Who else is disguisted by children nowadays?

[Delicious]

I love all the "I'm 13, but don't worry I'm not like the other kids because I only use my iphone for emergencies!" posts around here.

Here's a tip, you probably aren't much better than the "kids" you are so disgusted with because hating an entire group of people simply because they have better stuff than you do is, well, childish.

Psuedo-Maturity is a *****.

Okay, admittedly I do use SMS a lot, more than necessary. I probably do a lot more things that are considered immature and stupid by many people.

The difference is that I realize that these things are stupid and unnessary. I can give respect to figures of authority and do my assigned homework. I can study for a test and not cheat on assignments. I can dress modestly and not spend absurd amounts of money pointless things like brand name shoes or hats.

The difference, that I argue, is that people like the posters here and myself, and the cretins in our lives is that we here know our stupidity is stupid. They do not know this and relish in the freedom they are granted.

Isn't the first step to solving a flaw, realizing you have one in the first place?

"The difference is that I realize that these things are stupid and unnessary. I can give respect to figures of authority and do my assigned homework. I can study for a test and not cheat on assignments. I can dress modestly and not spend absurd amounts of money pointless things like brand name shoes or hats."

"Isn't the first step to solving a flaw, realizing you have one in the first place?"

Read the paragraph I qouted above and then tell me that you sincerely recognize that you have a problem. What you are doing is making apologetic excuses for your immaturity, which is ridiculous. You don't see the fish apologizing for swimming, and you shouldn't have to have apologize for being a kid.

 

[DrHobo]

I love all the "I'm 13, but don't worry I'm not like the other kids because I only use my iphone for emergencies!" posts around here.

Here's a tip, you probably aren't much better than the "kids" you are so disgusted with because hating an entire group of people simply because they have better stuff than you do is, well, childish.

Psuedo-Maturity is a *****.

Okay, admittedly I do use SMS a lot, more than necessary. I probably do a lot more things that are considered immature and stupid by many people.

The difference is that I realize that these things are stupid and unnessary. I can give respect to figures of authority and do my assigned homework. I can study for a test and not cheat on assignments. I can dress modestly and not spend absurd amounts of money pointless things like brand name shoes or hats.

The difference, that I argue, is that people like the posters here and myself, and the cretins in our lives is that we here know our stupidity is stupid. They do not know this and relish in the freedom they are granted.

Isn't the first step to solving a flaw, realizing you have one in the first place?

"The difference is that I realize that these things are stupid and unnessary. I can give respect to figures of authority and do my assigned homework. I can study for a test and not cheat on assignments. I can dress modestly and not spend absurd amounts of money pointless things like brand name shoes or hats."

"Isn't the first step to solving a flaw, realizing you have one in the first place?"

Read the paragraph I qouted above and then tell me that you sincerely recognize that you have a problem. What you are doing is making apologetic excuses for your immaturity, which is ridiculous. You don't see the fish apologizing for swimming, and you shouldn't have to have apologize for being a kid.

Amen brother.

loved the fish analogy. Reminds me of

"Kindly let me help you or you will drown' said the monkey placing the fish safely up a tree.

 

[Inverse Skies]

I did think we might be falling into that trap, but in my case (in the UK) we have actual confirmation from the UN that Britain is the worse place in the developed world for raising children (obviously the water starved plains of the Goby desert would be worse if they where developed).

And honestly, I think even my own generation are shite - and my experience in Uni suggests that the UK is in serious trouble given the majority of subjects with needed skills where full of foreigners whilst "Media Studies" was full of Brits. (I did Engineering, to be clear).

I dunno, maybe I am falling into that trap, but honestly, I look at the next and current generation, see the yob culture, the lack of desire to make something of themselves ('what-ever!'), the sense of entitlement ('What? How dare you deny me my dream job just because I lack the skills!'), and this grossy banal 'celeb' culture where everyone thinks they can be rich and famous for no effort.

Actual confirmation as in a scientific study or something along those lines?

 

[Inverse Skies]

I agree. All kids like to think they're mature, and know everything and act like little dicks in the process.

Precisely, hence why the rant in the OP is nothing new, we've seen it all before.

 

[Inverse Skies]

This generation is really a bunch of spoiled ignorant brats. They age before they mature, taking on responsibilities before they are ready for them, and selfishly caring for themselves only. I suspect this world will fall apart by the time the kids today grow up, they will ruin society and there is nothing we can do about it!

The golden age of Greece ended in the generation after Socrates.
Also, expectations are too low for kids these days, they are too spoiled, and cannot perform in the real world when they are expected to.

And yet the world turned out fine did it not? I seriously doubt the next generation is so far gone that it will 'ruin the world', that seems like a slight overexageration.

 

[Valiance]

Do you happen to live in America?

I've been saying this for years.

 

[Delicious]

Amen brother.

loved the fish analogy. Reminds me of

"Kindly let me help you or you will drown' said the monkey placing the fish safely up a tree.

I laughed, and imagined Curious George lifting an exasperated herring onto a low hanging branch.

And now I know why zoos and aquariums are kept seperate.

 

[PizzaTheHutt]

Eh. I may be 14 but one thing i do realize about this generation is we're addicted to socialization, while at school during classes especially when teachers are speaking i see kids all texting each other about the most stupid insignificant shit that only a total dumb ass could care about. I look over to a kid with a iTouch in one hand an iPhone in the other, texting his friend sitting in the same room about the "virtual beer" on the i touch that he is screwing with simultaneously. I have an old phone, i rarely use it only occasionally for relaying pick-up times and locations to my parents. As far as music and clothes go these days, i think that its impossible for them to get any more stupid. I mean seriously the stupidity has to cap at some point, i cant imagine what would replace the rap and pop of now in terms of stupidity. I see kids wearing 400 dollar shoes at 8 years old, kids in my school wear a combined outfit that must of cost at least 1000 bucks of hoodies covered in shitty drawings and chain and studded black jeans, Shoes make up atleast half that cost. I seriously don't see how it can possibly get stupider. Perhaps well have a "restart" in a few generations which will have some of the classy clothes of old.

