Elders say "these kids today all dress and act alike"

[strickj]

Heard that phrase said a couple days ago and though I would investigate.

My findings were surprising! After hearing so many older generations say that, one would think "back in their day" no one was the same as his neighbor.

Taken in 1931...

They all looked alike back then, too!

Just think of this when you get old.

Or for Mike and Ohshoot, think of it next time you feel like saying it...if your memory will hold out that long.

Edited June 6, 2010 by strickj

[kb4ns]

[Guest Bronker]

You dare to dis- The Chief...

You sir, will face wrath that the likes of which our generation has never seen.

After his nap.

Edited June 6, 2010 by Bronker

[BrasilNuts]

Seems to me all the old people I see dress alike these days.

[Mike.357]

and turn that G-D noise down, I can't believe you call that music

[Guest 6.8 AR]

There's something funny about each generation. They all seem to say the same thing as time passes, and one becomes the next. We all tend to become nostalgic, the older we

get.

I like those old hats.

[Smith]

Just goes to show you nothing is original. The details may change but people do not.

[Guest drv2fst]

QUOTATION: The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

ATTRIBUTION: Attributed to Socrates (469–399 B.C.) by Plato

195. Socrates (469-399 B.C.). Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989

[DWARREN123]

Get off my lawn!

[Guest Swamprunner]

I love seeing the helmet hair again.

[Guest oneshotkill]

I think we're all a product of those around us, thus we all become them in the end. lol

[Guest Jamie]

Get off my lawn!

and turn that G-D noise down, I can't believe you call that music

I've said both those things, or something very similar, not too long ago....

J.

[Guest Straight Shooter]

My impression of the 28 and under crowd, this is MY opinion, and there are a few, precious few exceptions.

Here goes:

Almost to a person, they are extremely lazy, cannot converse with any semblence of intelligence, are slow moving and lethargic, many of them mumble when they speak ,and NEVER look you in the eye. They NEVER offer to shake hands first, and when I offer first, its like grabbing a handful of wet noodles...completely limp.

Most of them are completely reliant on someone else, usually the government or mom & dad, to take care of themselves. They cannot cook, NEVER clean...oh GOD the stories I can tell on that one subject...,cant do laundry, dont read, except text mssgs, they dont know where ONE DAMN THING is, geographically speaking, except the mall, cannot tell you who the VP is, or more than two men who signed the Declaration of Independence, cannot start to speak without uttering "UHHH", are lazy as hell..triflin we "old timers" call it, generally need a bath and/or at least wash their greasy hair, are so COMPLETELY stupid as to be borderline retarded, are lazy hell, are generally liberal, even though A. they couldnt tell you what "liberal" meant. B. They couldnt tell you WHY they are liberal even if they knew what it meant, the concept of "you dont work, you dont eat" is so completely unknown to them, its like speaking Chinese, the idea of earning your way through life, making it on your own, has NEVER crossed their mind, they are lazy as hell, would not stand up and defend an innocent person, woman, child, small animal or even themselves, MUCH LESS their own country, THE ONLY F-ING SHOES THEY OWN, MALE OR FEMALE, ARE F-ING FLIP FLOPS OR...UUGH...CROCS, they are lazy as hell, no manners, have an un-believable sense of entitlement, couldnt fight their way out of a wet paper sack, dont know good music or food from Adam's housecat, they are lazy as hell, the majority believe Bill Mahr is GOD, the others dont believe in ANY GOD, and, to wrap it up..did I mention they are LAZY AS HELL?

I left out a bunch of stuff, but, Im tired. Other than this, "theyre good kids".

Info Added: I almost went to bed without clarifying something. The precious few exceptions I talked about at the start of my post, are almost all serving, or have already served our country in the U.S. military. Theyve come back dead, or broken physically, and/or mentally. They are TRULY the best of what we have left in America, IMO, and I salute them one and all. I wanted to just say I have not forgotten them, and I absolutely do not refer to them in my above post. GOD bless them.

Edited June 7, 2010 by Straight Shooter
added info

[tnhawk]

:screwy:They express their individuality by conforming to the identical standards of those around them!

