Seriously, todays youth?

[Lilani]

Is it just me or is this video seriously disturbing?

So he's very resourceful, so what? I can see him becoming a weapons designer or engineer someday. This is very normal. I remember trying to make little slingshots or bows as a kid.

But you know what IS disturbing? The fact that some people are so fearful and paranoid that they actually think when someone finds a way to make things that fire projectiles out of household objects, and then makes a hobby out of it, it automatically makes them a homicidal maniac on the brink. Disturbing.

And in other news, how the hell does this not make him a kind person? Are you saying that anyone who designs guns or weapons is automatically unkind or evil? What about nerf guns, or do they get a special day pass or something? You really need to do some growing up, kid. You are in no position to be judging this kid. You know nothing about him, except that he seems to be some son of MacGyver. Your misjudgment is far more dangerous than anything he's made.

 

[Nemu]

The way I look at it is: if he was a stoner, he'd just be crafting bongs.
He does seem to have cornered a "new" market in prison weaponry, tho.

Damn kids, get off my lawn, etc... *rolls eyes*

Ditto, etc.

 

[TheFrost]

not that bad really... I mean every one needs a hobby and this kid obviously likes to be ingenuitive and use every day items to make something with a function. the fact that they are weapons and not... I dunno, gum ball dispensers? are probably because the concept of weapons are easy to grasp and let's him work for a simple functionality for his "inventions"

 

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Creativity!

How is this a bad thing? It's not as though he just pissed in your cornflakes, he's just making some of the things that the male mind is naturally fixated on out of everyday objects.

Also, it's a little harsh to generalise "today's youth" in one blanket phrase...

...I'd say that people could get hurt but that wouldn't be helping at all, would it? =P

 

[darth.pixie]

When I was in high school I built a flamethrower. I owned daggers and swords and my mother gave me a crossbow for my birthday. None have been used on people. [sub] yet [/sub]

I see nothing wrong with what he made.. I can find many faults with today's generation just as I can find with mine or that one before me. Kids didn't change. Your perception of them did.

 

[FamoFunk]

HAHAHA!
I think he's pretty creative. Until of course he goes out stabbing someone with his creation, which all of todays youth does.

Look out, folks!

 

[squid5580]

Yeah kids these days. Why back in my day kids made weapons out of forked sticks, ball bearings, a piece of cloth and a rubber band.

 

[Jonluw]

I don't find that disturbing.

Just a few days ago, I used nail-acrylic to create a sharp tip on a pen I had lying around. I just felt like making a discreet weapon.
I also have a sword(sharp, naturally) that I've made myself. Hammered out and sharpened an iron rod(sort of).
I have a dagger that I made the handle and sheath for myself. I bought the blade though. I have one more dagger blade, and two regular knife blades, all of which I intend to make handles for at some point.

In addition, I have four bows of varying strengths, one of which I made myself, supplied with sharp arrows.

Edit: I just noticed the toilet paper roll with balloon he'd made. That one's a classic. I've made sooo many of those over the years. They're surprisingly accurate.

Spoiler: Here are pictures of the knife I made:

I'll edit the pictures in here when I can get facebook working >:[
Okay, I give up. Fuck you Facebook. Fuck you.
Okay, what the hell Facebook? I can't embed images I've uploaded to you now?
Fuck you!
Finally figured out a way

 

[That's Funny]

You know back in my day Kids would just hang around on street corners, drinking cider and shouting abuse. Now they are making weapons, at least it keeps them off the street, thats what I say.

 

[Flig]

Youth has always been deemed unsastifactory by the older generation. Look at the flapper culture of the 20s. The hippy culture of the 60s and 70s. The punk culture of the 70s and 80s. Goths of the 90s. Rockers of the 70s-90s. There's plenty more examples of this through history. Granted all of these examples(except maybe flappers) were technically the counterculture of the time. Though that actually brings me to my next point, the people complaining about the youth of today tend to focus on those pockets of undesirables, and leave out the fact that most kids are completely normal.

 

[GaryH]

"Seriously, today's youth?"

Congratulations, you've turned into your parents/grandparents.

This kid is just creative, I used to do stuff like this when I was a kid too.

However:

"Ok, first off is a Spear Gun..."

No. That's a crossbow.

 

[Aur0ra145]

Really? I don't see anything wrong with this. When I was a kid me and all my friends had rifles and would go squirrel hunting. Who cares if he's got a toothpick shooter. Heck I remember being 17 and using a Hell-Fire trigger system I mounted on an AK. I guess it just has to do with your prospective, maturity level and above all, a safety conscience state of mind.

 

[Bender Rodriguez]

I don't know if any other 92's have he same feeling...

But i feel that right after 93' people were different.
When i was 15 -16 we had a normal and healthy lifestyle, but when i got to 18 the 15 - 16 year olds were much different.
It was such an sudden change.

I'm not "old" in that sense, i drink and party just as much as the next guy.
But i feel that "they" are so much more extreme.

 

[Terminate421]

How is that disturbing? He's not hurting anyone.

Go back a couple of hundred years and he'd be in the army, killing people.

I think "todays youth" are alright.

Go to a local middle school and count how many times you hear the word "Gay"

Then you see why.

I think youth today is both getting:
Even more Stupid
Forgetful

 

[teh_Canape]

thats called creativity he haz it!

it's called free time

he haz it!

lotza it

 

[DuderSkanks]

Maybe They're just jealous they didn't think of it first?
I don't know what to say. Yeah, some of us teens are bad, but teens have been doing stupid things since the dawn of time. That's what Youtube is for...

 

[Nimcha]

Is it just me or is this video seriously disturbing? We have kids making weapons out of plastic clothes hangers and crayola markers !


Opinions on this? I think this is creepy, thank goodness I'm a kind person

I'm always baffled how people can think this sort of stuff didn't happen before Youtube came around.

 

[GenericAmerican]

I have knifes, an actual bow, actual crossbow, and easy access to firearms...I am more of a threat than this kid.

 

[Matt King]

i'm in year 10 (in uk) and me and my friends are actually pretty sane, but i think we're just are calm year as the years below and occasionally above are massive TWATS (yes i know they prob think we are to but just trust me on this one)