 

[Guitarmasterx7]

you see, the kids, they listen to the rap music, that gives them the brain damage, with the hippin' and the hoppin' and the bippin' and the boppen' so they don't know what the jazz is all about

 

[Seydaman]

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
Socrates
Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC - 399 BC)

This is nothing new. Don't concern yourself about it, every generation thinks the one below them is going off the rails and it doesn't happen.

which one was the quote? and yes children today are spoiled. it is possible that they fucked up the economy. think for a second, kid wants useless phone to call 1 person when the home phone is readily available, they wine wineX8 then get some 100$ phone, BUT the parents couldn't afford the phone so they took out a loan, couldn't pay back loan, take out more and more for more useless shit, debt rises. economy cgets fucked up

 

[Seydaman]

Eh. I may be 14 but one thing i do realize about this generation is we're addicted to socialization, while at school during classes especially when teachers are speaking i see kids all texting each other about the most stupid insignificant shit that only a total dumb ass could care about. I look over to a kid with a iTouch in one hand an iPhone in the other, texting his friend sitting in the same room about the "virtual beer" on the i touch that he is screwing with simultaneously. I have an old phone, i rarely use it only occasionally for relaying pick-up times and locations to my parents. As far as music and clothes go these days, i think that its impossible for them to get any more stupid. I mean seriously the stupidity has to cap at some point, i cant imagine what would replace the rap and pop of now in terms of stupidity. I see kids wearing 400 dollar shoes at 8 years old, kids in my school wear a combined outfit that must of cost at least 1000 bucks of hoodies covered in shitty drawings and chain and studded black jeans, Shoes make up atleast half that cost. I seriously don't see how it can possibly get stupider. Perhaps well have a "restart" in a few generations which will have some of the classy clothes of old.

i agree...and to what the guy said about looking back with rose tinted glassed..how about looking around without glasses

 

[DigitalJedl]

*Raises hand and waves it around like an ecstatic child who knows the answer.*

Me-me-me!

I truly am ashamed of this generation.
Most of my (insert synonym for anger here) is coming from ALL of my experiences on XBL, Halo 3, Gears of War 2, Soul Calibur IV and Street Fighter IV, etc. (it had gotten so bad, sold that version and bought the PS3 version.)

I know this may seem over-the-top but I feel like some parents this generation are making little Adolf Hitlers.

Or at least your typical Nazi-douche bag.

 

[Inverse Skies]

which one was the quote? and yes children today are spoiled. it is possible that they fucked up the economy. think for a second, kid wants useless phone to call 1 person when the home phone is readily available, they wine wineX8 then get some 100$ phone, BUT the parents couldn't afford the phone so they took out a loan, couldn't pay back loan, take out more and more for more useless shit, debt rises. economy cgets fucked up

I highly doubt the US found itself in something like 80 billion dollars worth of toxic bank debts through children and mobile phones, that is a very large leap of logic.

 

[DigitalJedl]

Why can't anyone realize that 'the next generation will unravel society' has been prophesied over and over? It's like the end of the world theories, there have been so many theories that have been wrong all the time (Y2K for instance) and yet the next one is always taken seriously (like 2012).

Oh and show of hands anyone here have any actual evidence that this generation is more bratty than the previous generation or has more idiots (anecdotal evidence does not qualify)? ...

No no one ever does and yet a portion of the population continue to believe it every single time, probably because they like to look back at their own generation with rosy tinted glasses (nostalgia does that to you) and not realize all the stupid shit they were into or all the spoiled brats in those generations.

... Pokemon?

 

[brainfreeze215]

It's inevitable to think that the generations following yours are all going to hell in a handbasket. All we can do is work to make sure they inherit a healthy world and if they ruin it, what do we care, we'll be dead.

 

[Seydaman]

which one was the quote? and yes children today are spoiled. it is possible that they fucked up the economy. think for a second, kid wants useless phone to call 1 person when the home phone is readily available, they wine wineX8 then get some 100$ phone, BUT the parents couldn't afford the phone so they took out a loan, couldn't pay back loan, take out more and more for more useless shit, debt rises. economy cgets fucked up

I highly doubt the US found itself in something like 80 billion dollars worth of toxic bank debts through children and mobile phones, that is a very large leap of logic.

would be funny if it was true

 

[Agayek]

ITT:

Bitter people act like whiny old men complaining that this generation is comprised of nothing but whippersnappers.

And it's the same crap we hear EVERY generation. Listen some kids are spoiled, some take everything for granted and some are just bastards. That has probably never ever changed, along with the complaining about the next generation.

Really this whole thread reads like big old circle jerk ego trip about how 'we're so much better than most people of our generation, aren't they awful'

Oh I'm 19 and I hate blanket generalizations, smugness, and holier than though attitudes and I'm thoroughly disappointed in this thread.

While all of that is undoubtedly true, and no generation is really any worse or better than the others on the whole, you do have to admit that from what information is available, the radical kids of today seem to be a hell of a lot worse than 30-50 years ago. I've talked to both my parents and one of my grandparents on the issue a few times in the past, and we collectively came to the conclusion that the extremes of today's young'uns are far more extreme than previous.

Maybe it's the rose-tint, or maybe we're all just bitter, jaded old people, I couldn't say. All I can say is that it seems like this generation is much worse off, in the extreme/publicized cases. Mostly I blame the parents, and the society for frowning on parents being parents.