pay off the student loans that are astronomical(My sister has about 30,000 in loans and is homeless now) with less meaning then they had before. It is about a system that built us up to fail, constantly lying to us, making us their little pawns so corporations can get even more money.
And I dont have a gender studies degree, I have a broad spectrum sociology degree.

Nobody wants you default on your loan. They don't get money if you don't pay your loans off.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:

And I dont have a gender studies degree, I have a broad spectrum sociology degree.

Same thing. It's something that doesn't get you anywhere money-wise, so I assume you took it solely for it being interesting to you. Which is fine, but you knew beforehand that you would have to pay back loans and that you would never earn a lot of money. Your decision.

 Sigvatr wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:

And I dont have a gender studies degree, I have a broad spectrum sociology degree.

Same thing. It's something that doesn't get you anywhere money-wise, so I assume you took it solely for it being interesting to you. Which is fine, but you knew beforehand that you would have to pay back loans and that you would never earn a lot of money. Your decision.

No, it's the previous generations greedy capitalists fault. Gosh.

Every generation has to deal with baggage left to them by the preceding generations.

Everyone sucks, no matter generation you were from.

#nihilism

 Grey Templar wrote:
Nobody wants you default on your loan. They don't get money if you don't pay your loans off.

Ok, why are other loans forgivable? But student loans are not?

 Sigvatr wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:

And I dont have a gender studies degree, I have a broad spectrum sociology degree.

Same thing. It's something that doesn't get you anywhere money-wise, so I assume you took it solely for it being interesting to you. Which is fine, but you knew beforehand that you would have to pay back loans and that you would never earn a lot of money. Your decision.

This profit-mindedness is a huge problem with today's world, particularly in countries that don't have to be.

Gender studies are not irrelevant, for example.

 Sigvatr wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:

And I dont have a gender studies degree, I have a broad spectrum sociology degree.

Same thing. It's something that doesn't get you anywhere money-wise, so I assume you took it solely for it being interesting to you. Which is fine, but you knew beforehand that you would have to pay back loans and that you would never earn a lot of money. Your decision.

Except, you are missing the point behind my posts, throughout high school, through CC, and even in university, I was told constantly "Go to college to get a good job, study what you love and you will make money" by a system funded by by people that exist only to make money off degree farms.
My generation was spoonfed lie, after lie after lie, and when we complain about it, all we hear is "BOOTSTRAPS"

Perhaps a little more research up front was in order?

I suppose everyone knows you can't automatically believe/trust everything you hear or are told?

Everyone's got an agenda, of sorts, after all...

 hotsauceman1 wrote:

 Grey Templar wrote:
Nobody wants you default on your loan. They don't get money if you don't pay your loans off.

Ok, why are other loans forgivable? But student loans are not?

You are assuming that forgiveness should always be an option. You should only borrow money if you are going to pay it back. Borrowing with the intent to not pay it back is wrong, its really nothing more than theft.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:

 Sigvatr wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:

And I dont have a gender studies degree, I have a broad spectrum sociology degree.

Same thing. It's something that doesn't get you anywhere money-wise, so I assume you took it solely for it being interesting to you. Which is fine, but you knew beforehand that you would have to pay back loans and that you would never earn a lot of money. Your decision.

Except, you are missing the point behind my posts, throughout high school, through CC, and even in university, I was told constantly "Go to college to get a good job, study what you love and you will make money" by a system funded by by people that exist only to make money off degree farms.
My generation was spoonfed lie, after lie after lie, and when we complain about it, all we hear is "BOOTSTRAPS"

As a fellow millennial, if you chose to believe the lies you have no one to blame but yourself. Neither my wife nor I have college degrees and we're doing just great. Anecdotal evidence, ahoy!

I was never told study what you love and you will make money. I was always raised with the impression that doing what you love is always nice, but sometimes it won't make you money. So you need to find a balance somewhere.