[Il Duce]

i take offense to that even though I have never served and I DO wear flip flops every day as I hate wearing shoes except in the winter or fall

[strickj]

My impression of the 28 and under crowd, this is MY opinion, and there are a few, precious few exceptions.

Here goes:

Almost to a person, they are extremely lazy, cannot converse with any semblence of intelligence, are slow moving and lethargic, many of them mumble when they speak ,and NEVER look you in the eye. They NEVER offer to shake hands first, and when I offer first, its like grabbing a handful of wet noodles...completely limp.

Most of them are completely reliant on someone else, usually the government or mom & dad, to take care of themselves. They cannot cook, NEVER clean...oh GOD the stories I can tell on that one subject...,cant do laundry, dont read, except text mssgs, they dont know where ONE DAMN THING is, geographically speaking, except the mall, cannot tell you who the VP is, or more than two men who signed the Declaration of Independence, cannot start to speak without uttering "UHHH", are lazy as hell..triflin we "old timers" call it, generally need a bath and/or at least wash their greasy hair, are so COMPLETELY stupid as to be borderline retarded, are lazy hell, are generally liberal, even though A. they couldnt tell you what "liberal" meant. B. They couldnt tell you WHY they are liberal even if they knew what it meant, the concept of "you dont work, you dont eat" is so completely unknown to them, its like speaking Chinese, the idea of earning your way through life, making it on your own, has NEVER crossed their mind, they are lazy as hell, would not stand up and defend an innocent person, woman, child, small animal or even themselves, MUCH LESS their own country, THE ONLY F-ING SHOES THEY OWN, MALE OR FEMALE, ARE F-ING FLIP FLOPS OR...UUGH...CROCS, they are lazy as hell, no manners, have an un-believable sense of entitlement, couldnt fight their way out of a wet paper sack, dont know good music or food from Adam's housecat, they are lazy as hell, the majority believe Bill Mahr is GOD, the others dont believe in ANY GOD, and, to wrap it up..did I mention they are LAZY AS HELL?

I left out a bunch of stuff, but, Im tired. Other than this, "theyre good kids".

Info Added: I almost went to bed without clarifying something. The precious few exceptions I talked about at the start of my post, are almost all serving, or have already served our country in the U.S. military. Theyve come back dead, or broken physically, and/or mentally. They are TRULY the best of what we have left in America, IMO, and I salute them one and all. I wanted to just say I have not forgotten them, and I absolutely do not refer to them in my above post. GOD bless them.

Dude, you so totally need help before you, like, blow an o-ring or something.

Oh, you forgot about our love for alcohol and premarital sex

[Capbyrd]

My impression of the 28 and under crowd, this is MY opinion, and there are a few, precious few exceptions.

Here goes:

Almost to a person, they are extremely lazy, cannot converse with any semblence of intelligence, are slow moving and lethargic, many of them mumble when they speak ,and NEVER look you in the eye. They NEVER offer to shake hands first, and when I offer first, its like grabbing a handful of wet noodles...completely limp.

Most of them are completely reliant on someone else, usually the government or mom & dad, to take care of themselves. They cannot cook, NEVER clean...oh GOD the stories I can tell on that one subject...,cant do laundry, dont read, except text mssgs, they dont know where ONE DAMN THING is, geographically speaking, except the mall, cannot tell you who the VP is, or more than two men who signed the Declaration of Independence, cannot start to speak without uttering "UHHH", are lazy as hell..triflin we "old timers" call it, generally need a bath and/or at least wash their greasy hair, are so COMPLETELY stupid as to be borderline retarded, are lazy hell, are generally liberal, even though A. they couldnt tell you what "liberal" meant. B. They couldnt tell you WHY they are liberal even if they knew what it meant, the concept of "you dont work, you dont eat" is so completely unknown to them, its like speaking Chinese, the idea of earning your way through life, making it on your own, has NEVER crossed their mind, they are lazy as hell, would not stand up and defend an innocent person, woman, child, small animal or even themselves, MUCH LESS their own country, THE ONLY F-ING SHOES THEY OWN, MALE OR FEMALE, ARE F-ING FLIP FLOPS OR...UUGH...CROCS, they are lazy as hell, no manners, have an un-believable sense of entitlement, couldnt fight their way out of a wet paper sack, dont know good music or food from Adam's housecat, they are lazy as hell, the majority believe Bill Mahr is GOD, the others dont believe in ANY GOD, and, to wrap it up..did I mention they are LAZY AS HELL?

I left out a bunch of stuff, but, Im tired. Other than this, "theyre good kids".

Info Added: I almost went to bed without clarifying something. The precious few exceptions I talked about at the start of my post, are almost all serving, or have already served our country in the U.S. military. Theyve come back dead, or broken physically, and/or mentally. They are TRULY the best of what we have left in America, IMO, and I salute them one and all. I wanted to just say I have not forgotten them, and I absolutely do not refer to them in my above post. GOD bless them.

I take offense to that. I have not served and probably never will. I am 27 so by age alone I fit into this.

Lazy? You can call me that but I get done what needs to be done and I do my fair share of physical activities.

You want conversation? Sure! We can have one right now. What do you want to talk about?

Slow moving and lethargic? Mumble when I speak? I actually (many years ago) ran track. I move just fine. Mumbling is not an option. I worked in radio for a long time and its pretty much impossible to have a good show and "mumble."

I always look people in the eye and can't stand the limp handshake. I'm actually slightly disturbed by people that just hold their hand out there without grasping at all.

I've been paying my own way since I was 16 years old and paid for half of my dad's truck and my parent's house. And I don't want anything from the government other than protection from outside threats.

I do my own laundry. I cook my own food. I buy my own clothes, food, gas and pay my own bills. It's incredibly hard for me to have greasy hair since I have had a high and tight or shaved head since I was 7. I hate feet. I wear shoes and boots. I wear sandals around the house but never crocs, never flip flops and never out in public. I know what a liberal is but I am not one. I don't limit myself to any one party. Just like denominations in Christianity, all of them are doing something wrong and noone is perfect. Do your own research, form your own opinions and do what you feel is right.

Want to take a map test? I'd be more that happy to.

There are other points in your post but I would pretty much be addressing those the same way. How old are you? I can make gross generalizations about people your age as well and they would most likely be wrong.

I am not the only one out there either. Most of my friends, and certainly all of my closest friends are the same as me. And that is a rather large group. And something that I have noticed over the years is that most of the problem with the younger generation comes from poor parenting. So maybe, grandpa, just maybe if you had raised your children better, their children wouldn't be such a disgrace.

[Il Duce]

UHHHHHHHHH dont forget the weed, cant forget the weed OH OH OH and the porn cause you cant forget that either......lets see if im missing anything else...the lack of clothing and the homosexuality even though lesbianism is a ok if they are lipstick lesbians....UHHHHHHHHHH crap im too lazy to remember anything else *inserts Mayhem cd*

[Capbyrd]

Dude, you so totally need help before you, like, blow an o-ring or something.

Oh, you forgot about our love for alcohol and premarital sex

I'm glad you posted this. I know that is Dennis the Menace but it reminded me of something.

Clearly your generation was so much better grandpa. An extremely popular tv show highlighted beating your wife. LOVE IT!

[Il Duce]

and whose kids started the hippie movement OR his generation depending on age

[Guest Lester Weevils]

UHHHHHHHHH dont forget the weed, cant forget the weed OH OH OH and the porn cause you cant forget that either......lets see if im missing anything else...the lack of clothing and the homosexuality even though lesbianism is a ok if they are lipstick lesbians....UHHHHHHHHHH crap im too lazy to remember anything else *inserts Mayhem cd*

Youngsters also smell bad!

[Il Duce]

see i knew i was forgetting something. all them drugshasmybrainfriedsoicantrememberanything

[monkeylizard]

:screwy:They express their individuality by conforming to the identical standards of those around them!

I used to have a list that showed what your car says about you. I don't remember all of them but this one sticks with me:

Jeep: I'm a rugged individualist. Just like everyone else who drives a Jeep.

[Guest Lester Weevils]

Here ya go-- Mr Wilson central!

I Hate Young People

[I_Like_Pie]

The funny thing is that one often hears the following "I just don't understand why these young whipper snappers do" this or that. One would think that if they were "older and wiser" that they would have figure these things out by now.

One of the things that is funny when growing up is that the "adults" wanted you to think that they were somehow more intelligent then they really were. Yeah - they were lying.